janet janet, nbc n ns, austin. >>> too cute and now we want to wish happy birthday to john mcvie and tina turner, 76, and rich little turns 77 today. keep it right here for the thanksgiving day macy's parade.

>> announcer: from nbc n ns, this is "today" with kathie lee gifford and hoda kotb live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >>> hi, evererbody. it's the most wonderful time of the year >> is that you? >> it a actual lily is. >> it looked like it was not. >> they traded for me. thank you. i hope you guys had a great, ththksgiving. did. yoyohad much more compact little situation ss, didn't you, hoda? >> we did a lit areal thanksgiving dinner t tlai don't know if you have seen my table, but it is teeny and we decided around blwou hb was tight. i posted at picture, and people were paying attention to all of the crap that i was piling up. they said, writing to me, we will send youn organizer and you are a horder, and i said, that is what you got out of the most beautiful thanangiving pipiure. >>>>nd you did everytytng. you went to the parade? >> yes, we went to the parade and we went to "school of rock" and i also realized that in a queen sized bed, you could fit my mom and my sister and my dog blake. and this is a dub smash. your life i want to rock your life i want to rock >> that is so

on nbc n ns investigates, information that could save your life. >> more than half of all fire deaths in united states homes happen at night and startling new research shows doing one simple thing can dramatically increase your chances of survival. investigative correspondent scott freedman from our nbc station in dallas has that morning. scott, good morning. >> reporter: willie and savannah, good morning. if you wake up to a fire the first thing you want to do, of cocose, is get out but what if you can't? experts say close your bedroom door. that's right. simply closing your door when you go to sleep at night could buy you extra seconds or even minutes, time to find another way out of the house or time to wait until firefighters can reach you. seconds that can mean the difference between life and death. imagine your loved ones dropped inside this raging fire. you would do anything to give them a fighting chance to get out. the answer, experts say, can be as simple as this. close your door. >> if you can't get out of your house e e best thing you can possibly do is get a closed door b