we sent our delia gongalves to find out. she is live in wheaton with the warning for all you christmas shoppers out there. delia. >> reporter: that's right, derek. you know, e robbery victims may have all been elderly men, but women, even the young, should all be alert, especially since we are now in holiday shopping season. we approached unsuspecting shoppers inside this dark parking lot just blocks away from where police say this man caught on target surveillance camera abducted and then robbed three people. you appear to be a little unaware that i was nearby. >> well, i guess not. once you're in here, you sort of feel like you're okay. >> reporter: but when i walked up to margaret upton's car, she quickly walked away and then locked her door. >> it appeared like i was lurking, i was. did you notice i locked my car? >> reporter: this mom acts quickly. something she learned while getting her black belt. >> marschall arts training they teach you to be more aware and i have two children. >> reporter: april oconnor saw me immed

delia gongalves is live and she has their side of the story. >> reporter: you know as everyone else does here in dc, this park has become home and headquarters for members of occupy dc. and tonight those demonstrators refute the claims of the police chief that they started the violence that landed five people in the hospital. >> there was no intention for any kind of aggressive behavior. that's not -- we are a non-violent movement. >> reporter: but that message of non-violence and those images of friday's demonstration are quite the contradiction. angry protestors blocking the doors of the convention center, so people including this women in a wheelchair couldn't leave the convention. one demonstrate orror using her children to block the doors. >> we are not using children. we are individuals and individuals make decisions. >> reporter: how did it get out of control that way? >> i think maybe the physical proximity of the people to the building had something to do with it. >> reporter: video showed two elderly women knocked to the ground. what the video didn't show was how one fell. for

our scott broom and delia gongalves both left montgomery mall in bethesda at 5:05 p.m. bound for the airport. scott took the icc. delia stuck to the beltway to 95. in the end, scott made it to the airport in just over an hour and a half. delia drove five miles less but her trip took almost a half-hour more. lesli. >> all right. >>> so after the eating is done and you feel like you can move again, a lots of us head out to the stores for black friday. and today we learned that consumer spending fell slightly last month. but experts say they're still hopeful all of us will say ready, set, shop. >> 55 million americans around 29% of adults tell us they're going to be shopping on black friday. that is a big number. that is the first uptick we've seen in a few years. >> a shopping mall in richmond is going to be keeping a close eye on its shoppers friday, perhaps a little too close for some people's comfort. short pump town center plans to track their guest movement by monitoring the signals from their cell phones. they say that data will be gathered anonymously. >> you can se

. >> our delia gongalves is with us. >> reporter: what a night this absolutely is a perfect night fortwo. i'm standing outside one of our haunted locations here in dc. saint john's right across from lafayette square, also known as the president's church. legend has it when the bell tolls, six male ghosts wearing white robes appear at midnight sitting inside the president's pew and then mysteriously they vanish. they met at the square to discover a dc they never knew before and to get a spooky start to their halloween. >> she likes ghosts. [ laughing ] >> she gets scared easily. >> to lafayette square. the most haunted square in washington city. mcphearson is also haunted. it's not a restful sleep. >> reporter: dressed in 19th century clothes, natalie has been walking the people through the haunted square for the last ten years, stopping by well known landmarks like the department of veteran's affairs and saint john's on 16th and h. >> one night a man was on security detailed here when he told me he heard organ music inside the church and i could see no one inside. i said what did you

>> but the police account is vastly different from the sole eyewitness who tells her story to delia gongalvese joins us live. >> reporter: the wrecked cars are gone but imagine the devastation when neighbors stepped out of their doors and saw about every -- nearly every car on this street demolished. well, residents say the reports that they were initially told was rejected. well now it's wrong. >> something is going on. >> reporter: angela tucker says this police report just doesn't add up. >> the report is just so off. i mean, when i read it, i'm thinking i'm reading about another accident. >> reporter: and she should know. this is her car. tucker was about to park her suv on euclid street around 2:30 on friday morning when police say 21-year-old brandon rollins smashed a jeep cherokee into 11 parked cars. >> he went airborne coming across 11th street. >> reporter: and what happened next is incredible. the suspect drove up on to this car, bounced off the hood of tucker's suv and then landed on another. >> he looked me right in the eyes and i think he did that because he wanted to make such