Are they connected . Hollywood legend Burt Reynolds selling off some of his personal treasures. Well tell you why, today, friday, november 28th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today on this friday morning after thanksgiving. Hope you had a great one. Im willie geist. Im Natalie Morales alongside dylan dreyer and Sheinelle Jones. Everybody have a good thanksgiving . Feel like i could curl up in a ball. I know. Little sluggish. We are absolutelyish zblup early for the door buster. Lines already around the country. Who have been shopping already . You have. Have you really . 50 off the gap. I saw that sale. Thats a good one. Speaking of black friday, the black friday shopping frenzy, day for bargain hunters on a mission for deals. We fanned out across the country from a mall in minnesota to a packed Shopping Center in ohio to right here in new yorks always busy times square and nbcs Kerry Sanders braving the crowds for us north of miami. Kerry, good morning. Reporter good morning. Here at the aventura mall, crowds began showing up very early, all chasing the great dea deal. Three, two, one reporter americas Holiday Shopping season is now at full tilt. With bargain hunters determined not to miss out on those afterthanksgiving deals. Last year i came late and there were lines and lines everywhere. Reporter already this morning, several videos popping up online, allegedly showing chaos in the aisles, as customers battle to save a few bucks. Estimates black friday is such an event in our country, four out of ten american shoppers do their holiday buying today. The question thats on a lot of consumers minds is do you actually go out and buy today or do you maybe play the waiting game . The answer is both. You probably do a little bit of shopping today and then you supplement that in subsequent days leading up to christmas. Reporter retailers hope this years falling gas prices will help accelerate sales. Its estimated for every one penny drop in the price at the pump, consumers have an additional billion dollars in Discretionary Spending money. Holiday spending is rather good, stronger than what weve seen in a number of years. Many folks are forecasting well see holiday sales grow overall more than 4 , which is quite strong. For parents my teenage son wants video games and my 5yearold wants Ninja Turtles and im not sure what my daughter wants. What do you want . Reporter the pressure is on. Well, well find something. Reporter the musthave gift this year for boys . Legos. And for girls, anything to do with the movie frozen. And trying to avoid being frozen may be why we found two best friends from toronto on a threeday trip to miami, just for black friday deals. I feel like its halloween for grownups. I like the sales for sure. And, of course, the canadians dont have the day after thanksgiving sales like we do. Their thanksgiving is in october. Heh . Natalie, youve been doing research and off camera willie has his circulars. Newspapers get that much thicker now. Kerry sanders, thanks so much. Well have your black friday deals, where you can find them, coming up later on. It was black thursday for more than 300,000 americans who woke up on thanksgiving without power in the wakative strong noreaster that slammed the east coast. Dylan has more on that situation. Talk about adding insult to injury. First and third, treacherous travel for thanksgiving and then many find themselves dine nth dark. As a stunning sunrise signaled thanksgiving day in the northeast, it was still lights out for hundreds of thousands of people. Heavy snow, up to 20 inches in some states, brought down trees and branchs and power lines across the region. This pole snapped by a heavy brain. Left without a working stop light. It is beautiful when the snow sticks to the trees like this, but that is the problem. Reporter the heavy snow wasnt the only problem. Heavy snow brought down power line. People were trying to get home or get some place for the holiday and a lot of people slid into poles. Crews are working around the clock to restore power, in good spirits, despite their holidays being disrupted. We dont leave until the last person is on. Winter weather may have gobbled up the power, but new englanders are nothing if not resourceful. Photos posted on social media show gas stoves and outdoor grills being used to cook their thanksgiving feast and dining by candlelight. Thanksgiving plans adjusted by Mother Nature but no cold turkeys in sight. Fortunately, most of the power has returned this morning. For some of the harder hit areas in parts of New Hampshire and maine, it could be another day or two before the lights are turned on. Quieter weather today, we hope. Minus the northwest its looking good. Trying a new strategy today to bring attention to that grand jury decision in the Michael Brown case, a boycott of black friday shopping. Nbcs ron allen has the very latest. Ron, good morning. Reporter demanding justice for Michael Brown. Attempts to disrupt shopping malls and major retailers, a much more profound