never forgets. she said, with faith and love, your dreams are always possible. she's been living in the united states. that wraps up the hour for me. i'm "jose diaz-balart reports." i'll see you tomorrow night on nbc "nightly news" saturday. you can reach me on twitter and instagram at jdbalart. thank you for the privilege of your time. alex witt picks up with more news right now. very good friday morning to all i don't have u. i'm alex witt here in new york and we're following a very busy morning as right now in washington a changing of the guard for democrats is taking shape. just under 24 hours after house speaker nancy pelosi ushered in a new political era by announcing she won't run for leadership, democrats appear to

be coalescing around her likely successor. new york congressman hakeem jeffries announced his bid to be the next democrat house leader. other names are emerging to round out the top spots in leadership. here's what the second highest democrat in the house steny hoyer said about his party's expected new generation of leaders. >> it's a good time to have new leaders come in in the minority and get their sea legs. when you're in the minority, it really is time to train people to be in the majority. i think we're going to take the majority back in 2024. >> in just a few minutes, i'll talk with debbie dingell about what is next for democrats as they face being in the minority after the republicans won back the control of the lower chamber. a weather nightmare ahead of what's shaping up to be the busiest travel season since the start of the pandemic has historic snow blankets part of

the country. there's the proof right there. air travel headaches already squeezing passengers less than a week from thanksgiving. we're going to get an update from one of the nation's busiest airports and #iquit. the mass exodus from twitter forcing the company to close its offices today after new ceo elon musk demanded employees commit to a, quote, hard-core work environment. we're going to dig into what's next for the platform and whether it can even survive. we begin with the expected new era of leadership in congress. starting us off, we have ryan nobles at his post there, also david drucker, a contributing writing for "vanity fair's" "the hive." we're 23 hours or so removed from pelosi's announced. we have three democratic house members making it official that they're running for leadership roles do. we know when the leadership elections are going to take

place? >> reporter: i think more than anything, alex, this shows us just how anxious this new generation of leadership is ready to take on this new role. hakeem jeffries is the leader of this pac. he would be the first african american leader of any party in congress, house or senate, and he's being joined by kathryn clark who has asked her colleagues for the privilege of being the democratic whip and pete agular of california who is asking for their support to be the conference chair. now, all of this comes over the course of many weeks of wondering what nancy pelosi was going to do with her future, would she stay, would she go. and i don't think anyone -- at least not up until the last minute thought that she would deliver the speech that she did yesterday which is where she announced she would step away from leadership but stay in congress to help guide this new generation of leadership to the next stage. and to answer your other question, alex, we expect these

leadership elections to take place after the thanksgiving recess, over the course of november 30th into december 1st. at this point, it doesn't look like there's going to be a ton of drama, that these three have consolidated support. there is some other names that have been sprinkled in there as possible challengers. but at this point, it seems as though these are the three that are going to be the next crop of democratic leaders and democrats need to stay unified because the margins are so tight. maybe just a five to seven-seat majority for the republicans when all the dust settles. they need every single vote. of course, that was nancy pelosi's specialty. so she's still going to be here to give them advice even if she's not at the top of their organizational chart. >> yeah, i think you very well encapsulated why there's no drama right now which is a shock when it comes to the house. david, we got a teaser of some of the party's favorites once they take over and that would include investigations into

president biden's son hunter and potentially cutting aid to ukraine. after their lackluster midterm results, are you hearing concern among the moderate republicans in the party, that this approach could potentially turn off the crucial independent voters? >> well, look, the republican party is engaged in a very vigorous -- as we all have seen -- very open debate about what the future of the party should hold. in some instances it's resembled a circular firing squad, they shoot in all directions trying to blame everybody from themselves. but i think what republicans have to figure out is how they're going to manage a very thin majority. we saw how difficult it was for the democrats over these past couple of years and they could work the a democratic senate and a democratic white house. we can throw in how difficult it was for the democratic senate to

get things done with a one -- basically, a tie-breaker of a vote majority. so first republicans have to choose a speaker. that won't happen until early january. then we'll start to find out how unified they can be on whatever it is they decide to do. i don't think we can put the cart before the horse here. they've elected some of their leadership and that's taken care of. until they agree on a speaker, it should be kevin mccarthy. until that is done and they start running the floor, we're not going to really know which direction they're going to go. you're going to have the right -- for all the things they wanted to do when they thought they were going to have a large majority and that's going to cause a little bit of pushback from the more pragmatic flank who is going to want to focus on governing. we'll see with a very thin majority whether they can pull it off. >> as we take a look there at marjorie taylor greene. that's one person right there who is going to use a bullhorn,

