black friday madness is well underway across the country. we are *live with shoppers hoping to score some big deals. plus -- protesters in ferguson, missouri, target stores in a black friday boycott. and, the bears got fed to the lions this thanksgiving... highlights, coming up. >> tasty. >>good morning. i'm dan ponce. and i'm erin mcelroy in for lourdes. thanks for joining us on the wgn morning news at *4 a-m. >> i thought the bears were off to a could start for the first 10 or 12 minutes. >> he didn't know he didn't get to watch anything.

>> i was cooking. it's like a tradition when there's turkey and then the lines getting their butt kicked. >> is that a tradition? >> it kind of messed up. >> put a fork in it. >> the puns are going to go crazy. >> get it now. it's a dorchester. plenty for everyone. generally to the north. we have some snow showers. about 1 in. north of chicago. as a travel to the south may be just a dusting. 21 right now for chicago. 20 in lansing. 17 and morris. 15 in dekalb. settle it composite shows snow coming in from the west. it will be heavy and it in and out by 10:00 a.m.. not much snow. will not dominate the whole day.

light snow showers than its leaves. typical high, 41. you won't be close to that. today's high only 35. marl, windy and mild at 53 degrees. then we do it again on sunday. mostly cloudy high-temperature climbing up to the 52 greece. >> that's looking pretty good. pins are pretty quiet on the roads. but with a black friday it could get crazy. keeping our eye on that pier crash abound in ryan close to 26. minor- league blockage. approval see what happens. we can't blame snow at the mall if it's a going to be over by 10:00. that thanksgiving feast is already a memory -- as the black friday madness is now underway. and some shoppers got an early jump on the bargain hunting yesterday.

who better to do this story thanpatrick elwood is live in rosemont with more. who better? let's say, john and dick and joe and on and on. but here we are at four or five a m at the outlet mall its pact here. busy as candy it has been this way for hours. but some people are even taking in some shopping after their thanksgiving. for many it has become a tradition to go shopping the night of thanksgiving and early in the morning on black friday. retailers will typically produce certain items just to get to input toward knowing they might lose money but hoping you will spend money on some other things. some people on a tight budget, a limited amount of money, this is the way to go. >> absolutely phenomenal. everything is 50% of. >> went to walmart once and

it was like a stampede of people. pushing and shoving out of the way. so another year of doing this. >> as we come back here live, this is the line for burberry. their only allowing so many people in at one time. that's repeated to the mall. retail experts say more people have more jobs of their spending a little bit more money. not a lot but just a little bit. >>the protest over a grand jury's decision in the branching out. a group of people, angry that police officer darren wilson wasn't indicted for shooting brown, staged demonstrations last night outside "big box" retailers like wal-mart and target, urging people to boycott "black friday" holiday shopping. national guardsmen patrolled outside the stores, to prevent violence and looting.

the ferguson protest spread all the way to new york, where a small band of the macy's thanksgiving day parade. they broke through barriers and confronted a line of police officers. at least seven people were arrested. some activists even tried to launch a "hashtag stop the parade" campaign online. but the parade went on as scheduled. malls and stores across the country have been busy all night long - with big crowds of black friday shoppers. andrew spencer shows us how some of those crowds got out of control. >> stores that waited until midnight for the black for the open had no problem trying big crowds cheered as usual few of those crowds and that in trouble. someone at the wal-mart in houston captured this video as people try to clean a black friday deal by laying on top of tvs. rough and tough that police had to get them off. elsewhere, crowds were called, shoppers shuffling into stores with determination. after the turkey is the way the black friday faithful crowd into the square to celebrate the official beginning of the holiday season. it's been

even more an official in recent years at stores open earlier and earlier. some as early as thursday morning. to make a point of marketing themselves waiting until friday this was not to encroach on a holiday. hideaway, blind outside becomes all the way to the checkout as shoppers greg presents for their loved ones and maybe even something for themselves. >>thanksgiving mass -- lead for the first time by archbishop base cupich. it happened yesterday morning at saint mary's in lake forest. the festivities then took cupich to the catholic served food to the homeless. >> it's important for us to realize there is a chronic need day in and day out. we need to provide that to a family. if i could be part of that i am happy to do that. >>this year... the catholic charities served up a warm thanksgiving dinner to more more than 150 men, women, and families. the bears failed to move the ball against the lions

