good morning, martha. martha: good morning bill, everybody. i'm martha maccallum. the president is set to make the announcement in prime time, 8:00 p.m. eastern. the new "wall street journal" poll shows this, nearly half of americans are against the move. 48% oppose it. the executive action the president is expected to take and 38 support. bill: republicans are going ballistic, saying the president is acting like a monarch than commander-in-chief. >> he has absolutely no write through executive order to write new immigration law. so i am very much opposed to it. history will treat up kindly on this if he thinks he can become king. bill: rough lowery, joins us this morning. >> hi, bill. bill: five million undocumented immigrants will be protected from deportation. expands protection for illegal immigrants who came to the u.s. as children. no health care subsidies for new immigrants under obamacare. no time implementation is announced but will take about two months plus. if you believe this goes forward as we expect, this will be a defining moment in his presidency a

martha.: three americans are among the dead in israel as israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu vallas a harsh response to their killing. ur ine company will only give you 37-thousand to replace it. "depreciation" they claim. "how can my car depreciate before it's first oil change?" you ask. maybe the better question is, why do you have that insurance company? with liberty mutual new car replacement, we'll replace the full value of your car. see car insurance in a whole new light. liberty mutual insurance. bill: you know what temperature it is in minneapolis right now? 11 degrees. do you know what the temperature is in chicago? 14 degrees. martha: oh, baby, it is cold outside. going to have to watch the floats going down. thank you very much, guys, we will see you back here tomorrow. "happening now" starts right about now. ♪ jon: we begin with some bad news. three americans among those killed in an attack on a synagogue in jerusalem. the city already on edge. good morning to you. shannon:

martha? martha: oh, my gosh, awful for then.eally scary stories of people getting stuck in this snow. you talk about a 46-year-old man. >> reporter: that 46-year-old man, a confirmed death just a couple of minutes ago at a news conference, buried as i say under 12 to 15 feet of snow but a lot of people are stuck, and thankfully rescued. among them niagra university women's basketball team. they were on their way back from pittsburgh last night. they got stuck at 2:00 a.m. they were stuck there until 2:00 a.m. this morning. after 2:00 a.m., some 26 hours or so on the bus. they all tweeted about it. they did thankfully get rescued. similar stories youby people rescued by very brave first-responders in those conditions. as you can hear from these guys, they're pretty tough up around the buffalo area. listen here. >> the roads are really slippery. i just spun out twice. >> i came from the city and it wasn't so bad downtown but as i got farther and farther out here, it got worse. a lot worse. >> how do you feel that winter is here 34

martha?andidates have less than a day to spread their message to the voters and they're working hard to do just that. who has the better ground game out there? this is one of the big debates on this election. will it turn out to be democrats or republicans at this time? communication directors of both national committees are here to explain how they're going about it. bill: richard branson responding after a deadly test flight crash. the ntsb out with its early findings what may have gone wrong in the desert. >> we do understand the risks involved and we're not going to push on blindly. to do so would be insult to all those affected by this tragedy. we're going to learn from what went wrong, discover how we can improve safety and performance, and then move forward together. ♪ (train horn) vo: wherever our trains go, the economy comes to life. norfolk southern. one line, infinite possibilities. bill: 10:32 in new york. let's cut through the spin. i want to introduce two men with their ear to g

martha?garrett, thank you very much. eric: meanwhile, on capitol hill right now opening statements are underway in the house armed services committee hearing that's being held on the administration's strategy against the islam you can terrorists of isis. republic chairman buck mckeon is expressing concern this morning of the limitations president obama has put on our military. >> the oco budget amendment that we received monday afternoon pays for the air campaign and adds more advisers, but it does not appear to reflect any changes in strategy. however, we know that targeting and airstrikes are getting harder as isil changes tactics, and limiting our advisers to headquarters buildings will not help newly-trained iraqi and syrian opposition, their forces, to hold terrain. much less, defeat isil in the field. yet the president has doubled down on his policy of no boots on the ground despite any advice you have given him. eric: so will our strategy change? if so, what will it be? gillian turner

martha: it's martha. taking a look at what you have been watching throughout the course of this evening and one of the questions that kept coming up is where is the national guard. we heard so much about the preparation. the governor was criticized forward calling in the national guard ahead of this. but there presence wasn't felt from what we could see on television. >> reporter: a lot of them do rudimentary jobs freeing up the police officers to do the more aggressive things for which they were trained like the tactical operations. you will see the national guard in a backup role and the tactical teams out front. bill: darren wilson has spoken to a degree in the sense they put out his own testimony that was give to the grand jury. what's next for him? >> i imagine his priority is very far away from here. he has a baby on the way with his new wife barbara. throughout this process those two have been expecting a child. he spent a lot of the process in this area trying to stay out of the public eye and try

