it is thanksgiving morning and katie's tracking wet weather heading our way that could bring us some showers today. good morning, happy thanksgiving, i'm rahel will solomon. aim joe holden. jim donovan is off today. here's what you need to know to start your day in the morning minute. >> reporter: we're at 20th and jfk here in center city getting ready for 97th annual thanksgiving day parade. >> didn't you always say you

wanted to be a balloon handler in the parade, i said yes. >> this storm is beginning to lose its steam as it starts to cross our area. we will end up with a couple of showers. >> for tam in south -- for famis in south philadelphia eighties a tradition to have your turkies cooked at cacia. >> thanksgiving is within day a year where you gather with old friend and tamly you have not seen forever and try your hardest not to talk about donald trump. >> president-elect donald trump is delivering a thanksgiving message to the nation. >> it is my rayer, that on this thanksgiving, we will begin to heel our divisions and move forward as one country. >> so this year you have a family duty to treat your political opinion just like grand mom's jello mold, choke it down, and keep it down until the guests leave. >> keep it down. >> i'm very concerned about my table this year, very concerned. well, late night,

community is having some laughs about awkward conversations that could happen, as all of our thanksgiving dinners tables today. >> katie joins us live. will the weather give us something to be thankful for. >> yes, it is a gray area much like a lot of our politics. >> especially today. >> yeah, this is one of those daisy wouldn't call it exceptional, either way, we do have a disturbance that is moving through, and yes, it could bring south showers but they are very scattered, they are very whimpy, and i would say that if you are traveling far north, say through the poconos at least right the now, it is still cold enough that it is still freezing on contact. you can see that in the form of the purple that is rolling in the last few hours near carbon, monroe county. the it is really scattered, again but we want you to be safe. it is worth a mention that this is not a major issue. with that said as well you can see green off in the distance too. that is moving through with time. so, in your traffic here, if you are like me and will be

doing traveling to visit your family and friend there will be a couple of showers around. it is not enough to slow you down in a major way but enough we will give you a caution light. they have got the green light for friday and saturday. where we will see the skies clear out, perhaps a left over stray showers tomorrow but not enough to, take a way the green light when it comes to travel. here's where we stand. you can understand why we're worried about possibility of freezing rain, up near mount pocono. we are under freezing mark at ground level. forty's here in philadelphia at the airport. there is a chill in the air. still warrants winter coat but this isn't terrible. we have absolutely seen colder, if not windier thanksgiving mornings. parade looks goody would say. expect to see the spotty showers, long the way, and nothing major, though. i feel like a lot of times icons make it look worse then it will be but again scattered showers throughout the rest of the day and looking forward we are expecting some pretty tame weather as well. we will walk through that rest of the forecast later on in the show. >> we will see you soon, thank you. last minute preparations

are still underway for annual thanksgiving day parade. >> thousands will fill center city streets trying to get a glimpse of the balloons, floats and santa claus don't forget. "eyewitness news" reporter jan carabao is live at the start of the parade route with all you need to know heading to center city today, jan, good morning. >> reporter: joe, good morning. happy thanksgiving. it is sure looking very festive out here in center city philadelphia right now. we are coming to you live from the starting point of the thanksgiving day parade, and it is at 20th and jfk boulevard and you can see these huge magnificent balloons are now being inflated. now in the beginning of the line here right at corner of the 20th and jfk we olivia a children's book character followed by one of the more scarier balloons in the entire parade. that is trex. i don't know why they had to follow the pig with the trex but he is right there and then, behind there a crowd favorite the grinch, will potato head and many, many more. looking at the video we have a up close, personal view at how

these balloons were inflated this morning. the it is a choreographed dance, balloon handlers have to pull in different directions just so the balloons can get filled just right. really intricate, interesting process. some of those balloon hand letters we spoke to arrived as early as 3:30 in the morning in order to get this job done. we spoke to a crew that is handling the tweetie bird, balloon, and many of them are first time balloon handlers, and kathy there she lives in south jersey now but she grew up in philadelphia and she remembers coming to this parade her entire life and decided to volunteer to be a balloon handler this year for this reason, lets take a listen. >> how many think anymore we get to do in life is just fun, and silly, and we can just be goofy, and have a good time and dance, sing, or whatever. >> reporter: a great attitude there. she hade so many memories growing up, and that will be the memory of walking down jfk

