Being with a light jacket and running around, very brisk walking, im nice and warm but if youre standing still, if youre not too active this morning, yeah, youll want the jacket. So dress in layers this weekend, something you can take off if you get too warm and for the day, days, you will want your sunglasses and hats because its bright. The veterans day forecast, a great forecast, some of the best weather in the nation today. Average, about 83 degrees, so were live here at the nascar sprint cup series, one of the final races on the stop for the nascar season, a big race, big points scored and determined who will win the whole season. Well tell you more coming up in the sevenday forecast. Well talk to a current navy with nascar in town were talking about drivers in the poll question today. Who drives better . Would it be women . Men . Or jimmy . Who is in the lead, matt . My eyes are bothering me. Let me help you out. 42 . Jim minute is actually going up at 19 . Its really easy for you to vote. Grab your do this for another hour this morning. Speaking of another great driver out on the roads right here, jen with our realtime on the road traffic. Shes not driving. Well, she does after the show. Good morning to you guys. Girl power here. Girls are great drivers. I have an awesome driver in here, chris, always great, taking it extra safe for us. Theres a couple of accidents we wants to mention. Well talk about those and give you a birdseye view of 17 north and southbound past durango. This morning, crash i17 northbound at northern. Well check that out in a few minutes. Also one on the 10 eastbound 51st avenue, slowing things down, in the hov lane. Lets givewider picture of the valley despite looking pretty good. The durango curve starts to back up and were approaching that and its relatively open. Well let you know about the crash on i17 northbound in just a few minutes. Thank you very much. We continue our team 12 coverage of traffic this morning, the friday morning commute already a real mess. Team 12s brian west is live at i10 and 51st avenue where a crash has backed up eastbound traffic. What happened out there . Reporter matt, we just got seeing. Traffic is congested, 51st avenue, and were told by a dot, it goes back to 75th avenue and slowmoving. Directing your attention to the hov lanes, we see about 810 cars there, the median area, and dps is doing an investigation. We have two squad cars out here and theres drivers and passengers sitting on the side of the road and we have a tow truck that did pull up. There was another car out here earlier that had been tak cleanup stages are in the process. If you look, it looks like bumper to bumper car wreck perhaps, a Chain Reaction between seven or eight cars. As far as traffic, slowmoving along the 10, 51st avenue to 75th avenue, well of course bring you an update coming up in our next half hour. Were live along the i10, 12 today. Thank you. On this friday, it also happens to be veterans day. Happening all around town. Team 12 has a preview of whats going on today. Good morning reporter good morning. Still dont get me wrong, i love veterans but i have too much hey stray for what is going on. These are the arizona superstars with the arizona twirling athletes and they will be one of the displays here for the parade. Kind of dangerous. It is. Most of the girls started at our camp that we hold every summer and they start at about nine years old and the next year they learn more. These girls are in high school now and so theyve been trialing with their High School Bands and for home coming, bon fires, and this is the ultimate things that they want to do. Reporter i would be too scared because of the product in my hair and i have zero but this is what you will see in the parade. Behind me is some of the floats. Theres 800 hours of engraving here, so a lot to see at the parade starting at 11 00 a. M. , so you dont want to miss out, starts on central, a hard left on indian school, and events around the valley, and you should know that businesses around the country as well as here in arizona are honoring the men and women who have served with veterans day deals, many deals to look out for. Its starts at 11 00 a. M. So get out here early. Theyll start closing down some of the streets in the area at about 7 30 this morning so i put a map of the parade route on my twitter so you can look at that. So come out and look at it. Tell. Beautiful floats there. Thank you very much, as well as the baton twirlers. 