Getting the rain up towards sandusky moving up around vermilion and lorain and west lake and Fairview Park towards cleveland lakewood going to see the isolated showers later on this morning. 43 downtown. 46 in mansfield and temperatures are heading up thanks to a good southwest breeze. And thats going to be the pattern as we go through the day today. As you enjoy your turkey getting ready for today, last minute errands looks good. Temperatures in the 40s. Rain chances scattered nothing to slow you down as you celebrate the big holiday today. John over to you. Thank you. Lets get to the news now here at 6 01. If you are like most families someone is going to need to head out to the Grocery Store to pick up the lastminute dinner items maybe something you forgot the first time. Tf any tarpley joins Tiffany Tarpley joins us live from strongsville and Grocery Stores expect to see quite a few customers today. Reporter they are. They are expecting a steady stream of customers. Market district in strongsville and we have seen a few people not a lot but they tell me soon enough customers will be here. Make you need napkins for today. They have them. But this is a day you get that lastminute stuff and i mean maybe you need some seasoning and a basting brush and stuffing or turkey stock things like that. Thats what they have here but there are things that you can do to make your Shopping Experience just a little bit ea and i spoke with the the best expert that i know my mother she worked at Grocery Store for 39 years. She is retired now but she saysyou want to make sure to have your payment ready have it read and rewards card ready as well. When you check out keep the express lanes express. Dont go to the 12 items only lane with 30 items its not workers. Thats just a few suggestions from my mom. In the next halfhour i will have is few more and i am here to milling with greg dee and pat his milk for greg dee and pat his wife called and we will be busy shopping. You think that would happen you would get grocery lists from all of us. Reporter oh i know i was ready. You were ready. Thank you. New this morning, several people were taken to got sick from Carbon Monoxide inelyria. 5 people have been treateded and two are in the hospital after treated and two are in the hospital after being exposed to Carbon Monoxide at lorain automotive systems. 80 pounce of cocaine were gotten off the pounds of cocaine were gotten off the street with one major arrest. 24 pounds of cocaine inside the 35yearold is now facing several charges. Also in akron a 4monthold baby is in Critical Condition after he and his car seat were egeeked from a car in a ejected from the car seat in a crash. The ford f350 struck the hyundai as it pulled out from an apartment complex. The impact ripped off the rear of the car along romming road in akron. Both drivers suffered minor inju. A factor in the crash. An estimated 49 million are traveling for Holiday Weekend. Thats the most since 2007. 43 million will travel by car and a lot of that is thanks to those lower gas prices. Millions are pabbing airports across the country including at l. A. X. And experts say airlines are predicting the biggest thanksgiving travel season in extra trains for all the holiday travelers. Most americans had give thanks for family and friends and others will be with coworkers. Career builders annual thanksgiving survey finds one in four workers will spend the family with their work family. 28 say that they will be working today. Thats an increase of 20 who were working last year. Survey found those in the Health Care Industry are most likely to be on for the final time president obama spared a turkeys life with the help of twitter users he pardoned a turkey named tot. Each year in the spirit of thanksgiving the president is presented with two turkeys the one he pardons is the National Turkey and while first daughtersmalia and sasha were not on hand he the president did say they the president did said they wont have to worry about missing the this tradition when the family leaves the white house. This is my final president ial pardon but what i havent told them yet is we are going to do this every year from now on. No cameras just us every year. No way i am cutting this habit cold turkey. While president obama didnt pardons the other turkey which is named tater, dont worry his life will be spared. Tot annotator will live and retire gracefully on virginia techs newly built gobblers rest. Thanksgiving traditions. Some of the special guests the guys working on the show this morning will join me and talk about traditions from theirfamily. Greg. Hey john happy thanksgiving everybody. We are starting off our day with temperatures in the 40s right now. Overnight rain that has now moved away. If you are planning your thanksgiving, temperatures are looking good. They will stay in the 40s. We are watching more showers from the the west though. The heaviest of the rain has moved out. Or inside this morning. We are doing the shopping cart cam as we look at the aisles of giant eagle in strongsville. What do you need today . Maybe that lastminute Grocery Store run. We have got you covered. We will put things in that shopping cart throughout the morning. Good morning everybody. Why did you kiss my ear. Why are you holding my hand. Wheres your other hand. Between two pillows. Those arent pillows. No. I know what you are thinking at home keep the movie rolling. Stop with the news and lets get going with this. One of the best traditions of watching movies like planes trains and automobiles or just the tradition of trying to get home with the family. So we will talk about family traditions right now. Joyce is watching the show. Okay. Good morning joyce. She says i am up watching the guys show and soon i will stuff the bird go to church eat and watch footballthanks for being with us this morning. John producer from earlier this morning at 5, you are now with us. David who is directing welcome to the table. Plesh yew. Frosty pleasure. Thank you. Frosty beverage. Yes. We are starting new traditions. Love