it is thanksgiving day, november 26th, 2015. welcome back to "cbs this morning." more real news ahead, including pope francis in africa. the pope promotes family values and asks local leaders to be prophets of peace. first, here's a look at today's "eye opener" at 8:00. more than 3 million people are expected to line the parade route with those crowds comes security concerns. this engagement has certainly changed to get in and neutralize the threat as fast as possible. turkey and russia are pushing their version of events following the shooting down of that russian war plane. in belgium, the hunt for two paris suspects continues. security is extremely tight in the capitol. you must get the bad news out there early. there is no reason for this

video to ven kept quiet. black friday is still important. it's the day retailers go into the black after being in the red for most of the year. >> this morning, frank gifford joins a list of former nfl players confirmed to have a degenerative brain disease. the pro football hall of famer turned sportscaster was 84 when he died in august. >> the holiday dinner table has become a mine field of controversial subjects. >> what comes to the notoriously divisive issue of sweet potatoes, 34% of becomes like theirs with marshmallows, while only 27% of republicans do. and nearly 40% of republicans think a sweet potato would make a pretty good president. i'm michelle miller. i'm here with don dahler. charlie, gayle, and norah are all this morning.

nearly 47 million americans are traveling for thanksgiving this year. there is increased security all across the country to protect them. police are on high alert after the terror attacks in paris earlier this month. >> the secretary of homeland security reassured the public on wednesday that there is no known threat to the u.s. >> those of us in law enforcement, homeland security, the intelligence community, continue to be vigilant, to work overtime, to monitor what is happening here in this country and for public safety. we are working overtime to protect the homeland. >> security is tight this morning for new york city's thanksgiving day parade. jericka duncan is at the start of the parade route along central park. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. the warm weather is expected to

annual macy's day thanksgiving day parade. parade go-ers i spoke to are not concerned about familiarity and feel comfortable with the amount they have seen in the ground and in the sky. federal, state, and local authorities across the have stepped up security since the attacks in paris. a joint intelligence bulletin was issued to law enforcement nationwide, fearing a possible similar attack in the united states, but the president has reiterated that there is no known specific or credible intelligence indicating a plot on the u.s. he said that while americans should remain vigilant, shethey should go about their lives and enjoy the festivities and law enforcement is helping to keep americans safe. an increased security lines at airports like l.a.x. passengers there were arrived to arrive two hours before their flight starts. now, back here in new york, the nypd will deploy 200 critical

response officers for the first time, in addition to bomb sniffing dogs and radiation detectors. >> thank you very much. enjoy the parade today. the next half hour, we will speak with kevin phrasen and kelti knightht who is anchoring the parade coverage. stick around for the excitement of that thanksgiving day parade right here. pope france this morning, is continuing his tour of kenya and meeting with priests at a school. this is his first trip to africa. he arrived wednesday. earlier this morning, the pope delivered mass at the university of nairobi and met with muslim and christian leaders. the pope will visit two other countries, including the central african republic on sunday. allen pizzey is traveling with the pope in nairobi. >> reporter: there was a proper and relic be african welcome to kick off the first public engagement of the pope's first-ever african trip. dancing children led the

procession of bishops who proceeded him to the specially built altar. the theme of this stop on his three-nation pilgrimage is be strong in faith and do not be afraid. it took a fair bit of strength to tens of thousands of faith fulve ful into the field of a field that rain turned into a quagmire but rain is a blessing here and no one seemed to mind in the least. police were on hand in considerable number but guns were conspeckikconspeck -- several bloody attacks here including the massacre of students at a university. 2013 shooting in a mall that left 67 dead. both carried out by the al qaeda affiliate al shabab that is based in neighboring city and they say god's name must never be used to describe hatred and violence. all too often, he told an

people are being radicalized in the name of religion to discourt fear and tear at the fabric of our societies. the mass was aimed, in part, at young people and francis urged them to let what he called the great values of africa's traditions to shape a society that is respectful of human dignity. in keeping with his usual style, pope francis isn't pulling any punches. but in a region why tribal rivalries and violence has wreaked havoc his message seems to be going down well. a pair of turkeys have nothing to worry about this thanksgiving morning, thanks to president obama. >> all right. don't interrupt. >> the leader of the free world pardoned the fowl at the white on wednesday. their names are honest and abe. only abe was allowed to attend.

