Oven this morning, our Holiday Dream Team standing by all morning with the answers to your lastminute e fo emergencies. Happy thanksgiving and good morning, america. Sod good toave dan harris, tom llamas and sara haines with us. And so glad youre joining us this morning. Maybe before you head out to be with youramily or you Start Cooking and we have got you covered. First with traffic. These are Traffic Cameras from all around the country and these folks maybe deciding to bypass wednesdays super hectic travel day heading out instead this morning. Its strategically wise to travel on the holiday itself. Thats my strategy on the couch today. Also today, thousands of people will be heading out for holiday parades across america and ginger and rob are at two of the largest ones here in new york city and another in iladelphia. Well be hearing from tm throughout the morning. Yeah, the philadelphia the oldest parade in the countryor thanksgiving and then also this morning, its an annual tradition here, our thasgiving 911. Weve got experts fro the hit show chopped here to answer your questions everything about turkey, side, dessert but we begin with the rough holiday weather slamming 19 states. Abcs rob marciano startss off from phidelphia. Good m morning tyou, rob. Good morning, lara. It s seems like every thanksgiving there is a big storm hitting somewhere and this year is no different. This is a powerful one and it is hitting the west hard causing all sorts of dangerous conditions across a huge swath of the country. Wow. Alifornia winds causing chaos at this flea market. People fleeingor cover. Winds tossing tents and debris in the air. 11 inred, three taken to the hospital. First responders treating many on the scene. The tentsgo like big sails of there is a lot of metal reporter in northern california, plows out after arly a foot of snowfall. Drivers spinning out and crashing. So dangerous out here you want to get your chains on. Reporter massive waves battering the coastline of washington state. Winds taking down tre and power nes. Tore the lines up. Go ahead. Reporter crews workingng rough the night to restore power to thousands. And in utah dust storms blinding drivers determinined to g to their holiday destinations. A powerful jet stream driving those winds and nudging the entire system off to the east. Travel is going to be very difficult i many spots especially, lara, across the Mountain West. All right, rob, thank you so much. This Stormy Weather on the move. Set to wreak havoc. To ginger zee at the parade route in new yo city. Ginger. Lara, as md as it is here just like rob was saying weve got that powerful jet stream and all of the warnings to tell you about this morning. Lets get straight to the maps so you know who has to look o for whatecause its a whole slew of things happening. Yes, snow in parts of the inner Mountain West and rockies and move to the east and its the ice im concerned about from amarillo, texas, and you see the timing there, thats tonight thursday after everyone is done with dinner, the ice stretches into western iowa then the low really wraps up the moisture. Heavy rains, dallas to tulsa by friday when youre traveling there and that ice can accumulate to a half inch anywhere he of oklahoma city, ose to wichita, those road, the power line, thats the major concern as we head into this holida travel. Lara. All right, ginger, thanks so much. Bad weather a lot of placeces not here in new york yet. Tough day to trtravel. Ginger, thank you. From weather to security, if you head out t the parade organizatition malls you may see a pronounced police presence. This even though president obama is personally trying to reassure a nervousus america that despite what happened over in paris there is no specific Terror Threat here this holiday weekend. Parade here in new york city, gio, good morning toyou. Reporter hey, dan, good morning to you and happy thanksging. Were here at the start of that parade route. Were talking about 3 million spectators expected here 8,000 participants. 2500 Law Enforcement officers, the nypd saying it is taking no chances. Its the last thing we want to think about, but this morning law enforcemenent officers across the country are on high alert as americans set out to celebrate the holidays we got to be on our toes. Reporter in new york city a rerecordbreing crowd expected at the massive macys thanksgiving day parade. A city already buzzing with counterterrorism units now upping its efforts with new speclized teams and extra security. Officers hiding in plainclothes. Others called the elite Hercules Team arm with long guns and bombenoughing canines and 500 heavily armedfficers from a new Critical Response unit. They are evenn using radiation detectors looking for dirty bombs. Eep everybody safe. Reporter just weeks after the terror attacks in paris, socalled soft targets like malls and retailers are heeding the warnings too. Ahead of black friday, minnesotas famed mall of america adding extra security, some officers youll see, some you wont. Homeland secity secretary jeh johnson says while across the board people are taking extra precautions it should be obvious to the public that theres a heightetened presence inlaces like here like union stion here, at airports. Reporter he insists dont live in fear. B be vigilant and be aware. Reporter and back here in new york city, were told that the secretary of Homeland Security wants to take a look at security here on the parade route. Wee told even he may personally spe with law enforcemement here. Lara, dan. All right, thank you. Good advice, just be aware. Dont live in fear but b vigilant. Thanks so much. We turn to chicago, aity on edge protesters taking to the street overnight and now threatening to disrupt black friday shopping as new video is released of thaoffir now charged with murder. Abcs alex perez is in chicago with the very