show, those 16 giant character balloons. the question will continue to be will the winds stay low enough to let these things launch? 20 mile an hour consistent winds, gusts up to 34 miles an hour is the threshold. higher than that and they cannot go. look at those winds across the northeast and we are getting up in that range, new york city, central park, we saw consistent winds gusting into the upper 20s and that is getting closer to that threshold. look at the next graphic and that will be the forecast across the entire country. it is just about that wind. if you re in the west, still big heavy snow will linger through your thursday forecast. the middle of the country a dry, sunny, not too bad and in new york city temperatures are going to be a lot of sunshine along the parade route today so i think the forecast is going to look pretty good. it will all come down to these winds, something we will watch
is that the pollutants are playing. brian joins us from the parade route surrounded by his closest friends behind them. could do see you. good morning. happy thanksgiving to you and yours. the parade is underway and the 16 giant character balloons are a go. what has which balloon are you most looking forward to seeing? the elf on the shelf balloon. which one do you want to see? diary of a wimpy kid. that is the tallest. you are from minnesota? diary of a wimpy kid. is this your first parade? when my children turned eight, they get to come to the new york parade. incredible excitement out here. at the nypd tweeted at the balloons were ago. concerns that they weren t going
hour which will be close to the threshold you want to fly these things. it is the macy s day parade and everyone wants to see those balloons up, 3 million people will be in new york city, 50 million people watching around the country, 8000 marchers and 16 giant character balloons, 90 carry each of these and it all comes down to the wind, 20 mile an hour consistent winds are gusting winds up to 34 miles an hour. let s get a look at the forecast. these are the winds across the northeast. we have been getting to that threshold but i thought recent gusts in central park getting to 26, 28 miles an hour. you can hear that a little bit. we will be cutting it close to that level. not too bad but temperatures climbing to 50 °. we will see that winter weather, heavy snow for them.
character balloons. all that fuss being made. great news for the people at home and better news for the people here in the cold weather, fairly nice ready to see the parade and those balloons fly for the 93rd annual thanksgiving day parade. that would have been a big deal if they weren t. they are making their way down. just outside of our fox headquarters. the balloons will fly. the new york times dropping reports on the upcoming doj ig report ahead of its official release on december 9th. claiming that fbi informants were not placed inside the trump campaign. some g.o.p. lawmakers are pushing back saying the will still be devastating. fox reporting says on the level official altered a document. life with the details in washington. the key finding in the ig
through the rest of the morning and of those 16 character balloons there s a handful of new ones, spongebob of being one of the new ones but we got a sneak peek behind me, astronaut snoopy is one of the new balloons just over my shoulder. i know you are really excited about astronaut snoopy, you were telling me. if he does not fly today my thanksgiving will have been ruined. i feel the same way. clearly the balloons are inflated, we just need to know if they can fly. we will check in with you later. there is politics, the president spending the holiday at mara lago we will have call american troops serving overseas. what could be included in the doj inspector general fisa report. allison barber live in washington with more on what is reportedly included in those findings.