boulevard, with the tweetie bird balloon with her daughter. that is great. we are taking a look at the map of the parade route. it starts at 20th inn jfk boulevard and travels east to 16th street, turns north on the ben franklin parkway and end up by art museum steps and eakins oval. it is a great route, 1.4 whiles, this is 97th year for this fantastic parade, and it is oldest in the nation back out here live you can see crew is still hard at work inflating these balloons but not just balloons, it is floats, all kind of performers both locally known, celebrities too from across the country. we have great performances on tap to take and biggest celebrity of them all, wraps up the parade, that is santa claus, starts at 8:30 and runs until noon when you can see him. reporting live this morning, jan carabao cbs-3 "eyewitness news". joe, back to you. >> thanks for that live report. north another big parade is taking place in new york city, macy's thanksgiving day

parade this morning the nypd is working to keep parade route secure. they are placing dump trucks filled of sand to block intersections. for the first time in 90 years they will not allow cars to cross the parade route. atlantic city police officer wounded in the line of duty is thank hospital workers for saving his life. >> applause. >> the staff the atlantic care regional medical center gave officer josh fidel a round of applause, this is video from the press of atlantic city. gunman shot the officer in the head while he responded to a robbery, near caesars in september. he continues to recover, and is in i am loving as you can see, the hospital staff, cared for office are fidel, for two weeks. well, on this thanksgiving morning we are wondering what are you thankful for this year? many will ponder that as you get up or maybe later as you sit down at the table for dinner. >> of course, people in our area have have a lot to be

thankful for and our trang do found out all about it. >> reporter: just like all of us many people thankful for family and friend but i got very unique personal answers including one answer from a little boy that i guarantee you have never heard. >> thankful to have such a healthy, family, we had a great year, we feel lucky. we just had our daughter a few months ago. >> i'm thankful for moving to philadelphia. i just moved here two and a half weeks ago and i'm happy to be here. >> i'm happy for my sobriety, i got nine months clean on a pure leadership program. my family stuck by me through thick and thin. >> what are you thankful for this morning. >> unaudible.

>> i'm thankful for family and bat mobile because it has a remote control. >> now who is thankful for bat mobile with remote control. coming up at 6:30 i will show you more what philadelphians are thankful for and what i'm thankful for as well, but let's start with you guys what are you thankful for this year. >> i think my health. as you get older you start realize how lucky, grateful, a rebater your health is. >> exactly. >> this is our first thanksgiving home in 13 years and thinking about all the time that has passed and having family visit us, we're home with family after more than a dozen years away. it is great to be home. >> all of us in the house business can appreciate that. >> yes. >> we will wait until next hour. >> i'll leave new suspense, right. >> trang, thank you. one thing majority of the people will not be thankful for is discussion of politics, at the din are table, am i right.

>> probably right, joe. >> new cnn poll find 53 percent of americans dread thought of talking politics today. among them you may in the like this next finding. 43 percent say they are eager to talk politics today. joe, you just wait. as you might imagine the split, along party lines, 58 percent of republicans polled say they are excited to talk about the election, democrats say they are dreading it. that clearly makes a lot of sense. today many will enjoy a nice cook turkey. >> but for some there is a long standing tradition that takes the cook many hours in the kitchen, that right, pat. >> that is correct, joe, we are here at cacia's bakery in south philadelphia, cbs-3 turkey hat has been passed down, i have my cousin eddie's sweater on and that means it is time for the holiday season and it the is time to cook turkies. we are getting ready at cacia's to throw them in the oven. >> are you one of the hills planning to hit the mall tomorrow, we will tell you some things you need to know

for the biggest shopping day of the year, we will be right

back now and these are not lines at supermarket or lines at black friday shoppers, these people are lined up, for pies. some people stood in line for more than an hour yesterday,

