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thanksgiving holiday where it's been grading millions of travelers and dozens of states across new england and the mid- atlantic with still and cold air along the i-95 corridor. millions are making their way to celebrate the thanksgiving holiday. here in new york city the cleanup is underway at least outside of 30 rockefeller plaza. mother nature did not get the message, don't rain on my parade. still, big crowds cheered on the marching bands and balloons. we have more on that coming up. let's start with maggie vespa in chicago and michelle grossman. michelle, let me ask you about the impact the weather is having on travelers. i always tend to think people should not wait but they think they will avoid the worst of it if they wait till thanksgiving

day. >> we are overall looking good across the country. in the northeast you mentioned the rain. we even have snow. that will -- the cold front will be moving through to the south. we are looking very chilly. and arctic blast coming down from canada. it is really cold if you are out having afternoon parades or thanksgiving festivities. we are looking at some snow falling which will impact the interstates. we will see those wet roadways kind of sticking around for most of the day. it's really gloomy in the northeast at this hour and parts of new england. you see this blue and white. that is the snow falling through portions of the

interior northeast. it will be heavy at times. we will see the lake effect snow crank up especially tonight into monday. you notice the rain is still falling in parts of the northeast into new england. it is along the coastal part of massachusetts into new jersey. that is starting to wrap up. you notice the cold front moving pretty quickly off the coast. we may even see some sunshine. in the southeast and the gulf coast we could see a few thunderstorms. let's talk about those wintry days because it will feel like the holidays as we go through the next couple days. we have winter weather alerts, winter storm warnings. in the pink is a winter storm warning for many in new england. we will see snowy travel today. we could see accumulating snow in the highest elevations. take a look at those numbers. that's where we can see a good amount of snow. up to a foot in the higher

elevations. once the sun goes down later today if you are making your plans for your trip back from your thanksgiving dinner. lake effect snow will be a big story friday through monday because we will see up to three feet of snow. keep in mind, the lakes are really still warm in the upper 40s, 50s. we have the cold air rushing over the lakes. that's what creates the snow. we have arctic air over siberia. it will be chilly for many of us. the lake moisturizes, it is frigid and what happens is we get some band set up and that's where we will see feet of snow happening. lots of pink and purple showing us where we can see the heaviest amounts of snow. keep that in mind. let's turn towards black friday. it will be chilly. we want to leave our coats in the car as we head into the mall. just 17 and minneapolis.

right above freezing in omaha. the cold air will make its way toward the tennessee valley, ohio valley into the northeast. temperatures only in the 20s, 30s, 46 in philadelphia. it's well below normal for this time of year but the silver lining is we are not looking at a lot of big blockbuster storms. we are looking at really good travel in terms of the air. lots of green on the map indicating where we expect to see smooth sailing. chicago could have a little bit of a slowdown. we are looking at some delays there. on the roadways where you see the green we are expecting pretty good roadways. otherwise we are looking at the great lakes area. if you are headed out on monday it will be tough traveling with feet of snow falling. we look at saturday. it will be a repeat performance. really cold through the central plains as well. we will see the snow continuing

to fall in the great lakes on saturday. same thing on sunday. everybody returning back to home and work. >> i'm sorry. i saw 17 and minneapolis. i could not listen to this. it brings me back to my childhood with the lake effect snow. thank you for that. cold weather is something chicago knows a little bit about. how are things looking today. >> reporter: they are painfully cold. thank you so much for asking and happy thanksgiving. as far as traffic on this holiday, you are right. if people waited to drive on thanksgiving day they are part of the smartest crowd. this is the lightest travel to -- date because this is another record-setting year. close to 80 million americans hitting the roads, flying, or using public transit to get where they want to go for the holiday. the vast majority of those are

driving. 72 million americans. here in the midwest it is frigid but thankfully we don't have any major whether snarling traffic. we have rain out he stands no further west. the roads are little bit dicey. the day you want to watch out for is sunday. that's the peak travel day with travel times between noon and six. if you are staying through the weekend and you want to head back on sunday if the roads early in the morning or late at night. the worst cities are los angeles, seattle, boston, new york, and washington, d.c. traffic could be twice as bad especially on sunday. here in chicago once again traffic moving beautifully but i can barely feel my face. back to you. >> again from the cold. i hope you get some turkey today. the 98th annual macy's thanksgiving day parade has

just wrapped up in new york city. the soaking rain and chilly although not as cold as chicago may not have been ideal. that did not stop millions of spectators. in some places 20 deep from gathering to watch. joining me is stephanie on the parade route. she has her umbrella up. you know this, i know this. we've been outside for thanksgiving many a year. people come from all over the world. little rain is not going to stop them, but tell us about the mood and the highlights. can i just say how quickly people to disperse once the parade ended? >> you would move quickly to if you had been out here for hours. i would take this over maggie's freezing cold. people love this parade. there are people who come every year who lives locally. then you have people who come from all over the country. i talked to people from

georgia, colorado, illinois. they had friends and family that might have been in one of the marching bands or they come because the parade has symbolized such an important tradition on thanksgiving day. all of the balloons, 5000 volunteers, 700 clowns, it is just a spectacle to see. they said this was the biggest parade of all time. they expected three and a half- million people. it really felt big watching it go by today. i like those sort of old throwback balloons. the ones that remind me of being a kid in the living room. things like snoopy and smokey the bear. it's hard not to be nostalgic when you see it all. interestingly because of the weather there's a whole nypd unit called the emergency service unit. they are basically the guards of the balloons. they are trained on how to operate them although they are not the ones walking them down the street that they are

keeping an eye on them because when the wind picks up they can become dangerous. if they did become dangerous the unit would swoop in and make sure nobody got hurt. the wind never picked up too bad. they state said he -- they stayed steady and everybody got to enjoy them. >> somebody in the newsroom said it is really coming down now. i looked out my window which overlooks exactly where you are standing and there was a march -- marching band going by and people were air drumming. good for them and thanks to you on this thanksgiving for being out there for us. we appreciate you. >> reporter: you are welcome. still ahead and breaking this morning, israel and hezbollah exchange accusations about violations to the cease- fire agreement. we are back in 90 seconds. seco. making hard to reach...

