Bad weather forecasts mean President-elect Donald Trump will take the oath of office from inside the Capitol Rotunda and people visiting Washington from around the country won’t be able to see it in person.

As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to return to the Oval Office on Monday, several groups are working to ensure that Monday's inauguration is safe.

The sudden weather-induced change forced a scramble for hundreds of thousands of people who had spent months planning for the swearing-in of the nation’s 47th president.

The East Bay will be well represented in Washington during President-elect Trump's inauguration as a number of member of the Contra Costa County Republican Party head east for the celebration.

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration ceremony is moving indoors to the Capitol rotunda because of a frigid weather forecast in the nation's capital Monday, the president-elect announced on social media Friday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence is planning to attend President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration on Monday, the New York Times reported on Friday, citing two people with knowledge of planning. Representatives for Pence and Trump did not immediately provide comment.

The irony: Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) — who Trump nicknamed “snow woman” after she famously launched her presidential campaign in a snowstorm — is the chair of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies and will be tasked with overseeing the move to an indoor inauguration ceremony.

The potential change, a rare break with tradition, would deny Mr. Trump the pomp and large audience he hoped for at his second swearing-in.

With President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration falling on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, members of the Black community in Boston said the coincidence generates some complicated feelings for them.

The inauguration of the president hasn't always happened in Washington — or in January. Here's how inaugurations have changed over the years.

This year, the holiday falls on Monday, Jan. 20. It's a federal holiday, which means government agencies, banks and many corporate offices will closed for the day.