happy thanksgiving, family, mobile three is live on the parkway where it is just about 90 minutes, the the parade will kick off. the weather, very, very nice. once again happy thanksgiving everyone it is thursday november 27th i'm ukee washington. i'm nicole brewer in forker contact lets check with your holiday forecast, ukee, you said it, looking nice out there we are thankful it is looking great. >> in kidding. we had just an entire day's worth of an event yesterday that was rain, snow, slush, and messy stuff out there. and we can expect to see a little bit more sunlight out there then what we saw yesterday. lets take a look outside where we actually saw a a little bit of light snow on the roosevelt boulevard in northeast philadelphia this morning. so what is going on here?

it was really just because we had left over moisture and instability to work w i don't want to you worry that the storm has not retreated yet. if you went to bed and maybe you woke up and aid what the heck is going on here? it is all starting to clear out of here. we will go outside and see is what left behind in the light of day in the pleasant val any broadheadsville. we are at 32 degrees there. it is chilly enough that any of the slush, maybe left on the untreated roadways could be slick out there. that is not just for poconos and northern suburbs, really anywhere. lets go out to storm scan three next and that was the snow, we showed you video overnight and now that the unis is up that is starting to fizzle away. granted you will not see too much sunlight out there but you will be dry. for the most part. here's how we did in other choice locations mount pocono pick up 8 inches. new tripoli pick up half foot. new castle it was way less because we had rain/snow line so close by.

it could not accumulate as easily. meanwhile we have a parade coming up here. we can expect to see sunlight, more than anything some clouds, but it will be chilly thankfully not as windy either. all things considered it is a a pretty good forecast for a parade, guys, back over to you. >> well, south philadelphia bakery is cooking up a thanksgiving tradition. >> they have fired up their classic brick oven not for bread but for turkies. "eyewitness news" reporter jane carabao is live at cacia's bakery where people have been lining up all morning long, good morning. >> reporter: nicole and ukee, good morning. happy thanksgiving. take a look at what we have, it is quieter now that we are later in the morning. you know what we have passed the 100 mark, 100 turkey mark and they are all on the floor right there ready to go into that famous brick oven. the only stipules is, of course you guys, these guys have ton defrost ted and season them yourself, you have

to stuff them. you have to pluck them. they do all of the hard work. they go in the brick oven and they will get good flavors. sit back and come back right around noon or 1:00 depending on how big the birdies, pick it up, $18 no worries. they do all of the work for you. we have a couple of the last people here, but if we can get in and talk to danielle real quick she has been really talkative, danielle, get over here. i'm putting her on the spot. how are you doing. it looks like we are getting winding down. >> we are at 107 right now. >> 107. >> is that more than you usually get. >> we get 125, so we will expect a couple more stragglers coming in people that forgot to set our alarm like our good michael over here. >> the phone has been ringing off the hook this morning. >> owe for the first time in 60 years cacia's bakery from a man wanted to make us his

turkey dead. >> he had a live turkey. >> he asked for sam and said somebody told me to talk to sam. he will kill my turkey. >> sam will do a lot of things to get these bird back to the table. >> and he just called back and said he was getting ready to shave turkey and get it ready for to us cook. as long as your turkey is dead and get a pan we will cook it for you. >> you guys where to put it in the oven and then you will come back . thanks, tan yell. so much. they have been busy all morning long. we have a lot here to do. we will continue to follow throughout the the morning. nicole and ukee, now back to you. >> wow. >> good to know, jan. >> talk to you soon. also this morning dozens of inflatable characters, some standing five stories tall blown up and ready to sore in this years macy's thanksgiving day parade. >> cbs correspondent don champion joins us live from new york city here with the preview this morning with the high flying acts, good

morning, don. >> reporter: happy thanksgiving ukee and nicole. this area is buzzing with activity over my shoulder, fans and marchers are getting into place, parade starts at nine and promises to be a great one. the the stars of the show are blown up and ready to go. >> this is order of the parade. >> reporter: eighty-eighth annual macy's thanksgiving day parade will usher in the holiday season today. >> i love balloons. >> reporter: five-year old justin watch balloons get inflated last night. the tradition is almost as possible as the main event. this year 49 giants and novelty balloons will fly over parade among new ones friendly locomotive, thomas the tank engine. >> i like all of the balloons. they are so awesome. i like snoopy the best. >> reporter: parade route is two and a half miles long. organizers say three abe a half million people will be here to see it all in person.

