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 day after thanksgiving sales.

but a lot of folks went hunting for deals this morning to find out that they are already too late. >> they waited in line to be a door buster. no longer here. they told him last night at 10:00. i think it's false advertisement. >> the tradition of sitting in the cold and waiting may soon be a thing of the past as more people take advantage of stores that open early on thanksgiving and stay open throughout the night. >> so you just have been shopping for how many hours? >> got here about 3:00. 3:00 a.m. >> so you haven't slept? >> no. >> you love it? >> yes. >> retailers say they are hoping folks are feeling more confident this holiday season with lower gas prices and lower unemployment. that's crucial for the so-called black friday twh stores traditionally start to turn a profit entering the black ink as they say. it counts for more than 2/3 of economic activity. peter doocy is live in springfield, virginia, at a

shopping mall. peter, how are shoppers behaving themselves today? >> john, some black friday shoppers now have black-and-blues because we've seen once again today, bargain hunting can get bloody. there is some amazing video from a walmart in houston where people were leaping atop big screen tvs, which you would think are delicate and they would want in one piece. they held on to the cardboard like their lives depended on it. in california, there was a fistfight at kohl's sending two women to a jail. >> do like black friday and cyber monday. we wait for monday and finish it off on that day. >> i needed more dress suits, ties, couple suits and my wife was asking for a new vacuum. >> it's another day. i know it's more crazy. so i just want to see all the

people and the sales. >> reporter: and so far, at this mall, stores are reporting that sales so far have been better than expected. john? >> so what are the hot sellers today? >> reporter: john, it's hard to comprehend how quickly people are scooping up high tech electronics. last night the first hour that target stores were open, the chain nationwide sold 1800 tvs a minute and 2,000 video games a minute. another big destination today for black friday shoppers is walmart. they say that their top five categories are tablets, tvs, sheets, children's apparel and video games. the macy's in new york city not far from where you are saw 15,000 people in line when the doors opened yesterday and best buy, known as a great place to get electronics, saw so many people at nair website this morning, they had to shut it down for an hour. but it is back up and running right now, john. >> i know we've got a short

christmas shopping season this year because thanksgiving fell late. so what about the stores that opened early, are they seeing a big impact? >> reporter: it's interesting, john. overall the expectation is that this will be a stronger black friday in terms of sales than last year. but experts have an interesting take on this. we've got craig johnson from the customer growth partners who says the net effect of a lot of earlier openings was a pull forward of sales that hollowed out shopping this morning. it cannibalized a lot of the early morning shopping that we'd see a few years ago. stores were dead this morning at 7:00 a.m. not the case, though, at the mall of america where they saw 100,000 shoppers come in between 5:00 p.m. last night just after turkey and 1:00 a.m. this morning on black friday. at the mall of america, officials think that their one-day record of 230,000 shoppers may be in sight. john? >> peter doocy, at the mall. but working.

peter, thank you. the great american tradition of elbowing your fellow shoppers while trying to save a few bucks on a new television is apparently spreading overseas. here's the scene today at a store in london where they don't even celebrate thanksgiving. managers opened their doors at midnight and things, as you can see, got out of control. they had to call the cops as they pleaded for order. >> take one tv at a time. >> but even if they didn't get the tvs they wanted, at least they had some cheerleaders to keep them entertained. another all-time high on wall street. just barely. the dow up about half a point. still a record, though. 17,828.24. analysts say energy stocks took a dive after opec decided not to cut production in response to lower oil prices. gas prices keep dropping too. according to aaa, the national

average for regular unleaded, now $2.79 a gallon. it's down 85 cents since june. one analyst says based on numbers from the financial times, americans are on pace to save $100 billion this year from lower gas prices. that means more money in your pocket for holiday shopping. the u.s. and allies launched more than a dozen new air strikes against islamic state targets in iraq and syria. that's according to pentagon officials. it took place over the last two days. they included militant positions near kobani and aleppo. the u.s. has been dropping bombs on syria for more than two months now. when "the new york times" reports people there are beginning to view america as an ally of syrian president bashar al assad. u.s. officials called for him to step down for murdering his own people but the rise of -- syrian government air strikes on tuesday killed nearly 100 people

