this thanksgiving eve begins in the storm cycle. not exactly what you want to hear on the busiest travel day of the year, but here we are. good afternoon, 20 million americans are under winter storm warnings. including many people in the country's biggest travel hubs. guess who, however, made it out of town just in time to be with her family in d.c. >> that is right, hey, here in the nation's capital it has been snowing since late this morning. only a couple inches are expected, but it does not take much to cause big problems, especially on the roads, which more than 41 million americans will use to get to grandma's house this year. the airports are packed, as well, with more than 3.5 million americans flying today. the most since 2007. it is a stressful time all around. maybe the only guys breathing a

sigh of relief today are two turkeys. they were pardoned by the president in an annual tradition at the white house just last hour. >> i am here to announce what i'm sure will be the most talked about executive action this month. today i'm taking an action fully within my legal authority, the same kind of action taken by democrats and republican presidents before me to spare the lives of two turkeys mac and cheese. we have team weather coverage as only the cycle can do. luke russert near d.c. sarah dallof at a parked laguardia airport in new york and wendy at o'hare and domenica davis is commanding the storm weather cycle and we begin with luke at reagan. looks pretty miserable out there. where is your coat? i thought you were smarter than

this. >> i rock the polifleece. i have buffalo blood in me. this is easy. we are one buffalo, we are strong. but let's talk about the weather here at dca. as you see, a lot of precipitation. it's been falling steadily since about 11:00 a.m. this morning. the runway because it's not below freezing and still been wet and mobile. what we're seeing is delays up to 45 minutes whether it be arrival or departure and, also, because of this sort of frigid precipitation we have in the air, it means that planes have to be deiced before they can take off, which is adding to the delays. visibility around here is about five miles. about 30 miles from me around dulles airport, they took more snow, the brunt of the storm, shall we say. they are getting a little bit around the same delays. about an hour. what you guys said the roads. the roads are treacherous.

took me a long time to get over here to national airport. a few hours ago. so, if you're driving to the airport on the east coast. leave yourself a lot of time especially around here. but you're looking at about an hour delay and looking to freeze yourself. one last thing i will say, guys. i talked to a few passengers in the terminal and how is the flight coming in? they said turbulent and i said that's what i would have guessed. if you're like me or abby and you don't like the bumps when you fly. go into the airport bar and have a few guinness because it is going to be a rock and roll roller coaster coming in. i'm happy i'm on the ground. you couldn't pay me to get up in a prop plane in this stuff. >> always with the practical advice. i love the accounting of how often luke is able to work in a buffalo reference, too. pretty impressive. >> and guinness. >> thanks, luke, see you later. now to right outside our window, we have sarah dallof at laguardia airport. sarah, white house what's going

on there? >> luke has the snow. we don't have that here. we have the rain and the low cloud ceilings and that is causing big problems right now. it is delaying incoming flights an average of about three hours. for flights that are leaving, well, they're not without their own problems. about 12% of flights both here at laguardia and newark have been canceled and we are seeing delays popping up increasingly on the information boards. this is not great news, obviously. but it's also not unexpected. airport managers have cots, blankets and pillows prepared for those passengers who find themselves stranded overnight. do have a bit of good news for you. tsa says their lines are short and sweet and crediting that in part to airlines waiving the change fees for people in affected areas. a lot of people choosing to change their flights to last night and getting ahead of the storm. you guys, that is, obviously, something a lot of people today are wishing they had the foresight of doing last night. back to you guys. >> thanks, wendy.

now, here in the warm studio, msnbc meteorologist domenica davis is at the maps. what do you know? >> i know about six, seven hours before you can say good-bye to this storm. working its way up the coast and by tonight past new england we'll see this pull away. make for a nice tomorrow, but the rest of this afternoon and this evening is still very hairy. it's a mess out there. from the beltway all the way up now to portland, maine. that's where we're looking at rain, sleet, snow mix. the good news is in some cases the i-95 corridor we're dealing with heavy rain and the rain is pushing further west now as temperatures are above freezing. from washington, philadelphia, new york, bridgeport, providence. we're looking at temperatures too warm to really keep any good amount of snow coming in. it's the interior sections. so crossing 76 and i-80. that's where we're getting the heavier snow amounts and we do have some snow totals already coming in over the four inch

