Your Thanksgiving spread didn't have anything on President-elect Donald Trump's.

The incoming president spent the holiday at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, with his family after hours of calls to prepare for his transition to the White House. 

Earlier Thursday, Trump tweeted that he was working to get the Carrier Corporation to keep its plant in Indiana. Officials said his Thanksgiving was shared with family over a five-course meal. 

Below is the menu: 

First Course
Large Florida Stone Crabs
Oysters on the Half Shell
Jumbo Shrimp
Middle Neck Clams

Second Course
Mr. Trump’s Wedge Salad
Farm Fresh Deviled Eggs
Roasted Vegetable Cous Cous Salad
Ahi Tuna Martinis

Third Course
Main Lobster Bisque
Local Vegetable Minestrone Soup

Fourth Course
Oven Roasted Turkey
Traditional Stuffing
Sweet Mashed Potatoes
House Made Gravy
Herb Marinated Beef Tenderloin
Steamed Vegetables
Whipped Potatoes
Warm Popovers
Horseradish Cream
Chef Carved Leg of Lamb
Grilled Pita and Tzatziki Sauce
Pan Seared Chilean Sea Bass
Curried Vegetables, Coconut Shellfish Broth
Red Wine Braised Short Ribs
Herb Roasted Potatoes
Natural Braising Jus
Grilled Diver Scallops
Roasted Vegetable Ratatouille

Fifth Course
Three Layer Trump Chocolate Cake
Pumpkin Pie
Toasted Coconut Cake
Chocolate Eclairs
Pecan Pie
Warm Chocolate Brownie Pockets
Creamy Key Lime Pie
Hot Apple Crisp

Wondering how that spread stacks up with the one prepared for the current Commander-in-Chief? The Hill reports that the Obamas' final Thanksgiving dinner at the White House included a three-course meal featuring mini BLTs, mini pizzas and pigs-in-a-blanket as hors d'ouvres, a thyme roasted turkey for the main course and six kinds of pies for dessert.

The internet went berserk after soul singer Aretha Franklin belted out the "The Star-Spangled Banner" before the Lions-Vikings game Thursday afternoon.

Franklin's gospel rendition lasted four and a half minutes, about twice as long as the traditional length. She sat at a black piano, adding riffs to the patriotic tune while wearing a Detroit Lions hat. Players from both teams swayed back and forth as a large American flag fluttered in the wind on the field. 

It was a sight to see and hear with her vocals resulting in a firestorm on Twitter -- some expressed their love for Franklin while others made Thanksgiving Day jokes about the length of her tune.

"I'm glad #ArethaFranklin sang an extended version of the National Anthem.. took them to Church ..made them search their hearts," MC Hammer tweeted.

Here's some additional tweets:

Hundreds of guests were served a hot Thanksgiving meal at Golden Hall on Thursday by the Salvation Army.

About 350 volunteers, including the cast of a traveling Cirque du Soleil show Toruk, Chopper the Biker Dog and San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis, served the meals. About 1,800 people came to the Thanksgiving feast.

The free meal was intended for anyone looking for a hot dinner and company, not just if you were homeless, organizers said.

The tradition started at Golden Hall in 1983, when philanthropist Joan Kroc began the large community dinner as a way to ensure no one spent the holiday alone.

One of the volunteers, Laura Silverman, said she thinks it’s crucial to volunteer for Thanksgiving events to show the community that others care.

“Especially right now,” Silverman said. “We’re really in a time where we need to come together.”

The massive feast included 355 pounds of turkey, 340 pounds of stuffing, 570 pounds of green beans and 360 pounds of mashed potatoes.

An off-road racer died in a San Diego hospital of a heart attack after suffering a racing accident on the Baja California Peninsula.

Mark Luhtala, 48, a SCORE racer, was recovering at the UC San Diego Medical Center after having a portion of his left leg amputated, SCORE officials said Thursday. He died of a heart attack on Wednesday.

