As severe weather continues in the South with a tornado watch in effect for Alabama, Ginger Zee has the Thanksgiving week forecast and tracks the cross-country storm building for the return trip home. https://abcnews.link/z83qnXf | ABC World News Tonight with David Muir

For the first time in nearly a decade, a zoo in Tennessee is celebrating the birth of a baby gorilla. The zoo announced that the animal is “a healthy Western lowland gorilla." David Muir shares the adorable debut. https://abcnews.link/FsMCnWH | ABC World News Tonight with David Muir

HAPPENING NOW: First lady Melania Trump receives the 2025 White House Christmas Tree. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/live-updates/trump-admin-live-updates/?id=127815197 | ABC World News Tonight with David Muir

The FBI has requested interviews with six Democratic lawmakers who recorded a video urging troops to refuse illegal orders. Pres. Trump called the lawmakers "traitors," accusing them of "seditious behavior, punishable by death." Rachel Scott reports. https://abcnews.link/OjuTypa | ABC World News Tonight with David Muir