The Pasadena Tournament of Roses and National Park Service have formed an alliance in honor of the National Park Service’s centennial in 2016, which prompted the parade’s theme for the year.
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Another wrote: “Early 2016 MVP candidate: whoever’s behind the “Trump is a fascist” and “Trump is disgusting” Rose Parade skywriting”. Sure, this was a lengthy advertisement for a theme park, but it’s the new year!
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The temperature at the parade’s start barely topped 40 degrees but spectators were shedding layers as the sun lit up the bright floats woven together with roses, carnations and other flowers.
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It’s New Year’s Day, so you know what that means – the Rose Parade!
Authorities said the event would be held under unprecedented security, although there were no known threats.
The parade route this year will see the floats travel from the corner of Green Street and Orange Grove Boulevard in Pasadena.
Though more than 53 million people are expected to watch on TV, and more than 700,000 attend in person, there are still some detractors who took to social media to rain on the New Year’s Day parade. The grand marshal is filmmaker Ken Burns, who produced the Emmy-award winning series “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea”.
Selby noted the December 2 terror attack that killed 14 people in San Bernardino, 60 miles east of Los Angeles, but he emphasized that the Rose Parade’s massive security preparations began more than a year ago.
The 44 floats included an entry paying homage to the City of Hope medical center that was built by and featured athlete cancer survivors.
Later on Friday, Iowa – a team from the first caucus state – will play Stanford in the 102nd Rose Bowl game. Pasadena officials tightened security and promised “increased visible and non-visible enhanced security measures” along the nine-kilometer parade route.
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Mark Selby, deputy special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations in Los Angeles and the federal coordinator for the Rose Parade and security, said the plan involved unprecedented resources and technologies. Sure, it is extremely over the top, but did you really think that we were going to get something different for a float celebrating this show?
