Through floridas skies. The big mystery this morning. Calls pouring in. What lit up the night sky . And they did it. Laurie and val. [ cheers and applause ] laurie and val taking home the mirror ball trophy in one of the closest finales yet. Now the final four couples are flying all night joining us for our biggest afterparty ever. Were starting your Holiday Weekend right, only on gma. All good morning, america. [ cheers ] and good morning, america. Happy thanksgiving eve. Happy birthday, robin. Thank you for having a dance party in my honor. Thank you, george. We are having a dance party. Busy, busy day in times square. Busy travel day for millions but there they are, the champs right and the final four traveled all night to get here and just landed moments ago. And here they are pulling in right now, literally that is right now, and we cant wait to hear from them when they come in. Theyre getting here. There they are. Making their way here. That was them right now. Off the plane. This is them right now in the minivan or whatever you want to call that. Its all good. Its all good, michael. Traffic on your birthday. You bring up traveling. Well, take a look. Already overnight, a major okay. Lets stay. Theres the champs. You got to marinate this. Just for a minute. Right. We paid a lot of money to get them here. Right now theyre rolling in. Theres laurie. Its wonderful because theres been a big crowd out here since the wee hours and get out of the van and get right out there and greet everybody, and it just tells you the kind of people that they are. Wonderful, wonderful. Absolutely. But we have to talk about what happened. A major traffic jam in los angeles. Millions of americans are about to hit the roads. This is a live look at airport lines across the country. It is the busiest day of the holiday season. Two winter storms are moving in. Ginger is here with the details. What do we have here, ginger . Weve got, yeah, two winter storms and this, happening overnight. Fresh accidents, new snow, and this is just in minneapolis. This is a large area of our naon from chicago to detroit down to houston this morning. Reporter fresh slideoffs and spinouts in minnesota as a menacing winter storm marches from the rockies to the plains. Crippling White Knuckle driving and a major headache just in time for the busiest travel week of the year. It is going to be tough. Tonight is traditionally the most difficult time. Reporter the most popular mode of transportation this an expected 43. 5 Million People will drive more than 50 miles to reach their destination, and we have already seen deadly accidents and major gridlock due to the extra cars and icy roads. The best time to venture out is before 11 00 a. M. This morning. If not youll want to wait until after 7 00 p. M. Tonight for better traffic. Thanksgiving day and black friday will be two of the best days to hit the road, and the worst, sunday, any time between experts are expecting a 240 increase in traffic jams and a 100 increase in accidents throughout the day. So we have got those winter weathered a ri weather advisories. Also popping up in parts of the rockies, sierras, cascades and minnesota and wisconsin for the next 12 hours or so. Along that cold front there are a couple of areas and roads id like you to be aware of. So any highway through chicago, also i75, detroit and cincinnati, stopped at 7 00 p. M. If youre one of those people rush, those are two pockets you will want to watch, and macys looks dry, and to start, and then rain, snow in the upper elevations. Guys, i have to mention, even though weve got the problems out west, if youre dry now and youre going to grandmas house and you have good weather, not going to be the case when you go back. I have the sunday forecast in just a couple of moments when everybody comes back from the holiday. The other end of the story, all right, ginger, thank you. And airport officials are warning fliers to arrive early. Power outage and in chicago, lines are growing there too. Abcs alex perez is at Ohare Airport in chicago with plenty of company there. Good morning, alex. Reporter hey, good morning, robin. Thats right. We do have a lot of company with us already. Take a look behind me here. You can see the crowds starting to grow here at terminal one already. The good news is they are moving pretty quickly so far. If it feels like the airports are more crowded and more busy, thats because they actually are. 27. 3 million will fly. Period, and thats about 2. 5 more than last year. 2. 5 million passengers at airports today alone. Now, in fact, airlines are adding 74,000 seats each day just to keep up with demand. Now, the tsa since the summer has added about 1,400 additional agents and has made many parttime agents fulltime. But even with all of that they are, of course, insisting that you show up early, give yourself extra time and say you should even give yourself additional time just to get to the airport. Robin. Thats true. L thank you. Well move onto the trump transition. Just learned the president elect trump has picked South Carolina governor nikki haley to be u. N. Ambassador. This news comes as the trump family settles in at their maralago estate to celebrate thanksgiving, and after that the New York Times interview where he softened and even reversed major positions he took during the campaign, david wright has all the latest. Good morning, david. Reporter good morning, george. That appointment of nikki haley as u. N. Ambassador with those who have opposed him in the past. And it comes as trump himself seems to be retreating from some of his Biggest Campaign pledges. The 44yearold republican governor was a supporter of marco rubio in the primaries, but she has since come around. Well, i wont pretend to have always been president elects biggest cheerleader. [ laughter ] i did vote for him, and i