calling on anybody who was willing to step up to do a nice-style attack, ram a truck through a public event and they showed a photograph of the parade as an example of an excellent target. it s actually not an excellent target. we re going to have over 80 sand trucks blocking the route. traffic will be shut at all the intersection bus including intersection wes used to have open so it will be a secure event. kids will be there, i ll be there, we ll have a great time. everybody should come. so you got the parade, the rockets, the store windows, you ve got the christmas tree and on top of this you got the security around trump tower on fifth avenue. what could possibly go wrong? what impact is that having on the city besides you said you go down 5th avenue, traffic is always a nightmare, what impact is this having on the city? for perspective, traffic was a nightmare before. people are feeling it more now because there s constriction
inflightiinflating the giant balloons. also, extra security, specifically sand trucks at intersections in manhattan. it s an unprecedented effort to prevent something like this. the attack in nice, france, this july when a man drove a truck through a crowd celebrating bastille day, killing more than 80 people. bringing in phil mud, cnn counter terrorist analyst. an arrest this week, a man accused of providing materials support to isis. a catch-all term. the complaint says he was discussing the possibility of a nice-style attack. through serious is the threat? you have to take is seriously. back 15 years to 9/11. it takes you years to train people, to bring them out to afghanistan, to think about how do you access a hardened target like an aircraft. fast forward. look at this copy-cat attack. someone talking to a plot
nice-style attack, ram a truck through a public event and they showed a photograph of the parade as an example of an excellent target. it s actually not. we re going to have over 80 sand trucks blocking the route. traffic will be shut at all the intersection bus including intersection wes used to have open so it will be a secure event. kids will be there, i ll be there, we ll have a great time. everybody should come. so you got the parade, the rockets, the store windows, you ve got the christmas tree and on top of this you got the security around trump tower on fifth avenue. would what could possibly go wrong? what it pact is that having on the city besides you said you go down 5th aft tth avenue, tra always a nightmare, what impact is this having on the city? for perspective, traffic was a nightmare before. people are feeling it more now because there s constriction there but this is the subpoena where we get busy. we run from the marathon to to
welcome back to morning joe. commissioner of the new york city police department, james o neil. good to have you with us this morning. tomorrow one of the greatest security challenges for any police force in the world, the thanksgiving day parade. for first time ever every cross street on the parade route will be blocked off. is there a threat that you re looking at different and apart from what we ve seen in the past? there s some rhetoric that we ve been watching. there s always a threat stream that we take a look at. we thought it was important that we cut off just to make everybody in new york feel comfortable and cut off those cross streets and we have 83 sand trucks and 114 blocker vehicles we use to cut off the cross town traffic. no vehicles besides of course the vehicles in the parade will be allowed on the route. how are those decisions made? what level of rhetoric do you have to see to make a big decision like that?
3.5 million people are expected to line the streets of tomorrow s thanksgiving macy s day parade. every cross street along the parade route will be blocked off completely. sand trucks will serve as barriers. vapor dogs will be on guard as officers remain on high alert. all of this activity after recent propaganda magazine called the event a, quote, excellent target. t tammy, first of all, vapor dogs, what is that? what other precautions are we seeing police take? okay, so the vapor dogs. there are eight of them. they basically can detect any type of explosive scent. which would be a bomb or anything like that. now, there s a lot of things you will be able to see like the vapor dogs and things that you won t be able to see. couple things you will see, the