martha. martha: so the president meets with congressional leaders. that is going to happen tomorrow at the white house before the lame-duck session gets underway. is the president, ready, truly to work with congress in a compromise? is there a mood of compromise in the west wing right now? is that where they are emotionally, mentally, on all of this? josh ernest, the press secretary from the white house will be here coming up in moments away. bill: got a question for josh ernest, you have 30 minutes to fire away. @marthamaccallum, @billhemmer. we'll see what we can do for you at home. the virginia senate race could be headed for recount. the election tell too close to call. the democratic incumbent mark warner thought he had the thing sewed up 10 point lead. gillespie trails by about 15,000 votes out of 2 million cast. he could call for a recount, gillespie could. that would take some time, right? >> recounts usually don't happen until mid-december. the court order determines exactly when the

martha? martha: asking billions more for the fight against isis. president obama sending more troops, 1500 more, which means he will need a lot more cash to pay for those people to be sent over. some lawmakers say he can not have a blank check in this offensive. senator john mccain joins us live with his take. >>> red dead for this one, folks. old man winter rolling long. temps are dropping as we speak. we'll tell you who is next pour this thing. martha: the new secretary of the scandal-plagued veterans administration wasting no time trying to clean house. bill sits down with bob mcdonald and asks about changes he has in mind after the biggest shake-up in va history. >> one of my very first days i asked every employee to sit with their leader, talk about the mission and recommit themselves to it. if we have an individual who violated our values we're going to act upon that. i make a lot of purchases for my business. and i get a lot in return with ink plus from chase. like 50,000 bonus points when i spent $5,000 in the first 3 months after i opened

martha: good morning. i'm martha maccallum. alabama senator jeff sessions saying what the president just did he believes was against the law. here he is. >> congress makes the laws. what the president did in this order is said, i am not enforcing the laws that you have passed. and indeed i'm going further. i'm going to give work permits, social security numbers, to millions of people who congress said can not work in america. it is really a breathtaking overreach of mon you meantal proportions. bill: there is endless reaction this. ted cruz went further with this video posted on facebook. >> president of the united states went on national television and announced that he is defying the constitution. is defying federal law and he is defying the american people. bill: so byron york leads our coverage. chief correspondent for "washington examiner." fox news contributor. good morning to you, byron. >> good morning, bill. bill: talk about the process. "wall street journal" wrote this morning. sometimes it is only barrier to tyranny.

martha: byron york is here. >> good morning martha. martha: president obama has to want to shore up a legacy for himself in the final two years for his presidency. gop has to use their victory carefully, right? >> especially on immigration you have to take both sides at their word on this. president obama is saying i'm going to do this and i think he will do it. republicans say he will strongly oppose. how much stronger than they say this, playing with fire and red flags in front of bulls. republicans are going to oppose this what will happen the president will go ahead and it will create a standoff. a multistage standoff in congress. the president may ultimately win it but he will be damaged in the process. martha: what about the numbers here. if cassidy wins in louisiana, republicans will have 54 seats in the senate. so, if the president plays hard ball, how does it work from there. >> here is what you have to remember, an executive order does not have the force of law. at anytime congress can overturn an executive order. it can over

martha? martha: a knife-wielding man tries to storm the front gate at a naval base with another attempt at lone wolf attack. leland: another video from the obamacare architect jonathon gruber. why he says he scammed the american people. >> it many emblematic of a nanny state government. you are too stoop i'd to know how to educate your own children or what to put in your mouth and eat. leland: a man with a knife tried to storm the gate at a naval base in connecticut. two civilian police officers were wound. one sliced in the leg by a suspect and another by a ricochet of bullets after they returned fire. no explanation of who was. officials say this was not an act of terror. the navy, state and local police investigate. martha: some new cutting-edge technology to try to protect schools from mass shooters. jonathon hunt has more on this from our newsroom. sounds like very interesting technology. >> reporter: think it as a smoke or fire alarm system. wait does is put sensors throughout the schoo

martha? martha: thank you very much.ill: snowstorms hitting millions of americans as temperatures dipped to bone-chilling levels. so who's next. martha: the firestorm continues over an obamacare architect saying the law was conceived to deceive voters because they were too up to i'd to figure it out in the end. but a second video emerged. is the white house going to weigh in or react to this? >> they have to lead the masses to the promised land and they can only do it by deception. that's what he said openly. we wanted to get the built, what he didn't ware how we did it so we lied about everything. p and . cold medicines open your nose over time, but add a breathe right strip and pow, it opens your nose up to 38% more. so you can breathe and do the one thing you want to do, sleep. add breathe right to your cold medicine shut your mouth and sleep right. breathe right. and look for the calming scent of new breathe right lavender, in the sleep aisle. shyou see this right? it's 80% confidence and 64% knee brace. that's more.

