Obama Inauguration - SLIDESHOW

"We got on board when Obama was the little engine who could. He's like a child you've held onto. Now he's going out into the world."

NVDL: It's still early and Washington is filling up with huge crowds. Have a look at the slideshow at the bottom of the clipping below.

clipped from news.yahoo.com WASHINGTON – The National Mall swelled into a vast, pulsing scene of expectation Tuesday as excited crowds clogged mass transit lines and security checkpoints to witness the swearing-in of President-elect Barack Obama. Energized by the historic moment, hundreds of thousands of people turned this city's orderly grid of streets into a festive party scene. Ready to endure below-freezing temperatures, they streamed up from subway stations and thronged past parked buses, emergency vehicles and street vendors, bound for Pennsylvania Avenue and the National Mall for the inauguration. By 4 a.m., lines of riders had already formed in suburban parking lots for the Metro transit system, which opened early and put on extra trains for the expected rush. Many parking lots filled up and had to be closed. Slideshow: Presidential Inauguration