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Little boys buried by a plow. Good morning, welcome to Al Jazeera America. The black friday shopping frenzy is underway this morning, unlike previous years, there were no customer stampedes overnight and no major reports of that was not the case however in london where the americans experience was taking on a new meaning. Shoppers there did knock each other over in the rush to get to items. Police were called to stores at things got out of hand. Normally wed be seeing that in the u. S. But that was not the case yesterday. Theyre calling it a gray thursday, and it is gaining in popularity as more retailers than ever are opening on thanksgiving day, including macys, just hours after the parade ended yesterday, it opened its doors at 6 00 p. M. It has never closed its doors. Retailers are jukeying for shoppers cash. Its the post thanksgiving holiday tradition that keeps coming earlier and earlier. They have cheaper stuff and its better to shop on thanksgiving day. Black friday creeping into thursday with major retailers opening their doors hours before midnight, hope to go cash in on last years success when retailers doubled their sales receipts. This thanksgiving, theyre expected to rake in 2. 6 billion. We have got something for everybody here at walmart with over 400 offers, savings from 30 to 50 . Its those kinds of deep discounts that had millions rushing to finish turkey dinners hitting stores looking for major markdowns. Its a good deal and cant pass that up. With today actually being black friday, millions of early risers will be joining thursdays crowds, some having already camped out at stores like kmart and best buy since tuesday, the freezing cold not bother this shopper. Its a t. V. I just dont want to pay full price. With many taking steps to avoid these scenes, Police Officers already this morning broke up a scuffle between black friday shoppers over flat screen t. V. s at this walmart in hawn. Toys and other musthave gadgets explain why millions of americans will be in a shopping frenzy today. The httvs are the best of the best. We have never seen these prices like we are currently. Last year, sales dropped 13 . Sure to be packed malls, stores and shopping outlets from new york to california are optimistic. Well expect hundreds of thousands until tomorrow night at 11 00 p. M. Seems like the next 28 hours. Absolutely, the next 28 hours, hundreds of thousands of people. Overall, sales are supposed to be better or expected to be better than last year. The National Retail federation expecting sales to be around 4. 1 for the old Holiday Season. One of the reasons that retailers optimistic this year is that americans have more cash, theyre saving money at the gas pumps and hoping that money is going to come their way. Should we credit the calm to the fact that black friday this year actually began an thursday . Yeah, i mean its making up a bigger chunk of these sales. Just walking through macys here, just ran into the c. E. O. He said yesterday at the opening, he said he was a record for macys. They had 15,000 people last year at the door waiting for the opening. There was more yesterday. This seems to be gaining in popularity and blurring the lines of those black friday sales. Mary, thank you very much. In ferguson, missouri, protestors are moving from the streets to the stores on this black friday. The new tactic to vent frustrations here inside a local mall, protestors chanted hands up, dont shoot in honor of Michael Brown. Protests will continue through the day. Dozens of people interrupted Holiday Shopping at major retailers such as walmart and target. We are live in ferguson this morning. Whats the latest this morning on these protests . The good news is the people of ferguson have had their first decent nights sleep in four. There were no organized protests overnight and there were also no arrests. However, we did see the beginning of the process of disrupting Holiday Shopping at the walmart in ferguson. The stated aim of the protestors was to close the business down and they kind of did that, because when they got there, the National Guard was on duty and the building shuttered and nobody could get in. In maplewood, they did go in there and charge inside the complex, and they ultimately left when they were asked to. Erika. The weather has improved there now. Are people worried about more protests today . Yeah, they are. The weathers improved dramatically. It was very snowy on the eve of thanksgiving, but now warmer and sunny for the rest of the weekend. Were going to see the disruption of Holiday Shopping going on through the weekend. Also, the naacp is organizing an event that begins tomorrow and lasts several days, a marsh on Jefferson City on the Governors Mansion and that is expect to be quite big. It begins tomorrow. Were going to have full coverage on ajam of it. The vast majority of the protestors are peaceful. They are lawsuit, but peaceful. Some ferguson residents trying to make the town look better, clean it up a bit. What are they doing . Its an extraordinary scene, actually, the 24 businesses everyone torched monday night and there were many, many mom and pop style businesses in this town. Of course they are now boarded up, because the Insurance Companies are telling them to do this. The boards really do not look very nice, in fact theyre very ugly and dont attract customers at all. Whats happening is that artists from in and out of town are painting those boards with all sorts of peace signs and trees, of cartoon characters and things like that and it is really quite a sight. Many businesses have this done now. What they ultimately need to do is get the boards down and get the customers back inside. This boycott of shopping going on, though people are being urged to boycott corporate america, should that business be black owned, people are encouraged to shop there. Live in ferguson, thank you, john. People in ferguson took a moment to pause and reflect on thanksgiving. We have more. This was about thanksgiving tradition, but this was also about the Police Killing of unarmed teenager Michael Brown. Catherine mcdaniels was feeding those who gathered from st. Louis and gathered from all over the world. I have a responsibility to my community, my family. We didnt know each other 111 days ago. Today, we are one extended family, so its my responsibility to offer what i can. My role in the movement is care, confident and nutrition. Catherine is about to graduate from culinary school. As the protests grew, she asked a local pass tore how she could help. Cook was the answer. We were dealt a blow. We all know that. I just want my family to know that theyre loved. This is a time for us to come together, to debrief, to love on each other, to share food, break bread together. Thats what tonight is all about, giving thanks, because although we have this going on in our life, weve got much to be grateful for. For catherine whats happening on the streets in ferguson, st. Louis and around the country is a battle somewhat neglected by her own generation. This aint your grandmothers civil rights movement. This is 2014 and were still confronting the problems that our mothers and fathers confronted back in the civil rights era. We have to do better now, see, so my generation came along and we fed off of what they did. We didnt fight and keep the fight going, so now because we didnt keep the fight, our children have to fight. As we talk after our interview, 14yearold avery gayle takes a seat. They were strangers three months ago. They got to know each other because avery would be playing the drums at every demonstration. Michael browns death hit him hard. They had no reason to shoot him. He could be out there playing the drums with me. He could be doing something he want to do. They say he died before his graduation. I just dont want to be like that, having the police shoot me before my graduation. Thats how i feel. This year, thanksgiving in st. Louis was just not like the others. Coming up, people in ferguson using the thanksgiving holiday to look toward the future. Well speak with one city leader about just what it will take to heal the broken community. The mexican president proposing reforms to combat widespread crime and corruption. This comes as police found 11 decapitated and partially burned bodies in guerrero state and dumped on the road. Officials arent saying if there is a connection between those bodies and the missing students. The European Union is slapping on more sanctions on those involved in the ukraine crisis, adding 15 release and five organizations to the black list. The e. U. Will freeze their assets. 120 people and 20 organizations face sanctions. Life in the u. K. About to get tougher, all migrants forced to work four years before claiming benefits. The move is aimed at reducing the growing immigrant population in the u. K. We have more on todays speech. This speech by the British Foreign minister was aimed scarily at english working class disillusioned voters in places like birmingham here, which used to at one time be a world leader in engineering. Thats gone now. There are a lot nor immigrants. The government and the british Prime Minister have put forth radical proposals saying they will implement to get reelected in National Elections next may. Eastern europeans if they cant find a job within 60 months will be deported and nobody will get benefits, child benefits, tax breaks for a full four years, even if they got a job. They hope that will stem the tide of people coming over here in the tense of thousands. Rights groups say if there were to be jen acted would push many into poverty. Many will say the countries being swamped and england is losing its englishness. Thats the debate thats winning at the moment. U. S. Crude oil futures plunged 6 a barrel overnight, a four year low. Thursday, opec decided against cutting back on output led by saudi arabia, opec decided to leave production where it is at 30 millionbarrels a day. Thats good news for drivers who will likely see cheaper prices at the pump but the u. S. Shale oil industry may lose money. A nine and 11yearold cousins were buried by a plow when it went by in new york. The boys