good morning to viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm brianna keilar along with john berman. happy thanksgiving eve to everyone out there. it is getaway day for americans who will be hitting to the roads, taking to the skies over the long holiday weekend. travel is expected to be near prepandemic normal this thanksgiving, if you can believe that. that means millions more people emboldened by covid-19 vaccinations are on the move than they were last year during the holiday season. it's the biggest test for airlines and the industry itself since the start of the pandemic. . >> everyone always says pack your patience. i think that's dumb. pack snacks. mixed nuts. trail mix. i always recommend that. >> it's so healthy. >> look, you can also do fast food also. i'm not averse to that. but it gets greasy. with security lines resembling prepandemic days. they appear to have stabilized at least for now. still aaa says it will be like a typical thanksgiving on the roads, which means crowded and busy. cnn's pete muntean, the world's most interesting man live at a travel plaza in aberdeen, maryland. good morning, pete. what are you seeing? >> reporter: good morning, john. you know, these numbers are going to be huge. aaa predicts they're really not going to be all that far off from where we were back in 2019 before the pandemic. aaa says 48 million people will hit the road for the thanksgiving holiday. you can't not talk about it the wednesday before thanksgiving. the numbers really only about 3% from where we were back in 2019. what's so interesting here is that people are doing this with the gas prices at a seven-year high. $3.40 the national average, up $1.30 from where we were this time last year. so the bottom line here is the traffic is back, the cost is back. and what's so interesting is that people are still going to travel even in spite of all of those challenges, according to aaa. >> there's a lot more confidence. people are feeling better about traveling. no matter what the gas prices are, and they are quite a bit higher than last year, people are still going to take that trip. >> reporter: aaa says expect the most significant delays this afternoon. the worst times to travel, it says generally across the country, between noon and 8:00 p.m. tonight. the best time today, after 9:00 p.m. the maryland transportation authority responsible for this stretch of 95 where we are in aberdeen, maryland, they would say the best time is now. really the better time is tonight after 11:00 p.m. >> make sure you are well rested to be sure. i knew i had been at that travel plaza. it looks very familiar there. pete muntean, thank you very much. appreciate the report. when i refer to pete as the world's most interesting man, he doesn't deny it. >> there's a reason we call him that. as you know, he is a pilot. and i said, oh, do you fly a cessna? he flies some other plane and it does acrobatics. pete, you can go upside-down. >> reporter: i'm flattered, guys. yeah, i can fly upside-down. not today, although i wish i was rather than being on i-95. the traffic is not very good. i'd rather be flying today. driving is the worst of the two choices. >> even the most interesting man in the world needs an occasional day off, berman. . >> acrobat. pete muntean, acrobat. a rise in covid cases is giving people because about celebrating thanksgiving outside their home. two-thirds of americans will do just that, though. what is the recipe for a safe and healthy holiday? jacqueline howard is joining us now. this is the year. people are vaccinated. i think they still have older people this their lives. they just want to make sure they're being careful. maybe they have kids unvaccinated. >> reporter: there are people who still have concerns. it comes down to knowing who will be at the thanksgiving dinner table with you. if you have concerns, asking some tough questions. have people been vaccinated, have they been tested, is anybody immunocompromised, can you crack a window to improve air ventilation. they are difficult questions for some people but important to asking. a new "axios" ipsos poll said 30% know they will be around unvaccinated people. and 17% don't know the vaccination status of the people they will be around tomorrow. the reason why having this knowledge and knowing their status is key, if everyone is fully vaccinated, it's okay to ditch masks and be more relaxed. if you are around unvaccinated people, you still want to consider mitigation measures. here's dr. anthony fauci. >> for the people who are vaccinated, the people who can get boostered, enjoy your holiday season with your family indoors, grandparents, children. if you are traveling and you are in an indoor congregate setting and you don't know the vaccination status of people, you need to wear a mask. >> reporter: again, this is the year. but we still have to ask some of these questions. brianna. >> yeah. all right. jacqueline, thank you so much for that. a little more than two hours from now, the jury will begin its second day of deliberations in the trial of the murder of ahmaud arbery. one attorney said his client is more of a witness than a killer. this is the same attorney, kevin gough, who wanted black pastors supporting the family banned from the courtroom. cnn's chris cuomo confronted him overnight. >> why do you believe the