parade route. security on everyone s minds, along with the balloons behind you. reporter: you re absolutely right. good morning and happy thanksgiving to you. federal agents telling us that they see these types of vague references every year before this parade. they re still taking it very seriously. security is really hyped up this year. multilevel approach. take a look. there s a lot of excitement, a lot of energy building here and a lot of officers now on the ground. we expect 3,000 new york police to be a part of the security force here, federal agents as well w including the joint terrorism task force will be a part of making sure things stay safe here and they feel like they have an excellent plan in place. it s all to see these giant balloons. inflation day was yesterday. they ve added a little bit inside here this morning, getting ready to unveil those things as the handlers, 50 to 100 on each of these giant balloons, make their way out and around the three-mile parade route.
security on everyone s minds, along with the balloons behind you. reporter: you re absolutely right. good morning and happy thanksgiving to you. federal agents telling us that they see these types of vague references every year before this parade. they re still taking it very seriously. security is really hyped up this year. multilevel approach. take a look. there s a lot of excitement, a lot of energy building here and a lot of officers now on the ground. we expect 3,000 new york police to be a part of the security force here, federal agents as well w including the joint terrorism task force will be a part of making sure things stay safe here and they feel like they have an excellent plan in place. it s all to see these giant balloons. inflation day was yesterday. they ve added a little bit inside here this morning, getting ready to unveil those things as the handlers, 50 to 100 on each of these giant balloons, make their way out and around the three-mile parade route. should be a l
again, the thing that the fbi is trying to make sure they do is not foreclose any of these possibilities. we know that they found, for instance, some kind of homemade bomb lab. we know they found a backpack at the scene of the first shooting, chris. and apparently this is where he made these bombs. this is something that he had rigged together with a remote control car, and was intended to detonate yesterday and did not happen. we don t know exactly why that did not happen. these are all the pieces the fbi is putting together. indications radicalization, however, is what has moved the fbi and the president to make this an fbi investigation because there are indications this is where this is going. right, fbi, atf, jttf, the joint terrorism task force. multiple agencies being involved. it s making more and more sense why. evan, thank you. let s bring in former chief jim beerman here. thank you for being with us.
know the police have the ability to act as warriors when they need to. there s the bigger issue, what the president s task force talked about. the notion of guardians which is the highest level that a society gives to the group of people who protect them. it speaks to more than just running and shooting and cooking and booking and all the things we might think about in the warrior side of policing. it s more about being responsive and fair and impartial in our policing and that s where the guardian piece comes in. it s a huge shift from warrior to guardian where guardians can act in a warrior mode like they did yesterday. we re getting information that suggests these two knew what they were doing. the idea you pick up an ar-15 and start shooting it, that is naive. you need to know how to use a weapon like that. it s not simple. the local leaders are moving up right now. as soon as they get ready to speak, we ll stop. but one last point on this. what we saw yesterday, you don t learn
the joint terrorism task force and nypd do a fantastic job keeping new yorkers safe. it s you and me. the average citizen working together, see something, say something. don t be afraid to say this doesn t feel right. and particularly to the people that are potentially close to somebody acting out. we ve seen that these behaviorial changes in individuals that are becoming inspired to join isis and it s the friends and family and people that are close that are noticing that behavior. somebody that s in communication with those people. it s really important. i understand. you don t want to rat them out. you don t want to be a snitch but the alternative is that somebody is on that path they could kill somebody or get themselves killed. it is important to say something particularly in you re part of that kind of inner circle. have a happy fourth.