i'm sidney long, nbc 10 news. >> thanks. >>> the black friday frenzy. me have been shopping all night long. pamela osborne has been checking out the crowds. >> reporter: we are joining you from the new expansion. take a look at all of the customers who were here shopping right now taking advantage of the deals out here. >> the day after you hit the mall. you get out early. you get the best deals. >> it started before the sun came up. >> this is probably our fifth stop. >> we met april zimmerman where the black friday deals were good enough for kim to cross more than a couple of items off of her nephew's christmas list. >> each of them is 14 pages long. >> mall closing at 2:00 so we won't to macy's and then we fell asleep in the car. >> smith was awake in time to snag more deals when the mall reopened. more than 137 million americans are expected to shop this thanksgiving weekend. shoppers were out in full force here. >> they are looking for great bargains. a lot of stores have 30 to 50% off specials. >> while similar deals could be found by retailers we

sidney was badly hurt. both adhit to thinking long and hard about the public eye peering that deep into their souls. >> kind of scary when you first sign on. because you have no control over what the finished product is going to be. >> reporter: but they agreed to it. convinced their shared healing was h understand. >> i think they did a really good job of showing what terrorism looks like and how life goes on after it. >> reporter: the documentary makers believe bostonians provided the model for how people should react to terrorism. >> for me i decided a long time ago that i was going forward and i wasn't gonna think about that day or anything. will debut november 21st on hbo. it will be the first in a somewhat of a string. patriot day starring mark walhberg hits next month. >>> cellphone video captures students trashing american flags on an ivy league campus in new england. the flags were placed around the brown university camp gnus providence meant to honor veterans on veterans day. flags were replaced and removed again. a student who of also in the air force was apalled. >> i've seen too many people go

of course, it could be a very long night for the parents waiting to hear if their child is inside. >>> authorities said soon after sidney reso disappeared the fbi recovered a ransom letter demanding millions of dollars and a cellular phone number with further instructions. >> eventually sidney reso's kidnappers tried to set up a ransom drop. >> they wanted the money put in eddie bauer bags, divided into certain currencies. this was their game plan. >> the fbi sets up a massive sting operation and intentionally leaves the media in the dark. >> we were being spoon-fed a false narrative in order to help the authorities lure the kidnappers into a false sense of security and make a mistake. and then they did make a mistake. >> june 18th, the night of the scheduled ransom drop. the fbi plants over 250 agents in the morris county vicinity. >> we had all these agents out and i was wired so the command post could hear the exact conversation. and one of the female agents who were sitting in a car, saw the guy. he had glasses and a fisherman's hat on, and she saw this individual on the phone. >> the agent observes the man hanging

sidney thuhuton. no way. howard, how aryou? just talked to ballantine's doctor. looks like it's gonna be a long road back for him. yeah. i thought i could reach him. [ sighs ] the truth is, i wasn't very good out there today. you did fine. [ chuckles ] well, i didn't think i was gonna get a chance to pututhis on for a while. any word from the review board yet? no. [ meowing ] officer allen. good hunting, officer. i want bonitez paroled and the lab report redone right away. captain, the guy was legally hired by a bona fide lab. so what's the problem? your chemist has been convicted of four fefenies, and he got his degree at harrisonville for making license plates! now get out of here and do your jobs right. right, captain. it's a case of misguided initiative. dr. thurston, i presume. you're coming with us, sid. you might wantntn on this, lieutenant. come on, huh? guys, huh? que pasa! snitch's court is now in session. evidence, exhibit "a" -- 2 grams of rock found in t t defendant's shirt pocket. i went to bat for you guys. snitch's court? more like kakaaroo court. exhibit "b" -- $100 found in the defendant's pants pocke

as long as you have to suffer, thank heaven it's for a princeton man, and not for any of the local talent. (wretches) - [miss stoddard] hello, sidney. siddo. - [siddo] thank you, miss stoddard! - hi, miss stoddard. - good morning, girls. good morning, gidget. how's your father? bout gidget, miss stoddard? she's practically engaged! show her the ring. princeton man. ivy league. how's that for status? - is it serious, gidget? - they don't come any seriouser. - my, i'm glad you're back for another year, larue. you are going to continue to take english, aren't you? (audience laughter) - [gidget] [voiceover] my first class was math. wade, hi! - [wade] hi, sally. - [gidget] how are you? - [wade] fine, how are you? - [student] hey, wade! - [gidget] hi, frank. jill, how are you? get a load of the new teacher! (tense music) - what's his name?! - i don't know. gidge, where are you going? - i'm going out! oh, i'm so sorry. - [man] don't worry about it. (gidget shrieks) - who and what was that? - that's gidget! she said she was in the wrong room. would you go get her, see if she's all right? shall we take our seats? - [larue] oh, for goodness