about, hey, has everyone bought their thanksgiving meals or whatever, and one woman tweeted back, not only have i done my thanksgiving shopping i ve already finished wrapping my christmas presents. that s just wrong. i just don t like her. yeah, we don t like her. was that martha stewart? or someone like her. black friday was coined back in the 60s by the philadelphia police. and we cannot figure this out. because of all the pedestrian and car traffic, all the streets were jammed up. why does that make it black? i don t understand. and then it sort of it caught on when stores were in the black because they were making so much money in one day. so you re in the black as opposed to the red which is what they usually are for the rest of the year. you haven t started your shopping? i ve always said my philosophy about the holidays is that less is best. and so i i give gifts. i really do i bet everybody hates my guts, but i give something that benefi
did it to gain an advantage over fellow shoppers. we re going to have more on that straight ahead. also ahead a rare glimpse of jerry sandusky. he was spotted on thanksgiving day as new questions come out about the role pennsylvania s gurchtor played in the child sex abuse investigation. on a lighter note the day after thanksgiving means you re probably wearing your elastic pants, but you have more than your share of leftovers. coming up, we ll tell you how to turn that boring turkey and stuffing into tasty new meals. let s begin in los angeles where a woman pepper sprayed her fellow black friday shoppers at a walmart. kristen dahlgren is there. good morning. reporter: good morning. shoppers here got more than they bargained for overnight when the woman pepper sprayed other shoppers and including children. she didn t do it to defend herself from the crowds but to, quote, gain preferred access to parts of the store. the holiday shopping rush turned chaotic thursday nig
good morning, everyone. welcome to a special edition of today on a monday morning, the 2nd of may. i m matt lauer down at ground zero along church street in lower manhattan. meredith vieira is back up in studio 1a. ground zero, this is where nearly 3,000 people died during the attacks on 9/11 in 2001. of course 184 more died at the pentagon in washington, d.c., 40 others died in that field when flight 93 crashed in shanksville, pennsylvania. and there is a large outpouring of emotion here as you might expect, meredith. i was going to say, matt, an extremely emotional morning. obviously the headlines of every newspaper this morning, new york times, bin laden killed by u.s. forces in pakistan, obama says declaring justice has been done. headlines in other newspapers more pointed than that, the new york post, gut him, vengeance at last. and the daily news puts it this way rot in hell. president obama made the announcement in a late-night address from the white house
welcome to today on this monday morning. i m meredith vieira. matt lauer is at ground zero where nearly 3,000 people lost their lives on september 11, 2001. 140 were killed at the pentagon and 40 others died on a plane that crashed in pennsylvania. obviously the headline front page has to do with osama bin laden. this one, the new york times, bin laden killed by forces in pakistan, obama declaring justice has been done. the new york post, got him, vengeance at last and the daily news, rot in hell. intelligence officials leaed of osama bin laden s possible location in august. the president felt confident enough to give the order to bring him to justice. in the years after 9/11 we heard so much about bin laden hiding in mountain caves but in the end he was living in a mansion in a small affluent town 35 miles north of the pakistani capitol just is 100 yards away from the military academy. nbc news learned bin laden s body was recovered during the raid and buried within 24
stevens speaks out. and freaky friday lindsay lohan heads back to court after failing a drug test and her no nonsense judge could be sending her back to jail today, nonsense judge could be sending her back to jail today, friday, october 22, 20. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and good morning, welcome to today on a friday morning. juan williams says he was setting up the case for not making rash judgments about people of any faith. a lot of high profile people are now coming to his defense and it s npr that s feeling the heat this morning. did the network make a bad call? we re going to get straight into that in just a couple of minutes. the confessions of the so-called canada killer colonel. we ll have the very latest and hear part o his confession coming up. > on a much, much lighter note, but we re going to talk to the rolling stones guitarist keith richards, who s coming out with a new memoir, his description of mick jagger is unbearable. what