survived because their heads were enclosed in packets of air. Both are expected to be ok. For more on the forecast across the nation, lets bring in meteorologist Nicole Mitchell. Kids like to build those snow tunnels and caves and you have to be very careful, because theyre not always structurally sound. As were looking out, this is an image out of new hampshire. The east coast, about 350,000 people without power, 200,000 of that in new hampshire, so were still getting all the power back on. Its been very cold from this system, heating and keeping things warm in the house have been a problem. Heres the broad picture, a couple of disturbances coming through the great lakes. Its little shots. Places today behind that or with all of that, weve got a wind flow across the lake, so could see areas of snow, as well. High pressure in place, and around that, its a clockwise flow. That funnels in on this portion of it into the northeast the cooler air. This will start to shift over the course of the weekend. The flow will shift out of the south. Temperatures will be on the rise. In the meantime, its going to be a chippy friday with most of the temperatures from atlanta to new york, atlanta only 49 degrees today, those are running 1015 degrees below average right now. In the meantime, where we do have the southerly flow, denver up at 70 degrees, so that wind pattern really makes a difference. As i said, that will come in place for the east coast. In just a couple of days, you just have to hang on. The ski slopes are open, too, thats good news. Life after the grand jury decision seeming to calm down in ferguson, many using the thanksgiving halladay to talk healing and moving forward. Well talk about what it will take for that talk to become reality. Finding safety in a three. A little boy escaping the rising floodwaters in his hometown. Caught in the middle of the battle between isil and allied forces, many iraqis face the construction of their towns and now way of rebuilding. Hailing a ride with your smart phone. 40 billion is how much the Car Service Uber is at. It would be on par are to Delta Airlines and kraft foods. Analysts believe by the time uber goes public, it could be worth 80 billion to 100 billion. A judge issuing a temporary restraining order barring the company from the state. Uber said it puts 1,000 drivers out of work. The multibillion dollars company is said to have deliberately broken the law in the industry. After five days of intense fighting, iraqi forces alongside Kurdish Peshmerga have pushed isil fighters back. Many were killed and thousands left homeless. We have the story of a man who survived the battle. Ahmed nasr doesnt know where to start. Everybody where he looks, its devastation. When isil took the town, nearly all the people fled. He stayed until isil came and used his house as a base to launch attacks. My house was destroyed by isil, so i managed to escape to the nearby farms and hid there. There were heavy clashes between isil and armed forces and many houses destroyed and people were killed in the crossfire. We have nothing left for us to salvage, only terrible memories and shattered hopes. We are afraid to rebuild, because isil threat in iraq is not over yet. His father used a wheelchair and was caught in the crossfire where iraq troops took on isil last week. Hes buried near here. As forces pushed them back, isil destroyed the houses to stop the iraqi army from using them as can you have. You will see almost all these houses were destroyed by isil before they left. They destroyed that fart sake of destruction and killed many people, including my father. Youll see only destruction and burned down houses. The iraqi army hasnt offered the man or anyone else in this town compensation and he has no idea if hell get any help to rebuild. Ahmed has nowhere to go. With winter coming, survival is going to be tough. Iraqi government sees the operation as success, but for ahmed, that success is bittersweet. The damage caused by that the fighting is immense, but no one in authority is looking to rebuild yet, leaving many across iraq with no choice but to live like this. Aljazeera, baghdad. The iraqi army and Kurdish Peshmerga forces have also completely retaken two towns north of baghdad. Turning now back to the situation in ferguson, missouri, the start of the Holiday Season overshad dote by violence that rocked substitute. The annual parade was postponed until next month. They are searching for ways to heal. We explain. Trading his hammer for a spoon, this carpenter dished up thanksgiving dinner with other volunteers at a st. Louis homeless shelter. For casperson, it was a small step in healing his community. Theres too Much Negative in the world. The need to be positive comes out of everything. Youre here for a nice dinner. At the new life he ver evangl center, 500 blacks and whites dined together. Everybody is really nice and friendly. And Work Together to make the Homeless People at home. Happy thanksgiving, folks, were going to walk right this way. 200 volunteers seated guests, bussed tables, and pulled kitchen duty. Jacqueline volunteered with 50 members of her church. It was her first time here. She admits Michael Browns shooting has ripped the community apart but also says issues like homelessness can bring it together. It is good to see that its not a black issue, its not a white issue, its an issue. Its a very real, human issue of being homeless or not having what you need. The general activities of daily living, food, water, shelter. Are you getting enough to eat . The center director, larry rice was stunned by the number of volunteers. Hes hosted these dinners for four decades and never has seen so many eager helpers. He says he only hopes this good will will last longer than a day. Weve had a cancer that ive seen for years in st. Louis. Whats happened is that the surgeon has opened up the cancer. I want to see healing, violence stopped, but i want to see healing taking place. Mostly peaceful protests, do you expect that to last . Last night, they took to the protest moved toward retail. There were protests outside of several wall matters and targets and at the mall. They were very peaceful. There wasnt any rioting that took place. The weather is expected to warm up. I dont know if that will bring more people out for bad actors on the scene. I dont know. The hope is that were done with this. What has been the reaction to the streets to the governor saying he will not entertain the idea of presenting the case to another grand jury . Jay nixon is just a its like a four letter word in everybodys mouths right now. Whether you were just living in the community before and now you feel completely betrayed about his lack of activity to secure the National Guard and put them in place on monday, and now with everyone taking a look at what a farce this grand jury process has been, and questioning it, and refusing to do anything, i mean, hes just a four letter word in a lot of peoples mouths down here. Im curious, is the mood right now in ferguson, in other words, the relationship between Law Enforcement, the prosecutors office, the governor and the people of ferguson worse now than it was back in august . Absolutely. This thing is only getting worse, and we need some time to heal. Im not sure when that is going to come. Everybody needs a take a breath. On the onset of this holiday with so many out of work, there doesnt seem to be anything getting better. The streets of west florissant where you are, the streets are closed. Shop owners need the business. Do you think theyll survive . I dont know, im hoping so, but yes, the streets are still blocked especially that large portion, they call it a hot spot for west florissant, so i dont know, because these are Small Businesses and every dollar and every day counts for them. As you look back on the crisis and months that followed, what has been the biggest tragedy aside the fact that 18yearold Michael Brown is dead . Well, besides Michael Browns loss of life, the biggest tragedy has been what happened on monday to the betrayal to this community, the way that the National Guard was here for state of emergency and the resources, whether they were the nothing guard and the Police Officers, they were not in place to stop some of this, because now there are a lot of theres a lot of people involved in this now who are hurting. One of the people of ferguson described the situation there as a cancer that is now ready to heal. Is this a cancer that can heal, in your opinion . Far theology take place, you have to be able to address the problem and im still not sure that we have actually started to address the problem. Nothing has actually changed here so far. The mayors still the mayor, the city managers still the manager. The chief is still the chief, Darren Wilson is still on payroll. There hasnt been anything thats particularly changed here yet, and i know the protesting is not going to stop until there is some real change. I want to ask you one question before we go and that is are you concerned that if there is not those massive protests that capture all of the nations attention that ferguson will go back to being just the way it was before Michael Brown was shot and killed . Ferguson cant even go back to being what it was before Michael Brown was shot and killed. This is a completely different area and everyone here is different now, so to see people protest throughout the country, the same thing that were protesting, is very encouraging. Theres going to have to be change in order for the protesting to stop, but i pray that none of this rioting takes place anywhere else. Patricia bynes, thanks for being with us. Pope francis reaches out. In turkey, bridging the gap between muslims and christians. He said the battle of isil is a particular concern. That whole valley is riddled with the bones of my ancestors and those grapes are further rides by my ancestors bones. A battle in napa valley, a plan to recognize a native america tribe could change the landscape. In paris, farmers showed up with their herds, one of the stories caught in our global net. These are live images out of turkey where pope france is visiting. Were going to have a live report from there. But this is the pomp and circumstance proceeding for the pope. Good morning, welcome to Al Jazeera America. Ahead in this half hour, another university is can selling fraternity and Sorority Activities due to concerns about sexual assaults on campus. Drones cutting it close with airplanes. Well look at the real dang their devices pose to pilots. In our next hour, a Second Chance for four iraqi refugees living in america. It is a wonderful and emotional story of hope and humidity. First, a check of our latest headlines this morning. Today is officially black friday, but the Holiday Shopping frenzy got off to an early start. Millions of shoppers hit the stores and logged on to grab good deals. 