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man, we love this time of year when you all come out and hang with us outside and inside i'm willie along with al, natalie and tamron. your jam. >> haley steinfeld's "love themselves." >> let them love themselves on the plaza. that could be messy. >> the don't do it on the plaza. >> thanksgiving time. >> love each other. >> in the spirit of giving. >> family, giving and other things. >> thanksgiving also means a lot >> yes. >> so we'll talk about the weather and the roads. all those things. we do want to let you know, you know, this is all against the backdrop of what happened in pair as i couple weeks ago. two new warnings this morning, a bulletin issued by the fbi homestand, homeland security and national counterterrorism service warning law enforcement to review procedures for active the new york city police department lately, battening down the hatches and making sure they know what to do in case it happens in another major city. the state department also releasing worldwide travel alert

terror attacks will continue. they say these are all warnings, no specific and credible evidence of attacks at this time but just to keep your eyes out. >> as always. >> makes sense. >> if you see something, say something. >> and speaking of travel, a lot of folks will be traveling in fact almost 47 million of us be traveling this thanksgiving weekend. 89% are going to be driving more that 50 miles from home and 7% flying, and interestingly enough aaa says that between wednesday and sunday more than 41 million people will drive, but if you're traveling the big problems on thursday are going to be chicago, dallas and denier. we're going to look at that in more details coming up. gas gasbuddy.com saying this thanksgiving day gas will be below their 2, between $2. >> that's incredible. >> crazy stuff. so it's going to be kind of interesting to see what happens. i mean -- >> people are driving everywhere.

and through the woods to grandmother's house and we'll look at the interesting stuff as far as weather is concerned. >> thursday, which used to be a dead day as far as traveling, is now just as active as any other spots. traveling? >> no, we've got the parade and then we're just going out to dinner afterwards. not real -- maybe -- maybe doing a turkey on -- on saturday. >> weekend turkey. >> i like that. >> sometimes i just like to call the butterball hotline just to talk to them. >> just for a friend. >> i'm a lonely man and want to talk turkey. how's your beginlets? >> if you don't mind my asking. >> "usa today" says that the butterball talk line up 165% last year with people asking exactly what al wants to know beginlets. >> i say beginlets but i hear >> yeah. >> i still don't know the right

way to say that. >> so the e-mails actually spiked, too, 53%. some of the questions. >> e-mails now. >> yeah. >> have a website. >> up with the imes. >> fuller is skris. >> so the question, what's the difference between fresh and frozen? >> i think we pretty much know that. >> maybe more with cook times, does it vari or not really? >> with frozen. >> if it's frozen it's going to take a very long time. >> but prep, i imagine the brining and all of that maybe. >> got to thaw it out. >> and thaw it in the fridge. >> for like two days. want to know that. remember the year we were here and i cooked thanksgiving dinner and i left the bag inside. >> did you really? >> i bet that's a common mistake. >> and i had -- i went in and i'm like searching for it. i gave it an exam. >> what is it? what did you have, an 80-pound turkey. >> i did. >> how did you not find it.

>> and when i started to carve it politely threw it away without telling my guests. >> the polyurethane tastes fantastic. >> does the bag melt. >> the one hi held up. >> it did. >> and i imagine people have done it so much. >> i was mortified and embarrassed but not enough to share it with my guests. this is my other favorite thing, just quickly, in addition to the butterball. the "new york times" has an app called thanksgiving for all, and they ask you a few questions, how many people are you going to have, how experienced are you as a cook and how many omnivores are your guest and what kind of meals? >> there you go. >> my phone is all dirty. >> it's "new york times." bottom line, once you fill ought of this out. >> it's a questionnaire. >> and then they give you all of these recipes and the turkey and everything, and they base it on how much time, so if you're last minute go to this app and you

recipe if it's thawed super quick. >> i love it. >> the isn't that cool. >> thanksgiving for all. >> "new york times," check it out. >> we love the "new york times" checking section. fantastic. >> second only to "today food." >> unbelievable. >> they are almost like a drill team. >> yeah. >> watch them. >> true. >> they have these drill ma turves, throwing turkeys across each other and in unison. they are unbelievable. >> they should be in the parade really. >> really should. sink nitzed turkey throws. >> after you stuff yourself with the turkey everybody thinks to go to shopping. >> yes. >> for the shopaholics out there this might be a smart thing for you. i know i might need this at some point. if you're reaching for your credit card, take a look at what

