my name is maurice mcgriff. america, let's do lunch. narrator: drop off a hot meal and say hello.teer by donating your lunch break at americaletsdolunch.org. >>> syrian government forces have launched a long threatened ground assault on eastern aleppo. >> they broke through rebel lines and entered into two eastern neighborhoods over the weekend. fred planken on more from london. >> reporter: these are arguably some of the most significant gains that syrian government's military forces have made at the civil war that the civil war has been going on. eastern aleppo for both the syrian government as well as the opposition is one of the main battle grounds in the civil war. it's the last urban strong hold where the rebels actually still hold a significant amount of territory. the rebels want to defend it almost at all costs and the syrian government and allied forces include iraqi shiite fighters and iranians want to take it at all cost. and that's why you see a major bombing campaign. 46 people killed in aleppo and the surrounding areas on saturday alone. you also have artillery shel

my name is maurice mcgriff. america, let's do lunch. narrator: drop off a hot meal and say hello. volunteer by donating your lunch break at americaletsdolunch.org. >>> at this hour, president-elect donald trump is due back in new york after a day of meetings tomorrow and filling out his cabinet. one position or more specifically one candidate has trump's closest allies taking their fight public. their message? don't pick mitt romney as secretary of state or face backlash from your supporter. kellyanne conway laid out that very argument on state of the union this morning. >> i'm all for party unit y i'm not sure that we have to pay for that with secretary of state position. again, let me repeat, what donald trump decides, kellyanne conway and everybody else will respect. it's just the backlash from the grassroots. i'm hearing people say my parents died penniless but i gave $216 to donald trump's campaign and i would feel betrayed. you hear people saying i thought we got rid of this type. i'm just saying that there were -- we don't even know if mitt romney vote for the record donald

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my name is maurice mcgriff. america, let's do lunch. narrator: drop off a hot meal and say hello. by donating your lunch break at americaletsdolunch.org. ♪ >>> welcome back. we continue with our breaking news coverage of cuban leader fidel castro's death. >> in little havana, in miami, his death is being tweeted as we see here. take a look. there are smiles. there is cheering by cuban exiles who escaped his regime. cnn's cliff moody and alejandro concejka are joining us live. i want to start with you, i'm sure you talked with the people in the crowd, i will point out that u.s. representative arianna ros-lehtinenen who was born in cuba, said what was seen isn't necessarily a celebration of his death, but, quote, an opportunity of freedom. are you seeing that, celebrating that or the fact that castro is dead this morning? >> reporter: i think that's what a politician would say. there are people in the crowd who are explicitly celebrating the death of fidel castro. this is day, even though it might not have sparked change, but a day they've been waiting for a long time. they've been

my name is maurice mcgriff. america, let's do lunch. narrator: drop off a hot meal and say hello. volunteer by donating your lunch break at americaletsdolunch.org. >>> four days to go until the election. things are getting real. 30 million ballots have already been cast in early voting in 28 states. who has the advantage in early voting? we have rebecca berg and errol louis and matt viser. 15 million cast in battleground states. 7.5 million by registered democrats and 6.5 million by registered republicans. does that mean anything? >> not as much as we hoped. the reality is it is not suitable for predictive analysis. you don't know where the sites are. they change from cycle to cycle. we don't know what the strategy is of the candidates. if you have to get your vote in first or will they come in later. i think the best example is north carolina where you had a great early voting advantage that democrats had last time. they lost the state. now things are looking less robust for democrats this time around. on the other hand, polling suggests they are okay in the state of north caroli

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my name is maurice mcgriff. america, let's do lunch. narrator: drop off a hot meal and say hello.mericaletsdolunch.org. >>> every day iraqi forces are freeing me neighborhoods from the fear of living under isis. but even as they are beating back the terrorists they continue to kill iraqi civilians. and their families, from a distance. isis now lobbing mortars into crowded neighborhoods. in all the world health organization says 40,000 civilians will need treatment for trauma injuries they received in the mosul offensive. cnn international correspondent phil black is live in erbil, iraq, this morning. hi, phil. >> hi, carol. the citizens inside mosul have been warned by iraqi authorities to stay in their homes, and hunker down. to not try and leave the city. the iraqi military forces that are moving through say they're being very careful not to harm those civilians. they're not using heavy weapons. they're not calling in air strikes. we've been inside mosul and we're seeing firsthand that isis is not showing the same concern. these people have just lived through the horror of urban

