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considering. >> kristen welker, making us jealous with her location. ng from the shock after five elementary schoolchildren were a?xnd?? ed and injured good morning. savannahte good morning, and because some of tm lost ber sisters as well as close friends their parents tooly them not ev the accident. pushing forward with his ntsb investigators getting its first close-up look at the mangled wreckage of the schoo bus to dea horribly wrong. and this morning, new,

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uses users' drive times to reroute you based on those reports. trt waze.? down i aaa says their top reasons for lock outs and dead batteries. so make sure your car is serviced before you get out on the road. have aood play list, make sure you're just in a good state of mind with patience. you don't want the drive itself to ruin i also recommend not driving anywhere near us because we are certainly slowing things down on the road this morning. >> good tip. thank you. nbc's tom costello covers 's at reagan national tom, there seems to be some renewed talk about possibly long security lines. we all talked about that back in the summer. what's the status? >> yeah. so far, so good. here at reagan national airport, we're looking at about a 35-minute line.

l.a.x., chicago o'hare, dfw and jfk. we're expecting nationwide volume systemwide, 2.3 million people per day, bu2.5 to 2.8 million today and sunday. these will be the busiest days. and the tsa has up a new command center at its headquarters office where they track the status of the 30 busiest airports down to the actual checkpoints. so they can tell you how long

checkpoint at a specific airport. they're looking at what they hotcall spots, those problem areas that pop up. they've had one pop up today in louisville, kentucky, because of a power outage, but that's already, they say been addressed. also, working with the airports and their lines, they project passenger volume that can respond, they can staff up if necessary. nationwide times average background 30 minutes on the tsa regular line, under 15, in fact, under 1ked line 165 dog teams nationwide. if they can clear a line of passengers with dogs, those people can move that much faster. so now they're looking at how

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celebrating american legends. >> this is like a really good class. ladies and gentlemen, i want you all to give it up for the re2016 presidtial medal of freedom. michael jordan is the michael jordan of greatness. >> to music icon bruce springsteen. >> he was sprung from a cage out on highway 9. quiet kid from jersey. i am the president, he is the boss. of comedy, lauren michaels. >> on "saturday night live," he's created a world where a band of no-names become comedy's

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colleague or our sister challenge our own assumptions. remind us that we have more in common than we realize. >> did you have a chance to see this? >> i didn't. i just got to see?& the ecxerpt. >> did you see it? >> no. >> i watched this for an hour live yesterday and hats off to presadpo?tnt ational a >> we saw ellen getting choked up there. what a rare find, the room with all those people. >> although he said he doesn't laugh at any one person. >> yeah. me!g>?" pretty well. >> it was a wonderful, wonderful event. >> fun. we should look it up online and watch the whole thing. by the way, ellen almosid event. she was denied access to the white house. well, you know what? she didn't bring her i.d.

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a fire ball streaking through the sky. the brighter than usual meteor was spotted up and down florida's gulf coast monday night, some people as far away as georgia and alabama also said they saw it. donald trump has offered the position of u.n. ambassador to south carolina's governor, nikki haley, who was once a critic of the president-elect. this is, by the way, also his first female pick for his cabinet. trump also gave a revealing interview to "the new york times" and it seems he may be softening his position on several of his campaign promises, some of them quite controversial, including seeking prosecution of hillary clinton. trump is now saying that the clintons have been through enough already. mr. trump offered his condolences to the families of five children killed in that s crash in tennessee. authorities are now learning more about the 24-year-old who was at the wheel during the accident. his driving record revealing a separate accident as well as a license suspension. he's now facing jail on multiple

buses, so why aren't most kidsin? today national investigative correspondent jeff rossen is here with more on that. jeff, 's such a sad story and such an important question. >> it cerinly is of e for all of us parents, devastating to watch. that school bus? i did not have seat bets. ejected upon impact.e actually most kidsre riding would me?w school buses safer, w a69n'they @grequed? this morning?o we are going

