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Precautions that are taken to make sure vehicles never come close to approaching this route, including new york city, the sanitation trucks, the sand trucks that normally try to keep the roads free from ice, laden with sand, and it is virtually impossible to get through those trucks. they re all along the parade route to make sure that vehicles have no chance of entering it on top of that new york city s crc, the heavy weapons teams that you see are deployed all throughout the entire parade route to make sure from a vehicle perspective, nobody is getting in. that s the nypd s plan. tom winter, clint watts. thank you all so much. we ll keep you updated on this story throughout the hour, throughout the day. coming up next, you are looking live at a courtroom in georgia where closing arguments in the trial of the three men accused of killing ahmaud arbery are set to begin any moment now. plus, we re keeping an eye on waukesha after that suv plowed into a crowd at a holiday ....
They have every year but didn t have last year because of the pandemic. children excited to see santa, who was just moments away from coming down that parade route before this suv came speeding down and taking out everyone in its path. now, i want to get to a statement that s just coming in from the archdiocese of this region here. they say our prayers are with the people who have been injured and killed during this tragic incident in waukesha. among the injured are one of our priests, as well as multiple parishioners and schoolchildren. please join us in prayer for all those involved, their families and those who are traumatized from watching this event transpire. so, you know, those people who are fortunate enough to not be injured, you can only imagine the trauma in seeing this horrific incident play out. also, we re learning this morning that the dancing grannies, a group that is very popular in this parade, older women who dance down the parade ....
Route, bringing a lot of cheer and smiles to people s faces, they ve come out with a statement saying that they have lost some of their members. they are mourning, just like this entire community this morning. steph? the dancing grannies, i have seen them perform at milwaukee bucks games. they are tremendous. tom llamas, take us to the community. i mean, i can t imagine a day more joyful than a christmas parade. reporter: you know how excited kids get at the start of the holidays, how excited families get. that s what happened here last night. there were strollers and families. they were six people deep along the parade route. police have shut down main street. this literally happened on main street in waukesha. police are still investigating. everyone is trying to figure out the why. why someone would do this. we ve spoken to at least one eyewitness who says he was right there and says, without a doubt, this driver was trying to hit people. there are still strollers on ....
Make sure we can make sure job training programs better match up with the needs of businesses around america. elizabeth plank is the executive social editor and rich benjamin a senior fellow at the think tank, welcome to both of you. you sat with me during the president s speech there. let me start with you, this is part of an effort that s become somewhat customariry for presidents as of late. they hit the road and take their message to the people of america, that s what we re seeing president obama do as he shakes the hands of some of the factory workers in waukesha. what did you make of the speech? craig, that s exactly what he does and the road is not washington and that s the point. he s fired up and ready to go making a different case. the words i kept hearing, work pay, work should pay and his economic policy isn t about charity, it s about making this country work for all of our ....
To take for all of us to build the world s best trained workforce. that s the attitude it s going to take to restore opportunity for everybody who is willing to work hard. and it won t be easy. sometimes some folks will slip but if we come together and push forward, everybody as a team i m confident we re going to succeed. we ve seen it in wisconsin and we can make sure it happens all across the country. thank you. god bless you. god bless america. thank you. and there you have it president obama wrapping up a roughly 23-minute speech there in waukesha, wisconsin. hitting on a lot of the same themes he hit on during the state of the union address earlier, talking about opportunity, also spending a great deal of time there talking about retooling the job training the job training programs in this country, by saying he is going to be appointing vice president joe biden to spearhead an effort to ....