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At Least Four Killed, 11 Injured After Driver Slams Into Tampa Bar; Americans Face Growing Flight Cancellations And Delays; Senators Working Through The Weekend To End Shutdown; Arctic Air Blast Brings Record Cold To Dozens Of States; SCOTUS To Weigh Bid To Overturn Same- Sex Marriage; First Trailer Revealed For Michael Jackson Biopic. Aired 7-8a ET
Aired November 09, 2025 - 07:00 ET
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VICTOR BLACKWELL, CNN ANCHOR: All right. It's a brand new week. Let's make this one better than the last. Sunday, November 9th. Welcome to CNN THIS MORNING WEEKEND. I'm Victor Blackwell.
Breaking overnight, four people are dead after a car plowed into a crowd in Tampa. We'll tell you what we're learning about the suspect.
Plus, food stamp benefits are now on hold, affecting tens of millions of Americans who rely on the government program to feed themselves and their families. I'll speak to one recipient ahead.
Also, a toe tap touchdown at last minute miracle move keeps number two Indiana's undefeated season alive.
ALLISON CHINCHAR, AMS METEOROLOGIST: And winter has arrived a little early, and it's bringing some snow showers to a few areas. We'll detail how much snow is expected and when that cold air is going to go away.
BLACKWELL: Breaking news up first. Tampa officials say at least four people are dead, 11 injured after that car crashed into a bar after a police chase. Now, according to police, two drivers were racing each other shortly after midnight. One bailed, the other kept driving.
Now, this aerial video shows Florida state troopers trying to catch up and stop the driver on Interstate 275 South, but authorities say they stopped chasing him when he went into Ybor City. That's a popular entertainment district in Tampa, but the driver then crashed into a bar. Police say the suspect is 22-year-old Silas Sampson. Sampson was arrested there at the scene.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: With all the promising and upcoming things happening to the neighborhood, it's just very, very tragic. And you know, just heartbreaking to wake up to this type of -- type of news.
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BLACKWELL: According to court documents, Sampson now faces multiple felonies. He's being held at the Hillsborough County jail.
All right. Live look now for you, Philadelphia's airport. Airlines are canceling hundreds of flights. Delays are mounting as the shutdown drags on.
Last week, airlines started to implement a 4 percent reduction in domestic flights at 40 airports. This week, it will ramp up to 10 percent, all because of a shortage of air traffic controllers. The FAA said that air control facilities were short staffed, 42 times on Saturday. Right now, the number is up to 541 delays and more than 1,100 cancellations so far today.
CNN's Leigh Waldman visited Newark to speak with passengers there.
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LEIGH WALDMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hundreds of flights here at Newark were either canceled or delayed today. We can see that reflected on the big board -- delayed, canceled, canceled. The same story time and time again.
We know that at one point, there was a ground stop issued for flights coming into Newark. But it wasn't just this airport. The other two major airports in the New York City area also facing ground delays. Passengers here trying to pack their patience, trying to give some grace to the hard working TSA and airport employees who are working without a paycheck right now.
One woman says she's taking all of this into consideration when thinking about Thanksgiving and Christmas.
ALYSSA MINCE, AIRLINE PASSENGER: Our first flight, it got delayed an hour and then another hour, and now its delayed three hours. So, we are missing our connecting flight from Dallas to Amarillo. We're kind of grateful in a way that we're getting through this before Thanksgiving and Christmas. Everything else, we're just going to stick to driving or staying home probably.
WALDMAN: It's compounding issues here. Not only the FAA mandated flight reductions that are in place this weekend, but also staffing shortages across the country, making this travel nightmare all that much worse.
Leigh Waldman, CNN, Newark Airport.
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BLACKWELL: And I don't know if you noticed during Leigh's report, we've got over here on the screen the number of cancellations, delays. That number was 540 before that package started, it rose by 100 in just the 2-1/2 minutes that she was telling that story. So, it's going to be a rough day at airports across the country.
Now, the Senate will be back in session again today to attempt to strike a bipartisan deal to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, in many ways, causing what we're seeing at airports. After Saturday's session, there are no signs of progress. Things got off to a pretty rough start when President Trump made it clear that he's not likely to compromise with Democrats on their demand for a one-year extension on Obamacare subsidies, a point hammered home by Republicans.
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SEN. JOHN THUNE (R-SD), MAJORITY LEADER: Republicans are not about to further burden taxpayers by blindly extending a flawed program. The Democrats' proposal is just more of the same masking, rising premiums and padding insurance companies' profits with more taxpayer dollars. The Democrat leader's proposal is a nonstarter. There's still only one path out. It's a clean funding extension.
