i'm surprised you're up, given how late you got in from l.a. last night. oh. mm. well, i thought we could play a little catch up before you got off to work. oh! i'm all ears. thanks. careful. i made it a little strong this morning. okay. mm! [ laughs ] yes, that will wake the dead. certainly make your job a lot easier. [ sighs ] one interview, "he's the guy who killed me," case closed.

local product from right here in l.a. college football primetime coming up tonight. south carolina against clemson. the palmetto bowl. gamecocks and tigers. streaming live on the espn app and watch espn. hey, a reason we don't give away the heisman in september. we think we know who it is. or the top two candidates. watson right away. >> brian: these rivalry games should matter. i want to see you do against your rival. >> steve: davis trying to break through. >> brian: which, louisville lost today, right, if i'm not mistaken. yeah, that's another hit for lamar jackson, they lose in back-to-back weeks. >> todd: this is an open year. >> steve: this is coming into this action. >> todd: lamar is at 90% votes. another loss. >> brian: baker mayfield is playing great football. deshaun watson hasn't been as good this year as a year ago. dede westbrook deserves a shot. i would argue that a adoree' jackson deserves to be on that list. >> steve: this should help. game like adoree' had the in this game he would have been there for sure. >> todd: i still think he should be in new

and look at l.a.'s famous 405 freeway. travel at a standstill in both directions 24 hours ago. the weather set to cause even more trouble on the return home. the forecast in a moment. but we begin with abc's alex perez at chicago's o'hare airport. >> reporter: tonight, the thanksgiving holiday starting with an extra helping of long lines. powerful storms halting many terminals already bustling at the crack of dawn. >> we had to wake up at, like, 3:00 this morning, because we knew the traffic was going to be pretty rough. >> you can get here two hours before, two and a half hours before and you could still end up being late for your flight. >> reporter: in minneapolis, crews racing to de-ice planes and clear snow. at d.c.'s reagan national airport, lines as far as the eye can see. >> ma'am, over here. >> reporter: police directing traffic outside boston's logan airport. >> like, this is crazy. i've never seen it like so high, airlines adding 74,000 southeasts a day, j seats a day, just to keep up. amtrak trains packed with holiday passengers, too. philadelphia's station seeing i

so many motorists getting on the road at once, complete gridlock seen from the sky in l.a. and with the busiest travel day, sunday, still yet to come. and byron, here at o'hare, and at airports across the country, the tsa has added 1,400 agents and made many part time agents full time, hoping to alleviate >>> let's go right now to meteorologist rob marciano along the west side highway tonight, tracking the storms. rob? >> reporter: hey, byron. traffic is heavy here, but it's dry across the east coast. not going to last, though. we've got a large system that stretches from canada all the way to mexico. look at the radar. some wet snow across the noern great lakes. heavy rain from detroit back to chicago, south to i-70. and thunderstorms this morning across texas have weakened along interstate 10. tomorrow, that front moves off weakens. winter precip into western pennsylvania and western new york. and also a strong storm coming into the pacific northwest. safe travels to everyone on this holiday. byron? >> rob, thank you so much. >>> next, president-elect donald trump and his

that means new york to london in just over 3 hours, l.a. to sydney in about 7:00. >>> google prints into digital photos. it uses your phone's camera and flash to scan the photos, then crafts the color and corrects the color. download photoscan for free. >>> fans of the e moshgsoji can rejoice. >> outraged with this, apple's redesign that made the peach look less like a booty. well, the newest software returned the emoji to all its former natural curves. >> its natural beauty booty. >>> 523 tame time. hey, a consumer alert you need to hear this morning. check your freezers. a food meant to be a healthy alternative but could make you sick. weight watchers is recalling its smart ones chocolate chip cookie dou combshgsh sundays. watch out for. >>> a warning for parents before you finish that holiday shopping list. a new list is out this morning of the most unsafe toys on store shelves right now. the peppa pig set. child safety advocates say is packaging does not warn about the choking hazards for young cuds. >>> no. 2, the elephant pillow. it's