in the islamic state's self-declared capital. they say more than half of the victims were civilians. that was just two days after pentagon officials said coalition bombing hit militants near that same city. a former state department senior adviser is here. christian, if the enemy of my enemy is my friend. all of a sudden we're pretty good friends or so it would appear with bashar al assad. >> that's the unfortunate conclusion being drawn by too many people around the world. this has been exacerbated by an administration in washington that can't say who it wants to win. the president said clearly who he wants to lose in syria and iraq. we want isis to lose. with but we're creating a vacuum. we ought to be in favor, of course, of filling that having um with secularists. people who are not like isis but a little bit better. which i would characterize assad as. you know, so far we are creating

breathing space for assad, which is a problem. because he's not just murdering his own people. 200,000 who have died in this civil war since it started four years ago. he has a lot of american blood on his hands, too. >> four years ago when that civil war was under way, president obama bashar al assad has to go. >> that's right. of course, then he famously didn't follow-up with that. he was able to blame it on congress. over in the u.k. the british prime minister asked for permission and was voted down in attacking syria after they used chemical weapons. overall, this is a problem, the u.s. has given minor support to the free syrian army, the defectors from assad's army and opponents against assad and the terrorists. it's been limited and slow. we're four years into this war. we don't have our head in the game of describing what kind of middle east we want, what will be friendliest to the united

states and how to get there. >> yeah. there was a line in that new york times piece that said much that same thing. it caught my eye. i want to read it to you. it says, inside and outside syria, a growing refrain for mr. assad's supporters and opponents alike is that american policy makes little sense. by trying to avoid taking sides, the united states is neither having its cake nor eating it. you agree? >> i do. of course, it's not just the president who is at fault. you're seeing across the board in washington, you have liberals like senator tim kaine of virginia and also rand paul, the isolationist. he styles himself as a noninterventionist. we need a congressional debate and authorization. we have congressional hearings, a lot of preening on capitol hill. inevitably they authorize the war and yet we're no closer to a strategy and no closer a description who we want to run the middle east or part of it. it is said that isis expanded as far as it can in

iraq without running into towns where the population naturally will not allow it to thrive. but that it has room to grow in syria. do you see it that same way? >> i think so. i wouldn't rule out further advances in iraq. the most fruitful ground for it has been sunni parts of iraq in syria. sunnis feel very abused by the shiite dominated government in baghdad. that's why you're not seeing anything like the sunni awakening, the awakening against al qaeda that we saw after the surge of u.s. forces in 2007. you know, this is a resilient force. it's well-led. unfortunately, it has decent resources. water resources, oil resources. two months ago, people were talking about this as a 50,000-man army and now you're hearing estimates of 100,000 men and you have our chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general dempsey talking about a four-year war against this. that's longer than world war ii for the united states.

there's room to grow unfortunately. >> what a mess. christian whiten, thank you. thank you, john. well, it has been a cold, miserable holiday weekend for lots of americans after a wintry storm knocked out power. an update on their situation, plus the story of two boys who headed out to play only to wind up trapped for hours under a pile of snow. how that happened, next. why do i cook? because i make the best chicken noodle soup. because i make the best chicken noodle soup. because i make the best chicken noodle soup. for every way you make chicken noodle soup, make it delicious with swanson®.

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snowstorms cutting power in the northeast and making a mess for thanksgiving drivers. hundreds of thousands of homes across maine, new hampshire and massachusetts in the dark on the holiday. the nor'easter dumped nearly 20 inches of snow in parts of new hampshire knocking down trees and power lines. the storm created dangerous conditions on the roads. police say at least 20 drivers were involved in a pile-up on a bridge in niagara falls, new york and cops say they had to remove more than 50 cars from that bridge. laura ingalls live in new york city. laura, back to the outages, though? are there still people in the dark. >> it's been a long few days for those without power and those trying to restore it. crews in new hampshire, where there's the most outages reports, say they're making progress but have a long way to go. you know, they have been telling us all day that power should be on for most people by the end of the weekend. now they're saying that some people may not see the power come back on until early next

