night protest the presidential election. >> the valley honors our veterans, the events you want to check out and where you vets can score free food. >> how would you react if watching the president gives orders, why in nbr star has you laughing at loud. that and more coming up! ? [ music ] ?? >> live from studios in downtown phoenix, 200 east -- welcome to all the veterans out there. happy fun friday. that's why we sent jimmy out live at pir. having fun out there, jimmy? >> reporter: yes, it's cool. for as quiet as it is, it's pretty active, lots of people walking around little by little and it will continue to be more active as the soon gets closer

being with a light jacket and running around, very brisk walking, i'm nice and warm but if you're standing still, if you're not too active this morning, yeah, you'll want the jacket. so dress in layers this weekend, something you can take off if you get too warm and for the day, days, you will want your sunglasses and hats because it's bright. the veterans day forecast, a great forecast, some of the best weather in the nation today. average, about 83 degrees, so we're live here at the nascar sprint cup series, one of the final races on the stop for the nascar season, a big race, big points scored and determined who will win the whole season. we'll tell you more coming up in the seven-day forecast. we'll talk to a current navy

>> with nascar in town we're talking about drivers in the poll question today. >> who drives better? would it be women? men? or jimmy? who is in the lead, matt? >> my eyes are bothering me. >> let me help you out. 42%. >> jim minute is actually going up at 19%. it's really easy for you to vote. grab your do this for another hour this morning. >> speaking of another great driver out on the roads right here, jen with our real-time on the road traffic. >> she's not driving. >> well, she does after the show. >> good morning to you guys. girl power here. girls are great drivers. i have an awesome driver in here, chris, always great, taking it extra safe for us.

there's a couple of accidents we wants to mention. we'll talk about those and give you a bird's-eye view of 17 north and southbound past durango. this morning, crash i-17 northbound at northern. we'll check that out in a few minutes. also one on the 10 eastbound 51st avenue, slowing things down, in the hov lane. let's give-wider picture of the valley despite looking pretty good. the durango curve starts to back up and we're approaching that and it's relatively open. we'll let you know about the crash on i-17 northbound in just a few minutes. >> thank you very much. we continue our team 12 coverage of traffic this morning, the friday morning commute already a real mess. team 12's brian west is live at i-10 and 51st avenue where a crash has backed up eastbound traffic. what happened out there? >> reporter: matt, we just got

seeing. traffic is congested, 51st avenue, and we're told by a dot, it goes back to 75th avenue and slow-moving. directing your attention to the hov lanes, we see about 8-10 cars there, the median area, and dps is doing an investigation. we have two squad cars out here and there's drivers and passengers sitting on the side of the road and we have a tow truck that did pull up. there was another car out here earlier that had been tak cleanup stages are in the process. if you look, it looks like bumper to bumper car wreck perhaps, a chain reaction between seven or eight cars. as far as traffic, slow-moving along the 10, 51st avenue to 75th avenue, we'll of course bring you an update coming up in our next half hour. we're live along the i-10, 12 today. >> thank you. on this friday, it also happens to be veterans day.

happening all around town. team 12 has a preview of what's going on today. good morning! >> reporter: good morning. still don't get me wrong, i love veterans but i have too much hey stray for what is going on. these are the arizona superstars with the arizona twirling athletes and they will be one of the displays here for the parade. kind of dangerous. >> it is. most of the girls started at our camp that we hold every summer and they start at about nine years old and the next year they learn more. these girls are in high school now and so they've been trialing with their high school bands and for home coming, bon fires, and this is the ultimate things that they want to do. >> reporter: i would be too scared because of the product in my hair and i have zero

but this is what you will see in the parade. behind me is some of the floats. there's 800 hours of engraving here, so a lot to see at the parade starting at 11:00 a.m., so you don't want to miss out, starts on central, a hard left on indian school, and events around the valley, and you should know that businesses around the country as well as here in arizona are honoring the men and women who have served with veterans day deals, many deals to look out for. it's starts at 11:00 a.m. so get out here early. they'll start closing down some of the streets in the area at about 7:30 this morning so i put a map of the parade route on my twitter so you can look at that. so come out and look at it.

