Mission not accomplished. Just about they refused to change the plans. Experts say nationwide, they expect 3 more travelers than the highest since 2007. We travel all of the time and its totally normal. Reporter but these are very unusual times as more than 25 Million People are expected to fly on u. S. Carriers this thanksgiving Holiday Season. Actually, i didnt think up. [laughter] reporter security here at la guardia airport. The longest lines we spotted were there as passengers got ready to pass through what will be a more stringent screening process. Experts warned those who sign for the precheck program, you should be prepared to do things you may otherwise skip like take off your shoes. Are you more concerned this the world . I dont think so. We need to keep positive about not let it slow us down. Reporter christie and her family with heading to chicago. Each yearthy fly on thanksgiving. I think im more concerned than normal but were kf department here in the u. S. Things are under control. Reporter the terminal here was packed in the morning. Things eased up midday and picked back up in the afternoon. The mood, pretty relaxed as people from all over our area took to the skies. When you see things in the news, but its one of the things you have to take and go with it. Reporter now, earlier today we did tell you about a problem with the air train over at Newark International airport. Were told its back up and running. Coming up later on Eyewitness News, i did come across one woman who said she did make changes in her travel plans because of this alert. You will hear from her coming up at 6 00. For now were live in la guardia, kemberly richardson, channel 11 news. Thank you. The majority of the people traveling are going by car. 40million americans are expected to head out of town. 90 are doing so this is the George Washington bridge. Its stopped completely. There are 40minute delays in the inbound upper level. As for the traffic on the garden state parkway, we showed you that, than none stone is over shannon stone is over essex county and its equally pretty slow there. Reporter yeah, it will be a rough one tonight. You can see the cars coming at you. Thats your traffic heading southbound and especially if you dont have e. Z. Pass, look how long you are waiting. We ran up and down the garden state parkway, and especially between the essex tolls and the union tolls but going further down the bridge, its just pockets of volume all over the place. You will see it start to ease up and then you will be hit in another pocket of volume. Matter which way you are going, you have plenty of company with you this evening. As you get ready togy away for your getaway. Pack patience. As you continue further down, more volume towards route 280. Shannon stone, channel 7 Eyewitness News. The weather is cooperating for holiday travel. 47. Temperatures will rebound and go higher tomorrow. All of this a far cry from a year ago when it snowed last thanksgiving eve. Yeah. Thats what it was like. Jeff smith is in for lee. He doesnt need his snow boots. Reporter i was gonna say, i remember donorring that in the northern suburbs, got 3 to 6 inches. On this holiday year, we have quiet weather. Temperatures are in the 40s in central park. Calm winds, mainly clear skies. Park view. Go down. 46 degrees. If you are gonna be out and about watching the macys balloon inflation, temperatures going down by a degree or so on tonight. Be chilly. But by 9 00 a. M. Were up to 48 and well in the 50s by noontime. The only warning, tomorrow, we have clouds coming in from the ocean and there could be a touch of drizzle in a few spots, especially tomorrow afternoon with the wind coming in at 5, 10 miles an hour. Otherwise, a pretty quiet and mild thanksgiving. Wait until you see the high temperatures on friday. We will detail that in our full accuweather sevenday forecast coming up later in the half hour. Back to you. You mentioned the balloon inflation. Its the place to be on this thanksgiving eve. Outside of the museum of natural history. That is where the macy balloons are being inflated. All of your favorites this year and some new additions. Our reporter is there with the story. Reporter so much fun, tens of thousands of our best friends out here. The cutest kids ever. Already inflated these. You remember this one from the ice age movie. Now, everything is covered up with the neat to keep them from floating away. See the sandbags, making sure look over here. Look at all of the folks Walking Around at the museum of natural history. Were talking about that, this is on 77th street. It stretches the entire block, also 81st street, thats the other half of the balloons. Lets go to the video, we were some of these are the acorn, hello kitty, paddington, ronald mcdonald, the power rangers, Spongebob Square pants. We found fans as we were walking over here. Who is that . What is that . Spongebob. Reporter can you do the spongebob song . No. Spongebob square pants. Reporter that was so lame. So lame. Why am i the cool one . Im the cool kid. Just kidding. What are your favorite ones . Hello kitty. Reporter and the power ranger . Power ranger. Spongebob reporter yay now were talking about. Oh, man. The best. Those kids were awesome. Coming back to a live picture of hello kitty, a lot of these are inflated. Ronald mcdonald, he was totally flat as we came over but taking a live look. Tons of folks Walking Around nice weather for this. It was raining and miserable last year, for the last few tonight. Turn around. Hey, look. Coming up at 6 00, look at these little guys. Hi. Hi. Hi. Reporter hes 6 now. And isabel, you are 9. Shes gonna be the live hon on the i want to do that. Reporter okay. We might have a struggle. Were live between 77th and columbus and central park west. You are gonna have