that puts a burden on these folks. >> yeah, it's unfortunate. these are people that served our country and raised their right hand and it got to the point it seemed we were placing more importance on people coming across the border than our own citizens. our way of trying to do some good in a time where we're divided, this seemed to be a unifying effort and so many people got behind it. but to be able to alleviate that burden, i wish it could be more. we will try to get this number up to 11 million by the end of the day here. we will pledge another 500,000 from our site. i like even numbers, we're at 10 1/2. with your help we'll pledge another 500,000 from that and hope people will be a part of it and bigger plans for next year. >> dana: born primitive.com. i have my eye on the stretchy pioneer jacket and the fleece

jacket. for these i will make an exception and give something else away. thanks for all you do. >> thank you so much for having me. >> dana: happy thanksgiving. >> john: everybody needs boots. i'll go back on the website and see what i can find. >> dana: millions of americans hitting the roads and skies across the country today as part of the jam-packed holiday travel season. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom." i'm dana perino. got one more hour? >> john: i have three more. don't check out just yet. nowhere near punching the clock. john roberts for bill hemmer. authorities expecting a record number of travelers throughout this week. live look at chicago, o'hare international airport where the thanksgiving rush is in full swing. some travelers already feeling the effects of flight delays and cancellations. >> too early to prepare for any

holiday rush? >> i did. we woke up at 3:30 in the morning. got everybody -- everybody was ready to go. got out as quickly as we can. >> have you experienced any delays so far? >> my flight got delay. >> two hours to get through tsa. everybody is flying everywhere for the holidays. very busy. >> john: janice dean is here now with your thanksgiving forecast. j.d., what are we looking at? >> depends where you live. tomorrow is a better day for much of the country. we have to get through today. i know a lot of folks are traveling if you live across the rockies, denver included, for parts of the northern planes, ohio valley in towards the mid atlantic the northeast you will get quite a whopper of a storm tomorrow. today is good for traveling across the eastern seaboard. we're dealing with an area of low pressure injecting into the plains and give us a rough day an thanksgiving. hopefully everybody will be

where they are supposed to be. the forecast travel delays, seattle and denver with low clouds. las vegas, san francisco and los angeles as well look good. that's the good news. this area of low pressure is going to give us the chance of storms for southern, mid atlantic and northeast. a coastal event as we get through friday and saturday. for the massey's thanksgiving today parade it will be rain and nasty. i'm warning you in advance. it will be better to watch from home if you can. what the scenario will be. the rest of the country looks good. 1-third of the country that will be dealing with the worst of the weather. millions of people coming for the macy's thanksgiving day parade. interior sections you enjoy snow. a wet mess really from tomorrow morning through the afternoon and then by friday the system is out of there and so people who are traveling back from

thanksgiving you will have a much better forecast but for the parade, it is rain. it is rain on parade day. you have been warned. dress appropriately or enjoy it from home. back to you, john and dana. >> john: sounds like the parade will be a real turkey this year. janice dean for us. >> you are the best. >> john: transition of power is getting underway with president-elect trump and biden white house signing off on a memorandum of understanding. trump is naming more top picks. bryan llenas live in the sunshine of palm beach, florida. more on all of this, bryan. >> president-elect trump announcing six new administration picks last night beginning with cough-in hesset.

jamison greer and dr. jay bhattacharya the director of the national institutes of health. you have jim o'neill, deputy secretary of health and human services, john thelan and jeff haley. the more controversial pick is dr. bhattacharya who needs senate confirmation to lead the nation's top medical research agency. he said public covid lockdowns were -- he promoted herd immunity and people should have been able to live normally and build up immunity to covid-19. in choosing hesset and greer he is relying on two veterans of his first administration, he said greer played a key role in imposing tariffs on china and hesset will insure countries don't take care of the u.s. on trade. he encouraged the passing of

trump's promised reciprocal trade act. >> something in the republican platform. the trading partner charges us double the tariff we charge them. if we say we'll lift our tariffs to what yours is and lower it to ours it could end reducing tariffs around the world. >> meantime the trump transition team signed a memorandum of understanding with the biden white house yesterday officially allowing the transition to begin with federal agencies within those agencies. the trump transition team will not be using taxpayer money. the transition team saying it is an effort to save americans hard earned money and john speaking of nominees axios is reporting that the president-elect is considering choosing a new a.i. czar which would be a brand-new position and they would be in charge of making sure america stays at the forefront of artificial intelligence. john. >> john: making sure that sky net doesn't become a reality at

