shaq, former president trump just responded to what we were just laying out, that criticism of him for his comments last night. what is he saying? >> reporter: you know, in a close election it's clear that anything can move the needle here. throughout the morning his campaign responded aggressively in somewhat a damage control mode saying his statement was taken out of context. saying it's media spin and fake media outrage. we're hearing from the former president himself via truth social. we have it up on the screen for you. quote, all i'm saying about liz cheney is she's a war hawk and a dumb one at that, but she wouldn't have the guts to fight herself. he goes on to say that essentially if you were to put her in combat she would not choose to do that when she wants to send other people into combat. that mirrors the language you heard from his campaign throughout the day. i think this goes to show how tight this race is in michigan. michigan is a state that donald trump lost in 2020 after winning it in 2016. we also know that in this race in the sprint to the finish as we close out th

shaq, how is it looking?y this morning, but so far so good. you know, the official travel rush doesn't begin until tuesday, but we're already seeing some weather-related travel impacts across the country. if you look out west, for example, that relentless rain and heavy wind responsible for some real delays at airports yesterday, and then when you go up to the northeast, you're looking at delays, not just in the skies, but also on the ground. just look at some of this video that we got from pennsylvania. the hope is that all of this clears out before the real travel rush next week, and that's because aaaa is expecting another record setting travel season. we're talking about 80 million people projected to travel this thanksgiving. much of that is fueled by what you're seeing on the roads with that $3 a gallon gas. people taking advantage of those lower gas prices, and you're also seeing record air travel. get this, international travel bookings this year up 23% when compared to last year. that's of course put

so, shaq, this is a bit strange. investigators in wisconsin gave an update.'t know specifically where he is, but we learned in that press conference earlier today that they've been constant daily communication with him since he sent them that selfie-style proof of life video back on november 1th. now, they're working right now to see if he had any help getting out of wisconsin and leaving the country. and they said that in their communications with him, they've been able to figure out exactly how he was able to leave, almost undetected for nearly two months. listen here. >> he stashed an -bike near the boat launch. he paddled his kayak in a child's-sized floating boat, out into the lake. he overturned the kayak and dumped his phone in the lake. he paddled the inflatable boat to shore and got on his e-bike and rode through the night to madison. >> that's about a 60-mile ride on his e-bike. and once he got to madison, the sheriff says he took a bus that took him through detroit and into canada. and that's when he was able to board a plane and they believe he's

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. >> and shaq, a former missouri state highway patrol trooper is facing similar charges. what are we hearing from both men? >> both are pleading not guilty in federal court. in this instance with the missouri state trooper, you see him on screen there, david mcknight, 39-year-old, involving nine women with a pretty similar fact pattern. both are charged with deprivation of rights or destroying records, one is charged with destroying records involved in a federal investigation. we've reached out to attorneys for both and we have not heard back. >> shaq brewster, thanks so much. >>> time for today's cnbc money minute. a car repair chain closing hundreds of stores and kraft mac and cheese the subject of a class action lawsuit. kate rooney joins us now. >> hi, zinhle. start with advanced auto parts closing more than 500 stores and 200 of its independent locations by mid 2025. that comes as it tries to turn around its struggling business. advanced auto did not share which locations would close and how many xwlis would be impacted. a judge ruled wednesday kraft heinz must face

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>> shaq, thank you. >>> new numbers out tonight show that americans are in debt at a record level, almost $18 trillion with more people struggling with the crushing cost of credit card debt. senior business correspondent christine romans has more. >> reporter: mortgages, car loan, credit cards, americans are borrowing more than ever u.s. household debt now at $17.94 trillion. for credit cards, that debt has never cost more. the average interest rate almost 22%, way higher than auto loans and mortgage rates. >> i was like, holy -- like it was hundreds of dollars per month. i'm like, i could be spending that on groceries. >> just in interest? >> just in interest. >> reporter: jamie park ser chipping away at her part of the record $1.17 trillion americans now hold in credit card debt. >> i was in about $60,000 worth of debt when this all started just to be able to live for the year with my kids. >> reporter: the marketing professional and single mother of two leaned on credit cards when she was laid off three different times during the pandemic. >> i've really had to cut back. >> reporter: r

shaq, where do people traveling next week need to watch out? >> reporter: well, jose, the latest forecast shows a potential storm crossing the rockies and plains on wednesday and bringing potential snow and rain to the eastern third of the country thanksgiving day. jose? >> shaquille brucer in chicago, thank you. >>> fast and furious efforts to fill his administration. in the past 24 hours alone, ten new choices. aaron gilcrest now on what they could mean for the economy and public health. >> reporter: tonight president-elect trump choosing brook rollins to lead the agriculture department, saying she will spearhead efforts to protect american farmers. she's also an alum of trump's first term, serving as his director of domestic policy. the appointment coming after a barrage of announcements late friday night. the president-elect naming nine key appointee, most in two areas the new white house will be focussing on, public health and the economy. >> come on up, scott. >> reporter: for treasury secretary, scott bessent, a major donor and economic