that's for sure. you mention the senate. at best they're going to have a one-vote majority, whether it's kamala harris casting it or raphael warnock casting it. we won't know for a few weeks. we're going to ask you about whether you have the sense that the republicans are out for revenge. do you see any areas where bipartisan can avoid gridlock? >> they're going to have to come to an agreement on spending bills and defense bills. and usually the parties get there one way or the other. the republicans are going to have an internal debate about ukraine aid. but i think one of the things republicans are going to figure out pretty quickly is that they're an island unto themselves. joe biden and the democrat senate will try and leverage the numbers they have controlling one branch of congress as well as the white house and basically saying to the republicans, you have three or four votes in one branch on capitol hill. we've got more than you. so you need to work with us versus us working with you.

but everybody is going to try and figure out how to make this work. >> yeah, okay. ryan nobles, dave drucker, thank you so much. i want to bring in congresswoman debbie dingell. she serves as co-chair of the democratic policy and communications committee, also a senior whip and a good friend. nice to see you again. we're going to talk about the chips that appear to be starting to fall in place for dem house leadership. hakeem jeffries, kathryn clark, pete agular, they're making it official, their intentions to run for house leadership roles. is this the right time for a new guard to lead the party? >> by the way, jim clyburn has put out his letter too. it will be the current whip becoming -- or running for assistant leader. i think nancy pelosi and steny made very difficult decisions for them and that we are going to be very blessed to still have their wisdom and leadership as part of this caucus as we do

this transitioning. we're the democratic caucus, we're a big, wide tent. these are all people that are there -- nancy and steny aren't going anywhere. we're going to be really lucky that they're going to be there with their wisdom, their relationship, their ability to say to somebody, you need to knock it off. they'll have the backs of this new team and i think the way this is happening is probably turning out better than many people might have thought that it would have been. >> let's talk more about speaker pelosi and her legacy. you also had the moment we're about to show with her after her address to the house where she announced she's stepping down from leadership. she gave you a hug. she appeared to whisper something to you. can you share what she told you and more broadly, what does this particular moment mean? >> you know, the pelosis are a family that go way back and the

dingles are a family that go way back. we've known each other for a very long time. she has been there for me -- i've had -- i've been on the other side of nancy pelosi and i've been on the same side of nancy pelosi. trust me, it's always better to be on the same side. but she's also been there -- trust me. i've won, but she still hasn't let me forget it this year. but she also was there for me -- we're all human. we've had some fights in this place. but when john was dying and when john died, i probably wouldn't have gotten through it without the speaker. and family the important to both us of and i'm just -- yesterday was an emotional hard day. a lot of memories. a lot of memories, we have to go forward. by the way, she can be empathetic and compassionate and touching and she knows when you got to be tough and go out there and be tough. yesterday was the day for

sentimentalism. and she's not going to let us get sentimental. >> it sounds like there's a friendship there, and i love that. the fact that she supported you in the wake of john's passing and i'm sure you equally supported her during the horrific attack on her husband paul. but it brings me to this, whoever is leading your party in the next congress is going to face a gop majority. yesterday we already saw republicans suggest their priorities are going to be investigating hunter biden and really the biden administration overall. are you worried about being able to get anything meaningful done in the next couple years? by the way, is this what americans want? are these the kitchen table issues up for discussion at thanksgiving? >> i'm going to be blunt. i think that -- i predicted what would happen exactly in this election. i think there were three issues, inflation, choice and democracy. but i'm also going to tell you

that i think there are people on both far right, far left, but there are a lot of people in the middle who are worried about the direction of this country and they want to see us get things done. i think they're going to demand accountability of every elected official no matter what party you're in. if they come in and break down this house and we don't address some of the issues that everybody is talking about at that dinner table, they're going to hold people accountable again next year. so -- by the way, i'm committed. i am one of those people that has always worked across the aisle and i will work across the aisle on issues that matter. i went over and shook kevin mccarthy's hand and said i will always be who i'm going to be. if they're going to try to put up -- don't want to get things done, we're going to see total partisan bickering, i think the american people are tired of it. i think they're tired of the hate, the normalization of violence. i think they're tired of the disrespect. they want to see stability and i think they're going to demand

