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believe much of what she was learning about her son, tried to imagine herself, in byron's shoes. >> i don't believe that breaking and entering is right. and i don't -- wouldn't have expected it out of my son. >> it looked like a tragedy, all around. two intruders and a fearful homeowner, with no choice but to shoot them. >> we know you have a right to protect your home, and to protect yourself. >> but a quick survey of the scene told sheriff wetzel that the teenagers were unarmed. as with any shooting, it would require more investigation. >> it would be ordinary, with two people dead in a home, that nobody's leaving until we figure out what happened. >> beginning with one question. smith's house, fridayternn, only to learn that the break-in and shootings, happened thursday, on thanksgiving day. >> i asked him. i said, why didn't you call law enforcement?
and he tells me, i didn't want to bother you guys on thanksgiving day. >> that struck the sheriff as extremely odd. >> nobody worries about wrecking our thanksgiving. they don't worry about wrecking our day. >> so, the intruders had been dead, for 24 hours, when byron called a neighbor for help. and asked him to call the sheriff's office. >> when you found out that byron smith had waited 24 hours. >> my mind was then, why? if he was so scared, wouldn't you be on the phone? i mean, because those kids had families, too, that were waiting. >> and then, for him to say he didn't want to bother anybody on thanksgiving. really? >> it became clearer and clearer and clearer that there were some things that were strange about this case. >> investigators were about to learn a lot more about that shooting in the house on elm street. and what happened next would tear this town apart. >> coming up --
>> reporter: it's quiet. it's not a busy travel day here just yet nor across the country. we're looking at the map and it tells you that there are only a handful of cancellations that have happened or delays and that was actually the same case yesterday, thursday, on thanksgiving day. this is day you might think of as perhaps the quiet before the storm, if you will. look around here behind me. things are moving smoothly. we looked at the tsa lines earlier and they're moving quickly as well. short weight times and looking at the numbers over the last few days, the tsa -- it's not quite up to where it was prepandemic 2019. it's a bit ahead of last year and the year before as you might expect. but not quite to the record levels of 2019. of course, the big test of all this will come on sunday which is predicted to be one of the busiest travel days we've had in a very, very long time. that's when so many people are going to be trying to end their thanksgiving holiday. the tsa, the airlines, they've
hill correspondent ali vitali, and punch bowl and msnbc political contributor jake sherman. he is going to try. what could that entail? >> it is probably going to entail what we've seen president biden do over and over again, over the course of the last two years, which is say that he wants a push on the assault weapons ban, have a house, over the course of the last two years, that was able to pass it, but a senate, where the numbers don't add up, so this latest push from him, you saw yesterday, while he was on nantucket, on thanksgiving day, the anger that he felt, about the latest mass shooting, was vis rabble. but at the same time, that anger doesn't change the realities on capitol hill, which is they don't have the votes to do this, during the lame duck, but certainly then, you get into next year and the republicans control the house, and it is a definite no go at that point, too. so this feels like a moment where president biden, his best chance is to continue to use his bully pulpit, when he think back over the course of the last year, we did see congress move on gun legislation, jake and i
here in america, not build them overseas. and he is hopeful that gm will continue to do that here. >> reporter: and my second question is on afghanistan. the president on thanksgiving day told u.s. troops that we are winning the war in afghanistan, which contradicted what the chairman of the joint chief of staff said, it was a stalemate. does the president still believe after what we saw over the weekend that we are winning in afghanistan and why? >> certainly any time you have a loss of life particularly by an american service member, it is a horrific tragedy and something that no president wants to see, certainly not during their administration. and the president wants to make sure that the battle that we're fighting takes place there and not here and he's going to continue consulting with his national security team and make decisions on how best to move forward. thanks, guys, have a great day. >> you have been watching the very first white house briefing in nearly a month. i'm brooke baldwin, you're
however, if you can wait until cyber monday, do so, and do it in the comfort of your own home. we did find a majority of the people we surveyed were going to do a lot of shopping at work. arthel: can't do that at work, guys. >> yeah, exactly. arthel: you see some of the walmart workers are protesting about working on thursday, on thanksgiving day, and we're calling it gray thursday. i don't know what they call it. maybe should these companies perhaps offer for incentives to the workers saying, hey, you get double overtime or maybe even a gift card to the store? >> absolutely. arthel: or maybe do away with thanksgiving shopping? >> well, that's another whole can of worms. i'm not so sure on opening stores on thanksgiving between you and i, but, yes, if someone's going to work on a holiday, there should be some incentives. i was used to working those hours, so it's par for the course in a lot of ways. however, if the employer can offer a gift card or time and a half like you said, a little more incentive, perhaps the workers will be a little happier