Theres a plane flying over tampa. Our veterans for camera, 74 degrees. Max defender 8 confirming what we are ready no. There is no rainfall locally, however it is much warmer than this time yesterday. 77 plant city. 76 tampa. 75 brooksville. 78 sarasota. Look what a difference, 8, 9 degrees warmer right now than this time yesterday. We have snow into the midwest and rain that extends into the gulf have a big impact but it will help to increase our humidity levels. Overnight tonight will start to see some fog develop. On your thanksgiving morning we could actually have some pretty thick fog. Near 80 degrees today, tomorrow and friday. That includes thanksgiving. A week front comes through on saturday. It will not bring much rain and really not much cooler air. Is quick cool down on sunday and we will stay dry until the right now millions of people are getting ready to catch those flights to be with friends and families on thanksgiving. It is considered one of the biggest busiest travel days of the year. Mary mcguire has more on what things look like audit Tampa International airport. On this thanksgiving eve, Tampa International airport is perhaps one of the most popular spots in town. While the weather is still beautiful, implement weather across the country could impact flights. Over the past few days parts of th with snow and freezing rain like minnesota and upstate new york which could all lead to a challenging start to holiday travel. Traveling from tampa talk time michigan, teresa green has almost everything she needs to beat the cold. I have a jacket, hat, scarf , no mittens. He has special cargo flying with him, his grandson titus was flying for that concerned about the weather but is keeping an eye on the crowds. Just a watchful. Keep an eye in your luggage in your surroundings. Thanksgiving thursday is expected to be the latest travel day. The sunday after turkey day is expected to be the busiest day for air travel. With all of those people on planes it is easy to get wigged out but one traveler we spoke with had simple advice to avoid stress drink. No. Im kidding. Reporter nearly 49,000,000 people will be on the move over last year making it the biggest how will travel rush since 2009. Im not sure she was getting. Some news out of Tampa International to ease the holiday rush. The departure areas will remain open the blue departure areas will remain open. The construction is on hold for the busy holiday period. Nikki haley and former republican president ial candidate doctor ben carson. Bloomberg is reporting the president elect has officially are good offered the role of secretary of housing and urban development to ben carson. Donald trump says he will nominate haley to be his ambassador for the with donald trump during the early stages of the president ial campaign eventually endorsing ted cruz. In october she said that she would go for trump even though she was not a fan. After trump won the election she called his victory a new day for South Carolina. The governor address to the people of South Carolina direct you on facebook, probably about an hour ago now. She described her love of the and would remain governor until the Senate Confirms nomination as ambassador to the un. She explained she accepted the new role for 2 reason saying, quote, the first is a sense of duty when the president believed to have a major contribution to make to the welfare of our nation, and to our nations standing in the world that as a calling that is important to keep. The 2nd is a satisfaction hed. The section he the 2nd is an acknowledged nation acknowledgment that South Carolina is a very good standing. Clinton has been urged to challenge the votes and 3 key states. They believe the machines used couldve been manipulated or hacked but they have not seen petersburg family brought a newborn home from the hospital over the weekend only to be dealt a huge setback a few days later, fire ripped through their home early this morning. Is ryan hughes reports, a simple gesture by a neighbor may have saved that family. A boy who is just 4 days old was inside of his home with his dad and stepsister when someone knocked on the back door to let them know this place was on fire. Mark had just fed his little boy when his stepdaughter frantically ran into the room at around 12 30 this morning. My stepdaughter came and woke me up. She said someone was knocking on the door saying they backdoors on fire. He ran out back to see the fire spreading. I have my newborn kid inside. He tried to put out the fire with its of water but to no avail. The Fire Department showed up and got it under control. All the smoke probably would have killed my kids. In the end everyone was okay including the 4yearold boy thanks to the quick action of a neighbor that knocked on the door. As long as everyone is safe im all right. It is believed and electrical issue started the fire. We will keep in touch with fire investigators and let you know if there are any developments to that story. New information about th chattanooga tennessee that killed 5 Young Children and injured several others. Were learning more about the driver and his history. 