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used was signing this as a sign of respect. it can t be a respect to threaten china with sanctions. happy thanksgiving, everyone. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. alisyn is off. snoopy is not. nor is erica hill who joins me this morning. and we re both excited about astronaut snoopy this year. i did like cowboy snoopy. i don t remember cowboy snoopy. i ll give you that. so we re all watching the wind speeds this morning. the strength of the wind will determine whether or not the balloons fly in two hours for the thanksgiving day parade. if the winds are above 23 miles per hour or gusts higher than 34 miles per hour, then the city will be forced to ground the balloons and that s not happened in 48 years. we are keeping our fingers crossed as parade officials make their decision next hour. we will bring you that decision the second it comes in.
i want to take you outside. this is a live look along the thanksgiving parade route in new york city where security is quite tight. threats by isis raise concerns prompting a much larger police presence this year. parade officials say there are sharp shooters on the roofs, radiation detectors searchy for dirty bombs and 200 officers from the new counterterrorism unit. in the meantime, record crowds with as many as 3 million spectators in attendance. looking at that large yellow banana type oh, it s a peanut. it s not a banana. it s a peanut. it s a mr. peanut van. sorry. okay. i have to get serious again. come on out to me. i m going to get serious. a second night of protests on the streets of chicago and new york after police release new video of an african-american teenager being gunned down by a
blasted across the country this week, certainly slowed travel down a bit. but thank goodness did not bring it to a grinding halt. looked like they managed to get where they needed to go, in most places. snow in michigan, western new york, pennsylvania, there was rain in atlanta, windy conditions along the east coast. they did contribute to the traffic mess. it s the coldest it s been in 100 years in atlanta on thanksgiving. colder in atlanta than in iceland. it was. it s a true story. the storm s blown itself out to sea. as we ve have been seeing in new york and elsewhere, sunny in the country now. the weather did threat tonight deflate that beloved thanksgiving tradition, giant balloons at annual macy s thanksgiving day parade. yes. fear not, as you can see there, snoopy, spongbob, all their mates managed to fly high and proud. not as high as they used to, because they were worried about the wind. it was a game-day decision. parade officials worried the
to be lining the parade route and for the balloons themselves. you know, there have been guidelines in effect since 1997 when a large balloon at the parade hit a lamp post and caused four injuries. including a very serious injury to a woman who was in a coma for a month. these guidelines say that they can t fly those large balloons when sustained winds exceed 23 miles per hour and gusts are over 34. tomorrow, they are predicting gusts of 25 to 35 miles per hour in new york city. so, parade officials are going to have to make a call sometime tomorrow morning before that parade starts at 9:00 a.m. eastern time. 16 massive balloons expected to fly and roughly three dozen smaller balloons. those could still fly. obviously the safety is a primary concern, but could be a disappointment for a lot of folks tomorrow at that macy s thanksgiving day parade, harris. rick leventhal, thank you very much. let s go to rick reichmuth right now. chief meteorologist i want to ask you first what the tem
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