mark in places like upstate new york, northwest new jersey. this is all really heavy, wet, slushy snow that we're dealing with. so, it is making for a mess on the roads, but also power outages are going to be a concern as we head through this evening. here's a look at your snowfall forecast. now, again, it's along that i-95 corridor. we're not really expecting a whole lot. it's basically just a mess and more of a nuisance on the road. so, about zero to two inches at best here in the city. really, we're just looking at some slush coming down. it's the interiors like bangor, upwards of a foot and manchester. they are going to see the biggest amounts in albany, as well. that's where the heavier snow will be. the good thing is, though, guys, this does all clear out by tonight. thanksgiving forecast looks good. not only for the east coast, but really for much of the country. a little bit of rain in seattle and other than that, it's dry. could have a few lingering snow

showers in boston and down through new york. but the macy's thanksgiving day parade is looking a-okay. >> that's what most people care about. thank you so much. sounds like good news for tomorrow and now let's bring in travel & leisure amy farley who was at the table probably in my seat in new york. amy, as i said, i'm here in d.c. it is cold and it is pretty miserable and it's slushy outside. is there anywhere nice to escape to this holiday weekend that you can still book? >> well, i'd say go on to the major booking sites. they all offer last-minute deals and packages and you can see what they have available. i love expedia, a great last-minute get away section. however, don't plan on leaving today. those flights are really packed and there are a lot of people waiting to get out because of delays and cancellations. >> an excellent reason for folks to dig into one of the big traditions that is going around. a newer tradition of sort of friendsgiving. staying at home instead of

traveling to the family through the slush and no. go to a friends' house. we have extra friends coming over and that's a good thing to do, right? >> as a travel editor, i cannot endorse not traveling. however, i actually just canceled my trip up to montreal. i was supposed to drive today. >> you want to come over? >> i am now with my looming drive to virginia this evening sort of thinking friendsgiving might have been a good idea. but it's not going to be too bad. we'll be okay. an interesting "new york times" story. i don't know if you saw this. thanksgiving biggest travel day of the year and they're saying because of airline consolidation and heavier air travel in general, every week there is practically a thanksgiving day. so, is air travel actually that much worse on thanksgiving day than it is on other days throughout the year? >> thanksgiving day is a very stressful time, in particular, because everybody wants to get out on that day. you know, if your flight is canceled, you're working it get out that day.

it definitely is sort of this most stressful and, obviously, there is one day that everybody needs to get out and that is today. however, seeing more congestion at airports because airlines are flying more full. those empty middle seats that you used to be able to count on, they're just not there any more. airlines are starting to route more traffic through those major hubs, which means more congestion. we are seeing thanksgivings level crowds periodically at airports throughout the country, but nothing can compare to today. >> today is still truly special. in its misery. >> and you talk about thanksgiving -- >> truly, it is. you talk about thanksgiving being the time, the day that's so busy. we're all trying to get to the certain place. we were all warned with this weather coming that we should have gotten out of here around 8:00 a.m. today. no one at this table listened. so we're stuck here. looking forward, when is the best time now. krystal wants to drive to virginia tonight. i'm thinking about driving

tomorrow. my little secret that i just want to tell america right now is that if you, but i'm sharing it now. if you drive on thanksgiving morning or during the day, there's very little traffic. that's a good time to do it, is that what you found? is driving tomorrow actually a good idea with the weather are we still going to have delays? any advice for people who are still stuck here? >> help us. help us. >> it looks like, i think driving south should be better than driving north through the slush and snow. traveling day of, this applies to christmas and thanksgiving. less crowds at the airports. less crowds on the roads. obviously, you are cutting it close and, you know, if your flight is delayed or you do encounter problems on the road, then, you know, you may miss an important meal. however, that is a good tip and i think there are a lot of people today who are seeing cancellations and delays for their flights and they're going to be trying to get on your flights tomorrow. you are going to be very happy leaving tomorrow. >> i don't know what roads you're traveling on, blake. i need to know what roads those are because i usually drive to

my grandmothers was she was around on thanksgiving day. parking lot on 95. never worked out. >> i can't give you all the full detail. >> all right, travel & leisure amy farley, thank you all so much. appreciate it. take a live look now at the sunshine state, which hasn't even been able to escape the storm. not even in florida. the skies have cleared for the moment over i-4 in orlando, florida, where some storm warnings still do remain. the best weather team in the business will continue to track it all for us. plus, on a brighter note, msnbc or, i'm sorry, he's a legend to us here at msnbc and also a music legend herbie hancock takes his turn in the cycle as we roll on for this thanksgiving eve, wednesday, november 26th. clearly my brain already on vacation. [ julie ] the wrinkle cream graveyard.