24yearold walker is facing 5 counts of vehicular homicide, reckless driving, and reckless endangerment. State records show that he had just gotten his school bus license in april. In september, 5 months later he was involved in an minor schoolbus crash. No one hurt a balloon release to honor those kids who were killed. In the fight against the zika virus, the Florida Department of health lifts part of the zika virus zone in miami beach. 3 different sections were designated as zika virus zones and the cdc issued travel warnings to pregnant women. Lifting part of the zone means there has not been a new infection reported in that area for 45 days. We cannot take this for granted. Are going to have to continue to fight this until we get a vaccine at the federal level. Is because own virus covering covers about 1 1 2 as zika virus zone covering covers about one half square miles. Ramp in wheelchair agents are being hired at an allday hiring event. It is being held at 5900 airport auditorium lane in sarasota. And there are multiple positions available at pay between 8 and 12 an hour. Job offers may even be made on site. A bright flash in the skies over florida, a fire bomb from space. Lots of cameras capturing video. We will show that to you coming up. For weeks you have heard about dozens of black friday deals. It could be very overwhelming so we have broken it down into some easy bitesize nuggets to th tell you about. Toyota owners listen closely. We will show you makes and models that have problems coming up. It was such a pretty morning. Tony capture the sunrise at lake parker in lakeland just as the sun was coming up over the horizon. Since then we have seen a lot of sunshine. I will let you know what you can expect for thanksgiving and then a look at your travel forecast as well this morning people in the bay area are talking about a bright fireball in the sky. Take a look at this dashcam video from a north port police car. That will get your attention. That bright flash came about monday night. Many speculated it must have been a giant meteor. That is the only video where it was seen in largo. This is video from a security camera. Here is one more Police Officers dashcam. They posted the Close Encounter on their Facebook Page with some saying, could it be aliens . No. Why the big burst, it comes into the earths atmosphere and it can explode. It is so bright it can be seen for a long way. That would make you do a double take. Yes it would. Im sure a lot of people did because on have seen a fireball. It was seen from Central Georgia in atlanta all the way down to miami. I will show the picture to you. These are all of the people that sought. Those other sightings. You can see it was clustered right here in the tampa bay area. Now the only right thing we are seeing in the sky, sunshine. We have a few clouds out there, 75 degrees, south winds milesperhour. The fact we see a few clouds is an indication that the humidity level is starting to increase. That is one of the reasons why we have fog tomorrow morning. For your thanksgiving morning watch out for that. As we use max defender 8 there is a touch more humidity but no rain. We are still warming up. By 1 pm we will get 76. We had 79 at 3 pm in a very comfortable evening right clearwater you are a little cooler and 71. We will widen this out and show you there is very cold air across the rocky mountains. Also storm system is developing right through the center of the country. We have snowfall in the upper midwest that extends all the way down to the new orleans area. At this point not of lot of airport delays. The one place not a usual, new york city with a 30 minute delay coming in right now. We will watch this storm system especially if you have to drive impact on us is the slight increase in humidity. It made it not as chilly this morning. The rain and snow back to the west. That will be a travel headache. It will stay pretty comfortable locally. Tomorrow morning again for thanksgiving you do one watch out for some fog. It will be a mild are mourning even for the turkey trot. The runners will probably be in short sleeves and short. This front will save you are north and we will be in the 80s by thanksgiving afternoon. A tropical storm. It may regain hurricane status before making landfall and moving out over Central America and then to the specific ocean. It is not having any impact on us. In fact we stay pretty comfortable. 