>> saw a policeman with a machine gun yesterday which i hadn't seen in town in other years. >> make you feel safer? >> sure. >> reporter: also rolled out is the new critical response command. up to 500 heavily armed and highly trained officers added to the counterterrorism unit and patrolling herald square and other high profile locations were the elite able to strike very quickly. >> that's kind of alarming to see them with the rifles like that. i know that intention is good. so i do feel protected. >> reporter: as thousands of people move along west 77th street to see the giant balloons being inflated, hammer, one of several bomb sniffing dogs, was also working. they're being joined by other officers with radiation detection devices able to detect a dirty bomb. >> keep your eyes open and keep everybody safe. >> let's go to newscopter7. we have an

take a look at the giant balloons that have been inflated. a lot of people are entering at 79th and columbus. that's where they're kind of routed through so they can see the balloons and thousands and thousands have already showed up and they're still pouring in. this will go on till 10:00 tonight. the mayor and police commissioner are slated to talk we hope well. stay tuned. reporting live on the upper west side, tim news. check out tim's twitter page to see his videos and photos of today's security and balloon inflations. and here's a look at the parade route. it starts at central park. there you see it west and 77th street, head south to columbus circle, 34th. we also have the route and street closures on the homepage at abc7ny. president obama is saying tonight as we head in to the holiday season we're in a

that should not get in the way of enjoying thanksgiving. >> as americans travel this weekend to be with their loved ones i want them to know that our counterterrorism, intelligence, homeland security, and law enforcement professionals at every level are working overtime. they're continually monitoring threats at home and abroad. >> the president emphasized there is no credible threat at this time. except for a new snags, air travel is moving smoothly. here's a live look at laguardia. nearly all flights are leaving on time. the crowds are expected to pick up again for later flights this evening. earlier today there were some long lines at security checkpoints. most travelers we spoke with said they feel confident they are safe. >> a little nervous, you see things in the news, but you know. it's just one of the things you have to take and go with it. >> i think i'm a little more concerned than normal but i think we're confident that here in the u.s. we have things under control. >> travelers at newark airport

had a little trouble getting around today. the air train broke down and people had to take buses to get around for more than an hour. everything is up and running once again. >> and an unmistakable security presence on the trains. military personnel highly visible at penn station. it's all hands on deck for amtrak police who have been given extra training. the mta is implementing increased patrol on trains and random bag checks on the platforms. from planes, trains, now automobiles. millions of drivers are expected to hit the road among record low gas prices. the cheapest since 2008. right now you're looking at live pictures along the george washington bridge where traffic is starting to buildup. anthony johnson is along the new jersey turnpike with a look at traffic conditions there. anthony, how's it looking? >> you know what, that's exactly what we start ed to notice. starting around 3:00 this afternoon, a buildup of traffic on the roads, particularly on the garden state parkway. even some build-ups

out here on the turnpike. so if you're leaving late this afternoon for your thanksgiving travel end of the evening, i hope you pack some patience. >> reporter: traffic was starting to pick up this afternoon as folks getting off from work starting to hit the roads. newscopter7 traveling over the garden state parkway where heavy traffic, backup and delays were taking place southbound. we should expect to see this the rest of the evening. >> maybe 15 to 20 minutes of decent driving and hit traffic for an accident. traffic because of traffic. coming up the jersey turnpike wasn't bad. i've been in traffic the last 45 minutes. pretty much going 15 miles per hour the whole time. >> i'm definitely getting ready for traffic. i saw it on my app. all red all the way down. >> start ing from where to where? >> coming from the gw bridge going to roanoke, north carolina. >> reporter: the key today for traveling was to start early. >> so far it's been absolutely terrific and we have a computer

app which tells us when there's going to be traffic so we just follow that. >> reporter: the good news, gas prices are at their lowest level since 2008, which is driving more people to travel by car. >> $30 and it fills up. my wife is like that ain't going to be enough but i got the concept. 15 gallons. i get it. >> reporter: the average national price is $2.14, 74 cents less than thanksgiving last year. in jersey, today's average price is $1.98. 76 lower than thanksgiving 2014. while you have a good start so far, later on this evening it's expected to get bad and on sunday traffic is expected to be really, really heavy. that is the latest live from rich field, new jersey. anthony johnson, channel 7 eyewitness news. here's some good traffic news for you. for the first

