Middle of the frenzy throughout the day. Tom joins us lye from wood bridge. Whats the scene like there . If i was standing here a year ago today at this same moment this place would be empty except for a few employs getting ready. To night they opened earlier than ever before, at 8 00 tonight and the crowds responded. There are a lot of people who ate a turkey dinner and then came straight to the mall. 6 00 thanksgiving night is the earliest best buy has ever opened. A lot of people, some of whom slept outside the store in tents last night streamed in. Meanwhile to the south crowds gathered outside a much bigger place also getting set to open earlier than ever. For the past half decade theyve opened at midnight. Tonight they open the doors at 8 00 and a whole lot of people streamed in. I couldnt believe how many people were out here. Deborah and her relatives made the trip a holiday tradition. We come here every thanksgiving and we dont even shop. We just come for the experience. Nuts. He admits if not for his girlfriend he would not be out in this. Shes the reason you are out in this . . Yes. If not, id be watching football. Thats a big sacrifice sflfment they are among a number of folks who like the earlier opening time and wouldnt have come if it was still midnight. No, thats a little too late. The mall they made the change in response to customers about more choices about when to do their black friday or in this case thursday shopping. We wanted to have more opportunities for customers to come shopping. And back out here live there are a lot of people here right now. One thing i notice there are a lot of people sitting around waiting. You saw some folks were dragged here by their significant others. Mostly men but not entirely men who were dragged here by their significant others. I talked to some customers saying they are getting good deals but some are more here for the crowds and the excitement of thanksgiving night. Amazing how crowded it is at 11 00 at night. Not everyone is thrilled about this new tradition to the thanksgiving holiday. Some think it should be spent with family and giving thanks. We look at how the holiday changed. The parking lot is packed and people are all over this mall including lots of families with children. If you take all that into consideration this whole shopping on thanksgiving may be our new normal. 7 00 thanksgiving night and bear oaks mall is buzzing with foot traffic. Shoppers waiting patiently for the stores to open. Its the First Time Ever that ive gone on thanksgiving and i feel like im breaking some sort of tradition so i feel kind of naughty doing this. She may be becoming part of a new tradition. Like it or not folks are having thanksgiving lunch or dinner with their family and then heading to the mall. You should be with your family. What does your family think 234 its part of a tradition now i guess. A few retailers are opening on thursday, they are calling it brown thursday. Some complain its unfair to drag retail workers out away from their families. I feel bad for them. I used to work in retail. The bargains may be too good to pass up. Customers are saving money but is it the right thing to do. We put that question to a nineyearold . Its okay. You can do it if you feel like it and if you dont you dont have to. Out of the mouths of beabs. We should tell you the stores open at 8 00 and will stay open until 9 30 tomorrow night for 25 1 2 hours. So if you want to work off some of that turkey, you literally have all night. Thats incredible. For those of you who didnt make it out today, youll likely spend time outside tomorrow. What can you expect from the Weather Department . We have a look at the forecast. Outside it is chilly like it was this afternoon and much the way well be again tomorrow with some more cold air. Were looking at a time lapse from earlier in the day. Lots of sunshine with a few clouds and as the sunset seeing a few clouds overhead. Temperatures are going to drop back as we head through the vernight here. Black friday forecast average high this time of year is 52. Tomorrow 42. Much less of a wind but still chilly. Well have the seven day forecast coming up in a few minutes. We know a lot of you will be up bright and early or going shopping and we will update the forecast tomorrow morning and have more on what you can expect if you plan on shopping on black friday. Moving on to news outlaw of montgomery coun county tonight. Police at a crash on university boulevard. Authorities tell us the crash involved a police vehicle. The officer was not injured. Its not clear if anyone else was injured or what led to that crash. Happening now in the Friendship Heights neighbor. Police are investigating a violent Sexual Assault that happened late tuesday night on