President trump spending part of his day at the golf course. He is expected to speak to members of the military later this hour. In President Trumps proclamation he is encouraging people to gather today. Mentioning zero words of caution or safety from the virus. On the other hand, you have president elect joe biden and his wife jill, they are asking americans to keep their celebrations small. Writing an oped for cnn that reads like millions of americans, we are temporarily letting go of the traditions we cant do safely. Its not a small sacrifice. These moments with our loved ones, time thats lost cant be returned. We know its price of protecting each over and one we dont pay alone. Isolated in our own dining rooms and kitchens, scattered from coast to coast, we are healing together. While some people are committed to those sacrifices today, others are not. Health experts are sounding the alarm about the fall out in next couple of weeks. Lets have a parade. Reporter a thanksgiving like no other. The annual thanksgiving macys parade made for tv only on a closed set. Families are being encouraged to get together on screen only. I did my phone calls last night to friends who i heard were going to travel and i pleaded with them. Stay home. Be safe so that you can enjoy your loved ones in future. I dont want nianyone to experience what me family has gone through and my sister is going through in her fight to recover. Reporter last week the cdc advised people not to travel. Since then, 5. 9 Million People boarded plane. The cdc now projects by december 19th america will sl suffered between 294,000 to 321,000 deaths. What were seeing is the entire midsection of the country screaming high levels and unfortunately, now 2,000 deaths per day will be the new normal. Well probably head to 3,000 deaths per day. Reporter deaths are at levels unseen since may. Hospitalizations smashing records every day for the last 16 days. In red hot texas, theres a rash of new restrictions in places like el paso and san antonio. Along with the deployment of the National Guard and 1500 medical professionals. California is coming closer and closer to the full blown stay at home orders of last march. Pennsylvania banned bars from serving alcohol on one of the Biggest Party night offense the year. The night before thanksgiving despite some push back. In theres a will the of oppression on one industry and one industry alone and it seems to be the bar and restaurant industry. Reporter for those who are going to gather today, this advice. Try to layer on everything you can to keep your family members and all of their friends and family safe. Lots of mask wearing. Keeping gatherings short. Keeping ventilation good with windows open. Reporter this year there may be fewer turkeys on tables across the country. The pandemic has led to what we think is the greatest domestic hunger crisis in our country in nearly a century. Reporter there year there are too many families in mourning. Too many clinging desperately to hope and some celebrating answered prayers. Amazing especially on the day to give thanks. Reporter another precious lifesavered by Health Care Heroes once wildly cheered for their bravery and sacrifice. Here rows who we can still do more for this thanksgiving day. You want to cheer your health care worker, put a mask and stay home. Such an incredibly powerful and simple point there. When it comes to exactly how Many Americans are really heeding the warnings, deciding to stay home, deciding to limb their gatherings, the tsa is saying more than a Million People passed through security at american airports on the day before thanksgiving. Thats a pandemic era record. Its far cry from last year. Just 40 of what we were seeing year ago. Bear in mind the tsa predicted that this coming sunday will be the busiest day of thanksgiving travel this year and it will still take days or even weeks to see what the consequences of that could ultimately be. That will be when we all land in another round of holiday, shopping, hanging around with family. We all worry about that. Thank you very much. Happy thanksgiving to you. Thank you for reporting on all of that. Lets get some m. D. Perspective on this. Dr. Rod davidson is an emergency room physician. Thank you so mump for being on with me. You are on the front lines of this pandemic. We talked about this before. Youre at the hospital. Give us a snap show of what youre seeing now and how its different from the prooefevious months. Happy thanksgiving to you, brooke. Its tough. Were down on staff. We have limited numbers of bed in our small regional hospital. Were full or near full any given moment. We may have a bed open up once in while. Were depending on our ems crews working 24 hour shifts, getting paid way too little. Driving people around west michigan an hour, hour and a half away. Our icus and big centers dont have snuenough staff. They can make beds. Im working an extra shift in my hospital. These are desperate times. At her hospital they are on the third level of back ups for some of these doctors and folks in the hospital. I know medical experts including our cnn medical