79 today, 81 turkey day, 81 black friday. We do have a week cold front coming through on saturday that is why put in a 10 percent rain chance. Not banking on rain just letting you know you d sunday and even that doesnt last long. We are back into the 80s by tuesday wednesday. Hurricane season got us through november 30. There is a reason why it goes through november 30 because it can still happen. After many stores were criticized for being open on thanksgiving day in recent years, most are going to be close this year and go back to doing things the old way leaving thanksgiving for feast shopping bonanza. We have more on why retailers are reversing that trend. Thanksgiving is it trend that is traditionally seen as a holiday more about family and friends then gifts. Retailers have been cutting into that precious time by opening up early on turkey day to entice shoppers. This year could be different. According to bass black friday. Com, dozens of National Retailers are deciding to stay close on turkey day dillards, cost go , dillards costco, dillards and publix. It does cut into business but at the end of the day our associates are more important to us at this point in it is important for them to have that opportunity to spend time with their family. The changes used to forgo by giving their employees the day off. Petco will also be closed on thanksgiving this year. We believe in putting our partners first. It is a great thing to do leading into our busiest time of year. They encourage people to spend time with their family and not in store aisles. It is not just stores making this decision. The mall of america in minnesota will be closed for thanksgiving day. Individual stores can decide to be open if they wish. It is almost time to hit the black friday sales or get online and grab up the early ones. 8 on your side has all of that covered for you tracking down the best deals. We. Meredith is joining us. She has Study Material for us beagle before we go spending that hardearned cash. Here are a couple of websites that i want you to look peerkthisistheblackfriday. This one is helpful because it will tell you specific deals like macys, walmart, deal here at one best buy. If youre looking for particular deals this is great for that. It will also show you different ads for various online and in store locations. Overstock is one of those online locations. Let me show you another site. This is a financial website but it has nation. This is nerve wallet. Com. You need to search black friday to find these areas but again you will see the actual ads for a lot of major retailers. Maybe you dont get the paper you can go here and see all of those scanned in. You can also search deals by individual stores. If you are looking for anything in particular of a particular score store, this is a great place to go for that. This friday. Com. In addition to things that are going to be useful on actual black friday like the top 10 video games for the videogame lover in your family, it also has stores with black friday online sales now and preblack friday instore sales now. Some great resources that we do want to remind you that you can go to wfla. Com. All of your thanksgiving and black friday store hours are listed here right on our homepage. From that we go to a consumer watch. A federal judge is blocking a that would have made about 4 million more americans eligible for overtime pay on december 1. The court says the Labor Department exceeded its authority. The white house wants to shrink the whitecollar exemption which allows employers to skip overtime pay for salaried workers who make more than about 23,600 a year. Toyota recalling more than 700,000 this affects models from the years 2011 to 2016. The company says the sliding doors could open while you are driving. Toyota has not confirmed injuries or deaths related to this problem. The carmaker says it will notify those who may be affected a midjanuary. The latest College Football rankings are out. Were there any surprises . Not really but this weekend it has major playoff implications. We are back with a look at sports as the College Football regularseason enters its final week. We have set of dramatic days ahead with conference title games playing a big role for who gets a shot at playing the championship which happens in january at Raymond James stadium. These rankings remain steady. Both teams earn the top 4 and there is a strong possibility both remain in the top for next week. Here are your top 4 teams right now. The tigers have zero room for error with washington breathing down their next in number 5. The huskies much must be Washington State to play the title game. College basketball also underway. We have already had a major upset. Took down the 3rd ranked team in the country, the indiana hoosiers. They stormed the court after sheer joy after this happened. A huge win for the summit lead lake. The final 71 . 68 in overtime. A major upset so early in the season. Check this out the nhl going all in on las vegas. Sin city is now the home of the vegas golden knights. It is a first major sports team. Unveiled its name last night. The knights will debut as the 31st team next season. Teams such as the lightning will prepare for next year. The bolts are playing nice welcoming this new team. The lightning tweeting out, welcome to the show golden knights. See you soon. We of course look forward to welcoming las vegas into the nhl. After firing the us mens soccer coach, a previous coach. Bruce is returning to head the us mens soccer team. The first tour was a success. He remains the National Team winningest manager. He helped lead the us to their best world cup . And more than 80 years when the team advanced to the quarterfinals back in 2002. They have coached the l8 galaxy of critics. Most of them from inside the us. All many World Leaders are wishing him well some are expressing concern. Coming up we hear from the dalai lama. We get his take on the