george w. bush's foundation? >> phenomenal. i was not alive when president bush left the white house so my understanding is of his legacy was beyond the political. >> dana: indeed, neil bush and maria rose belding. >> planes and trains and automobiles extreme weather links thanksgiving could leave millions late to fill up their plate. i'm trace gallagher in los angeles from here in southern california where we are expecting rain for days and snow in washington state that left some 60 cars tangled in one big crash. to the roads of minneapolis brought to a crawl as more snow moves into chicago's o'hare international airport. people who should be with their families are instead stranded with strangers. first to the weather threatening

one of the biggest traditions of the season. the macy's thanksgiving parade. despite the severe weather threatening people's plans across the country come in new york city they are getting ready rain, snow, or shine. live look along the parade route were police have already put up barricades and preparation. i'm trace gallagher and for all the journalists out fox news this is fox news reporting. and new york is where we began, live picture for central park workers are working to include the famous balloons. this happens to be ronald but donald slowly taking shape but it's unclear whether the giant balloons will ever take flight in tomorrow's thanksgivin thanky parade. strong winds threatening to ground the balloons for the first time since 1971. rick leventhal reporting live along the parade route on sixth avenue. what's it like where you are now? >> trace, it's cloudy but it's

warm and not windy at all. we are told that will change by tomorrow morning so is likely those baked balloons could be grounded when the parade starts at 9:00 this morning. don't tell that to the folks with the helium because that annual balloon inflation is underway. alongside central park west by the american museum of natural history. some of the balloons are smaller and they are expected to find a matter what there are 16 of those book giant character balloons. some of them at least 50 feet tall requiring as many as 90 handlers holding onto them with ropes. the national weather service is expecting winds of 80 miles per hour with gusts up to 40. the city regulations prohibit giant balloons from flying in detained winds of 23 so we are right in that window. all of this is because of an incident 22 years ago and strong winds pushed a giant cat in the hat float into a lamp post commemorating the breakdown on the crowd and knocking a young woman unconscious putting her in a coma for almost a month. this year the nypd as officers

assigned to every single big blowup and seven sergeant station along the parade route with the wind meters ready to make critical calls on flight status. >> these sergeants are well-trained to read the anemometer is to identify the hyatt, where we can allow the balloons to go up. the blooms can go up to 55 feet in height but if it comes to a situation where there is public safety we will bring them down to 10 feet. >> so the show will go on and mean well, trace, there will be extensive security protocols in place tomorrow even though the nypd says there are no specific threats against this year's parade. you and best of luck to the parade organizers, rick leventhal life for us in central park. if you're flying over the holiday you might think you are in the clear if you are nowhere near the snow, right? say traveling from atlanta to south florida. nice try. stu is on the news deck in new york explaining why the weather in this could mean big time messes for a lot of people. >> exactly come it doesn't

matter where you are flying out of or where you are flying into. these powerful storms can throw a wrench in your travel plans. take a look at the flight aware misery map you can see coming out of south florida already 22 delays and a large portion of those are going into atlanta, an area that hasn't even been hit with that severe weather. and on the west coast out of a lx. even if you're going to visit grandma in dallas you might not even make it there before the turkey is being carved. that's because of this residual effect if you are flying out of d.c., dallas, atlanta, charlotte, areas that haven't been hit very hard your plane might be getting there from seattle, san francisco, alx, denver, minneapolis. it doesn't matter where you are flying out of them these residual effects are causing the plane's do have trouble getting to their ultimate destination and that's why we are seeing all of the delays. right now flight aware has 500,

already three cancellations in one of the busiest airports this time of year are out of chicago and right now matt finn is on the ground there at o'hare. >> to come all day long it's been surprisingly calm at o'hare. you can see not a lot of long lines at all. we've been talking to passengers all day who say they are giving themselves some extra time and that is working and while it is so far, so good there is a high wind advisory here in chicago. wind gusts up to 65 miles per hour so that could change everything at a moments late notice. taking the live look at the departure and arrival boards you can see not a single cancellation. there is one cancellation and just a handful of delays which is great news for people flying in and out of o'hare. outside of chicago window storms are expected to create major travel headaches. a bomb cycled in northern california to cause dangerous driving conditions and impact air travel. los angeles expected to get several inches of rain today.