the same time. bryan llenas, enjoy the sunshine. >> thank you. >> dana: harris campaign aides pointing fingers and opening up about what they claim went wrong ahead of her election loss including why a harris interview with podcasting star joe rogue an never materialized. >> we had discussions with joe rogue an's team. they were great and wanted us to come on. we wanted to come on. we tried to make a date to make it work and weren't able to find a date. as it turns out it was the date trump was taping his joe rogan. they had never confirmed to us. >> we offered to do it in austin. didn't work out. i think maybe they leveraged that to get trump in the studio, i don't know. then, you know, we were not going to be back in texas but offered to do it on the road. >> dana: charlie hurt fox news contributor. we were on "the five" together last night. usually i don't think about segments that much longer afterwards. we're moving on. something else to do.

but this video from kamala harris is getting a lot of attention and been on my mind. watch here. >> because of your efforts, get this, we raised an historic $1.4 billion. i know this is an uncertain time. i'm clear eyed about that. i know you are clear eyed about it. and it feels heavy. and i just have to remind you, don't you ever let anybody take your power from you. >> dana: okay. i don't know what was going on in the video. i don't know if she knew it would go out like that or how it looked. i'm not usually who thinks they were trying to hurt her but they're challenging my assumptions on this. the last thing i will say before i turn it over to you, terrible for young women. the election was over three weeks ago. she hasn't been seen or heard from. comes out with this video instead of a message of all right, ladies, sometimes you don't win and you move on. instead it is like this

wallowing in despair that to me does not look good. >> so obviously there is surprise, surprise, a lot of speculation online about what is going on in that video. we'll leave to the speculation online. it is hard not to believe some of it or at least maybe come up with some of your own conspiracy theories what's going on there. it is absurd. the idea that she is boasting about the fact that they raised a billion half dollars is kind of amazing especially -- the window which she spent it was 100 days. so we're talking about not only the first billion dollar candidate in history who flamed out spectacularly but the highest burn rate of any campaign in history. so a billion and a half dollars spent over 100 days, that's just -- that's like 10x what a normal campaign if not more than that. what a normal campaign does.

what do they have to show for it? these interviews with stephanie carter and jen o'malley. they are doing friendly interviews trying to see why here. trying to shift blame away from them but think about how stupid this is. they are basically blaming the media saying that the reason they got -- that they lost is because they got a raw deal from the media. are you kidding me? kamala harris was nothing but a figment of the media -- she was completely manufactured by the media and it was all favorable. the idea that they are going to blame the media for their failure. they are not only bad at their job but delusional. >> dana: as a former republican press secretary, leave the blame it on the media to me. you can't blame it on the media. >> and then to claim that

somehow or another the negotiations with joe rogan was an effort to get donald trump into the studio in austin with joe rogan? that's absurd. republicans, the toughest people on the planet in politics are all republican press people. they have to fight this leverage of media that despises them. >> dana: corporate america always hire republican communications people. they are paranoid for a reason and they have to try harder and get better results usually. n not -- happy thanksgiving. >> this deal was enabled by the fact that israel significantly degraded hezbollah who said they would not leave lebanon unless a cease-fire in gaza and this deal now, this connects the two. >> dana: israel's ambassador to the u.s. says the cease-fire in lebanon is now in effect.

u.s. negotiated the deal between israel and hezbollah to help wind down the fighting. an illegal immigrant arrested for robbery in new york and guess what? it was not his first offense. and this thanksgiving may go down as the busiest travel weekend on record. as janice dean told us the weather may not hold. this black friday, get iphone 16 pro, on us. and ipad and apple watch series 10. all three on us. only on verizon.