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>> i pointed out, get back or i'm going it shoot you. and then his response immediately, he grabbed the top of my gun and when he grabbed it, he said you're too much [ bleep ]. while he's doing that i can feel his hand come over my hand and get inside the trigger guard and shoot me with with my own gun. i know i did my job right. right now that interview is, obviously, dominating the headlines today. police officer darren wilson sharing his side of the story publicly for the first time. but, that interview is also angering many critics who are still looking for justice despite the grand jury's decision not to indict. the parents of michael brown are praying with the families of other victims of police involved

shootings. michael brown sr. spoke about the toll the last three months are taking on him. >> emotions all over the place. i don't know what to feel. you know, i'm just, i'm just here. i'm empty. >> protesters sympathizing with the brown family are continuing to pound the pavement today. bringing the morning commute to a standstill in san diego. a similar scene this afternoon in l.a. blocking the 101. other demonstrations took place across the country last night from new york to portland, boston and l.a. most were peaceful, but the marches shut down highways. a woman was run over in minneapolis and looting in oakland. nationwide, more than 200 people were arrested. 44 of them in ferguson where the scene descended into chaos and violence. police used tear gas and pepper spray and the presence of hundreds of additional national

guard troops kept protesters from creating the level of destruction we saw on monday night. >> generally, i think it's fair to say the officers acted with an incredible amount of discipline tonight and we saw some protesters out there that were really out there for the right reason. unfortunately, there seems to be a few people who are prevents this from happening, the most ideal way it possibly could. >> our plan moving forward is to continue to make sure this community is safe, the businesses are maintained and that people still have their rights for freedom of speech and protests. msnbc zach roth is on the ground for us in ferguson. zach, riots and looting always get the most attention when you have a story like this, also a very significant number of people who are peacefully protesting. we just heard the st. louis police chief, but you are on the ground, as well. how much of this is rioting and how much is basic first amendment demonstrations? >> that is a great question. what the police chief said is right. i think it's important to distinguish between these two pretty distinct groups.

you have organized protesters who have been out, who are angry about the grand jury's decision and perhaps about some of the underlying issues that contributed to michael brown's death. and then often after they have kind of begun to leave the scene or as those protests are winding down, what we've seen is groups of young men who don't seem to have much connection with those protesters or even with sort of ordinary residents of ferguson who have been outp protesting. groups of young men coming out and being responsible for much of this damage. at one point illustrates that potentially that the arson investigation that investigators are looking into it, michael brown sr.'s church, a voice consistently for a peaceful response. investigators are considering whether this was deliberate arson in connection with the unrest we've seen. so, if you think about, you know, people setting on fire

michael brown sr.'s, the place where he worships, there's not much of a connection there between that and the kind of issues that the protesters are wanting to raise. >> right. msnbc zack roth on the ground in ferguson. thank you, and hope you get to spend some time with your family soon. president and ceo of the national urban league. sir, thank you for joining us. great to have you. first question here, obviously, we're not going to see charges against darren wilson. we know that. however, we have many people demonstrating in support of michael brown and his family. what is the desired result now moving forward? what is the goal at this point? >> important to keep in mind that the department of justs ic and the attorney general have twin, parallel, separate and independent investigations. one is an investigation around whether darren wilson violated michael brown's civil rights and used excessive force. the other investigation is what's called a pattern and practice investigation of the actions of the ferguson police

