They now share and the unique reason they have to give thanks. And winging it. A plane stuck on a frozen runway for hours. Its passengers, determined to get home, brave extreme cold to push it on to the taxiway, making for one unusual takeoff today, wednesday, november 26th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. Good to see you all as we get ready for thanksgiving. We like to talk about what we have to be thankful for, right . Yeah. Take a look at this shot right now. I want to show you some people in our green room. These are people who have a unique reason to give thanks. They also have a unique bond. All of them are ebola survivors and to see them together and the bond that they share is really touching. Theyve got a unique reflection on this thanksgiving season. Many had not met each other before this morning. Well be talking to them all during our 7 30 hour. Something not to be thankful for, this bad weather. Its already caused major disruptions for millions of holiday travelers here in the east, heavy rain and snow. Storms in the northwest and Pacific Northwest as well. We have got it all covered this morning from the roads to the airports. But we will begin with the man of the hour, mr. Roker and the allimportant travel forecast. Weve got a lot going on to tell you about. Lets show you whats happening. Winter storm watches and winter storm warnings stretching from the mountains of the carolinas all the way on up into new england and everywhere in between. You can see it now. Here is the snow, starting to fire up in parts of West Virginia and western virginia. Heavier showers and thunderstorms along the coast, its warmer. This is where well see the heavier snow accumulations. Basically back through the mountains of West Virginia, pennsylvania, three to six inches of snow by late tonight. As you move up to the north, we are looking for heavier amounts. Here in new york city, the big metropolitan centers, one to three inches. You get inland, were talking upwards of a foot and a half or more as you get into new england. Airports, we start things off and well show you the airport delays, boston, rain and wind. New york, d. C. , rain. Minneapolis, light snow. A clipper in the midwest will bring rain to st. Louis, seattle. Flight aware saying there are 460 flight cancellations, almost 2,000 delays and the northeast roads along i90, look for snow. I80, icy mix. I95, mostly a wet ride. As you head down south, its rain along the coast. I81, look for a mix of rain and snow. Then weve got this clipper to talk about, light snow along i70. Look for a mess along 55. I90 will be snowy as well, guys. The good news is that this will be a very two fastmoving systems. By tomorrow morning, everything is pretty much high and dry. Good new. Al, thanks very much. 41 million americans are expected to drive to their thanksgiving destinations. How are those roads looking this morning . Dylan dreyer is driving on a stretch of highway in virginia right now. Dylan, good morning to you. Good morning, matt. Yep, its just me and 41 million of my closest friends traveling this weekend. Aaa says thats the highest volume of travelers since 2007. It certainly helps that gas prices are at their lowest theyve been on thanksgiving for the last five years. Now, we are traveling on i81 right now. And rain or snow, its going to make things very slow. Were just south of winchester, virginia. We started off with heavy rain. Weve started to turn over to snow. We will see conditions deteriorate. Now if you dont deal with snow today, you need to head toward the coast. As al mentioned, i95 is mostly rain. You go just a little bit up toward new england, thats where well see our snowier conditions, massachusetts turnpike through i90, i80, i84, those will all be snowy, especially later on today. Now there is an app that is my travel tip for the day. Its called inrix, it shows you exactly where the traffic is slowing down and also the routes that are green and wide open. It could help you plan your travel. It also has a bunch of live cameras that can give you a live look at what the roads look like, whether you want to see the conditions of the weather or the conditions of the traffic. So thats my tip. Either way, prepare for a pretty slow go on the roads today. Matt and savannah . Dylan, keeping her hands at 10 00 and 2 00, eyes on the road. Multitasking. We are impressed. Those storms have led to the cancellation of hundreds of flights nationwide. We could see more as the snow begins to intensify. Tom costello is at Reagan International for us. Tom, good morning. Reporter savannah, good morning to you. Rain event here at the moment. That will be turning into snow as we move further north, as you know. Flight awares misery map. Lets go there right now. Can you see what airports are doing at the moment and how their delays are mounting. Boston logan is problematic. Washingtons airports, new yorks airports. Also chicago ohare and atlanta, these will be the critical airports to watch today. Hundreds of cancellations likely. Even, as we know, delays mounting through the day. Also of importance, the pentagon is releasing restricted air space along the coast in the gulf of mexico, getting that up to commercial aircraft. Thats going to help speed things along as well. And one other Important Note here, the washington, d. C. Area has now gone to satellite approach. Its called next gen. Washington, d. C. Is joining houston, dallas, seattle and a few other airports to speed up these flights coming into the airports, based on satellite navigation, not radar, allowing for a much smoother and orderly descent. Youll feel more like youre sliding down to the airport rather than stepping down. Everybody we talked to says thats going to make a huge difference as it rolls out across the country. One of my favorite travel tips, websites i checked out as well, fly. Faa. Gov. You can look at whats happening at every individual airport. You can see, for example, a