here's abc's david curley with the story. >> all right. ready?e we go. >> it may look like black friday. >> good morning, good morning, good morning. >> shopping carts banging through the door. but these are employees. >> again, knowledgeable. >> training for the biggest shopping day of the year. >> we've got to make sure that we are ready to go. we have product fired up. customers want to hold it, they want to play with it, they want to see what it does. >> you better love it because already shoppers are camping out in wisconsin. yes, a week before the sales they are settled in. >> we have so much fun out hear. you meet all kinds of nice people. >> yes, they say it all pays off. >> we are almost getting paid back by the savings. >> but even on friday you may see some protests. workers unhappy that their stores are opening up on thursday for shopping. row setta brown works at wal-mart. >> we just demand respect. [chanting] >> nearly one in four of us, 86 million, hit the stores on black friday last year. >> i think you will see deals all season l

david curley, abc news, washington. >> that story will continue to play out over the next several days of our weather, lots of veterans days events today so what say you? >> well, we are warming up slowly. getting out of the 30s. only one neighborhood still stuck in the 30s. here's a look at vollmer peak. not only will we warm up today but today begins a warming trend where we will see temperatures back to near average by the middle of the week. i'll let you know when that is. and we have rain this the forecast. that's next. >> thank you, lisa. also next, stanford plays it's final home game against 11th ranked oregon state on senior day. mike shumann has the highlights coming up in sports. =ú >> welcome back. the weather is terrific news to skiers and everyone who enjoys the snow. this is a live look from our heavenly cam. lake tahoe area has received over two feet of snow since thursday. cold weather is also allowing the resorts to crank up the snow-make machines just in time for the holiday weekend and for thanksgiving. lisa, in our earlier newscast you were talking about how tahoe w