Take a look at the giant balloons that have been inflated. A lot of people are entering at 79th and columbus. Thats where theyre kind of routed through so they can see the balloons and thousands and thousands have already showed up and theyre still pouring in. This will go on till 10 00 tonight. The mayor and Police Commissioner are slated to talk we hope well. Stay tuned. Reporting live on the upper west side, tim news. Check out tims twitter page to see his videos and photos of todays security and balloon inflations. And heres a look at the parade route. It starts at central park. There you see it west and 77th street, head south to columbus circle, 34th. We also have the route and street closures on the homepage at abc7ny. President obama is saying tonight as we head in to the Holiday Season were in a that should not get in the way of enjoying thanksgiving. As americans travel this weekend to be with their loved ones i want them to know that our counterterrorism, intelligence, homeland security, and Law Enforcement professionals at every level are working overtime. Theyre continually monitoring threats at home and abroad. The president emphasized there is no credible threat at this time. Except for a new snags, air travel is moving smoothly. Heres a live look at laguardia. Nearly all flights are leaving on time. The crowds are expected to pick up again for later flights this evening. Earlier today there were some long lines at security checkpoints. Most travelers we spoke with said they feel confident they are safe. A little nervous, you see things in the news, but you know. Its just one of the things you have to take and go with it. I think im a little more concerned than normal but i think were confident that here in the u. S. We have things under control. Travelers at Newark Airport had a little trouble getting around today. The air train broke down and people had to take buses to get around for more than an hour. Everything is up and running once again. And an unmistakable security presence on the trains. Military personnel highly visible at penn station. Its all hands on deck for Amtrak Police who have been given extra training. The mta is implementing increased patrol on trains and random bag checks on the platforms. From planes, trains, now automobiles. Millions of drivers are expected to hit the road among record low gas prices. The cheapest since 2008. Right now youre looking at live pictures along the George Washington bridge where traffic is starting to buildup. Anthony johnson is along the new jersey turnpike with a look at traffic conditions there. Anthony, hows it looking . You know what, thats exactly what we start ed to notice. Starting around 3 00 this afternoon, a buildup of traffic on the roads, particularly on the garden state parkway. Even some buildups out here on the turnpike. So if youre leaving late this afternoon for your thanksgiving travel end of the evening, i hope you pack some patience. Reporter traffic was starting to pick up this afternoon as folks getting off from work starting to hit the roads. Newscopter7 traveling over the garden state parkway where heavy traffic, backup and delays were taking place southbound. We should expect to see this the rest of the evening. Maybe 15 to 20 minutes of decent driving and hit traffic for an accident. Traffic because of traffic. Coming up the jersey turnpike wasnt bad. Ive been in traffic the last 45 minutes. Pretty much going 15 Miles Per Hour the whole time. Im definitely getting ready for traffic. I saw it on my app. All red all the way down. Start ing from where to where . Coming from the gw bridge going to roanoke, north carolina. Reporter the key today for traveling was to start early. So far its been absolutely terrific and we have a computer app which tells us when theres going to be traffic so we just follow that. Reporter the good news, gas prices are at their lowest level since 2008, which is driving more people to travel by car. 30 and it fills up. My wife is like that aint going to be enough but i got the concept. 15 gallons. I get it. Reporter the average National Price is 2. 14, 74 cents less than thanksgiving last year. In jersey, todays average price is 1. 98. 76 lower than thanksgiving 2014. While you have a good start so far, later on this evening its expected to get bad and on sunday traffic is expected to be really, really heavy. That is the latest live from rich field, new jersey. Anthony johnson, channel 7 eyewitness news. Heres some good traffic news for you. For the first will be open on the expressway commonly known as the brooklyn battery tunnel for friday mornings commute. If you and two others are in your car, hopefully youll have a faster drive. How about that weather, sade . Thats whats on everybodys mind. Meteorologist jeff smith is in for lee goldberg. He has you covered with the accuweather forecast. Hes outside our studios on the upper west side. Hopefully you got some good news. I think you do. I think its pretty good news. The busiest travel day of the year is going to turn out to be one of the quietest weather days at least in this area. Calm winds out here, clear skies. Weve had throngs of people going by to head up to that balloon inflation here on the upper west side. Temperature right now is sitting in the middle 40s at central park. 45 to be exact. If youre head ing to these activities during the evening hours, temperatures actually not falling off that quickly, knowing down by maybe a degree or so every couple of hours. Just after midnight were back all eyes of course though on tomorrow, the thanksgiving day parade. 