>> she isn't here anymore due to heinous people who were let in this country to do what they did to her. >> this is the benefit of getting president trump back end. he knows how to do the job. he is not waiting until january 20th. >> this is the most important national security threat since 9/11 but how could the biden administration be so irresponsible? we in the hispanic community do not want open borders. we want sealed borders and the crossings to be made in an orderly fashion. >> this should not have happened. those monsters should've never been here.

>> john: the border crisis the top priority as president electric truck gets ready for his second term. tren de aragua has become a major problem. the issue isn't big enough to warrant its own priority task for spirit operation athens named ann laken riley. i am john roberts and washington. a lot to talk about. >> molly: i molly line infer sandra smith. democrats across the country are pushing basque including deep blue massachusetts. one mom from that state joined us in the last hour and took aim at the governor. >> i'm deeply concerned and the more that the best advice i can give to community members is to really try to get involved, ask good questions because the direction she is going in is in

the opposite direction of safety and financial needs. >> john: our panel will be joining us soon but now fox team coverage alexis mcadams will be with us next on a repeat offender migrant criminal and you won't believe who his latest victim was. griff jenkins with more on tren de aragua and this game wasn't even known to ice officials before the bind administration took office. >> they worked. tren de aragua wasn't on ices radar before they took office. they learned about them in 2022 tied to human smuggling operation out of peru. as you know looking at the data yesterday it doesn't register a single arrest of a gang member until fiscal year 2023 but now they are a top priority and ice is targeting them. >> we are just shy of 20% of gang investigations are tda related. pretty substantial so we are

closing in on 200 investigations that we have going on right now. enough so in an early part of this year we initiated this thing called operation athens. it is to combat specifically t tda. >> you are right. ice says operation athens was named after laken riley after her killer had ties to tda. they have taken a foothold across the country and at least 16 states nationwide in places like colorado where we saw them terrorizing that apartment building and they said they are dangerous, hard to detect, and he is frustrated that sanctuary jurisdictions make it more difficult to arrest them. >> these people are violent. let's deal with a violent criminal actors. we can agree they need to be dealt with. i think so. i don't think there is anywhere that they want someone marching out of state or local custody because they serve their time. they shouldn't be here so let us take them in a safe way and get

them removed appropriate in accordance with law. >> deporting them is difficult because venezuela won't take their citizens back up but he hopes the incoming trump administration will have more success in negotiating some kind of a deal. >> john: griff jenkins for us. thank you. >> molly: ice is blasting new york officials for allowing a venezuelan migrant in the country illegally to go free after several arrests this year only to be arrested again last week. this time police arrested the man you see here for robbing a prosecutor with the manhattan's d.a. office. alexis mcadams joins us on more on this. thank you for being here. what do we know about this suspect. >> you know from covering this all across the east coast including in boston this has become a huge problem and right now in this case in new york city the feds are working to figure out if the migrant suspect is linked to the gang we were talking about, tda or tren de aragua. a lot of people did not know about that gang a few months ago

but now it has been connected to crime across the city and the country. >> it is possible but we haven't had -- we are working on identification and doing what we can but he wasn't in our cus custody. >> brandon who are looking at their was handcuffed and take it into police custody again last week. he's used to it by now. it has been quite a few times in the big apple. this time investigators tell us he robbed a 38-year-old woman inside her new york apartment building and she happened to be a member of the manhattan d.a.'s office. he stole her purse and threatened if she did not give him the pin number to her credit cards he would hurt her. investigators tell us it did not end there. the 25-year-old pulled his pants down and exposed himself before he ran off. i still's fox news that a venezuelan migrant crossed into the u.s. illegally last year making his way in through texas which you are looking at their on your screen. that is the border and the area where we believe he entered. then he made his way to the

big apple. you are looking at photos now obtained by the dailymail.com. it shows the migrant who is facing a long list of charges sitting in court there including motivated rapidly, grand larceny, and criminal possession of stolen property. ices blasted new york sanctuary laws and sing please cooperate. >> i went to work with individuals and allow us to help you. >> there's been growing calls from new yorkers and people across the country. people said please change the sanctuary city laws no matter where they live because they do not want repeat offenders on the streets no matter what their immigration status is. we will see what happens. >> molly: we will see. the suspect did not look that concerned. we will see if he should be somewhere down the road. alexis mcadams, thank you. >> john: let's dig deeper on this. this guy, this venezuelan

