. >> reporter: good morning, annemarie. it is get-away day. the day before thanksgiving and one of the busiest travel days behind me penn station will be busy today. the mad dash out of town comes days after the state department issued that worldwide terror alert for americans in new york you can see a stepped-up security presence. heavily armed soldiers on patrol at laguardia airport. it's part of an increased effort to prevent a terror attack like the one in paris. >> i was surprised at, like, the amount of soldier types. i was like, wow, it's getting serious. >> reporter: "the new york times" police putting up barricades and standing on guard. the nypd rolling out its anti-terrorism group including cops and specially trained officers. more than a million people are expected to line the streets for the thanksgiving day parade. >> some of those officers would be equipped with the long guns, as wrevere refer to them, the rifles. we will have additional hercules teams, the heavily armed entities that are around the area of the parade but, i thi

. >> reporter: annemarie holmes leads the team. >> for the people that want to go kill a lion and bringophy, this is what we would see. it's been turned inside out. so you can see across the top where the neck and the head go. and then you have the four feet. >> i don't can you actually see the bullet hole right there. >> yes, on that side you can see the bullet hole. >> about how often do you get lions like this? >> i would say probably one a week. >> reporter: we obtained more than 25,000 pages worth of federal records from the u.s. fish and wildlife service and discovered at least 1.2 million sport hunted trophies have been imported into the united states over the past 15 years. that includes 4900 elephants, which the u.s. considers threatened. more than 6,000 leopards, also threatened. 513 rhinos, even more vulnerable. since they're listed as endangered. and more than 7200 lions. the federal government proposed listing them as threatened back in october of last year. but since then, 601 lions were killed abroad for sport. and imported into the u.s. as trophies. all legally. >> so th