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Spread gratitude beyond Thanksgiving, change the world in 17 seconds
A full house of family and food got you feeling extra grateful today?
Today on American Morning, one author tells you how to take your warm thoughts and thankfulness beyond the dinner table and actually use them to change the world.
Life-changing events don’t have to be big, says Jason Wright, author, "The Seventeen Second Miracle.” The book, which has inspired a movement, says it only takes 17 seconds to improve someone’s life.
He shares the stories that shaped his writing with AM. Will you take his holiday gratitude challenge?
Don’t be chicken! Tackle turkey duty with these expert tips
Turkey trouble this morning?
We've got answers that could send you on your way to finessing a flawless roasted bird! Butterball’s Turkey Talk-Line is at your rescue and on American Morning today.
The national phone line has been solving bird mishaps for 30 years, and its home economists have answered over 3 million turkey questions.
Today on AM, Carol Miller, Turkey Talk-line supervisor, gives you secrets to a moist, juicy bird.
Korea expert: U.S. response to N. Korea a 'difficult needle to thread'
(CNN) - North Korea on Wednesday blamed South Korea for driving them "to the brink of war," a day after the North shelled a South Korean island and killed four people. South Korea provoked the shelling of Yeonpyeong Island by holding a military drill off their shared coast in the Yellow Sea, North Korea said. Pyongyang made the accusation through its state media, referring to a military drill that Seoul holds every year.
Today on American Morning, Victor Cha, a former NSC Asia affairs advisor and senior advisor and Korea Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies, explains the conflict.
AM’s John Roberts asks Cha if the conflict could turn to all out war, and how the United States should respond.
Protest leader: Abandon 'security theater', opt out 'strip search' scans
Tensions are already running high on one of the year's busiest travel days, but for one group it's the perfect day for a protest.
Flying out of Philly? You might bump into James Babb, co-founder, wewontfly.com.
He’s at Philadelphia International Airport this morning, representing one of several grassroots organizations supporting leading "National Opt Out Day” - a protest of TSA's full-body scanners and pat-down procedures. Babb has never gone through a full-body scan or pat down, but he says travelers should say no to protect their health and privacy and report "gropers" to the airlines and government.
Today on American Morning, Babb tells Carol Costello why he’s instructing travelers to "raise holy hell."
A recent USA Today/Gallup poll shows most frequent travelers are not bothered by the new TSA scanners, and that majority are okay with giving up personal privacy for safety.
So, which side are you on? If you’re headed to the airport will you opt out?
TSA chief responds to ‘Opt Out’ protesters
The man in charge of those full-body scanners and pat downs tells American Morning how the TSA is bracing for the busiest travel day of the year.
TSA Administrator John Pistole joins AM’s John Roberts from Washington D.C.’s Reagan National Airport.
He responds to protesters who are opting out of the scans over health and privacy concerns. And, Pistole says he willing to meet with the cancer survivor who was humiliated and embarrassed by a TSA patdown earlier this month.
AM Series: Hard Hits – Slam leaves linebacker brain damaged for life
Seventeen-year-old Max Conradt is viciously slammed down by a 280-pound linebacker during a high school football game. He continues to play and by the end of the game, after many punishing tackles, Conradt collapses into his stepmother's arms. Underneath his helmet, Conradt's brain was swelling.
He was dying - fast.
He was in a coma for two months with a catastrophic traumatic brain injury and had three operations to relieve the pressure on his swelling brain. Max's father Ralph is coming unglued, because doctors say his son probably will not make it.
Did Max live?
In the end we find out he did, but it’s not much of a life. Max lives in a home for brain damaged adults. He will never hold down a job, he will never function independently.
Dr. Sanjay Gupta tells Max's story on American Morning.
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