give it a pop. is this is "good day early call". juliet: good morning, happy thanksgiving. we are a couple of hours from the start of the annual macy's thanksgiving day parade. floats are ready to go and sell our new york city's finest. ben: it is also the start of the holiday shopping season. stores are dialling back from opening up on thanksgiving, choosing to stay close. ben: and the woman who left her child outside a church will not be charged. good morning. ben: miss yesterday, allis your

juliet: machine head, one of my metal fans. >> you were tipping me yesterday morning. juliet: times asleep by midnight i think. rosanna: the texting pictures of the ocean. >> meteorologist: that is called gloating. heather: i was pulled over again. i was not driving, i was in a car service. you don't mess around on long beach. >> meteorologist: you took the car service from long beach to here? juliet: i had to go from here to connecticut. i have people leading the year. >> meteorologist: so the car service got it. juliet: i'm lying down in the

going through a red light. when you make terence -- ben: draws a diagram and we will get back to you. >> meteorologist: in the meantime thanksgiving, most folks, nobody is watching right now, leftovers from last night. let's show you what is going on, 43 at central park, not a bad morning out there, 36 new work, 37 in belmar, 23 in sussex, 37 in monticello, temperature changes in the plus category, we are warmer, but the temperature chung, 23 degrees warmer than it was 24 hours ago, 5 degrees warmer in islip, 4 degrees warmer on average of around the tristate region. winds are kind of variable, all over the place jumping 3 to 7 miles per hour so not a lot going on. we are starting with mainly clear skies, nothing really in the area, high pressure in

starts off sure we get more of an onshore flow and therefore potential for more cloud cover out there, maybe a little bit of drizzle and. out to the parade, looks like temperatures start at 43 at 7:00 in the morning and a 51 button:00, starts off at 9:00 and high-temperature to 60 degrees with partly cloudy skies so there is the turkey, the survivor sell far, high-temperature 60, let's see, 64 for a high tomorrow, where is the turkey, let's bring in ines rosales. ines: good morning, let's talk about street cleaning rules, big holidays suspended as well as meters, problems but uncounted, a lot of you are excited. >> meteorologist: one of five times the and meters are suspended. ines: one of the major holidays. tomorrow be careful because it

problems with 684 northbound as you approach route before an accident blocking a lane, things are fine on staten island, no problems on the expressway, a construction wrapping up. let's take a look at the lie and westbound, no issues there, 495 towards the lincoln tunnel doing fine, no issues with holland or george washington bridge and we have a arrayed going on, 34th street, closures are up, next report talk about closures and trains and was scared away are on. ben: speaking of the parade, hello kitty on snoopy, i said a couple of those are a couple years out of date and other balloons are ready to fly. juliet: have no idea who they are. you have to have kids. not those balloons, but i don't even know what they are. we are a couple minutes, a couple hours from the start of the parade, feels like minutes. time flies when you're having

the nypd of course will be out in full force because of the terror threat. no credible threat as we heard the president say that bill deblasio was on yesterday. ben: there could be 3 million people along the parade route because the weather will be so nice. here's liz dahlem. >> giant balloons are ready to fly high in the sky for the 89annual macy's thanksgiving day parade. six balloons will make their debut bringing the number of giant characters to 17. they range from popular movie stars like snood be to characters from angry birds, floats and dances on the parade route which starts at 77th street in central park west, cut across 59th street, goes down 6 avenue and ends at macy's herald square where the stage is set and the excitement is building. >> spongebob. kool-aid. >> reporter: even with the

holidays cheer there are some safety concerns due to recent terror freds, heavily armed nypd officers will be along the parade route. the mayor says the city is ready. >> this is the best prepared city handle any kind of situation. this is a place where tremendous resources are expended. to prevent any such acts. >> reporter: new yorkers and tourists alike are not letting potential threats ruin their holiday traditions. >> we need to support our city and don't need to stay home and wait for things to happen. >> this is one of the safest places in america and you got to live like, you can't live in fear. >> reporter: liz dahlem, "good day new york". >> thanks giving marks the beginning of the holiday season and shopping has already begun including by me. >> are you shopping for us? juliet: i am shopping for myself. ben: you are supposed to shop for at others. stacy chose those retailers

