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D-day in numbers

(China Daily)
Updated: 2009-01-19 07:36

Over 1.5 million people are expected in Washington DC for Tuesday's inauguration.

1 million people expected to view the inauguration from the National Mall.

$8,249 is the price of a seat at the swearing-in ceremony being advertised by one online ticket broker.

240,000 tickets have been distributed free for the swearing-in ceremony on Capitol Hill.

4,000 city police officers will be deployed along with 4,000 from 96 other law enforcement agencies across the country.

32,000 military personnel will be on duty or on standby.

10,000 buses that city transportation and Secret Service officials expect to ferry people to Washington.

850 rail cars that the Washington's Metro rail service will operate every hour between 4 am and 9 pm on Tuesday.

0 degrees Celsius is the temperature forecast for Tuesday.

(China Daily 01/19/2009 page6)