martha: good morning, everybody, i'm martha maccallum. local and national leaders urging everybody to stay calm when the decision comes down, but as you can imagine, the police have to brace for whatever violence might happen no matter what the outcome here. at issue is whether police officer darren wilson should face charges in the shooting death of unarmed teenager michael brown over the course of the summer in august. bill: mike tobin outside the courthouse in clayton, missouri. the scene has been what there around that courthouse so far? >> reporter: well, the scene has been very tense. lots of anticipation. speculation that the grand jury decision is imminent. thus far the speculation has been all, has been wrong thus far. in fact, even the notion that we'll get a 48-hour heads up is really an example of reporters filling in the blank. the county prosecutor has said we will get a heads up without putting a time frame on that. this grand jury operates independent of the police who are you operate anything 12-hour shifts, independent o

martha: so clever. now we are getting new details on how much he was paid to tell those stories about the lies americans were being told. stuart varney joins us live. he's a smarty pants, mr. griesh, he knows all and the american people do not. they simply don't get it. it goes over their heads. he got paid we are finding out a pretty penny to tell those stories. >> reporter: here is the grant total of consulting fees. $5,500,000. $1.7 million from the department of justice. $1.6 million from consulting on the exchanges. $392,000 from health and human services and $103,000 from the 8 department. how come the 8 department was consulted on obamacare i don't know but that's a grant total of $6 million. martha: you can get a lot of the money out of the government. it's shocking that nancy pelosi seems to forget who he is. the president is not aware of who is either yet the of this country paying him almost $6 million. >> reporter: at the news conference in australia president * said pro feelsor gruber wasn'

martha. martha: a closer look at the key contest coming up.may not be decided though until next month. senate race louisiana live with the primaries in new orleans. bill: dr. charles in the studio next live. >> we see the results of obamacare since the second world war, we see the results of this overreaching government, the same time is incompetent. martha: there is a battle in the by u.s. democratic senator facing off against the congressman bill cassidy in and of the republican challenger in the mix as well. after tonight still may not know who the winner is in louisiana. live at a look on the ground. good morning to you, john. >> martha, good morning to you. we had to move to the back of the hotel. we will be back in a picturesque location again tomorrow. this is it, the big day of the jungle primary in louisiana. the top three right now, mary landrieu, and republican bill cassidy. landrieu will be going today polls to vote and a half hours time. going into today it didn't look like she had the numbers to go over the top of the threshold t

martha. this is not aware mary landrieu wanted to be this morning. leading her opponents by a single point in the low 40s. she fell short of where she hopes to be, well short of where she had predicted she would be. she and her main republican opponent pretty much coming up with a tie last night. adding in the other republican vote, it would seem clear the republican has a very good shot at winning runoff on december 6. last night when they were giving their speeches, neither one of them wasted a moment getting into it. >> we have the race that they want and bill cassidy, you cannot run, you cannot hide anymore. this race is starting tonight. >> instead of a senator who supports barack obama 97% of the time, you're going to have a senator who supports you 100% of the time. >> no question this is going to be a bruising fight but with control of the senate much already determined, it will not create the same national attention. because she will no longer be chair of the energy committee come ja

i'm martha mckalum in for megyn kelly. president obama stepped to the white house with a bombshell, if the new congress did not deliver a new immigration bill in the next six to seven weeks, he would act on his own. >> in terms of immigration, i have consistently said that it is my profound preference and interest to see congress act on a comprehensive immigration reform bill. if they want to get a bill done, whether it's during the lame duck or next year, i'm eager to see what they have to offer. but what i'm not going to do is just wait. >> while this political issue has come to a head for president obama, the showdown on immigration has been coming for years. in 1990 there were 3 million illegal immigrants living in the united states. today that number's estimated at more than 11 million. but it has not been for lack of effort in this story. starting under president bush in 2005 dhs began expedited deportations. a practice that continued under president obama. but still they continue to come in record numbers. president

