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Ws,is iat . F . T90s today with m and savannah guthrie, liveki . F studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. . . Imjzonde pr b standards. Thiseadition toda back some old exciting. Wee going to have a lot m the pr the weather is cooperating. Of course, sec a bern every yea this year because of what seem parade routehere millionsoday b nypd will be hardt lets9c . Oyou. Reporter aewf those police oicers wer walking along this parade route earlier and t crowd gav uc d acant truck. Ly can a sand reporter o mondayh tryin tos and expressingrt for vehicle attack in times square. Earlier this month the isis propaganda magazine calle on it supporters to target the parade itself. But conrn this holiday seaso are not limitedy to the u. S. Then traveling in europe warning that terror groups continue to plan c attacks. The main point tt we wer . E trying to convey to potential travelers is to ba . U . . 2vigila. Reporter in france arresd . Market . S instraussbur to French Security officials. Centuryold tradition is not so easilyother measure ty a t the weve got james oneal here, r. So good to have you sir. Good morning. Picture of themacys day we have to expand our resources to increase security this year and we did. Lets talk about the resource and the effort. . it is a 2 1 2 mile parade rou which presents a unique challenge. There are a lot of es. But the nypd does soe events. This is something that we do all the time. We do new years, we do fourth of july. This year we have blocker trucks. We h prevent any vehicles fm coming on the route. Thereso cross town traffic at 57th street. Nd street and 34th. Obviously a huge sho of force that wan see. Public dsntee butive a lot obv. Iforhan las . Tclothes. Omne i i . 8rodus . Xwocoorot day doesnt . Rn get down . Y to 34 is he manha . Ttan nuyorth gs jmee family at his maralago estate in florida. Thats kristen welker. Good morning, happy reporter willie, happy thanksgiving and good morning to you. Thats right, predentelect donald trump will actually relax today with family. The bef break comes as he gets increased scrutiny over h cabinet picks and how hes handling a critical pt of his . . Senior intelligence official cautions it is too early to draw broad conclusions. Late wednesday the president elect sending a ng message to the public in a video produced by his transition team. Its my prayer on this thanksgiving, we beginour forwa as one country. Ambassador to the united nations. Haley, a rising star in the gop, was a fierce trump criticuring the campaign. Quickly changing her tone. While i wont pretend to have always been president elects bigges cheerleader [ laughter ] i did vote for him, and i was absolutely thrilled to see him win. Orter trump praising haley as a deal maker. But critics say she lax serious Foreign Policy experience. His other pick for education secretary, another rival turned . . 1 supporter. She is a billiaire g hailed b demanding a recount after picks. . Hnikki haley of south the ambn comi o strongly against her yesterday. What do you make of those two picks put together . First of all, nikki haley adds diversity, both in terms of the facthat shes a woman, shes s also an i underndianam. That in some ways softens the face that Donald Trumps administration will present to experience but thats an advocacy job as opposed to a policy making job at the u. N. I think that pick is getting significant amount of praise across the board. Betsy des is more controversl because shoe he is so ideological. She represents outreach to the Republic Party establishment. Shes been a longtime republican official. But her zealous advocacy . Of School Choice is something that obvious will i is offensive to teachers union. They are going to fight how much he is going to put thc the . Agenda. Sr definy miss my mi . . . . P . y . I d, theqe . Q . . K . . 7baoons,he s. Weve got your ticket to the in the study of bold. People who are statistically more likely to stand up to a bully. Do a yoga handstand. And be in a magicians act. Listerine . Kills 99 of bad breath germs so you can feel 100 in life. Bring out the bold . Go to boldpercent. Com to join the bold percent for the chance to win cking up for kyle. Here you go. You wouldnt put up with part of a pizza. Um. Something wrong . So when it comes to pain relievers, wh you want the whole thing . So when it comes to pain relievers, yes, yes live whole. No . Crteve. . . Hon, i dont ve this i do . Rqnt really work with my nd i already ate, actually. Hon, we listen to carol. Make my eyes pop . Is this supposed tha 7ing for chnel 20. . 