rain and snow dogged the new york city area wednesday but weather is expect to cooperate today. 50 million people are expect to watch the parade on tell vision. this will be a special take for some hometown heroes from philly, after their remarkable run in the little league world series, members of the taney dragons will help lead procession of the parade and joined by executive producer of the parade, what an honor that will be. that is latest from here in new york city, back to you ukee and nicole. >> great day, don, thanks very much. hey, another thanksgiving tradition got underway this morning. k-mart opened up to doors for customers looking to get a head start on the holiday hopping. give you a a live look inside the k-mart from the shopping cart on the roosevelt boulevard in northeast philadelphia they will open for business about an hour ago, at 6:00 a.m. and will remain opened for 42 straight hours. in addition radio shack is opening up early this thanksgiving. first time ever doors opened up at 8:00 a.m.

ready to shop after dinner best buy and to us are us open up at 5:00 p.m. tonight. for those looking for a yum seven on the black friday sales, wal-mart, target, kohl's, macy's are all opened starting at 6:00 p.m. tonight. shoppers map out their route spectators find their spot on another route for thanksgiving day parade. "eyewitness news" is live in center city philadelphia. at 8:30 these balloons, floats, marching band from all over the country will make their way through the city. late breaking news just in "eyewitness news" confirms my little pony balloon is having some inflation problems. it is out of the parade. that is very sad. >> we had to report that for you no fear we understand a a humpty dumpty balloon is filling the hassing. >> my man coming through. >> little more information, parade starts at 20th and jfk boulevard and makes a left at 16th treat where it turns on to the ben franklin parkway

from there and makes its way down to the parkway and eventually to the art museum. >> fun day. >> we want to know what you are thankful for, send your photos via facebook or twitter. use the hash tag cbs-3. you might see your photos on "eyewitness news". we will share them with the entire area. protesters in ferguson missouri continue to demand justice after grand jury chose not to indict a police office are in the teenager's shooting death. buts susan mcginn essay crowds are getting smaller and growing more peaceful with each passing day. >> reporter: as mens of the national guard secured the ferguson police department with weapons a at their sides, crowds of protesters braved the snow armed with signs and flags in honor of michael brown. others marched down the street creating traffic disruptions, but the scene was a far cry from the destruction and chaos of the first two nights after grand jury decided not indict ferguson police officer darren

wilson in brown's death. >> at the same time rioting and looting is a necessary evil. it has brought awareness and attention. >> reporter: here in ferguson demonstrations were mostly peaceful with only small protests and police and national guard prevented major flare-ups but demonstrations continue to spill over in other cities. in oakland california protesters ran through the streets and smash windows last night. people laid in the streets in los angeles and office's rested protesters who refused to disperse. >> one of us has within harmed and therefore all of us has been harmed. >> reporter: back in ferguson some are giving thanks to sit waysness their community is more peaceful. frank will be ertz came from new york giving up his thanksgiving to support ferguson and the brown family. >> we are sacrificing. today is a tribute to them. i see all young protesters down here today. >> many say they will be here as long as it takes to get justice. susan mcginnes for "eyewitness news" on the cw philly. disappearance of the with man in northampton county

takes a disturbing turn as police revealed new details and file murder charges against her stepfather. gregory graf killed three three-year old jessica padgett a wife and mother of three. she disappeared friday on her lunch break at a day care center. officials described what happened just ten minutes after she went missing. >> he did admit that he intentionally and knowingly caused the death of the victim at his home. he related he utilized a firearm to cause the victim's death and that he then took the victim's body and disposed of it on his property. >> investigators continued to look in the sexual mote any of this case, graf could face death penalty if evidence shows padgett was assaulted. family tragedy claims another life in new jersey, last remaining victim of murder/suicide in tabernacle died wednesday at cooper university hospital. investigators say 11 year-old, and, and, mothers and, and,

that is just before she shot and killed herself inside her home on november 20th. it is 7:11. vaccine for deadly ebola virus could be on the way, we will have the latest in the morning's healthwatch. also a ahead are you ready for on football, eagles/cowboys on this thanksgiving day. sports director beasley reese has a preview of today's huge game in dallas. then more trouble for bill cosby why he is making a deal with a major super marketet tabloid, we will have the details.

