Resort. South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley has accepted trumps nomination to become the u. N. Ambassador. We have word that dr. Ben carson, onetime 2016 Campaign Candidate has been offered the secretary of housing and urban development post. While the wall street journal reports mitt romney has emerged as the top cte secretary of state. The big news from the sitdown with New York Times is turning heads after he backed off Major Campaign pledges in an on the record discussion with the paper, key among them, prosecuting hillary clinton. And heres what he said back on the campaign trail. Hillary clinton should have been prosecuted and she should right now be in jail. Lock her up. Lock her up. Is, quote, just not something that i feel very strongly about saying he doesnt want to hurt the clintons adding, she went through a lot and suffered greatly in many different ways. Well, Trumps Campaign manager Kellyanne Conway backed up trumps position saying this to msnbcs chris matthews. He said it was a Vicious Campaign and he just wants to unite the country and move forward, not backward. Breitbart, t site that backed trump throughout the campaign is blaring the title, broken promises. While the conservative Group Judicial watch says backing off clinton would be a, quote, betrayal of promises to the American People to drain the swamp for out of control corruption. During the Campaign Trump attacked the paris accord which was a major climate deal signed by nearly every nation in the that our companies can compete. Now the Trump Campaign says the administration to be says he was, quote, open minded about the open deal adding that when it comes to global warning i think there is some connectivity between human activity and climate change. The president elect also condemned and disavowed the recent gathering of alt right members when the conservative right group broughtho group i want to energize and if they are energized, i want to look into it and find out why. Were now learning that the Trump Foundation in a new tax filing admits to violating i. R. S. Rules but when it comes to trumps businesses and possible conflicts of interests the president elect remains steadfast telling the New York Times, quote, the laws totally on my side, the president cant have a conflict of interest. Residents in chattanooga, after Mondays School bus crash that killed five young children. 12 in the hospital, 6 critical, 6 in stable condition. A commune the community gathered tuesday night. Kerry sanders has details on the driver. Reporter the driver of that bus, 24yearold Johnthony Walker has been charged with five counts of vehicular homicide, reckless driving and reckless endangerment. According to the affidavit 30 mile per hour speed limit on a narrow, winding road when he lost control of the bus. Nbc news has learned from state records that walker had his license suspended in 2014 for 25 days for failing to show insurance and he was involved in another minor School Bus Accident just two months ago. No one was injured. Among the five children killed in mondays accident, 9yearold zoey nash. Her younger brother, 8yearold zakaria was also in the bus. These images here especially knowing that it was carrying 37 students and the bus was not equipped with seat belts. The ntsb expects to complete the on scene investigation within 7 to 10 days. They have one key witness who was driving a car behind the bus and theyre asking for any other witnesses to come forward. Theres good news in the fight against terror this morning. A u. S. Air strike killed a senior al qaeda leader last week announcement. This represents another blow to al qaeda in syria and represents continued u. S. Representation to target Al Qaeda Leaders wherever they pose a threat to the u. S. And our allies. He moved to a syrian affiliate. He had ties throughout southwest asia including those that had attacked u. S. Forces in afghanistan. It is the day before thanksgiving so youve got your and the cars are loaded. Nbc meteorologist bill karins is here with us to tell us more. Its all good. Take each others lines. Its not going to be a horrible travel day today. We are going to see things improving in some areas. Very happy to report we had a chance for tornadoes yesterday. We didnt have any of those tornadoes in areas of texas. On the weather map areas are in minnesota, wisconsin. Areas of light snow. This lht the ohio valley. Look through the major cities, were talking chicago, ohare, light rain this morning. Later on this afternoon indianapolis to detroit. Then on the west coast we have the front moving on shore here with some rain. Deal with maybe some minor issues on i5. Nothing horrible. Tomorrow morning looks like a steadier, heavier day. Louisiana and texas up here and minnesota and wisconsin looking between nevada and utah. Sacramento to santa fe will be just fine. The areas of greatest concern, guys, are going to continue to be tomorrow morning in the west with the heavy rain. Well talk more about your thanks giving day. For the record, it was me w the artists were celebrated by president obama. Awarding them with the nations highest honor from kareem abduljabbar, Ellen Degeneres, bruce springstein. The president admitted this may be the best group ever. Today we celebrate extraordinary americans who have our union, pushed us towards progress. First we came close to missing out on a bill and Melinda Gates incredible partner shn because apparently bills opening line was, do you want to go out two weeks from this coming saturday . Fortunately melinda believes in Second Chances and the world is better for it. In 1976 Loren Michaels the beatles to reunite on his brandnew show. In exchange he offered them 3,000. Which was early proof that Loren Michaels has a good sense of humor. Its easy to forget now just how much courage was required for ellen to come out on the most public of stages almost 20 years ago. What an incredible burden that was to bear, to risk your career like that. People dont do that very often. From a philadelphia courtroom to normandys beach heads to the introduced us to americas unassuming heroes. Tom says he just saw ordinary guys who did the right thing at the right time. Well, it takes one to know one. There is a reason you call somebody the Michael Jordan of they know what youre talking about because Michael Jordan is the Michael Jordan of greatness. Along with her honey voice, her soulful sensibility, diana filled stages that helped to shape the sound of motown. Bruce springstein has brought us all along on a journey consumed with the bargains between ambition and injustice and pleasure and pain. 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Sailors were embraced by their loved ones on its final they made stops in scotland, france, along with other ports. Now the ship had a glimpse of hollywood fame. You may recall this back in the 1990 thriller hunt for red october. Now after 35 years in the fleet this is the last scheduled deployment. Hopefully it ends up in a place where generations of Young Americans can learn more about it, more about the navy. How special to have those families back in time for thanksgiving. Spending it in d. C. Or out in shane kimber. We shared details of how the i. S. S. Will share thanksgiving. Happy thanksgiving from the International Space station. It will be a little different for us up here in space but im going to try to make it as much like home as we can. Heres the turkey. In a pouch. Well heat this up and it will taste good. One of our side dishes is candied yams, blueberry cobble ler. Well have Mission Control send up live footb watch to complete the experience of thanksgiving. 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Dana good morning. Welcome n. It is 4 30 on this wednesday before thanksgiving. America is on the move will be hopping. They have the busiest schedule in all of las vegas when it comes to air carriers. We take to you atlanta for one of the busiest airports on planet earth. People are at least walking through the security line smoothly. Once they get to the other side who knows how that goes once they are trying to get on their planes. We have a team of people in