apbaaoud. we'll see you again in 25 minutes. >> have a great day. good morning. breaking news. they got their man. nbc news has learned the alleged mastermind of the paris attack was killed in that massive raid and overnight new raids carried out in belgium in chilling video now emerging of friday's assault on a restaurant and the harrowing moment one survivor got away. new york city officials pulled a late night news conference. >> the people of new york city will not be intimidated. >> the latest on the threats and the response.

this is thursday, november 19, 20 2015. >> from nbc news, this is "today" with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. >> good morning, everyone. welcome to "today," 7 a.m. >> in paris french figurofficia just announcing the suspected ring leader of those attacks abmuhammed abaaoud did die in the raids. >> people are telling people they can feel comfortable coming into the city, despite a threatening new isis video that features images of times square. we'll have more on that in a moment and we'll speak to the deputy commissioner of counterterrorism. let's go to paris. bill neely is there. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. that man who organized,

coordinated the attack that killed 129 people here in paris is dead, identified by his dna. a huge success for the police but many questions here for the intelligence services, how on earth did he get from syria and slip into france unchecked? taken away from the apartment he'd hidden in, the body of the man who wreaked such havoc across paris. abmuhammed abaaoud is dead, identified by fingerprints. he was a belgian who fought in syria and a man who boasted openly how he could cross borders. and it now appears he was stopped by police in austria in september but allowed to drive on as there was, quote, no reason to detain him. police are now trying to

identify the woman suicide bomber who died with him. there are reports she was his cousin. police shout "where is your boyfriend?" "he's not my boyfriend," she shouts twice. >> cctv cameras inside a restaurant caught the moment the first bullets were fired. the video from daily mail.com shows a woman bursting through the door. she's been shot in the wrist. she hides behind the bar, comforted by a waitress. a man rushes in. his two friends have been shot. then the first sight of a terrorist in a t-shirt calm live shooting. he takes aim at the head of a woman. but, she said, his gun jammed, three clikcks, he's out of ammunition.

as the killing continues outside, those inside escape to the hiding place and then escape to the cellular. we ma remarkably no one in this restaurant died but five people were killed on the streets before the killer drove off to murder dozens more. outside the flowers and the question why? the french prime minister is asking what if, what if terrorists get their hands on chemical and biological weapons? there is, he says, always that risk. meanwhile french police are still interviewing the eight people arrested during that assault on the apartment. two of them were shot and injured. more raids in belgium this morning. the crackdown on isis and its supporters in europe is gathering pace. matt, savannah. >> bill, thank you. >> meanwhile here in new york officials are vowing they will

not be intimidated by a new isis propaganda video that features images of times square and other landmarks and threatens more violence to come. stephanie gosk is in times square this morning. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. the images have been used before in isis propaganda. this is about the message, the call for recruits for specifically suicide bombers and once again new york city has been named the target. police commissioner bill bratton stood in the square and held a late night press conference. >> we cannot be intimidated and that's what terrorists seek to do. >> reporter: the nearly five-minute isis video looks hastily put together, not nearly as polished as past propaganda, an apparent attempt to take advantage of the wake of the

paris attacks and inspire suicide bombers. it shows explosive belts and a car bomb. near the end a child congratulates the violence in paris and vows more to come. a direct warning to new york city, just days after a similar warning to washington, d.c. homeland security reports there are 900 active investigations, the vast majority connected to isis. and in june, two men allegedly researched how to make pressure cooker bombs. on monday the department announced a new strike force it

calls the front line against terrorism. it's part of a new plan to confront an evolving challenge. >> this places great importance on new yorkers and the 60 million visitors who will come to this city. >> reporter: officials say there is no credible threat here. new york is not the only place name, including u.k. and france and throughout the video there is this eerie music calling on followers not to retreat. >> thanks very much. >> john miller is the deputy commissioner in the new york city police department. in some sense the footage is not new and is the danger of this video that's out just recently that it might be that nudge for anybody like minded for anybody who sees it? >> well, isis has had a two-fold approach. one is these organized external plots and we've on seen that

recently with the plane down, the beirut attack and now the paris thing. their main bread and butter has been online. the flip side is the grist of the terrorist mill and the videos are meant to inspire. we operate on a fairly high state of alert normally. >> so you got the police commissioner and mayor going to times square last night saying out in the open do not be intimidated, do not chang your lives. but it the timing and the wake of the raid in paris yesterday that proved there were more terrorists perhaps wading to carry out attacks. it doesn't seem far freched. . one thing ice i didn't smergs.

ets are we better prepare here than most if not all other places? the answer to that is yes. >> one of the unfortunate parts of your job is you're a consumer of that online media, including the magazine "dabiq," including pictures of what purportedly brought down the russian jetliner. what's your view? propaganda is key. >> can raises the question, can you accept their claim of responsibility. let's say for the purposes of this discussion is they are. you mentioned their "dabik" magazine. it came out yesterday. i am a regular consumer of "dabiq "identify magazine. it's clear they.

>> one of the things that was startling to me after the raids in saint-denis, a woman went up to police say she go thought she had seen one of the chief suspects the day before on the street but they didn't dare tell police. they were too afraid. i know it sounds cliche but the message to new yorkers and people in cities all across the country that we've seen on signs, if you see something, say something. >> so that's not a problem we're having. we've had people identify sightings of people that looked like people in these photographs and suspects around new york. one was identified on a plane in mid flight the other day and met at the airport by the fbi. when we tell people that we're on a heightened state, those calls increase. >> happy to hear that at least. thank you so much, john miller. by the way, we're going to is a lot more on this isis propaganda machine that the deputy

commissioner talked about coming up. >> we want to have more on the photograph that savannah just talked about, explosives they say that was hidden in the sea can. >> officials stress this is of course coming from isis. but if that photograph is legit, it opens up a whole new host of aviation security issues not on at airports overseas but also here at home. aviation investigators around the world are krpd, scrambling to figure out if isis actually found a way to put a bomb in a soda condition like this, smuggle it past egyptian security and on to that metro russian jetliner, bringing it down and killing 224 people. isis claims this is it, shockingly simple if true, a

soda condition, a detonator and a switch. >> can one can tack it down if it's strategically placed and if the explosive is very efficient? yes. >> it not clear how it got on board russian plane, catering cart and cargos that are not all screened. experts warn there's no way it can be totally fail safe. >> if it's an ensider, somebody who had knowledge and put it in an area that could be close to a fuel line or in some other area that they knew it would be. >> that insider threat is very

much with the police and tsa check being not on passenger but airport employees. aenl on a very small hand approximately of airports in the united states actually screen their airport employees every single day. >> all of of this is sparking a raging debate on sta peter exder is at the without white house with this part of the story. good morning. >> reporter: savannah, good morning. the french president is vowing to keep his commitment to take in 30,000 refugees over the next two years.

the white house is saying the the u.s. should certainly be able to muster the same. the president in the philippines pushing back on the the issue of syrian refugees. >> the idea that they somehow pose a more significant threat than all the tourists who pour into the united states every single day just doesn't jive with reality. >> on capitol hill top homeland security officials private live brief senators on the latest intelligence from the paris attacks. now heating up the fierce debate over the administration's isis strategy. >> fox news anchors sparring with josh earnest. >> you spend just as much time focuses on the president's ambassado

actions as you do his words. >> his words matter, josh, i have to stop you there. >> there was a sort of particularized focus and perhaps even a legitimacy in terms of -- not a legitimacy but a rational that you could attach yourself to somehow and say, okay, they're really angry because of this or that. >> the 2016 republicans are teeing off. ted cruz challenging the president for dismissing his proposed ban on syrian refugees. >> i would say president dismiss me to my face. >> donald trump accusing him to being dangerous. >> i think he's dangerous to our country.

