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i'm greg jenkins. hi, molly. >> molly: great to be with you. i molly line. happy thanksgiving to you. this happening is the fbi works with local law enforcement following a string of bomb threats and swatting incidents against president-elect trump's cabinet nominees. trump incoming border czar says he has been threatened since his time as i.c.e. director. >> even after i retired the death threats continued, i had u.s. marshals protection for a long time to protect me and my family. and what doesn't help, all of the negative press around the president and people he is putting in his cabinet. >> molly: mark meredith is covering the president for us and reporting from west palm beach on this thanksgiving. mark, to you. happy thanksgiving. >> molly, happy thanksgiving to you. i should mention this afternoon we have learned multiple members of connecticut's congressional delegation have also been receiving fake bomb threats. this is similar to what we saw yesterday with members of the

trump team. these lawmakers appear to be safe and have been thanking the u.s. capitol police for their investigation and their work and also say political violence cannot stand. where we are in west palm beach, there has been a lot of focus on the outrage coming after multiple members of president-elect trump's incoming staff were targeted, nominees for secretaries of labor, defense, high-profile people. we got a statement from the trump team about this incident, and they say, "president trump and the transition are focused on doing the work of uniting our nation by ensuring a prosperous future with president trump as our example, dangerous acts of intimidation and violence will not deter us. swatting has become an increasing problem for u.s. leaders. earlier this year two men from romania and serbia were charged with swatting dozens of members of congress and some believe the problem like we are seeing today is only getting worse. >> there is a coordinated effort here, the fbi has to get on top of it. not only do they have to identify, but they need to charge and then prosecute these people. america needs to see

consequences for people that are threatening other people's li lives. >> meantime, we are trying to decipher how well trump's call with max because president really went. today the mexican president said tariffs never came up on her phone call with trump and the two are still trying to find common ground. trump has said the call was "very productive." he has threatened sweeping tariffs not only on mexico but canada, too, unless more is done to stop the flow of drugs into the u.s. as for his thanksgiving, trump posted online this morning happy thanksgiving to all, including to the radical left lunatics who have worked so hard to destroy our country but have visibly failed and will always fail. but while most people are trying to avoid talking politics at the thanksgiving dinner table, the transition team has been touting the majority of americans happy with the way the transition has gone so far. molly? >> molly: mark meredith, thank you very much. let's bring chris swecker, former fbi assistant director. gratitude to you for showing up

for us on thanksgiving. thank you so much. this appears to be, to some extent, the threats coming in not just against trump cabinet members, at this point, possibly a coordinated effort, but now we are hearing some democratic lawmakers are getting sort of these swatting threats. we have actually seen this for years, facing a lot, even smaller politicians, from all across the country, and judges and prosecutors. but your thoughts on what is happening right now and how serious should it be taken? >> well, as you say, it looks like it is a coordinated effort either by one person or several people. these types of threats, threats that, in, usually, they'll come in from professionals, from serious actors, in the sense they have the capability and they are going to go plant bombs, so you have to take every single one of these threats seriously. they are designed to disrupt and try to intimidate incoming cabinet members and incoming high-level officials, and i

think there is no specific statute that is domestic terrorism, quote, unquote, but there are many statutes you can use in this case, and this does, indeed, appear to me to be acts of domestic terrorism. this is intimidation and threats in an effort to effect political change, and that is these cabinet members not going, taking their office, or being intimidated and relocating themselves and taking measures to protect themselves, so i think these are very, very serious and i hope the fbi is putting on a full-court press. >> molly: here is political commentator scott jennings kind of talking about really the threat out there. >> these people have had their names put forward for public service, and now they are immediately being treated this way, so i hope folks calm it down and whoever is doing it stops doing it because when you have this kind of climate, it is supposed to instill fear, and it

is supposed to keep people from wanting to step forward and serve our government, and it is pretty darn despicable. >> molly: what's the likelihood the perpetrators actually get tracked down and face consequences? >> i think there is a high likelihood. the fbi probably has a pretty good idea at this point. because any time use electronic means to communicate, there is usually a trail, and good forensics can recreate that trail, can peel back layers of the onion. there's some great federal statutes that can use here that carry a lot of federal time. i have every confidence that the fbi will be able to track them down. >> molly: do you think that is an important deterrent? >> it is an important deterrent. you want visible deterrence here. you want to deter anybody, whether they are professional or whether the lone wing nut, which could be the case here, you want to get it out there in a very public way and let's see them go off to jail. >> molly: chris swecker,

