and nasa determined to answer a question, is there life on mars? the journey to the red planet is about to begin on this american morning. captions by vitac www.vitac.com and good morning to you, and happy black friday. many of you are already up, shopped and are back home. watching from a macy s television set. probably so. ali and christine have the day off. i m carol costello here with alina cho on this friday morning. the leftovers packed away and the fridge and shoppers everywhere have already started hunt. pull back lines, say go in and it s like a stampede. everyone just darts in there. the holiday shopping season is officially under way. it startederer than usual last night at this toys r us in new york. the doors opened. crazy. in los angeles, ten people suffered injured when everyone surged into a walmart store. police are looking for a female customer who used pepper spray to get to the front of the line. police are still looking for her.
in the forecast and, again, a great-looking day here. high pressure pushing on through. winds out of the south and west at about five to ten miles per hour. we do have some changes in the weekend forecast. details on that looks like the rain gets back in here on sunday. let s do some traffic this morning. lauren, good morning. good morning, tucker. the focus today not so much on the roads themselves but on those parking lots the let s take a live look from the montgomery mall in bethesda. we have a lot of folks heading in right now. all the parking spots taken here at macy s. it is very full all around that mall so give yourself plenty of time, be patient and watch for pedestrians. that one folk jogging back to his car. be alert. leesburg, we are told that the parking lots there, more than half full at this point. you want to expect the crowd if you are heading out. i m sure that has been the case. we have been talking about it for weeks now. again, just be patients and, ag
box, andrew ross sorkin. i missed you guys, i really did. he s hard to book now that he hosts his own show. he s a diva. he s got you wouldn t believe his expense account over there. things he requires, room temperature water oh, my god. he s like madonna. whole green room set up with the green m&ms. i m wondering how you re surviving on this schedule with twins. we can talk about that off air. but it s working out okay so far. i feel your pain. i feel your pain. we re going to talk about the overall economy moving forward. with all of the events last week the failure of the super committee and the response on the markets, the plunge that we saw. when we look at the big picture, andrew ross sorkin, i ll start with you and we can throw it around the table. do we talk about the concept of a double dip now as a potential reality? and do we start hearing that word come up more? or is there hope for recovery? so the good news actually is i m hopeful that
s. terrible story. three american college students accused of throwing fire bombs at egyptian police will soon be released from custody. derek sweeney, luke gates and gregory porter arrested during a violent anti-government protest in cairo sunday. they deny accusations against them and their families can t wait to see them again. we just said we, we are just happy he is coming home. and i know he was he was happy that that, happy to hear our voices. and he, he was just so excited about coming home. a court ordered their release but they re still plowing through massive paperwork. abc news learned that they did manage to enjoy a complete thanksgiving dinner thanks to the u.s. embassy. nba owners and players are expected to resume talks here in new york, hoping to save the nationally televised games on christmas day. the commissioner says it will take about 30 days to start the season once a deal is finally reached. an agreement this weekend would give the nba just
and i know he was he was happy that that, happy to hear our voices. and he, he was just so excited about coming home. a court ordered their release but they re still plowing through massive paperwork. abc news learned that they did manage to enjoy a complete thanksgiving dinner thanks to the u.s. embassy. nba owners and players are expected to resume talks here in new york, hoping to save the nationally televised games on christmas day. the commissioner says it will take about 30 days to start the season once a deal is finally reached. an agreement this weekend would give the nba just enough time. still at this point, the season very much in doubt. hopefully they will make progress today. we ll see. now for our favorite story of the day. ha-ha. there. i like the way you do it. there we go. while some of us were watching the parades getting the turkey ready some in dallas were lacing up their sneakers for a run. not a race, more of a trot, let s say. a reco