As we say happy thanksgiving. Good morning, america. And what a festive happy crowd on this thanksgiving morning. Might be cold outside but warming things out there and so great to have dan harris, paula faris and t. J. Holmes all with us on this thanksgiving morning. We appreciate it. Weve been having fun here today. And also having fun, begin enand rob out on parade duty. Ginger in philly and rob is right here in new york and well check in with both of them in just a moment. In fact, how about right now. Lets go to ginger. Shes at the 95th annual six abc Dunkin Donuts thanksgiving day parade. I see youve had a wardrobe change. Ive had a wardrobe change and grown a little bit. I dont know if you can tell. Show them what we got. Im totally on stilts. Its extreme z but i have to say extremely quiet with my movement, otherwise you would not want to see it. Its not pretty. I havent gotten these guys are outstanding. Well see this and so much more fun, the circus performers all around us. These guys make me look like i am so lame. All right. We will see you guys in just a couple minutes with weather updates too. I got to tell you as a man whos only 58, stilts sound very attractive. Do they have anyway carry on. Go, go gadget arms and legs. We have your cooking questions, covered. Tips you need as you hit the kitchen this thanksgiving so send us your turkey questions using this gmathanksgiving911. Hope you got that. In fact, our dream team is here all morning solving those lastminute cooking problems. This one for sunny. Can you turn around. About desserts. You turn around with panache. Don is asking we have corn allergies in the family. What can i use to substitute karo syrup for pecan pie . By the way is it pecan or pecan . In North Carolina where my grandmother lives its pecan. Up north its pecan. Its fancy to say it that way. Doesnt matter as long as you call me to dinner on time. That whole pie situation with the syrup. Look for cane sugar syrup and try to use that as a substitute. What youre going for is the texture and flour, a little bit of water, some sugar, your brown sugar, mix it all together with your nuts and everything and that should do the trick but i would say just dont do it today. You should never try something new on the actual big day, all right . Thats very good advice. Also worth noting that both amy and t. J. Say pecan while i say pecan. Were from the south. You say tomato and salmon too. Nobody in the south says salmon. Are you sure . Salmon. Im kidding. Im kidding, mr. Pecan, all right. We have so many more questions and answers ahead about all of your thanksgiving feast dilemmas you may have but turn to gma weekend anchor paula faris with the news. With the days headlines. Dan, i stand in solidarity with you. I say it the same way. I salute you. We do begin with hundreds of thousands of americans that are waking up on this thanksgiving day in the dark. Many holiday dinners could be delayed after that noreaster dumped rain, sleet and up to 20 inches of snow from North Carolina to maine. Knocking out power lanes up and down the east coast. The storm also crippling air and road travel. Thousands of flights were canceled or delayed and airlines are now scrambling to rebook those passengers. And the thanksgiving parade in st. Louis has been postponed because of unrest stemming from the Michael Brown shooting case in nearby ferguson. Three people were arrested trying to break into st. Louis city hall wednesday. But overnight, there was an eerie calm on the streets of ferguson as snow fell and Police Reporting only two arrests. And tensions were far higher in los angeles last night where at least 130 people were arrested trying to block traffic to protest the Michael Brown grand jury decision. They had marched to a Federal Building and to Police Headquarters but were turned away by lines of police in riot gear. And protests related to ferguson have police on alert here in new york, as well. The famous macys thanksgiving day parade getting under way. The balloons already to go this morning and abcs rob marciano is along the parade route. Good morning, rob. Can you hear us . Hi, rob. Hi, paula. Yeah, i can hear you. Everything security is tight. Everyone is set to have a great time at the 88th annual macys thanksgiving day parade. Central park west is lined with the 27 floats that are going to roll down this area, 2. 5 miles, 3. 5 Million People and a thousand clowns. Come on. We got all sorts of clowns. You saw some earlier and these are clown graduates and crazy einsteins and, of course, about 16 of those highflying balloons, just shrouded in those trees, its snoopy and then, of course, back there, thats the rear end of thomas. My little girl is going to go crazy when she sees thomas. What a great tradition it is and weather is turning nice. Snowflake flying. Looks like itll be smooth sa sailing as we kick off in less than an hour, the 88th annual macys thanksgiving day parade. Paula, happy thanksgiving. Back to you. Thanks, rob. I think youre a little more excited than your daughter is. Well check in with ginger for your complete holiday weather forecast. And we are following breaking news overseas right now. The taliban is claiming responsibility for a suicide bombing that targeted a British Embassy vehicle in kabul today. A British Embassy worker was killed along with at least four civilians in the street. And new details this morning about a deal that bill cosby made with the National Enquirer as he was sued nearly ten