>> seth: please welcome to the show, ellen pompeo, everybody! ♪ ♪ >> seth: welcome! >> thank you! >> seth: i'm so happy you're here. it is your birthday on friday. >> it is. twenty-two. twenty-two! >> seth: twenty-two-years-old, that's fantastic! >> yeah, yeah. >> seth: and the 300th episode of your show. it's your first time here. so, with all those things, i thought we'd celebrate -- i know meredith grey loves tequila, so, if you'd like to join me -- >> yeah, why not. >> seth: why not. >> why not. >> seth: here we go. [ cheers and applause ] >> squeeze it in? okay. >> seth: there we go. that's how i like to do it. >> okay. >> seth: cheers. >> cheers. >> seth: and thank you so much for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> seth: so -- i know you have plans. [ choking ] it's good! that is not prop tequila. [ coughing ] >> [ bleep ] donald trump! >> seth: oh, no! so, you have plans for your birthday on friday. >> that was good. >> seth: it is good, right? [ laughter ] it's going to be here the whole interview, you can go back, yeah. >> okay,

. >> reporter: ellen pompeo knows her way around a hospital set. >> so i need to learn how to scrub.nts of prepping for tv surgery. >> this has season and betadine on it, which is ant septic. so hold your arms up. >> feels kind of good, actually. >> yeah, uh-huh. the first time it feels good. the 30th time when your skin's raw? >> how long did you scrub for? >> that's pretty good. in real life they probably scrub longer. on tv we do it pretty quick, as long as the dialogue takes. >> reporter: for 14 seasons, pompeo's played from meredith grey on abc's "grey's anatomy." >> pick me. choose me. >> reporter: the show has captivated fans with dramatic twists and turns at seattle's grey sloan memorial. tonight's "grey's" hit a major milestone with its 300th episode and it did not disappoint. >> goes to dr. meredith grey -- >> what is your favorite part of playing meredith? >> i get to sort of be a superhero in scrubs and play an ordinary person. she's very real. and very pompeo's character is the head of general surgery. when the show started in 2005, meredith grey was a wide-eyed first-ye

and for meredith grey herself, ellen pompeo, the show's long jeffty is still a bit of owe shock. >> somes you feel the history and you feel you have been here forever and other days you feel it hasn't been 14 years. you feel it's flown by. >> now in season 14, "e.t." was on the set for season 1 back in 2005. >> i told you i would do it. >> long gone are dr. mcdreamy patrick dempsey, dr. mcsteamy eric dane, and katherine heigl. but constantly adding to the cast has helped keep the show in the top 25 in primetime. >> i mean, 300 episodes. i can't believe it. i remember when we were doing 250, and we were like, what? >> when i first joined the show in season five, scottish actor just celebrated the 100th episode, and at the time, i was like, how does anybody ever get to 100 episodes? >> how much longer do you anticipate "grey's anatomy" being on the air? >> oh, i don't even know the answer to that question, because i said, two years, i'm sure. so here we are. >> the show's creator, shonda rhimes, brought her 15-year-old daughter harper to the celebration. and sees no reason to wrap up "grey

>> announcer: star of "grey's anatomy," ellen pompeo is in the house for the very first time, then mario'sg a mouthwatering italian twist on turkey your family will go wild for. plus, what's michael's easy, delicious turkey day winner? find out right now on "the chew." ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> that's a loud audience today, wow! hi! [ cheers and applause ] after you! thank you so much. >> electric audience! >> wow,

. >> we choose you, ellen pompeo. se moment this morning not even ellen expected. ♪ >>> country music's biggest night from keith urban's powerful new song. ♪ >> to garth's big year. >> entertainer of the year goes to garth brooks. >> and the faith hill fashion moment that sent the internet into overdrive. the biggest stars on the red carpet and backstage with lara. >> just gaze into my eyes and everything will be okay. >> yes, darling. >> all the best moments. look who's saying it. >> it's luke on the red carpet at the cmas and good morning, america. >> bff luke. >> yeah, good morning, luke. good morning, america. welcome back this thursday morning. what a night at the cmas. >> lara was there backstage and she caught up with the big winners. all the stars, tim mcgraw, faith hill revealing the advice they give each other. lara is going to reveal that. so sara haines is here for lara with "pop news" and so what has rihanna and amal clooney teaming up? we'll tell you in "pop news." >> interesting colabbo there. >>> before

>> announcer: star of "grey's anatomy," ellen pompeo is in the house for the very first time, then mario'smouthwatering italian twist on turkey your family will go wild for. plus, what's michael's easy, delicious turkey day winner? find out right now on "the chew." ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> that's a loud audience today, wow! hi!

