"happening now" starts right about now. >> and black friday expected to live up to its name this year and helping retailers get back in the black. i am ed henry in for jon scott. >> they are hoping to score the best gifts. they project a throe.1increase in sales. that is like a christmas gift for businesses that are trudging long in the stalling economy. rich is live with us from times square. >> the only other assignment that i want other than hanging out with ed henry in the white house is hanging out in times

square. >> reporter: toys rus has been working on this since the beginning of the year. going up top. we have teenage mutant ninja turtles and they are back and annoying the parents and i have something for ed henry right here. last year i told you i would bring you back a ferbie. 10040 million shoppers throughout this weekend. >> drivery. and rich is happy about that. how long has toys rus been doing this? >> reporter: they work on black friday 2015 right now. they will have executives going to hong kong and tailor them to

the next black friday and they are trying to get exclusive deals with folks and they did so with frozen and disney. and they work with different manufacturers and retailers to make sure they have something just for them. >> all right. rich, thank you from times square. >> interesting, violence giving away to calm on thanksgiving in ferguson, missouri. but some protestors gathered outside of a walmart and protesting produce brutality and demanding a boycott of black friday. mike, interesting all of the businesses in the recent days have been looted and dealing with a brutal hit. now the potential protest are another blow?

>> reporter: that's what we are watching. black friday protest popping up in different areas and most of them are not big and they go away quickly. and the latest one marched out to a walmart there. and not too big or rowdy and one person was arrested and the idea is to disrupt black friday shopping and connection to the death of michael brown. police are looking for friday and saturday night. the weather is getting warmer and you might have people out demonstrating. and they will so if it is starting to end, ed. >> what about the law enforcement officials? are they out in full force as well? they are dealing with protest and are they working to help the retail stores on a big shopping day? >> reporter: particularly in the shopping area. they are keeping a low profile and the county police sent out

an advisory to make sure the shoppings are safe. they don't like the optices of the police walking around. and they urge they are close by because of trouble but don't want a presence in the shopping when people are trying to keep a focus on the holidays and getting shopping done, ed? >> mike, thank you for that report. >> right now the pentagon preparing to releasing more detainees despite opposition from republicans and critics and said that administration is haftedly transporting prisoners because of the president's campaign protest. is president obama shutting down guantanamo and trying to close it by other means? >> reporter: yes, by slowly

emptying it of prisoners. at its height it held 800 suspected terrorist. fewer than 250 remained when barak obama became president. for each one the defense secretary moist softball it will not pose risk to national security. and the slowness with which chuck hagel was providing the certification created friction between obama and him. >> the pentagon wants to move slower and make certain that these are the most dangerous detainees we have we don't put them so they can fight against us and our allies. >> congressional sources confirm that several transfers are in

the pipeline. gop law makers want to make it more difficult? >> reporter: yes, it will be add to the next defense alteration bill. the obama administration is giving 90 days notice with the exception of the five prisoners who were exchanged for sergeant bobergdahl. hagel was asked if they are under careful watch in the host country of qatar. >> i am continually assured that the qatari government is fulfilling the commitments it made to us and exercising the operations that they said they would in order to maintain security of the five individuals. >> reporter: hagel told that same house panel he supports

closing git me but not at any cost. >> hopefully they will not add back up on the battlefield. thank you. president obama facing dissession from democrats and like septemberor -- senator schummer. by ron york is the chief corspopdant for the fox news examiner, good to see you and happy holiday. >> hello. >> the president did not serve in the the senate with chuck hagel but they forged a bond. but joe biden was the chairman of the foreign relations committee and he sounds upset of how this went down? >> as far as the vice-president is concerned. there are a couple of things at work. first of all there is a senate

club. joe biden entered the senate 42 years ago and it is in his dna now. and chuck hagel was another member of the club and joe biden didn't want to see one treated badly. joe boyd boyd is keeping 2016 open. and there is nothing harder than trying to run for the third term of a president whose approval rating is around 40 percent. on one hand boyd bide will try to distance himself from the president on things and on the other appear loyal to the man who gave him a big job. >> it is made tougher as you make the point february and march, the vice-president was on the view when national security issues were going better than the crisis in the world now. and joe boyd bide had worked with the close friend barak as

he called him in that interview to bring peace around the world. the equation has changed for joe biden and for the president. >> as you point out, there is a long record much of it on videotape of vice-president embracing the president and his position. if the vice-president were to run, he would try to distance himself from the president and try to be his own man and say to it voters, you have economic anxieties, it was not me, it was the president. on the other hand the public doesn't like disloyalty and barak obama gave the vice-president the biggest job of his career. the vice-president can't dump on president obama and have the the public like that. it would appear disloyal. >> when you mention the senate club, the senate club will deal with the nomination of who ever

is the nominee for are the secretary of defense. jack reed and fhoun oyd took themselves out of consideration. >> jack reed would have been a smart choice because he is already a member of that club and there's a tradition of the members confirmed quickly. it is it going to be a problem for the president and maybe not as much as the attorney general who is more controversial. but it is a problem and no obvious candidate that you could go to the senate armed services committee and say we would all vote for him. we have the war with ping up. isis. we appreciate your insight today. >> a gunman targeting government buildings is taken down in

