Tickets to see President Barack Obama
Hundreds lined up to get tickets to see President Barack Obama speak at the Historic Fire Station No. 1 in downtown Roanoke. Lines wrapped around the buildings in downtown Roanoke, while several people in Roanoke County were ticketed for parking illegally on residents’ property.

Naomi Delzell, of Roanoke, gets a ticket to see President Barack Obama speak at the Historic Fire Station No. 1.

Tickets to see President Barack Obama were available at three locations in Southwest Virginia on Wednesday.

Bernard Arrington (orange), of Roanoke, talks with Cornell Jones ( left) as he waits in line to get tickets to see President Barack Obama speak at the Historic Fire House Station No. 1.

A line of people waits outside the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union 36 on Peters Creek Road. to get tickets to see President Barack Obama speak.
- Jeanna Duerscherl



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