wisconsin avenue. Police hope this Surveillance Video captured leads to an arrest. D. C. Police tell us that the suspect used a knife to rob a woman and forced her into an alley where she was sexually assaulted. If you have information you are asked to contact d. C. Police about it. Heartbreak tonight after a construction worker passed away on the job. It happened this morning in silver spring. The 56yearold worker slipped on a patch of ice and hit his headity the construction site. The crew was working on a number of unfinished town homes. I worked in construction for more than 15 years. People fall from the roof and nothing happen and this guy walking and fall and dead. Police are calling this a freak accident. Maryland Occupational Safety and health is investigating the case as well. A man is in Critical Condition after a Police Involved shooting. It happened in base runs wick. Police were responding to a domestic situation involving alcohol when all of this took place. The man pointed a gun at police forcing them to fire shots. The d. C. National guard con firms the body found at baltimore inner harbor is that of the airman. Airman first class dead on wednesday, he was last seen on november 23rd. Investigators have not released details on how he may have passed away. Now the story of a real life grinch. A Salvation Army bell ringer left his post to help a grandmother and her four children get through the double doors. When he returned the red kettle and donations were gone. There is no video of the theft and police have to leads. But there is a silver lining. A Department Store manager heard of the theft and donated 100. It was all about giving back. They served 2600 people at the largest thanksgiving celebration in virg. They delivered 1500 meals to people at home. President obama wished the nation a happy thanksgiving and had a special message for those serving overseas. We give thanks for our men and women in uniform and their families who are surely missing them very much today. Were grateful for their sacrifice too. The president called troops serving overseas. Thousands of troops are spending this thanksgiving in afghanistan. Service men and women lined up to have turkey and ham and the trimmings. They have spent the holiday in afghanistan since 2001. Raiders, packers and lyons. Sports highlights coming up and her weeks after reinjuring knee lindsay vonn ways in on whether she would be ready for families in washington, illinois spend this thanksgiving cleaning up. An ef 4 tornado ripped through destroying homes and businesses. The governor served a special meal today. The town received a 200,000 check from the Chicago Blackhawks hockey team. Traveling with your pet got more expensive. Southwest is raising the carry on ticket. The change goes into effect january 15. One week after u. S. Olympian lindsay vonn hurt her knee on a training run shes back on the slotes. She posted a video saying it was her first day since the crash. She is focused on competing in the 2014 olympics in russia. Many of you are hitting the mall this weekend but its a busy movie weekend as well. Frozen could be just the ticket for families going to the movies. Frozen create it is world of the snow queen with the younger sister, a princess with the power to bring on wint we are just a waive of her hand. She cant control those powers and the place goes into eternal winter. Frozen throws in a goofy snowman voice. With three and a half stars, family friendly, pg rated frozen. Now what is thanksgiving without a little revenge . Spike lee offers oh boy his. Make of a careen classic set free without explanation he plots revenge and gets it with style. Black anywaytivity mixes a story with holiday classic. Jennifer hudson sends her son to her parents for the holidays. On Christmas Eve the family riff paralleling the christmas story itself. Here is the weekend movie guide. Four stars for gravity, four stars for 1 years a lave and four for nebraska. Three and a half for frozen and the hunger games sequel and the book thief. Three stars for spike lees oh boy and for captain phillips and Dallas Buyers Club and all is lost. Two and a half for the best man holiday and thor the dark world, two for bad grandpa and last vegas. Have a Great Holiday weekend everybody. From the Weather Department it is a great weekend to be indoors. There is sunshine around tomorrow but its so cold. We only got to 40 today and i think tomorrow may be low 40s, 42 at best. Its amazing after this week it felt pretty nice. This is the coldest thanksgiving weve had since back in 2,000. Most folks were not at 40 degrees today. That was the unique spot downtown at reagan international. This is out near sky lirne drive sky line drive. The road was shut down because it was too icy out there. 