The bishop of brooklyn praised the ruling saying, im gratified be the decision by the United StatesSupreme Court who have recognized the clear First Amendment violation and urgent need for relief. Im proud to be leading the Diocese Of Brooklyn and fighting for our sacred and constitutional right to worship. Lets go to the Justice Department. David is live with more. Happy thanksgiving. This ruling came down before midnight and the implications will last for decades long after covid19s in the history books. Its a win for religious freedom and amy barrett, a month already feeling her fate on a career that could span for decades. She was the key swing vote here, a 5vote in favor of the conservatives. John roberts known to be a devout catholic sided with the liberal wing of the court on this decision. The majority, the conservatives decided that this was something that needed to be done so this is how they ruled. Andrew cuomo announced various restrictions on gatherings as a way to hold the pandemic or stop the further spread. He insists In The Name Of health and safety is why he did this and he reacted to the High Court Ruling this morning by telephone. Its the relevance from any Practical Impact because the zone that they were talking about has already been moved. It expired last week. I think this was really an opportunity for the court to express its philosophy. They contended that it violated Freedom Of Religion. He talked about zones and changing, changing for religious institutions, different color zones to change the amount of people allowed to gather. The governor is dealing with a situation and he said look, given the facts am going to make this change, the color scheme, but what the Supreme Court said is, not so fast. Just because you move the categories today doesnt mean you wont change it up again tomorrow. Civil Liberties Union releasing a statement, the freedom to worship is one of our most cherished fundamental rights, but it does not include a license to harm others or endanger Public Health. This is a complete 180 from Supreme Court decisions from just about five months ago when Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg, she passed away in september. At that point they ruled that governors in nevada and california are the ones that can make the decisions on those restrictions, but now just as barrett is o on the supreme cou, already a change. David spun, thank you. A surge of coronavirus case is prompting many states to tighten restrictions on large gatherings including allday meals at home. Coming as the Holiday Season kicks off. The cdc Urging Americans not to travel, but many are and the governor going a step further, telling people to uninvite their friends and family. Alex hogan has more from New York City. Happy thanksgiving. On a usual day, the Thanksgiving Parade would have passed here on fifth avenue with millions of people flocking to the streets, but its a much quieter day than in years past. People were able to watch the parade safely from home. Its usually about a 2mile route. Today the spectator event was shorter and near the macys store. The cdc Urging Americans not to travel as cases of covid19 klein. More than 2602000s americans have died from the virus this year. Over the weekend more than 1 million americans past airports every day. Asking the residents to scale down thanksgiving celebrations, and oregon, telling her residents she understands its hard to uninvite loved ones what to do just that. Here in new york, andrew cuomo predicting a spike in cases after the holiday. Expect that. That is going to take a bad situation and make it worse because the numbers were already going up. We didnt have increased thanksgiving travel. That is going to be an additional accelerant. The countrys recent increase on regulation to fight to the virus, shutting down businesses like restaurants, bars and gems. The industry is seeing another hit. We are not asking to open everything up 100 . Who better than us to be the ones to enforce the guidelines. Let us operate. Let us do what we have to do to put food on the table for families. Hundreds of thousands of people apply for unemployment this week. Food banks serving meals to go to help people and here in New York City, shelters saw double the number of people coming to them for free meals. Many of the people saying they had never done so before, but theyve run out of savings. These shelters here today, preparing to help even more people. Ridiculously tough times. Alex hogan, thank you. Tough times but its still the season for shopping. While black monday and cyber monday get most of the attention, Small Business saturday is just as important for Many Americans. He coronavirus pandemic has devastated main streets across america. Lets bring in gene marks, always loaded with lots of advice. I want to start with Small Business saturdays. Do you have any advice, especially the ones, they dont have a team, how can they spread the word about their business beyond their Customer Base . Good to see you. If youre running a Small Business now, youve got to be innovative this year to continue to take advantage of Small Business saturday. You have to do more online. Online sales this year are more than 35 and a a lot of that is because Small Businesses have pivoted from selling from their story. Theyre all offering discounts to their customers as well, extending their store hours, allowing people to order from the website and pick it up. They are doing Everything Possible to make sure theyre providing a safe and healthy alternative so customers can feel comfortable. One final thing, you can extend the discount, all those things from the Holiday Season. That is a smart thing Business Owners do. The best thing we can do to help our businesses during these challenging times of course is to purchase their goods and services, but should we order early . Be patient. We cant expect them to have big time operations. If you want to order five gifts from this one Small Business online, how else can we help them . I also want to say, if you have the opportunity to order out more, take advantage. I am talking to you from philadelphia and our restaurants are shut down. No more indoor dining. We need the help. Another thing to consider with people you frequent. A lot of them offer gift cards. Even if theyre not buying something right now, they get the cash up front. Of course you get the gift card, use it another time. Those are, just two things you can do to support your Small Businesses. Very important thing to do. Really great advice and also if youre going to order from your local restaurant, make sure you tip. Those people are working really hard to be there for you. I forgot to mention that. The biggest people that are hurt is not just the Business Owners during this pandemic, its the workers and you know that. A lot of the workers, theyre struggling through all of us. Your 100 right. When youre going to buy something, add on native. It might not be a big deal to you, but it such a big difference to someone who is making 10 an hour. Try to do that. Millions of americans are still unemployed. You have people trying to find ways to make money. What is your advice where people who are looking to start a business . A new Revenue Stream . Thats interesting. The u. S. Census bureau released data, 1. 