The unrelenting blast of arctic cold felt by nearly 250 million americans and al says its far from over. Breaking overnight, water world, venice inundated by a new round of historic flooding our firsthand look amid urgent calls to protect the city and its history. Well go there live just ahead those stories plus Colin Kaepernicks comeback. More controversy about his work house. Royal christmas controversy, harry and meghans decision to break tradition to not spend the holiday with the queen who are they spending it with and why. And ladies night. Women shined at the cmas while garth brooks brings home the nights top prize. I love you. I love you, trisha an inside look at countrys biggest event of the year. Today, thursday, november 14, 2019 announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb. Live from studio 1a in taller. They were singing independence day, martinas song. It was pretty fantastic. Rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today on this thursday morning thank you for joining us watching that awards ceremony last night, seeing all those women across that stage just made you, like, sit up a little taller they were singing independence day, martinas song and it was pretty fantastic youre still on a natural high were going to have the latest on the entire show in a bit but lets start with the news and round one of the impeachment fight. Both sides digging in after the first public hearing in the investigation, making the case before the eyes of the nation. Were going to break it all down and there is breaking news just this morning in the democratic race. Another candidate enters were going to start with hallie jackson. Good morning reporter savannah, good morning. Multiple sources close to this white house are telling me they just dont think the public hearings so far changed many minds when it comes to impeachment. But democrats are pointing to a new piece of information thats come out, a phone call we hadnt heard about before, that they argue directly ties the president to a quid pro quo. New fallout this morning from that historic hearing. That is textbook abuse of power. Reporter democrats satisfied day one helped prove their point that the president abused his power by trying to make military aid to ukrainians contingent on a promise they investigate his political rivals the president was using his office and hijacking our Foreign Policy to benefit his campaign for election in 2020. Reporter but republicans argue the first public hearing changed nothing. Im looking for that smoking gun evidence of an impeachable, high crime, treasonous type of charge and i just dont see that. Reporter the most notable moment from the nearly sixhour marathon, that new revelation by bill taylor, the acting ambassador to ukraine, about one of his staffers. He says the staffer overheard a conversation in july in which President Trump asked his Eu Ambassador about investigations into the bidens and the 2016 election the member of my staff asked ambassador sondland what President Trump thought about ukraine. Mr. Sondland that President Trump cares more about the investigation of biden. Reporter democrats seizing on that statement, arguing it connects the dots directly to the president. What this call indicates as other testimony has likewise indicated is that instructions are coming from the president on down. Reporter President Trump says he doesnt remember it that way. I know nothing about that first time ive heard it do you recall having a conversation with sondland i dont recall, no. Not at all not even a little bit. Reporter republicans calling it just another example of hearsay. You didnt listen on President Trumps call and president zelenskys call . You never talked with chief of staff mulvaney thats correct. Reporter so we will see another public hearing tomorrow in the ousted ambassador to ukraine, marie yovanovitch, is set to speak about her experiences with whats been described as a shadow Foreign Policy operation in ukraine. But heres the thing next week may be even more important. That is because the Eu Ambassador, Gordon Sondland, is set to appear publicly remember, hes the one who was on the other end of that new phone call were learning about, the one the president says he doesnt remember so whatever sondland says under oath is going to be critical of course hes had to change his testimony a couple of times so that will be significant. Were joined by Kristen Welker the view from the white house is, nothing to see here, its a big yawn but there is this new piece of evidence that more directly ties President Trump, if you believe it, to this scheme to withhold military aid in exchange for investigations thats right, savannah, and that revelation about that phone call caught a lot of white house officials off guard. And they acknowledge its the wild card, even though theyre trying to paint yesterday as a, quote, unquote, nothing burger, youre hearing that from aides and allies inside and outside the white house. Theyre going to be holding their breath a little bit until Gordon Sondland testifies. President trump trying to say, i didnt watch the hearings, i heard there was nothing to them, hes trying to take a page from the bill clinton playbook and look president ial. He had that joint News Conference yesterday with the president of turkey, for example. Hes going to be on the road tonight in louisiana were watching his twitter feed, though, because that doesnt stop hes been tweeting about this as well on the other hand, this new piece of evidence, which has to do with a state Department Employee saying he overheard President Trump on the phone with Gordon Sondland, the Eu Ambassador, and asking about investigations how far does that really get you . Because you have a white house transcript of the call from the day before thats not disputed that shows the president asking about investigations so, does this really add much to it it does a couple of things. It bolsters that point, certainly. It also allows republicans to make the case that a lot of what youre hearing from these witnesses is secondhand information. And so, that is why the Gordon Sondland testimonys going to be so key thats why this broader picture that is being laid out by all of these witnesses, savannah, is key about this secondhand Foreign Policy channel all right, kristen, thank you so much. And we turn now to this major shakeup, breaking now in the democratic president ial race Deval Patrick has officially entered the democratic race for president. He announced the bid this morning in a Facebook Post following days of speculation that, yes, he may run. As you know, former new york city Michael Bloomberg is also a possible late entry into the field. Last week he filed the paperwork required for the democratic primaries in alabama and arkansas and this is all coming on the heels of a radio interview recently with Hillary Clinton where she was asked if she has ruled out a possible run of her own and here was the answer is look, i, as i say, never, never, never say never, and i will certainly tell you im under enormous pressure from many, many, many people to think about it but as of this moment, sitting here in this studio, talking to you, that is absolutely not in my plans joining us now is nbc news political analyst, former democratic senator claire mccaskill. Good morning to you. Heads exploding everywhere this is the time, almost three months until folks vote, where people are usually dropping out of the race, not dropping into it what is this turbulence mean you know, it is an unusual year this is very late for candidates to get in. Now, bloomberg has something going for him, lots of money Deval Patrick has something going for him. He hangs out right next to new hampshire. Thats where he is his base is so, not great news for Elizabeth Warren, and some might say not great news for joe biden, because he might try to both of them will try to grab some of that center lane, but its going to make it interesting all the way to the end of the early primaries. Its interesting because theres the question of can they pull it off . Deval patrick, close to new hampshire, maybe hell have edge there, bloombergs got the money but the other question is what does it say that there are these candidates that are looking at an already very crowded democratic field and saying, this doesnt look good, i dont like this. Savannah, were going to have ten candidates on the debate stage next week. We still have ten. So, when youre looking at ten candidates that are still debating on national television, you think, well, whats another one or two its not like we have narrowed the field in terms of exposure for these candidates to the top four, although there could be an argument for that. Because theres only four candidates that have remained at the top tier and that is, of course, mayor pete buttigieg, whos surging, joe biden, whos showed remarkable resilience, and of course the favorites of the progressive left, both Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren you said this could be potentially bad news for senator warren isnt it also bad news for joe biden if somebody like Hillary Clinton, Michael Bloomberg, and Deval Patrick all considered moderates, centrists, i think, if they see a path and they think they got to get in there, doesnt that isnt that kind after vote of no confidence in biden . Well, hes been getting lots of votes of no confidence by people who talk about politics but its if you look at his polling, while he is not stayed at the very tippee top like he was at the beginning, hes tell a poll a few days ago had him number one in new hampshire. You said Something Interesting to me a couple minutes ago but you think this could go all the way to the Convention Like maybe this race, this candidate gets nominated at the