The clouds out there its been so dry. 76 in tampa right now weve warmed up to 77 in plant city. 79 in sarasota. This is even warmer than 11 a. M. Yesterday. Lakeland 4 degrees warmer about 2 degrees warmer in tampa and brandon but heads up here comes this cold front. Its bringing the first big snowstorm across the upper portion of the country and its going to be making its way here. The cold front comes through saturday night. So sunda you dont like it that way well be gradually warming up into thanksgiving and ill have all the anonymous for you coming up. New this morning were getting clearer picture of what the Trump Administration will look like. The president elect has chosen people to fill several key positions. I have to tell you that the kansas congressman pompeo has accepted as cia director. Do you think you could be confirmed . People have to make that decision. Retired Lieutenant General mike flynn has agreed to become National Security advisor no confirmation required. Donald trump is a phony, a fraud. Mitt is a very sad guy. A transition says president elect trump will meet with mitt romney sunday to discuss state. Need people of quality like mitt romney to be considered for the governing aspects and even if the campaigning was a little bit add odds. The Vice President elect is on capitol hill selling his bosss agenda to democrats. Were beginning to discuss areas that we might move forward on together. We will try to find our Common Ground where we can and 100 days. Well some news that could affect us here in florida the trump team is planning what it calls a thank you tour of blue states turned red. Thats set to happen some time after thanksgiving. Governor rick scott met with president elect donald trump in new york on thursday and after the meeting the governor tweeted these pictures saying he was there to congratulate his friend. This morning hes clearing up any speculation that he post and says hes got a lot of work to do in florida. I want to finish my job as governor, its what i ran on, ive got a lot of opportunities i think to continue to improve the states. Weve added jobs. I want to keep this going i want to improve education, i want to keep people safe. I want to finish this job. The governor also said americans voted for change and tampa this morning, a father killed by his own son. Tampa police tell us a 23year old got into a fist fight with his father, a 43year old. Witnesses say the father fell to the ground during the fight then the son grabbed a knife and continued to attack him. The father died at the hospital and the son is under arrest charged with Second Degree murder. And developing this morning an escaped polk county inmate is found him in north lakeland. Flanagin was working at a county Maintenance Facility when he took off in a cell loan truck. Deputies spent all night searching for him. He was scheduled to be released in march and now faces escape and grand theft auto charge. And Police Detectives are searching for the people or person who shot and killed a man early this morning. Police the person living in the unit heard the car slam into the building. When Police Arrived they found rogers inside the car with at least one gunshot wound. He decide at the scene. We were there as investigators canvased the area looking for evidence. A Police Spokesperson tells us this is very rare for winter haven. There are a lot of you know maybe a few car burglaries things of that nature but not Violent Crimes in this area and our city is very safe. Our crime rateas this is very unusual for it to happen in our city, but when it does it definitely makes an impact. Police ask anybody with information to call them or call crime stoppers. This morning questions about safety in ybor city after newly released video you see here shows a fight on a 7th avenue bar this quickly escalated and ended with a driver plowing into a group of people and into the to be a familyfriendly destination. Theres a popular market and festivals celebrating the areas history but do incidents like you saw in this video affect that progress. Tampa police point out crime is down 38 from last year and the Crisis Center of tampa bay speer heads an Antiviolence Program in ybor city and says problems are rare. People remember outstanding news items and dont remember ale ybor is a really gem for our community. Well as far as this hit and run tampa police know who the driver is but have not been able to track him down. Its not clear whether he intentionally aimed for the victim or if it was a uturn gone wrong. Driver left the scene. Happening today tampas park will turn into a winter wonderland. The winter village you can enjoy ice skating through december 25th. Tickets are 12 per person for 90 minutes of skating. Then you can spend more time at the cafe and market that features local shops. Well, some changes coming to the cross bay ferry, starting this weekend the ferry will serve beer wine and cocktails as it shuttles passengers between tampa and st. Petersburg. It will also start operating 7 days a week, that starts next week. A regular oneway ticket will cost you 10 but a commuter e half. And today we have a special birthday to celebrate. We sure do. Its mickey mouses birthday. Hes 88 years old. He plans to celebrate in style. He hasnt aged one bit. There will be parades and parties at all the parks all around the world. You want to keep your eye out for the release of his new music video. Hes still working. Celebration. He first appeared on steam boat willie 88 years ago. Looks so youthful still. Well, wells fargo is starting to feel the effects of the scandal it endured earlier this year. Lots of customers ditching the bank. And claiming your money shouldnt cost a thing but there are plenty of companies out there that will tell you