The table we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener. Your world in 90 seconds. I was sitting right next to him. He said it was a vicious primary, vicious campaign. He thinks that she and the clintons have suffered enough. Donald trump relengths on his promise to prosecute Hillary Clinton. If you burn Political Capital on hillary you cant move forward with securing the border or tax reform. But you guys were the ones saying lock her up and now tonight its a 180 on one of the busiest travel days of the year. Leave early. The traffic is no joke. Snow and ice will impact 50 Million People traveling by road or air. Looks like wet places in chicago and minnesota and could have travel problems. Police say Johnthony Walker was speeding when he crashed a school bus into a tree in chattanooga, tennessee. An officer in Wayne State University shot twice in the head and in critical condition. People sue. The dow closed above 19,000 for the first time ever. Where is your rally cap, mike . What about making America Great again . Video shows a rescue of a man minutes before it went off. All that. For the final time president obama awarded the medal of freedom to a distinguished group of american icons. Everybody on this stage has touched me in a very powerful personal way. And all that matters. Stephen colbert manning the butterball help line and talking turkey. Meat thermometer is saying its at 188. 188 . Yeah. Get out of there. Its going to blow. This week a Shopping Mall santa was removed from his job in florida after telling a child that Hillary Clinton is the only person on the naughty list. Charles mother is saying, the lap of a stranger but i will not stand for party and politics. Announcer this portion of cbs this morning sponsored by toyota. Lets go places. . Welcome to cbs this morning. Norah odonnell is off. Josh elliott of our streaming network cbsn is with us. More than and people are crowding into stations like washingtons Union Station right now but most of more than 43 million americans will drive this holiday. We go out to miami on interstate 95. Thats one of the nations busiest highways. Okay, david. Lets hear it. Busiest highways. Lets hear it, david. Reporter gayle, good morning. Moving at 20 Miles Per Hour on i95 heading south toward miami and, look. Its gridlock any day of the week. But you factor in the busiest travel day of the year and why i settled in with a ways wing to the Navigation App according to waze, if youre going to leave this morning, do so before 10 00 a. M. And try not to get on the road after 4 00 p. M. Those are their travel tips. Consider this, if youre in miami and were to get on the road at 5 00, if you had a threehour drive to tack on an additional hour because of the traffic jam that is expected. Is expected. And on the drive home, you want to leave before sunday. Here is some interesting stats for you. If you were to leave on sunday actually, which is not the best day, lets say you left on sunday. Traffic jams jump 240 sunday. Accidents go up 100 . The best day to leave is on friday but if you hate love and want a politics discussion, leave on saturday. Whatever you do, josh, dont leave sunday wow. I want a little extra love, yes maybe stick around until most of and get some extra love . Extra love is good. Love is great. Millions of americans will be crowding the nations airports today. Here is a look at Laguardia Airport here in new york city. Kris van cleave got inside the command center for one major airport in arlington, virginia. Good morning to you. Reporter good morning. So far, flights are moving better than david in that traffic. What we are hearing the morning wave of flights almost with no delays and 16 across the country and could change depending how the weather goes and the airlines are watching that very closely. We know lax and chicago and atlanta will be busy big delays. Reporter the tsa bracing for 3. 7 million expected to fly for thanksgiving. Are you ready for the challenge . Its going to be a big weekend. In fact, its predicted to be one of the largest travel weekends in history. Reporter tsa administrator peter neving ger. Youre likely to encounter a lot of people in the airports. Efficiently through the lines. Reporter washington, d. C. Passenger here hoped to beat the crowds entirelily leaving yesterday. Im here two hours before for a domestic flight and i usually get here an hour before. Reporter for southwest, it will be the first time the airline has operated more than 4,000 flights in a day. This is our super bowl. We were on very high alert on everything that is going on. Reporter steve west runs southwest Operations Center and representatives from every aspect of the airline meteorologists to maintenance are in one room to troubleshoot. Start on wednesday it transfers into thursday, friday and saturday. In a network gets ahead and stays on schedule each day is set up for success. Reporter the tsa and airlines are saying if youre coming to the airport today lean towards getting to the airport and inside the terminal two hours early. Give yourself that extra time. And while today will be one of the busiest days to fly, sunday and monday will actually be overnight in minnesota and the storm is moving east and could disrupt Holiday Travel. Chief weather forecaster lonnie quinn of our new york station wcbs is tracking the forecast. Good morning. You talked about it at the top of the show. Two systems. One from canada to the gulf of mexico a big front there. The second one a persistent low Pressure Center with bouts of northwest. Where does the snow go after today . Take a look at the computes models. Its pushing to the east and by the time you get to 5 00 this afternoon, okay . A lot of folks hitting the road at that hour and front on top of shower and rain hours out there at 36 and as far as the low low pressure out west the bouts of rain continue and mountain snow continues as well. On thanksgiving, stop it right there. 10 30 in the morning. Thanksgiving day parade. New york city a better chance of rain and better bet later in the day on thanksgiving and Pacific Northwest that rain chance continues and continues into your day on sunday. We were talking about when is the best day to leave . Rain showers around portland on sunday and new york city 47 and 65 atlanta and 78 in miami. Happy holidays, everybody. Thank you, lonnie. President elect donald trump has filled another high level post. Campaign source confirms that South Carolina governor nikki haleag ambassador to the united nations. Now haley is a first woman chosen for a cabinet level job in the new administration. In the republican primary, she endorsed marco rubio and criticized donald trump. The president elect tweeted this months ago. The people of South Carolina are embarrassed by nikki haley. Mr. Trump flew to florida last night no thanksgiving after on the record interview with reporters from the New York Times. Chip reid shows us why some of his loudest supporters are unhappy with what he said. Mr. Trump left new york after sitting down with the newspaper he has repeatedly called dishonest but on his way out, he called