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my name is maurice mcgriff. america, let's do lunch. narrator: drop off a hot meal and say hello.by donating your lunch break at americaletsdolunch.org. >>> back now with fox news anchor and author of "settle for more" megyn kelly. let's talk about donald trump and his transition team. what strikes you the most? what are you looking for here? >> i think it is fascinating reached out to mitt romney, don't you? >> yeah. >> what a thing to do. it is a great gesture by donald trump because they could not -- i mean mitt romney could not have ripped on donald trump any more than he did. clearly he is sending a signal he can let grudges go, let by gones be by gones, and i saw that in my case. i think it will come as a delight to most republicans. >> do you think he will do that with the media? >> no. >> i was talking with can rather and we were mentioning you when you said journalists have to steel their spines because he's had such an adversarial relation someplace during the campaign and calling out members tv media u and you don't think that will change even though he is reaching out

my name is maurice mcgriff. america, let's do lunch. narrator: drop off a hot meal and say hello.unteer by donating your lunch break at americaletsdolunch.org. >>> five days until the election. national polls in key swing states show a very tight race. michael moore, his new film, michael moore in trumpland, thank you very much. you were here october 25th, a week and two days ago. it is a completely different race now. >> that's correct. >> i live in michigan. and so i know why she's going there tomorrow. she wasn't supposed to have needed to go there, but i think this has always been a lot closer than i think the trump vote has probably been undercounted in these polls, and michigan, in our primary in march, hillary was ahead of bernie by eight to 22 points on the morning of the primary. all the national polls, and 12 hours later, bernie defeated her. i don't think you -- these polls, nobody should be sitting back regardless who you're for. this is going to be close. seems like it's going to be close. >> i agree. >> and in michigan, it really feels like it's going to be close. >>

my name is maurice mcgriff. america, let's do lunch. narrator: drop off a hot meal and say hello.donating your lunch break at americaletsdolunch.org. >>> on saturday nights, the cbs lineup in the early '70s was amazing. 8:00, "all in the family." 8:30, "m.a.s.h." 9:00, "the mary tyler moore show," and you have "the bob newhart show." >> and it ended with the "carol burnett variety show" at 10:00. >> they used to call it murderers row. >> people had no dvrs, no vhs, nothing with initials. so people would stay home on saturday nights. they wouldn't go to the movies. they wouldn't go to restaurants. that may be the best night of television in all of television history. >> mary tyler moore was a single woman working as an associate producer on a nightly tv show. >> you know what? you've got spunk. >> yeah. >> i hate spunk! >> there were a lot of young women entering the workplace then. and for some of them, mary tyler moore was like a port of entry. >> i'm doing as good a job as he did. >> better. >> better! and i'm being paid less than he was because -- >> you're a woman. >> the tele

my name is maurice mcgriff. america, let's do lunch. narrator: drop off a hot meal and say hello.eer by donating your lunch break at americaletsdolunch.org. >>> shooting in west virginia is raising all kinds of questions about whether race played a factor in this deadly encounter. the suspect here is after 62-year-old white man by the name of william pulliam. he's sitting in jail as i speak charged with first degree murder. he has confessed to shooting 15-year-old james means. pulliam says race had nothing to do with it, that he feared for his life after an argument. the mother of this slain teen says she's going to let investigators figure this one out. >> my son is in a safer place now and we all love him. that we know that justice is going to succeed in this matter. we're not going to put in the our hands, we're going to let the law put in the their hands. >> let's go to ryan young, the cnn national correspondent following this one for us. and so fill in the blanks for me. how did this argument escalate so quickly? >> well, really this is a tough story any time you see a mom si