first daughters malia and sasha watched dad deliver the poultry punch lines. >> i confess that honest looks like good eating but this is a democracy. abe is now a free bird. he is totu, the turkey of the united states. it is hard to believe this is my seventh year of pardoning a turkey. time flies, even if turkeys don't. >> dad, that is good. that was good. >> i thought it was. >> gobble gobble. >> the turkeys will live at a virginia farm. our correspondent mark knoller reported on the incident. arlo guthrie went to have thanksgiving beginner with

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priorities misplaced but in our morning roueds before you sit down to your thanksgiving dinner, we take a look at the health benefits of gratitude. studies suggest it can help relieve stress and improve your mood and boost your health all year-round. our davidoctor david agus is here. what are your thankful for and how does this work? >>ism thankful for my family. my loving wife and two children are here with me in new york and it's certainly the most important part of my life. but trying to experiment. smile. if you smile for just ten seconds, all of a sudden, your body feels differently. it's easier to small than frown. 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown. but when you smile, your whole body habit is changed and chemicals and endorphins make your brain feel and do better. >> is this in cases of cart and the horse? you were talking about a study in the green room earlier. >> right. >> that if you think about what you're grateful for, you feel

better. but or is it the case if you're feeling good, you're grateful so it's easy to do that? >> it's the coolest thing. they did a study where they put three groups. one group they say write down every week what you have gratitude for. the other they say what are hassles? you write it down once a week and the others wrote down neutral things. at the end of the study the people who wrote down gratitude had better self-esteem and felt better about themselves and their lives. it works. all of us can improve and thinking what we care about and writing it down. >> get real for a minute here. the holidays are filled with stress and a lot of people, you know, don't feel so good this time of year. so how do you feel grateful when you're sort of in that funk? >> well, you know, exactly a gene for gratitude. variations in the gene all of us can have a little bit of different response to what happens. but that being said, the idea of just writing down once a week

our family, our children, where we live, the smell of the fall, the weather today. all of those will make a difference. >> it has a physical effect? >> it has a chemical effect in our body and it's real. when you looked at after heart surgery, people who felt gratitude and those people who actually wrote it down, actually did better. so it affects our body, whether it be smiling or thinking about what we have good in our lives, it overwhelms everything else and it spreads gratitude. when i talk about things, others feel it. >> what are you grateful for, donnie? >> i'm grateful i wasn't born a bacteria. being a human at this point in the history where the major diseaseses are pretty much curtailed, it's a good time to be livealive and be a human. >> ditto. >> you're grateful you're not a bacteria? >> there is a lot more. family. >> this is a fabulous place to

>> you had me until that point! jennifer wallace is in our toyota green room. a journalist with a guideline to those awkward moments at the thanksgiving dinner table. that is next on "cbs this morning." announcer: this portion of "cbs this morning" sponsored by miralax. a laxative you can love! hydrates, eases and softens to unblock naturally, so you have peace of mind from start to finish. love your laxative. miralax. before there could be a nation, there had to be people willing to fight for it, to take on the world's greatest challenges,

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oh, the pies are ready! and i am ready to vote for ben carson. >> you are such a -- at least i can see better >> that's so great. "saturday night live" suggests adele's music is a good way to avoid conflicts around the thanksgiving dinner table, especially when talking about politics but is that the best way to prevent fights against politics and even your love life. jennifer wallace often writes about family issues. welcome back. what do you think of "snl's" suggestion to handle problems? >> i love it. i will bring my iphone and keep it in the background for any emergency situations. everybody has those sort of moments so it's how you get out of them. >> some of us have them more often than others. and the faux pas just keep

coming and coming and coming. so, like, what is a person to do? what are the tricks of the trade to avoid those land mines? >> to avoid them -- first off tell you what to do in the middle of one. the first thing i love to do is pretend your kids are having a fight in the background so sorry, i think i hear trouble! that is my one. you can only use that once, right, in a dinner conversation? so when someone else is sort of prodding and pressing one of your triggers and you're afraid you're getting into it at the thanksgiving table, one of the things i like to do is excuse myself for a minute and be right back. go to the bathroom and wait a few minutes and think of something else to change the topic will have that person talk about them. sit back down and come back with a strategy, like uncle bob, i've been dying to hear about your bee keeping. how did you get involved in that and change the subject to them. >> don't engage. >> don't engage. >> is it ever okay, though, to just, like, dig in there and have that conversation?