top-ranked rushing defense, and now they are virtually eliminated for playoff contention. the bears visiting detroit on thanksgiving for the first time since 1999. they got off to a good start with jay cutler hooking up with alshon jeffery for two touchdowns in the first quarter. then the lions went on a 34- to- 3 run... matt stafford threw for 390 yards and two touchdowns to calvin johnson. meanwhile matt forte was held to just six rushing yards on five carries. the bears lose 34-17 and fall to five- and- seven. much more coming up in sports. a wave of smash-and-grab burglaries reached the north austin neighborhood yesterday. the owner of j-bee's clothing, on west north avenue, hopes to reopen this morning. someone in a stolen pickup truck rammed the store's brick wall three times until it gave way. then 15 people scrambled through the opening and stuffed garbage bags with a hundred thousand dollars worth of high-end jeans and other clothing. it was all over in less than 5 minutes. >> it's really sad. a

thanksgiving you're supposed to be with your family and then to have to deal with this. >> i feel sorry for whoever did this. their day is coming. >>the store can't reopen until the gas, water and electricity are restored. the owners say, if security cameras and a brick wall won't stop thieves, *nothing will. police in gary, indiana are looking for a man accused of shooting two women, killing one of them. the shooting happened at about five a-m yesterday after an argument inside a house in the 1000 block of matthews. police say 31-year-old kennette oneal ran out into an alley behind the house and was shot several times and died at the scene. a second woman was found shot in the backyard. detectives say the suspect is oneal's boyfriend. he was last seen driving a 20-06 gray chevy trailblazer. repair crews are making progress in restoring power to the hundreds of thousands of east coast residents forced to spend thanksgiving in the dark. the outage came at the hands of a powerful nor'easter dumped snow from main down to west virginia.

in maine, warmer temps helped crews cut the number of those effected down from 110-thousand to just 32 thousand. and more than 133-thousand homes in new hampshire are stuck without power this morning. officials say it could take several more days for some homes to get their lights back on. as we braved one of the coldest thanksgivings we've seen in a few years... in california, heat was setting records. the national weather service says parts of san diego hit 85 degrees yesterday.. breaking a 111- year-old record by two degrees. and the 90 degree heat felt in santa ana -- toppled the record from 1922 of 86 degrees. records were tried or broken in more than 12 other cities across the state. and demetrius always helps us by shonas places that had it worse than us. >> show where some video by you have people hanging out in california. today we are

cooler than normal with snow showers. the good news is the snow won't stick around all day. it's out of here by 10:00 a.m.. traveling to this out not so much. half an inch. 20 degrees right now in blue island. beecher in the upper teens. satellite radar shows snow moving across into dekalb. expect snow showers this morning. it could slow some people down i know many will be headed to the mall he may come across some covered it roadways early on. today's high, 35 degrees. sun and clouds. 53 degrees on saturday. 52 on sunday. a cooled down on monday. when state we are back up to 41. thursday, high reaches 39 degrees. and nice warm weekend ahead. >> let's go check out the would feel the mall where

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launching a nationwide crackdown on the drug cartels that have corrupted local government officials in city after city. president enrique pena says, the last straw was yesterday's discovery of 11 decapitated and partially burned corpses next to a road in guerrero city. the new crackdown will allow the mexican congress to *dissolve local governments that have been infiltrated by drug gangs. pope francis is en route to turkey this morning for a historic 3-day visit. the pope is scheduled to arrive in ankara in about an hour. he is scheduled to meet with the turkish president and then travel to istanbul tomorrow for a meeting with the head of the orthodox christian church. this is the pope's first visit to turkey - which is mostly muslim. he is expected to speak out about the persecution of christians in the middle east - particularly syria and iraq. patronage is alive in north korea. dictator kim jong un has filled a top government position, by hiring his little sister.

