Little boys buried by a plow. Good morning, welcome to Al Jazeera America. The black friday shopping frenzy is underway this morning, unlike previous years, there were no customer stampedes overnight and no major reports of that was not the case however in london where the americans experience was taking on a new meaning. Shoppers there did knock each other over in the rush to get to items. Police were called to stores at things got out of hand. Normally wed be seeing that in the u. S. But that was not the case yesterday. Theyre calling it a gray thursday, and it is gaining in popularity as more retailers than ever are opening on thanksgiving day, including macys, just hours after the parade ended yesterday, it opened its doors at 6 00 p. M. It has never closed its doors. Retailers are jukeying for shoppers cash. Its the post thanksgiving holiday tradition that keeps coming earlier and earlier. They have cheaper stuff and its better to shop on thanksgiving day. Black friday creeping into thursday with major retailers opening their doors hours before midnight, hope to go cash in on last years success when retailers doubled their sales receipts. This thanksgiving, theyre expected to rake in 2. 6 billion. We have got something for everybody here at walmart with over 400 offers, savings from 30 to 50 . Its those kinds of deep discounts that had millions rushing to finish turkey dinners hitting stores looking for major markdowns. Its a good deal and cant pass that up. With today actually being black friday, millions of early risers will be joining thursdays crowds, some having already camped out at stores like kmart and best buy since tuesday, the freezing cold not bother this shopper. Its a t. V. I just dont want to pay full price. With many taking steps to avoid these scenes, Police Officers already this morning broke up a scuffle between black friday shoppers over flat screen t. V. s at this walmart in hawn. Toys and other musthave gadgets explain why millions of americans will be in a shopping frenzy today. The httvs are the best of the best. We have never seen these prices like we are currently. Last year, sales dropped 13 . Sure to be packed malls, stores and shopping outlets from new york to california are optimistic. Well expect hundreds of thousands until tomorrow night at 11 00 p. M. Seems like the next 28 hours. Absolutely, the next 28 hours, hundreds of thousands of people. Overall, sales are supposed to be better or expected to be better than last year. The National Retail federation expecting sales to be around 4. 1 for the old Holiday Season. One of the reasons that retailers optimistic this year is that americans have more cash, theyre saving money at the gas pumps and hoping that money is going to come their way. Should we credit the calm to the fact that black friday this year actually began an thursday . Yeah, i mean its making up a bigger chunk of these sales. Just walking through macys here, just ran into the c. E. O. He said yesterday at the opening, he said he was a record for macys. They had 15,000 people last year at the door waiting for the opening. There was more yesterday. This seems to be gaining in popularity and blurring the lines of those black friday sales. Mary, thank you very much. In ferguson, missouri, protestors are moving from the streets to the stores on this black friday. The new tactic to vent frustrations here inside a local mall, protestors chanted hands up, dont shoot in honor of Michael Brown. Protests will continue through the day. Dozens of people interrupted Holiday Shopping at major retailers such as walmart and target. We are live in ferguson this morning. Whats the latest this morning on these protests . The good news is the people of ferguson have had their first decent nights sleep in four. There were no organized protests overnight and there were also no arrests. However, we did see the beginning of the process of disrupting Holiday Shopping at the walmart in ferguson. The stated aim of the protestors was to close the business down and they kind of did that, because when they got there, the National Guard was on duty and the building shuttered and nobody could get in. In maplewood, they did go in there and charge inside the complex, and they ultimately left when they were asked to. Erika. The weather has improved there now. Are people worried about more protests today . Yeah, they are. The weathers improved dramatically. It was very snowy on the eve of thanksgiving, but now warmer and sunny for the rest of the weekend. Were going to see the disruption of Holiday Shopping going on through the weekend. Also, the naacp is organizing an event that begins tomorrow and lasts several days, a marsh on Jefferson City on the Governors Mansion and that is expect to be quite big. It begins tomorrow. Were going to have full coverage on ajam of it. The vast majority of the protestors are peaceful. They are lawsuit, but peaceful. Some ferguson residents trying to make the town look better, clean it up a bit. What are they doing . Its an extraordinary scene, actually, the 24 businesses everyone torched monday night and there were many, many mom and pop style businesses in this town. Of course they are now boarded up, because the Insurance Companies are telling them to do this. The boards really do not look very nice, in fact theyre very ugly and dont attract customers at all. Whats happening is that artists from in and out of town are painting those boards with all sorts of peace signs and trees, of cartoon characters and things like that and it is really quite a sight. Many businesses have this done now. What they ultimately need to do is get the boards down and get the customers back inside. This boycott of shopping going on, though people are being urged to boycott corporate america, should that business be black owned, people are encouraged to shop there. Live in ferguson, thank you, john. People in ferguson took a moment to pause and reflect on thanksgiving. We have more. This was about thanksgiving