new president elect. Donald trump picking more members of his cabinet this morning plus were learning about what happened during a sitdown meeting york times and the president elect. In the fate of the slide were a boy died late last year. Medals of freedom given out by president obama. A lot of smiles in that room. One recipient couldnt help but tear up. We will tell you which one. Good morning. Thank you for joining us. House. Or they are just enjoying their time here. I have seen people in the pool and on the water. It was a little bit chilly over the past couple of days. We are now getting the warmer air fresher. Max defender 8 confirming what we already know, no rainfall and actually none really expected with sunshine and a little higher humidity were certainly warmer than this time yesterday. Sebring at 79. Lakeland 75 clearwater 72. This is your 24 hour temperature change anywhere from 5 to 10 degrees warmer right now than yesterday. Lets talk about tomorrow and your thanksgiving forecast. For the turkey trot it will be mild at 63 degrees. You have to work up the appetite getting ready for the big meal. Watch out or some. We know you dont want to ruin your appetite. 76 degrees for the quick lunch. The big dinner happens in the todays high 79. Go up to 81 for thursday and friday them back down into the mid70s by the end of the weekend. President elect donald trump is in florida today preparing to celebrate thanksgiving at his palm beach estate. This morning we love we know more about a sitdown he gave the New York Times editorial board. Very happy to be invited for my nbc news haley has accepted offers are of ambassador to the un. She was highly critical of donald trump during the campaign. Mitt romney is the front runner for secretary of state and ben carson is being considered as the secretary of housing and urban development. She has to go to jail. Reporter after a link the interview with the editorial board, donald trump says it is time to make peace with his formal rival saying in part move on from her investigation. There is a tradition in american politics, after you win an election you put teams behind you. Except for criticism of the trunk foundation which reported in a new filing it violated irs rules. It may have to pay penalties or more taxes. In the meantime the president elect focused on filling his cabinet. These have been inspiring meetings for him because not everyone will end up in the ca most of them are not even seeking that. Security is tight and palm beach for his visit here the coast guard sent a zone in the water were boats are banned from entering the area. Tibet spiritual leader is sharing his views on donald trump. The dalai lama says he looks forward to seeing president elect trump in the us president of the us. He said it is the leading nation of the free world adding that he will sometimes i feel during the election the candidates have more freedom to express but once they are elected to have to act accordingly. He went on to say he has no worries about the president elect. Making news, crews will demolish lawmaker [ null ]. Schlitterbahn water parks announced it will tear down the 168 foot the root waterslide virruvk waterslide. 2 the writers and that wrap were also injured. Law enforcement officials are in the standoff with the suspect who shot and killed the k9 officer. Officers were in while chasing him down the suspect shot did the k9. The officer was rushed to an Animal Hospital but could not be saved. Officers have a suspects around as deputies worked to make the arrest. President obama will pardon his final turkey today. Each year in the spirit of thanksgiving the paired trying the president is presented with 2 turkeys. He only pardons one becomes a national turkey. Pound bird name a. The candidates from the high honor are from iowa. He will pardon eater either tatar or taught. They probably dont care because they both tot. They probably dont care because they both get to live. Preparations for the macys thanksgiving day parade are inflate balloons. More than 3 Million People will line the parade half on angst given day. Can see all the action on news channel 8. It all gets start tomorrow morning started tomorrow morning at 9. Famous names from hollywood as well as architects, scientist, a musician, athletes, all honored by president obama. As the president gave them high praise most smiled and laughed at his just. Jest cannot help herself. She began to cry. [ video playback ] today, every day in every way , ellen counters what too often divides us. One joke, one dance at a time. Kareem abduljabbar, michael jordan, also received medals as did also actors, tv producers , fingers, 21 people in all. Thanksgiving not just one day away now just one day away. Im so excited. Are you prepared . I am working but we are still going to get some turkey and. Im prepared to eat. If you are not prepared yet dont stress. There are pretty plenty of lifelines out there. Some will pick you up if you have had too much to drink. E have all of that info for you coming up. Ever wonder how astronauts celebrate skating on the iss . It is not as glamorous as most of us but they get by will show