>> america's had enough of empty words, of an administration with no strategy or no intention to went. >> reporter: later today the house will vote on a plan to tough i don't know the screening process for syrian refugees. the white house has said it will veto that. they argue 18 to 24 months is long enough, insisting security screenings are already so tough in this country that less than 9% of syrian refugees who apply are allowed in. >> peter alexander, thanks so much. ks, so much. in other news this morning, tensions reached a new level in minneapolis overnight between protesters and the police over the fatal shooting of a 24-year-old black man. >> we see the two side traded volleys and pepper spray after they surrounded the precinct there. earlier they released the names of the two officers in the shooting death of jamar clark. they said clark was trying to take one of the officer's guns. the fbi is now investigating the case. we want to show you frightening video, a helicopter crash near

san diego. this happened at a small airport in carlsbad. the pilot was trying to land when that aircraft started spinning out of control. >> this went on for more than a minute. the tail broke off. both people on board were killed in this crash. the faa and ntsb is still trying to figure out what wentz wrong. and another scary scene caught on camera. this was happening last week in san francisco, a run away tour bus hitting nearly everything in its path as it raged through a busy san francisco shopping district. >> video shows the bus careening out of control and eventually slamming into an apple store under construction. 20 people were injured in that crash. officials believe mechanical failure was to blame. just in time for the busy holiday season, dozens of airport workers went on strike in new york, boston, chicago and philly. >> union leaders say the strike is to last through today. workers are seeking a minimum wage of $15 an hour and the right to join a union.

the airlines say they don't expect travelers will be impacted. all right. but the weather does impact travel. >> i have airport delays in the northeast. first let's show you what happened in palmetto, georgia about 30 minutes southwest of atlanta. you can see they had a possible tornado move through causing a lot of damage. they had a lot of severe weather reports overnight throughout the southeast. this is all a part of a system pumping to the east. we got rain, in fact, stretching from all the way from western new york down into the southeast. it's a part of a front that will be pushing in with it severe weather. we got that front pushing in later this afternoon. the rain is heavier in washington. into the northeast. much cooler air. we're also looking at a decent amount of rain. it's been fairly dry here. we will see airport delays, upwards of 2 inches of rain, we'll deal with your local

forecast coming up in the next 30 seconds. r and buy a new one... . good morning, i'm kari hal. temperatures now in the mid-40s for most of the bay area. san francisco at 50 degrees. we've had some low clouds and fog in spots. but through the day, bright sunshine. reaching into the upper 60s wednesday again. a fewer spots hitting the 70s like the north bay and the tri-valley in the lower 70s as the sun rises there. in the peninsula, look for 68

degrees. also 68 in the south bay. in the next few days, slightly warmer temperatures in the forecast. first big snowstorm moving across the midwest. >> where, al, where? >> you'll have to wait and see. coming up, the business of isis. we'll have a closer look at the terror group's propaganda machine. the videos, magazines, the tweets that are being used to draw in recruits. also ahead, charlie sheen's father speaks out for the first time about his son's hiv revelation. we're going to hear from martin sheen. first, on a thursday morning, this is "today" on nbc.

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degrees. look at these highs though. into the upper 60s. gilroy 70 degrees. burlingame 66, the mission district at 65. low 70s for the north bay and the part of the east bay and into the tri-valley. how is it looking for the east bay drivers, mike. >> we do have crowds around the bay but not as extensive as we see on a thursday. we have slowing north of 66 heading toward high street for 880. southbound, a crash reporting around 98. we'll show you the map by the coliseum but a smooth drive until south of san leandro in toward hayward. each side of the bay across the bridge, that is the concern right now. just volume, that is about it. and in the south bay, the northbound routes moving well. your build over the last 20 minutes. but north 101 at san ant opie that is over on the shoulder now. laura, back to you. >> thank you very much. thank you for joining us. we'll be back with another local news update for you in about half an hour. we'll see you then. enjoy your thursday morning.

>> we're back now, 7:30 on the west coast, 10:30 in new york city. rain starting to fall here on a mild day in the northeast. >> french officials say abmuhammed abaaoud was killed on a raid in saint-denis and was wanted on four other thwarted attacks in france. >> and officials just announced at least nine debt nations

linked to one of the paris attacks. >> and thousands of workers at some of the nation's busiest airports, chicago, boston and here in new york are on a one-day strike this morning, pushing for higher wages and better benefits. >> i meant to say defenses as opposed to debt nations on those attacks. >> and the new call for paid leave for all new parents in the wake of one mom's heartbreaking story. we'll hear from her. >> let us begin this half hour for more on the fight against isis. their terror tactics are brutal, their media savvy is sophisticated. they have magazines and they are a major presence on social media. keir simmons is in paris with that part of the story. >> reporter: matt, good morning. in the early addition, the mastermind bragged he had been able to get to europe and plan

attacks and then go free again. for years isis has been spreading lies on line, glorifying violence and pretending life in the islamic state is some kind of paradise. after the massacre in paris, isis launched an internet onslaught. last night immediately after a russian airliner was downed, isis published another video starring russian isis recruits advocating death. according to one report, isis puts out 900 pieces of prove go -- propaganda a month. here fighters show viewers around their apartments and even their laptop where they edit

their poisonous propaganda. >> isis issued in multiple languages. >> many members come from street gangs back home. online they encourage similar young men without a purpose in life to come die for isis. and it's not just men. come be a jihadi bride it says on these twitter and tumbler accounts, which appear to be own ed by a young woman. any girl that answers is moved to a twitter account for privacy. as for those who join up with isis, they say it's not as advertised. complaints range from bad food to wife beating but by then it's

too late. the anonymous hacking group said it plans to attack isis online. the online war with isis may be just beginning. >> another aspect of wednesday's terror raids getting a lot of attention. there was a french police dog that was killed. >> diesel, a 7-year-old belgian shepherd can be soon in this photo just moments before she was killed by a suicide bomber. she had been sent in to sniff out explosives. tributes to diesel pouring in. it was even trending on twitter. one police dog on twitter said it's like losing one of our colleagues. >> we'll get a check of the weather now. >> watching a big storm making

its way into the pacific northwest, rain along the coast, snow as you get in the mountains. by friday morning it's making snow all the way through the upper midwest. it's a fast moving storm, very clipper-like in its motion. by the end of the week we are looking at winter storm watches, winter storm warning, including des moines, davenport, milwaukee and the snow falling out to the west, basically about a foot to two feet of snow in the mountains there. but look at this, you get close to milwaukee on to chicago, back to see the rapids, anywhere from 8 inches. some areas may pick up up to 12 inches of snow, chicago probably closer to about five to six inches. sunny skies to the west, beautiful day in los angeles, good morning, i'm meteorologist kari hall. temperatures in the upper 40s now. a lot of sunshine, beautiful start to the day. but chilly.

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save your coffee from the artificial stuff. switch to truvia. . we're back on "today" and we're hearing from charlie sheen's father for the first time since he announced he was hiv positive. >> his motivation for going public was to prevent shakedowns. shortly after charlie sheen opened up about his diagnosis to matt on today, his famous father, martin sheen, spoke out telling an audience in florida i couldn't believe the level of courage was witnessing and that it was my son, adding i hope

that this day is the first day of the rest of charlie's live as a free man. it comes amid talks that sheen could face lawsuits over possibly exposing others to hiv and new questions about the star's financial security. during the show's heyday, sheen was reportedly making around $2 million an episode for $ two and a half men," hundreds of millions more through indication. after sheen and the show famously parted ways in 2011, sheen hit it big once again with "anger management," thanks to a lucrative stake in the fx show. >> charlie sheen was making an estimated 40% which brought in $ 75 million to $200 million for two seasons of the show. >> but as sheen revealed be with five children and three ex-wives to support are only that money can only go so far. >> it's not great financially.

it will be great again. i'm a survivor. i've been up, i've been down, i've been rich, i've been poor, i've been unemployed. it's another chapter in my life. >> reporter: the question now, will this latest chapter include new acting roles? studios may now see sheen as less of a risk than before. >> i think charlie sheen is more employable than he's been for years because he's said he's been taking care of herself for four years while he's known of his diagnosis. >> i feel like in playing a love interest, you would think that there would be some type of i don't ant to say criminal issue but i don't even know how to feel about that. >> well, he may be free but not necessarily debt free.

charlie sheen reportedly selling two of his los angeles area homes, one estimated at $6 million, the other around $9 million, raising more questions about how much of he is fortune he's managed to save. >> he may be compiling a fund for preparing to deal with a lot of these lawsuits he seems to be destined to face. >> coming up, a new push to give all new parents mandatory paid leave. it went all the way to the white house. >> and hoda was a wedding crasher. you wouldn't believe how far she went to make one couple's day incredible. >> she jumped out of the wedding cake? >> she did. amazing.

we're happy to have carson back this morning. >> good to see you guys. doug flutie spent 12 seasons in the nfl before he retired in 2006. now he's a part of our family here on nbc as a sport analyst. but perhaps what he's best known for, this is one of the classic plays going back to november 1984, this last-second hail mary pass, boston against miami. it would lead to him winning the heisman trophy this year. many people mourning about losing not on his father but his

mother on the very same day. my dad had been ill and died of a heart attack. within an hour later, my mom had a sudden heart attack and died as well. they say you can die of a broken heart, i believe you can. >> and the buffalo bills, one of the former teams he played for put out "doug remains one of our most beloved figures in our franchise's history." our thoughts also go out to the flutie family today. guys, back to you. carson, thank you.