years ago. In a newly unsealed deposition from 2005, cosby testified that he gave the tabloid an exclusive interview about Sexual Assault allegations by the accuser. He eventually settled with out of court. Now, in exchange, cost said the enquirer agreed not to print the story of a second accuser, meantime, theres more fallout from the latest accusations. The university of massachusetts has now severed ties with cost w cosby who is an alum. Finally, one illinois family decided that they could not wait till today to dig into their thanksgiving dinner. Thats because they are lemurs or as i like to say, lemurs that are living at chicagos brook hill zoo. This they were colonized by the french so going with the french pronouncer but feasting on a traditional meal of sweet potato pie, green beans, one guy looking surprised. Theyre vegetarian. Youre right about pecan, wrong about lemurs. Lemurs. Thank you, paula. Lets we should tell you pop news and weather coming up next but t. J. , mr. Pecan over there has your morning menu. Mr. Pecan, mr. No coat. I thought this was an indoor gig, the gma thing. This is a look ahead at your gma morning menu. In pop news, dan, youll want to hear this. Well tell you the most googled recipes in your individual states and i have your state, massachusetts, a lot of people youll want to hear the weird stuff your state likes and tory is here with your holiday deals steals. Youre going to beat the black friday rush. Shes got Stocking Stuffers all under 20. Thats a big deal but do have another thanksgiving 911 question for our chefs. Inside. Now, were talking about sides this time around. Jeffrey, thats you. Jeffrey, where are you . All right. Im right here. With the sides. We have a question from jennifer. This one has to do with those whipped potatoes or mashed potatoes. Where is my question. How do you correctly whip the mashed potatoes, there it is, how long do you cook them and whip them without them turn nothing glue. Couple thing, first of all boil them in a pot of water with salt and put a fork in them. If it cops out perfectly done, strain them, put them back in the pot, warm it up, in the same pot and mash them. If you whip them youll develop the flour and starch. Oldfashioned masher. Go at it. Stop turning dinner into glue, all right. Much more coming up live on gma here in times square. Stay with us, folks. All right. And tkind of like you huffing sometimes, grandpa. Well, when you have copd, it can be hard to breathe. It can be hard to get air out, which can make it hard to get air in. So i talked to my doctor. She said. Doctor symbicort could help you breathe better, starting within 5 minutes. Symbicort doesnt replace a rescue inhaler for sudden symptoms. Symbicort helps provide significant improvement of your lung function. Symbicort is for copd, including chronic bronchitis and emphysema. It should not be taken more than twice a day. Symbicort contains formoterol. Medicines like formoterol increase the risk of death from asthma problems. Symbicort may increase your risk of lung infections, osteoporosis, and some eye problems. 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Lena dunham is thankful and got together with taylor swift to see that shes thankful for there being a rap song in her name. Look at this. Lelelena just discover thissed the other kay. Hanging out and posted this video. All kinds of hits but going crazy. Its lena dunham by a group, allfemale and all white female rap trio in brooklyn. Its called lena dunham. I cant tell you the name of the group. Youll have to look it up on your own. Its not quite appropriate for television. Oh, the name of the group. Its a brilliant pr strategy. Just name something after somebody with a popular Instagram Account and, boom, youre done. Works more so with the hook, paula faris. Dan harris. Paula faris. Dan harris yeah, actually have to name it after somebody whos cool. Whoa i love you. I love you. I was referring to myself. I want an apology right now. T. J. , save me please. Lets turn to side dishes. A lot of side dishes. Cranberry sauce and your state, they put this together over the new york times. The most googled thanksgiving recipes in each state. Now, these are the ones that kind of stand out and distinct this, is my home state of arkansas. This is a fourlayer delight. That is a dessert. From the midwest they like a snickers bar. Its a snickers salad thats what im talking about. Yum. To new york and new jersey. They liked stuffed artichoke recipes is what they look for and folks in indiana. The persimmon pudding is what they like. For you sitting here, paula, youre from michigan. Cheesy potatoes was the number one. Got to give it up for the cheesy potato casserole. Key lime cake and massachusetts, yours was the mashed butternut squash. Sounds very new england. Time for this. You see what weve laid out here. Thanksgiving meal in chip form. Theyre all flavored pumpkin pie, cranberry, turkey and gravy, seriously. Like turkey and gravy. Can that a good thing . It is actually. Mine is stuffing. This is really good. I can taste the thyme. Oh, it is good. I like that. This is not supposed to substitute now i dont have to cook. Would you like some more . You still need to cook. Thank you. Dan never eats anything sixpacks, youre done. Done. Happy turkey day, everybody. T. J. , thank you so much. Come on over to my house. Deals steals, coming up but first ginger with a check of the weather and she is at the the big parade there in philadelphia with