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BLACKWELL: Now, for more on the stalemate and what comes next, here's CNN's Annie Grayer.
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ANNIE GRAYER, CNN SENIOR REPORTER: Well, Victor, the senate left session on Saturday without holding a vote to reopen the government. So, the senators are back in session today. We'll see if they make any progress. But both sides really are at a standstill here. There's huge divisions that remain.
Let's just circle back to Monday. There really was bipartisan negotiations that seemed to be ongoing. But on Tuesday, when Democrats had a major sweep in the elections, that really reaffirmed for Democrats to hold firm in their key position, which is they were not going to vote to reopen the government until Republicans made some sort of deal on those expiring Obamacare subsidies that are causing people's health care prices to go up.
So, on Friday, Chuck Schumer presented the new Democratic offer to Republicans, which is that Democrats will vote to reopen the government if Republicans extend those expiring. Obamacare credits by one year. Well, guess what? Republicans flatly rejected that proposal, said it was a nonstarter. So that is why the Senate was in on Saturday, but could not find an agreement on anything to vote on.
But Leader Thune is planning on keeping the Senate in session on Sunday and through the week, hoping that that will create some pressure to senators to reach a deal. We know negotiations are happening behind the scenes, but not enough for both sides to reach total agreement.
Meanwhile, the House has been out of session since September 19th and as the shutdown drags on, the longest in history, real people are continuing to feel real pain.
Back to you.
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BLACKWELL: All right, Annie. Thank you so much.
Millions of Americans are waking up to a record chill this week with a chance of snow in parts of the country.
CNN meteorologist Allison Chinchar is here.
Feels a little early.
CHINCHAR: I mean, it is.
BLACKWELL: Okay, good. Okay.
CHINCHAR: Yeah, it is, because it's November, at least according to the calendar. But it's definitely going to feel more like, say, early to mid-January.
BLACKWELL: Oh, that is cold. Yes.
CHINCHAR: Yes, yes. And we're talking records again. This isn't just going to be like three, four or five degrees cooler than normal. This is going to be significantly colder, especially compared to where we normally would be this time of year.
And it's all thanks to this cold front right through here. Again, you can see that in behind it. That's where all of the cold air is coming in. But it also means that if you have some moisture, it's producing some snow showers. So you've got some snow that's been making its way through portions of Chicago now heading towards Detroit into portions of northwestern Ohio. Youve also got some up here in the northeast along the Great Lakes, too. That should be wrapping up by the end of the day tomorrow.
It's also very, very windy because of that front. So, areas of the northeast, the mid-Atlantic and the Midwest looking at pretty good wind gusts up around 40 to 60 miles per hour for the next 24 hours. So, keep in mind, you may also have some airline delays due to the wind, in addition to some of the other causes for the delays.
You also have some dots here. All of these dots represent a potential record low Monday or Tuesday. Some of these areas could break a record for both the high temperature and the low temperature. Just the news you wanted to hear on your Sunday morning.
Here's a look at that cold swath as it begins to push down towards the Gulf Coast on Monday. It sticks around and lingers for much of the eastern seaboard on Tuesday, before we finally start to see it rebounding as we get towards the latter end of the week for most of the cities.
BLACKWELL: All right. It's a deep drop, but it's quick.
CHINCHAR: Short lived, short lived.
BLACKWELL: We'll survive it. Allison, thank you. Morning headlines for you now.
Let's go to Louisville. The search continues where a UPS cargo plane crashed just after takeoff. This was Tuesday. At least 14 people killed. There's still nine people missing. As investigators are sifting through wreckage of homes and businesses.
The NTSB says the plane's left engine came off during takeoff and recovery was impossible. Out of caution, UPS and FedEx have now grounded all MD-11 aircrafts as that investigation continues.
Fourteen women calling themselves suburban moms were arrested near Chicago after blocking a road outside an immigration detention center. The group sat in a circle. This was Friday as an act of civil disobedience, and they demanded an end to what they call a campaign of chaos. They're referring to the Department of Homeland Security's Midway Blitz immigration operation.
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ELLEN TOOBIN, PROTESTER: We need to get up off our phones and into the streets, because that is what is required at this moment.
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BLACKWELL: They say their families in communities that they're living in. They're living in fear as loved ones are detained and deported.