>> john: migrant crime chaos raging across the country. fox team coverage for you now. alexis mcadams standing by in new york city with outrage with the release of a venezuelan migrant with a long rap sheet. we begin with griff jenkins in

washington with a new task force targeting the new tren de aragua. you have stunning statistics for us, griff. >> we sure do. four years ago tren de aragua or tda wasn't on ice's radar. now they are a top priority, john. acting director says they launched this initiative to target tda called operation athens killed by a tda gang member. >> we first within ice came across them in late 2022 in lima, peru during a human trafficking investigation realized tda members were actively working that. we're shy of 20% of our gang investigations are tda related. pretty substantial. we're closing in about 200 investigations that we have going on right now. enough so that in early part of this year of 2024, we initiated this thing called operation

athens. so it's to combat specifically tda. >> in the past few years tda has taken a foot hold across the country. 16 dates from the west to east coast. he says there is multiple hundreds currently in the u.s. the lack of cooperation in sanctuary jurisdictions makes it difficult to get them and more dangerous. >> they are preying on their own. it is incredibly, i think, irresponsible or these jurisdictions to be doing that. we need to get the threat off the street. we need to get the threat out of this country where appropriate and work with us in accordance with law. >> he says sending them back to venezuela is difficult as well because they won't accept their citizens back. he hopes the incoming trump administration will have more success securing an agreement. >> john: there was no criminal activity associated with tda until 2023, i think. >> it is amazing.

cbp gang affiliated arrest data shows not a single arrest until fiscal year 2023. now those numbers are climbing at an alarm rate. >> john: this whole thing was a product of the current border crisis. griff jenkins for us, thank you. >> dana: meanwhile a venezuelan migrant arrested for allegedly robbing a new york city prosecutor and performing a lewd act. officials keep letting him go. what is happening? we have the latest from new york city. >> we talk about this all the time and see what's going on here in the big apple. now feds are working to figure out if this migrant suspect is linked to that venezuelan gang called tren de aragua. most people hadn't heard of it until a few months ago but now they are linked to crime across the city and the country. >> it is possible but we really haven't had -- we're working on identification and doing what we

can. he wasn't in our custody. they won't give us anything more than what we have so i would like better collaboration on this and allow them to honor our detainer and let us help them. >> better collaboration or any collaboration at all. brandon was handcuffed and taken into police custody again last week. used to it by now. investigator say he robbed a 38-year-old woman inside her manhattan apartment building who happened to be a member of the manhattan d.a.'s office. stole her purse and threatened if she didn't hand over her purse and give him the pin number to her credit card he would hurt her. the 25-year-old suspect then pulled his pants down and exposed himself before he ran off here in new york city. ice telling fox news that the venezuelan migrant crossed in this area near eagle pass, texas into the united states illegally last year. making his way in through that

area and eventually heading right to new york city. here are some photos you are looking at obtained by the daily mail that show the migrant facing a long list of charges. doesn't look too bothered, sleeping and smirking. sexually motivated robbery, grand larceny, criminal possession of stolen property. growing calls as you know from new yorkers to change the sanctuary city laws. people don't want repeat offenders on the streets no matter what their immigration status is. >> dana: alexis mcadams. happy thanksgiving. >> john: record crowds expected at airports today as millions of americans try to reached loved ones for thanksgiving. aaa forecasting 79 million people travel 50 miles away from home for turkey and pie. we have a travel expert here. how do you expect i guess the next few days is going to go? >> it will be interesting. kind of depends on the weather

and just how everything goes. but as i always say, check the weather and all your destinations where you are and where you are going and if you are connecting and plan accordingly. get to the airport early, be patient. don't be rude to airline employees and just as always you've got to just take things in stride because things are probably going to go awry especially if the weather gets term mental. >> john: don't get drunk on the airplane and duct taped to your seat, either. the best and worst times to travel. today if you are leaving you kind of miss the window a little bit unless on the west coast. the best time to travel is before 10:00 in the morning. worst time to travel is between 1:00 and 5:00. thanksgiving minimal traffic expected. if you can leave tomorrow morning, that's probably a good idea. try not to travel between 7:00 and 10:00 in the morning on friday. best time is after 1:00 p.m.

same thing saturday 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. and sunday 12:00 p.m. to 6:00 will be a wipe-out. make sure you get out before then. we talk about weather problems. weather problems now in utah and colorado. good news is that the ski resorts there are already open so if you are headed there for thanksgiving you could get good downhill skiing in. what will happen in the northeast in the next 48 hours? >> well, they are expecting potential delays of course plus the air traffic controller shortage in the northeast can cause some issues as it has been doing for the last couple years. so again just stay on top of things. be pro-active in your travels and always have a backup plan. if things go awry, change on the airline app as opposed to waiting in line at the airport or getting on the phone and calling. things will go a lot faster. fly out early if you can. off peak times and days and wait until monday or tuesday to come