tell. >> beautiful floats there. thank you very much, as well as the baton twirlers. 6:06 for the second night in a row pro tests broke outside across the country against president elect donald trump. in oakland, california, police declared an unlawful assembly after activists blocked off portions of the highway there. in salt lake, protesters marched on the state city's iconic city hall. >> dr. matt pace will honor our nation's veterans today, paying contribute but -- the president will honor our nation's veterans today. he'll make formal remarks thanking veterans, as well. >> hilary clinton appears to be enjoying a break from the

a woman spotted the clintons walking their dogs. the photographer, former president bill clinton. still ahead on 12 today, from rock and roll to good eats, we have your fun things to do this weekend. >> when a visit to the white house blows your mind, the reaction is giving the internet a good laugh this morning. we'll show you what it's all about when 12 today comes right

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>> good morning. the nba world champion cleveland cavaliers stopped by the white house and produced two videos that have people talking and laughing out loud, including us here. they dropped what may have been the mannequin challenge to end all mannequin challenges, getting the first lady in on it. they posed with her and said they wanted to save this moment forever by doing it and it went viral. and then there was this. before the team's visit came to an end the president suggested they take a photo with him and asked white house staffers to remove the podium before the stage. before doing so, calling out to the staffers, hey, can we move this. take a look behind them at the forward's face, and look at that, in awe.

he tweeted and he said, team hashtag #hetheman. now it's time for the juicy question of the morning. are you ready for it? i am. let's get to the juicy question. a good character always works good in advertising, right. so they sold sh remember that. we're asking, who are the two best characters in advertising? i'm going to say tony the tiger. >> i you have mr. that one. >> and the gecko. >> from geico. >> yes. >> he's a good one. >> flo from progressive. >> she's relatively new too. >> i'll go with the toyota guy. you see him in all kinds of things.

>> the most interesting man in the world. >> who lost his job. >> mr. clean. you saw the commercial with him. >> somebody said the horses, the clydes dales. >> thank you very much. >> it's turkey tues up. all month long donations are being collected at registered, benefiting saint vincent depaul, making sure every family in phoenix celebrates. 6:14. let's go out live to pir. yesterday i was jealous of jimmy because he was vintage shopping and today you're jealous because he's over at nascar. >> >> reporter: it's really,

we'll show you more around the track. first let's get started on what the weather will be like. we're feeling the chill. i went up about a story or two so i'm feeling the wind. you will want to bring a shell with you, even if you're coming out here, the day is going to be awesome. it can always get chilly early on or at nighttime, too. and in the middle of the day you'll want sunglasses and sunscreen too. it's a beautiful, beautiful weekend coming up like we're pretty much rain- free for the 67 days. in talking with jessie, a racer, navel academy graduate. how do you get from the navy to racing? you actually race and you're still in the navy, correct? >> yes. i'm on active duty in the navy and i went to the navel academy and played football there in four years and graduated in '10 and i'm racing in the pro

star group. >> you are quite the athlete. >> yes. i was grateful for the school and alumni and great for everybody in the organization. >> how did you get into racing, jessie? >> i've always loved motor sports my whole life but as a foothills player i couldn't get into it because i was playing football. once i got the opportunity to jump into it when i had a bit more free time after a couple of my deployments i jumped into the motor sports and figured out nascar is the way i want to go and that's the route i went. >> i race in the nascar k & n pro series west. >> when will they be racing? >> they won't race this weekend, but this weekend is three divvies, the truck series, xfinity and sprint car and i'll race in the 150, the 200, and the 500. >> where do you want to end up with all this racing? where do you see yourself in the future? >> the ultimate goal, make it

the nascar sprint cup series. >> our navel officer on top of that? >> yes. >> and graduated from the navel academy? >> yes. >> i need some of this on my resume, you know. it's awesome. thank you very much for your service and just awesome to meet folks like that, as well. that's out here this weekend and it's pretty amazing. back over to you guys. >> all right. thank him for his service. yes, you do, we have navel academy we're talking about drivers in our 12 today poll question and we want to know who drivers better, women, men or one jimmy? >> what? jimmy's friends are waking up helping him out. it's almost a three-way tie here. >> you probably never heard this before but i'm saying this is rigged [ laughter ] in favor of jimmy. >> 12news.com/yourvoice. go over there and vote. women, we need to represent