for stability of all of us as well. >> well, we always know what we're going to get with you which is why we bring you back again and again to talk to us. from the house to the senate, there's still the one race in the upper chamber unresolved. that showdown between raphael warnock and herschel walker. in just the last few minutes, a hearing got under way in a lawsuit that reverend warnock and democrats have brought in the state. it's been filed to expand early voting before the december 6th runoff election. let's go to shaquille brewster who is joining us from 30 miles south of atlanta. shaq, welcome. what more do we know about the hearing? >> reporter: hi, there, alex, that hearing is under way right now. it just started in the past couple of minutes. at issue is the interpretation of georgia's law and whether or not there will be early voting on saturday.

specifically the saturday after thanksgiving. you have the secretary of state's office saying that georgia law prevents that early voting from happening because of the proximity to the holiday. but democrats and raphael warnock's campaign has sued the state saying that that's a misinterpretation of the law because that prohibition doesn't apply to runoff elections. it's only for regularly scheduled elections. so that's what's being argued before the judge. you see that on the left side of your screen there. but you mentioned for both campaigns, it's about bringing out their turnout. many of these voters have already come out to vote once. they did it for the general election. you're hearing new messaging. but you're hearing the urgency there, trying to convince voters that this runoff, although it might not determine control of the senate is just as important. when you talk to voters, they feel that sense of urgency. many of them have their minds set already for different reasons. listen to some of the conversations i've been having just today. >> i took walker for what he

was, the man he was. and i thought give him a chance and see how that works out. >> i haven't heard from him. i don't know what he's doing. right now, we need people who know what they're doing. >> reporter: one thing to watch this weekend for the first time we will see governor brian kemp, the republican who defeated stacey abrams, he will be out on the campaign trail with herschel walker. that's something we haven't seen even before the general election. >> yeah, he was a little busy with his own re-election campaign. thank you so much, shaq. appreciate you. this morning people in western new york are digging out from under 2 feet of snow and way more is coming. we're live from buffalo with a look at the snow and what it means for thanksgiving travel. more twitter employees out. why an ultimatum from elon musk sent workers heading for the and its and the white house wedding. president biden's granddaughter will get married on the south lawn this weekend. on the south lawn this weekend.

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. parts of western new york are facing historic levels of lake-effect snow with some bracing for up to 5 feet. a state of emergency has been declared in a dozen counties. it will cause likely near zero visibility in cities like buffalo. it's an added headache for people hoping to get a jump on

thanksgiving travel. aaa is expecting 55 million people to travel. levels not seen since before the pandemic. joining me now, jesse kirsch is live from buffalo, new york, and ron allen joins us from laguardia airport. how are the reasons where you are? >> reporter: it's getting cloudy. a few minutes ago, we had absolutely clear sky. but this is what we're seeing from this lake-effect snow. it comes and goes. we go from next to no visibility to a clear setting like this. when you look at the snow piled up, you would think this is the end of a pretty good snowfall, right? wrong. we're not even halfway through this storm yet. we're expecting upwards of 4 to 5 feet of snow. already we've had 2 feet of snow in parts of upstate new york.

some areas seeing around 18 inches of snow and i measured 9 inches here. again, that is not even halfway through the storm here in buffalo. this system has canceled public schools here in the city for today. the buffalo bills and cleveland browns had to move their game to detroit, michigan. but we've seen some snow in michigan as well as ohio, pennsylvania, northern michigan. ohio and pennsylvania, just a dusting compared to what we're dealing with here and all of that is because of lake-effect snow. that's when you have the relatively warmer water on the lake turning into moisture in the air that gets swept up in this arctic blast and you wind up with this. when i tell you this time yesterday, yesterday evening when we pulled up, grass was green, clear skies, nothing on the ground. and now look at this. again, we're just in the middle of this snowfall. but i can tell you that this is prime snowball fight snow and i

see a fight between a family over there. there is some fun to be had and the roads are reopening. the travel ban has been lifted here. they asked people to stay home from work if they could. definitely a good opportunity to stay home and have some hot chocolate. >> i'm not going to make you stay out in the cold. let's move to you, ron. aaa expects one of the busiest travel seasons since it's been collecting data. what are you seeing there? >> reporter: nothing like buffalo. new york, new york is a lot different than buffalo, new york. it's sunny, clear. there are no delays at the airport we've seen since we've been out here this morning. the biggest day for holiday travel the tsa says was the sunday after thanksgiving back in 2019 and the expectation is that we may hit that level again this year because the conditions of the pandemic, of course, have eased significantly.