i want to show you video of gridlock in l.a. this is incredible. it looks like a light show from the air. those are brake lights and headlights as far as the eye can see, just incredible. if you think tampa has bad traffic, and if you are sitting on the veterans or i-4 in stop and go traffic, remember that it could be a heck of a lot worse. bring your patience. if you haven't thought about your return trip, the best time to come home and hit the road again is friday, the day after google said the worst time you can leave is saturday. if you leave saturday, hit the road early. >> we've been watching the roads all morning. >>> traffic has been very light this morning. we have one issue with a crash on northbound 235 in pinellas county at 54th avenue. adjusting with a slow down through st. pete on 275. this is nothing compared traffic in los angeles. 57 is the average speed northbound. looking great southbound to the sunshine skyway with average speeds from pasco and the veterans to 75 and i-75 are all in the green. locally, we are in good shape and i

even our l.a. bureau stopped in its tracks. the challenge popularized by rap group rae sremmurd after bringing fans to a standstill during a performance of their hit "black beatles" prompting this original beatle paul mccarthy to accept the challenge himself. the hashtag quickly going viral. the mannequin challenge is all but frozen in time. could the next viral trend take a page from pixar's "toy story"? >> andy is coming, everybody. >> reporter: it's called andy's coming and much like andy's toys >> andy's coming. >> reporter: -- to dropping in their tracks. however fleeting these challenges may be, the internet seems to be falling in love. juju chang, abc news, new york. >> all falling in line for these challenges and, by the way, "sesame street" is getting in on the craze, as well. big bird, elmo, oscar the grouch and plenty of their human helpers appear in the show's new challenge video. >> so, everyone holds their positions for as long as they can, but check out who blows the whole thing. >> bert, your shoe is untied. you

. >> the american music awards rocked l.a. and the rest of the country. ariana grande nervous and physically shaking. as she thanked fans for her artist of the year award. >> zayn malik was honored. as new artist of the year. member. this is his first solo ama. sting took home the merit award saying his musical soul is all-american. >> one of the the highlights of the evening. selena gomez winning her first ama award for favorite pop rock female artist. >> yeah, she got really choked up. the 24-year-old gave an emotional speech in her first public appearance since taking a career break to treat depression and anxiety. here's selena. >> i had to stop. and i was -- absolutely broken inside. and i kept it all together. enough to where i would never let you down. but i kept it too much together to where i let myself down. i don't want to see your bodies on instagram. i want to see what's in here. i'm not trying to get validation -- [ cheers and applause ] -- nor do i need it anymore. >> another big moment that's generating a lot of controversy this morning. h

this picture from l.a. showing jam-packed traffic as the holiday weekend gets under way. >>> some parts of the country have snow such as here in washington state. others seeing rain. >>> let's get the forecast from accuweather's cam tran. cam, good morning. >> good morning, diane and kendis. for those heading out on this busy wednesday, if you're heading into the pacific northwest you could see delays thanks to rain and looking at major delays in the midwest as well thanks to a storm system moving on through that is going to bring in low clouds as well as rainfall from chicago all the way to cleveland. down to louisville. we could see major delays and snow could mean slow going roadways across minneapolis and duluth. as for your thanksgiving holiday itself it is looking nice except for the northeast and pacific northwest. back to you. >> thank you. >>> after days of nonstop meetings president-elect donald trump is taking a thanksgiving break at his mar-a-lago estate in palm beach. >> before leaving new york