6 million new startups this last quarter and 86 increase over the same time last year. The start of this year, up almost 30 . A lot of people are thinking about starting businesses. Theyre doing it because they have to. People are working from home more and they have a few extra minutes where they can focus on starting Something Else. If you have an idea to start up, go to amazon or at sea, ebay. Not as difficult to do as you think, it takes effort but if you think you can do it, i think you should. People have some extra savings from not spending a lot of mon money. If you have savings, nows a good time to invest. It doesnt have to replace your day job. It could be a side gig or Something Else you could do. People are doing it. You should take that as consideration. And not the only one starting up a new business. Its a good time. We heard you. Its always a pleasure. Happy thanksgiving. Happy thanksgiving. Of course this holiday is about giving thanks to those around us and those who cant be close because theyre serving to keep us safe. Lets pause and appreciate to recognize the Men And Women serving our country across the globe. President trump is trying to bring hundreds of thousands of them home, but many remain overseas this thanksgiving. Jennifer griffin is live from the pentagon with more on that. On any given day you can find 300,000 u. S. Troops deployed overseas. Acting defense secretary chris miller, a former green beret blue overseas and had thanksgiving dinner, home to the u. S. Navy fleet. The u. S. Is reducing its presence in afghanistan by half, but 2500 will remain after january 15th. Done from a high since 9 11 of 100,000 u. S. Troops. The u. S. Has 800 military bases and more than 70 countries, britain, france and russia by contrast have 30 combined. A growing sense of drone bases in places like djibouti and the horn of africa, and in ram stein germany. 60,000 American Troops served at bases in the middle east. 1,000 at nato headquarters, thousand troops in cuba to guard 40 prisoners at one home and obey. 40,000 currently serve in germany, down from a high from the cold war. More than 50,000 troops are based in japan along with 28,500 and south korea. The outgoing Top Republican on the House Armed Service committee explains what would happen if the u. S. Close those bases and returned home. Its been the best 70 years, pretty much, you could argue in Human Existence. Its partly because the United States of america has been engaged in the world. If we step back others fill the void. They will not share our values. The world will suffer. What does this cost the u. S. Taxpayer . They pay an average of 1040000 more per year to station in memory of the military abroad than in the United States. Thats not the real cost. We give extra thanks for those troops overseas and their families for all they sacrifice to keep americans safe. Absolutely. And thanks to you. Thank you. I share all of those sentiments. President trump is said to make a video call to members of the military this thanksgiving. More on that as we get it. 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President trump is preparing to hold a thanksgiving video call with u. S. Service members. Meanwhile his decision to pardon his former National Security officer Michael Flynn is sparking reaction on capitol hill. House minority leader Kevin Mccarthy is praising the move tweeting, no american should ever be targeting by belonging to a certain political party. Jerry nadler saying, this is undeserved, unprincipled and one more stain on President Trumps rapidly diminishing legacy. Lets go to Kristin Fisher, shes there there at the white house with more. This time last year President Trump had just returned from a surprise trip to afghanistan to spent thanksgiving with troops. This year like so Many Americans he is staying closer to home, he will be talking to troops in two hours. Right now hes at his golf course in virginia, but he will be back here for that conference at 3 00 p. M. And then hell be having his first thanksgiving dinner ever at the white house. Down to his winter white house. This thanksgiving, Michael Flynns family says they are grateful for President Trump for granting that full pardon yesterday afternoon. They say he has remove the heavy burden of injustice while democrats argue that its an abuse of power and an act of corruption. President trumps long claimed that his successor had a hand in the downfall. Listen to how he explained it during an interview on abc news back in may. What did you know about those moves to investigate Michael Flynn and was there anything improper done . I know nothing about those moves. You say you didnt know anything, but you did report in a meeting, you and the president were briefed on the fbis plan to question Michael Flynn over those conversations he had with the russian ambassador. I thought you asked me whether or not i had anything to do with him being prosecuted. Im sorry. I was aware that they asked for an investigation, but thats all i know about it. The first of many during President Trumps final weeks in office. He is also believed to be pardon for Paul Manafort, potentially roger stone. And congressman matt gaetz went so far as to say that he believes President Trump should be pardoning everyone from himself all the way to joe exotic, the tiger king. That would truly be peak 2020. Im all for joe exotic. What can i say. Tiger king rules in my house. Thank you for that update there from the white house. President trumps decision to pardon Michael Flynn is getting a thumbs up from the Wall Street Journal, finally in and wait is grateful case of politicized prosecution. Lets bring in former u. S. Attorney guy lewis. Happy thanksgiving. Happy thanksgiving to you guys as well. The Justice Department had moved to dismiss this case, why did they do that. The Attorney General had ordered a review of the case and during the course of that revi review, independent professionals at the Justice Department, it became apparent that he had been targeted. , a discovery that should have been turned over, it would send other kinds of information that would have been helpful. And me personally, when i saw the fbi notes that had not been turned over, but the note that said, what do you want us to do . Do you want us to live so we can fire him or prosecute him . That reeked of a set up and i didnt like it. He did plead guilty twice before changing his mind. Thats a good point. People need to know, in my experience, 20 plus years defending people and 15 plus years as a prosecutor, people plead guilty for a matter of reasons. They want to end the case because its too costly. There is a lot of reasons and i think the Review Process was appropriate. At dismissal was appropriate. As far as the pardon goes, nancy pelosi didnt like it very much. She calls it an act of corruption and a brazen abuse of power. I want you to listen to what adam schiff said on another network earlier. The president pardons him and wants to betray him as a hero. Heroes dont lie to the fbi. Its a body blow to our National Security and the rule of law. I think it makes a mockery of our democracy. A body blow to the rule of law. What do you say to that . I think hes a little over the top. This is a guy who for years, trump, no pun intended, some kind of russian conspiracy that turned out to be void of evidence. Clearly with Speaker Pelosi its a partisan issue. If they dont like this pardon, they better strap themselves in. I think you are right. The next 30 days, you are going to see a bunch of these come out of the white house, just like past president s, obama inc