Punishment. There are about 47,000 members of the u. S. Military serving in after indian stan. Some ate their thanksgiving dinner at a base in kabul. This was the 13th Year American troops celebrated the holiday in afghanistan. And a group of veterans were thanked for their service. They live add the Armed Forces Retirement home in washington and each thanksgiving a group of volunteers spends the day at the home. Danielle nottingham spoke with some of the veterans. Reporter the kitchen at the Armed Forces Retirement home is fired up before dawn, preparing for the hundreds of retired servicemen and women who line up for their thanksgiving meal. Happy thanksgiving. Thank you. Volunteers like retired Lieutenant Colonel victor perez are there to serve. How are you today . Good. Reporter perez visits every thanksgiving as a member of the Warrior Brotherhood Motorcycle Club its an opportunity for us even as current servicemembers to remind ourselves of the great sacrifices all these folks sh
We were there as a steady stream went through Tanger Outlets and the stores offered Early Morning deals. Megan is at Fashion Center in pentagon city. How is it looking . In the last hour or so, the crowds are Building Back up and a steady stream of people in and out of the stores. We are seeing them with quite a few bags. The window shoppers are making purchases. Lots of sales going on. The foeblgs are saying they dont mind missing sleep to get a good deal. At the Tanger Outlets, bargain hunters started early and there were plenty of door buster deals and mark downs and coupons. I have seen great deals. I went to coach and that is 50 and 10 off. 60 off. We got a great deal. That is his gift. I picked out my own christmas present. Merry christmas to me. Its been a busy 14 hours at the Fashion Center at pentagon city. Macys and 18 other Stores Opened at 8 00. The rest of the mall opened at midnight. We got here and stayed a couple of hours and got some rest and came back. This is round t
Decided to get a jump on the start of the Holiday Shopping season by opening up later this evening while others started earlier this month. According to the National Retail federation, 140 million americans are expected to shop either online or in stores this weekend, and theyre expected to spend big. An increase of nearly 4 over last year to more than 600 billi billion. Shoppers elbowed twhar into macys Flagship Store in manhattan at 8 00 last night, four hours earlier than last year. 400 million americans were expected to ditch the dinner table and go shopping on thanksgiving day. Thats actually 2 million fewer than last year, still folks looking for a big deal. A tv for 229. Thats big savings. Some shoppers say theyre staying away until after the holiday. Were noticing the gap is open. Unreal. A day off would be good for everybody. Better for everybody. I used to be a huge black friday shopper. Midnight, im good with that. But 5 00 in the afternoon, thats sad. Meanwhile the big crow
Bart train and dozens of passengers. New tonight did workers do enough to get those riders out of harms way . A potential kidnapping caught on a bay area busnow police are desperate to find out exactly whats going on here. And the niners catching heat after an internal memo goes public. Wait until you hear what it reporter well let you weigh in, too. Pam now at 8 pam a freeze warning is in effect across the bay area tonight. People bundling up. As temperatures are expected to dip even further. Here is a live look at kron 4s chief meteorologist Jacqueline Bennett is live in our weather center. Tracking the cold temperatures. Jacqueline . Reporter 36 in antioch we are quite passing a lot of 33 degree readings and they will be dropping into the twenties tonight 20s and 30s bay area wide. The 30s the purple the 20s the peak. Pink. We do have freeze warnings in effect for most of the bay area other than San Francisco reason being, there is no shelter from the winds here. Everywhere else,. C
Pam next at five. Pam hollywood stops production of fast and ferious seven. Pam and get ready for another night of the big chill. Im pam moore. Kron4 news is next. male announcer this is the bay area news station, kron 4 news starts now. Pam now at five. Pam an attempted kidnapping caught on surveillance camera. A man grabs a woman right outside the open doors of a city bus. It happened in milpitas tuesday. And police are searching for the pair. Kron 4s rob fladeboe is live tonight at the scene of this brazen assault. Rob . Reporter number 217 pulled up at a stop here on east calaveras boulevard and reporter opened its doors. Police sergeant raj maharaj says the Surveillance Video, captured by a camera on the bus, jibes with the story told by the bus driver, who called 911. Reporter the video shows a violent struggle. The man can be heard referencing a bag at first held by the woman, who in turn is shouting for the driver to call police, who are treating this as a possible kidnapping.