immigrant suspected member of tren de aragua arrested many times. was busted going after one of alvin bragg prosecutors. this is who the sanctuary city laws in new york are designed to protect? >> this is not who they are designed to protect and unfortunately this is who they are protecting. this is why they need to rewrite these laws or start using them the way they were intended. they were intended to protect the people who came here looking for a better life, the people who have been struggling to try to get through the process legally and get a green card and become ao new york, the food carts, the people who are doing the jobs in new york that help the city be what i think is the best city in the country. it's not for people like him. he should be arrested and thrown out of the country. i don't think you should surface time here. he should be thrown out of the country back to where ever he has from so we are paying for him anymore but unfortunately with people like alvin bragg, that's not what's way to happen. >> john: this has gone off the rails. here are the statistics that

griff jenkins and i were talking about. border patrol apprehensions by gang affiliation tren de aragua 20200, 22 on zero, 2220, 2023, 41, 2024, 27 counting for this fiscal year. this is a problem that is the biden administration's making. >> and there are an estimated 1.3 migrants who have gone through the process and have been found to be eligible for deportation. they are also being protected by sanctuary policies and by the biden administration which refuses to actually deport them. what we need to start asking ourselves of the sanctuary cities and states as why are they refusing to allow the federal government to reform enforce immigration law. some might sell call that insurrectionary. you are defying the will of the american public. there's a reason why all of these major blue urban areas this past election including new york city swung to the right in favor of donald trump.

significant say. it's because the border crisis has been ravaging the cities. they want the trump administration to do something about it and the blue cities, sanctuary cities need to get in line and follow orders. >> john: you have the trump administration coming in wanting to do something about this. that is being led by tom homan. tom homan has been subject to many death threats. now we are learning someone sent a pipe bomb to a house. rick rollins. elise stefanik. and others. what is going on here? these people who are coming into serve the trump administration are subject to death threats. >> this is awful. our political rhetoric has gotten out of control. it's been out of control for the last ten or 15 years. the violence, it is peaking now. this is unacceptable. whoever is doing this should be prosecuted, they should be thrown in jail. if you are doing it to a normal

person, you should go to jail paired when you do it to an elected official, there's another level of crime. they should be sitting in federal prison for a long period of time and i hope whoever is doing it gets prosecuted and it teaches the people that may want to do this a valuable lesson but this is something that has been going on for years and i think everybody, the building behind us, the building down the street, needs to tone down the rhetoric. >> john: i was going to say is it the rhetoric by people like kathy hochul and j.b. pritzker and murphy. in new jersey. saying we are going to stand in your way. you need to come through me. he's not going after their people. are they partly responsible? >> it's an important point because what the governors and the democratic leaders are doing is they are encouraging an act of resistance. they might not think about that rhetoric but surely there are some activists who take that quite seriously. we already had two assassination attempts against former

president donald trump from people who took rhetoric like that very seriously. as coming from one side of the isle right now. i don't necessarily agree that this is just a problem for both sides. >> it is a problem for both sides. we had thousands of people violently storm the capitol. we had violence on both sides of the aisle. it needs to come down on both sides. the problem that democratic governors are running into is they think tom homan is going to storm their cities and arrest and they need to duke it out. >> john: here's the crazy thing about what they are saying. obama and his eight years deported or otherwise removed 5.3 million people. trump and his four years was 1.5. even if he kept that up, he would be 2.5 million below where obama was. so why is everyone complaining about trump? >> it is the rhetoric and the way he is saying he's going to do it and tom homan who is coming in as a tough guy because i think trump likes that about him. >> but to be clear. the way that trump has talked

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spew and make sure to pack your patience as you head out for your holiday travels. tripoli predicting that this thanksgiving will be the busiest holiday travel period we have ever seen. christina coleman live at lax in los angeles. one of the crowds looking like there christina? >> it is calm now but this morning i have to tell you i saw people flying through the doors to check and dragging luggage and resting their kids. they had to make it through some serious traffic to get there. more than 2.2 million people are expected to pass through lax during the thanksgiving break. contributing to the roughly 80 million people aaa predicts will travel as holiday. 1.7 million travelers more compared to last year.

today and sunday are the busiest days to fly over the thanksgiving break. travelers at lax on me they have been bracing themselves for the holiday rush. >> things will be okay. >> i think things will be okay. we planned ahead and she's a trooper. she could probably fly the plane at this point. >> we are traveling back on tuesday to avoid the mess over the weekend. >> that's a good plan. more than 5.8 million people are expected to travel domestically. stormy weather moving along the east coast and shortages in air traffic controllers could cause more delays this week. travel experts are encouraging folks to preplan their trip before they even had out to the airport in case they hit bad traffic or long lines. >> that means checking and online, checking in early. allowing yourself plenty of time to get here so we say two hours being in the terminal for domestic departures, three hours for international.