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and raping them. cosby settled a civil lawsuit with one woman in 2006. well, there is a lot more than just bragging rights on the line today when eagles take on the cowboys in dallas. the winner takes over first place in the nfc east. sports director beasley reese looks at cowboys offensive weapons that will keep the birds very bus think afternoon good casual football fan will marvel at dallas offensive weapons. it is their offensive line that unit is unit eagles must defeat on this game. running back dimarco murray, receiver dez bryant, jason witten cannot do a lot of damage if tony romo is lying on the ground with the eagle draped over him. murray and witten can punch a defense but dez bryant is instant death if romo has too much time in the pocket. >> their offensive line is playing at a really high level right now. they do a great job of giving him an opportunity especially that last touchdown pass to

bryant. i don't know exact time but he was back there for a while. it says a lot to what they can do along were being a real good group that can block the run. >> that is it for sports i'm beasley reese for "eyewitness sports". birds need another big game from lesean mccoy. coming up we will talk turning which shady and see what the typical thanksgiving is like in his home. 7:15. here's katie. >> good thing that we have you, and nicole, guys to make sure we are not deprived of our turkey puns. >> we have your punkinpie, don't worry. >> i love about you guys, yes. >> despite erika's object sense, none of us will go without, thank goodness. that is what i'm thankful for. >> go girl. >> lets go ahead and take a look here, talking turkey with forecast too we have residual to moisture to work with. what you fine with big storms on the back side cold air wraps in and you can see residual unsettled weather in the way of what we had here which is a few light snow

showers. also light rain showers where it is too warm for anything but in virginia as well as in north carolina meanwhile nice wide zoom we have high pressure taking the lead back. so we will end up with quiet weather over the course of not just today and tomorrow but also in the upcoming weekend too. so next four days are looking good and our thanksgiving turkey could not be happier. he will continue his dance until we say he should stop. meanwhile we are expect ago this daytime high to hit 40 degrees in philadelphia today. we will in the get better than that anywhere else and even tomorrow we will struggle to break out of the 30's here. cold day for shoppers. i'm sure that will not stop you. lets take a look ahead to saturday where we have a disturbance that doesn't have an easy time doing. that we will see a few more clouds saturday. airport delays are virtually non-existent. we are looking good here across all of the major hubs if you are one of the people that perhaps waited out for that storm to pass through. it was a good move.

now taking off this morning no worries we are okay across the map. meanwhile back here at home it is still chilly. we are marginal will with freezing. if there is slush left over the roadways maybe it was untreated surface, sidewalks, taking dog for a walk. watch it, it could be slick. that is it at this point. everybody else here in the northe east is stuck in the same boat. we are going to keep that chill in time for black friday tomorrow. throughout the course of the whole day we will not break out of those 30's. even if you are an early shoppers or one of the latest shoppers everybody is basically in the 30's for the licensing hall here. by saturday even despite the fact that we will keep some unis it is still below average. daytime high just 43. that is ten below the the normal, nicole, back to you. on the healthwatch this thanksgiving morning go ahead and have that extra cup of coffee why not, right. researchers from europe say drinking three to five cups of coffee a day may protect awe begins alzheimer's disease.

researchers say certain compound in coffee could cut risk of alzheimer's by 20 percent. alzheimer's effects 26 million people worldwide. other researchers are working on an ebola vaccine, national institutes of health say an experimental one seems to meet important criteria. it is safely and effectively triggered an immune response in volunteers. clinical study will be done in west africa where it has killed more than 5,000 people, ukee. there is a world of magic and princess but one family is saying disney characters don't represent their child, up next, go along as they deliver a princess petition filled with thousands of signatures to disney. here's what is coming up tonight the on the cw philly.

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philadelphia. several stores are opened this thanksgiving day ahead of tomorrow's traditional start of the holiday shopping season. take a look at the seating area at nation's oldest thanksgiving day parade. we are looking live, parade steps off from 16th and jfk boulevard at 8:30 this morning just over an her from now and wraps up a at art museum with the arrival of my man man, santa claus. >> that time of the year again. >> it is. >> hey, a california family is calling on disney to change animated films and add more characters with disability. >> chris tear layser from our sister station in los angeles reports that the family took their request all the way to disney headquarters. >> reporter: one after another, a bay a area family handed over books filled with signatures, at disney studios in burbank. >> i want people to know how amazing children with down syndrome are. >> reporter: captain and her partner andrea started an on line petition to encourage disney to create characters with disabilities in its animated films.

