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by Bob_Tarlau from West Los Angeles

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A Denver Kind of Sunday
Aug 25, 2008 | 4:51 AM
Category: Political
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DENVER -- It's a photo show for you this time... to give you some sense of visions captured and experiences had during our second day in the Democratic Capital (at least for this week).... Denver.



You can find Obama mania everywhere here... the political keepsakes being hawked on many street corners... like this gas station.   As far as I am concerned you can have the political goodies, but coming from California I love the gas prices.



Above, driving toward Invesco Stadium -- home to the Denver Broncos -- and on Thursday the stage for Obama's passion play as he formally accepts his party's presidential nomination.  70,000 Dems will be packed in there.  A several mile stretch of I-25 (from where this photo was taken) will be closed... surely making for a major travel and logistics mess.

The action for the first three days of the Convention is at the Pepsi Center (where I actually made the mistake of asking for Coke this evening-- dirty looks ensued).   For the media (and for delegates starting today--Monday) getting into the place (especially with our mountain of gear) meant an hour in the broiling sun.  That's our photog/editor Darryl Kim with the boxes full of stuff that makes television.



And here's some of the now-sun tanned broadcast and print reporters, phtographers and producers... SLOWLY making their way to the front of the long line, heavy boxes in tow.   And, oh, check out those "rednecks."



From that point you haul the stuff into a fenced off area... turn all the electronics on, leave everything open and watch the Secret Service dog give it all the sniff test.



Once inside and at our cramped work space (we have the Fox stations from Minneapolis, Phoenix, and Miami practically on our laps... it was down to work... with John Schwada crafting the script for Sunday night's story.



In the piece -- which he introduced from a skybox overlooking the Pepsi Center convention floor -- we covered Sunday's protest march by several thousand left-leaning demonstrators through downtown, the latest McCain campaign attack ad, and previewed Hillary Clinton's appearance.

Then, from our perch high above it all, John did a live "tour" of the convention floor... from the Skyboxes to the big California section (biggest here) to the newly re-located Deleware delegates (brought out of the shadows by the addition to the ticket of their Senator Joe Biden) to the balloon-free rafters.  First time I've ever seen that... no balloons to come down at the end of the nominee's acceptance speech.  That's because the speech will be happening a mile and a half away at that football stadium.

So long for now.

Bob Tarlau | Senior News Producer | KTTV-KCOP Los Angeles





Bob_Tarlau

I'm a senior producer with KTTV Fox 11 -- doing investigative and feature pieces for the 10P news and half hour documentaries on subjects light to heavy. I've been in the TV news biz as a producer for 43 years.

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