convention this might be one of those races, especially with steyer money and bloomberg money where there is competitive primaries all the way into late spring and with everybody taking a share of the votes, you could see two or three candidates viable going into the convention, which this time, is in july wow its going to be interesting senator mccaskill, always good to have you here were talking about this arctic blast that has shattered hundreds of midnovember records all over the country, some that have stood for more than a hundred years. And this morning, problems from the dangerous deep freeze are mounting als forecast is just a few moments away but lets start with Gabe Gutierrez in battery park, down at the southern tip of new york city gabe, good morning to you. Reporter hey, craig, good morning, its not that its cold, its just that its so cold this soon records were broken not just here in new york city but all the way from alabama to vermont. Overnight, the polar plunge tightened its icy grip after sending shivers across the country. Parts of all the lower 48 states were below freezing wednesday. More than 235 Million People facing frigid windchills that dangerous arctic blasts shattering more than a hundred record lows. In ohio, as many as 85 vehicles crashed south of cleveland, five people taken to hospitals but no serious injuries authorities are blaming at least nine deaths across five states on the freezing temperatures new york city set a new daily record low of 23 degrees, breaking the previous record here, set more than three decades ago. Did you expect it to be this cold this soon no way. It was, like, what, 60 degrees just last week reporter in wisconsin, a bus driver noticed two underdressed kids wandering in the frigid conditions. Come on. Kids wandering in the frigid conditions come on reporter and she took action everybody keeps saying that im a hero but im also a mother and at the end of the day, i hope that somebody would do the same for my kids. Reporter with winter not set to officially begin for over a month. We just put on everything we brought. I have two pairs of pants on right now. Reporter this arctic plunge giving us a chilly taste of whats to come temperatures now hovering about 10 to 30 degrees below average across the eastern half of the u. S. , but thankfully, relief is in sight were expecting to warm up just a bit later today, craig all right, gabe, thank you. For more on the chilly temps and the next blast of cold air, we turn to mr. Roker. Whats the word, buddy here we go. We probably see a few records set likely today, but the good news is temperatures are rising. Buffalo, this time yesterday, was 14 degrees cooler. Watertown, 33 degrees warmer today than you were this time yesterday. And as you look back to the west, were seeing those changes all starting to pop up jackson, 20 degrees warmer, kansas city at 24, 9 degrees warmer and this weekend, we will see temperatures moderate a bit. In fact, youll see those temperatures start to come up, but theyll still be anywhere from 10 to 15 degrees below average with chicago getting to 41 degrees, atlanta will get up to 57 over the weekend by monday raleigh is at 55 degrees but the pattern this week stays pretty much the way it is were going to see this trough in the east with the cold continuing, but for our friends in the western third of the country, youve been warm and dry and youre saying, hey, we love where we are. Savannah breaking overnight, gaza militants fired a barrage of rockets into israel hours after a cease fire was declared there. To bring an end to two days of intense fighting air raid sirens went off in several communities near the gaza strip as at least five rockets were launched from the territory. Gaza medical officials have put the total death toll from the two days of fighting at 34 palestinians a judge handed down the longest prison sentence in the College Admissions cheating scandal on wednesday 56yearold Toby Mcfarland seen here leaving court back in june was given a sixmonth prison term mcfarland pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud among other related charges, he paid bribes to get his two children admitted to usc. The judge told mcfarland his actions should be tolerated no more than a common thief saying, quote, because thats what you are, a thief we do have a lot more to get to, including the most severe flooding in five decades in venice, italy. Approached record levels once again, leaving most of the citys landmarks under water Erin Mclaughlin is in venice to give us a firsthand look hey, erin, good morning. Reporter good morning, hoda. As you can see, the iconic st. Marks square is completely flooded. This is bad, but tuesday night was even worse now ordinary venetians scramble to fix the damage and brace for the next high tide this morning, the Floating City once again partially drowned postcard perfect venice flooded for a fourth day not as violent as earlier in the week when gusts of wind met near record water, inflicting untold damage the citys been declared a state of emergency now, between high tides, venetians struggle to rebuild. Shop owner valencia columbo was out of town when this swept through her shop, destroying everything were helpless against this what can we do were going to move everything out as soon as we can and start all over again. Reporter the beating heart of this ancient city, flooded, only about half a dozen times in 1,200 years. Priceless mosaics submerged in muddy water, including the basilicas crypt today, the waters mostly gone are you worried about the longterm impact the longterm that is not a single event but the number of events, the salt inside of the bricks remains and breaks the bricks. Reporter citys mayor blames Climate Change in recent years, these extreme high tides have become more frequent and unforgiving but italians also rail against greed and corruption and thats because billion dollar flood prevention system is still not finished, suffering delays and allegations of graft since 2003. Italian Prime Minister says that project is 90 complete and says it will be finished as soon as possible small comfort to the locals. The next exceptional high tide is in tomorrows forecast. Hoda wow, all right, erin, thank you. Let us turn back to the weather at home. We talked about it yesterday whats happening in venice is just hard to look at its just going to keep going on but in the meantime, as we look closer to home and show you whats happening, warm and dry out west, fog in the western plains, still have a few record lows in the northeast, scattered showers starting to develop through the gulf and in fact were going to be looking at more wet weather as the system develops and then pushes its way into the southeast were going get to your local forecast coming up in the next 30 seconds for brokerage accounts, plus zero minimums to open an account. And only fidelity offers four zero Expense Ratio index funds directly to investors. With all of those zeros, there are zero reasons to invest anywhere else. Fidelity. So maybe ill win saved by zero good thursday morning. Im meteorologist kari hall. Heres a live look outside with some low clouds over San Francisco. Overall visibility has been pretty good around the bay area, and it will be a cooler day behind the cold front that moved through already. Reaching into the mid60s for our afternoon high in the south bay. Some upper 60s for a few spots inland and over the next couple of days it will still feel like fall, but we are going back to some warmer than normal weather for the week as that sunshine returns and then well cool down by the middle of next week. And thats your latest weather. Mr. Roker, thank you, sir just ahead, new details on Colin Kaepernicks surprise weekend workout that could could land him back in the nfl also, why at least one of the quarterbacks former teammates is skeptical about the leagues intentions. 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T. s gm recentlyish upd an apology. Right now a look at your forecast today. Kari . Starting out with some clouds across the bay area and also some slightly cooler temperatures ahead in our forecast today. Looking live over the south bay well see the hazy and cloudy conditions, the sun every now and then peeking through. Look at the change in our high temperatures for today and in many spots it will be about ten degrees lower than yesterday with oakland and San Francisco staying in the 50s. We have some upper 60s for a few inland spots. And then going into tomorrow expect more of the same before it warms up again this weekend. Mid70s in the forecast and then were heading back down for the middle of next week. Lets see how the roads are moving now for mike. North 17 from the summit up to lark avenue where a garbage truck crash has lanes blocked. This is a problem but folks are getting by in the center divide. The rest of the south bay moves nicely. North 101 and mountain view, a crash did clear right around moffett. Typical pattern around the san mateo and the dumbarton bridge. Slowing for 24, recovering now the disabled vehicle cleared around the caldecott. Metering lights are on at the toll bridge plaza. That van should not be backing up. Another local update in 30 minutes. Until the day the until the day they lay me down i like that sing it, ladies one of the many moments during last nights cmas that gave us chills, especially hoda, still singing this morning, three legends, three three legends, three different eras performing together, dolly, reba and Carrie Underwood. That was incredible. That was a great song but i think it was watching all those women on stage, the ones who were current, like the Carrie Underwoods of today. Crystal gayle were going to talk about that just ahead. Good night for the women highlights and winners