thank you very much. federal charges would be no joke, that's for sure. happy thanksgiving to you. appreciate it. >> happy thanksgiving. >> molly: griff? >> griff: molly, he thanksgiving eve meeting over at mar-a-lago between president-elect trump and meta ceo mark zuckerberg. the tech titan was "grateful" for the dinner invite and the opportunity to meet with members of trump's team. trump has accused. >> molly: anyone of censoring conservatives in the past. zuckerberg didn't endorse a candidate in 2024 but praised trump after the first attempt on his life back in july. >> it is seeing donald trump get up after getting shot in the face and pump his fist in the air with the american flag is one of the most badass things i've ever seen in my life. as an american, it's like hard to not get kind of emotional about that spirit. >> griff: all right, let's bring brad howard, president of

the corporate industry group and former spokesperson for the house blue dog coalition. happy thanksgiving, brad, thanks for being here. what do you make of this thanksgiving eve meeting? >> happy thanksgiving to you, griff, and all of your viewers, especially my family back home in arkansas. mark zuckerberg, facebook is an integral part of american life these days, so the president has had some genuine concerns and grievances of how facebook has treated speech on both sides, speaking obviously with the current side. the supreme court has said the government cannot dictate to facebook what it can and cannot do because it has a right to free speech and actually the supreme court found just recently within the last two years that social media platforms have the same first amendment rights as newspapers, magazines, and others who compile and present speech, so if trump tries to do anything to dictate to facebook what it can or cannot do, according to the supreme court, this supreme court, that is a

violation of facebook's first amendment rights. >> griff: and brad, we should remind our viewers that back in early march of this year, this is what the president, the former president was putting on his truth social, saying if you get rid of tiktok, facebook and zucker-shmuck -- i don't want them doing better, they are a true enemy of the people. do you suppose that came up in their meeting? >> the president has a lot of grievances, some genuine and some not genuine. it's the nature of living in a free country. i think this goes to how complicated governing is going to be for the next four years, particularly for house and senate republicans peered you remember donald trump was the one pushing for a tiktok band for a very long time. at the 11th hour as congress was about to pass it, trump reversed

his position on the tiktok ban. dealing with a lot of presidential -- via social media over the next few years and it is going to be an interesting ride. >> griff: it has been fascinating just how much of an impact social media has had in our past election. let me ask you, though, while there is obviously a lot of grievances in the past, with trump and people like zuckerberg, who do you think came to who? right? did tech come to trump or did trump reach out to tech to try and head off any problems he may foresee in the future? >> you know, i don't know, the reporting on this isn't clear, but what i hope is donald trump is the president-elect, and i hopeful looks that have a pivotal role in society these days, social media tech companies, they meet with the president-elect, try to come together as a country, he is our duly-elected president and we owe him that respect and that

reverence. i will keep in mind, too, my wanting to president trump, he owns a social media company now, too, so whatever restrictions he wants to put in place on facebook, the same could be done for truth social, you know, and the next president. this is a slippery slope for him and he needs to be careful. but i hope more folks come to the president-elect and pledge to work with him as long as he is going to work with them and as long as he is willing to govern for all of america and not just the far right. >> griff: well, you certainly are going to see tech titans have an impact, and he seems to be embracing him. we will see exactly where it goes. brad howard, have a happy thanksgiving, and go on facebook and post a great picture of your thanksgiving there. at least it could be used for some good things, as well as the political division we have seen in the past. brad, takes very much. molly? >> molly: millions of americans were in the past of the dangerous winter blast. alive check in next.

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some people might think that it's just a food pantry. but they don't know the significance of it and the importance of it to the people here. i feel so blessed to be able to help people with food on this reservation. one of the elders told me, there is no higher honor for our people than to give one another food.