otherwise. Coming up well show you the lesson a tampa woman learned when she got better call away. Coming up next the deals to look out for. You know what free or beautiful sunsets we get lots of pictures. I picked this out from brian. You know what, we also have a big bunch of cold air coming in. Ill tell you when it arrives. Sea turtles are a welcome sight here in the bay area. So when we get a new piece of video we like to share it with you. This one is coming all the way from mexico. A Conservation Program there released 8,000 baby sea turtles thats just a few of them there. The local mayor says without the programs assistance they would not survive. He says humans are their top predator. Which sadly the same day as they scrambled into the pacific. Off in the distance men could be seen taking the eggs. A clear illustration of the necessity. Why protection is so important. You know, we have to turn our lights off so they can make sure they know where to go. We strive very hard here. See the little baby ones go out to the sea when they hatch. Love it. Cool mornings, warm afternoons though. I think i count 3 clouds. 75 degrees, 50 humidity. It has crept up a bit it is still really comfortable. Same thing at the veterans ford in tampa where it is now 73 degrees and winds at 7 Miles Per Hour. Going through the rest of the day not many clouds right around 78 degrees by 1 p. M. By 3 thats when i expect the High Temperature to happen. Comfortable mild, evening 73 degrees right at 7 p. M. Right now lakeland youre 75, currently 73 in clear water we do have just a few clouds especially down cross south florida thats why i think well get a couple of passing clouds during the day today. And it was seasonably cool, but a northeast breeze adds that slightly higher humidity. Now, im only saying that because yesterday was almost air leads to a few clouds. Tomorrow morning High Pressure begins to fade away and moves into the gulf of mexico so it will be slightly warmer even tomorrow morning. Maybe even seeing some patch she fog. All out ahead of this cold front. Its going to come through here late saturday. Most of us will get close to 80 degrees and the cold front brings a tiny 10 rain chance. The bigger impact wi that moves in behind it. For the time being enjoy the warm day today, 81 degrees. A very pleasant evening temperatures will come back down to near 62 degrees during the overnight hours. But lets check out the 8day forecast because youll notice the huge change on sunday a high of only 67 its going to be windy making it feel colder. And our coldest morning monday morning. So you head out the door its going to be kind of a shock to the system. Well be warming trend back to turkey day on thanksgiving with a High Temperature back near 80 degrees again. One of the those times of year where we go up and down quickly. It might be a good weekend to take your christmas photos because you can get everybody bundled up. Or you can do it on saturday and be in shorts and tshirts. And be like hey. If youve been cheated when you need help shes on your side. Better call behnken. Well, Shannon Behnken has showed us how the state is holding onto millions of dollars and some it could be yours but be careful there are people out there who want to take some of it from you. A tampa woman says a company demanded that she pay up to help her collect money so she gave shannon a call. Carol stumbled across a website that claimed it could reunite her with lost treasure. More. She told me i had to pay a membership fee for unclaimed money. The site even offers a monthly or yearly subscription for a price. For carol she was led to believe her late mother had unclaimed money but first she was told to pay a 5 fee. So they wouldnt tell you if your no, but they had her address. She was too smart or that. She called me. And i found many sites like this one charging for something state officials will give for free. The real website is floridatreasurehunt. Org. I looked up her mother and found nothing. They were going to get the 5 bucks from you and tell you sorry because theres nothing here. No good news for her, but to find out. Officials at floridas cfos office do have millions to turn over though. You can find out if you have money by searching fl treasure hunt. Our recent unclaimed cash phone banks helps viewers reconnect with 2. 3 million. We had a 20,000 claim come out of polk county, we had 19,000 up in the Temple Terrace area. Carol is happy to know and wants to prevent you free. Now, i can rest assured mom is good money. Officials say there are many web sites like the one she stumbled across and some of them actually do what they say theyre going to do but no need to pay them. Now, if you have a problem that needs solving you know who to call you better call behnken, the number is on your screen. Reports customers are significantly pulling back from doing business with the bank. New account openings fell 44 in october from a year earlier and account closings rose 3 . The bank also saw a 50 drop in credit card applications. Wells fargo is facing a backlash because of the discovery that a number of employees opened up 2 million accounts without customer authorization all goals. Volkswagon will shed about 30,000 jobs as it tries to recover from its huge emission scandal. Most of the cuts will come in germany where the automaker is based. The company says the job cuts are necessary in order to reduce costs. After they were found to be cheating on emissions tests fines and compensation payments have added up to tens of billions of dollars. Mcdonald wants to be more ordering, mobile payments, smart menu boards, custom sandwiches an maybe even table service. Theyll pile it mobile ordering the first half the next year. About 500 stores in florida new york and Southern California