30 million americans did their shopping on thanksgiving day. Protestors marching through the stores black friday, calling for a boycott. Some are trying to shut down major retailers to draw attention to the dote of Michael Brown. A new plan forcing all migrants in the u. K. To work four years before claiming benefits. Pope francis in turkey this morning, scheduled to meet with the turkish president later today. Aljazeeras in istanbul. The Christian Community in turkey is tiny, fewer than 100,000 people versus 75 million muslims. Why is this trip significant . There are no streets lined with hundreds of thousands of catholic faith, waiting to greet the pope here in turkey, but this is important, perhaps one of the most delicate missions really of francis papacy so far. Hes under pressure himself to speak out in defense of persecuted minorities, particularly christian minorities in this region and under pressure to help build bridges with islam. He comes into turkey at a very difficult time for islamists under pressure from rising extremism. The pope will be expected to try and build bridges with marie lidgeen, speaking with turkish president later this afternoon here. Hes expected in a speech after that to try and give support to those percent cute minorities here, particularly the syrian and iraq key christians who have had to flee the advance of isil. We know hes there to address concerns about the rise of isil, like you said. What can we expect him to say about that . Weve had a trail from the vatican spokesman about that. We understand that really, the pope is expected to denounce the violence that has been committed in gods name. Hes talking there about the isil forces. Hes expected to use a strongly worded screech from the vatican to attack the attacks on minorities, not not christians, but others. The pope has to be careful what he did, because he has to of course respect the great religion of islam and he has to be careful not to attack the religion itself, but rather to attack those who are abusion the religions name. Thank you so much. Syria hitting back after the latest round of airstrikes in raqqa province, denying they targeted civilians. They said washington should criticize militant activity instead. Earlier this week, the state Department Said it was horrified by the Syrian Government and bombings in raqqa it claimed killed 90 civilians. The former assistant secretary of defense joins us. Bashar al assad seems to be as strong as ever. Does he now have the upper hand . Basically, hes holding his own, and while he can certainly use his air power, hes having trouble recruiting new recruits into his military and a lot of the people are saying well, you know, when does this end, and so remember, hes been fighting for three years, even if he gets a temporary advantage, in the long term, its not going to do him any good. Trying to control the area, they are a threat to them. Even though the United States and its allies are weakening isil, theyre still able to take action against assad. Another interesting development, russia, its been a supporter of the assad regime and military. Why did russia choose tonish talks now . Because they recognize that eventually, assad cant win. Right now, hes in a position where he cant lose, but eventually, theres going to have to be a negotiated solution that allows assads people to control a certain part of the country, and that assad eventually is going to have to step down, and of course the russians have other things that theyre concerned about, the Nuclear Negotiations with iran, the whole question of the sanctions that the United States and the europeans are putting on them, which is really hurting their economy. Right, that economy in freefall according to some. I want at a talk about iraq. The Washington Post reports we could see a larger, more Permanent Mission in iraq. Should we say loosely translated, boots on the ground, but not laced up . I think when people use boots on the ground, thats a wave expressing sending combat formations, brigades, divisions like when we invaded iraq and afghanistan. What youre seeing is an awful lot of american advisors working with the iraq forces to train them and also furnish intelligence so we can have more effective airstrikes. Is it your opinion then that we should abandon the vernacular boots on the ground because the bottom line is there are already boots on the ground in iraq . There is no doubt about it. What we should say is we are not going to take a direct combat role, nor do the iraqis want us to come in like we did in 2003. Chuck hagel stepping down, was sharply critical of the president s approach in iraq. Can we see a difference with the approach with a new sector of defense . I dont think so. So much of the policy was being controlled by the white house is hagels feeling. The man or woman who replaces hagel is not going to have to much time to influence policy. Were almost into the president ial election season here. Larry, happy holidays. The beginning of them. Are you going to the malls by the way, going to do all that block friday shopping . Its taxfree down here, too. Thanks a lot, larry. We are looking live at turkey where pope francis is visiting the country this morning. He will meet today with the president there. We are seeing those live pictures now. A little boy climbs to safety in the philippines. His mother was killed when thor home flooded. He stayed by her side as long as he could before he climbed a coconut tree. He was later rescued. Some parts of the philippines are being battered by a Tropical Storm now. Good morning, nicole. These are other images from this area, taken from a cell phone. Thats why its got the particular view. As the Tropical Storms moved over the philippines, flooding was the biggest concern, not the high winds. That system still has winds at about 45 miles per hour. Lets take a quick look at that before we get back to the United States. Here it was, then developing over the philippines, not into a typhoon, but definitely a rainmaker. It has continued to move back over water. Tomorrow, it will make another landfall and rain the concern with all of this, versus wind. As we get back to the United States, definitely have a and it is still tropical season here but doesnt feel tropical, definitely cold, minneapolis 12, a warm up from zero at this time. The midsection of the country is warmerrer, still colder air in place for the east coast. By the end of the weekend, you can see warms filter in, while the northwest gets cooler. Someones always under it. It is november. All right, nicole, mitchell, thank you. Say it aint so. A symbolic vote to break up google, passing a nonbinding resolution calls for Search Engines to separate businesses. There is a concern some tech markets of trying to monopolies the market. All sore routes and fraternities at San Diego State university of suspended, putting social events on hold until after students undergo training. Some Fraternity Members protest waiving sex toys. Native american groups are protesting the new battles of napa. Her mother bought land on the slopes looking down to the napa valley floor. She dreamed of creating a great wine. Thats our second he crop. We pick all the games that are down here. The family vineyard is one of 500 operating in the valley. Im second generation, and essentially what we call our community and what we embrace is everything use that behind me, its pretty much looked the same since i was a little girl. Its an enclave that lives by strict rules. In 1968, leaders established the First Agricultural preserve in the United States. It has very rigid land use laws. You couldnt p a small four room bed and breakfast without the voters approval in the county. When winerys learned a casino like this one might be built, napa valley panicked. A las vegas style casino in the middle of napa valley is not good for our community. So far, no one has even announced plans to build a casino here, but this is the man who might. Im sick of hearing these things about casinos. Our tribe was wrongfully terminated and deserves the right to restore. He said the main goals for his community of 340 are access to special education and housing benefits. I dont want to waste any time on what if you build a casino, where are you going to build a casino. We havent crossed that bridge yet. The bureau of Indian Affairs is considering changing federal guidelines to make it easier for native american tribes to gain official status. New rules could impact whats happening in napa. In the 1950s, the tribe lost its status during a time the federal government was trying to dissolve crimes and simulate native americans. Restoring recognition would mean tribal sovereignty, any land acquired would be exempt from local and state laws. They have to remember, that whole valley is riddled with the bones of my ancestors and those grimes are being fertilized by my ancestors bones, and they think they came to that valley and made it this precious valley. Before that, it was unique in its own way. The battle between wineries and the tribe has gone on for years, but with the possibility of changes at the federal level, some resolution may be just over the horizon. Aljazeera, napa valley, california. Officials from napa county board of supervisors want to take their fight to washington, urging congress to hold hearingings. Lawmakers in washington have yet to respond. The owner of a california burger king got quite a surprise on his birthday. Workers found a backpack that someone left in the booth