>> we put petition up and we had a thousand signatures in an hour. then we decided we will try for 10,000 signatures, and we had that in five days. >> reporter: petition now has more than 75,000 signatures. the movement was inspired by their 16 month-old daughter delaney on has down syndrome. earlier this year family says delaney was watching a disney move which her older sister jewel whose started crying telling her mom delaney could never than a princess. >> jewels told me mom, she can't because there are no princesses with down syndrome. >> reporter: do you want to see characters like your sister in the movies. >> yes. >> reporter: why is that. >> because i love my baby sister. >> reporter: disney responded in an e-mail to the family. it reads in part the disney brand has always been inclusive, with store that is reflect acceptance and tolerance and celebrate the differences, that make our characters uniquely wonderful in their own way. but the the e-mail stops short of a commitment to creating characters with disabilities.

>> kid will be familiar and they won't be afraid and discrimination will not exist in their heart. >> reporter: in burbank i'm christine laser. >> thank you christine. >> what do you think? should disney incorporate more characters with disabilities. >> send us your thoughts using the hash tag cbs-3 morning. >> she looked like a little princess. 7:24. couple turkies will gobble on. >> yes, they have been spared from the carving knife thanks to the presidential pardon. this is very official business. president obama spared mack and cheese in a ceremony a at the the white house. i'm not sparing mack and cheese on my table this afternoon. but lucky birds now get to avoid the of even and live out their lives on the virginia farm. doesn't that sound nice. president george hw bush started annual thanksgiving day turkies back in 1989. lucky bird. >> lucky birds indeed. this morning a new jersey eateries readies to feed those less fortunate this holiday. venice eateries in pitman prepped their kitchens for 3,000 meals.

over 100 volunteers will package and deliver turkies, stuffing, vegetables for people from camden to atlantic city. now in the sixth year meals will bring special meaning to venice's owner. >> so rewarding, you know, you will see tears, you hear thanks over and over you get card in the mail. peel tell me they are were rolling pennies they cannot believe that we're doing this. it is, we're blessed. >> preparations get underway in about an hour, just in time for those meals to make it to

good morning, that happy thanksgiving. i'm ukee washington. lets check with katie for your holiday forecast. >> happy thanksgiving, everybody. we are expect to go see very quiet, very tranquil weather unfold, for today, for tomorrow, for the weekend and we will see how long this will last us here in the seven day but now that our major storm system is long gone, we have a chance to clear out. granted we have some cloud cover out there. that is where you'll fine here today but notice even in the last three hour loop of storm scan three there was some lingering light snow. i had questions on twitter bit. it is just left overs, guys. all it is is residual moisture. storm is long gone and now that little pocket of light snow is has been fizzled we are looking good here. mainly cloudy skies and

chilly. we are hitting 4 degrees. that is still about 12 degrees below seasonal average but we will take it. couple clouds here tonight as skies begin to gradually clear, high pressure regains control, calm and cold and we will drop down below freezing. over course of the next several days no major storms. so that is something to be thankful for. sunday we can expect some sunshine. by sunday we are more seasonal with the temperatures. it does stay chilly looking to monday, another mild day that is our next chance for showers. ukee, back to you. katie, thank you. next update 7:55. up next on cbs this morning, inside a unique fundraiser in colorado. for more local news weather traffic and sports we are on i sasaw a commercial that said you can save $500 by switching to progressive. that was me, mom. [ laugh ] i thought you said, "that was me, mom." [ laughter ]

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and happy thanksgiving to you to, and now we are talking about a south philadelphia tradition that has spanned over 60 years. >> drop off your turkey and cacia's will hook it up for you. simple as that. that is where we will fine "eyewitness news" reporter jan

carabao. happy thanksgiving, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, nicole and ukee, happy thanksgiving to you as well. we have packed, this place, in here, sam cacia a joining us just to tell us about how it went this morning. all these turkies are tagged, ready to go in the oven. that is next step you are taking us on right now. >> we're all ready, another ten or 15 minutes we will put all these turkies in the oven and then we will have some downtime after that. the hard part getting them all together and ready and that parties all pretty much done. we're pretty much maxed out. i see, 127 turkies here so far. so, like a major part of it is through right now. i was saying earlier i got to grow a couple more eyes behind me head because i have so many thingsing on at once, i'm trying to tag turkies, tell them where they got to go, watch people in the store buying their bread for