to get their holiday pie from the flying saucer pie company in houston, texas. get this joe, i know you look bewildered, some people went home empty handed when pie company ran out of pies just before 6:00. >> you know, they can make them at home. >> i take it, those are good pies. >> awesome pies for that line. my goodness. some of you are up early this morning are cooking a turkey for thanksgiving dinner. >> in south philadelphia generations left cooking to cacia's bakery, our pat gallen is monitoring another great philadelphia trailings, did hi there, pat. >> you mean wearing the cbs-3 turkey hat is that great philly tradition. i just want to be sure, yeah, my mom was like i didn't send you to school to wear a turkey hat on television. here i am, standing outside, exactly, exactly, standing outside, a 600-degree oven getting ready for turkey festivities. because they to it here, you line up at 6:00 o'clock this is morning, they put your

turkey in and it takes a has alloway. to talk more about it from cacia's bakery is my friend, danielle, hi, good morning. >> good morning. >> hair looking good. >> i got up extra early to to my show headache up. >> we got the first batch of turkies here, this is family first turkey. >> these are a couple employees and my turkey is here. >> which one is that. >> number one right here. >> little light, it looks light, i'm in the hure about that. you guys have been doing this a long, long time, it is fun. i know it is work but fun. >> it is definitely a lot of continue. we have good time here, my dad, brother, my fiance is part of the tradition. >> take us through the history of it. >> we opened up in 1953. a few years after that high grandfather and his brother lewis decided to make extra money around the holidays and they came up with this idea. typical south philadelphia row home has a small oven why not bring your turkey here and you will have room for your other

thanksgiving goodies. >> line normally out the door, 140 people last year. >> that is what we did last year. we started back then with ten, now we do sometimes over a 140. >> if i want to bring my turkey in how expensive sit. >> it is $23, it doesn't matter how much it weighs. you bring it here in a metal roasting plan fully season, stuffed, however you like it, covered in foil. you line up between five and 6:00. you come back between 12:30 and one we will have a board with numbers, when your number is on the board your turkey is done, come back and pay and on your way. >> your turkey is right here. after standing in the bakery that smells like turkey all take are you like i don't want to even deal with one. >> no, i can't wait to go home and eat it. >> favorite portion outside of turkey. >> stuffing. >> the stuffing. >> yes. >> i'll give you that. >> thanks, danielle. >> thank you. >> danielle is here, everyone at cacia's ready to go. i'm ready to go with the cbs-3

turkey hat and cousin eddie sweater, holidays are here, guys, we're ready. >> big fans of the sweater here, pat gallen. >> i love the sweater but if you are like cousin eddie, i feel like you need to wear the digg. >> and glass of eggnog with the moose but probably early for that right how. >> and you are working. >> never too early for a bull winning will glass of eggnog. >> well done. >> all right. >> where do we go from there. >> how do i follow that. >> you know, he is a hard act to follow that pat gallen. >> he is but i feel like i can give you some good news in this forecast. it is very typical forecast with temperatures. we have got wet weather moving through but there is nothing extreme about this at all. that helps. when you don't notice weather that is a good thing. when you have holiday travel or these last minute errands

and you have to get to south philadelphia to pick up your turkey from cacia's. we also have a a parade a couple blocks from this spot, outside our own station headquarters in center city philadelphia it is all clear. we have some cloud overhead but they are very high in the sky not causing any visibility problems w that said though we do have some wet weather that is eventually going to be moving in. so check in first and foremost with the early risers, eyewitness weather watchers up and adam and i'm impressed we have this many. thank you so much for waking up with us on the holidays, do check in with us. we have a handful of observations. i will show you the list so you can see everybody n browns mills we have maryann at 30 degrees. bill is in cardington at 36. general any cherry hill at 34. mid to upper 30's from kenneth in willingboro. lynn is in cherry hill also at 36. list goes on here. phil is at 36. and coldest spot coming from charles up in bath. farther more remet suburbs off to the north at 29 degrees.