coming up first, lets start this half hour with other stories were following on thursday. The first public testimony in the impeachment investigation reveals a deep divide in Congress Democrats say the testimony revealed a striking account of President Trump abusing his office by holding up military aid and seeking investigations of his political rivals. Republicans say that the first two witnesses offered little more than secondhand stories if this is not impeachable conduct, what is im looking for that smoking gun evidence of an impeachable, high crime, treasonous type of charge that would warrant impeachment and removal of a duly elected president and i dont see that as for President Trump he told reporters at the white house that he did not watch the proceedings but he called them a sham a School Bus Driver in oregon is accused of driving under the influence and crashing with ten people on board 20yearold driver lost control of the bus, veers off the road and crashes into a ditch thankfully, nobody was hurt. Police dont think alcohol was involved but they charged the drive with operating the bus while impaired by a controlled substance. Now to what the future potentially holds for former nfl star colin kaepernick, out of the league since 2016 in the wake of his National Anthem protests the controversial quarterback is set to work out for teams this weekend, but could we actually see him back in football . Nbcs ron mott joins us with more on this one hey, ron, good morning. Reporter this is an unusual move, to say the least inseason workouts typically are quiet events that individual teams organize themselves and thats why Colin Kaepernicks tryout this weekend is raising a lot of eyebrows. A potential glimmer of hope for a former football star trying to make his mark on the field once again. Kaepernick is in the end zone reporter quarterback colin kaepernick, who has been out of the nfl since the end of the 2016 season, is set to work out for teams this weekend the unprecedented saturday session arranged by the league will include drills and an interview with video of both made available to all 32 squads. At a time when the kaepernick issue is gone, its over, its done, the nfls the one that dusts it off and puts it right back in the center of the table for all of us to Pay Attention to again reporter reacting on twitter, kaepernick writing in part, ive been in shape and ready for this for three years cant wait to see the head coaches and gms on saturday. But given its the middle of the season, few head coaches and gms are expected to attend in 2016, kaepernick quietly began kneeling during the National Anthem to protest Racial Injustice and Police Brutality and sparked a fire storm. Wouldnt you love to see one of these nfl owners when somebody disrespects our flag to say, get that son of a bitch off the field right now. Out. Hes fired hes fired reporter through it all, kaepernick was adamant that he just wanted a chance to play, even alleging the league colluded against him the two sides reaching an undisclosed settlement earlier this year. Kaepernick. Reporter at his peak, kaepernick was widely considered one of the most talented players in the league. But the timing of this weekends tryout has some scratching their heads. Like former teammate eric reid who joined kaepernick in protests and was part of the complaint against the league my guts telling me this is a pr stunt. Reporter some are questioning if rapper jayz, who signed a Partnership Deal with the nfl, is somehow involved in the surprise workout i think were past kneeling i think its time to go into actionable items. Reporter as multiple teams have already confirmed, their representatives will attend the highprofile audition. So, ron, you mentioned that there have been some questions, a fair amount of questions about the timing of all of this. Whats behind that skepticism . Reporter well, its interesting, craig free agent workouts for teams typically place early in the week normally on tuesdays, and that gives major Decision Makers a chance to attend but the fact that the nfl itself is holding this one makes it such a surprise this never really happens and it comes amid reports of a dispute between the league and kaepernick and sources are telling espn that kaepernicks team was reportedly promised a list of the attendees while the league has claimed or league has denied that claim so who will show up, we just dont know. A lot of questions still yet to be answered, guys. 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Thats right, last week the cdc confirmed that crisis is continuing as of now, more than 2,000 people have become seriously ill and 39 have died nbcs Cynthia Mcfaddens been covering this story and investing possible causes. Cynthia, good morning. Good morning, everyone. Six weeks ago, right here on today, we first reported about the alarming level of pesticides found in black market thc oil. Last week, we returned to the same lab in los angeles, considered one of the top marijuana Testing Facilities in the world, for round two no one, not the fda or the cdc, has tested the actual thc vapor. People are sucking that stuff into their lungs well, this California Lab designed the equipment and the process for doing just that and gave us the first results. So were looking at an instrument that we had made to do our vaporization story. Reporter so nothing existed. You had to design this thing reporter aaron reilly is the president of cannisafe this is a pump system it does 3 seconds on, 30 seconds off, so it simulates taking a 3second puff from a vape cart. Reporter this is the first time the results of any thc vapor tests have been revealed to the public. Seven thc cartridges from licensed dispensaries and six thc cartridges from the black market were tested lets go through the legal ones first. They did not contain those highly dangerous chemicals that we see from the illicit market. Reporter period . At standard temperatures. Reporter and that is an important caveat many vaping pens allow users to crank up the heat that creates the vapor. And when they do, even Safe Products can become dangerous. Because the higher you crank it up, the higher you heat it, the more stuff gets released thats what we noticed when we ran all of the cartridges at a higher voltage, we noticed there were carcinogens in not all of them but most of them. Reporter unfortunately turning up the heat is popular with kids. The higher the heat, the bigger the puffs. And now, we know the higher the chance of carcinogens. And there are more troubling results when it came to the testing of the vapor from the black market thc cartridges. What did you find in the aerosol, the vapor that is actually being sucked into peoples lungs formaldehyde as well as other carcinogens and Carbon Monoxide and hydrogen cyanide. Reporter thats right. He said cyanide. Not one of them was safe for consumption. Thats very fair to say every single one of them had something. Some of them had a cocktail of things that were wrong with them. Reporter two of the black market thc cartridges that they tested were counterfeit products seen here next to their legitimate counterparts. How bad were these, these knockoffs . The knockoffs both failed the baseline testing where we test for label claim, pesticides, heavy metals in addition, the vapor testing for the two counterfeit versions were actually some of the worst. They had significant levels of Carbon Monoxide, formaldehyde. Reporter they also tell us the illicit kingpin had cyanide in it. Thats really alarming because its confusing to consumers. They would be forgiven for thinking these were legal products if somebody gave it to you, it would be hard to determine. Reporter there is no legal product called dank vapes but according to the cdc, many of those suffering from vapingrelated illnesses had used this illicit product, which is very popular with young people how about the vapor testing of dank vapes the vapor testing was terrible again we found over seven pesticides in the dank vapes, significant levels of vitamin e and trace amounts of formaldehyde, all the carcinogens. Traditionally of all the testing weve done, dank vapes have been the first. Reporter but the prize for the most pesticides went to the vapor from this illicit thc cartridge, maui wowy essentially, youre vaping pesticides at that level, yes. If you look at some of the cdc data for fatal dosing, id be willing to bet that some of these are over what they would consider a fatal dose. Reporter last week, the cdc said they found Vitamin E Oil in the lungs of the 29 patients they tested. Its a socalled cutting agent used by disreputable people to reduce the quantity of thc in their product and make more money. Of the illicit carts, did all of them have some sort of cutting agent, something that was reducing the thc oil to put in cheap filler, essentially . Thats correct. Every single illicit cart either had a known cutting agent or there was an unknown flavor. Reporter they found Vitamin E Oil in five out of the six the bottom line . How concerned are you about whats in the marketplace right now . Im really concerned. I think its very confusing for consumers, and literally every single one of these products has something bad in it, significantly. Reporter seven months into what many consider a Public Health emergency, the public is clamoring for more information now, cannisafe told us they developed their test and analyzed the results in a month. Leading some to wonder what the federal government is up to. They sent the results to the cdc six weeks ago but never got a reply and last night they sent them this new report, the Technical Report of these results. Well let you know if they hear back what is the federal government doing reporter funny you should ask. We talked to the cdc yesterday