was absolutely thrilled to see him win. Reporter haley is the daughter of indian immigrants who led the charge to remove the confeder carolinas capital, but its not clear how much Foreign Policy experience she has. Her appointment comes as the president elect used a meeting with the New York Times to backtrack on some of his biggest applause lines from the campaign trail. The crowd chanted lock her up at every trump rally in response to the candidates vow to seek criminal charges against Hillary Clinton. Special prosecutor to look into her crimes. Reporter the president elect trump told the times hes now having second thoughts about following through on that threat. I think it would be very, very divisive for the country, he said. Adding, i dont want to hurt the clintons. I really dont. She went through a lot and suffered greatly. Well, so much for locking her up, i guess. Reporter senator Lindsey Graham told fox news thats not good enough. I do hope that all the things that donald trump said about how crooked she was, that we just dont let it go without some serious effort to see if the law was violated. Reporter on Climate Change, another issue candidate trump hit hard we will also cancel billions in Global Warming payments to the united nations. Reporter president elect trump is now more noncommittal, he told the times. Terror suspects. I would bring back waterboarding and id bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding. Reporter the president elect indicated hed changed his mind about that after his sitdown this weekend with retired general, james mattis, now a candidate for secretary of defense. He says mattis told him establishing trust was far more effective than torture. Give me a pack of cigarettes and a couple of beers, and ill do better, he reportedly told trump. Trump told impressed by that answer. He reversed himself on the New York Times which throughout the campaign he lambasted as a failing paper, and now he admits he reads it every day, although he joked that he might live 20 years longer if he didnt. Exactly. Okay, david. Thanks very much. You two in that the New York Times interview donald trump was also pressed on possible conflicts of interest involving his Business Operations around the world. Questions are also being raised about his foundation. Our chief investigative correspondent, brian ross, is here with more on that. Good morning, brian. Robin. With the election safely behind him Donald Trumps foundation is admitting it was guilty of selfdealing. And he is defiantly maintaining that if he wanted to, he could run his Business Empire perfectly, and the country perfectly all at the same time. From his penthouse apartment over the last two weeks, trump has repeatedly used his new position to meet or talk with people would could help push his business interests overseas. Some proudly posting pictures online, and now he tells the New York Times, the law is on my side. The president cant have a conflict of interest. I think that were only at the beginning on the cusp of potential controversy involving conflicts of interest. Reporter during the Campaign Trump and his surrogates denounced an investigation into the Trump Charitable Foundation as political. Are you confident that the Trump Foundation has followed all charitable rules and laws . Well, i hope so. I mean my lawyers do it. Reporter but in a new filing, the Trump Foundation now admits it was guilty of trump used the charity to pay for a portrait of himself, to help settle lawsuits, even to buy a signed football helmet. And the new filing also reveals that the Trump Foundation last year, just like the clinton foundation, accepted a huge donation. 150,000 in trumps case from a ukrainian billionaire, victor pinchuk, the kind that led to allegations by trump that the clintons and their foundation were corrupt. Clinton donors got favorable treatment. There needs to be a ban on contributions to the Trump Foundation, and i think that children in particular should not be getting paid speaking fees, particularly overseas, because again, this is a common method that foreign oligarchs will use to curry favor with political figures in the united states. Reporter and thats the man who wrote so critically about the clintons and their schweitzer says he fears trump is already creating a climate in which people overseas will try to get to him through his foundation or his business or his children. George. Okay, brian, thanks very much. More on that from dan abrams and jon karl. Well come back to that in a minute. Jon, let me begin with you and the appointment of nikki haley, the South Carolina governor, had tough words for donald trump throughout the campaign. They appeared to patch it up. This is a real effort by the president elect to reach out beyond his base. We also hear that ben carson has been offered hud secretary. Absolutely. Two people that trump sparred with mightily during the prar time ago, but im also told, george, theres very serious consideration given to mitt romney as secretary of state. An effort by trump to show that he will reach out, that he will show flexibility, both in terms of who he is putting in his cabinet and also in terms of the positions he is taking. But a real dogfight for secretary of state. You have mitt romney, and rudy giuliani, a loyalist there as well. Some people saying senator bob corker could be in play, even im told there are two schools of thought within the trump campaign. Really almost warring factions on this issue. There are strong advocates for mitt romney for the symbol that would send to the wired Republican Party into the Foreign Policy establishment, but there are those like to Newt Gingrich who came out to say that mitt romney would be a big mistake. Hed be concerned mitt romney as secretary of state would be more about mitt romney than about donald