during the busy lunch hour. The owner said when he looked inside, he found 100,000 in that backpack. They were in bundles like this wrapped with rubber bands. The owner would not keep the money. He said you have to sweat for what you earn and the indian immigrant worked three jobs when he first moved to the u. S. To save up money to buy the burger king. What i take away from that is eat at burger king. A wooly situation at the eiffel tower, french shepherds protesting. They hoped to shed light on the growing number of attacks by wolves on sheep. Government protections boost the numbers of wolves which had been near extinction. There has been an increase in the attacks, including 4800 this year, some saying it is a bad idea. A canine cop is fired before he can even get on the job. Cash was supposed to be the ninth officer at the Cannon Beach Police department, but the 2yearold was dismissed for not being a good fit for the force. Hes so cute. Hes been returned to his original owner for being skittish, being afraid of heights and having barking issues. Noise scared him and he wasnt very good at sniffing out drugs. Apparently being a canine not so good if you cant do those things. There are rules for people who fly drones near an airport. The f. A. A. Said rules are often broken. There have been many close calls. Well speak with an aviation expert about the risk drones really pose to pilots. The intersection between church and state in textbooks. The role that moses and the 10 commandments is playing in governing the country. The key to controlling your stress really does lie within your brain. What Research Shows about that is were you ever todays discoveries. A conflict that started 100 year ago, some say, never ended. Revealing. Untold stories of the valor. They opened fire on the english officers. Sacrifice. I order you to die. And ultimate betrayal. Drawing lines in the sand that would shape the middle east and frame the conflict today world war one through arab eyes only on Al Jazeera America it is time for one of todays discoveries. Scientists have pinpointed a factor in what causes stress. A protein in the brain plays a role in the release of the stress hormone crh, enabling stress to travel into the rest of the body. A person who is able to suppress that protein have lower stress levels. Findings could lead to treatment in Mental Illness and depression. A deeper look at a story we brought you yesterday. A new f. A. A. Report reveals a number of crashes involving airplanes and june, 25 close calls since june. The f. A. A. Is preparing to release its first set of rules on drones by the end of the year. Aljazeera travel contributor todd curtis joins us from massachusetts. Good morning to you. Thank you for joining us. The f. A. A. Just made public the number of near misses with drones and aircrafts. Any of this coming as a surprise to you . Not at all. Drone technology has really progressed greatly in the last few years, where its very easy for almost anyone to buy and operate a very, very capable drone. Youre talking about how easy it is. One of the top tech buys this year are drones, only zone toledo with the idea of using them for delivery purposes. Can the system handle that many drones in the air. As long as they stay out of the normal air space system. Now fortunately, most of the people who do buy drones do so responsibility, but they are very capable, and its possible pour someone to fly a drone relatively high in the same area that airliners use, and when that happens, youll have those potential phon applicant and safety issues. Do you think people who are flying those drones need a license to do that . I dont think so. For a bunch of reasons, the biggest is technology has progressed so fast and far that you can operate a drone basically programming it to fly autonomously. You dont ever to understand the basics of air natics or flight cool system. Thats already done for you by the drone manufacturers. Congress told the f. A. A. To come up with a plan for safe integration, which will be happening by september 2015. The f. A. A. Said it will be incremental. Is that enough, do you think . That is enough, because basically their talking about incorporating drones into the National Air Space systems. That is address be the higher profile drones, the drones that are very, very capable, that can literally fly in the same airways. The vast majority of drones today are not designed for that at all. They are designed for recreational purposes, to be flown a long way from airports. Theres an apples and oranges situation here. They have to regulate drones flying high and fast but regulating those flying low and slow, thats another different situation and i dont think the f. A. A. Has addressed that one clearly yet. What do you think of people who are flying these drones. Doesnt common sense say not to fly them near airports. Not only common sense, the f. A. A. Dictates that they should be flown in such a manager as to not interfere with air traffic, including near airports. Now realistically, there are going to be some people not very bright when it comes to following the rules or will deliberately break the rules. The vast majority of people do have common sense and are not going to be operating in a reckless manager. When it comes to drone versus airplane, birds can nearly take down a plane. What do you think would happen with one of those drones coming into contact with a plane in the air . Most of the drones that are sold at Department Stores on amazon and such are so small that the likelihood of serious damage to an airliner are low. For the very large drones, the kind to operate in the National Air Space system, those are typically larger, some of them like the predator and reaper used by the military, there are some that are similar in size to those. Those are like small aircraft. Those can certainly do Severe Damage to an airliner and the potential for risk is very, very high, which is high those higher level drones are going to be under much closer regulation than the common commercial drones that you and i can buy off the shelf. Tom curtis, thank you so much. Controversial new history in social studies textbooks are an their way to texas classrooms. They are said to misrepresent american history. Children outside of texas be going to be affected, as well. A biography of moses is what many Texas High School students will find in their American Government textbooks next year. Critics say it brings religion into the classroom, contrary to the constitutional principle of separating church and state. One passage reads moses helped establish a legal system, including the 10 commandments to govern his people. Similarly, the founders of the United States wrote the constitution and established a system of laws to governor americans. A third of texans are evangelical christians and the left leaning Christian Network said the books recently approved reflect a conservative bias. I dont believe that students go to school with a donkey or an elephant pinned on their lapels. I dont believe education should be partisan and we still have a partisan state board of education making these decisions instead of leaving it up to teachers and scholars. The vote was down party lines with the 10 Republican Party members voting yes and five democrats voting no. The chair woman said she was sht pleased, saying the vice chairman said meanwhile, liberal critics charged the board with putting politics before education. If you have a political agenda dictating and indoctrinating 5 Million Students in your political beliefs is a really smart way to implement your agenda. Its not just the 5 million Public School children in texas who may read the books. Students across the country may find the text in their own classrooms by virtue of texass great purchasing power with publishers. Books written for texas may be marketed elsewhere, having some teachers concerned. The connections that these textbooks draw between moses and the United States and democracy and the bible, whats problematic about that for you . When you start mixing religion with the government, theres some very thin lines that they want the population to know. We apologize for the difficulties there, texas students will start using textbooks beginning in the fall. Lets get a check of the forecast here at momentum with meteorologist Nicole Mitchell. Weve got persistent wet weather into the northwest, particularly washington state, as we take a closer look, the pattern is start to go shift farther to the south, so its going to stay persistent, but oregon, there could be isolated places seeing three or four inches of rain, widespread one or two inches. Its tremendously beneficial for places like california, only making it halfway down the state with the moisture, but the entire state needs it, so just to the northern half is getting it would be great. Its part of a pattern that will funnel areas of occasional snow through parts of the midwest into the great lakes. The core of the wet weather definitely into the northwest, as i said, the next couple days, there are problems with that, already have flood watches and warnings near power outage gent sound. Del mentioned the ski resorts earlier, northern parts of the sierra watching this, because it means snow, wimp is good for skiing. Thank you, nicole. Ahead in this next half hour, a potential break through in the fight against ebola. Were going to go to the front lines for an update on the progress made. Why going in on gambling is not paying off. Today. Al Jazeera America presents. This is it. Oscar winner alex gibneys edge of eighteen, thanksgiving marathon. Oh my god intense pressure. If i said that im perfectly fine, i would be lying. Tough realities. I feel so utterly alone. Life changing moments. In this envelope is my life. If you dont go to college you gonna be stuck here. I dont wanna be stuck here. Catch the whole groundbreaking series. Edge of eighteen. Thanksgiving marathon. Today. 