week. let's take a look at the numbers. there were 200,000 without power at the peak of the outage. about 123,000 waiting for the lights to come back on. this is the fourth largest power outage in new hampshire's history according to the homeland security and emergency management who say utility workers come from canada and from chicago and tennessee to help out the problem is so bad. talk about your cold turkey, with no juice for thanksgiving, many were forced to have their meals by candlelight or with the help of a generator and had to make the best of a situation. >> all of a sudden i hear crack. i turn around and i see the telephone pole go like this. i thought it was going to come down. i told my dad, you got to get that generator going to get the turkey done. >> shelters are open in the areas that are the hardest hit. looking at the other areas having big power problems in maine, the utility company there tells us there's about 16,000 people without power. in massachusetts, it's a little

less than 2,000 without power. the customers without it, have taken to twitter, doing their -- the one that stuck out to me today, somebody saying they're thankful for the utility crews working on thanksgiving. probably getting time and a half. nonetheless, thankful for the utility crews trying to get the power back on. back to you. >> looking at the glass half full. laura ingle, thank you. >> thanks. how about this story, two boys recovering after being buried alive for eight hours under a heavy mound of snow. happened wednesday in newburgh, new york. about an hour and a half north of new york city. a plow operator accidentally pushed a heavy snow pile on top of the two cousins while they were building a snow fort. plow driver didn't realize they were there. the boys are 9 and 11 years old. here's how one witness described it. >> it was just crazy. then as they was digging one out, you could hear the other one yelling to his mother and the other yelling to him saying it's all right, you're going to be okay. >> police officers relatives and

neighbors dug through the snow. eventually pulling the two cousins to safety. one boy is still in the hospital. the other one now back at home. fox urgent. nfl running back ray rice has reportedly won his appeal to end his suspension for domestic violence. a hotel surveillance camera, you recall, caught rice punching out his fiance, the woman who is now his wife. at first he was suspended for two games. the league extended it once the video went public. the associated press reported that the players union says an arbitrator overturned the suspension and rice is now eligible to play once again. does the first amendment give you the right to make death threats on facebook? the supreme court is about to hear the case of a man who went to prison because of his post. we'll take to a lawyer, next. b.

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is it illegal to make threats on facebook or is what you post protected by the first amendment? the court will hear the case of a man who went to prison because of posts he wrote on his personal facebook page. prosecutors say the man made threats about smothering his wife and dumping her body in a creek. in another post the man wrote he had "enough explosives to take care of the state police and sheriff's department." the guy says he's an aspiring rapper and claims they were not threats but song lyrics. he claims he had a first amendment right to make the statements. if ruled in his favor, his conviction could be overturned. we're joined by a criminal defense attorney.

this is a fascinating case. >> it is. >> the guy got 44 months in prison for doing the things that a lot of people do every day but the authorities said, hey, this guy is a serious problem and a serious threat. >> that is right. that's correct. it definitely escalated when he started making posts after the fbi came to his house to investigate posts that he had been making about his now ex-wife and his former employer, which was an amusement park and some of the employees that were gruesome and violent in nature. it didn't help then that when the fbi did come to his house that he even, in turn, made another post about the fbi needs to come with a bomb or explosive expert when they show up at his door. or they better have a warrant. it did not help things. >> he had a wife, a couple of kids. when she filed for divorce, it rocked his world and this was the only way he could express himself. >> and i think he's like a lot

of people. i think we all have seen it on facebook. you know, there tends to sometimes be individuals who have pretty public breakdowns, emotionally, mentally right there on facebook. so it's a new dynamic of social media where what is the true effect of what you say even if you're just really venting or it's kind of like a journal but in a public format. there's some real implications as far as what the supreme court is going to be considering in terms of whether or not that's protected speech or not or it can rise to the level of a crime. >> his attorney and the guy himself said he was kind of being like eminem, the rap artist who puts a lot of sort of violent, sometimes anti-female rants in his lyrics. he apparently doesn't much care for his ex-wife either. here's a sample from one eminem song. i'm told it's a little tough to tell, but i'm told he wrote them himself. i'm tired of the games, i want her back. i know i'm a liar.