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today: ==take vo== a very good morning to you. it is 8:56. i'm laura garcia-cannon. the drifters accused in two recent bay area murderers could be arrested in portland, oregon. they are accused of gunning down a 67-year-old hiker while he was walking his dog. they are also accused of shooting and killing a backpacker in golden gate park a few days earlier. if convicted they may face the death penalty. new this morning, dozens of tobacco companies are being sued by failing to warning consumers. the oakland bay center for environmental health said e-cigarettes contain nicotine which is an addictive drug. could you get addicted to the forecast. cold start, sunny afternoons. let's check in with kari. >> as we take a live look at san jose. all of the sunshine warming our temperatures up ever so slowly as we start out at 49 degrees.

it is 50 degrees in san carlos and san francisco. looking at highs today in the upper 60s to lower 70s. and feeling much more comfortable as we go through the day, especially in the north bay, as well as parts of the east bay and the tri-valley. let's see how the commute is moving with mike. kari, we have slowing over the coliseum. northbound 885, jamming up toward high street. and i'm look ago long the stretch and there is supposed to have a traffic break and that may be the distraction adding to the slowdown here. and the patterns are typical. packing in closer to 8:00. westbound, your commute typical for the dunn barton and san mateo bridges and through san jose, it looks bad but not as bad on a thursday. but moving north through sill von valley. back to you, laura. >> thank you for joining us. another local news update coming up in half an hour.

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it's 8:00 on "today." coming up, fighting for family leave. >> as a society, we should be encouraging women to stay in the work force, not doing everything we can to make it nearly impossible for them. >> how one mom's battle for more time at home made it all the way to the white house. plus, khloe gets candid. >> it was an emotionally stressful time in my life. >> she opens up about lamar, her new life and her new look. ♪ i think i want to marry you wedding crasher. hoda gives a deserving bride the surprise of a lifetime. shocking her at the alter with the wedding of her dreams today, thursday, november 19th, 2015.

♪ i get knocked down but i get up again, you're never gonna keep me down ♪ ♪ i get knocked down, but i get up again ♪ >> we take new york. >> good morning, buffalo! >> sister vacation from minnesota. >> happy birthday, katrina. >> celebrating my 16th birthday on the "today" show. >> from maryland, celebrating our 40th birthday on the "today" show. >> and welcome back to "today." it's thursday morning, november 19th, 2015. you know, normally when we have a throwback thursday song, i often say, turn it up. turn it up, everybody. in this case, natalie, are you there, natalie? >> oh. now liking my song, huh? >> can i just say that this is

like -- >> i just wanted to hear you say that. >> we're not going to criticize this. we brought carson back from california to criticize it. >> i'm leaving again tomorrow so i don't want to harp on it. it is an interesting call. >> two you criticized me on now. >> on the heels of, "we built this city," natalie, i don't know if you're allowed to pick the songs anymore. >> no, no, no, come on. >> come on. >> we look forward to your -- >> '97 classic. >> we look forward to your next throwback thursday song in eight months. >> one making a comeback in "star wars." >> that's chewbacca. >> sorry. coming up. you know who is here? dr. oz. he is going to help us take some of the stress out of the holiday season. no wonder, he's going to get us plastered. take two of those and call him in the morning. >> exactly. first, let's go to natalie for the top stories. >> good morning. we are starting with breaking news from paris, where prosecutors are confirming that

the suspected ringleader of last week's massacre is, in fact, dead. keir simmons joins us from paris for the latest. good morning. >> natalie, good morning. this is big news. abdelhamid abaaoud is now believed by the french prosecutor to have been killed in those raids yesterday. he was 29 years old. he is described as the mastermind, the linchpin, whatever word you use. he is the man that french authorities believe was behind the attack in paris. the massacre that killed 129 people. yesterday, they raided that third floor apartment. two people were killed. a woman and a man. they were not able to identify the man because his body was so badly damaged by the fire fight. they had to use fingerprint identification to establish that it is, they believe, abaaoud. it is a very, very important development. not least because the french believe that terror cell was planning another attack in

paris. at the same time, they will be stunned that he had managed to make his way here to the center of europe. prior to that, natalie, the intelligence services believe he was with isis in syria, and that he perhaps planned this plot from there. instead, it now appears he had managed to make his way right to this capital city of france and, himself, orchestrate those attacks. abdelhamid abaaoud, french prosecutor says, they believe, killed yesterday in those raids. another attack on paris foiled. natalie? >> keir simmons in paris for us, thank you. meanwhile, we're getting a look at newly released video from the paris attacks. it shows the scene inside a pizza restaurant, as dozens of shots are fired through the windows. a woman who had been shot in the wrist hustles inside. customers and employees take cover while shattered glass flies around them.

the video online also shows one woman who had a gun aimed at her head run to safety after the attackers weapon jammed. five people outside the restaurant was killed. everyone inside survived. the house is voting today on a republican plan to tighten the screening process for syrian refugees trying to resettle in the u.s. president obama in the philippines defended his position again today, that the u.s. has a moral obligation to take in refugees. >> america has always been open to allowing people from war-torn countries who are subject to incredible hardship and repression and violence to find refuge in our country. >> the obama administration has vowed to veto any house legislation that puts up new barriers for syrian refugees. leave it to the bicycle-loving dutch to set the guinness world record for the world's longest two-wheeler.

more than 117 feet long. it uses aluminum to connect the front to the back. it has to be operated by two people. it works just fine. riders have to avoid tight turns. i'd like to see al commuting on that to work. >> as long as you're with me. >> we'll work together. >> natalie, thank you. now, we'll talk about another story that's going to impact you. one mom's heartbreaking story, bringing new attention to a push for paid parental leave. >> that's right. sheinelle jones has the story. good morning. >> good morning to you. amber's infant son died on his first day of day care. for amber, the issue at hand isn't day care safety, but another larger concern faced by many new moms and dads. >> reporter: one woman is turning her catastrophe into a public crusade. later today, she's getting help from the white house. her five month old son carl died

in july, less than three hours after dropg him off at day care for the first time. >> there's no words to describe the horror and just the disbelief. >> reporter: like many parents, amber was hesitant of handing her infant son over to the care of strangers at such a vulnerable age. >> when the child is that small, especially, in the infant stage, they almost feel like an extension of your body. >> reporter: amber says her employer's policy of three months of paid family leave is generous compared to what many americans receive. that's the problem. the united states is one of four countries in the world with no mandatory paid family leave. the others are swaziland, lesotho and papua new guinea. while parents working at netflix, amazon and google get paid leave, 87% of vie vat sector workers receive none

whatsoever. >> many of the countries had paid parental leave, not just for women, but for men, for decades. it certainly hasn't broken the bank. businesses have not gone out of business. >> as a society, we should be encouraging women to stay in the work force, not doing everything we can to make it nearly impossible for them to have children and stay in the work force. >> reporter: the issue even making its way into the 2016 campaign. >> you're opposed to any mandated paid maternity leave. why? >> for the government to tell others how to do things, when the government hasn't gotten its basic house in order, is not only ineffective, but hypocritical. >> we need to recognize the incredible challenges that so many parents face, particularly working moms. >> reporter: as for the current residents of the white house, michelle obama was so touched by amber's tragic story, she sent a letter of condolence. now, the nation's highest office is calling for change. today, obama's senior adviser is teaming with spotify and announcing a push for states to legislate mandatory paid family leave, hoping to avoid future stress for families or even

heartbreak. >> amber shared her full story with the "new york times" parenting column. parents complain about this all the time. she was just saying she wants the option for more time. she wants her job protected. >> she's a strong voice in this. >> very strong. heartbreaking story. >> sheinelle, thank you very much. for more on her story and the discussion it's sparked, head to today.com. >> get the conversation going. coming up, dr. oz is here. he has some warnings tied to your health and the holidays. pop start, how we ended up in what is sure to become a highly-watched holiday video. >> for the wrong reasons. get ready to smile. hoda's surprise for a bride on her big day. seconds before she said i do. we'll have you reaching for the tissues. first, these messages. reaching

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>> no question about it. >> we have weird hours. we all wake up early, like 4:00 in the morning. on weekends, show of hands, who wakes up about the same time? >> no. >> you do? >> i do. i can't shake it. >> i do, too. within an hour. >> me, too. >> i'm comatose on the weekends. >> a new study highlighting the risks of constantly changing when you sleep and when you wake up. example, if you wake up early for work and then sleep in on the weekends, researcher call it social jet lag. they found links to bad things, like increased risk of diabetes and heart disease, bad cl cholesterol levels and a larger waistline. if you wake up 6:00 monday through friday, try to on saturday and sundays. >> kids are the equalizer. they'll keep you on a schedule. >> we get up at a stupid early hour. we get up at 3:00. >> within reason. >> we have all this stuff on the table now. i'll explain why. this morning, "time" magazine is

out for its best inventions of 2015. cool things on the list. among them is the hoverboard scooter. this is a hot holiday gift. several brands on the market. this is the p-h-u-n-k-e-e duck. sells for $1500. >> wow. >> you can't use them in new york. >> that's right. some states banned them. >> they look fun. >> super fun. >> they're a little dangerous though. >> i was going to say. >> it's not easy. >> if you don't like that, here's some other intentions. a pair of nike sneakers that can be tied with one hand. >> like in "back to the future." >> isn't it velcro? >> it has a lace system. >> how much are those? >> probably expensive. >> probably. >> here is a product that is re-inventing pasta. it is called bonza.