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wre ck?m all-star ththanksg continues. we have 30 chefs. last hour we had the first ten tips, the next ten are up. missy robbins, explain what this is. brining your moist, rbs,1 ?. spices, salt? a and ths cooler. >> i love that idea. alex, what's your tip? >> a quick truss on a turkey, we don't want to deal with the string too much. wrap it around the back, come around the front, tie and it literally comes together in a few second and it's nice and beautiful but you've still got that wing exposed because my dad and i, we fight over the wings. >> no fights at thanksgiving. >> i get all the hard names to

ed, what's your tip on stuffing? >> my tip is dry the bread. if you dry the bread when you make the stuffing, it will be fluffy instead of soggy. also i like to use the combination of rye and pumper nickel. also cut all your vegetables a day or two before so you're ready to be eating on thanksgiving and not so much cooking. >> so stale bread, fluffy stuffing. look who's here, curtis stone is here. how do you stuff a bird? >> now that you've made the au little gravy on my actually because that's going to help keep it nice and moist. in terms of stuffing the turkey, you're literally going to pick it up and stuff the cavity like that. if you have a little left over, make sure you stuff it the day of, not the day before. you take that stuffing and get like a little cupcake mold or muffin and you get these little cupcakes of stuffing. >> thank you very much, curtis. i've got brian. you have an essential tool that

>> the biggest question is how do you tell that the turkey is ready. if you invest a little money into one of these instant read thermometers with a probe, instead that down in between the thigh and the leg and forget about it. you can get one of these nifty little things here and you can go about your day working on your other dishes or side dishes and this will go off and let you know when the turkey is ready. >> like being at a restaurant and getting a table. >> you get a next and it's done. >> i've got brian hardy. you say a rested >> exactly. mine is a little more low tech but if you want to have moist turkey on the holiday, everybody asks me that, give it a break, let it rest. take a little timer, costs a little bit less. when you take it out of the oven, you'll have the moistest bird ever. >> i've got seamus making the perfect gravy. >> obviously turkey gets a little dry and gravy makes it nice and moist. instead of having boring gravy,

gravy to it, add some clove, cinnamon, mulling spices, strain that off and you've got a nice beautiful gravy. >> how about seamus mullen, huh? >> we're moving over to my pal, brian lewis. you like a little spice mix on the outside. >> absolutely. i like to take cinnamon as well, cinnamon, sage, orange peel, black pepper and thyme. let it cook and take the same salt, a nice coarse salt over the top of the turkey and really lifts that flavor out. >> love it. everybody gets a little anxious about carving the bird, bobby. >> you know, al, every family has that uncle that grabs the carving knife at every thanksgiving and messes the bird up. i like to take the entire breast, both sides of the breast off in whole and slice it in

the platter like this. take the dark meat, the thighs and legs and put those out hole. >> just put your half cup broth, half cup gravy and put it in a skillet and it makes it nice and moist. >> spectacular. >> really well done, thank you. 20 down. >> 10 to go. remember, you can find this advice at sotoday.com/food. up next, timely the rest of you

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the dry ingredients, add your liquids and bring it together until it just comes together. >> i love that. nancy, thank you very much. happy thanksgiving. what do you have for us? >> what happens on thag when you forget an ingredient? don't panic. these are some replacements. if you forget your vanilla extract, replace it with equal parts like kalua. and if you run out of granulated sugar, you can replace it with one cup to one and a quarter cup of confectioner's for the; for. hey, martha, how tip? >> well, you can't haveng withol centerpiece. and you can have an edible centerpiece. use a couple of cake stands, a litt??>le bowl and you just lay

your walnuts. make sure you put a nutcracker on the table. leave it to you totiful. >> all right. i veq jeffrey, you say?@< say no to fd io?@.??1o >> you can goy= the way, mahaau. x"so go to your pantry if you don't want to fry some os and put them on top. this is just bread crumbs, some fresh pulse it, sprinkle it on, bake it and eat your brains out. >> you're daring me to taste that. moving on to andrew. a lot of people like the canned cranberry. you say no?cway, jose. >> if y w

grav,w?y. ?s>> thi outside the can, mr. roker. what happens is if you?xmt?# to your gravy, you can use cream of mushroom caa little sauted?t72 oli t put it ono: top and that x5?m quick-minuteix that you needed goes right on top. >> and jordan, last but not least, kind of a quick sauce for you. >> all right. take your dessert game from here to here. melt ice cream. that's all then you get your nice little glaze and pour it over your cakes, pies or strudels. >> fantastic. what a great idea. >> savannah. >> okay. hand me that i had to put down the chocolate once again, folks, the 30 tips are all at today.com/food. we have a lot of information. it was so good. by the way, this a game-changer. coming up next, everybody]) sits down for our big thanksgiving mealnd we give thanks.

