so this thanksgiving holiday comes at a time when many americans out there are really hurting. a subject that the president discussed in his weekly address while sharing a little bit of optimism, as well. take a listen. i know that for many of you, this thanksgiving is more difficult than most. but no matter how tough things are right now, we still give thanks for that most american of blessings, the chance to determine our own destiny. all right. so how is the president spending this thanksgiving? for more, i m joined now by nbc s kristen welker who is at the white house. happy thanksgiving to you. happy thanksgiving. thank you. so the president doesn t have public events today. how is the first family spending the holiday? reporter: well, it ll be a quiet day here at the white house. the first family enjoying really a traditional holiday with family and friends, you know, david gregory spoke with the top chef here who says that what they really enjoy is just having
inspire magazine. that is the al qaeda magazine, an online magazine, which tells interested people how to do these kind of things. we are told by the source that the man had acquired all material and was even going so far as to drill holes in a pipe bomb. he was going to use homemade ingredients in order to detonate this device and the device, had he put it together correctly, would, in fact, have worked. we re being told that he planned to target service men, men service men and women returning from iraq. he also intended on targeting police stations or post offices, and again, this is a pipe bomb and had it gone off, it could have killed close to a dozen people, especially if he attached things like nails. he was following instructions from this al qaeda-based magazine on this website. we are told that there was an informant who was monitoring this person, who was involved. this is the man who has been on the nypd radar for about two years, don, and they decided to go i
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head out. and distracted driving, don t do it. designate a passenger as your official talker, texter, and navigator, you ll be fine. yeah, cat naps when you re drowsy, there s nothing bad about pulling over. it helps everybody. have great thanksgiving. thanks for your time today. thank you, and happy thanksgiving to you too, thomas, and all your viewers. there are tens of thousands of u.s. troops far from home this holiday. about 18,000 right now in iraq. troops anxious to return homes to their families, and in kabul, afghanistan, with the troops for us. reporter: hi, thomas. well, there was quite a bit of buzz here earlier today when we heard that a relatively high official in the foreign ministry had traveled from here to tunisia on the ground and flown to the airport to athens, greece. everybody was wondering whether this would be the third defection in about two days. as it turned out, he is a
in new york city talking about a wrecked holiday, as well. thanks, eric. happy holidays to you. an estimated 42.5 million or so are going to be traveling this thanksgiving. it is expected to be the busiest holiday weekend since the financial meltdown with more people traveling despite the higher prices for gas, higher prices for airfare. what do expect if you re hitting the roads, rails, or skies today? cynthia joins us from washington, d.c. to fill us in. cynthia, aaa says the stats here that over 42 million are going to be traveling roughly 50 miles or more this weekend. that s a lot of people on the roads. but as we re finding out with eric fisher there, the weather is going to be helping a lot of people out. absolutely, good morning, thomas. with all the folks on the road and this great weather, there ll be even more people on the roads. they re going to be very, very crowded, and you re going to be sharing the roads not only with those folks traveling more than 50 miles away