[Scan-DC] AP Inauguration Notes

[johnson at cpcug.org]

All -

If you are awake this morning, listening in on the rehearsals may still
prove interesting listening.  My NW suburb location will probably
attenuate a lot the signals.

I am tempted to run downtown just to see what I can hear.

Ralph Johnson

 AP-DC--Mass Notification Test,0055
> DC to test mass notification system
> Eds: APNewsNow.
>    WASHINGTON (AP) -- D.C.'s Homeland Security and Emergency
> Management Agency says the city will test a new mass notification
> system between 9 a.m. and 10 a.m. Sunday.
>    It will include four generic voice messages and a tonal test.
>    Anyone near the National Mall could hear the test, but should not
> be alarmed.
>    (Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press.  All Rights Reserved.)
>    APTV 01-10-09 1833EST
>
>
>
> BC-DC--Inauguration-Rehearsal,0104
> Inaugural officials to hold rehearsal
> Eds: APNewsNow.
>    WASHINGTON (AP) -- Inaugural officials say a rehearsal of
> President-elect Barack Obama's swearing-in ceremony and parade will be
> open to the public.
>    The dry run will start at about 7 a.m. Sunday at the U.S. Capitol
> and at 8 a.m. along Pennsylvania Avenue, where the parade will take
> place.
>    Officials say the rehearsal will last for two or three hours.
>    They say about 5,000 participants, including military bands such as
> the U.S. Marine Band, will run through their routines to make sure
> everything goes well on Jan. 20.
>
>
> INAUGURATION-AMTRAK
>    Amtrak prepares for crowds along Obama train route
>    WASHINGTON (AP) -- When Barack Obama travels by train to Washington
> for the inauguration, throngs of well-wishers are expected to line the
> tracks in hopes of seeing the president-elect.
>    Amtrak said Thursday the 137-mile route from Philadelphia to the
> nation's capital will be secured by thousands of officers from about
> 40 jurisdictions that the train passes through.
>    Officials say crowds are expected to gather at hundreds of points
> along the way -- especially at overpasses, parking lots and commuter
> train stations.
>    Amtrak isn't estimating how many people will line the tracks,
> though officials are using the 1968 funeral procession of Robert F.
> Kennedy as a guide. By some estimates, more than 1 million people
> lined the tracks from New York to Washington to pay their respects to
> the senator.
>
>
>
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