>> molly: we go live to

fox weather meteorologist michael estimate. thank you for coming in on this thanksgiving. >> absolutely, and molly, happy thanksgiving to you and yours, as well. molly, as you know, nobody likes a dry turkey, but when it comes to the weather department, we love to see dry air in place on the mile high city down to okc. a chance for showers and thunderstorms, exactly what we could see in parts of southeast georgia but stealing the weather headlines, the macy's thanksgiving day parade, i'm telling you, it was soaking wet, even snoopy like looked like a wet dog coming down sixth avenu. along the i-95 corridor we are expecting rain and at least the five boroughs of new york, so slowly but surely beginning to clear through this afternoon more so into this evening. in this week, a lot of snow, in fact some spots, burnt hills, this is in new york, picking up over 8.5 inches of snow. more is on the way for parts of new england, you can see right

there from burlington to bangor, and what we are expecting to see behind all of this, by the way, is going to be lake-effect snow, and interestingly enough, we could be tracking that lake effect snow, the way, in feet, friday through wednesday, so it is going to be a herculean system we are tracking for you on fox weather, that's for sure. in the meantime, though, black friday, tomorrow, if you are joining us up toward the mall of america in minneapolis, st. paul, great place to be, drop down to only 70 degrees for a high temperature, so if you are able to find a sale on a winter coat, do it tomorrow. here is that lake-effect snow, check that out, parts of lake erie over to northeast ohio and erie, p.a., we will be tracking feet of snow possible, and not just one or 2 feet of snow, although that is what is possible toward springfield by the time we get to friday through early next week, but in montague, this is unbelievable, right, 4-6 feet of lake effect

snow is expected. it's going to look just like christmas day as opposed to being on thanksgiving, right? molly, the forecast calling for a cool weekend ahead in buffalo, watertown, and erie, p.a. back to you. >> molly: michael, great job! a warning to my cousins in buffalo. they have seen it all before, though. thank you so much for coming in on thanksgiving. a warning about the big snow to come. >> absolutely. >> griff: the feet of snow, no thanks. meanwhile, president-elect trump's mass deportation plans facing stiff resistance from democrat leaders in sanctuary cities like chicago. a new report suggests trump may turn up the heat by cutting federal funding to cities who are refusing to cooperate with immigration officials. senior correspondent mike tobin reports live from chicago. happy thanksgiving, mike. >> happy thanksgiving to you. and as you are getting to, the stage is set for a showdown on century cities like chicago. the trump administration wants cooperations to get illegals off

the street. then you have people incoming border czar tom homan coming out and saying federal funds will be stripped away from cities that do not cooperate with the partition efforts. in cash-strapped chicago, can't get anything passed because property tax that he won't help with deportations. >> we are not going to cooperate. we are not going to ask our police force to serve as i.c.e. agents. we are not going to do that peered we are working hard to restore confidence with community and policing. why would we put police officers in a position where the community can't trust them? we are not cooperating with that madness. >> reverend cory brooks works in the neighborhoods impacted by the crush of illegal immigrants, where homeless shelters are overwhelmed, residents say they are impacted by the rise in petty crime. he said mayor johnson is so unpopular, he does not have the right or ability to speak for chicagoans or what chicagoans want. >> we cannot allow, in the city

of chicago, our mayor to speak on our behalf because he does not speak on behalf of the people. he only has a 14% approval rating. that means that the majority of the people in chicago do not agree with his policies, nor the do they agree with him. >> now chicago stands out as a sanctuary city, defying what the trump administration wants, but they are not alone. you have l.a., new york, denver, all looking to feel the impact when the deportations kick in. griff? >> griff: mike tobin live for us in chicago. mike, thank you very much. >> you got it. >> griff: all right, let's bring mary vaughn, vice president of strategic communications at the heritage foundation. mary, happy thanksgiving. let's pick up where mike tobin left off. what do you make of what is clearly going to be a looming showdown, particularly between local leaders like the mayors you just heard from in mike tobin's report?