7 00 in the morning, a little bit chilly out there. Around 41 degrees so people waiting in the stands for the parade to start, going to be chilly. By the 48. Then temperatures actually noon time. The thing about tomorrow were not going to see maybe very early in clouds quickly increase as we get a wind coming off the water transporting some of the moisture from the atlantic ocean. There could even be a touch of drizzle in a couple of spots tomorrow afternoon. The big story during the next couple of days, highs going 10 to 15 degrees above average. Wait till you see how warm its going to be for the shoppers on black friday. Well have that forecast coming up on the other side of the break. Back in to you. To check the weather on the go no matter where you are, go to abc7ny. The street closures for tomorrows parade as well as realtime traffic updates on our website. A landlord speaking out for the first time about one of her tenants. A mother and her 15yearold daughter shot in the car in new jersey. They were trying to get away from the gunman when they crashed in to a pole. New jersey reporter toni yates at the Police Department in linden. This family is seeing a blessing in the face of this tragedy. Thats because doctors at University Hospital in newark have told Linden Police that this mother who was shot several times will survive. As you said, she was trying to get away from a gunman who was trying to kill her and her child. When i saw that car wrapped around that pole, i knew it was her because i know her car and my heart goes out to the family. Reporter this is the toyota camry Regina Jarvis saw in pictures wrapped around a utility pole. It was her tenant who was driving, speeding away from a gunman who was ambushed and shot the woman and her daughter as they were getting in to the car on middlesex street in linden. Her daughter observed a man approaching her. Apparently words were exchanged between the man and younger girl and the mother became concerned and told the daughter to get in the car. Once the daughter got in the car, they were starting to pull out of the driveway. The man drew a firearm, a handgun, and walked around to the front of the car and proceeded to fire multiple gunshots at the car. Reporter the mother, bleeding from several gunshot wounds, hit the gas and made it a block away, crashing in to a utility pole on east henry street. Critically hurt but she was out of the gunmans range. Saved her life and her 15yearold daughters. Shes a pleasant girl. Her girlfriends come pick her up. They go to school. I cant understand who would do Something Like this because theyre good people. Reporter police are trying to find the masked gunman and his motive. Daughter or both were targeted. Its premature in to the investigation. Well have to do digging in the background of both to see what precipitated this attack. Reporter police are not releasing the victims names, however crimestoppers is offering a 10,000 reward to try to find that masked gunman. Toni yates, channel 7 eyewitness news. New video in a story we brought you last week. An mta bus driver temporarily blinded behind the wheel by a laser. Now police have received clear video of the man they are looking for. Police say this passenger aimed a laser pointer at the Rearview Mirror last wednesday in the tree mont all the passengers got out including the man with the laser pointer. In new jersey fire destroyed one house and damaged newscopter7 was over the scene as firefighters worked. The fire began in a vacant home and spread to homes on both sides. People lived in one of the neighboring homes but everyone managed to get out safely. Hoboken finally getting the upper hand on a broken water main. City Officials Say repairs are doing well. Hoboken is getting water from another source and will keep it flowing through thanksgiving. Streets affected by flooding are expected to reopen by saturday. Repairs to the main itself are expected by the end of the weekend. And still ahead on eyewitness news, new video showing a wild chase in new jersey as Police Pursue a suspected murderer. See what finally brought him to a stop. A search for the mom who left her baby in a Church Nativity scene. Hear from the two women who cared for the baby boy till help arrived. As weve got some breaking news in brooklyn where a pedestrian has been struck by a bus. This happening at ocean avenue and avenue k in the midwood section. Were told the person struck was taken to the hospital. The bus driver did stay at the scene. Newscopter7 is on its way and well bring you the very latest as soon as it gets there. More protests and growing outrage in chicago today over the video showing a Police Officer shooting a teenager. The shooting happened last year but just yesterday the video was released and murder charges filed in the case prompting what took so long. Reporter a call for answers and accountable. Community leaders and activists reacting to this dashcam video, the video captured the moment officer Jason Van Dyke opens fire on 17yearold laquan mcdonald. We freezeed the video here but prosecutors say even after mcdonald collapsed, van dyke kept shooting. 