Medvedev Visits

4:00 p.m.

Oakland

I walked out of Alumni Hall at around 4:00 p.m. to find Fifth Avenue preparing for the Russian motorcade to arrive. Hoping to catch the event, I waited at the corner of Fifth and Lytton and watched as the streets were slowly closed off to traffic.

S.W.A.T. team securing the perimeter of the Cathedral. Medvedev's motorcade pulled in right

here.

More S.W.A.T. presence on the street...

There are no words to describe what it's like to see snipers looking down at you from the upper floors of the Cathedral.

At around 4:30, the call came that the motorcade was on its way. Police kept pedestrian onlookers off the street as the caravan of state vehicles, security and escort vehicles rolled through.

And the Russians have arrived!