will be open on the expressway commonly known as the brooklyn battery tunnel for friday morning's commute. if you and two others are in your car, hopefully you'll have a faster drive. how about that weather, sade? that's what's on everybody's mind. meteorologist jeff smith is in for lee goldberg. he has you covered with the accuweather forecast. he's outside our studios on the upper west side. hopefully you got some good news. i think you do. >> i think it's pretty good news. the busiest travel day of the year is going to turn out to be one of the quietest weather days at least in this area. calm winds out here, clear skies. we've had throngs of people going by to head up to that balloon inflation here on the upper west side. temperature right now is sitting in the middle 40s at central park. 45 to be exact. if you're head ing to these activities during the evening hours, temperatures actually not falling off that quickly, knowing down by maybe a degree or so every couple of hours. just after midnight we're back all

eyes of course though on tomorrow, the thanksgiving day parade. 7:00 in the morning, a little bit chilly out there. around 41 degrees so people waiting in the stands for the parade to start, going to be chilly. by the 48. then temperatures actually noon time. the thing about tomorrow we're not going to see maybe very early in clouds quickly increase as we get a wind coming off the water transporting some of the moisture from the atlantic ocean. there could even be a touch of drizzle in a couple of spots tomorrow afternoon. the big story during the next couple of days, highs going 10 to 15 degrees above average. wait till you see how warm it's going to be for the shoppers on black friday. we'll have that forecast coming up on the other side of the break. back in to you. to check the weather on the go no matter where you are, go to abc7ny.

the street closures for tomorrow's parade as well as realtime traffic updates on our website. a landlord speaking out for the first time about one of her tenants. a mother and her 15-year-old daughter shot in the car in new jersey. they were trying to get away from the gunman when they crashed in to a pole. new jersey reporter toni yates at the police department in linden. >> this family is seeing a blessing in the face of this tragedy. that's because doctors at university hospital in newark have told linden police that this mother who was shot several times will survive. as you said, she was trying to get away from a gunman who was trying to kill her and her child. >> when i saw that car wrapped around that pole, i knew it was her because i know her car and my heart goes out to the family. >> reporter: this is the toyota camry regina jarvis saw in pictures wrapped around a utility pole. it was her tenant who was driving, speeding away from a gunman who was ambushed

and shot the woman and her daughter as they were getting in to the car on middlesex street in linden. >> her daughter observed a man approaching her. apparently words were exchanged between the man and younger girl and the mother became concerned and told the daughter to get in the car. once the daughter got in the car, they were starting to pull out of the driveway. the man drew a firearm, a handgun, and walked around to the front of the car and proceeded to fire multiple gunshots at the car. >> reporter: the mother, bleeding from several gunshot wounds, hit the gas and made it a block away, crashing in to a utility pole on east henry street. critically hurt but she was out of the gunman's range. saved her life and her 15-year-old daughter's. >> she's a pleasant girl. her girlfriends come pick her up. they go to school. i can't understand who would do something like this because they're good people. >> reporter: police are trying to find the masked gunman and his motive.

daughter or both were targeted. it's premature in to the investigation. we'll have to do digging in the background of both to see what precipitated this attack. >> reporter: police are not releasing the victims' names, however crimestoppers is offering a $10,000 reward to try to find that masked gunman. toni yates, channel 7 eyewitness news. new video in a story we brought you last week. an mta bus driver temporarily blinded behind the wheel by a laser. now police have received clear video of the man they are looking for. police say this passenger aimed a laser pointer at the rearview mirror last wednesday in the tree mont all the passengers got out including the man with the laser pointer. in new jersey fire destroyed one house and damaged newscopter7 was over the scene as firefighters worked. the fire began in a vacant home and spread to homes on both sides. people lived in

one of the neighboring homes but everyone managed to get out safely. hoboken finally getting the upper hand on a broken water main. city officials say repairs are doing well. hoboken is getting water from another source and will keep it flowing through thanksgiving. streets affected by flooding are expected to reopen by saturday. repairs to the main itself are expected by the end of the weekend. and still ahead on eyewitness news, new video showing a wild chase in new jersey as police pursue a suspected murderer. see what finally brought him to a stop. >> a search for the mom who left her baby in a church nativity scene. hear from the two women who cared for the baby boy till help arrived.

