JEANNE MESERVE, CNN ANCHOR: It is lovely in Pasadena, where they're busy preparing for the annual Tournament of Roses Parade on New Year's Day. CNN's Jim Moret joins us with more. Hi, Jim.</s>JIM MORET, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Jeanne, I heard you said a little earlier, everything is coming up roses. There are actually 18 million flowers, by count, at Phoenix Decorating Company. They are making 24 of the 52 floats. You are seeing some of the workers here now. They arrived here just a short time ago, and will be here until 11:00 Pacific time. Let's take a look over here, where some of the volunteers are working. This is Kathy (ph), you are one of the volunteers with Children's Hospital working on this float. What are you doing here?</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Basically we are taking the little flowers off and putting the glue on them, and then we are passing them on to the people who is gluing them on to the float.</s>MORET: You are working, I'm told, on bronze boregard mums (ph), and that actually makes up a body of a teddy bear.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Right.</s>MORET: Is it difficult to get people. You got people here, 16,000 volunteers, we are told, are going to be through these doors in the next week.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yeah, the volunteers from the Children's Hospital, and then also from the community also.</s>MORET: Very good, thank you very much. Let's take a look at this float up here. This is saying "Celebrating 100 Years." This is the float for Children's Hospital. As I say, it is one of 24 floats that Phoenix is actually going to be building. And they are all very whimsical, and beautiful. And of course, as we just heard a few moments ago, the weather will be perfect for the 5 1/2 mile parade route that begins on New Year's Day. Jeanne, Jim Moret, reporting live, back to you now.</s>MESERVE: Thanks, Jim.
Volunteer Workers Preparing for Annual Tournament of Roses Parade