>> thanks, griff, thanks for having me on. well, it's a violation of federal law, title eight section 1320 force as it is illegal to harbor illegal aliens, so there is a difference between opposing the policy but to blatantly and willfully say you are going to harbor these individuals, i mean, there is a lot of tools that the trump administration will have in order to push back on this. we saw in the first term for trump he withheld federal funds, the clip we just played mentioned tom homan said that is on the table. i think it is well within reason for the trump administration also to prosecute some of these mayors and democrat governors for not following the law. and the sad thing is that these elected officials, their job is to protect their communities, and they are not doing that by allowing these individuals to come in. they have all broken the law. many of them violent offenders. they don't care about their

constituents, so it is just another example of politicians playing politics over the actual people they have elected to represent, and that is probably why the chicago mayor has a 14% approval rating. >> griff: you make a great point to marry when you talk and nerd out a little bit but when we see this showdown coming, the immigration law is clearly a responsibility of the federal government not state and local jurisdictions, and if you go a little further into title eight, so our viewers understand, title eight is our immigration law come in a originated in the immigration nationality act, decades ago, still stands, sect, 1325, 1326 make it a felony ultimately for repeatedly crossing the border and many of the people that tom homan and his team are going to go after are the 1.4 million already deemed for deportation.

not only are they violent criminals in some cases, but repeatedly violated illegal crossings. do you think that that will, because those migrants don't have due process, do you think that will at least occur without some significant resistance? >> i think we will have to wait and see, griff. as you know, on november 5th, 1 of the top issues that led voters to go to the polls and vote for donald trump was immigration. parents, me, a mother of two kids, we are frustrated by what we are seeing in our state and in our country, and we know that a strong country is only as strong as its borders, and so the american people went to the polls, they voted for donald trump, and this was one of the top two issues that led them to support him. i think this administration has a lot of tools in their toolbox in order to push back on this policy and they have the american people standing behind them. let me say to these liberal mayors and democrats, tom homan is a patriot.

he loves this country and he knows the importance of securing the community, so i am sure he is telling them to bring it on, he is going to handle it. >> griff: mary, in boston and in denver, they are not going to see it the way you josh listen quickly, if we run out of time, to those two mayors. >> we do not cooperate when it comes to civil immigration detainers. we do not share information with the federal government about immigration status. >> if they are going to send the u.s. army or the navy seals into denver to pursue folks to pull off the job at hotels or restaurants where they are working or pull kids off the soccer field, i think we will see denver rights and folks around the country will nonviolently resist that. >> griff: mary, i will give you the last word. your response. >> i think we'll have to wait and see, griff. i think once these communities stop receiving federal funds that their constituents relied on, constituents are going to cry out and say they want a safe community, they want safety,

they want to protect their families and their environment. >> griff: it's going to be interesting, and we will be covering it here at the fox news channel. mary vought, happy thanksgiving. thanks for taking time. >> thank you. >> griff: molly? >> molly: new accusations threatened to unravel the you cease-fire between israel and hezbollah next. ♪ ♪ customize and save with liberty mutual. customize and sa— (balloon doug pops & deflates) and then i wake up. is limu with you in all your dreams? oh, yeah. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty. ♪ asthma. does it have you missing out on what you love, with who you love? get back to better breathing with fasenra, an add-on treatment for eosinophilic asthma taken once every 8 weeks.

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>> molly: breaking today, a potential crack in a cease-fire agreement between israel and hezbollah, less than 48 hours after it began. both sides say the truth has been violated and is really prime minister benjamin netanyahu has reportedly directed his military to prepare for the possibility of a return to intense fighting in lebanon. correspondent alex hogan is following all of this for us on thanksgiving, and she reports in tel aviv, israel. alex? >> hi, molly. happy thanksgiving to you and our viewers back home.

yes, this is the focus tonight, some of the back-and-forth we have seen between the idf, and one is taking place, according to the idf, they are contending to strike areas like hezbollah military site just exactly what it said it would do once the cease-fire began, that it would continue protecting itself. so all of this still holding tonight as we look towards another night. meanwhile the focus is now shifting to the south. we joined the idf traveling into gaza to the crossing. this is one of just several entrances through which aid is allowed onto the strip. all of these pallets have been inspected on the israeli side. they have been brought here, unloaded, and eventually will be distributed across the strip. everything potatoes, apples, to sanitary pads. >> we were walking with the international community on different roads, different time of operation. >> most of gaza's 2.3 million people are displaced, although much of this might not reach them because of new attacks on eight trucks.