back if you go away for thanksgiving do that, you save yourself a heck of a lot of hassle. >> john: i was always in favor of grabbing a couple extra days at the end of a long weekend. you have travel tips for flyers that we want to put up on the screen. folks can follow along. check weather forecast. you mentioned, fly at off peak times and days. might be late. most people have booked. fly early in case of delays and cancellations. be patient as you mentioned, have travel insurance just in case, which is interesting. and as you pointed out make changes via the airline app. the idea of travel insurance. that is something i rarely do unless it is a big trip. you recommend that on a regular basis for folks? >> me personally because i travel a lot i have an annual travel insurance plan so i don't have to think about it every trip i do. if you leave the country your health insurance doesn't necessarily cover you abroad.

if things get canceled or delayed they don't -- airlines are not required to compensate you for lost costs. so that's basically what travel insurance has helped me do over the years. so i always have it personally. but if you are taking a couple trips a year probably worth doing for you and if you are traveling at a busy time like thanksgiving it might make sense because a lot of delays and cancellations. you don't want to lose the money you've already spent. >> john: great advice. great to talk with you and it probably good to travel with you. >> message where people said they are going to get in our way. don't cross that line. don't test us. >> dana: the incoming border czar pushing back as some democratic leaders prepare to challenge president-elect trump's immigration plans. ideas being floated ahead. americans are hitting the grocery store ahead of

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>> john: radical ideas to counter the trump administration appear to be gaining traction among some democrats. one new york state senator is even floating the idea of having new york withhold federal taxes and then the empire state joining canada. there is much of that as a pink unicorn leading the thanksgiving day parade tomorrow. >> a defiant plan against trump's mass deportation plan. secede and join our neighbor to the note. state senator liz kruger proposed that the empire state and fellow blue northeastern

states go to canada. she said instead of us all trying to illegal cross the border at night without them noticing. hard because there are lots of us. they should instead agree to let us be the southeast province, a new province of canada. we combine and be a great new province as the southeast province of canada. anybody in the states are progressive democrats and fit in well with the political philosophy of most of the canadian elected officials. she chairs the finance committee also says her state and the others should stop sending tax money to the federal government as part of the their protest. new york state's controller says the empire state sends more than $361 billion a year or provides 6.5% of the whole federal budget. incoming trump border czar tom

homan says nothing will stop them. >> those people saying they will stop us from what we're doing, they will not. i will do this job. men and women from ice will do this job and you won't stop us. a word of advice. if you impede us there will be consequences. >> i talked to senator kruger's office to request an interview but so far, john, we have not heard back. back to you. >> john: the amount of money that new york state sends to the federal government is about the totality of canada's budget. thank you so much. dana, when do we have the ceremony to say goodbye to new york? >> dana: i think we need to leave canada to itself. want to talk about other numbers, too. what will it cost to feed your family this thanksgiving? it is not as high as last year but it is much higher than before the pandemic. this comes from the american farm bureau federation.

i love them. the average cost for 2024, $58 for each plate. up 5% from 2023. the big number and what people were feeling before the election. up 24% since 2020. where is the money having to go to? extra money having to go to turkey rolls at 56% because of eggs, i guess. not the best baker but i assume. stopping at 45%. green beans 22 and pumpkin pie 22% as well. david asman is a fox business anchor. one of the things i heard before the election voters typically will not forget about inflation even if things start to get better, they will remember what it was like in the years before and want to try to get back to that. is it possible? >> no, no, because inflation is still going up. god bless the farm bureau and by the way it was $58 for a party of ten, i hate to correct you. that's what they say. who can buy dinner for $58 for a

party of ten? that's ridiculous. they are saying that a 16-pound turky is $25. i know new york is very high priced. in new york it's $2 hundred. split the difference and say instead of they got it ten times wrong but maybe five times wrong. the turkey dinner more like $250 than $58. the point is that inflation is still going -- yes, the rate is going down but the prices are still going up. i can't say it enough. prices are higher, not lower. don't be deceived. main street media is picking up the story, nbc, "newsweek," etc. and wrong and why mainstream media is losing audience share. people don't go out and actually shop. these numbers are ridiculous, don't buy them. >> dana: i think i lived in new york too long. that's for correcting me on that. wanted to get your take on this. president trump on monday night