A rapper has been arrested on the same day that he was nominated for a Grammy. Police arrested Rod Wave on drug and weapons charges in Atlanta Friday. The rapper, whose real name is Rodarius Green, was booked into the Fulton County jail. This is not Green's first run-in with the law. Police arrested him last May in Atlanta on 13 charges, including aggravated assault.
Hamas says it plans to hand over the body of the longest held Israeli hostage in Gaza today. Lieutenant Hadar Goldin was killed during the 2014 war between Israel and Hamas, and his remains have been held for more than a decade Israel believed his remains were in Rafah, near tunnels used by Hamas in southern Gaza. Goldin's family says that they're waiting for official confirmation that his body has been returned.
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If confirmed, four deceased hostages would still remain in Gaza.
New this morning, King Charles appeared at London's annual Remembrance Day ceremony. The special service at the cenotaph honors the country's military veterans. What happens on the Sunday closest to November 11th, the day when World War I ended in 1918, and King Charles led a two minute moment of silence to commemorate the fallen. Queen Camilla and the princess of Wales also attended the service, observing from a balcony.
Still to come, millions of Americans wondering where the money for the next meal will come from. We speak with a Florida woman about the challenges that she's facing.
And the Supreme Court will decide this week whether to take up a challenge on the legality of same sex marriage.
And just in time for friendsgiving -- don't take this to your regular Thanksgiving -- Taco Bell introduces a new baja blast pie. What do you think? Don't take a bite. We will.
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BLACKWELL: Forty-two million Americans are wondering when the SNAP benefits will be restored, and food banks across the country are trying to step up and fill the need. Last week, the Supreme Court paused the benefits so an appeals court could have more time to consider the Trump administration's objection to funding the full SNAP benefits. People are going hungry while this legal process plays out. Food pantries have said they're trying, but they are having a tough time meeting the overwhelming demand.
Let me bring in now, Chantille Manuel, she's a SNAP benefits recipient who joins us from Venice, Florida.
Good morning to you.
You were on with my colleague Pamela Brown a few days ago. And at that point, you didn't have a home. I think that's most important. Have you now been able to secure a place to live?
CHANTILLE MANUEL, SNAP BENEFITS RECIPIENT: Yes, yes. After a long time of struggling with homelessness, I now have a temporary to permanent housing situation. So, praise the Lord that that's happening for my life.
BLACKWELL: Okay. So that's good that you do have a place to live.
Let's talk about these SNAP benefits, because you also told Pamela that you were deciding between buying food and putting gas in the car. Has that improved at all?
MANUEL: No, absolutely not because now I've just had to pay rent and rent is nothing cheap, right? I'm grateful for what I have, but like that's a huge expense. So now, it's even harder to figure out, you know, where is money coming from for this, as I'm opening my business, and having to, like, pay for all these things to get this business up and going, it's just not easy at all.
BLACKWELL: Yeah. Take us day to day. Or is it even day to day now? Is it meal to meal on finding food? Do you have food in this this new home that you have? Where are you getting food while the SNAP benefits are on hold?
MANUEL: Yeah, it's definitely been kind of like a meal to meal thing. I have been getting stuff from our food banks and some friends, people have given me things, but -- and I'm not complaining because there's so many great things that they give us, but it's not -- sometimes it's missing this or that, right? Like so -- you still have to go get something. And I'm not complaining. It's just that's the reality of it.
BLACKWELL: Yeah. So on Friday, the administration said that it first would comply and start to immediately pay out the full SNAP benefits as ordered by a judge. And then they appealed to the Supreme Court for pause. And they got it.
Some states started flooding money out. Have you heard anything from the state of Florida about any state support or anything coming?
MANUEL: No, no, and I checked my card yesterday and there was nothing on it.
BLACKWELL: What's your message to the lawmakers in Washington?
MANUEL: I just stand firm in the fact that if this would have affected them the way that it affects myself and other people in my situation, this would not have been going on. It wouldn't have even been a question. It would have never happened. If we take their food away, it won't happen.
BLACKWELL: Chantille, thank you for sharing your story with us. I'm glad you have a home and that you have people around you who are helping you, but I also hope you get that support that you certainly need pretty soon. Thanks again.
MANUEL: Thank you.
BLACKWELL: All right. Still to come, President Trump is doubling down on the economy despite rising prices. Why? The president is trying to make affordability his issue.
Plus, Oscar winning actress and Internet troll Jennifer Lawrence opened up about her secret love of online arguments.