the good friend, it looks like. Yes, right here in philadelphia and they are all so excited to see this guy, this is lance bass, of course, and, lance, you are working on so much, a new single is out and performing that here. I am. This will be the Television Premiere of walking on air so im very excited to be here in philly. We are all walking on air. Your family is watching from mississippi. Hey, my family in mississippi. Whoohoo, sorry i cant come home right now. We are all sorry. Hey, well make this a warm and happy thanksgiving. Stay warm right here. Were also going to check the forecast which is far from warm in a lot of places so lets go ahead and check out those numbers and, the snow that is moving on up. New england, gone. Right. This thing is gone. A few flurries left over. All youll see. Much better travel day than we had yesterday and then a real quick look at fun cranbury, new jersey. Nice to be from cranbury on thursday. Maybe its in pilgrim, michigan. Hey. And im getting a little lesson from lance bass. One move from the show today. I just had to learn this hey. Oh. All right. That makes a happy thanksgiving. See a little bit that have. I would throw my back out doing that. Ginger, well played. Thank you, ginger. And this morning we are celebrating the potential in all kids and the extraordinary things they do when they embrace their interest and talents, these are some amazing kids. Take a look. Meet josh, jacob and mo three amazing young men who have been featured on disneys citizen kid series. 13yearold Josh Williams is a miamian with a big heart and his foundation, joshuas heart has been feeding people in need for almost nine years. Thats right. He started when he was 4 1 2 and since then, joshuas heart has fed 30,000 families with the help of 1200 volunteers. Across the country in california for the last three years, 10yearold jacob has been using his energy literally to participate in triathlons for a great cause. Go. Hes not in it alone he and the join jacob Triathlon Team has so far raised 48,000 all donated to the food bank of Santa Barbara, county. And last but not least there is mosiahp. Bridges mo of mos bows. In just three years this 12yearold memphis native has cornered the bow tie market, keeps his mom, aunt and three seamstresses busy making the coolest bow ties anywhere and in the process funds a kids lunch program. So welcome to all of you. Thanks for being with us. Thank you. Mo, im going to begin with you. Its amazing you already have the entrepreneurial spirit but youre giving back. How did you get started . Well, i got started giving back because, you know, i thought if i could go to summer camp and i can have fun then other kids should be having fun instead of worrying about the next meal theyre going to eat. Child hunger is at the highest in summer so if they get a meal in the summer, then they can still have fun and be kids. I want to ask you, what is it with the bow ties . I got started with bow ties because i really, really love to dress nice and i couldnt find any other bow ties that i liked to fit my style so i asked my grandmother to teach me how to sew. You sew your own bow ties. Well, i have employees now so excuse me. Im officially not jacob, how did you get started doing this . The kids in Santa Barbara county really dont get enough food during the summer like mo said because you get School Lunches during the school time and then theres nothing during the summer. So i decided that i wanted to do a food bank because they give food to people in need and people who cant afford the food. You also want to motivate kids who are afraid. I would be afraid to do a triathlon and im 41. We told them were okay, this could be easy, take your time. Youre going to be fine. Everybody was fine. Yeah, everyone was very excited. And, josh, youre now 13 years old. Yes. You started joshuas Heart Foundation with your mom when you were just 5 . Tell me about it. 4 1 2. 4 1 2. I started my foundation to help stomp out world hunger and help make an impact in the world. Me giving out 650,000 pounds of food so far. What motivated to you do this with your mom. When i was so young i was shown people needed help and also taught that i could do something about it and that i should. I know you have some folk, josh, who you look up to. Yeah, basically i like to give my top three which are bill gates, Warren Buffett an oprah. They all started with little and they made it into a lot and they never forgot their roots. They always came back and helped their community. I have a feeling that were all going to be looking up to you one day and what incredible role models all of you are already. So thanks for inspiring us and remember its the time to give back. Thank you. I told you they were incredible kids. You did not lie. They were astoundingly impressive and adorable too. Yeah. Three future president s possibly. Thats exactly what i was thinking when watching that. As weve been discussing we are now firmly in the thanksgiving red zone. Millions of chefs hard at work in kitchens across america so is the same true for the celebrities among us . Heres Robin Roberts with a look at what taylor swift is doing on this turkey day. I want to do a little fun thing, a thanksgiving lightning round. Okay. Lightning round, okay. Favorite side dish for thanksgiving. Sweet potato casserole. Stuffing or mashed potatoes. Mashed potato. Canned cranberry or homemade. Canned. Pumpkin pie or sweet potato pie. Pumpkin pie. Youre good. Thanks. And by