death 75 times already. he s had close calls. balloon accidents, and serious car crashes, and mountain biking accidents. i mean, the list goes on and on and on. so it s in his blood to take risk and he told me, he said, i believe and the family motto is that life is for taking risks. and if you re not taking risks, ural not living life. i m paraphrasing because he was morell more eloquent than that. sorry for the background noise. this is a very stage managed production here as you would expect anything richard branson and virgin does. they set up massive tents here in the desert, a massive stage on the runway. we have stephen colbert coming. he s going to be part of the presentation. we ve got music coming. so this is a very, very slickly produced ordeal. all of it is streamed, guys. i don t think you re excited at all. we know you llible there, you ll be watching and providing us
thursday or wind gusts top 34 miles per hour. macy s saying regarding the giant balloons, a determination is made on their inclusion based and not forecasts. so it s not helpful to discuss it now. it was a topic of discussion and concern for new york city police. we ve had several meetings. today we had a meeting on it. we have instruments that give us the cross-wind measurements. we ve done a lot of training on this. reporter: both city and parade officials have learned from past wind-related balloon accidents. in 1997, a woman spent more than three weeks in a coma after the cat in the hat balloon struck a light pole which hit her. two more were hurt in a similar accident involves the m & m s balloon. and a police sergeant is assigned to each balloon.
on real time weather data parade morning and not forecasts. so it s not helpful to discuss it now. it was a topic of discussion and concern for new york city police. so we ve had several meetings, i have a meeting today on it. we have instruments that give us the cross wind measurements. we ve done a lot of training on this. reporter: both city and parade officials have learned from past wind related balloon accidents in that 1997, a woman spent horn three weeks in a coma after the cat in a hat balloon struck a light pole which hit her. in 2005, two more were hurt in a similar accident involving the m and m s balloon. now improved weather monitoring dweess are along the parade route and police sergeant assigned to each balloon. balloons like snoopy and woodstock and an updated sponge bob are ready to fly. but even about they don t, this family will not be disappointed.
raud officials learn from past wind related balloon accidents in 1997 a woman spent more than three weeks in a coma after the cat in the hat balloon struck a light pole which hit her. in 005, two more were hurt in a similar accident involving the m&m s balloon. now improved weather monitoring devices are along the parade route, and a police sergeant asu assigned to each balloon. protocols are in place and balloons like snoopy and woodstock and updated spongebob are ready to fly. even if they don t, the finley family will not be disappointed. the balloons aren t about thanksgiving. it s about fellowship and family and just being thankful. reporter: and carol, we re told that some of the smaller balloons still might make it into the parade, even if some of the larger balloons end up becoming grounded. a final decision will not be made by parade organizers until tomorrow morning. until then, as you say, fungers