who told us they are going to do vapor testing starting in the, quote, next couple of weeks and the fda told us they have received samples from 25 states, many of those too small to test. Publicly, they have said very little about the testing results they have done, though they say that 419 of the samples they have received contain thc, half of those were contaminated with vitamin e but what about all those pesticides yeah. Forgive the simplicity and maybe weve already covered this but are people smoking the black market stuff only because its cheaper . No, as we showed you, sometimes its confusing you dont know you dont know what youre doing. And you know how this works. People pass this stuff around. So, yeah, i mean, price is one of the points. Also, access to this in legal states, you can buy legal. In nonlegal states, you cant. But you know, word to the wise, if youre going to do this, do not use illicit brands all right thank you, cynthia cynthia, thank you. Time now for a check of the weather from mr. Roker thats right, guys, and bev weve been looking at this cold air but the Climate Change is part of this because of the global warming, it favors weather patterns that actually push that colder air down into the east but if you look globally, temperatures the cold outbreaks are relatively isolated. The majority of the planet is warmer than average and if you look here in the united states, over the last several decades, the record highs have been outnumbering the record lows, especially as you get into this time period by more than two to one. So we are seeing more warmer weather, even though we get these isolated cold outbreaks. Thats whats going good morning. Im meteorologist kari hall. We had the low clouds moving through and some filtered sunshine again today. A live look outside in dublin. It looks so hazy out there. Well see this continuing into the rest of the day with some cooler temperatures and highs in the trivalley reaching the mid60s. Upper 50s in oakland. San francisco today will reach 57 degrees. Our inland temperatures will reach into the upper 60s today and tomorrow but then warm up for the weekend. In San Francisco a high today of 57 degrees. Good idea. Thats your latest weathe good idea. Thats your latest weather. Look whos up good morning, everybody how are you guys hi, whats up you look great. Got a lot going on. Thank you. You were talking about the cmas, they were last night coming up, weve got the big wrapup. Natalie was there so well tell you about the big winners plus the unexpected pairings that stole the night. Also, what the jeopardy contestant is now saying about that final answer that nearly brought alex trebek to tears well have it all for you right after this start saving with target holideals get 25 off home decor, bedding, bath and more. This weekend only. Save on everything you need for when Friends Family come home for the holidays. New holideals arrive all season long. 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Isnt that nice class beautiful i love that thank you for that still ahead, the royal tradition that harry and meghan are set to break this christmas and its causing quite the uproar were live at Buckingham Palace. Thats coming up after your local news. Score this. Be there like this. And share all of this. With that. So do this, on that, with us. Now, buy a Samsung Galaxy s10 or note 10 and get one free. Drill . Cordless. Noted. Introducing the capital one walmart rewards card. I love it thats a good one. Earn unlimited 5 back on everything you buy at walmart online. Perfect for all their hints. Okay the capital one walmart rewards card. Unlimited 5 back at walmart online, and unlimited rewards everywhere else. Whats in your wallet . And unlimited rewards everywhere else. The roomba i7 with cleanng base automatic dirt disposal and allergenlock™ bags that trap 99 of allergens, so they dont escape back into the air. 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Our inland temperatures will reach into the upper 60s today and tomorrow and then warm up for the weekend with more sunshine in the forecast. Well also see our temperatures peak early next week and cool down by next wednesday. By the end of the weekend were in the upper 60s. Lets head over to mike for a look at the commute. From the summit on highway 17 up to highway 85 but that crash involving a garbage truck still blocked only one lane. North 280 heading into cupertino out of san jose and then were looking over here to the north bay with traffic flowing smoothly out of novato, walnut creek for 680 and the bay bridge toll plaza has your metering lights on with the observing drive starting to build for 580. Back to you. Happening now Vice President mike pence continues his stop in the bay area. He arrived at moffett field. Later this morning hell speak with workers at Nasa Ames Research Center about plans to return to the moon. Were posting updates and will have a live report at midday. And at levis stadium this morning crews are working to repair a statue. On monday night a vandal ripped off the facemask of joe montana. Go to our home page and learn more how officers nabbed that suspect. Well have more local news in 30 minutes. Coming up, historic hearing, democrats zero in on revelations of a new phone call. Instructions are coming from the president on down. While republicans are calling the testimony hearsay. You didnt listen to President Trumps call and president zelenskys call. I did not youve never met the president. Thats correct. Ask youre their star witness. The president staying the course i hear its a joke. Were live with everything you need to know plus, home for the holidays. Inside prince harry and Meghan Markles controversial decision to spend christmas away from the royal family and kicking it country awar. What do you call three women hosting the women rock the stage at this years Country Music awards. What do you call three women hosting the cmas your lucky night well have all the big winners and moments. Today, thursday, november 14th, 2019 good morning. Hey, Northern Idaho our friends in prior lake, minnesota. From maryville, tennessee celebrating ava. Welcome back on this very busy thursday morning, got a nice crowd outside, bundled up, 30something degrees out there oh, yeah, now, you could do it that way. You could go out in the open its nice out there, its fun, you got the tree, its cold, or you could stay home all warm and snugly heres what you do you get out your phone, record a smart message, use mytodayplaza, stay warm and snugly and still see yourself on television you just sold like never before by the way, i know youre excited about this, tomorrow, as part of our allnew november, Something Special happening. Im excited what . Lady antebellum will be here to perform for us. I may not sleep tonight im so excited about that lets get to the news at 8 00, reaction is strong and as you might expect sharply divided after day one of public testimony in the impeachment investigation and there is new drama this morning in the 2020 race Peter Alexander joins us with the three things to watch in washington good morning just three reporter yeah, savannah, theres plenty of things to watch in washington these days including the president and his allies saying the historic hearing changed nothing but democrats argue that it helped prove their case that the president abused his power by trying to make military aid to ukraine and a white house meeting contingent on them committing to investigating joe biden and the 2016 election. Perhaps the biggest moment the revelation of a phone call that ties President Trump more directly to this Pressure Campaign on ukraine where the president was overheard by a state Department Staffer asking a top diplomat, Gordon Sondland, about those investigations, and then theres this conversation that followed. The member of my staff asked ambassador sondland what President Trump thought about ukraine. Ambassador sondland responded that President Trump cares more about the investigations of biden. I take it the import of that is he cares more about that than he does about ukraine. Yes, sir. President trump called the hearing a joke, says he has no memory of that call, which will make next weeks testimony from ambassador sondland crucial and testifying tomorrow, the former ambassador to ukraine, a woman by the name of marie yovanovitch. Also in 2020 news, another democrat is entering the race, the former massachusetts governor, Deval Patrick, this morning, announced his bid for the white house. Patrick is a longtime friend of president obama. He had ruled out a 2020 run late last year. His entrance comes just ahead of tomorrows filing deadline for him to get on the ballot for new hampshires primary. Savannah Peter Alexander, thank you. Hes the nine deaths are now blamed on the arctic cold thats been gripping much of the country this week. Below freezing temperatures were recorded on wednesday in just about every state. Officials say the weather complicated rescue efforts in massachusetts where a firefighter died after being trapped inside a Burning House five people were hurt in a 85vehicle pileup on a snowy highway near cleveland temperatures have been as much as 30 degrees below normal, but well start rebounding today the big box retailer, costco, warning customers today about a social media scam which promises a 75 coupon if they complete online surveys and share the post users are asked to provide personal information, including their names, addresses, phone numbers. Costco says that offer is a recurring hoax it says scammers have been using the costco email name about phony jobs and contests so beware you know what its a good time for morning boost. A pittsburgh hospital was transformed into mr. Rogers neighborhood yesterday when a special guest dropped by newborns were dressed in those red cardigans, blue booties in honor of the late fred rogers whos a native of the pittsburgh area guess what his wife, joann rogers, was visiting to mark World Kindness day. The local version was dubbed world cardigan day mrs. Rogers joined the hospital staff to celebrate her husbands legacy and the message of kindness that he brought to generations of children. We should point out that, savannah, youre going to be sitting down with the man who plays mr. Rogers, tom hanks, this weekend we both just got a chance to see a Beautiful Day in the neighborhood, cant wait to talk to tom about that role, which hes perfect for dr. Oz is here with a crash course on intermittent fasting crash diet hes going to guide us through the benefits and challenges of this latest diet craze plus were going to hear from members of our staff who are trying it. Who could that be first up, a not so royal christmas. 