6 06 for the second night in a row pro tests broke outside across the country against president elect donald trump. In oakland, california, Police Declared an Unlawful Assembly after activists blocked off portions of the highway there. In salt lake, protesters marched on the state citys iconic city hall. Dr. Matt pace will honor our nations veterans today, paying contribute but the president will honor our nations veterans today. Hell make formal remarks thanking veterans, as well. Hilary clinton appears to be enjoying a break from the a woman spotted the clintons walking their dogs. The photographer, former president bill clinton. Still ahead on 12 today, from rock and roll to good eats, we have your fun things to do this weekend. When a visit to the white house blows your mind, the reaction is giving the internet a good laugh this morning. Well show you what its all about when 12 today comes right . [ music ] . . Good morning. The nba World ChampionCleveland Cavaliers stopped by the white house and produced two videos that have people talking and laughing out loud, including us here. They dropped what may have been the mannequin challenge to end all mannequin challenges, getting the first lady in on it. They posed with her and said they wanted to save this moment forever by doing it and it went viral. And then there was this. Before the teams visit came to an end the president suggested they take a photo with him and asked white house staffers to remove the podium before the stage. Before doing so, calling out to the staffers, hey, can we move this. Take a look behind them at the forwards face, and look at that, in awe. He tweeted and he said, team hashtag hetheman. Now its time for the juicy question of the morning. Are you ready for it . I am. Lets get to the juicy question. A good character always works good in advertising, right. So they sold sh remember that. Were asking, who are the two best characters in advertising . Im going to say tony the tiger. I you have mr. That one. And the gecko. From geico. Yes. Hes a good one. Flo from progressive. Shes relatively new too. Ill go with the toyota guy. You see him in all kinds of things. The most interesting man in the world. Who lost his job. Mr. Clean. You saw the commercial with him. Somebody said the horses, the clydes dales. Thank you very much. Its turkey tues up. All month long donations are being collected at registered, benefiting Saint Vincent depaul, making sure every family in phoenix celebrates. 6 14. Lets go out live to pir. Yesterday i was jealous of jimmy because he was vintage shopping and today youre jealous because hes over at nascar. Reporter its really, well show you more around the track. First lets get started on what the weather will be like. Were feeling the chill. I went up about a story or two so im feeling the wind. You will want to bring a shell with you, even if youre coming out here, the day is going to be awesome. It can always get chilly early on or at nighttime, too. And in the middle of the day youll want sunglasses and sunscreen too. Its a beautiful, beautiful weekend coming up like were pretty much rain free for the 67 days. In talking with jessie, a racer, Navel Academy graduate. How do you get from the navy to racing . You actually race and youre still in the navy, correct . Yes. Im on active duty in the navy and i went to the Navel Academy and played football there in four years and graduated in 10 and im racing in the pro star group. You are quite the athlete. Yes. I was grateful for the school and alumni and great for everybody in the organization. How did you get into racing, jessie . Ive always loved motor sports my whole life but as a foothills player i couldnt get into it because i was playing football. Once i got the opportunity to jump into it when i had a bit more free time after a couple of my deployments i jumped into the motor sports and figured out nascar is the way i want to go and thats the route i went. I race in the nascar k n pro series west. When will they be racing . They wont race this weekend, but this weekend is three divvies, the truck series, xfinity and sprint car and ill race in the 150, the 200, and the 500. Where do you want to end up with all this racing . Where do you see yourself in the future . The ultimate goal, make it the nascar sprint cup series. Our navel officer on top of that . Yes. And graduated from the Navel Academy . Yes. I need some of this on my resume, you know. Its awesome. Thank you very much for your service and just awesome to meet folks like that, as well. Thats out here this weekend and its pretty amazing. Back over to you guys. All right. Thank him for his service. Yes, you do, we have Navel Academy were talking about drivers in our 12 today poll question and we want to know who drivers better, women, men or one jimmy . What . Jimmys friends are waking up helping him out. Its almost a threeway tie here. You probably never heard this before but im saying this is rigged [ laughter ] in favor of jimmy. 