>> i can see that happening at your house. >> so many families i know who love the -- that sort of spark of debate that happens at the dinner table. >> i think as long as it doesn't get personal and -- you know, we hold our political and religious beliefs so personally and so part of our identity. when you're threatening somebody and challenging them, they could perceive that wrong. as long as you challenge them in a light way and make it fun. thanksgiving is about being together and not winning a national debate. it's not to win points. it's to bond. >> you want it to be pleasant and it can get very unpleasant. growing up in my house, there was a family member who had very strong political beliefs and always evolve into an unpleasant situation so we would avoid it and completely change the subject as you suggested. but you know, the fact of the matter is that it is a dynamic thing. i mean, people believe things and then they want to talk about them and they haven't seen you in a while. >> and they are drinking alcohol

>> what i would say is, if you can, you know, distance yourself from the conversation and use it as opposition research. right? if you're talking to uncle bob and he has views very different than yours, channel your intercharlie rose and ask him questions and why is he thinking that and how did he get to that? you're not going to change his mind. he is holding them so close to his heart. find out a little bit more about why he thinks that way. >> there is something that is happening more and more now. you see it at restaurants and also thanksgiving dinner table. you have friends and nieces and nephews who have children there. they are playing with their little tablet at the table. how do you gently handle that? >> i think if you're the hostess, we are having a tech-free thanksgiving dinner and charging station in other room and enlist your brother and sister to police the other children. >> jennifer wallace, thank you very much.

parade right after this. welcome back, it's now 7:26! des moines police arrested 53-year-old deanna gliem on 2 counts of vehicular homicide reckless driving and 2 counts of vehicular homicide by owi. investigators say back on november 15th, gliem was driving south on hubbell when she hit another car driven by 60- year-old richard hummel. hummel and his passenger, 59- year-old randall sonnenburg died in the crash. the des moines police department is stepping up its social media presence with the hope of recruiting new officers. the department just released a new video online.. its a recruitment tape made to highlight the physical portion of the exam to become an officer... because that is where about half of the candidates are lost. you'll find a link to the video on our website... kcci-dot-com. if you're getting ready to hit

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welcome back to "cbs this morning." coming up in this half hour, new york city celebrates a great holiday tradition. kevin frazier and keltie knight are already for this morning's thanksgiving day parade and they will tell us what to expect in our parade coverage right here on cbs. one famous thanksgiving weekend included a night in jail. mo rocco talks with arlo guthrie with the inspiration of america's thanksgiving unofficial anthem is ahead. time to show you this morning's headlines. the omaha world herald, paris attacks boost popularity of a french tri-color flag. for decades flying that flag was

of ultra nationalism and now they are a common sight. the san jose mercury news reports on smartphones overtaking desktops for holiday shopping. for the first time more people are expected to visit retailers websites through their phones during the first weekend of the holiday shopping season. beginning today, mobile traffic is expected to reach nearly 57% of total traffic in the first five days. mobile is expected to account for 36% of all online sales. "the san francisco chronicle" reports on big discounts for tickets to see the struggling 49ers at levi stadium. people are reselling tickets for sunday's game against the cardinals for as little as $30! face value for the team's lowest ticket price is 85 bucks. by comparison, parking passes are listed for 57 dollars! >> the hollywood reporter reports on the new "star wars"

movie getting a pg-13 rating. children have to go with adults. "the force awakens" opens december 18th. "the new york times" reports on the growing dessert trend for the thanksgiving table is piecaken like a turducken. it is a spiced pound cake with layers of peekcans and pumpkin and streusel around the sides and the dessert has spin-off like this chocolate version. "the washington post" reports on how obsessed americans are naming things after thanksgiving staples. there are 15 places in the u.s. with turkey in their names. they include turkey creek village and turkey city and turkey town.

thanksgiving sides like cranberry township, p.a. and >> we are minutes away from bringing you the thanksgiving day parade on cbs. 3 million people are expected along the route as it heads south into mid-town, manhattan. our own kevin frazier, co-host of "entertainment tonight" and k, ltie knight, weekend host of "the insider" are anchoring the coverage and with us in their front row seats in new york city. good morning! >> i guess this is turkey central then today? >> i'll take it. >> okay. all right. i larry youhear you. >> what is the temperature like? we are talking record temperatures and record crowds expecting. tell me what you're seeing. >> i don't have gloves on at this point. it is a beautiful morning in manhattan. i think we have really seen the