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. >> plus ellen pompeo. well it's a perfect nespresso hold on a second.orge.el torme sings "comin' home baby"] hey there. want a lift? ♪ where are we going? no don't tell me. let me guess. ♪ have a nice ride. ♪ how far would you go for coffee that's a cup above? i brought you nespresso. nespresso. what else? >>> the abc 7 storm impact scale. today's storm is level one. that means light rain. so keep an umbrella handy and drive safely. track today's storm anytime on the abc 7 news app. download it now. >>> welcome back. i want to show you that really bizarre chase that happened on the southern california freeway this morning involved this large rv. it happened in san diego. highway patrol was actually chasing the rvt. all started in pacific beach. the rv has arkansas plates and they actually put down spike strips. do you see that wheel there? at one point the rv was going along the freeway with sparks flying because it was without tires. the driver pulled over, refused to get out, though, and at one point chp had their guns drawn, surrounding that rv. eventuall

tonight -- ellen pompeo, star of "latin history for morons" actor and comedian john leguizamo, musicws. president trump began his 12-day visit to asia on saturday and immediately walked through one of those paper doors. [ light laughter ] "i wanto

ellen pompeo will be here live tomorrow morning so we get the joy of having ellen here and mark wahlbergent brought to you by the frame from samsung. the most beautiful tv you've never seen. >> anchor: this is a good morning washington update. >>> good morning a big win for democrats across the country and here in virginia. northam one with 58% of the vote thanks to higher voter turn out. the governor elect will outline what is next in a news conference set for 10:00 am. hurst turned to politics shortly after photographer were shot and killed on live television. a chilly day brian. >>> outside today temperatures only going to be right around 50 degrees. lot of 30s and 40s to start off the morning near 50 this afternoon. upper 40s near winchester. tonight scattered clouds cool cloudy and 50s next big change happens for the end of the week. >>> significant tie ups inside the capitol belt way. you are seeing your share of delays merging into new york avenue. >> anchor: thank you you can updates on news channel 8. have a great wednesday. in a noisy world ... northern virginia's own novec is

ellen pompeo will be here live tomorrow morning so we get the joy of having ellen here and mark wahlberg you by the frame from samsung. the most beautiful tv you've never seen. >> ♪ >> good morning, it's 8:27 on this wednesday november 8th. i'm tamala edwards. let's head over to matt pelman to take a look at your traffic. good morning. >> good morning, tam. five accidents this morning along 95. i guess the good news they're all now gone. but as you can see the delays certainly are not all gone. southbound side still solid from cottman into girard. this is just normal volume. it's northbound the delay here that's unusual. still backing up from past girard up to bridge street but luckily our crash there is gone even though we're still looking at speeds in the teens. still have fire department activity in center city. a power outage is blocking chestnut street between 15th by del frisco's and 16th so you can't get by there along chestnut. watching a crash on the pennsylvania turnpike eastbound past norristown. that's off to the side. getting off the turnpike onto the blue route southbound t

ellen pompeo will be here live tomorrow morning so we get the joy of having ellen here and mark wahlbergmoment brought to you by the frame from samsung. the most beautiful tv you've never seen. >>> good morning. i want's 8:27. i'm reggie aqui from "abc7 mornings." sue hall has a look at your traffic. >> good morning. ipts still buzzie out there. we of got quite the commute under way. we had several earlier problems. now we go to oakland. this is southbound 880 near 16th near 23rd, we have one lane blocked of traffic here and i am seeing slow traffic southbound, but northbound is really a drag all the way from hayward up towards oakland. and on the san jose side of the sunol grade, northbound 680 before washington, a lane blocked here and seeing moderate slowing in the northbound direction. my name is jamir dixon and i'm a locafor pg&e.rk fieldman most people in the community recognize the blue trucks as pg&e. my truck is something new... it's an 811 truck. when you call 811, i come out to your house and i mark out our gas lines and our electric lines to make sure that you don't hit them