and i think you'll agree, peter jennings is still with us at abc news. >> absolutely is. >> bob woodruff son, christopher, on our website, abcnews.com/gma. >>> and coming up next, thanksgiving >>> well, we've really been enjoying the recipes own our countdown to thanksgiving. but to show our commitment to holiday food, we'll keep the advice coming right through the leftovers. emeril is here to show you to turn your turkey dinner into something else. this is the creative side, right? >> a lot of the ingredients we have, generally leftover, bacon, at least in my house, blue cheese. i always have honey vinegar. so, i thought over the last several years, what we've done is turkey paninis. we've done turkey hash. we made turkey and spaghetti. >> right. >> i thought what we would do since we have more holidays coming up, is why not do a salad? the first thing we're going to do is start with a little dressing. what i did is i rendered some bacon. country-style bacon here. and i took a little bit of the bacon drippings here. i'm going to add a little dijon-style mustard. >> honey. >> a little bi

. >> i know all of us at abc news just wish peter jennings were here to report this story tonight. but thank you, richard besser. >>> as we said, we are here in washington, where history meets the class of 2011. this is the rayburn room, where 92 members of congress will come to be sworn in. the president still reacting to that atomic political day and night on tuesday, and jake tapper is here, and joins us right now. jake? >> reporter: diane, president obama today announced he was inviting eight republican and democratic leaders of congress to the white house for meetings two weeks from tonight. in addition, they will have a dinner at the white house residence. but what's unclear is whether any true compromise can be on the menu. after a cabinet meeting this morning, the president seemed to plead for bipartisan compromise. >> we can't afford two years of just squabbling. >> reporter: the president's conciliatory tone was met by senate republican leader mitch mcconnell with defiance. >> the white house has a choice. they can change course, or they can double down on a vision of gov

and i prayed for peter jennings who was suffering from disease and i've often wondered about that, whyi just did. >> steve: you also talk about how as they were carrying the pope's casket up the stairs at saint peter's basilica, it was a cloudy day, until -- >> until the pine casket was raised and the sun came through. i'm telling you, i believe if you keep an open mind and listen intently and look clearly, you can find the presence of a living god. and i felt the sunshining on the casket was such a moment. >> steve: some of the remembrances from his new book called "decision points," the president will be joining us live tomorrow from the campus of smu with the george w. bush intercenter will be dedicated. we'll be there for the ground breaking and you'll see it live on "fox & friends." >> gretchen: everyone knew how important his faith was during the presidency. it's interesting to hear him daughter. >> steve: more from our interview on wednesday right here on "fox & friends." >> brian: keith schueler is a democrat really in name only. he seems to be moderate toward conservative and

jen after takeoff. -- gen after takeoff. also another plane mad an emergency landing in atlanta, the tail scraping the ground when the aircraft touched down. let's talk about it with peter gold of the transportation safety board. three airplanes, three airlines, the same 48 hours. is this a statistical anomaly or are there other stphrobs. >> we don't know. these were different aircraft types, different engines, but what it does raise a question on is whether the delta-northwest merger, particularly their maintenance operations, whether that's been as smooth as possible, and i'm sure the faa and the airline are going to be looking to see. it's a very difficult thing to merge operations. airlines maintain their planes differently, so this could be a red flag. you don't know yet. jon: and now you've got the largest airline flying in terms of number of planes in the sky, right? >> exactly right. and you've got to -- you know, you've got to make sure that you're doing things properly, and that your systems are in place to catch any oversight. so this is -- it's a little concerning, but we'll see what each of the investigations point out. jon: where is the faa in all of this,