department. and i think people shouldn't be so quick to prognosticate to how these investigations might come up because here's the history. the history is interesting. the rodney king case. all of these cases involved, at first blush, an effort by local law enforcement and prosecutors which either did not yield an indictment or if it yielded an indictment, didn't yield a conviction where later on the federal government brought its own separate and independent indictment for which there were convictions. so, the legal process is not at its end. this is going to continue. i think we need to give this next stage in the process an opportunity to play itself out. >> that's an important message there. i wanted to get your thoughts, mark, too, on the reporting that we just heard from zack roth on the ground in ferguson. you just came from ferguson

yourself about who it is that is doing the peaceful protesting and who it is that is committing crimes, setting cars ablaze. >> you know, krystal, those that want justice and those that are for justice for michael brown who are wanting to elevate the issues of police accountability and economic opportunity are engaging in peaceful demonstrations. consistent with the traditions of civil rights in this country and peaceful protests. those in ferguson who are engaging in destruction of property, an effort to create chaos do not and in no way have as their aim justice for michael brown. they're provocteres and they're intigators. so, i think it's important that they seem to have infiltrated to some extent the peaceful protests in ferguson, but, yet, the 100 additional protests around the country seem to have

been for the most part peaceful. so, it's important to draw that distinction and, for me, and the national urban league and many of us, the civil rights community of today. we strongly support the idea of pa people expressing themselves but distance and disassociate the idea that any acts of violence are going to yield any sort of result. >> mark, you know, this really isn't just about ferguson. we're seeing protests, as you were saying, really across the nation in response. i could barely get out of new york last night because of the protests. how do police nationwide get this right? how do they strike the right balance here in terms of maintaining civil order and also ensuring people's civil rights? >> i think right now every city, every city with a police department, every mayor, every police chief needs to engage in some interspection. they need to review their own deadly force policy. they need to review the training that their own police officers

undergo. there needs to be a reestablishment of where the line is drawn between what i would call appropriate police actions and crossing that line in violation of people's civil and constitutional rights. most police officers do and want to do the right thing. but these incidents are demonstrating, i think, a systematic issue for which there needs to be a systematic response. >> and there's a narrative we hear quite often in these incidents where the black male is perceived or portrayed as this super predator with super human strength and, you know, the black body becomes a super weapon. officer wilson said he was almost bulking up as to run through the shots. what's going on there? >> you know, that's where racial stereotypes have gone wild. this is all based on inappropriate, racial stereotypes that you stereotype a black man.

now, michael brown was a big man. but officer wilson is also a big man with a gun who -- >> and training. >> who is trained as a law enforcement officer. and i think one of the important questions is, his interview and what he said happens conflicts with what the eyewitness said. in terms of whether michael brown, in fact, put his hand in his waistband. which seems to be the reason he's using for pursuing him and continuing to fire at him. so, you know, this issue and the idea that because you see a black man somehow, that's something to fear. that's an american problem. there's no, nothing that suggests that it's a reasonable fear. >> mark, thank you so much. >> thanks for having me. >> really appreciate your time. up next, they say all politics is local. ferguson, missouri, has proven how true that is.

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>> and there were many statewide and others who did help us try to reach out to the governor, as well as the general and, eventually, those troops were deployed, up fortunately, too late. >> we have been working these plans for a period of time. the bottom line is that we had 700 guardsmen out there that were dispersed in the area. tonight, we'll put additional guardsmen out to make sure things are even safer. >> those concerns over the deployment of the national guard in ferguson were corrected last night with more than 2,200 troops on the ground. the confrontation you just heard reflects a larger disconnect over how the city and state are handle these protests. city had since august 9th to plan and stratjz but even disconnect between the governor and his own lieu tetenant gover

that the governor held back the guard. chad garrison editor and chief for "river front times" and covers politics in missouri. help break this down. you have the mayor blaming the governor for not doing more. was this political infighting there long before michael brown was killed? >> yeah, i think that it's been going on for the last three months. there's really been kind of a question of leadership and, ultimately, in the state of missouri, the governor is the ultimate leader. but he even has, had trouble stepping up. it was asked whether the buck stops with him a few weeks ago and he had this stammering answer. could not answer the question. but, ultimately, you know, people are looking towards the governor and he, as you saw or i think heard in that clip, he's pretty testy. he realizes that there is a lot of criticism on him right now. >> what are folks on the ground in terms of citizens, not other

