Oh harold square. Somebody gave my mom that coat. Happy thanksgiving. Thanks to bass pro shop. Log on to our web site for our after the show show. A fierce storm hitting the east coast snarling thanksgiving travel as folks try to get home in time for the holidays. Im ed henry in americas newsroom. Heather im heather childress. Bill and martha are off. The storm stranded travelers for hours and the delays had ripple effects all across the country. I started down the runway and
we got shut down and we had to sit there and wait for them to open the air space again. Reporter that woman you just heard, it took her 12 hours to fly direct from austin, texas to newark, new jersey. And she was one of the lucky ones. Much of the east coast was hit with a sloppy, wintry mix making for a miserable commute on one of the busiest travel days of the year. 751 flights were canceled nationwide. There were nearly 5,000 delays. Put that in perspective tuesday. There were only 140 cancellations. The new york city airports were up to 3 hours and in boston delays were an hour and a half. As of this morning im happy to report there are 55 flight
cancellations and 352 delays. According to triple aaa we are talking about up to 10 inches of snow. Authorities across the east coast are warning drivers to be careful of slick, icy roads today and tomorrow, even if the storm has passed. Ed there are also hundreds of people without power. How are they doing . Reporter 200,000 people are without power. In maine they have woken up to total darkness. Its unlikely those customers will be able to restore power in time to cook their turkeys. Public works officials were out
in full force in new jersey yesterday. There were 200 traffic accidents when they declared a state of emergency. We always like it after thanksgiving. But we are here and we are geared up and the crews are ready to work. We thought it might be safer to wait for everything to be cleared up. Good news from the thanksgiving day parade. It will be a cold day but the wind wont be bad. In other news things are cool off in ferguson after things are cooling off in ferguson after last night. Three days after a grand jury announced it would not indict
officer wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown. De demonstrators are still taking to the streets including los angeles. Dominic, after a mostly quiet night is there a sense evenings could reignite . Reporter there most certainly is. Details are coming out about the two men arrested friday, the feds picking them up with explosives. It appears they were plotting to blow up the st. Louis arch and assassinate the county prosecutor robert mcculloch. We have bad weather on this thanksgiving morning. The temperature will go up a lot. It will be 61 degrees saturday
and the and the improvement in the weather will bring the protesters out. As the weather conditions change and people are able to come out it increases the possibility of confrontation here. Heather what is being done to catch the looters, arsonists, vandals, the businesses that were leveled and all the people who dont have jobs. Reporter they are calling on the state police to help them round up the people we saw monday night and tuesday night going around damaging and looting the buildings here. You can see on the screen at the moment, this is a liquor store that was looted for the second time. You can see how the rioters came rushing in and started helping themselves and trashing the place. Incredible video of a woman
calmy pouring milk on the flames and saving the building from burning down. They will be using Video Evidence to identify the culprit and the from there they will start arresting people hopefully. The Community Wants to get over this. You are hearing people in the community that they are helping parole billings get back on their feet with charitable donations and financial contributions. Heather so unfair to all those good people who do live there in ferguson trying to celebrate thanksgiving. Thank you so much. Ed the republicans crafting their response to the president s executive action on immigration. This is the next big spending bill and a possible Government Shutdown looms. Oopters warn those tactics have
backfired on the gop in the past. Daniel, when the president was in chicago a couple days ago you think he might have slipped up and given republicans tam anything. He went off the teleprompter after being heck manied by immigration activists. He said why are you heckling me. I just took an action to change the law. Previously they had been arguing president obamas amnesty order was within the confines of the law and here was an admission he is change the law. Ed on that very point, congressman bob goodlat is one of the republicans leading in the the hearings. Listen to what he had to say. The constitution says all
legislative authority shall rest in the congress of the United States. Pts article two says the President Shall take care to faithfully execute the laws. It doesnt say the conscious can act and if the Congress Fails to act then the president can acting. Either he has authority understood the law or he does not. I and a great many other people say he does not and that will be the subject of the hearing. Ed we heard republicans say that again. There will be a lot of hearings and criticisms but in the even the republicans wont stop the president. Reporter republicans are unified in the fact they are against obamas executive order. I havent heard a single republican say they are for it. There are 6 democrats in the senate saying they are not sure they are in favor of president obamas actions. There are some disagreements as to whether or not it should be tackled in this congress or she