12news. Com yourvoice. Go over there and vote. Women, we need to represent heres a list of great events to check out for this weekend. . [ music ] . . One of the most popular Culinary Events in the valley takes place tonight at the four season in scottsdale. Its from 6 30 to 9 30 p. M. The fun event benefits the Scottsdale League for the arts. Tickets are 125. . [ music ] . . Mosey over to the seventh annual chuck wagon cookoff starting at 9 00. Authentic chuck wagon for the 1880s. Enjoy it. Want to watch a movie . Catch hook tonight at 6 30. Bring a picnic blanket and also free a, perfect by l. A. Based rock band. Do you want your house smelling and looking fresh and clean without all the chemicals . Learn how to make ecofriendly cleaners for the house in todays lifechanger. Race weekend at pir and racing is the topic of trivia question. What is the fastest speed ever recorded at a nascar qualifying or race . . [ music ] . . This fun friday, the 12 news tracker, realtime on the road traffic and birds eye camera out and about on the valley freeways. Pretty light today, veterans day, a big thank you to all of those who served and continued to do so. The trivia, this weekend nascar returns to the valley. You can see that on 12 news sunday afternoon. Our question to you, whats the fastest speed ever recorded at a nascar qli race . Any lastminute guesses . Jay . 210 mph. 232 mph. 232, wow. Jay is close. The answer is 212. 809. They measure it to the thousand ths. They have gone up to about 218 actual event. 30 life changers that Everybody Needs to know to make life a little bit easier for you. Today were helping you around the house and were saving you money. Thats because lifestyle blogger is showing us this. Start with one cup of hot tap water teaspoons, one quarter cup of white vinegar, hydrogen peroxide, juice of one small lemon, mix it up, castile soap. Stir that up. Pour that into a spray bottle. Add a couple drops, maybe five drops, of oil. The reasons you do this at the of oil stickings to the measuring cup. Give it a swirl. Youre ready to go. There you have it. Come over to my house and start cleaning my counters. I dont know about your counters because heres the catch. You cant use it on porous surfacings like granite and marble. Just be careful about that. Join us next week for some holiday recipe favorites, going in the kitchen with my 2year old twi well be baking up one of our favorite desserts here, sugar cookies. Who doesnt like those except for matt. It airs monday as we kick off a new series on 12 today, in the kitchen with team 12, mark, joe, vanessa and i, all be sharing our Favorite Recipes with you so were excited that the holidays are right round the corner. Can we get an overunder on no to her kids during this segment. If you watch Facebook Live you see the truth behind the camera. Thats still posted. Dont touch that. No, no. Still ahead, what one mother is doing to make sure her family doesnt see what shes cooking up for thanksgiving dinner. Nintendo is throwing it back to the 1980s, the all in one mini that goes on sale . [ music ] . . Right now on 12 today, the valley honors our veterans, where you can show your support today. Plus eight games left in the cardinals needwins, a lot of them, the second half of not too many are fans of being tickled but rats are. Howscientists figured that out. Tickling and rats, a great way to start the day. A better way, jimmy out at pir, a birdseye view out there. Hello, jimmy reporter you know what . Its not that loud although ive been out here before when theyre racing and you have to were on the mechanic row and its pretty quiet. Its chilly. The temperatures will keep dropping, a light to medium jacket, a light shell. Look at this. Theyre getting ready, not a lot of workers here yet, probably around the 8 00 hour theyll be coming in here but the garages, its amazing. Theyll get filled up with the crews and they will start working and you will smell bacon and eggs, feeding their crews nd blown city that operates on its own. They have everything from gas trucks to mechanics to garages to wrenches to anything you would need. The semi trucks here, all the nascar, the cars, are sitting up on the top level. Theres an elevator in the semi trucks and when they open it up, the elevator comes down and they pull the car out. Its interesting. The car is actually on top. They dont drive it on the bottom. Its beautiful. Telling you, theres so many rvs, hundreds of them from folks who are sleeping and theyll be up in the next hour or so. They dont sleep in here. They work nonstop. They paint the bottom of these cars white in case they see any oil or any problems with the car, it will show up. Today, outside, its gorgeous, the sun is coming up, looking off to the east, not a cloud in the sky and like we talked about, a little bit chilly for this morning. Temperatures will be reaching about 83 for the high on this forecast, more on the weekend forecast, more on nascar coming up. Thank you very much. With nascar in town were talking about driving in our 12 today poll question. Thats right. We want to know this. Who drivers better, would it be women, men, or jim mimi . The women on top, 30 . You need glasses. Jimmy was with 44 . Because hes paying a lot of people out there. Grab your phone and vote. Well be updating the results all morning long. Lets go outside with jen, our realtime on the road traffic. Hello, jen reporter good morning. I just want to say that theres a study out there that says men are 3. 