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china scrambled fighter jets in response. we'll have the latest live from the pentagon. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com hello, i'm jim sciutto in washington. wolf blitzer is off today. we begin today with the markets. the dow continuing its record run. trading wrapping up just moments ago. there you see the dow finishing today's holiday shortened session, just about 16,000084. it also finishes out what has been a record breaking month dow topping to the 16,000 milestone for the first time ever. while the nasdaq is now back over 4,000. so we've got records on the dow and the nasdaq and big companies are raking in billions in profits. things seem to be great on wall street. so why aren't folks on main street feeling as confident about the economy and their own financial situation?

>> zain asher has new polling numbers. you look at polls, they show our faith in the economy is shaky at best. we're seeing the markets jump on wall street. doesn't feel like americans feel that's the right thing. >> hi, jim. interesting poll numbers we're getting. 59% of americans do not believe that thing in the u.s. are going well. they think things in the u.s. are going badly. 39% believe we are still in an economic downturn. this has to do with the economy specifically. 24% believe we are in a recovery. here's where the disconnect is many coming from. we have seen numerous record highs. the dow passing 16,000 for the first time this month. the nasdaq also passing 4,000. we have not seen levels like that from the nasdaq since 13 years. so during the height of the dotcom bubble. i do want to talk about housing. housing is clearly in recovery even though mortgage rates are climbing steadily. housing is still in recovery. the disconnect is coming from jobs. even though jobs are being added. a lot of low wage jobs

specifically from hospitality and retail. jobs are being added. a lot of it is low wage jobs and 11 million americans still remain unemployed. >> a lot of the gains concentrated among the wealthiest. when i look at these numbers, i remember in 1999 is, 2000, memories right before the last bubble burst. do we will have similar fears from the people you talk to it will happen again? >> feelings are certainly certainly mixed. a lot of the record highs we're seeing, the dow started at 13,000 right now. right now about 16,000. a lot of record highs we're seeing is largely because of fed stimulus. a stimulus is exactly what is pushing the market higher and higher. when you talk to people, people are asking what's going to happen in december. december is traditionally a good month for stocks. with the dow and s&p both at 23% and 27% higher respectively, it might be a good time for money managers to take some profits off the table. it's going to be centering to

see how the year ends. jim? >> a lot of cheap money helping the market go up. a lot of people will hold some of the big retailers, the retailers opened up on thanksgiving day in part to get sales up. are they doing well in the markets today because of that? >> it's interesting when you look how walmart, jc penny and macys are doing, walmart closing higher by. .1. ers. pennies up. 15%. macy's down slightly. black friday is the moment of truth for a lot of retailers so their goal is just to lure as many shoppers at possible into the stores on thanksgiving. that is why you're seeing a lot of retailers open earlier and earlier. third quart corporate earnings, 70% of companies can actually beat on profits, but it's largely due to cost cutting strategies. it is trushl for all these retailers to lure people back into the stores for the holiday season.

jim? >> so certainly not a black friday on wall street today. how about that black friday on the ground in all those stores and in some places they took the term doorbusters too literally. people pushed and shoved to get good prices although in this case, this he weren't even in the store yet. watch and listen to this one. >> oh, my god! >> this was the scene at a walmart in he will kin, north carolina. a pretty ugly scene playing out around a few low priced tvs. people out of control there. it's not the first time we've seen it. we've seen it in previous holiday shopping seasons. but thankfully, we found in general, it seemed to be the exception most of the time. the official start to the christmas shopping season looks more like this mall in newark, new jersey. a lot of people, some long lines but thankfully, no violence. we're going to check to see what it looks like at the macy's in

manhattan. another store that opened up early this year. margaret connly, did you see any of those crazy scenes or was it under controlle? >> jim, you know, there was fighting at walmart. there was a stabbing, and there were two people arrested for fighting for a parking spot at walmart in virginia. compared to that, things here have been pretty calm. that's what we've been hearing from maul managers across the country. outside, you can see the mood here is festive. we're outside the macy's windows right here. you can hear the music. but inside it is crowded. it takes a long time to walk through that will mall, one of the biggest malls in the country for macy's and when you go into the restrooms, by the way, there are people sleeping in the chairs. i talked to one employee on her second shift. she was here when the doors opened. they said when they opened at 8:00, people were running inside just to get the best deal. >> you talked to the ceos of the stores and they say they're doing it because there's demand for it and to increase sales.

