he had gotten infatuated with the eastern seaboard south where luke spends a lot of time on nantucket. so i called one of my friends in the midwest, and i said, how is he going to do? he said, one line, he said, he doesn't wear socks. and it was that summer kind of thing that you see in the eastern seaboard. you can't do that in farm country. >> right. >> so that became for tim and me, shorthand for a candidate who didn't have a clue about where they were going. how are they going to do? he doesn't wear socks. okay. >> and i use that to this day. it's a great descripter for those kinds of candidates. let's open it up to the audience. shelby. >> shelby coffey, mr. brokaw. you delivered a wonderful eulogy for our friend ben bradley at the washington national cathedral this week, and i wondered, it was great for the cathedral. you're now in a temple of free speech, so if you had another couple anecdotes about ben and what it was like to be with ben, kind of resemble being with james bond, we'd love to hear those. >> so question from shelby there, any more anecdotes about ben bradley? you

but the winds, the talk of town around nantucket, in massachusetts, up to hurricane force winds this.ake a look at the footage. powerful wins and the sort of weather, when you think about new york city, this is what some of the people for the marathon had to deal with. and then to the south, around gatlinburg in tennessee, this was the scene when it comes to snow showers out of the great smoky national park. about 22 inches came down in this part of the united states, the most they have seen on record for this time of the year. that's the latest in weather. >> that looks so miserable. >> can you imagine? first week of november and you see that, yeah. >> not nice. thanks so much. >>> the u.s. has an election tomorrow, up next, we'll explain what makes this midterm election so crucial. >>> the search continues for 43 missing college students in mexico. their parents say they trust no one to help them. on retailers to healthcare providers, jewelers to sporting good stores, we provide financing solutions for all sorts of businesses. banking. loyalty. analytics. synchrony financial. engage

forecast in the most extreme corner of the united states into southern canada, but you take a look into nantucket u.s. state of massachusetts there were winds up to 70 miles per hour. that is almost hurricane force. and zmoefl over 22 inches. 55 centimeters in gatlinburg, tennessee.the great smokies national park earler on into the weekend. some of these areas receiving a record amount of snowfall as natalie alluded to. you typically come out to see the autumn colors and then you have that covered by the snowfall that came down across this region. temperature very cold across this region of the pauts this hour. some 45 million people underneath frost advisories and warnings across the southern united states, also the mid-atlantic states with this weather across our region. a warming trend, a quite rapid one in store for a lot of people sploeshl in the south and atlanta. 65 fahrenheit pushes on into the 70s after touching the freezing mark into the overnight hours a couple days ago across that region. we have hurricane vance to tell you about. as the 20th letter storm of the season the v letter st

. >> he goes to nantucket for thanksgiving. >> he's up in nantucket right now.e gets out swimming with his shirt off. he's doing it yesterday i guess. where is he as far as the white house goes? he was frozen out. the staff treated him terribly. is he still frozen out? >> people focus on the president's relationship with boehner and mcconnell. his relationship with pelosi and reid is just as important. is he going to do what they want or cut them loose? if he cuts them loose, i think biden can make deals. >> why would he not cut harry reid loose? >> he's worried about the 40% of the country that supports him if he is still worried about helping harry reid get re-elected. i don't know. he needs to politically. he has governed exclusively asking nancy pelosi and harry reid, what can i do here? >> how has that worked out? >> saved the auto industry. reregulated the financial sector with their help. >> you're talking about things that happened five years ago. how has that worked in the last five years? >> not very productively. >> they got a tax hike in there and th

i have a whole outfit picked out but i'm from nantucket. i'm used to that.e's a musician. you're so cute. let's get production tools. go ahead and produce. and i'm like, i don't know how to do it but you can do it. i wanted to so bad that i sat there and learned. >> taught yourself, wow! >> incredible. >> god-given talent. >> he was behind me, watching me all night like what? >> the song has just blown up, "all about the bass." it's become an anthem for normal-sized, plus-sized girls. you're kind of taking a hit on skinny girls. what do you say about that? >> what? record deal -- no, i wrote it for me because i wasn't comfortable when i wrote it. i was like, this is what i wish i said and sounded like. now singing it every day, you can see i do feel like that. it tells me ahelps me and it's bunch of people but it's not to bash skinny people. >> you wrote that song thinking somebody else would sing it but nobody wanted to sing it, the story goes. >> once the skinny part line came and the other stuff we kind of giggled and looked at each other and said no one

you're ditching us for nantucket.