politicians, but how are citizens feeling about the governor's response so far? >> they're frustrated. you know, we spoke to residents of ferguson monday night, tuesday night while all this was going on. and tuesday was better. last night was better with the deployment of the national guard troops and there was a much bigger police presence but monday night, you know, they were really, really frustrated and upset because the governor had said, you know, he had had this press conference saying that there was going it be, law and order would prevail and it didn't. >> chad, the unrest we saw this week left a lot of important buildings in ferguson damaged, burned to the ground. what is going to be the long-term economic impact of that? >> it's going to be rough and it's going to be rough for sfurgsosfur ferguson. there is a stretch that could probably least afford to have that kind of destruction. i mean, these are mom and pop

stores for the most part. they're certainly not kind of the, you know, institutional power that kind of capitalism that many of these protesters may be fighting against. these are small businesses. and it's going to take them a while to recover, if they recover. if they come back. >> chad, much has been made already about the fact that the city of ferguson is roughly two-thirds african-american and you have a police force that happen to be white. is it your sense from being on the ground there that could potentially change? are there new candidates who may potentially running for office and more people enrolling to vote and greater organizing efforts that may go some way towards changing that disparity? >> i think in the long term one might hope that that happens. i think in the short term, we're not seeing it. you know, they had this initial, initial cause to register voters in ferguson and it was initially

reported that 3,200 new people had registered and it turned out it was only 128. and that's not going to change elections and even in a town as small as ferguson. and you're still seeing kind of the same people who are in power. in fact, they tried to, there is a coalition to fight this county executive, this white county executive or this candidate at that time it was who was running against charlie dooly, the incumbent. and stanger still won in ferguson and in north county throughout north county. even though there is this coalition to say don't vote for him, vote for the republican as opposed to this steve stanger who sided with bob mccullough. >> very interesting stuff, chad garrison, out in ferguson for us. thank you so much for your perspective. up next from curing

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i'm wnbc tv meteorologist steve sosna. been tracking the big winter storm across the northeast causing problems from d.c. all the way up to boston. the problem is, 19 million people live here. a lot of snow across the interi interior. rain along the coast and just because it's rain doesn't mean it's not ugly outside. temperatures in the 30s and 40s. with that airport delays. so, you see these red planes

here, that is headache central right here. 3 1/2 hours at newark and 1 1/2 hours at jfk and 2 hours at laguardia. have a book with you and your iphone charger. you'll need it. you'll be stuck here for quite some time. snowfall accumulations. this is the other big part of the storm. we're looking at snowfall totals up to a foot here near albany and a heavy, wet snow. a back breaker to shovel and also trees and power lines coming down here. not to mention treacherous driving. the good news with this storm system it's in and out of here quickly. tomorrow, thanksgiving day looking pretty good. over to you. >> thank you so much, steve. and cycling out of control, the crazy new advances we've seen this year from the scien f scientifscienti scientific community. some of them really sound more like science fiction and smartphones that can be charged with sound waves. >> what? >> yes, please. >> screens that correct our vision for us so we don't actually need glasses. even genetic engineers that can alter our dna to cure diseases that until now have alluded the

medical community. amazing stuff there. scientific american runs down the list for their latest cover story in the magazine's executive editor fred joins us now. fred, thanks for being with us. >> my pleasure. >> tell me more about how i'm going to be able to get rid of all the many cables. >> if you're like me, power strips all over the place and lots of cords. this is an idea. an undergrad had this university of pennsylvania. and she found the technology to do this and the idea is, you know, that you take a sound beam, an ultrasound beam, this is very high. you can't hear it. and you focus it on a spot. so, say you focus it on your desk and you put your laptop down on your desk and it automatically charges and it takes the energy from the sound

waves. very wanted to talk about waste, heat, batteries? what does it mean? >> there's waste heat everywhere. we're each giving off waste heat from our bodies. waste eat given off by your car and by factories and by waste i mean, it's not useful for anything. and if there were a way to turn all the, if you just take factories. if there was a way to turn all the waste heat from factories into electricity, you could power a small city. so, some engineers got this idea to develop a battery that takes heat and turns it into electricity. so, the idea is you heat the battery up and then it cools down and it's fully charged. so, you can imagine a lot of useful things. if you could use this as another way to charge your laptops or one of the first applications they expect will be on smoke stacks. so, you put a bunch of these on