>> would you like to share it? >> you know what, great food and lots of friends and?p ha >> that's how i feel at this table. we've got marcus samuelson here. we love having you all year long. what does this mean to you? deliciousness.ess and look at this, allf the chefs and all the g????areat friend. >> hoda. l >> we feel you, me too.n elastic >> ye >>veryse a glass. i wa sayn) that you gs bring so much t all year long. food, of course, but so much of your ?ntalents. you remind us that as has been said already, food is not just about eating, it's not just

it's about friends, it's about love and it's about food bring. so here's to more food. happy thanksgiving, everybody. >> thank you so much. heers. >> this is amazing. >> epic table. >> thank yo fu, eryb bein it just means so much to have your talents. >> who's entertaining the shout out numbers. >> 25. >> 42. >> how many are you doing, michael? >> 600. >> by the way, those of you who have restaurants, who's open on thanksgiving? okay.

>> before we go, don't forget the parade tomorrow morning at 9:00 a.m. our show will be on too. don't forget all of the tips that these beautiful chefs have given us are online, today.com/food. and their recipes for every dish you've seen this morning. this food is not going to waste, we will donate it. happy thanksgiving to all. we love you, see you at the

good morning, everyone. i have this 9 news update for you. south carolina governor nikki haley is the first woman president-elect donald trump picked for a white house position. a source close to trump's transition team confirmed that haley accepted mr. trump's offer to become the u.n. ambassador. this is just another groundbreaking step in her career. haley was the first woman in south carolina's history to be governor and only the nation's second asian-american governor. >> with marty. the next few days are going to be great besides some wind. >> well, there's going to be a little wind tomorrow, but i think everybody will be inside anyway. >> that's true. we're eating anyway. >> it should work out just fine for us. we are anticipating some fresh snow. now, it'll be after sunset tonight. we'll get some additional snow in the mountains for the front range and eastern plains. it's going to be a lot of wind tomorrow, so if you have running around to do today, you're in good shape, 40s and 50s with sunshine over the area

all the way into kansas and nebraska. sunshine today, calm withins, -- calm conditions, low 50s for our daytime highs. we drop into the 30s tonight. the wind starts picking up in the foothills tonight, really gets rolling about this time tomorrow morning. we'll have some strong wind around here. we'll continue into the afternoon, calm down friday, saturday. we have a lot of events going on. light the lights friday night, looks fantastic. saturday we have the big buffs game going with utah, and then of course, right here on 9 news. >> the rapids. >> and the rapids, of course, sunday afternoon at 2:00. a busy weekend. >> boy is it ever, and the weather will be nice for us. thank you for putting that in for us, marty, we appreciate it. another news update in 25

this morning on "today's take" a celebrity shift is our co-host. then two last-minute side dishes for your thanksgiving feast. plus the biggest black friday toy deals and a surprise giveaway for you at home, comi >> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today's take" live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. welcome to "today" wednesday morning november 23rd, 2016, the day before thanksgiving. i'm al with tamron and we have celebrity chef curtis stone who was just part of our chefapalooza. tamron walks into the studio, i

anything to eat. i said we've got food here. oh, okay. >> i skipped breakfast this morning but we were all moving around so fast, i didn't get a bite of anything. >> well, curtis has you covered. >> i watched when bobby flay was on and i saw you didn't bring anything so i'm going to learn from bobby's mistakes. i made some turkey sliders. it's a turkey barbecue sauce. it's a good way to use up your leftovers. >> that's a beautiful side that you can serve on the big day. >> this is unbelievable. curtis, where do you get your inspirations, especially like after thanksgiving when you've made this huge meal and we have food overload? leftovers, you have to think what do i do with it. paninis are a great thing for them to land. anything with cheese and warmed-up turkey is good.

