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trump team and how the trump team, excuse me, is preparing. and for the first time in menendez will appear in court for a hearing as defense lawyers make a plea for their release. i'm omar jimenez with kate bolduan. john and sara are out today. this is cnn news center is considered. >> and we know it is the busy thanksgiving travel holiday and beyond. triple a estimates nearly 80 million people will hit the roads or the skies in what's expected to be

>> what are you tracking dairy positivity, right? our patients this week. that's just the reality >> kate. we've got a wild week of weather right now, coinciding with the busiest travel week of the year if we're breaking it down in terms of the airlines and potential delays because of the weather today, not so bad along the eastern seaboard, even though there is a cold front moving through, could bring a couple of delays to detroit. chicago northward into minneapolis along the west coast moderate weather related delays, but lotus, how things change as we work our way through the workweek. this moisture is going to move its way inland, bring some serious impacts to salt lake city. places like denver, and then the departing cold front will bring some potential weather delays to the airports in new york, as well as d.c. and perhaps into boston as well. this is a accumulation map that takes us right through this holiday week. and you of blue on this map. so there is several different weather events that we're monitoring.

this is the initial cold front pressing through the midwest now eventually reaching the east coast by early tomorrow morning. that i-95 corridor will be wet on tuesday. if you're hitting the roads. and then this is the major storm that we're monitoring for thanksgiving day. as you head to family and friends, pack your patience because this could bring not only some wintry weather to northern new england rain along the coast, but also a dramatic drop in our temperatures. so you leave your house and head to family and friends with warm, mild weather, and then you come home to more winter like temperatures. i hope you pack the coat. kate. >> we will not forget. derek. thank you so much. we'll be keeping very close to derek van dam. it's all on your shoulders derek. how this is all going to go? this >> don't hate the messenger. >> thanks, buddy we'll get back to you. also this morning the trump transition team is shifting get donald trump's major cabinet picks over the finish line. and this is after a weekend job announcement frenzy naming ten more people to top

posts. some, though facing a much more uncertain future than others some very clearly facing a tougher road is like like these three picks, like for defense, for director of national intelligence and also who is who donald trump would like to see head up the nation's public health department. the process typically includes fbi background checks but the trump team has yet to file necessary paperwork to get the fbi to get the fbi to conduct those standard reviews. and the trump transition has so far bypassed the step. instead using private companies to conduct vetting before announcing some candidates. and one democratic senator who sits on the important judiciary committee says that is a major problem i want to have the hearings. >> i want to make a decision on each one of them on the merits as i've done in the past, and i can't do that without the background checks cnn's alayna treene back with us this hour. >> elena, you're getting new reporting on where the focus and how that focus is shifting amongst trump's team. what are you learning that's right.

>> kate and i do want to talk a little bit about the vetting process and these background checks because as you heard from there from senator amy klobuchar. but we also heard a lot of other senators this weekend address that issue. part of this is that donald trump's team has not filled out some of the necessary paperwork and miss some of the deadlines that really allowed them to get into the nitty gritty of taking over the reins of government. it's been nearly three weeks now since the election, and we've seen donald trump's team miss at least three or have three key deadlines for different paperwork. they're known as memoranda of understanding with the biden administration big part of that. and you heard klobuchar address this, is that that means that they are not having these fbi background checks that are typically required from senators for that confirmation process. on some of these top candidates. and that's a big issue when it comes to the vetting. now, we've heard a wide range of opinions about how much that matters. we did hear senator bill hagerty. he is a fierce

trump defender. he's also someone who roles in a second trump term. try to defend the trump transition team over this. he argued that a lot of american people don't actually care about these background checks. i want you to take a listen to how he put it i don't think the american public cares who does the background checks. >> what the american public cares about is to see the mandate that they voted in, delivered upon. we need to get to work again making our military stronger is absolutely critical and i think we're we're looking at a chance to do that though other republican senators argue, that they do think it is an issue. >> and as you mentioned we do know that the trump team has so far been vetting these different appointees with a private firm, one senator, mike rounds, said that he would like to know if that's how this continues. if they don't end up doing fbi background checks on these different candidates, what are the qualifications of these vetting firms, making sure that they are ticking off the boxes before the confirmation process starts, particularly for some of the

