Families bundled up on Thursday to cheer as the 75th annual Thanksgiving Day parade rolled through the streets of downtown Houston.  Mayor John Whitmire and nine-time Olympic gold medalist Carl Lewis,

Visitors saw a variety of local elected officials and organizations represented in the annual parade, along with characters such as Cinderella and the Grinch.

Happy Thanksgiving! We have a cooler and breezy day ahead as a cold front moves in overnight. Highs will be in the 60s with partly cloudy skies. Overnight lows will dip into the 40s in Houston and 30s north.

The procession starts at 9 a.m. and takes place in downtown Houston. This year, organizers expect 250,000 people to line the streets. The parade is planned to go through 20 blocks and feature 19 floats, eight performances, six marching bands and 21 high-flying balloons according to Susan Christian, Director of the Mayor’s Office Special Events.

FOX 26 Reporter Jade Flury shares all the sights from this year's parade in downtown Houston. When President-elect Donald Trump said Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy would recommend major cuts to the federal government in his administration,

Road closures for the parade began on Tuesday for the staging of the parade floats. Get news, weather and so much more on the new FOX LOCAL app. The parade begins at Smith Street