issue is not going away. joining us now exclusively is new york city council speaker christine quinn who supports a city wide welcome home for the troops coming home from iraq. thank you for being here. thank you for having me. while watching the parade, could you picture a celebration for the war? absolutely. i was sitting on the stage in front of city hall you give each one of the giants a key to city hall. how will we do it for the veterans. a million veterans. i was thinking we could do one for each member of the service, then a family who lost a son or daughter also from each member of the service come up, but the point is there is a way to do it. and there is a way to make sure the men and women know our gratitude. and also know that we re not just grateful, we re happy they are back and we want to make it easy as possible for them to transition back in city life.
quarterback confusion. a lucky dog and a big baby. let s get down to the wire. it was an exciting day for giants fans who celebrated their super bowl win with a ticker tape parade in new york city, but one so-called giants fan had a little quarterback confusion. what was it like to be amazing! who would you like to see? sanchez! eli. wrong team, girl. mark sanchez is new york jets quarterback. i think she meant eli manning. this is one lucky dog. the pup fell through a frozen colorado pond after it chase add coyote on the ice. rescuers were able to get it out, loaded it and got it into the vet to be checked out. another daring rescue, this one in new zealand. a diver shot this video just
in front of city hall today and you give each one of the giants a key to city hall. i was thinking how will we do it when we think of the veterans? i was thinking we could do one for each member of the service and then i thought we should have a family who lost a son or a daughter also from each member of the service come up. the point is, there s a way to do it. there s a way to make sure these men and women know our gratitude. also know we are not just grateful. we are really happy they are back and we want to make it easy as possible for them to transition back in to city life. now the way we say we re grateful or we are thrilled or happy in new york is with a parade in the canyons of heros. if there s other way the veterans think we should do it, i m open to doing that. but i want to make sure the moment doesn t pass us by. if we wait too long it will pass us by and then the thank you
touchdown on the game, so i have to buy everybody on set a beer. i have to lose the bet in both directions. that s how it goes. it s fine. here in new york city they held a ticker-tape parade, the giants floating down the canyon of heroes. there were march bands and people on lunch hour and parents that let their kids pay hooky. in the crowd near city hall they found the willis family. they took the subway in from brooklyn with a big picture of staff sergeant willis. he s now serving in afghanistan. after finishing a tour serving in iraq, his mom told us that another child of her, a daughter served three tours in iraq and is now stationed in germany. she came to the giants parade for her son, a giants fan who celebrated like mad when his team won the super bowl in in 2008 and who i think would have given anything to himself to be in new york today. i promised him before we won the first one, i said, when we win the super bowl i ll take
service. i thought we should have a family who lost a son or a daughter also from each member of the service come up. but the point is there s a way to do it, and there s a way to make sure these men and women know our gratitude and also know that we re not just grateful. we re really happy they re back and we want to make it easy as possible for them to transition back into city life. now, the way we say we re grateful or we re thrilled or we re happy in new york is with a parade in the canyon of heroes. if there s other ways veterans think we should do it, i m open to hearing that. what i want is to make sure this moment doesn t pass us by, because if we wait too long, it will pass us by. then the thank you will seem late and belated, like the birthday card you got from your aunt who forgot. it just don t mean as much. look, i don t think of parades is enough. i think a national call to action needs to be heard.