jury should not hold your client as responsible as the other two men? >> well, you know, i don't really want to get into the details or try and summarize an hour and 45 minute closing argument. the question here is when did roddie bryan know the mcmichaels were armed, when did he know they intended to shoot mr. arbery. and at that point what could mr. bryan have done about it. those are the three questions i asked repeatedly. we're still waiting for answers on that. >> why are you trying to make this so intensely personal about ahmaud arbery? why bring up black pastors and their presence and what you know is a public accommodation being this courtroom and you don't have a say in who comes and doesn't come to observe? why make that point? why do you think of pastors in terms of black and white? >> i don't think of pastors in terms of black approximate white. let's be clear, if you were sitting in that courtroom in my chair representing roddie bryan, you would be doing the exactly the same thing. . >> no, i wouldn't. >> if you sat there, you would be doing the same thing. >> no, i wouldn't. you know you don't have a right to do it. to say you can't be in the facilitiry. . >> really? >> to say no black people in the gallery? >> i'm sorry. i didn't say that. we have no problem with black people being in the gallery. never did, never will. >> black pastors. >> do the home work, chris. people are looking at you to understand these proceedings. why don't you take the time to help them. read the motions, the supreme court cases from the united states supreme court we cited. >> that say that people -- >> why the opinion of supreme court justices -- >> counselor. >> doesn't matter in this case. >> counselor. >> we think it does. >> saying a lot is not something better than saying what matters. >> we can agree on that. >> there is no supreme court case that says who can be in the gallery watching on the basis of race. you and i both know that. you said black pastors. you confused jesse jackson with al sharpton. it seemed at a minute of a fit. >> chris, you can call me ignorant. you can call me anything you want. but i'm here representing roddie bryan and i'm going to defend my client to the best of my ability. and i don't care whether the people in the cheap seats like it or not. >> joining us now, former prosecutor and defense attorney for george zimmerman, mark o'mara. the jury will return to deliberations in a few hours. we will watch that closely. that was an interesting interview, where he was pressed on one of the most glaring parts of this trial where he repeatedly tried to get these pastors removed from the courtroom because of their race. talk to me about that over the course of the trial >> roddy didn't know about the gun, that's all great. that's good defense lawyering. but he cannot act -- it's the presentation. he cannot act in ignorance of the reality of what's going on around him. one of the first things he said when he first sort of made these presentations and these motions for mistrial. when he talked about reverend sharpton being in the courtroom, my ears perked up because it was so unusual. and then he doubled down the next day. i would like to think it is just an inexperienced person or lawyer not doing it the right way. but we can give him cover for one of those. when he does it again the second day, the third day. when he's the one who actually says moving forward with this trial is like a 21st century lynching, unbelievably significant term to use in america today, it is very frustrating to me because there's no question, rather than dog whistles, these are sounding like mega phones to his jury, the 11 white people on that jury. it is hard because we are in an environment, a harsh reality where we have to be racially sensitive. we finally are addressing it in the media and in courtrooms. and then we have this. it's a throwback to the 1950s, well before i practiced. >> he equated black pastors with the klan, radio it and, as you said, doubled down on it. i wonder about him being out there while the jury is deliberating, while the jury still has a decision to come to. is that smart? >> he's playing to his audience, brianna. his odd question are the people who might be listening to him and 11 of them might be on that panel. so we're sitting back almost as law professors going, how dare you. he's in brunswick, georgia, dealing with a case where three white guys from the neighborhood killed a black guy. and this is the path that he's taken, and not all ears that he's talking to are deaf. >> i have been saying this all along. people can be outraged by what he said and should be outraged by what he said. the real outrage should be outraged is that he believes it will work, what he believes about the law and the people he's looking at, he thinks it will work. . >> i think you're right. let's reverse engineer that. if he didn't think it was appropriate, didn't think he was talking to somebody on that panel or somewhere, if he didn't think that, he is smart enough to know don't go anywhere near that. but yet time and time and time again we hear these comments from him. even last night with chris cuomo interview, it's the same thing. this is sort of who he knows will be presented well to whoever it is he's talking to. . >> and it's not just him, right? another defense attorney, laura