Los Angeles civil rights attorney Gloria Allred on Saturday appeared at a news conference in a downtown Washington, D.C., hotel with four women who have accused President Donald Trump in the past of sexual harassment. The women said they will be participating in the Women's March on Washington.

"All of these women are someone's daughter," Allred said.

The women are:

There were early signs across Washington that Saturday's crowds could top those that gathered Friday to watch President Trump's inauguration.

D.C.'s Metro stations were reported to be packed, with many unable to get on trains because they were loaded to capacity with people headed to the National Mall.

A city official in Washington says organizers' turnout estimate for the Women's March on Washington now stands at 500,000, which is more than double their initial predictions.

A large women’s march was scheduled in New York City on Saturday, and it appeared to be officially sanctioned: Chirlane McCray, the wife of Mayor Bill de Blasio, was on the program to give opening remarks.

But the Big Apple was already in full demonstration mode a day earlier.

“WE OUTNUMBER HIM! RESIST!’’ was the message soaring past the Statue of Liberty across New York Harbor hours before Donald Trump’s inauguration on Friday.

In this digital age, it's all about the visuals, and that's certainly the case this week in Washington, both at the inauguration of President Trump on Friday and the Women's March on Washington the day after.

There's been a run on "Nasty Women" T-shirts, which appropriated a term Donald Trump used to describe opponent Hillary Clinton during a presidential debate last fall.

A group of women in Los Angeles got the idea of knitting pink hats with cat ears ahead of the march, and the hats went viral.

Chants of "We're not going back" and "ERA" echoed down the halls of the Rayburn House Office Building on Saturday morning.

Three hundred or so women and men, many of them Californians, gathered in the building two hours before the Women's March on Washington for breakfast and a rally led by Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Hillsborough) for a still hoped-for Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Speier has taken up efforts to remove the 1982 deadline for two-thirds of states to approve the Equal Rights Amendment, allowing the proposed constitutional amendment to move forward without having to start over.

As thousands begin gathering in Washington, D.C., for the women's march, solidarity marches are unfolding in cities around the globe.

In Europe, marchers assembled in Budapest, Hungary; Amsterdam; Berlin; Dublin; and Florence, Italy.

Here's the scene near the U.S. Embassy in London:

You're seeing a bunch of pink hats on Saturday, and that was exactly the plan of the women who started knitting them in Los Angeles.

“We want to see a sea of pink” on the National Mall, said Kat Coyle, the owner of the Little Knittery in the neighborhood of Atwater Village.

The Women’s March on Washington joins a long tradition of women’s protests in the U.S. capital.

The suffragists

The day before President Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration in 1913, more than 5,000 women, accompanied by nine bands and about 20 floats, marched in Washington to demand the right to vote.

It turned out that the ceiling was made not of glass, but reinforced concrete.

At least that is what it felt like to many women who had been getting ready to pour Champagne in November to celebrate the election of the first female president of the United States.

It soon became clear that the nation’s 45th U.S. president would be the 45th man to hold the post, and Hillary Clinton, the woman many had expected to break the biggest gender barrier of them all, would be an also-ran for the nation’s highest office.