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breaking in the middle east. israel and lebanon both say there have been violations of the cease-fire. it is still holding in much of the country, but accusations are flying. the israeli military said suspects in several vehicles drove into a number of areas in southern lebanon where one of its planes struck a facility being used by hezbollah to store midrange rockets. the lebanese army said israel

repeatedly violated the agreement with ariel violations and targeting territory. these come just one day after the cease-fire designed to end nearly 14 months of fighting took effect. joining us now is mark, former senior intelligence officer at the cia and msnbc military analyst barry mccaffrey. it is good to see you both and happy thanksgiving. are these kinds of violations, what they are being called expected? what are you watching for over the next 24-48 hours. >> in the broader sense it's an extremely good thing that has happened. there's been a massive cessation of violence on both sides. hezbollah has been firing 100 rockets or more a day into israel. that has stopped. the israelis insisted on the right to put continued police

the cease-fire and have done so. they fired artillery three times. one airstrike some small arms fire. as a general statement it's a wonderful thing. hezbollah is backed up against the wall. the chain of command has been shattered starting with the pager, walkie-talkie intelligence operation against them. their major leadership are dead. there is a wave of trump fear on participants in the conflict where they believe trump will support israel unreservedly. i think we have the makings of a cease-fire that hopefully will last for a few years until the next round of fighting starts. >> what more do we know about what is happening in southern lebanon right now? >> reporter: the lebanese army and hezbollah, both hezbollah

through one of their members of parliament accused the israeli military five violating the deal of continuing to bomb targets. the israeli military is saying it bombed a facility that was housing medium-range rockets. largely, the cease-fire has held. there's no widescale war. i just came back from northern israel and we are also speaking with contacts and reporters and teams inside of lebanon. there is still a real, tangible concern that the deal might not hold for the long term. what president biden is calling a permanent cease-fire might not hold because there are many spoilers along the way. there is a very big difference between what is happening in southern lebanon and northern israel. in southern lebanon you see tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of people return to their homes. what you will notice right away

is it is still strong. you have people showing up pictures of the former, now killed leader of hezbollah. yellow hezbollah flags, et cetera. you still have very much all the ingredients that were there before the war, but a cease- fire that so far is holding with real concerns that it might not for the long-term since the conditions that led to this conflict still exists. >> thank you so much.'s mark, what do you think are the main concerns that might lead this to fail. obviously you will have these little skirmishes for lack of a better term. things will happen like that but in terms of just normally keeping the peace or stopping a war what are you watching for? >> i think the israelis are supposed to withdraw.

they are supposed to withdraw south to their border and the lebanese armed forces and outfit, the u.s. has put a most $2 billion, is suspect in many camps. they are supposed to move in. now there is certainly room for error. in the middle east cease-fire violations happen all the time. so they were right in the sense that there is still certainly a chance that it will work, but it is a really uncertain time. we don't know which kind of operatives are still in the south, what kind of command and control they have. as things move forward over the next days and weeks i think we will be in a better place. right now is really the uncertain time. ultimately both sides want this. the defense forces are tired. they need to regroup. in terms of national security experts they think they have

delivered a decisive blow to hezbollah. 4000 fighters killed, the leadership decapitated. both sides want this but there is some danger. >> let me ask you about the wider implications and read to you what the new york times pointed out. hamas has long believed that a wider war would help deliver the organization a victory in its war with israel. the cease-fire deal to stop the fighting has left that strategy in tatters, potentially removing their most important ally from the fight. does this cease-fire put more pressure on israel and hamas to try to reach what has been an elusive deal? >> that is the great question. i think i have been on the show and on the networks many times with optimism for a cease-fire deal and i've been wrong every time. both sides are not interested.

there's no political side in israel who is screaming at prime minister netanyahu for not going for the deal. netanyahu does not have that political pressure. i do not know if it will ever come to fruition. there's a lot of questions on whether israel even wants this. general mccaffrey noted that the incoming trump administration may be able to put more pressure. don'ts -- we will see and then they still have the hostages. while israel is completely dominant militarily, diplomatically they are not. they have taken a beating internationally over gaza. you can feel good about where you are on the strategic sense, but in the international diplomatic sense this is not a place where they want to be. >> so let's look at the

incoming administration. all of this is coming as president elect trump selected keith kellogg to be his special envoy. he wrote a paper seeing how he would seek an end to the war including conditioning u.s. military aid to ukraine on their participation in peace talks. i wonder what you make of this and where we are in the other war? >> we have to remind ourselves that the president elect will determine the policy toward ukraine and russia. he has had a terrible history of giving into putin and being a friend to the russian military. he said he would bring a halt to the war in one day. given that is the background, i think the point is a good one. keith kellogg had a tremendous reputation as a soldier. he was decorated six times. he's a special forces guys.

