A hundred thousand balloons are droppingpublished at 04:14 British Summer Time 23 August
There are 100,000 balloons dropping at the DNC right now - and it takes a small army to inflate them.
A convention official tells us more than 100 people - including volunteers, skilled staff members and stagehands - to get the balloons prepped. They rely on a "specialized system" that was created in 1988 to handle such a large quantity.
All of the balloons were inflated behind-the-scenes at the convention centre starting Wednesday and Thursday before the convention's start, the DNC official says.
They are all red, white and blue but vary in size.