“Inauguration security”

The full force of the US domestic security apparatus will be deployed to stand guard as President-elect Donald Trump takes the oath of office Friday, with an estimated 900,000 people expected to gather in Washington D.C. for the inauguration and related activities. More than 100 square blocks -- about 2.7 square miles -- will be closed to automobile traffic as federal, state and local authorities create a protective bubble around the swearing-in ceremony, presidential festivities and opposition protests. The final tab is expected to surpass $100 million. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said that an estimated 28,000 in personnel from the US Secret Service, Transportation Security Administration, FBI, US Park Police, US Capitol Police, Coast Guard and local police from Washington and around the nation would be fanned out across the city to provide multiple layers -- and dimensions -- of security. Despite the absence of a "specific, credible threat," Johnson told reporters the primary focus would be on "individual acts of violent extremism and those who self-radicalize," as have been seen in recent attacks in France and Germany.

In Other News Former president George H.W. Bush has been hospitalized, according to the Houston Chronicle and Houston TV station KHOU. Bush's chief of staff, Jean Becker, says he was admitted to Houston Methodist Hospital after falling ill. Becker tells the Houston Chronicle and KHOU that Bush is "doing fine.” Several bouts with illness have kept the 92-year-old out of the spotlight in recent years and he has rarely made public remarks. A book of short stories titled "Forty Minutes Late" has been returned to a San Francisco library — 100 years late. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that Bay Area resident Webb Johnson returned the book Friday. There was no fine. Johnson's great grandmother had checked it out from the city's old Fillmore branch in 1917. She passed away a week before the due date, and the Fillmore branch is no longer around. Johnson found the 1909 book, by F. Hopkinson Smith, in an old steamer trunk in 1996. He assumed the library wouldn't want it back, but a recently announced "fine forgiveness program" that runs through Feb. 14 inspired him to return it. Head city librarian Luis Herrera said the library was glad to, finally, get the book.