more controversial appointees that you had mentioned all in all, the trump transition so far has not weighed in on whether they are going to move forward with signing these different filling out this different paperwork, getting these fbi background checks through. but they said that there's still time to do that. and one of the key reasons this is such an issue is of course, as you mentioned, donald trump has moved incredibly quickly to fill out these top cabinet roles. and so now really, the work is beginning on making sure that these people are qualified and properly vetted before they begin their confirmation process. kate absolutely great to see you, elena. >> thank you so much. >> omar. okay with me now to discuss cnn political commentator and republican strategist shermichael singleton and brian brokaw, former campaign manager for kamala harris's campaign for attorney general in california good to see you both. brian, i want to start with you, because we heard some of, for example, senator amy klobuchar is concerned over fbi background checks here. and yes, they're in the minority in the senate. but what do you see as democrats role in a potential confirmation fight here

begin to imagine the screaming that we would be hearing from republicans if a newly elected democratic administration were suggesting putting through cabinet appointees without simple background checks, the same background checks that the white house staff were subject to. >> don't we want the people running a government just to have their records looked into a little bit, especially with some of the appointments that the president elect has made. now, the role for the democrats is actually interesting here. if if it weren't so serious, it might be the kind of thing where we could just sit back and eat popcorn and watch, because the republicans in the senate are having to contort themselves into pretzel twists, trying to explain why some of these people who have never run anything in their lives are qualified to be the most powerful people in our government. but for right now, the democrats don't have the power. they can't do much aside from you know, use their role in the senate on advise and consent. so right now we have to sit back and watch and let the republicans handle this problem themselves. >> and shermichael on one of

those points. i mean you know, you look at someone like like pete hegseth, one of the one of the criticisms he hasn't run and he hasn't been in a leadership role. and obviously now appointed or nominated to run the largest bureaucracy in the u.s. government even with someone like rfk jr., some of his more pro-abortion thinkings have come at odds with what we've seen from some republicans as well. and i guess the question is, how do you see republicans in the senate grappling with with their loyalty to trump and, and party with maybe some of their opinions on his picks i mean, look, they have advised and consent as a rule. >> and it's it's within their duties and their obligations as elected members of the senate who represent multiple states to ask very targeted and pointed questions to each of these nominees and my expectation is that each of these nominees being a part of the 2016 transition process, will be well prepared to answer each of those questions. on the issue of background checks

it's interesting. look, i was a presidential appointee. i had to go to the fbi background check. it's a freaking long process, omar. i mean, some of the questions i had to call my parents to figure out where i was living because i was so young at the time. so it's a process that i certainly respect. i'm not against the process existing. obviously from trump's position being notoriously distrustful of the intelligence community and the fbi, i understand why he's skeptical. and allegedly, they're using an outside firm. so i get the position there. but i think for the most part, senators are going to try their best to confirm all of these nominees because they typically do want to confirm the nominees of the president of their party and look along those lines. >> both axios and new york times have talked about this being the most ideologically diverse cabinet that we've seen and, brian, for you as you look at it because even there are some positions that that democrats have supported in the past i mean, how how do you see that playing out when it comes to policy

fascinating to watch and see how this team of rivals will unfold and work together. >> the first few picks actually seemed very boring and traditional and then the last few have seemed like a twitter troll clown car. and it's clear that the president elect is prioritizing two things loyalty. which of course, i understand and respect that. secondly, he's prioritizing people who are communicators and people you know, he obviously isn't placing an importance on having any expertise running government agencies. he wants people who can go on to tv or podcasts and echo his talking points, and i understand where he's coming from. but the problem is when you put people in charge who don't have that expertise all that does is empower the people below them. so it makes those deputy secretary positions very important. but also it really empowers these so-called deep state that, you know, the president elect has decried for so many years the people who are going to be running