the new appointment makes kim yo jung a "vice department director" of the powerful "workers' party central committee." yo jung and her brother spent yesterday touring a cartoon studio in the capital, pyongyang. at least a thousand homes in australia are damaged after a storm slammed down on the eastern coast. severe hail caused almost 90 thousand people in brisbane to go without power. roads became littered with glass and debris... and a number of schools got enough damage to cancel classes for today. the army is now headed in to help clean up the mess. city officials are calling the storm the worst to hit in three decades -- estimating 100 million dollars in damage. how about a big mac with your prayers and communion? a group in new jersey is pitching the idea of building a mc donald's inside a church - as a way of re-vitalizing churches in america. they're calling it "the mc- mass project". the group says christianity is unable to capture modern audiences and millions of americans are leaving churches every year. they are trying to raise a million dollars on the

crowdfunding site "indie go go". once they find a church to partner with, they say they'll buy a mc-donald's franchise and make it part of the building. so far, they've raised a little more than a hundred dollars. you may have to start somewhere. you may get me into church if you give me some fries. >> let's go live up to marcus who is live at the mall. >> good morning. we are right in the center of the mall of on the top level. you can see the crowd. still quite a few people are out here shopping. the line at starbucks was like 20 minutes long. people are doing all kinds of shopping. many of the wings to see right here. this is a style setter here with us. what are you showing off? >> this year we collaborated to create a gift guide for every type of person to get a gift for. this is the modernist. basically modern

line, streamlined less is more. here are the ideas we have. this is like a minimalist black dress. this is from macy's. it's $128. we have a nice cocktail ring from nordstrom's. this one is $68. we've got these nice sandals. this is from nordstrom's this one is from macy's. and some accessories like an ice gold watch with a diamond accent's. >> let's go quickly through here it really fast. >> this is a michael course clutch from macy's. a tie clip as well. >> wouldn't this looks great on erin back in the studio. >> that's right these are pretty nice there for macy's. >> look at all this stuff. people are going crazy to get their hands on the

spirit much more coming up from the mall. >> we already know how much erin likes to buy shoes. her last name is marcos... >> as we head out to the to go shopping, we are expecting snow showers to plague areas north. not so much to the south. just as light snow there. wind out of the south and 3 mi.. current temperature 21 in chicago. it's 20 in lansing. and juliet its 17. the calibrating at 15. the radar shows snow across western and northern communities. will zoom in. here is the illinois and wisconsin state line. still moving through portions of mchenry headed towards a leak county. it will be light snow early on. satellite composite shows fairly calm conditions. today's high of 35 degrees.

light snow to the north. morrow, 53 degrees. >> coming up, what tweets are topping the wish list this year and the crash and a smash and grab trend continues. more coming up. >> and in sports, the lions' top ranked defense gobbles up the bears and any black playoff hopes.

good morning. whenever playoff speculation was beginning to grow, the bears started fast and then fizzled. blinds gobbled them up on thanksgiving day. some stuff up his sleeve, how about the game opening touchdown drive? first quarter touchdown in seven games, color had five at six. it's 7-0. later in the first, stafford back to throw for detroit. jeered alan get him. the ball comes out and alan fights ever before possession. the bears are at the five. after a 2 yd loss, cutler heaves it up and you can't guard this.

its 14-0 with the bears. and from there they are out. stafford and johnson treats them like a great school team, stafford truce could of been for 90. the magnetron two touchdowns among the 11 receptions. fastest receiver ever. the bears lose 34-17. not much the coach could say. >> i don't know that they did anything. we had some penalties and we just didn't do enough. we couldn't overcome that adversity. matching score for score, we just couldn't do it. >> would talk about it, whenever we talked, they were getting the pressure. >> playoff pressure is off the bears at this point. game getting up today, the

bulls and celtics in high noon the hawks play in anaheim for the 230 pre- game. that's morning sports. and -- the thanksgiving n- f-l night cap featured a rematch of last year's n-f-c title game between the seattle seahawks and the san francisco 49-ers. seattle would dominate the game pretty much the whole night, as they beat the before the thanksgiving dinner and early shopping, came chicago's 81-st thanksgiving day parade. mark and micah hosted the annual event, while amy rutledge got in on all the action street side. >> look at you guys. was a cold? >> does the neurologist one to answer that? >> cooled is something we all said at the beginning. it went beyond that. people weren't even waiving it was that cold. >> it was pretty cold and we were like the caboose of the parade. by the time we got through we had frozen digits. the we had a great time. it's always a fund parade.

