it's going to be cold. if you come out, bundle up. layers. that's what you're saying, right, amelia? >> especially if you're going shopping this morning. it is freezing out there. below freezing actually in many areas. the good news about today not as much wind as we had yesterday on thanksgiving but the chill will continue throughout the day. temperatures right now coming in in the 20s. 24 degrees in dulles. 27 reston. 27 in college park. 31 degrees for those of you in washington. high temperatures today will once again be running a good ten degrees below average. 42 degrees for a high in washington and manassas. 40 for a high in gaithersburg. looking at high temperatures also in the low 40s. typically our high about 53 degrees. but, like i said, the good news, we're not looking at as much wind today. now as we look to the weekend, dry saturday and sunday. however, like i said, that chill

will continue. as we start the weekend on sunday and looking ahead to the upcoming week, little rain chances. i'll be talking more about your dry weekend and the mainly dry weather in a little bit. for now, joe fox, the roads problem free? >> very problem free. a quick look at virginia now. down to potomac mills really no problems. those bright lights hyped you are the bright lights of potomac mills. all the outlets down there looking to be moving pretty smoothly and here is a quick look at pentagon city. no problems on 395. as you can see northbound/southbound all moving freely. regular rush hour configuration. richard and a angie, back to you. while many of you may just be waking up from your food induced naps, thousands of hard core shoppers are already at the

stores for one of the biggest deal days of the year. news 4's megan mcgrath is at the newly opened tanger outlets where many of the stores have been open for four hours now. good morning. >> reporter: yeah, that's right. they've had several hours of shopping here already. but the dynamic has changed a little bit because so many of the stores are opening earlier and earlier. they're not waiting until midnight to open. there's quite a few people here shopping but it's not absolutely packed. we're not seeing the frenzy that you used to see at the midnight openings but some great deals to be had. they're rolling out discounts depending on what time you shop. right now offering 30% off between 3:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. and le'shai here has done a lot of shopping. you have bags. >> i have a lot of bags here, going shopping are for my niece, my nephew, my sister, everything is out of the way. >> reporter: all right, what time did you get here and what kind of deals are you getting? >> 2:30. it was 20% but now we're up to

30% and also they have 50% off a lot of the entire stores. >> reporter: what was the vibe here? how was it? was it really crowded? >> no, it was calm, cool and collected. it wasn't really hectic at all. every store is pretty organized surprisingly. >> reporter: all right. we'll let you get back to it. >> have a good one. >> reporter: you, too. you can see all the displays are out. they have a lot of the discounts are listed here, the black friday deals be and the like. and if you are going to be heading out this morning, that 30% is in effect until 6:00 a.m. and then they're going to roll out a different discount after that. it depends what time you're shopping and what store you go into. lots of people with bags. definitely some shopping being do done. reporting live, megan mcgrath, news 4. back to you in the studio. >> timing is everything. thank you very much. to molette green at the live

desk with some breaking news. new this morning a suspected u.s. drone has taken out alleged militants in pakistan. this overnight strike hit in the country's tribal region in north waziristan. official officials say the drone faired two missiles and struck a house used as a hideout by militants with ties to the afghan taliban. three suspected members of this group were killed. two others injured. the american government rarely makes public anything about its drone program in that country but pakistani officials regularly criticize the attacks as a violation of their country's sovereignty although they have reportedly supported at least some of these strikes in the past. that is the latest now from the live desk. i'm molette green. back to you. >> thanks, molette. we expect to learn how a missing national guardsman tied. evan can curbeam's body was found on wednesday. a meddlecal examiner will release the cause of death today. curbeam spent a night out with friends in fells point, last seen walking to his car. his family reported him missing

after he failed to pick up his 4-year-old daughter the next morning. the d.c. national guard released a statement that reads in part, it is with heavy hearts that we learned today of the loss of one of our own. he was a consummate professional. this car crash involved a police cruiser as you can see. take a look at it. it snarled traffic in silver spring last night around 8:30. the accident involved a cruiser and a minivan and despite how bad this looked, no one was hurt. covering prince george's county this morning, officials gave the all clear after a huge sinkhole swallowed up an suv. a broken water main forced the road to give way. this is at marlboro road. people were without water until 4:00 yesterday afternoon and traffic was a mess. backed up as crews removed the suv and repaired the broken pipe. a big delivery today at 1600