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Those stories and more in this morning's roundup.
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BLACKWELL: Well, after days of back and forth, SNAP recipients are still in limbo. The Supreme Court is letting the Trump administration pause full benefits, at least for now.
Joining me now to talk about it in the morning roundup, publicist and host Mary Davis, former U.S. attorney Michael Moore and Atlanta reporter Kaitlyn Ross.
Welcome to you all.
And, Kaitlyn, let me start with you on the reporting there. The SNAP benefits on hold, we're now more than a week into people having nothing deposited into those cards. What are you seeing at the food banks and people who are just trying to get some help?
KAITLYN ROSS, REPORTER, 11ALIVE ATLANTA: There is so much confusion around this, Victor. People really want to know what's going to happen next. They're looking for answers, and what we're seeing is a lot of back and forth, but not those answers that they're looking for. Not those solutions.
So, when people come to the food banks, they're feeling desperate. They're feeling like they don't know when that money is going to come back. And so, it's not just not having the money, it's not knowing when that money is going to be deposited on those cards again. So, there is so much uncertainty out there.
BLACKWELL: Yeah. So, there was a judge who ordered full payment of the SNAP benefits by Friday. They -- the administration went to the Supreme Court to ask for a pause, and they got it from Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. And there are some people who are surprised that she allowed it.
Is that ideological?
MICHAEL MOORE, FORMER U.S. ATTORNEY: Yeah. No, I'm glad to be with all of you.
It's not. I mean, this is really just a procedural step that she took, and what you'll find that the Supreme Court, if anything, they're sort of like the constant flow. They don't want to see things change too much and have not in the past, at least while the litigation is going on.
So, really, all she did is she just sort of put a pause on it to allow the appellate courts where that trial judge was in Rhode island, to look at it and decide if they were going to intervene. And then it also gives the administration time, if that appeals court is not to move their appeal to the Supreme Court.
So, all she did is just sort of keep things in play to allow the appeals process to begin to work out. It had nothing to do with what she believed.
MARA DAVIS, PUBLICIST, PRODUCER, WRITER, RADIO & TV HOST: It all just seems kind of crazy that people are living with this. And now, Americans are taking this into their own hands. I saw a guy, A.J. Owner (ph) is his name, in Pittsburgh. He's got a food pantry in his front yard. People are dropping off thousands of dollars.
There's a TikTok trend now of a woman calling churches saying, I need baby formula, testing churches to see. So, when you go to church this morning, see when you're giving that donation bowl, ask where the money is going because Americans are really struggling with this and people are wondering what to do. So, we are in all -- this confusion of the benefits, and it is refreshing to see people taking this into their own hands, because as Americans, I think a lot of us feel like, what do we do next?
People should not go hungry in this country, and it just seems so disheartening every day to wake up to this.
BLACKWELL: Forty-two million people. So, one in eight Americans relies on the SNAP benefit program, which I think there were some people who, when we first started reporting that number, maybe have been surprised by that number.
Let's talk about the airports, and let's put up on the screen the number of the delays and cancellations, because when this hour started, it was 541. We're now a half hour in and it's up to 719 on delays. More than 1,100 cancellations so far today.
This has to, at some point, at least -- let me, let me rephrase that. The last time around, this was the issue that led to the end of the shutdown.
ROSS: Well, because it's chaos. You go to the airport and people are looking up at those monitors and they're saying, where is my flight? Am I going to get on my flight? Am I going to make it to Thanksgiving dinner? Am I going to make it to my son's wedding? People are really worried about whether or not they can make it where they need to go.
MOORE: I think your last comment about SNAP and the way people underestimated the number of people who were receiving assistance, it sort of plays in here because you have some folks who think, well, I'm not really affected by that. I don't need government assistance at all. But then when they go to the airport, suddenly their flights are canceled. Those are the people that become vocal and start to complain.
And you see that this kind of nonsense sort of affects everybody at some level, whether it's in food safety, whether it's in transportation safety, whether, you know, whatever the case may be. And so, I think that's why you'll see pressure now from.
DAVIS: Will it be Congress, though when they're traveling? Is that going to really sink in when you've got congressmen and women and senators and suddenly, oh, their planes are canceled. But the ripple effect of this, just all the economy that goes into it and going to the airport and knowing that you're -- literally, you're gambling.
BLACKWELL: Yeah.
DAVIS: Like I'm rolling the dice, am I going to hit it or am I going to not?