crowds swell in the last hour and i think because of the warmer weather, we are going to see bigger crowds. people are bringing their families out. when we arrived here about 4:30 this morning, there were already people camping out to get a front row seat to this parade. >> you have enormous binders in front of you so, obviously, a lot of things going on and a lot of people performing. what are some of the highlights? >> let me show the binder real quick. it is massive. a lot of folks in this parade but a lot of new floats. i am excited about ice age acorn and angry birds. a new ronald mcdonald. the fourth version of ronald mcdonald we will see this year. . dino the dinosaur has been away from the parade 40 years and they returned with dino, the dinosaur. there is scrap looking for that acorn that is on his back! >> we have a ton of broadway performances as well which i'm a broadway girl, so i'm very

boys performing and also one of the biggest musicals of the year is singing. this morning, when we watch them rehearse, i had tears in my eyes. the music is so beautiful! encompasses what today is all about. it's about family, getting together with the people you love. >> and those balloons. >> and the balloons! >> kevin frazier and keltie knight, say hi tour family and stay nice and toasty. we hope you have a great time out there! >> we hope you come down here after the show. come on down! come down here! >> bring us some piecaken! >> stick around for the excitement of the thanksgiving day parade here on cbs. it's coming up after "cbs this morning." celebrated israeli-born chef yotam on the doughlenghi has a cookbook and he wrote four "the

his new offering takes ottolenghi and his faithful followers to something else. charlie d'agata has the report. >> reporter: in this soho neighborhood sits nopi just north of pick a deli. with the help of his head chef and latest collaborator, skully as he is known he is the one who burnt the paste. >> when you came out with it, i thought he has to make another one! >> this is what you're looking for. >> that's what you're looking for, yes. >> that is not a mistake. >> reporter: there is more trial than error involved in creating the new dishes featured in the book. yotam discovered skully in the kitchen and congenial man with his smile and brought bold flavors to asian flare with each

new creation. >> my mother's side we have indian and chinese heritage. my father's side is basically irish. >> reporter: it was the knack of bringing those early influences together that caught the eye of ottolenghi. >> you have your ideas and he has his ideas? >> taught me in a way too much on a plate does not work and being a young chef he has me three components, make it simple, make the flavors come out through and the whole thing about this dish -- >> it was easy. it wasn't easy to get him out of his way. i mean, he was very formal restaurants so always 17 elements on the menu. we lose something. he goes, all right, chef, that's very good. >> these, i haven't tried yet. >> he has built a career on collaborating. the jewish chef who recently partnered with this chef to

bring middle eastern street food to a global audience. the new cookbook includes 120 recipes of the restaurant's most popular decisions and asian twist to his significant style of combining fresh and innovative ingredients like the quail with burnt meso butter scotch and pomegranate and walnut sauce. >> you see how good it is. you want to make sure it doesn't overshadow the meat completely. >> reporter: he says he considers skully a master gaining knowledge in the studio. >> for me, it was very much learning from skully. constantly learning from people around us. >> reporter: you're open? not every chef is like that. >> i think probably the most -- the most brilliant chefs do absorb from their surroundings. >> reporter: or maybe they don't admit it? >> maybe they don't admit it. yeah. >> reporter: fans of the previous cookbooks who number in the millions now, may find the

he makes clear this is a restaurant don't care cook book featuring restaurant food and says the recipes may take more commitment but not out of the reach of amateur cooks. the quail took less than 20 minutes to prepare. >> that whole cooking in a restaurant is what we bring to the home cooking. some recipes are more complicated and others are simpler but it's, overall, it's a slightly more evolved way of cooking. >> reporter: you're there to challenge your readers? >> we want to take them to the next step. >> reporter: it's about raising the game. dishes designed to impress guests that look harder to prepare than they were. delicious, deand doable at home, more importantly. for cbs news, charlie d'agata, london. >> so pretty. up next, arlo guthrie shares

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no matter where you are this thanksgiving, at least one radio station is likely to play arlo guthrie's song alice's restaurant. the 18-minute ballad became an unofficial thanksgiving anthem

inspired by an event 50 years ago. sunday morning correspondent mo rocco shows us how he must be the second most thanksgiving dinner in american history. >> reporter: alice had a restaurant. but it has no part in the song. >> well, she and her husband were teachers at a high school up the road here. and they bought this building around 1963. and we would sneak out of the school and come here. and do what you did in the '60s. >> hell no, we won't go. >> reporter: the year was 1965 and in a country deeply divided over the vietnam war and the draft, an 18-year-old arlo guthrie was planning on becoming a forest ranger. >> a mountain in the middle of nowhere in montana waiting for a fire a few years, that sounds like a very good life to me! this land was made for you and me