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subject. >> authorities are also searching the home for possible explosives. u.s. stocks holding steady in the wake that opec would not lower the output. we'll bring in ed, managing partner of chatwick's investments. >> thank you. >> opec is not cutting the supply. why is it not good? >> my goodness, there will be more oil and oil prices will go lower. it does signal. we have a slow world economy and lower oil prices is good for companies that use a lot of energy. and that is less expenses and lower oil prices in the earnings of companies and that is good.

but the slow global economy is a cloud over the world stock markets right now. stocks are going higher as we speak, and that is a good thing, but over all we feel the slowing. and corporate earnings will be under assault. that's why you are not seeing the initial reaction. gold has dropped. but there is a d word. deflation. people don't want that. >> they hear oil prices and gas prices are lower, but opec is putting a squeeze on the american production of oil. >> right. if they drop to a certain level, it doesn't make it cost-effective for the u.s. companies to go out and drill. that is true. there is a lot of natural gas out there. and people want to wait until the price goes up before they pull it out of the grouped. we could see a cut in production

in the united states. that could be true. oil companies will make a lot of money and will not slow down production any time soon. >> and so how did that play, and talk about fraking a little bit. >> we have a side business in the fraking world and it is a great industry and all dictated by the price of natural gas and oil. that is a good thing. right now, we are seeing prices drop. you want more money in your pocket and everybody does and they will find it if they are driving a car. but that savings is very small relative to how much money we spend on everything we spend. we like to save. and the positive things, and it is not that dramatic. >> it is black friday and a lot of people are wondering what is the impact on the economy?

>> the impact on the economy in terms of black friday. it is a great question. people need to understand that this is when companies go from being in the red to the black. and the areas on black friday have great on line presence. if you don't have a strong on line presence, you will get the wrap boat out of you when it comes to retail sales. it is expensive for a brick and mortar business. between the increased cost of regulations and the lawyers to keep up with the regulations and everything including health care, it is tough to run a brick and mortar store. if you don't have a strong on line presence, you will get slaughtered this year. and when will we know the impact of black friday and what you are expecting. >> people are looking for a two percent increase over last year and i think that is going to

happen. people have more money in their pockets and i think you will so a good time period in terms of sales and go into christmas. and unfortunately, the costs are expensive to run a business and you will see big- name companies and closeup stores and shrink or disa pore which is sad. >> a lot of companies have strategy for black friday. and thank you for being here today. >> a holiday travel nightmare for millions. snow covered roads and leading to massive pile up. we'll tell you if it affects your trouble today. nprotestors in one of the nation's largest retailers. william, what are you seeing? >> the shoppers care about the price or sales person is getting

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of people away on stretchers. at least 20 cars, at least. >> nowy road conditions are to blame for the accident and one driver was traveling too fast for messy road conditions. >> and many shoppers are on the hunt for black friday. some employees are demanding better pay and benefits. william is live with that story, what's happening? >> the workers are in green and join the by other demonstrators from the united food and commercial worker ares union. and the police are enforcing a court order to keep the demonstrators out of the store. this is a third year in a row that the union held a protest outside of the country. and this is video from earlier today. they are complaining about what the retailers are failing to pay 15 an hour.

and walmart said full- time appreciates made more. and the union said it is not good enough. and so spokesman blames walmart for that. and saying that shoppers need to realize low prices mean low wages. >> they keep the employees in poverty. target and grocery markets, they follow suit. if you are barely making it. if walmart gets away with it, so can we. >> workers are free to take the wagers and we are expecting bus loads of workers being brought in and union members. and they are expecting 1 or 200 people here today. >> what what is the company

saying about the the aelgdzs? >> reporter: the company didn't want to address the allegations on the record today. and they say throw -- 300 associates have been. and people stay. and shoppers spoke with their feet. they had 22 million people shopping in walmart in the last 24 hours and some attracted by 65 inch television for 650 bucks and people walking off of the job, that is not accurate and they are offering an associate that is pleased with their job. >> walmart has been good to me. i came here about a year ago and i started off as a customer service cashier and then sales associate in electronics and then a manager in six months.

>> reporter: the underlining argument is income and inquality. and certain union officials will make over 500000 a year and they didn't address the contradiction because the walmart family is so rich they should pay worrs more. back to you. >> income inquality is a debate. someone happy with their jobbine though they are working after thanksgiving. >> more americans are delaying care even if it was supposed to help more americans. >> an absolute panic after two young boys, get buried under a mountain of snow. >> one was out. and the other yelling and she said it is all right, you will

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>> a quick check of the headlines and retailers hoping to turn big profits. the retailers say holiday will increase 21 billion as compared to last year. a semitruck crashed in a ditch

and spilling dog food on the freeway. the driver escaped uninjured and charged with negligent driving. >> and a sinkhole in california. the break shooting a geyser of water 1500 feet in the air. >> and parts of the northeast can't get a break as winter comes early. people are recovering from the snow storm and blooding and heavy snow and ice are snapping power lines and loving more than 100,000 people without lights or heat. >> how are things in new now. >> i just got off of the phone, utility crews are making progress but there is a long way to go. the snow was wet and heavy and brought power lines down. we are told it is it a multiday event and most people will get

power on by the end of the weekend and now we hear maybe not until the early part of next week. it is a long weekend ahead. >> reporter: that there are own 200000 people without power. 123000 waiting for lights to come back on. it is it the largest power outage in new hampshire. utility workers have come from chicago and tennessee to help out with the major problem. with no juice for thanksgiving, they were forced to have meals by candlelight or generator. >> we heard the crack and i turned around and i see the telephone pole go like this. and you have to get the generator going so we can get the turkey done. >> reporter: shelters are open in new hampshire.