trump. Okay, jon. Lets talk about these conflicts now with dan abrams. The president elect really drew a hard line in that the New York Times interview yesterday. Saying the president cant have a conflict of interest. Look. And as a legal matter, the federal statute that applies to conflicts of interest are federal employees doesnt apply to the president. Hes right on that. There is another provision in the constitution which basically says that a Foreign Government cant give a gift. That one probably does apply to the president. But as a practical matter, the thing that i would be most worried about with regard to these conflicts, is the possibility that if he stays subject to lawsuits as well. And so thats the real concern i would have as a legal matter. The real questions what kind of fire wall he could set up if the kids are running the business, run every possible transaction by the white house counsels office. In theory, yeah. And look, the ultimate thing would do would be to sell everything to the kids. Thats also very unlikely to happen. Dan abrams, thanks very much. Now to new developments in that School Bus Crash in tennessee. This morning investigators are trying to piece together what went wrong and the driver is facing multiple charges. Abcs david kerley has the latest. Reporter two pictures this morning, the wreckage of the school bus and the wreckage of families. 9yearold Cordayja Jones and zyaira mateen. Among the five lost children. Whose mother says she complained about the driver before the crash. I have been calling the school since the first day. Reporter weve learned the 24yearold driver only received his commercial license in april, and just two months ago, had an accident in his bus hitting a these two boys survived the horrific crash. He started turing real fast around the corner. And it felt like the world was turning upside down. He hit a mailbox and garbage can and thats when the tree went through the bus. Reporter hundreds turned out to remember the young lives lost. The newest statistics, each year on average, five students are killed in school bus accidents, but in an instant, five were lost here in chattanooga, renewing the call for seat belts. Are safe, and the cost of 2,000 to 5,000 per bus would mean millions of School Districts federal safety Officials Say it is time. We got to quit identifying the barriers why it cant get done and talk about how we get a threepoint seat belt on every school bus. Reporter only six states require seat belts on school busses, and robin, i have to tell you, this community is shaken. I talked to a first responder, a veteran firefighter yesterday. He had to stop watching the coverage because of that horrific scene he to deal with just a couple of days ago. Can only imagine, thanks for being there for us. Amy is back from there with the mornings other top stories, starting with a big headline about overtime pay. Thats right. Good morning, guys. 4 million americans will now not be getting that increase in overtime pay they may have been expecting. A federal judge has blocked a new Obama Administration rule set to take effect next week. It would have made overtime pay available to salaried workers, earning up to 47,000 a year. Business groups challenged that rule, arguing the government is overstepping its authority. Well, police say a person of interest is in custody after the shooting of a Police Officer at Wayne State University in detroit. Officer colin rose was shot in the head while investigating car breakins. He is out of surgery, but is in critical condition. And in philadelphia, police are trying to figure out who placed an explosive device inside a package left at a mans door. They say the man opened it thinking it was medication and was then seriously injured. Is not a terrorrelated case. And new video of a fireball seen over the sky in florida there. Look at that. That happened monday night. Astronomers say this was likely a meteor the size of a baseball. Thats it. Wow. Burning up as it entered the atmosphere. Finally speaking of wow, a man who inherited a house from one of his relatives in france got the surprise of a lifetime when he went to visit to sell some of the furniture. Take a look at what he found. Oh, wow. 5,000 pieces of gold. They were hidden under chairs like screwed in boxes underneath chairs. In the bathroom, underneath linens, inside a whiskey bottle. In total, 220 pounds of gold worth 3. 7 million. Wow. Thats a nice inheritance. That is. Thank you very much. Wow. Thats incredible. Lucky fella, i guess. All right. Thank you, amy. Now take a look at this. Its done by some of the brightest and best stars. You can see lights flashing, people are blinking. Theyre all over the place but this happened on tuesday at president obamas medal of freedom ceremony. Its pretty good. George, if you really break it down if you really break it down, its a little bit of movement going on there. Wow. Youre tough. Im very tough. I got to ill post mine later on. Im really still, people. Im not moving at all. But t here, Ellen Degeneres was moved to tears when she received her medal. The president praised her, and praised her for her courage, in coming out 20 years ago, on her sitcom, and it was really amazing. Really inspiring person. A lot of great moments. The stars were honored. Thats it. Ginger, what do you have . We have a lot of great moments coming up, but right now, we have to get to your local weather and the snowy cities brought to you by coming up, we have new clues about what led to kanye wests we have the emergency call, what happened when paramedics got to the scene. And its our huge dancing with the stars afterparty. Laurie and val are here. They took home the mirror ball trophy last night, and were here with all the finalist us. Our big celebration is coming up. Come on back. . I dont want to live with the un