that the 57-year-old victim was leaving the giant grocery store. a man in his 30s walked up with a weapon and forced the victim into his own car. >> the suspect took control of the vehicle and proceeded to drive the vehicle with the victim along to various atms. >> reporter: this happened at 2:30 in the afternoon. the abductor forced the victim to withdraw cash from atms in montgomery county. >> at one point the victim had talked to the suspect and the suspect then agreed to let the victim go. he relinquished the vehicle back to the victim and the victim was released unharmed. >> reporter: the victim got home just before 7:00 p.m. and called police. the whole story had other shoppers at the giant shocked and disgusted. >> it's amazing we are not safe going to the grocery store. >> i shop here two to three

times a week. never heard of violent crimes. >> reporter: that kesha has shopped here for years and she knows not to let her guard down. >> you have to be cognizant of what's going on around you and carry my mace in my hand instead of my purse. >> reporter: the victim was not hurt at all and didn't need medical attention. this investigation is ongoing. the police just released more information. they say the suspect possibly cut his finger at some point during this incident. they will be talking to the grocery store and the banks to see if there is video that may help lead them to the suspect. back to you. now back to the breaking news in arizona. a plane crashed in the superstition mountains east of phoenix. this is video of flames from the wreckage. investigators say the plane

appears to have been a twin engine plane. there is no report of isz many -- missing commercial aircraft. a person was killed in an accident on i-270 north. a car veered off the road in urbanna. we just learned this was a car stolen out of virginia earlier today. right now the traffic is getting by only in one lane in that area. it appears some wires were caught up in the accident and that slowed the cleanup effort. the countdown to thanksgiving. the growing anticipation ahead of black friday. we have you covered on all fronts from airports to shopping malls to the weather. we start with shomari stone live at potomac yard in virginia. >> reporter: good evening. i at the best buy here in

alexandria and these folks are lined up. they have been out here for 30 hours as of tomorrow. this guy is all bundled up. i don't know what this gentleman is doing under here but a lot of folks are lining up here in alexandria and in pentagon city. >> you have a 42-inch sharp television for $199.99 at best buy. >> is it a fun way to spend thanksgiving. >> reporter: charlene and jerry are camped outside the pentagon city best buy. they are hoping to get a break on ballad friday electronics. >> what do you say to people who say she is nuts. why is she outside best buy for thanksgiving? >> you live once. have fun. life isn't that serious all that time. >> reporter: she might have a problem overnight in the cold. she doesn't have a sleeping bag or propane heater just a thin

blanket. >> this is my first time. >> maybe you can put your new television in there. >> reporter: hundreds of people are expected to shop starting midnight on thanksgiving day and early friday morning for the deals. last-minute shoppers are scrambling to get food for the feast. this family bought a pumpkin pie and others want patriotic desserts. >> this is a white chocolate capital building. >> reporter: charlene and jerry won't spend time with relatives. >> they asked what i was going to do and they wanted me to come and join them and i said i want to do something different. >> reporter: back out here live they don't have a tent out here in alexandria just these blankets. you may want better blankets but you didn't hear that from me. it's important to point out you can go online and find some deals the same deals inside the

stores also on different websites for the stores. i'm shomari stone. back to you. >> thank you. apple appears to be one of the companies offering discounts on black friday. a tech blog leaked photographs of sale prices expected for friday. among the items on sale, computers, ipad 2s and ipods. the company did have black friday discounts a year ago. now to the roads. it was a difficult and frustrating drive out of town tonight. there were backups across the area and on a busy travel day minor accidents caused major delays. tweets included horrendous, hate and worst time to drive. check points are on roads to discourage drunk driving. 40 officers will be patrolling doing retailer compliance checks and watching surveillance of

bars and restaurants to stop both drunk drivers and underaged drinking. thanksgiving eve is referred to as black wednesday by police. 42.5 million americans are braving the hassles and headaches of holiday travel this thanksgiving. john yang is in chicago's o'hare international airport. >> reporter: on the road, rails and in the air the crowds and lines started to build early and continued to grow throughout the day. >> i do this every year. you get in the mind set you have to go and do this and you just keep a good attitude and just do what you need to do. >> reporter: more people are traveling. >> i never traveled on thanksgiving weekend. >> reporter: and spending more. >> prices are all up. air fare prices are up. hotel prices are up. >> reporter: prices at the pump are up 50 cents a gallon from last thanksgiving.

