indict him for the shooting of michael brown. mark strassmann is >> axelrod: tonight, resignation in ferguson. police officer darren wilson is leaving the force five days after a grand jury declined to indict him for the shooting of michael brown. mark strassmann is in ferguson with the latest. after running back ray rice is cleared to play in the nfl again, his wife speaks out for the first time about what happened in that elevator. mark albert reports. ( cheers ) mission creep-- jericka duncan with an early look at holiday shopping now that black friday's has taken over all of thanksgiving week. and location, location, location, plus a 2,500-bottle wine cellar. carter evans on the beverly hills mansion that could be yours for $85 million. >> it's the finest of everything. it's louie vuitton on steroids.

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> axelrod: good evening. i'm jim axelrod. we begin with breaking news tonight. officer darren wilson has resigned from the ferguson, missouri, police force, effective immediately. let's go to mark strassmann, who is outside ferguson police headquarters tonight. mark. >> reporter: jim, it was clear officer wilson could not return to police headquarters behind me where he's been on paid administrative leave since august 9, the day he fatally shot michael brown. his resignation comes after several weeks of negotiations between his attorneys and attorneys for the city of ferguson, but that resignation is unlikely to stop protests here. at the canfield apartment where's michael brown was killed, the naacp set off on a week-long, 120-mile march. they'll end up at the missouri governor's mansion to demand reforms in the ferguson police department. this demonstration outside the courthouse in clayton included many mothers who have lost children to gun violence.

past ors traci blackmon-- >> there's been killing after killing after killing. some, yes, at the hands of police and she some at the hands of other people. does is not matter. we want the blood in our streets to stop. >> reporter: tensions still remain high. the th cell phone video shows 100 protesters inside a mall in nearby brentwood. they laid down in the aisles a supermarket, but there were no arrests. back at the canfield apartments, 70 bikers, many of them police and firefighters, rallied in support of michael brown but against rioters and looters. retired cop harlan smith led the group. >> tearing up my neighborhood is not going to be send. if i have to bring 100 bikers here to st. louis to do that, then that's what i'll do. >> reporter: on monday night in ferguson, arsonists turned businesses like the little caesars pizza into a total loss. employees gathered outside, including elana, the assistant

manager and single mom to her daughter. what's going to be the hardest part? >> my daughter, knowing that i can cannot provide for her until i get a job. >> reporter: there are a couple of hundred people without jobs because of this. in the same boat you are. >> yeah, we all. we all need a lot of help right now. >> reporter: people are just learning that officer willson will resign. his letter residents, "the safety of other police officers and the community are of paramount importance to me. it is my hope my resignation will allow the community to heal." again, officer darren wilson has resigned, effective immediately. jim. >> axelrod: mark strassmann reporting from the ferguson police department, mark, thank you. nine months after nfl running back ray rice and his wife, janay, got into a fight in a casino elevator in atlantic city, she is now breaking her silence about exactly what happened in that incident that was vividly captured on security cameras. here's mark albert. >> i was furious. we came home, and we didn't talk

the entire ride. >> reporter: in an interview with nbc, janay rice described what she was thinking the night her fiance, now husband, hit her in the elevator of an atlantic city hotel and casino. >> i just didn't want to entertain him, anything he had to say, any explanation. of course, in the back of my mind and in my heart i knew that our relationship wouldn't be over because i know that this isn't us, and it's not him. >> reporter: janay rice also gave an extensive interview to espn published sphrdz. she had editorial control over what was published but described in her own words what happened. rice also explains at length why she says they decided to stay together.

ray rice has apologized publicly several times and again friday's called his actionab inexcusable mistake. geoff foster sports editor at the "wall street journal" said it's a mistake nfl teams are likely to overlook. >> michael vick got another chance. donte stallworth was in a fatal hit and run. he got another chance. >> i think that next year, essential a team will-- certainly a team will take a chance on him. >> reporter: regardless of if or when he plays again, rice's case could upend how the nfl disciplines players. union head demaurice smith has called for a neutral arbitrator to handle discipline. >> there will be changes to our personal conduct policy. i know this because we will make it happen. nothing is off the table. >> reporter: those changes are due to be announced some time before the super bowl. meanwhile, with just five more weekends to go in the regular season, no team has publicly

offered rice a second chance. yet. jim. >> axelrod: mark albert in our washington newsroom, mark, thank you. retailers are still counting the receipts from black friday's. 140 million people are expected to shop over the entire four-day weekend and spend some $50 billion in the process. jericka duncan has more now on the kickoff to the holiday shopping season that has grown from one day to an entire week. >> reporter: the race to get the best holiday deals started before thanksgiving day dessert even reached the table. many mall and store owners opened earlier than ever. >> this kicks off our money-making season. >> reporter: bargain hunters led the way. according to america's research group, or a.r.g., more than 80% of people who shopped thursday into friday's grabbed their sale items and left. founder britt beemer. >> years ago, many people bought the deals and other things. now they're just buying the deals. >> reporter: a.r.g. interviewed 2,000 people by

