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This year. tammy leitner has more. what do visitors need to know? >> reporter: the entire stretch of the parade route, two and a half miles, will be closed. there will be heavy security. 3,000 new york police officers. many are specially trained to deal with terrorist situations. 3.5 million people will show up tomorrow. this is the big reveal. to see balloons like this one. this is a new one. charlie brown. there are about 50 balloons out there. they could take an hour to inflate. there are 150 volunteers here. they actually trained four times a year on how to inflate the balloons. they will ...

Good morning. >> reporter: carol, this is being investigated as a terror situation. all muslims say, god is great, allah akbar, but it's also become an operative phrase in terrorist situations. that's how policeman interpreted it, taking this man's life. on his body they found a cell phone, an isis flag folded up in his pocket and some type of demand note they have yet to release the translation of. that's the word from authorities. the big scare is that he did seem to have have on some type of pouch or wire or vest that looked like an explosive device. they brought in a robot, did expert anal...

Hostage? >> no way. no way two or three gunmen could have done that. the radisson hotel in bamako is a pretty big hotel and comparable to other big hotels in the world. there's no way two or three gunmen could have that many hostages at this point in time. >> again, the sad reality of where we are right now with these terrorist situations, there's no talking. there's no going in and trying to reason with people to free the hostages. have you to go in as soon as you can, firing. >> right. tactics have changed. the old paradigm was basically this. you go in and you talk to the terrorists or the ...

Understanding and verified data because right now we -- it's a lot of this is single source information. and it's very early. we need to be careful with it. >> thank you so much, mr. cox. we also have jim cavanaugh, an nbc and msnbc analyst and atf special agent in charge. he's been involved in a lot of terrorist situations and negotiations in terrorism cases. jim, when you see this kind of a brutal attack, potentially, as the facts seem to be developing in support of, what do you attribute that to? do you think this is a spillover from this region being as volatile as it is? >> well, you know...

Knew there was a course down the road. how do you think he would look on the peace process. secretary of state john kerry has been to the region 10 or 11 times to get a deal. what would sharon say about the process. >> it is hard to be prophetic. he said peace is going to come when parties recognize that they must live in two separate states, respecting the right of the others to live in peace. we in israel, we jewish people long, long have been waiting for that day. we just hope the palestinians will recognize that the time has come to sign the accord. >> rabbi, thank you for coming in and sh...