there are scattered delays and cancellations but for the most part the weather is cooperating. they are feeling the rush on the rails as well. >> there was a super bowl for railroad this would be it for amtrak. normally we move 77,000 people every wednesday. today we will move about 144,000 people. >> reporter: and most of the planes are more than 90% full as travellers try to get home for -- >> the food. i'm looking forward to hanging out with the family and you know, catching up with everybody. >> reporter: but only after catching a thanksgiving ride. >> and will the be just as busy if not busier on sunday when everyone tries to get back home. at chicago's o'hare airport i'm john yang, news4. back to you. there was apologies to a passenger forced to stand on a flight from alaska to philadelphia. he came forward and spoke to a

consumer advocate blog and said he was on a flight this summer when a 400 pound man was the last on the plane. he sat down next to him hen took up nearly two seats. the passenger had no other options so he stood up for nearly seven hours. >> wow. getting cold out there tonight. and in the morning it's really going to be chilly. >> is it going to be chilly not just the temperatures on the cold side. the wind chills will be something you will notice if you are up early in the morning. already down to 39 in hagerstown, 49 in manassas. temperatures have dropped by 20 degrees or so and when you add in the wind chill it's 20 to 30 degrees out there. the storm has made its way out to sea. that is good for us. cleang skies but that means a cold start to the morning. i'll show you what temperatures and wind chills you may wake up

to as thanksgiving gets started in a couple hours. d.c. police are on the hunt for a man who carjacked a woman's suv with her 13-month-old daughter inside. it happened at an exxon station on south dakota avenue northeast. the carjacker drove off when the woman got out to pump gas. he abandoned the car with the baby still in there. he got away with another man in a teal colored infinity. the baby was not hurt. we're learning more about the woman accused in a carjacking over the weekend at tyson's galleria and her ties to the gang ms 13. her name is stephanie schwab. she testified in a murder case involving her former roommate. you might recall she was the ms 13 police informant who was murdered along the shenandoah

river. in addition to the carjacking, schwab is a suspect in two recent bank robberies in virginia. the georgetown university students arrested in egypt will be detained four more days. that news comes from egypt's news agency. the student said that he is being treated well and has not been harmed. he is one of three american students taken into custody monday night accused of throwing fire bombs at police in tahrir square. the mayor is trying to get the washington redskins training operations back in the city. he spoke openly about his trip to the new nfl training facilities in tampa bay and talked about his behind the scene effort to build a training facility on the grounds at rfk. the mayor says it is realistic and he wants to see it happen. >> this could be a catalyst for

economic development as well. but it has to be a partnership between the team and the city. >> no blank checks? >> no we don't have the tablabi to do that. still ahead, a true ham bergler. a national retail chain scrambling to find eggs after accusations that the supplier mistreated chickens. giving up on weight loss? a lot of folks are turning to hypnosis. over the river and through

police released security video of a real life hamburgler at cedar falls iowa.

a person broke in to cook and eat a burger and fries. he turned himself into police. he was charged with burglary, criminal mischief and theft. he didn't remember the event and was not in his right mind. people hoping to buy eggs left empty handed at target stores. target dropped its egg supplier. they did that after they learned of accusations that company was badly mistreating chickens. that leaves many of the stores without eggs and many customers trying to find alternatives. >> i understand why they did it. i don't want them to be cruel to the animals. but it's not the best time frame to do it. >> target understands this is a busy time of year and working to restore its egg supply as soon as it can.

mcdonald's also dropped that supplier. want to lose weight? try relaxing, closing your eyes, focusing on your breathing. could it be that easy? rory divine investigates. >> reporter: sick of yo-yo dieting. >> relax your mind and your body. >> reporter: adrien want to hip know therapy. 20 pounds lighter after five sessions and now she is getting what she is calling a booster session. >> picture and imagine yourself in social settings, eating healthy foods. >> reporter: the therapy sending her unconscious suggestions on mindful eating. eating slowly, savoring the flavor. remembering to put town the fork while socializing. >> i can never make her do anything she doesn't want. it's only that which she has a

desire for. >> reporter: marla has a doctorate in clinical hip know therapy. she doesn't tell clients don't. rather she tells them what they want to achieve. >> if i said to you don't think about your last name it pops up because the subconscious mind deletes the don't. >> i.e., eliminated the word lose from my weight control vocabulary. when we lose something we try to find it again. instead of losing pounds, pounds are shed. instead of weight loss it's weight control. word choice. >> these are useful tools and we know that with statistics if you add hypnosis to traditional weight loss programs it more than doubles the success. >> reporter: george prat uses hypnosis to supplement therapy. he says that studies show an

average weight loss of six pounds with a general range of 12 to 17 pounds. >> the basic issue is just remember it's going to take active participation on your part. you're not going to do it automatically. >> knowing you are in choice and it's up to you. >> hypnosis doesn't work for everyone. but for those who trust and have the desire, change is possible. all that rain overnight and this morning created dangerous flooding conditions in parts of pennsylvania. rescue crews in lancaster county had to use a boat to save a guy after his car got stuck after taking an unfamiliar road to get to work and he misjudged the depth of the water. >> all that traffic you were stuck in today? that puts in the perspective. >> we say turn around and don't