7 30 now on this thanksgiving morning. Look at the show november 24th, 2016. You are looking at the rehearsal of the classic Broadway Musical cats at the 90th annual macys thanksgiving day parade. You know how i feel about adult cats. Lets not get into that. Luckily these are human adult cats so you can live with that. A look at the headlines. At least 67 people died in eastern china this morning when a scaffolding collapsed and a an unknown number of people who are still trapped in that rubble. An alleged getaway plan was foiled when a Police Officers in idaho pulled over a car only to have a wanted man pop out of the trunk. The suspects mother had been driving and Police Dash Cam foot animal captured the ensuing scuffle. Mp[ . F facing charges. Security in new york is at an alltime high for the macys thanvi morning. A record 3,000 Police Officers at the ready in an unprecedented effort to help keep the city safe. If your thanksgiving concerns are of a cooking variety. Our friend katie lee has got your back. Your turkey back. Whatever kind of back. Just tweet us using the orangeroom. Katie lee will answer your lastminute questions in a bit, including of course the famous how do you get that bag out of the turkey. Youve cooked the bag. I did. And my guest survived. Matt and savannah a down at the center of the thanksgiving day parade action in Herald Square with a very special guest. Well get to that in one second. You saw cats rehearsing a second ago. Theyre gone, we only have memories of cats now. Theyre switching over to holiday i nn. Letsri terry lundgren. This is a tradition for you and macys. This is my favorite day of the year. But it is just so special we have our 90th anniversary of our parade. It was started by our employees. It is a tradition for our company and it is great to be here once again to celebrate. My familys here. Big gathering. Lots fun today. You talk about your employees. They are here in every capacity we have more than 8,000 people working the parade today. Imagine that. The large majority are employees who volunteer every year. Once they do it, they cant get enough. Theyre holding balloons, theyre acting as clowns, theyre sweeping the streets behk . hind horses. Theyre doing everything every imaginal job. It is just a family fun day. All week long weve been getting a sneak preview of some of the balloons. Theres always something bigger and better every year. How involved do you get . Areou checking it out . Is this something you really get into . The deal is, when you have 160,000 employees, you just got to depend on them to get things done like this. Youre not blowing up balloons. No. Imenjoying it just like everybody else. Ive got an amazing team of talented people and they are the ones to really get it done and deserve the credit. We eintroduced you as the chairman and ceo. Youre going to be a slacker can i have your seat . I hope they give me a nice seat somewhere in the general neighborhood. Youve done a great job. Its been fun to work with you. Thanks for all you guys have done to make this parade the most watched Television Program on earth. Terry, thank you so much. By the way, the parade on nbc, 9 00 a. M. Lets get a check of the weather from al. Announcer todays weather is brought to you by wa hey, guys, up town now. We have country star kelsey balorini. Youre going to be on the domino sugar float. Yes. I grew up watching this parade. This is a big deal to see it in person. I have butterflies and i get to what are you doing for thanksgiving . Staying in the city tonight, having dinner in the city. Then tomorrow go to nashville, then just stuff myself with food, then sleep for seven days after the situation. What do you think of this year . Oh, gosh, just a year i never thought i would have. But more so, doing it with people i love a whole lot. Take it in and enjoy it. Thank you. Happy thanksgiving whats going on for you. As far as your travel is concerned, for saturday, we are looking to see on the roads, not so bad throughout much of the country, although we will see some problems shaking out from i80 out west, i5, and i90, especially from San Francisco to reno on i80. In the east, i85, wet roads in connecticut, into maine, then sunday, in the rockies well see some problems. Looking at some trouble spots. Look for i80, i90, i5 in l. A. , buffalo to boston on i90 for rain and fog. Some icy bridges early to late and thats your latest weather. Coming through the parade right now, its amy kuhler, executive later. Very shiny. Al, thanks so much. Talk to you in a bit. Coming up next, inside Donald Trumps maralago estate. Some of the most expensive property in florida where the president elect is spending thanksgiving with his family. We will take you there live. And much more with the stars of the 90th macys thanksgiving day parade. man my dad and i have the same eyes. Day parade. Right after this. Same nose. Same toughness. And since hes had moderate alzheimers disease, the same never quit attitude. Thats why i asked his doctor for derate to severe alzheimers disease in paties who are taking donepezil. 