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To undertaking. the police commissioner said preparations for this year's event began as the last of the confetti was being swept up after last year's celebration. there will be an increased police presence. this entire area will be sealed off to traffic starting early in the day and the 12 access points spectators will be using will be manned by teams of police. there will be police with heavy weapons, dogs capable of detecting radiological material, sanitation trucks and cement blocks will help seal off the area. they all say there is no direct credible threat to times square or new york cit...

There and they were blocking all the bridges leading into the christmas markets with huge semi trucks and they had cement blocks and checkpoints and we're probably going to see a lot more of that around europe now. >> some intel sources from france and some of their main promenades in paris. ben wedemen, the italian investigators are slow to give all details because they say this is an active investigation. what are you hearing about what they're still looking for. is this about a broader connection or other planning? >> well, the feeling is that because spent so many years in an italian priso...

Take a look at some of these precautions. all the mailboxes on every street corner, they've been locked so nothing can be put in them. these cement blocks, they will be moved out overnight into the middle of the street to block them. also, they're filling up sanitation trucks with sand, and i'm told once they're filled they'll weigh about 30 tons and they'll park those on the corner of each closed off street so nobody can get through. keep in mind, they're expecting 3.5 million people to turn out to watch this parade. the parade route is about 2 1/2 miles long, 8,000 people participati partici...

Is zur sfrfrm palestinian all ffrm you see here on this road a series of cement blocks. they're there to prevent vehicles from getting in and out. the border police here have set up a checkpoint. and there is a line of palestinians waiting to leave their neighborhood to go to work, to go to prayers. what's happening is one by one they approach the police and the police ask to sfwrk it was a young palestinian man, we've seen them ask them to hold up their shirt, hold up the bottom of their trousers to show that they aren't carrying any weapons. they've been ske kweing them, asking them where th...

There. people along the parade route here in washington screened. security at the basilica, catholic university. security around the residence here where he is staying here and repeated in new york with its own challenges that stephanie will talk about and perhaps the biggest challenge of all will be in philadelphia because you will have almost as many people coming to see the pope as live in the very small area in philadelphia where the papal eventless taking place. it is a massive security challenge, many different places and most unpredictable of all, the man at the center of it all. >> all...