impact. Reporter around 75 prote protesters marched into a st. Louis, missouri, target, to protest black friday, one of several Major Retail Stores visited as police stood watch. In ferguson, taking up positions outside walmart as calls spread on social media with blackout black friday and boycott black friday. Together we can stand up and spark change tweeted entrepreneur russell simmons. Thanksgiving mostly brought calm. Gathered around their table, one chair left empty, picture tweettweet ed by advocates for families who have lost loved ones from violence. Seven were arrested. Hello. Thank you. Reporter steve moore took down some of the boards protecting his ferguson restaurant and hoping customers would come back. Im barely making it. I have to reach out and let people know theres hope. Reporter he still offered free meals to guests from a nearby church. So whats good . Everything. Reporter everything. Do you think the trouble here is over . No, i do not. Its just beginning. Reporter and now supporters of the man at the center of attention here, officer darren wilson, also are speaking out. People out there have offered bounties on his life. He believes if he ever went back to a department he would put other officer at risk. Reporter realistically speaking, darren could never be a Police Officer again. Reporter they say wilson intends to keep a very low profile, anxious to see if this call of a boycott for black friday really takes hold. Natalie . Ron allen in ferguson. Weekend today Sheinelle Jones is here with breaking news out of texas this morning. Yes. A gunman is dead after a shootout with police on the downtown streets of austin, texas. The suspect was shooting at Police Headquarters and other nearby buildings. He was shot and killed by police. Police still arent sure about the motive. No one else was injured in the incident. Some dramatic video this morning of two new york boys being can pulled to safety after being buried in a snow bank for several hours. A plow operator inadvertently pushed snow over their fort norkts realizing they were there. The snow was probably six or seven feet tall. Early thanksgiving morning, captured on a cell phone camera, shows police and residents frantically digging out two boys buried in snow for hours in subfreezing hours. Wasnt thinking much, just trying to get to the kids. Police say the cousins, ages 9 and 11, were building a fort when a plow driver, clearing the lot, dumped more snow on top of them. When the boys didnt return home around 10 00 pm, Newburg Police canvassed the neighborhood until something caught an officers eye. At that point, he thought he would take a couple of digs in there and saw the boot of one of the children. Everybody was contributing with shovels. The boys were found conscious and suffering from exposure from the cold much even though they had to spend thanksgiving in the hospital, this mother is grateful that her son and his cousin are alive. She post this had picture on instagram, praising Newburg Police. Were glad theyre okay. Pope francis trip to turkey. Richard en gechgel is in istanb. Richard . Reporter ongoing refugee crisis because of the wars in iraq and syria. Pope francis is only the fourth pope to visit turkey, a Muslim Country with deep christian roots. For 1,000 years, istanbul, then constantanople, was the seat of the christian empire. But this is also a region at war. Turkish media report 10,000 police have been directed to protect the popes threeday trip. A concern is isis. The pope has taken a strong stand against isis, supporting the use of force against them and calling their persecution of christians in syria and iraq the worst since the early days of christianity. Isis in areas of control has given christians the choice of converting to islam or being killed. Many christians escaped and are now refugees. Isis speaks frequently about the pope, calling him a crousader. Showing the black flag superimposed in st. Peters square. He comes here to istanbul where he will mostly be meeting with Orthodox Christian leaders. Thank you, richard. Australian lawyer is looking on the bright side. He set a world record by stringing up 1. 2 million Christmas Lights. It took volunteer lighting architects and designer engineers months to set up this display. Giant wrapped christmas gifts. This display will help raise money for a charity. I feel like the bar gets higher every year, doesnt it . Just be glad all the light bulbs are connected. Theres always one. 1. 