announced new possible tariffs for mexico and canada and china. what is your take on that? give you one thing. the trump campaign response to inflation. people worried about inflation in tariffs. in his first term president trump instituted tariffs against china and resulted in no inflation. what say you about the tariffs? >> he is right. all you have to do is look at the numbers. he uses these trade numbers or threats of tariffs and everything as a way to get people to the table. already by the way canada and mexico were included all already trudeau from canada has called up the president saying we had a great talk, etc. this is an opening gamut. we have had four years of talking and no action from the biden administration. what has that produced? the biggest increase in immigration in american history. terrible problems with fentanyl from china, etc. we had one term of trump already. we know what that produced,

action. it produced getting a clear trade -- a clear deal on migration with mexico. remain in mexico worked. it cut migration down incredibly. we had a deal with china. it got them to buy more produce from the united states eventually and guts a lot of tariff money. so we've been there before. we've done this. americans decided they would go with the trade-off of the fear of a little higher prices on mexican tomatoes for the sake of getting rid of our terrible migrant crisis, which is causing people -- americans, u.s. citizens to die and to spend billions more than they ever did and to get addicted to fentanyl. that's the deal that they made and we are going to live with it. >> dana: quick answer. a year from now do you think that thanksgiving dinner will be less expensive? >> it may be if we get -- if we get a good tax deal. that has to be number one on the plate of trump when he comes into power. extending those tax cuts and getting in more tax cuts.

>> dana: david asman. thank you, happy thanksgiving to you and your lovely wife. >> thank you. >> john: unidentified drones spotted flying over military bases in england. who has the remote and what is their motive? president trump reportedly planning to roll back biden's student loan forgiveness program. many programs already in legal limbo. come on in, how are you? for god so loved the world that he gave his only son. so that everyone who believes in him might not perish, but might have eternal life. best thing i've ever done. that's what freddie told me.

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>> dana: the u.s. air force says unidentified drones are spotted over bases in england with an investigation underway where they are coming from. we're live in london with more. stephanie bennett. >> yeah, we're also learning that the u.s. air force now confirming to fox that a fourth air base in the u.k. has also

allegedly been targeted in the week's long event of all of these sightings. hearing around 60 drones -- 60 british troops including counter drone specialists have been deployed the help defend the air bases used by the u.s. air force in the u.k. since the first small unmanned aerial system spotted on november 20th the numbers of drones has fluctuated and different in size and style. they are trying to find out who is operating the drones amid fears it is a coordinated operation. civilian police supported by the ministry of defense police launched an investigation. taking a closer look at this map the drones are seen over. senior british official described it as unusual. a serious set of circumstances and working closely with the u.s. sending a range of personnel to help. senior u.s. official confirmed

to fox the drones do not appear to be those of hobbyists. potential indication here of a likely aggressive state actor working perhaps through a proxy. so far there has been no impact to residents or infrastructure and have not been identified as hostile. military defense spokesperson said we take the threats seriously and maintain measures at defense sights but no significant mission impact. >> they are being actively monitored installation leaders have determined so far that none of these incursions impact the base residents, facilities or assets we have on those bases. >> of course, the situation is still ongoing. they will continue to monitor the airspace very closely. dana, so far definitely more questions than answers. >> dana: strange. my husband grew up on raf bases in the u.k. and we're paying attention to all this. thank you, stephanie.

>> john: president-elect trump reportedly considering pulling the plug a controversial biden-harris program, student debt relief. noah rothman from national review joins us now. here is what our colleagues at "politico" are saying about this. trump transition advisors are discussing ways to unwind the biden-era initiatives that offered new or easy path to loan forgiveness to borrowers. biden kept losing in court on this and tried to figure out ways around it. sounds like trump will pull the plug on the whole thing. >> as much as he can. a lot of it is very complicated. education secretary cardona has left a big mess for the trump administration to unravel. adulterated the pre-application for federal aid process to agree that rolled it over. they can't make proper financial

decisions. it encouraged unsound financial planning from borrowers accruing interest even as they weren't repaying their loans. there is a lot that needs to be looked at here. my colleague in national review made the point the federal government loses money on most federal loans. subsidized student federal loans because of the income stratified payment process which has ballooned costs to a degree that made the program a wealth transfer program from taxpayers to some of society's most able and capable individuals. the trump administration because joe biden has adult rated this process so profoundly the trump administration has an opportunity to really relook at the entire student loan apparatus he is inheriting and rethink it. >> john: we all remember that famous moment with warren said i paid off my student loans and