if she ever tries to leave me again, i'm going to tie her to the bed and set this house on fire. why isn't somebody sending eminem to prison over lyrics like those? >> i think the u.s. supreme court has analyzed this sort of issue before in terms of, is there a cultural or scientific or educational significance to the speech versus is it just simply a true threat? and in the instance of a song, i think that the u.s. supreme court has previously held that there's some cultural expression there, there's some value as opposed to -- it's a piece of art as opposed to just somebody spewing words that are violent in nature and could be intended or at least construed as threats. i think that's the distinction. >> gilberto the cannibal cop in new york city. he was on the new york city police department, got caught posting, chatting with friends online about wanting to kidnap and cook and eat women,

including his wife at the time. she found out about it, divorced him. he went to jail. he was facing up to life in prison on a kidnapping charge. and then a judge said earlier this year, it was all fantasy, he wasn't going to do it. it's essentially protected free speech. how is his case any different from this guy who has been convicted and sentenced to 44 months in prison? >> here's what i see as the major distinction. i think that the federal court of appeals for the third circuit where this case is coming from, where it was previously held that his conviction was affirmed, they heavily relied upon the fact that his wife, mr. alanis' wife got an injunction for protection against him based upon some of his earlier posts that were gruesome and violent in nature about what he was going to do to her, how he was going to kill her, make it look like a rape and a murder and put a pillow over her head. they relied upon the fact that after she saw and obtained the

injunction for protection, he continued to make posts of that nature not only about her, saying i don't care if i go to jail, i don't care if the fbi shows up at my house. your injunction better be big enough to protect you from a bullet. i think that in that instance, you have to look at this in terms of is this really a threat or does it really have any cultural significance. what is the interplay between the two. you have to balance the two. i think that the third circuit court of appeal was not incorrect in finding that the interests in protecting the public and maintaining social order trumped his right to be able to say that on a social media network such as facebook. >> you can't yell fire in a crowded theater. what you say on facebook is a little more murky. we'll find out. supreme court is hearing the case on monday. whitney boehm, thank you. >> thank you. a college football player said he was going to be a walk and did not come back. after he didn't show up for

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a water main break causing a sinkhole and shutting down part of the pacific coast highway in malibu, california. workers say it took almost three hours to shut off the gushing water last night. the broken pipe dates back to 1966. cops asking for help stalling two smash and grab robberies in the chicago area, both caught on camera. thieves used a truck to break into a store on wednesday and a minivan to crash into a shop on thanksgiving. for now, police say they are not connecting the two cases. somebody stole the christmas

decorations right off a family's front lawn outside ft. worth, texas. the mom put up a sign saying the robber had broken her daughter's heart. an anonymous stranger replaced the decorations and mom changed the sign to read thank you. the news continues right after this.

the pentagon is getting ready to transfer more detainees from guantanamo bay according to congressional sources who say it will happen sometime in the next couple of weeks. closing the military prison was one of president obama's priorities when he took office. finding a place to send the detainees has been an issue. of the 242 inmates who were there when president obama began his first term, 142 are still there. of those 73 are cleared for release but the feds are still holding them as they figure out where to send them. we have a writer for the hill and newspaper that covers

congress. we're joined live from washington by him. president obama wants to close the guantanamo bay prison. apparently, well, congress obviously has balked at closing it. maybe if you empty it, send all the prisoners elsewhere, you accomplish pretty much the same thing. >> jon, thanks for having me. i think that's the debate we're having in congress right now. a lot of republicans and their staff that i speak with say they are very concerned about the prospect of transferring these prisoners who are manno ohman i of whom are terrorists. a house armed services committee chairman, buff mckeon said at a recent hearing, wait a minute, we're getting more notifications that the prisoners are going to be released or transferred and we've got to have some more information about this. a lot of questions being asked on capitol hill. >> chuck hagel was defense secretary when bowe bergdahl, that swap took place.