have already made the switch. And hooters is jumping into black friday and cyber monday. Theyll release what it calls the endless craving card for a it will give you 20 a day worth of menu items through the end of the year, a total of 3,000 cards will be offered up in 2 waves, the first on black friday at 3 in the afternoon then on cyber monday at noon. Online at hooters. Com. Well if youre doing preblack friday shopping this weekend amazon has some deals amazons addict tall assistant. All you have to do is say alexa what are your deals. And starting today at and t wireless customers that have an alexa device will be able to send Text Messages hands free. This is pretty neat. Theyre adding that skill to the list of many, many abilities once youve preset a list of as friends youll be able to ask alexa to send one of them a text message without picking up your phone or typing. Now, i hope she reads it back to you before she sends it. Theres problems. Yeah, you know how that goes. Doesnt understand you. I want her to help me make thanksgiving dinner. She can do that too. She can set your timer and you know little tips and tricks. Well, its the weekend and hitting theaters. One is expected to dethrown dr. Strange. Well tell you which one coming up. Also president obama just named off the latest recipients of the medal of freedom. 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The underdog is plead for this, its about a boxer who battled back from a car crash. Analyst predict an audience led mostly by older man who remember him from his hay day will deliver a 5 million weekend. Out the red carpet for the newest recipient for the president ial medicine dam of freedom. 21 will be honored. Among those ellen and robert dis and robert redford. And vince skully got a personal phone call. Its the highest honor that year that hes been in office and gives it to just a handful of people, and this year hes going to give it to you. Oh my gosh, no. Yes. So youve had are you sure . Well im an old baseball announcer. Im rather overwhelmed and humbled. I love that. Are you sure . Right. Thats a very humble reaction. The medal of fre you cant take it back once you give it to make sure. Well, metalicas first new album in 8 years is on sale today. The average person may not category rise metal as mainstream music but when it comes to them its as close to mainstream as it gets. Its the most streamed metal band in the world. It appears on 15 million you may have seen them on the tonight show wednesday. Sound familiar . Yeah, that enter sandman. Doesnt sound so hard core classroom instruments. A new Weather Satellite goes into orbit tomorrow. Nasa says it will forever change the way we look at forecasting. And we have the info on the satellite coming up. Plus an 8 on your side warning for parents, a new app, a very popular one that could expose your children and the steps that you should maybe take to keep them safe. President obamas final [audio difficulty] plus new maps show a dramatic loss of shore line [audio difficulty] the most famous venue for horse racing is set to undergo some changes. And good morning. Thanks for joining us. Lets check in with leigh for your friday forecast. Looking fantastic for a friday really looking fantastic for any day. Lake club at lakeland ranch very comfortable 76 degrees, just a couple of clouds out there. Beautiful at the plantation on Crystal River as it always is, 73 degrees there. 61 humidity. Were close to 80 in some cases. 79 76 at zephyrhills. Theres the big cold front thats bringing snow fall across the upper midwest. We take a big dip in temperatures 81 today, 9 saturday, grab out the scarf thats what emoji man says, 69 on monday but notice we get a nice warm up as we get closer to thanksgiving. So if youre heading out for one of turkey trots, quick lunch maybe 75 degrees with a few well, right now president obama is on his way to peru to attend an economic summit. He left earlier this morning after meeting with key leaders of the countries. The heads of state discussed security and economic challenges facing the partners. President obamas meeting with the leaders of germany, france, italy and spain was likely his house in january. Today new york mayor and Police Commissioner will give a briefing on a their plans to protect trump tower. There have been security measures around the building. The president elect lives in the penthouse. New yorkers hoping that the mayors plan will limit street closures in that busy neighborhood. Today a Police Officer charged in the death of a black motorist is due in court. Youll remember he was shot stop and live streamed on facebook. He had told the officer that he had a handgun on him and had a permit to have that weapon. He is now charged with Second Degree manslaughter, the Prosecutor Says theres no evidence he ever tried to remove the gun from his pocket. And gunfire breaking out at a tennessee toddlers birthday party. The shooting left one woman dead and speed limits. No word yet on a motive or if the victims and suspected shooters knew each other. Questions this morning about the disturbing video of an arizona Police Officer punching a woman in the face. Hard to watch. It happened when police were serving a warrant. The officer claims the woman was uncooperative kicking and kneeing him before he punched her. Now, body camera video released shows the woman struggling with take her into custody. The officer who threw the punch is now on administrative leave while an investigation is underway. A fire at a pallet yard in california this morning. It quickly burned about 2 acres before firefighters managed to contain it. Firefighters reported multiple explosions from propane within that compound. No one was injured and the cause is unknown. Horizon oil spill affected thousands