u.n. wr says 100 trucks departing from this crossing earlier this month, only 11 of those made it to the final destination. u.s. state department is urging that a more secure safety operation is needed. when asked about that, the idf told me the responsibility is on the international organizations picking up supplies from here. >> one of the big problems is logistic problems. when they have more trucks to do the job, when they have more staff to do the job. >> the truck drivers leave here and head north, where the war rages on. as the idf targets hamas, air strikes rocked central gaza today. health officials on the ground say as many as 20 are dead. and egyptian delegation traveled here to israel to continue cease-fire talks for the strip. back to you. >> molly: alex hogan, thank you, appreciate that important update, covering a lot of ground in gaza and the information about the challenges to get supplies out, thank you. let's bring in the founder and

executive director of the national security institute and former associate white house counsel to president george w. bush. thank you so much for giving us some of your time on this thanksgiving. we greatly appreciate it. when we look at what is unfolding here, are you at all surprised that we are already seeing cracks in a cease-fire, and what do you think that signals? >> well, you know, molly, it is really no surprise. you have hezbollah on one side saying they have their fingers remaining on the trigger as they continue to bring their soldiers back in who had moved up north, moving back into the south, the idf not surprisingly is going to take action to prevent them coming into those areas they have called no-go zones for hezbollah. a 60 day cease-fire, israel has to withdraw after 60 days but they are allowed to remain in that zone to protect their border region and that is what is happening here. >> molly: netanyahu has warned them there could be further activity in southern lebanon, but there was a lot of hope earlier this week. a "wall street journal" opinion piece was published, hezbollah

cease-fire is a victory for israel. they go on to write the editorial, israel's objectives in lebanon were limited and the test is whether israelis return to their homes in the north. there is also people who would like to return to their homes in lebanon, as well. their chances this is progress we are seeing. >> one can hope this fight in the north comes to an end. you have lots of people displaced, 40-60000 in israel, the same number on the lebanese side, come back to their homes and avoid this fighting. the problem is you've got hezbollah putting itself into civilian homes, as it has for years, and launching rockets to israel from there and the idea of not responding. you see the death of hassan mistral, the leader of hezbolla. the question now is will both sides accept this temporary

pause and focus on the fighting in the south and focus challenging -- returning the hostages that remain in gaza to israel. >> molly: great point, there are four american hostages who remain in gaza. as we return to that part of the conflict of alex hogan, incredible reporting about the challenges there, getting all sorts of supplies to the civilian population. this hezbollah agreement, however tentative and however, perhaps not holding that it is, at this point, seemingly game some hope to the region about stability and peace to come, do you think that is where we are? that there are signs of hope? >> one can only hope we get to that point. the real challenge right now is you've got these supplies coming in through the crossing, and the reason why these supplies are not getting from where they are at that border crossing into the hands of civilians who desperately needed them in gaza is because you have hamas players taking those supplies and rerouting them to people in the tunnels. we have to solve for that problem and come together and

give supplies to people who actually need them, the civilians in gaza who have been displaced, as well, from this fighting. >> molly: pointing those can consistent challenges, same challenges going on going on for more than a year now. jamil jaffer, thank you very much, appreciate your time and insights this thanksgiving, happy thanksgiving to you and yours. >> same, thanks, molly. >> molly: we will be right back. what do we want more of? more laughs. more hang outs. yeah, more of all of this stuff. but getting older also means

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♪ ♪ >> griff: welcome back and happy thanksgiving. legendary investor warren buffett taking new steps to give away his $150 billion fortune. the 94-year-old announcing he'll donate just over $1 billion in berkshire hathaway fare shares to family foundations as part of his pledge to give away 99.5% of his wealth to charity. also praising his shareholders for embracing his vision of giving back, saying there checks are being widely distributed to others less lucky. let's bring in m mitch rochelle. thank you for joining us. happy thanksgiving. what do you make of this surprise letter? >> not that big of a surprise, griff, he said he was going to give away 99.5% of his wealth to charity. i think he is trying to send a message this week about the

importance of philanthropy in all of our lives, and i think it is a good message to send. he is 94 years old and he can't take it with him and doesn't want to pay taxes so he will give that wealth to charity. >> griff: it's fascinating, he is giving just over $1 billion to the four family foundations he has, and then after his death, the rest of his fortune will be distributed by his three children. and he writes in the letter, that he starts off saying, father time always wins, but then he advises other parents about whatever means they have, whether they are wealthy or not, to talk with their children and read to their children their own will, in perhaps, you know, hoping they will learn this giving away, you know, the charitable aspects of life. why do you think it matters so