9 00 am eastern. Only on Al Jazeera America. On tech know. That is immense. There a misunderstood. Vital part of the ecosystem. Is a tiger shark. First one of the expodition can they be saved . Sharks dont eat people. Tech know, every saturday go where science meets humanity. This is some of the best driving ive every done, even though i cant see. Tech know. Were here in the vortex. Only on Al Jazeera America. Heal in ferguson, residents gather for thanksgiving looking to rare following a turbulent week at protestors take demonstrations to the malls. Ditching the turkey dinner in favor of deep discounts, americans across the country fighting their way into stores for black friday sales as the Holiday Shopping season i could can off. Battling corruption, mexicos president tries to calm growing anger and outrage over the handling of those 43 students that disappeared. Probe francis and his first trip to turkey working to bridge the divide between muslims and christians. Welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im dell warm. Im erica pitzi. Rebuilding has begun in ferguson, missouri, some calm brought to the troubled town. Residents cleaning the city after violent nights of protests. Some protestors did try to shut down major retailers. We are joined live from ferguson. Local retailers are concerned there will be more violence now that things are warming up. How are they coping . Good morning to you and good morning to erika, as well. The people of ferguson getting a decent nights sleep for the first time in four. No organized street level protests and no arrests, as you were saying. However, with 24 businesses torched last monday, many of them mom and pop businesses around here are taking no chances. They are boarding up their windows, the better to protect them for whatever might come next week. Of course that looks very ugly, so some interprizing local people and some from out of town are getting together to do something about it. Take a look. Rodney is a jack of all trades, sawing plywood for this store. The way its going now, i dont see it stopping. This is going on all ove over te country. People riding in from every, chicago, atlanta. Before and he especially after monday and tuesdays rightouting, other stores have done the same. Antonios the jack of trades, his sign says as much. His auto repair business is outside ferguson. He hasnt boarded up. Boards keep customers away. Thats like taking food out of their kids mouths, just smacking it out of their hands. I feel for them. I feel for them and i also feel for the people whos out here going through it. Some Insurance Companies have told businesses their policies may not be honored if they dont board up. At maxs chicken store, theyre listening. Besides wanting safety, you cant see whats coming. She said the plan to keep the wood work in place until next week at least. If everyone along the boardwalk that theirs boarded and you dont, its possible youre the target. Since mondays destruction, the weathers been grim in ferguson. Its snowed hard. They cant see through their windows. A local artist is cheering the store fronts up, the tree the symbol of hope and family. I wanted to do something with the skillset i did have. Its beautiful. Its a very, very small thing, but at least hopefully its a little bit uplifting to people to see artwork instead of boards. Darcy is not the only one trying to brighten up ferguson. Peace art is springing up all over the town, a sign of hope in a Holiday Season blighted by violence. Its a funny thing, del and erika. There were so many artists in town. They are admiring each others work instead of painting. Del and erika. Explain this change of strategy shifting from demonstrations in the eats to the malls. Its not really a changing strategy, actually, del. Theyve said all along that they want to disrupt and be a nuisance and irritant and not go away in my they get the change that they want. The strategy now is to disrupt Holiday Shopping. We saw that last night. We have pictures in the local walmart and ferguson, the idea to close it down. When the protestors came down, they couldnt get to anyone else. In the walmart, they did chant slogans but were respectful and left when asked to at the end of the evening. Thats going to go on throughout this Holiday Weekend. The problem is most are peaceful protestors, the worry how many will try to agitate and have things turn violent. John, than thank you very mu. It was a rather peaceful start to black friday shopping this year. There were no major reports of scuffles overnight as retailers nationwide hoped their doors even earlier than last year. Millions of shoppers hit the stores and logged on to grab good deals. Its estimated 30 million americans did their shopping on thanksgiving day. Mary snow is live inside macys here in new york. Good morning, are we looking at a new trend, black friday now moving to thursday . Good morning, erika. Were certainly seeing more retailers opening on thanksgiving itself. Look arent me here. It looks like its the middle of the afternoon. There is a steady crowd. Its been this way all morning. Macys for one has joined the retailers opening on thanksgiving. It opened its doors last night at 6 00 p. M. And never closed them. It will be open 29 hours straight. This is a trend, people are calling it gray thursday, and this happens as retailers are really getting so competitive, jockeying for shoppers cash. Are consumers really spending more on this gray thursday . You know, traditionally, when you look at the numbers last year for 2013, we did see more people shopping on thanksgiving itself. Black friday, however is still a bigger day. Erika, really these deals, retailers are putting out there really stretched into the whole week. This has turned into a very big week for retailers. This year, theyre hoping to do better. The forecast right now is for a sales increase of 4. 1 , which is better than last year, because last year wasnt a great year for retail sales. Theyre hope that go some of these deals are going to bring people in throughout this entire week. Weve seen black friday get pretty ugly, people pushing, shoving, ships having knockdown, dragout fights in lines. How much of the lack of this can be attributed to the early start . One other thing, too, is that just seeing retailers across the country, some saying that theyve really tried to stagger some of these deals and not have them all at one time to avoid those crushes and rushes into the stores have been staggering the deals out. Yes, because stores are open like this one around the clock, youre not going to see those crowds at one time rushing in. All right, mary snow live for us this morning, thank you. Were following a developing story out of texas. Police in austin shoot and kill a gunman after he opened fire on definitely downtown buildings, the man reportedly shot at police headquarters, the federal courthouse and mexican consulate, as well. A major highway is shut down. In mexico, the president is proposing new reforms to combat widespread crime and corruption. It comes as police find 11 decapitated and partly burned bodies in southern mexico. The new proposals come as officials continue to search for 43 students missing since september. Months of protests ever finally forced his hand. The mexican president in a televised speech announcing we will now take control of local police forces. We are clear, only through the state of law can we defeat together the challenges of insecurity, corruption and impunity. At the wake of the tragedy of iguana, mexico is being newly tested, faced with this, mexicans cannot fall into pessimism nor abandon our hope for a better future. This is the epicenter of the crisis in mexico, iguala, a small city where thought three students disappeared and were allegedly handed to Cartel Members by the local police. Its feared they were then executed. This is whats left of what theyre telling me was a really Luxurious Office of the iguala mayor. Protestors burned it down. Hes in prison now, because he was supposed to be part of a drug cartel with his wife. This is supposedly happening in many place around mexico. This is the situation that the president is going to have to deal with. The president said he will send congress a plan to reform the Justice System and establish an emergency hot line for citizens to report crime and corruption. Its too late for many residents of violent towns like iguala where cartels are fighting for drug routes. We dont believe anything the president says. He goes on foreign trips while the country mourns. The president promised change when he took office two years ago. Economic reforms earned him praise abroad, but at home, he had been criticized and accused of corruption. We want him to do things instead of announcing changes that will take place in the future. The announcement was an attempt to calm a wave of anger sweeping the nation. The people say they are tired of promises. Its change they want. Aljazeera, iguala, mexico. The president also proposed setting up a nationwide emergency number like 911. He wants to boost development by creating three special Economic Zones in the countrys impoverished south. The Ukraine Parliament electing prime yatsenyuk, saying they need to stop russian aggression. The European Union is slapping on more sanctions against those involved in the ukraine crisis, adding 13 rebels and five organizations to the black list. The e. U. Said it will freeze their assets. More than 120 people and 20 organizations face sanctions over the crisis. Japan taking the cue from the west this morning, forcing automakers to recall all vehicles with faulty airbags. They are singling out those made by takata, the company at the center of the massive air bag recall here in the United States and linked to several deaths. Takata has until tuesday next week to expand recalls nationwide or face further legal action and penalties. The United Nations declaring a state of emergency in gaza on the strip after heavy flooding there. Hundreds of people had to be evacuated. Would floods come as an especially difficult time, nearly 400,000 palestinians have been displaced since this summers war with israeli. Mother nature spoiling thanksgiving for new england, a wintery storm system leaving 200,000 people in the region without power. Crews are working to turn the lights back on but say theres no estimate on what that will happen. The major storm system may be gone, but the cold