shaq brewster, thank you very much for your reporting. howard university where vice president kamala harris will be holding her watch party tonight, the president of the national watch network, the host of msnbc's "politics nation, reverend al sharpton. rev, tell me what you're watching for. voters willing to wait two, three, four hours to have their voice heard today on election day. >>. >> reporter: well, i think it is very invigorating and to me something celebratory to see so many people vote. we'll see what the results are. i also think the fact that people are waiting in line shows that people have taken this very seriously, nicole, because you have probably not seen such contrasting candidates in our lifetimes, probably not since the civil war, that stands for two opposing views on everything from women's rights to voting rights to civil rights going forward. and standing here in howard university, i think that it really speaks to the history of this moment for this is the first time that you had a black college host a presidential

these tvs are bigger across than shaq is tall by a foot. yay or nay on them? >> i love them.hey are great. >> what? >> your whole wall will be a tv some day. you won't buy them. >> this is horrible. >> you will paint on a screen some day. i love them. you will have a wall of everything. it'll surround you. >> i have to tell one quick story which is one time my wife and i were out looking for tvs and she said is that one to big and i said darling, there is no such thing as a tv that is to big. there you go. the panel is back with the takes on hot stories or what will be in the news before its news. that's right after the break. >>> it's time for the panel's special takes on what's happening. our predictions of what we should look out for. >> i come today to defend my industry. the polling industry. after this election i know there are many americans who feel surprised that donald trump swept all seven battleground states but if you looked at most of the public polling averages they did show the race very close. the polls will probably wind up being off by about 1 to 2 points u

. >> shaq, meanwhile, the former president unleashed a whole series of new attacks against his politicalals last night. is there a strategy behind this? >> reporter: well, it really seems like the strategy, jose, is to let trump be trump. if you look at the format of the event last night, it wasn't a standard rally where he's on stage behind a podium. instead, he was sitting down next to conservative media personality tucker carlson. we heard those really vicious attacks, not just against vice president kamala harris, his opponent, but against one of her top endorsers and former republican congresswoman liz cheney. i want you to listen to the comment that is drawing so much controversy this morning. >> she's a radical war hawk. let's put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her and see how she feels about it when the guns are trained on her face. >> reporter: and the trump campaign just released a statement this morning essentially clarifying that remark, saying that the point he was trying to make was that people want to send service members into war, but not fa

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shaq moment had a chance to sit down with the young boy. >> my dad, of florida and cell phone and i took it and then he bought another london judy. come on. kuhn is showing us his father's collection of fishing rods. his father >> was a lifelong fisherman and started taking out when he was just 5 years old. my dad was a really funny guy. >> we had a really good personality. you help a family member. but on opening weekend for dungeness crab jude, his father. cousins and family friend capsized their boat. the waves were just too big or at least maybe 14 c judas as his family tried to get the vote out of the waves. but the water was coming on too quickly. and then we all put our life jackets on and jumped in the water overboard. then in a heroic act, his father pushed jude away in a cooler that came from the boat. >> his father let go of that cool air. and then after the chaos, jude was alone floating. something that went through my head was if i was going to make it to see my family or make it to see another day. >> or >> not dead. he found himself washed ashore and in the morning he went

inside the nba with shaq, kenny, charles barclay, and the key is ernie johnson.produced by turner, but it will air on espn. there were questions here, when that deal went through, that warner brothers discovery had the right to match the contract, i guess that whole thing is done now? this settles that? >> that's right. so warner brothers tried to match amazon's package, which was a $1.8 billion per-year package for the next 11 years. warner brothers decided it didn't want to match our parent company, nbc universal's package, which was more like $2.5 billion. the league argued, that amazon package streaming only. it's an exclusively streaming package. what you want tnt sports/warner brothers discovery, you would be putting the games both on cable tv and on streaming. we don't want that, because we see the cable ecosystem dying, in essence. we want to bring in amazon, which has this large, global footprint, probably double or even more than double the size of max. that's why we want amazon as a partner. warner brothers discovery tried to get some extraction from t

. >> shaq and openai ceo sam altman are both doomsday preppers.shaquille o'neal is reportedly been building his own apocalypse bunker, and sam altman told the new yorker in 2016, quote i have guns, gold, potassium iodide, antibiotics batteries, water, gas, masks from the israeli defense force and a big patch of land in big sur. i can fly too. it's kind of a privilege thing. the idea to be so rich that you can have a house, a summer house a vacation house, and in case house i live in a new york apartment. >> i don't even have a hall closet it's also like if everything really goes down i don't want to be here. take me let the zombies take a bite. i'm done. i don't want it. >> we'll see what happens after inauguration in january. yeah speaking of, i what i creation is upsetting some people. >> this holiday season. >> i know this one. the coca-cola commercial, they made it entirely out of ai and it's terrible. >> artists actors and filmmakers are angry that coca-cola has used generative ai to create a holiday commercial. here is the ad cola >> did we