as we've got some breaking news in brooklyn where a pedestrian has been struck by a bus. this happening at ocean avenue and avenue k in the midwood section. we're told the person struck was taken to the hospital. the bus driver did stay at the scene. newscopter7 is on its way and we'll bring you the very latest as soon as it gets there. more protests and growing outrage in chicago today over the video showing a police officer shooting a teenager. the shooting happened last year but just yesterday the video was released and murder charges filed in the case prompting

what took so long. >> reporter: a call for answers and accountable. community leaders and activists reacting to this dashcam video, the video captured the moment officer jason van dyke opens fire on 17-year-old laquan mcdonald. we freezeed the video here but prosecutors say even after mcdonald collapsed, van dyke kept shooting. 16 bullets seconds. >> it is unfathomable and unacceptable that it would take a year when all of the facts in this case were known the night it happened. >> reporter: the shooting occurred more than a year ago. it began with police responding to a report of a suspect with a knife breaking in to cars. after van dyke began shooting, the video shows another officer kicking a knife away from mcdonald's body. investigators

say mcdonald never threatened the officers. >> at the end of the day i'd rather take my time and bet it right than rush to judgment and get it wrong. >> reporter: calling the investigation complex on tuesday, prosecutors announced murder charges against van dyke, the same day a court order led to the release of the video. some upset protesters are now demanding the city's top cop to resign. >> van dyke's attorney is arguing the officer feared for his life. the city in the meantime has reached a $5 million settlement with the mcdonald family. the funeral was held today in minnesota for a man killed during a confrontation with police. hundreds of mourners paid their respects to 24-year-old jumar clark. he was shot and killed during a struggle with police last week. his death sparked more than a week of protests. witnesses insist clark was handcuffed but police dispute that. protesters want investigators to release

video of that shooting. in paris new numbers rates at some hotels have plummeted by more than 30% in the days since those terrorist attacks. meanwhile french president francois hollande and german counselor angela merkel laid flowers. as france and belgium continue their hunt for two fugitives believed to be involved in the attacks, the belgian capital is starting to return to normal. schools in brussels reopened today and the subway system partially reopened even though the city remains on its highest possible alert level. authorities raised that alert level on saturday saying the threat of a further attack was serious and imminent. conflicting claims today from russia and turkey about the russian war planes shot down by turkey this week. the turkish military released what it says

is a recording of the warnings given to a russian fighter jet. turkey claims the plane was in its air space but the navigator who survived and was rescued told russian news media there he also said his plane was flying over syrian territory. pope francis began his first ever visit to africa today and urged kenyans to work for peace. speaking at nairobi state house, pope francis pushed kenya to work to heal ethnic, religious and economic divisions. more than 45,000 meals handed out today to families in the bronx that may have gone without thanksgiving dinner. city harvest partnered with blue apron to provide all the trimmings. each person got a box containing a cornish hen and everything needed to make

dinner. more than 700 people volunteered for the fourth annual fill the bag event in nassau county on long island. about 15,000 grocery bags were packed with items including ham, green beans. cranberry sauce, sweet potatoes and stuffing. a lot of food was purchased by the owner of midisland collision. will go to churches, charities, and needy people. we've got jeff smith in for lee goldberg. beautiful night for the inflating of the balloons. >> compared to last thanksgiving eve. >> we had accumulating snow in the northern western suburbs last year at this time. this year couldn't be much more different. we're looking at a live shot over the empire state building. if you can't make it to the balloon inflation, look up at the empire state build ing. it's lit up in these beautiful l.e.d. lights, relatively new system there. they can actually change these lights on command and you've got the thanksgiving colors up there. it's beautiful. right now that temperature, 45. humidity at 63

%. the humidity is coming up a little bit in the low levels of the atmosphere. that's going to increase our cloud cover in to the day tomorrow. that wind coming in from the northeast at 5 miles per hour. it's going to be more of an easterly or southeasterly wind. the high on the day got up to 50, right on target for november 25th. the record high was 73 back in 1979. the sun setting these days just after 4:30. so milder tomorrow but a cloudier day, about 48 at the parade start, probably in the mid 50s by the end of the parade at noon time. getting in to the upper 50s before day's end. it's a down right balmy breeze on friday. some sun out there. still cloud. but temperatures shooting all the way to the mid 60s. showers do show up late friday night lasting in to saturday morning. i think we have a chance to clear out in most of the area saturday afternoon. 49 at newark. no weather-related de lays at all the major hubs. 48 at laguardia.