Luhtala, a Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, native, was hurt in the Baja 1000 race in Baja California on Saturday, when his race truck collided head-on with another competitor, Cody Parkhouse, officials said.

Luhtala and Parkhouse, 29, of Long Beach, were both taken to UCSD. Parkhouse remains hospitalized in serious condition.

"Monster Mike," a fellow off road racer at the Baja last Saturday and a public safety volunteer, had some harsh criticism for the race.

“Yesterday's news was a gut punch . I mean it was a really horrible terrible feeling that one of our brothers had lost their life,” he said.

Nearly half of the protective roll cage of Luhtala's rig is missing so is the driver side front wheel.

“They struck head on driver to driver,” Mike said.

Last June, three people including and 8-year-old spectator were killed in the Baja 500 race. Mike says races are not just dangerous but unsafe. He is working with Baja's public safety department to make changes.

“The reason why these things keep occurring is because they are being tolerated in the republic of Mexico,” Mike said.

NBC7 reached out to Score International but instead of answering our questions they released a statement by email that in part read: "All of us in the SCORE family send our sincere condolences and continuing thoughts and prayers to Luhtala's two daughters and other close family members, his wife Holly and everyone impacted by this racing accident."

Off-road desert racers are challenged by the extreme conditions. They come here to "beat Baja." A race of a lifetime for many but never expecting it to be their last race.

“The event is becoming known for being even more than dangerous. It's even becoming known as death races,” Mike said.

Luhtala graduated from Southern Illinois University and operated a jet aircraft maintenance company based in West Palm Beach, Florida. He leaves between two daughters, ages 12 and 2, and a wife, Holly, SCORE officials said.

Three men suffered numerous gunshot wounds Wednesday night outside a house in the Juniata section of Philadelphia when a driver of a car pulled up and opened fire, police said.

The victims told police they were outside hanging Christmas lights on a house in the 4000 block of Howland Street. Shortly before 11 p.m., a driver slowly drove by them before stopping a short distance away. That's when the driver asked if any of the victims had struck his car at some point earlier, police said.

An argument ensued, according to the victims, and the driver pulled a gun. He opened fire on the victims before driving off.

A 28-year-old man suffered a bullet wound to his back, a 36-year-old man suffered a bullet wound to an arm and a 34-year-old man was struck twice in his midsection. All three were in stable condition at nearby hospitals, police said.

A large, inflatable snowman could be seen shortly after the shooting at the scene. A bright light display accompanied the outdoor Christmas ornament.

The gunman is described as a black man in his 20s, with a light complexion, who wore a light gray knitted cap. he was accompanied by another black man in his 20s, with a darker complexion and shoulder-length hair, possibly dreadlocks.

They were driving a dark gray Impala with tinted windows.

It's been two years and a family is still looking for answers after 17-year-old Anthony Hofer may have been killed by a hit-and-run driver.

His body was found in the brush off Heritage Road in Chula Vista Aug. 27, 2015. His mother, Stacy Hofer, is still looking for the person responsible.

“Somebody out there knows something,” said Stacy Hofer. “Somebody out there is living with a secret.”

It will be the second Thanksgiving dinner she prepares without her only son.

“I need to know what happened,” Stacy Hofer said.

The mother explained what happened that night: She drove Anthony to a nearby taco shop. On the way home, they had an argument and Anthony decided to walk home.

Police think Anthony was walking along the bike lane and was hit by a hit-a-run driver.

“It’s something I have to live with because we were fighting the last time I saw him,” she said.

Anthony's family is offering a $10,000 reward for anyone that provides information that leads to police to the person responsible. “Let us have some closure,” said Stacy in hope the person behind the wheel is listening. “He didn’t deserve to die like that.”

Several New Yorkers made sure to let Hillary Clinton know they were thankful for the former Democratic presidential candidate this Thanksgiving.

Clinton posted a photo to her Twitter account showing more than a dozen handmade signs outside her home in Chappaqua on Thursday afternoon. 

"I was greeted by this heartwarming display on the corner of my street today. Thank you to all of you who did this," she tweeted.