40 it was high today. 53 it was typical high today. And e been as warmity 74 as low as 15. 32 in frederick. I do think well continue to see temperatures dropping back into the 20s and a couple of upper tynes to the far west. There are a few clouds moving through but they will move on out. High pressure is overhead and as High Pressure continues to work overhead tomorrow still cool with a calmer breeze. Still that northerly component keeping us on the chilly side. Saturday the High Pressure will move off the coast and well get more of a northeastly wind flow and that will introduce a few more clouds into the mix for saturday, not precipitation but more clouds. There are a few scattered clouds out and saturday more will move in. Sunny, cool, upper 30s and low 40s. Looks like well keep that cool weather for saturday. Mid to upper 40s for sunday and monday. Long term maybe a shot for precipitation by tuesday but very slight. Maybe back to near 50 by wednesday and thursday. Below average all seven days there. I notice you had the red skins hell mel met up there. Bundled up. No matter how bad their problems are right now the redskins will be in prime time yet again and well tell you how they are getting ready. Did a costly i started parttime, now im a manager. N. My employer matches my charitable giving. Really. I get bonuses even working parttime. Where i work, over 400 people are promoted every day. Healthcare starting under 40 a month. I got education benefits. I work at walmart. Im a pharmacist. Sales associate. I manage produce. I work in logistics. Theres more to walmart than you think. Vo opportunity. Thats the real walmart. One steam emerging as the pack leader in the nfc east. The cowboys showed some sign of weakness today against the raiders. Williams runs it back, gets hit at the 20 and fumbles and is picked up by jenkins. He takes it back 23 yards for the touchdown. The cowboys trail 217 but come all the way back. They win 3124. The packers Third Quarter 17150 Lions Stafford gets a ook, who does he find. They win 4010. To the surprise of many nbc has not flexed the redskins giants game on sunday. As bad as the records look on paper ter giants could be in play for the division maybe and if the redskins lose their wild card hopes are eliminated. Its been a rocky ride to say the least. The skins had their worst performance sunday and Trent Williams had his worst showing all season. Then the headlines but players know to stay competitive they have to keep things in perspective. You got this problem with fred and this problem with so and so. It becomes annoying at times. Obviously the sources that are from outside trying to break this team apart, its tough to deal with. Turkey bowl woodson against wilson. Highlight of the game came from woodson. Coop tore payne. He out runs everyone for 60 yards and the touchdown. Oodson wins 2513. Clonials blew the lead and out scored the hurricanes 124. Dw wins 7163. And the ravens lead the steelers 2214 in the fourth quarter. Busy day throughout the league. We all have thanksgiving pie. O w thanksgiving and hanukkah fall on the same day. Were less than an hour from the official start to black friday and lots of you are looking for deals and the Holiday Weekend forecast. You can read all stories and more on wjla. Com. Decpwh if you are curious about how the first family celebrated thanksgiving. The white house released the dinner menu. It includes turkey, honey baked ham, two kinds of stuffing, mack rone any and cheese, a few egetables and for dessert nine different pies. Black friday deals up in the store. Getting presents and so much more. Thats my holiday, thats my kind of holiday. Buy today, come back for more. Save next time you shop in store. Thats my kind of holiday. Its b black friday were shopping deals in little black dresses cute hair and heels. Lets go thats my kind of holiday. We are giving you the chance to win tickets to see one direction next summer. Starting monday were giving away five pairs of tickets. Every day well give you a clue and a word and enter it on facebook for your chance to win. Well announce one winner a day on abc news at 5 00. The one direction contest starts onday. Outside tomorrow 40s for highs and brisk out there but the winds are calmer. By saturday a few more clouds in the mix. The temperatures up a little for sunday and monday. The average is 50 so were running below average throughout the period. A fresh look at the forecast at 4030 a. M. That will do it for us. We thank you for joining us tonight. Jimmy kimmel live is coming up dicky from hollywood, its Jimmy Kimmel Live tonight elizabeth banks. Larry king chef mario batali. And music from daughtry. With cleto and the cletones. And now, heres Jimmy Kimmel Jimmy tonight on the program