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I mean, christmas is widely regarded as the queens favorite holiday, the entire family gets together for days of festivities, but not this year harry and meghan will be spending the holiday with meghans mom theyve been part of the royal family tradition, christmas in the country with the queen, for the past two years a lucky fan snapping this fab four shot, william and kate, harry and meghan, walking to church at meghans first royal christmas. But archies first christmas wont be in front of the cameras. A spokesperson for the duke and duchess of sussex announcing their royal highnesses will spend the holiday this year as a new family with the duchesss mother, Doria Ragland and this decision has the support of her majesty, the queen questioned whether its the sign of a growing rift between harry and his family hes only spent one christmas away from the queen, in 2012, when he was serving in afghanistan. But as the palace points out, its been done before. The year after william and kate married, while she was newly pregnant with george, the couple had a quiet christmas with kates family near london. Harry and meghan also announcing theyll be taking some extended family time. After a busy few weeks honoring veterans, meeting military families near their home in windsor, posting updates on meghans charity clothing line all after that whirlwind tenday tour of africa in september. Harry hinting then that the two could see themselves settling there with son, archie i dont know where we could live in africa at the moment, you know just come from cape town, that would be an amazing place. Reporter the palace isnt saying where the young family will spend the next few weeks n l. A. Where meghans mom lives, perhaps a White Christmas in toronto where they first went public as a couple in new york, where her friends famously threw the ultimate baby shower or holidays at home in windsor and royal christmases actually used to be held in windsor back in the 80s. In fact, harry made his royal christmas debut at windsor when he was just 3 months old, and speaking of royal babies, a new picture was released today of archie it was taken during his christening and it was actually a birthday message to prince charles. Thats his 71st birthday today prince harry saying, happy birthday, pa, granddad, and sir. Not in that order. You just missed the 41gun salute, and so did prince charles. Hes actually in india hanging out with katy perry, apparently. As one does thanks, kelly its good to see that the royals split the holidays just like we do theyre just like us. Which family you spending it with its time for pop star carsons back. Natalies right here were going to get right into the cmas Country Musics biggest stars got together last night in nashville to celebrate the years best and natmo has all the highlights it was ladies night, they stole the show on countrys biggest night, the 53 annual cmas from legendary musicians and powerhouse performances to recordbreaking wins you know, what do you call three women hosting the cmas your lucky night it was ladies night at the cmas, host dolly parton, Reba Mcentire and Carrie Underwood kicking it all off with an allstar Country Music lineup performing her hit song, girl, and showing off her baby bump, maren morris took home the album of the year award. Thank you to my peers in this room that i respect so much for voting for me. Ashley mcbryde was named new artist of the year i once had the pleasure of playing a tribute show for mr. John prime and the next day he shook my hand and he said, youre real good youre no reba Kacey Musgraves Kacey Musgraves picking up her first female of the year award. The female creative spirit, female energy, its really needed right now as for the guys oh, beer never broke my heart luke combs had a big night, taking home two awards, including best male vocalist i remember sitting on my parents porch when i was a little kid and watching vince gill come up here and win this same award Blake Shelton Blake Sheltons gods country earned single of the year country radio, whoever votes on these things, i have no idea how this thing works after 20 years of doing this. Garth brooks. Breaking his own record, mega star garth brooks earned his seventh entertainer of year award. To all the entertainers out here, lets go, lets dedicate this to the band and crews that get our [ bleep ] on the stage, down that road, and those people that show up to let us be entertainers god love you one of the biggest highlights of the evening, a performance by 86yearold country legend willie nelson, joined on stage by Kacey Musgraves the lovers, the dreamers and me wow you just want to soak up that moment sorry for the cutaway, guys, but more on that theme of ladies night at the cmas, sugarlands Jennifer Nettles on the red carpet pretty clear message there shes got, of course, the beautiful suit but then inside that cape, calling for equal pay for women in country saying, play our blanking music. Please and thank you, she added. And that was trending, written across her cape and that was trending all last night as well meantime, pink making news on the red carpet shes announcing shes stepping back for now from music to focus more on her family jennifers point is well taken. So many women feel like theyre not getting played on country radio and theyre upset. Its true fight a little bit harder. Absolutely. Cool. Good stuff. Thank you, natmo. In other pop star news, get to jennifer lopez. She sat down with robert pattinson, an interesting duo, they did it for varietys actors on actors series and they talked about j. Los super bowl halftime show. Youre playing at the super bowl i am. Are you excited i am excited. I think theres not a, you know, a musical artist in the world that doesnt dream of performing at the super bowl. And so, to be, you know, able to do that this year is its a dream come true. That night, i wanted to be a celebration of who we are. All of us. Because were in this together thats how i feel. I want to to bring everybody together in that moment. J. Lo saying the halftime show, which also features shakira performing, will be a celebration of latin culture and in miami, thats bound to be a great time jason momoa up next. The actor sat down with Kelly Clarkson who brought out her two kids to ask him some of their burning questions about aquaman and the results were quite funny. You have a question for him yes go ahead. You forgot ill tell you. You told me in the thing do you know the Little Mermaid . That was her question in my office and i was like, ask him. Ariel, yes, shes ariels very sweet shes very nice. Shes also a red head so im going to teach you about red heads some day okay. Aquaman go to the bathroom . Where does aquaman go to the bathroom everywhere. That is a good question hardhitting journalism right there. Thats actually a better answer. Finally, ciara, the singer sat down with you, hoda, for your quoted by Digital Series and heres what she had to say im so excited to hear this because i love to hear quotes from people who i admire and respect and today, id love to know what your quote is. The one quote that i go to every time it empowers me, its always on point, is, no one can close a door that god has hoped for you. Good for you. And for me, i feel empowered by that, knowing that is a real thing. It actually lifts me up when someone maybe is saying something that can kind of get to you you guys can talk all you want to, you can say what you want to say but god has a plan for me and no one closes a thats a good one too you can watch that whole sitdown on today. Com she is amazing and also so gorgeous like you almost it almost takes your breath away. I had to wear sunglasses. So beautiful al, what you got for the weather . All right not a lot of sun for our friends down in the gulf coast area. Were looking at the storm system getting itself together you can see the rain already pushing up were going to be watching this gulf coast moisture increase today. It will spread from texas on into florida as low pressure develops and then makes its way around the southeastern carolina coast, travel delays, a threat of flooding, because this things going to sit there and then saturday, another front forms offshore, strong winds, coasting flooding, rainfall amounts anywhere from 3 to 5 inches of rain for the panhandle of flori good morning, im kari hall, nice sunshine across the bay area. Parts of the bay will see the clouds moving out as we go into the afternoon, but it is staying on the cool side behind a cold front that moved through yesterday morning. Staying below normal for the south bay. San francisco will be in upper 50s, our inland areas will feel like fall, but were back to mid to upper 70s through next week. If youre heading out the door, you can still take us with if youre heading out the door, you