lax is now warning passengers to give themselves three or four hours to get to the airport and checking in los angeles. states like colorado, minnesota, michigan can be had with up to t conditions. the denver airport bracing again after just taking out 1,000 passengers were stranded there this week because of the snow and all of these winter storms we are talking about are obviously heading east towards new york and there could be some impact there in the northeast. for now we are inside of chicago's o'hare. i want to throw the brady trimble on the streets of chicago. >> hey matt we've been driving around chicago all day and traffic has been touch and go right now we are stuck in some pretty bad stuff and you mentioned the weather. it's causing issues for drivers as well. specifically in this area of the wind, i talked to one driver who said they saw a semi truck that got toppled over by the wind while they were driving. north of here in the minneapolis area and other parts of the midwest they are dealing with some pretty intense now.

you can see right now things are moving at a crawl here on this highway in chicago and there are a lot of drivers on the road this thanksgiving. to be precise almost more than 49 million of them are on the road, that's up to .8% compared to last year. it's also tied, or close to a record set in 2005. a lot of people in the roads because the gas prices are low. the national average is only $2.59 right now. the cheapest place to buy gas is the south. for now we will send it back to trace in los angeles. >> trace: nice work all of you. you have to remember when you look at the whole nation as a pattern these airlines come even though they are flying out of florida they only have about five or 600 points you get a lot of plane stuck in the hair and atlanta and that ripple effect is bad across the country. nice work to those people. a massive blast shattering windows and knocking down doors. we'll get a live report from near the scene.

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billow of smoke, it looked like a large cylinder flying a couple hundred feet in the air. a judge told me he is looking to see whether anyone was hurt in this explosion. it's the third large explosion since the first one start of this fire at one this morning. he said there could be more explosions. the area and a half mile radius has been evacuated. i'm told the latest explosion was related to a tower holding excess gas that melted and collapsed in the heat. a tpc official told me the first occlusion occurred in a processing unit that contained butadiene, which is a chemical component used in the making of synthetic rubber. it left eight people injured according to the jefferson county judge, three workers as well as five people in homes hit by glass. take a listen to what the judge said about his experience this morning. >> both of my front and back doors were blown in so the wood was knocked off of them. they were shattered.

i saw the fire in the background because my home was just across. speak of the judge says he lives just about half mile from the scene of this explosion. really shook his home and shattered the doors off the hinges. the deputy county emergency management has issued a shelter in place several miles southwest of this refinery going towards the gulf of mexico has this plume continues to burn. for now we will send it back to you trace. >> trace: ivory color live in the scene. you heard it mentioned that another explosion, this is one of the chompers that is about to make its way towards that explosion to get some aerial views of exactly what we are talking about. it was apparently a vast explosion on the ground, one of many over the course of the past several hours. when that chopper gets on scene

with brand-new pictures of the explosion and the damage and the fallout, we will bring that to you live. in the meantime more than 140 wildfires still burning across parts of australia. now there is word a volunteer fireman accused of starting at least seven of those fires. prosecutors have charged the 19-year-old with arson. the fire service says this is the ultimate betrayal as crews work around the clock to save homes and contained fires. benjamin hall reporting live from her london newsroom. >> good afternoon trace. these are in fact the worst fires australia has seen in decades. over 3 million acres are still thought to be burning and burning out of control. six people have now died, 650 homes destroyed after these fires ravaged the east coast of australia have done since september. unprecedented heat waves and high winds have kept it spreading it. today that news breaking that it was a volunteer firefighter, 19

years old, who has been charged with arson. if accused of starting seven of the fires. his colleagues calling it the ultimate betrayal. the man was seen in a parked car where shortly afterwards a pile of grass was found on fire. he left the area before returning with the fire service to fight the very fire that he had started. there are still however 125 still burning by lightning, it is be keep season over there and so for the moment these fires are burning without stop. spewing venom and we know this is devastating for the wildlife over there but especially for the koalas what do we know? >> absolutely tracy comes a fight of the qualities has gripped the nation and the world. it started after a video went viral showing one australian woman rushing into the flames and rescuing one. your after dinner shirt and poured water over it and she passed it on to rescue services.

