Satellite. Phil keating it outside the winter white house tonight. Good evening. The first lady and son baron and the parents are spending this thanksgiving together along with friends. Contrasting the Early Morning tweets by the president attacking the nfl and one of the fathers of the ucla basketball players, today, trump is all good gratitude. This is the first lady you know. The president and first lady delivering food for a feast just south of the winter white house. They expressed appreciation to them for everything they did in the hurricane season. 2,000 rescues in texas alone. I want to thank you on behalf of the country. He released this thanksgiving hinch for everyone as cro the country. The heroes who protect our nation. Who responded to the calamities. The fires and hurricanes irma. And Hurricane Maria and las vegass mass shooting. The deadliest in modern history. This year we have seen the incredible strength of the american spirit. Neighbors helping neighbors. Strangers helping strangers. And citizens reaching out to those in need. President trump also videos conferenced with some troops in the field. Stationed far from home. Men and women who wont spend thanksgiving with their families. Were really winning. For their service, he thanked soldiers and sailors and airmen. It is an honor to speak with you all. To give to give god hangs for the blessings of freedom and the heroes who have this tremendous courage that you do to defend us and to defend freedom. So we want to thank you all very much. Very special people. As for the president s thanksgiving, were told the first family will spend the evening enjoying thanksgiving dinner with friends and family at the winter white house. The white house says tonights menu for the first familys first thanksgiving dinner contain all of the favorites. Also a florida keys favorite, stone crab. Phil keating in West Palm Beach florida. Many thanks. Big holidays like thanksgiving mean big operations for the military. Lukas at the pentagon and how people are serving away from home. For troops in south korea, thanksgiving comes at a time of increased tension. Hundreds of troops are deployed in harms way. This is all part of their sacrifice this season. More than 200,000 pounds of turkey, beef, ham and shrimp, weighing more than a bomber will feed them. With tens of thousands of cookies and cakes for desert. Aboard war ships, much planning headaches sure they enjoy the thanksgiving feast. Im james lewis, the florida air base. I want to wish everybody a happy thanksgiving. I love you and see you soon. In hotspots like syria and somalia, the troops serving is on the rise. Following gains in isis in iraq more have been deployed. The u. S. Military double strikes than a year ago. There are now more than 500 u. S. Troops on the ground in somalia. Up from 2 dozen in 2014. I dont think theres a ramp up. But the density is such that theres opportunity to do the strikes. I wouldnt call it a buildup. I think it is a flow of forces in and out and different organizations come in. They may sized differently. The u. S. Military is conducting air strikes this six countries around the world. Libya, somalia, yemen, syria and afghanistan. In afghanistan the bombs dropped have doubled. 14,000 now on the ground, a level not seen since 2014. More evidence that things are ramping up to the u. S. Military in africa. Lukas tomlinson with a reminder of our servicemen. Officials say fox news, a search for three missing american sailor in the Pacific Ocean hundreds of miles off japan is expected to be suspended in the next few hours. The transport went down in the pacific yesterday. Eight crew members were rescued. The identities of the missing sailors will be released tomorrow. Now to a familiar problem for Many Americans this time of year. The rising cost of healthcare. Those enrolled are looking at major price hikes, correspondent dan springer explains why some blame trump. According to the Kaiser Family foundation, premiums in 2018 are rising 18 percent for gold and bronze plans and 32 percent for silver plans. President trump blames the law, tweeting last month as usual the obama care premiums will be up. Well repeal and replace and have great healthcare soon after tax cuts. The democrats say it is really trumps fault. The insurance commissioner dave jones wrote, 2018 rates higher, thanks to trump and republicans. In washington they call it sabotage. All of the negative things that trump has said has affected the market. It created a lot of uncertainty. Thats something that Health Insurers didnt like. President trump cut off subsidies after a federal judge ruled them illegal. Congress never approved them. Thats partially impacting the cost of silver plans. Premiums have gone up each year since the law passed. Mainly because insurers are paying out more than theyre taking in. It is the regulations that more than doubled premiums over the last four or five years. It is the sloppy drafting of obama care that led to the illegal cost sharing subsidies that the Obama Administration has been spending without the authorization of congress. Despite the confusing blame game consumers are deciding what works for them. Because tax credits are also higher, most on the exchange wont pay an increase. Still the sevenyearold law remains a political football that gets passed at the first sign of trouble. Mike. Dan springer in seattle. And speaking of football, thanksgiving is always a big day for the pigskin, not just the turkey, which leads us to the next story. The republican plan may knock stuffing out of sports franchises and colleges maybe too. Heres our correspondent. These are the first of many that will build a magnificent stadium. Raiders plan to build a new stadium. It could cost more. Thanks to President Trump and congress. Under current law, citizens around the country are essentially subsidizing the movement of private