Protesters. Look at the asian markets which are down this morning. Also new this morning, rising tensions between President Trump and some of the nations senior military officers who tell cnn theyre disturbed by mr. Trumps behavior by his intervention in the cases of three Service Members accused of war crimes. All of this as ousted Richard Spencer penned an oped writing the commander in chief has very little understanding of what it means to be governed by a uniform set of rules and practices. But first the balloons. Lets get to the balloons. Miguel marquez is live along the macys thanksgiving day parade route. And the countdown to the answer, rugt . Reporter yeah. Look, its going to be minutes before they kick off at 9 00 a. M. Eastern time they will make that call. I got to say, i would have thought there was no chance on earth that those balloons would go the way the wind was howling overnight, but it is pin drop calm right now. Everything is set up. The floats down this way, tom t
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as you know the state parks have opened up in the area to shelter people. those are starting to fill up. we just opened up an additional state park late yesterday and we re starting to house people there now. well, listen, we wish you the best of luck. we know you got a long road and the people have a long road ahead of them. take care and please send them our best. colonel jeremy slinker. thank you. send any help you have. for more information about how you can help victims of the kentucky flooding, go to cnn.com/impact. we have links there from colonel slinker s team, actually, we re going to tweet those out as well. a good resource for finding ways to get these people some help. cnn s evan mcmorris santoro is also on the ground in eastern kentucky to see what has been left in the wake of all this. i think it is hard for people to understand just how devastating this was. almost biblical, right?
that s the smallest version of the search and rescue going on right now. the governor s visit today, his first that he was able to do because of weather and the flood damage here to this region, that brings out all the state resources. we re seeing travel trailers come in. we re seeing more supplies come in and the national guard come in. they are trying their best to get this place stabilized as quickly as possible, but this is a slow going process because it s raining here, pam. it s raining. the bridges were washed away but as you said, my fellow kentuckians, they are stepping up to the plate and they are doing everything they can to pitch in to help one another and rescue those in harm s way right now. etch mcmorris santoro, thank you. if you would like to help the victims of the kentucky flooding go to cnn.com/impact and there s information there on the team kentucky relief fund set up by the governor. coming up for you on this sunday night, how do we bring down gun violence