16 bullets seconds. It is unfathomable and unacceptable that it would take a year when all of the facts in this case were known the night it happened. Reporter the shooting occurred more than a year ago. It began with Police Responding to a report of a suspect with a knife breaking in to cars. After van dyke began shooting, the video shows another officer kicking a knife away from mcdonalds body. Investigators say mcdonald never threatened the officers. At the end of the day id rather take my time and bet it right than rush to judgment and get it wrong. Reporter calling the investigation complex on tuesday, prosecutors announced murder charges against van dyke, the same day a court order led to the release of the video. Some upset protesters are now demanding the citys top cop to resign. Van dykes attorney is arguing the officer feared for his life. The city in the meantime has reached a 5 million settlement with the mcdonald family. The funeral was held today in minnesota for a man killed during a confrontation with police. Hundreds of mourners paid their respects to 24yearold jumar clark. He was shot and killed during a struggle with police last week. His death sparked more than a week of protests. Witnesses insist clark was handcuffed but police dispute that. Protesters want investigators to release video of that shooting. In paris new numbers rates at some hotels have plummeted by more than 30 in the days since those terrorist attacks. Meanwhile french president Francois Hollande and german counselor Angela Merkel laid flowers. As france and belgium continue their hunt for two fugitives believed to be involved in the attacks, the belgian capital is starting to return to normal. Schools in brussels reopened today and the subway system partially reopened even though the city remains on its highest possible alert level. Authorities raised that alert level on saturday saying the threat of a further attack was serious and imminent. Conflicting claims today from russia and turkey about the russian war planes shot down by turkey this week. The Turkish Military released what it says is a recording of the warnings given to a russian fighter jet. Turkey claims the plane was in its air space but the navigator who survived and was rescued told russian news media there he also said his plane was flying over syrian territory. Pope francis began his first ever visit to africa today and urged kenyans to work for peace. Speaking at nairobi state house, pope francis pushed kenya to work to heal ethnic, religious and economic divisions. More than 45,000 meals handed out today to families in the bronx that may have gone without thanksgiving dinner. City harvest partnered with blue apron to provide all the trimmings. Each person got a box containing a cornish hen and everything needed to make dinner. More than 700 people volunteered for the Fourth Annual fill the bag event in Nassau County on long island. About 15,000 grocery bags were packed with items including ham, green beans. Cranberry sauce, Sweet Potatoes and stuffing. A lot of food was purchased by the owner of midisland collision. Will go to churches, charities, and needy people. Weve got jeff smith in for lee goldberg. Beautiful night for the inflating of the balloons. Compared to last thanksgiving eve. We had accumulating snow in the northern western suburbs last year at this time. This year couldnt be much more different. Were looking at a live shot over the empire state building. If you cant make it to the balloon inflation, look up at the empire state build ing. Its lit up in these beautiful l. E. D. Lights, relatively new system there. They can actually change these lights on command and youve got the thanksgiving colors up there. Its beautiful. Right now that temperature, 45. Humidity at 63 . The humidity is coming up a little bit in the low levels of the atmosphere. Thats going to increase our cloud cover in to the day tomorrow. That wind coming in from the northeast at 5 Miles Per Hour. Its going to be more of an easterly or southeasterly wind. The high on the day got up to 50, right on target for november 25th. The record high was 73 back in 1979. The sun setting these days just after 4 30. So milder tomorrow but a cloudier day, about 48 at the parade start, probably in the mid 50s by the end of the parade at noon time. Getting in to the upper 50s before days end. Its a down right balmy breeze on friday. Some sun out there. Still cloud. But temperatures shooting all the way to the mid 60s. Showers do show up late friday night lasting in to saturday morning. I think we have a chance to clear out in most of the area saturday afternoon. 49 at newark. No weatherrelated de lays at all the major hubs. 48 at laguardia. 45 at jfk airport. We have temperature s which had fallen already down in to the mid 30s at monticello. Upper 30s at toms river. Low 40s at islip. Upper 40s at montauk. High pressure over new england with a clockwise flow around. You can see that really clearly here on our wind streamline map. Thats going to transport some of these low clouds which are currently offshore onshore to the day tomorrow. Thats why were looking at a cloudier thanksgiving. Theres a big storm in the rocky mountains. This will move in to the central part of the country during the day tomorrow. Last minute travelers might run in to airport delays from dallas to kansas city. Lows tonight in the meantime getting down to 41 in the park. 30s north and west. Highs tomorrow despite the cloud cover getting up to 15. Theres an outside chance a couple areas get a touch of drizzle during the day tomorrow. Accuweather forecast, clear, partly cloudy. 41, midtown. 30s in many cloudy tomorrow. 59 eventually. But 48 right at the parade start in the morning. Partly to mostly cloudy, mild tomorrow night. Down to 51. Well show you how warm its going to get on friday. Then the weekend forecast looking a little bit tricky at this point. Well explain why coming up next half hour. 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