. >> in los angeles, a review by the "l.a. times" found a record 78 bystanders injured last year during lapd chases. so now, nearly 100 departments across the country are going high tech, firing gps devices like that that stick to a suspect's car, allowing police to back off and track a suspect from a safer distance. and one safety group points out that the vast majority of pursuits involve nonviolent crimes and if officers only pursued the most violent criminals, pursuits could be cut by 90%. clayton sandell, abc news, new york. >> the videos give you chills, but it's hard to make that call as a police officer, right? you don't know why they are running, and you're not supposed to run from the cops. >> in in that case, the cruiser was hit by another vehicle and dinner holiday hacks. >> products to save time and effort from that holiday feast. you're watching world news now. stay with us. >>> "world news now" continues >>> with the clock running down to thanksgiving, we are scrambling with last minute travel plans or kitchen d

abc's lauren lyster is in l.a. with the latest. lauren, good morning. >> good morning, kendis and diane. the judges weighed in, the fans voted. and the new mirror ball winner is laurie hernandez. it came down to three, and competition played out. a star-studded and festive finale for season 23's "dancing with the stars" with all original contestants back utah on the dance floor. and several live performances. including this season's contestant, vanilla ice, and grammy award winner baby face bringing the holiday spirit ? sleigh bells ring ? >> reporter: but it came down to the three finalists and the dance with 24 hours to rehearse. first up, the indy race car driver. >> i can say more than this, i wi >> reporter: then it was the former nfl star known as megatron, calvin johnson jr. >> you make us happy and want to make us dance. >> reporter: finally, going into the show with the highest score, olympic gold medalist laurie hernandez. >> this was, by far for me, your best dance ever. if i have a daughter, i want her to be like you, o

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world environments that marvel creates around you, but i tell you, i saw this for the first time at the l.a. premiere and it is mind blowing. done and it just melds the real with the unreal in a seamless way. it's probably stunning to watch. >> you know what i appreciate as well, the humor. >> yeah. >> the humor. >> tt'ha such a great sort of part of marvel and there's definitely -- you need a little bit of that when you're playing a surgeon who turns into a sorcerer. it's not your everyday character. >> exactly. >> it was great, great fun to do and thank goodness for scott derrickson's sense of humor. if he was funny, then i knew it would carry. >> well, the cast and everyone, the direction and all that. what was it like for to you play dr. ra you know, this job first and foremost was an acting gig. he's this extraordinary neurosurgeon, and he's kind of built a gilded cage without knowing it and goes from there to a place of utter selflessness where by the end of the film you're looking at him on his own choosing a path that's about other people and you think, yeah, okay, you are now an av

from the election and the election stunner, just about every poll got it wrong except for the usc/"l.a. times" poll. which pretty consistently had trump in the lead. you took a lot of criticism for months. what did you see that others >> we did take a lot of criticism, and on the whole, we're pretty happy with how our poll performed. one big difference between the way we do our poll and how others did is the fact that we work with panel of members over time. so that's pretty much the same people over the course of an election. while other pollsters may talk to different people each time. and in an election season when many people may have felt shy choice, this allowed us to build trust with our panelists and i think that it allowed us to see the entire spectrum of the vote. >> now, even though your results, you were one of the few that did get it right, were you surprised so many other people got it wrong? >> well, this was a very difficult election to poll in. and a big difference, another big difference between the way that we do our polling and how others do is that rather than aski

we met in a karaoke bar lik like '98, '99 called barney's beanery from l.a. and we met a long time ago because we were both broke actors and the only thing that's fun to do is sing. >> >> i don't remember what happened yesterday let alone 1998. memory won't serve me well. if i did people are like, okay, let's play it. let's sing it now. a mike. i'm not telling anyone. >> yeah. >> you also play marvel character hawkeye. >> that's right. >> we were here talking about -- [ applause ] >> bubble wrap, i uncovered that. there you go. >> yeah, baby. look at that. >> nice. looking good. >> is it true your little girl >> she knows who hawkeye is. she's actually with me today. but she has pajamas with all the avengers on them and she looks at all of them but all of them are mask on and, oh, that looks like you, daddy. i'm like, it is daddy. and i like -- no, daddy. that's hawkeye. he got a bow and arrow. okay, i just look like hawkeye to my daughter. >> when you're not acting you do you flip houses. >> that's right. >> how did you get into this? >> something i sort of

