Watch Barack Obama's Presidential Inauguration 2009 Live

Watch Barack Obama's Presidential Inauguration 2009 Live, People fill the National Mall in the early morning hours before the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States of America January 20, 2009 in Washington, DC. Obama becomes the first African-American to be elected to the office of President in the history of the United States. The current record for attendance of the presidential inauguration is held by Lyndon B. Johnson, who drew 1.2 million in 1965. With no official records yet available, the Washington Post reports that some ticket-holders are already being turned away, with upwards of 2 million filling the National Mall. With reports of a flood of people converging on the National Mall for the inauguration of Barack Obama, it appears likely that the inaugural attendance record will be easily broken. And as the morning progressed they had virtually filled the Mall — some 2 million or more, according to the initial estimate from a senior security official — from the VIPs assembled in orderly array around President-elect Barack Obama’s inaugural platform, to the rambunctious crowd spilling out across the grounds of the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial. Obama Inauguration Expected to Break Attendance Records. Watch Barack Obama's Presidential Inauguration 2009 Live.