and major problems in maine as well. and we spoke with the power representatives and saying that 20000 are without power and they expect 90 percent should have the power by the end of the day. maybe they should take a trip to maine, it is going to be a long weekend. >> hopefully they will get the power back soon. thank you. >> and they may not celebrate thanksgiving, because that is our holiday, but people in great britain are getting in the black friday spirit. some of them actually got in fights as they battled to get the best deal for the black friday. it is growing in england and now the biggest shopping day of the year. >> more of the madness. >> new data shoes that because of the health care law most americans are putting off treatment and more of them delaying care for serious

conditions nan nonserious. the 33 percent number is closing in on a 14 year high. we'll bring in our consult apt and richard, happy holidays to both of you. >> it is it a broke ep president. you heard from the the president you like your plan you can keep it and now folks are delaying care. >> if you look at the over all health care law. if you have a preexisting condition you can get health care. you we have got rid of the maximum caps that you get which puts up. and more people getting access to the health care, who didn't have access before. now we have to fix the law. that means that governors and

the state legislature and president need to work together to get it done. >> bottom line, we are hearing that the sign ups are going up. and they delayed it until after the election because of people being kicked off of their insurance? >> right. in regards to the poll. this is a blow to obama care and another example of how the democrats sold americans a pack of lies. johnathon gruber is right. democrats have not been honest about obama care. they told us if we like our health care plan we can keep it and they told us insurance premiums would drop. middle-class families are not benefitting and chick schummer stepped forward and said it is it a bad move for democrats

politically. >> what about that, richard? people in the white house were caught off guard that a leader of the democratic forward said this is a mistake in 2010, richard. >> i think chuck schummer is trying to say, we didn't do the politics of it right. we shouldn't have worked on it first. we should have worked on a jobs bill or stimulus or highway bill. that is here or there. everybody is seeing the benefits of the law. now republicans taking over the leadership have to have a replacement worker or just as well as the affordable care act. they will have to find a way for americans. >> chuck schummer said more than that. wait a second, basically, you

know that democrats messed up and should have focused on middle-class and not on health care. >> on a job bill. >> i think you are right. >> i think you are totally right, chuck schummer said we wasted too much capitol on the affordable care and we should have spent that capitol on a jobs bill and pushing through whether it is raising the minimum wage. it is it a order of the priorities in the new congress in 2008. he's right on that point but the law is working for a lot of americans. >> are are you buying that? >> richard, that is a great spin but not true. senator chuck schummer said we should have focused on the issues that middle-class voters. no, no. senator schummer said obama would benefit middle-class family the. >> it has.

>> no it is not. only five percent of the americans are benefitting. (talking over each other) >> okay, no, americans are not. >> hang on. >> what about a little girl not allowed to get health care. >> they are not benefitting from obama care. middle-class families are not benefitting from the obama care. >> it is a mistake. >> last point, richard. it sounds like thanksgiving to me here. >> it does sound like thanksgiving dinner for sure. whether you like it or not. if you had a preexisting condition. they have a chance it get health care. and that is a good thing. >> that's what the president is hoping will play out. and we'll see you both. and try to have a spirit debate.

>> a scary incident in new york, two young boys, trapped under a mountain of snow. apparently they got buried by a snow plow. >> i was shocked. my son is friends with them. and as a parent i was worried and praying they would not be pulled out harmed. the mother and father they were scared and no one knew what to expect. two kids buried in the bottom of a snow bank and still snowing and freezing and after they were found, everybody started clapping. >> rescuers manageed to pull them out safely. one was treated and released and the other is hospitalized for observation. >> pope francis right now spreading in controversy. he is in turkey and why some are

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now. >> i don't think i have seen that. we had an escape is. >> the dog handler grabbing the dog and breaking down in tears, it is unknown how the little guy got away. >> and there is new research. getting to little sleep is bad for you. not getting enough risk poses a higher risk for alzheimmers. and we are talking hyper tension and diabetes. >> obessity and depression and now that touched on alzhimer. 70 percent of the tones don't get enough sleep. why is that? >> we are high paced fast

activities and lifestyles. people are taking the cell phones and computers to bed and they have televisions in the bedroom. that needs to be your sanctuary of rest and pay attention to preparing yourself for sleep. >> and since you mentioned it. we have tips on the screen for you. >> we do. >> adults need 7 or 8 hours and teens need nine. and go to bed at a consistent time every night. >> you want to set a are you tone for sleeping. everything in our lives are scheduled and one thing we deprive ourselves to sleep. and you can set an alarm to go to bed. >> and an alarm clock to tell yourself when to go to bed. >> and talk to your doctor if you have a slope disorder. >> restless leg syndrome and

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night. >> and since we are talking about health. walking is good for the exercise and older adults, it turns out that running can make your body more efficient. tell us about. that >> what they found from the study we are reading. older folks that run have an increased drive, i should say to continue to walk more during the day. so that increases metabolism and keeps them fit. and walking in any form is bep official. don't decrease your walking and it is it safe to run. start a running program, it will stimulate your metabolism and increase your drive to walk more and cut down on taking elevators and escalators that decrease our walking. >> it took 15 men or women, 69