he has a lot of european experience. is a defense intellectual. he is reasonable and knowledgeable. we will see what comes of that, but the outcome is probably that ukraine temporarily or permanently loses 20% of their country. sort of ratifying putin's criminal invasion of a sovereign country and a continuing threat to europe and large we ought to be glad it is keith kellogg and not one of the crazies, but ukraine is in trouble. they know it. they are reaching out to trump. remember, western europe will see 10 million refugees flowing out of ukraine if they go under to this invasion. they are not doing very well

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attacks and bomb threats against several trump pics for the new administration. at least seven people were targeted. in several cases their families as well. three senior law enforcement officials tell us the threats were not credible and no physical evidence, no devices were found. that is not sitting well with those on the receiving end like tom homan. >> i'm not going to be intimidated by these people. i'm not going to let them silence me. i'm going to do this job because it's an issue of national security. you are not going to shut me up. i'm not going away. i will do this job and i will continue to talk to people why it needs to be done. >> i will bring in kelly o'donnell in west palm beach. our senior national security analyst and assistant director of national intelligence at the fbi. jeremy peters is a reporter and contributor. great to have you all here.

what are we hearing about all of this from team trump? >> there are a number of these figures who have identified themselves publicly, but we believe there were others that were named to the cabinet are other senior positions who have also experienced this. tom homan did not say that he had a threat made against him in this instance, but he has experienced that broadly that he was reacting to. the trump transition considers this a serious matter because of course it causes great distress and concern for the assembled team of donald trump, the president elect. the president-elect and vice president elect not included in this so it is really the senior staff level of those expected to be part of the next administration. would officials have told us is these messages were delivered

via email and social media direct messages. because of that, there is a way for investigators to try to identify the source. we will have to see how that plays out. it was local law enforcement in a number of communities from florida to new york, all the different places where these officials have the home that responded in person to make certain there was not an actual device. no explicit devices were found at any location. that's why they call them threats that lack credibility and are hoaxes. still disturbing but not an actual physical threat. it comes in an environment where you can't forget the summer that donald trump the president-elect had with a threat on his life in butler, pennsylvania, and another attempted threat. they have heightened concern and it raises questions about the political environment we

are in and the propensity for threats and violent talk in our politics. >> thank you so much. these are coming, it seems more fast and furious. when you are dealing with people at the highest level of government i assume you have to take every light -- level of threat seriously. talk about how hard it is for law enforcement to find the people that might be behind it. is there anything they can do to stop it? >> this has become a well entrenched phenomenon. it's no longer a new thing. police department across the country are quite familiar. they have to respond as if it is the real thing. swatting is a call to a law enforcement agency saying somebody has a gun, somebody is killing someone or blowing something up and here comes heavily armed law enforcement that has to clear your home, wake you up and go through the motions. about a year ago there were a

slew of government officials, media personalities and former officials who were swatted. those individuals, at least the ringleaders who did that have been identified. we just recently learned that one of them from romania, the ringleader has been apprehended and is in the washington, d.c. area in custody. the fbi will get you. they will find you. they will lay hands on you. you will be charged federally. several years ago there were deaths related to swatting. police officer shot a homeowner not knowing who that was. a homeowner in another incident had a heart attack when he saw the s.w.a.t. team at his door. a year ago we had incidents, there were serious car

accidents with serious injuries as first responders came to the home. i know it is understandable to jump to the conclusion that this is partisan politics and we are trying to intimidate each other. i caution that because in the cases a year ago it was an organized group globally who were just extremist trying to sow chaos and discord and divide us. they never met each other but they coordinated targets online and we may be seeing that again. >> what are you hearing about the level of concern? a lot of these folks are spread out but they will be moving to the metro dc area assuming that they do take jobs within the administration. some of them obviously requiring confirmation. we heard what tom homan said. pete hegseth said a similar thing on social media. but the threat is real.

sometimes as we pointed out at the top the threat encompasses families as well. >> right. i think the response that you hear from these nominees is exactly right. these types of things are not going to deter them. anybody, whether they are and activist are just some crank that thinks this is an effective form of resistance or protest should think again. i can't imagine this type of tactic engendering anything but more animosity for a group of people. that group of people being opponents of the president than these folks already have. i do not see much practical purpose in doing this. i also think, this really politically speaking just

enhances this reputation or image, if you will, that trump and the people who work hardest for him our political martyrs. remember, we had an assassination attempt, two of them on the president months ago and that reinforces standing amongst his followers. i think it creates a sense of siege all around them that they exploit for their own political purposes. >> i think that there are a number of his supporters who after the assassination attempt, we certainly played their audio on the air that they believe god saved him from assassination attempts and that was part of their motivation for working to get him elected. i want to get your take on another piece of news. we heard that last night mark zuckerberg came to mar-a-lago to meet and have dinner with the president-elect. i think we can say they have

not had the warmest relationship so what is this about? >> in a sense you can call this mark zuckerberg coming out as a pro trump figure. i don't know that that means he will become an active voice, active surrogate supporter type, but i think what you have seen over the course of the last few years is the evolution of these figures from the corporate and tech world who have become more republican, started to align themselves with donald trump's vision of what he would do to deregulate the economy and what he would do or what he says he would do to tear down some of the structures of our society and government, structures that a lot of these more libertarian thinking folks that tend to

inhabit silicon valley think really need to be disrupted and torn down. there are a number of factors in pushing him more toward the right. one of them i'm told is the way that he was treated in congress when he went to testify that really, i don't want to say radicalized him, but certainly pushed him farther away from the democratic party. i think this is a sentiment that both he and his wife, priscilla, from what i'm told both share. >> jeremy peters, kelly o'donnell, and frank, thank you to you. thank you for being with us. president biden said he has spoken to the three americans freed by china. what this could mean for his legacy. you are watching msnbc reports.