should do a small stop gap funding measure and tackle it in the next congress. But i think these are small disagreements. I think ultimately they can send a bill to president obamas desk that funds the rest of the government that isnt controversial and make president obama make a decision as to whether he signs the bill and keeps government open or whether he chooses not to and closes the government. Ed the Incoming SenateMajority Leader Mitch Mcconnell said there will not be a Government Shutdown. He tried to take that off the table. This is an early test for Mitch Mcconnell, isnt it . If they send president obama a spending measure that keeps the government open but doesnt fund these prove moves and president obama decides not to sign the bill, who is keeping the government open or closed . I think republicans like Mitch Mcconnell make the argument president obama just closed down the government. Ed i feel like we have been down this road before. But for today well take a break. Happy thanksgiving. Good to see you. Heather u. S. Specialal forces leading a mission to rescue hostages held by al qaeda in yemen. Ed brazen robbers crashing a store into a target store. Police say they were after one thing. Hetd at the White Heather at the white house, executive action of a different kind for the holiday. I dont call this amnesty. But dont worry, there is plenty of turkey to go around. P. Push it real good ow oooh baby baby. Baby baby. If youre saltnpepa, you tell people to push it. Push it real good. Its what you do. Ah. Push it. If you want to save fifteen percent or more on Car Insurance, you switch to geico. Its what you do. Ah. Push it. Im pushing. Im pushing it real good
ed an American Airlines plane make an emergency landing. Pet plane took off again for chicago just a few hours later. Heather we are getting reports that u. S. Special forces conduct a raid attempting to free an american and briton. But al qaeda says those two
westerners were moved by the time the troops arrived. But they still rescued 8 hostages. Happy thanksgiving. It will be a happy one for these 8 hostages. We used drones before in yemen but apparently this was a boots on the ground operation. This operation requires precise intelligence in order to be effective in order to have a good outcome, much like the bin laden raid, intelligence was the key. In this case it appears the hostages we were trying to get have been moved a few days earlier. Im sure haul other aspects of im sure all other aspects of this op were. Heather if the hostages were moved it means there was some sort of leak along the way. We were in syria trying to rescue hostages and they had been moved. But in this case this was an operation being run in conjunct yemeni forces. In conjunction with the yemeni forces. You have to start wondering whether somebody there is tied to al qaeda and put the word out we were going to run that mission. Heather we talked about the amount of the money received by these groups, al qaeda in the arabian florida specificall n peninsula received from hostages. Many times its not just al qaeda thats taking these
hostages, they are being assisted by tribesmen there in the yes then region. How much can we rely on the government there to assist us. That money issue is big all over north africa. Where our nato allies who have pledged never to pay ransom have paid 25 million to get their hostages out. When it comes to these radical elements operating outside the governments control, anyway they can get a hostage, any way they can make money. Al qaeda has a handbook out teaching people how to take hostages. Isis is using ransom as a way of making money. Its spread out virtually anywhere there are groups or tribes or clans willing to take westerners, knowing they can get money out of them. Heather you have been involved
in numerous operations in the middle east. You were specifically involved in the release of the beruit hostages. Is there anything we are not doing correctly at this point when dealing with these groups . We have seen a lot of activity. I give credit to the white house for returning these missions. Its always going to go back to intelligence. I think its critical as in the Bin Laden Mission that we try to share nothing with the host country. Not that we dont trust them all the time. But it only takes one person inside that group of People Knowledge toobl say on to sa. And before you know it the bad guys are up and they tried to penetrate the government. We need to continue to do it. We do not want to pay ransom to get hostages out. It sets a bad precedent. Heather what should it say to other terrorist organizations . Not only did we free 8, we killed as many as 8. That should be a warning. We grabbed guy in downtown tripoli who was involved in benghazi. We can go anywhere in the world often with the help of another government, often without. I wish we were doing that against isis targets in iraq and syria. We can do these things and do them well. We have the force and we have the capability. We just need the leadership that says let lets lets do it. At some point well have more decisive leadership that wants to do this. We have run these kinds of missions in iraq and afghanistan
continuously throughout the war. NightTime Missions, day Time Missions by our most elite special Operations Forces working with the afghans, sometimes working with Iraqi Special ops. Heather it makes me proud to be an american listening to you now. Happy thanksgiving and happy thanksgiving to all our troops serving overseas today. Ed buffalo, new york coping with major damage after that epic snowstorm. Well show one business that potentially lost millions. Heather some bold robbers couldnt wait until black friday. I would like to wish happy holidays to my family in queens new york and my girlfriend. Happy holidays to all. Ill be home soon. Airbornee all the way. Bla. So my buddy here is going to help me find it. Here we go. Woo who, woah, woah, woah. Its out there somewhere spreading the word about americas favorite potatoes heart healthy idaho potatoes and the american heart associations go red for women campaign. If you see it i hope youll let us know. Always look for the grown in idaho seal. Every day i say, im gonna quit smoking. Then i stop for gas, a coffee and there they are. Cigarettes. Its like going on autopilot. Right . Well, im no robot. Starting now, im stopping one less cigarette at a time. Thats how zonnic helps me quit. With new zonnic nicotine gum, every cigarette you dont smoke is a victory. 3 great flavors. Just 3. 99 or less wherever cigarettes are sold. Zonnic. Every victory counts. Heather a bold smash and grab robbery caught on camera. You can see a minivan crash into a store. 20 people rush in and out twice make off with thousands of dollars of designer jeans in 23 minutes. This is just a string of smash and grab robberies. Thieves drove cars through the stores. Ed cleanup continues after buffalo, new york was in the bullseye of a prewinter storm. 7 feet dumped in the area last