made from chick peas instead of wheat. double the protein and fewer cash carbs. this is made and invented by the husband of one of our best producers, lexi rudolf. we're not paid to say this. it's really good. i have tons of banza in my house. >> it is good and fewer carbs. >> it is really good. >> not march madness, but it is this bracket that's the talk of the interet. a blog called mommy shorts help a chubby baby cheek-off, the facial cheeks. elliott versus kors. elliott versus callie. >> elliott. >> elliott might take it off. >> the winner, the second baby elliott. but might she face, or he face -- is it a he? >> yeah. >> face a challenge from our

very own? >> versus her mom. >> me on the left. >> hence the black and white photo. >> yeah. >> those cheeks have thinned out a little bit. >> a little. >> val eve versus elliott would great. >> you couldn't even see the neck. >> elliott has us all beat. now to carly simon putting an end to music's guessing game. who is vain? the new "today" show holiday song and video, courtesy of leann rimes. remember this? >> i do. we'll start with carly simon. she's revealing one of music's biggest miysteriemysteries, abo song "you're so vain," about a self-absorbed lover. who is it about? james taylor, mick jagger? she reveals the song's second verse is all about warren

beatty. she joked he probably thinks the whole song is about him. carly will join us in studio on wednesday. >> love it. moving on to the next item of business. right there, michael phelps. congratulations. he's about to become a father. the most decorated olympian and his fiance announced instagram with that photo. expecting a baby boy. >> interesting article on him in "sports illustrated." he'll be interesting to watch in rio. >> why? >> he is back in shape, in a big way. >> wow. >> great to see. finally, grammy winner leann rimes wrote a special holiday song just for us here at "today." it's called "today is christmas." here's your first and hopefully not the last look of the video, due to the special backup singers. roll the tape. ♪ today, today is christmas."

>> come on! >> sing along, everybody. >> i like that. it's like a bad sitcom. >> look at willie. ♪ jingle, jangle ♪ matt lauer wanted a solo. he got it. >> natalie played a practical joke and made me do a solo. >> is that the story you're going with? >> finally, he got him. >> meanwhile, the song is like an earworm. >> catchy. i had just gotten it out of my head. >> leann rimes looks amazing. that'll be confirmed when you watch the entire video.

>> of course she does. >> great singer. >> if you're not singing jingle, jangle, all day, you're not trying. >> we put up the video at the website. leanne's new album is "today is christmas." she'll be here december 1st to perform that. >> she needs her backup dancers. >> you stay for the caboose with leann rimes. >> the good morning. i'm meteorologist kari hall. bright sunshine as we take a live look at the golden gate bridge. things starting to get busy. temperatures that will be warming up as we go through the day with highs in the upper 60s and lower 70s. up to 66 in san francisco. concord at 60. winds will pick up as we go into the afternoon and into the evening hours.

>> that's your latest weather. matt? time for day two of our special series, make your today. today's holiday crash. hoda's holiday crash. hoda's crash. >> whatever it is. >> she's surprising fans as they celebrate milestones. she's shocking people. it's awesome. >> this is fun. watch what happens when i tiptoe into a wedding and give one deserving minneapolis bride a day beyond her wildest dreams. >> reporter: misty has planned every detail of her wedding day. but nothing about her day will go down as planned. we are going to blow her mind. but first, why have i spent all day sneaking around a minneapolis embassy sweuites fo misty? >> if you know somebody getting married or celebrating an anniversary. a while back, this groom wrote

us about his fiance. >> she's the most caring person i've met. takes care of everybody like they're her best friend. >> reporter: as a family therapist, misty gives services for the mentally ill and homeless, quietly helping those in need. >> she always has time for everybody, and i'm so lucky to be the one she has the most time for. >> begin ordination now. >> reporter: to help chris give back to the woman who gives him everything, i become certified to perform a wedding. chris won't be the only person meeting misty at the alter. >> act like you really are -- >> she gets so excited when she talks about hoda. >> like, oh, hoda is coming on. she doesn't get like that with anybody else. >> reporter: chris tells misty he hired a camera crew for her wedding gift, to document the day. >> this is chris' surprise for me. >> really? >> reporter: she has no clue

they really work for us. as they film her getting ready -- >> what are we doing? >> i'm upstairs in her honeymoon suite. >> so fun. >> most of misty's besties are on hand to share the day. one friend, rebecca, couldn't swing the trip from california, or so misty thinks. >> memorandum um is the word. see you in a few minutes. >> reporter: it is two hours until wedding bells. as chris gets the first glimpse of his bride. >> oh, good. >> reporter: i coordinate all the last-minute details. >> misty, i take you to be my -- >> reporter: from practicing with their pastor. >> we'll have you guys standing here in the corner. >> reporter: to hidinge inghidi >> we know there's a friend she hasn't seen in a while. check. last, she's a huge fan of music. triple check, check, check. >> reporter: as the ceremony begins, i'm not sure who is more

nervous, me, misty or chris. >> i don't want to make misty cry, but these are going to be the wildest tears of joy. fingers crossed, she doesn't faint. >> i hear my cue. >> chris invited someone you adore to be a part of this ceremony. >> okay. >> what? >> hi, misty. >> oh, my gosh! thank you so much for coming. >> misty, i fell like i know so much about you. one night when you were asleep, chris wrote us about you. >> wow. >> chris asked me if i would help officiate your wedding. >> wow, oh, my gosh. >> is it okay? >> yeah, definitely. >> reporter: after a moment, we collect ourselves and focus on why we're here today. then those magic words. >> i now pronounce you husband

and wife. you can kiss the bride, chris. [ applause ] >> reporter: our first surprise goes off without a hitch, but we have a few more things in store. >> i love it! >> that's your reception room. >> ben & jerry's? i love ice cream so much. >> your wonderful now-husband came up with your own flavor. i think you have a friend, a friend of yours who couldn't come. what was her name? >> rebecca. >> rebecca. >> ahh! oh, my gosh, i love you. i would like to announce for the first time, chris and misty. come on out. [ applause ] >> okay. we know how much you guys love music, right? >> yes. >> love. >> i heard a rumor you were going to go to a concert this weekend. >> yes. >> we knew you couldn't go to the concert. >> yeah. >> so we decided, we would bring

the concert to you. bride and groom, we have the goo goo dolls. [ applause ] >> did you know about that? >> no. ♪ i'd give up forever to touch you ♪ >> misty? >> yeah? >> i love you so much that i will do everything in my power to make your life as unbelievable as it possibly can be. >> i always wanted this to happen to me. i always wanted to be on tv, and i wanted it to be me. it is me. it's me! >> yeah. >> misty, i want to give you events. i want to give you moments. for the rest of your life. >> wow. >> aww.

>> there's a few more surprises you didn't see. one, we got to give them a honeymoon. they're heading to the secrets resortsi'm ...=take vo== the u- coast guard has now rejoined the search for a i'm laura garcia-cannon. the u.s. coast guard rejoined the search for a woman who disappeared last night. the unidentified woman in her 50s was reported missing a little before 10:00 p.m. this is near moore's landing by the airport. search and rescue crews scoured the waters all night. teams did recover her jet ski, but they found no sign of the woman. sheriff's deputies plan to update on that search this morning. we will bring you any developments as they become available to us. let's check in with mike. >> i caught site of this. we flipped around the report and starting over here, golden gate bridge northbound is slow. there's a crash on the north side.

there's blocking one lane. that does block up traffic coming out of the city. the rest of your approach toward the bay bridge, that's not so bad. it's moving well. a lighter flow. look at the red and orange. you have a slow down around the bay. northbound through san jose, 280 tough today. so is highway 17. no incidents reported though. back to you. >> another local news update in half an hour. have a great morning.