>> get of the way you're blng is the parade for thomas killing people >> with just let him have it. we can't complain about being called. chief >> next up to the hosts. it looked pretty good. >> you say we are getting a warm up? >> a warm-up comes after today's snow. today's temperatures are not born to be too warm. a big shopping day people will be out and about. about 1 in. to the north of chicago. south will see as but it does get out of here by early morning by 10:00 a.m.. i know people are wondering how i just want to get this in case somebody wants to buy something for the weatherman. 35 degrees will be the high. and typically where a 42 on 32 in. steam. if you're looking for a gift

for your favorite or least favorite meteorologist there you go. >> that is very convenient. >> a favorite part of the parade is when someone yelled that you are my favorite meteorologist and demetrius waived and then realized there were talking to him. >> that's the new reality. get used to it. >> you are my favorite meteorologist. >> we have some traffic. an accident to tell you about, north down 57 at 159, we will break said down with a look at that and also with happening on the outbound dinner and all coming up. >> more, including a live report from black friday ground zero. marcus is out there. >> and who performed one of the autopsies at the michael brown shooting. >> and children are rescued after being buried under a snowbank. >> and the best in show dog. that's coming up.

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good morning, i'm dan ponce. black friday madness is well under way will live with shoppers hoping to score big deals. >> and a look at black

friday across the country as crowds get ready and others stay column. >> and learning what the governor is good to do with his paycheck. >> good morning. let's go to demetrius ivory for a check of the weather. he is promising a bit of a warm-up. >> we do expect a warm-up but not until we get into tomorrow. today will be in the 30's with snow showers early on. as you head out to go shopping the potential for that lights know is there. plight accumulation generally to the north. today's high in the mid-30s. cooler than normal six degrees cooler than normal. but yesterday's high only in the upper 20s. a low down to 15 degrees. 15 at st. charles. all gone when reading at 18. when chicago at 15. queen of angels school at 21. radar shows we have snow continuing to move in from the north and west. not a heavy snow. much of the action is north of the

city. lake county as much as 1 in.. you concede a tight line of snow in and out quickly. we are dry by attend a and moving towards good conditions. today, 35. tonight slow only 31. 53 on saturday. said it will make 52 with another temperature drop coming into monday. looking good right now. some snow is coming. that will make things busier for traffic. >> and doing everything but weather. we could have a busy day on the rose as everyone heads out to shop. that russia could make it rough. we are watching a serious accident. we are looking at the dan ryan and you concede the flashing lights at the bottom middle of your screen. this is the express lanes outbound at 25. all lanes are down due to a serious crash it has been there for about 10 minutes. everyone is getting

by in the local lanes. express remains blocked all because of a fender bender. emergency responders are working to clear this up but will let you know once this opens up again. >> moving away from thanksgiving, let's talk about black friday. already a memory -- as the black friday madness is now underway. and who better to send out to the mall, patrick is live in rosemont with all the latest. i don't know if i've volunteered or if i was conscripted. but i am here in rosemont. plenty of people are out here. people are waiting in line to get into the parade store. to my left the store has been credited for hours and hours. as busy as can be paired for some people, it's a tradition. for others they're coming out for the first time to take advantage of those deep discounts. retailers will discount up

to 50-70% off just to get you in the the door hoping he will spend money on other items. retailers are feeling confident that they will have a robust holiday season. if you are on a budget, this is the time to shop. the way to go. >> of finding a lot of shoppers making this a family experience coming in groups doing it together and enjoying it. also, some great savings. our stores are the offer up to 75% off. and for this evening they are offering an extra percentage off. >> there you go. that's the story out here. this scene has been repeated throughout the u.s.. these people are waiting in line because some stores only allow a certain number of people at a time. they seem to be ok with that. i'll be here all

morning long. back to you. the mean know if there's something you want me to watch out for. >> open parking spots! >> erin likes shoes. check it out for her. >>shoppers also packed malls across the country looking for those big bargains. the crowds rushed many stores at the stroke of midnight.. in wal-mart in houston, one shopper caught this scene on their cell phone -- as people tried to claims a black friday deal by lying on top of t-v's and wrestling them from other shoppers. police officers were called in to intervene and get things under control. black friday has historically been the busiest shopping day of the year but this year, analysts are predicting that the saturday before christmas could take over the top spot. the protest over a grand jury's decision in the michael brown case, is now branching out. a group of people, angry that police officer darren wilson wasn't indicted for shooting brown, staged