what exactly did investigators uncover, shaq?talking about two different now former officers from two different departments who are accused of doing essentially the same thing. let's start with the 29-year-old julian alcala. we expect to see him in court in a little bit in 15 minutes, where he's expected to plead not guilty. prosecutors say he took the phones of some 20 women during traffic stops under the guise of confirming insurance information and vehicle registration. and they say instead, he searched through those phones and would look for explicit images and when he found them, would take pictures of those images from his personal device. they also say that in one instance he found an explicit video and texted that video to himself and then deleted evidence of that text message. one woman talked to the affiliate in missouri there and said she feels humiliated, saying she now has to be treated for the trauma that she is facing. i want you to see the statement from the police department that we got. they say they're complete

earlier this year, jason kelce opening up on "the big podcast" with shaq about his brother travis havinge moved into a new house, a gated community, somebody knocks on a window of the house. >> reporter: this morning, the fbi now assisting in the home invasion case at bobby portis' home, and river hills police telling abc they're in contact with authorities in kansas and missouri. >> the connection could be you have three professional athletes, two football, one basketball, or is this just a matter of, it's pretty easy to look up when a basketball game is being played and to figure out where a particular professional athlete lives because they're also very active on social media. >> reporter: and as for bobby portis, the bucks player says he is offering a $40,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest, whit. >> whit: all right, morgan, thank you so much. >>> we do want to turn now and get another check of the weather with somara theodore, and we do have some rain coming. a few more days of drought conditions and snow already in utah. >> somara: frozen rain. how about that? >> whi

let's start with michigan, shaq, you're out there.g up for the trump event there later today. you have been covering the state. give us a sense of both what donald trump is doing there today but also what voters are telling you. what's the sentiment on the ground? >> reporter: you really feel the sense that it's tight here in the state of michigan. detroit officials there are happy with what they're seeing with early voting. you're hearing that pattern increase in early voting. it's the first time the state has had early voting for a general presidential election. a lot of people engaged with the vote, and that's part of the reason why you have donald trump coming here, we also know that ahead of this event, according to one local business owner who told this to the ap, donald trump will make a stop in dearborn, michigan. that area has a high population of arab-american voters, and a big arab-american community. it has done a lot of reporting on this. a lot of the leaders in that community saying they are very frustrated and angry at

so, shaq, you know, you're at one of the incumbent senator tammy baldwin's kickoff stops in winnebagore? we're seeing the lot of same day registration, and democrats right now, have an edge, according to all of the data coming out of wisconsin. >> reporter: yeah, so the thing is, when you look at here in wisconsin, early voting is now over in terms of that in-person balloting. you cannot go to your local clerk's office and do the early voting anymore. you can return your ballot, and election day is happening tomorrow. that's why you're having the work you're seeing in these offices now. i'll show you around, we're in between shifts right now, where volunteers are making packets, that are going off, launching off and going door knocking, i'll take a look at groups right now. they're going off about 1.5 million people have cast their ballot by mail or early, in-person. they're making packets, reminders that election day is coming up tomorrow, and a reminder that people's polling location, now is the time to go out and get ready to vote. one advantage that a lot of these parties are havi

. >> shaq brewster for us in milwaukee, wisconsin.t, call, second time we are able to make a projection in a battleground state. "nbc news now" projects that in the battleground state of georgia in the presidential race donald trump has prevailed in the presidential race in georgia. so, again, of our swing states, we have two calls thus far, georgia and in north carolina for nbc news. that puts the map at donald trump with 246 electoral votes and kamala harris at 189. both are aiming at 270. of the seven states that we consider to be battleground states two, north carolina and georgia have been called by nbc news as of this hour. both of them called for trump. >> rachel what we can say now is if harris does not win a state that is not treated as a battleground state if she does not do that, she now absolutely must pull out a win in pennsylvania. if there is no surprises outside of the battlegrounds then georgia, plus north carolina, plus pennsylvania would get donald trump to 270 electoral votes. look at pennsylvania we are closing in

what they're thankful for this year hey it's the inside the nba crew so let's go right down the line shaqe you thankful for. well i'm thankful for you guys thankful for family. thankful for children. thankful to just still be working and to just still be relevant somehow and just just happy. and if it was up to me i would like to see homeless people. have a great day today. you know, it really hurts my heart to see people not have somewhere to go on a nightly basis. so if i was in control, i would make sure everybody at least can have a meal on that day. very nice jet. well, the greatest gift always, always the things you can buy family, friends and health and relationships. those are the greatest gifts that you have. i'm always thankful for those, um and so for me that's what thanksgiving is about everybody know thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. yeah, because you love to eat yeah, i do love to eat but it's really the only time you get all the family together invite a few friends, and y'all just sit around. just just be together. have a nice meal and just spend quality time together wi