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I30 off apparel doorbuster targets black friday you guys look amazing al frosting tonight lets check in with dylan whos in the orange room for carson today. Happy thanksgiving, dylan. Happy thanksgiving, guys. Good morning, everyone. You know what . On wednesday president obama sasha and malia. Instead his nephews were by his there are some people you should giveerwear to this holiday. And there are some people you shouldnt. Ha ha, nay. Nt give r to everybody. Ss. Dv your doctor should monitor your weight si include diarrhea, ea, upper respiratory tract infection, and headache. Tell your doctor about all and if youre pregnant or and he planning to be. Ist about otezla today. Annual macys thank ve macys thanksgiving day pare will kickoff. In thstrongwind th . . Is morng starting to increase again out of the west. The broncos have a nice looking evening cot overon channel were going k. Detail the forecast for several of the big its 8 00 on today. Coming up, paradearations. And savannah have a front row seat to all the action as security is ste up along the route and the party gets thankful for. I want to be a fashion designer, and also want to be a World Champion gymnast. Jenna catches up with a young cancer survivor and is now giving back to those who saved her life. Black fridays breakdown. While some retailers are keeping thanksgiving, others arent. Well tell you what you need to know before you venture out, thursday, november 24t 2016. E girl scouts of southern alabama happy thanksgiving happy thanksgiving to u. S. Navy happy turkey day, michigan all the the wait from kentucky celebrating thanksgiving on the today show happy thanksgiving from these turkeys from north mvcarolina woo . Ezz . 0 iy . Oh,yrateful tha . Wt yo . Hes backs being handled with poles as opposed to ropes because theres very litt helium. Exactly. Retro things. Eratures the 90th year. Are celebrating this grand tradition. Guys, well see you in about an hour. Be on the look out. Presentelect is urging the cabinet. Trying to make it more diverse. Naming South Carolina govnor nikki haley, an indianamerican, u. S. Ambassador to the united nations. Haley was very critical of mr. Trump during the campaign. A man that chooses no the to disavow the kkk, that is not a part of our party. Thats not who we want as president. Reporter last week after meeting with him, changing her tune. I did vote for him. And i was thrilled to see him win. Governor has enough foreign and diplomatic experience for t job. Supporters pointing out her husband is a reserve officer who served in afghanistan. I think youd find that military spouses all pick up a lot about the world, a lot . L aut reporter to run the nations education system, another woman. Betty de billionaire republican donor. Also once a trump critic. Known as a strong advocate for School Choice, winning praise r especially wh foreign govement. The president ele jct insistinge is no longer in charge of his business. I dont care about that business. Shatte nve. Cavaliers . Forward on fire. Singlehandedly love e . Outscore the trail blazers in that attention pups and people the toysrus black friday sale starts thursday at 5pm. This is how fast you should get in here the black friday sale starts thursday at 5pm with 40 off doorbusters till midnight. Like barbie, paw patrol, and lego sets in store only. Toysrus. Awwwesome ; . C you are gonna love this pl im more of a milkshake guy. I. No no, expand your horizons. Its the name of a smoothie. Yeah, i see they have bee pollen. Two of my favorite allergies. Trust me, john grows half this stuff in his own backyard. Two of my usuals, please. Add spirulina. Is that a. Noodle . Its his first time. Mmm. Thats almost as good as a milkshake. Cheers get together and shop small on Small Business saturday. Small business saturday is our day to get out and shop small. A day to support our community and show some love for the people we love. And the places we love. Use the money we spend here can help keep our town growing. This saturday is Small Business saturday. Letop for our neighbor, i was once with verizon, your morning off right, you know what you got to have breakfast . Ice cream. By the way, now it is . O clinical trials. F immediately after wakin up improved mental i love this experts are skept . O previous studies have shown the positive e . Rffect ice cream cha scientistc in tokyo that says . Good . Its so godsod. You just had an epiphany, didnt think of the reeses peanut buttercup. Im so happy now. Are you alert now . Hes very smart. Aware. Matized. . Quincy, imsorry. Weve . W got some japane weve got a . K . 9ck shot to show you. Ven come from an nba star. S fromn australian man. He set ther tl shot. His names derek. Dam in the swiss al andp drain . 593 feet. He made this shot on just his third attempt. A lot of people say whats up with the video, is it real . Is this doctored . Its been certified a world e know the folks at guinness. They dont mess around. They really stick to the . Prule. Made it on his third try. I cant make it[i . Km when i standing right under dylan, you got popstart for us. Lets begin with the most creative band on planet, the guys from ok go. Pe for their mi videos, defying gravity on an airplane and staging some pretty stunning choreography. Check out the video for their song the one moment. Yes. 4. 