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thank you for being with us. >> thank you. >> pope francis paying a visit to a muslim country rocked by the rise of isis. we'll tell you what company that's been rocked -- >> at the same time two days investigating a smash and grab robbery in a major u.s. city. the scary details. that's coming up. i have a cold. i took nyquil but i'm still stuffed up. nyquil cold and flu liquid gels don't unstuff your nose. really? alka-seltzer plus night rushes relief to eight symptoms of a full blown cold including your stuffy nose. (breath of relief) oh, what a relief it is. thanks. anytime.

pope francis kicking off a three-day visit to turkey. the pontiff visiting the muslim nation as it grapples with a massive influx of refugees running to escape violence at the hands of isis. the story live from london. good to see you, amy. >> pope francis made a big and very public point of thanking

turkish president for taking in those 1.6 million refugees from iraq and syria. now, ed, the main reason for the trip to turkey when it was originally planned was building bridges with oort docksed christians who split with rome nearly 1,000 years ago. ties with the vatican can still strained, and also turkish christians feel besieged by their own government to a certain extent due to limitations on their seminaries. there's much work to do there with christians. the timing of the trip is such that with the rise of isis, the pope will be looking for ways with the help of turks to combat violent extremism. he impressed upon leaders to do more against isis violence. he said fanaticism and fundamentalism as well as irrationale fears will foster discrimination and they need to be countered by the solidarity of all believers. respect for human life and religious freedom. now, the president cede the pontiff at his newly completed

$600 million presidential palace, which has been very controversial for its opulence and the fact that it was built on forest land. a group of turkish architects appeals to the pope that lives in a modest two-room apartment not to dignify the palace by not visiting it. also, ed, the president made a point when he was speaking side-by-side with pope francis -- in fact, before pope francis had a chance to mention the issues of extremism. he said he is concerned by the rise of islamaphobia. catholics believe that the virgin mary lived for a wheel in turkey and also that st. paul was born in what is now turkey, so i think it's likely the pope will try to capitalize, get mileage out of those ties between turkey and christianity for some important symbolism at this particular time in history,

ed. >> no doubt excellent points there, and obviously the president has made a lot of controversial statements seen as anti-semitic. the pope obviously moving diplomatically and very delicately through all of that. amy kellogg in london. good to see you. well, meanwhile, organizers of an upcoming catholic sponsored conference in philadelphia are hoping to find more than 10,000 families who are willing to open their doors to people who are traveling there to see pope francis. the september event will be the fest time a pope has visited the u.s. since 2008 and hotel rooms are filling up fast. the city only has about 11,000 of them in the pontiff's two public appearances are expected to attract more than 1.5 million people. >> very interesting. lives were on the line as a hostage crisis plays out on camera. police now finally releasing the video showing those tense moments, and, meanwhile, some crazy mall fights. we'll show it to you. black friday always has those

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>> i'm lea gabe yell in for jenna lee. >> i'm ed henry in for john scott. a battle among retailers for your dollars. now traditionally on black friday we're used to seeing long lines at big box stores like target and wal-mart with frenzied shoppers trying to snatch up those big deals, but now shopping malls increasingly trying to compete on this same turf. many malls even opening on thanksgiving day. that was controversial just like chain stores. some critics aren't buying this strategy just yet. peter live in springfield, virginia, at a new mall there. peter, you're always buying all kind of stuff. what are the top sellers right now? >> ed, electronics are really big this black friday. in fact, at target, which you

just mentioned, in the first hour, their stores were open yesterday on thanksgiving. the chain nationwide was selling 1,800 tvs a minute and 2,000 video games a minute. that's a lot of tvs. that's a lot of video games. homewares are really big for target today as well. they say the top three items in that category, a keurig k40 brewer, dyson dc 50 vacuum and a kitchen aid plus stand mixer. at the mall of america, which has everything, they say 100,000 shoppers showed up between 5:00 p.m. last night after turkey and 1:00 a.m. today on black friday, so officials there think that their one day record of 230,000 shoppers may now be in sight, and at other malls like this one, the pace has been picking up kind of slow and steady, but gaining steam, and that is all part of the plan. listen to this. >> it's the tortuous and the hair. we're here for the long thaul. we're not just here for 20 minutes of deals. we're here for great value

throughout the day. the customers are here with a multitude of choices. not just one store. >> this mall, this springfield town center in virginia which is very nice is having its first ever black friday today because it's only a month old, but stores are already reporting sales better than expected. >> peter, any trouble with crowd control? not talking about your appearance at the mall, which obviously draws a lot of people, but more specifically nationwide. any problems with crowd control? ed, it is black and blue friday for some very aggressive shoppers. we've got this amazing video inside a wall mart outside of houston or in houston, texas, where you see shoppers just jumping on to new tvs that you would presume you don't want to jump on top of, and then clinging to them like they are life rafts, and they are going on drown if they let go. we've also seen some bad behavior outside of atlanta at a mall there. people were throwing punches, and inside a kohl's in

california there is a fight that sent two women to jail and one other woman to the hospital. aside from that, the reports of violence are not as widespread as we've heard in years past. however, experts still think that today they are going to make more money on black friday than they did last we're. ed. >> pretty intense figures there. i hate to fact check ow the fly here, but have you ever used a kitchen aid mixer? i saw this in your live shot at the beginning. you've never actually been in the kitchen with a kitchen aid mixer, have you? >> you know, i think i might have a kitchen aid mixer, but i don't think i've ever used it. >> peter, a good sport. great reporter. good to see you. happy holidays. well, speaking of fights at malls and battles, a battle over tax breaks revealing a split between the white house and some democrats on capitol hill. wendell gohlor is live at the white house. what is this all about? >> it's about a legislation that would permanently extend a number of tax breaks that congress has been passing year