government are the same people that he's been trying to, you know, get rid of from the government because he despises them. so, so it's going to be really interesting to see how this all actually plays out in time. >> and, michael, do you see it that way? i mean, how do you see this? the so-called ideological diversity maybe affecting implementation of policy i mean look, there are certainly people there that i do not agree with who aren't traditionally conservative on a whole host of issues. >> but again politics is politics. republicans are going to do what democrats would do in this scenario even if they disagree with some of these nominees, and that is to confirm them if they if they can. right um, but but i want to touch on some of the positions the deputy secretaries of every single one of these agencies are really going to be the ones tasked with running these agencies from a managerial perspective. they're going to be advising the cabinet secretaries, the cabinet secretaries are going to be surrounded by a litany of other political appointees presidential appointees who will also advise them in terms

of making the best decisions to run the agencies at the most opportune level. so i'm not necessarily worried omar, about the agencies, not running and fulfilling their duties for the american people. i think they're going to run just fine. the question for me, though, becomes who will the president elect appoint to be the deputies? that's really more important than some of the folks that we sort of familiarize ourselves with in the media uh, look, not always you have people calling attention. >> let's see who the deputies are. but in this case, it seems like the point. the point is fair shermichael. brian. um, good to see you both. thanks for being here. kate. >> so today, the menendez brothers will appear in court for the first time in nearly 30 years. what a judge is about to consider and how it could lead to them getting out of prison. despite being sentenced to life without parole. and breaking overnight. one person is dead after a cargo plane crashed into a house and goes up in flames. how three others on board managed to survive,

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surprised by the diagnosis that she was a nonsmoker and ran several miles a day, and she had something more. she really wanted other people living with the disease to know. cnn health reporter jacqueline howard is here. so, jacqueline, i mean what did she say here yeah. >> outside of saying that she was shocked with this diagnosis, she did say that we need to do more research looking into why this trend is happening. a trend where we're seeing more lung cancer diagnoses among people without a history of smoking, and many of these people are women. and just to quote her blog post she wrote, quote, after my diagnosis, we stepped up our efforts as we quickly learned lung cancer was under-researched and misunderstood. lung cancer among people who have never smoked has been rising significantly and two thirds of people diagnosed with lung cancer with no smoking history are women so this is a trend that we're seeing play out. we also have this data point. omar, in the past 42 years, lung cancer diagnoses have

risen 84% among women over that time period. while dropping 36% among men in that same time period. and of course, we know we have seen declines in lung cancer because we've seen declines in people smoking. but again, these are cases in women who have never smoked. and we know women who have never smoked are more than twice as likely as men, never smokers to get lung cancer. omar, these are shocking numbers. >> yeah, i mean, those numbers are i mean, so stark when you lay them out like that. i mean, do we not know what's what's causing these trends? i mean, where does the research even start? >> right. it's still still unclear what's causing this. some researchers point to environmental causes. asbestos. other researchers point to genetic mutations that may put you at an increased risk. but in susan wojcicki's blog post, she did write this. she said, quote despite lung cancer being the leading cause of cancer death in the u.s., it's

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issue for more than a year now. democratic congressman lloyd doggett from texas. congressman, thanks for coming in. you've been asking the faa to do something about austin's staffing shortage for more than a year. what answers have you gotten not enough answers. >> there's a real safety issue here. we've had since really about two years. we've had five near catastrophes here. the most recent one in october when a small plane got within 350ft of a packed american airlines flight coming into austin. we need additional controllers. it was about a year ago, just about a year and a week today that the faa administrator whitaker was in my office in washington telling me that austin was as bad as it gets which i agree it is. and yet we have fewer controllers today than we had when he was in my office. despite repeated requests to prioritize austin to give us additional tools. i

fly in and out of this airport often twice a week and i'm really concerned about an inadequate margin of safety that we have there. and in many other parts of the country. >> it seems what's happening in austin is an example of what is also happening elsewhere, or could be coming what we know from cnn reporting about this persistent problem of shortage air traffic controllers is there seems to be several factors. one from our pete muntean telling me it's burnout in the workforce looking at these mandatory 12 hour shifts and six days a week backlogged faa training process and retirements and but some of the latest figures from may from the agency is that there are about 3000 controllers short in september, they announced 1800 hires for the year, but that doesn't detail how many losses came in the very same time. how bad is this congressman and how dangerous is this i think it's a serious issue.