the New York Times an american jewel and that wasnt the only aboutface he made yesterday. The failing the New York Times, and it is failing. Reporter despite what he called the newspaper, mr. Trump was all smiles after a closeddoor meeting with the New York Times where reporters live tweeted nearly every minute exposing significant shifts in policy. Instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation. Reporter including his longstanding promise to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clintons use of private email servers at secretary of state. That would ab very good first step thats a good first step. Lock her up reporter one reporter tweeted that mr. Trump said, i dont want to hurt the clintons. Suffered greatly in many different ways. Later, he added i think it would be very, very divisive for the country. A lot of its a hoax. Its a hoax. Reporter he also seemed to change his tune on clim change from a hoax perpetrated by the chi chinese to a phenomenon linked to human activity. Steve bannon is the head of breitbart in an interview with mother jones magazine last summer said we are the platform for the asked about the alt right on tuesday, mr. Trump told the times, i dont want to energize the group and disavow the group. I would bring back waterboardsing and bring back worse than waterboarding. Reporter that was trump on torture but yesterday he told the times he was surprised general james mattis didnt favor it leaving the door open for a change. Mattis is one of a number campaign foe mitt romney up for secretary of state and ben carson being considered for director of housing and urban development and he told fox he has been offered the job. One of the offers on the table. Trump may get Jared Kushner involved in the peace process. He has been key in his outreach to the jewish communities. Yesterday trump told times reporters he would love to be the one to iran palestine feud. The blue chip index gained more than 76 points yesterday to reach that level. The nasdaq and s p also set new records. The dow has picked up nearly 700 the investigation into the deadly Tennessee School bus crash is focused on speed and the actions of the driver. Dazed members of the Chattanooga Community are mourning the deaths of five children. They were kindergarten, a first grader and three fourth graders. The bus driver faces multiple charges. Manuel bojorquez is outside the Childrens Hospital in chattanooga where 12 students are still receiving treatment. Good morning to you, manuel. Reporter six of the 12 students at this hospital remain in critical condition. Doctors say that after mondays violent wreck, many of the chin treated here are were either too scared or dazed to spell their names or remember their own birthdays. All of this among reports that parents are previously complained about the bus driver. Deceived. Reporter Jasmine Mateen recalls the agony when she learned her 6yearold daughter aria was one of the five children killed on board this Elementary School bus. She wanted to be a doctor and now my baby cant be the doctor she wanted to be reporter the investigation into this deadly wreck has now turned to the bus driver, 24yearold Johnthony Walker charged th five counts of vehicular homicide. Police say walker was driving well speed limit. He received his commercial drivers license in april and was involved in a minor bus crash just two months ago. Walkers mother says she spoke with him after the crash. He said, i love you, mom. Ive been in an accident on the bus. And he said, mom, there are kids dead. I hope its not my fault. Determine the drivers action leading up to the crash and look into whether seat belts could have prevented death. The bus was not equipped with passenger seat belts. Our mission is to understand not just what happened, but why it happened. Reporter only six states require seat belts on school buss. Tennessee is not one of them. Nationwide an estimated four children die every year in large school bus crashes. Parents in this stunned community are struggling with how to explain this tragic news to their children. We just so sad, you know . Theres no words. Reporter walker does not have a criminal history and, this morning, tests for alcohol or drugs in his system are still pending. The company that hired him, Durham School services, said it is cooperating with investigators, but did not address our questions about reports that parents had complained about walker. Charlie . Thank you. This morning accuses Syrian Government of waging total war on rebel held areas. A girl was drug out of the rubble yesterday. Activists say this weeks attack in eastern aleppo have killed nearly 150 civilians. Monitors inside syria say rebels are stopping families from fleeing aleppo. Some of americas best and brightest citizens have been awarded the president ial medal of freedom. President obama highest civilian honor to 21 people yesterday at the white house. They include big names from movie, sports, tv, music, and business. Jan crawford shows us how the president paid tribute to all of the honorees. Jan, good morning. What a ceremony it was yesterday. Reporter it really was. This ceremony, gayle, is always just a truly joyful day for the president. You know, a chance for the commander in chief to honor the people who have inspired him and us for decades. Reporter from redford to ross to the boss. The 21 rye accept yentsecipientt and diversity. Everybody on this stage has touched me in a very powerful personal way. Reporter this was president obamas final opportunity to honor americans for their contributions to the u. S. And the world. Tom hanks was acknowledged for more than his oscar winning roles. America owes you a debt of gratitude, son. He has been an accidental witness to history. He has championed our veterans and supported Space Exploration and the truth is tom has always saved his best abduljabbar and abduljabbar wasnt just an mvp on the basketball court. When a sport changes its rules to make it harder just for to you . To me, it means i must have done something good in my lifetime or inspired a few people. Reporter an emotional Ellen Degeneres was acknowledged for her courage coming out almost two decade ago. What an incredible burden that was to bear, to risk your career like that. People dont do that very often. Reporter it wasnt coming out but getting in. She tweeted they havent let me into the whiteou i forgot my i. D. . Baby we were born to run . Reporter as for bruce springsteen, obama had to admit i am the president. He is the boss. Reporter also among the honorees, actress cicely tyson and an architect geary and mia linand just retired dodgers announcer vin scully. Standing still until they posed for a lifetime minute a can challenge and also at the white house tuesday was Robert De Niro and bill and melinda gates. President obama has given out more medals of freedom than any other president. What a class what a great class. Made me so proud. Didnt it make you proud when you see the talent . The president said if you ok why we are the greatest nation on earth. 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