BLACKWELL: But is it a little sad that it's not the lack of food? It's not the lack of money for heating oil. It's not the lack of pay for the military. It's the inconvenience of my flight.
MOORE: That's exactly what's the problem.
DAVIS: But don't people vote for their own interests?
BLACKWELL: Yeah.
DAVIS: So it's not that surprising at all, actually. BLACKWELL: Yeah. Let's talk about affordability, because the president
has said both that this is the issue that Republicans need to focus on. And also, quote, said, I don't want to talk about the affordability.
He says that when Democrats in the last week talked about affordability, won races across the country, that they lied. Here's what the president said on Friday.
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DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: If you look at affordability, which they campaigned on.
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They lied because they talked about all prices are up. No, no prices are down under the Trump administration, and they're down substantially.
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BLACKWELL: Let's put the real numbers up because inflation is up across 3 percent change September of 2024 to 2025, 0.3 percent from August to September. Of course, we don't have the latest numbers because of the shutdown, but it's hard to convince people that prices are down when they're at the grocery store.
KAITLYN ROSS, REPORTER, 11ALIVE ATLANTA: Well, exactly. That's the point. It's -- affordability isn't just the numbers, it's also a feeling. You go to check out at the grocery store and you can't afford what you're used to buying or the broccoli you're buying is $2 more ahead. Mara, you said earlier. I think people really feel that.
MARA DAVIS, PUBLICIST, PRODUCER, WRITER, RADIO AND TV HOST: It is very obvious at the grocery store that things are costing more, people are buying maybe the store brand instead of the name brand. People are seeing the produce is more expensive, items that they would normally buy and not think about suddenly you're checking out and you're -- I mean, this is -- I feel like comments like that or out of touch with people don't actually go to the grocery store because if you're shopping, if you're a regular grocery shopper people can say down is up and up is down, but when you're in the store once a week, twice a week, you're feeding a family, you're knowing very well if the prices are going up.
MICHAEL MOORE, FORMER U.S. ATTORNEY AND PARTNER, MOORE HALL IN ATLANTA: Yes, I think this is really just another example of maybe Trump's version of the truth not really meeting the facts.
BLACKWELL: But this is also what the by the administration hit. They kept telling people what the economy was when people were saying, I know how much I'm spending. I know because my money doesn't go as far as it used to.
One more legal question for you here. The Supreme Court they sat down and they discussed the possibility of taking up a case that could overturn the Obergefell decision 2015 that legalized same-sex marriage. What do we need to know?
MOORE: Well, I mean the court will make it a suit. They have these private meetings and they decide which cases they're going to take. But I think you've heard over the last couple years, you've heard some of the more conservative justices say, we don't have the stomach to overturn this. Even heard Justice Barrett said look, you know, people have relied on this decision. They've made a state this -- planning decisions. They've made child with family decisions whether going to have children involved. And so, they've relied now, there's with this doctrine of reliance.
BLACKWELL: Even that the court that overturned the Dobbs decision and took away the federal right to an abortion?
MOORE: Yes. I do hope and I hope it's been something that we've seen over the last year at least that this court is starting to realize that they're losing some credibility. And so, you're starting maybe to see some of the justices go back to this idea of having precedence and not doing things just because it's the whim of the day.
BLACKWELL: All right.
ROSS: I don't believe it. I don't believe it.
MOORE: Hope Springs Attorney.
BLACKWELL: All right. We're going to take a quick break. Mara, Michael, Kaitlyn, stay with us because coming up why not bring a taste of the tropics to Thanksgiving this year? Again, I'm saying take it to Friendsgiving. Don't take this to your grandmother's house. We're trying out Taco Bell's viral Baja Blast Pie.
ROSS: Oh, my God. We have it.
BLACKWELL: Yes.
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BLACKWELL: All right. Welcome back to the Morning Roundup. Mara Davis, Michael Moore, Kaitlin Ross are with me. So, let's start on TikTok fight, shall we, this Sunday morning?
ROSS: Yes.
BLACKWELL: If you get into a TikTok fight, it might just be Oscar- winning actress Jennifer Lawrence. Here's what she said that apparently she likes these little arguments.
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JENNIFER LAWRENCE, ACTRESS: I have like a secret life on TikTok.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You do?
LAWRENCE: I do.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: With its own fans?
LAWRENCE: Well, I wouldn't say fans. I get in fights on TikTok. It started off with like real housewives, which is kind of like fights, back and forth, Kardashians, that kind of thing. And then it got really intense when I started commenting on like the royal family.