thanksgiving, make sure everything is, all these things going on around me i got to make sure everything is right. >> reporter: this is first time we have been able to speak to you since you you started at 5:30 because you have been every where the whole time. >> i haven't stopped. >> one year you reached 130, 135 that was max. >> i can probably take a few more. it depend on how much i get is how tight i have to put them in here. >> that i imagine is a tough job getting turkies in and out because that oven goes deep and you use these long, paddles to get in and out. >> about 25-foot long and you just got to take your time and go slow because turkies are heavy and you have to just place them in the spot where you want them, it takes experience to get it off the shelf exactly where you want it. >> i think your son said he usually comes a was i with a couple burns on his arm. >> when you are taking them in and out and taking the tin foil off the steam usually gets you when you release the

tin foil the steam comes out from under the pab and it usually gets you. you have to be careful. >> reporter: what i think is cool right above the after even, that 1944. >> yes. >> talk about the significance of that. >> that is when the the oven was built by a company called r robson, which they are out of business because nobody build an oven like this anymore. my grandfather bought bakery in 1953 from a guy who had two sons that they didn't want to learn how to bake. he was here by himself. he was well, i'm in the doing this anymore. my opposite don't want to bake i will sell the bakery. he sold to it my grandfather and that was 61 years ago and we have been making a go ever since. >> reporter: what made you want to start tell people to bring your turkey here and what started that. >> my grandfather told my father if you want to make some extra money, just tell people you'll cook their turkey for thanksgiving.

that is all started. >> reporter: it work out. thanks, sam so much. he has been so busy throughout the morning i was able to grab him. he really wants a break but i said, no live interview time. thanks sam, so much. they have been opened since 5:30. they usually don't let folks in here until 6:00 o'clock. but they said come on in and we will get you set up the rest of the day. nicole and ukee, back to you. >> thank sam and his family for allowing to us come in year after year. >> tell them i said hello because i spent many a year wearing that turkey hat, jan and spending my morning with the cacia's. >> yes, you did. >> i will, nicole and ukee. we will want to know what you are thankful for. even your photos via facebook and twitter. you might see your photos right here on "eyewitness news". we've got about an hour to go at 8:30 95th annual thanksgiving day parade gets underway here at south philadelphia. "eyewitness news" live where floats and balloons are at the

ready marching band from all a across the country are also prepared to step off and who can forget saint nick's, and ready to ride his sly into town. the parade starts at 20th and jfk boulevard and makes a left at 16th street where it turns on ben franklin parkway. from there thousands watched as it makes its way to the art museum. so when are looking for last minute recipes or thanksgiving shopping deals head to our web site at cbs philly.com. we have parade route, all things thanksgiving. it is a complete guy right on our home page. right now, though it is gist past 7:33. let lookat the forecast. >> the forecast is very quiet for us at this point. even earlier this morning there was residual very light snow falling which we will show you in a second. i want to take you outside first and foremost and show you view from the live neighborhood network. how picturesque is this outside kutztown area middle school, and it is a soccer field and everything is just, blanketed right now.

31 degrees. a very light win. virtually non-existent in kutztown right now. you can see in the last few hours we have had a quick round of light snow out there, and thankfully underway but dit provide me a wintry atmosphere. certainly for any of the last minute commuters maybe that were heading up for the last minute here on thanksgiving for the holiday. you might still have a a few left over slushy roads or maybe even some frozen patches here because our temperatures are so marginal. just keep that in mind. overall we're done with the storm. we can move on and expect to see pretty quiet, pleasant weather for the next four days, back to you. in other news, several demonstrators stormed city hall in st. louis during a protest over the ferguson grand jury decision. a few dozen protesters made it in the building yesterday while shouting shame, shame. police lock it down and called in more than 100 officers to control the crowd. two people were arrested.