we are back with more from martha and giada as you prepare.iada. the turkey the cranberry sauce, now it's great for side dishes. you are combining mashed potatos and sweet potatos? >> a layer of well flavored buttery, i put a lot of cream cheese in my mashed potatos. a layer of that on top. then bake it. top it with five leeks. they have a little bit of flour and a pinch of cayenne. don't get your fingers in there. >> it's really hot. >> a good tip. safflower oil. it will be delicious. giada, that salad is amazing. >> i am eating the chips, they're so good. >> trikalre salad, three different colors, you don't want to wait to the last minute to reheat everything or have everything in the oven or on the stove. >> you can do it now, set aside. >> make a dressing. i would wait to dress it at the last minute. okay. >> that's the holiday colors. >> it's room festive and fun. what kind of dressing? >> kale, endive,ry dridiculae. cream keyes, i'm sure martha would use maybe cream cheedz or something else. >> i like italian. i love it. >> salt, pep per

martha: congressman aaron schock sits on the ways and means committee. there is such an arrogant attitude in these video. if you are really smart you can manipulate the people. he says he did it successfully in massachusetts and he's proud of it. >> it's the emblematic of the remember ralls in washington. they think they are the ruling class, and it's up to them, and the federal government because the american people are too stupid, they have to tell them what kind of healthcare to buy, what kind of food to eat, what kind of schools for their children. it's emblematic of the nanny state. i think it's what the american people pushed back from in house and senate and why people are so taken aback by the liberalism of the obama administration. martha: the bigger part of all of this is not that he seems smug as he's talking about how the wool is pulled over the eyes

these images were difficult to watch today, martha. any changes in security when these american sailors are in port? >> reporter: well, david, the navy is taking a look at security procedures for future port calls and working with the turkish authorities on that. but the navy and the u.s. embassy in turkey are quick to say that this will not effect the u.s. relationship with turkey. >> all right, martha raddatz live in washington. martha, thup. >>> to the other images tonight that have people so worried today. many watches on television. the drama unfolding, 69 stories up. watching those workers dangling from the new world trade center here in new york. two window washers trapped on their scaffold. their platform, right there, more than 800 feet in the air. and just to give you some perspective tonight, look at the tower here. you can see the circle there, just how high up they wrp. then, the dramatic rescue. this is the moment, right before rescuers break through the window to get to the workers. abc's david wright is on the scene for

coming up here, martha and giada will be back with more cooking advice, including martha's tips for smoothes. >> good morning to you, millions of americans are on the move this thanksgiving day. but travel has been tough for those dealing with bad weather in the east coast. stephanie gosk has the latest. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, chanel. good news for people that have to travel. they are cheesecake i tataking the airports. yesterday was such a mess. >> that nor'easter that blew through wreaked havoc on people, there were 700 or so, cancelled. people were clogging roads because of that bad weather. aaa is saying there were more people on the roads because gas prices have fallen and the economy has gotten better. so those people found some frustrations. if they're on the road, things are in good shape. i ran into nbc's lester holt. back to you, chaenel. >> he has a lot of planning, he is going to california. i think. >> chicago. >> chicago, then california. that's it. tensions remain high in ferguson, missouri today. there were far fewer protesters on the city's snowy streets

martha. >> as we all are. thanks, brian. let's bring in matt olson who was the director of the national counterterrorism center until just this past september. what stands out in this tape to you? it does seem different in several ways. >> the biggest difference, martha, is that we don't have what appears to be peter kassig speaking on the tape and he's not shown alive as the other hostages who were executed. >> and what does that tell you? >> it's hard to say right now. it's possible, of course, that he wouldn't cooperate and speak on the video, but, you know, again at this point right now what's happening inside the government is that analysts in the intelligence community are looking very closely at this tape to determine whether it's authentic and examine every detail. >> it seems like there is more detail. where the executioner is standing in a city and that you could tell more from this tape but it's also bolder, it's very much in your face about that. >> yeah, a couple of things, first, we don't know when the tape was

martha, thank you. >>> now, to a city waiting and now prepares for what could come. ferguson, missouri. a grand jury yet to decide whether the police officer who shot michael brown, an unarmed black teenager, will be charged in his death. tonight, businesses there boarded up, yet with a spray painted message, we are open. they are simply bracing themselves in the meantime. and tonight, word of gun sales on the rise in that city. abc's steve osunsami is there. >> reporter: today, grabbed jurors are still hotly debating possible charges against police officer darren wilson. and for the first time, hear frk this man. the medical examiner hired by michael brown's family. what dr. miked baden shared is private, but in his autopsy from august, he concluded that the white police officer shot and killed the unarmed black teenager from a distance. >> there weren't signs of a struggle. >> reporter: that's key, because the county's autopsy suggests that some of the gunfire was at close range, and even inside this police suv. supporting police accounts that brown fought with off