weather isnt going anywhere anytime soon. Lets bring in meteorologist Nicole Mitchell. What do you think . Weve got a couple of days and then there will be a warmup. We have a place in the west shooting occasional snow through the Northern Midwest through the great lakes. The area isnt entirely out of the clear from the snow. More of this will be places like ontario, syracuse could see that most of the region just light amounts if you see anything at all. What is more significant is behind the front, we had High Pressure in place, a clockwise flow, you get on the western side of that, and its a flow from the south. As you get on the opposite side, youve got the flow from the north. Its if you know themed in cold air from the northeast the last couple days, temperatures running 1020 degrees below average now because of that, and heres what that looks like. A real warmup, denver, 70 degrees today. When you look at new york on the converse side, 37. The 30 as we get toward the weekend and by the time we get into sunday, the pattern reverses and a warmup for the east coast. Were going to see more of these temperatures back in the 50s and 60s. The pattern shift impacts the northwest, seattle, those testimonies will be going down while the east coast more people just now getting to their destination. The taliban carrying out a string of attacks in afghanistan amid the recent uptick in violence there. Retired Army Sergeant mike lyons is here. Prank officers storm the field at one soccer game. That video and others captured by our citizen journalists. Time for votes captured by our citizen journalists. Heavy flooding in france, waters racing down and collecting in a store parking lot. One person has been killed. The black friday frenzy in the u. K. Scrambling for bargains. There were reports of fights breaking out at some stores. A group of prank officers bringing the soccer game in london to a complete stop. Three men stormed the field taking selfies with the players after ditching security. They were eventually caught. There are growing security concerns in afghanistan after yet another attack on a diplomatic compound there, a district in kabul house as lot of embassies in that reege be and the attack coming hours after a British Embassy was targeted, killing six. Mike lyons is a retired army major. Thanks for being with us. We are now seeing that uptick in violence in afghanistan. How is this going to affect adjustment he was to draw down the troops . In the short term, puts them on alert. Youre going to see the beginning of an uptick of u. S. Military support there. A lot has to do with the president of afghanistan, general campbell as well working together. Theyll already stay in. The approximate the has come up with a new strategy. I think youll see more forces stay for a greater period of time. Now that we know secretary of defense chuck hagel is stepping down, how will that affect afghanistan on the ground . General campbell has formed a better relationship with penalty of afghanistan. Its almost like secretary hagels out of that picture. Hes got a better relationship with the commander on the ground with the afghan president. Its already changed. They are doing strikes at night now. Theres a much better relationship between the Afghan Security forces and United States forces that are there. The u. S. Is now getting ready to increase the troop levels in afghanistan in 2015 beyond what they said because they have to fill in the gap left by other nato countries. Are we really pulling out of americas longest running war . I dont think so. I think youre going to see at least another 1,000 troops above the 9800 which we were committed to. I find it unusual that nato countries with six weeks to go couldnt deploy those force there is. Youll see the americans take the bulk of this number going forward. The number could change by the end of 2015 with regard to more troops even going, as well. The taliban claimed responsibility for this latest attack. Before the attack, a pentagon spokesman said pentagon forces will not seek taliban targets. The Afghan Governments going to tarts the taliban and use u. S. Assets to do that. We might be an Indirect Party to those attacks. Other terrorists organizations inside pakistan as well will become a target. While we might not necessarily strike then, youll see us be part of those operations should the Afghan Government want them. A larger military presence could be on the ground in iraq. Is the world becoming too dangerous for talk of withdraws anywhere in these hot spots . Yes, i think we want to get troops out of there, but cant put to it a time table, which is what the president did, saying by the end of 2016 the troops will be out of there. The military wants it mission focused, not time focused. Youll see that most of the senators want the time frame to be gone. They want to let the military decide. The military will extend this out for as long as possible on some cases, weve seen them do that before. All right, thanks so much for joining us. Pope francis arriving in turkey this morning with a message of tolerance. Dialogue, he says between christians and muslims and fighting extremists tops his agenda when he meets the turkish president. We are live in istanbul. What is the pope hoping to accomplish on this trip . Could you repeat that question again . Yes. What does the pope hope to accomplish on this trip . Theres two centers to this, really, first trying to build bridges with islam and with the eastern Orthodox Christian church, but today, friday, the emphasis is on relations with islam, the pope is expected to speak out about the violence that the is state is meting out on minorities in this part of the world, turkey bordering syria and iraq where Islamic State of iraq and the levant is making advances. The pope is expected to use a speech to denounce people who use gods name to commit these atrocities. The vatican expect a strongly worded speech. We know before the popes visit to turkey, this muslim majority country, the holy see has been calling on Muslim Leaders themselves to speak out for forcefully against violence committed against muslims in this part of the world. The pope has to be very careful how he does that, because he has to balance the need to speak out against this violence while respecting islam. Hes already made clear that he respects this great religion. Hes spoken about how people who read the koran properly will know that this is not a violent religion. He has to be careful at treading very carefully diplomatically. Thank you very much. In nigeria, 40 people were killed in an attack on a bus station. Five government soldiers were among the dead. No group has claimed responsibility, but the area has been targeted by boko haram in the past. Nigerias importantlier president accusing Goodluck Jonathan of underestimating the threat of boko haram, saying jonathan allowed them to grow. He is urging good luck jonathan not to run for reelection in three months. Stormy weather impacting a large chunk of the west coast. Nicole mitchell is back with more. Weve had system after system in this region. Weve had different watches and warnings up for potential flooding areas. The flow off the coastline was a little farther to the north. You can see oregon and northern portions of california are having the best chances of weather or at least heavy rain. This flow funneling over a ridge, thats why places like minnesota, wisconsin will have moisture. Look at how much of the country is very dry, so we really have quiet weather, which is great for a Holiday Weekend with so many traveling after the not so great start wednesday. As we get into the next couple days, washington to oregon, three or four inches through the weekend. Most of the region one or two inches at least and this does spread farther to the south, so at leas least about hy into california. This is great news because the region is in drought. Portions of the northern sierra, big sky, so many more ski resorts came open in time for the holidays, they are loving to see the snow and the moisture is very, very beneficial in general. Thank you. British Prime Minister David Cameron tackling a hot button issue, dealing with the growing in that of immigrants. U. S. Special forces carrying out a Daring Mission in an alqaeda stronghold in yemen. We have a former navy seal joining us live to break down the mission. A conflict that started 100 year ago, some say, never ended. Revealing. Untold stories of the valor. They opened fire on the english officers. Sacrifice. I order you to die. And ultimate betrayal. Drawing lines in the sand that would shape the middle east and frame the conflict today world war one through arab eyes only on Al Jazeera America youre taking a live look at new york city on a cold black friday as people across the country head out to find some deep discounts. Good morning and welcome to Al Jazeera America. Ahead in our next half hour, a major break through in the fight against ebola, as an experimental vaccine appears to be safe. Well go live to liberia for an update on the progress in fighting the virus there. Big bet on gambling back firing following a run of bad luck. The changes to stop the losing streak. These are stories were following. Protestors in ferguson, missouri are marching through the streets and stores, calling for a boycott and some trying to shut down major retailers to draw attention to the death of motion in the stores this time. Today is officially black friday, but the shopping frenzy off to an early start. Millions of shoppers hitting the stores and logging on to grab good deals. Its estimated that 30 million americans did their shopping on thanksgiving day instead of black friday. Pope francis arriving in turkey earlier this morning for his first visit to that country, his trip aimed at interfaith dialogue with muslims and christian minorities. The pope is scheduled to meet with the turkish president later today. Syria is hitting back after the latest round of airstrikes. Government officials are denying they targeted civilians in those attacks, saying washington should criticize militant activity instead. Earlier this week, the state Department Said it was horrified by bombings which