much to a guy like warren buffett, who has everything? >> well, i think it becomes, especially when you are 94, all about legacy. more often than not, i have a lot of professional experience in this, when wealth gets passed down from one generation to the next, the second-generation ends up fighting over the money. here the only thing they're fighting over is whose foundation is getting the money because it is all going to charity but i think it is an important message that a, you have conversation with your adult children about what your wishes are, and when you move on, and the role that philanthropy plays in all of it. the other thing i really love about warren buffett is a lot of companies get very involved in corporate social responsibility, and that has been a trend the last dozen years or so but the last four or five it has been more about social justice and less giving back to the community, and i think that warren buffett throughout his career has never been a big social justice warrior. philanthropy is just that, philanthropy, giving back to

those who are less fortunate than you are. >> griff: what a great thing for us to be discussing on thanksgiving, when we are thankful so much, and buffett says he is think of for his good fortune, he talks about p, do you think, i will give you the last word here, do you think in some ways this letter from buffett is may be a lesson in philanthropy for other ceos? >> i think it 100% is. whether you are an investor or just a student of history, business history, if you don't study warren buffett, think you're making a big mistake, especially of all weeks, a very important message to pass along. >> griff: find value and invest, it certainly worked for him. mitch roschelle, thanks for joining us on thanksgiving. >> you bet, griff. good to see you. >> griff: molly? >> molly: uptake founder clay travis with a thanksgiving debate on x calling cranberries super underrated and deserve a

bigger role on our plates. cranberry sauce on the thanksgiving table, americans split on what tastes best, canned or homemade. >> i like the canned, takes better. >> the canned also, i think it is smoother. >> i don't like cranberry sauce, some more room for turkey and gravy and potatoes. >> i would say homemade but i don't know, do we have homemade? sometimes? we only have homemade. i don't know how it is made, i just like it. >> i don't remember eating too much cranberry sauce over thanksgiving but i would say homemade. >> this is easy. canned. i think it taste better. >> homemade. >> homemade definitely. >> tastes better. it is made with love. >> my grandmother makes amazing cranberry sauce. >> oh, i like both, and i grew up with canned, so it is nostalgic, and now that i'm older, i have acquired taste, so now i like homemade. >> definitely homemade. the canned is just fake and too much. too much fake stuff.

>> i like homemade because i like making it. >> homemade because the form that comes out of the can is a little awkward. >> definitely love homemade. >> we do it canned, it is very easy and we don't like the peel of the real cranberries. >> it is just a gritty. it is not as good. >> homemade. >> canned. >> homemade. >> happy thanksgiving! >> molly: oh, they are the cutest, so honest, canned all the way, baby. don't even move it, the whole thing, for sure. >> griff: absolutely. you have to have the ridges on the can. i am a child from the south, born and raised in memphis. we like congealed things in general, but the canned cranberry sauce, i think, you know, with great apologies to my amazing mother, sylvia jenkins, watching us perhaps now, she

made the best cranberry sauce growing up, but once you fly the nest and you get that canned cranberry sauce at your own table, i'll never go back, it is too good. >> my kids love it, too, slice it up, it is so easy. can't one thing be easy? >> griff: yum. cracked the cans open. meanwhile thanksgiving holds a special significance for one of our american heroes. we will introduce you to him next. ♪ ♪

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♪ ♪ >> molly: parts of north carolina still recovering from hurricane helene two months later, so volunteers spending their thanksgiving bring some holiday cheer, and correspondent madison madison scarpino reporting from atlanta, bringing us this incredible story. madison, to you. >> hello, molly. today kicks off what will likely be a difficult holiday season in western north carolina. so hundreds of volunteers are now working to make sure that people in need at least get a hot thanksgiving meal, and the effort is coming from big corporations, but also everyday people who just wanted to help

out. the home improvement store lowe's handed out 3,000 meals in asheville, one of the areas hit hardest by helene. the company hired local restaurant workers who are now without a job after the hurricane destroyed countless businesses. and one north carolina man says his small idea turned into a massive operation. >> i just thought, you know, there was so much devastation in the western part of the state. all the homes eradicated. so i was thinking, i was like, well, i know how to cook. i do some fundraising work here where i live, and i decided, hey, go out there and help these people cook a thanksgiving meal. >> the original plan was to cook for around 1,000 people, but so many volunteers jumped in to help that the goal is now to serve 5,000 people today. operation thanksgiving blessing says that people were up cooking