martha, isn't this highly unusual for the u.s. to use its own elite commandos to carry out a rescue of foreign hostages? >> reporter: it is, amy. and the pentagon just won't say why this was carried out beyond the fact that we are partners with yemen in counter terrorism operations. and don't forget, this was where the so-called underwear bomber got his training and where the u.s.-born cleric an war alack key was killed in a u.s. drone strike. so, that relationship with yemen is important. but a lot of questions tonight, amy. >> all right, martha raddatz, thank you. >>> and now, to new health concerns for supreme court justi justice ruth bader ginsburg. she was admitted to the hospital tuesday night. at 81 years old, she's considered the most liberal member of the court. she expects to be back at work monday. >>> now, to the big countdown before thanksgiving. millions of customers lining up to get the first big jump on their holiday shopping. stores and malls across america whether open their doors tomorrow. but at least one super

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i think martha coakley is done. >> martha chokely. screwing up against. losing the unlosable race. martha coakley did lose. there's a headline you'd see. but martha coakley did lose the governor's race to a republican, charlie baker. you see a close race there. about a 40,000 vote race. baker becomes the republican governor. massachusetts is a very democratic state. it's a state that president obama carried by 30 points, that hasn't voted for a republican candidate since reagan in 1984 when he was carrying every state, it's a state that is elected one republican senator, scott brown, in more than 40 years and immediately threw him out of office. massachusetts is a very blue state. this result is not that a surprising and i don't think says much about martha coakley at all. let me show you what i mean. you have to go back here -- not to this but to this. this is 1990. we're going to go through the last generation. this is the governor's race in massachusetts. notice anything? the republican beats the democrat. the democrat was conservative and the republican liberal but there you go

good morning, alex. >> reporter: good morning, martha. a relatively quiet night of much smaller protests here in ferguson, just two arrested. wilson says he hopes his resignation will bring peace. darren wilson, a three-year veteran of the police department in ferguson, said he had hoped to continue in police work, a job he told george stephanopoulos that he loved. >> i greatly enjoyed working in ferguson, i did. >> put that in the past tense, not going to happen again? >> do you really think it's possible? i mean, do you think they would accept me? do you think it would be safe for me? >> reporter: in his resignation letter, wilson wrote, "i have been told that my continued employment may put the residents and police officers of the city of ferguson at risk which is a circumstance that i cannot allow." after the grand jury decided not to indict wilson, violent protests erupted here and then spread across the country. >> all: hands up, don't shoot. >> reporter: for nearly a week protests have continued. on black friday groups disrupting b

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abc's chief global affairs correspondent martha raddatz with us live from washington and martha, did secretary hagel and president obama not see eye to eye here? >> reporter: well, david, you have that unique washington dance. are you going to resign or am i going to have to fire you? i think chuck hagel got the message from the president loud and clear that it was best that he step down. and no one tried to stop him. so, the question then is why? and i think you just look at the midterm elections and the poll numbers showing how unhappy the country is with president obama's national security policies. the irony is that hagel was sometimes at odds with the president and his team over those policies that americans seem unhappy with. >> and any idea, martha, who comes next? >> reporter: the two most prominent names, michele flournoy, a former undersecretary of defense who would be the first female secretary of defense if confirmed, and ash carter, former deputy secretary of defense. both are well respected, but unclear whether a new secretary of defense will really change the public's

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martha, thank you. >>> now, to that eye opening sight from china. beijing rolling out the red carpet for world leaders, complete with dancers along the route and lights. president obama would come down that route there. and when he got out, as is tradition, he was wearing a chinese silk robe. but there was something else, something the world did not see. what china did before leaders even got there, hoping the world would look the other way. abc's jim avila, traveling with the president. >> reporter: it was a red carpet never seen before. the chinese limb moments arrived carrying leaders from 21 pacific rim nations, along a neon l.e.d. red carpet that lit up as the dignitaries approached. president obama, part of the show. donning a dark purple silk tunic. other world leaders, including vladimir putin, wearing similar outfits, provided by the chinese that seemed more familiar to a dance club than a world summit. putin and president obama met only briefly and did not discuss any of the serious issues dividing them. the traditional fireworks were not

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