we are hearing from the mother of michael brown, grand juries decided nod to indict ferguson officer darren wilson in her son's death. >> it felt like i had been shot like you shoot me now, just no respect, no sympathy, nothing. so my emotions were raging. i had to go around to let them know you just really don't care, do you. >> that grand jury decision sparked two days of unrest in ferguson and several hundred other protests nationwide. the man at the center of that fire storm officer darren wilson has been in talks to lead the police department. his lawyer told cnn quote it is not a question of if but it is a question of when. right now wilson is on paid administrative leave and he reportedly told associates he would resign as a way to ease pressure and also protect his fellow officers. surveillance video captures the final in minutes of the 12 year-old boy's life

right before cleveland police shot and killed him, if this video jameer rice was seen waving his toy bee-bee gun around a city park. after 911 calls police kara arrived and pulled up in front of rice. two officers get out of the car and within moments shoot and>kill him . police say rice was told three times to raise his hand. time is now 7:37. we are talking turning toy day, looking for last minute advice we've got some 3t's, right. to necessity before you start cooking. >> get your pens ready. >> and for black friday you can score big deals today, which items will be in h high demand this holiday season. we will be righ

>>remember when black friday was a big kick off to the holiday shopping season? well accounts with more and more stores opening up on thanksgiving it is more like a midpoint. three on your side consumer reporter jim donovan explains

what you need to know before heading to the mall. >> reporter: black friday will be a big deal, in many stores. >> we will go through some rigorous training with our employees, we practice, make sure they understand where the line will go for the cuss mers. >> reporter: estimated 25 million americans won't wait for friday, they will be shopping on thanksgiving day. >> millennials love the idea of shopping on thanksgiving day night. they can leave their parents, they can ditch pumpkin pie, escape doing dishes abe head out with their friend to go see what kind of deals retailers are offering. >> reporter: most wal-mart stores will be opened all day with the best deals rolling out between 6:00 and 8:00 p.m. best buy and jc penny open up at 5:00 with target, kohl's, sears opening up at 6:00. many malls opening autopsy the 56:00, cherry hill, moorestown, king of prussia, lehigh valley, montgomery, oxford valley, quakerbridge and christian a high end sports gear is popular this year. >> trend we have found premium

din em where people are willing to pay 150, $200 for designer jeans. we have seen that trend in yoga a pants. >> reporter: warm weather in october hurt fall apparel sales so expect deals as stores try to move merchandise but may be tough to find a mark down on portable exercise monitoring equipment like fit bit. many now linked directly to a smart phone. >> it will be your normal every day normal every day exercise customer as well as someone who is extremely into triathlons. >> reporter: particularly hot anything related to the disney hit movie frozen. reporting for three on your side, i'm jim ton van. all right. happening today holiday spirit is as close as philadelphia's love park. it is now transformed into christmas village. but sneak preview starts at 9:00 as holiday jams concert there at noon tomorrow and the official opening is saturday morning. christmas village anticipate more than a half million visitors between now and december 28th.

>> sweet holiday jams. >> yes. >> how bit. >> holiday lights are starting to go up. we want to sees pictures of your holiday display. send us your hash tag, at cbs-3 with your holiday lights or go to cbs philly.com to share them with you. we may go live from your home. very nice. you didn't know i played the harp or guitar on that. >> they do call you ukeelee washington. >> yes, they do. >> there is some musical talent in. >> hey, if you are having trouble cooking that turkey today help is a phone call away. >> yep, the butter ball turkey talk line will field thousands of calls this holiday season. i spoke with talk line expert and chef anthony sita from the talk line headquarters in illinois. take a listen. >> good morning, anthony. you have your hand full today. how many calls do you expect to answer during this holiday season. >> we're going to take about 25,000 calls, we will probably take over this season. >> wow. >> and one of the things you can do and you you can butter ball it, and that is through

butter ball.com or 100 butter ball. we have 30 years of experience that we will be able to answer any possible question that you may have in the preparation of your thanksgiving or holiday turkey. >> i'm sure people have have a lot of questions for you, anthony. what are most common turkey problems that people talk about. >> the problem is, one of the things is making sure we call the 3t's, it is proper that you go of the turkey. one of the things to keep in mind in the that you go of the turkey is one day for every 4 pounds. the next thing is the temperature, we want to make sure that when we roast the turkey that in the thigh it is as 180 degrees and in the breast we have it at 170 degrees. now if we notice breast starts to brown too quickly and temperature rises, we will then take a piece of reynolds foil and we tent the turkey. this will help slow the browning of the breast so we can have, the breast come out

perfectly and nice and noise. >> better you than me but i know you are. so what are some tips that you can give us, that will ensure a delicious turkey for this thanksgiving, just quick tips. >> well, a quick tip, number one would be taking a small amount of boil and brushing the outside of the turkey and that will help in the browning of the turkey. the most important of all is using a thermometer. reaching those temperatures that i mentioned earlier, 180 in the thigh, 170 in the breast. >> you have a busy day ahead, is what your the best part of being part of the turkey talk line for you. >> for me it is being able to use my talent to help with my background in the food services industry and helping our anyone who comes across with the question that i had may help them out with. >> part chef, part psychologist if there any melt downs happening this thanksgiving, thanks so much for joining us. we do appreciate it. happy thanksgiving to you.