sports franchises from one location to another. Theres no economic or i would say political or fairness reason to justify that. In the last 15 years, sports teams financed 36 stadiums with tax except bonds costing taxpayers almost 4 billion dollars. The house tax reform bill eliminates that break forcing cities to pay more for constructi construction. Why should we subsidize this. They spoke to team owners about the subsidy benefiting them. This is for eight Football Games a year, and 21 basketball games and theres concerts and others. Lawmakers targeted College Sports by slapping a 20 percent tax on most University Coaches earning over a million dollars. Another provision eliminates a tax break that the wealthy donors use to get season tickets. It is going to end up having unintended consequences, which are going to hurt universities and hurt students. The changes seem to reflect the increased scrutiny of bigtime College Sports. The coachs salaries are in millions. Some players treat education as optional. For the nfl, theyre not getting too much love right now on capitol hill. Mike. William in los angeles. Thanks. You may be just about ready to head out the door to begin your holiday shopping. Many big stores are open tonight to get a head start on the traditional black friday stampede. The National Retail federation expect sales to grow 3. 6 percent like last year. Amazon is expected to take half of the Holiday Season sales growth. Back to politics and how partisanship is expected to have effects. I wont let the process to be abused. Republican senator chuck grassley, chairman of the Judiciary Committee taking a stand. Refusing to allow democrats to delay hearings for two of trumps nominees, strauss and dunkin. Some have mistakenly asserted that the blue slip affords a home state senator veto power over a nominee. That is not true. The use of blue slips in the smart goes back 100 years. This one from 1917 is from the Judiciary Committee to a georgia senator asking his opinion of a nominee from his state. He said i object to this appointment. It was rejected. It is a courtesy ever since. The republicans used it as a veto to block a nominee. It is a practice that has gotten worse ever since democrats got rid of the fill buster rule a few years ago. What grassley is doing is saying no individual senator is going to be allowed to hold up the ross process of confirming. Theyre asking the chairman to reconsider your deciding for institutional norms and courtesy by undoing a century of tradition. But grassley argues, hes not eliminating blue slips entirely. Only for these two nominees. A big percentage of the court will be changed by this administration over a very short period of time. And President Trump has been frustrated by the pace of the confirmation heres. Theres 144 vacancies and 46 nominees pending. Cristian in washington. Travel is a big part of the thanksgiving holiday. If you live in rhode island, youre dealing with pot holes and highway issues that have been around for a long time. Tonight Douglas Kennedy looks at what one state official is doing about it. We had the worst roads and bridges in the entire United States. Were 50th out of 50. When peter took over the Rhode Island Department of transportation in 2015, he faced infrastructure that was rated the worst in the nation. That wasnt the biggest problem. The biggest problem is you lost the trust of the residents to fix it. Rightfully so. At that time 2 1 2 years ago, we had only 29 percent of the projects on time and on budget. Projects for instance seemed to go on without end. And always seemed to cost more than originally planned. The solution according to them, transparency which is why he mandated hes signs on every bridge project in the state. They list the cost, expected date of completion and they also reveal whether the project is on time and within budget. He also created a website detailing information about every public works project in rhode island. Not everyone is buying the apparent transparency in the signs. Theyre ugly. It is pollution. Its cost is expensive. Portsmouth resident recently fired a series of freedom of information requests to find out their costs. 250 to 300,000 dollars. That money should be spent on fixing our roads and infrastructure and not on signs. Your critics point out that ironically these signs ended up costing more than originally promise. What do you say to that . Because of accountability, we have 100 percent of our projects on time and on budget. A complete turnaround. He attributes to Holding Government accountable in a state where roadwork needs to be done. From Providence Rhode island, Douglas Kennedy, fox news. Up next are thanksgiving panel on President Trumps thanksgiving message. Heres what our affiliates are covering tonight. Fox 45 in baltimore, as the citys Police Commissioner said a homicide officer killed last week was shot with his own gun. Just one day before he was supposed to provide testimony in a federal police racketeering case. A Border Patrol agent in san antonio injured in incident that left his partner dead. The wounded man still does not remember what happened resulting in the death of martinez. This is a live look at new york for fox 5. The big story. The macys thanksgiving day parade goes off without trouble. Security for the 91st annual event was especially tight this year. Authorities say there was never any confirmation of a credible threat to the parade. Thats tonights live look outside the beltway from special report. Well be right back. Hello, im an idaho potato farmer. Youve probably seen me running all over the country in search of our big idaho potato truck. But not any more. I am done with that. Ooh, ooh hot just gonna stay home on the farm, eat a beautiful idaho potato, and watch tv with my dog. Tv anncr the big idaho potato truck pulled into town today and its really a sight to see. Oh man. Lets