reporter: same sentiments from the mastandona family. they have to fly, somebody has to make them fly. reporter: parade organizers aren t concerned about rain or snow, it s wind. giant plans like the all new toothless from how to train your dragon measuring 72 feet long and 36 feet ride, could be grounded, if some forecasts are true and sustained winds reach at least 23 miles per hour thursday, or wind gusts top 34 miles per hour. macy s saying regarding the giant balloons a determination is made on their inclusion based on real time weather data parade morning and not forecasts. so it s not helpful to discuss it now. it was a topic of discussion and concern for new york city police. we ve had several meetings, we have a meeting today on it. we have instruments that give us cross-wind measurements. we ve done a lot of training on this. reporter: both city and pa
on real time weather data parade morning and not forecasts. so it s not helpful to discuss it now. it was a topic of discussion and concern for new york city police. so we ve had several meetings, i have a meeting today on it. we have instruments that give us the cross wind measurements. we ve done a lot of training on this. reporter: both city and parade officials have learned from past wind related balloon accidents in that 1997, a woman spent horn three weeks in a coma after the cat in a hat balloon struck a light pole which hit her. in 2005, two more were hurt in a similar accident involving the m and m s balloon. now improved weather monitoring dweess are along the parade route and police sergeant assigned to each balloon. balloons like snoopy and woodstock and an updated sponge bob are ready to fly. but even about they don t, this family will not be disappointed.