>> okay, maybe -- >> put it back, put it back. >> okay. >> that's like the onion. >> who bid on that. >> that's not real. >> it's a voiceover. >> it's a bag that shouts messages. do you really need this. you're already in overdraft. >> that's one of those stories to see if the news media will do it. >> i'm told at at scottish university. >> scottish university. >> and has a cockney accent. >> so here's what i'm telling you, lad. i want all of you to go right now and go to class and i want you to create something that really fool those people at the that's what you do. >> there was a little speaker on the picture and the video was definitely not real. >> looks like a little speaker on the bag right there.

>> that's a credit card. >> no, on the bottom. >> on the bottom left corner. >> whose voice would you want. >> i would want my husband's voice though i already hear my husband's voice in my head, why are you buying another this or that that? is i'd go morgan freeman. voice of authority. tell me to put it away i'll put it away. >> voice of god. >> my friend andy. >> i would think it would have been morgan freeman, someone that can command the shopping stop. you. >> morgan freeman. >> how about gilbert gottfried. >> put that back. what's your problem? hello! stop it! >> because you're dropping. >> do you need that. >> a little jerry lewis. >> that is a little bit. >> nice lady. with the credit card and the thing. i go with jerry lewis now, never mind. >> i think i would go with al roker. >> i think i like that. >> al roker. >> very nice. >> that's amazing. >> any other impersonations you want to do. >> no, i don't think so. >> you're wiped.

>> i'm done, finished. >> it's only 9:08 right now. >> i'm going to go take a nap. >> do you have this weather dress, al. >> i do. >> it's a lifestyle. >> would you get it in pink, green. could. >> apparently this dress was on sale at amazon and a meteorologist in one city shared it with all of her facebook friends, they have a group of weather anchors and meteorologists, and suddenly everyone popped up with the same dress with different colors. it's an adorable dress, got the little darts there so it's figure flagger. >> $30, good deal. >> and all buying them in multiple colors. >> pike in multiple colors. the dress is still available. >> the last picture, all the anchors across america looking beautiful in it and because it's so flattering to the figure anyone can truly -- >> we're going to try this again. >> there you go.

>> i love how they -- >> sound effects, to. >> makes it even more disturbing. >> with the handbag. >> and while you're looking at that picture play that song "love yourself." >> clearly in a thanksgiving mood. >> man. >> wow. >> go ahead, roker. >> that's disturbing. let's look a little more in-depth at your travel troubles for today. so let's start in denver on thanksgiving day. denver is going to be basically a little bit of a problem. light snow, freezing drizzle and delays due to advice ann. dangerous road conditions. now we move down to dallas. dallas only needs three more inches and it will be their rainiest year ever. rain with thunderstorms and delays between the storms and on the road you've got to the worry about gusty wind so high-profile vehicles will have problems and then we move to chicago. snow on the ground. warmer temperatures and rain coming in. so there's a flood threat. so delays due to visibility and the roads will be slick with some flooding, so those are our

three trouble spots on thanksgiving day. that's what's going >> jeremy: good morning. >> good morning. mostly sunny skies, another cold day with the temperatures in the low to mid 40s. the high is 79 this afternoon, boston, nashua, 43. traveling today, mostly sunny skies, dry roads and out of new england, down in the atlantic states. mid 50s. tomorrow, upper 40s. and thanksgiving, a lot of clouds and warmer by thursday. mid 50s. >> i'm glad you enjoyed my walk over here. >> my jacket got caught on my microphone. >> you look good, al roker. coming up, black friday deals filling up your in if you're taking multiple medications, does your mouth often feel dry? a dry mouth can be a side effect of many medications. but it can also lead to tooth