to their stores with better deals. >> 135 million people are expected to shop this holiday weekend and there will be plenty of opportunity to spend with door buster deals starting earlier than ever at some stores. once again wal-mart, target, best buy and macy's are among those opening their doors before you have a chance to digest that pumpkin pot. other retailers have taken a markedly different approach for going so-called gray thursday. >> bring back the holidays with t j max and home goods. >> reporter: the take back thanksgiving movement picked up steam among a number of retailers. response to consumer backlash and petitions to boycott those stores to do open thursday but retail analysts say one stores open their physical locations is becoming less and less important as more people click to purchase online. >> more people are shopping online than ever before so you won't see the frenzy in the stores we might have seen even a couple years ago.

urge to shop its, here are a few details you'll find online and in stores, target is giving gift cards with the purchase of an apple watch. best buy is discounting i and my $125 and old navy and the gap are offering 50% of everything. in new jersey, the day new york. ben: the big story yesterday the mother who left her hours old baby at a church in queens will not be charged. juliet: she is seen in surveillance video buying that hole in, the dea said the mother followed the spirit of the safe-haven law and returned to the church the next morning to make sure her baby had been found. a custodian discovered the baby boy in a nativity scene with the umbilical cord still attached. on monday he is doing well, he is in the care of authorities. in the water pressure gradually restored this holiday morning in

four days after water main break flooded the streets there. crews completed the installation of a new 36 inch doll yesterday. a boil water advisory has been lifted in time to get that thanksgiving dinner going. residents cecil asking to boil water so adequate water pressure can be maintained throughout the water system. juliet: still ahead on "good day early call" on thanksgiving morning, really early morning, mike has a check of your holiday forecast, everyone starting to get ready. live shot from downtown. they are rehearsing. ben: shocking news from frank gifford. we will tell you what they are

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a few folks are freezing, mainly to the northwest, 23 in sussex, 30 in allentown, 26 at poughkeepsie, another attorney in monticello. here's how much we warmed up from yesterday, 43. jumps in texas, 43 in belmar, 5 degrees warmer in texa montauk, that is the warm-up spot overall. as far as winds go there light and vulnerable 3 to 6 miles per hour and doesn't look like much going on with sky coverage, a few clouds here and there, we expect eventually more onshore flow and more clouds will come back to the tristate but for the time being no arguments out there, we are waiting to see more sunshine for the early part of the day, maybe more clouds building later on. we have a lot of messy weather but not in the tristate, along this cold front low pressure up over wisconsin, great lakes drags down toward the southern rockies and there will be

showers popping up along that front, meanwhile rainfall but some snow on the backside as he head into the northern plains and back into the mountains around rockies but for us, we have a lot of nothing going on. look at this future cast, doesn't bring much, not as much cloud cover building in but there will be some tonight into tomorrow, it looks like it could start of cloudy but that a mixed bag of the day and a friend rise through there, showers we're talking about early saturday not a big deal but a little bit of what weather comes through. son and clouds out there, more sun in the morning, high temperatures hit 60, 64 is your high tomorrow the month 53 saturday with showers coming on by, dry out for a couple days. let's bring in ines rosales and see what is going on, the thanksgiving commute obviously on holiday. >> meteorologist: westchester doing fine, sawmill, bronx river parkway looks good, new jersey looking good, woodbridge area on

the parkway and the turnpike, let's take a look at sixth avenue over by rockefeller center very quiet, not a lot of people out there and this request 11, closure where the parade forms over by 82 bent central park west and 34th street harold's where. those are street closures posted as the morning progresses, as far as rains here is what the schedule, extra service will be provided to and from the parade, metro-north on holiday as the the, long island railroad, has trains on a saturday schedule, subways on sunday schedule, staten island railway on saturday schedule. in case you missed it street cleaning rules and meters are suspended. >> three month after he died frank gifford's family revealed he suffered from a degenerative brain disease linked to precautions. juliet: more on how they found out.