can still take us with you, check us out on sirius xm to your health this morning, a closer look at the latest diet craze to sweep the nation called intermittent fasting thats right. It involves eating only during specified windows of time each day. Were going to talk about the pros and cons with our man, dr. Oz, in a moment but lets hear from viewers and some members of our own staff who have been giving the trend a try ive been doing the tenhour window, eight hours a day. I intermittent fast from 12 00 p. M. To 8 00 p. M i cant do this whole day fast, i feel like it doesnt fit into my questioned i just started intermittent fasting and i got to tell you, i am starving. I like the fact that i dont go to bed feeling as bloated my clothes are starting to fit a little bit better. Theres some days i feel like i need to eat and some days i dont feel like i need to eat as much it definitely makes me feel like im, you know, fresh for the day. Ive been doing this for about a year and a half. Ive lost 30 pounds. I went from 245 pounds. Im currently 189 pounds ive lost 10 pounds and 3 inches in my waist i think it makes you a lot more aware of what youre putting into your body intermittent fasting has really changed my life wow just a few of them. Yeah. How do you figure out if intermittent fasting is for you in dr. Oz is here to help. As you know, carson and i decided to start experimenting with this a couple weeks ago so weve been trying to intermittent fast too. We have a lot of questions for you. Yeah. First of all, how do you pick . Im in my second week of it and im on a 16hour fast in an 8hour window of eating, so i eat from noon until 8 00 thats my window so, let me just take a step back religions have been touting the benefits of fasting for your soul for millennia but doctors for about a hundred years have known its good for mental health, it was good for weight loss, it was good if youre a diabetic, good for intestinal issues and the head of our medical unit wrote a great book, what to eat when which has been the foundation of what were talking about on the show. I dont want people being scared off. Ideally, you can hack fasting because who wants to starve themselves all lifelong, even though it makes you live longer, by using a 16hour fast which means basically 6 00 p. M. , you can start fasting, all through the night, sleeping, ideally, most of the time, then when you get up in the morning, dont eat. Dont eat when you first get up because most people arent hungry anyway. No one stops eating at 6 00 p. M thats unrealistic, a. I do. You get up at 3 00 in the morning. Were taught our whole lives that breakfast is the most important meal and this is counterintuitive that was a marketing hype, that you had to eat breakfast. The fact of the matter is, when you get up, if youre not hungry, do not eat until you are hungry and you can go 16 hours without difficulty but i got to say, i dont go 16 hours i intermittent fast. I go 12 hours. I stop eating my dinner at 8 00. When i get up in the morning, im not hungry, by 8 00 in the morning, i have breakfast, if youre careful what you eat, because you can eat a lot of stuff in those 12 hours thats left, you can do that 12 hours and it seems to work well, and before we get we have some ideas on what you could eat in your window but why does it work what is the what is the body process that happens that makes the difference youre tricking your body to go from ketosis to normal use of sugar back to ketosis so the body wants to use sugar but if you only use sugar you get fat and your brain doesnt work so well and your body begins to fall apart if you can half the time, be in a moment your body can zero out, reset, your hormones calm down, then it works and you asked me a very important question which i think well get to with hoda which is about what you can cheat in the time youre supposed to be fasting yeah, well, can you i like to put half and half in any coffee does that break the fast i have a tic tac we did an experiment. We took our medical unit, six people, energetic folks, had them fast overnight and gave them what you asked, two teaspoons of half and half, about 25 calories and it turns out just a splash of something in your coffee thats nothing. It turns out that for the first half hour, little bit of an increase in your sugar, not much and it goes back to this is an nbc news special report. Heres lester holt. Good day, everyone. Were coming on the report another school shooting. This one happening at Saugus High School in santa clarita, california. These are picture of students being evacuated from a school as authorities try to deal with the injured. The suspect were told has not been captured. Lets go to pete william right now monitoring details from his post. This happened half an hour ago, just before 8 00 local time in california. The shooting began inside the high school. As far as the number of gunshot victims, we dont know a confirmed number yet. It has been changing by the moment. There are gunshot victims. We have seen some young people being scenes like this of young people being brought out on gurneys, to be taken away by ambulance to nearby hospitals. So we dont have a confirmed number of people. The shooting itself at the high school as far as we can tell is over. And the suspect apparently fled the scene. Now, we have not gotten confirmation that the suspect has been captured. We believe that the authorities have a pretty good idea of where the suspect im going to say he is because were told its a 15yearold male who was according to witnesses wearing all black. A couple of nearby elementary schools, rosedell and high land have been put on lockdown and will remain on lockdown until the suspect is captured. As far as we have been able to tell from authorities theres one suspect here. The police are in charge of the response. They were on the scene very quickly. Of course, federal agents are responding as well. You see police and Sheriff Deputies on the scene leading the students away. A considerable amount of activity inside the school that we cant see as authority go goes authorities go and we have seen this unfold so many times they have to go room to room to make sure theres still nobody else inside the school that is a threat and get people outside and get them reunited with their parents. Saugus high school, its a suburb of l. A. , about 30 miles north of los angeles. And the search for the suspect is ongoing. We think as i say they know where the suspect is. And it appears that the shooting itself at least inside the school is over, lester. Pete, thank you. We have been monitoring coverage of our station in los angeles, knbc and obviously big concern right now is reuniting these children who have been evacuated with their families. You can only imagine the panic and fear among families as try to get in touch with their children. Lets go back to pete who has more information. Im told that we now have been told by authorities in california theyre saying seven people have been injured. Theyre saying thats the number theyre using. Seven gunshot victims. But again, that number is subject to change. These numbers typically change as the minutes go by because partly because of the reporting through the system, the Law Enforcement system, but partly because as they work their way through the school, they may find yet other victims. Thats just the way these things unfold. So we will see if these numbers change, they may go up or down. This is in an area that was affected by the brushfires a couple of weeks ago and the focus on the shooting that occurred at the Saugus High School in santa clarita, about an hours north drive of los angeles. As pete noted this shooting happened earlier this morning. There they have an idea who the suspect is, but they dont know where he is. Reported to be a 15yearold and so there is that hunt going on at the same time and i think many of you have certainly you can probably do the same gn narration im doing right now. The officials are making sure thats no other victims or a threat to students on the campus. We dont know much about the suspect other than his age. There has been a very, very vague description and thats, you know, being broadcast throughout the los angeles area. Clint van sant, former fbi profiler who has been with us through many of the School Shootings dramas joins us on the telephone. What are your first thoughts when you hear another school shooting, clint . Well, we have been through this many times. We have seen the results of recent studies that fbi and other agencies have done. When they have looked at School Shootings over the last dozen years or so, as one would expect normally theres a relationship between the shooter and the school itself. Were told by these studies that its usually an individual who, again, who has been bullied. Theres levels of anger, frustration, rage. The challenge, lester, is that we see every time in one of these situations its a situation of anger management. Its that where the system somehow we somehow, the schools, the family, have failed Young Children and they still see the use of weapons as a legitimate means of conflict resolution. Unfortunately we have more guns this this country than people so theres an availability of weapons and we have enough negative incidents of these taking place that its not very hard for someone to see the example of a previous shooting and then act out. I have been watching the broadcast on television and you see the response, lester. I mean, we have done this so many times, Law Enforcement can almost do it in their sleep. We see, 20, 30, 40 police cars are there and the response is very quick, but we never get there until after the fact and now were picking up the wounded as well as trying to find the shooter. All right, clint, we want to