your wife is american. >> she sure is. >> so you have some of that tradition going on. >> her mom is korean so she will throw some kim chi on the table. so it's a big melting pot. i do a little australian stuff. my wife is american. it's such a beautiful time, thanksgiving, when you can celebrate traditions. >> i love the melding of a family and reminding us what family is, the diversity of it all, whether back ground. you have a new tv on fox. tell us about it. >> it's an all new show that's come over to america. we made a celebrity version and we have these very, very interesting -- >> oh, brandy and ray jay? >> and they host dinner parties in their homes. the other celebs come and they judge them. so you can imagine there's a few -- a few catty words said here and there. >> for example, al roker is a celebrity.

we'd walk around and look at all the stuff on the wall and make comments about the way he dresses his house. >> oh, wow! this is getting a little too personal. i don't know about that. >> that's awesome. >> it's good fun. >> and what's the goal of it? >> to make fun of people. >> it's a cooking competition. so you see these celebrities. sometimes at their most vulnerable point when they dropped their guard and they're standing there cooking in their kitchen. they say all sorts of funny things. going to see who's the best -- >> in my home i have an open kitchen so people can on the other side and watch me cook. i never let anyone cook because i get nervous. >> so you got a kitchen so everybody could watch you now. >> yeah, because i thought it was a good i cooking and drinking and talking. but when people watch me cook, i blow it every time. >> do you really? >> every time. >> maybe you should have a curtain. >> but i burn something.

of drinks before they sit down >> so g them drunk. >> yes. >> now, congratulations in orde i understand your wax figure, you have a wax? figure now i

hands. >> i've got to go by and see you on the days that you're off. >> that's what i do, just hang out. >> and scaring people. so curtis, have you ever done anything like this, this morning, where you've done all of these chefs hanging out? >> 30 chefs in one place. the only time that ever happens is when we do a good food and wine show somewhere, like up in aspen we do one with food and wine. >> it's amazing. >> it's so fun. but chefs don't get out of their quite badly behaved if i'm being really honest. this morning it was early enough they did behj?grave themlves. . you have the fans but then you have the edge. >> naughty. i think it's -- >> you're rascals. >> we're rascals. >> watch this when they tried thechallenge.?0 i think you did fantastically until flay blewened? i didn't see it. >> herqe we go. everybody is doing terrifically.

>> it looks so -- >> look at sunny, she's owning it. >> it really looks -- >> steady. rock steady. >> there's bobby. >> no, no, bobby is with kathie lee. >> okay. he loses it. right there. he blows it. >> come on. >> i think that would be awkward when you're staring right into someone's eyes for a longerioof? i'll let you off, bobby. >> the chefs weren we brought back -- >> grain valley high school. >> we used to bring a marching

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moout and a little sort o?r orange bitter. >> kathy from smithfield, rhode island. bacon on your turkey? what do you think? >> i think bacon is good with everything around the holidays. >> there's bacon in the potatoes. the turkey, you want to keep it nice and moist and the best way to achieve that is through a brine. >> that's a hot topic, though, because bobby flay says no >> wet brine. >> we had one of our chefs said just salt it a couple of days ahead of time. i've done that with chicken. >> so much to talk about. >> casey from owe ccala, florid. what's the safest way to defrost a the safest way is in a refrigerator. the fastest way is under running water. if you put it in a big pot and have the water running over it.

turkey to defrost in a refrigerator? >> several. four or five, so you're too late. >> too late. >> and you're too late. >> how do you do it? >> you go out for dinner. will, from tampa, florida, which part of the turkey is your favorite and why? >> certainly the thigh. it's the juiciest part of the turkey. >> i'm a wing person. >> really? >> not enough meat there. >> i know, you always say that. >> not enough meat. >> and i think the skin is so delicious if you get it nice and crisp. >> on the thigh? >> oh, yeah. >> really? it. >> i'm a thigh man. up next, ellen gets a high honor from president obama but she almost didn't make it. find out why she wasn't allowed in the white house at first. >> that's so funny. >> that's so funny. >> and of course the a oh, look... ...another anti-wrinkle cream >> that's so funny. >> and of course the a in no hurry to make anything happen. neutrogena? rapid wrinkle repair works... ...in one week. with the... fastest retinol formula available.