you how will show you how coming up. I am sure this guy is glad he is not a turkey because it is beautiful. Very majestic looking bird but im sure hes glad he is not a turkey. We will have more on your turkey day forecast coming oh yea, everything is digital nowadays. This thing never leaves my side. That is why i signed up for publix digital coupons. Oo. So retro. Thats how i save at publix. How bout you . I dont clip, i dont plan, but i still save a lot. I just shop for publix brand products, cuz theyre great. And thats it. No really, thats it. Thats how i save at publix. How bout you . We are back. I dont know why anyone should go out of town to visit family when they should all come here. Were talking about snow, rain, cold and you can come here and get none of those. It is beautiful, sunny and warm. Could it be any better . No rain, perfect temperatures. The only thing better someone else cook the dinner. There you go here extracted is beautiful outside. You cannot argue with that here q labbe restaurant gorgeous hula bay restaurant just a gorgeous spot to sit. 75 is basically room temperature. We have already seen people walking up and down the beach all morning long. They are not in school, enjoying the beaches at 77 degrees. Hunt in new port richey, 75 degrees hyundai at new port richey, 75 degrees. It is not an issue but not high enough to produce any rainfall. In our forecast we are going to keep it nice and sunny maybe a few passing clouds. 76 degrees at 1 pm. 79 at 3 00. Comfortable at 7, 72 degrees. It is a pretty nice forecast. 75 brooksville. 76 tampa. 80 bartow. The 33 denver. 29 rapid city. 42 degrees new york now an airport delay, about half an hour. If you are connecting through there were headed to you might get a little bit of a delay. Otherwise Everything Else looks pretty good despite this big storm system in the middle of the country. Not super heavy snowfall but up around the great lakes and the trailing cold front goes all the way down to the gulf of mexico. It is helping to increase our humidity levels but still mild. This cold front never comes here. It swings back to the north. Friday. We do have a cold front coming through saturday. I left it at a 10 percent rain chance but most of you will be dry. It is only cooler for about 24 hours on sunday and then we warm right back up out ahead of our next cold front. You can see it in the middle of the country. On monday this will bring us a chance of rain. It has been one dry november, but that chances only about 20 on tuesday and wednesday. That is our best chance we have had in stacy said, it is hard to beat when you have family and friends coming in from all over the country you can swim in the pool walk around the beach and put your sunscreen on. Wherever they little live, tell them forget the sweater and all that stuff just bring your bathing suit. Now we have an 8 on your side consumer alert. You should check your pantry before cooking thanksgiving dinner. A recall is in effect for a recalled. Some jars are being mislabeled. This poses an allergic issue since it doesnt say it contains milk and soy. Check your jar for the best by date of 12 28 2017. Right now you have purchased all your fixings for tomorrows meal. Should you have any issues call or text butterball. One 800 butterball is the 8448773456. The numbers at the bottom of your screen. They will help you with how long you should thought the turkey and water, how long you should roast if it is stuffed are unstuffed. It is a 24hour line. You can also reach out via social media and email. A warning for those whipping up a feast. According to the Consumer Product safety commission, there is an average of 1400 kitchen fires on thanksgiving people are not prepared. Here are some things to keep in mind completely thaw the turkey before cooking it. Also, always used turkey fryers outside and away from your ome. Dont use them in the garage, dont use them on the porch and of course never leave anything that is cooking unattended. There is a tip line for non cooking issues as well. Of evidence and the Emily Post Institute are teaming up to offer a holiday help line. Also Emily Post Institute are teaming up to offer holiday help line. They will help you out if you need to diffuse some tense conversation, tense moments at the dinner table. Nobody wants that. We are 2 weeks removed from an election so those might come up at the table. The help line is open to through angst given day. Can also ask on twitter using beholidayhelp. If youre traveling you need to be careful on the roads. A lot of people are out there. If you do run into trouble, allstate is offering roadside rescues for just 2 through its good hands rescue app and mobile website. That is the good hands website rescue app. You can download it for free. User for emergencie tires, jump starts, lockouts. They also allow you to view and connect digitally with the Service Provider in transit to rescue you. Aaa is also here to help you out. Can take advantage of there toe to go program tow to go program. If you need a ride aaa will tell your car for free within a 10 mile towradius to a safe your car for free within a 10 mile radius. We have