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DAVIS: I love it. Because I think a lot -- well, like people have an Finstagram. I don't know what it is on TikTok. Is it a FikFoc? No, what are we doing here? TikTok is so savage with comments. You could post a photo of a sunny day and people would be like, why do you hate America? So, this is a funny thing. Like, I think a lot of celebrities do this. I think Taylor Swift, when she started talking about sourdough bread, I believe she is in full sourdough talk as another person.
So, I think you can go inside the innards of TikTok and do that. And yes, why wouldn't Jennifer Lawrence want to do that? She's spicy. She's having fun. And now, she's admitting it. So, now people commenting are going to be like, are you Jennifer Lawrence?
BLACKWELL: Yes, yes, yes.
ROSS: Yes, I love that she's admitting it because I have to believe that so many celebrities do this, I just don't think they admit it. I think it's on the down low. And the fact that she's coming out and being like, yes, I own it and I love it. I love that.
BLACKWELL: All right. Ready to move on, Michael?
MOORE: I appreciate it.
BLACKWELL: All right.
DAVIS: He doesn't have a FikFoc.
BLACKWELL: So, the new trailer, or at least the teaser for the Michael Jackson movie, "Michael," has been released. And I have to say that they have gone to great lengths to try to replicate Michael, his clothes, the moment. Let's take a look at the teaser.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Can you lower the lights for me, please?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK. But remember, in here, keep those feet still, my man.
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[07:40:00] BLACKWELL: And Michael is played by Michael Jackson's real nephew, Jaafar Jackson, who's the son of Jermaine. Anybody excited?
ROSS: I am really excited. I watched it and I thought it was so well done. They said, let's start at the beginning. And I thought that was so cool because it really is going to be the entire story. And I think people are really looking forward to seeing that.
BLACKWELL: I don't know if it's the entire story. I think they stop at some point before the huge controversy. My concern is it's an April release. And if they thought it would get awards, they'd release it in November or December.
DAVIS: I'm a little skeptical of the whole thing because there's been so many reshoots.
BLACKWELL: Yes.
DAVIS: And people aren't endorsing it so much. Is it authorized? Is it not authorized? And some of these biopics can be a little weird. I saw the Bruce Springsteen one recently.
BLACKWELL: You didn't like it?
DAVIS: I wasn't mad at it, but I wouldn't say it was good. I learned a lot about a part of Bruce Springsteen's life. But when you're having someone play an icon. But I think people will go see it even if they're going to go hate watching it.
BLACKWELL: Yes, yes.
DAVIS: It was one of the biggest -- it got millions and millions of views of just this trailer. But people are obsessed with Michael Jackson.
BLACKWELL: And people are already choosing what they're going to wear to the movie to see it.
DAVIS: It'll be a phenomenon for sure.
BLACKWELL: So, we're now in the holiday season. I'm ready for it. And now, annually, we get the list of the inductees into the Toy Hall of Fame. This year's Slime, Battleship, Trivial Pursuit. I've never owned any of these.
DAVIS: What?
BLACKWELL: I haven't had any of these.
DAVIS: None of them?
BLACKWELL: You all have had all these toys?
DAVIS: I have every single one of them.
ROSS: Literally all. DAVIS: Every single one of them. I'm shocked.
BLACKWELL: Everybody in the studios had all these toys? No. OK. All right. So, finalists, Tickle Me Elmo, Furby, Connect Four, and just regular Snow made the list of the finalists.
ROSS: Snow?
BLACKWELL: Snow was the finalist on the list. All right. So, we've got two minutes left. And we have to leave some time for what I think is the biggest story of the Morning Roundup.
DAVIS: Oh, boy.
BLACKWELL: The Mountain Dew Baja Blast Pie is now here at Taco Bell.
ROSS: I have so many questions.
BLACKWELL: It has taken Friendsgivings by storm.
DAVIS: Limit one, by the way.
BLACKWELL: Limit one. Yes. We, our team, got two. And it's supposed to taste like the Mountain Dew Baja Blast.
DAVIS: I really need to know about the consistency of this.
BLACKWELL: I've never had a Baja Blast. But what we like on this segment is a taste test. So --
DAVIS: Also, food should not be that color. It's pretty bright.
BLACKWELL: What else would be this color in about 18 hours? All right.
DAVIS: OK.
ROSS: Well, that's a lot of sugar. That's a lot. Wow.
DAVIS: Actually, I'm not mad at it. It's kind of fruity. The crust is crunchy.