♪ if i got locked away, lost it all today, tell me honestly, would you still love me the same ♪ we're back, 8:30 now on a thursday morning. it's the 19th day of november, 2015. mil mild in midtown manhattan, but the lain rain is on the way. >> thanksgiving is almost here. it's the beginning officially of the holidays. dr. oz is going to help us keep our holiday cheer in check. this is more of a table of whatnot to do. we'll talk to dr. oz about that. >> i'll join the segment, even if i'm not supposed to. also, eddie redmayne is getting oscar buzz again, this time for his movie "the danish

girl." >> so good in that movie. plus, my conversation with khloe kardashian as she opens up about lamar, her relationship with caitlyn and how she's lost almost 40 pounds. check out the kitchen. katie lee is here with a twist on sweet potatoes, just in time for your thanksgiving table. >> oh! >> looks like marshmallows. >> speaking of sweets, the today food team on the hunt for the country's best cookie to showcase in our today food holiday cookie swap. cast your vote for your state's most delectable treat. today.com/food. don't forget to join the today food club. >> by the way, siri, your beautiful siri, won't share her rookie recipe with me. >> why? >> i don't know. she won't share it with me. she has the best possible chocolate chip cookie recipe. >> i'll steal it tonight.

>> great. al, let's get a check of the weather. >> tomorrow, windy conditions, snow spreading across the plains into illinois. sunshine here in the east and west. rain in new england. on saturday, we've got more snow in the great lakes. sunny skies up and down the east coast. on sunday, sunday, rain in the northeast and upstate new york, could be snow. rain down in florida. western two thirds looking good. how about your thanksgiving outlook? you'll make the plans. first off, on wednesday, eastern half of the country looks good. on thanksgiving day itself, watching the parade, from texas to the plains, we're looking at wet weather, snow through the northern plains. sunny on the east and west coast. on friday, your travel day, well, it's looking a little on the snowy said as you make your way through the upper mississippi and lower a cool start to the day. a lot of sunshine. it's starting to warm up in a few spots.

expecting highs today into the upper 60s. look for 68 in the peninsula as well as the south bay. east bay, 67. the tri-valley, up to 70. san francisco, 66. a breezy one, too, as we go into the afternoon to each hours. in the north bay, one of the warmer spots, after a start this morning in the upper 30s, look for a high of 72 degrees. >> that's your latest weather. happy birthday, 70 years old. you look fantastic. >> thank you very much. >> happy birthday. let's go back inside to matt. >> oscar winner eddie redmayne is back on the big screen, getting an awful lot of attention for a role in "the danish girl," based on a true story. redmayne plays a prominent artist in the 1920s who is transitioning into a woman named lili. >> my husband, can you get him?

>> i can't. >> i need to talk to my husband. i need to hold my husband. i need him. can't you just get him? can you at least try? >> i'm sorry. >> eddie redmayne, welcome back. good to see you. >> lovely to see you. >> how have you been? >> good. wonderful. >> spencer tracy, tom hanks, eddie redmayne. do you know what the names may have in common? >> what's that? >> i'll get to that later. we'll let it simmer. this is an embarrassment of riches. some actors go an entire career without getting one to die for juicy role, and you come off of playing stephen hawking to this role. >> i'm a lucky man. the extraordinary thing was is i was first offered this part by

tom hooper, when i was making another film. he gave me this script and said nothing about it. he said, just have a read. i read this amazing, beautiful love story. unfortunately, it took several years to get made, but it was -- >> i'm glad you say that. this is a love story. at its base, this is, first and foremost, a love story. it'll get a lot of attention for some of the other elements of the love story. real person back in the 1920s. this is a complicated character. tell me about lili. >> lili was born as an artist. she was living at a time in which there were no predecessors. there were no examples or vocabulary with which she could understand what she was going through. when she was living as a man, she was an artist. her paintings were sort of

restrictive and intense and small. versus gerda, her partner's work, which was flamboyant, strong and vibrant. really, it was about -- i always saw the paintings as a route in. it was as if she needed to shed some of that restriction to find who she was. >> i was thinking about you accepting your academy award last year, standing on the stage, knowing that you were in the process of bringing this other role to the screen. you must have been thinking to yourself, this is this glorious moment, and i've got another one. i've got another one coming up that could land me back on a stage like this. >> i think whenever you -- what you said in the beginning, of the privilege of playing interesting people, our dream is to -- our dream, firstly, is employment. >> paying the bills. >> exactly. >> that doesn't always happen. >> seriously. then to get to play interesting people. i've had my -- by playing

stephen hawking, i thought i had my lot. the idea i got to play lili was a gift. when i was preparing to play lili, i met many women from the trans community who were generous and kind. almost everyone would start the conversation going, there is no question i won't answer. the transparency and the need to educate me was, by opening their hearts, was amazing. >> i open the interview unfairly by saying spencer tracy, tom hanks and eddie redmayne. what they would have in common, the three names, is those would be the only three people who ever won best acting oscars back to back. >> oh, my god. >> sorry about that. it is something a lot of people are talking about already. >> well, this film has been 15 years in the making. our producer and writer have been -- lots of different directors and actors.

nicole kidman was attached to it at one point. the fact that i am the person who was there when the film got its financing and got made was a gift. the fact it's now making it to the big screen for us, all of us involved, because it's a passion project, it means a great deal. if there is any good buzz, encourage people to see it. that'd be great. >> to say you're on a roll would be an understatement. >> thanks so much. >> good to see you. >> you, too. >> "the danish girl" is in theaters in new york and los angeles november 27th. nationwide on christmas day. dr. oz is helping us avoid stress with the holid

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here. sometimes stressing. we'll help you out with us. dr. mehmeh oz is here. this is timely, goes for the whole year. first, talk about how much we should be drinking optimally, the maximum amount, for women and men. >> you're the women, over here. i'm the guys over here. men can drink about 14 drinks a week. it actually might still be healthy for you. women get half of that. you don't metabolize the alcohol and it goes into your bloodstream. the maximum in a day is four shots for a man and three for the woman. if you get more, it's binge drinking. >> three a day. seven a week. >> my wineglass might be more full. >> regular beer, you get 12 ounces. malt beers, because they have more alcohol content, eight. wine is five ounces. it's not a bottle of wine.

a serving size is five ounces. hard alcohol is an ounce and a half. you can have, for women, seven of these in a week. men, 14 of these in a week. it's a reasonable amount to have. if you do more than, for a women, three in a day, i'm concerned. >> that's about health. but there are issues of addiction, obviously, that are raised. people think of alcoholism and then think of social drinking. there can be this middle ground you talk about, problem drinking. >> looking at problem drinking, 26 million americans. huge number. how do you know if it's a problem drinker? if you're worried about your drinking, you're a problem drinker. if you're a problem drinker, you have to make the lines of communication stay open. tonight is iconic and which is why we're doing the show today. we're asking everybody in america, the player players in addiction, which is the number one cause of accidental death in our country. we have a conversation this evening. we want the parents to talk to

the young people. the adult children they have. ask the question, how are you coping with life and are you using alcohol or drugs to do that? here's the favor. everyone is going to post a picture of an empty plate, simple to do, signifying the meal is not about the food, it's about the conversation. >> you want people to talk about addiction. it doesn't have to be these dramatic cases. if you're worried about it, it's a conversation worth having. >> with the holidays, you have to talk to each other about it. the federal government is involved, celebrities, medical groups, faith-based organizations. the society we have has always been held together because we bond together and talk about stuff that matters. let's not ignore that. >> we have a minute. let's do the take aways here. >> important issues. first off, you have to make sure you ask the host, what's in the drink? >> the punch. >> right. truly a problem because you don't know how much alcohol is in there. it changes how many you can have in an evening. you want to alternate alcohol with water. avoid the hangovers in the morning. hangovers are primely because

your brain is shrivelled up like a walnut in the cocoon head of yours and the brain is bouncing around. doesn't sound or feel good. mixing alcohol with water allows you to slow down, which is why it's impactful. you're at parties to shake hands. keep one empty all the time. the other can slowly drink. if you're not sure, write it down. then you'll know for sure. >> writingmassi i -- mess kwer towaier toward th the night. >> will you take a picture with me at the end of the break? >> absolutely. coming up next, khloe kardashian opening up to natalie about her relationship with caitlyn jenner and lamar odom's recovery. first, this is "today" on nbc.

we are back at 8:46. between the emergence of caitlyn jenner and the near death of

lamar odom, this has been an emotional roller coaster for the kardashian family. natalie talked about this with khloe kardashian. >> has been a year for her. she was preparing to go on the road to promote her new book, ready to start a new chapter in her life, when he learned odom had been found unconscious. that is where we started our conversation. >> announcer: now at 11:00, breaking news. >> lamar odom is fighting for his life. >> former nba star lamar odom found unconscious at a nevada brothel. chlkhloe kardashian rushing to bedside. >> did you think, he might die? >> they told me he had four hours. it was a horrible call to get. getting to the hospital and knowing he's in a coma, having to run these tests and make medical decisions, i -- it's terrifying. you have to make risk and reward decisions. there's an 80% chance if we do the operation, he might pass away, but also, if we don't do it, there's a 90% chance he'll

pass away. just having to make these executive decisions is really hard, i think, on anybody. it was definitely probably one of the most emotionally stressful times ever in my life. >> reporter: for two weeks, khloe stayed by lamar's side at a las vegas hospital before doctors moved him to los angeles to start his long road to recovery. >> how is he doing? >> he's okay. every day is different. the great thing is, he's off of medical machines that will keep him alive. >> what's the long-term prognosis for him? >> he is learning how to walk again and learning how, like, cognitive therapy and speech therapy. they think within a year and a half to two years, he might, you know, mentally, he might be fully recovered. they don't know. >> reporter: this all comes at what was supposed to be an exciting time for khloe, with the release of her new book, "strong looks better naked," the story of her transformation to a healthier, happier life.