phone and found more than 44% of shops, or thursday other than teens sent out by their parents to wait in long lines for the best deals. >> my favorite line was one child said, "well, my father's paying my college tuition. i guess i can give up four hours on thanksgiving day to buy his tv set." >> reporter: while some people were hunting for bargains, others chose this iconic shopping wage to call for an increase in minimum wage and push-back against thanksgiving day store hours didn't have a major impact. according to a.r.g., a record 63% of american families shopped thursday and friday's. >> consumers never get mad at a retailer for giving them a great price. >> i look out and see what stores are having what deals and i do it. >> there's one thing retailers know-- if i shop your black friday's weekend, there's a 70% chance i will come back in your store again at least once or twice during the season. >> reporter: and that's what this is all? >> that's what it's all about. >> reporter: and more records

were set online. one report showed thanksgiving day online sales were up 14% from 2013 and, jim, on average, consumers saved a little more than and spent a little less year over year. >> axelrod: jericka, thank you. an egyptian court today dismissed murder charges against former president hosni mubarak. mubarak supporters in the courtroom cheered the ruling that he should never have been tried for the killing of more than 200 demonstrators during the arab spring protests in 2011. tonight, cairo police fired tear gas at more than 1,000 demonstrators who had gathered to protest the court's decision. tonight, pope francis is midway through a three-day trip to turkey where he's spending time with leader of other faiths in search of common religious ground. allen pizzey is with the pope in istanbul. >> reporter: in a fitting start to a day that focused on interreligious harmony, patriarch bartholomew was on hand when pope francis arrived in istanbul, part of a glacial

pace effort to hell a 1,000-year-old rift between the orthodox and catholic churchs. the theme continued in the famous plu mosque where the pope stood side by side for two minutes of what the vatican spokesman called silent adoration. as the pope turned the 15-year-old church, originally a byzantine church and then a exphosk now a museum, the muslim call to prayer wafted over the city. and in another show of unity, patriarch bartholomew attended an unusually lively mass celebrated by the pope in one of turkey's five catholic cathedrals. the only thing resembling crowds that francis has drawn in a country that is 98% muslim were a few dozen well wishers who came to wave and a small group of protesters he never saw who chanted for islamic unity. earlier in his trip, the pope singled out isis as an extremist and fundamentalist group who had subject the entire communities

in syria and iraq to barbaric violenc simply because of their ethnic and religious identity. turk sehost to more than 1.5 million refugees from the conflict in syria alone. and the pope said the world has a moral obligation to help care for them. whatever else the trip may or may not achieve francis has already managed to put moderate muslims and the roman catholic church in the same camp as opposes the religious extremism. allen pizzey, cbs news, istanbul. >> axelrod: in columbus, ohio, this afternoon, ohio state university beat michigan 42-28 in the 110th playing of one of college football's most intense rivalries. but as carter evans reports, a great deal of focus was on a player who wasn't even there. >> to the end zone! touchdown! ohio state! >> reporter: before all the jubilation of victory over their biggest rival, there was a som bell message on the scoreboard. >> a first-year football player has been missing since

wednesday. friends, family, members of the university community, along with columbus police, are part of an ongoig search. >> he failed to show up at an ohio state practice on wednesday. he hasn't been seen since. volunteers have spread oit across columbus, ohio, missing persons flyers in hand. friend like craig thomas are stunned. >> he's never missed competition, never missed practice. >> for him to drop off the radar is-- is very unlike him. >> reporter: jeremiah webber was his wrestling coach at ohio state where he competed for three years. >> i'm very scared for him. i'm-- you know, i'm worried. i'm trying to remain optimistic. we miss him traditionally. >> reporter: his sister told police he's had a history of concussions, including one last month, and the family is concerned he may have become disoriented. ohio state team physician dr. jim borchers said: >> he wouldn't not come home on

thanksgiving. there's something going on. >> reporter: perhaps this comment on the ohio state football team's facebook page best summed up the mood of the fans before the michigan game. "a win would be great, but finding our missing football player safe would be greater." carter evans, cbs news, los angeles. >> axelrod: the president's daughters caught in the middle of a social media firestorm. and let there be light-- more than 1 million christmas lights up in the air downunder when the cbs evening news continues.

>> axelrod: the ever-widening partisan divide in washington did not take a break for the thanksgiving holiday. in fact, just the opposite. thanksgiving actually sparked the latest round of sniping, this time getting very personal. this episode of social media snarkiness began with the president conducting the thanksgiving ritual of pardoning a turkey. >> cheese, you are hereby pardoned. >> axelrod: but it wasn't the

president that drew the attention of a woman named elizabeth lauten. it was his daughters, sasha and malia, who were also in the room and, well, maybe not as transfixed by the pardon ceremony as they might have been a few years ago. >> you guys want to pet him? >> nah. ( laughter ). >> axelrod: miss lawton posted her thoughts on her facebook page. lawton wasn't done. which might have been lost forever to the blogosphere, were it not for the fact that miss lawton is the communications director for a republican tennessee congressman named stephen fincher, and used to manage new media for the republican national committee.

a storm of push-back followed, accusing lauten of being mean, thoughtless, ignorant, and a host of other things we can't repeat here, while calling for her job. on friday's, lawton posted an apology. since the apology was posted on lawton's facebook page thas either been deleted or made private. up next, m.i.t.'s bid for an undefeated football season. was the math on their side?