hogue, disparaged ahmaud arbery big talking about his long, dirty toenails. it is the atmosphere of what is happening in brunswick, georgia. i wonder if you think that the prosecution did yesterday in the rebuttal closing is something that is going to penetrate that atmosphere. >> i think she did a good job of trying. remember, i think she's a very good prosecutor. that showed itself in the trial. she's also playing to those same 12 people. so she also has to be aware of the audience, the 12. and coming out perhaps aggressively against any suggestion of racial disparities or even racial connotations in this case could actually work against her because, again, it's only those 12 that count. i thought she did a good job of sort of threading that needle a little bit, of showing the absurdity of it without losing the jury that unfortunately more people and she are playing to in this courtroom. >> every example that i heard her use or many of the examples where she was trying to equate, if you're considering the crime, a lot of time the victim was a woman. i don't think that was an accident as she was trying to make her point in court yesterday. mark, thank you for being with us. >> happy thanksgiving. >>. >> from dollar tree to dollar and a quarter tree. doesn't roll off the tongue. why they are passing the buck and raising prices for good. very fined people. how much the organizers of the charlottesville riot are responsible for. a desperate simply for justin bieber to cancel his show in saudi arabia. my retirement plan with voya keeps me moving forward. they guide me with achievable steps that give me confidence. this is my granddaughter...she's cute like her grandpa. voya doesn't just help me get to rerement... ...they're with me all the way through it voya. beonfident to and through retirement. sustainability is essential to creating a better tomorrow. that's why cisco is committed to achieving net zero emissions by 2040. and we believe our smart buildings solutions can help. providing power to reduce emissions, intelligence to eliminate waste, and collaboration tools that help the workplace and the planet. between meeting human needs and a sustainable future, there's a bridge. cisco, the bridge to possible. ♪ ♪ hey tristan! ♪ ♪ hey lexus... play holiday music! ♪ ♪ we've been waiting all year to come together... have a happy and safe holiday season from lexus. to be a thriver with metastatic breast cancer means asking for what we want. and need. and we need more time. so, we want kisqali. women are living longer than ever before with kisqali when taken with an aromatase inhibitor or fulvestrant in postmenopausal women with hr+, her2- metastatic breast cancer. kisqali is a pill that's significantly more effective at delaying disease progression versus an aromatase inhibitor or fulvestrant alone. kisqali can cause lung problems, or an abnormal heartbeat, which can lead to death. it can cause serious skin reactions, liver problems, and low white blood cell counts that may result in severe infections. tell your doctor right away if you have new or worsening symptoms, including breathing problems, cough, chest pain, a change in your heartbeat, dizziness, yellowing of the skin or eyes, dark urine, tiredness, loss of appetite, abdomen pain, bleeding, bruising, fever, chills or other symptoms of an infection, a severe or worsening rash, are or plan to become pregnant, or breastfeeding. avoid grapefruit during treatment. ask your doctor about living longer with kisqali. 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>> good morning, everyone. thank you very much. it has been three years, actually, and i am seeking for justice in every place that i found or every way that i can speak out in telling my story or reminding what happened to jamal. when i heard that justin will sing in saudi arabia and i decide to write this letter because it is so, so weird. it's a shame for someone like a singer, very famous singer, and behaving -- not happen. it is the main reason i wrote this letter. and what i did, it is very, very important to remind him again that the saudi -- >> what does this performance give to the regime? what does it give to mohammed bin salman in saudi arabia? >> as you know, he's a murderer of journalist jamal, and also others in prison right now. there's a lot of people, 100 people in the prison. there is no justice in saudi. there is no freedom because the crown prince killed jamal. so in this case, very interesting, justin calling his album justice. and another also is freedom. and what i hope or what i need to understand in this case, when he called his album justice, he has to be on the side of justice. so what is the idea that he is thinking about the saying or calling that justice. and at th and staying in justice. >> have you had any response from justin bieber yet? >> no, i have not. . >> why peck on him? others will be performing there? why just focus on justin bieber? >> i'm not focusing on justin bieber. if you follow me, i am doing a lot of kpaepbg acampaigning aga people doing campaign with the crown prince. they are doing a campaign against performing with justin bieber. they org kneesed trucks and planes to fly over last monday. this is actually important because he is a very, very famous singer. and he has a big responsibility. and he remind us he has a mission and