travel has been up, air travel, ground travel has been up for the past year or so and that's expected to continue during this really condensed and compacted holiday travel season. we're a little bit early here. but people are traveling. to do this, you have to take a few days off of work and keep your kids out of school for a few days. a lot of people don't want to do that. but still the expectation is that, yes, the numbers are going to soar. the tsa says they're prepared. they say that you should not worry about seeing empty checkpoints and unmanned or unstaffed checkpoints as you come in. they expect wait times to be 30 minutes for most travelers and less. 15 to 10 minutes if you are tsa-approved, prechecked to go through. on the roads, the issue is going to be the price of gas. this may be at about $3.68 a

gallon the highest gas price ever during a thanksgiving day holiday. so that is something. but none of that seems to be big enough to turn for anyone because people want to get it. and the expectation is it's going to be as big of a holiday season, as big of a holiday travel rush as we've seen in quite some time. everyone is looking forward to that. >> absolutely. let's hope it stays as smooth as you're predicting. i think the weather is going to have to cooperate. thank you both so much. new this morning, another huge wave of resignations at twitter after an ultimatum from the boss. what this means for those of us who use the platform? crucial new clues in the hunt to figure out who brutally murdered four college students in idaho. what a new report from the coroner is revealing about the case as the fbi joins the investigation. s the fbi joins t investigation.

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yesterday or receive three months of severance. that led to a wave of new resignations. the exact number isn't clear yet. and offices at the social media giant are now closed until monday. musk had already fired top executives, half of the entire staff, most contracted workers and longtime engineers who had criticized him publicly and musk's response to the turmoil, a picture of a man with the twitter logo on his face posing next to a twitter tombstone. joining me now is ben collins and host of full disclosure robin farzad. walk us through what's going on and the kind of impact it's going to have on the site. >> there's not a lot of people left at twitter and they have problems with income at this point. advertisers have been scared off from this website since the paul pelosi conspiracy theory tweeted by elon musk himself and the

verification for $8 plan is at least on hold until november 29th. it's unclear how they're going to make money and they have whole departments that are gone now from this website. also infrastructurally the website isn't built for this chaos. the world cup is coming up which is one of the days for twitter in general. it's unclear how they're going to handle that traffic. we are in a very weird stasis right now with twitter. i don't know what it's going to look like. >> do you have a guesstimate on how many employees are still there? there's no way to know? >> there's no real way to know. it's probably hundreds. they're probably still sorting through it now. the number i would guess is probably in the hundreds. if it's in the thousands, i would be surprised. >> musk is still touting all-time high twitter uage. have you ever seen a takeover quite like this before? >> i was thinking about -- he

would have stopped and said, gentlemen, do we pivot or do we invest? and i didn't see any sort of exploratory committee or anything kind of coming and saying we're going to take a 60-day review. he was bringing in the kitchen sink. i don't understand that metaphor, ben, maybe you can explain it to me. i can't get into the mind of somebody worth 200-plus billion dollars overpaying for twitter, something had he waited, he could have bought it at half this price, all of this debt revenue which is falling off a cliff and just slashing people left and right. it's luddite-type behavior. we saw eli lillys and others who were snookered in that. i don't understand it because $44 billion is still a lot of

money. >> is anyone benefitting from this? alternative sites that are developing or those that are getting increased traffic that are already established? >> on the margin, mastodon, you see many of the blue checks saying they're going there. twitter had an ecosystem of journalists and finance people and snarky people that all of them by design both loved it and hated it and it's hard to port. call interesting birdie and why did zoom appear out of the ether instead of facetime or skype. twitter has never been a great business. it's been a great meeting of the minds and the snarkiness and that's brutally hard to replicate overnight. >> does that snark apply to the

kitchen sink? what was that about? >> yeah, there's a meme that says let that sink in. but it's a sink standing outside of a door. it's really stupid. but, look, i think if you view it for what this is really shaping up to be, a massive political statement made by the richest man in the world about how businesses should be run or how he wants them to be run. i don't know if it was the plan to begin with. it's the plan now. i think he's saying, look, these companies don't need all these people to survive. i think he wants to make some larger point about wokism and if we need hr departments and stuff, that's clearly where this is all headed. but it is a -- he's taken the long way -- >> what would it sale for today if something happened for elon

