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
presidency rings well with military culture because we ve been at war for forever in afghanistan. kori shocky, matt welch, happy thanksgiving to the two of you. heading overseas, china condemning the united states for passing laws backing protesters in hong kong. president trump passed the two bills yesterday. they allow the u.s. to implement economic sanctions on hong kong and chinese officials guilty of human rights abuses. the bills put pressure on china and raise new questions about the future of a trade deal wen the u.s. and china. coming up, mayor pete buttigieg saying being gay helps him relate to black americans. why that s angering some voters. we were worried the balloons might not fly. the macy s thanksgiving day parade is not disappointing crowds. we ll be outside joining millions on the parade route today. you re watching msnbc. de route today. you re watching msnbc. tremfya® helps adults with moderate to severe
and people have to prepare for what could be an upstic in the hurricane season in the next 30 to 60 days. thinking of the emergency responders getting ready to rock and roll. tom saider keeping us posted. ahead for us, joe biden hitting the parade route today. shaking hands, taking selfies talking trade. yes, confirmation. joe biden is running, he is running so to speak. this as the former vice president warns democrats that everything is on the line heading into november. in-laws were coming, a little bit of water, it really- it rocked our world. i had no idea the amount of damage that water could do. we called usaa. and they greeted me as they always do. sergeant baker, how are you? they were on it. it was unbelievable. having insurance is something everyone needs, but having usaa- now that s a privilege. we re the baker s and we re usaa members for life.
with the president on trade. one of the other questions joe biden was getting along the parade route today is what is going to happen in 2020, are you going to run? lots of workers and reporters urging him to run against president trump in 2020. he was noncommittal, of course, but he did say if he runs for president, he will be here in pennsylvania a lot. dana? you can bet. rebecca, thank you so much for that report. appreciate it. you know, let s talk about joe biden for a second. look, it is no secret that he s wanted to be president. he s run. as the president has frankly rightly said, when he s run his own campaigns, they haven t gone so well. since then, he was vice president for eight years and established a different kind of relationship with democratic voters. yeah, that s right. and the question is does he pull the trigger. you talked to democrats, they re split about whether or not he ultimately decides to do it. i think he s probably also split about whether this is the
you don t have enough time. let s go to rebecca burke. she is there in pittsburgh. how did that nafta comment and swipe on trump, how did that land where you are in pennsylvania? well, it s interesting, brooke, because the former vice president, biden clearly was drawing a contrast with the president on trade. biden has been one of the loudest voices calling upon democrats to engage voters on this issue, to speak to american workers not only going into 2018 but there is 2020. of course that was sort of an elephant in the room or rather on the parade route today with joe biden. what is he going to decide to do in 2020? will he challenge president trump? certainly there were workers out here today urging him to do so. but he insisted that that was not why he was here today. take a listen to what he had to say. talk about what this means in terms of your political future