here's a list of great events to check out for this weekend. ? [ music ] ?? >> one of the most popular culinary events in the valley takes place tonight at the four season in scottsdale. it's from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. the fun event benefits the scottsdale league for the arts. tickets are $125. ? [ music ] ?? >> mosey over to the seventh annual chuck wagon cook-off starting at 9:00. authentic chuck wagon for the 1880s. enjoy it. want to watch a movie? catch "hook" tonight at 6:30. bring a picnic blanket and

also free a, perfect by l. a. based rock band. do you want your house smelling and looking fresh and clean without all the chemicals? learn how to make ecofriendly cleaners for the house in today's life-changer. race weekend at pir and racing is the topic of trivia question. what is the fastest speed ever recorded at a nascar qualifying or race?

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this fun friday, the 12 news tracker, real-time on the road traffic and birds eye camera out and about on the valley freeways. pretty light today, veterans day, a big thank you to all of those who served and continued to do so. the trivia, this weekend nascar returns to the valley. you can see that on 12 news sunday afternoon. our question to you, what's the fastest speed ever recorded at a nascar qli race? any last-minute guesses? jay? >> 210 mph. >> 232 mph. >> 232, wow. >> jay is close. the answer is 212.809. they measure it to the thousand ths. they have gone up to about 218

actual event. 30 life changers that everybody needs to know to make life a little bit easier for you. today we're helping you around the house and we're saving you money. >> that's because lifestyle blogger is showing us this. >> >> start with one cup of hot tap water teaspoons, one quarter cup of white vinegar, hydrogen peroxide, juice of one small lemon, mix it up, castile soap. stir that up. pour that into a spray bottle. add a couple drops, maybe five drops, of oil. the reasons you do this at the

of oil stickings to the measuring cup. give it a swirl. you're ready to go. there you have it. come over to my house and start cleaning my counters. >> i don't know about your counters because here's the catch. you can't use it on porous surfacings like granite and marble. just be careful about that. >> join us next week for some holiday recipe favorites, going in the kitchen with my 2-year- old twi we'll be baking up one of our favorite desserts here, sugar cookies. who doesn't like those except for matt. it airs monday as we kick off a new series on 12 today, in the kitchen with team 12, mark, joe, vanessa and i, all be sharing our favorite recipes with you so we're excited that the holidays are right round the corner. >> can we get an over-under on

"no" to her kids during this segment. >> if you watch facebook live you see the truth behind the camera. >> that's still posted. >> don't touch that. no, no. still ahead, what one mother is doing to make sure her family doesn't see what she's cooking up for thanksgiving dinner. nintendo is throwing it back to the 1980s, the all in one mini that goes on sale

?[ music ] ?? right now on 12 today, the valley honors our veterans, where you can show your support today. plus eight games left in the cardinals need-wins, a lot of them, the second half of not too many are fans of being tickled but rats are. howscientists figured that out. >> tickling and rats, a great way to start the day. a better way, jimmy out at pir, a bird's-eye view out there. hello, jimmy! >> reporter: you know what? it's not that loud although i've been out here before when they're racing and you have to

we're on the mechanic row and it's pretty quiet. it's chilly. the temperatures will keep dropping, a light to medium jacket, a light shell. look at this. they're getting ready, not a lot of workers here yet, probably around the 8:00 hour they'll be coming in here but the garages, it's amazing. they'll get filled up with the crews and they will start working and you will smell bacon and eggs, feeding their crews nd blown city that operates on its own. they have everything from gas trucks to mechanics to garages to wrenches to anything you would need. the semi trucks here, all the nascar, the cars, are sitting up on the top level. there's an elevator in the semi trucks and when they open it up, the elevator comes down and they pull the car out. it's interesting. the car is actually on top. they don't drive it on the bottom. it's beautiful.