Several signs read messages of thanks to the former first lady and secretary of state, while others depicted her campaign logo and the "I'm with her" slogan. 

It came a day after Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, were spotted by shoppers at the Chappaqua Village Market. 

Despite losing the election to fellow New York resident Donald Trump, Clinton won the Empire State overwhelmingly. She was also popular in her home county of Westchester, where she took nearly 65 percent of the popular vote. 

The entire production staff for UC San Diego’s department of theatre and dance, 21 employees in total, has been served with pink slips, according to a report.

Playbill.com reported this week that the layoffs were announced Nov. 9 and take effect in January.

The employees are “joint-staff,” who have worked on productions with UCSD and also for the La Jolla Playhouse.

The layoffs were intended to establish two separate staffs for each institution, and staffers were told to re-apply for new positions, according to the report.

The report outlines concerns that some staffers feel; namely, the possibility that the new positions would result in a significantly reduced income.

Playbill reached out to both UCSD and the playhouse. A spokesman for La Jolla Playhouse issued a statement, saying the playhouse is hoping to retain all impacted employees in some fashion.

A woman who survived the first known bear attack in Maryland's history spoke to News4 about the vicious mauling that left her with a broken arm, a partially collapsed lung, cuts to her head and other wounds.

Karen Osborne, 63, is back home for Thanksgiving after spending nearly a week in the hospital.

Osborne was walking to her daughter's home next door in Frederick about 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 16, when a bear attacked her in the driveway.

"Halfway down the driveway this bear just came from the right side on two legs roaring at me," Osborne told News4.

She said she's seen the same bear around the neighborhood for years. But that night, the bear was with her three cubs and saw Osborne as a threat.

"It grabbed me right here, threw me to the ground, and then she came around and bit my arm in half, and then she came back around again and attacked me from above on top of my head," Osborne said.

The mother bear mauled her four times over a span of 35 minutes, leaving her nearly lifeless on the driveway. Osborne said she was convinced she was going to die.

"She went to catch her breath and she was laying behind me. I could feel the hot air of her breath on my neck," Osborne said.

In that moment, Osborne realized she had her cell phone and made a desperate plea to 911.

"I was basically asking [the dispatcher] to say goodbye to my family because I didn't think I would be here today," she said.

Once police and medics arrived, Osborne was quickly rushed to the hospital. She had more than 70 stitches, and X-rays revealed she had a fracture on her pelvic bone.

Biologists with the Department of Natural Resources used a tracking device to find the bear and later euthanized it.

Osborne's wounds aren't done healing, but she and her family said this Thanksgiving means more than it ever has before.

"Life is very short. Enjoy your family while you have them," Osborne said.

Osborne's family has established a GoFundMe page to raise money for her medical expenses.

San Diegans lined up early for Black Friday deals this year, some camping out as early as Thursday morning for deals. 

Thursday morning, some residents had tents up one Best Buy in San Diego. The store opens at 5 p.m. on Thanksgiving and will stay open until 1 a.m. Friday. It then reopens at 8 a.m. on Friday.

This year, Americans are planning to spend an average of $935.58 when heading to the stores for the holidays, according to a National Retail Federation survey. 

In recent years, shoppers have reportedly been moving away from buying items and moving toward spending money on experiences.  

This year, many stores will open early and stay open late the Friday after Thanksgiving. Some companies are opting to keep their stores closed, urging customers and employees to enjoy time outdoors.

If you're planning on heading out to shop this Thanksgiving and Black Friday, take a look at when San Diego-area stores open by clicking here. 

San Diego County sheriff’s deputies are launching their holiday patrols on Thanksgiving, staking out shopping center parking lots to deter thefts and car prowls.

Deputies are starting their SkyWatch program, a movable tower where they can monitor parking lots from above, on Thanksgiving at the Walmart in Poway from 3 p.m. to 6 a.m. Black Friday.