how much are stores like macy's banking on the two extra days of shopping to beef up their bottom line? >> macy's open the at 8:00 yesterday. target, best buy all opened up earlier today. we asked the ceo what he thought about this. he said the decision to open earlier has been really, really popular. >> in our case, we just want to do what our customers want and what our 0 associates want. i think the fact at that particular time 15,000 people versus 11,000 who were here last year at midnight as an indication that people want to be here when we opened our doors. >> now, we're hearing numbers so far. they're not record-breaking. but they are up. and we did ask a couple ceos about next year. they say that this is the new normal. >> wow. so successful experiment. i guess we'll have less time to eat at the thanksgiving table next year. thank is very much from margaret

connly at macy's in new york. another deadline tomorrow. the clock ticking for healthcare.gov. tomorrow the deadline the obama administration set to get the website working for as the white house has said the vast majority of users but as that deadline approaches, the administration is dealing with more questions and more problems. dil doherty joins us live from the white house. this is a self-imposed deadline. what are the biggest concerns as we get to the last 24 hours? >> i think you'd have had to say numbers. they believe they can handle 50,000 at a time. will be able to by tomorrow. but one of the problems would be what if there are more, let's say 200,000. and one of the problems is, you know, the different times of the day in the afternoon, you get a lot, a surge and during the other times, maybe it's quieter. and they also, the error rate. they've brought that down they say to under 1%. used to be 6%. but there are some other problems and here are some of

them. withering criticism of the initial rollout of healthcare.gov has intensified the pressure on the administration to get this fix right nor saturday. the white house hopes it can doing that at least for the vast majority of users. >> and this website is going to get fixed. >> healthcare.gov opened for business october 1st and it's been a disastrous two months. the site crashed. unable to kope with people trying to sign up. small businesses still won't be able to use the site for another year. insurance industry insiders tell cnn some customers' personal data is getting mangled or even lost. " white house says the site will be able to handle 50,000 users at one time. but they admit, there will be times after saturday when healthcare.gov does not function properly. and they're bracing for another possible huge surge in volume that could force some people

into virtual waiting lines for callbacks. officials say consumer who's pick a plan by december 23rd and pay their premiums by december 31st will have coverage effective the 1st of january. and in effect, they're kind of tinkering with the system. obviously they would like to completely fix it, but they're not pretending that they can do that. they say, for example, they've upped the speed when you log on. you load a page in one second. it used to be six seconds. so these are the kind of incremental improvements jim, they seem to be saying they can handle. >> well, another of the president's legislative priorities in if the final three years of his term is immigration reform. we just got word that the president went to visit protesters about that reform. >> he went very close by to the national mall and sat down, he and michele, his wife, with protesters. they're actually fasting.

it's called fast for families. and these are people from faith groups,ing from labor groups, and others who are protesting for immigration reform. and, of course, in that -- many of them are on the democratic side. they've been criticizing republicans for delaying the vote on that, and the president said praised them for nonviolent protests and mentioned that he is very positive about in this. he said it's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when. he thinks something can be accomplished. >> that's commitment fasting for immigration reform. jill dougherty at the white house, thanks very much. he is the leader of the pack. new jersey governor chris christie expands his lead among possible 2016 contenders. we'll have some new poll numbers on how the potential field is shaping up for the republicans. cg/úññ ya know, with new fedex one rate

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the tree, a big one at the white house. first lady michelle obama took delivery of the official white house christmas tree a couple of hours ago. that's it there, the 18 1/2 foot douglas fir was grown in lleyton, pennsylvania, it will be on display in the blue room. she's married to the leader of the free world. so does mrs. obama try to influence her husband's decisions and would see do a better job than he does? barbara walters asked president and mrs. obama both of those questions in their first joint interview this year. >> do you think that the first lady might have made a better president than you?

>> oh. >> of course. that's an easy question. but she's smart enough to know that you know, she might not want to go through the process. >> i absolutely don't agree. i mean, it takes you know, he has a level of patience and focus antennasity and calm, you know, that that just doesn't, you know, come by anyone. >> you don't have that patience? >> i definitely don't. >> so do you, you know, when everything's quiet late in the evening, do you nag him and say, honey, why don't you this, that? >> no, no, i try not to do that. i try -- we both try to make sure that home is a sanctuary. particularly because when we're home, our girls are home. they dominate the conversation when they're there.

they're not talking about issues of the day but issues of their day which has nothing to do with what's going on in the rest of the world. so you know, everyone has to have their safe haven, a place of peace and calm and you know, that's home for us. so i try to stay out of his ear. he's got enough people in his ear. >> the obamas there unscripted. president obama may have three years left in the white house, but the 2016 talk is well under way. new jersey governor chris christie has expanded his lead among possible gop contenderses in the presidential race. in a new cnn/orc poll, 24% of republicans and those who lean republican say he's their likely choice, up 7 percentage points. rand fall is second followed by paul ryan. ted cruz and marco rubio wind up the top five. mark tresston here looking at these numbers. what do they say about the race? is christie a lock in 2016?