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the accusations of cease- fire violations between israel and hezbollah today are a vivid reminder of the challenges president biden faces trying to make the most of the final 53 days of his term. a top priority remains getting the hostages in gaza released. today there was a moment of joy as three americans were freed in a prisoner swap with china. here is what president biden said about that in the past

hour. >> reporter: have you spoken with the three formerly detained americans who were returned? >> i spoke with all three of them. one was there only three years for a life sentence. another one was therefore a total of 20 some years. anyway, long stays. i am happy they are home. i got to talk to them all. they have been reunited with their families. >> of course, there are other foreign-policy challenges. the wall street journal reports the administration does not have enough times to use the billions of dollars that congress authorized to help ukraine. then there is the domestic agenda. and has taken steps to provide additional job security for federal workers but they are still likely to be on the elon musk chopping block as every outgoing president before him knows there's only so much a lame-duck can do to burnish his

legacy. joining me now is former congressman donna edwards from maryland and susan, a republican strategist. thank you for spending part of your thanksgiving with us. donna, let me start of the news of the day. what do you see as the significance of these alleged cease-fire violations between israel and hezbollah, but just the idea that overall it seems to be holding. what might that mean for joe biden? >> i think for president biden it's a reminder of how fragile this piece is. it took a bit to get to a negotiating point. i think the president is clearly hoping and continues to work to try to ensure a similar outcome for gaza and israel that is far more complicated. the president is faced with

what a lot of his predecessors have been as well. there are a few things remaining to be done and he will work all the way up until the noon hour before inauguration before to make sure he can get on the things that are possible. these foreign-policy challenges are high on his list. >> let's talk about one of them, susan. obviously if the president was planning to use this cease-fire toward a stepping stone for a deal in gaza it is potentially but there are still a lot of steps to go. we heard about the three americans who were detained in china. we saw them today, but what are the chances as you see them for a deal that could get the hostages in gaza home before donald trump takes office? >> first, happy thanksgiving. great to be with you. president biden, as donna said, he is putting everything into these last 53 days.

i think one of his top priorities is getting the hostages home. i think he can. i think he may be able to pick it will be tough, i do not think we will see a full cease- fire but it does not mean he can't bring those hostages home. frankly, if there's any chance that it would behoove the hostages coming home for president trump, that may be a little difficult but this is what the president cares about. he cares about people. the last action you will see him doing will be about helping people. >> i mentioned the wall street journal report. the u.s. won't be able to spend all the money authorized to transfer arms to ukraine before trump takes office. logistical issues, supply issues. that leaves billions of dollars in the hands of the new administration. is there anything president biden can do to empower them between now and the time that donald trump who has a very different view takes over?

>> these are real challenges. i will say the president has very strong allies still in the congress, particularly senator mitch mcconnell on ukraine. while incoming president trump may want to see a negotiated end to the war, not so fast. just a few tools left, but again i think that whatever president biden can do in terms of getting ukraine the resources they need over these next several weeks will be really important to whatever comes next in a trump presidency. >> let me ask you the big picture, susan. canha legacy if not be changed, be impacted during the lame- duck? is there still a possibility that the historically low approval ratings he has can be

turned around or maybe that history will have a very different view of his presidency over the course of the entire four years than voters do now? >> i think the latter is more likely the case. former presidents tend to get more popular the further away they are from there presidency. if you look at george w. bush that is a perfect example, but i think president biden's legacy will be very mixed even though he had those unfavorable numbers, the way he gave up running for reelection some people have issues with the fact he was doing it at all, i also think he will go down as the consoler in chief. somebody who really cared about people and somebody who really wanted this job. it will be mixed but distance will help them. >> susan and donna think you both. i hope you have a great rest of your holiday. coming up, helping those on

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for all the bounty on so many thanksgiving tables, one more thing to be grateful for. thousands of volunteers across the country working in food banks and churches and other community organizations to make sure those who might not otherwise do indeed have a dinner to celebrate. vice president kamala harris was one of those volunteers serving meals at the dc central kitchen alongside her husband second gentleman doug emhoff. also the war memorial churches following a decades-old tradition of distributing holiday meals in their community which has long been labeled a food desert. in atlanta josi a has been working around the clock preparing food for the homeless. joining me is priya who is in atlanta. it is a busy time behind you.

talk about what you are up to right now. >> reporter: happy thanksgiving to you. the vibes are really high right here. i don't know if you can hear the music. people are laughing and having a lot of fun because they have a very important mission this thanksgiving. they are giving out hundreds of boxed food items that are perishable and also hot meals to three different groups of people, hundreds of folks, families with small kids, senior citizens who don't have the opportunity to make one of those meals that, of course, includes turkey. they are also going to a homeless encampment nearby. they say they have never seen the demand this high. we talk so much about how the economy is getting better but they see so many folks, even middle-class families say they are not able to afford groceries this year and especially the higher-priced holiday items.

this nonprofit was started by the civil rights leader josi a williams who was in the inner circle of dr. martin luther king jr. this is a year-round mission. they don't just do this thanksgiving and christmas. they try to feed the homeless year-round. folks can come here and get food every day of the year and also sign up for snap and offense, medicare and medicaid. it is amazing to see the volunteers, just regular folks coming out and making this a special part of their thanksgiving. >> i saw a huge pile of diskettes that looked so good. it is fantastic what people do giving up part of their holiday so other people can have a better one. thank you for bringing this story to us. have a happy thanksgiving. stay right here because coming up after a quick break, donald trump vowed to impose tariffs and the agreement he said he just reached with the