pennsylvania avenue. first lady michelle obama will welcome the white house christmas tree. the 18 1/2 foot douglas fir is coming from pennsylvania. the family that owns the farm will walk along a horse drawn cart that will deliver the tree late they are morning. then it will sit in the blue room. things will look a lot more festive after two tree lighting ceremonies. santa will be busy today. and then at 7:00 in prince george's county, baker will host a ceremony at national harbor are more than 200,000 lights are strung around the tree. it will be followed by fireworks at 8:00. a popular lights display in the district opens up tonight. zoo lights comes to the national zoo. more than half a million lights will transform the zoo into a winter wonder land with lit animal silhouettes, musical

lights display. it is open every night from 5:00 to 9:00 p.m. now through january 1 except for christmas eve, chryst mistmas day, and new yea eve. >> it was a lot of fun last year. should go back this year. >> we should. for all you parents, they have the choo-choo train running that's very popular. coming up, new developments in the deadly cranes collapse in brazil. >> the new video of that collapse as we learn about the warning that was given shortly before that tragic incident. >> accident or something planned? the play in last nate's ravens game lighting up twitter this morning. shoppers, make sure you bundle up before you head out in search for the holiday shopping

a stunt pulled by nba coach that's gone viral is going to cost him a chunk of change. you have probably seen this video of jason kidd telling one of his players to hit him so he could get a time-out. kidd claimed the drink slipped out of his hand but league officials don't buy that. multiple sources say he's going to pay a $5,000 fine. and to make matters worse, the nets lost the game. there's also some controversy brewing this morning from the gridiron over a bizarre play during thanksgiving day football right here on nbc. take a look at this. baltimore ravens jacoby jones there returning a kickoff in the third quarter when it appears pittsburgh steelers head coach

mike tomlin gets in the way. jones appears to try to avoid tomlin and gets tackled saving what looked to be a possible touchdown return. tomlin said after the game that he was watching the return on the jumbotron and did not realize how close he was to the field. the ravens wind up winning that one 22-20. >> and the nets' jason kidd will pay $50,000. i said $5,000. >> that's a lot to pay. yesterday a good day to stay in and watch football. it was cold out there. >> it wasn't too bad to play some touch football either. >> it wasn't that bad out there but it was certainly breezy yesterday. temperatures were runninging a good ten degrees below average, and that will continue to be the case today. however, light winds today and once again plenty of sunshine. it is a cold start, 31 degrees right now. by noon we're flirting with that 40-degree mark. a high temperature this afternoon in the low 40s, about 41, 42 for a high. so you're out and about today maybe doing l some shopping,

going for a run, walking the dog. you definitely need to bundle up but there won't be a severe chill in the air. tonight, however, not the case. it will be very cold tonight with low temperatures inside of the beltway by the water mid to upper 20s. the suburbs, low temperatures there around 20s so i know high school football is in the playoff season. right now maybe you have some friday night football going on for your team. make sure you are bundled up. now tomorrow we continue to be cool but more clouds. here's 4:00 p.m. tomorrow afternoon. a high for your saturday of 41. coming up, i'll be talking about what day i think is the better of the weekend if you plan on hanging holiday decorations this weekend. joe fox, how are the roads looking? amelia, not bad at all. all of the construction has been picked up so we don't have any incidents or accidents in the area. let's take a quick look where megan was at national harbor. no issues on the wilson bridge. also around tysons corner, this is greensboro drive, i believe,

and no problems on route 7 or reported around tysons corner. people going to work today, there is no marc service. vre is running on an "s" schedule. a developing story this morning out of the midwest after a pipeline explodes overnight. what we're hearing is next. live to mall of america in the twin cities for a look at some of the holiday shopping

i'm molette green at the live desk. right now we're gettinging a number of reports that several buildings are burning after a large blast in missouri. apparently a natural gas pipeline exploded overnight. this happened near hughesville, missouri, about an hour and a half drive east from kansas city. so far no reports of anyone hurt by this. this blast so powerful people 15

miles away reported feeling the impact. others 60 and 70 miles away said they could see flames. and a number of people reported smaller explosions after the big one. the pipeline is still burning and fire crews are on the scene. keep it right here for updates throughout the morning. at the live desk, i'm molette green, back to you in the studio. check out brand-new video we just got in of a deadly crane collapse in brazil. that shows the moment the crane fell on top of part of the main stadium being built . two workers were killed. a safety engineer warned his supervisor the cranee on unstable ground. that was ignored. the construction can company has denied that claim. and says the stadium will had be ready for the world cup this summer. a daring rescue. three people needed to be airlifted out of san mateo county. officers on the scene say a driver drifted off the road, overcorrected, turning into