>> happy thanksgiving to you too, nicole. >> thank you. >> i mentioned those melt downs that would totally be me if i was making thanksgiving dinner. >> i'm not a chef. i yam what i yam. >> that was a set up. >> moving right along. that one took a while. >> you work it. >> if you need help the turkey talk line is open. talk to the expert by calling 800-butterball. >> so sorry about that. >> that is 800-288-8372. katie like it. she was laughing over there. >> i am what i am. >> i yam what i yam. >> yes. >> moving it a lock here. >> now, having dinner with someone you don't know. >> sure, that is what i think of around the holidays. a as much as country gathers around the holiday table, niomi smith check out latest twist object home cooked meals. >> she has been preparing this

feast for hours. she has never met the crowd that she's cooking for. they are all meeting for the force time too. the guests signed up for this on a web site called eat with. it offers home cooked meals in a 160 cities. >> yes. >> they all cost around $50. original idea was to give travelers a way to experience the authentic local cuisine. but at this new york dinner all of the guests live in the city. diners say family style meal is a great way to meet people especially around the holidays. >> it is really great that we were all comfortable and able to get to know each other and experience this together. >> the next one i have for you is a marinated chicken drum stick. >> reporter: she was a banker but her mother's dinner party in india gave her a craving for something different she became a private chef. >> food brings people together but conversations get people to stay together and that is something that i love. >> reporter: and the guests at this dinner did connect using

a high tech cool to deliver a traditional meal and make friend the old fashion way. they didn't have to do the dishes. niomi choice smith, cbs-3 "eyewitness news". whatever it takes to get out of the dishers, is that right. >> i know that is right. >> i'm with you on that one. i'm thankful for dishwashers here this morning. lets take a look at storm can three. regional wide here we are left with at this point is residual moisture. you can see bulk of the storm at this point is moving off the map here. you are in the line of sight of our radar sensor. you can see that. here in our region we have some lickering light snow that fell earlier this morning. we have since seen that winding down but we are finding these pockets here. it is more win driven than anything for great lakes but there you have it. it is residual moisture. we call it left overs like thanksgiving left overs. snow amounts from the storm

itself we did pretty well. we did pretty much verify with our eyewitness weather forecast. albrightsville picked up 8 inches. just shy of five in allentown pennsylvania, perkasie and wayne pick up 3 inches. but you have got gipped in feasterville. further south east you were, less you saw just because you had more rain then anything. lets give you a few minister rainfall reports that came in over last 12 hearst from the entire system here as we check with our eyewitness weather watcher network. john dowell check in the highest total of the pack here because as you got further not to delaware specifically you ended up with more rhawn than anything. this vincentown douglass, sent in 1.19 inches from that location in new jersey. levittown just over an inch. avondale we pick up over an inch of rain as well but a little asterisk on the avondale one, from gary, he reported 2 inches of snow. some of you had a mix, some had one or the other and some of you had to deal with a lot

of wind as well with this. it was a milk bag system that everybody was affected by. if you were one of the follow thanks waited out the storm and hitting the road right now maybe not in the cbs-3 mobile weather lab but heading out regardless, things are looking good here as we put things in motion for your thursday forecast. still linger forecast. it is out of our hair. we will see sunlight as the the day goes on but more clouds than anything. looking ahead to friday though, bright and early 4:00 a.m. sun will be up, but i know people will be out and it looks completely clear, as high pressure regains control for us. looking ahead through the rest of this friday a okay lots of sunshine for holiday shoppers. saturday looks good too for small business saturday. a few more clouds out there currently our temperatures, one side note here it is that because we are still marginal with freezing in locations there could still be slick spots on untreated surfaces from the storm yesterday. please keep that in mine. or wise next three days are looking lovely. it is a little chilly i will give you that but at least it is tranquil. ukee, back over to you.