to year, including deductions for small business giving and charitable investments. it doesn't extend the child tax credit for working poor. senate majority leader harry reid got the best deal he could. it was not enough, however, for the white house. a spokesman for republican senator mitch mcconnell what takes over the majority leaders post from next year inside a written statement "this democrat infighting is having negative consequences on american families bottom line and slowing incentives for companies to start hiring again. don stewart said the country needs a president who will work with congress on bipartisan solutions. lea. >> and, wendell, seems like the president has some unusual allies, right? >> he does. this package would cost $440 billion over ten years, and the veto threat is uniting liberal democrats and budget hawks. the head of the committee for responsible federal budget objected to the cost saying every special interest group is protecting its favorite tax breaks. the white house objects because

one of its favorite tax breaks isn't included. here's josh ernest. >> we need to be focused on expanding economic opportunities for middle class families because the president believes that our economy is sfronkest when it's growing from the middle out, and an investment in significant unpaid for tax breaks for corporations without giving a tax break to middle class families is not consistent with that philosophy at all. >> if it passes, mr. obama it, it would be only its third veto. that's the fewest vetoes by a two-term president since -- ask ed, lea? >> probably been a long time. >> james monroe. >> wow. >> wendell trying to catch me off guard there. you did a good job. happy thanksgiving, buddy. i miss you. >> happy thanksgiving, ed. >> good to see you. >> maybe i should call him a turkey for doing that. a shocking discovery that could tie president obama's white house directly to the irs targeting scandal. the treasury department's

inspector general finding thousands of documents that may show the irs was sharing private taxpayer information with the white house. the legal group that sued to get those documents telling the washington examiner "this disclosure coming only after we sued the inspector general's office over its refusal to acknowledge whether such investigations took place. and after the court ordered them to reveal whether or not documents existed. signals that the white house may have made significant efforts to obtain taxpayers' personal information. michelle fields is a correspondent for pg tv and a fox news contributor. michelle, i wonder what you think this shows us as this story has gone on and on for many months, why would the white house be getting some of this private taxpayer information? >> well, it's not confirmed yet. there's believed to be up to 2,500 documents that will show this, but if it is confirmed, they're going to have a lot of questions to answer for, but it also brings up the competence of the irs. back in june the irs commissioner said they had done

everything possible to uncover lois lerner's documents in all these. instead it was the inspector general that found all of these emails and documents. he was brought on board to restore credibility to the irs, but it turns out that the irs was not eitherotology look for it or could not find it, and it was an outside source that found all of this information. >> michelle, the white house has repeatedly said there have been these questions before. they've answers them. is this just the president's critics trying to keep a story that's been dead, trying to keep it alive? >> a lot of the media doesn't want to cover the story, and they did not cover the fact that 30,000 emails from lois lerner have been discovered. there's obviously truth to the story. there's something there. >> there's information coming out now that the republicans are taking over the senate as well. this is largely a house republican investigation. the white house has been pretty adept at pushing back every time

house -- now you add the senate to the mix. how could that change? >> well, i think they're going to investigate more. the questions that they should be answered when they look at these documents is whether the white house will request information about any particular taxpayers, and whether the irs gave any information for taxpayers to the white house, and it would not be the first time, as we know, this summer that the irs paid a $50,000 fine for giving over donor information from a pro family organization. we'll just have to see all the documents that will be public december 15th. by december 15th. we'll see what is in those documents. >> michelle fields, pg tv, a fox news contributor. thank you for joining us, and hope you have a wonderful weekend. >> good to see you too. police release says new surveillance video capturing a moment a suspected gunman took his hostage in what turned out to be a terrifying standoff.

take a look. ferguson protesters causing problems for some retailers at the height of the black friday rush. a bold smash and grab robbery hitting one store owner at the worst time of the year. >> this is the first time they did it from the back, and basically it's just destroyed the whole infrastructure.

thieves smash a vehicle on to a chicago retailer. they drove a transaction through the wall of this highend clothing store. about 20 bandits swarmed in making off with pricey jeans, prada shoes and more. the owner says the robbery will cost him about $100,000 in inventory and damage. not counting black friday dollars that he is now missing out on. earlier this week thieves rammed a stolen minivan into another chicago store and robbed it.