there were five hardened taliban -- out and got bowe bergdahl back. >> he said you got to notify congress. that didn't win him friends and admirers at least inside the administration. >> jon, that's a great point. chuck hagel is gone now. he's stepping down. so there's a lot of concern that here's a guy who was advocating that they need to notify congress before any of the prisoners are released or transferred and clashing inside the administration with folks who say that the president has the authority to do this as commander in chief and doesn't need to notify the congress. you mentioned the bowe bergdahl situation. that was a classic illustration of sort of that tug of war internally with the politics of that really on full display. so it's really anyone's guess at this point for how the administration will work with the congress as the president is adamant he would like to close guantanamo bay. >> we apparently released these five last week.

two of them were released to slovakia, three of them released to the former soviet republic of georgia. now, an independent country. what are they supposed to do with them? is it house arrest? do we know? >> i think there are a lot of questions and i think that's what the congress really wants to figure out. they've got the power of the purse. there's a budget coming up, jon. the pentagon budget. there's talk on the hill that republicans are going to be advocating for more stringent guidelines to be placed in this budget that would require the administration to provide nor details about what and where exactly is going on with the prisoners from guantanamo bay. so a lot of questions being asked, republicans looking for answers on this. liberals saying, you know, wait a minute, this is a bad symbol for the country. we need to close it down. this is going to heat up as the president winds down the second term. >> republicans are talking about using the power of the purse to

regulate what happens at gitmo. isn't it hard to do that, to say we're not going to budget money for you to release prisoners. i mean releasing prisoners, once they're gone doesn't cost you anything. >> that's a great point. especially when you look at the backdrop of this congress and everything that they do have to do. that december 11th deadline for the stopgap budget they have to pass. you know, in just a few couple of weeks. you're right, again, i think the bottom line, though, john is this. president obama campaigned just a couple of years ago that he would close guantanamo bay and yet now we're facing reality in which there are a lot of new and emerging threats. i think the bowe bergdahl situation really does cast a shadow over all of these conversations and really will play a role in what the administration and congress decides to do moving forward. >> we've been told more prisoners going to be released in december, we just don't know who, where they're going.

a lot of questions. >> kevin cyril i. >> thank you. taliban fighters have launched an attack in the diplomatic center of afghanistan's capital city according to afghan officials. those officials say the militants attacked a guest house for foreigners with automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades. fox news learned that some westerners lived there. three gunmen died, a guard hurt. one attacker blew himself up. it happened hours after a suicide bomber targeted a british embassy vehicle, killing five people including a british citizen. meantime, dozens of insurgents attacked an afghan army base killing six soldiers. british soldiers handed it over to them in october. a deadly crackdown on anti-government protesters in egypt. gunshots rang out in the capital

city of cairo as security forces shut down the demonstrations. analysts say it was the first time in months that protesters tried to hold major rallies against the government. after egypt's military coup last year. more than 100 people were arrested john huddy is live in jerusalem. what more do we know, john, about this crackdown? >> reporter: jon, to give you an idea, one police official said his officers would deal with them endangering the public safety in the quote-unquote harshest manner and we saw that as the violence continued today. let's start with that. i'll bring you up to speed. two senior military officials in the egyptian army were killed in an attack in cairo. one of them a brigadier general in egypt's -- someone rolled up and opened fire killing those two officers, including that general. and security forces earlier

today also shot to death four people during demonstrations east of cairo. thousands of people we've seen have taken to the streets both in cairo, alexandria and other cities and parts of egypt. police brought in armored vehicles and extra personnel to deal with possible clashes, rioting and the demonstrations. so far, we haven't heard of any other attacks. but again, jon, the demonstrations and protests continue tonight. >> and who is organizing those protests? >> reporter: you got a couple groups. anti-government groups at this point. you know, egyptian security forces, jon, have been bracing for large-scale anti-government protests by groups loyal to former president mohamed morsi and opposed to the current president, al si si. egyptian security officers arrested 107 alleged members of the muslim brotherhood banned in egypt on suspicion of planning