of people and businesses all along the gulf coast. But none more so than those in loose. They lost a lot of land. The new maps from nasa show much of that recession came after the dp oil spill of in the gulf of mexico. The maps show a dramatic loss of land from 2010 to 201 after much of the coastline was coated with researchers say it can kill or weaken vegetation along the shore. When that happens the soil is more prone to erosion. And the fists significant snowstorm of the season as moved into the midwest. You can see it here. Thursday the snow caused a 20 car wreck on i70 in rapid city south dakota forecasts are calling for 2 to 3 inches of snow parts of the state are under winter storm and weather warnings. In the city of dead the storm is also expected to dump 8 inches in parts of colorado. Church hill downs is getting face lift. The venue will complete a 37 million project in time to add more than 1,800 seats for the 2018 derby. It will include luxury suits, dining tables and third floor seats. The new space on the in order end will have 3 floors of individual suits an dining an ev and a private balcony overlooking the start of the derby. Now, an alert for parents this morning theres a Smart Phone App that some is making snapchat look like a thing of yesterday. This one is called musically. Its been around for a while and very popular but it could be confusing for parents to figure out. Thats why we explain. Unless you live with the preteen youve probably never heard of musically. Social media platforms its exposing children in ways they probably dont understand. . Musically is a music video making app. Users phone as musers create 15 second lip sync videos. Most of the accounts have been created by middle schoolers. Profiles include a nickname photo b media profiles. Most link to instagram. You can make sure your childs account is private. Go to the settings page on their profile and switch on the private account button. That ensures only people approved to follow the account can see their videos. To further privacy switch on hide location info. To block a user from contacting your child or to report click on those 3 dots in the top right then select block user or report abuse. Now, you can prevent your child from downloading any app, apples i tune store and Androids Play store have parental control available in your settings. They include a variety of ways to block your child from using a variety of apps. Back to you. Wow. Yeah, you know, its one of eye on. The whole location thing does that mean that somebody can tell where your child is. If theyre not with mom and dad and strangers can see what theyre doing and where theyre at thats dangerous. A rainbow baby is a baby born after a mother has a miscarriage or still birth. We actually showed you one of those photos last month. Now, its grown a lot in popularity. Case in point this picture right to show families who have experienced the loss of a miscarriage or still birth that theres still hope and its okay to talk about it. The images were posted on facebook with a strong message of encouragement. It was like 16,000. People are posting their own rainbow babies, their own stories. I felt like it could bring a lot of people together and it did. Good stuff. Yeah, very nice. Nice to know when to share that story with others to help them. Were about 24 hours away from the launch of the next generation satellite. And well tell you about how its going to improve weather forecasting here in the u. S. And less than 20 games into the season the lightning have lost their captain to injury and a bad one. Were going to tell you how long stamkos is going to be off the ice this time. Sunset. We cant show you enough of these. This was captured at clear water beach. You may want to head out to the beach on saturday versus sunday because thats when the cool air gets here. Ill tell you how long that cool air sticks around ive been thinking. This might be the one thing in the world you pull apart to come together. New papa johns cinnamon pullaparts covered with cinnamon crumble and sweet cream cheese icing. Try our new cinnamon pullaparts for just 6 bucks. Move over hope diamond. Another impressive been added. This is a mere 187 stunner. Its known as the fox fire diamond and its now on display at the museum of natural history. Look at that thing. Discovered last year in canada e largest known uncut gem quality diamond ever mind in north america. The diamond will be on display alongside the hope does it matter . Because i dont think anybody could afford it. Or hes not going to sell it or its priceless at this point. Do you get a discount because its yellowish. I think that makes it more valuable. Its about the size of a small soccer ball it looked like. We had such great weather, things are going to change if youve been waiting for holiday weather, well, it looks like next start to feel like the holidays because even though weve seen cool mornings weve seen warm afternoons which is what were seeing here. Us a check out the forecast for the rest of the day not many clouds around 78 around 1 p. M. 81 by 3, an then ring the bell on this work week, 7 p. M. Pleasant evening 73 degrees. There has been a light breeze coming in at about 10 Miles Per Hour in lakeland, gusting up a little higher than that 17 Miles Per Hour currently in bartow. And in bartow its also warm at 81 degrees, 80 already in clear water right now and 79 in plant city but a wider view point shows other places are gripped in that first taste of winter 22 in denver, 20 in montana, 28 in rapid city and snow on the ground from the seasons first big blizzard s its heading up toward minnesota, its raining now but all the cold, wet snow is going to be heading in that direction. And the cold front thats where we have small areas of rain