asked do i get my money back? she said of course not. a lot of trump's base is made up by working folks who likely didn't go to college for four years and yet they will be on the hook with their taxpayer dollars to pay for people who did? in what world is that fair? >> it is not. elementary conception of moral and ethical soundness would preclude that as a policy. it has contributed in whatever way it did to joe biden's ejection from the political status quo and the democratic party's exile to the political wilderness. the trump administration should make the most of this opportunity and commit to a reconceptualization of the loan process. it is the entire program that needs to be rethought. >> john: a reconceptionallization. i love it. >> i make it sound more

complicated than it might be. initially what the trump administration has to do is stop forgiving the loans who people who shouldn't have it. >> dana: green beans -- the michigan animal rescue league is calling on animal lovers to sponsor a meal for shelter pets. how your donation would help, next.

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our lowest price of the year. >> john: as people prepare to go over the hill and through the woods to grandma's house a look at a couple of airports. the airport outside of seattle busy, laguardia a lot of traffic coming into the new terminals there. it is a jungle out there, speaking of that new york city may be the concrete jungle.

but not this week. apparently it's teaming with wildlife. first a humpback whale taking a splash in the waters around manhattan under the brooklyn bridge on monday. expert say it is the species first visit to the east river in two years. next we have a rather nosey coyote spotted in the bronx. wasn't camera shy, either. stopping to let folks take a couple of pictures and using the crosswalk, too. a well behaved coyote. i checked next door. our neighborhood app once in a while and somebody posted pictures of a coyote sleeping on the welcome mat at her front door the other day. >> dana: not so welcome. >> john: it was so cute. snuggled in the front. >> dana: you keep thinking that. tell all our viewers coyotes are cute and approachable. >> so it has to be sick, something wrong with it. it wouldn't do that.

wash off your mat and fumigate your entire house. it was a little coyote. >> dana: i grew up in wyoming and colorado. do you want to take john's advice or mine? including gut field. green beans and sweet potatoes from classic dishes. michigan animal rescue lovers is help purchase the special meals for the pets. leftover funds will go to the pets' care. how did you get this idea? typically you don't think dogs would want green bean casserole. maybe i'm wrong. >> thank you so much for having us. we are a different breed of shelter here at the michigan animal rescue league and always looking for ways to bring joy into not only the lives of our dogs and cats we're caring for but its the lives of our donors who make this work possible. for $25 donation, you can

provide a fun and festive thanksgiving meal for the dogs and cats that are here at the shelter awaiting adoption. the best part is you can follow along on our social media all day long on thanksgiving where we'll post updates and videos and it is heartwarming and fun and all for a great cause. >> dana: such a great idea. i assume you have volunteers that do the cooking? >> we have an amazing crew of staff and volunteers that do all the cooking and make sure everything is safe tore dogs and cats to eat and we have a team of staff and volunteers here that day handing out the meals. it is a team effort here. >> dana: a lot of people will be together reconnecting with family this year. one of the things that people are combating across the country is the issue of loneliness. i have dogs in my life and i'm sure -- i don't know if you have cats as well. for people maybe talking to a loved one that is considering getting a rescue animal what is

your pitch. >> our pitch is absolutely do it. if you feel like you have got the time for it do it. look at betty here, can you imagine a better friend than this sitting on your lap? she was out for a walk this morning and here she is just sitting resting nicely. one of the many, many dogs and cats that we have available for adoption here at michigan animal rescue league and shelters across the country that have wonderful animals that certainly can combat loneliness and bring joy and love into homes. >> dana: do any of them get to get up for seconds? >> you know, i think some of them get seconds when they aren't supposed to. you will see on the video some are careful, some take the whole plate and go. >> dana: wonderful way to continue to take care of the animals you have in your shelter. thank you, maggie. >> thank you so much. >> dana: before we go, there is a thanksgiving message from 250

miles above earth. four astronauts shared this video. >> greetings from the international space station. happy thanksgiving to all our friends and family who are down on earth and everyone who is supporting us. >> they're thankful for 0 gravity. it's fantastic. our family and friends, those lifting up prayers for us and have been. >> dana: they aren't skimping. smoked turkey and does it come in powdered form? they were the ones supposed to be home months ago. >> john: they are coming back home in february. i will see your coyote and give you a moose and caribou. >> dana: i just stay out of the way. thank you for watching "america's newsroom.