musk? i want to know if a bunch of other people had to bail it out, nothing near $44 billion. we see every big tech firm laying people off. we see stock market values down in excess of 30 or 40%. that's the counter feedback factual to me. are you building a killer app? i see no evidence of that so far. >> i agree, by the way. and i think the guy made a really rash decision earlier this year that he spent seven months trying to get out of. i don't know what the value is right now, but it's probably less than it was when he bought it. >> that's probably a pretty good bet. thank you so much. good to see you both. have a good holiday weekend. meantime, elizabeth holmes back in court this afternoon for her sentencing. holmes was found guilty back in january of four federal fraud charges related to her blood testing start-up. she was convicted of defrauding investors out of nearly

$145 million. prosecutors are seeking a 15-year prison sentence and they say holmes should pay $800 million in restitution. we're learning some new and grizzly details about the gruesome killings of four university of idaho students as the search for their killer or killers continues. the victims were killed by a, quote, bigger knife and they suffered extensive injuries from multiple stab wounds. gadi schwartz is joining us from idaho. what more do this autopsy report reveal and what do investigators hope they're going to learn? >> that's basically all we know from the autopsy because from get-go, in this investigation, officers and investigators have been extremely tight-lipped. and so a lot of what people know has been gleaned from the internet and one of the things that is really -- people are having trouble wrapping their mind around is this notion that

there were two people, two surviving roommates inside of this house when this attack happened. so i'm just going to kind of paint the scene for you. it's hard to imagine when you're at home. when you start to see the layout here. this is a three-story home. there were six people who lived here. two people -- two bedrooms on the top floor. two bedrooms on the second floor. and then there are two bedrooms here on the first floor. there's one point of entry here on the first floor, a keypad that you can put in a code and you can go inside. i'm going to take you around this way. it's really interesting. we saw investigators come out for the first time today and we saw them start to look through the ground, look through the leaves. in fact, they just picked something up from over here. they placed a marker on it. one of the big questions that they're going to be asking is, how did whoever killed these roommates get in the house? you've got the front door and

you've got a back door on the back patio. alex, if you come this way, you can see what i'm talking about. over here on these leaves we just saw investigators going through those leaves. they've picked something up. they put it in an evidence container. and this is the back patio where investigators were spending quite a bit of time earlier today. now, i don't -- i don't want to show you the backside of the house because there is some -- what appears to be blood seeping out of one of the walls. it appears as though whatever happened inside the house happened on that side of the house, possibly the second story given where that blood is. but, again, investigators have given very, very little investigation. what we do know is there were two surviving roommates inside. we don't know if they were sleeping. investigators haven't been able to explain why it was about eight or nine hours when they believed the four people that were inside this home were killed and the first 911 call

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ukrainian officials say a series of russian air strikes have continued to target the country's energy system with president zelenskyy saying as many as 10 million have lost power. this as temperatures are dropping as always the ukraine's foreign minister is saying it's sent experts to the site of a missile strike in poland. ukraine has insisted i didn't launch that missile. it is a stance that is contradicted by nato as well as the united states. molly hunter is joining us from kyiv. also joining me, brigadier general and author. i just got my own copy. thank you. molly, how much and where is the power back on after these strikes and how are the ukrainians coping? it's cold, it's winter.

>> reporter: yeah, alex, it is cold, it is winter. we had the first snowfall across the country this week and we've gotten new numbers from the prime minister who says nearly half of the energy system is out of order. when you ask where the power is back on, really these rolling emergency blackouts are in place across the country. i'm looking at a very dark capitol city of kyiv and as the evening goes on, we can tell which neighborhoods have rolling blackouts. people are telling us that they have blocks of three or four hours of power on and three or four hours with the power off. we went out to one of those suburbs that was occupied by the russians, hit very hard, very early in the war. the first five weeks of the war. and i was surprised. a lot of the buildings that were heavily damaged at the beginning of the war have not been fully

repaired. the roads are clear, they're drivable. the apartment buildings are not livable. and we spoke with a man today, a truck driver, who is pointing out his apartment that up until two weeks ago had been covered with plastic wrap. he has plexiglass windows in place to block the freezing temperatures. but these are the towns and the places that are about to get very, very unlivable. when the officials talk about how the russian military strategy right now is to gun for the civilian population, making these cities unlivable, this is what they're talking about in places in the suburbs around kyiv and kherson where there's no electricity, no heat and no water. >> absolutely stunning. i'm sorry. i thought there might be a sound bite coming there. i can't even imagine what they're facing right now. thank you for that, molly. the general, who is joining me here in the studio.