tradition, but this was also about the Police Killing of unarmed teenager Michael Brown. Catherine mcdaniels was feeding those who gathered from st. Louis and gathered from all over the world. I have a responsibility to my community, my family. We didnt know each other 111 days ago. Today, we are one extended family, so its my responsibility to offer what i can. My role in the movement is care, confident and nutrition. Catherine is about to graduate from culinary school. As the protests grew, she asked a local pass tore how she could help. Cook was the answer. We were dealt a blow. We all know that. I just want my family to know that theyre loved. This is a time for us to come together, to debrief, to love on each other, to share food, break bread together. Thats what tonight is all about, giving thanks, because although we have this going on in our life, weve got much to be grateful for. For catherine whats happening on the streets in ferguson, st. Louis and around the country is a battle somewhat neglected by her own generation. This aint your grandmothers civil rights movement. This is 2014 and were still confronting the problems that our mothers and fathers confronted back in the civil rights era. We have to do better now, see, so my generation came along and we fed off of what they did. We didnt fight and keep the fight going, so now because we didnt keep the fight, our children have to fight. As we talk after our interview, 14yearold avery gayle takes a seat. They were strangers three months ago. They got to know each other because avery would be playing the drums at every demonstration. Michael browns death hit him hard. They had no reason to shoot him. He could be out there playing the drums with me. He could be doing something he want to do. They say he died before his graduation. I just dont want to be like that, having the police shoot me before my graduation. Thats how i feel. This year, thanksgiving in st. Louis was just not like the others. Coming up, people in ferguson using the thanksgiving holiday to look toward the future. Well speak with one city leader about just what it will take to heal the broken community. The mexican president proposing reforms to combat widespread crime and corruption. This comes as police found 11 decapitated and partially burned bodies in guerrero state and dumped on the road. Officials arent saying if there is a connection between those bodies and the missing students. The European Union is slapping on more sanctions on those involved in the ukraine crisis, adding 15 release and five organizations to the black list. The e. U. Will freeze their assets. 120 people and 20 organizations face sanctions. Life in the u. K. About to get tougher, all migrants forced to work four years before claiming benefits. The move is aimed at reducing the growing immigrant population in the u. K. We have more on todays speech. This speech by the British Foreign minister was aimed scarily at english working class disillusioned voters in places like birmingham here, which used to at one time be a world leader in engineering. Thats gone now. There are a lot nor immigrants. The government and the british Prime Minister have put forth radical proposals saying they will implement to get reelected in National Elections next may. Eastern europeans if they cant find a job within 60 months will be deported and nobody will get benefits, child benefits, tax breaks for a full four years, even if they got a job. They hope that will stem the tide of people coming over here in the tense of thousands. Rights groups say if there were to be jen acted would push many into poverty. Many will say the countries being swamped and england is losing its englishness. Thats the debate thats winning at the moment. U. S. Crude oil futures plunged 6 a barrel overnight, a four year low. Thursday, opec decided against cutting back on output led by saudi arabia, opec decided to leave production where it is at 30 millionbarrels a day. Thats good news for drivers who will likely see cheaper prices at the pump but the u. S. Shale oil industry may lose money. A nine and 11yearold cousins were buried by a plow when it went by in new york. The boys survived because their heads were enclosed in packets of air. Both are expected to be ok. For more on the forecast across the nation, lets bring in meteorologist Nicole Mitchell. Kids like to build those snow tunnels and caves and you have to be very careful, because theyre not always structurally sound. As were looking out, this is an image out of new hampshire. The east coast, about 350,000 people without power, 200,000 of that in new hampshire, so were still getting all the power back on. Its been very cold from this system, heating and keeping things warm in the house have been a problem. Heres the broad picture, a couple of disturbances coming through the great lakes. Its little shots. Places today behind that or with all of that, weve got a wind flow across the lake, so could see areas of snow, as well. High pressure in place, and around that, its a clockwise flow. That funnels in on this portion of it into the northeast the cooler air. This will start to shift over the course of the weekend. The flow will shift out of the south. Temperatures will be on the rise. In the meantime, its going to be a chippy friday with most of the temperatures from atlanta to new york, atlanta only 49 degrees today, those are running 1015 degrees below average right now. In the meantime, where we do have the southerly flow, denver up at 70 degrees, so that wind pattern really makes a difference. As i said, that will come in place for the east coast. In just a couple of days, you just have to hang on. The ski slopes are open, too, thats good news. Life after the grand jury decision seeming to calm down in ferguson, many using the thanksgiving halladay to talk healing and moving forward. Well talk about what it will take for that talk to become reality. Finding safety in a three. A little boy escaping the rising floodwaters in his hometown. Caught in the middle of the battle between isil and allied forces, many iraqis face the construction of their towns and now way of rebuilding. Hailing a ride with your smart phone. 