>> he's the flavor of the month. he crushed his democratic opposition earlier in the month. he won women, won latinos. clearly his brand of republicanism is playing well with republicans across the country. what's interesting about the numbers, you would think chris christie would do really well with blue collar republicans. from what we learned from this poll, rand paul does better than he does. for republicans making over $50,000, chris christie has a lock on that. republicans under $50,000, they go to rapid paul. he has that rock 'em, sock 'em blue collar attitude but it's not playing out right now. >> i'm going to make a guess that is hillary clinton leads among democrats. what do the numbers look like? >> overwhelmingly. let's take a quick look at the numbers. hillary clinton is clearly the front run the irfor the democratic nomination. and she's going to be the front-runner for the democratic nomination at this point. she's unmatched you. up 51 points over her closest rival and that's joe biden.

let's remove hillary clinton from the race. and then all of a sudden, joe biden becomes the front-runner certainly at this point in time. >> that makes sense, eight years at vice president. been in congress since the early 1970s. we're three years out at this point. do these numbers matter just a general indicator? >> they do matter about you they are a general indicator. for the folks who say it's too early to talk about this, certainly from our perspective, we're not the ones going to iowa, new hampshire, south carolina, florida, raising money for democrats. clearly laying the groundwork. we've seen that from rand paul and ted cruz. joe biden himself is already making phone calls tols iowa, new hampshire. but if hillary clinton doesn't run, a whole new race. >> we're already handicapping 2016. thanks very much to mark preston. later this hour, we'll talk more about joen's hopes for 2016. he may be second in some of the polls but that's not stopping

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today, china scrambled fighter jets in contested air space above the east china sea, part of a growing dispute over islands claimed by both china and japan. now we understand the u.s. has made another flight right through that contested air space. our pentagon correspondent barbara starr joins us live now from the pentagon. barbara, it doesn't like the

u.s. backing down. what's the latest you're hearing? >> well, jim, sources here at the pentagon are telling us that this flight was part of what the u.s. military plans to continue to do all the time. fly through international air space. china can claim it's theres but the u.s. military will not obey the chinese rules they have to file flight plans and state their flight data to the beijing when they fly through these areas. so again, another flight. i think what's happening here is the u.s. is trying to hold firm to the notion that had has the right to fly through there but it is also trying to make sure that this situation doesn't escalate any further. officials are characterizing this as just the normal part of business that the u.s. military does, and these aircraft, while they were not identified to us, chinese news reports say the chinese scrambled the jets after seeing the aircraft and they say they are p-3 navy aircraft, which are surveillance aircraft. kind of big, slow, surveillance

aircraft. no mistake for some kind of fighter jet. mobe wants to see any kind of confrontation here. still plenty of worries this could escalate into some sort of incident. jim? >> u.s. officials say that these flights are routine. they're scheduled. is that true or are they trying to accepted a message here? >> well, maybe just a bit of both. hey, you know, they are too teen. they are scheduled. this is one of those areas that the u.s. military, the japanese, the south koreans, all the nations out in the asia-pacific fly through this region we're told on a fairly regular basis. the u.s. navy does. the u.s. air force does. but in the meantime, with this escalation of tension, they certainly are sending a message to china if you thought we were going to back off, well, no, we're not. >> it's a very strong message now. haven't biden will be in china next week with another message to deliver presumably.

what kind of things is he going to be saying to the chooz? >> right, is he going to sit down with chinese officials that this visit was supposed to focus a good deal on, trade and economic issues. no more. topping the agenda likely is to be this situation. we are told by senior administration officials the vice president will bluntly say to the chinese, what are your intentions, what is it you intend to do here because the concern is, again, if all the countries in the region continue to fly through this air space and chinese continue to scramble their jets, how long before there is some sort of inadvertent incident, planes coming too close to each other, poply collide, an incident, an escalation what nobody wants to see. jim? >> a lot of assets in the area increases the chance for a mistake. thanks very much to barbara starr at the pentagon. the lure of low prices motivated many consumers to start shopping on thanksgiving day. but many store employees felt short i think changed by having