attacks to coincide with today's demonstrations. remember, members of the muslim brotherhood have been in prison in egypt since al sissy took office. >> also there's a call for a muslim youth uprising. there are terror concerns. remember, aum of these demonstrations, the protests are coming a little over a month after a terror attack on an egyptian security force checkpoint very close to the israel and gaza border that killed 31 egyptian soldiers and the group responsible for that attack, jon, has aligned itself with isis and has called for other attacks and not only in egypt but israel as well. >> john huddy, live. thank you. the president of mexico has announced a plan to fight corruption. it lets mexican national lawmakers dissolve local governments which drug gangs are suspected of infiltrating.

this comes amid outrage over the disappearance of 43 college students in a southern city. people there say they believe a gang working with local police killed the kids. meanwhile, today the decapitated bodies of lefb people turned up on a road 50 miles from where the students disappeared. investigators believe the victims were gang members in this case. police in austin, texas, say a gunman attacked an mexican consulate overnight setting a fire and unloading his gun at the building. firing more than 100 rounds. they say he quickly caught the attention of an officer who was holding the reins of two police horses. >> as he held two horses with one hand, he discharged one round at least one round with a single-handed shot. that would be one heck of a shot. >> the gunman died on scene but investigators say it's not clear whether the shot from the officer killed him or whether he killed himself. they have not identified the man but say he has a criminal record. emergency crews were able to put

out the fire before it caused much damage. police searching for an ohio state football player who vanished tuesday night. family members say they are worried after they didn't see him on thanksgiving. they say he missed practice wednesday, which he never does. apparently he has a history of concussions, including one as recently as a month ago. the family says they're worried he could be disoriented. his roommates say he went for a walk in the middle of the night and didn't bring his wallet or any i.d. family members say he may have been upset when he left. well, still feeling sleepy after thanksgiving and all that turkey? researchers say a lack of shut eye can cause serious health problems down the road. we'll talk to a doctor about the danger. there's word your christmas tree could cost you more this year. that's next. (vo) watching. waiting. for that moment, where right place meets right time.

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the white house christmas tree has arrived.

a horse-drawn wagon hauled it up the driveway earlier today. the first lady and the daughters and the dogs came out to take a look. the 20-foot tall white fir tree comes from a town in pennsylvania. meanwhile, your tree will probably cost more this year. an industry official says the average price will be about $20. $2 more than the past few years. christmas tree growers are grateful because demand has been shrinking. the amount of sleep we get can do more than just make or break the next day for us. our sister network, the national geographic channel is airing a documentary this weekend on the dangers of insomnia. according to one study, not getting enough sleep raises the risk of long-term health issues, like heart disease, obesity and alzheimer's disease. adults shut get at least seven hours of sleep a night. according to a survey, four in ten american adults are not

getting that kind of shut eye. dr. carol ash is here. she's director of sleep medicine for meridian health. you say this is one of the health epidemics, the prime health epidemic in the country right now. >> jon, there's an explosion of this science. it's really clear that americans are not getting enough sleep and it's a real public health hazard. one of the greatest probably epidemics we're facing. >> it's not just as i said, you feel groggy the next day or maybe don't perform quite as well at work as you might. there are long-term consequences beyond that. >> jon, that's what we're starting to understand we're understanding to understand heart disease, diabetes, difficulty with weight gain and some of the newer studies which are really alarming are showing that cancer will grow two times more quickly and more aggressive and invasive. it's not just behaviors, there's a lot of challenges to getting good sleep. shift workers, firefighters would fall in that category.