a great time . Yes. Reporter which one is your favorite so far . I think the squirrel. Reporter you like the squirrel . Yeah. Mine is mine is lego. Reporter power rangers. You said you liked the power rangers. Spiderman . Reporter thats on the other side. Spiderman and red ranger and koolaid. Reporter yes, fi hive high five. Back to you in the studio. Ive lost control completely. [laughter] i love that. Its a great Eyewitness News thanksgiving day tradition. Were so excited to have michelle part of it. Several roads closed for the inflateth of the balloons. You can can find the closures for the parade at abc7nyd. Com. We have dramatic video of a police chase from new york to new jersey. It lasted for 30 minutes. The suspect weaved in and out driving on the wrong side of the palisades parkway. Oncoming traffic, forced to move out of the way. The driver made his way onto route 36 and then the suspect came police surroundled the vehicle and arrest him. Much more on this very dramatic and dangerous chase coming up at 5 30. We have new of video of a story from last week. Police have released clear video of the man they are looking for. Police say this passenger camed a laser at the buss rearvee mirror. The driver was able to safely pull over and all of the passengers got out including the passenger they are looking for with the laser pointer. Well, hoboken is getting the upper hand on a broken water main. Officials say the repairs are going well. They are getting quarter from another source and it will keep flowing through thanksgiving. Streets are expected to be reopened by saturday. Remains are expected by the end of the weekend. He was an nfl star. Now the family of Frank Gifford releasing new details on the brain injury they say he was its a son, the Holiday Seasons just like football season. You got your big games. Cheese plates, turkey, appetizers. And regular games. Get it all at a great price. And the Holiday Season is won. Thats my boy fill your cart with everything you need this season, all at one place. My stop shop. What makes this simple salad the best simple salad ever . Heart healthy california walnuts. The best simple veggie dish ever . Heart healthy california walnuts. The best simple dinner ever . Heart healthy california walnuts. Great tasting, heart healthy california walnuts. So simple. 4 13. Lets check the roads again on this thanksgiving eve. You can see plenty of traffic on the bqe. George washington bridge, a lot. 20 minutes inbound at the lincoln. 45 minutes outbound at the holland. Pack your patience. Yes. Startling new information about Frank Gifford. His family revealed today that the former new york giants suffered from the degenerative brain december cte. His family has now donated his brain to research on football injuries and head trauma. Rob has more. The family says he did die of Natural Causes but still wanted his brain studied to advance the research of a possible connection between football and traumatic brain injury. The familys suspicion that the former giant was suffering the effects of head trauma was confirmed when the brain diagnosis of chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Photos of the huge hit in 1960 against the eagles. The family said he was concerned about the connection between repetitive head trauma and the symptoms he himself experienced. The family wants the conversation to continue and heres why that he might be anker inspiration for others in the presence and it might be a small solution for anyone involved with football at any level. Part of the abc family, part of the wabc family, Frank Gifford died in august at the age of 4. Cte can only be diagnosed after death. Unfortunately, its been diagnosed in dozens of former players. All right. Rob, thank you. Pope francis began his first visit to africa and urged kenyans to work for peace. He arrived to singers and dancers. His pilgrimage will take him to u ganga and the uganda and the central state republic. President obama pardoned two turkeys, who nare the name of one of the countrys president s. Honest and abe will be spared from ending up on a thanksgiving table. Each weighs about 42 pounds. The turkeys looked good enough to eat, the president joked. One of them got feisty. For some reason, abe cant if for some reason abe cant fulfill his duties and walk around and gobble all day, honest is in an unundisclosed location ready to serve. In case you are wondering what that means, that would be turkey of the united states. His of rest of his life on a farm in west virginia. They very happily smile. It was a great moment. Come on. Yeah. It was great. It is so incredible to see all of the people that are outside of our studios today, everyone here enjoying the weather and inflation before the parade. Reporter the sidewalks are packed. For a second i thought they were gathering to see the weather forecast. For you. Reporter but no, its for the inflakes of inflation of those balloons. Its a beautiful night. Calm wind, clear skies. Typically, you get this type of weather right before thanksgiving. The next couple of days will be anything but typical as we start to warm things up. Lets head up a few hundred feet and look toward the empire state building. Way down to one world trade. 46 degrees, that wind coming in from the northeast. Very light 3 miles an hour. The lie got up to 50 earlier got up to 50 early, right about on target for november 25th. 73 was the record back in 1979. Got 1979. Tomorrow is a milder day. But it will be cloudier. Sunshine is gonna be in limited supply. I think its 48 for the start of parade, probably in the mid 50s by the end of the parade. Top out in the upper 50s by the afternoon even despite the cloud cover. It turns sunnier on friday. It turns breezy and downright balmy. For all of bargain hunters. High temperatures in the mid 60s just incredible for this time of the year. Showers show up late friday night lasting into saturday morning. I think well clear out by saturday afternoon across much of the area. 48 la guardia airport. No delays to report. And j. F. K. , 49. 