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black friday is officially in full swing and shoppers are out in force. many began their shopping last night. for the first time ever, the flagship macy's store in new york opened thanksgiving night. some stores did wait to open till early friday morning. this was the scene in nashville at bass pro shops. an affiliate reported there were

about a thousand people waiting in line at 3:00 in the morning. what people will do for bargains. walmart seems very pleased with the say it calls its super bowl. they announced record breaking black friday sales adding their events were bigger, better, faster, cheaper and safer than ever. but one thing walmart may not be happy about today, the 15-you protests scheduled at its stores nationwide. they're being organized by a group called our wau mart pushing for better working conditions. kyung lah is in los angeles, one of the cities where the protests are scheduled to take place. here's what walmart ceo bill simon told us this morning about those demonstrations. >> black friday we just talked about it, you know, millions and millions of people out shopping is the big stage, and walmart's a big player on the big stage. as there are those who want to try to change a service industry

like retail, it's not unexpected that they would be out on black friday at walmart with the something to say about that. >> so kim, why is walmart such a focus? we don't hear about it other stores like target, et cetera. why does walmart get so much of the attention? >> compare the two stores. it's sheer number. that's what it comes down to. target employs about 300,000 people nationwide. if you look how many people walmart employs, 1.5 million workers, that's approximately 1% of the american labor force. and that's why protesters say it makes them an appropriate target to talk about low wages. that's why you see protests like this come out throughout the country. there have been a number of large scale protests from the east coast all the way to the west coast. as far as who makes up the people inside these protests. we don't have the definitive numbers. at this particular protest, some of the people there, we're

seeing perhaps maybe a quarter of the protesters were actually walmart employees. these have been very peaceful. you're seeing some arrests at these protests. but these were preplanned. so jim, a lot of this simply to set the stage so people will start talking about wages for these employees. >> so kim, you saw the ones that actually involve walmart workers are a bit more calm. what do they say when they say what they want from that your companies? a dialogue to try to move things forward, right? >> it depends who you talk to as far as the employees. a lot of the employees here say they're actually quite happy with their jobs that they make time and a half, that they want to work these holidays and they want to keep showing up for these jobs. but then you talk to some of the more motivated employees, ones who might be going out there to protest. we've spoken to a couple of them. they say yeah, they would love to make more money and have a platform to have this discussion with management where they can talk about it. >> some of the 1.5 million

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>> we now have a tentative start date on the landmark nuclear deal with iran. iran's representative to the united states united states atomic agency says his country will start implementing the agreement by the end of december or early january next year. under the deal with the u.s. and five other world powers, iran has agreed to place limits on enriching uranium and allow intrusive inspections of all its nuclear facilities in exchange for a temporary easing of economic sanctions.

the relationship between the u.s. and afghan president hamid karzai continues to get worse. the latest work of a usair strike on thursday that resulted in civilian deaths has mr. karzai lashing out again at the u.s. the same week karzai told susan rice he will not sign a bilateral security deal until certain of his conditions are met. now, if that agreement is not signed, that means u.s. troops might leave afghanistan for good. going to bring in michael o'hanlon of the brookings institution to recently wrote an op-ed for the "new york times" what the u.s. should do and not do when he complains to us. can you explain why karzai is pushing back so strongly against this agreement? >> there are two main reasons. one is he's a frustrated and somewhat exhausted guy emotionally by this 12 years of liedership on the war. he blames a lot of it on us. he wonders why we can't be more

careful about these strikes that kill civilians. he fails to appreciate what care we have taken and the number of civilian casualties is the lowest ever in history for this kind of war. then there's the machiavellian cunning side. i think he wants leverage over us and he sees this bilateral security agreement as something he thinks we need as least as much or more than he does. i'm not sure he's right about that. it's true we want it. we think that afghanistan still needs our help after next year and we would like to solidify the progress that we've made. but president karzai sees this as an opportunity by withholding his signature, he keeps the leverage which prevents us from being too tough on him over corruption or the election preparations between now and april when the elections will occur to find someone to replace him. so it's leverage. i think that's the other main reason. you note the majority of the afghan people want americans to

