. >>> happy birthday to jon stewart, he's 51, ed harris 63 and berry gordy jr. is 84. here's what's come up later op. the "today" show, the newest addition to the butterball hotline will be live on the "today" show and you can watch today's macy's thanksgiving day parade here on nbc at 9:00 a.m. eastern. now keep it right here for more news, weather and sports. i'm betty nguyen. thanks for watching "early today." have a great day and a wonderful thanksgivi thanksgiving. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> thanksgiving thursday becomes the new black friday. hundreds camp out to get their hands on bargains that won't be there in the morning. lace up the sneakers and get ready to trot. a look at downtown san jose. we're going to be live at one of the largest fund-raisers that's become a thanksgiving tradition for thousands. and will the balloons get off the ground? the floats, the bands and something different at this year's macy's thanksgiving parade. in the meantime, closer to home a beautiful live look outside. the bay bridge illuminated on this thanksgiving morn

that actually did pull it off the train tracks ed harris and write off of gelman print the car was stuck on the middle of the tracks so much that the berkeley police department had to call the tracks and let them know to close the tracks. we don't know if any trains were delayed. the strange thing is the car is not treated as reported it is 442. let's get a check on wall street. morning. futures trading shows all three indexes positive at this hour. but the latest news from the federal reserve appears to be spooking investors. stock and bond prices fell yesterday after minutes from the fed's latest meeting shows the economy was improving steadily enough to warrant a reduction in stimulus in the coming months. here's a look at the closing numbers. the dow lost 66 points. the nasdaq lost ten. and the s and p 500 lost six and a half. opening bell today at 6:30. a quick follow-up story. now that the streets of san francisco are safe from the likes of the joker and his cronies. bat kid has returned home. lyle aarons caught up with the pint-sized caped- crusader. in a town of about 1000 lives

ed barnes. is this changing the subject? harrythan 200 years of history to the wind to protect his good buddy barack obama. >> come on lou? hope to be 200 years of history, a war the republicans who created a unprecedent add judicial crisis. it wasupposed to be used in an emergency. >> if you -- if -- if that is a no, i get it. >> one presidency. come on. lou: i uerstand. jedediah your thought. >> barack obama, i thought saw a beautiful clip of barack obama in 2005, speaking out against the nuclear option, it is amazing i find myself split between the barack obama of today, and barack obama of the past, talking about how minority party has to have a voice, now he says, you are obstructionists i can not get done what i want done with you. >> jedediah, you fall in love with a man, he treats you bad, you have to break up with him. lou: with tha analysis, we'll -- fred. help us out. as jedediah said, president obama as senator, said it was about protecting free and democratic debate preserving the philadelphia. joe bin said, a single

and, ed, the white house was trying i understand to keep this meeting yesterday secret. >> reporter: yeah, harrisit quiet because it was not on the president's public schedule yesterday. when you talk about these democrats worried about it, the health carrollout impacting them, they're worried they will lose their jobs frankly. about 15 senate democrats. many in tough races back home, states the president did not carry last time, like arkansas, louisiana, where some senate democrats are very worried about the political climate right now. the president won't be on the ballot but they will be and have to defend this health care law, the botched rollout at the beginning. one of those democrats, mark begich of alaska put out a written statement, now, there is crisis in confidence for the administration in terms of dealing with the american people and telling them how this is all going to work. here is begich. >> i made my voice pretty well heard over there i'm not sure, they may not return my calls all the time because i'm yelling at them all the time on some of the issues but we're, i think they rea