week and one business getting hit extra hard. Reporter twisted metal, and shattered glass. 2 1 2 acres of greenhouse smashed. We have never seen 67 feet of snow in 30 hours. It started wet and heavy. Reporter mark is a fourth generation farmer learning from this brother and uncle. They grow fruits and vegetables on hundreds of acres in eaton, new york. The estimated damage is in the millions. The focus is on demolition. And stabilizing the water pipes, shutting down down and draining them before they freeze and are a total loss. Reporter the weight of the snow was too for the glass panels. This is the result. Workers are trying to spall vaj at least one of the struck are trying to salvage one of the structures. We have a lot of work to do and 20degree nights are not going to be working in my favor. We always build them in july and august. But there is no choice. I hope to see the sun come up tomorrow. Reporter he says understand will cover some of the losses and the kindness of friends and neighbors is helping put the farm back on track. Ed when you think about how long it will take to go through the demolition so they can end the dig out process and try to rebuild. Heather they needed things to warm up, but they warmed up so
quickly it caused all that flooding. Our hearts go out to those folks. Struggling startling new details. Court files reportedly revealing why the Ferguson Police officer did not use a nonlethal weapon on Michael Brown. Ed holiday humor at the white house. President obama taking jabs at the republicans and not everybody is laughing. You are hereby pardoned from the thanksgiving dinner. I found a better deal on prescriptions. We found lower copays. And a free wellness visit. New plan. Same doctor. Im happy. Its medicare open enrollment. Have you compared plans yet . Its easy at medicare. Gov. Or you can call 1800medicare. Medicare open enrollment. Youll never know unless you go. I did it. You can too. Ed Officials Say five people are dead, dozens wound after a homicide bomber targeted a british vehicle in kabul. The violence ramping up ahead of next month when the u. S. Combat mission officially comes to an
end. A noreaster forcing the cancellation of 700 flights and delaying thousands more. Residents in ferguson hoping for calm this thanksgiving day. The town cleaning up after last months violent protests that saw a dozen buildings burn to the ground. Heather president obama poking fun at immigration critics at what he says is sure to be his most talked about executive action. Pardoning two turkeys this thanksgiving. I know some will call this amnesty. [laughter] but dont worry, there is plenty of turkey to go around. Heather Monica Crowley is a fox
news contributor and reporter for the Washington Times. Mac and cheese were the two turkeys names. Do you find amnesty funny . Im always up for a great joke but leave to it this president to take a lovely and charming and sweet and nonpolitical event like the annual pardoning of the turkeys to take a sarcastic jibe at t republicans and something deadly serious like amnesty and what many believe to be a grave violation of his president ial responsibilities. He just cant help himself. He cant even enjoy a moment like this. He has to inject politics into everything. Im always up for a good joke
but this seems inappropriate. Heather this isnt the first time he has been accused of politicizing something. He has been accused of politicizing ebola. Do you recall last year when he par dornd the turkeys, the organization for action which was a nonprove it social Welfare Group . They came out with this list, the things people should talk about around the thanksgiving dinner. And they were talking about how you should talk about obamacare with your relatives. They did that last year to politicize the holiday. We got lectured on how we should gather around the thanksgiving table which they are still doing. If you want to go out today and do a little shopping after dinner you will get bombarded with people who have clipboards asking to sign up for obamacare. Last year they had pajama boy with his hot chocolate. Christmas morning took you your
family about obamacare. The politician are everywhere with this administration. Especially with policies that are highly unpopular with the American People like obamacare and amnesty. Heather i think it last numbers we saw. 5 . People think the executive packs on immigration was not the right move for the president to do. Hes always been flippant when it comes to his routine abuses of power and disregard for the constitution. The will of the merit can people. Hes lad these sarcastic asides. Now, though, i think hes grappling with the final two years of policies that are unpopular with the American People. I think he feels if he jokes about them they will become more palatable. And its not going happen with something as serious as the future of our country. Heather people are going to
hear this segment and get on twitter and say come on, its just a joke, dont you have a sense of humor . Does it speak to something on a wider platform . That being the president s regard for what the American People say and have to believe. The chat evening republicans on this. Sure he is. Like we say, i heard the president be very funny. He has great comic timing. My hat is off to him on that. When you are talk