ROSS: Maybe I need to get to the crust.
BLACKWELL: I've never had any --
DAVIS: I mean, it's -- oh, there's a little bit of a weird, like, chemical-y aftertaste to it.
BLACKWELL: That is a lot of sugar.
ROSS: Yes.
DAVIS: But let's face it, Victor, nobody wants this.
BLACKWELL: Oh, my gosh.
DAVIS: You know, this is specifically made for social media, for people in their cars.
BLACKWELL: And morning television.
ROSS: And people to be talking about it.
DAVIS: So, we're talking about it. This is -- it's actually a lot better than I thought it was going to be.
BLACKWELL: So, it's a tropical lime flavor Baja Blast, key lime-style dessert, graham cracker crust, whipped cream. They say it is -- man, that's got a taste.
DAVIS: It really has an aftertaste to it. It really does.
BLACKWELL: It is a statement in a sea of stuffing. Yes, this color certainly is a statement.
ROSS: It's a statement. And I do think if you bring that to Friendsgiving, you're probably going to bring the most popular dish. Everyone's going to want to try it. But will they stick around to finish it?
BLACKWELL: Listen, and let me just also say, take this to Friendsgiving. Do not take this to your grandmother's house. You can take this to the co-worker's house. You can take it to the neighbor --
ROSS: Grandma's not having it.
BLACKWELL: -- but don't take it to your aunt's house.
DAVIS: It's a conversation starter, but it's also dumb.
BLACKWELL: What's the conversation? Mara, Michael, Kaitlyn, thank you all for coming in. It was fun.
DAVIS: Thank you.
BLACKWELL: Still ahead, a comeback for the ages. Indiana beats Penn State in the final seconds of the game. Coy Wire will have your highlights in sports.
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BLACKWELL: From bread baked in an Icelandic volcano to Tokyo's renowned Japanese milk bread, join Tony for the back-to-back episode finale of the CNN original series, "Tony Shalhoub Breaking Bread."
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Cut into the bread.
TONY SHALHOUB, HOST, "TONY SHALHOUB BREAKING BREAD": Yes, I made sure to see how it came out. That is beautiful. Look at that. It smells like cake. How thick do you usually slice it? It doesn't matter? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Probably like this. First bite needs to be with butter. So, we say in Iceland, if the butter doesn't leave teeth marks, it's not enough butter.
SHALHOUB: OK. And that works for me.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. Moment of truth.
SHALHOUB: Exquisite. Amazing. Like a pastry, like a cake, like a bread. You know what's interesting is it really feels like there's like molasses in there.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I mean, there are a little bit of molasses in the brown sugar, but it has like this caramel flavor.
SHALHOUB: These little teeth marks just --
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, exactly.
SHALHOUB: For the record.
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BLACKWELL: Back-to-back episode finale of "Tony Shalhoub Breaking Bread" airs tonight at 9:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific right here on CNN and next day on the CNN app.
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All right. it was a day full of nail biters in college football, but it was a toenail that has the sports world buzzing. Indiana stays undefeated. Coy is here.
COY WIRE, CNN SPORTS ANCHOR: Yes, this literally, when you see this catch, it's incredible. They call it the catch of the season. The Hoosiers, they are, you know, ranked number two in the nation. And Penn State was on the verge of breaking their Cinderella-like story right in half. Penn State was down 20 to seven, but they scored 17 unanswered points, took the lead. The Hoosiers were in need of a miracle with less than two minutes to go on their own 20.
Maybe all they needed was their Heisman candidate quarterback, Fernando Mendoza. With 30 seconds to go, watch this. He finds Omar Cooper Jr. in the back of the end zone. The junior leaping, hauling in this incredible catch. And look, just barely getting that toenail inbounds for the win. Unreal concentration and body control. That catch keeps Indiana's dream season alive in a drive. That gives Mendoza's Heisman moment. A heartbreak for Penn State, though they were ranked top five at one point. They lost their starting quarterback for this season to injury, saw their head coach being fired. Hard fought game, but the Hoosiers get the win, 27-24. They're now 10-0 on this season.
Number 15, Louisville found themselves in a slugfest in their own house, hosting Cal. The game went to overtime and that is where Cal decided to go for the win on a fourth down and they get it. Sagapolutele throwing the touchdown pass to DeJesus. He had a career high 158 yards receiving. Cal wins 29-26 and now bowl eligible after that road trip win at Louisville.