all through the night to prepare for today, and molly, two months after helene devastated parts of north carolina, transportation secretary pete buttigieg says that his department has sent its first $187 million to clear roads and begin repairs. i'll send it back to you. >> molly: there are so many, many roads and bridges that need that repair, but i'll tell you, that picture of turkeys on the grill, those looked amazing. madison scarpino, thank you so much. happy thanksgiving to you. >> thanks, molly. >> molly: and thanksgiving has an extra meeting for one marine veteran. it is when he lost both of his legs in an explosion in afghanistan, but survived. that was 14 years ago. and gabe martinez joins me now. thank you, sir, for giving us a little bit of your time on thanksgiving day away from your family, of course, and for your service, as well. thank you so very much for your service. this is an incredible story of survival. it is also an incredible story about the organizations that have helped you, over the years,

in ways americans can help our veterans. i wonder, just get a chance to hear your story about a very challenging thanksgiving from 14 years ago. >> yeah, so as you said, i was in the marine corps, a sergeant in the marine corps on my second deployment, and i was 48 days into the deployment, and it was a tough time during that deployment in 2010. marines were taking over kind of two cities that the taliban was taking over. and so, yeah, my job was around clearance, looking for ieds buried in the ground, and thanksgiving day was actually the morning after thanksgiving in afghanistan. we were on a convoy, and the first vehicle, something was interfering with it. it rebooted its system that looks for ieds, proceeded come all of a sudden the second vehicle gets blown up. my team and another team

dismounted looking for secondaries, tertiaries, enemy in the area, so we were clearing looking for that. cleared up from the back, so now i had a clear in front of the vehicle. so that is what i was doing when i was standing next to a 26,000-pound chunk of metal using a metal detector, which rendered it useless. so i just was on my hands and knees sifting through the dirt, deemed it clear, and i stood up and took my first step, and that activated the 25-pound ied. as you said, that ied did take both of my legs. but as you can see today, it didn't take my life. it didn't take the good stuff, you know, just having -- having everything that i am able to experience and, you know, my ears, my eyes, my hands, being able to love and hear and be with my loved ones. >> molly: incredible story. that you made it. we are so grateful that you did. and you weren't the only one

injured that day. but i do want to focus on the organization here, t there is a match going on. they are matching donations up to $10 million, it is incredible, and with the time we have left, how can americans help those such as yourself? >> yeah, so semper fi and america's fund has been the biggest blessing to my family and i know many others, as you said, i wasn't the only one injured that day, my best friend was also. it is now going on 14 years that we have been, you know, returning back to our daily lives. semper fi and america's fund has been there from day one. they are here today. they truly are family to us. they have kind of unfortunately been able to have the experience of the hardships a lot of us service members, either injured, sick, or wounded in action, experience, so they have been able to kind of go alongside us

through the last 14 years, and like i said, just be there to be able to make sure, you know, we're kind of well-rounded, mind, body, and spirit. they have so much assistance. i know when people are looking to donate, they want to know where their money is going, and i am a living testament that every dollar is truly going to what they want. they for an a+ on charity watch since the beginning. and i see firsthand what their money goes to. and like i said, mind, body, and spirit, so it is every facet of a recovery for a veteran, wheres not just focusing on one thing, and it is not even the veterans, it is the caregivers and families, also. my kids, my wife, we all see them truly as family. almost like on's and uncles. >> molly: gabe martinez, thank you so much. thank you for your story.

thank you for the opportunity to give to the fund, it is on the screen. happy thanksgiving to you. thank you for your service. we are so grateful you are able to be here with us. really appreciate it. griff? >> griff: semper fi, sergeant, thank you for your service, and happy thanksgiving. "fox new s live" right after this. ♪ ♪ moun a healthy weight can help dogs live a longer and happier life. the farmer's dog makes weight management easy with fresh food pre-portioned for your dog's needs. it's an idea whose time has come. my daughter and i finally had that conversation. oh, no, not about that. about what comes next in life. for her. i may not be in perfect health, but i want to stay in my home, where my family visits often and where my memories are. i can do it with help from a prep cook, wardrobe assistant and stylist, someone to help me live right at home. life's good. when you have a plan.

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