cops haven't said if the two crimes are connected. thankfully in ferguson, missouri, and now the protests there taking a new turn, though. mike tobin live in ferguson. he has been out there through this entire story. mike, what's the latest today? >> well, we'll watch it today, ed, as these black friday demonstrations pop up randomly. there's one that popped up at the galleria mall. apparently a coringed to fox 2, our local affiliate here, they practiced a die-in in the center of the mall. we saw a demonstration pop up downtown ferguson. starting at city hall and marching off to a nearby

wal-mart. there was one arrest. zoo you're resisting. you're under arrest. >> you're hurting my hand. >> the idea is to disrupt the holiday commerce. the black friday shopping. really with a loose connection to the notion of injustice to the death of michael brown. ed. >> are things slowly getting back to normal? it's obviously hard just a few days in to sort through all that. we had a big holiday yesterday. we saw some pictures of people trying to get back to their lives. what's it like on the ground? >> the real unanswered question is what will happen tonight? what will happen tomorrow night? the weather starting to improve out here. you may have more people showing up for the dlaegss tonight. the retailers, downtown ferguson, we've seen them decorating the boards on their windows for the holidays because

they've really go got no education when they can take those boards down. >> they sent out an advisory that despite all the demonstrations, the shopping areas will be safe through this holiday shopping period. ed. >> let's hope for 134 calm and we it get mike tobin back for his family with the holiday weekend. see you, mike. >> meantime, critics blasting what they're calling inconsistencies in the testimony of witnesses to the ferguson grand jury. just check out some of the accounts of the shooting of 18-year-old michael brown. for instance, one friend of brown's, who was with him testified that the shot caused brown's body to do like a jerking movement, not to where it looked like he got hit in his back, but i knew it maybe could have grazed him. another witness saying "i saw him in the middle of the street on his knee with his hands up.

the officer came up to him and shot him in his head and he fell." a different witness saying brown was on his feet testifying and i could say for sure he never put his hands up. after he did, his body gesture. he ran towards the officer full charge. another man, a friend of brown's, saying he was on his knees with his hands in the air, and then regarding officer darren wilson, that witness adds i seen him shoot him in the head. tag nelson, criminal defense attorney and former prosecutor, and jennifer brapt, family law and twens attorney. >> to look at possible criminal charges in this case. when looking at these thousands of pages of documents that were released, what do you make of this, and how is this going to factor in all these inkibt sis? how will they factor? ?

>> the more people you have tefrg, the more inconsistent things are going to be, and every time you see an inconsistency, it's more and more justification for the final result that happened here. it just -- when there's this much going on, and it's so divided on racial lines, obviously the grand jury did exactly what they had to do, and that's going to affect holder's ability to do anything. in the future. >> jennifer, you know, there are some accounts that apparently people weren't actually witnessing the incident as it happened. does all this information -- does this muddy the water moving forward? >> here when you have so many different witnesses allegedly watching the same incident, you're going to get different accounts. then you have witnesses who say that they were there, and then are proven later not to be there. the grand jury is looking at all

of this information, and their job is to assess who is credible and who is not. they had thousands of pages of documents. you really have to frus the process, and that's why we have the grand jury process to have this go on and people to determine whether or not someone should be enditd or not. i definitely think holder is going to have a hard time moving forward with this case after you've had this kind of very, very thorough, almost unexpected kind of thorough investigation. this is not and that usually happens, neen a grand jury investigation. these people took in a long amount of time and looked at a lot of information in coming up with their decision. >> all right. to jennifer's point, federal prosecutors would have to prove that wilson intended to violate brown's constitutional rights. how would prosecutors go about building that case? >> they won't make that case in a trillion years.

>> everything that took place with officer wilson took place in about maybe 90 seconds max. if you look at the alleged victim in this case, what do we have? we have smoking marijuana, we have a robbery, we have at least a second felony where he reaches in the car of a police officer and tussles for a gun. you know, there's just no way this is a civil rights violation. >> i would suspect there is a black-white issue that's unspoken of, and it needs to be taken care of, but this is not the poster boy for that issue. this is not the opportunity that we can get to where we need to be in black, white relations. this kid committed at least two felonies in the last ten minutes of his life. there's no civil rights violation here. zero. >> all right, jennifer. now, the racial issues were mentioned. the justice department is also looking into ferguson police department. there's investigations to the department to determine if there

were some issues there. where can we expect this to go? >> i think what is happening is that it's starting a very important dialogue on race relations. people are talking about this in the communities, in the streets, in various communities. not just ferguson. people are looking at relations and trying to hopefully improve relations. that's what really needs to come out of this. i'm sure the justice department will do a thorough investigation, and they are going to look into this, and we have the grand jury investigation. it's getting people talking. >> i think that is what really needs to come out of this, and i think that's what people are really in the communities are really some people are really trying to do this on a grassroots level where it really needs to begin. >> certainly starting a dialogue, and hopefully something positive can come out of this. tad nelson, jennifer brant,

thank you so much. >> thank you. >> deadly violence today in egypt as government security forces clash with those loyal to the last president who is forced out of his job. we've got the latest. plus, new surveillance footage capturing the terrifying moment a suspected gunman takes his first hostage. how this all played out. alka se. they work just as fast and are proven to taste better than tums smoothies assorted fruit. mmm... amazing. yeah, i get that a lot. alka seltzer heartburn reliefchews. enjoy the relief. hello... i'm an idaho potato farmer and our big idaho potato truck is still missing. so my buddy here is going to help me find itit. here we go. woo who, woah, woah, woah.