>> more folks will be hitting the roads this thanksgiving break. aaa predicted that nearly 72 million people will drive at least 50 miles or more between tuesday of this week and next monday and as for air travel, it is expected to be very, very busy. tsa expects to screen more than 18 million people across airports, across the nation. again, as we all say, pack your patients. >> john: it looks pretty calm there right now. cb cotton four is at lax. >> molly: a judge in the care and read murder case is set to decide whether to release cell phone records that prosecutors say proved she had done something terrible on the night her boyfriend died. a quick recap of the case. prosecutors say reed killed boston police officer john o'keefe with her suv and 2022. she said she dropped him off at another officer's house around midnight and found him laying in the snow the next morning. her lawyers say she was framed

in a law enforcement cover up. her original trail ended and a hung jury. a second one slated for january but being pushed back to april. very complicated. emily compagno, outnumbered cohost and author of the new book under his wings how faith on the front lines has protected american troops joins me to talk about this case. it has been complicated and layered from the very beginning and now it is hard to believe with another trial just around the corner that there even is more evidence to fight over it. but what do you make about the effort to get more calls to add to the pile of evidence? >> unpack that for a second. what the prosecution is arguing here is why is a grown woman in her 40s, when the story of the defendant of karen reed was i did not notice that my ex was missing until the next morning. why is this person calling her parents frantically, they alleged, one in the morning, two in the morning, six in the

morning. her parents never picked up. heat she and her defense attorney are saying this is a overreach on the government's behalf. i can call my parents never i want to. it's getting quite complicated. what was supposed to be a slam-dunk for the prosecution ended in a hung jury. the state supreme court is willing to dismiss two of the charges including second-degree murder and both sides wanted to be delayed until april 1st. if it does proceed, it will be tried by a special prosecutor. lots to unpack. >> molly: i want to listen to the two lawyers. hank brennan and the defense attorney alex little as they talk about the phone call. take a listen. speak of the inference that a 40 something-year-old woman is calling her parents at 1:30 in the morning after this tumultuous event, the inference is strong evidence that ms. read knew she had done something

terrible, she knew she had struck john o'keefe, and she knew she had left them behind. >> those call logs confirmed that ms. read did not make any calls to her father on jan january 29th until after she discovered mr. o'keefe lying incapacitated on the front lawn. there was one call to her father on the morning of january 29th. that was at 6:32 a.m. the commonwealth has a copy of those records. it's in their possession. >> molly: we saw the first attorney inferring pure he's talking about inference. he's inferring a lot and the call records would one of the most frustrating things about this trial was the dueling experts on everything from the text messages to the evidence that was found. here they are dueling again over the timing of phone calls. >> and that is the beauty or dark underbelly of trials. each side is bringing in their expert testimony and it's up to you the juror to determine who is more persuasive and why and there we saw the defense

attorney saying she didn't call her dad until after she found the body and she called her mother twice before that. that was the special prosecutor that would indeed be trying the case. again, should it proceed either in january or in april. it remains to be seen what the supreme court will do but this is a big, big case there and boston and a lot of people are fascinated. >> molly: true crime fanatics have been over this and they been attacking and going over every little bit of that timeline. i'm sure you will see that if that comes to trial in january or april. but i want to talk about this book. >> thank you so much. this book is the culmination of a life's passion of my mother and myself. she is the family historian and we have a strong military family and the legacies and ultimate sacrifice, purple hearts and the photographs and the records of the stories are in here but most importantly the stories of faith. i have the utmost honor of serving as a messenger for so many war fighters on here who had intimate experiences with god and faith on the battlefield

and the fact that the battlefield might be home as they battled ptsd, catastrophic injury, grief over the ultimate sacrifice and personal stories of my own after i visited troops and kuwait and iraq and experience an incredible evening with a colonel who saved us as we were stranded in sadr city and lost his leg three days later. we reunite and that stories in the book as he credits prayers was saving his life multiple times as he died multiple times before being resuscitated each time. so many miracles in this book. it's incredible because of the voices within. >> molly: and beautifully woven with personal family story but also heroes and heroism and this is a time for gratitude all across the country everyone is thinking about what they are grateful for and this is the story of being grateful for faith and god and with gratitude for the sacrifices that have been made for all of us. so thank you for writing it. this is the year and the time to be grateful. it's a great purchase for thanksgiving and christmas.

