leanne gregg is live with a look at how the city will pause and reflect. fw morning. >> reporter: good morning, laura. i'm at daly plaza not far from where the president was shot in 1963. it's also the site of where the program will take place later this morning, you can see last minute preparations not long ago. the poster of john f. kennedy was unveiled, they are wiping off the seats because it's a rainy day here with temperature drops of more than 40 degrees from yesterday. the mayor says it doesn't matter, nothing will get in the way of this program. the joint public rift endeavor. there will abmilitary fly over. a moment of silence and tolling of bells at 12:30 central time. the exact time the president was shot all of those years ago. thousands of people are expected to join in this commemoration to honor the president's legacy. back to you. >> thanks, leanne. i was saying how ironic it is it was raining on that morning and there was a cover on that far. but the sun came came out and decided to take it off. >> so many strange circumstances. we'll hav

leanne gregg is with us this morning. >> reporter: good morning. i'm in dealey plaza. today, cold temperatures and howling winds. but thousands of people are expected to show up to honor the president's legacy. >> the president's car is turning on to elm street. >> reporter: these iconic images provide a mental snapshot and remain haunting a half century later. >> several shots were fired. >> there was a bang. we all said, what was that? was that a shot? then two more closer together. >> reporter: robert macneal was a reporter assigned to cover the president's visit to dallas. >> i thought some idiot fired the shot. it was inconceivable that shot was fired at john f. kennedy. >> president kennedy died at approximately 1:00 p.m. central time here in dallas. >> reporter: news of his death halted the nation. >> i was sitting in my latin class in high school. >> this was the first very serious, of course adult ins department in my life. it's been there ever since. >> reporter: and today, 50 years later, it continues to bring people back to the spot that's become a memorial

leanne gregg, nice backdrop with the carolers. thank you for that.ers in a lot of places this morning, cold in a lot of places. young fellow, how are you doing? >> good, t.j. good to see you. you mentioned earlier the storm that happened, at loaf people trying to get away. right now still seeing cold air across new england and a few vestiges, snow showers, maybe a dusting that's about it. as you mentioned we are bundled up, not so much black friday but blue friday because it's so cold out there. temperatures are slowly warming up as we head into next week, although we do not expect rain or snow to hamper our trip home as we head to sunday and monday. meanwhile the west coast, california, southern california, some rain showers in here. this is not a huge storm system for you right now. maybe scattered showers through this evening. that tapers off for the weekend. northwest, different story. light and scattered, rain and snow. we have a much bigger system plaguing us over the next i'd say three, maybe even four days if not five. this is the area of the

we start in denver with leanne gregg.going on there. it's early in denver so we can expect people are out bright and early to get the good deals. lee ann, good morning. >> reporter: that's right. it is early here but the biggest crowd at the mall was actually last night at 8:00 local time when the mall opened and the retailers have been staggering their openings throughout the night and throughout the morning so there's been a constant flow of people. now park meadows, like malls across the country, is doing everything it can to entice the customers. there was a free pancake breakfast, 1500 people showed up for that. carolers have been strolling through the mall trying to get shoppers into the holiday spirit. this is the busiest shopping weekend of the year, and this year may matter more than usual for a lot of retailers since the amount of time between thanksgiving and christmas is six days shorter than in previous years. a couple of these shoppers are with me. this is emma and nick. thanks for stopping by. why did you d

. >> and we have leanne gregg. >> and my good buddy jay gray, who goes anywhere for a story, at the mall of america in minnesota. so we'll get to them all, do a channel check on retail, over the next couple of hours. >> what an assignment -- have you been to the mall of america? >> i have. >> it is just enormous. >> that's crazy. neither of us is a shopper. >> yeah. >> and this may be black friday, with but this is also the last trading day for the month of november, and it's been another very good month for the equity markets. so let's talk about that, shall we? >> sure. joining us in the "closing bell" exchanges is patricia powell from the powell financial group, eric kugan, rich peters, and mike mcqueen from hightower, john manley from wells fargo, and our very own rick santelli. so good afternoon to all of you. you know, rich peterson, let's just start with you. what are the numbers that surprise you most today about these markets? >> quelwell, again, kelly, we'r seeing the continuation, the war of 1812 was not with the fight over british. the war of 1812 is investors moving to highe