my name is maurice mcgriff. america, let's do lunch. narrator: drop off a hot meal and say hello.eak at americaletsdolunch.org. >>> it was a week to remember. banker's hours posted on the doors of savings and loan institutions in ohio didn't me a thing. the doors were locked. >> the run on ohio savings and loans began when home state savings bank were besieged by depositors. demanding their money. >> i don't have a lot of money and i need that. >> i made a decision after weighing several options we had to close all 71 of the privately insured savings and loan institutions. >> they're faced with the dilemma of solving the worst finance natural crisis in ohio history, the worst banking crisis in the u.s. since the depression. >> deregulatory climate of the 1980s, savings and loans, which had traditionally been doing business in mortgages, were free to do anything they wanted. >> the entire industry got taken over by entrepreneurs who saw them as piggy banks. >> vernon savings was shut down by federal regulators. saddled with $1.3 billion in bad loans. the owner lived a life of priva

my name is maurice mcgriff. america, let's do lunch. narrator: drop off a hot meal and say hello. americaletsdolunch.org. >>> aids patients breaking the law, in a desperate battle to save their own lives. >> across the country aids patients are now treating themselves with medications that seem hopeful. some drugs are available only from so-called gorilla clinics. >> have something you think you can do, rather than be told to sit still, wait until we find something to help you, you may be dead by the time we get there. >> we were desperately trying to find drugs, test drugs that would be effective because it takes awhile to develop a brand new drug, one of the first things you do when you find out what the virus is is go screen drugs that are already developed. they screened a bunch of drugs, found out that azt had activity against hiv. >> they found it may stop the virus reproducing. >> the only approved drug in america. the most promising of drugs is a source of frustration and anger at $10,000 a year cost for patients, it's prohibitively expensive for most and not widely availa

my name is maurice mcgriff. america, let's do lunch. narrator: drop off a hot meal and say hello.olunteer by donating your lunch break at americaletsdolunch.org. >>> welcome back and happy thanksgiving. millions of people are expected to line the streets of new york city to watch all the balloons and the floats at the 90th annual macy's thanksgiving day parade. we also know that police are stepping up security, of course, to ensure it all goes without a hitch. boris sanchez got the gig this morning along the parade route on manhattan's upper north side where i know you'll be walking along the parade once it gets going. i'm hearing screaming. it's all for you, boris. it's all for you. >> i may or may not have coached them a little bit to start screaming. you guys excited? all right. yeah. it's a pretty good crowd. everybody is pumped for the thanksgiving day parade. don't stop. keep screaming. there we go. if you look behind me, the parade is going to start right here on 76th street. one other thing i want you to notice, brooke, the amount of police officers out here. about 3,000 f

my name is maurice mcgriff. america, let's do lunch. narrator: drop off a hot meal and say hello.er by donating your lunch break at americaletsdolunch.org. >>> as donald trump proceeds with cabinet picks hillary clinton leads in the popular vote by nearly 2 million votes and now there's growing calls for a recount on the part of some liberals. green party nominee jill stein has raised more than $2 million in order to pay for a recount in three key rust belt states, michigan, pennsylvania, and wisconsin. the campaign says over the last 48 to 72 hours reports have come in from cyber experts who are reporting to us trouble news about security breaches. stein received about 1% of the vote in wisconsin and pennsylvania but all three states played a key role until clinton's downfall. so let's talk about this with our panel. yes they've agreed to stay. why is jill stein doing this? >> well maybe she could collect money that she could use to keep her political career going when there's no recount to pay for it. let's remember that michigan, jill stein's 30,000 votes might have made the di

my name is maurice mcgriff. america, let's do lunch. narrator: drop off a hot meal and say hello.olunteer by donating your lunch break at americaletsdolunch.org. >>> i want to get right to my political panel. i just talked with nigel farage, one of the architects of the uk's brexit movement. he had a lot to say about donald trump and the transition team. joining me is ben ferguson, cnn political commentator, ron brownstein, senior political analyst and senior editor for the atlantic and josh rogen, columnist for "the washington post." i had this lengthy interview with nigel farage. i know all of you were listening. so ben, what stuck out in your mind? >> i think there's definitely some lobbying going on for him to get this position and be able to work with donald trump and to have i think better communication and better understanding between these two countries. the big question is, is this a smart move politically because there's going to be a lot of people in parliament that are not going to like this and are not going to like feeling that they are being pressured by donald trum