4 times more likely than women to get a ticket for reckless driving. Im just throwing that out there as folks are taking t their decisions, maybe just think about that. Were on the i17 southbound approaching cam pel back right now. We were just on the northbound lanes. Theres a crash i17 northbound at northern, backed up to about glendale but once you get down here its pretty clear here on the northbound lanes. Southbound, busier, heading into phoenix on this veterans day. Not quite as many people heading to work. As far as the rest of the valley goes this morning, we traffic map, the 10 westbound and from chandler and also the 101 starts to back up around ray, just a little, and theres a crash at i10 eastbound at 51st avenue, slowing things down too and weve had brian out there live giving us a live report of that guy. Well let you know if anything else pops up here on the valley freeways throughout the rest of the morning. Thank you very much for the update and study. Fun friday happens to be veterans day and theres tons of events all around town. Team 12 has going on today. Hello reporter were jump into it. I want to introduce you to adam sook. Im shaking your hands because i want to say a thank you you for your service, a military veterans from the university of phoenix, one of the sponsors of this event. Tell me why its so important for you the university and you to be involved here. Today is the 21st avenue of the parade and were honored at a proud sponsor in recognizing the service of our veterans. Reporter as we see here behind us, the powmia color guard, and its one of many things well see. Whats your favorite thing . My favorite thing is to see this Community Come out and passionately support our veterans who represent the best of what this nation is. Reporter thank you very much, adam. Thank you very much for your service. Were talking about the phoenix veterans day parade and lets not forget the rest of the valley, a number of events going on in tes lets see. I have notes here. In peoria 5 k, glendale, pearl harbor display, and events in other places, but back to phoenix, it will start at 11 00 a. M. And theyll start closing down streets at 7 30. If you need to see parade route, go he to my twitter. Come early because were expecting tens of thousands of people to be here. Its a great event. Thank you very much. We want to know how you are spending the day or who you are thinking about today. So, please, send us a picture of the veteran or active Service Member in your life using the hashtag beon12 and thanks to everybody who has sent in pictures already. 6 35. Lets talk sports, your Arizona Cardinals are back in action taking on the 49ers at home this is off their much neededbyeweek. The 49ers have lost seven in a row. It has to be a mustwin and fairly easy win for the cardinals. A mustwin, having to fix the issues, protecting palmer but the biggest thing they need to do is get back on track. The second half of the season now, you dont have 77 home games, spending the second half of the season on the road, and you have to set the tone. If they took my advice, the short passing game, if they do that, get the ball into john brown, larry fitzgerald, short and let them break it long. And the last time these two teams played the cardinals put up 172 yards rushing and they have to do that again too. David johnson will be a big part. If they will have success, its running the ball. Knock on this weekend, seven more games in the regular season. Do the cardinals have to win all of them to make the playoffs and really what are the chances that they make the playoffs at this point . Winning all of them would be the best option for them because i think that would secure it but they have to at least win six, if not seven out of these eight games. You have to have six. I think youve got to get help too. If you cant win your gigs, ffc east is playing west and central, too, and they need to win this first game and then yes. Thank you very much. Still ahead on 12 today, parents get ready to add this to your childrens christmas list, the new gaming system nintendo is launching today. Was this one of your favorite toys as a kid . A halloffamer . . [ music ] . . Welcome back, everybody, to 12 today. Lets check the morning juice good morning. Talking about the creator of the hit broadway show, hamilton. . [ music ] . . Take a look. When you are in a shower and like im in the sauna, do what i wanna. I could cut this shower door open with nipple wow catch them today on ellen right here on channel 12 at 3 00. . [ music ] . . You have to up. You might want to put this on your Holiday Shopping list. Nintendos first video game is making a comeback with a miniature collectors edition, the device, costing 59. 