>> you phrased it perfectly molly. that is my prayer. you can buy it anywhere box or sold. available now in a fox nation special will drop with incredible footage but if you love the military, god, faith, community, this is the book for you and for those that need encouragement and face at this time because there is a healthy dose of that in here and it's a beautiful book. speak to emily compagno, thank you so much and happy thanks thanksgiving. great to have you with us. >> john: thank you molly and congratulations emily. mystery drone spotted over military bases in the u.k. bases used by the u.s. military. what one official is telling fox about who or what might be behind it. >> molly: displaced people from lebanon are making their way back home after the israel speech ventures but will that hold up? former secretary of state mike pompeo standing by.

>> molly: the cease-fire between israel and hezbollah held up overnight. those displaced from lebanon are starting to return home pure former cia director mike pompeo has analysis. but first let's check in with alex hogan appeared she is on the ground in tel aviv. alex, we are about a full day into the cease-fire. is it working so far? >> yes, it is.

as we approach almost 24 hours later this evening, it has been a remarkable day of calm after what had been 14 months of work and what we are seeing take place now, the lebanese army is moving further south. they will create a buffer along the border that will essentially separate hezbollah from israel even further. hezbollah's forces will need to move further north and israeli forces will withdraw from lebanon in phases over the next 60 days. those who were involved in the negotiations and say what is crucial here is implementation to make sure that hezbollah does not bolster the forces to try to strike again. israel has warned civilians not to return to the southern cities just yet but quite the opposite played out with thousands of lebanese people driving south and celebrations breaking out in the streets because, again, the end of this war and start of the cease-fire but israel says it will reserve the right to attack if it finds hezbollah violating the treaty. for now, the peace plan is in

effect with hezbollah in the north and the focus will shift back to hamas. >> from here we look toward the southern front where the most important goal is to return all the hostages home safely and quickly. the result of the campaign in the north creates additional pressure on hamas. >> the war drags on in gaza although u.s. secretary of state antony blinken reiterated a similar message. the cease-fire with hezbollah will put more pressure on hamas to see that the calvary is no longer on the way. hamas released a statement saying it is willing to return to negotiations to try to broker a cease-fire and we know and egyptian delegation will be traveling here to israel tomorrow to continue those talks. >> molly: potentially big developments ahead. a very delicate days. alex hogan, thank you. hezbollah let's bring in mike pompeo former secretary of state and former cia director and fox news contributor.

mr. secretary, the nato secretary general mark gruden warns not to be naive following the has blue deal. >> i welcome it but let's not be naive. hezbollah is still there, is still hezbollah. it's there, but it has to be implemented. let's see if they will keep to the deal, the hezbollah people. >> john: as you know, hezbollah does not have a stellar record when it comes to upholding their end of the bargain. >> good to be with you. not a particularly stellar record is a great diplomatic speaking. they have been horrific. they have violated every promise they have made, every agreement, they've always rearmed. there's no reason to think that they will behave any differently. the end aims, the destruction of israel, has not changed in any fundamental way. this will be about implementation, about monitoring. can the israelis returned to the north safely, the homes in the

north safely and it will the armed forces have the capability to do what they had promised they would do along with the united nations which was enforce the the restrictions on hezbollah. there is no evidence in play that suggests they will be able to do that over the long run and israel reserves the right properly to return to conflict in the event that they violate those fundamental understandings that they have set forth. >> john: and it's one of the reasons why people believe that the only way to end the hezbollah conflict and to end the hamas conflict as well is to seriously put the screws to iran and the regime there in tehran. what do you think president trump will do on that front when he takes office on the 20th? >> i don't want to predict exactly what he will do. i know what we did and there is no reason to think that those same set of policies it won't be implemented. they worked. hezbollah was more broken, they had less money. hamas did not invade israel on our watch. iran was on the back foot.