it. Okay, yes. David whats a tradition for you for thanksgiving. My level generation my cousins and my brotherinlaw we get together and we have this huge video game tournament. Do you. Winner gets bright rights 365 and the loser have to live with the shame forever and ever and ever. I always win. Here. Very nice john. For me its like a sunday with nfl games all day long. You watch football. All day. And you get to eat until you fall asleep because of the turkey kicking inthats a day. Thats a day. Thats a special day. Family and friends. Greg yours has to do with shopping. One my favorite traditions is my family gets together and we take a family photo and we get a family photo the only time my cousin lives in australia and so my family is in europe so you dont get a chance to get us altogether until thanksgiving. So we always take the picture and i have one from every thanksgiving and the next morning, we are always black friday shopping with my dad. Thats the thing. We would get up at 4 in the morning pack the car and all of christmas would be done in that two hour window. We wouldnt wait at line at 3 growing up in connecticut driving to best buy in snowstorm. You had to get there. We had to get there. So thats what i remember. He had to get in his geek fix. The geek fix started early. Yeah. I like that. You are getting us here to the next segment because you know a lot of the stores many stores decided we are not opening for thanksgiving. Right. The regular stores the big ones are staying opened so we have a instant poll how do we wkyc. Com votenow i will go on my ipad and i am going to vote while you read the results. And the question is simple are you going to shop today . Quick survey here at the table david are you shopping. Of course right after work i am going. Are you. I am going thats it. John i dont know if you can fit it with your day between football and. I will prepare for the games. So its 11 shopping today . 1 45 and they open at 6 so i think no. It will have to be tomorrow. And you know thats whats winning this is what you get at wkyc. Com you get this options to vote. I just clicked no and that updated at the bottom of the screen. Looks like john the nos are winning. They are not going to shop today. I like that. Tiffany is at giant eagle so the Grocery Stores aring to be bessy busy but we are going retail. Marine kyle is up consider maureen kyle says you maureen kyle is up and says you guys are hilarious. You are jealous you are not here. Lets talk weather for anyone lets talk weather for anyone who is shopping maybe its good day to stay in and have a video game tournament and bragging rights. I am going to be there david. I press buttons for a living so. Hey right here. The ultimate game controller. I got the finishing move combo on this remote. Who argues at thanksgiving turkey dinner. At least its not politics. Lets get to the weather. Heres what we are talking about. Cloudy skies we saw some rain move by overnight. And that is now kind of in a Holding Pattern there. Are additional showers from the west around the lorain towards erie and huron and wellington and towards norwalk this is kind of what we will see throughout the day. A little area of passing light rain and sprinkles. This is nothing to worry about. Yeah its going to be cloudy and gray and kind of cool in the 40s but its thanksgiving in northern ohio. This is kind of on par for what we expect this time of year. 47 mansfield. This is a preview of what all of us will see by this afternoon as southwest winds are pushing in. Cloudy and that area of drizzle or a shower or two possible. Thank goodness we are in the milder air today because as the moisture is moving into a much colder air mass upstate new york portions of central pens sane yeah look at snow pennsylvania. Look at snowfall rochester and albany they are watching for Winter Weather advisories. For us in the 40s and much of ohio will just stay in the 40s and even low 50s down to ohio river valley later on today. 40s through the mog. Isolated hit and miss spritz of rain not a big deal you will have to use the windshield wipers. Drizzle possible too. And we will start off friday very similar to today and stay cloudy areas of drizzle but friday night heads up everybody. Theres going to be lake rain and i think some inland snow. Now temperatures are in the 30s this doesnt look as big an event as earlier in the week. I dont think accumulations are going to be a kesh but its just going to turn wet sunday we take break upper 40s for your temperatures then. And another storm system approaches next week. That one is going to take a track to the west and that means rain chances and much milder temperatures too as we move into the start of next week. Actually looking pretty good out there. Temperatures not bad though. No not too bad. 50s to start next week. Not bad for november. A couple shout outs rick is joining us saying i am up and watching my tradition family dinner at my home with cocktails at 3 p. M. There you go. Didnt say anything about an invitation. Eve says enjoying the show he thanks for wochg happy thanksgiving. We working. Happy thanksgiving. Its geek fix. We will do this very, very quickly. I want to tell you if you head out this morning and need an app on the phone or device its called the flip coupon app you put in your zip code and it down loads every coupon with local retailer. So if you are going out there and you dont know what you are going to get it has the black friday ads in the app and automatically gives you all the coupons that are available for the stores. And its based on zip code so even if the store doesnt have online coupons this thing will finite. How about that. Flip coupon app. We will do biggest winners today here with the biggest biners i win he is for the winners for the day. The jets season guys every player on the team scored. There you go. Thats bald scoring undefeated season. Players are second and third gradeers from hillsdale elementary school. And the coaches are joe justin and cliew and great job and con klu and great job