2 seconds. Heres how they did it. Cameras captured the more than 300 little scenes that you see her. Then it was all slowed down to synchronize with the song. Some the shots were slowed down by 20,000 . It is insanely complicated but just like other ok go shot in j take. I watched it for the first time yesterday. It was incredible. Now to one of the most private couples in hollywood, birthday yesterday. Happy birthday. So on instagram liam shared this photo saying happiest birthday to my favorite little angel. Miley shared her own photo sharing the rainbow ring she got. Caption, you always know hw to make my grubby little kid fingers shine. And another foe show where she called this the best birthday ever. Finally Gwyneth Paltrow sharing what shes thankful for yesterday gwyneth posted a photo on instagram showing their 10yearold son moses giving chris a big bear hug. Thats your popstart . Good message on thanksgiving. The best divorcedou ever. Doing it for the kids. Lets get a check of the turkey day forecast from al. Hes at the beginning of the parade with a very special guest. Hey, al. Hey. One of our money lewis. I got bills, you got a turkey hat. I didnt get to eat any yet. I was like, you know . Im going to bring it with me. You know . Is this your first parade . This is. My first one. Excited . Excited. Super excited. One of the things we are all thankful for are our moms. Definitely. Youre going to be performing your song mama. Yeah. My mom c . Kooked she the fami we all came together. Its appropriate. The other thing youre thankful for, you are working with some great artists. Yeah. I have some new projects im working on with other people and some music from me coming the end of the year an beginning of the next year. Working with pit bull, flo rida got a song out with pit and flo right now. Lunch money lewis. This thanksgiving, whos paying the bills . And that is your latest weather. But of course, we got football coming up thats right. Something to be thankful for thursday night, football night in america. The steelers coming in to the colts, Lucas Oil Stadium in inan the 40s. Its a domed stadium, but what the heck . Youre thankful for that. And even if youre tailgating, its perfect weather tonight at 8 00. The steelers at the colts on thursday night, football night in america. I love listening to my voice like that. We know. We gave you a little extra echo on thanksgiving, al. Thanks and giving series about the life saving work being done at st. Judes childrens research hospital. We first met lauren ten years ago. She was just learning how to walk again and now shes blossomed into a competitive gymnast and a budding fas fashi fashionista. Reporter 12yearold lauren lewis has reason to . strut her stuff. Little fashionista sees life in living color and has big dreams for the future. I designer and also want to be a gymnast. Thats my dream. Reporter there was a time when they werent sure shed live beyond her second birthday. This month marks ten years lauren will be cancerfree. We had no idea that we would be sitting here talking to you about lauren and for her to be as active as she is is a where wed be, unimaginable. Reporter at 16 months lauren was diagnosed wit stage 4 blastoma, a tumor of immature b . So serious, laun do actors immediately sent the research hospital. Chil seeing the condition of it and what they say, figured st. Jude was the best place. It is much more common f tumors along the spine actually to have permanent neurologic deficits to where they cant walk. When first diagnosed, laurens tumor was the size of a grapefruit and wrap around her tiny spine. After radiation, surgery was needed to remove the shrunken tumor. It was an operation the family dreaded. Theyd already lost their infant son, matthew, on the operating table a few years before. He was born with a heart defect. To a child didnt comeas a success but laurensut seemed b. She was given a 30 chance of surviving treatment. 30 . Reporter despite the odds, the lewises turned tards the faith and decided to treat her love of fashion began. Every day we dressed her an it makes me getion. . Ne lost her ability with a simar presentation to lauren to have as much70 . L ance. R considedes bk sent ir. , love her. To brave the mountains, it is snow pack in many . . 5 light snow in northeastern colorado that is quickly falling apart. We may see upwards of an inch more in the mountains. Extraordinarily windy is morning. We will continue with that through the morning and de with sunshine, close to 50 grs, it will feel much colder because of the wind for the front range and northeastern corado. Sunny, quinndy can this morn windy this morning. Near 50 bujust shy ofday. Tomorrow and saturday, 60 or a little welcome back. 8 30 now on this thanksgiving morning, the 24th of november, 2016. And, boy, ohe have a frge you turkeyp . . U tomorrow . Yes. You come back tomorrow, ill bring you . 