2 million. All right, dylan, now to the forecast. How is it looking . Around here, its fine. Lets talk about australia for a little while longer. Huge storm hit brisbane. Strong enough to rip some of the roofs off homes. Streets were flood out. 90,000 people are without power at the height of the storm. Now about 68,000 people are still without power. You can see the reason why, all the downed trees and power lines here, and even these planes just tossed like toys. Pretty wet weather up near seattle. Stretching to the coast of oregon here. You can see pockets of heavier rain. And we do have a flood watch in effect, right in the seattle area, because weve already seen a few inches of rain fall. Its that strong onshore flow thats going to keep the moisture around throughout the day today. Those flood watches in effect until later on this afternoon. Cold front will move in, change the rain to snow, possibly even in seattle. Across the mountains and muchneeded rain and snow back through northern california. We could see several inches of rain. And you could see in the sierra nevadas, we could end up with a foot of snow. Northern rockies, moving into montana, you could also see about a foot or two of snow. Especially as we go into tonight and then into tomorrow as well. Thats a look at the weather across the country. Freezing start to the morning, especially on this black friday as folks are heading out to go shopping. By the time we head into the afternoon, temperatures will only warm into the mid to high 30s between 36 and 39 degrees. Sunny and cold for us. As we push into the rest of your weekend, you notice the warming trend especially by sunday. 55 degrees and milder conditions in store. On monday as you head back to work, same thing. And we stay close to average next week. And thats your latest forecast. All right, dylan. Thanks a lot. Theyre calling it green friday in colorado where stores, selling newly legal Recreational Marijuana are hoping for big crowds today. Here is nbcs hallie jackson. Reporter tis the season for door busters and at this colorado store, expectations are well, high. Theres no question that theres going to be people here, excited, in line, ready to be the first one in the door. Reporter ryan fox is giving any early birds 80 off an ounce of marijuana this black friday. Its a great opportunity for us to have a big weekend while theres a lot of consumers out, spending money. Its the first Holiday Shopping season since colorado legalized Recreational Marijuana, limiting it to one ounce for anyone over 21. Now many pot shops are embracing traditional markets with sales on Stocking Stuffers and pumpkin pie with a cannabis crust. Mention green friday here and youll save 15 . To the owner, todays sales show marijuanas going more mainstream. Were going to offer deals like any other retailer and try to bring people through the door. Not everyone is embracing legalization of cannabis. High levels in pumpkin pie, marshmallo with ws is perpetuating this false myth that marijuana is not dangerous. Reporter supporters point out the pot industry is paying off for colorado, bringing in millions of dollars for taxes and fees from marijuana sales. I absolutely anticipate theres going to be a lot of happy faces christmas morning. I think santa would say ho, ho, ho. Reporter a holiday high at its lowest price of the season. For today, hallie jackson, nbc news, los angeles. Nice of hallie to bring back some Stocking Stuffer force our holiday party. Thank you, hallie. Jenna is keeping an eye on the orange room for carson. Thank you. Have a good holiday . I did, as well. I am overstuffed. Ready to pop. When family becomes unbearable, it is a time for social media. The word thankful was tweeted 3. 8 million times over the course of 24 hours. 24 hours. So, what did we do in the orange room . What do you think we did . We went through all 3. 8 million tweets because thats what we do on thanksgiving. Lets start off by rounding it out perfectly. Stephen colbert. Happy thanksgiving. Im thankful that your family is so annoying youre following twitter than talking to them. Look at the haircut. And then kelly clarkson, her Little Turkey head. Ridiculously adorable, if you ask me. We also had some food. This is our good friend, katie couric, do you think prerhaps i may have overcooked my pump can kin pie . I thought it was chocolate souffle. Who knew . Jimmy fallon, thank you, thanksgiving, for being a time for family and thank you, football and alcohol, for making that tolerable. Truer words were never said. We are thankful for all of the above. A wise man. 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Take a look, just freezing for philadelphia. And as we head into the rest of your afternoon, we wont warm up too much more than that. Our temperature range today between 36 and 39 degrees. Chris . Well, lets see if there are any cars out on the road right now. Jillian . No delays or any accidents to report on any of the majors new jersey or delaware. Southbound side, thats typically where we see heavy volume, but as you can see right now, things are very, very quiet. Same thing in new jersey, 73 at church road and all is clear here if youre taking mass transit on or close to schedule. Chris . Most of the traffic is in parking lots at malls and stores black friday is upon us and shoppers are packing stores looking for those bargains and crowds arent just hitting the malls. Many are choosing to search for sales at philadelphia premium outlets and right now on nbc10. Com we have your Holiday Gift Guide to all the steals and deals out there. Today, y