they named that koala lewis. he was taken to an animal hospital. sadly he has now had to be put down by vets. he really became a symbol of their plight and as many as a thousand koalas are thought to have died as a result of these fires. some zoologist now saying that koalas are functionally extinct as a species. this means they no longer have enough members to produce future generations. that's because the bushfires have had a massive impact on their generation. there is so little habitat left for them and eucalyptus trees, which they feed on, take months to grow back. 18,000 koala czars still thought to be in new south wales but their habitat is been largely destroyed. terribly sad about the cause but the tragedy is nearly six people have died in these fires, 600 homes have been destroyed, and things are going to get worse because peak fire season has not yet come. that's expected in february. >> heartbreaking for people in the wildlife.

benjamin hall for us in london thank you. we are getting an update on the former president jimmy carter more than two weeks after he went into the hospital because of bleeding in his brain. also there is a word president trump found out about the whistle-blower complaint before he lifted the hold on u.s. aid to ukraine. what us lawyers were apparently worried that blocking the money might be illegal. that is next

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spewing former president jimmy carter is out of the hospital after undergoing surgery to relieve pressure on his brain. doctors say some recent falls caused his brain to breathe. the 95-year-old is live longer than any president in u.s. history. a spokeswoman says the former president and first lady are looking forward to enjoying thanksgiving at home in plains

georgia. president trump knew about the whistle-blower complaint before they lifted aid on the ukraine. that confirms reporting by "the new york times." the papers report the president was briefed about the complaint back in august and then on september 11th the white house informed congress that it was releasing the money to ukraine. in the meantime the house judiciary committee is giving president trump new lawyers the chance to participate in next week's hearing. let's bring in our panel. john thomas g strategist at pushback which response to democrats on major issues. the spring again with you, robbie, when the president was briefed in august and the reporting is that he released the eight and september. what's more important here, when you release the eight or why the aide was withheld in your

estimation? >> right, that's a difficult question to answer. but it definitely doesn't establish is that how does this hurt his defense? that the aide, we ended up giving it to them so there was no harm no foul. that's what the president's supporters are saying. i don't think this information changes that very mushed. he might say this undermines his case of his behavior was perfect the whole time or something like that. i think most people don't think it was perfect but i think a lot of people also are not willing to impeach the president over this and i don't see how this really adds to the case. every new development is treated like some major revelation that's going to result in his ouster. i think a lot of casual viewers are getting tired of this boy who cried wolf situation. be one the thing is here the democrats are saying look, the reason he released the aide in september was because he got caught. that this phone call this complaint was happening and he got caught and do you release the eight and the republicans are saying that's not the case.

>> the key piece of evidence was the transcript that president trump voluntarily released on day one. this entire impeachment inquiry has been a game of third and fourth hand telephone trying to gauge intent there's only one person on this planet they can tell us intent and its trump is made of crystal clear he didn't withhold aid for political reasons. >> trace: i want to read this for both of you guys, this is mark sandy can he is the white house budget director and his testimony he said this about the aide. when he learned about it and what they told him. it says at any point in time from the moment that you walked into the secure room where the testimony took place, any time has mr. duffy ever provided you a reason why the president wanted to place a hold on security assistance? the answer as i recall in early september and emailed it attributive the hold to the president's concern about as other countries not contributing more to ukraine. what's happening here, john, is the democrats are saying he

didn't learn for months why this thing and then finally on september the aide is released. what republicans are saying is hold on that was the only explanation that the president never gave. >> that's consistent with president trump's broader philosophy and giving aid to foreign countries which is they need to be doing their part. the u.s. government can't be just giving aid without anything in return. >> what do you think about that, robbie? is one of those things where we take a quick testimony both sides pick and choose what they want from it and they go with it? >> we are trying to figure out this incredibly bureaucratic process of holding or delaying and then releasing aid and trying to find out which officials and why it is like a game of telephone four who initiated the hold. throughout all of that we have to find out exactly what was in trump's head if and when he said no, don't do it for this reason. that's going to be hard to do even if there was some wrongdoing or not a perfect

behavior here i don't know that you're going to convince the country let alone enough republicans in the sun at that this is worth removing the president for the first time in history over a period >> now we were moved forward in the impeachment inquiry, the house judiciary committee will hold its first meeting this week. during others as we think the president should come in the president to let us know if he plans on bringing his lawyer and giving us some information. >> that's a cute offer knowing it would be terrible for the president to do it. this process is not been fair at any stop. why with the president put himself forward? here's the thing come of this has been, as the president called it, a witch hunt. the facts are irrelevant. the democrats are going to impeach. now they are trying to move public opinion. this is the last attempt but here's the issue, it has been backfiring with those critical swing voters. they are moving away from democrats and towards trump. >> trace: what if the

