will be well above normal today for much of the west. shoppers on your mark, the annual battle for your business has begun. this shopping season the competition between brick and mortar stores and e-commerce sites getting more intense. jeff lock live in chicago. he is not surfing. i saw him earlier. it is maybe not as cold as normal in chicago this time of year, jeff but still looks a little chilly and we ll be seeing some protests again as i understand. i believe the weather man who said it would be in the 50s. not yet, i can tell you. you re right. i m actually in the water tower park. that s the water tower place shopping mall back there. this is where protestors a little bit of a black friday tradition over the last couple of years in chicago. black lives matter protestors coming out to try to block access to these stores and protest what they see as bad