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Final preparations are underway for the 2025 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade with a massive police presence along the route in New York City. The NYPD says there are no specific threats to the parade as they track Wednesday’s shooting in Washington, D.C. closely and remain on high alert. NBC’s Emilie Ikeda reports for TODAY from along the parade route.



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Nov. 1, 2025, 9:00 AM EDT / Updated Nov. 1, 2025, 8:40 PM EDTBy Amelia Acosta and Micki FahnerMore than 50,000 people are expected to line up Sunday in New York City for the world’s largest marathon. The vast majority aren’t professional runners, instead balancing training with their day jobs — and it turns out, some of those day jobs are pretty high-profile. Reality television personalities, actors, influencers and Broadway stars will line up for Sunday’s race through New York City, part of a growing movement of famous faces taking on 26.2 miles.When reality star Joey Graziadei sets out on Sunday, it won’t just be his first marathon, but his first-ever official race.“I’ll be completely honest, I am nervous,” Graziadei said. In addition to leading a season of ABC’s storied “Bachelor” franchise, Graziadei won Season 33 of “Dancing with the Stars.” While it presented a different kind of physical challenge, he says the show helped pave the way for his marathon training. Joey Graziadei on Sept. 5, in West Hollywood, Calif.JC Olivera / Variety / Getty Images“The biggest thing is the time commitment, just knowing that if you put enough energy and effort into something, you’re going to see the results,” he said. “I’ll be the first to admit I wasn’t the best dancer. I got good because of the fact that I put a lot of time and energy and committed fully to it.” He says he hopes the time he’s spent running will similarly pay off. Graziadei is among a growing group of celebrities for whom the marathon medal is something worth clearing time for in a jam-packed schedule that would normally have nothing to do with running. Phil Keoghan, the longtime host of the adventure series “The Amazing Race,” put off a marathon run for years because of his hectic filming schedule. He says a former contestant finally convinced him to take it on this year.“Sometimes I think people live life too safely,” Keoghan said. “They don’t push themselves, test themselves to extremes, and certainly, running a marathon is a great way for anybody to test themselves.”The challenge of the marathon has always attracted celebrities, and interest in running has never been higher. New York Road Runner’s lottery for this year’s TCS New York City Marathon received more than 200,000 applications, a 22% increase compared to 2024, according to the organization. This year, celebrities entered in the New York City Marathon run the gamut from “Love Island’s” Nic Vansteenberghe to Death Cab for Cutie and The Postal Service frontman Ben Gibbard, and “Dance Mom” star Chloe Lukasiak. They follow in the footsteps of arguably the most notable recent celebrity to take on 26.2 miles: singer-songwriter Harry Styles. Instead of dropping his long-awaited follow-up to 2022’s “Harry’s House” this fall, Styles dropped a sub-three hour time at the 2025 Berlin Marathon in September, reportedly running under the pseudonym Sted Sarandos and clocking a 2:59:13 finish. The elusive sub-three hour finish is something Broadway star Jordan Litz is hoping to accomplish in New York on Sunday. But his day won’t end once he crosses the finish line. After he gets his medal and rehydrates, the actor plans to jump on his bicycle and head about 20 blocks south to the stage door of the Gershwin Theater. That’s so he can be there in time for the 2 p.m. performance of “Wicked,” where he stars as Fiyero. Then, he’ll do the whole show over again at 7 p.m. Jordan Litz in 2023. Bruce Glikas / Getty Images file“I wanted to do it while I was still at ‘Wicked’ and still part of the Broadway community, and in the heart of New York City,” Litz said of his stacked Sunday schedule. “Because for the most part, I show up at the Gershwin, I do my job and I take off, but over the course of this year, doing all of these extra races in preparation and running all over the city, I’ve run over every inch of this borough, of these five boroughs.” In Litz’s case, doing his job involves eight performances a week of one of the most physically demanding shows on Broadway. Now add to that an extensive training block for New York, notoriously one of the most grueling marathons for professional and amateur runners alike. So what made the siren song of the marathon too much to resist?”Well, first off, I’m crazy,” Litz said. “I’ve always been that kind of person, even when you asked my college teammates when I was a swimmer, I just loved to grind, and I loved to beat up my body and push it to the limits. So a marathon seemed like the logical next step for that kind of thing.”There’s been some ways in which the physical demands of Litz’s day job have eased his training block needs — after starting with five run days and two lift days a week, he cut back on the running based on some creative mathematics: eight shows a week added up to roughly a six or seven mile run, meaning he could scale back one of his shorter runs and free up a few valuable hours.Litz did joke that marathon training “has been detrimental” to his onstage capacity. “It has not helped. 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She says her journey back to marathon running has been transformative. “I am really proud,” Truwit said. “Every kind of long training run has been a new achievement for me that I never thought I could do on a prosthetic blade.”Tayshia Adams, another member of Bachelor Nation, will have experience on her side when she lines up for her third New York City Marathon on Sunday. In the lead-up to her first two marathons, she fit in training runs in Kenya and Paris while traveling for work. This time she’d planned to commit her schedule to running and avoid any travel. However, in August, she started filming a new show that required her to move to Los Angeles for six weeks.Tayshia Adams, the former Bachelorette, is running her third New York Marathon.Courtesy of Maybelline“I just realized that there’s no perfect plan,” Adams said. “So I tried to fit in my training along with filming and traveling.”Scaling back miles and taking advantage of Santa Monica and Newport Beach as replacement running backdrops for Central Park has Adams not only ready for Sunday but planning a fourth marathon in 2026.“Every year I have my doubts,” Adams said. “Every year I feel like I can’t do it. Every year [I think] my schedule is way too busy… But if you show up for yourself and you just meet yourself out there and just keep trying, keep moving, the people will carry you through the entire thing.”Amelia AcostaAmelia Acosta is the Director of Editorial for NBC Sports.Micki FahnerMicki Fahner is a producer for Nightly News.
