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Thanksgiving parade: spectators pack Manhattan streets to watch Macy’s annual

“We live in a society of being fearful”, said another spectator Jacqueline Williams who was viewing the parade for the first time.

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It wasn’t just the giant balloons people got to see when they craned their necks skyward at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.

North Hardin is one of only six high school bands invited this year.

The squad will leave for NY on Sunday.

It is expected about 50 million people to have watched the 2.5-mile parade event on television across the world. This is why she was featured on numerous promotional materials for the parade, but not in the actual event itself.

Jacob arrived in NY on Saturday.

“We’ll have additional Hercules teams… the heavily armed entities that will be around the area, the parade route”. “Were very proud of New York City and this wonderful tradition.”Her husband noted the right security.

Police, who were patrolling in record numbers, arrested a 41-year-old Russian tourist for flying a drone in Central Park near the parade route with his son, 14.

“It’s a little scary, but at least it’s keeping us safe”, Kim Miller, of Boston, said of the heavy security.

Americans mark the annual Thanksgiving holiday Thursday with family gatherings, meals, parades, fun runs and bargain shopping.

Hundreds of officers from the Emergency Service Unit, the K-9 Unit and mounted patrol will also man the stretch, in addition to the uniformed officers and plainclothes police. He says NY residents must remain vigilant but not fearful after the attacks in Paris.

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Mariah Carey waves from a float during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on Thursday