48 at teterboro. Ful mid40s mid40s down the shore. We have High Pressure in control over new england. That will be moving offshore. As we head into the day tomorrow, our wind switches more in from the east than the southeast. Theres a bank of clouds offshore. Well be watching that satellite picture all night into tomorrow morning to see if that low cloud bank comes into new york city. I think it will be at some point probably late morning into the early part of the afternoon. Where they do have travel delays out west getting rain changing to snow and that will move into some of the major hubs of the midwest during the day tomorrow. Lows tonight, 41 in the park. Low 30s north and west. Highs in the upper 50s under variably cloudy skies. Again, limited amount ofs of sunshine amounts of sunshine. Breezy and warm on black friday. 64 for a high temperature. Heres the forecast for tonight, clear and partly cloudy. 31. 30 in many suburbs. Variably cloudy tomorrow. Milder, but again, limited sunshine. 48 at parade start. Upper 50s by the end of the day. Partly to mostly cloudy tomorrow night. Mild. Only 51. Even warmer friday. Weekend there are some challenges with that forecast and well talk about that coming up next halfhour with your full accuweather sevenday forecast. Back to you. Say hel hello to your friends. So great to see. Reporter whats your favorite character in the inflation . Anyone . Hello kitty. Maybe they are after you. Im beginning to question it. See you in a bit. A brazen breakin with the homeowner just feet away. You can see the intruder was sleeping. Well show you what happened next. And if you are headed to the movies this weekend, you some children in manhattan joined together to create a food complain to help those less fortunate. Students from saint hildas and morningside high stood shoulder to shoulder as part of a huge food handover. It started in the hallways, went down the street and ended at broadway presbyterian church. Stomachs for the hungry this Holiday Season. Great to share with the people who are less fortunate than we are to do this. This is an an untradition for the School Annual tradition for the school to teach students the importance of sharing and feeding others hurt. The studios behind toy story and inside out is back. Pixars latest project, the good dinosaur is taking audiences to the prehistoric stage. Sandy kenyon is here to tell us more. This just the right time. A holiday picture the whole family can enjoy together, especially if your family includes tweens. I say the good dinosaur with a bunch of kids and it played well. You okay, kid . This is for any child who has ever felt lesser than other kids. And for any adults who feels as i do the last one now can later much to the frustration of his parents, arlow is a coward who is easily scared. Papa, papa. Calm down. Breathe. His parents hold out hope the little guy will eventually find his way in the world, a world by the way that includes a little human, dad day dino calls a critter. Wait a minute, you might say. Dinosaurs never shared the earth with humans this is explained in the opening seconds of the film when they are shown going safely past earth. An alternate version of history as magical a world as pixar can create even though the good dinosaur falls short of masterpieces like inside out. This definitely enhances the experiences. Im gonna love ending you. [screaming] [laughter] the good dinosaur is rated pg with action thats a bit too intense for very long children. But 11yearold ryan rivera who saw it with me gives the film five stars calling it quite emotional and touching and he recommends it to anyone who likes family movies. The picture is from disney. You can see my review for creed. And i like ryans review, very insightful insightful. They are called bunch ems. But they say the toys get caught in children tea hair and the and childrens hair and well tell you well tell you the mess they make. 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Right now, there are 60minute delays on the inbound level. The inbound lincoln and holland tunnel a little bit bet per. On long island, this is what the Northern State parkway looks like right now. Thats not good. Steady stream of tail lights around exit 29. This is in nassau county. Looks like the summer. Its a prethanksgiving tradition, the balloons being inflated right now for the naycys parade. Were expecting bigger crowds to show up with the warmer fun. Were awaiting an update on security measures with the parade with commissioner bratton and mayor deblasio. New video of a woman police say left her newborn as at a church in queens. Police suspect the woman in the hooded sweatshirt is the mother of the baby boy after reviewing the Surveillance Video taken from a nearby store. Kristin thorn is Richmond Hill with the developments. Reporter well, dave and liz, Holy Child Jesus Church is considered a safe haven but under state law, an abandoned handed over to an adult at the safe haven location and thats not what happened here. Police are reviewing this video taken from a 99 cent store around the corner from the church. It shows a Woman Holding a newborn, buying a towel. The video was taken monday afternoon which is when the child was found lying in a nativity set inside the church on 86th avenue. The umbilical cord still attached. A custodian cleaning heard the baby crying and call the over to the rectory office. The this woman called. Ran over there. There was blood on the towel. At that point, we didnt know what was going on. I picked up