we have president zelenskyy who has insisted, at least at this point, that this was a russian missile gone astray. that has been contradicted by both nato and the united states. we do know that there are ukrainians on the ground inspecting that area in poland, whether or not they're part of the official investigation remains to be seen and you might have intel on that. how important is that that we get to the bottom of this? because initially you hear about people in poland crossing the border into nato territory, article five, everything comes into mind. this is important to figure out. >> absolutely, alex. and what it has done and maybe untended positive consequence, it has completely exercised our thinking of nato mechanisms, defense mechanisms and it looks like the preponderance that it was indeed an errant ukrainian air defense missile of russian

make and that seems to be the preponderance of the evidence. the ukrainian government wants to be 100% sure before if it admits to a misfire that i remind our listeners that occurred because the ukrainians were besieged that day by a torrent of cruise and drone missiles and as far deep as lviv which is close to the polish border and it looks like one of their missiles went astray. >> when you say of russian make, would it stand to reason that ukrainians would have missiles of russian make? >> absolutely. they have s-300s which are pretty long range. they have s-11s. yes, a lot of the ukrainian defense base is built on old

soviet equipment. >> if you have that, does president zelenskyy risk anything by continuing to say, this is russia's fault, especially, is what he's saying. with the international community and they're support, does he risk anything if it's proven to be otherwise or is there a generosity of time, we'll figure this out. >> it's going to have to be resolved. that's the bottom line. but when we talk about culpability, fault, we remind ourselves, this all began with a monstrous aggression of the 24th of february of this year, an invasion. it's not just an invasion, it's an attack on the ukrainians. you have to think that they're in that existential survival mode and so every word, every situation, for example, like this, they are -- they want to be 100% sure they come out. but -- it's been repeatedly mentioned by our own american

and nato leadership, european leadership, not just nato, that this -- this wouldn't have happened unless the russians were launching, engaging in a -- just a vicious, ongoing attack to cow the ukrainian populous. the word i would use for the russians here, they want ukraine to submit, and i think this is all part of it and ukrainians are fighting for their lives and have done a remarkable job in doing so. >> absolutely. i think there was a pretty good bet they will never submit. that is certainly what you hear time and time again. thank you, sir. thank you, molly hunter, as well. coming up, the white house will be packed with people this weekend but not for the usual reasons. the details of the family wedding tomorrow on the south lawn. i'm getting vaccinated with prevnar 20®. a pfizer vaccine! so am i. because i'm at risk for pneumococcal pneumonia.

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held at the white house. if that weren't enough for the family to celebrate, this big bash comes a day before president biden's 80th birthday. kristin welker is joining me now with more. it's a pleasure to have you, especially for this reason. this is fun. the festivities, the wedding, what's it all about? >> reporter: we have been working our sources on this one. it's a fun one. it's good to be with you on this friday. naomi biden, daughter of hunter biden, is about to join a small club of brides who have gotten married here. 18 couples have said i do here. this will be the first wedding on the south lawn. she's close with her grandfather whom she calls pop. a wedding fit for a first granddaughter in the ultimate venue. instead of saying, hail to the chief, they are saying, here

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house, that's a very unique and special part of history. >> reporter: unique, indeed. president biden will turn 80 on sunday. as for the wedding, the bidens are playing for the festivities. perhaps the best part for naomi and peter, they don't have to travel very far. get this. they live here at the white house. >> that's so exciting. can i ask you about the weather? i'm thinking november wedding outside. do you know, is it going to be tented? are they going to brave it and take everything inside? >> reporter: i do know. it's not going to be tented. we are told according to a source familiar with the planning that they have told guests repeatedly to dress for the weather. i expect the bride will be dressed for the weather as well. we can't wait to see pictures. >> i think what they will have is many people standing inside for the coat checks. have your coat outside, take it off to go inside and have a

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