7 leftovers. Thank you the heing out to the parade route inust a second. To know bore y . Fou start spending, like how to avoid the money online this year. Ave some and katie lee has a quick pumpkin cake and some sid dishes that will fill out your thanksgiving meal. Plus well catch out with 94 years Young Betty White who is not slow down. But first, als up town in the parade fray with one final check of the weather. Also announcer todays thanksgiving day parade weather is sponsored by verizon. Look who weve got with us . One of our faves, miss Sara Mclaughlin joining us. Ood moing. Ppy thanksgiving. One of the things were thankful for is you have a houm coming o cled onderland. So happy to be here to promote that a be parthis next week for the Christmas Tree lighting. On november 30th. Thats right. So i get to beere for a week. Im going to go see hamilton as well. Im so, so lucky. Besides that, what are you thanul for that year . Im thankful for my beautiful children. I have the m and family and my life in general. Im so blessed. Do something yi it is so great having you here in the parade. . Weather any time you need it. Cable. And if you cant get here to the parade, weve got a special experience for you from our friends at verizon. Get a 360 view i love clowns 360 view of the parade no matter where you e. Just go to verizons youtube channel. Relax. But this year more than 50 National Retailers are pushing back, shutting their doors on thanksgiving day. Costco, rei, home depot,ikea, even the mall of america putting up the closed sign. Overall sales a expected to rise by 3. 6 . And stores that open on thanksgiving are pulling out all the stops to lure you jcpenney opens at 3 00 p. M. A the door. Toys r us opening at 5 00 p. M. And will stay open for 30 hours straight. Sears is angling for your wallet with 50 off washersndnr . . Oz . W. Q aha y gotn have sednf . Yourself aleast,ap. Thiscaution. When you go into the sotime get an extra discount when you are operating inside et todlegendetty g on oo . . . . G whit roldbo aothats lasted more than seven decades. Hes uptown with more. Hey,al. Reporter hey, guys. Is stil. I had the pleas of sitting down with betty at her favorite restaurant, pacif dining car, in santa monica and she served of fun. Betty, thanks breakfast. This is awful nicf you think this is enough food for us . . , ai always wondered who is betty like . Sue ann nivens or rose . I havent a cl i would probablyay sue was aei. Yes. She was a bit of a so does betty. Betty does, too . Yes. Yes. By of mine been. Oh, youre very ki granted. Ynjoyingyourself. . . By rail. Reporter producing and performing in etch asks and game shows like password. Becaus that . Xstq . I . We love her. We love your life, al. You get to hang out with the best people. Al, have fun on the parade. Well talk to you. You, too. Happy thanksgiving, . guys. Happy thanksgiving to you, al. Katie lees lastminute thanksgiving dishes for all y procrastinators out there. But first, this is today on water and count on 30 minutes per pound. Its going toake a ile. Aig turkey, you might morrow t nig pty maybe pick up arie ght. Chicken. Fu want to help u make quickly read this is so simple. S a cranbe. My moms recipes. You don even have to . 98v turon st ta one of these microplane graters and just grate t orange zestrt. Once youq . See that, then you . O u jus take yourest and put . W here weve got a cutim the peel of the orange. Then youre left with it lik going in. Bit of orange liqueur. If youre making it form the kids, you can leave that out. Takes the edge off the day a little bit. It does. Right . Relax bela little bit. Food. Ive got a shallot here that i sauteed. Im going to add to that some sundried tomatoes. If youve go the some of those, throw those in. If not, you can leave them out. It is not crucial. Thenook my gen . O . Beans and put them in the microwa like two minutes. Thats kind of like blanching them. Instead of putting, in the in a crunch. Ow the ease yeriest cake you ever made. A cake mix and add to it a can of pumpkin. Thats it. It is just the cake mix and the pumpkin. And some pumpkin pie spice. Super simple. Mix that up. Put it into a greased bundt pan. Cook according to package directions. Then for a glaze, i just take some powdered sugar and heavy cream, whisk that together. You can use orange juice or cranberry juice. Its really simple. Shall we eat some of it . Yeah. Katie lee, this cake is amazing. Your mamas cranberry recipe . Mm. Everyone, if you have this available to make today, you should. Oh, my gosh if you dont have real cranberries at home and just have dried cranberries zp. They would just be a little too sweet and g stuck together. You could mix some dried cranberries into it, if you like. I love the way you correct us without insulting us. Use your dried cranberries in place of the sun dried tomatoes in the green beans. Solutions. Thats why we love you. Happy thanksgiving. To get these recipes, head to today. Com food. Announcer smuckers leatess by smuckers. With a name like muckers, it has to be good. Thanksgiving in a special way around here. Dylan is in the orange room with more. We certainly are. Our viewers are sharing photos of the friends and family they are thankful for who also happen to be celebrating birthdays this month. Around here, of course we are thkf jenna and barbaraush who have a birthday tomorrow. Happy early birthday to them. Amanda just celebrated her husbands birthday. She says hes loving, patient and kind. . . . O all of this, and more, are the reasons im thankful for him. We cant get enough thisbihdayd just turd 1 this month and has the cake all over her face to prove it. Keep those photos comi. Trees . Yes, of course. Whats thanksgiving without the dancing Christmas Trees . Well, looks like everythings ready. Uh, scooter, you forgot one thing. Whats that . Cue the opening numr. . . Therell be spectacle therell be fantasy . 2 . . Fr