a journey that started three years ago when she was struggling in a failing marriage. >> you really talk about shedding the pounds is about shedding some of the emotional baggage that you were carrying around, as well. >> right. for me, when i started going to the gym, it wasn't about, oh, i'm going to get skinny and i was to lose this weight. it was, i was having a hard time in my marriage, so i started going to the gym for really a stress reliever. >> reporter: when she's not at the gym, khloe is active and avoids mindless eating. the result, a 40-pound weight loss, along with an increase in muscle mass. >> how often are you working out? what do you like to do? >> well, typically, i work out five days a week. it's my healthy obsession. >> reporter: earlier this week, as khloe was making her physical transformation, she and the rest of her family were confronted with an unexpected emotional challenge. >> were you planning on not being bruce any time soon? >> that's possible, yeah.

>> when he did finally say it to us, we did feel like we were the last to know and we find out on camera for the first time. i think like your emotions are real and raw, and i can't apologize for them. >> i'm not lying, khloe. >> you were until we got it out of you. >> did you handle it, do you think, the worst of your siblings? >> probably vocally, verbally. i'm so honest, i'm just so like aggressive with the way i talk. i'm always the one to be the bad guy, which i'm also okay with. probably i took it the hardest. >> let me see your purse. >> you're close to caitlyn now? >> now that i've separated the two and we all know and understand what's going on, i love seeing how happy caitlyn is. seeing how this is where her soul really feels like this is her best person. i love that. >> i love you. >> while khloe remains close with caitlyn, the status of her relationship with lamar odom is scrutinized since she rescinded

their divorce paperwork. in our next hour, khloe tells me why she made the decision. she also reveals the simple changes she made to her diet to help transform her body. she looks incredible. she's that much stronger emotionally, as well. >> amazing she was there during the first tough couple days. coming up next, we'll take a turn and talk about saving time and money on your thanksgiving feast. katie lee has delicious ideas. matt will help her in the kitchen.

>> announcer: meals and deals on "today" is brought to you by walmart. stop by a store or visit us at walmart.com to share wonder every day. back at 8:53 with today's food, creating the ultimate thanksgiving. it's a week away so we're stretching your budget with sweet potatoes. katie lee is co-host of "the kitchen." good to see you. >> you, too. >> they're economical. >> yes, they are. right now, there is a local store that has them for 49 cents a pound. >> can't beat that. >> buy them in bulk if you store them in a cool, dry place. they'll keep for a long time. >> what's the name of the dish? >> sweet potato casserole, thanksgiving classic. tried and true. it's brown sugar, ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, pecan, butter

and cream. >> you'll take the sweet potatoes, cube them and cook them a little bit. >> what you want to do is put them in a pot with cold water, bring them to a water and reduce to a simmer. if you put poe ptatoes in the boiling water, the outside cooks but the inside doesn't. >> got it. >> i've got some milk, heavy cream and butter here. we're going to put that right in and mash them. >> all right. >> just like that. >> mash them or use the blender like this? isn't it going to get all over the place? >> no. you're all right. >> yes, it is. >> maybe a little. >> let's pretend we've mashed our potatoes. >> we need those. >> i'll do it a little. >> that's why we're wearing the aprons. >> mash those potatoes up. >> you want these warm because it'll incorporate into your potatoes more. >> look what you've done. >> we made a nice little mess. >> you have pre-greased

creamy and mashed. what we're going to do is make a little topping. if you want to make this in advance, this can go into the freezer at this point. then you thaw it before you make the topping. >> what do we have here? >> this topping is cold butter, salt, brown sugar, flour and pecan. you can substitute other nuts if you'd like. mix it together. we'll put it on top of the casserole. if you're not a nut person, you can leave this topping off and just do marshmallows. >> this is what it looks like when it comes out of the oven. how long does it cook? >> 25, 30 minutes at 350 degrees until they're golden brown. >> this is my favorite part. leftover sweet potatoes. >> this is super easy. simplest pancake recipe. a cup of oats and cottage cheese, eggs and leftover sweet potato casserole. from the blender to the hot griddle. >> take a look downstairs. they're digging in as we speak. >> i love the pancakes. great idea. >> healthy, too. >> cottage cheese.

>> really healthy. >> how was the casserole? >> huge hit. >> you can take your casserole topping and put it on top of the pancakes, too. >> double duty. >> yeah. crumble it on top. little maple syrup. these also freeze great. >> smells great. katie lee, thank you very much. >> happy thanksgiving. >> happy thanksgiving to you. >> you can catch the recipes and 30 days of budget meal ideas and sign up for i'm ... ==anim== a - here we are at 8:56 on your thursday morning. a follow-up to a closely watched legal battle. a san francisco judge has ruled against a woman suing to preserve her embryos. she wanted to keep them that she froze in 2010 with her then husband just after being diagnosed with cancer. they agreed to destroy them if they divorced. in a hearing, she argued it was her last chance to have b

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this morning on "today's take," khloe kardashian opens up about lamar, caitlyn and her famous family. then a new movie that's getting a lot of award season buzz. we'll cut the calories from your favorite thanksgiving dishes in our 16 to 16 challenge. all that and more coming up now. >> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today's take," with al roker, natalie morales, willie geist and tamron hall, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> welcome to "today." it's thursday morning, november 19th, 2015. i'm willie along with al, natalie and tamron. we begin again this morning in paris with major news about the alleged leader of the attacks last friday. keir simmons is there in paris for us. what's the latest?

>> good morning. abdelhamid abaaoud, this guy was a ruthless terrorist, a poster boy for isis. he'd post pictures of himself online with dead bodies in syria. he took a 13-year-old relative, allegedly, with him to syria. he is the mastermind behind, the linchpin behind the series of terrorist attacks, including the massacre here in paris. it took the french authorities until today to confirm they had killed him. they had to use fingerprints to be sure because of the scale of that fire fight in the third floor apartment yesterday in the saint-denis area of paris. 5,000 rounds were fired. it's clear abaaoud did everything he could to try to not be taken alive. we know that he had bragged in the past about being able to get to europe, willie. he's said in the isis magazine earlier this year, my name and

picture was all over the news. still, i was able to stay in the homeland and plan attacks against them, then leave safely. what is really, really going to worry the security and intelligence services, willie, is that if he did manage to do that in the past, it looks as if he managed to do it again, despite being a wanted man. how did this man travel to the capital of france and launch this attack, despite the fact it was known he was an isis fanatic and murderer? >> more questions in this investigation. keir, thank you very much. newideo from daily mail.com. video from cameras inside one of the cafes that was targeted in friday's attack. it's a difficult piece of video to watch. we don't show you the worst of it, but you get the idea. isis also has released a nearly five-minute long propaganda video that shows images of times square.

they were not recent images. they've been used in previous videos. bill de blasio saying no credible or specific threats to new york. macy's say extensive security will be in place for the parade. millions of people will be watching around the world. you'll see more security around that parade a week from today. >> as keir brought up the point, what's become an ongoing concern here in this country and abroad, as well, is the syrian refugee crisis. also, because he mentioned that abaaoud, the mastermind, had gotten into paris as a known mastermind of these kinds of attacks from syria, he had gotten into paris. new nbc news surveymonkey poll shows 56% of the american public disapprove of allowing more syrian refugees here into this country. one of the terrorists, as we have known and talked about since friday, had a syrian passport on them, which has

sparked a lot of the backlash t it -- and the number of governors refusing syrian refuge refugees into their state has grown. we're hearing more and more about how this alleged attack was carried out and learning more about the details. there is a photo that has surfaced, as well. this is isis publishing in their own propaganda magazine. a soda can and a detonator. they claim it's this kind of device, this homemade bomb, that took down that russian plane last month, killing 224 people. it's impossible to validate the photo, but it appears it's a soda can, as tom costello reported earlier, that was cut in half, packed with plastic explosives, and put back together again. all security experts say, looking at that, those are the components, the detonator and the triggering mechanism, that would be components that could

be capable of being a bomb. experts here at home say the tsa checkpoints, explosive detection systems, could have caught a similar device. you check your bags, scan them through. the scanners at the parairports would be able to detect explosives. however, what they can't detect, one of the big security gaps, if this is a soda can, the real concern is, people internally working at the airports, catering on those carts. if something like that could get through the system, that's the real concern now. i always say, when i come out of the baggage claim area, nobody is checking bags. you see people come up -- drivers coming in to get rides. they come right into airports and nobody is checking who these people are as they're coming in to get their pick-ups. they could easily place something on a carousel. that's always, for me, been an eye-opener. looking at the last point of entrance or exit from the airport is right there, the baggage claim area.

it scares me every night. >> security experts all say you can do everything exactly right. the terrorist only needs to get it right one time. >> exactly. >> that's what we've seen in paris, sadly, on friday, multiple times. they were able to. i hate to use the word, get it right, but that's what they did. it takes one. when you see the can, the catering and other avenues, going back to jeff's report, they had a box cutter, producer from nbc, got on a box cutter, knife. while the tsa says it would have been detected, it's not 100%. we saw that yesterday in jeff rossen's report. >> you see the cargo areas, also the catering, people who work at the airport. >> the missing -- we had the report last week on the number of employees whose badges are missing, 1,000, floating around somewhere for an individual to do dubious things with. >> how rudimentary these can be. if this brought down a plane. it's a soda can.