the rim of a smoke stack and then you gather the heat from which would normally go off into the air and use it to power things. >> this is the one that really caught my eye or salivary gland, if you will, toure. you say in this article that people can use their spit or saliva potentially to power medical devices. tell us about this one. >> spit is an organic substance, right? and it's a lot like blood or other fluids that you have in your body. and if you could use, if you could find a way to use this as fuel to power a little device, then you would have a lot more leeway to design small medical devices that are implanted into your body. for example, if you were a diabetic and you wanted a sen senseer near your pancreas to measure blood sugar levels or insulin. you need a battery to power

that. so if it could use mucus or blood or some other kind of organic material for energy, then you would solve that problem and that's exactly -- they started with spit first because it was the most convenient organic material. >> spit is not just for cleaning your kids' faces. i find that really interesting. >> absolutely. this is incredible stuff. i actually never heard anything quite like this. one of the other technologies that you guys talk about is called crisper and it allows scientists to basically alter the genome. tell us about this. >> this is really going to be, you will hear a lot about this in the next couple years. this is the genetic engineering equivalent of the printing press. so, it takes your gene engineering or gene splicing, which we've been able to do for decades now. and makes it very easy to do on a very large scale. so, this, this will open up a

lot of new medical applications down the road. and some early work in the lab, scientists at mit used this. it's a molecule called crisper and they used it to cure a rat of a rare liver disease. and what they did is they injected it into the rat's tail and into the rat's liver and replaced a mutation in the cells of the liver, the liver cells and it was able to do that with enough of the cells so that the good cells took over from the bad cells and the rat was cured. just to get a flavor of the power of this thing. >> wow. >> it's going to be big. >> i sort of understand and it sounds really incredible, fred. thank you so much, really appreciate it. thanks for having me. coming up next, a music industry legend takes a seat at the table. no, not toure, jazz pioneer

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jazz history at 74 year-young pae pianoist who expd on to mtv in the '80s with rocket and won the grammy for album of the year in 2007 for his 47th studio album "river the joany letters" which is covers

of jody mitchell's songs. "possibilities" his marriage and, of course, his amazing music. herbie hancock with us at the table. how are you? >> thank you so much. >> my favorite story in the book. you're on stage in massachusetts and not thrilled with the way you're playing. and miles davis says don't play the butter notes. and you're thinking what does that mean? it takes you to a new way of playing. you find out years later that he said don't play the bottom notes. the misleadings lead you to a new life. talk about what you learned playing with miles? >> he was a genius. he just threw this magic dust out there and somehow it always worked. the great thing is, it really shows what a great teacher he was because he was the kind of guy that would kind of lead you toward a math, but you would have to discover the answers to your issues yourself.

he didn't provide you directly with thezers and that's what a great mentor does. >> how did you figure out that that wasn't what he had said? >> i was actually at harvard giving a lecture and doing a q and a. someone said i read miles davis' book and he said play the bottom notes. >> all these years i got it wrong. >> i got to go back and restart my career. >> who you would be if you thought he said, don't play the bottom notes. >> exactly. >> you'd be a different person. >> exactly, i'd be you. >> i don't know about that. >> wow. >> we need to -- i don't know. >> i will answer that for you. >> wow. >> that's all right. talk to me about jazz. you know, what is jazz to you and i know you write in the book about how part of jazz is being very in the moment and being

very present just with that moment. talk about that. >> well, the great thing, jazz has so many great characteristics. you know, being in a moment, of course, causes a very important one. and the other one is that you're constantly creating in that moment. you're constantly expressing how you feel in that moment. so, it encourages this constant creativity to come out of you. but in response, also, to people that you're working with. at the same time, there's respect for each other and what miles davis showed me in another example, that's in the book, is that we don't judge what each other is playing. you know, which is a great lesson for life. >> you talk about, that you played something that you thought was bad and that you thought, oh, i ruined this thing we're building and then he incorporated what you did and made it really work. >> yeah. it was amazing. it took me a couple years to figure that out. but i said, that's it.