demonstrations last night outside "big box" retailers like wal-mart and target, urging people to boycott "black friday" holiday shopping. national guardsmen patrolled outside the stores, to prevent violence and looting. one of the three autopsies on the body of michael brown is being criticized, because of who performed it. shawn parcells was an assistant in the private autopsy done for brown's family. he says he's a forensic pathology expert and a professor at washburn univerity. but parcells isn't a doctor... he has only a bachelor's degree. and the university says he's not on the faculty. parcells says, sometimes he performs autopsies with no licensed pathologist in the room. taking a look at the *other top stories this morning. the bears two- game winning streak is over... along with their playoff hopes. they got off to a fast start in detroit, with two touchdowns from alshon jeffery in the first quarter. but the lions answered with 390 passing yards from matthew stafford and two touchdowns to calvin johnson. bears lose 34-17 and fall to five- and- seven.

illinois' governor's mansion needs some fixing up. and incoming governor bruce rauner says he'll pay for it, out of his own pocket. rauner and his wife toured the mansion last week, and say it has major water damage. the new first couple will pay for some of the repairs, and try to raise money for the rest of the repair bill, without using taxpayer money. police in gary, indiana are investigating a shooting killed a woman and left another on injured. it happened at about five a-m yesterday at a house in the 1000 block of matthews. 31-year-old kennette o'neal ran out into an alley behind the house during a domestic dispute. she was shot several times and died at the scene. a second woman was found shot in the backyard. the owner of j-bee's clothing in the north austin neighborhood hopes to reopen his store today, after a thanksgiving morning smash-and-grab that cost him 100 thousand dollars. thieves used a stolen pickup truck to knock down a brick wall... then they stuffed sacks full of expensive jeans, jackets and other merchandise. a cellphone store in saint

louis was also targeted by smash-and-grab thieves. an s-u-v, belonging to a local politician, was stolen, and rammed three times into the "all wireless" store. down, the thieves scurried through the store, helping themselves to phones, laptops and accessories. they even tried to empty out the cash register. some people are speculating that the theft was related to the unrest in nearby ferguson. >> do you think it's connected? >> i hope not. >> how do you protect yourself? >> i don't know what else to do. >>for now, the store is out of business until extensive repairs can be completed. two kids in new york are safe and warm again... after being buried by a snow plow. while two boys were building a snow-fort in the parking lot across from their home wednesday.. a snow plow buried them in a pile of snow. when the boys didn't return home a couple hours later, the parents called police. officers spent hours searching the neighborhood for the boys... eventually returning the parking lot.. that's where the boys'

faint voices were heard under nearly 5 feet of snow. >> when they found them, there were gasping for air. and there were only wearing a sweater. >>the boys - ages 7 and 9 - are safe and sound.. with no major injuries reported. las vegas hosted dozens of thanksgiving buffets. and it may surprise you to know that turkey wasn't the biggest attraction. visitors who shelled out as much as 53 dollars a plate, seemed to prefer less- traditional *crab legs for their holiday meals. other buffets offered ham, tamales and oysters. only in las vegas. the thanksgiving day crab leg. >> i was tempted to do pie with a little coffee this morning. >> once you fall off the wagon the diet just keeps on going down. >> what are you saying? the mad you figure it out. let's take a look. 19 degrees. wind of the south at 3 mi.. two point down to a 11. today, temperatures are not warm. we're only in the mid-

30s. we do warm up. yesterday's high 27 yesterday's low was 15 degrees. it was cold. its 19 at o'hare. waukegan at 16. pitchstone at 20. oswego reading at 16. valparaiso at 19. don't get used to these numbers. they will go away. it's going to get warmer, the upcoming weekend. we have to get through the change in the air mass. with that we have potential for snow showers early on. the snow is generally limited to areas north of chicago. you can see towards woodstock so snow going on. we are expecting to see as much as 1 in. of snow to the north. to the south probably not much. just some grassy accumulation. it's all done by 10:00 a.m.. the computer model shows the snow will to the north. that is not

valid but think it gets itself together into the later portion of the day. the cloud cover stays over chicago. for saturday, we have warmer air coming in from the southwest. that cloud cover is still reluctant to break up. typical high for this have of the year is 41. tonight is down to 31. mostly cloudy for the overnight. breezy and wind at 10-20. saturday, i know i have been looking for to this since last year. we knew it was going to be this form last year. that's actually 52. 52 for the high. we all make mistakes. mine have to be on television. go over to erin or dan. just a bit. >> that's the demetrius ivory almanac coming true. stick around, coming up we're talking about an emotional post going viral.