president since mick mulvaney and mike pompeo before this house judiciary committee come is not something that would save the democrats? >> it might be. i don't think is going to do that, and i think it would be wise not to do that. trump wants to have the fight in the senate perhaps on friendlier terms if that's what's going to happen. they're still a chance that some democrats in the house say you know what, do we really want to do this when there is zero chance this will result in trumping removed from office? what it could do is call into more questions legitimate or illegitimate on who might be their candidate. former vice president biden, it's possible they say what's the point of doing this. we will find out i guess. >> do they vote to impeach the democrats? >> i think likely yes. >> 110% yes. >> trace: john thomas, robbie sauve, good of you both. thank you. more americans are now dying at

younger ages, that's according to a brand-new study and we will talk to a doctor about what is behind this sudden drop after decades. we are talking about 50 some odd years of increasing life span

>> trace: fox news reporting ruling on. you can still get a chance to be a toys 'r' us kid despite filing for bankruptcy jeff with the draft opening up shop in new jersey. we go there live. her school told her she couldn't take her school pictures because of her bright red hair. a photographer stepped in with a professional photo shoot. we talked to them both. but first, we have breaking news and live pictures coming from east of houston. we had a live report about this earlier, there have been several last last year and reports of several injuries. we do not know the severity of those injuries but the

helicopter we showed you earlier was just going up. these are the first live pictures of this chemical plant. we don't know the cause of the explosion so far but you can see right there the black smoke when these fires time and time again the will tell you that thick black smoke is bad news. it means the fires have an enormous amount of fuel to burn meeting this thing could go on for a while and it is not just one or two blasts, there have been multiple blasts. you can see some of that fence around their the firefighters have set up a perimeter. they are trying to keep this thing in one place, keep it from spreading to other areas and other tanks which they believe will lead to other explosions. as we get more information on injuries and what the cause of this explosion is or explosions we will bring them to you on fox news reporting. in the meantime extreme weather

closed the coast, snow and rain shooting down roads and canceling fights and strong winds could ground the macy's day parade balloons let's take a look around starting on the west coast. anita vogel is live in los angeles. >> it's are wet and snowy thanksgiving week in the golden state. there is a light in steady rain here in l.a. right now pod northern california is really feeling the brunt of this storm. snow is falling as much is 1,00. all part of that foam cycle and we've been hearing about. it's causing near impossible travel conditions. number of big car wrecks of already been reported but it's good news for ski areas. lake tahoe could get up to 3 feet of fresh snow. meanwhile in nearby sonoma county folks are getting pummeled by rain after a long dry spell during the fire season. now they are concerned with flash flooding. especially after the dedicating kincaid fire there last month which destroyed nearly 400

buildings and prompted the largest mass evacuation county history. both san francisco and san jose are also experiencing their first storm of the of the season but officials say they have been preparing there since the summ summer. >> we have crews on standbys for this and all storm events throughout the summer and spring ready to him address local flooding and take care of downed trees. >> a light rain does continue in the l.a. area, which it is going to be a white thanksgiving for sure. let's get you up to casey stegall was an update on travel condition from the mean streets of dallas. casey. >> hey needed good to see you. i think the texas drivers have more to be thankful for this year than the folks out there in california from seeing those pictures and hearing about all of the traffic tingles there because right now i have to say we don't need to break up america but this is pretty

smooth sailing on this major interstate. you are looking live but i-75 and 6:30 five, major arteries through the dallas-fort worth area and also quick scans online showing that it's congested in areas like austin, houston, san antonio, some of the major metro areas, but no real major issues to report. more than 4 million texans expected to get out and hit the roads this holiday weekend. take a look at this video out of colorado because a lot of folks that may be headed there for skiing or visiting family, they are going to have a real mess to contend with when you talk about all of these know that a big winter storm system already dumping quite a bit of snow on the region also bringing some very heavy winds. gusts reporting 40 miles per hour in places. that flowing of snow makes for really dangerous driving