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>> start of a scary hostage swax caught on camera. this is from earlier this month in norman, oklahoma, and police have just released the video. you see the suspect storms into the building with his first hostage holding a gun to the man's neck. they proceed upstairs where police say the gunman shoots his way into a law office and takes more hostages. it finally ends peacefully after negotiations with the d.a.

well, the suspect's attorney says he is a veteran suffering mental health problems. meanwhile, deadly violence in egypt with security forces coming down and cracking down hard on protests today arresting more than 100 followers of ousted president mohammed morsi after they tried to stage nicewide protoasts it to topple the government. >> after today's violence, let me bring you up to speed. at this point so far according to the numbers we're getting, two officer military officers were killed in an attack in cairo, including a brigadier general with egyptian military. security forces shot to death four protesters. those are the latest numbers we're getting.

that's the latest number we got during demonstrations east of cairo earlier today. now, egyptian security forces have really been bracing for large scale anti-government protests by groups opposed to president fatal. today 107 alleged members of the muslim brotherhood. again, remember, banned by the government. many of those members imprisoned were arrested on suspicion of planning attacks to coincide with today's demonstrations. another group is called the front has called for a islam youth uprising. while thousands have taken to the streets for these protests, we're hearing again that security forces really have cairo and other cities and towns in egypt locked down at this point. terror concerns remain a big concern.

>> they killed 31 egyptian soldiers, and that was very close to the israel and gaza border, and the group that claimed responsibility, ed, is tied to or is at least aligned to isis calling for more attacks in egypt and israel as well. ed. >> live in our middle east news bureau staying on top of all the details. tense situation. thank you, john. the obama administration, meanwhile, getting set to spring even more detainees from gitmo. how many are we looking at, and will they head back to the battlefield? plus, a group photo takes a terrifying turn when this deck literally collapses beneath everyone's feet. i minimize my sodium and fat... gotta keep it lean and mean. pear: uh-oh. heart: i maximize good stuff like my potassium... and phytosterols, which may help lower cholesterol. major: i'm feeling energized already. avo: new delicious ensure active heart health supports your heart

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for a quick check of the headlines again. a rare up close look at the intense fighting going on in the syrian town of kobani on the turkish border as fighters have been locked in a battle with isis militants that have caused widespread destruction to that town. here at home in austin, texas, still unclear whether a gunman was killed by police or took his own life. police say the man fired gunshots at the city police headquarters. other buildings tried to set fire to the mexican consulate there. an all too familiar sight. here's a fight at a wall mart in texas. i guess they maybe with were getting great prices. is that the only explanation? >> there's a way to get into the home day spirit. go out looking for holiday

presents and get into a big fight. >> beat the heck out of somewhere for a good deal. you know who else gets excited around the holidays, is james rosen when they're putting out a new beatles cd. like a remastered one. >> speaking of james rosen, president obama reportedly getting set to make good on something he has promised for years, considering gitmo. according to the "wall street journal", the pentagon is preparing to transfer more terror detainees from the cuban prison in the coming weeks despite op sfwligs from leading republicans. chief washington correspondent james rosen, who we were just chatting about, is live in our d.c. bureau. james, how many more detainees are still at gitmo, and -- james? >> well, the estimates vary, but not by much. the fox news research team put the exact figure at 142, and congressional sources tell fox news that several transfers are in the pipeline. each one of them requires the sect of defense to certify in writing that the move will not pose a significant risk to national security. it also requires the law for the senate armed services committee

to receive 30 days notice. those notifications are themselves classified. exact numbers can be hard to pin down. the current was not moving as quickly to provide those certificate ficks as the obama white house desired was said to be creating friction that led to chuck hagel's resignation this week. >> secretary hagel, how can the administration continue to press ahead with transfers from guantanamo at this time? isn't this in conflict with your policy of stemming the flow of foreign fighters? >> every time i certify and send up documentation to this committee, i am saying to this committee with my name and reputation that i believe that the assurances substantially mitigate the risk to this country and to our allies of certain detainee releases. >> hagel said he supported

closing gitmo, but not, he said, at any cost. >> james, who are some of the detainees the administration has already recently sent packing from gitmo? >> most infamous would be the so-called taliban five. those are the inmates who were transferred to qatari custody in exchange for the release of sergeant bo bergdahl back at the end of may. also, earlier this month a suspected courier and recruiter for al qaeda was shipped off to kuwait. he was dubbed the forever detainee because his residency in the detention camp at guantanamo bay, cuba, dated back to 2002. critics of president obama say he is trying to shut down gitmo even though congress has blocked that simply by emptying the place. >> the problem is that one of the ways he is doing that is by not taking any more prisoners. we are not detaining terrorists abroad for interrogation, so we have these huge blind spots in terms of intelligence, in terms of what the islamic state is doing. >> gitmo was home to some 800

suspected terrorists, and in response to what you were just ask youing skusing about the segment, at their height, there were six beatles. >> he is all over everything. that's why we love him. >> james rosen live in washington. good to see you. >> thank you. same. for more on james rosen and gitmo, let's bring in alan combs and mike gallagher. both fox news contributors. happy holidays. >> mind if i say merry christmas even though i'm a liberal? >> good for you. good for you. >> christmas gets -- >> but he breaks out in hives every time he says tshg ed, so don't be fooled. >> i was referring to thanksgiving when christmas comes around. it's a little early nor christmas. >> it's began years ago. >> here we go. he goes spooit right into it, and alan, let's start with you. what about gitmo? are we just dumping terrorists back out there so they can get on with the battlefield? >> they've never been held in the first place without a trial. to have them held without charges, without access to

attorneys, violates our constitution in the fist place. a little historical perspective. there was a previous president who i don't want to mention his name because people get dwrup set when i do that, he released 532 people held at girt mow. 147 of them went back into battle. the fact is that these are detainees who in many cases we had no reason to hold them in the first place, and never had access to attorneys. >> they think gitmo needs to be closed. >> i don't know what libs like alan would do if they couldn't say i found a republican president that also released? detainees. >> you're the double standard. the double standard says today we have vicious, awful terrorists who have been traded for people like bo bergdahl. the american people rejected. i have predicted that president obama will try to make good on his mindless protest to close