it was almost broke by the time we lost office in january 2021 and our partners in the region trusted us. the israelis trusted that the united states would be with them. our partners in the emirates and the kingdom of saudi arabia knew we understood they were a force for good and they were working against iran and on behalf of their own people and as an ally to the united states trying to deliver peace in the region. that's what became the abraham accords. that will be the model that president trump and his team ought to pursue and i'm confident that the team that he is building will do that with great excellence. >> john: one of the principles for the cease-fire deal with hezbollah that prime minister netanyahu laid out was to separate hezbollah from hamas and isolate what was left of the hamas leadership and gaza. already hamas is saying maybe we should get back to the table and talk about a cease-fire. i would assume any cease-fire with hamas is going to be very favorable to israel. >> i would guess that the

israelis would not sign it if it wasn't. frankly foremost is to get back the hostages. we should not forget as we approach thanksgiving here in the united states that there are still americans held hostage in gaza. being held by the iranians through the proxy hamas. i hope they will get to it. they have to actually deliver a structure that can provide certainty for the nation of israel and for the united states that this conflict won't rise again and the fact that we are talking about this after the election when president trump is about to take office, it should not surprise anyone. >> john: i want to ask you about one other issue and that is the appearance of drones peered a number of them over bases in the u.k. which has u.s. military forces. drones that one senior u.s. official said drones do not appear to be those of hobbyists. this follows drones appearing over langley air force base and the north folk naval station and virginia as well.

any idea who or what is behind this? >> i have seen this reporting period i could not tell you who, but i am confident it is an adversary force. this is not just to your point a hobbyist. this is not someone just checking things out and playing around to see if they can make their remotely piloted aircraft to its function. i'm sure there are nefarious actors behind this. i couldn't tell you which ones. we need to get to the bottom of it. not only do the brits need to do that in the united kingdom we had a chinese spy balloon that flew of the country for a while a couple years back. it seems that a time ago. but these are serious incidents. they are putting at risk our soldiers, our sailors, our airmen and marines and we need to get to the bottom of it. it's very unlikely that some random person would be flying these things around significant and serious british and u.s. security facilities and there have been no repercussions. it only increases my view that it is likely a bad actor.

>> john: before we leave mr. secretary i wanted to get your reaction to keith kellogg being named as a special envoy for ukraine and russia. he is going to likely be tasked with what some ukrainian generals are already referring to as world war iii and putting an end to it. >> a tough task but a man quintessentially suited to work on this. i had the chance to work alongside keith when he was working at the white house and with the vice presidents national security advisor. i got to know him well peered i'm confident he is thinking about this problem in exactly the right way and he understand president trump's mission which is to create the conditions for successful peace in the region and i wish them all the best as he moves through what will be a very complicated and very difficult challenge but one i wish the biden administration had taken with sufficient seriousness to impose real costs on russia so the outcome for the west, for europe, for the united states and for the people of ukraine were not the one that we have suffered these last,

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moving forward? >> a lot of paperwork. a lot of challenges of this project is trying to figure out how to make cuts to wasteful government spending permanent and it is a little bit more complicated than it sounds. >> executive branch orders presidential eos can be reversed by the next administration. we have two years of a relatively friendly congress to the trump administration so i am hopeful that both will make the inroads into the u.s. congress that they need to do what you said. to accomplish the cuts sustainably. >> ahead of dose, we have some posts from a long thread. we are spending $15.7 billion on underutilized buildings. many are vacant and bureaucrats refused to show up to work so why are we playing for empty buildings? she said bad pennies. currently the federal government is paying $0.03 to produce a

penny and $0.11 to make a nickel. that makes no sense. only washington could lose money making money so changing the composition of coins would change $50 million a year. trump allies are saying they see waste in checks. >> most of the work of the department of government of is going to be in some of the programs of health and human services. some are on payment deliver because we waste a lot of money and payment delivery to people in the united states. i would say that's the low-hanging fruit. doge is hiring. they are looking for experts and government spending to bring on board. the goal eventually is to cut $2 trillion from the budget now. that will represent 30% of the total federal spending and an update on the other big story at the white house. we are able to confirm president biden and nantucket has been briefed about the

