diane estherbrook, thank you. let's go to th the press conference we promised. >> you there are 300 police officers combined. we did have between glen owen between chambers and the back of canfield apartments we're treating and investigating a homicide. we did make a good arrest. the county police in jennings made an arrest regarding an individual who had quite a few--two individuals had quite a few auto parts in their car. so at least some folks had been arrested regarding some of the looting we're dealing with. on west florissant they talked to businesses and residents documenting the damage that we weren't aware of, and making sure they got their police reports. we had assistance in bomb and arson regarding the fires, and we did have 21 fires last night. one thing i would like to tell you before i introduce you to kevin johnson we answered questions--you know, the law of averages is going to catch up to us eventually regarding this. this is what really bothers me and other commanders. we can only go so far befo

diane estherbrook joins us live from missouri. what are protesters saying they want? >> well, tony, some of these protesters would still like to see darren wilson indicted. a lot of these protesters are college students. they say what happened over the sturm was a wake-up call to them in with regards to race relations here in the st. louis area. after monday their passions about race relations are even more intense. [ protesting ] >> for people like marcus, protesting is the new normal. >> since august the 20-year-old has divided his time between college classes and protesting against michael brown's shooting. marching in downtown st. louis with about 200 other protesters, they call the grand jury decision not to indict ferguson police officer darren wilson another setback for race relations. >> all the protesting and people coming together. it's like a revival. so this is basically august all over ben. >> protests broke out within hours of brown's death 37 while the attention faded after a few weeks, the protests here never really stopped. some have turned violent si

diane estherbrook plot far from measure gus son. protesters shut down a pretty popular mall in st. louis today. what is the latest. >> yes, it happened a few hours ago. it was the galleria mall in st. louis. actually the mall did not shut down. it remains open, but some of the businesses brought their gates down and closed temperatur temporarily. some laid down on the ground. they did not stay for all that long. the police came in and shooed them out. all is back to normal at the gallery mall in st. louis. >> businesses in the area are starting to rebuild. when will they start to reopen? >> that's hard to say. some of these stores may never reopen. many business owners are angry because they say the state did not do enough to protect them from rioters. >> juanita stands over the republic tha you'll be that was once they are clothing store. she compares the destruction of her business by riotser like a bad dream. morris' boutique was destroyed in the violence after a grand jury decided not to indict a white police officer in the shooting and killing of an unarmed black teen. rioters

diane estherbrook has our report. >> reporter: the line for a job fair wraps around this banquet hall. 57-year-old cynthia davis joins the back of the line and unemployed factory worker davis and 200 other job seekers file in. >> do you have a v.i.p. pass you go through these doors. >> hand over resumÉs and hope the to land one of the 1700 jobs employers at this fair are trying to fill. >> i have a really good resumÉ, and hopefully that will get me a job. and something decent. >> the recession hit workers here hard. 160,000 lost jobs between 2008 and 2010. about 120 jobs have been added back but that's only about half of what walker promised when elected. his opponent, burke, argues the government's tax cuts and incentives to businesses aren't working. >> we have people that are young and they know the cnc training. >> but factory owner said that they are. he employs 48 workers now. he eventually wants to double his workforce from 48 employees. he thinks the incentives that walker has in place could help him. >> there has been corporation from our government officials to get out into

. >> diane estherbrook in delwood missouri. >> the holiday shopping frenzy has started. tens of millions of americans did some shopping on thanksgiving day. still millions of diehard shop efforts were out pounding the pavement today. mary snow is here with more on the official beginning of the holiday shopping season. >> we're so used to seeing the rush of crowds on black friday. but it's not as intense as it has been in the past. one big reason is that more stores are open on thanksgiving. online shopping is also gaining. ibm reports of 14% jump of online sales on thanksgiving day compared to a year ago. now retailers are sensing consumers more confident, and they're hoping to wash in. at macy's flagship store there were no lines to get in on black friday. that's because the store opened on thanksgiving at 6:00 p.m. and never closed. by macy's count there were more than 15,000 people waiting to get in. for shoppers it's never too early to get a deal. >> i came in at 12:00 in the morning i was outside for a while. >> he was hardly alone. walmart alone said it had 22 mill

but you just saw diane estherbrook in downtown ferguson, and i'm not sure why so many police vehicles would be heading in one direction. we'll see if they carry on straight through that intersection or turn off. they seem to be carrying on, and take a look again. all the way up your screen, those are law enforcement vehicles as far as the eye can see, and i would say eleanor is still with me, and i can't say that i've seen that. >> that's a show of force, and i wednesday what they're planning. >> again, we have had our cameras this, and the sense so far in ferguson, missouri, is nothing is out of control. last night was a serious night, as you know. a stretch of west larson has been destroyed for all intents and purposes. there was a lot of looting and a number of establishments that were burned to the ground. we're trying to get a sense of where -- >> okay, we were just listening in to transmission from the chopper pilot. and they have turned off the main road and now turned somewhere else, which leads me to believe this could be heading toward a staging area, and again, when there's