9/11 was box cutters. doesn't take a lot to bring a plane down. >> all it takes is having that device right near sort of the fuselage area. once you create a crack in an airplane, the whole thing goes. >> man. we're going to change gears right now. this is interesting. we always like hearing about homes that are for sale, unique homes. there's a privately owned underground bunker that just hit the market in georgia. >> how much, al? >> $17.5 million. >> wow! >> willing to negotiate? >> not much of a view there, right? . it's not a room, it's a view. >> listed by harry norman realtors. built 45 feet underground on more than 20 acres. underground, so you can't see it. it was built in 1969. >> renovated a couple years ago. >> modern kitchen. >> 12 bedrooms, 12 baths. here's the selling point, can

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ears and trying to read the lips. >> amazing. >> very nice. >> i love it. al, how about a look at the weather? >> we have a storm system that's going to be very interesting to watch. coming in from the pacific northwest. as it does, it's going to be meeting a lot of cold air comes out of canada. as it does, we are going to watch this system make its way across the plains starting tomorrow, on into saturday and sunday. it's a fast-moving storm. very clipper-like. we'll be watching this. this will be the first significant snow through the midwest and plains. we already have winter storm watches for milwaukee, des moines, rockford, illinois. look at the snowfall amounts. out west, upwards of one to two feet. as you go to omaha, cedar rapids, west of chicago, some areas could pick up a foot of snow. we're going to be watching this very good morning. i'm meteorologist kari hall.

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>> wow. >> "youth" is harvey's greatest film. he plays an agent director on vacation played by his bud, michael caine. good to see you. >> thank you, al. >> just before we started, you were talking about growing up in brooklyn and stealing pigeons. >> is there a -- i can't get arrested now, right? >> no, you're safe. >> this film is interesting because it's basically kind of an ode to aging and what it means to get older. not necessarily worse, it gets better, in a sense. >> well, i feel strongly about some of these wonderful themes that was written about in the movie. not so much for me about aging, as about the mind and if you want to have a youthful mind, you can have it until the end of your days. represented by the five writers, the five young writers helping

nucle mick to write his final script and final an ending to his story. that's a mythological search to find the end of your story. so -- >> you got to work right alongside with michael caine, playing his best friend. his character's best friend. friends for 60 years. how did you guys go about building that bond? >> well, michael and i had a back story. him being a cockney and me being from brooklyn. he served in the british army. i served in the american marines. we sort of had a language of our own. we shouldn't share either with you or -- >> colorful language. >> cursing involved. >> how do you do it, harvey? how do you stay young? not just physically, but of mind, as well. what's your secret? >> well, i'll speak fast here. there's this middle eastern poet that has been a guardian light

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my mother is a minister, and i group up around preachers and ministers and people like that. to hear them speak and see them sort of command a stage, and to have people listen to them, i channelled that. i was off the heels of another lead, and i took all those influences into it. >> is this only your second movie? >> well, yes. my second film. i went straight into the biggest franchise ever, doing my first film. >> unbelievable. >> help llo, pressure. >> for "hunger games" fans, she's a huge broadway star. won the tony for best actress in a musical a couple years ago. >> yeah. >> that's you. >> amazing. >> you started on stage and won the tony for "pippen." that had to be a surreal moment. >> "pippen" for people goes back, people remember it from such a young age.

to be able to bring it back and put my own spin on it. the cast is female. to have the opportunity as a woman to take on an iconic role was a big, old challenge, but i was up for it. >> amazing. from broad kaway to film, i havo ask about this little fact we read about. you met your husband online? >> yes. >> i love that. >> was it on purpose, like match? >> it was eharmony. >> sweet. >> it works. >> do they use you in an ad? >> no. >> he was the first guy i met. >> is that your dog or his dog? >> what? >> in the picture. >> met the dog online. >> amazing. >> first person you met online. >> yeah. >> it worked. >> it's like he -- >> wow. eharmony, call her. >> that's right. >> patina, congratulations on

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traffic ck oakland 880 sponsor good more. i'm kari hall before temperatures are in the low to mid-50s. even upper 50s in san francisco. our temperatures continuing to go up as we go through the rest of the day. and looking at a high of 70 in gilroy, about yoburlingame 66, mission district 65. more 70s for the north bay. and the tri-valley right around 70 degrees.

mike. >> want to take you to oakland where it's still slow north up to high street. things starting to move much better, map still shows lag. so still a little more slowing from is an lee san leandro, but concern. east bound getting away from the bay bridge there is a crash. it's moved to the shoulder. smooth across dumbarton bridges. a little slower than you might like, but 101 a big crowd. clearing for 280 and 885. thank you very much. that will do it for us right how. be back mr. 25 minutes.

taking a look at the headlines just in time for the busy holiday travel season. thousands of airport workers went on strike wednesday night at some of the busiest hubs in the country, including here in new york, boston, chicago and philadelphia. union leaders say the strike is expected to last through today. workers are seeking a minimum wage of $15 an hour and the right to join a union. the airlines say they don't expect travelers will be impacted. a state judge in san francisco ordered a woman to honor an agreement she signed with her husband while they were married to destroy five frozen embryos if they got divorced. the ex-husband says he is worried, in part, that his former wife could use any children resulting from the embryos to take financial advantage of him. the woman, a 46-year-old cancer survivor, argues that the

embryos are her last chance to have biological children because the cancer made it risky for her to become pregnant. more evidence this morning about how changing sleep schedules may affect your health. researchers from the university of pittsburgh monitor the activity of 450 adults one week. people whose sleep schedules vary vastly on their free days were more likely to be overweight or pre-diabetes and cles trom. cholesterol. this is a day when smokers are encouraged to kick the habit. a combination of medications and counseling with help. the health benefits begin immediately. 12 hours after quitting, the carbon monoxide level drops to normal. two weeks later, lung function increases. after one year of quitting, the excess risk of coronary heart disease is cut in half. an electric eel is the star

of the special exhibit of the aquarium in japan. the current it produces is just enough to light up a christmas tree. electric eels capable of generating brief bursts of currents measuring more than 800 volts. they release especially strong jolts when being fed. how about that? let get a check of the weather now. al, stay away from the electric eels. >> announcer: today's weather is brought to you by soma boutiques and soma.com. indulge in gorgeous gifts this holiday. let's look at your weekend ahead. starting with friday, we have snow across the plains. sunshine in the east and out west and through the gulf coast. moving into saturday, that snow makes its way into the central great lakes. we're looking at sunshine along the eastern sea board. wet weather in florida and texas. beautiful out west. then sunday, sunday, leftover snow and rain in northern new england. lots of sunshine elsewhere. your thanksgiving travel outlook

now looking like this. on tuesday, we are looking at basically -- this is wednesday, i should say. snow out in the plains. lots of sunshine in the east with rain in texas. on thanksgiving day, a little snowy in the plains and wet weather for the gulf coast to the northern plains. that's what's going on around the country. here's what's happ a lot of sunshine across the bay area. and gradually warming temperatures. heading into the day, it will feel really nice this afternoon. up into the upper 60s and some low 70s, too, like the north bay, 72 in the tri-valley, a high of 70 and 68 for the peninsula and south bay. san francisco looking at 66 degrees. and the winds starting to increase as we go through the day. breezy this afternoon with wind speeds up to 20 miles per hour. >> that is your latest weather. >> thank you so much, al. now to our 16 to 16 series,

where we have challenged three viewers and you at home to get into shape by the new year. >> with the big thanksgiving feast a week away now, mary jean, rochelle and ken are understandably worried about ruining the diets. our nutritionist joy bauer is here to help. good morning, everyone. happy early thanksgiving. joy, want to give us an update on how they're doing? >> mary jean lost an additional one pound. she's down a total of 25.5 pounds. >> wow. >> incredible. >> unbelievable. rochelle lost three pounds this week. last week, she stayed the same. she certainly has caught up this week. down three pounds for a total of 19 pounds. >> all right. >> wow. >> good job. >> ken has lost another two pounds this week. you're down a total of 24 pounds. >> that's amazing. >> unbelievable. >> every time you come in, you can really see it. you look great. i hope you feel good, too. >> we do. >> chiselling out.