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>> we are continuing to follow breaking news out of the middle east, on day two of a fragile cease-fire between israel and the militant group hezbollah , israel says hezbollah violated the and lebanon military is accusing israel of the same, israeli officials say several suspects arrived in areas in the southern zone which would breach the agreement. the idf says an open fire towards them and lebanese officials meantime israeli forces repeatedly breached the deal through aerial violations and targeting lebanese territory with various weapons. joining us is matt bradley in beirut and mike in nantucket with president biden. good to have both of you here. matt, what is going on on the ground, is the deal largely

holding? >> reporter: it has been more than 36 hours since the deal came at a place, the guns have mostly fallen silent which is remarkable considering this is more than a year of war, nearly 4000 lebanese people have been killed, the deadliest conflict between the israelis and hezbollah that this country is seen for generations . there has been violations on both sides, accusations by both sides but not clear what is being described is the same incident, whether the israelis fired at people trying to return home. we have been walking around the streets in beirut and it is not as though there is a coordinated effort by the government, which is almost nonexistent in lebanon, to get people back home. the israelis have said they do not want civilians returning to the homes in the far south abutting the border with israel but so little they can do to stop these people who are so desperate, spending several months living with family members, sometimes on the

streets in beirut. it is a sign of the times they are not taking no for an answer. they are going back to their homes, even in the cases where their homes are destroyed. yes, we have seen violations and accusations but for the most part this is what happens with a cease-fire like this and both sides seem to be abiding by the terms. >> correct me if i am wrong, a quarter of the lebanese population fled their homes because of the war. you can understand they're wanting to get back. what are the very real dangers and how many of them will find that the homes they left do not exist anymore? >> reporter: this was the thing we have been seeing in the neighborhood behind the where we are starting to see people going back. we were walking around today, this is a hezbollah stronghold, every third or fourth building was completely leveled or badly damaged. this is a place most people we spoke to said they left, even though they had

lived there for generations, they said they could not take the cost of public of israeli shells and finally left and came back, most of them yesterday, sounds like there is not much evidence of people still coming back, they have already arrived. people were discarding trash out of the windows because the homes had been wrecked by the concussive force of the blast landing all around their homes. there were a lot of places still intact but there are not any services, no electricity, water is questionable, and this is a situation that is still evolving when it comes to people discovering what their new life will be like. like i was saying, these are people who were so desperate to get back to some semblance of normalcy they were willing to risk their lives in order to do it. >> you are in nantucket, mike, where the president is spending the holiday with the family. what are you hearing about this? >> reporter: white house officials are not phased by

these developers, they know, in the early stages of this fragile cease-fire agreement, there will be efforts on both sides to stress test that arrangement. interesting moving forward, one of the key aspects of the cease- fire agreement, this mechanism by which both sides can large accusations of these violations of the cease-fire agreement. will go to this panel that has been arranged. what we are seeing with the cease-fire agreement, they took an arrangement that had been in place the last time there was a cease-fire agreement two decades ago between hezbollah and israel. to try to adapt that and beef it up by including the united states and france as part of the party that would help mediate these allegations of violations. neither side has formally lodged these accusations without proposed panel. president biden has been clear, we heard from him in the rose garden before he came to nantucket, he was support

israel in the right to defend itself should they need . white house officials are closely monitoring the situation but at this point do not fear this agreement is falling apart. >> a legacy question, we were talking about in the last hour, obviously, something joe biden has been working on and his team has been working on tirelessly, to get the hostages in gaza released, how are they feeling about that now? the possibility it could happen in the next 53 days before his term is over? >> reporter: we heard, across the board come in the wake of the cease-fire agreement being announced, they hope this is the building block for further progress with technical and policy reasons to believe that, and the president calls himself the eternal optimist and believed progress yields more progress.

we got a sense of how the president is thinking about this when he stopped at a firehouse on nantucket island and asked what is he thankful for. this was front of mind and you will hear that from a few hours ago from the president. >> thankful, for the grace of god, we will get more progress in the middle east. i am thankful to get the first piece done in lebanon. there is a lot to be thankful for. >> reporter: we heard from national security adviser jake solomon yesterday, that the president was going to be immediately trying to turn that progress with the cease-fire agreement in lebanon to make further progress as it relates to gaza. the hope is that the parameters of the cease-fire agreement include the fact that hezbollah dropped a key demand, to link a cease-fire with a cease-fire in gaza and the view of the administration officials that isolate hamas and the hope is a steppingstone for progress.

there is the possibility, despite the fact president biden has a long-standing relationship with benjamin netanyahu , benjamin netanyahu maybe waiting for a better deal with the support of donald trump. >> thank you both so much, appreciate it. let's talk about what is happening at home, the cold and soggy holiday weather may be impacting thanksgiving travel plans. across the holiday weekend, nearly 80 million travelers going out from home to their holiday destinations and back. a record number according to aaa. how soon you get there or back home again depends on where you live. maggie vespa is in chicago, and michelle grossman, she joins us from the weather center to bring us the very latest. traffic seems to be moving along just fine, i hope you warmed up since we spoke an hour ago.