>> reporter: signs of a dramatic bid janitor brain disease was discovered following his death furthering pressure on a lucrative nfl to take steps to protect its players and for the solidifying emerging studies linking brain injury to the sport. >> football is not a kind or forgiving sport for the brain. >> reporter: neurologist debbie is referring to hits like isn't given sustained for which the new york giants was hospitalized for ten days and sidelined for a year and a half, the average white male in the u.s. lives to 78 like expectancy of a professional football players in the late 50s according to studies. gifford died of natural causes in august at the age of 84. the out of both statistics become a broadcaster after his career on the field, the family indicating a toll was taken by this board. >> you use the head of the weapon and when we do we create damage within the skull because the brain which is rather soft moves within the skull pan

>> reporter: leading to symptoms including memory loss, depression and dementia. the nfl commissioner releasing respond on devastating he is already acting to improve the safety of the game, quote, the nfl has made numerous rule changes to the game to enhance player held and safety at all levels of football including 39 will changes and better training and practice protocols yielding measurable results. the new york giants also responding to the revelations they we all miss frank did the supporting the decision to contribute to the discussion and research of an issue we take very seriously. experts tell us of the professional athletes whose brains or studied after their passing 96% of them had c t e. there's no treatment, their only weapon against it is prevention. ben: the decision will come soon in a fight between new york and two daily fantasy sports companies. eric schneider is a man trying to ban draft kings and handle

from operating in the empire state after declaring them illegal gambling operations. the state to bring court judge in manhattan yesterday had two hours of arguments with the company says the games are not gambling buck contests of skill. juliet: you have to have a little skill. ben: billions of dollars at stake, including our parent company, twenty-first century fox invented in the fantasy sports industry, fox owns a stake, 15% in draft kings. >> reporter: the federal corruption trial of sheldon silver taking a break for the holiday, jury deliberations will resume on monday. jurors have worked through the morning yesterday before returning to long weekend, tuesday one juror where wrote a note to the judge claiming she was being bullied by the insurers, adults, love it. the judge denied a request by that juror to me privately. prosecutors accused the former speaker of the state assembly, powerful position, accused him

in kickbacks in exchange for political favors. the defense says silver did not commit a crime. president obama and his daughters take part in the annual turkey pot in but were the girls able to keep things in check this year? ben: "good day early call"

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ben: there will be a lot of food coming in. there will be food where you're going. >> i'm not going to eat the food. i'm going to the mission. i will not be eating the food. is there for the. ben: duke and show them how to bake your biscuits. juliet: i would be happy to do that. just get out the pillsbury dough stick. juliet: it was a year ago today. ben: you baking them again to do? juliet: you didn't appreciate it last time. they were fantastic and

authentic. >> everything scamming, everyone. maybe that is who is up right now, folks getting thanksgiving dinner prepared. ben: that will be a dry turkey. >> meteorologist: kris cox, 43 at central park, winds not doing much, most places calm if you do have wind it is a light and variable wind. let's check of the temperatures we have, let's head into long island, stony brook at 32, rockaway as 36, 35 in bridgeport, glen cove at 41, three at center part, mainly clear skies, some of us have cloud cover but not much of any consequence, we start with a lot of sunshine so folks heading out to see the parade hopefully keep it nice and sunny, a temperatures cool today, we appreciate that because we had some cold days out there. any changes coming up? yes but the front that will come through the area, this is it,

doesn't look impressive but there will be some showers along the front of boundary, the cold front that runs basically from minnesota down into wisconsin and stretching to the deep south will swing through here but it will take a couple days to get here and by the time it gets here doesn't have a lot to it. today into janeiro, clear skies, clouds make a come back tonight into tomorrow, you might get some drizzle from tonight into tomorrow but doesn't look like much happening here, building in a few more clouds, cold front coming through saturday morning, looks like a few showers in and out fairly quickly and that is it. there is, thanksgiving day parade forecast. very cute. that is what i am talking about, temperatures 51 by 10:00 a.m. and a high of 60 later on but looking good for the forecast,

next seven days of high of 64 tomorrow. this should be -- i don't know what that does. that is what he did. more rain coming through. what did you almost do? >> meteorologist: she has -- juliet: just don't. avoid that at all costs. go ahead. don't say it. i think -- let's get to sports. a lot of locals in action last night. let's start with basketball. ben: clanton will hit the jumper here.

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