conditions and what is more, even more is on the way. let's now go to chief meteorologist standing by in the extreme weather center to tell us more on that. hey rick. >> hey casey good to see you. a couple of big storms we are watching. the first one moved across the northern plains and parts of the western great lakes right now it is cost a little bit of travel delay towards nuke newark. this storm almost done bringing it delays in the san francisco area. here is current wind gusts. we've been seeing wind gusts over 50 miles proud that will cause some slow down but officially no big slowdowns across the airport to run the chicago area. could see some winds gusting up towards 50 miles per hour, this will pull off towards the east and that's why we are concerned in the morning with potential problems for the macy's parade and those balloons. that's what i think we might see that wind just below the threshold and we will see those

balloons fly. temperature wise behind that storm that is where the cooler air is in place come 18 degrees in denver so it's very cold here. all of the action we are watching, really the big storm we are going to watch as this one moving across parts of california in end across the desert southwest. this is the first big storm we found for any kind of moisture across california have this rainy season. we definitely need the maestro and we're going to get too much of it and it will cost some flooding but we needed and it is going to be flooding so we need to watch out for that. overall we have a lot of winter weather coming. this is our winter storm watches and warning. blizzard warnings in effect across parts of montana. this storm will be much more potent than the storm that is exiting right now and this will cause some big time trouble delays for those that are trying to go home on friday and saturday. >> trace: just want to let you know in my hometown, mammoth mountain in the corner of the

state, 27 is inches of snow so far and it is still falling fast and we have more coming. >> this is the beginning of ski season. we all talk about drought season, the way we get rid of drought is by winter snow. you want this snow to be here to him that fills up the reservoir is and if you are a skier it makes things really good this time of year. >> if you are a fire it makes things really bad. rick's life for us, thank you. americans are dying younger than they were just five years ago, that's a according to a brand-new study. researchers found life expectancy file after 2014 when it peaked at 78.9 years. after more than 50 years of life expectancy are increasing. they say over the next three years it started falling. according to the study one of the reasons young people are dying from drugs and suicides

and then there is the obesity related issues. i want to bring in dr. rossini roche committees and associate director of medicine at nyu's' school of medicine. always great to see you. i want to put up on the screen with the leadoff therapist of the road. it's supposed to be going down, meaning the death rate, as it does in other countries. the fact that the number is climbing, there is something terribly wrong about question to you dr. raj come is what is terribly wrong in this country right now? >> that is the burning question. the study didn't answer that question, it did raise the alarm that a buyer we can make compared to other wealthy nations in the world, seeing a decrease in our survival rate or longevity went supposedly with them as a coal advances we shouldn't be seeing that and of fact as you said when we looked at the past 50 plus years there was generally an increase in life expectancy but not true for the last three years. we've heard this somewhat

recently and a lot of it was attributed to white populations and things like opioid dependence and addiction, suicide. what's interesting about this study is a child that across all racial populations we've seen inc. increase in mortality. this study is defined as between 25 and 60 years of age. >> trace: i want to put us up on the screen and have you respond to it because this is a map of some of the areas they say are most affected by it. you can see there in the center part of the country indiana and ohio, you can also see that up in the northeast you have vermont, new hampshire, and maine. some of the areas. study said the opioid crisis is really not the overbearing burden on this study, it's not really what's causing the death rate to go up. >> it is not the whole picture. they definitely found in new england and the ohio valley area this is where we sign it

decreased concentration and part of it is the opioid crisis but also other diseases, things like heart disease and diabetes related to illnesses also were increasing in this age group. the question is why. is it an issue of access to health care? is it an economic issue? some of those areas are more economically affected. >> dr. richey mirage, always good to hear you. thank you. we have breaking news coming in now. we talked about this a couple of times. we are learning more about these blind explosions. these are east of houston, that's about 80 miles east of houston. the plant manufactures a chemical that is used to make rubber. imagine the stench of these toxic chemicals building into the air. it's kind of the same as you see these tire fire complexes were the tires will burn for days and weeks and sometimes months because of all of that rubber so you have kind of the same

chemical reaction here. the u.s. department of labor identifies the chemical is extremely poisonous. on that note we should say there are evacuations all over this area because as you can see from the dark smoke right there, nobody knows how long this will burn. in these types of cases you can't really put the chemicals out so what you do is you try and surround them and put up a perimeter and let the thing to burn and try to cut off the fuel source. a lot of times, we've got new video of explosions we want to show you this. we talked about this early. look at the power. i just want you to listen. you hear the power of that? did you see the one piling shoot straight up into the air and then fall straight down question like the black smoke really is indicative of how dangerous this fire is. it means it will burn for a wild