>> axelrod: black friday's is no longer just an american phenomenon. for the first time, amazon has brought black friday's to china, offering online crust mers in china the chant yesterday and today, to buy every item for exactly the same price being

charged in the united states. football isn't rocket science, which is unfortunate for the football team at m.i.t. after an unprecedented 10-0 run in and their first-ever trip to the postseason m.i.t. was unable to engineer a victory today against wesley college of delaware, ending up on the wrong end of a 59-0 store. in canberra, australia, a christmas display to outshine any other. more than 1.2 million l.e.d. lights strung along 75 miles of cable were used to create a design that was supposed to look like three giant christmas presents. not sure how the design worked out, but the 1.2 million lights is a new world record. still ahead, a beverly hills mansion priced to sell at just $85 million.

>> axelrod: the national association of realtors said this week that sales of existing homes with price tags of more than $1 million increased more than 16% last month compared to

the same month the year before. bit as carter evans shows us, a million would barely get you a closet in one california home now on the market. >> reporter: at the highest point of beverly hills, bruce makowsky has built an $85 million house entirely on spec. >> my budget was there was no budget. it has to be the best. >> reporter: so he'll throw in he's roberto carvelli place settings, $3700 each. bentley chairs, $200,000 for the set. and a $40,000 chrome-polished fuse ball table, just for starters. >> it's the finest of everything. it's louis vuitton on steroids. we actually have the view of outside there. >> reporter: makowsky says he's filling a void with instant gratification for the billionaire who can afford the house but can't afford to wait. >> i'm able to create something that somebody would absolute fall in love with.

if they don't have a taste level they won't understand this house. >> reporter: because, really, who else but a billionaire could appreciate this? >> i paid $200,000 for this absolutely beautiful hand grenade. it's made out of ballistic resin. >> reporter: he says he also spent $200,000 for a wall filled with nothing but giant tubes of candy. >> you pack on the pound over here, and you rip them off when you walk into the fitness room. >> reporter: the fitness center is as vast as the 2500-bottle wine cellar. larger than life would also include this portrait of james dean with a $100,000 exact replica of his motorcycle. >> i'm not just selling the house. i'm selling the california lifestyle. >> reporter: the lifestyle house, at some point, is still awaiting a buyer. >> as far as value, my dad always told me, it's worth what somebody is willing to pay for it. >> reporter: if you have $85 million lying around, that someone could be you. carter evans, cbs news, beverly hills. >> axelrod: and coming up,

reflections on ferguson from one of our journalists who has been there the longest.

>> axelrod: we close tonight with another look at the events of the past several months in ferguson, missouri, this one through the eyes of our associate producer jonathan blakely. >> i got here the thursday after mike brown was killed. when i first got here, i was surprised at, you know, how intense things were on the ground. i remember overhearing someone in the crowd say they were surprised that something that they would see in the meef midde east would happen in the middle of america. and you could see the shooting basically ripped over a scab that had been there for a while in this community. >> i'm frankie with the mighty 13. >> there was one moment when we came back in october after a lot of cameras had gone. we met a kid named frankie edwards out here trying to make a difference. >> if you're looking for a job, let me know asap.

>> reporter: it was interesting to see who was left behind to pick you want pieces. from the law enforcement perspective, there was one lieutenant with the st. louis county police department jerry lord who night after night seems to make a connection with protesters that not a lot of copses have been able to make. we've heard over the past few weeks from government officials and law enforcement that once this grand jury decision was announced they will protect small businesses and look out for residents. >> we are all focused on making sure the necessary resources are at hand to protect lives, protect property, and protect free speech. >> this past monday and tuesday, we were out here on west flor cent, i witnessed at least 40 minute straights of looting in the exact same spot that happened in august. i think from the moment the story broke, i could relate to a lot of the anger. as an african american, i've had that talk about what to do when you encounter police. and i completely understand and

emphasize with some of those initial emotions. one thing that is refresh signature generosity a lot of these residents still are have and the compassion they still have. just this past thursday was invited to thanksgiving by a group of protesters. they didn't have to invite me. i've been sticking a camera in their faces the past few months and they didn't have to be kind and invite me to thanksgiving, but they did. when you see things like that, you know there are people who can facilitate that positive change if they just stay focused and find something else to turn their focus to, but to say that, you know, things have gotten better. i can't-- i can't say that yet. >> axelrod: cbs news associate producer jonathan blakely. and that's the cbs evening news for tonight. later on cbs "48 hours." for now i'm jim axelrod in new york. and for all of us here at cbs news. thanks for joining us and good night. capt

throw rocks and bottles and other things at police officers, scare children, i mean, it's just shameful. >> businesses in san francisco's union square are picking up the pieces tonight after a violent start to the holiday shopping season. >> plus, just when you thought the old bay bridge was going away for good, there's a new plan to just leave it there. well, parts of the bridge. >> it's the calm before the next storm in fact bay area. more rain and snow. kpix 5 news is next. ,, ,,,,,,,,

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