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Inauguration platform nearly complete

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Inauguration day is more than a month away and the platform where President Obama will be sworn in is almost complete.

Once it's finished it will be more than 10,000 square feet.

It'll hold more than 1,600 people.

There will be another thousand seats in the bleachers above the platform.

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