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door busters are crazy and some people have that tradition of going every year. things aren't always as they seem. you can actually get better deals later in the year. >> what are the dream and where are they and what should you count on? >> a lot of the deals are happening -- people are buying electronics and online so the national retail federation came out with a statistic that said 57% of the people have already started their shopping an mostly they are making the payment via mobile payment systems like paypal so you know people are making their shopping trips online. when you're getting things like free shipping, of course, it makes it that much more enticing stay in bed and go shopping on black friday. >> and black friday often extends into cyber monday. >> sure. >> the store credit cards, over 10%, 15% off. >> and if you're a devotee of the store sometimes it can make sense and they are more expensive.

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when the competition first started was almost 23 seconds. we're getting faster and smarter. let's get a check of the weather right now from mr. roker. hey, al. >> some people are. >> i was going to say, not me. all right. thanksgiving day parade. we love this. the parade forecast, 9:00 a.m. let's kick off sunny skies. about 48 degrees. by noorngs look at this, sunny and mild when santa hits the plaza, hits herald square. sunny and mild. 57 degrees. winds will be fairly light, although breezy, up to the southwesterly winds at 15 by the end. now let's take a look at your thanksgiving forecast for wednesday. snow out in the rockies and the cascades. eastern third of the country going to be spectacular. on thanksgiving day this is a trouble spot. snow in denver and icy conditions through the upper mississippi river valley and heavy thunderstorms through texas and then on friday showers into northern nun. also the upper midwest and back down into texas. western third of the country looks spectacular and the

southeast, mid-atlantic states and northeast are >> good morning. mostly sunny skies, another cold day with the temperatures in the low to mid 40s. the normal high is 49 this afternoon, boston, nashua, 43. traveling today, mostly sunny skies, dry roads and out of new england, warm down in the atlantic states. mid 50s. tomorrow, upper 40s. and thanksgiving, a lot of clouds and warmer by thursday. mid 50s. >> and that is your latest wetter. >> we're so exciteded about something? we are. >> get ready for a wild time because big cat week comes roaring back into homes this friday on nat geo wild with the premiere of "cougars undercover" and it kicks off with never before seen footage of some precious wildcats up close and personal in their natural habitat.

>> i -- we were talking doing this cougar session i thought it was your saturday night. >> thank you very much. >> the nate geo wild big cat expert. nice to see you. >> what great work you do, despite our bad jokes around here. we're happy about this segment though. >> this is never before seen. >> this cougar cub does not -- >> that's a tiger. >> well, i heard cougars. >> anyway, tell us about the parenting styles of these guys. >> you know, this is really unique. what the guys on the cougar project have been able to do with the remote cameras is we see personalities that we haven't seen before. got a mom who is strict. she runs these guys down the gauntlet, ant contrast is her sister, who also has kittens, who is the hippie mom. lots of love, everything's good. and that's how they run. just completely different styles. >> so fascinating because we assume we know so much about big cats through research, but they

>> cougars are the ones we think we have figured out and yet we're seeing with these video cameras for the first time behaviors that we've never seen before so that's exciting. >> let bring in this 3-month-old bengal tiger. >> part of this is obviously to preserve and protect in your studies of what we've learned. >> one the things we're working on. this is millie, a bengal tiger. bengal tigers are one that we are really excited about. >> she's had like 12 bottles of milk. >> warm mill blg. >> maybe had some coffee. >> these guys are extremely edge dangered and one of the things of big cat week is awareness, their flights and struggles. >> whoops. >> i have to hold it up. >> keep it up. >> you want some? >> they can get up to be 400, 450 pound and can get really

