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(Born August 4, 1961) 47-year-old Barack Obama was elected to be the 44th President of the United States, after a hard-fought two-year presidential campaign. He is the first African American to be elected President of the United States. Obama was the junior United States Senator from Illinois from January 3, 2005, until his resignation on November 16, 2008, following his election to the presidency. His term of office as President of the United States is scheduled to be January 20, 2009. EST (17:00 UTC) on, in an inaugural ceremony at the U.S. Capitol. Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review.(Wikipedia, 2009-01-20)

25,000 deploy for security at inaugural most protected event ever includes 5,265 security cameras, counter snipers – the Security in downtown D.C. was high Monday after officials promised the largest inaugural security operation in history, with 58 federal, state and local agencies working together. Some 25,000 police, military troops and law enforcement agents — including plainclothes officers roaming the crowds — will be on hand to handle the potentially 2 million people who could descend on the nation's capital Tuesday. The far-reaching security includes thousands of video cameras, sharpshooters and air patrols to safeguard President-elect Barack Obama's swearing-in.
A multi-agency command center, run by the Secret Service eight blocks from the White House, is receiving video feeds from the 5,265 surveillance cameras spread around the city. The center has more than 100 officials monitoring inaugural activities and public areas via live video feeds from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Metropolitan Police Department, National Park Service, District of Columbia Transportation Department, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and others. (Msnbc news, 19th January, 2009)