is it still brutally cold where you are standing? >> reporter: it is still brutally cold and we have only been standing here for three minutes and my face is numb. this is our thanksgiving routine , very clearly, but the traffic is moving beautifully, this is the best day to drive according to aaa. if you waited until today to make your trip, you may have no way of hearing this, but good job according to the experts. 72 million of that record 80 million are expected to meet the roads over the course, between this past tuesday and next monday, the last day where they considered that the thanksgiving week . after today, the worst day to drive according to aaa is sunday between noon and 6:00 especially busy, leave early or late at night. as far as flying , another record-setting year according to tsa and they expect to screen 6% more travelers from last year. these are new records year after year, that is the trend according to the experts. the

best advice they can give is to download the apps from your airline, whether -- weather apps, in chicago, frigid as it may be. >> all the people in the cars behind you have the heaters going but you do not, thank you for coming into the cold for us. so many people who have to get back from where they were going for their turkey dinner, what is the forecast looking like? >> reporter: the big story is the frigidaire, the arctic air coming down from canada, temperatures can, 20, 30 degrees below normal for this time of year. the overall snapshot cross- country, looking pretty good storm wise, quiet in the southwest and west, the northern plains and central plains and southern plains, the east coast where we have problems. we have some clearing

in parts of the east but the northeast, new england, precipitation hanging around and we could see thunderstorms in parts of the gulf coast states in the southeast. traveling on the roadways, looking pretty good. you see all the green, that is where we anticipate smooth sailing. we could see slowdowns in the east, i-80, i-95, rainfall especially in parts of new england, you could see storms in the carolinas with some wet snow possible, some accumulating snow in the northeast. as we widen out, you see where the cold front is, most off the coast in the southern part of this, but, as we zoom in closer, the darker colors, red and orange and yellow, the heavy rain falling. slow going. that is tough on the roadways, it is also windy. blue, light whites, some snow falling. tough travel. we do have winter alerts across

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president-elect donald trump is boasting about a big victory in the standoff with mexico after a phone call with the president, claudia sheinbaum. donald trump says she agreed to , in his words, closing the border to stave off a trade war. but claudia sheinbaum characterized it differently, sank the position from mexico is not to close the border but to do with migrants before they get there, specifically citing caravans. the back-and-forth on the heels of the threat to hit mexico with a 25% tariff from donald trump, a move mexico said would backfire, wiping out 400,000 u.s. jobs and leading his government to impose its own tariffs on american goods . joe biden was asked about it and says he hopes donald trump will reconsider. >> we have an unusual situation , surrounded by the pacific ocean, atlantic ocean, two allies, mexico and canada, the

last thing we need to do is screw up those relationships. >> tyler, with the washington post, dean of the clinton school of public service at the university of arkansas, and msnbc analyst, press secretary for republican speaker john weiner and paul ryan, a political and as for msnbc, sam, managing editor at the bulwark. i am amazed to have a panel like this on a holiday. thank you all and happy thanksgiving . tyler, let me start with the mexican president saying, first of all, the conversation she had with donald trump was excellent, but clearly the two sides have different messages, maybe just for their domestic audiences. what do we know about what is happening? >> this is a throwback to what we saw for four years during his first term in office with foreign leaders try to navigate around him making policy, or

proposing policy through social media and scrambling to figure out what he meant. and trying to cater to his whims. the new mexican president is figuring that out on the fly, so to speak. it is one of those situations where we do not know what was said but donald trump can say he got a victory already, not even taking the oath of office and changing the dynamic of the relationship between the u.s. and mexico. the big question is, what happens when he actually takes office and whether or not he tries to impose these tariffs? this was an effort to scare some of america's allies into getting something that donald trump wanted, how successful that will be we will not know until he is in the oval office. >> he is absolutely right, what happens once he gets into office, the choice for treasury secretary said tariffs can be used as a negotiating tool . do

you think that is what is happening? are we getting an indication from his conversation with the mexican president? or, that he is claiming victory if he decides going through with tariffs is a bad idea , how do you read this? >> it is encouraging, we need to recognize that donald trump seems to believe that tariffs are paid by foreign countries and they are sound policy. at the same time, it is very clear that he is using this for leverage and i am encouraged by that, he makes these threats and feels like he gets something. of course, clearly in dispute what he is getting, but if we know about donald trump, he is happy to greet his own reality. if you say something enough, it becomes true. if you will claim, by threatening tariffs, he got the mexican government to crack down on border

crossings, whether they are capable of that, who knows, but he declares a victory and it works out for him and maybe we can avoid these tariffs. maybe these threats are not necessarily going to come true and that would be a very positive development. >> victoria, the mexican government says the policies have cut encounters on the southern border by 75%. are they already doing what they should and need to be doing? do they have the correct plan in place? is donald trump right to insist mexico should do more? >> let me contextualize this in terms of, we have seen a massive decline in immigration from mexicans themselves, the heyday was from the 1970s to the early 2000, because of economic growth in mexico and a sharp decline in birth rates in mexico, we are not seeing the traditional mexican migration. the people who are crossing our southern border are not necessarily those numbers of

mexican nationals, they are from south america, eastern europe, africa, you name it, but they try to come through mexico and up through our southern border. it is important to realize, for mexico, difficult for them to navigate with this influx of undocumented immigrants coming through their southern border. they have been trying to deal with the situation themselves for 15 years, maybe even close to two decades. it is in the interest of mexico as well, because it is a burden , a tax on mexican nationals themselves. not saying there is zero immigration from mexico proper, but it is a fraction of what we have seen in the historical aspects. it is in the mexican interest to figure out a different strategy. >> i want to play part of what the incoming border czar said about the mas -- mass