Battle for the Big 12, huge playoff implications. Number nine, Texas Tech, number eight, BYU. There's Patrick Mahomes for his former Red Raiders. Getting a monster performance from their defense and superstar Jacob Rodriguez. He's a senior, he's an All-American. His wife flies a Blackhawk helicopter for the U.S. Army. Two takeaways in that game made me feel he should be a Heisman finalist.
Texas Tech this season, their roster has an estimated $25 million plus in NIL money. And they just opened a $242 million football facility. It's paying off. 29-7 win over the previously unbeaten BYU Cougars.
Leo Messi's Inter Miami they're headed to the semifinals of the MLS playoffs. First time in club history they advance and they have their goat to thank. Leo, fresh off of winning the Golden Boot for most goals in the regular season, scores two goals in this one in the first half. A 4-0 win over Nashville. Miami advancing to face two seed Cincinnati in the Eastern Conference semifinals.
BLACKWELL: All right. Coy, thank you. This morning, millions bracing for record cold. Possibility of snow in some places.
ALLISON CHINCHAR, CNN METEOROLOGIST: It's not a possibility for some. Some are already getting it right now. Yes, possibility for some others though. It's all because of this cold front right here. So, it's already started in portions of the Midwest but it will spread into areas of the Great Lakes region and the Northeast over the next 24 hours. But that cold front is also bringing the incredibly cold air.
So, even if you don't necessarily get any snow, like some of these areas you see here where you see that light purple color on the map, that's where the bulk of the snow is. So, Chicago, areas of Detroit, portions of Northern Ohio, that's where you're likely going to see that snow accumulate. Also, some lake effect snow across some portions of the Northeast and the usual areas that it sets up in.
But here's a look. See that deep blue color there, that's where all that cold air is going to come in. The good news, because that's always the best part, it is short-lived. You're looking at two days, three absolutely max for a few spots before those temperatures start to rebound. And in fact, by the time we get to next weekend, we're actually looking at above average temperatures. You're welcome.
BLACKWELL: Well, I'll look forward to that. Thank you. You know, I couldn't leave my people out. In the last segment, we tried the Taco Bell Baja Blast Pie. So, we have a slice here for Coy and Allison.
CHINCHAR: Why do I have two forks?
BLACKWELL: Take two bites. And so --
WIRE: I am nervous, I'm excited.
BLACKWELL: Have you had a Baja Blast before?
WIRE: I didn't even know this existed, no. I learned it on your show last segment.
BLACKWELL: Yes, OK.
WIRE: Here it goes.
BLACKWELL: Now, take a moment, take a bite. 1999 at Taco Bell, it's supposed to remind you.
WIRE: Is this carbonated? There's a party happening in my mouth right now. Oh, my goodness.
CHINCHAR: This definitely tastes like the drink.
BLACKWELL: It tastes like the drink?
CHINCHAR: It tastes absolutely like the drink.
BLACKWELL: I have not been able to sit still since I had that one bite. I don't drink coffee and it's so much sugar. I'm just like here like --
WIRE: It's like kind of nasty, but I can't stop eating it.
BLACKWELL: Oh, yes. I mean, it's certainly a trendy pie right now that's going to Friendsgiving. So --
WIRE: Listen to your man though, don't take it to your grandma's house.
BLACKWELL: Right, right, right. November 6th, it just came out and we had to go to a few Taco Bells to get a slice.
CHINCHAR: Oh wow. Very popular for this unique flavor.
BLACKWELL: Will there be a second?
CHINCHAR: Yes, yes.
BLACKWELL: OK.
CHINCHAR: Again, I don't think it's bad, it's a unique flavor. It is very, very different, but it's not bad.
BLACKWELL: Yes, OK.
WIRE: Does it make my teeth that color?
BLACKWELL: No, but initially I was like, he's going to be dyed for a minute.
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All right. So, probably mixed results on the pie this morning. WIRE: Yes, my daughters would love this. I mean, this would be a kid's, you know, dream. This color, the flavor, yes. So --
BLACKWELL: OK. Now, I feel like I have to actually have a Baja Blast.
CHINCHAR: Oh, to compare I to?
BLACKWELL: I have to go in on the back end.
CHINCHAR: I feel like you can definitely taste the similarity between the two. Admittedly, it's been a hot minute since I've had a (INAUDIBLE) version, but I feel like from memory, this tastes about the same.
BLACKWELL: All right. Well, thanks for watching this weekend. Inside Politics Sunday with Manu Raju is up after a quick break.
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