latest. Od morning, alex. Reporter good morning, lara. Overnight protester marching here on t magnificent mile. Officers sayhey are looking into this case and trying to figure out what exactly they can do to keep things safe. This morning, new images from the dash cam inside Chicago Police officer Jason Van Dykes squad car showing 17yearold Laquan Mcdonald runng away as van dyke psued him. Shortly after, the officer gets out of the car and shoots the teenager 16 times in 15 seconds. We wl not show you the entire video. This as were learning more details about van dykes past with the police department, according to civilian Watchdog Group invisible institute, citizens filed at least 20 complaints against him since he joined the force in 2001 including allegations of using excessiv force and racial slurs. But so far,an dyke was not disciplined. Abc news has confirmed 18 complaints. Overnight in chicago, protesters back on the streets even trying to tear the lights off the citys christmas tree. Many critical of the states attorney who investigated the case for nearly a year before charging van dyke with first degree murder. Legal experts say that charge for an offduty cop is rare. Its a hard case to prove a and particularly against a cop. It has to be shown you intended to d serious bodily harm or death and that you had no justification for it. Reporter with protesters vowing to disrupt Holiday Shopping on chicagos famed michigan a avenue preside obama weighing overnight posting on his cebook, i was deeply disturbed by the footage and im grateful to the people of my hometown for keeping protests peaceful. Fired his weapon because he feared for his life. While there have been some tse moments at st of these protests, by t the way, have been peaceful. Lara. Im surureore tense moments to cocome. Thank you so much. Turningg to tom llamas with the mornings other top stories starting with pope francis making history. Thats right, good morng, guys. The pope is celebrating his first mass in africa and taking on terrorism. Tens of thousandsds braved the rain for todays open air service in kenya. The pope issuing a strong appeal for fami values, he also addressed the growing threat of islalamic extremism saying an open dialogue between christian and Muslim Leaders is essential for peac today french president Francois Hollande is meeting with russian president Vladimir Putin to discuss furer cooperation in the fight against isis. Across europe, the hunt continues for the socalled eighth paris attacker. Authorities now confirm his alleged accomplice also onhe loose traveled to syria in june. Meanwhile, vice news released more of its interview with the american roc band that was playing the night of the attack at that theater, one band member describing his encounter with one of the gunmen and it is chilling. I can see thehe gunman and he looked right at me and he sho at me and he missed. He stayed there and continued to shoot and shoot and slaughter and just scream at t top of his lungs, allahu akbar and thats when i instantly knew what was going on. Band members say theyre grateful for the support theyve receivived since the attack. Tensions in the middle east are escalating after turkey shot down thahat rsian fighter jet near the syrian border. Russian is deploying antiaircraft missiles to the region and turkey released recordings of what it says were the warnings it gave to the russian Fighter Pilots when they violated turkish airspace, one of the russian pilots who survived said h never heard a warning. Have you ever opened your bag after a flight and it looked like a tornado tore through your check this out, baggage handlers finding out who can toss a suitcase the furthestt on the tarmac. The second guy up is like, no, no, th is how you toss a piece of luggage. A concerned passenger tweeted southwest airlin, southwest saying, hey, they dont work for us. So Alaska Airlines later admitted the olympic bag tossers were their empyees insisting the bag was a dummy bag supposedly fille with magazines, you know, a dummy bag, right . Thats the ticket. When kettlebells are un unavailable. Exactly. Complete the cayon in do you think your kettle ball wowould go that fa saarare, you know, probably not. Lets just be honest. Lets be honest. This sounds like a good time to change the subject. For many of us on thanksgiving, thank you, sara, once the food shopping. Heres a live look at some people getting a jump start on gathering. It used to be they waited till black friday for this but now thanksving itself and abcss Rebecca Jarvis is in chicago with more on that. Hey, rebecca, good morning. Reporte hey, dan, good moing to u. Happy thanksgiving and in. Biz they think of this as the super bowl of shopping. It is officially game day, 136 million americans expected to shop between now and this weekend and here at walmamart they are ready for the rush. This morning, while manany are gearing up for turkey and pupumpkin pie, others are getting ready f a different kind of feeding frenzy. Thanksgiving shoers already lining upor a mad dash to score those holiday deals. But ter years of backlash for opening on turkey day, retailers appear to be finally holding the line on those earlier and earlier thanksgiving openings. A lot of retailers are scaling back their hours or even closing their stores entirely because they realize that it doesnt actually help their bottom line. Reporter ow macys, target, kick things o off tight at exactly the same time as last year, staples opened the last two years on thanksgiving will shut their doors completely for the holiday this year. H m is following suit and Outdoor Equipment retailer rei taking i a step rther,r, deciding to stay closed on both thanksgiving and black friday. Retailers typically generate about 50 billion in sales over the fourday weekend. But for the last two year, those sales have been falling. Online shopping