>> you know, you referred to these, what they call traffic management measures that they're taking today. and i'm pleased they are because we need that extra safety. it greatly inconveniences many people when they go to the airport and find that the plane is just circling, or it's been delayed coming in because there's not enough staff there at the airport to to get those flights in safely. but i think when you see these traffic safety management measures put into place, it's really an indication of the adequate number of controllers. they did have many retirements during the pandemic they were not prepared to get the training increased, and using more different facilities instead of just one of their own in oklahoma to train controllers. but in my case, here in austin, they could have prioritized us. they do so. the other thing they can do in some airports is to expand the airspace around the airport that the controllers can see these small private

planes we've been waiting for months just to get approval for our controllers to have that wider angle beyond five miles. it was that kind of inadequacy that led to this plane getting within 350ft. think how near that is to a total catastrophe at our airport. and it's about the fifth time it's happened over two years. we just can't keep our controllers working overtime all the time. we will also have a bigger problem next year because the faa has agreed with the air controllers union to limit the number of these consecutive overtimes that our people have been forced to endure. that's good. from a safety standpoint, but how they will get enough controllers to do that remains to be seen here's the thing about it is you call it an faa failure, but is this a congress failure as well? >> i mean, the i mean the number of faa reauthorizations

i've covered in my time is is quite a few. and i was just looking it's been past the multiyear has been passed earlier this year. and in it the law requires the faa to hire and train more air traffic controllers to close this gap but if it's a problem and you can oversee and there are many there are many committees to oversee these agencies. why can't congress do more well, i think congress should have moved much more rapidly in getting the faa reauthorization approved but i don't think that's at the heart of the problem of the faa problem never has that been raised as a reason why they could not prioritize this airport as bad as it gets, why they could not do better than 50% of their target level. >> there were some improvements there was slight increase in funding. we need to move quicker on that in a congress. that's too often stalemated. but i see the principal problem as the federal aviation administration and it's

inadequacy on training controllers, and then its failure to respond promptly to local concerns, failure and inadequate coming from the congressman about the faa and faa that's about to face a very big test as we enter this travel, this very busy holiday travel season. >> congressman, thank you so much for highlighting it. thanks for coming on thank you have a great thanksgiving and i'll be staying out of the airport. oh jeez. all right, congressman, thank you for that. >> you can take it to the airport too. yeah. kate, i just want to say we've got some real news to get to here because president biden is now using one of the oldest and oldest uses of presidential pardon. the long standing thanksgiving tradition, the turkey pardon and this year, peach and blossom received the ultimate vip experience with a stay at a washington hotel. just a few blocks from the white house. cnn's kayla tausche joins us now from the white house. so kayla, break it down for us. how how luxuriously are these turkeys living right now?

>> well, quite luxuriously. omar. two lucky turkeys are going to be spared from your thanksgiving table groomed instead for a future at petting zoos and perhaps disney parades all thanks to the presidential pardon power. peaches and blossom of northfield minnesota, arrived here at the white house in a volvo earlier today after staying at the willard intercontinental for a luxury sleepover just down the road from the white house. it's a collective 81 pounds of bird born in july, and for their four short months of life so far, they've been listening to a steady stream of polka music and ac, dc, according to the chair of the national turkey federation, this is a presidential tradition that goes back centuries. it has folklore dating back to the time of abraham lincoln, when reportedly his young son asked the president to spare a pet turkey from their thanksgiving dinner that year, and then president george h.w. bush, the first president to officially use his pardon power in this

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predicting mortgage rates will stay stuck above 6% for at least the next two years. you can see here how rates have climbed since september. you see that dip? good time. and then coming back up with me now is the ceo of real wealth and author of the wise investor rich fettke. good to see you, rich. now, look, you don't really see this as bad news. you must not be buying a home right now. but why don't you see it as bad news well it's tough news. >> it's a really hard time to buy a house right now, no doubt about it. and a lot of it's generational because we got millennials, the largest adult population in the u.s. right now huge 73 million millennials. and they're at home buying age. so they want to get in. they want to buy their first house. and it's a real challenge for them. part of it is because of these mortgage rates, you know, in the last two decades, it's last year, it was at the highest it's ever been in the last two decades. at 8%. now down to,