>> and trending, looks that gas prices will drop again. we break down the numbers. good morning marcus! >> good morning. we are down here at the mall for black friday. behind me you can see the crowd coming through. everybody is having a good time. he put them in the bag after he bought them. it's crazy. everyone is having a good time. we have kids pull the romantic in your life.

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toddler son accidentally shot her in the head monday night. according to police, the 26-year-old was changing her infant daughters diaper...when her 3-year- old son found a semiautomatic handgun under the sofa.. and accidentally fired the fatal bullet. she died an hour later. the grandmother came home and supposedly found the two children covered in blood. the boy taken by police for questioning kept repeating "mommy shot." pictures snapped by a hiker who was killed by a bear back in september have been released. the 300-pound-animal were taken by darsh patel just minutes before the attack. the images show the bear getting closer to the group

in each shot. the 22-year-old rutgers student was walking in the apashawa preserve in new jersey with four friends.. the bear chased them after being attracted by the camera. it was immediately euthanized. here are a few stories that are trending online this morning ... an emotional facebook post about ferguson by an n-f-l player is going viral. new orleans saints' benjamin watson took to facebook tuesday... voicing his reaction to the decision not to indict officer darren wilson. the 33-year- old tight end voiced his anger with the injustice... and saddened by the violent reactions in the suburb. right now... the post has been shared over 400- thousand times. we can look forward to cheap gas, well through the holiday season. "opec" oil ministers, meeting in vienna, have voted *not to cut their production of crude oil, to try to prop up oil prices. the price has fallen 40

percent in recent months, to around 70 dollars a barrel.. due in part to more cheap oil being produced in america. >> the best in show goes to the bloodhound. >>that's nathan - the bloodhound and the big winner at the 20-14 national dog show. the 4-year-old nathan won the title of "best in show" beating our "freda" the french bulldog and "bogey" - the samoyed it's the biggest win of nathan's career -- and it probably helped when he planted a big kiss on the judge. a little flirting with the judges. >> to have the the kids? >> if you have to imagine that. >> you can blame him. congratulations to him. let's go live out to the would field mall. >> good morning. it is black fraud. we are here at the mall one of the busiest malls in the chicago area. it really for the entire state. so we've been sitting here with this all these kids out in front of us.

earlier we had kids for the modernist in your life. now for the romantic. what you have? >> first, we have this from anntaylor. you can see the tools embellished. it's very pretty. this is to under $28. one of my favorites. great for parties. then we have blushed cosmetics, all natural soaps and lotions and they have these great gift boxes with a variety of products. this one has a variety of bath balls. >> what would i do with this? >> the throwed in the bathtub and it dissolves and has soap and different fragrances in it. it's nice for the bathtub. there are other kinds of lotion's as well. >> and what is this? >> that is $100. >> but it comes with all

this. >> and this kit box you don't even need to wrap it. here we have a perfume i want to open this for you. >> a check that out. >> a hessonite sparkle. >> does it light up? >> one of my favorite brands here a silver metallic clutch. a great gift for any girl. benison a story. >> this is from anntaylor. but with the clutch is from nordstrom's. this is an anntaylor necklace. and we have a set of pearl earrings that match that necklace seeking give it as a set. and you can never go wrong with a pair of high heels. these are from nordstrom as well. and this is one of my favorite perfumes, and another option. >> that's great. and all this is available at the mall. very good. >> nordstrom and macy's and anntaylor. >> we will be here talking to more of the shoppers were

buying things. we will have the black friday madness going on throughout the show. >> will check in with him in a bit. >> this talk about snow. temperatures are going to warm up over the next few days. we just have to get through friday. it's 19 at o'hare. 21 in chicago. 17 in bartlett. the radar continues to shows note to the north. we are expecting about 1 in.. for anyone travelling that 1 in. can really make things slip so be on the lookout for that. today's high temperature, 35. down to 31 tonight. 53 for the high temperatures saturday. sunday back up to 52 and monday, 28. a big cooled down comes on monday. >> coming of, hot toys for the kids. and -- jennifer lawrence, the singer... we'll tell you about her new single rising up the music charts. say, you are not the only one who sings.

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