thats whats going to be pushing through here as we head into saturday night. Until then High Pressure is in control and its sunny and comfortable. Even saturday during the day will be nice because here comes the cold front saturday night. I left in a 10 rain chance. Im not banking on that rain to another warming trend as the winds start coming out of the southeast for tuesday and wednesday. And we head into thanksgiving one more cold front coming through. When you take a look at the 8day forecast 81 today, 79 tomorrow then what a difference on sunday. Breezy and 67. So its going to feel colder than 67. That chilly start too monday, there you see, 48 degrees, an then a gradual warming trend pretty quickly getting up to close to 80 degrees on thanksgiving but thanksgiving should be get that warm afternoon. Looking good. But, you know, your job may be changing here. A little bit. A little help from a friend here. Tomorrow big big day in weather forecasting a brand new satellite is being launched. Its called the goesrr satellite and well let leigh explain a little bit more about. Goesrr in a new series of next generation Weather Satellites. Nasa calls this a game change other forecasting. It will provide advanced images about 4 times better resolution than the current satellite data kind of like going from standard definition to High Definition and it will bring those images in 5 times faster. This detailed information will help create more craft forecast models, also new is real lightning mapping and for us here locally an improved hurricane intensity estimation. When we get the storms that are way out we cant really send a Hurricane Hunter into them now, using this satellite well be able to get a better estimate of how strong it is. So much safer. Sometimes they send planes. And theyll still do that you just cant send one out way off the coast of africa. So youll its exactly 22,000 miles right above us so it actually orbits the earth at the exact same speed that the earth rotates so it stays over one spot. You know what, your science nerd is showing right now. What did you say . Thats how i felt in science class all through school. Thats why youre a meteorologist and were not. Tests moving just moving at the same rate we are. Ll thanks. You should be a science teacher. As it launches into orbit the latest capsule will arrive at the initial space station tomorrow. Our producer is going to watch the launch. Now, expedition 50 launched yesterday. The crew woodson. Shell celebrate her birth on opt space station making her the oldest woman in space. Well, some bucs news wide receiver mike evans and offensive guard ali will attend a rally theyll join teams cheerleaders and captain fear will be there as well. 4 p. M. Sounds like fun. And this week they travel to kas city to play chiefs. Hopefully we repeat that success. They have not beaten the buccaneers in 24 seasons. So lets keep that going. Kansas city is very good this year though contending for first place with oakland a and theyre on a 10 win home streak. Weve got to break that. The record has them in second in the nfc south, atlanta is in 1st they have a bye week. The panthers and saints put on quite a show. The panthers got the win but lost kuekley. He took a hard hit to the chest. In the division. Theyre all now tied for second with 4 and 6 records. Well, lightning cant tap stamkos underwent surgery in colorado yesterday to repair that lateral tear in his right knee. Youll remember he suffered that injury tuesday night in detroit. General manager released a brief statement confirming the procedure and expects to be without his leading scorer for about, ready for this, 4 months. Havent heard it already. The timetable places his return late in the regular season with about a dozen games to go. I was at an event but one of the people pointed out hell be back in plenty of time for the playoffs. Trying to find the bright side. Theres usually therapy and those things associated with recovery. Thursday was World Records day. And today we get to see some of the Brand New Records that were weve got it all. Animals, basketball, jumping, ss. The 12th annual World Records day huge success more than 600,000 people worldwide took their shot at setting a world record but it wasnt just humans. Skipper became the first animal to set a record. She set a new record for the one minute 19 rings. I can do that. Z. You have to include the harlem globetrotters. They set more than a few but one in particular was the sweetest, check it out. Took my record. Im taking it back. Awesome. I heard him sea they beginning that the guys stole a record from him well big easy now has it back the longest hook shot from 72 feet 6 and a quarter inches. It all counts. And that brings us to one of the most bazaar records set on World Records day. The highest bungee dunk. There a cookie into some tea. I prefer milk, but hey whatever youre into. He beat the previous record by 42 feet. How is that even possible. There it is again. What, iffed that been stretched a little bit too far and he hit that cup. With his face. What happened to the cookie . Did he eat it. He earned it. If anyones earned a cookie its that guy. Looks 81 this afternoon, low humidity great day to eat lunch outside but come sunday break out the boots and scarfs because its going to be windy and chilly. Thanks for joining us have a great friday. Ill see you back here first at 4 and tonight at 6. Have a great day and weekend. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with Kathie Lee Gifford and hoda kotb live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. You made it, everybody. Whewhoo try day, friday. November 18th. That is bemean by dnce. I want to call it dnce. Whats it stand for . I cant remember. You dont know. A great day to kick off the