he has to remind people of these values. and i want just want to remind him in this situation because it is unacceptable for me to see someone really famous and the younger generation has a million -- more than a million followers. so then he's going and performing in saudi arabia at the same time these people -- the killers. >> hatice cengiz, we appreciate the work you're doing. we continue to be sorry for your loss and for pointing this out. people should know justin bieber and mohammed bin salman, the regime is using his performance really to promote mohammed bin salman at the same time. very much connected. thank you for your work and your message. appreciate it. new reporting from cnn this morning. house lawmakers describing a toxic and hostile work environment. and ahead, from the movie to a real-life armageddon almost exactly except pore the ways that it isn't. what nasa, not bruce willis, is attempting to do to prevent an asteroid from crashing into earth. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ kiss the people you love. mark this moment in time, and celebrate every kiss. get zero down special financing with the kay jewelers credit card. woman: i have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. now, there's skyrizi. ♪ things are getting clearer ♪ ♪ yeah i feel free ♪ ♪ to bare my skin, yeah that's all me. ♪ ♪ nothing and me go hand in hand ♪ ♪ nothing on my skin that's my new plan. ♪ ♪ nothing is everything. ♪ woman: keep your skin clearer with skyrizi. most who achieved 90% clearer skin at 4 months had lasting clearance through 1 year. in another study, most people had 90% clearer skin at 3 years. and skyrizi is 4 doses a year, after 2 starter doses. ♪ it's my moment so i just gotta say ♪ ♪ nothing is everything. ♪ skyrizi may increase your risk of infections and lower your ability to fight them. before treatment, your doctor should check you for infections and tuberculosis. tell your doctor if you have an infection or symptoms, such as fevers, sweats, chills, muscle aches, or coughs or if you plan to or recently received a vaccine. ♪ nothing is everything. ♪ woman: talk to your dermatologist about skyrizi. learn how abbvie could help you save. ♪ ♪it's a most unusual day♪ ♪feel like throwing my worries away♪ ♪as an old native-born californian would say♪ ♪it's a most unusual day♪ ♪it's a most unusual sky♪ ♪not a sign of a cloud passing by♪ ♪if my heart won't behave in the usual way♪ experience the power of sanctuary at the lincoln wish list event. this morning, outrage as a judge, one month away from retirement, by the way, declined prison time for an admitted rapist. 20-year-old christopher belter, who pleaded guilty of sexual assault and rape to four girls when he was a teenager and violated his probation, is getting no jail time. the judge saying i'm not ashamed to say i actually prayed over what the appropriate sentence in this case because there was great pain. there was great harm. there were multiple crimes committed in the case. it seems that a sentence that involves incarceration or partial incarceration isn't appropriate, so i am going to sentence you to probation. belter admitted to attacking. steven, your client must have been floored by this news. >> she was horrified. she actually got sick when the judge said there would be no jail time. she threw up in the ladies room. >> caller: she was physically ill from this. so tell us how you see this. belter admits to rapeing four girls. he gets probation. he rapes again, gets more probation. why do you think the judge came to this? >> i have no idea. this comes following promises made to the girls that if -- they urged them to speak out, testify against this criminal, you need to get him off the streets. you need to stop him from doing this to other people. yes, it's going to be painful to cooperate with the district attorney and with the police agencies, but it will be worth it in the end because you will be protecting other people from this criminal. you'll be -- you'll see justice. and none of that happened. none of that happened. >> it sounds like you're concerned this judge has allowed someone to go free, who you are concerned will actually rape other people. >> it's not just my concern. dr. david heffler, a renowned expert in sexual criminal behavior, was asked to testify in this case. and the doctor testified he is at above average risk to reoffend. but when asked on cross-examination, what would be -- what would be in christopher belter's best interest for him to go to prison or for him to continue to receive therapist as a freeman. he said, well, it would be in belter's best interest to regularly attend therapy. this shouldn't be what is in his best interest. it should be about doing justice for the women he raped, the women he sexual assaulted and protecting society at large. >> steven, why do you think he's getting what really appears to be special treatment here? >> i don't know. i sent a letter august 11th of 2020 when we learned he was violating terms of probation. i sent it to the court, to the district attorney at the time, carolyn wotacek, to the probation officer. i said he's violating his terms of probation. i never even got a response from them. when the judge was going to sentence mr. belter the first time, i sent an email to the court saying, look, judge, this is a letter that i