killed 90 civilians. Were learning the details of the secret u. S. Mission that freed hostages in yemen this week. Two dozen members of Seal Team Six took part. They were looking for an unnamed american but he was moved before the raid. U. S. Officials saved eight hostages. A former navy seal and Company Founder of seal Team Consulting and c. E. O. Joins us from florida. Thanks for being with us this morning. A hostage rescue attempt in yemen with only one american at risk. Does that pass the smell test to you . Actually, it does. Our policy has always been to go and return americans to american soil whenever theyve been taken hostage. The murky waters come into play when we dont know, you know, where this person is for a certain amount of time or theyre moved frequently and we dont know where they are, so, you know, i think that its always been our policy to get people, whether one person or 10 or 100, just figuring out the way to do it is always the conundrum and Seal Team Six that ha that down to a science. What are your sources telling you, is it a journalist or somebody else . Theres a lot of speculation and i dont want to put my because it would be my personal assessment of who this person is, and lets face it, id probably be wrong, so. [ laughter ] well leave it at that then. The hostages british, saudi, ethiopian, why not a multinational attempt . They are particular what forces they allow in. U. S. Special Operations Command is unique in that weve been working with a nation of special Operations Forces they call them sofs. There is a sof roster of sorts where we can work with other countries and others can work with us. Im guessing yemen is very particular with who they allow to operate from a military stand point inside their own borders. Some of the western hostages may have been missed in the raid. If those reports are true, do you expect to see u. S. Special forces on the ground again in yemen . Without a doubt, absolutely. Absolutely. If there was a fumble, there about be a fumble recovery, absolutely. I want to switch gears to ferguson. We have heard from officer Darren Wilson, saying he was just doing his job. You trained for years in those shootdont shoot exercises. Does his explanation that he felt his life was in danker pass muster . You know, on the outside, someone looking at it from the surface, its hard to owe open its hard to put yourself in that situation and know definitelyively what to do, as an outside person looking in, you have this large man coming after an authority figure, who he should be listening to and things have a way of expediting very, very quickly. I think he made the right decision in that situation. Im sure he felt that his life was in jeopardy. Its always easy to arm chair quarterback. I think looking at the facts and how theyve been presented, and the fact that the grand jury did not indict him on monday tells a much clearer story, that it was in fact justified and warranted. Let me me ask you a question on this. What happens when a sale takes a life . How much pressure is there on you guys to get it right all the time . The pressure is immense. We are still we can be investigated by the f. B. I. If we take a life and its not warranted, so, you know, i dont know if many people know he that, but we are still privy to the u. S. Judicial system, not privy, but prone to it. We he dont just have cart blanche to go out there and shoot anyone we want to. The taking of a life is always very, very serious and very precise. We are held to i would say we are held to even a higher standard than some Police Officers are, than most Police Officers are. I want to get one thing cleared up before you go. These Law Enforcement officers are now using the gear that was specifically made for units like yours. In your opinion, are the vast majority of Police Departments across the country equipped emotionally and filly to handle these weapons of with a are that we see in so many Police Departments . That was the early concern that they were getting all these toys, but they didnt have the training necessary. What im seeing now is im seeing a creep of a special forces veterans and Police Departments and combat veterans in the Police Departments and the quality of the Police Officers actually increasing, because you have people who are combat tested and they know the equipment, they know the mentality that you have to have and they have the ability to turn it on and turn it off, which is what you need in community policing. I think the fact that they have this equipment is actually good. Weve got some underlying issues in this country that could present themselves very soon. I think if Police Officers dont have these types of equipment, were in trouble. As always, thank you for being with us. He is a former navy seal joining us from florida. U. S. Oil futures belonged 6 a barrel overnight, the lowest since may of 2010. It comes after opec decided against cutting output. Led by saudi arabia, opec left production where it is, 30 millionbarrels a day. Thats good no, sir news for drivers, but means the u. S. Shale oil industry may lose money. A symbolic vote by the European Parliament to break up google. On thursday, lawmakers passed a nonbinding resolution that calls on the e. U. To consider a measure for Search Engines to separate commercial services for their businesses. Google was not mentioned by name. Lawmakers are concerned some Tech Companies are trying to mo nothing lies the market. Uber operations suspended, a judge barring the company from operating in the state, putting nearly 1,000 drivers in nevada out of work. Nevadas attorney general saying the multibillion Dollar Company intentionally broke the law in a highly regulated taxi state. The black friday shopping frenzy, we have mary snow inside macys here in new york city. She joins us now as a special guest. Good morning, mary. Good morning, erika. Joining us right now is the chairman and c. E. O. Have macys. Good to have you with us. Thank you. You havent gotten much clean, have you . Not much sleep, its the superbowl of retailing, so im happy to be here. You opened the store on at 6 00 on thanksgiving. Is it worth it to bring all these workers in . Do you get that many people. Apparently so, we listen to our customers and they wanted to be here last night. We had 15,000 customers waiting to get in. I try to think like the customers. Clearly they wanted to be here to shop last night. Some backlash over opening on thanksgiving. Do you have any qualms about opening on the holiday. Id like to not do it, thats my choice, im here with my employees. If my employees are going to be here, im here. I dont try to make decisions for how i personally feel, but how our customers and employees do. The employees didnt have to work. We hired 85,000 additional employees just for november and december. I asked my employees, you get first choice, because we may you time and a half if you work the holiday and 85 positions were filled. They wanted to be here. They said im happy to have that shift, because then im going to go shopping on black friday with my friends and family. Now im going to have that day off and thanks for paying me time and a half. Black friday has been the shopping day of the year. Is it eroded, is it that significant anymore . Look around, here we are. Weve been open for a long time already and these customers are still here. I think its a different customer than who we had last night. Very international, very diverse. Then i was back to Walking Around at midnight. Very young, a millennial customer in their 20s. Here we are again with the local consumer i think in this market shopping. I think were getting different bites at the apple. I still think its going to be a very, very busy black friday. How tough of a landscape is it now . Very tough, very challenging. I walked through the stores, walked through malls and i think plastered, you know, a huge percent off the stores. Gas prices, people have been talking about are at a very, very good price for consumers, anyway, and you talk about unemployment, certainly in america, the rates are low and also pure jobs, people actually purely working now asks 2008 is up, so theres good fundamentals in place for a good recovery. Were all waiting to see it and i think now is the time for us to begin to see the benefits of whats been happening over the last several months in our economy. Retailers like yours are relying on those savings at the gas pump. Sure. In new york city, you dont see it much, but outside in suburb i cant, people are driving, making decisions, used to be making decisions on one stop or two stop to get the most you can get out of my tank of gas. When you can have multiple stops, youre simply saving money and youre seeing that in your own pocketbook. You now have to spend on another handbag or another pair of boots. Thats obviously got to be good for us. Any indication so far how sails have been . You talked about the people, the numbers of people coming in, but what about sales . Any indications . So far so good for us. This is a long day and its going to continue to build. Our day always continues to build this time of day, starts off strong, but the purchases actually build to the core of the day, so by the way, our stores in california are three hours behind, our stores in hawaii are barely open. Weve got a lot of business still to do yet, but so far, so good. Thank you for your time, we appreciate it. Most retailers more than ever weve seen retailers opening on thanksgiving as the Competition Among stores to get these shoppers in through their doors and get their cash. All right, thank you so much. Obviously customers want that. One single store, 15,000 people lined up 6 00 p. M. On thanksgiving. Nasa contracted a rocket headed to the International Space station but it burst into flames right after liftoff, dashing the dreams of four young iraqi refugees. They had a science experiment onboard but now are getting a Second Chance. We have their story. 