commit means it is toxic and that's why you have these evacuations in and around the area. around thanksgiving this is clearly a disaster, the most important part of this story as there is some injuries. we just don't know the severity of the injuries right now and to be honest we don't know the cause of the initial explosions that led to kind of the chain reaction in explosions down the road. we expect there will be more and so do authorities, which is why they are trying to get people out of that area and surround it with a perimeter and the pictures, when we show the thick black smoke it spreading far and wide so it is not just resigned to this area, that smoke is going to billow and houston is 80 miles away. you have some other major areas again this is a repeat of the last explosion. this smoke is going to affect a

vast swath of taxis over the next 40 areas in this fire could burn for quite some time. we will bring you updates on the fire, the injuries, and the cause, as we get them on fox news reporting. in the meantime an 8-year-old girl told her bright red hair meant no school pictures. that's what they said. the bright red hair was not allowed. then a professional photographer heard about the story and gave her the photo shoot of her dreams. we will talk to both of them and inspiring thanksgiving eve. and eve story coming up on "fox news reporting" " i am totally blind. and non-24 can make me show up too early... or too late. or make me feel like i'm not really "there." talk to your doctor, and call 844-234-2424. and now for their service to the community, we present limu emu & doug

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♪ ♪ >> an 8-year-old girl got an upgrade on her school pictures after the principal would not let her participate because she had bright red hair extensions. she felt sad because everyone else got their pictures taken. a professional photographer stepped in to give her one-of-a-kind shoes. it happened at charter school

west of detroit. the principal told a local news station that the extension violated school policy. scott and photographer jermaine horton. i have two respectfully disagree with the school. i think the extensions look amazing. when i told you that you could not get your school picture, what was going through your mind? what were your friends saying to you? >> some of my friends are nice. they said i'm sorry. but some of my friends were laughing. and i was mad, because they told me to my face that i couldn't take my pictures. >> did they tell you the reason that we are not going to take your picture? did they give you an option to get your picture taken? >> no, they told me i could take my pictures on november 12. >> oh, a new date.

and dad, when you heard about her trouble at school, what went through your mind? >> i was on my way to work. thank god i was, because it brings anger to any parents heart when you experience something like this. i was able to call the principal and try to talk to him. we got hung up on. it took us a day to get with him to be able to talk about this. it was like they were not trying to speak with us at all. it was a really tough situation. >> i am baffled because i saw pictures of my daughter's school. they had people with pink hair, purple hair, and it was all good to go. you heard about this. you got the feeling here. when you heard about this story, you said it's time to give this girl her own photo shoot. tell me about that.

>> absolutely. the minute that i heard this story, i was stacked in it by multiple photographers on facebook. you really can't get there. i have driven to detroit many times. for me to be able to give back to someone to get their confidence back, i felt that there was very important. everyone can do something on an individual level to help out others. >> quit if you think about the photo shoot? how much fun was that? >> it was a lot of fun. i got to wear nice clothes that people made for me. >> did it make up for it? dad, you talk to her. did it make fu makeup for the school telling you you could not get your picture taken? >> yes. i was happy. i had to take my own to get this special photographer.

thank you for taking my pictures. i could not take my pictures at my old school. >> you are a good man, jermaine. dad, that made you happy. >> thank you, jermaine. they cannot begin to express how we feel. that changed the whole situation for us from that point on. we did not look at the negativity of what was surrounding. even though we want this to stop, there is so much positivity that has come behind it. hopefully we can make a dent and try to help jermaine and make more positivity instead of going through little girls and little boys being targeted for their hairstyles. that shouldn't be a problem in our schools when we have other things to worry about. >> you are a good dad. jermaine, your good fortune of again. the pictures are exceptional. i think your friends have got to be very, very envious. happy thanksgiving to you all.

thank you. >> happy thanksgiving. >> thank you. in the meantime, stephen f. austin upsetting number one ranked at duke. did you see this? >> time out they don't use it. the lumberjacks have done it. >> can you imagine beating number one duke? they have dedicated a special win. hurricane dorian ripped through the country killing thousands of people and leaving thousands homeless. >> my family lost a whole lot this year. i'm not going to cry on tv. i'm just playing this game for them. my family back home in the bahamas. i want to make my country proud. >> they are proud. his performance on the court

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