>> reporter: the son of woody guthrie found a far different path after his friend alice invited him to her home. a converted church just outside of stockbridge, massachusetts, for thanksgiving dinner. arlo and a friend volunteered to help alice clean it up before guests arrived. >> we had to get rid of things and in order to make it look nice, we put it in a read vw micro bus and drove off into the sunset as it were. >> reporter: but the stockbridge dump was closed. >> with tears in our eyes, we drove off looking for another place that was a garbage. >> reporter: arlo and his friend were charged with dump's alice's trash on private property. after a thorough investigation by officer obi and a night in jail, they were fined $25 by a blind town judge. if it all sounds like a joke, well, that is just the setup. the next year, when arlo

was put through his paces and rejected as morally unfit to serve. after all, he was a convicted litter bug. >> at the end of the day, the colonel there, whose name i forgot now, said to me, i don't think you're the kind of person we want in the military. and i thought he was kidding me. >> have you ever been arrested? >> reporter: arlo completed the sock "alice's restaurant" the following thanksgiving. an 18-minute open that became a fixture. >> alice's restaurant was not an anti-war song. it was an anti-stupid song! because you can't run a country like that! radio host john shaeffer calls the song a comedy of errors. >> he was a guy who made a joke after protesting. "alice's restaurant" is an 18 1/2-minute punch line. >> i said, obi, i don't see how i can pick up the garbage with

what is funny is this idiocy. >> that is funny! i didn't make up getting out of the military because i was a litter bug, they did! we got in the back of the patrol car and drove to punish quote/unquote, the scene of the crime >> reporter: how does it become a thanksgiving tradition? >> i'll let you know a dirty little secret. deejays love long songs, especially if you're working a shift on a holiday. an 18-minute song, man, that was time to take a nap, get a smoke, have a snack! i mean, or all of the above! >> here we go! >> reporter: from portland, maine, to portland, oregon, of the 100 plus radio stations we reached out to, over half said they plan to play the song once, some as many as four times. >> we have been playing "alice's restaurant" at high noon almost 20 years. >> we played the original vinyl from 1967. >> we are serving it up twice because one serve is not enough. >> reporter: the church has been

into the guthrie center, a nondenominational space dedicated to music, fellowship and giving thanks. >> every year at thanksgiving, we invite whoever wants to come for a free thanksgiving dinner. you don't have to believe anything or do anything. you just have to be hungry! >> reporter: for "cbs this morning," mo rocca, stockbridge, massachusetts. >> tell you a secret. producers like long stories on holidays when they have to work! >> 4 1/2 minutes for each, right? right? >> that's a great piece. >> that is an eternity! >> anti-stupidity song. up next, why a transplant survivor is giving thanks to his

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a u.p.s. driver in oklahoma city is receiving special gratitude this thanksgiving after making a very personal deliver. jason henley found out that greg hall one of his regular customers was suffering from kidney failure. henley offered to donate one of his kidneys when he turned out to be a good match. >> he's sick and he needs to get to feeling better and this is just one way i can try to bless him and get him to feel better. >> both men are recovering and doing well. henley hopes to return to his delivery route soon. that is a special kind of hero. >> i have goose pimples right now. that is the way to end the show and that does it for us.

everyone, it's now 8:55... with the rain falling across many parts of the state this morning, the state patrol says anyone hitting the roads will want to keep checking conditions throughout the day and give yourself some extra time. on 511-ia-dot-org right now.... the blue you see stretching northwest from carroll means the roads are partially covered in ice. the pink areas near souix center are completely covered with ice. you can also count on kcci to keep you in the know during the storm! watch live radar and get weather and closing alerts on your smart phone with our kcci mobile app. free thanksgiving meals are underway at chucks restaurant in des moines. a free turkey dinner is available to anyone in the metro who wants one. all you have to do is show up to chuck's restaurant from 11am to 2pm. that is located at 3610 sixth avenue. volunteers will be busy delivering hundreds meals to those in need across the city as well.

another place serving up hot meals today.... hope ministries - hope caf\. head over to 13-10 sixth avenue between noon and 1:30 to get in on the dinner. also, south gate lodge is offering a complete meal open to anyone. they are located at 1111 randolph street. they are serving from 11 to 1 today.

rain, freezing rain, sleet, and snow are all possible across cooler and drier with temps in the mid 30s lasting through the end of the weekend. happy