54321. And we have liftoff. When an unmanned nasa rocket launched from eastern virginia last october, the dreams of these iraqi refugees from Metro Detroit took flight. I was so excited, like oh, my god, our experiment is in that rocket and going up. Moments later, disaster, the rocket explodes just after takeoff. In it, commercial supplies and over a dozen science experiments, one of which belonged to the eighth graders. If you told me its blowed up, i was like no, it just went fast, we cant see it, but then i realized it and i started crying. The middle School Students developed a tool that can test the effect that iodine tablets can have on ecoally bacteria in zero gravity. Nasa is giving them a Second Chance to see if the experiment could offer new ways to make dirty water clean here on earth and in space. They want to improve the world. They want to give back to their country. Over a year ago, regina, farah, mer yell and ezra fled iraq with their families. Thief witnessed death and destruction, Life Experience that became the at lift for their science experiments. When i was in iraq, we didnt have clean water. It wasnt clean that much, like maybe sometimes people get sick or some of them die. Madison superintendent randy speck said there is a lesson for everyone. You see what the results of possibly cleaning water could ever for their lives personally. Thats a big deal, but also for our School Community to say science and technology, engineering and math are big and important things for this generation of students. I really love this school. This school made me better, a better person, and maybe my future will start from here, from these experiments. They hope to make a difference and believe that the skys the limit. Bisi onileere, aljazeera, detroit. Officials say theyve seen numbers triple in just the past five years with 140 iraqi students enrolled. Today marks the 50t 50th anniversary of the spacecraft launch, the ship first to complete a fly by of another planet and sent back the first upclose images of the red planet. Nearly 90,000 messages will be beamed to mars, including from george takei. Checking the progress in the fight against ebola. The whopper one burger king employee found in a backpack left behind. British foreign minister David Cameron getting tough on immigration in the u. K. , laying out a plan that requires migrants to work four years before receiving benefits. It is aimed at reducing the growing immigration population in the u. K. Last year 260,000 more people came to britain than left, a 43 increase over last year. Frances president is head to go africa hit hard by ebola in guinea. He will be the first nonafrican leader to visit countries struggling with ebola. He will tour Health Care Facilities, take part in a round table discussion and meet with guineas penalty. There may be a way soon to prevent ebola. Theres a new experimental vaccine. As we report, Health Officials say it is showing promising results. Researchers in maryland have been working on an ebola vaccine for years, as the virus has spread in recent months, they stepped up efforts. They say this one seems the most promising. They gave varying amounts to 20 volunteers. Within a month, all developed antibodies needed to fight ebola. The results with the higher dose were quite favorable. Ebola kills 70 of the people it infects. Its taken nearly 5500 lives so far, mostly in west africa. The World Health Organization says sierra leone will soon displace liberia as the worst hit country. Scientists have been scrambling to find ways to cure the virus, fast tracking drugs like zmapp, but the experimental vaccine is the first tested on people. The researchers will continue to test it internationally, like at this clinic in switzerland. It is safe for the volunteers. It is safe as well for the people who manipulate their biology samples. They also plan to expand their research to Health Care Workers in lie bear i cant starting in january. Were hoping to start this much, much larger efficacy trial in first liberia to determine if it actually works. The scientists face big hurdles. The vaccine needs to be kept at 112 degrees please in a country with an unreliable power system. The scientists are optimistic. Maybe by the mid to end of the summer of 2015, hopefully, well get enough good data to be able to determine if the vaccine works for not. The british drug companys vaccine is based on a cold virus found in chimpanzees. They can produce 1 million doses a month by next year. It produces no serious side effects. Joining us now from liberia is a missionary worker. Reverend, good morning. The treatment for ebola, what problem are you seeing there . There are lots of things happening here in liberia. You have the u. S. Military, and now the chinese. Just across the street, about 2,000 feet away, you have the chinese that have also set up a unit. There are several units being built by the u. S. Military around the country. There are enough units that have been set up, we still need more professional helpers and you do need more aid, as well as the nutritional aspect to go along with the treatment of the virus. You talk about the extra Health Care Facilities there. Are those actually helping in the treatment of the virus . Oh, definitely, and now theres no excuse. You find out someone has the symptoms, you do have a place you can take people. No one should be turned away from a unit. There is more space in the unit than occupied at this time. Lets talk about new approaches to curb the outbreak. Are you seeing any new approaches that the doctors and Health Care Workers are taking to do that . Sorry, i didnt get you clear, the noise is here in the back. No problem, reverend. We are wanting to talk about any new approaches that the doctors and Health Care Workers are taking to try to curb the virus. Well, they had used h. I. V. Treatment in some of the places when medications werent available and im sure people are still using the basics that they are getting. There is really nothing new, people hope the new vaccine will be made available especially for health workers. Thats the major need right now is how you can get this and very fast to help health workers. Theres really no new treatments on the ground. Reverend, lets talk about ping ponging, no idea where rural villagers go for treatment and return to the have you also spreading virus. Do you think this can be stopped especially with the difficulty of tracking the virus in remote areas . People need to be able to man the checkpoints more, but definitely what you are also seeing here i think has to do with just Public Health and how we do nutrition. A lot of people here are trying to survive on a daily basis, so are going to move from one point to the next where they feel they can get the basics of food and water. Over here is the u. S. Military, rural point to another rural point. Change for joining us live from liberia. The region of macao is compared to las vegas. We report on local workers now worried about a sharp decline in the only game in town. It is the school that trains the people who keep the casinos running. Casino work is just about the only game in town, so the industrys losing streak that everyone alarmed. There are very few alternatives for local people. Macau needs to be more diversified or face tremendous business is heavily reliant on china allowing heavy streams of gamblers across the border. Morning at the crossing, there is no shortage of day trippers from mainland china. Whats lacking are the high rollers. Chinas crack down on corruption means its not wise to be seen flaunting cash and the big money has been staying away. They dont want to be implicated. Theyd rather not coming and then especially those who are really we call them the big shots, the high rollers. It has made the industry review its expansion plans here, a move welcomed by many workers. Dealers have been protesting wage that is cant keep pace with inflated property prices in the overheating economy. For dealers, the predicted doubling of casinos in the next few years had filled him with dread. It is extremely hard for local people to maintain their living standards. The slowdown will give macau time to adjust instead of being dominated by the gaming industry. A reputation as a clean yea back water before casinos arrived, macau can pause to remember what that was like. Aljazeera, macau. Macau is the only place in china where casinos are legal. A man in a whopper king spotted a backpack left behind. They found money, a deposit slip and marijuana. What would you have done if you got that bag . The manager did the right thing. He called the police. Lets check in with Nicole Mitchell for a last look at your return home from the thanksgiving holiday this morning. We had such a rough start on wednesday. Its nice to be able to quiet things down for the rest of the Holiday Weekend. As we look out there today, we had a bit of a ridge in place funneling moisture in wisconsin and a couple of disturbances moving through the lake. The northwest is going to stay more active. A similar moisture forecast into the day tomorrow is what we have today. Look at how much real estate across the country is dry. Most of the midsection, the southwest not just dry, also warm, very pleasant. The sunday return forecast, again, its kind of that northern tear of the country with the better chances, not a lot of our busiest travel hubs and places better suited to deal with the snow. Cool in the east coast now and milder in the northwest by sunday. That reverses its pattern. All right, getting warmer on our part of the coast. Thank you, nicole. Thats it for us here in new york. Thank you for joining us. Stay tuned for edge of 18. We leave you with a look at all the madness of the black friday rush. Experts predict that this black friday weekend will be the best one since before the recession hit eight years ago. We will see you right back here again tomorrow morning at 7 30 a. M. Until then, go out and try to make a merchant happy. The death toll could be much higher than anyone known. Posing as a buyer. People ready then. Mr. President who should answer for those people hi bae. In my school, no one gives a bleep if im gay or not. But at home, its just harder to be myself. I really want my father to just tell me. I support you and i love my gay son. I go to lubbock high school, which is really intense and rigorous. 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