tell us if you think good old uncle harry should go further when it comes to legislation in the filibuster. tonight in our ask edent, from randy, he wants to know now that boehner has signed up for the affordable care act, do you think that he will quit calling for it to be repealed. no, he won't. here's what happened. boehner actually signed up for obama care in the district of columbia. well, he called and called and got through. and now he's covered. that's the word. so obviously, he was looking for a negative story. can't you see boehner out there, i called up and i couldn't get through, and obama care is terrible. we've got to get rid of it. this isn't going to change the dynamic at all. there is still the same republicans they always were. our next question is from seattle. john. he says, will the democrats expand the filibuster, reform to include legislation? is i hope so. but here's what i hope first. i hope that mitch mcconnell sits down with harry reid and says you know we have obstructed too much. we'll try to work with you. yeah, that's going to happen. give 'em hell, harry. stick around. rapid respo

ed live" segment tonight. our first question is from tammy solars. and she wants to know, here we go. when will harryfilibuster. maybe never. seriously. i know there is a lot of conversation about it right now because of the three judges filibustered in washington, d.c. in the circuit court. but the closer harry reid gets to the midterm, the more dangerous it is for it to blow up in his face. if he was going to fix the senate rules, he should have done it in the beginning of the session of this congress, because a lot more could have gotten done. so i'm not real sure right now that harry reid, even though some senators have moved over saying, yeah, i think we should changes rules. >>> not so sure harry going to do that. next question from nancy r. wants to know what happened to compassionate conservism. i've maintained the position that's an oxy more ran. that never happened. compassionate conservatism? certainly the tea party doesn't go together. a 5-year-old kid in san francisco was part of a make a wish -- of course, he has cancer. and he wanted to be batman. and 50,000 people in san francisco res

harris. >> i hope the study will help to get more people to be assessed for insomnia. >> reporter: the findings are based on a treatment call edtive behavioral therapy for insomnia or cbt-i which has been around for decades. here's how it work. through a series of sessions, doctors change your sleep schedule, drastically at first, training your body that your bed is only for sleeping. get up when you can't sleep and don't try to force it. >> do you see this revolutionizing the way we treat depression? >> if we treat insomnia patients as part of the depression, we will see better outcomes overall. >> reporter: they claim a 40% decrease in depression symptoms. if the solution has been there in front of us the whole time what does that say? >> sometimes the most obvious things are the things we don't see. >> reporter: this is not a cure for depression. but we are talking about significant improvement. john and diana? >> all right. paula, thank you. >> so much with this chronic sleep loss. there are studies that you gain weight if you get depressed. rough stuff. >> some of it is sleep loss and some of it is full-blown insomnia. th

also ed ott former executive and political director for new york city's central labor council who has been active in the labor movement over 40 years. and our friend colby harris, a former walmart employee fired by the company and just arrested yesterday while participating in walmart black friday protests. thanks to all of you for being here. ed, i want to start with you, we are in certain ways just where we were last year. but then in other ways it feels like there is movement. how would you assess the last year in walmart organizing? >> i think several things changed. walmart resorted to retaliation against some of the workers who participated last year. the workers stood up to that, the labor relations board established the fact they have rights, i think the clear message from the workers is we're not going away, we're back this black friday and staying here. this is not a short-term action. this is a long term siege. i think the other thing that they established is that they are not alone. the workers have a lot of support, a lot of friends, the media including the main stream media has begun to pay attention to the needs of these workers in different way

harris-perry. and if you are just joining us, we have talking about the controversial op-ed by "washington post" writerd that people with conventional views must repress a, quote, gag reflex when consider interracial marriage. now, brace yourselves and grab a second cup of coffee and grab your thinking hats. because when we think about racism, we tend to understand it as a set of beliefs about inequality, beliefs based on a collection of thoughts, so far at the top of our minds about ethnic and racial groups about how are some superior and others inferior. but those aren't fixed points. as we saw when we looked at these data on americans' thoughts about interracial marriage, that has room to grow and change. but what we are reminded of by cohen's choice of the words, "gag reflex," is that there is another form of racism that can be more enduring and harder to measure. one that is more resistant to reason. because it is based not so much in thoughts about abstract ideas and concepts of supremacy, but about emotions of disgust. in her book, "from disgust to humanity," philosopher samantha nussbaum arguin