we want your comments on the president s relationship with the military. our phone lines are open, (202) 748-8000 if you are active or retired military. for those in the eastern or central time zones, (202) 748-8001. matt lauer pacific, mountain or pacific, (202) 748-8002. us a text atgive comment on003, or facebook and twitter. a shooting took place outside of a wendy s in atlanta, a white police officer to a black man. some of the photos are posted on the atlanta journal s website, and this is the front page of the atlanta journal-constitution as the situation continues to unfold, and a statement from the mayor of atlanta. erika shields has been a solid member of the police department for two decades and have the deep and abiding love for the people of atlanta. toef shields has offered immediately step aside as police chief so that the city may move inward with urgency rebuilding the trust so desperately needed throughout our community. that from the mayor of atlanta, as
he created one of television s most iconic characters j.r. ewing on the longtime drama dallas. a rather nasty guy that people loved to hate. before that, he played a nice guy, captain tony nelson on i dream of jeannie. he appeared here on today last june, and we ll have a look back at his life and career next. a legend, absolutely. it is the day after black friday and people were going crazy hunting for bargains, so as you do your shopping this weekend, we ll reveal some ingenious tricks retailers use to get you to spend more and more of your hard-earned cash. speaking of shopping, today is small business saturday. a day for you to support the local mom and pop shops in your town. you can do it every day, of course. something very important to new york city mayor michael bloomberg, who will join us to talk about it in our next half hour. then an unusual punishment for a convicted killer in oklahoma. a teenager was sentenced to spend ten years in church after ple
store to a t. i think we re fortunate. reporter: ahead on sunday morning, rethinking the department store. osgood: kid rock is the stage nature of a detroit area music star who is committed to turning the motor city around. he s a performer with a reputation for doing things his own way, as tracy smith will be showing us. reporter: kid rock made his name as a hard-drinking musical maverick. he s all of that plus a few things you d never expect. love antiquing. reporter: are there other things that you do that maybe don t jibe with the kid rock image. interior decorator. reporter: seriously? yeah. reporter: a visit with the colorful kid rock. later on sunday morning. osgood: to the point is a story from mo rocca. an homage to a timeless hand held word processing device. reporter: even in the age of the i-pad, the pencil still matters. and getting that perfectly sharpened point is still a challenge. this is very annoying when this happens. yeah, right. you see
flooding concerns. this morning we re soaked right now. the heaviest rains have shifted into the mountains. it s still raining pretty good. san francisco to san jose, a continuous steady rain out there. the real downpours have moved towards yuba city. this storm system is one piece of it. you can see the plume coming into california. there s another piece behind that has to kick through on saturday. it doesn t look like until monday, lynn, this area will have a dry day. major concerns especially in northern california at this point. bill, thanks so much. elsewhere today, the first of the two grand prize powerball winners will come forward to reveal themselves and have their lives changed forever. and there s also buzz about a potential code with the winning numbers. nbc s kerry sanders has that story. reporter: in tiny dearborn, missouri, where just about everyone knows everyone, the question is was it one of their own that bought the winning powerball ticket at the loc
Do you remember the old TV series Dallas? A trailer park in Kalazmaoon, Michigan, is themed after the TV series with street names and a clubhouse that looks familiar.