threats to the trump transition team and white house officials are telling us he will be in touch with the folks down in mar-a-lago. >> john: that is pretty serious stuff. has no place in today's society. peter doocy for us on the north line. thank you. >> molly: the biden administration is pushing to expand medicare and medicaid coverage for popular weight loss drugs but it is a costly proposal and it could clash with the trump administration's focus on "making america healthy again." we have fox news senior contributor dr. marc siegel joining us now. delighted to have you with us on this day before thanksgiving. thank you for your thoughts on this. we heard this report from peter doocy talking about the efforts underway to cut costs and this proposal is pretty expensive. $35 billion is the price tag but it would allow drugs like wegovy and ozempic to be covered by medicare and medicaid. is this a necessary thing? is it a good thing? >> i think it is a good thing. and by the way i thought peter's

report was excellent and i think that elon musk and vivek ramaswamy having that power in the administration could be really impressive and important but i hope they are listening because here's how you look at cost savings from the medical point of view. you think long term and you think short term. rfk jr. has said he would rather spend money on getting produce out there and getting gym memberships and exercise and i agree with all of that but that might take 5-10 years. in the meantime, we have 40% of adult americans obese. and i'm not loving these drugs for children. i've come on the year and said that but when you talk about adults who might be on the verge of hypertension or might be right there on the verge of diabetes or could be at risk for certain kinds of cancer or heart disease, i see them in my office and if i can get their weight down, i have less of medical complications and you know what that means? it means less time in a

hospital, less time in the icu. it means tremendous amount of money saved. we spent over $4 trillion in this country on chronic disease and most of it are the kind of diseases i just mentioned. so ozempic or wegovy orman gyro, they could get somewhere between 15% to 25% of your weight off ia year. they are effective. it's the first time i've ever had a tool for weight loss that is effective and though i agree with rfk jr., i think now is the time to be using them and for medicare and medicaid, 7% of medicare beneficiaries would qualify and 12% of medicaid. they are not going to be able to afford it otherwise so i am for this. >> one quick follow-up question. we're talking about medicare and medicaid and often times it's all elderly people who are taking advantage of the systems and in this particular case, thy may not be able to work out or take advantage of major

lifestyle change. is this something that could really help people that maybe have some mobility issues in later life? >> it's what i love about you. that's a very sensitive point because there's a lot of disabled people we are talking about that can't do the kind of exercise we want them to do so while we are working on the altar processed food angle, i think this is a really good thing for them to be able to have. absolutely. and it will be coming out in pill form soon. it will be out in pill form and that's another thing i will want to prescribe. >> molly: a great point. changing from injections to pills. a great point. dr. marc siegel, thank you so much for bringing us your insights here. happy thanksgiving. >> happy thanksgiving molly to your family and you. >> john: a live look now at seattle-tacoma airport on this busy travel wednesday but traffic looks like it is moving quite well outside of the airport anyway. we will check in with the forecast with our fox weather folks coming up to see if this will be a happy thanksgiving or

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before checking on thanksgiving travel weather, our flocks meteorologist is here with more, what are we looking at?

>> busy thanksgiving, especially in the east coast over the next 24-48 hours. active weather across the southeast, severe storms tonight and tomorrow, chilly rain, and the slow starts to ride up on that quarter bringing in rain as early as thanksgiving afternoon. then we are looking at a some heavier snow further inland, here's where things stand right now. we have a good opportunity for rain, snow back towards of denver starting to wind down, most of the activity into the east, northeast direction as we head into tomorrow. rain totals can be very vague, if you're going to your türkiye your turkey day, thanksgiving with your family, make sure you are taking things slow. takes us to most of tomorrow afternoon, it a clogged time frame, rain is off towards the north areas like boston, further inland we have a much colder air locked into place, we

are also looking at heavy rounds of snow. i-70 six quarter, are going to be drenched with heavy rain, keep things on the caution note, as he headed back towards a boston, albany, we have a chance of snow and a lot of these areas fall under winter weather alerts. because of that we are looking at several inches of snow, that can slow you down as well, happy thanksgiving to. >> john: great detail here from kionah, a lot of people travel on thanksgiving day so maybe people can stay off the roads. it's been great being with you, i am john roberts, we will see on monday. >> my pleasure, the "the story" of course with julian turner coming up in just a moment, for martha, starts after a quick break. ♪ ♪ same. discover the power of wegovy®. with wegovy®, i lost 35 pounds. and some lost over 46 pounds.

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