t ginger is in l.a. taking us behind the scenes of the "dancing with the stars" semifinals. ginger, good morning. you got see your old partner. how did that go? >> it was so great to see him. we keep in touch. it was as if i had take an long nap and woke up. then laurie was there. she's so special. he's so lucky to have that girl as partner. i'll have a preview of t dance and so many others coming up in a couple of moments. boy, would i love time. let's get weather, rob. >> we'll be back to you in a few minutes. by the way, where ginger is now is going to be near 90 today. temperatures out west in southern california, persiste persistently warm. temperatures above average across the midsection of the country. temperatures in 60s in minneapolis. 70s in kansas city for the next three days. we're looking at a big, major change in the pattern here with much colder air diving down in the pacific northwest. they can use it. they as far as the snow pack is concerned. very, very low snow here in the cascades, bitterroots, rocky mountains as well. this dives down into the center of t

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a new winter storm on the move from texas to the midwest and l.a. freeways jammed as tens of millions hit the roads and get ready to fly. >>> ready, set, spend. what the real deal is on all those doorbusters. when to shop, where to shop and how to get the best black friday bargains. as we say -- >> all: good morning, america. ? ? tell the truth if it ain't love why does it feel so good why does it feel so good ? ? if it ain't love why dogs it feel so good ? ? why does it feel so good ? ? i confess tonight your body is a blessing ? ? don't know if i deserve it ? ? if it ain't love why does it feel so good why does it feel so ? if it ain't love why does it why does it feel so good ? [ cheers and applause ] >> wow. >> you guys, good morning, america. >> wow. >> what a our huge "dancing with the stars" after-party. our biggest one yet. >> these guys, so great to have all the finalists here. what a finale it was. come on over here. >> we'll get a chance to talk to all the couple tass are here including the mirror ball winners laurie and val. >> yes. >> c

story from l.a. nick, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, dan. well, maureen mccormick who, of course, played her daughter marcia brady tweeted, you're in my heart, forever, florence and i will miss you dearly. the pair remained friends after the show ended back in 1974. a testament to henderson's well-known love and loyalty. ? here's the story of a lovely lady ? ? who was bringing up three very lovely girls ? >> reporter: she was america's favorite tv mom. carol brady, matriarch of that iconic bunch. ? the brady bunch ? ? the brady bunch ? >> reporter: the sitcom a staple of america's small screens for decades. >> you don't say. >> reporter: for was the pinnacle of a career that started on the broadway stage. love ? >> reporter: and turned her into a household name she once described as the mother i always wished i had, as the mother a lot of people wished they had. beloved as much for her doting demeanor. >> i'll explain it to you after dinner, oliver, okay. >> reporter: as her daring 'dos. >> i was the mother of the mullet. i thought it was th

that specifically ever happened to you, but some of these moments when you're auditioning for parts in l.a., this is about an aspirg actress. did it strike close to home for >> definitely. >> did you ever have someone shut the door on you like that, basically? >> i have had a variety of experiences in that way. throughout theie mov, you can see. there's a lot of people who don't look up from their paper when you come into read. it's tough. >> the movie is so beautiful. i brought my daughters. i have to say, i'm not overselling this. this is the best movie i saw all year. i laughed, i cried, my heart was warmed. it mad to be such an incredible experience. you have done broadway. this is not your first time singing in front of millions. but, what was it like -- i mean, look at that. the dancing, the singing. you were a triple-threat in this movie. >>h, thanks. >> you're welcome. [ cheers and applause ] >> we had months of rehearsal. it was fun to ballroom dance and and work on singing. because we sang live in parts of the movie. so it was just -- it was exciting. >> you were so good. you mov

markle an l.a. native, glamorous actress and humanitarian and runs a lifestyle website and now her latest role, prince harry's new love interest. she's the brainy beauty who has captured prince harry's heart. >> it was really early on after after the two first met that harry actually sort of realized this is a girl he had feelings for. >> reporter: the divorced 35-year-old "suits" actress meghan markle reportedly hiding out with the world's most eligible bachelor since the weekend getting to know one another at her home in toronto where she films her show and bonding with her two rescue dogs. >> he got to meet her friends house, bond with the dogs. it was really kind of like a couple just hanging out at home. they'd been cooking together. they had been taking the dogs for walks. even going out and checking out the neighborhood halloween decorations. >> reporter: just the latest in a whirlwind romance, the two reportedly crisscrossing the atlantic for secret meet-ups over the last five months even do