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Savewith a NBCUniversal ProfileCreate your free profile or log in to save this articleOct. 1, 2025, 5:00 AM EDTBy Adam Edelman and Bridget BowmanThis is not the first time Virginia voters have braced for a government shutdown in a partisan standoff over Obamacare just a few weeks before they elect their next governor. In October 2013, the federal government shut down for 16 days after lawmakers failed to reach a deal to fund it. President Barack Obama and other Democratic leaders loudly blamed Republicans in Congress, dubbing it the “tea party shutdown” — and polls showed that the public overwhelmingly agreed. Weeks later, Democrat Terry McAuliffe eked out a narrow win in the Virginia governor’s election, defying a historical trend. In 11 of the last 12 Virginia governor’s races, voters elected the candidate of the party out of power in the White House. The lone exception was in 2013. Fast-forward to the present. Republicans control the White House, the federal government barreled into a shutdown at midnight Wednesday morning, and a race for governor in Virginia is weeks away. Democratic former Rep. Abigail Spanberger has so far led Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears in both polling and fundraising.National Republicans are already aggressively casting blame on Democrats, who are pushing to include additional health care money in the government funding bill, for the shutdown. After Spanberger has spent the entire campaign leading in public polls, the new developments raise questions about whether a shutdown could threaten her path to victory — and block the same historical trend that had been working in her favor.“Something like this, depending how [Democrats] respond, could be a big opening” for Republicans, said Jimmy Keady, a Richmond-based Republican consultant. Keady said Republicans “have done a pretty good job” blaming Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Democrats more broadly for a shutdown. “You’re going to now have Democrats shutting down the government, and I think that has framed in a way where Republicans can push back on that narrative of who’s actually shutting the government down,” he said.Democrats have pushed for any funding deal to include measures that would extend expiring Obamacare subsidies and to undo President Donald Trump’s Medicaid cuts.Republicans control the White House and both chambers of Congress, but Democrats have leverage because it takes 60 votes to end debate on legislation in the Senate and the GOP holds 53 seats.Other Republicans expressed more ambiguity about how the blame game might play out in Virginia.”I don’t know how this is going to bounce. I think it depends how long it goes on,” said former Rep. Tom Davis, a Republican who represented a northern Virginia district from 1995 to 2008. Spanberger told NBC News in a statement that the shutdown would hurt Virginia’s economy, blaming Trump and Earle-Sears for the coming damage and connecting a government closure’s impact to the impact of cuts by Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency this year.“Virginia families are already feeling the strain of high costs, and Virginia workers and business leaders are deeply worried about the impacts of an impending shutdown and the jobs cuts the Trump Administration is threatening,” Spanberger said. “Virginians are already facing the dire impacts of DOGE, reckless tariffs, and attacks on our healthcare, and now, once again, President Trump is escalating his attacks on Virginia jobs and our economy. And with each new attack, Winsome Earle-Sears refuses to stand up for Virginia’s workforce and economy.”President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House last week.Andrew Harnik / Getty ImagesEarle-Sears blamed Democrats for the looming shutdown, saying in an interview Tuesday on NBC News’ “Meet the Press NOW” that Spanberger should have urged Virginia’s two Democratic senators, Tim Kaine and Mark Warner, to agree to Republicans’ funding deal.“I’m hoping that my opponent, Abigail Spanberger, will tell her friends, Senators Kaine and Warner, who are from Virginia, not to shut down our government, to give a continuing resolution that’s clean — to vote for that, because you’re going to put all of those federal workers out of a job,” Earle-Sears said. “My opponent has been speaking about that all summer long, and she needs to come and tell them exactly that: Vote for a clean continuing resolution to keep our federal workers in their jobs.”Davis, the Republican former congressman whose Washington-area district is home to many federal workers, said those voters had already most likely turned on Trump this year after he, through DOGE, moved to shrink the federal workforce.