Then, deputies will move to the Stater Brothers and Kmart parking lots in Ramona on Black Friday between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.

The SkyWatch program will launch again the first week of December, as deputies will perform increased patrols along Broadway and Lemon Grove Avenue and trolley platforms in Lemon Grove.

Then, deputies will bring the SkyWatch tower to the Walmart on Leucadia Boulevard in Encinitas from Dec. 10 to Dec. 18, starting at 8 a.m.

Deputies will also be on hand around the county in December to discuss holiday shopping safety tips with folks. They’ll be at the Valley Center sheriff’s substation on Dec. 3 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and the Promenade Shopping Center in Imperial Beach from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

A 22-year-old man has pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in San Diego to allegations he operated a drug smuggling ring through Facebook.

Roberto Torres admitted to enlisting teenagers, some as young as 15, and young adults in the Imperial Valley to smuggle methamphetamine across the U.S., according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Prosecutors said Torres used Facebook to coordinate the drug operation, which transported narcotics from Mexico into the U.S.

Several of Torres’ codefendants have already pleaded guilty in connection to the operation, including Genesis Flores De Anda, Hector Beltran-Garcia, Eleazar Sanchez-Aguilar and Diana Carrillo.

Torres will be sentenced on Feb. 17. He faces between 10 years and life in prison.

A very lucky lottery ticket worth $1.5 million was recently sold in San Diego County, California Lottery officials announced on Thanksgiving. 

The winning ticket matched five of the six winning Powerball numbers (7-32-41-47 and 61), but missed the winning red Powerball number, 3, lotto officials announced. 

The lucky slip from Wednesday's drawing is worth $1,512,801 before federal taxes and was purchased at a 7-Eleven at 2387 Midway Drive in San Diego. 

The San Diego winner has not yet come forward, officials said. 

California Lottery officials said the ticketholder should sign the back of the ticket in ink and contact a Lottery District Office to claim the big prize. The winner has 180 days from the date of the drawing to claim the money.

Because of the holiday, the earliest the winner can claim their prize is Monday, Nov. 28 at 8 a.m. 

U.S. officials say an American service member in Syria has died from wounds suffered in a blast from an improvised explosive device on Thanksgiving.

A statement released Thursday by the public affairs office of Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve says the explosion took place in the vicinity of Ayn Issa in northern Syria.

"I am deeply saddened by the news on this Thanksgiving Day that one of our brave servicemembers has been killed in Syria while protecting us from the evil of ISIL. It is a painful reminder of the dangers our men and women in uniform face around the world to keep us safe," said Secretary of Defense Ash Carter.

"Please keep this servicemember's family, friends and teammates in your thoughts and prayers, and this Thanksgiving I hope you will join me in expressing thanks to all of our dedicated troops who selflessly protect us everyday." 

No other information about the explosion or the victim was released.

U.S. troops are part of a multination effort to fight the Islamic State group in the region. 

Lt. Gen. Stephen J. Townsend, commander of Combined Joint Task Force, Operation Inherent Resolve, extended condolences to the victim's family.

"On this Thanksgiving, please be thankful that there are service members willing to take up the fight to protect our homeland from ISIL's hateful and brutal ideology," Townsend said.

Florida police dog Primus almost died of a drug overdose after encountering fentanyl while raiding a suspect's house, NBC News reported. 

The German short-haired pointer was rushed to Coral Springs Animal Hospital, where medical professionals administered naloxone to combat the effects of the opioid. Two other K-9 dogs from his unit accompanied him, as they had also been exposed to a lethal dose of fentanyl. 

The synthetic opioid is 50 times stronger than heroin sold on the streets and can be inhaled, ingested, or absorbed through the skin. Fentanyl, much of it coming from Mexico and China, has killed hundreds in the U.S., including music legend Prince. It presents a "grave threat" to first responders and law enforcement officers — human and canine, the Drug Enforcement Administration said. 

San Diego County hotels posted a 4.1 percent gain in revenue in the first 10 months of 2016, topping $2.29 billion, with year-over-year increases on most key metrics, according to the latest monthly data from research firm STR.