deportation plant of the upcoming administration. >> we will tell the mcabee but what we are doing, how we are doing it, we will control the narrative and educate the american people why this is necessary. historic illegal immigration crisis were nine of 10 people enter illegally, simply do not qualify for asylum, there has to be a big deportation operation. >> interesting to hear him say we will control the narrative , arguably, the narrative they put out there was something that landed with a lot of voters. what is your expectations for how this will unfold? sam? >> well, it could be pretty bad. we have already seen confrontations with local mayors, the one in denver, and the incoming donald trump

administration, specifically tom homan, in which tom homan said i am comfortable arresting the mayor of denver if he gets in the way of this movement . if that is controlling the narrative, as he says, that is the narrative they want. i am not sure how it goes to their benefit. that is where we are at. i suspect, in the first couple of weeks, we will see this move rapidly, this is the backbone campaign promise that donald trump was making throughout the election season. it has been a consistent ideological thread throughout his time in political office. this is where many of his top aides, stephen miller among them, has wanted to focus early energy on. i expect early on we will see dramatic action and potentially really violent confrontations. >> when donald trump has talked about day one, a lot of different things, but always the border. always about mass deportation. do you see any world in which

he gets any pushback from within his own party? >> potentially, it depends on how they do it tom homan using narrative is telling , let's remember, when donald trump created a huge mercy for the kids in cages phase, they backed away because it looked really bad. donald trump recognize that and they bent to public opinion which is still going to make a difference. we should appreciate that immigration enforcement is popular. people want there to be greater enforcement over immigration laws and they voted for somebody very clear that he would engage in deportations. at the same time, how you go about that will be significantly important. if they do start trying to find criminals and people who overstayed -- have done things

people can do great this person should not be in the country, they are a danger to the country, that is one thing, if they show up in workplaces and schools, terrorizing communities, that will go differently and donald trump recognizes that and they need to stay on top of it. tom homan and stephen miller want to go crazy, anybody they can find, but donald trump probably recognizes the politics are more delicate and you learn that lesson the hard way in the first term. >> people talked about what he is talking about, i couple weeks ago, in an article you did, instead, voters who like a hypothetical donald trump return may find themselves repulsed when they see it in action. is it exactly the kinds of things he is talking about? >> 100% the distinction between deporting people with criminal records versus going into workplaces and saying, you are here illegally, let's deport you, that is a massive gulf. it goes beyond that, because of

the agricultural sector being affected with goods prices going up, the main thing we talked about in the election was, how much it cost to purchase groceries, to live, and this early effort on deportation is making it worse those are the things voters may say, this is not what we voted for. we have a piece tomorrow that looks into the data from the election and from those -- after people voted, frankly, the number show this was an anti- status quo election, donald trump ran on that and joe biden and commoners did not have the support and trust of voters. what the numbers did not show, overwhelming support for some of these policies. donald trump does need to walk delicately here. >> i only have 30 seconds, victoria, is the real political risk with donald trump with

this? >> the public opinion narrative, violent immigration -- business owners, agricultural leaders, saying, we cannot pick our fields, we cannot manufacture things, if you are doing this mass deportation, the economy cannot keep up. if those two sources, he will get pushback from it. >> thank you. tomorrow is wife anna, what you purchase and what to skip, we have a preview of the best deals. people who were once dismissed as fringe now pushed into the medical mainstream, what the experts are saying about donald trump's health cabinet picks.

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later today, as we finish thanksgiving meals, millions of americans are preparing to look for the best deals on black friday . we have more on what to know. >> reporter: happy thanksgiving . black friday is tomorrow, but before we talk about what will be open and the deals on like friday, let's talk about today with a number of stores that will not be open at all, walmart, target, best buy, costco, to give their associate

a break open places, your local kroger, whole foods, even cvs, will be open if you need one more ingredient. when it comes to black friday, stores that would be closed today will reopen at 6:00 p.m., best buy, target, home depot, lowe's, they will open tomorrow at 6:00 in and some stores at 5:00 a.m., kohl's, jcpenney, pretty decent discount, you talk about air pod pros, we have been tracking a price, prices have not been this low since we have begin tracking prices in july. about $154, tvs and even washers, you may not be

thinking about that but applies with steep discounts, 30% range . experts say, to get something on black friday, you make a good discount but if you hold out until cyber monday for online savings, you may get better deal specific on the categories of electronics and also clothing. a game of chicken, you do not want to wait so long where the stock is not there. if you see something, on the shelf and available, maybe consider purchasing now, especially 20% to 30% range which they say could be the discounts they expect this year on this black friday and cyber monday. happy shopping and happy thanksgiving to you as well. to an nbc news exclusive, comments from robert f kennedy jr., that could reveal more about how he intends to run the department that oversees the

nation's health agencies come in a 2019 speech to a conference for parents with autistic children, he called the center for disease control's vaccine division a fascist enterprise and accused it up knowingly hurting children. >> what it means, the bundle is more important than the sticks. the institution, cdc, vaccine program is more important than the children it is supposed to protect. >> in comments going back to 2013, he says the cdc is with corruption, profiteers, harming children in a way he likened to nazi death camps. we have a for president obama white house contributor, happy

thanksgiving, doctor, what do you make of these comments from rfj jr.? >> happy thanksgiving . these comments are not surprising, he has had comments over decades where he attacks vaccines, inserts misinformation, even misinformation that has since been revoked, disputed, and proven to be false in medical journals and in the press. and continues to propagate them they do not shock me. what is different if he is confirmed, he could potentially have significant authority over those very agencies you are talking about. >> anti-vaccine, a lot of people know that about him, but he is pushing taking for right out of drinking water, and not alone among incoming health officials, at least once we think will come in, some activists say fluoride is the new lead, dental experts say there is a lot of information,