reiterate again the word were getting from authorities, seven people have been injured injured is the term that we are hearing right now. But theyre still getting a handle on it. You see more of the pictures shot a little while ago of the students being escorted out. There seems to be no panic or rush and clearly they have seen other kids like them in similar marches leaving campus after a shooting. It is but as we cover these things we know the we will always hear we never thought it would happen here and in fact its happened at Saugus High School north of los angeles. Seven people injured. Lets go back to Pete Williams who continues to monitor Law Enforcement sources. Pete . Right. The im sorry to be vague about this, but thats just the way these things go. The best information we have from the scene is that the authorities are saying they know of at least three of these young people who were shot. They say seven total injured. And as you just were noting, we dont know if that means four other gunshot victims or just four other students injured in the melee that may have resulted from the shooting. This Saugus High School is a it has an enrollment of about 2,400 students. Its about 30 miles north of los angeles. And the Authorities Say the shooting happened just before 8 00. Just so just about 35, 40 minutes ago and the police and the sheriffs deputies were on the scene very quickly, going room to room and deciding whether it was safe to begin to try to get the students out of the building. The apparent gunman here fled the scene quickly after the shooting started. And you know the clint was just talking about the research on these School Shootings. Just last week the secret service put out a report on School Shootings over the past decade or so and most are over within two minutes so this appears to be a situation like that. The gunman fled. The last word we had just a few minutes ago, lester, was that the authorities had a pretty good idea where the gunman went. Its hard to tell from this map or from this aerial photograph, but there are some hiking trails just outside the school. Im assuming thats whats you see sort of the upper left corner of the screen. And that is where they think the gunman fled and thats where the intense focus is right now. And for that reason, a lot of schools in the area are on lockdown until they get this suspect captured and confirm that they have got the right person. But the shooting at the high school itself as far as we can tell is over. Thats the scene we are seeing now. As the police clear the area. This is picture from a little while earlier of one of the apparent victims of today being put into the ambulance. They had even sent some helicopters there in case they needed to airlift victims out, but we havent heard that any of the injuries were serious enough for that, lester. Pete, you know these things happen and are over in a matter of minutes. We have covered it many times on nightly news how you would be hard pressed to find a school right now that hasnt developed a plan for this or yeah, hasnt drilled for it. Just frankly listening to the radio transmissions from the authorities on the scene it seemed very, very orderly in terms of how they were managing their response. So, you know, not only do they have plans but they actually rehearse and they drill for these things. Pete, one more time. The number of injuries theyre giving is in total, what is it . Well, again, well give this number, but obviously its the best information we have at the moment and and these things typically change. The authorities have said three young people shot, a total of seven injured. So whether thats four other gunshot victims or four people that were simply hurt in the evacuation and the scramble, i dont know yet. All right. Well continue to monitor the story and the focus is on finding the shooter and making sure he could do no more harm. Apparently, leaving on foot from this campus, the Saugus High School in santa clarita. The school being evacuated and from what we can tell in an orderly fashion. Police are now securing the area, probably going room to room as we have seen so many times before. Making sure that there are no other casualties or injuries related to this. We will often find cases of people who remain holed up, waiting for an all clear signal. So certainly they want to find those individual staff or students who might be in those situations who are waiting for the all clear sign to come out. As we noted, so many schools have practiced these kind of drills because of how common these sorts of things have become. We dont know a lot right now. As you have seen so many times before, these are stories that unfold slowly. Well continue to be here and i proof that advances in treatment have changed everything, thanks to a targeted therapy for her specific kind of lung cancer jill is living with the disease. At memorial sloan kettering, medical oncologist dr. Helena says therapies like these mean lung cancer is no long aeer a dh sentence. She showed us slides from another patient. This is your right lung and your left lung and you can see the lung cancer tumor here this is someone when they were first diagnosed with lung cancer and this is them three months later on treatment. Reporter all the white tumors, most of them are gone. Yeah. Reporter research is critical but funding doesnt come easy. While lung cancer kills more men and women than colorectal, breast, and Prostate Cancer combined, only 6 of federal Research Dollars go to lung cancer why do you think theres not so much money going into Lung Cancer Research . Its really the survivors of cancer that are the biggest fundraisers and i think, you know, historically, we havent had as many survivors that have lung cancer and i think that theres a stigma where people think if somebody never smoked, they would never get the lung cancer. Reporter when you were diagnosed, what was the number one question people asked you . Oh, i didnt know you smoked. Or, you know, how long did you smoke . Any other cancer, people say, i am so sorry. What can i do to help . With lung cancer, you are immediately put on the defense. Reporter jill has made it her mission to reduce the stigma around lung cancer and change peoples perceptions shes the former president of lungevity, an organization devoted to Funding Scientific Research i was diagnosed at age 52 i was diagnosed at 29 wow anybody could get lung cancer. If you have lungs, you are at risk if you can connect with someone who has had the same experience, who has walked in your shoes and can provide that for you, it makes a world of difference. That is a lifeline reporter jill and her husband of 24 years, jason, have four kids. Jills diagnosis still weighs heavily on them. I think about it every day. I mean, its hard not to when its this deep in our family i remember last year i had a big panic attack and i called you on my way back from class, hysterically crying, but i know youre a fighter and youre not going to let it beat you reporter there is some good news in the last three years, the fda has approved more lung cancer treatments than in the last three decades and that brings hope i never used to use the word, hope, in the same sentence with lung cancer because in my experience, there wasnt any but there is hope now. Its real hope, and its so real that i even decided to tattoo it on my arm as a permanent reminder she is so special according to the American Lung association, guys, every two minutes and 20 seconds, someone in the u. S. Will be diagnosed with lung cancer, and jill and so many other patients are arguing that at that rate, it should not matter if you smoked, if you didnt smoke, everyone deserves a cure for that disease. Jill lost her grandparents, her parents, is it clear theres genetics involved here you would think, right . And doctors believe probably there is but research hasnt caught up to that yet. There is no genetic test, like, say, the brca gene test for Breast Cancer that is able to distinguish whether you have hereditary risk in patients with Family History of the disease. So the best chance to fight lung cancer right now is catching it early for the warning signs. We put them on today. Com if you have kids, youre freaking out right now she got regular screenings. She got some early screenings, which is unusual and its part of why shes doing well really its the targeted therapies that we talked about that theyre able to now identify what kind of lung cancer do you have and then they can target medicine at that. But it is jawdropping that youre reporting 6 of research dallas are going to lung cancer even though it kills more people than colon cancer, Breast Cancer jill said shes had lawmakers say to her, why should we care funding in general for Cancer Research at the federal level is woefully inadequate and has been for a long time. Thanks, appreciate it. Just ahead, from your thanksgiving feast to your christmas gifts, the trick to using those coupons to work magic for your holiday budget. Magic for your holiday budget. But first, this is today on my parents never taught me anything about managing money. The amount of Student Loan Debt i have, im embarrassed to even say. We just decided we didnt want debt any longer. I didnt realize how easy investing could be. Im Picking Companies that i believe in. I think sofi money is amazing. Thank you sofi. Sofi thank you, we love you. We are back with today we are back with todays holiday consumer, our seasonlong guide to saving you some money yes nbcs vicky nguyen joins the table with a creative way that you can save on everything from, like, turkey and trimmings to a whole bunch of stuff for the holidays so important as were trying to save money and spend them on those gifts and you dont have to spend a fortune on your thanksgiving meal. What if i said you could feed ten people for under 30 thats a turkey meal, not ramen. It night sound too good to be true but im going to show you how to stretch your budget through the holidays and beyond. tis the season of giving, and this year, consumers are expected to spend more than 1,000 during the holidays 33yearold katie hernandez, a mom of two from southern california, is showing us how to save on the years biggest meal. Youre telling me we can get an entire holiday meal for 30 under 30 for 10 people. Reporter thats right. Turkey were looking for 49 cents a pound and then when it does, you can stack that with other coupons. Reporter and all the trimmings. The next thing were going to buy is going to be stuffing. On sale for just 1. 