telling you, there's so many rv's, hundreds of them from folks who are sleeping and they'll be up in the next hour or so. they don't sleep in here. they work nonstop. they paint the bottom of these cars white in case they see any oil or any problems with the car, it will show up. today, outside, it's gorgeous, the sun is coming up, looking off to the east, not a cloud in the sky and like we talked about, a little bit chilly for this morning. temperatures will be reaching about 83 for the high on this forecast, more on the weekend forecast, more on nascar coming up. >> thank you very much. with nascar in town we're talking about driving in our 12 today poll question. >> that's right. we want to know this. who drivers better, would it be women, men, or jim mimi? the women on top, 30%. >> you need glasses. jimmy was with 44%.

because he's paying a lot of people out there. grab your phone and vote. we'll be updating the results all morning long. >> let's go outside with jen, our real-time on the road traffic. hello, jen! >> reporter: good morning. i just want to say that there's a study out there that says men are 3.4 times more likely than women to get a ticket for reckless driving. i'm just throwing that out there as folks are taking t their decisions, maybe just think about that. we're on the i-17 southbound approaching cam pel back right now. we were just on the northbound lanes. there's a crash i-17 northbound at northern, backed up to about glendale but once you get down here it's pretty clear here on the northbound lanes. southbound, busier, heading into phoenix on this veterans day. not quite as many people heading to work. as far as the rest of the valley goes this morning, we

traffic map, the 10 westbound and from chandler and also the 101 starts to back up around ray, just a little, and there's a crash at i-10 eastbound at 51st avenue, slowing things down too and we've had brian out there live giving us a live report of that guy. we'll let you know if anything else pops up here on the valley freeways throughout the rest of the morning. >> thank you very much for the update and study. fun friday happens to be veterans day and there's tons of events all around town. team 12 has going on today. hello! >> reporter: we're jump into it. i want to introduce you to adam sook. i'm shaking your hands because i want to say a thank you you for your service, a military veterans from the university of phoenix, one of the sponsors of this event. tell me why it's so important for you the university and you to be involved here. >> today is the 21st avenue of the parade and we're honored at

a proud sponsor in recognizing the service of our veterans. >> reporter: as we see here behind us, the powmia color guard, and it's one of many things we'll see. what's your favorite thing? >> my favorite thing is to see this community come out and passionately support our veterans who represent the best of what this nation is. >> reporter: thank you very much, adam. thank you very much for your service. we're talking about the phoenix veterans day parade and let's not forget the rest of the valley, a number of events going on in tes let's see. i have notes here. in peoria 5 k, glendale, pearl harbor display, and events in other places, but back to phoenix, it will start at 11:00 a.m. and they'll start closing down streets at 7:30. if you need to see parade route, go he to my twitter.

come early because we're expecting tens of thousands of people to be here. it's a great event. >> thank you very much. we want to know how you are spending the day or who you are thinking about today. so, please, send us a picture of the veteran or active service member in your life using the hashtag #beon12 and thanks to everybody who has sent in pictures already. 6:35. let's talk sports, your arizona cardinals are back in action taking on the 49ers at home this is off their much- neededbye-week. the 49ers have lost seven in a row. it has to be a must-win and fairly easy win for the cardinals. >> a must-win, having to fix the issues, protecting palmer but the biggest thing they need to do is get back on track. the second half of the season now, you don't have 77 home games, spending the second half of the season on the road, and

you have to set the tone. if they took my advice, the short passing game, if they do that, get the ball into john brown, larry fitzgerald, short and let them break it long. >> and the last time these two teams played the cardinals put up 172 yards rushing and they have to do that again too. >> david johnson will be a big part. if they will have success, it's running the ball. >> knock on this weekend, seven more games in the regular season. do the cardinals have to win all of them to make the playoffs and really what are the chances that they make the playoffs at this point? >> winning all of them would be the best option for them because i think that would secure it but they have to at least win six, if not seven out of these eight games. you have to have six. i think you've got to get help too. if you can't win your gigs, ffc east is playing west and central, too, and they need to win this first game and then

>> yes. >> thank you very much. still ahead on 12 today, parents get ready to add this to your children's christmas list, the new gaming system nintendo is launching today. was this one of your favorite toys as a kid? a hall-of-famer?