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i'm cooking dinner friday. what do i cook that's not thanksgiving-related because by friday you maybe don't want. i revisit the turkey on saturday. i skip a day. give it a rest and then go back in on saturday and probably sunday. but you said try seafood on friday. >> winter months are a great time for seafood. so you could grill some lobsters or make homemade french fries, oysters would be great, shrimp on the grill. >> shrimp on the barbie. >> i had shrimp yesterday. it was fantastic. so you've got people coming over. >> we have the perfect ac acoutremen for you.6 it's called the pause your guestswp': cell phonesbox. you cover up itr@ basically blocks cell phonee?? signals an wi-fi. you put the box in. >> what kind of parties are you

converse with your guests. >> but do you need to block my cell phone signal? >> because you would otherwise be tempted, because i've been out -- i've been to dinner with you. you are always -- so this way -- >> i've got three tv shows. i've got to -- i have a demanding mother. >> so you put it in the box. >> here's why i'm nervous about that. if you have kids, your kids may need to reach you, your spouse, significant other. >> it's an dinner. if it's that big of an emergency, somebody will call the house phone. what do you think? >> we don't have a house phone anymore, but i like the idea of doing that because you tracted technology. >> you don't have to do it all night long. >> no. >> just a few hours. >> or during dinner. you know, by the time it's time for dessert, people can go. >> but i like the idea. i've gotten in the habit and i have done better because i'm just aware of the problem that i have. i do take the phone and don't

miss calls because it's blocking the signal. night, how many important calls did you get? >> last night dinner. two? >> none. okay. medal of freedom. you were talking about this. >> i didn't use my phone -- i did, i tweeted. yesterday the medal of freedom ceremony at the white house, president obama gave out the highest civilian honors to a laundry list of people that are admid arod the world, and ey brucespringsteen, robert de niro, robert redford,?? diana ross, michael jordan, ellen degeneres. ellen actually had trouble getting in the white house.r fo >> they don't play at the white house. >> i had a whole issue once. she had everyone pose -- this is the big mome challenge. >> she eventually got in. >> that was her, so adorable. and then they did the epic chal. savannah says she thinks this may have ended all mannequin challenge.

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this morning on "today's style," back to the basics. open up your closet because we're going to show you how to dress up with what you already have for thanksgiving. >> celebrity stylist melissa gussy has put together outfits that are chic, stylish and leave a little wiggle room if you i like doing that. >> you don't want to be all stuffed in your clothes, nothing too tight. comfortable but cute. >> yep. >> let's launch in. what do you have? >> since it's tomorrow and we don't have much time to shop, we're going to use staples that we have in our closet already. so jeans. every woman owns a pair of jeans that they love, that they pull for every single day. here it is casually. how do we make it work, tomorrow a little bit more elevated look. here is ann marie and it's all about the statement blazer.

ges e the ouit. ad give it a little edge. >> love that turtleneck. >> we have her jeans and then a metallic pump from old navy. a statement earring and she's good to go. what i love about this outfit is that ann marie is in her 20s but this can work for any woman, into 60s, even 70s for any shape or size. this really works for everybody. >> i was just talking to savannah and we've become so air time. easy and looks good. thank you, ann marie. it looks good. >> next we have a basic white button down, which i think is so underrated and so versatile. we just saw taraji p. henson wear one on the red carpet.q >> if styled the way it is good. if you wanted to pump it up and make it a little more elevated. >> hello, vest. >> well, hello. >> e?dxactly. it's all about the long vest. >> cute. >> which totally transforms the

we gave a chl?unkyts necklace u. i love a long vest. >> megan, you look amazing. i can tell you're feeling it. i can see it in your face. i can tell she's feeling it. ?7f you look great. >> because you want to feel special on thanksgiving. it's a special day and we should all step it up a little and that's a great way to do it. >> and i love that lip color. minimum makeup, a little lip color. looks like you put some effort to it. come on over to our table because you lookabous. ?t >> the next is a sweat, evwon ns a sweat??2?g thin."[s how do you wear it so it's a little more eleved for dner me so here we have renee looking adorable, just a pair of pants ansnkers but how do we me orin morelevated way. here we have theame "u gorgeous -i lovelo, lo %b=is. zn?(s, what al??9know. >> i love this. you're good comm

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