wind delay at ohare or snow delay at boston, whatever. It will tell you the exact number of minutes were seeing delays or cancellations and when they expect to see things get back up to normal. I would try that website as well. Tom costello, thank you. Second straight night, protesters have taken to the streets across the country lashing out against the grand jury decision in the Michael Brown case. This morning for the first time publicly, were hearing directly from the officer who shot and killed that 18yearold. Today National Correspondent craig melvin has the latest on this. Craig, good morning. Reporter matt, good morning to you. Things here in front of the Ferguson Police department actually got off to a relatively calm start last night. Within hours, the situation had deteriorated. In fact, about half a mile from here, in front of ferguson town hall, folks tried to topple a police car and set it on fire. They were not successful. 45 arrests in and around ferguson last night. It wasnt just this area, as you mentioned, as protests, sometimes violent, continue around the country. Protesters return to the streets of ferguson for the second night in a row, some sending a message. Hands up dont shoot. Hands up reporter others trying to find Common Ground with police. Were here for peace. Reporter a few resulting to violence. The majority of those arrests were misdemeanors. Four felony arrests, unlawful use of a wep sben assaults against Police Officers. We have a generation of people who have been hurt and nobody has attempted to reach them. Thats what you have. Broken people break things. Reporter thousands protested, mostly peacefully in dozens of cities across the country, shutting down major highways in new york city and looting businesses in oakland. Tensions flaring in minneapolis as a car ran over a female protester. As Business Owners in ferguson cleaned up from monday nights chaos im so sorry. Reporter some wondered why it had to happen. Where were the police . Where were people who said they had this under control . Reporter missouris governor increased the number of National Guard troops in the region to 700. This community deserves to have peace. Reporter in an interview with abc news, Police OfficerDarren Wilson talked publicly for the first time about his struggle with Michael Brown. Saying the teenager threw the first punches, hitting the officer in the face. Then he said brown turned and started moving toward him. I gave myself another mental check, can i shoot this guy . Legally can i . The question i answered myself was, i have to. If i dont, he will kill me if he gets to me. Im ready for it to end. Reporter back in ferguson, brianna ogilvy says her family sympathizes with the protesters but does not want to live in fear. Seek justice the right way. Do not tear down our community. Reporter that is a sentiment thats been expressed over and over again here in ferguson. The woman we showed in minneapolis who was hit by the car, shes expected to be okay. Overnight, two fbi agents, less than five miles from here, were shot while trying to execute a search warrant. At this point, Officials Say they do not believe its connected to the unrest here in ferguson, but they are checking it out. Savannah . Craig melvin, thank you very much. Michael browns parents, Leslie Mcfadden and Michael Brown sr. Are here with us now, along with their attorney, ben c ruchlt mp. Whats the last 36 hours been like for you . Sleepless. Very hard. Heartbreaking and unbelievable. I remember you said once, leslie, you felt there would only be justice if there was an arrest and a conviction and, michael, you said you believed justice would prevail. Do you feel now that justice has been lost to you . No. Were just going to keep fight ing and pray for a better outcome. What do you hope happens . A conviction. Youre hoping hes pursued in federal court . Yes. You really made a point, as this was about to be released, this grand jury news, to call for peaceful protests. Uhhuh. Unfortunately, that hasnt always happened. And there was a video that circulated about monday night, leslie. I want to show it to you. In the video we see your husband, what appears to be, stirring up the crowd. Take a look at it. I want to ask you about it on the other side. [ indistinct shouting ] i know you were there, in the crowd. This is just after the news came out. What do you have to say about that . That he was just emotional. I dont feel that he stirred the crowd. The crowd was already stirred. Its been stirring since august 9th. I hold i wouldnt hold him accountable for that. That comes from a higher power, elected official and its called the governor. Can you explain what you mean by that . They stirred the pot. They had everyone on edge. They had everyone in an uproar and had the city on edge, basically, since august 9th. You dont feel that that made a bad situation even more volatile . It was just raw emotion and nobody is condoning violence. No. You lose your child in this manner and somebody put video camera on you in the raw emotion, who knows what you would do if this is your child laying on the ground for four hours and you find out that the killer isnt going to be brought to trial. Mr. Brown, did you watch the interview with officer wilson . No. Would you want to watch it . Yeah. Ill get a chance to watch it. He is claiming that your son was the instigator, that he punched him, reached for his gun, came back charging toward him. Does that seem possible to you . No. Why not . For one, my son wasnt he respected the law enforcement. Two, who in their right mind would rush or charge at a Police Officer that has his gun drawn . It sounds crazy. He used some very descriptive words, saying that your sons facial expression was angry that he looked like a, quote, demon, that the officer felt like a 5yearold holding on to hulk hogan, that he had never seen anybody look as crazy as your son. Leslie, what do you think when you hear those words . Its