oncoming driver forcing another to swerve. that sent the second car down a steep 600-foot embankment. police said the heavy brush on the hill slowed the car down so surprisingly no one was hurt in the accident. hundreds of ohio families are thankful to be back in their homes today after a chemical spill. nearly 425 people were evacuated from their homes tuesday night when a train derailed southwest of cleveland. the train spilled flammable liquid used to make plastic and rubber products. as of now only about three dozen homes are still off limits until later tonight. no injuries were reported. a power outage may be partly to blame for a fire that destroyed a northern virginia home. firefighters snapped peck tours of the flames that shot up from that home on lucasville road in manassas. when the power went out, the homeowners left to cook dinner at a relative's house. when they came back, the fire destroyed their home. they believe a power surge after the outage possibly sparked that fire. fire investigators are looking into that. a tough loss around the holidays for a montgomery county

family. a man was killed in a construction accident in silver spring. rescuers say it appears the man slipped on a small patch of ice. he was working on thanksgiving to get ahead of a project delayed by recent rain. right now police are calling this an accident and foul play is not suspected. this morning police in north carolina are looking for a real life grinch. someone stole a salvation army red kettle. james griffin is a bell ringer at a shopping mall in winston-sal winston-salem. he left his post to hold the door for a grandmother and four kids. when he returned the kettle and $50 in it were gone. he says the crime hurts others in need this holiday season. >> the feeling you have when you work all day, you come out here and look and it's gone, i was surprised and very hurt whoever would take from god 24,000 people that we're trying to clothe and feed and buy toys for. >> there's no surveillance video of the theft, but in an effort

to restore some holiday cheer, the manager of a nearby store pledged $100 into the replacement kettle. >> you could see protesters amid the shoppers, about 1,500 protests planned at wal martz around the country including one in northern virginia. this is video of a black friday pr protest from last year when 30,000 employees and supporters demonstrated. the protests focus on wages and benefits offered to walmart employees. the average hourly wage for the retail giant is around $8.81 an hour. thanks to your smartphone, many malls and individual stores have their own apps that help you find deals. when you're in a store you can even check the company's facebook and twitter accounts because some stores will offer exclusive coupons and giveaways. meantime, some apps compare deals or search black friday ads for you like fatwallet's black friday app.

>> the country's biggest mall, thousands spent the night shopping at the mall of america in minnesota. abc's jay gray is right in the middle of it all. how are things going there, jay? >> reporter: good morning. you are absolutely right. started last night, continues this morning and will throughout the weekend. it's finally here, shopping is a big day. black friday merged with thanksgiving in a way for many and not everybody is buying that. the dash for deals. the push for presents. the rush for a little retail therapy actually began just after all the turkey was gone. >> i live for this day and i take this it day off from wok every year. dinner is cooked, my belly is full, and now i'm ready to shop. >> reporter: the lines stretched around stores, shoppers all in search of the same thing. >> it's holidays, trying to get as much as we can for the kids. >> reporter: starting early and

stretching even past the weekend. >> i think black friday is gaining relevance because it's becoming are more of a season than one day in particular. >> reporter: but not everyone is sold on the idea of shopping thanksgiving day. >> they should all be closed on thanksgiving. it's thanksgiving. >> reporter: if there's a debate about what to do on thursday -- >> football and beer and pret st pretzels and food. that's what it's about. >> reporter: finding that perfect gift at a great price. and there are a lot of people at the mall of america doing just that and most of them carrying bags so they're buying something here. look, black friday obviously not a bad deal for retailers either. this year shoppers on average expect to spend nearly $650 over the weekend. that's up 11% from black friday last year. live from the mall of america, i'm jay gray. angie, back to you. >> jay, you mentioned a the lot of people with a lot of bags.

