the thanksgiving excitement is building on the streets of new york. the balloons are up over the 90th annual macy s thanksgiving day parade which gets under way in just minutes. cnn s boris sanchez is live in the center of it all on manhattan s upper west side. what s the latest, boris? good morning, alisyn. we re about 45 minutes away from the start of the parade. as you can see behind me things are getting set to kick off. we ve got charlie brown in the background. right in front of us, several dozen new york city police officers getting ready to hit the parade route. there are about 3,000 of them uniformed here today. we ve also got about 1,000 clouns, some of them on rollerblades and with confetti. very, very exciting stuff here. thank you so much. i don t even know how to get away with that. aside from that the crowd is extremely excited. they are pumped to be here. we have kids of all ages that are very, very excited not just
mt macy s thanksgiving day parade back in 1927. they re bringing him back for the 90th year. you excited? we have folks sitting up on a garbage truck that s meant to be a security barrier. security, something extremely important to point out. something like 3,000 police officers, uniformed police officers that are out here. the commissioner for nypd earlier told me this is one of the most important days of the year for them. and all the hard work and preparation is worth it when he sees these smiling faces on thanksgiving day. brooke and alisyn? thank you. thank you boris for all of the excitement. we want to thank our producers who have joined us here on the set. yes, this is our a-team right here. all the kiddos. yes. so these are all actually of our crew s kids, as well as mine. leah, remember what we were going to do when i said in three, two, one happy thanksgiving!
reporting. i want to bring clint back in. our updated information is at least seven victims and two of them uniformed. one in a d.c. metro officer. a base officer likely the first person that confronted and tried to stop this gunman. the good news is no fatalities have been reported at all. hopefully that will continue to be the case. they have their perimeter set. we hope that s the case and continuing with violence and at least three different choices that employees and any civilian government building has in a shooting situation. that s usually the best way to get out of that building and that facility. run and get away.