drown we don't know how deep that water is. there is flooding in some counties. a major flood stage up there in frederick county. the rest of us saw a half inch to an inch half of the rain and that rain is out of here just in time for thanksgiving. if we had today's weather tomorrow that would have made a lot of people upset. but i think tomorrow will be fantastic. look at the high temperature, 64 at 10:00 this morning. the low temperature, 46 degrees. that is the current temperature out there right now. 8/10 inch of rain today. and this could be the best thanksgiving in a number of years. the temperatures climb above average tomorrow. right now, 46 degrees is the current temperature. a dew point of 33. winds out of the north-northwest at 15 miles per hour. currently 39 in hagerstown. 41 in gaithersburg.

45 in manassas. and fredericksburg at 48 degrees. the wind gusts over 20 in washington and fredericksburg and andrews air force base. that puts our wind chills in the upper 20s and lower 30s right now. gaithersburg with a wind chill in the mid-30s right now. is it going to be a chilly evening and a very cold start to tomorrow morning. the radar not showing anything as far as rain is concerned. all the rain has moved off. if you are waiting to travel until tomorrow here is the only storm of consequence in portland and seattle and san francisco. that is it. the rest of the nation will see a fantastic day as far as thanksgiving is concerned with a lot of sunshine nationwide. that's very unheard of this time of year. chilly and windy during the evening tonight and early tomorrow too.

i think the winds 5, 10, 15 miles per hour but that will bring the wind chills down into the upper 20s and lower 30s tomorrow. but with plenty of sunshine we will warm up nicely. by 10:00 tomorrow morning will the feel nice out there. by noon or 1:00 it is fantastic. friday more of the same. more sunshine and warmer as high temperatures climb 10 degrees above average. clear skies, breezy and cool. wind chills in the 20s to lower 30s in most areas. the actual temperatures in the 30s. winds tomorrow northwest at 10 to 25 miles per hour but not too bad. a great afternoon. 53 to 58 degrees with plenty of sunshine. and how about this for a couple days off. 64 on friday. 65 on saturday. 65 on sunday. we will see late rain coming in on sunday but not too worried about that. but the storm it's will be one

to watch. an interesting scenario to see how much rain we get from it. >> but the warmer temperatures will feel nice. still ahead how one turkey ended up in the back of a police

caps played hockey tonight. home stand and need wins. >> they played well. they have turned things around. semin was back after a healthy scratch on monday night. he scored the first goal of the game and put forth a little effort too. the joe ward was benched for oversleeping and missing a team meeting on tuesday. they gained one and lost one and won one. 18 goals in 32 games for semin.

the trend continues. one alex to another. ovechkin to semin who rips it in there for a goal. his fifth goal of the season gives the capitals a 1-0 lead. tied at 2. backstrom's first shot is stopped and the second one is not. he stays with it here. chips it in there right between the wickets and that's a goal. the capitals up 3-2. happy birthday nicky, 24th birthday. what that would be like to be 24 again. wheeler to little. and we are going to overtime. tied at 3 in the exthere frame. wideman finding jason out front and that's your game winner. the second goal of the game. the team-leading eighth of the season. great pass from wideman. the bench goes crazy. the capitals take it 4-3 in o.t.

after the game trngs coach with plenty of braise. >> he's been great. he's been engaged. he's on one of those rolls where he hasn't been on in a while. he's a guy that works every day. he's always got a smile on his face and he keeps the team loose. it's good to see good things happen to good people. >> all is right in capitals land again. last night we talked about georgetown being better than expected. tonight, the hoyas downed memphis. they beat the number eight team in the country. not bad for a team with only three upper classmen on the roster. how about this picture from hawaii? >> nice. >> the maui invitational. just about 20 seconds left in the game. henry simms kicks it out and

gets it back. that sends it to overtime. he was the washington post player of the year last year. jason clark takes the shot. jason clark makes the shot. 26 points for clark. this is it. 6 seconds left in the game. antonio barton shoots to tie. hits the iron. and georgetown wins it 91-88. and here's the interesting thing. these two teams play again in a month at the verizon center. that will be a good one. g.w. beats bowling green. they are 4 and 1 on the year. if you are looking to eat less this thanksgiving this video may help you. over thanksgiving they have this new contest called the wild turkey 81 eating championship. seven contestants had to down as

much meat as they could. that's not wild turkey that's green tea they are drinking. but you have to eat it off the bone. sonya thomas downed five pounds of turkey and she is your champion. she also by the way holds the world record by eating the

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