go. distant you comin, boy . Sfx dog gulp woof. This year in the face of painful hardships, weve seen the incredible strength of the american spirit. Doesnt matter if were right or left wing, or what religion, we all get along and help each other. Strangers helping strangers and citizens reaching out for those in need. Lost people that havent had a home cooked meal in months. My first time away from home for thanksgiving. A little hard. For each of you i know it is hard to be away from home at this time of the year. My beautiful daughter. I miss her very much. All hes people out here. Just to be thankful for being alive. You just follow that storm and saved so many people. President trump and others expressing thanksgiving wishes. The write for the Washington Examiner and policy reporter, gentlemen, welcome and happy thanksgiving. Your thoughts on the commander in chief here talking about about conflicts or troops in harms way. It is interesting reading through twitter and the media coverage. It seems negative. I tend to look at it, what did we expect from trump . It was like my he would put himself front and center. You think about the targeting of military personnel in terms of the message youre unleashed through me. Thats something that at junior officer and enlisted ranks people believe. They were very from us ratustra the rules of engagement under Obama Administration. Lets hear what the president had to say about the war in afghanistan. We opened it up and said were going to fight to win. Were not fighting to just walk around. Were fighting to win. And you people are really you turned it around over the last three to four months like nobody has seen. They are talking about it. No surprise there. The commander in chief trying to fire up brave americans who are serving a long way from home on thanksgiving. Your thoughts on what we heard there. The president trying to emphasize a stronger america. His comments, both resurgence in military strength and economic strength. He has a Major Economic policy initiative in tax reform on the senate floor later this week. Or excuse me next week. And hes hes trying to project that confidence that he sort of ran on in his campaign of of making America Great again. He tweeted at greg sargent an opinion writer for the washington post, with that in all caps. Enthusiastic about that message. Speaking of the agenda, when the president comes back hell have a meeting with congressional leaders, mcconnell, schumer, pelosi and ryan. They got to keep the government running. They want to get tax reform done. Lets talk about the agenda. What do you think happens in the meeting . I think theyll hash out differences over government funding, thats something that is coming up quickly on the horizon. Theres a number of different highprofile issues, though, that are pressing on the congressional agenda right now. Aside from government funding, you got immigration, the iran deal reconsideration. You got tax reform which we just mentioned. The Child Health Insurance program which is in need of reauthorization. Theres a full agenda for the rest of the year. Thats why the seed that tax reform has been going at and Building Momentum has been somewhat noteworthy in the sense that the context of all of these other agenda items it it might be gaining momentum in order in order to pass. Tom, your thoughts on tax reform heading into a critical week in the senate. Is it going to be like obama care 2. 0 revisited or are we going to push something across the finish line . I think they will get something across. The real question i think becomes reconciliation. How do they find the cop mice between the house and senate. Theres major differences there, between republicans in each chamber. I also think once we get further from has finish line what are the challenges for the president will be does the final bill blow up the deficit too much . At that point, there is that slope wavering of conservative grass roots support. I think people are concerned about that. The battle is just heating up now. We heard grumbling from republican senators, a variety for different reasons, some for deficit reasons. Some retiring. Mitch can only lose two and still pass a bill. What do you think at this point . There is certainly a significant amount of moment momentum in the senate. Some are on board for a repeal vote. And theres guarantees that need to be made to secure that. But there just is a ton of political momentum. You talk to the members on the republican side in congress, they tend to think the politics are driving it. Even though policy details have to be hashed out, it is seen as a political necessity for the republicans to pass something that shows they could govern. What about daca, are the democrats going to insist on that in the final moments of 2017 . Thats a priority for them. I think President Trump now with a need to get a win. Last that sense of urgency in terms of tax reform will be his priority. I think i think they will find a compromise on daca. I think the president is sympathetic to that. But hes going to want a dangle from them, in teams it of appropriation for war to sell to his base. Because of the narrative in the campaign and how vocal immigration was to the identity of the president , it is not something he could easily compromise on without a salable product. Something the president is selling is our economy. Lets listen to that. Were doing well with at home. The economy is doing really great. When you come back, youre going to see with the jobs and the companies coming back into our country and the stock market hit a record high. Unemployment lowest in 17 years. Youre fighting for Something Real and good. The president today talking about juicy tax cuts as well to the folks who are serving a long way from home. Final thoughts in terms of the economy Going Forward and and what do they get done in the coming days t