unbelievable. You know, everybody should read his statements, read the description. And when you have young people of color be killed, they try to demonize and play on the stereotypes and they try to put the Police Officer who killed our children on a pedestal. Its just not right. And we have to fix this system. Thats why you see everything going on in ferguson and around the country. Insult after injury, really. So disrespectful. And what do you do now . Are you considering a civil lawsuit . Whats the next step . Well, we plan on exhausting every legal avenue possible to get them some sense of justice. Obviously, the prosecutor didnt do what we really felt should have been done by indicting the Police Officer. And so we plan on having civil, federal charges to get justice. And, remember, what were asking supporters here to do is not just make noise. Lets make a difference. Lets pass the proposal for mike brown law, video body cameras for all Police Officers in every American City so we wont have to see this play out over and over again all across this country. Benjamin crump, Leslie Mcfadden and Michael Brown sr. , thank you for being here and spending your time with us. We appreciate it. Thank you for having us. Savannah, thank you very much. Natalie is here now with developments abroad in the fight against isis. Militants were killed in pakistan this morning. Missiles were fired from a u. S. Drone. Meantime, two minnesota men are facing federal terror charges after allegedly trying to travel to syria to join isis. But only one man is in custody following his arrest at the minneapolis airport in may. The other man slipped out of the country and hasnt been seen since. A highspeed chase comes to a screeching halt when a driver hits a dead end. This happened tuesday in oklahoma city. After 20 minutes of eluding police, the driver ran out of road. He backed up, got a running start and tried to plow through it. That didnt work. The driver then took off on foot. After a short chase, he was tackled by a National Guardsman and police. The suspect faces a list of charges. When a car gets stuck in the snow or ice, the right thing to do . Get out and help give it a push, right . When it happens to a huge airplane, apparently, i guess if youre in siberia, the same rule applies. Passengers did that on tuesday, with temperatures dipping 52 below zero. Dozens of passengers pushed on the planes wings and, hey, it worked. Eventually the plane took off for what was an otherwise uneventful flight. In siberia, thats called the boarding process. Yeah. Give that a try here at home. Thats not going to work through this weather. It starts rolling and they go running up the stairs to get back on the plane. Thats the hard part, getting back on the plane. Natalie, thank you. It will be some rough travel weather. It certainly is. Rain along the coast. Mountain snows to the east of there. Beautiful weather in southern california. Sunny and 85 degrees in southern los angeles. Look for that snow with that good morning. Im meeting bill henley. Tracking a storm that will stay with us through the day. Rain changes to snow. The heaviest accumulations north and west, but as the temperatures drop, philadelphia will see accumulation as well. By tomorrow morning, below freezing. Whats on the ground will stay on the ground, unless somebody moves it. Temperatures into the 40s just barely thursday afternoon. Colder friday. And saturday morning it will be cold. But by sunday afternoon, a warming trend. 58 degrees on sunday. Back in the 50s monday and tuesday. Have a great day. Thats your latest weather. One of our own already affected by the weather. Yeah. You had a flight canceled . Yeah, it canceled. Th they booted me back to an evening flight which, according to your forecast, put me in a dicey situation. Its a party at laguardia. Holla. Tomorrow thanksgiving is going to be great. Rush toward laguardia, now we know why. Tamrons party. Were all invited. Talking about an unusual news conference. Yes. There was a rush to the internet overnight. Two players are trending. Richard sherman and doug baldwin. Marshawn lynch was fined 100,000 for, get this, being too brief at a post game interview sunday. Marshawn is known for not wanting to talk to the media. He has made it clear. Nfl policy says players need to be available to the media after a game. In the press conference tuesday, sherman and baldwin call that rule hypocritical. Even providing his own cutout. If he had spoken, do you think they would have paid 100,000 . No, they sure wouldnt. Do you know who pays me a lot of money . Beats by dre, the wonderful headphones i wear. The league doesnt let me say anything about them. So no response from the nfl yet but sherman and baldwin were the talk online. Mike hill tweets loved what sherman and baldwin did. Smart and clever. Players should realize they have to speak but they control the message. If youre wondering where mr. Baldwin got his cutout, because everyone should have, its a Promotional Campaign at Subway Sandwich shop. These are pictures of people taken before the press conference. Imagine how many people will show up at the subway in seattle now that this has happened. Interesting conversation. 100 grand for being too brief. Richard sherman has a way of getting attention. He sure does. A school in crisis, emergency meeting held at the university of virginia to address what some say is, quote, a culture of Sexual Assault on campus. Plus an emotional gathering right here in studio 1a, six americans who survived ebola meet as a group for the first time. But first this is today on nbc. Yeah so with at t next you get the new iphone for 0 down. Zero down . Zilch. Nothing. Nada. Small potatoes. No potatoes. Diddly squat. Big ol goose egg. The new iphone, zero down. Zero. Zilch. Said that already. Zizeroni. Not a thing. Zamboni. Think thats a hockey thing. You know what, just sign us up. Okay this way. 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