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like i'm in the sauna, do what i wanna. i could cut this shower door open with nipple! >> wow! >> catch them today on ellen right here on channel 12 at 3:00. ? [ music ] ?? you have to up. you might want to put this on your holiday shopping list. nintendo's first video game is making a comeback with a miniature collector's edition, the device, costing 59.99 goes on sale today. instead of classic game cartridges it includes more,

blow in the cartridges to make it work? >> yes. >> that is an amazing concept. let's get to the juicy question. we are asking about the two best characters in an advertising campaign. who are they? my guess is out. >> i was saying tony the tiger. chris has another good one, the aflac duck. >> i love the aflac duck. >> popeye, spinach. he's been around. >> the first answer? who is it? ? [ music ] ?? >> it is ronald mcdonald. >> i guessed that but i wasn't sure if i could use that. >> you talked about that during a break. >> i'll give you credit for it today. >> thank you very much. number two, the answer is...

wow! >> i forget about jolly the green giant. ho, ho, ho. >> that's santa claus [ laughter ] >> at the end of the song. >> wow. when did that commercial air? it's been a long time, right? >> so long that we forgot about it. >> yes. i use fresh vegetables now. [ laughter ] >> still ahead here on 12 today, we're going raci jimmy is live out at pir to give us the weekend forecast and maybe take us on a lap or two around the track. what would a home on mars look like? a company thinks they have the answer. we'll share it with you coming up on 12 today. one week from today we debut something special on 12

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good morning to you guys. we're on the i-10 eastbound at 16th street, barely missing a gorgeous sunrise in phoenix, clear blue skies. we're seeing wide open lanes because of veterans day, and there's a crash behind us, i-10 eastbound, 51st avenue, cleared, but it's backing things up to about 83rd avenue, so with our exclusive bird's- eye e westbound lanes looking good. if you're on the 17 northbound at northern, a crash earlier. crews are working on cleaning that up and it looks like that should not be slowing you down here for the next few minutes as crews work on that. as far as the rest of the valley goes, the 60 westbound, tempe, phoenix, slower this morning, but not as bad as a typical morning. the 101 northbound into

tomorrow night, 10 to 44th street, and because of the veterans day parade this morning, stay on 7th avenue or 12th street to avoid the traffic there. we hope you all have a wonderful friday. happy veterans day and thank you to all who have served right now and who have served in the past. >> thank you very much. it's now 6:48. you know when matt gets excited, he starts talking in his southern act sent. this weekend of course it's m gentlemen, jimmy q live over at pir and that's where you will be matt later on this weekend. hello, jimmy. >> reporter: good morning. we are here at pir. i'm talking to ben rhodes, veteran driver. he heights like matt, so he doesn't age. it's amazing. talk about how long you have been doing this. >> 12 years now but this is my first full-time year in the series.

>> amazing, a wild ride, 23 races across the country and up in canada. >> it's veterans day today. >> we went out to the v. a. hospital, a lot of fun, so appreciative of everything they do for us. >> where do you live full-time. louisville, kentucky, but our team is in ohio. we had quite the journey out here to phoenix. >> what do you think of phoenix? >> this is my favorite racetrack. it's beautiful outside here. we love coming out here, not only everything is great. >> compare this track to the bigger ones, the three-mile tracks. what's it like on a one-mile trash, is it tighter? >> i would consider this more of a short track, creating just enough speed to have the beating and banging but still spaces out. it awesome. you can cut the back stretch, racing like a short track, plenty of room to beat and bang. >> you are a veteran and you've

how old are you? >> 19. >> it's not the food. do you eat meat? >> yes. >> matt is a big racecar fanatic. he drinks almond milk. >> i drink chocolate milk. come on out. it's a short race, still a lot of fun. >> how long do they last? >> about an hour and a half. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> we'll get your weather forecast and i'm race. you will see me race right now around this track. it's amazing. the seven-day forecast, we're going to have temperatures -- hold the microphone for me -- >> okay. >> we'll have sunny skies, beautiful weather, and like we talked about, chilly in the morning, wear a light jacket

will want sunscreen and a hat and wear ear mufs. it's loud out here. follow me up here. we're ready to race. on the count of three we'll race. watch out there, one, two, back to you! three! >> jimmy, don't get hit by a car, please. who runs like that, by the way? [ laughter ] >> jimmy, keep on running, all the way to san diego. >> go, forest, go! run! [ laughter ] >> oh, my goodness. thank you. 6:51. let's check the hot headlines. we have a silveralert. they are searching for 87-year- old burnett. he was working in his garage and has not been seen since. call the maricopa sheriff's office if you see it. the a. p. is saying donald