they can't get good sleep. firefighters, 37% of them have obstructive sleep apnea limiting your ability to get sleep. >> it's not just the number of hours you spend in bed. it has to do with the quality of the sleep you get while you're there. >> absolutely. the amount but also the quality and you know, we're all looking at this whole affordable care act and the wellness and our health. the affordable care act really doesn't address these sleep issues. for instance, we don't really have good rest areas to stop off at on the sides of the roads when we're sleepy. there's no encouragement for cancer patients to see sleep specialists and there's no national program to address school start times so our kids can get more sleep. >> there are a lot of jobs, i think, airline pilots as one example who have to work crazy schedules and their sleep patterns are all over the place. >> that's exactly right. >> it's really taking a toll on all of us. we should change behaviors, take a personal accountability to make sure you get the right

amount of sleep. make sure the environment is quiet and you want a cool environment and a dark environment. so that you can sleep well. if you think you have a sleep disorder, reach out to a sleep specialist to get some help. >> i know that a lot of people, they might not do so well during the week, but they say i'll make it up this weekend. can you do that? is it possible? >> you can't do that. in fact, what happens is when we try to meet the demands and expectations, sleeping in can set off your circadian rhythm. you need to make the effort every day to make sleep a priority. it's that important. >> and it manifests itself in all kinds of ways other than just yawning at your desk. they get irritable and not as good at their job. >> we miss the cues of loss of sleep. it happens very slow but you can have sudden incapacitation if you've gone many hours without sleep.

it can cause you to have difficulty with anxiety, more likely to have accidents. if you have diabetes or heart disease or someone struggling with cancer, you need to consider perhaps there's an underlying sleep problem and focus on underlying sleep problem and focus on it. >> wow. pretty sobering news there. dr. carol ash, thank you. >> pleasure being with you. >> go get some shut-eye, everybody. the lead singer of the grammy award-winning band creed says he has no money left in his bank account but his estranged wife says that's his own fault. that story next. celebrate what's new, the bigger, better menu at red lobster! with more of what you love! try our newest wood-grilled combination! maine lobster, extra jumbo shrimp, and salmon! so hurry in!

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he posted a 15-minute video to his facebook page. he said he has no money for gas or food and up until recently was living out of his truck. julie banderas has more. julie, successful band, lead singer. how can he have no money? >> is estranged wife, jacqueline, says he's broke because he spends all his money on drugs. he filed for divorce after displaying some bizarre behavior. on november 17th he was place on a 72-hour psychiatric hold. his wife says he hears voices in his head and worries his kids will get attacked by isis. tmz also on tabtained a police report. when they found scott on the side of the ro wasted, incoheerngt and rambling that someone was trying to poison him. meantime in his divorce papers his wife describes him as being out of whack as of late and his

drug use has made himself a paranoid shell who threatens to kill himself and his family. he also has visions of people or fire and blames it on a cocktail of steroids, marijuana, pcp and meth. i'm not naming them all, but nonetheless he does need some help. >> he made an appeal maybe for help, maybe for public sympathy. >> yeah, this odd video, he posted this on facebook. he's since taken it down. he said that he sometimes is homeless, he goes without food for days. he blames the irs, though, saying that it has frozen his bank accounts and taken all his money from him. listen to this. >> right now i'm under some kind of pretty vicious attack. i still haven't figured out the reasons why. there are people that have taken advantage and stolen money from me.

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the town of cannon beach, oregon, is looking for a new canine after its last dog turned out to be a scaredy cat. the dog trained with the department for a month. its handlers determined cash was afraid of heights and loud noise easily startled it. it returned cash to the original owner and are hoping to train a new dog by early next year. on this day in 1995, the fast lane got a little faster. it happened with the stroke of a pen when then president bill clinton signed a law ending the national speed of 55 miles an hour so states could set their own limits. many states have raised the limits. in parts of texas it's now 85 miles an hour and the president said you don't have to drive

5519 years5 55 19 years ago today. i'm john scott in for shepard smith. "your world" is up next. eric bowliling in for kneel ton. i'll see you next week. black friday looking more like black and blue friday, but it's not just shoppers fighting over holiday deals like these big screen tvs because this year there's a war on retailers, from anti-walmart protests to ferguson protests. so far it looks like nothing is go to hold back these shoppers. welcome, i am charles payne in for neil cavuto. the union backed protesters are targeting walmart. steve harrigan is where protesters are moving down the street from store to store on this black friday. let's start with william. >> reporter: in this case