analyst warned that we could see the daily death rate double in the next ten days. The cdc is projecting the death toll will reach 21,000 in three weeks from now. Do those numbers sound right to you . Yeah. Unfortunately, its grim to talk about these things. Were so full. Nearly 91,000 americans in hospital beds right now. Far beyond where we have been. Were starting out. Thats our current baseline going into thanksgiving and four weeks going into a Christmas Holiday where the president isnt helping still. The president is telling people to get together. Too many people are traveling together and getting together in close quarters. I think theres nowhere to go but up with this number. You want to tack more abolk that. Its contrast of what were seeing with biden and trump and how trump is encouraging americans to gather. What risk is he putting on the country by saying that . Its mind boggling because he has such a captive audience. Such a group of individuals that are clearly dedicated to him and support iive of him and take hi ha marching orders. He told people in michigan to liberate and they tried to do that. He could say stay home, do whats right, wear a mask. E wouldnt affect every person who listens to him but it would make a meaningful impact. How about on different level, the mayor of denver is saying the right things. Telling folks to stay home but he traveled to go see his family. A lot of people are screaming hypocrisy. What say you . All these individual decisions seem very innocuous because for one individual or one family maybe that doesnt mean a lot but when this is happening millions of 250i78s across the country, it adds up. I would tend to agree. Always a pleasure. Thank you so much and thank you for all that you do. Thanks. President elect biden is preparing to issue a number of executive orders in his first days in office. We have those details ahead. President trump pardoning his former National Security adviser Michael Flynn who admitted on more than one occasion to lying to the fbi. Who is next . The Supreme Court issuing a new ruling siding with religious groups who are fighting new yorks coronavirus restrictions. A lot o to talk about this hour. Youre watching cnn on this basic. Its an important time to save. With priceline, you can get up to 60 off amazing hotels. And when you get a big deal. You feel like a big deal. Priceline. Every trip is a big deal. 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Youre all, youre all i need youre all, youre all i need as long as i got you then baby you know that youve got me, oh yea. Tlnchts are 55 days until president elect joe biden becomes president joe biden. For months he has listen planning out his first days including a series of executive actions. Welcome to both of you. Happy thanksgiving. Mj, you have been reporting this out. What does the biden team see as its Top Priorities and what executive actions are they planning . Well, even if President Trump has not pub lekly conceded the race, that has obviously not stopped joe biden from working on his transition efforts and really building out his next government. When you talk to the bind transition team, they will say they are sort of three overarching and overwhelming i priorities that will confront the president elect once he gets sworn in. Were talking about covid19. We are talking about the economic recovery and also tackling the issue of racial inequality. An issue hes talked about so much on the campaign trail and while transition Officials Say no fooiinal decisions have been made on what executive actions he will take in first days after he gets to the white house, they say they are going to examine and consider all the different levers that are typically afforded to the president once they get into office. We know publicly he has talked about things like rolling back executive orders that were issued by President Trump that deal with climate change. Theres the second bucket which is legislative work that he is going to want to do in conjunction with congress. For example, he said as recently as this week he is determined to send an immigration bill to the senate within the first hundred days of getting into office. All of these things are being figured out even if the sitting president has not publicly conceded this race to joe biden. To your last point, let me pick up on the immigration point. We know biden has talked ant sending an immigration bill to Congress Inside his first 100 days. Historically immigration is a political black hole. Why put the focus there . I think there is a sense left over from the Obama Administration that president obama and his team tackled immigration too late. They didnt tackle it at all. It was far down the list of priorities after health care and climate change. I do think theres a sense they want to deal with that issue much earlier. Of course, i also think from a political standpoint some democrats were a little shaken by the votes they lost among latinos in the past election. Theres some political imperative there too. The real question is whether anything can get done on immigration and it will be a heavy