you know, a little a little under 7% right now. but you know, a lot of people don't realize that in the us, it's the only place where you can get a fixed rate mortgage for 30 years and have the same payment over time. so if you can get into a property, then it can really make a big difference in your life. so helping millennials get into that, that's that's what we're all about. and i think it's so important to do that. and honestly, what they need to do is get creative. >> mhm. well and look you know one of the things that we've been monitoring as well is total housing inventory has consistently improved this year. when you look at the so-called lock in effect as that's sort of become undone. what is the lock in effect. and how could that actually change things long term know, people got these amazing rates after the 2008 crisis and, and covid and the pandemic. >> the rates got so low down in those two, three, 4% that a lot of people got those mortgages and are locked into them. so they're staying in their homes. they're like, why would i want

to sell them? starting to unwind a little bit now people are getting to the end of their term or things are happening in their lives like divorce or death, things like that. so more houses are coming on. also, builders are getting very busy. they're getting after it because we do have a massive shortage of homes in the united states so yes, we are starting to see this come back. there's more properties and, you know, what we've seen is millennials are getting creative. any first time homeowner can get creative. we have an employee at real wealth and she lived in california. she ended up moving to cleveland ohio. she bought a duplex and then that way she can live in the their new baby, and they can rent out the lower level. and that really helps them with their mortgage payments. so there's ways to get creative. my wife and i, back in 1997, bought our first property. it was in the san francisco bay area way more mortgage than we could afford. so we house hacked, basically a house hack is when you take some of the rooms and you rent those out. we took the lower level of that

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rich, it's it's a great business. >> if you can get it. but to your point, it looks like i know now that creativity for now looks like that creativity may rule the day. rich becky, really appreciate you being here. >> so overnight, a fatal plane crash in lithuania and some of it caught on camera one crew member was killed. several others were wounded after the cargo plane crashed just outside the nearby airport. the plane also ignited a major fire when it crashed in when it crashed and lit a fire, including a nearby home no one in the house was injured. the pilot and two other crew members rescued from the wreckage all remain in the hospital, and a now fired macy's employee is responsible for an absolutely wild set of accounting errors. the company is now revealing it has to delay tomorrow's quarterly earnings report by two weeks because, as macy describes it, intentional. this employee intentionally made erroneous accounting accrual entries those entries that the company says were made to hide small package delivery expenses. those errors totaled

macy says the errors, though, had no impact on its cash management activities or vendor payments. and it doesn't matter which team you're on, hollywood is seeing green this weekend. gladiator two and wicked hitting the big screen at the same time this weekend in and together raked in an estimated $384 million in tickets worldwide heading into the weekend, ticket sales have actually been down about 11% from last year in the u.s. and canada, but maybe not for long after the birth of wicked, wicked the adaptation of the wildly popular broadway musical drove the weekend, getting moviegoers to fork over $114 million in the u.s. that makes it the biggest u.s. opening weekend ever for a musical adaptation. then there's gladiator two. this one brought in almost $56 million domestically, giving it the title of biggest november opening day for an r-rated film. so there you have it. now, my question to leave you with today how many push ups can you do in a minute? how about an hour? no matter the number you are thinking, it is likely not close to what one woman just pulled off meet donna jean wild, 59 years old, from canada, a grandmother of

12 and a boss having just smashed the guinness world record for most push ups in an hour by a hour. her grandchildren were there to cheer her on as she broke the record with 17 minutes to spare. if that's not enough, she briefly dislocated her shoulder near the end. and if that's still not enough, this is her second guinness title after setting the record for the longest abdominal plank for a woman, which she held for get ready for it for hours, 30 minutes and 11 seconds. i have nothing to add to that other than she's amazing. >> i know i was i was about to like, undo my jacket and start doing some push ups. but seeing that, thank you but no, i am not worthy. i don't know if i could ever do a push up again. based on what are worthy planks and push ups. >> i don't even know what to say. >> it's good stuff though thank you for joining us, everyone. work on your push ups. this is cnn news central. cnn news newsroom. up next

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