99 goes on sale today. Instead of classic game cartridges it includes more, blow in the cartridges to make it work . Yes. That is an amazing concept. Lets get to the juicy question. We are asking about the two best characters in an advertising campaign. Who are they . My guess is out. I was saying tony the tiger. Chris has another good one, the aflac duck. I love the aflac duck. Popeye, spinach. Hes been around. The first answer . Who is it . . [ music ] . . It is ronald mcdonald. I guessed that but i wasnt sure if i could use that. You talked about that during a break. Ill give you credit for it today. Thank you very much. Number two, the answer is. Wow i forget about jolly the green giant. Ho, ho, ho. Thats santa claus [ laughter ] at the end of the song. Wow. When did that commercial air . Its been a long time, right . So long that we forgot about it. Yes. I use fresh vegetables now. [ laughter ] still ahead here on 12 today, were going raci jimmy is live out at pir to give us the weekend forecast and maybe take us on a lap or two around the track. What would a home on mars look like . A Company Thinks they have the answer. Well share it with you coming up on 12 today. One week from today we debut Something Special on 12 its mustsee tv. You are watching 12 today good morning to you guys. Were on the i10 eastbound at 16th street, barely missing a gorgeous sunrise in phoenix, clear blue skies. Were seeing wide open lanes because of veterans day, and theres a crash behind us, i10 eastbound, 51st avenue, cleared, but its backing things up to about 83rd avenue, so with our exclusive birds eye e westbound lanes looking good. If youre on the 17 northbound at northern, a crash earlier. Crews are working on cleaning that up and it looks like that should not be slowing you down here for the next few minutes as crews work on that. As far as the rest of the valley goes, the 60 westbound, tempe, phoenix, slower this morning, but not as bad as a typical morning. The 101 northbound into tomorrow night, 10 to 44th street, and because of the veterans day parade this morning, stay on 7th avenue or 12th street to avoid the traffic there. We hope you all have a wonderful friday. Happy veterans day and thank you to all who have served right now and who have served in the past. Thank you very much. Its now 6 48. You know when matt gets excited, he starts talking in his southern act sent. This weekend of course its m gentlemen, jimmy q live over at pir and thats where you will be matt later on this weekend. Hello, jimmy. Reporter good morning. We are here at pir. Im talking to ben rhodes, veteran driver. He heights like matt, so he doesnt age. Its amazing. Talk about how long you have been doing this. 12 years now but this is my first fulltime year in the series. Amazing, a wild ride, 23 races across the country and up in canada. Its veterans day today. We went out to the v. A. Hospital, a lot of fun, so appreciative of everything they do for us. Where do you live fulltime. Louisville, kentucky, but our team is in ohio. We had quite the journey out here to phoenix. What do you think of phoenix . This is my favorite racetrack. Its beautiful outside here. We love coming out here, not only everything is great. Compare this track to the bigger ones, the threemile tracks. Whats it like on a onemile trash, is it tighter . I would consider this more of a short track, creating just enough speed to have the beating and banging but still spaces out. It awesome. You can cut the back stretch, racing like a short track, plenty of room to beat and bang. You are a veteran and youve how old are you . 19. Its not the food. Do you eat meat . Yes. Matt is a big racecar fanatic. He drinks almond milk. I drink chocolate milk. Come on out. Its a short race, still a lot of fun. How long do they last . About an hour and a half. Thank you very much. Thank you. Well get your Weather Forecast and im race. You will see me race right now around this track. Its amazing. The sevenday forecast, were going to have temperatures hold the microphone for me okay. Well have sunny skies, beautiful weather, and like we talked about, chilly in the morning, wear a light jacket will want sunscreen and a hat and wear ear mufs. Its loud out here. Follow me up here. Were ready to race. On the count of three well race. Watch out there, one, two, back to you three jimmy, dont get hit by a car, please. Who runs like that, by the way . [ laughter ] jimmy, keep on running, all the way to san diego. Go, forest, go run [ laughter ] oh, my goodness. Thank you. 6 51. Lets check the hot headlines. We have a silveralert. They are searching for 87year old burnett. He was working in his garage and has not been seen since. Call the maricopa Sheriffs Office if you see it. The a. P. Is saying donald arizona and its 11 electoral votes. On Election