Occupancy for the January-to-October period was 78.8 percent (up 0.3 percent), the average daily room rate was $157.62 (up 2.3 percent) and revenue per available room (RevPAR) was $124.21 (up 2.6 percent).

STR reported that the region’s room-night supply for the 10-month period was up 1.5 percent from a year ago, at more than 18.4 million; and demand rose 1.7 percent, with more than 14.5 million room-nights booked.

So far, 2016 continues to trend ahead of 2015 for local year-to-date metrics, despite slight declines posted for the month of October on some measures. The month’s occupancy rate was 76.9 percent, down 1.4 percent from October 2015, the average room rate was $148.63 (down 1.1 percent), and RevPAR was $114.30 (down 2.4 percent).

Local hotels’ room-night supply for October rose 1.7 percent, to just under 1.9 million, and room nights booked rose 0.3 percent, to 1.5 million. Despite those increases, total revenue for the month slipped 0.8 percent, to $216.3 million.

The San Diego region continued to track ahead of U.S. figures on most October and year-to-date metrics. The nationwide occupancy rate was 67.3 percent year-to-date, with an average daily rate of $124.77 and RevPAR of $83.92.

Hotels nationwide posted total revenue growth of 4.6 percent for the 10-month period, topping $128.3 billion, STR reported.

Jill Stein, who ran for president as the Green Party candidate, has filed paperwork to request a recount of the votes in Wisconsin just under the deadline, and has raised more than $5 million to fund other recount efforts in the battleground states of Michigan and Pennsylvania. 

Donald Trump's margin of victory over Hillary Clinton was narrow in all three states, which were expected to vote Democratic, and the results have become the focus of speculation — based on little proof — that the vote may have been tampered with. Stein acknowledged those fears in her statement announcing the recount drive on Wednesday. 

"After a divisive and painful presidential race, reported hacks into voter and party databases and individual email accounts are causing many Americans to wonder if our election results are reliable," Stein said. "These concerns need to be investigated before the 2016 presidential election is certified. We deserve elections we can trust."

The state elections commission administrator said Stein filed the request about an hour and a half ahead of Friday's 5 p.m. deadline, The Associated Press reported. The effort is estimated to cost $1 million. Stein and her running mate, Ajamu Baraka, have collected more than $5.2 million as of Friday. 

Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Michael Haas said that it received petitions from Stein's campaign and from Rocky Roque De La Fuente, another candidate. 

“We have assembled an internal team to direct the recount, we have been in close consultation with our county clerk partners, and have arranged for legal representation by the Wisconsin Department of Justice,” Haas said in a press release. “We plan to hold a teleconference meeting for county clerks next week and anticipate the recount will begin late in the week after the Stein campaign has paid the recount fee, which we are still calculating.” 

The official vote tally for all 72 counties in Wisconsin had 1,404,000 votes for Trump, 1,381,823 for Clinton and Stein with 31,006.

County boards of canvassers may need to work nights and weekends to meet a federal deadline of Dec. 13 to complete the recount.

"Now that we have completed funding Wisconsin's recount (where we will file on Friday) and funding Pennsylvania's recount (due Monday), we will focus on raising the needed funds for Michigan's recount (due Wednesday)," Stein said on her website earlier Friday.

Stein said her initial fundraising goal was $2.5 million, but her campaign website now says she's trying to rise $7 million, which would pay for the fees for filing costs, attorneys and statewide recount observers.

Wisconsin GOP Executive Director Mark Morgan called the move "absurd" and "nothing more than an expensive political stunt that undermines the election process," the AP reported. 

Stein's move follows a New York magazine report that some computer scientists have been urging Democrat Hillary Clinton to ask for the recount in the three states. The article questioned the deviation in election results from predictions in polls. 

J. Alex Halderman, a computer science professor at the University of Michigan, confirmed on Medium that he had been in touch with the Clinton campaign but said his views had been misrepresented and it was "probably not" true that the election was hacked.

