8:10 - Obama arrives on stage. Flashbulbs light up the stands.

8:05 - Roughly 75,000 and you could hear a pin drop as video plays.

8 p.m. - Video begins introducing the candidate. Crowd awes in unison at his baby picture.

7:55 - Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin comes out to introduce Sen. Barack Obama. "They want to believe that they still have a fighting chance in this land of opportunity," Durbin says of those who want to become politically active in this campaign season.

7:52 - Roughly eight minutes away from the big event and the crowd is ready. At their height, the lines outside Invesco to get in were six miles long, according to news reports.

7:50 - Attendees of NEA's Representative Assembly would feel right at home, as the speaker system is blaring McFadden and Whitehead's "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now," a favorite tune from the annual convention.

7:48 - Michelle Obama appears on Jumbotron and crowd goes wild.

7:44 - In the last hour, more than 30,000 people sent text messages to the Democratic National Committee explaining why they want to get involved this election season, a Colorado party organizer announces from the podium.

7:40 - Crowd is on its feet, waving tens of thousands of American flags. Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A." playing. "Whether you're a Democrat or a Republican, it really is a beautiful sight," an XM satellite radio announcer says during on-air commentary.

7:33 - Speaker Teresa Asenap takes the stage and gets the crowd rocking with her plea for a candidate who will do what it takes to ensure great public schools for all children. She tells the crowd that in third grade she realized her grandmother could not read or write. But because of her involved parents and grandparents, "I hold a doctorate in education. I owe them and my parents everything. Strong families raise strong students!" All they need are world class schools and dedicated teachers." Yet schools now "don't have the resources they need to meet the high standards of nNo Child Left Behind. We don't need four more years of the same. We need to turn the page and put our kids at the head of the class." That means investing in early childhood education and giving students tax credits for college, Asenap said before getting the entire stadium chanting "Si ,se puede!"

 7:24 - Biden references a teacher who will join Sen. Barack Obama on stage during his speech. That's a Montana Education Association-Montana Federation of Teachers member.

7:20 - Vice-presidential nominee Sen. Joe Biden takes the stage. "We're here for the cops and the firefighters, the teachers and the assembly workers...the folks whose lives are the very measure of whether the American Dream endures."

7:06 - The sun is setting over Denver and people are starting chants.

7:00 - Delegates are doing the wave! Officials issued 80,000 tickets and were bracing for even more to arrive. No official headcounts released yet.

6:53  - "You know that America is capable of better," than the failed Bush administration policies, he tells crowd. We're guessing the educators in the audience would agree.

6:43 - Al Gore takes the stage, the crowd of more than 70,000 is on its feet, waving American flags, and stomping their feet. Invesco is shaking.