lift. The best Case Scenario depen dent on those two run off races in georgia is biden has a tie breaking vote in the senate. Thats not a very Strong Majority to pass major legislation but well have to see the political dynamics can change with the arrival of a new administration but its hard to imagine it will be much political bandwidth for Something Like immigration given the extraordinary amount worvk a has to happen on the virus. Those georgia run offs will help did you remembetermine a l. This has verevealed our collect strichbt. We can be a part without being alone. When you read this, its quite a different tone from the president today who wants people to gather together. The tones could not be more different between the sitting president and president elect biden. President trump and this white house that is basically encouraging folks to get together with family and friends even though coronavirus cases are surging across the country where as biden has been consistent over the last couple of months urging people to be responsible and importantly, trying to demonstrate and lead by example. Its not an accident that he makes sure hes always seen in public wearing mask when its necessary. All of his Campaign Events have very strictly adhered to social distancing rules and then addressing the nation earlier this week and really just saying i know this is difficult. I know people are getting tired and impatient but we could be so close to turning a corner and its everybodys patriotic duty to continue acting responsibly so life can resume back to the normal ways that things used to be. Even before we saw him with the thanksgiving address, we watched the big event with the president elect and the Vice President elect and their cabinet picks. Theres been some progressive complaints about the make up of the biden cabinet. When do you expect the next round of cabinet picks from the transition . I think well be hearing them in the coming weeks. Deaf flit biden wants to come into office with a bit of team in place. I think well hear more progressive complaints. This is a tension thats been running in the party throughout the trump administration. Then there are folks which really biden is more himself is more aligned with this stream in the party who are eager to restore some sense of bipartisan consensus to washington. Who believe that can be recaptured possibly with President Trump out of the picture. Biden tries to push through his priorities on everything from Economic Relief for the virus to the immigration legislation. Well watch for it in doming weeks and see if he does choose anyone who is a bit more left leaning. Thank you both so much for all of that. President trump pardons Michael Flynn, a man who admitted to lying to the fbi on more than one occasion and the president is just getting started. Well be right back. N advisor to help you build a flexible wealth plan. Youll have access to taxsmart investing strategies, and with brokerage accounts online trades are commission free. Personalized advice. Unmatched value. 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Its your wireless. Your rules. Only with xfinity mobile. Were back on this thanksgiving. Thank you for being with me. In what may be a signal that donald trump is accepting he may be a one term president , hes pardoned Michael Flynn. Its my great honor to announce that michael t. Flynn has been granted a full pardon. Leading democrats may call it an abuse of power but they may have to get ready to say that again. Happy thanksgiving. Thank you for being on with he. What do you think of the flynn pardon . This is a guy who pleaded, admitted guilt. Pleaded guilty on more than one occasion to lying to fbi. For sure. I know we all saw this coming. I know this pardon happened by tweet on the eve of thanksgiving. Its worth pausing to appreciate what a wild abuse of power this is. Law School Students 20, 30 years from now will be studying this. This will be high on the list of most dubious pardons we ever seen in our history. Ill give you two reasons. First of all, Michael Flynn was a political ally, the National Security adviser for the president. We had a few that fall into that category. Number two and this makes it unique abuse of power. Michael flynn was in the process of cooperating with prosecutors, with Robert Mueller when the president started floating this possibility of a pardon. Here we are kaupa couple of yea later, flynn has been paid in full. He did not cooperate. Thats what separates this from other pardons. Who else . Flynn is expected to be first of several. What other names are you watching for in. Oh, boy. You have the look at the other people from the mueller case. Paul manafort, roger stone. George papadopoulos. Family members. Don junior. Potentially ivanka. Jared kushners father was convicted of federal equipment krooims a few years ago and the big question, will the president have the gall to try to pardon himself. What do you think . He has said by tweet, i have the right to pardon myself and the other day he retweeted something suggesting he could do that. If he does, we could end up with a