"I believe the most likely explanation is that the polls were systematically wrong, rather than the election was hacked," he wrote. 

But he also said that the only way to know whether a cyberattack changed the result was to examine the paper ballots and voting equipment in the three states.

President-elect Donald Trump beat Clinton with 290 electoral votes to Clinton's 232, with Michigan outstanding. Clinton has a lead of more than 2 million popular votes. 

Halderman, who also is director of Michigan's Center for Computer Security and Society, wrote that many states continue to use voting machines that are known to be insecure and that can be infected with vote-stealing malware. Checking the paper record in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan would allow voters to be confident the results were counted correctly, he wrote.

"Examining the physical evidence in these states — even if it finds nothing amiss — will help allay doubt and give voters justified confidence that the results are accurate," Halderman wrote.

An article on Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight website, which predicted the race incorrectly, cast doubt on concerns about tampering with the electronic voting machines. Demographics explain the results, Carl Bialik and Rob Arthur wrote.

"We've looked into the claim — or at least, our best guess of what's being claimed based on what has been reported — and statistically, it doesn't check out," they wrote.

During the Wisconsin recount, candidates may have representatives present to raise objections during the process, and have the right to appeal in court within five business days after the recount is completed.

The deadline to request a recount in Pennsylvania is Monday and Wednesday in Michigan.

A pizza delivery driver was robbed at gunpoint during his Thanksgiving shift in San Diego’s Morena community, authorities said.

According to the San Diego Police Department (SDPD), a Domino’s driver was making a pizza delivery in the 1200 block of Gertrude Street just before 6:30 p.m. Thursday when a stranger walked up to him, flashed a gun and demanded money.

The suspect – described as being 5-foot-10 and wearing a dark hoodie – then fled the scene of the robbery in a dark-colored sedan carrying two others.

Police did not release further details of the crime. The investigation is ongoing.

San Diego has some seriously delicious dining destinations. Eater San Diego shares the top stories of the week from our local food and drink scene, including details on a Travel Channel show that explored local, mouthwatering hot spots.

Andrew Zimmern's “Bizarre Foods: Delicious Destinations” Spotlights San Diego
The Travel Channel’s “Bizarre Foods: Delicious Destinations” is hosted by foodie Andrew Zimmern and this week, the show debuted an episode featuring San Diego’s dining scene. The series, which highlights a city's "not to be missed legendary foods" visited local spots specializing in Filipino food, fresh seafood and, of course – fish tacos. It doesn’t get any more San Diego than that.

Dunkin' Donuts Preps for Major San Diego Expansion
San Diego County's first standalone drive-through Dunkin' Donuts launches on Dec. 6 in National City and the global doughnut and coffee chain is planning many more area outposts. A local franchisee is aiming to open 14 stores within the next eight years, in neighborhoods including Point Loma, Downtown San Diego and El Cajon.

S&M Sausage & Meat Shutters in University Heights
The meat-centric restaurant, which specialized in housemade sausages, bacon, and charcuterie, shuttered this week after nearly two years in operation on Park Boulevard. The eatery was an offshoot of popular burger chain, Slater's 50/50, and the company says it has no current plans to reopen the concept in another location.

Cafe Virtuoso Brews Up Remodeled Coffee House
San Diego's only 100% certified organic specialty coffee roaster, Cafe Virtuoso, has unveiled a recently revamped coffee house in Barrio Logan. It now features an expanded coffee bar, with taps pouring signature cold brew and kombucha, and a built-in pour over “filter bar,” along with fresh pastries provided by Bread & Ice bakery.

Fast-Casual Flower Child Sets Opening Date in Del Mar
Flower Child, a new-to-San Diego casual eatery from Fox Restaurant Concepts, which also operates True Food Kitchen, is scheduled to emerge in Del Mar’s Flower Hill Promenade on Dec. 6. Its menu focuses on healthy eats, ranging from protein-topped grain bowls to salads and pita wraps.