and congratulations. If they have a quarterback they should step in for the jets. Thats a jets tweam no trouble. The other one if you want to stars ethem to me morning show wkyc. Com or tweet them to me at john wkyc. We had the shopping poll and here it was mixed. Here are the the results right now. 85 of you at home say you are not going to shop today. Yeah. Taking today off. You can vote wkyc. Com votenow and see the results update live at the bottom of the screen. Many of you staying home today. I like that. I do too. Family first on thanksgivi tradition when we come back because if you are staying home you can watch on nbc to new york live where they are getting ready and heres a live picture right now of the 9 0th annual macys thanksgiving day parade. Jay, jay gray is going to join us live. Greg. And weather out your window he this morning. Heres what we are looking at. This shot is the back door from jeff looking out the back door this was earlier this week. The dog out there having a lot of fun jeff thanks so much for sending that in. No snow in the forecast for today. There may be some in the Holiday Weekend forecast. Details on that coming up in a little bit. We aresighted to party could be we are invited to the Party Cocktails at 3. Happy and welcome back. 6 23. Happy thanksgiving. Happy thanksgiving to stef who says no could be aing here just relaxing and watching you guys. Stef we appreciate that. We hope you have a happy thanksgiving with your family today. Lets check had with jay gray live at the macys thanksgiving day parade in new york city where i would imagine its pretty busy already this jay happy thanksgiving. Reporter yeah back to youjohn a lot of excitement and energy building. The last couple hours before we get into the parade. Get underway here people making sure everything is ready including things like the floats here. It will be led by tom turkey as it is every year. And that is the great news this is how you want to start off your thanksgiving morning right . With a big old turkey. More than two dozen floats and you have the giant giant balloons as you can see behind me here. Just beyond the two stars the macys stars, youve got thebaldhead of Charlie Brown who is leading the balloon charge here. We will have bands and clowns and everything you would expect as you get the parade started here. Again, we are a few hours away. Strong Police Presence on the ground so security is a big deal more than 3,000 officers a task force but no credible threat according to federal agents dhoa. This every year to agents. They do this every year to make sure its safe. John i got a pretty good seat and i will watch the parade. Hang out there for the whole parade thanks so much and happy thanksgiving and we hope you get to spend a lot of it with your family as well. Thanks so much. Reporter thanks. Jay is always working holidays for news good assignment to be on. It is. Thanksgiving the macys thanksgiving day parade maybe you are watching with your family af always a good show. Travel weather. There may be family coming in especially if you have family in state driving in from columbus or youngstown or dayton. Look at that forecast. Its actually not looking bad. They wont run into rain until they are closer to cleveland and they are just isolate showers. The rest of the area is pretty dry. Region wide maybe you have somebody flying in today. Chicago looks okay. Cloudy philadelphia and charlotte looks good and nationwide, man going south was thanksgiving. Look at the forecast Las Vegas Denver dallas Atlanta Orlando 60, 70s and 80s withy skies. Cant get better than that cloudy skies cant get better than that. Orlando a popular spot greg thanks. 6 26. Coming up back to tiffany at giant eagle as she joins the lastminute thanksgiving day happy thanksgiving. And thank you for being with us i am John Anderson lynna is off greg is in for who will cry with the forecast coming up in a moment. But first heres a look at some of the stories we have been following for you. Several people were taken to the hospital after reportedly getting sick from Carbon Monoxide in elyria. 5 people treated and two are in the hospital after being expokesed to exposed to Carbon Monoxide. 70 employees were there at the time of the incident. Akron police got of cocaine off the streets with one major arrest. Officers report they found 24 pounds of cocaine inside jerry davis juniors car earlier thismonth and found another 50 pound in the new franklin home. The drugs have a street value of 3 million dollars. 35yearold is now facing several charges. A 4 mong old baby is in Critical Condition after he and his car seat were ejected from a car in a crash. As it was pulling out of an apartment complex. The impact ripped off the rear of the car along roaming road in akron. Both drivers suffered minor injuries and investigators say speed may be a factor in that crash. 6 31 lets check had with greg to get a look at that turkey day forecast now. And i know theres a big race this morning too a lot of runners will be taking part. The turkey trot run. Not doing it this year. Too late in the morning for me. I got too much prep but a lot of you will be out this. What great family race and its not what a great family race. And its not too late. Its 1 mile run and 5k and southwest wind 5 to 10 and isolated shower or two and temperatures in the 40s. Theres a great finishers medal a long sleeve tshirt and you can bring your dogs or a stroller the whole family can get involved. And than you feel better about eating the seconds and third five miles will burn a good 600 calories and thats a single plate probably erased from what you will eat today. Look out to the west. There are a couple isolated showers. They will get through before the turkey trot run in downtown cleveland. They are moving by now through Lorain County in Cuyahoga County in the next 30 minutes light quick showers thats the pattern for today. No big washouts or flooding and no Winter Weather to worry about. Temperatures generally in the 40s now. And it will sneak up through afterno