arizona and it's 11 electoral votes. on election night the president elect had a solid lead over clinton but was not declared a winner because there was so many uncounted votes. a funeral service is scheduled for monday afternoon for the police officer killed in the line of duty earlier this week. darren reed was shot to death after responding to a call. he had been with the department for 10 years. he was set to retire in february. he's survived by a wife and two children. tonight the arizona capital dome will be all lit up officials say it will stay this way for the rest of the month as part of the green light a vet campaign, hoping to spar conversations about how our veterans are treated and reminding civilians about the sacrificing they have made. several restaurants are honoring veterans and active

freed food, buffalo wild wings is offering -- denny's, active, inactive and retired, a build our own grand slam and i hop, offering red, white and blue pancakes. there's sad news for the music world this morning, singer and song writer, leonard cohen died yesterday, best known for ths and writer before he got into the music industry andinducted in 2008. he was 82 years old. a consumer alert for anybody shopping online. cyber security experts say they are seeing a spike of fake apps on app stores. scammers make them look like legit retailers but it's a front to steal your credit card information. watch for red flags first, look

there are, the better obviously. experts warn staying away from apps with poor english. scientists are working on homes and supplies that would be needed to supply on mars, of all places. a home on display at a show in london shows what a typical home on the red planet might actually look like. the pod-like construction has computer, a someplace to grow plants, as well as exercise. >> exactly what they had in the movie. new research showing rats, yes, rats, actually like to be tickled. can you believe this? who had to do this? they not only giggle but they jump for joy. the study was done in the sake of science to figure out why

why body parts differ in ticklishness. rat brains work similar to human brains, once, again, a wasted study. >> how do they come up with this? the sun devils got rocked by utah last night, 49-26 win, the sun devils have lost five of six since starting the season 4-0. they have washington next week, one of the top five teams in the country. tonight, the men's national soccer team takes the pitch against mexico and ohio for a world cup qualifying match. they expect freezing temperatures at game time which is 3:00 our time. you can catch that on fox sports 1. best of luck, guys, and get the thermals out. the cardinals are back from their bye-week, playing the 49ers in glendale. they will will be without

injury. game time, 2:25. best of luck, cardinals. just ahead of this year's holiday shopping season, the national toy hall of fame announced the glass of 2016 fisher-price little people, finally made it after being nominated five times, and dungeons and dragons, a classic. my favorite is the rubiks cube. >> bubble wrap didn't make it. an ohio mother is busy getting her home ready for thanksgiving. she closed it off until the day. she left a note saying special consideration will be made for you to come in. she says the only way to come

>> i applaud her. that's a great idea. when it's time, yeah, i'm so doing that. when my kids actually understand, don't go there. >> you think your kids will listen? >> of course not. >> our poll question, who drives better, women, men or jimmy q? the final results of the vote that's been going on all morning long, you've got to be kidding me? >> yes. come on. >> this lot of people beer this weekend. >> lieu who came in second, just saying, if we exclude him. >> rigged. rigged. >> we just have a hard time parking, otherwise we're good drivers. >> parallel parking, makeup while driving. aside from wishing all the veterans a happy veterans day, i can't believe that study,

ticklish. >> i have to go with nintendo, techno-bull. >> we have to play that. >> and my take-away is "go cardinals." i have not been to a game so i'm trying to make it out there on sunday. i hope we win. >> they're going to slaughter the 49ers. nascar is back in the valley. a lot of left turns. have fun. avondale. it's going to be packed. you will see the big race on sunday on 12 news. >> thank you very much for owatching, everybody. we'll leave you with one last look over at pir where i think jimmy is still running!

. good morning, breaking news. anti-trump protests break out in cities coast to coast overnight. one demonstration in portland, oregon, turning violent. police calling it a riot donald trump back to tweeting what he's saying about the protesters this morning. making peace. >> if you succeed, then the country succeed. >> the president and the president-elect meet for the first time in the oval office. >> i very much look forward to dealing with the president. >> the first lady and first lady to be sitting down to tea. what was said behind closed