“I think the administration has probably lost a lot of goodwill with federal employees after DOGE and the cuts here,” Davis said. “So in terms of who they’re likely to believe, I think it’s unclear at this point [if] what would ordinarily advantage the Republicans works for them.”A prolonged shutdown would most likely risk adding more strain on federal workers and members of the military, who would go without pay during a government closure. In addition, Trump has threatened to fire federal workers during a shutdown. A longer shutdown might also weigh down a broader U.S. economy that is already exhibiting signs of weakness.But Democrats still have history on their side.“Anything is possible, but you have a group of folks that use these elections in Virginia traditionally in the last 50 years to send a message to the party in the White House,” Davis said.Democrats, meanwhile, appear less concerned about being blamed, with lawmakers, party officials and Spanberger all expressing confidence that voters will view the shutdown as part and parcel of a broader trend of chaos in Washington sown and seeded by the Republicans who control the White House and both chambers of Congress.Still, the real effects federal government shutdowns have in Virginia generate some unpredictability.In an interview in February, around the time of the DOGE job cuts, Spanberger said she quickly learned as a member of Congress how dramatically shutdowns (and near-shutdowns) harmed her constituents.“When there are government shutdowns, Virginia is the most economically impacted state,” she said then. Her time in Congress started in the middle of a 35-day government shutdown during Trump’s first term.”When there’s even a threat of a government shutdown, we would just reiterate how damaging that is, because, in the threat of losing your salary for a small period of time, people don’t take their families out to eat. People don’t stop and buy kids candy at the convenience shop,” she said. “They don’t buy a new microwave if their microwave is on the fritz. That is only more profound at this moment, where people are worried about whether they might lose their job.”Meanwhile, Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin, Earle-Sears’ biggest ally, has been linking the shutdown to national Democratic leaders like Schumer.Still, several Democratic members of Virginia’s congressional delegation were confident that voters would blame Trump for the shutdown and that the frustration would bleed into their feelings about Earle-Sears and other Republicans.“I think people recognize that Donald Trump is the chief chaos agent. So to the extent that there’s chaos, I don’t think it’s a hard sell to convince people that Donald Trump is the genesis of that chaos, and I think that hurts any candidate who’s aligned with Donald Trump, and in Virginia’s case this year that’s Winsome Sears and the Republican ticket,” Democratic Rep. James Walkinshaw said.Democratic Rep. Jennifer McClellan said, “You’ve had Abigail Spanberger from Day 1 saying that she would stand up and fight for all Virginians, including those harmed by the actions of the Trump administration.“And you’ve had Winsome Sears, who’s either been silent or cheering Trump on or saying that all these federal workers that live in Virginia being fired is not a big deal,” she said, referring to Earle-Sears’ comments this year playing down the impact of the federal job cuts in Virginia.There are warning signs for both parties in recent polling, including some that underscore difficulties Democrats could face in deflecting blame.A national New York Times/Siena University poll conducted last week found 33% of registered voters say Democrats in Congress and Trump and Republicans in Congress deserve equal blame for a government shutdown. Another 26% say Trump and congressional Republicans would be to blame, while 19% say the same of Democrats in Congress. The poll did find some room for both parties to make their cases, with 21% saying they had not heard enough to weigh in the issue. Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va., said he had not spoken with Spanberger about a shutdown, but he said that he “can’t imagine that she wants a shutdown” and that voters would be likelier to blame Republicans because “they control the House, they control the Senate, they have the White House.”Rep. Bobby Scott, D-Va., said a shutdown “helps Democrats, because the Republicans aren’t even in town.” The GOP-controlled House left town after it passed a seven-week government funding bill and is not scheduled to return until Oct. 7.Asked whether he was concerned that Democrats — including Spanberger — would catch blame for a shutdown, Kaine said, “I think Virginians understand who’s at fault for this.”Adam EdelmanAdam Edelman is a politics reporter for NBC News. Bridget BowmanBridget Bowman is a national political reporter for NBC News.Megan Lebowitz contributed.
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