what are we finding in them as far as big ticket items they're scoring big deals on? >> reporter: clothes are always a big deal and a lot of people with a lot of clothes bags, people buying sweaters, a lot of people buying jeans and things like that. of course electronics is always the big deal this time of year and it's no different this year. the gaming systems, sony has a new psp4 out. the newest pads or smart phones and laptops are making a resurgence. a lot of people are buying laptops. any of those -- when you get out and do your shopping today. >> i've taken the note. thanks, jay, so much. >> i'll take a laptop while you're at it. >> amelia, do you want anything? >> i think i'm good right now. maybe some warmer weather, though. thanksgiving, the coolest thanksgiving since about 2000. >> really? >> yes, absolutely. it was definitely very cold

yesterday and a little bit breezy, too are, for the first half of the day. today, though, you can see as we look out at union station the flag not moving there. no wind. less wind throughout the entire day today. we're also mostly sunny once again so that's good news. however, that chill continues and it doesn't just continue today but into tomorrow, the weekend, and really the upcoming week as well. the good news for this weekend a dry weekend. a lot of folks have outdoor plans, maybe you're going hunting or hanging those holiday decorations. well, for saturday a high temperature of 41 degrees. more in the way of clouds, mostly cloudy skies. sunday i think will be the better outdoor day. it's a little bit warmer, high of 47. also more sunshine. part partly sunny skies for your sunday. and as we look ahead to this upcoming week, the first week of december, can you believe it? little rain chances n. fact, the best chance a of rain you'll see on the seven day will be next thursday. the big story this morning, how cold it is. heading out the door now, make

sure you dress warm. if you're going shopping, though, i would definitely recommend layering. you know how warm it gets once you've been shopping after a while. temperatures right now generally in the 20s across the area. 21 in warrenton. 31 degrees for those of you in a annapolis. and here is your morning planner for areas like arlington. temperatures continue to remain in the low 30s through 8:00 a.m. plenty of sunshine today. definitely grab those sunglasses. hayes across the area will be in the low 40s. 42 in bethesda. 41 for those of you in upper marl bore he oboro marlboro. again, saturday continued chill in the air. 41 for a high sunday. upper 40s, 47 for a high. here is that average high temperatu temperature. 51 degrees. so you can see we're not even breaking any 50s over the next seven days.

monday and tuesday, plenty of clouds. mid to upper 40s for highs and there's that chance of some rain next thursday. high temperature of 50 degrees. we'll start to shake that chill a little bit as we look to early december. joe fox? >> no problems, no construction really around the area. all the construction has been lifted for the thanksgiving day weekend. a look at the john hanson highway, u.s. 50 and the beltway around carrollton no problems. going north or south inner and outer loop, route 50 at the top of the screen. we'll take a quick look out at crane highway, no problems on 301. 301 he at the bottom of the screen. 50 on the top. no issues. there is no marc service. richard and angie, back to you. chances are you have a lot of people on your who will day shopping list this year. coming up at 5:00, we're going to show you the one person you're buying for that will give you the most trouble this holiday season. but first, fortune lost.

before this holiday weekend is over, we're going to have a name for the nationals. the zoo posted several different options for the 11-pound cub on its website. zoo officials say more than 115,000 people voted in chinese tradition. the zoo will reveal the name on sunday when the cub turns 100 days old.

a man is searching a landfill in the uk this morning for a fortune that he accidentally threw away. james howell is looking for a hard drive that holds 7,500 big coins, an online currency that's gained value. the big coin on that drive, those are now worth $7.5 million. he says he obtained the coins in 2009 but then put the hard drive in a drawer after he spilled a drink off the computer it was housed in. he says it wasn't until the value of the coins started to soar that he realized he threw the drive away. >> that moment was devastating. i was in front of my computer, the drawer was only a few yards away and the first thing i did was move to that drawer and a look. even though i knew it wasn't there. >> howell says he is starting to come to grips with this loss because he was told it could take weeks to find the drive even wh a team of dozens of

people and backhoes. >> that is just crazy. $7.5 million. >> that's worth going through the dumpster and digging through garbage. >> you could even hire a crew if you, i guess, could guarantee you would make it up. when you think about it, big coin is about five years old and it hasn't really taken off until recently and so it started at the peak of the financial crisis. and so now you never know when a good idea starts where it's going to be down the line and this is proof of that. >> how much it's going to be worth. 5:00. >> poor guy. >> "news 4 today" continues. the long holiday weekend isn't keeping people in bed this morni morning. big crowds are braving the black friday crowds right now in search for those big holiday deals. everyone, good morning. i'm richard jurordan. >> and i'm angie goff. s it is friday, black friday, november 29. and we are starting off with