Night the president elect had a solid lead over clinton but was not declared a winner because there was so many uncounted votes. A Funeral Service is scheduled for monday afternoon for the Police Officer killed in the line of duty earlier this week. Darren reed was shot to death after responding to a call. He had been with the department for 10 years. He was set to retire in february. Hes survived by a wife and two children. Tonight the arizona capital dome will be all lit up Officials Say it will stay this way for the rest of the month as part of the green light a vet campaign, hoping to spar conversations about how our veterans are treated and reminding civilians about the sacrificing they have made. Several restaurants are honoring veterans and active freed food, Buffalo Wild Wings is offering dennys, active, inactive and retired, a build our own grand slam and i hop, offering red, white and blue pancakes. Theres sad news for the music world this morning, singer and song writer, Leonard Cohen died yesterday, best known for ths and writer before he got into the Music Industry andinducted in 2008. He was 82 years old. A consumer alert for anybody shopping online. Cyber Security Experts say they are seeing a spike of fake apps on app stores. Scammers make them look like legit retailers but its a front to steal your credit card information. Watch for red flags first, look there are, the better obviously. Experts warn staying away from apps with poor english. Scientists are working on homes and supplies that would be needed to supply on mars, of all places. A home on display at a show in london shows what a typical home on the red planet might actually look like. The podlike construction has computer, a someplace to grow plants, as well as exercise. Exactly what they had in the movie. New Research Showing rats, yes, rats, actually like to be tickled. Can you believe this . Who had to do this . They not only giggle but they jump for joy. The study was done in the sake of science to figure out why why body parts differ in ticklishness. Rat brains work similar to human brains, once, again, a wasted study. How do they come up with this . The sun devils got rocked by utah last night, 4926 win, the sun devils have lost five of six since starting the season 40. They have washington next week, one of the top five teams in the country. Tonight, the Mens National soccer team takes the pitch against mexico and ohio for a world cup qualifying match. They expect freezing temperatures at game time which is 3 00 our time. You can catch that on fox sports 1. Best of luck, guys, and get the thermals out. The cardinals are back from their byeweek, playing the 49ers in glendale. They will will be without injury. Game time, 2 25. Best of luck, cardinals. Just ahead of this years Holiday Shopping season, the National Toy Hall of fame announced the glass of 2016 fisherprice little people, finally made it after being nominated five times, and dungeons and dragons, a classic. My favorite is the rubiks cube. Bubble wrap didnt make it. An ohio mother is busy getting her home ready for thanksgiving. She closed it off until the day. She left a note saying special consideration will be made for you to come in. She says the only way to come i applaud her. Thats a great idea. When its time, yeah, im so doing that. When my kids actually understand, dont go there. You think your kids will listen . Of course not. Our poll question, who drives better, women, men or jimmy q . The final results of the vote thats been going on all morning long, youve got to be kidding me . Yes. Come on. This lot of people beer this weekend. Lieu who came in second, just saying, if we exclude him. Rigged. Rigged. We just have a hard time parking, otherwise were good drivers. Parallel parking, makeup while driving. Aside from wishing all the veterans a happy veterans day, i cant believe that study, ticklish. I have to go with nintendo, technobull. We have to play that. And my takeaway is go cardinals. I have not been to a game so im trying to make it out there on sunday. I hope we win. Theyre going to slaughter the 49ers. Nascar is back in the valley. A lot of left turns. Have fun. Avondale. Its going to be packed. You will see the big race on sunday on 12 news. Thank you very much for owatching, everybody. Well leave you with one last look over at pir where i think jimmy is still running . Good morning, breaking news. Antitrump protests break out in cities coast to coast overnight. One demonstration in portland, oregon, turning violent. Police calling it a riot donald trump back to tweeting what hes saying about the protesters this morning. Making peace. If you succeed, then the country succeed. The president and the president elect meet for the first time in the oval office. I very much look forward to dealing with the president. The first lady and first lady to be sitting down to tea. What was said behind closed