inside this tiny kitchen on a remote base far from home, it s time to chop, stir and roast. 120 pounds of turkey for 150 hungry mouths. it s a big day at camp swift. roughly 50 miles south of mosul, near 6,000 miles from home. it s private jordan white s first deployment. it means missing thanksgiving with your family. definitely miss my family. sacrifice so others can be with their families. reporter: for lieutenant peter chun from baltimore, downtime before the big meal meant sprucing up. i can t wait to see my family back home. reporter: others worked out to work up an appetite. the business of war doesn t stop for thanksgiving. we re the front line of defense here on camp swift. and we re what everyone relies on. reporter: operation inherent resolve is the fight against isis.
at lunch, bacon ranch salad with a fruit parfait and at dinner, one of the meals. you never ate any of those meals in excess. of course not. ed the the purpose of this that bums me ought. thought you got to have ten quarter pounders. when did you start noticing results? i started noticing results after 30 days. we knew i was going to lose weight. that s a math function. you eat 2,000-calories a day you body needs 2600 calories a day to a day. a meal got me looking like that before this. so, but they had to balance all that out and so they chose all different kinds of foods. so i was eating all kinds of stuff. so lurch eye d have that and dinner, big meal. i love french fries.
it is wednesday, december 25th. announcer: from abc news this is world news now with john muller and diana perez. merry christmas, everyone. merry christmas. wow, it s here. can you believe it? actually we re working on christmas eve but it s not so bad because we get to zoom out of here first light and be there for the kids opening the presents. that s right. we worked christmas eve and now we are working christmas day. you got in a full christmas eve at home. yes. did the big meal, church thing. all out of the way. now today you go to grandma s house. actually my sister s host house in brooklyn. nice. hope you are all having a happy holiday. severe weather is gripping much of the country. 30 inches of lake effect snow has fallen in northwestern wisconsin and not just wisconsin. the snow and ice stretch across the country with tens of thousands of people coping with power outages this christmas
blonde haired, blue eyed boys again. they said his first plan was to live his parents in vermont. but that fell through amid outcry from their town of springfield. next idea, move to california but a law enforcement sergeant said today the man could not find suitable housing there either. given the rules on where convicted sex offenders can live in california. officials say he returned to vermont last night and that the search continues. the founder of amazon.com is buying one of america s most famous institutions. the the washington post newspaper has sold. we just learned about this deal today and wait until you hear the price tag he is paying. plus, nothing like walking into a restaurant, ordering a nice big meal of powder. ahead, the super food that one inventor claims can replace your breakfast, lunch, and dinner forever. but, first, some folks in the midwest are dealing with flash floods after heavy rains. janice dean the weather machine in the extreme
forum said? labor movement has an old saying. i don t know. if you can t open their minds, open their heads. glenn: yeah, that s it. glenn: hello, america. is it thursday thanksgiving it is going to be thursday and thanksgiving. it s the week of thanksgiving in new york. things are getting festive. i was out christmas shopping for the family saturday and it s starting to get nuts here. you are probably like i am excited to enjoy a nice big meal with your family and friends. at least the meal part. i m excited for people to come over for the holidays until the family arrives. then you hear the doorbell and you re like oh, crap,