in sports it is no the just thanksgiving around these parts it is day eagles take on dallas, deep in the heart of texas. the winner is in first place in the nfc east. the eagles josh huff was name nfc special teams player of the week for his electrifying 107-yard kick off return last week against those titans. huff is first eagles rook toy win that special teams award. nicely done, congratulations, lets go birds. a lot also rides on the legs of cbs-3 contributor lesean mccoy. leslie van arsdal talks turkey and birds and boys, with shady. >> what does it mean to you playing the cowboys on thanksgiving, in dallas. >> i think it is something different with rivalry games, something different from the division games. i look at washington the same way i lot new york or new york the same way i look at dallas but the fans, there is something different. i don't know why. >> what is thanksgiving like in the mccoy household a lot of people, a lot of family, a

lot of food. my family fridays new york. we would travel up there, and we will go to my aunt's house, eat over there then we will go to my grand mom's house and eat over there we would go to every household and eat, and last one is my grand moms, she cooked the best. as i kiddy grew up, and i loved barry sanders. we used to play the packers. after the game biting on the turkey legs. all right, guys i got to set up. win the game. nice big turkey leg. >> the eagles take on the cowboys at 4:30 this afternoon, leslie van arsdal for "eyewitness sports". happy thanksgiving. while waiting for the game kick off today's football feast on our sister station cb. 36789 bears take on the lions starting at 12:30. we will be right back.

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contender. >> there is oscar buzz about the imitation game, benedict plays a british war hero who gets his due. susan marquez gives us a look. >> what sit that we're really doing. >> we're going to break an unbreakable nazi code with the war. >> imitation game stars benedict coverbatch as alan, the young british code breaker who helped allies win world war two. >> he was funny, he was intelligent, arrogant. >> five minutes and 34 seconds. >> ke irs night the nightly co stars as male female member of the top secret team. >> you cannot understand what a code breaker was. >> it is estimate that had his work shortened the war by at least two years saving countless lives. he is widely considered the father of modern computer science and artificial intelligence, but his life ended in tragedy after he was prosecuted for homosexual

act which were illegal at the time. >> the film makers hope it will give him the worldwide recognition he didn't get in his life time. susan marquez, cbs news, hollywood. >> a lot of buzz, lot of buzz. >> we will be right back, happy thanksgiving.

good morning everyone i'm nicole brewer, let's send it over to the forecast, thanksgiving day how sit looking, katie. >> it is looking tranquil, good morning and again happy thanksgiving, everybody. we are looking at clouds, out there, and we have a linger light snow in a few spots early this morning, and as we start things off, a live look at our neighborhood network. looking off in the distance you can see the city of philadelphia a, there. covered by cloud cover but it is still visible. you don't to have worry about visibility for your travel this morning. 35 degrees the current temperature at palmyra cove nature park there across the river. but that said since temperatures are marginal and freezing you want to be cautious of the left over wet roadways, maybe having slick

end up, through the overnight but that said again things are quieting down but we're okay here today and used this point with pleasant weather. it is chilly. we are well below average at 40 degrees. later tonight dropping down to 29, a few clouds, calm and cold but, it is, a trend that will keep ongoing. despite more sunshine for black friday shoppers. we will not break out of the 30's. we will warm up nicely by sunday. and more seasonal 53 degrees, nicole. >> our next update 8:25. up next on cbs this morning why saying thank you could be beneficial to you, for more local news weather and traffic continue to watch us on the cw philly. you tell us what you want to pay and we help find options to fit your budget. nah, nah, insurance, nah, nah, nah, discount. my name's flo, you want to go out with me? no. uh-huh-huh!

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"eyewitness news", reporter jane carabao is here to explain. >> reporter: good morning, now comes the tricky task of placing, a 129 turkies, into the oven here, that is the number that we got, these ovens right around 130, a at within point they got up to 135 here, one year they have been loading them for about, at last 15 minutes or so. you can see sam, the owner here ever so carefully. look at how long that paddle is. that oven goes way back in there. puts them in, pulls them out. >> wait, don't put that one in there. >> yes, nicole would be are upset. >> you are supposed to be taking care of her hat. >> she would be really upset, we almost threw the trusty cbs-3 turkey hat in there. come on guys you have been in operation six decades you know better than that. i have been doing a story about tradition i have to put our tradition on our head as well. they have been working hard all day long,ke