my name is maurice mcgriff. america, let's do lunch. narrator: drop off a hot meal and say hello.unteer by donating your lunch break at americaletsdolunch.org. >>> federal authorities are being asked to review whether the shooting death of a black teen in west virginia can be considered a hate crime. this is according to our affiliate wchs. police say this deadly shooting happened on monday night when william pullian and 15-year-old james means got into a verbal altercation on a street. accord to investigators, pullian shot means twice and has shown zero remorse since, telling officers at one point, quote, the way i look at it, that's another piece of trash off the street. pullian denieser saying that. he claims that means pulled out a gun and that's when he fired in self-defense. cnn's ryan young has been following this story. ryan, tell us, that's really the question, was means armed? do we know this? >> brianna, that's the question we're still trying to answer at this point. of course, it's thanksgiving, so we've called the police department, tried to nail down some of the deta

my name is maurice mcgriff. america, let's do lunch. narrator: drop off a hot meal and say hello.teer by donating your lunch break at americaletsdolunch.org. >>> well, legendary singer diana ross got a huge shout-out from president obama. the award is the highest civilian honor given by the white house. watch this. >> as a child, diana ross loved singing and dancing for family friends but not for free. she was smart enough to pass the hat. and later in detroit's brewster housing projects, she met mary wilson and flarance ballard, their neighbor, smoky robinson, put them in front of barry gordy and the rest was magic, music history. the supremes earned a permanent place in the american soundtrack. along with her honey voice, her soulful sensibility, diana exxuded glamour and glas and filled stages that helped to shape the sound of motown. on top of becoming one of the most successful recording artists of all time, raised five kids, somehow found time to earn an oscar nomination for acting. today, from the hip-hop that samples her to the young singers who have been inspired by her t

my name is maurice mcgriff. america, let's do lunch. narrator: drop off a hot meal and say hello.nating your lunch break at americaletsdolunch.org. >>> democrats, and some republicans, are raising questions about possible conflicts of interest in the donald trump presidency. but the president-elect is all but brushing aside those concerns. trump has an unprecedented amount of business ties to the white house. he has dealings in at least 25 countries outside the united states ranging from israel, to golf course developments in the uae and when asked about this during his interview with "the new york times" trump said, quote, the law's totally on my side. the president can't have a conflict of interest. and while trump says he's going to let his children run his global empire, most americans, about 59%, in a new cnn/orc poll, say that simply doesn't go far enough. so is trump right? is there a line when it comes to a president's business dealings? i'm joined by two experts. richard hay her is a former white house lawyer and ron barron is an ethics attorney. >> hello. >> nice to have

my name is maurice mcgriff. america, let's do lunch. narrator: drop off a hot meal and say hello.ng your lunch break at americaletsdolunch.org. lift up your head and keep moving or let the paranoia haunt you? everybody lack confidence, everybody lack confidence i keep my fee-fi-fo-fum i keep my heart undone the strong in me, i still smile. >>> more breaking news tonight. vice president mike pence says there will be a number of important announcements tomorrow from the trump transition team. president-elect trump had a busy day of meetings at trump tower, including one with former cia director and army general david petraeus. lobby of the 5th avenue high-rise has become a cat walk of sorts for staff positions. phil mattingly has been watching the arrivals and departures. a lot of comings and goings at trump tower today including general petraeus. what's the latest? >> reporter: yeah, i think what mike pence coming out of trump tower tonight was the most important thing. look, there's been a lot of focus on this secretary of state round robin of sorts and certainly general petraeus'

my name is maurice mcgriff. america, let's do lunch. narrator: drop off a hot meal and say hello.eak at americaletsdolunch.org. >>> william jefferson clinton but such conduct warrants impeachment and trial. >> senators, how say you? is the respondent, william jefferson clinton, guilty or not guilty? >> as bill clinton was fighting for his political legacy, hillary clinton was planning hers. it was february 12th, 1999. >> it was such a surreal moment. >> mr. mccain, guilty. >> because as the impeachment vote was happening on the floor -- >> mr. moynihan, not guilty. >> -- she was with the quintessential expert on the state of new york, of all things new york. >> that expert was senior adviser harold ickes. inside the private quarters of the white house, hillary clinton and ickes were contemplating a run for senate. >> we talked about fundraising, the cost, we ran the gamut. >> hillary pored over research and debated strategy. then the phone rang. >> she told the white house operator to put whoever was calling on. >> so i just called and said i'd like to talk to the first lady. >> w