put the number on the bottom of your screen. Aaa does stress it wants you to use this service only as a last ditch effort. In case you get a lot of those numbers a lot of them are on wfla. Com if you dont want to show to your thanksgiving gadara gathering empty handed, gil grider has Gayle Guyardo has something you can bring aside this side dish to your thanksgiving celebration will we have an easy one for you today, if this law. The secret ingredient slaw, the secret ingredient brussels sprouts. Brussels sprouts law slaw with maple vinaigrette, it is super easy to make. You can add Different Things to it. Can put diced apples in or pairs. Those are other good things you can put in if you want to. Lisa shows me it is really just a matter of mixing everything up, adding whatever you want to a mixture of lettuce and sprouts. You can by this shredded if you dont want to go through the topple trouble of doing it yourself. She says you mix in your fruits, maybe some roasted walnuts and her secret is the dressing. For your vinaigre my own with maple syrup, apple cider vinaigrette, oil and a little bit of mustard. That is all here expect now it is time for the taste test. I love it. Until next week happy pinning. If you want to grab this recipe head over to gayles while we all enjoy a nice day of eating, theres one person who is about as far away from family as they can be. That would be shame kimbrough shame kimbrough. Despite not being on earth shane kimbrough. Despite not being on earth he just does things a little bit different. Heres our turkey. We keep this up and it will taste really good like you are having this at home. We have cherry Berry Cobbler for dessert. Just like at home kind of, not really. He pulled out several more items. He had dehydrated cornbread, that sounds delicious. Dehydrated green brains and even some candied yams beans and even some candied yams. I am assuming i would lose weight in space. You we are happy the iss gets to celebrate thanksgiving work they do up there. He is a singersongwriter who has rubbed elbows with some of the bigger names in Country Music. Our keith cate hangs out with the man who sang a song that you know by heart but do you know his name and his connection to dolly parton . Long before tv talent shows , Mervyn Scheiner recorded a song the world know huge hit and overnight he was singing with the biggest names in Country Music. When he retired he moved to tampa and he called keith cate because an old friend is appearing in concert and he had a humble request. After hearing his story keith cate wanted to help. Mervyn scheiner began making records in 1949. Him to save his biggest hit. Is that i dont sing the stuff im a country singer. He said i dont care. You when a recording next week. He only made 50 a after on that popular song. I got a call is that we have you on the grand old opry with hank williams. He has recorded more than 124 songs and perform with Country Music royalty. Look at. Even sang with the 20year old nashville newcomer named dolly. Deduno she was . I didnt have any idea who she was. She walked in the studio this day and there was this girl that introduce me to dolly parton and he wrote heard the song. . . He became one of her biggest fans. He bought tickets for her tampa concert weeks ago. Hello to her. I shared his humble request with her people and guess what, she autographed a picture and invited him to reunite backstage what about that. What a nice surprise. All my goodness. Merv does not look or sound like a man about to turn 96 years old but then again why should he. Like peter cottontail he has been living life to the fullest with a like spring in his step expect . . . . Love that story. He has a great voice still. Is going to be 96. He plans to be with them this saturday keith cate plans on being there when they we have posted those clips along with that interview you just saw this in case you want to see it again on wfla. Com. How great is that. I was thinking he is getting older but 96. Was amazing and sounds amazing. And really a music legend even though many people may not recognize the name you know the song. Dolly remember some. I cannot wait to see the follow up. It is great weather for dolly to come in it will be a little warmer than average for our typical things inning but not by much. 81 friday. For saturday when the concert goes on still very comfortable. Leave your fur coats at home dolly. In joy and drive safe if you are headed out for the holidays. Happy thanksgiving expect i will see you at 4 and 6. Have when heartburn hits, fight back fast the instant it touches your tongue. And neutralizes stomach acid at the source. . Tum tum tum tum . Announcer from nbc news, this is today with Kathie Lee Gifford and hoda kotb live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Oh, hi, everybody were so happy youre with us today. What day is it again, hoda . Wines day, wednesday. I forgot. November 23rd. Yes. A lot of people hitting the roads and skies for the thanksgiving holiday. Please, be safe, everybody, and that is sleep without you by brett young f. Youre hosting thanksgiving, help, youre going to love this. A team of celebrity chefs