windy gillet, cbs news, new york. >> let's talk about sports. how about the patriots? tom brady earned his 200th career win against the jets. >> it required another late fourth quarter touchdown drive by number 12. our wbz sports director has more. >> reporter: the patriots came into the game needing a win new york leading 17-16 late, converting on the crucial fourth and four. first down with under three minutes to play. then on first and goal, brady and malcolm mitchell. beats rivas for the go ahead score. two-point conversion is no good. pats have a five point lead. time for the defense to step up and they chris long with the -- they do it big. chris long with the strip sack. ball game over. pats improve to #1k39 9-2 with a 20-17 win over the jets. >> it was a great win for our team. we didn't play as well as we wanted to, but we made the plays when we needed to, so it was the division game on the road. i thought they played well and we made the plays at the end. >> for tom brady it is career win number 200 as the patriots stay undefeated on the road. we'll recap tod

have battled life-threatening illnesses they came to fox 25 today to tell us about their big day at gillet and why meeting tom brady meant so much to them. butterflies before a big day for calvin at age 13 christopher was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. he's now in remission but through their ups and down they say one thing inspired them to wush push through. when i was going through that i could take a break and watch the patriots from all of it. i'll never forget when they won the super bowl on my birthday. >> i feel have you had to overcome a lot of adversity but you never give up. you stuck with football and became one of the best football players of all-time. i also have had to overcome the lots of struggles with my health and also being bullied at they said it was their dream to meet tv 12 tom brady who had inspired them for so long. >> tom brady has to be tom brady. >> that day was tuesday. i actually said his name backwards i said brady tom, instead of tom brady. i was thinking are you kidding me i have been waiting two years and i mess like where are you from. we were all just look

wendy gillete takes -- gillette takes us th >> you take three steps forwards. >> reporter: it takes thuns of enthusiastic volunteers to fly the balloons that are the centerpieces of the macy's thanksgiving day parade. >> we are moving. >> reporter: michael now serves as a pilot after ten years of volunteering. supervising those assigned to the back of the new diary of the whimpy kid blan. >> listen to us -- balloon. >> listen to us. >> reporter: he is giving orders to those closest to us his dot erin three sons who -- daughter and three sons who >> you don't want to instruct them or jell at -- yell at them and tell them they can't do this so it's going to be a challenging. >> reporter: more teams were challenged with charlie brown and the trolls. and two smaller he balloons felix the cat and the parade's first character balloon in 1927 and trixie modeled after the paid director as pooch. >> we have never had accordian leagues in the parade before. >> reporter: there's as 70 handleers assigned to balloon holding a line that could be wound up or down to keep the balloon steady and crowd saf