40 billion is how much the Car Service Uber is at. It would be on par are to Delta Airlines and kraft foods. Analysts believe by the time uber goes public, it could be worth 80 billion to 100 billion. A judge issuing a temporary restraining order barring the company from the state. Uber said it puts 1,000 drivers out of work. The multibillion dollars company is said to have deliberately broken the law in the industry. After five days of intense fighting, iraqi forces alongside Kurdish Peshmerga have pushed isil fighters back. Many were killed and thousands left homeless. We have the story of a man who survived the battle. Ahmed nasr doesnt know where to start. Everybody where he looks, its devastation. When isil took the town, nearly all the people fled. He stayed until isil came and used his house as a base to launch attacks. My house was destroyed by isil, so i managed to escape to the nearby farms and hid there. There were heavy clashes between isil and armed forces and many houses destroyed and people were killed in the crossfire. We have nothing left for us to salvage, only terrible memories and shattered hopes. We are afraid to rebuild, because isil threat in iraq is not over yet. His father used a wheelchair and was caught in the crossfire where iraq troops took on isil last week. Hes buried near here. As forces pushed them back, isil destroyed the houses to stop the iraqi army from using them as can you have. You will see almost all these houses were destroyed by isil before they left. They destroyed that fart sake of destruction and killed many people, including my father. Youll see only destruction and burned down houses. The iraqi army hasnt offered the man or anyone else in this town compensation and he has no idea if hell get any help to rebuild. Ahmed has nowhere to go. With winter coming, survival is going to be tough. Iraqi government sees the operation as success, but for ahmed, that success is bittersweet. The damage caused by that the fighting is immense, but no one in authority is looking to rebuild yet, leaving many across iraq with no choice but to live like this. Aljazeera, baghdad. The iraqi army and Kurdish Peshmerga forces have also completely retaken two towns north of baghdad. Turning now back to the situation in ferguson, missouri, the start of the Holiday Season overshad dote by violence that rocked substitute. The annual parade was postponed until next month. They are searching for ways to heal. We explain. Trading his hammer for a spoon, this carpenter dished up thanksgiving dinner with other volunteers at a st. Louis homeless shelter. For casperson, it was a small step in healing his community. Theres too Much Negative in the world. The need to be positive comes out of everything. Youre here for a nice dinner. At the new life he ver evangl center, 500 blacks and whites dined together. Everybody is really nice and friendly. And Work Together to make the Homeless People at home. Happy thanksgiving, folks, were going to walk right this way. 200 volunteers seated guests, bussed tables, and pulled kitchen duty. Jacqueline volunteered with 50 members of her church. It was her first time here. She admits Michael Browns shooting has ripped the community apart but also says issues like homelessness can bring it together. It is good to see that its not a black issue, its not a white issue, its an issue. Its a very real, human issue of being homeless or not having what you need. The general activities of daily living, food, water, shelter. Are you getting enough to eat . The center director, larry rice was stunned by the number of volunteers. Hes hosted these dinners for four decades and never has seen so many eager helpers. He says he only hopes this good will will last longer than a day. Weve had a cancer that ive seen for years in st. Louis. Whats happened is that the surgeon has opened up the cancer. I want to see healing, violence stopped, but i want to see healing taking place. Mostly peaceful protests, do you expect that to last . Last night, they took to the protest moved toward retail. There were protests outside of several wall matters and targets and at the mall. They were very peaceful. There wasnt any rioting that took place. The weather is expected to warm up. I dont know if that will bring more people out for bad actors on the scene. I dont know. The hope is that were done with this. What has been the reaction to the streets to the governor saying he will not entertain the idea of presenting the case to another grand jury . Jay nixon is just a its like a four letter word in everybodys mouths right now. Whether you were just living in the community before and now you feel completely betrayed about his lack of activity to secure the National Guard and put them in place on monday, and now with everyone taking a look at what a farce this grand jury process has been, and questioning it, and refusing to do anything, i mean, hes just a four letter word in a lot of peoples mouths down here. Im curious, is the mood right now in ferguson, in other words, the relationship between Law Enforcement, the prosecutors office, the governor and the people of ferguson worse now than it was back in august . Absolutely. This thing is only getting worse, and we need some time to heal. Im not sure when that is going to come. Everybody needs a take a breath. On the onset of this holiday with so many out of work, there doesnt seem to be anything getting better. The streets of west florissant where you are, the streets are closed. Shop owners need the business. Do you think theyll survive . I dont know, im hoping so, but yes, the streets are still blocked especially that large portion, they call it a hot spot for west florissant, so i dont know, because these are Small Businesses and every dollar and every day counts for them. As you look back on