great. >> let's talk about how this is going to work. joy, one item on the plate is healthy holiday, one that's fatty feast. >> what i've done is first, i'll say that thanksgiving is thanksgiving. i don't think anybody needs to be counting calories. because we love our precious sides, i took a stab at lightening up some of the very favorites. each one of our participants has one of the favorite sides in front of them. they have a fattening version and my lightened up version. we'll start with you, mary jean. you'll taste both. you're going to tell us by placing the cards in front, which you think is the fattening feast and which is my joy food version called healthy holiday. >> this is sweet potato casserole. >> they're both really good. this one is really good. but i think this is the healthier one. too sweet. >> you're exactly right. let me first say that traditional sweet potato casserole is, for a cup, 350 calories.

my version is only 160 for a full cup. here's what i did. i got a little sneaky. i took half sweet potatoes and mashed it with half carrots. i didn't add any sweetening so i drove down the calories and carbs. it's still deliciously sweet. marshmallows on top. bright orange. >> not a big difference? >> no. this is actually too sweet. this is absolutely delicious. >> mix the carrots in. that's the lesson. >> they're great. next up we have pumpkin pie. take two tastes. the original is 300 calories per slice. my healthy one is only 188. which do you think is the healthy one? >> i think this one. i like this better. maybe i can roll half as much crust? i need my crust. >> there's a thin graham cracker crust.

for the same calories, you can use your traditional crust. i took a graham cracker crust. all i did was reduced the sugar significantly and instead of what it calls for the condensed evaporated milk and i used the light unsweetened almond milk. >> love the cream spinach. >> the fattening one, 240 calories. mine is only 110. >> it's really tasty. it's light. i think it's healthy. >> he mixed it up! whoa, you rock! >> this tastes -- >> he thought my healthy one was the fattening version. >> no kidding. it's so much creamier. >> i sauteed shallots and garlic and a big bag -- two bags of the baby spinach leaves and added light cream cheese.

it gave it a velvety feel. you'll taste a boxed version of stuffing. >> as we go to break, you will tell us which is which. guys, keep up the good work. happy early thanksgiving. >> you can find the recipe on our web site at today.com. coming up next, khloe kardashian gets candid about lamar and her healthy new lifestyle. that's next.

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this is not a job for me, thbeing a part of helping thpeople in need is who i am. working at brookdale for me is not just a job, it's a life for me. i love it. i formed many connections with the residents. i feel like i am part of their family and they're part of mine. if you can get up in the morning, ya know, shake the dust and go up there and make somebody happy, when i go to sleep, i did my job. khloe kardashian spent much of her life in the spotlight. in her new book, she reveals what happens when the cameras aren't rolling. struggling with a failing marriage, she was getting ready to go on a book tour when her husband lamar odom was found unconscious at a brothel. khloe and her family rushed to a las vegas hospital to be by his side. >> we were there for two weeks in the vegas hospital. they kept saying he's not out of

the woods. you're so positive. we're nowhere in the clear. i was like, you told me he was going to die a few days ago. >> reporter: today, odom is in a los angeles hospital where khloe says he's breathing on his own, going through speech therapy and learning how to walk again. >> you've rescinded the divorce proceedings for now. why? >> i was expediting the divorce prior. i'm still separated with him, but i'm just not expediting them anymore. there's no reason for it. also, just in his will, i'm always the medical adviser. he had no one else to make these decisions for him. >> reporter: it was the stress surrounding her failing marriage that kick started khloe on a three-year path to a healthier lifestyle. a journey she chronicles in her new book, "strong looks better naked." three years ago, khloe started going to the gym to relieve stress and, soon, it became her

favorite part of the day. >> do you go every day? >> i try to go five days a week. if i don't go, i feel like my day isn't as fluid as it should be. when you work out and start your day in a healthy routine, you kind of keep the routine for the rest of the day. >> reporter: that routine includes hikes with her sisters and the family dog. >> i will do any workout. i'll try new things at least once. i love boxing. i circuit train with my trainer. >> reporter: once khloe had a exercise routine in place, she turned to her eating habits. cutting out dairy, cutting out ice tea and no carbs after dark. >> you don't diet, it's sort of watching the things that you take in? >> yeah. i was a juice drinker. cutting that out was huge. the non-dairy thing was major for me. i still need my sweets sometimes. >> me, too.

>> reporter: those simple changes paid off. with khloe losing 40 pounds. while adding muscle mass. thoughi i showing off her new body in the season premiere of "keeping up with the kardashians." khloe says the changes are more than skin deep, building a stronger emotional core, helping her handle a roller coaster year that started with a stunning announcement from her stepfat r stepfather. >> we were never told he was going to fully transition and become a woman. >> reporter: and ended with her husband's brush with death. >> what has life in this past year taught you about yourself? >> well, it's taught me, you could never guess what's going to happen tomorrow. it's taught me how strong i really am. also, how great and supportive of a family i have. i don't know how i'd live my life without my family. i have the best support system in the world. >> get in here for a hug. >> okay. >> while the turbulent year took

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of wood veneer. decorate it with whatever, feathers, circles. then the kids can have them for dinner time. >> hi, nathan. >> nathan and blake are working on cut and glue crafts. nathan that has the fall wreath, adding paper leaves to the craft. start with a card board circle. when they're assembled, they look like this. great for kids to work on together as a group. >> cut out a bunch of things and let them go to town. >> here, we have a pretty classic thanksgiving craft. we have thanksgiving turkeys made from hand prints. >> the hand print. >> you trace the child's hand, cut them out and use those for the turkey feathers. as you can see, blake is adding on googly eyes and otherturkeys >> the hand print has stood the test of time.

>> pearrsonalized crafts. this is an interesting technique. you are drawing on coffee filters with a washable marker. then spritz them with water so the colors start to run and look like feathers. >> tie-dye. >> kpalexactly. >> then the pipe cleaners have been wrapped around the pencil to give them that shape. >> mom and dad don't have coffee filters. >> all out. >> this is a super quick craft. walnut shells. the parent is going to crack them. diana is putting play-doe inside. you make it out of a tooth stick. you can put it at everyone's place setting at the table. >> sweet caroline. >> working on a weaving craft. for this, the mom or dad is going to cover a piece of paper in yellow duct tape, both sides. cut out a corn cob shape. >> mom? >> caroline is going to weave

these papers into to get the corn effect. >> i like this. this is a distraction. we have to focus? >> i don't think i can do that. >> i don't think so either. >> we good? >> feeling extra crafty, you can add the husks on at the end. >> phenomenal kids. >> nicely done. >> great job, guys. >> these guys are super crafters. we are ready to take them? >> awesome. thanks. laura, thank you. back in a moment. in the "today" on nbc. are you trying to escape from us?

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in the north bay. within the last 30 minutes -- good morning. 9:56. we're taking you to breaking news in the north bay. in the last 30 minutes, crews confirm they have found a body as part of their search for a missing jet skier. a 48-year-old woman last seen on her jet ski last night on the napa river. crews found her jet ski heavily

damaged. investigators say the woman may have crashed into a bridge. stephanie trong is getting the latest information. but a body has been found. let's check your weather. another cool start to the day with mostly sunny skies. a high of 66 degrees in san francisco. some spots will be in the low 70s like the north bay as well as the tri-valley. the rest of the bay area looking at some upper 60s, very pleasant and this weather continues as we head into the weekend. let's see how the morning commute is going thousanow with. a little slow as we look at the high rise for west 92. no incidents reported, but i do see brake lights. you see speeds are improving as well as down into the peninsula toward the south bay. slow drive for san jose. we'll show you the bay bridge

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announcer: from nbc news, this is "today" with kathie lee gifford and hoda kotb. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> come on now. >> allight, "lush life" and it is thirsty thursday. it is november 19th. we're really delighted you're here with us today. hoda is at it once again. everybody's loving these things, hoda. this time, she's crashing a wedding. if anybody else did, it would be rude but not hoda. >> i didn't wear white. which i made that mistake before. >> at bobbi's wedding. it's so much fun. then it's a holiday film that