big. >> this is a 3-month-old tyinger. >> why do you keep going for it? >> i want her to take it. >> different ways to feed them. let's bring the leopard in. thank you very much, millie. >> millie, you fed her too much earlier so she wouldn't take my milk, darn it. >> oh, okay. >> this is a black leopard, 5 months old? what do we need to do. >> we've got handlers. just in that -- you're all right. >> i'm sure i am. >> in that playful teenager stage. >> is that playing? >> that's playing. >> she's excited. >> those are very big claws. >> she also wants something to eat. >> i bet she does. >> we have safari live where people can tune in throughout weekend to a live safari and one of the things we get to see, new to big cat week and see some of these guys actually in the wild and there are black leopards where we're doing the safari. >> she's so powerful and you have this thin little chain. >> spring loaded. >> so bizarre.

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a minty dessert you. >> love the presentation. you have the little glasses. if you have kids around the house, everyone can take their own so they don't feel like they are -- getting the short end of the stick but it's also pretty. >> everyone loves their own little serving and it looks great on the table. >> what are we doing? >> layering it. this is a pudding starting with the pudding and put in the chocolate crumbles. >> any kind of chocolate. >> recipe in my book for chocolate crumble but this is crumbled chocolate cookie and put in a little bit of the whipped cream. >> and you lay it. >> real know wrong way to do it. >> i love that. >> the mint chocolate leads on the top. >> whoopee pies are so popular. they are nostalgic and back in style. >> everyone loves a whoopee pie and these are filled with a delicious cream cheese butter cream frosting and great for when you have way too many people in the kitchen and here's a piping bag, get to work on the whoopee pies.

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track of your plane or say your family member's plane if it's landing soon? >> absolutely. flight aware is my absolute favorite app to do that. plug that in and it will come up on the screen of the right now i'm tracking and can i plug in my flight number and say on 301 i can search that. seat leaves at 12. >> fantastic. >> it gives me my gate and term nal and my favorite part of the app i can track my inbound flight. the inbound flight is essentially your flight still on the air on its way to you. >> right now it's on time. >> wow. >> that's rare, but if it's not on time i can confirm that with the gate agent and be proactive with my time. if i can miss a connecting flight, can i do that and make arrangements before everyone else knows that it's going to be late. maybe i can find a less busy gate and find an outlet with a seat so i'm not sitting on the floor. all of a sudden i'm not tethered to that gate. we would have to ask the gate and hang on every single word when our plane was coming in so i love this app. >> flight aware. sometimes you do end up getting

scramble to find a hotel. what's the best way to do it? >> plan "b." put denver up here. they will be having a big storm. look at prices. this app doesn't give you 15,000 hotel choices, well-vetted hotels that give people up to 30% off the cost of a hotel tonight. also good way to use this, if your thanksgiving turns into an epic family political brawl you're out of here, out of here, uncle earl. >> at dinner. >> all right. sometimes there's the long walk to the gate as well. how do you know if that's your last coffee stop before you get to your gate? >> totally agree. the terminals are epically huge and can never find an airport map when you really need it. gate guru. look at that. tells me all the eateries, shops and services near my gate. can sort it by terminal. >> you can read it by gate. like you say, atms, maybe there is a better cup of coffee closer that.

>> i know? how about traffic. roads. >> ways. >> isn't ways the best. >> what every drive has. love this app, getting from point "a" to point "b." it gives you many different routes. going to portsmouth, new hampshire for my thanksgiving plans, mom, dad, i'll be there in four hours, but also it gives you estimated times of traffic, so if you're in a traffic jam, in the middle of like 99 and you're like when does this end? where -- how long are we going to stay here? estimate. minutes. time. download. also, best laid plans can sometimes lead to total chaos, frustrated. you say you can use social media situation. >> twitter is one of the best travel tools out there. people think it's for celebrities finding out what travel. follow your airlines and follow the hotels and cruise lines, whatever businesses you're going

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