It's just two days until the inauguration of Donald Trump, and the nation's capital is getting ready. Josh Robin filed the following report.
The grandstand is set. The blue line down Pennsylvania Avenue is marked.
The flags are fluttering. All kinds, with brimming enthusiasm for those waving them.
"It's a great day to be alive," said one flag-waver.
"Make America great again," said another.
It's a feeling to be celebrated among hundreds of thousands of people expected Friday, with exclamations of resistance offered simultaneously and the day after.
All around, security is fierce.
Hotel rates are jacked up, and rooms are non-refundable.
Washington is prepared for the waves of politically aware humanity.
Although unhelpfully, the porta potties are locked.
For all the fuss, there is, however, an unmistakably subdued feeling, especially compared with President Barack Obama's first swearing-in eight years ago.
"It's tempered, to put it mildly," said David DeVeaux who has lived in Washington D.C. his whole life.
DeVeauh remembers John Kennedy's 1961 inauguration when he was seven.
"This is a Democratic city. It was historic to have the first African-American president. A lot of us didn't think we would see it," he said.
Others backing Trump hope he makes good on his unifying promise during his speech.
"I want him to be so inclusive, to tell people who were so worried thinking that he is against them that that's not the truth, they were just reading into things in the way they shouldn't," said Ann Marie Vilicana, a Trump suppoter.
Her husband, Robin Salzer, says one of Trump's perceived liabilities may be an asset.
"And I think that his ego will allow him and implored him and stimulate him to be a great president," Salzer said. "There's no higher rung for him to climb."
And then, there are those who are gritting their teeth and planning to march.
"We feel like women's rights are being infringed upon pretty dramatically right now," said Emily Raymond, who is protesting Trump.
Many New Yorkers will join the protest for a number of reasons. There are some pilgrimages from the city to welcome the new president. But it may be more hope to show resistance on his first day.