has totally anged the game. Consumers are hing a little more cash in their pockets this year for the Holiday Season. So retlers dont feel compelled to stay open on thanksgiving. Reporter walmart is also mixing things up this year. For the first time eve most of their doorbusters for the black friday weekend are already listed on the wsite literally right now. The doors open at walmart throughout the dayay today but the official event kicks off here at 6 00 p. M. , lara. N the super bowl of shopping, recca, we thank you and now we do have more on Holiday Shopping with amazon spokespeon sarah gelman who joins us from los angele good morning. Good morning. Do you guys feel the need, are you working harder this year than ever to attract customers . I mean, we work hard every year to tactattract customers. Were ready for it. You are ready for it. I kw you guys have a lot of great deals out there. Were going to talk about those in a second but what are you doing different now . I hear something about an app that really might take you to the next level. Yeah, well, first of all we have new deals every five minutes this year. Not just on black friday and cyber monday we actually have them for 16 days. It really is a season, yes, we have them today on thanksgiving, no, you dont have to get o off your couch to shop. But we do have this new app i love called its wit the mobilele shoppining appcalled watch a deal. You can go to our deal page either on your laptop or your mobilehopping app and see a deal thahats coming up maybe in a couple of hoururs. You dont want to sit there a and stare at your computer screen or at your phone and spend te with your family. Click w watch thi deal and then amazon sends you a push notification to your phone when the deal is live so you can continue on with your life, not have to stay and stare at your phone. Shop till you drop. Some o these deals you guys sent us are unbeliable. 50inch tv for 150, really, sarah . Yes, and i cant telell you what the brand is but what i can tell you, it is a mobile only deal so we have about 150 deals this year that are only on our mobile shoppg app so if you dont have our mobile shopping app download it now because that is a great deal. Soy the app sounds like a must have. What other deaeals can you share with us like the 150 150 50iinch tv. Kids want toys. Wewe have up to 50 off topselling toy brands, we e have nerf, my little pony and of course, star wars, star wars is so big this year, another thing thats huge, dinosaurs so between the good dinosaur and Jurassic World we have great deals o on that. For teen organization dullsls it your life you cannot go wrong with electronics. Obviouy we talked about ts, we have areat deal on noise canceling headphones. 100 off, what i want this Holiday Season. We also have the kindle, so great for riding under 100 during this shopping season. You just recited my entire list, sarah, thank you so much. I guess what we thank you so much, we will be t talking about shopping all morng long and sort of the days, dan, im thinking of black friday and siberiaer monday are gone. Here we go. Here we go. Indeed. Lets just try to kp our priorities trait because before you go shopping you got to make sure thanksgiving is done right which means itts time to talk turkey with our thanksgiving dream team of Food Network Chefs all judges of the hit show chopped. Alex guarnaschehelli, Geoffrey Zakarian and Amanda Freitag. Give yourself a big round of applause. Insi we hahave questions frorom viewers, lets start wh you, ms. Guarnaschelli, youre doingng turkey. The question. Im always afraid to undercoothe turkey and dont have a thermometer. How longhould i cook a a 14pound turkey. The answer is. I count about 12 minutes per pound which mns you should go for maybe 2, 2 1 2 hou and then pull away that thigh and just watch for those juices to run clear. The thigh is the thickest part of real estate on the turkey. Once thats cooked, take it out. Make your gravy and have a glass of wine. I always say that, the thigh is the thickest part of real estate. Desserts, let me get one more turkey question. No, this is really good. Why is my turkey dry . Help . You know what, im going to cut you off there. This is a bit of a tease. Well get back to that answer a little later because wee got to get it out t to ginge who at the macys thanksgiving day parade and got another look at the forecast. Hey, ginger. Heyey there, dan. Ive got the leaves behind me, the stars of the beginning of the trade. U shaket a little when youre aleaf. Yeah, you do. Flash flo watches that extend from texas up to illinois and the rain, locally up to 8 inches could fall so be very careful especially friday into saturday. All right. For much of the area. Expect a rain, snow, sleet mix this morning and early afternoon. Later it will changeover to snow. Around sioioux ty. Little ice accumulatition, and snow around annch. Southeast siouxland could see more of both, closer to. 2 inches of ice and upto inches of snow. Northwest siouxlancould stay dry, temperatures will be falling through e day, we already hit our high temperatures, so snow ends this evening,loudy, cold, and blustery tonit. T. T. T. T. We got a new move, the shaking leaf. Ill be doi it all morning in itll keep you warm. Itll keep you warm. Ginger, thank you. We want to remind everybody, well answer how toeep the turkey from getting dry question coming up here on gma. And the revelation about the late Frank Gifford, the nfl legend suffered from that brain disease linked to those harard hits on the gridiron. Of it. Bzzz. Hey bumble bee o busy bee. O busy bee. This year les keep your sanity. Come to the store or go online. For all your gifts, youll be just fine. Aw, youre sweet. Black friday starts 6pm thursday and all day online at walmart. Most people know the four cs of a diamond. 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