29 a box. Reporter cranberry sauce, green beans, all bargain buys. The moment of truth . 29. 03. Nailed it. Coupons to most people means saving 50 cents off a can of soup to me, it means saving 90 or more on every aspect of things that come into our home. Reporter how do you make that happen . All of it ends up being the perfect storm. Reporter lets use wrapping paper as an example. Wrapping paper retails for 10 its on sale for 6. She has a manufacturers coupon for 2 off she gets 2 back through a store rewards program, then she uses a mobile rebate app that gives her another 2 off the total cost for this wrapping paper . Nothing. Its free. The best part, katies method can be applied to anything and technology is tempting a new generation of coupon savvy savers more than 90 of millennials use coupons and by 2022, Digital Coupon redemptions are set to total billions of dollars. What has couponing done for you and your family . Its taken us to being able to pay off our debt, put down a down payment. Reporter how much have you saved today . I started couponing in 2011 and ive saved about 50,000 or 60,000. Reporter katie said she spend about an hour and a half a week planning and researching and she has a stockpile in her garage shes accumulated for free just by striking on deals when theyre hot shes started a blog, couponing with katie, to share her tips and tricks do you ever pay full price for anything no. Reporter if someone wants to start doing this, especially if they want to save and have extra cash for the holidays, whats your advice . Have a plan if its not on your list, it doesnt go into the cart the second thing would be smartphones. Everything is really moving digital now. And the third thing is stockpiling, make sure you have product to last you until the next sale is going to come around. Reporter with her thanksgiving meal in the bag, katies ready to tackle giftgiving next with a little bit of planning and knowhow its that easy to get this meal . That simple wow impressive yeah. And as you mentioned earlier, there is a fake costco coupon out there thats offering a 75 discount the company did issue a warning, so be on the lookout because that is a fake coupon. Katie is committed. 50,000, she saved that one year thats a lot thats student loans, thats a down payment on their house. This is real money thats adding up thats crazy. Katie blows me away i would not want to be behind her in the checkout line she is like on a mission. Is it good to stick to store brands is that one of her tips . No, you know, she said, actually, sometimes you can save a lot more on the brand names because they have the manufacturer coupon and theres the rebate so you stack like you saw her doing, sometimes you make a couple bucks back and then you can use that towards dairy or produce, things that dont go on sale as much 90 of millennials were using coupons. Yeah. Its a money saver cool. Wow, vicky, thank you so much. Coming up next, guys, were going to keep up with our clipping and cutting theme but this time its about hair. Get it the winners of harper bazaars hairwards, get it . Cl aip were back with today style, the quest for a good hair day, well, it can been an expensive game of trial and error and heartbreak. Boy, do bef great news for you. The folks at were back with today style, the quest for a good hair day, well, it can been an expensive game of trial and error and heartbreak boy, do we have great news for you. The folks at Harpers Bazaar have done all the legwork for you, putting together a list of their tried and true products. It is their first ever hair awards and to walk us through some of these winners is beauty director jessica matlin. Jessica, weve been waiting for this this is a biggie this is our very first hair awards, were very excited, its the best of the best youve got a lot of good products you might like this first one. Its for dry scalp my scalp is dry and itchy wintertime yes 50 of people are going to have dandruff at some point. She doesnt have dandruff i dont have dandruff allegedly itchy scalp me too so, i love this shampoo. I call it my dandruff, not that you have it, dandruff shampoo in disguise it has an ingredient, active ingredient thats going to get rid of flakes with continued use. It works really fast and it doesnt feel like a medicinal, like, punishment shampoo its just lush, smells great is it good for color and keratin . Asking for a friend. Yeah, its great. What if your hair starts thinning out im going to hit you with another stat 50 of women are going to experience hair loss at some point in their life, thinning, shedding, it happens i love this aveda conditioner. Its one of the only conditioners i would suggest you rub into your scalp. Why didnt we bring a cart . I can attest to this one, this olaplex number 3 is insane. Its a hair mask this is a bond builder thats a new category and bond builders are inspired by insalon treatments when you get color, when you heat style, the bonds in your hair, they break, hair looks damaged, flat, not so great. Ten minutes be this, olaplex athome treatment, back to new you put this on, yes, its like night and day put it on, rinse it, then you shampoo, then you condition. How often do you do it . You can use this every week some people with highly compromised hair can use it two to three times a week. Okay. Im like okay i need it. Whats this . That is your oneminute hair rescue everyone has a minute. Leave these in the shower. I have them flying around my shower all the time. After you shampoo and condition, this pantene intense rescue shot is going to bring your hair back to life but it doesnt feel like a heavy hair mask. It was only available in brazil until recently its an inshower treatment. One minute every day i use them once or twice a week do you put it on your scalp or just the ends mid length to ends. Some people its really a preference if you have a lot of breakage at the scalp, go for it there are no real rules. Color safe. Color safe. I have dyed hair too im hanging on well, you spend so much money on your highlights, you dont want to mess them up good hairspray. This is the Gold Standard loreal is the absolute Gold Standard with all of our panelists that weve seen consulted with for the awards, this came up again and again and again. Its on every Harpers Bazaar issue and the reason why its so great is it gives you great hold but its also flexible, you can brush through it some people love this dry shampoo stuff. Its an absolute essential if youre a busy woman, busy man. Its great because it absorbs oil, it gets rid of product residue, and it just refreshes your hair, little oomph back i thought it added to the residue. If you use it normally, just a few times a week, we do have to still use the wet shampoo okay, yeah. But wont leave any residue tell us about the perfect hair brush this is a wet brush life changer awesome for the girls its really good for kids i keep one in my shower. Wet brush is all in the name its meant to be used on wet hair the flexible bristles just, like, go through your hair, no tangles, no breakage, easy peasy. You got a glaze for us. This is whats great for extending your color treatment you know when you get your hair colored it looks amazing right away but a week later, youre like, what happened . So, use this john freida clear shine glaze, its fantastic. Leave it on for ten minutes or even just a few minutes, wash it out and it revives the shine, that smoothness kind of it takes you back a week or so. Its really nice always afraid of inhome color. This doesnt have any color what is this . The loreal, at home hair day is so fantastic because great hair has shine, depth, reflection, this is a translucent gel thats going to allow you to allow your natural tones to show through, but at the same time, cover gray, and resist fading and it comes in 50 shades thats so good. I want to take everything on this table you nailed it your hair is spectacular. You might use every single product. I use a lot of these products you can find more of these products on today. Com shop it is ambush makeover day on the fourth hour but first sean breaking news out of southern california. Five people have been shot at a high school in santa cla ri rit. This is a live look in los angeles. It happened at Saugus High School. A local high school say its is treating victims and two are said to be in critical conditions. They have not confirmed if the victims are students and the severity of their injuries. There is reports of a gunman dressed in black still not in custody. That is why theyre canvasing these areas. Two near by elementary choschoo are on lock down. People in these neighborhoods told to lock their doors and stay inside. Well continue to monitor this as we have more investigation coming into our news room. Look for upda dates on our website, and join us for midday news at 111 00 and a midday update for you in a half hour. The all next express lane upping up to speed up your community. Join us tomorrow morning from 4 30 to 0u7 0 a. M. 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