gitmo. no one yes wants to close it or why he doesn't want to let the wovrs of the worst stay there and rot where they belong, but at the end of the day this is more stumbling that the democrats do with the president who seems completely overwhelmed by his foreign policy. >> to be fair, president bush himself had said this was being used as a recruiting tool by the terrorists, and that while you have to make sure the terrorists don't get on the battlefield, that eventually this provr prison needs to be closed, and alan -- go ahead, mike. >> everything is -- everything is a recruiting tool for the terrorists. anything we do is -- because they reject everything we do that is right, that is civil, that is moral, that is decent. they're the antithesists of that. >> the debate over hostages theshgs don't need any incentive to come after us. they made that clear. >> i'm going to bring in alan on immigration. >> i want to talk about whether

or not the -- >> neither case the funds available to the agency through fee collections would be subject to the same potential restrictions imposed by congress on the use of its appropriate yaxs as any type of appropriated funds. remember the republican senator requested this report, and he says "the american people's request has the power and every right to deny funding for unworthy activities. there's no question the congress has the power to block this expenditure and no doubt that it can be done. alan, the republicans about to take over. >> president begged them to come up with a bill. come up with something. give us a plan. he begged them to do that when he gave a speech on his action on immigration. the president gave reprieve to the parents of kids that are here legally, and you had to be here for more than five years. the republicans want to be seen

as taking that away and then destroying families. rendered families asubpoenaeder. >> he just changed the law. >> that was an opinion, but i -- sfroo reagan went beyond the bill, and -- >> here we go again. >> permanent am nest where i. >> what the president did was temporary reprieve, and congress -- >> can you stay in 2014, alan? this isn't about ronald reagan? as ed just pointed out, the president himself -- excuse me. the president himself, as ed pointed out, said i changed the law.

>> i'm sure the american people during the midterm elections gave republicans a mandate to push back against the hypocrisy from the white house. republicans better defund and do everything they can to stop this from going. >> congress needs to hear. >> i think the results will be what we see in 2016. let congress render these families asundayer. >> we'll see. mike gallagher -- >> marco rubio. >> the two of you around a thanksgiving table, oh boy. >> happy black friday. >> what's coming up? >> kraup, lea, have you ever gotten so annoyed with somebody on facebook that maybe you even made a threat on-line?

well, the supreme court is now set to decide whether doing just that is against the law. it all stem from a guy who went to prison for threatening his wife. now, he claims he just posted rap lyrics. his lawyer argues it was a case of freedom of speech. should on-line threats be broken by the first amendment? we'll break it down with a criminal defense attorney coming up in the next hour. i'm shepherd smith reporting. see you then. >> all right. thanks, john. >> thanks. a live tv news gaff. viewers greeted with the sight of an empty chair. >> good evening. welcome to bbc news. i'm martin. it's 9:00. i'm just going to move back to the main set. i know this has happened before. here we are. you can pretend you haven't noticed. different camera, ing from a and handling that technical

glitch like a pro. advising viewers to pretend that they didn't notice, you know, as she walks on just to begin the newscast. >> i think you're a pro. you can hamdz it. >> i can get a head start on your weekend travel plans. >> you have it, right? >> well -- >> boy, that's funny. >> she handled it, didn't she? >> she did. >> roaming the aisles of a shopping mall near you. there's sure ily a mom looking for that perfect gift for her children. do you need some ideas? someone is here to help. >> and it might feel like christmas for star wars fans. we've got a sneak peek at the next installment in the saga. stick around, and may the force be with all of you.

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>> we're like two little kids. star wars fans, as yoda would say, the new trailer is out and enjoy it will. the trailer is spreading like the force awakening. take a look. ♪ ♪ >> dark side. and the light.

♪ ♪ a fan posted a fake trailer of his own wracked up thousands of views. he cobbled together old clips and prepretended it was a new one. my mom told my i should have kept my star wars figures. >> i'm guessing you still have some at shoem. >> are you still mad at me about the sausage stealer. >> let's pull that back up. >> you stole my star wars stuff and i think she stole my millennium falcon as well. >> there she is. the sausage stealer. it's probably the end of the business. that's not a good thing.

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12-year-old quintavius johnson raising the bar at the detroit lions annual thanksgiving game against the chicago bears. >> and the rocket's red glare ♪ ♪ the bottoms bursting in air ♪ gave proof through the night ♪ that our flag was still there ♪ >> that is some passion. if you recognize quintavius,

that's because he cut his singing teeth on "america's got talen talent". >> that is one young man with a lot of talent. >> no doubt about it. >> the voice of him. >> good being on with you today the news deck is up with john scott up for shepard smith. >> thank you. a black friday letdown. some shoppers who lined up for bargains are finding empty shelves instead. why the day after thanksgiving might not be the best time to score big deals. then thousands of families with no heat or lights as temperatures plunge to freezing. the warning from power crews, this won't be a quick fix. plus, we all know how bad it feels when we don't get enough sleep. now we're just learning how bad it is for our bodies and the damage could be impossible to repair. i'm john scott in for shepard smith today. americans are flooding stores and shopping malls to take advantage of the dayft