this piece of a new york is one of the major cities across the country gearing up for fireworks tonight and toleration for july 4th and police are beefing up security for the big event as well. laura ingle is live from battery park. what s the latest? thousands of firework loving revelers will be letting the streets and sidewalks all went down new york s east river tonight. already has her eyes gazing up to look at that big show in the sky. the nypd will be keeping their eyes on everything else to make sure that this event is staying safe. new york s finest are causally updating and adjusting security measures for every day and big event protection and this year, the nypd will have find many are at checkpoint sites with detectors, bank searches, and people notice large trucks blocking streets. the nypd started using these trucks were parade routes and other public gatherings after last year s bastille massacre
self-defense claim. heather: 7 police are not charging the driver of a taxicab who plowed into a group of other taxi drivers, ten of those drivers were injured when the cab jumped the curb. investigators say the 56-year-old driver may have hit the gas instead of the break, terrorism is not suspected. a masked gunman is that after trying to hijack a helicopter. in portland, oregon, walking up to the chopper with an employee, the suspect threatened to couple with a gun and fired a shot. when police arrived, that is when he shot and killed. overseas, the big apple beefing up security for the fire horse show with 3 million spectators expected. 140 sand filled trucks and blocker vehicles on parade
new york s finest work on big protection. this year, they will be assigning several thousand uniform officers on patrol. many of them at checkpoints with radiation detectors, the hercules team will be in play. big bag searches as well. people also no trucks blocking streets. the nypd and started using these large trucks for parade routes, after that massacre last year, when 86 people were killed by terrorist driven truck when it drove into a group. ill be a first for a fireworks show in the big apple. something new this year, we will be utilizing over 100 block of vehicles and over 20 sand trucks. counterterrorism offices will be working. they have radiation detection devices on their persons. explosive detecting canines will
security in the western country, and continuous emphasis against the ideology and against their social media network. we have to cut their funding, and stop the flow of jihadis, and all of the things are important aspects of the campaign. yes, military coalition, and i.t. coalition it would seem is just as critical. general hertling, great to have your insight as always. thank you, ashleigh. and the thanksgiving holiday is here complete with jam packed airplane, and jam packed airports, and people on parade routes and filling up movie theaters and stadiums, and with the threat of isis all over them, what is being done to keep americans safe? we have that next.
the united states it s amazing that he is here and people are very, very excited. about 2.5 million catholics, jim, in new york city and the surrounding counties. the arch diocese of new york. and then people i assume they re watching television they want to get a glimpse of the pontiff. watching television and lining those parade routes. and not just catholics but certainly catholics particularly excited, i ll admit i m one of them. and it s been interesting the last week, wolf, i ve been speaking to catholics who left the church an estimated 3 million catholics left the church since 2007. about half of adult catholics in the u.s. say that they ve left the church for a time in the last several years. disagreements with the church, too much of a focus on doctrine. when you speak to them today you hear from many of them that he if he hasn t quite brought them back into church on every sunday, he s caused them to look at the church again. a more welcoming spirit, a more forgiving spi