he had gotten infatuated with the eastern seaboard south where luke spends a lot of time on nantucket. so i called one of my friends in the midwest, and i said, how is he going to do? he said, one line, he said, he doesn't wear socks. and it was that summer kind of thing that you see in the eastern seaboard. you can't do that in farm country. >> right. >> so that became for tim and me, shorthand for a candidate who didn't have a clue about where they were going. how are they going to do? he doesn't wear socks. okay. >> and i use that to this day. it's a great descripter for those kinds of candidates. let's open it up to the audience. shelby. >> shelby coffey, mr. brokaw. you delivered a wonderful eulogy for our friend ben bradley at the washington national cathedral this week, and i wondered, it was great for the cathedral. you're now in a temple of free speech, so if you had another couple anecdotes about ben and what it was like to be with ben, kind of resemble being with james bond, we'd love to hear those. >> so question from shelby there, any more anecdotes about ben bradley? you

. >> reporter: by the way, so after you finish the parade, you are flying to nantucket. thanksgiving with your family in. >> i get to see my family. i'm so excited. hi grandmarks hi mom, hi. >> today it's all about the turkey, not about the baste. >> all about the turkey. >> thanks, for having me. >> reporter: let's check your weather, no problems here in the east. you head out west, man, what a mess. you should be thankful you are not going to seattle. a lot of heavy rain there. >> look at that. >> reporter: all day, 50s and heavy rain t. good news is, it's going to get down into northern and central california where they really need it. so every little bit helps. but they do have flash flood watches in effect. look at that all the rain, we are talking one to three inches of rain, some areas picking up 8 inches of rain and mountain snow, that's at least good news for the skiers. the rest of the country, mid-atlantic states seeing snow. >> that's good. >> that's >>> happy thanksgiving. i'm "first alert" meteorologist brittney shipp. we're going to stay below average toda

nantucket for example, 70-mile per hour wind gusts, that's almost hurricane force. what show you saw might have been going sideways. the remnants is cold air. a lot of temperatures around freezing this morning and an interesting juxtaposition because of all that. all of these are freeze areas, but the reds that pop up for later in the day, that is red flags. we go from freezing conditions to warming up enough later today with all the dry air that came in that we actually have a fire danger in some parts of the southeast. >> i still heard snow. >> that's all he heard he. >> a rock is reportedly making plans to launch a major offensive against isil. >> it comes after hundreds were slaughtered in anbar province. we have more on what the u.s. can do to stop the advance of isil. >> a suicide attack along pakistan's border to india. dozens are dead and now the taliban claims responsibility. >> taking a walk on the wild side to say the very least, daredevil nick with a len da walking the tightrope high positive chicago. we are live with the excitement, controversy and scie

>> yes, in nantucket this summer. >> you did it with your -- >> with my own car. i was driving.led up and got the receipt. >> i thought it would be -- the last commercial airlines flight, when was that? >> that was 1968. >> hold on. this is a car or a golf cart? >> thank you, andrew. >> it was my jeep. >> the in-flight movie on that commercial -- the last one you were on was "sound of music," right? and it had just come out. >> why am i getting picked on? >>> the dow rising 2% for the month. seeing if that trend can continue in november. and ron johnson talks the economy, ebola, and the middle east. but before we head to break, a nascar brawl at texas motor speedway. jeff gordon trying to have some words with brad keselowski. look at the left of the screen. that's kevin harvick instigating it. now it's on. gordon came away with a bloody lip. keselowski had a cut over his eye. not the first time that keselowski has gotten into trouble. he was fined $50,000 just three weeks ago for a fight at charlotte motor speedway. "squawk box" coming back in just a moment. hopefully no black e

. >> frank and i were on our way to nantucket and we were about 2,000 feet in the air and the front doorer when my kids were with us and they were little, and it was about 40,000 feet, and all of a sudden we heard -- the clear air turbulence and we went like this, i thought i'm going to die in atlantic city. i died so many times in atlantic city. but this is -- so anyway, they're counting us down and i was enjoying my story, but we'll go to al who is working hard. >> this is important. al roker is live as we speak. he's -- we hit just the 12-hour mark? >> we just hit the 12-hour mark. >> good. >> on the way to 34 hours to try to break the guinness world record. right now we have sunshine and 43 degrees. next few days, not too bad, clouds later today, 48. partly sunny on friday and 44. saturday looks good with plenty of sunshine. so here's the deal, we're going for 34 hours in a row. the alleged record was set by a young woman in norway, but she's not been verified by guinness, so to start off, we had guinness here, and we have actual guinness verified witnesses watching everything, loggi