45 at jfk airport. we have temperature s which had fallen already down in to the mid 30s at monticello. upper 30s at tom's river. low 40s at islip. upper 40s at montauk. high pressure over new england with a clockwise flow around. you can see that really clearly here on our wind streamline map. that's going to transport some of these low clouds which are currently offshore onshore to the day tomorrow. that's why we're looking at a cloudier thanksgiving. there's a big storm in the rocky mountains. this will move in to the central part of the country during the day tomorrow. last minute travelers might run in to airport delays from dallas to kansas city. lows tonight in the meantime getting down to 41 in the park. 30s north and west. highs tomorrow despite the cloud cover getting up to 15. there's an outside chance a couple areas get a touch of drizzle during the day tomorrow. accuweather forecast, clear, partly cloudy. 41, midtown. 30s in many

-- cloudy tomorrow. 59 eventually. but 48 right at the parade start in the morning. partly to mostly cloudy, mild tomorrow night. down to 51. we'll show you how warm it's going to get on friday. then the weekend forecast looking a little bit tricky at this point. we'll explain why coming up next half hour. still ahead, a bombshell from the family of football legend frank gifford. the new information they released tonight showing they believe he suffered a brain injury. >> also ahead, some of the hottest gadgets this holiday season are also the most hackable. seven on your side with how to protect your personal information. >> if you don't have a mom or you just are looking for a mom to encourage or guide you, nina will do just that. she's a mom

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we have new information on the story we bought you about a pedestrian being struck by a bus. we've now learned that bus was an mta bus. it happened in midwood, brooklyn. shannon sohn is live over the scene in newscopter7. >> it happened less than 45 minutes ago along ocean avenue at the intersection with avenue k. you can see that mta bus here after he struck the pedestrian, he did stop. what

we know about the pedestrian at this point, it was brought to a local hospital in cardiac arrest. obviously police are investigating this scene, shutting down ocean avenue between avenue j and avenue k. if you're trying to go southbound you can take it over to east 19th street or if you're trying to go northbound, east 21st. this will be an ongoing investigation. reporting live over midwood, shannon sohn, channel 7 eyewitness news. we're learning tonight that football great frank gifford suffered from degenerative brain disease cte. that revelation from the family of a former new york giant. gifford's brain was donated to research on football injuries and head trauma after his death in august. gifford suffered a crushing hit in 1960 that put him in the hospital for 10 years and kept him off the field for nearly two years. jury deliberations expected to continue monday in the trial of sheldon silver. jurors worked through the morning

before adjourning for the long holiday weekend. prosecutors say he collected $4 million in illicit fees in exchange for favors of others. silver says he's innocent. a wild high speed chase as police try to catch a murder suspect. the whole thing caught on camera. see some of the daring close calls and how the driver was finally nabbed. new details tonight about a baby left at a church nativity. hear from the custodian who first found the newborn. >> a demolition goes terribly wrong. a smokestack crashes

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man at ocean avenue and avenue k in the midwood section. we're told the man was taken to the hospital in cardiac arrest. the bus driver did stay at the scene. now our other top stories, a newborn found in a church nativity scene in queens. new at 5:00, the church custodian talks about making that shocking discovery and we're hearing from two parishioners who rushed to help the baby. the police commissioner and de blasio. >> i have seen so many families and particularly so many children looking in awe at these beautiful balloons. this is one of the drait nights every year year -- great nights every year in new york city. it makes us realize how great the city is. it's not just the amazing balloons and all the memories it brings back. i think it brings back memories of thanksgivings going back to when we were kids.