that was the key. you know, miles didn't judge what i did. i did. i judged it. but that kind of, you know, judgment >> whatever happens, we go with it. so the important thing is what you do in the moment. what you do with what you have in that moment. >> i want to ask you because you mentioned judgment. and so many things in our lives are competitive and music can be but you seem to be speaking to the collaborative part of jazz where you are saying competition maybe gets in the way. >> we have fun, get up and help each other. i've never had a musician, like cover up what he's doing so that

i couldn't learn. we say, look what i found out and share something great. >> that is so important today. you open up so much of your life. you talk about your issues with drugs, specifically crack, here you right this. this was something you struggled with for years and would embarrass about. you would try to avoid people for long periods of time because you knew you might be on a high. >> yeah. i tried to remove it being close to my music. remove it from my family finding out. it was something i was really embarrassed about. even after i went to rehab and even through chanting and rehab and thanks to my family's

support, i don't have a problem with that any more, which is fantastic. and the reason i'm write being it now is because a book is a great vehicle for being able to share even the pain, even the difficulties when you have actually conquered the dark side of your life. >> it must have been healing. >> absolutely. and i want to share that with people because maybe it can help someone else who has an addiction. >> a lot of people know you from the song "rocket" what songs would you like to be known most by. >> the next one. >> i love that. >> what were you trying to do with rocket, it was an entirely different song for. >> it was scratch ning that attracted me into getting into that area of hip hop. after that the public decided, i happened to be at the right place at the right time with the right people which was fantastic. >> incredible song and has been

an incredible career. thank you so much for coming by the cycle and congratulations on the book. >> i can't wait for the next song. >> we'll be back with more cycle right after this. i have the worst cold with this runny nose. i better take something. dayquill cold and flu doesn't treat your runny nose. seriously? alka-seltzer plus cold and cough fights your worst cold symptoms plus your runny nose. oh, what a relief it is. tree bare . favorite holidays and one of te

huntsman family traditions is we go around the table and say what we're thankful for, it's always a good reminder of what truly matters in life. we can be so consumed by all the negative things we see and hear about. hear's a story that will make you stop and think.

kent newborn used to be a cab driver, he used to drive the night shift, passengers would sit behind him telling stories of their lives, like strangers rksz revealing intimacies they would never share during the light of day. one call he will never forget. got a call from a poor quiet part of town, when he got there everything was dark except a single light coming from the ground floor window. most cab drivers would honk once or twice but he asked himself what would i want the driver to do if it were my mother or father so i waited and knocked, a frail old voice answered, just a minute and he could hear her dragging the suitcase across the floor, the place was empty, she asked him would you police carry my bag out to the car, i'd like

a few moments alone, then if you could come back and help me, i'm not very strong, he came back to help mer knowing he would want someone to do the same for his mom. she asked could you please drive through downtown, he said it's not the shortest way, she resaid i'm no hurry, i'm on my way to a hospice. i don't have long to leave. he turned off the cab meter and for the next two hours they drove through the city and looked at all the places she knew as a young girl, once the sun came up she said i'm tired let's go, he dropped her off, gave her a hug, she held on tight and said you gave an old woman a moment of joy, thank you. as he drove away he thought what

if that woman got an angry driver, or what if i refused to wait, or if i was in a foul mood and refused to talk to her, how many moments do we misout on or simply over look. we often think our lives revolve around great big moments but great moments often catch us by surprise. we should often think how we could use our good fortune to help someone's life better. whether holding the door or giving a compliment. no greater exercise in life than leaning down to lift another up. that is no more meaningful than at thanksgiving. happy thanksgiving. . as ferguson goes national, video of yet another police

shooting. it's wednesday, november 26th and this is "now." >> there are two criminal justice systems in america. ♪ ♪ >> the michael brown has set off a storm across the country. >> los angeles, new york, boston, miami, portland and nashville. >> the second night was much calmer than the first. >> overwhelmingly they have been non-violent protests. >> through non-violent direct action ultimatery you can be successful. >> there are questions about the grand jury. >> bottom line is that this young man is dead, a lot of people feel someone should be held responsible. >> this is a problem we're seeing all over the place. >> black young men are not only treated worse on