stay and that the loya jirga their national council has voted in favor of this agreement. so the public wants the americans to stay. does that mean his back and forth is not going to kill this deal? >> it's interesting in iraq where we did leave, most iraqis were negative on us throughout much of the conflict. a lot of iraqi political class was down on us. in afghanistan, there are now ten major presidential candidates. nine are in support of this as i understand it. the population remains pro-american. the loya juryga, elder tribal elders from the most remote parts of the planet want it. so across the spectrum, the more modern, more traditional, afghans know they need help. they saw what happened last time after the soviet invasion. and they wound up in decades of agony and chaos. they don't want to repeat that movie. they don't want to see the squeal. they want us to stay. yes, i think we can wait for whoever replaces karzai and seen

the deal with that person. >> that's interesting. in effect, the u.s. can wait this out, right? and still get what it wans which is a small military press answer after next year? >> yeah, it's not ideal to wait. you would like to let our military lodge jis significances and planners have time to do this properly. the sooner the better. there's no need for delay. on the other hand, that last 10,000 troops that may or may not stay, if we need to we can pull them out i'm sure within six months. if we needed to wait till the summer, i'm confident we could. >> the headline was ignore karzai's arrogant insults. >> we did not actually choose that title or approve it. we would have approved something like stay calm, cool about karzai because there are bigger stakes, bigger issues and both for the american and afghan people, we need to focus on the

relationships between the countries, not on our difficulties with this one man. >> people there like the fact that their girls go to school now and concerned that would end afterwards. they like having american troops around. is that still the case today? >> absolutely. this has been a very mixed campaign as you well know and most americans appreciate. it has not been a defeat. afghan people are much better off than they were 10 or 12 years ago. this fighting season, this he were in the lead. their forces were in the lead and they held on to all the major cities, the major transportation corridors with our role just being one of support. so they've proven that the army and police are coming along, as well. they have a good chance to hold onto the progress and build on it. they need a little bit of help post 2014. >> all right. sounds like there's a way forward here. thanks very much to michael o'hanlon of the brookings institution. thanks for joining us today explaining the way forward in afghanistan. how is vice president biden doing in 2016 presidential

polls? that depends on who else is counted in the poll. i'll tell you why he's way ahead in some polls and way behind in others. i started part-time, now i'm a manager.n. my employer matches my charitable giving. really. i get bonuses even working part-time. where i work, over 400 people are promoted every day. healthcare starting under $40 a month. i got education benefits. i work at walmart. i'm a pharmacist. sales associate. i manage produce. i work in logistics. there's more to walmart than you think. vo: opportunity. that's the real walmart.

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when it comes to the 2016 presidential race, vice president joe biden isn't sitting around, patiently waiting to be asked to the big dance. he's been out courting voters like any could candidate should. hillary clinton may be the clear front runner in many polls but what if you take her out of the equation? in a new cnn poll, 43% of democrats and in thes say they would support biden. 17%% support freshman senator elizabeth warren, just 15% are willing to throw their support behind new york governor andrew cuomo. brian todd has been looking at the numbers. is vice president biden only a kond tender if hillary clinton is out of the race or is he preparing regardless.

>> he is doing the subtle things to lay the frowned work that he's going to do this no matter what she does. is he making phone calls to key democrats in iowa, new hampshire, south carolina. he is not doing they fund-raising. that's poor form to do that before the midterm elections but doing the subtle things that you need to do to lay the groundwork. it looks like he's going to make a run. you pointed out poll numbers. we always talk about the elephant in the room, hillary clinton. he's way behind her in an same an poll. he's 51 points behind her in that poll today. if she runs, he most analysts don't give him much of a chance. if she doesn't run, you saw the numbers, 43%, he's in good shape. he's going to probably do this no matter what it appears now. >> some of this must be strategic against the other candidates. build that machinery and support so that warren and cuomo decide not to run? >> probably, yes. so they can stack the deck more heavily in his favor. they are probably not going to

do anything till they know what hillary clinton is going to do. it looks like andrew cuomo and elizabeth warren may wait to see what hillary clinton will do. joe biden has the experience, the machinery. he's got the common touch. he does make gaffes and have his own foiables. he's got the infrastructure in place to make a fairly effective run if he wants to. it looks like he'll do it whether she runs or not. >> been in the senate since he was a kid really. so we're going to totally switch gears, a completely different topic. i know you'll come back later in the afternoon. you're doing a story on bionic body parts. zack lost his leg in a motorcycle accident a couple years ago. doctors at the rehabilitation institute of chicago have given him essentially a bionic leg, a prosthetic that has electrodes. he attaches patriot they tick to his thigh. the electrodes read the signals