once more, thanks so much for checking in with us this morning. we love getting your reports and we rely on them to verify our forecasting too lets take a look at storm scan, because we have a system moving in. i wouldn't worry so much about snow flakes, necessarily even though it looks like that is coming in but the rather expect this to fall as rain and possibly freeze, on contact, so freezing rain could end up being an issue across carbon, monroe county where it is cold enough for that. is there still some moisture but it still lost a lot of the core energy since it started to move toward us. is there jenny buzz being far removed from our area. what we will find out of here today is clouds and a couple of showers. that is it. but isn't this more festive things we have seen aside from pat's hat, man, 53 degrees and a couple showers. looking forward in the forecast, expect that you will fine temperatures, somewhat consistent low to mid 50's, right through cyber monday, and it looks like we will brighten up with time here too. there may be left over stray shower tomorrow but otherwise, it does quiet down, so we will

end up with nights weather into monday. tuesday, nice and warm, look at that 60 degrees but maybe some showers and wednesday at this point we are calling for, stray up, rain. rahel, back over to you. >> katie, thank you. ladies and gentlemen, get your wallets out, it is biggest shopping time of the year. >> are you ready for black friday? mary malone has things you need to know before swiping that credit card. >> reporter: black friday deals can make these long lines, worth it. this year national retail federationes hates more than 137 million people plan to shop during thanksgiving weekend. for thursday through black friday, and into sunday. that is more people then last year but before you venture out, be prepared. set a budget, stick to it. have a lays for your receipts. keep your phone charged. don't get duped by phony deals. apps can help you save cash and keep you focused in stores. try black friday 2016 a rope eighth name, right? it shows you door busters from

big retailers so you know where to go, when. heading to the mall try shopular it uses your location to send coupons for nearby stores and it can keep teams and code in one place. so you are not fumbling at check outline. flip is your own personal circular and puts your favorite stores, brand, items all in within place. shop savvy has a handy bar code scanner to compare prices on line from different stores. it looks like cash back offers. when you start shopping try to stay calm and have fun. >> that was mary malone reporting. >> that is good advice, try to stay calm because you know, i know you are a good shopper. >> you know he. still ahead, giving back, e vice gift this thanksgiving holiday. >> reporter: i'm tan yell nottingham in los angeles, coming up a special holiday vice for a grandmother and

hopefully you have a lot to be thankful for, this thanksgiving holiday. we appreciate you being with us this morning. hundreds of volunteers served more than a thousand meals for those in need at a

block party in southern california. >> but there was a bigger gift waiting for some lucky guests, danielle nottingham reports. >> reporter: the valley rescue mission, serves one of the largest thanksgiving dinners for the home less in los angeles, but grandmother pamela brooks is leading with much more than a meal financial challenges left brooks home less at same time that she got full custody of her four granddaughters last year because her daughter was struggling with drugs. >> i was living with my son and we were in a one bedroom ape there was too many in the one bedroom four grand kids and him and i. so they were evicting him if we didn't leave. >> reporter: now she's driving away in the suv packed with toys for a girl thanks to a team of technicians who volunteered their time to refurbish it. los angeles has highest rate of unsheltered home less in the country, and people here

know firsthand how something like a car can be life changing. >> we were on the bus, for a while there and now we are able to drive to our location and be, on time. >> reporter: this has been a big week for retired grandmother who just found a place to live and landed a new job. >> this is really been exciting, when all this comes at you, you are like wanting to pin much yourself. >> reporter: thousand with a new car, this family has one less worry this holiday season. >> it the is just so nice. >> reporter: danielle nottingham for cbs news, los angeles. >> what a nice story. coming up next on "eyewitness news" we are live from the philadelphia parade. plus a look at thanksgiving etiquette what to do and not to do to keep holiday stress tree. butter ball turkey talk line headaches a big change this year, new way to get help from the experts up

happy thanksgiving to you, preparations underway for the nation's oldest thanksgiving day parade. we are live with what you need to know if you plan to come to philadelphia today. it is a turkey tradition in south philadelphia we are live at cacia's bakery where people are lining up to drop

off their turkey to be cooked in the cacia's massive brick oven. >> we are tracking holiday showers, katie will time it out as we head to your turkey day festivities. >> it is thursday, of this 24th, happy thanksgiving, i'm joe holden jim donovan is off. i'm rahel solomon. lets check on the weather. katie, happy thanksgiving. >> yes, i think there is a couple of showers that will work their way through. we are not talking about anything dire. this is all minor stuff. enough that i have to mention it, and that is pretty much it. >> enough to bring umbrella. >> i don't think so. it is so spotty. sometimes looks can be deceiving on the radar. this will come through with spits throughout the day and is there a good shot you will only see a drop. it is not perfect parade weather but not bad. we have had clouds rolling this because this system was coming our way. it will do us a solid, it is not too harsh