here who brave the cold every year. they love this experience tonight and tomorrow. and they are part of what makes this parade great. so a very special moment. doesn't matter how old you are. there's a certain wonder you feel with the macy's thanksgiving parade. when you see these balloons coming down the street. what's amazing is now hundreds of thousands of people will come here tonight. millions tomorrow. because it's become such an important thing to everyone in the city. i want to thank everyone at macy's for what they do for this city and this great parade. 89 years. 89 straight years of the macy's parade, getting better all the time. and i have to tell you, this begins a season of joy. this begins a season of appreciation. a season of focus on family and all our loved ones

are some in this world who are trying to stir fear. they're trying to make us afraid. they're trying to make us change our lifestyle and values, lose our spirit, lose our values. we refuse to do that. one thing i always say. there's some people trying to intimidate new yorkers. well, new yorkers don't get intimidated. so in this holiday season you see the response of the people of new york city. they're out here in droves. and they'll be out there tomorrow in droves. that's how we respond to people who try and undermine our lifestyle. i have to tell you the folks here tonight, there's a lot of joy. people obviously are very, very comfortable being out. commissioner bratton's in fact predicting the biggest crowd potentially we've ever had tomorrow. people out here for a lot of reasons, but i know people feel safe because of the work of the nypd. i know that

people who come out tomorrow feel a deep appreciation for our officers. you're seeing a lot of officers out tonight. you're going to see thousands of officers tomorrow including hundreds of our specially trained officers who work on counter terror activities. you're going to see a lot of officers in uniform prepared, ready. you're also not going to see some of the preparations. that's how we do things in this city to be careful. a number of preparations you don't see but are also very, very important to keeping people safe. so i want to thank all the men and women of the nypd who are protecting us tonight, will be protecting us tomorrow, who protect us every day. this parade is due to the incredible work of everyone at macy's. this is an extraordinary effort. just unbelievable how much effort goes into it. what they always

say is the minute the parade is finished, they start planning the next one. it takes that much work. i want to thank everyone at macy's, you're going to hear from the ceo terry lundgren in a moment. i want to say thank you to amy, vice president of macy's parade and entertainment group. really one of the driving forces. thank you and your whole team for your great work. i want to thank my colleagues who work with the city government who put the parade today. my senior advisor, and our director michael, paul, carrie. they've done a great, great job getting everything done. thousands tonight. millions tomorrow. 50 million television viewers tomorrow. 50 million people will be watching this what a showcase for all that's great it's a city. thanksgiving is a day when we appreciate all we have. it's also a time to take stop

for a moment and recognize many, many of us are fortunate. but we know in this city there are a lot of folks not as fortunate. >> you're listening to mayor de blasio talking about the added security that will be in place for tomorrow's parade. they're working to keep spectators safe. they have additional mobile cameras, helicopters, uniformed officers, and specially trained dogs to detect any explose rfbs. so this is something they're on and they will continue to keep new yorkers safe as they've done. a wild police chase in new jersey. the whole thing caught on camera. >> throughout the 20-minute pursuit, the suspect and police weaved in and out of traffic, dodging oncoming traffic and hit speeds of over 100 miles per hour. when you see it, it is amazing no one was hurt. >> eyewitness news reporter jim hoffer is in the news room with details. >> when you think of how many miles this chase covered through several counties across state lines it seems impossible no one got killed.

injury and the very thing that faced danger from this reckless fugitive is what in the end helped to catch him. traffic. >> reporter: the chase at times reaching speeds up to 110 miles per hour. captured on dashboard camera inside the police car, the palisade parkway officer. you can hear police radio transmissions as the chase unfolds and as the murder suspect endangers his life and many others as he suddenly veers off the parkway and across the median through a gas station. the suspect then heads southbound in to northbound traffic on the parkway. stunned motorists desperately trying to swerve out of his way. he continues driving in to oncoming traffic for nearly a full minute. at times the chase reaching speeds between 70 and 90 miles per hour. near the gw

david campos, exits the parkway on to roads in fort lee, flying through red lights and busy intersections, the parkway police in close pursuit as they learn campos is armed and dangerous, suspected in the stabbing death of his ex-girlfriend hours earlier in her home in upstate troy, new york. about 15 minutes in to the chase near secaucus, campos entered the new jersey turnpike heading southbound. it's on this stretch where campos hits speeds nearing 110 miles per hour in a last chance effort to get away. but this out of state driver not used to new jersey traffic never account ed for backups at the turnpike tolls which soon became his undoing. he hits a line of tractor-trailers, veers on to the right shoulder, trying to get past them, but soon hits a wall of traffic at exit 18's toll plaza.