the data that shows fluoride in water is safe and effective. what do you think could happen if fluoride is taken out of drinking water? >> i am very familiar with all of those statements , i know whe they have no fluoride. i came from one of those parts that does not have it, south texas, and i can tell you personally how it affected me when i was growing up because i had dental issues when you don't have the money for the benefit and insurance to get regular dental visits. there is over fluoridation, which is why pediatricians and dentists try to help recommend when and how your children should get fluoride. and why fluoride in the water is not at those levels that we are concerned about. however, again, this gets back to trust, if you are someone who is an official that is a government official, leading an agency, fda, nih, where is the trust when what they are saying

is true and maybe some rare cases but the majority of the public is not true? this leads to, there is no black and white, there is a lot of gray, if you take advantage of that, you spread misinformation, i saw it happen to me, it hurts the people with the least resources. >> donald trump is filling out his entire healthcare team, he has chosen former congressman dave weldon to be head of the cdc, i do not think, until covid , people would not have any idea who the cdc director was. should we be paying closer attention to that? >> we should, i was working for senator ted kennedy when congressman weldon, before he was nominated, he was a doctor and on significant committees in the house, he was clearly

anti-vaccine back then, there is a track record. here is the issue, would you have somebody leading the centers for disease control and prevention, you want to make sure that person is in evidence-based medicine for disease control and prevention, his statements are not consistent with the evidence i am all for admitting we are wrong, i was wrong in early 2000 when we told all woman to get off of estrogen we know that is not true we should admit when we are wrong and we should also have the courage to admit there is fake information being disseminated and it can be deadly when you are in charge of these important agencies. that cover not just the government in the united states but agencies that lead the trends across the world. >> dr. patel, kind of you to be with us. the zone of destruction along the lebanon border with israel, what we have uncovered. e

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three families have a very big reason to be thankful on this holiday, look at this video, it appears to show the moment three wrongfully detained americans are reunited with their loved ones after being released by the chinese government. just to see one person running, unbelievable.

they arrived back in texas late last night after years of negotiations. this morning, joe biden says he has spoken to all three and says he is happy they are home and back with their families. in spite of flareups across several cities, the cease-fire deal between israel and hezbollah is largely holding for now. nbc news investigation reveals, when the israel defense forces invaded southern lebanon in september, it created a zone of destruction despite setting a goal of a limited and localized operation against hezbollah. it destroyed nearly 42% of buildings in the area and forced millions to leave the region. matt bradley has more.

>> reporter: on october 16, israeli forces released dramatic footage from their units detonating explosives in a small village in the southern lebanon. >> [ speaking in a global language ] >> reporter: they are sisters who evacuated at the start of the war. they learned of their hometown's destruction on social media. >> [ speaking in a global language >> reporter: an idf spokesperson told us that the goal has been to dismantle the military capabilities of hezbollah and address the threat hezbollah poses to israeli citizens . they claim to have limited goals for the invasion of southern lebanon but an nbc news investigation found, were israeli troops have been, they have left beyond massive destruction and desolation. the idf occupied towns and

demolished them, creating an uninhabitable zone along the lebanese border with israel. the idf says they were destroying underground tunnels once used by hezbollah. >> [ speaking in a global language ] looked like before. it was home to about 250 people and the site of an agent trying that drew religious pilgrims and visitors. >> [ speaking in a global language ] firing missiles into israel a day after hamas attacked israel on october 7th, 2023. the sisters are among 1.4

million lebanese displaced from their homes in the exchange of fire over the course of the following year. on september 30th 2024, the idf said it would escalate the conflict by invading southern lebanon. at the time it was destroyed, the town, a few miles from the border from israel was empty the town was one of dozens that israeli defense forces were to fully evacuate as it invaded southern lebanon throughout october. the idf captured it and enabled to plant explosives in the town. in this video, israeli soldiers can be seen watching and celebrating the demolition from a safe distance. satellite imagery from before and after the detonation shows little remains of the village. the 2000 year-old shrine of the prophet benjamin was also destroyed.

researchers from city university of new york at the university of oregon are using satellite and radar data to detect damage buildings in lebanon to assess the impact of the conflict. since the start of the conference, they identified over 12,000 destroyed or damaged buildings. nbc news analyze the data with data on idf troop movements and found him in the area they captured along the border, more than 5600 buildings have been damaged or destroyed 42% of all buildings in this area. in many villages, destruction is total. 86% of the buildings in the village have been demolished. satellite images of southern lebanese towns give a bigger picture of how the idf has made

them uninhabitable. this october 5th satellite image shows armored vehicles tracks crossing the border from israel and entering the town of yaroun. they are adjacent to a raised section of the town, and visible signs of bulldozing. by the end of the month, satellite and radar data shows 62% of the town, once home to 2000 people, has been destroyed. nbc verified videos posted to social media of idf demolitions in nearly every town the idf occupied in southern lebanon. this shows the destruction of mosques. large groupings of homes. and entire neighborhoods. this demolition took place in a border village. by early november, 67% of the buildings had been destroyed. influential members of the israeli military and government have advocated for creating a depopulated buffer zone in

southern lebanon with the idea not saying this was the goal of the invasion of lebanon. in this house, storage. helmets. you see the hand grenades. >> reporter: an idf spokesperson said it does not want to cause excessive damage to civilian infrastructure but hezbollah embeds military assets in and beneath civilian areas and cultural sites . some explosive rpgs here. >> reporter: the sisters have learned there is nothing left to return to. >> [ speaking in a global language ]

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