[Baldwin:] White House ceremonies, they are typically full of pomp and circumstance, except for today. President Obama, flanked by first daughters Sasha and Malia, pardoned two turkeys from Badger, Minnesota. And he named one of them America's National Thanksgiving Turkey. Watch.
[Barack Obama, President Of The United States:] The office of the presidency, the most powerful position in the world, brings with it many awesome and solemn responsibilities. This is not one of them. Eighty turkeys on John's farm competed for the chance to make it to the White House and stay off the Thanksgiving table. It was quite literally "The Hunger Games." And then after weeks of vocal practice and prepping for the cameras, the two Tributes, Caramel and Popcorn, went head-to-head together for America's vote as top gobbler. The competition was stiff, but we can officially declare that Popcorn is the winner, proving there you go proving that even a turkey with a funny name can find a place in politics.
[Baldwin:] Holiday turkeys, such as Popcorn, have been presented to presidents going all the way back to Abraham Lincoln, but it was President Kennedy who was the first to spare one. None received an official pardon until President George H.W. Bush uttered the word in 1989, trivia for you on your Thanksgiving eve. Now to this, this is what I'm excited about. Beyond the turkey, eating it, I mean, have you heard about Comet ISON? It has been coming our way for a million years now. It is here. This is time-lapse video from NASA, and tomorrow, while you're eating said turkey or whatever you so choose, it will fly perilously closely around the sun. If it survives, it could be an awesome, awesome sight for us, Chad Myers
[Myers:] Yes.
[Baldwin:] if it survives this close encounter with the sun.
[Myers:] I know. And it had a coronal mass ejection whack it the other day, too.
[Baldwin:] Darn that coronal mass ejection.
[Myers:] I know. And blasted some dusts off of this thing. It's about the size of a shopping center, and it's made of ice and junk and then it's flying around the sun. And it's going to get bright. And it could be very close. It could be the coolest thing around Christmas if it survives, but it's ice going to the sun. You know, that's
[Baldwin:] Not a good mix.
[Myers:] probably not the best thing you can do. You want to go around maybe Saturn. It's colder out there. So it's going to go as it goes by tomorrow morning, wake up before sunrise, look to the east, you may be able to see it, as flares coming out of it kind of looks like that. There's Comet ISON over there. That's what it looks like for space telescopes. It has to fly around the sun. If it makes its way around the sun and survives and comes out the other side, all of a sudden in December, it's going to be really, really amazing. As it comes out, we'll be able to see it at sunset, may be able to see it at sunrise, and it's going to be maybe the comet of the century. But some others are saying, I don't think it's going to make it. It could be two or three breakups and it could be a dud.
[Baldwin:] So, tomorrow before sunrise, a little something, but you know, fingers crossed, we could be seeing something pretty spectacular around Christmas.
[Myers:] Right, tomorrow and the next couple days could be great, but after that, could just be stunning.
[Baldwin:] Got it. Got it.
[Myers:] We'll see.
[Baldwin:] Chad, thank you very much. And now this, a nurse is remembered as a hero today for her actions inside a Texas hospital. Workers there say she gave up her own life to save patients when a man attacked with a knife. Today, we are learning more about the victim and her heroic actions, next.