getaway comes to a stop as traffic, perhaps in the first, saves the day as police surround his car and capture the suspected killer. >> as yo did not resist arrest. he remains in bergen county jail on new jersey charges of attempting to elude police. he's awaiting extradition to troy for the stabbing death of his ex-girlfriend. charges are pending. we should note it was an automatic license plate reader in the new york state police trooper's car that spotted campos' vehicle on the new york throughway. up next, the search for the

now to that shocking discovery at a church in queens. we're learning new details about the newborn found in a nativity display.

here to determine if this is the mother who left the infant at holy child jesus church and now we're hearing from the custodian who first spotted the baby boy. >> eyewitness news reporter kristin thorne is in richmond hill with the details. >> everyone tells me here it really was a community effort to take care of this child. could this mother face any charges? holy child jesus church here is a safe haven, meaning you can leave a child here but under new york state law, the abandoned child has to be handed over to an adult at the safe haven location. that's not what happened here. we asked the queen's da, could this mother face any charges? they really did not want to answer that question, only saying they want to speak with her. >> reporter: police want to speak with the woman you see in the hooded sweatshirt. the surveillance video shows her buying a towel from a 99 cents store around the corner from the church. the clerk here tells us

it's unclear if she's the mother of the baby boy found monday afternoon lying in a nativity being set up here inside holy child jesus church in richmond hill. custodian jose moran was cleaning the church when he heard crying. i felt nervous at the beginning when i saw him but happy because i saved his life. moran called over to the rectory office, parishioner regina santoro ran over to help. >> i picked up the towel and opened up the towel and his little face was there and he started to move around. >> reporter: santoro called for geraldine walsh, the school nurse at the perish school. >> we assessed the baby. respiratory-wise he was fine, he was breathing okay. he was moving. i tied a knot in the umbilical cord and we wrapped him up and made sure he was warm and kept him comfortable till the ambulance came. >> reporter: doctors say the

baby was about hours old by the time he saw doctors at jamaica hospital. he's healthy and doing just fine. >> it was scary at first but at the end it all wound up being like a little miracle. >> the child right now is in the custody of the administration for children services although i have been told a family here at the perish is interested in adopting the child and has reached out to the appropriate people. the name of the child, at least the name they gave him while he was here, john, after john the baptist. kristin thorne, channel 7 eyewitness news. >> john may get a home soon. how's the weather shaping up for the holiday weekend? >> that's the question on many people's minds. meteorologist

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nice out there. busy. people are getting their last minute preps. >> i was going to say, a pretty boring mundane weather pattern but that's exactly how we like it on the busy travel day of the year. let's head outside and check out the sidewalks outside our studio. people milling about, heading up to that balloon inflation up by 77th street and the museum of natural history. right now that temperature 45 degrees. clear skies. wind coming in from the northeast around 5 miles per hour. eventually that easterly component brings in atlantic moisture during the day tomorrow. that will increase our cloud cover during the day on thanksgiving. 44 at monticello. you have temperatures all the way down to about 43 at belmar. low 40s at islip on the island. here's our futurecast overnight. temperatures gradually falling down in to the lower 40 by 7:00 tomorrow morning in the city. a lot of numbers near freezing well north and west. watch what happens to the cloud cover though.

you might wake up to a little bit of sunshine but i generally expect cloud cover to increase during the day. even showing a little bit of drizzle. there's a very outside chance that a few spots get spotty drizzle during the day tomorrow. that's about it. tonight temperatures falling back to 56. clear to partly cloudy. 41 in midtown, 40s in many of the suburbs. heading in to tomorrow, variably cloudy. limited sunshine after the early morning hours. milder. up to 59. 48 for the parade start in the morning. 51 for tomorrow night. here's your accuweather 7-day forecast. balmy on friday. 64. it's a slow start saturday. cloudy in the morning with a little bit of rain. clouds breaking in the afternoon for sun. turning cloudy again sunday. could be rain sliding to the south of us then we're back to sunshine monday. maybe unsettled by tuesday. next couple of days well above average for this time of the year. >> i can't believe you just

>> balmy bargains, balmy breezes. >> i like the alliteration. a few minutes ago we showed you the mayor speaking at the balloon inflation. moments ago police commissioner bill bratton spoke. he said there will be increased security but stressed everyone should just enjoy the parade and have fun. >> it's a way of pushing back on some of the events going on around the world where there's efforts being made to intimidate. this country cannot, this city cannot be intimidated particularly for these events. let us celebrate this great time of year. >> no one gives advice quite like mom. for many people mom may be far away or no longwer us us -- no longer with us and we miss out on the family comfort. >> a woman in brooklyn is here to help fill that void. lauren glassberg shows us how. >> reporter: bushwick may be known as a hipster haven but two years ago nina moved here from suburban connecticut.