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this is such a good movie, to you, but some of these moments when you're auditioning for parts in l.a., this is about an aspiring actress. did it strike close to home for you? >> definitely. >> every had someone shut a door like that on you? >> i have had a variety of experiences. there's a lot of people who don't look up from their paper when you come into read. it's tough. >> the i brought my daughters. i have to say, i'm not overselling this. this is the best movie i saw all year. i laughed, i cried, my heart was warmed. you have done broadway. this is not your first time singing in front of millions. but, what was it like -- i mean, look that. the dancing, the singing. you were a triple-threat in this movie. >> oh, thanks. >> we had months of rehearsal. it was fun to ballroom dance and tap-dance. we sang live in parts of the movie. so it was just -- it was exciting. >> you were so good. you moved so well. the two of you, rind you this is your third time starring as ryan gosling's love interest. i have to tell you, soy walked out of the movie neerpt i know. you deserve a round of a

it helped reinvigorate my understanding and love for l.a. >> reporter: and the just released mel gibson movie "hacksaw ridge." about a real-life conscientious objector during world war ii army medic. >> i'm so excited that we got to tell this man's story. he did the wildest things in the middle of battle. >> reporter: you know, along included the documentarian frederick wiseman, lynn stalmaster, he found john travolta for "welcome back, kotter" and 90-year-old film editor anne v. coates who has everything from "lawrence of arabia and "erin brockovich" to "fifty shades of gray." i'll say that, guys. >> didn't see that twist coming in her career. >> hope you had a good opening day of baseball. all right? >> ready to go go thanks, chris. of course, you can >> right around the time that you'll be getting the fictitious valentine's day gift. >> he lied. he didn't get me anything. >> fifty shades of something. >>> anyway, coming up on "gma" not too early to -- speaking of getting ahead, not too early to plan your holiday shopping. where you'll find the best door buster deals and a look ahead

have team coverage this morning with our reporters and analysts standing by but we st jim avila in l.a. jim, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, dan. the cigar chomping, bearded firebrand who once gave a seven-hour speech is silenced this morning. fidel castro survived multiple assassination attempts by the u.s. government but went quietly overnight after nearly a decad of failing health. [ speaking a foreign language ] >> reporter: fidel's brother, president raul castro, announcing the death of his echoing that infamous revolutionary mantra. [ speaking a foreign language ] castro remained skeptical of the u.s. right up to his death. defiantly commenting after president obama's historic visit that cuba will never forget what the bay of pigs invasion and does not need america. >> translator: i am a communist, a marxist, socialist communist. i am not afraid to say i am a communist. >> reporter: fidel castro was born in 1926 out of wedlock to a wealthy cuban land owner and his maid. he went to catholic schools and his two passions were baseball, he was very good at it, and pol

here in heavily hispanic east l.a., some are seeking supernatural help. who is this? >> the woman has the power. >> the woman has the power. >> yeah. >> so that's hillary. >> yeah, it's hillary. >> reporter: trump's talk of building walls and deporting illegals has some people worried. and some of them are going to mediums like prove zora angeleta to seek reassurance. he has a chance. >> yeah. >> how can we tell this? >> it's the card. >> that one. >> reporter: around the corner also obsessing over the election. [ speaking spanish ] >> she's saying that they want her to do rituals and spells but they say the major problem is they don't know where to vote. ? >> reporter: and around another corner trump pinatas are outselling clinton. she's in prison garb and cuffs. i bought both. i'm a journalist. i'm impartial. back to prove zora angelita. >> she has a bad news for you. >> oh, yeah, what's the bad news? >> that one is going t you in love. >> someone is going to betray me in love. moving on. right now, clinton has a narrow lead, will that last? [ speaking a foreign lan