had his brain sends to his thigh what he wants to do, a computer proservices the signals, sends the signals to his leg. exextend his leg, point his toes up and down. he can climb stairs. there's a picture right there of him walking fairly normally. it's incredible. the doctors want to be able to help wounded warriors come back and use these kinds of prosthetics to maybe even get them into active duty again. that's the goal here. they've spent a lot of money trying to do it. >> the number of soldiers out there who have lost legs, a great application for them. >> politics and prostheate sees. in college football tomorrow afternoon, the number two florida rank the seminoles against the florida gators. as zaun za rel lal reports, the spotlight on the seminoles is once again bringing up questions about their name and traditions. >> the tune is unmistakable.

as is the tomahawk chop from the sellout crowd, many wearing war paint and native american headdresses. a student portraying os seeiol lal rides out and thrust aflaming spear into the ground. for decades this has been tradition at florida state university seminole home football games. the stereotyping of teams with mascots like indians ands is in the spotlight once again. the people portrayed don't just tolerate the university's use of their name seminoles, they support it and defend it. >> anybody come into florida trying to tell us to change the name better go some place else because we're not changing the name. >> it almost happened once in 2005, the ncaa tried banning the use of the mascot notice postseason play until seminole tribe of florida leaders stepped

in, signing a proclamation reiterating their support. the ncaa backed off. >> tore tritt of os seeio la. >> even on the why is it okay? >> we have a total focus on mutual respect and honor. >> university president eric barren said the tie between the tribe and the university goes well beyond the football field. tribal members are included in our graduate ceremonies homecoming. the school offers a class in seminole history and there are scholarships for seminole students. >> this design right here is a horse. >> the jacket he wears symbolizing the link between the seminoles and florida state. he says for a simple reason. >> i think it was just

acceptance on both sides. >> acceptance has not been universal. support from the seminole tride in oklahoma is lukewarm, telling us they're neutral on the matter. might the ongoing washington controversy blow back on fsu? >> i'm not going to be surprised if in any year we have someone who says, is this appropriate? >> to anyone who stirs it up, says chairman billy. >> stay out of our territory. >> john zarrella, cnn, tallahassee, florida. >> next, honoring the true heroes. coming up, we'll introduce you to a very special woman whose unselfishly reaching out to help her community. part of our all-star tribute. there are seniors who have left hundreds of dollars of savings on the table by not choosing the right medicare d plan. no one could have left this much money here. whoo-hoo-hoo! yet many seniors who compare medicare d plans

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now, for some other stories making news 250d today. that fireple ball was triggered by a pipeline explosion in mississippi last night. it happened at the panhandle pipeline country. fortunately, no injuries and the fire there has been put out. now to sports. with only eight section seconds left, his team out of time-outs and down two points, brooklyn nets coach jason kidd spilled his drink on the court when bumped by one of his own players. kidd appears to be mouthing the words "hit me." that stopped play, giving kidd time to draw up a final play. in the end, it didn't matter, but the nba has called foul, saying kidd intentionally spilled the drink and slapped him with a $50,000 fine. that's one expensive soda. >> despite early fears, it looks like the so-called comet of the century survived its close encounter with the sun. they thought it disint grated

when it passed by the sunt, but they now believe a chunk, at least, of ison's nucleus did survive. they say it's slowing off dust and probably gas, and the future is still uncertain. we're now two days away from the cnn heroes all-star tribute. one woman saw low income families in her community were falling behind because they didn't have access to computers, so she used her own retirement savings to find a way to bridge that digital divide. >> my name is estellea. i am 76 years young. he said, key. >> during my lifetime, i never felt out of sync with my community. we have extra bread, so take as much bread as you like. >> okay, thank you. >> i grew up in these

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we are on the move. >> one woman making a real difference. don't miss cnn heroes all-star tribute this sunday, december 1st, at 8:00 p.m. eastern time. that's it for me. i'll be back at 5:00 p.m. on "the situation room." "newsroom" continues right now with ashleigh banfield. >> i'm ashleigh banfield, in for brooke baldwin. thanks for joining me, everyone, today, and happy holidays to you. of course, we're well into black friday today. and while there are certainly some sweet deals to be had, it's also getting kind of ugly out there. we'll cover all the angles over the next couple hours. first, i'm going to start with the ugly. take a look.