former broadway producer who at the age of 63 has found a new role. she's a mom for rent. >> every once in a while you've got to sit down across the table and hash things out. >> reporter: nina has two grown sons, one also lives in she realized during her timea class, at cafes or out and about here, people were gravitating to her. >> people start to open up to me about some issues in their lives and ask for my feedback and perspective and just kind of wanting to talk about what was going on. >> reporter: natalie is one of those people. they often meet at her company and discuss business matters and matters of the heart. >> she's kind of like shrink plus mentor plus mother. >> reporter: natalie's own mother died when natalie was 20. >> i don't have a female role model in my life to talk about things. you know i have a lot of girlfriends, a sister. it's not quite the same.

>> reporter: nina does have professional experience as a counselor for eight years. she worked with drug and alcohol users in rehab. >> i can be a little tough when it looks like someone's maybe going down a bad path. ask them to examine what the ramifications of this might be in a serious way. >> reporter: but that's part of her appeal. another plus, she makes chicken soup for clients but even this rent-a-mom draws the line. >> mothers always say i'm not your made and in this case i'm not your maid. >> her rate is $30 an hour. while most clients are women, she does need a few male clients who -- she does have a few male clients who need a mom as well. gadgets and tech toys are the hot gifts for this holiday season. >> but did you know those gifts are also easy to hack?

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and many of us have tech gifts on our lists. >> love those gadgets. before you give or get a gadget, you should be aware of security risks that make those gadgets easily hackable. >> nina pineda is here with the list of most hackable holiday gifts and how to protect yourself. >> it's the most wonderful time of the year. criminals can't wait until you unwrap that gift, start using it, giving them a way to worm their way in to your private life through ways you never even dreamed. >> reporter: americans spent more than 100 million on drones this year. the flying device is a cyber criminal's dream according to rob ceciliano, intel expert. >> realize it could be peeping or peeking on you. >> reporter: either through the device's internet connection or camera. >> anything wi-fi is hackable. >> reporter: if

update the drone's firm wear and use password protected wi-fi, your drone can be hacked. >> all of that in some way is vulnerable to malware. >> reporter: he recommends running security software on all your devices and setting up fire walls and also research those apps. some offer scary ways to spy on you or your child. >> they can get all of the auditory of the room. they can get the geolocation information, where they are with their friends, at home, at school. >> reporter: many parents aren't aware you're giving permission to turn on cameras, contacts, e-mails. >> it could be a predator or even a pedophile that now has full access to your children. >> reporter: nose smart watches and fitness trackers. >> fit bit is sending data to my smart phone. that's how hackers can get in to my phone and steal whatever information i have savored. >> reporter: consumer expert's advice -- >> don't store any passwords to financial accounts on your phone. >> reporter: e-books, tablets

and smart phones make ideal affordable gifts but are the path of least resistance for hackers. >> a criminal can access everything on the phone and everything a phone is accessing like facebook, twitter, or even banking information. >> rob says the best way to avoid being hacked, be informed. research that tech gadget before you plug it in and protect yourself. change passwords. don't use pub lic wi-fi or really blue toolth that doesn't have a password. install antivirus software. disconnect it and return it if you inspect it's protected. sade, happy holidays. >> a lot of good information there. still ahead, mayor de blasio couldn't get the city council to ban horse carriage rides. now he's looking at a new plan to reduce them.

starts right now. thanksgiving getaway tonight well underway. for those staying, balloons getting inflated for the macy's parade. >> nypd out in force tonight to protect the big crowds. we'll be watching some anxiety because of terrorism. tonight the president trying to reassure the public. >> the threat of terrorism is a troubling reality of our age we are both equipped to prevent attacks and we are resilient in the face of those who try to do us harm. >> good evening at 6:00. i'm liz cho. >> i'm bill ritter. record number of americans traveling this holiday weekend. the aaa predicting 47 million will travel at least 50 miles, nearly 90% of them are driving. this is a live picture of the grand central parkway. traffic moving pretty well. >> the parade balloons getting

inflated right now on the upper