>> mikey, now 13 didn't know twha meant. >> i did it. but now, i know, it's giving something to someone, not expecting anything in return. >> that is what he did in this park. >> one family gives to me, i can give back to them. so i pay rt foord, giving them what we need. >> we fed out of the trunk of the car eight months, then, our caravan grew. >> there are more people that came to help than people who came because they need the help. including volunteers who don't know mikey and his story of survival and gratitude. >> we're not in need. there are people that need help. >> and for his mom, turnout laz been overwhelming. >> they told me he needed a transplant. and if he didn't get it, he's going to die. >> two days ago they heard from the organ dwrorn's family. he was 18, from southern california, stilled in -- killed in a motorcycle crash. now, on this day of thanks there is more to be thankful for. >> and coming up next a well-known san francisco company is sold to a group of investors and annual thanksgiving tradition. thousands of h

mikey is going to be honored for paying his gift of life forward. this will happen on new year's day for him. he gets to ride on one of the floats in the tournament of roses parade in pasadena. >>> forget the food coma. some folks are on a mission this thank. the deals that drew in the crowds this thanksgiving. >>> is a big ticket item like a tv on your shopping list? what you should consider before shelling out more money on a store warranty. >> all right, get out the thick blankets, throw an extra log on the fire! it is going to be the deep freeze again tonight. how long will that last? we'll talk about that coming up next. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, e are the bargains >>> all right. earlier we showed you some of the stores that are open this thanksgiving day and certainly there are some great bargains out there to be had. what about entertaining people with some fancy footwork? linda yee is going to show us what they call gobble palooza. >> reporter: forget that 3 a.m. wake-up call for black friday sales. the deals are on now! >> whoo!!! >> reporter: and i

. >> we love you, mikey. we miss you and think about you every day. >> if you want to know how much 16-year-old michael russell's life meant to people, and you only have to see the crowd that showed up for his vigil. >> if this could happen to him or happen to anyone. mikey was a a high school sophomore. he had been stabbed over and over again. a vicious, brutal death is how investigators described it. >> we all woke up one morning and our lives had been changed forever. forever! there is nothing that is going to be the same about my family again. sadness still felt one year later. >> when the distraught and it's been a year later and it's just pouring out for me now. >> two of -- witnesses atd last month's preliminary hearing testified were interested in tortu torture. very disgusting. very sickening. very sickening. tonight it's not about that because it is mail from another it ands so makes a world of difference. nbc bay area news. >>> so what does it take to catch a thif. it's not. >> turned r turns out i

. >> three days ago, mikey heard for the first time from the family of his oregon donor. the two families hope to meet soon. >> its san francisco tradition the annual thanksgiving meal at glide memorial church and just as much of a tradition as the number of volunteers that show up to help. they came from all over san francisco to get the meals ready they begin four decades ago and first time they did it they served 50 meals. this year as many as 5,000 people enjoyed a hot meal. across the bay, hundreds of people had free of charge meals. this the ninth year they have done it. people dined outside on a crisp, sunny oakland thanksgiving day. >>> authorities in orange county florida are looking for the husband of christy martin that was shot and stabbed. martin is still in the hospital and she is expected to recover. on thanksgiving day, deputies were called to investigate a possible burglary after a friend noticed a broken window in the back of the couple's home. martin's husband was coming back to the house. >>> they flagged down a taxi in new york city, your driver may b

so that's pretty good. >> on new year's day mikey is going to be honored for paying forward his gistlife. he gets to ride one of the floats in the tournament of roses parade in pasadena. >>> well tens of thousands of u.s. troops in afghanistan are finding ways to celebrate thanksgiving even though they are is very far from home. the day began with a 10k turkey trot run for about 400 troops. later they were treated to that traditional thanksgiving dinner with all the trimmings. their special guest was the u.s. ambassador to afghanistan who stopped by to pay a visit to wounded soldiers. >> obviously it would be nice to be at home on thanksgiving but at the same time i would rather be back with my friends. >> president obama called members of the armed services earlier today wishing them a happy thanksgiving and, of course, thanking them for their service. >>> it happens more often than you think. a prescription for one medicine filled with another. what you can do to make sure you're getting the right stuff. this was totally random. ,,,,,, prescription. tonight, we' e time of the >>> i

. >> today is a special day for mikey because 2008 they told me my son was going to die. so he had the transplant. he said he wanted to do something so i said let's pay it forward. mom, what is paying it forward? i said giving back to somebody and you don't expect anything in return. he goes, well, let's feed the homeless. we have been doing it ever since. >> i feel good helping other people that i don't know. i'm giving back. and not expecting anything in return. so that's pretty good. >> brilliant idea for him to say it as a 11-year-old kid was amazing in and of itself. but then to actually see it come together with mom and family cousins and aunties and my mom and dad, just everybody putting their hand in it and making it happen is just like... mind blowing that everybody puts -- if you look around, you will see there's more people out here serving than eating and it's like crazy that that many people are willing to come out and help this 11-year-old kid with his idea. it's just amazing. >> happy birthday ♪ >> today is my birthday. >> this is the best birthday ever. th

took place the decisions made by american strategists are taking a heavy toll on another generation mikey is a third generation he. her grandmother survived the radiation but he doesn't want the bomb to ever be used again. but i also discovered how alone much he wants because even here people don't care enough about this old weapon other than to be the highlight of the museum. talking to my friends about my activism. and they don't care about such serious matters sort of thing and i. only the people who was then understand what happened under the mushroom cloud today it's not all it is very difficult in these peaceful time to make young people understand how tragic it was maggie is the youngest died at the heat of peace memorial museum but she goes further than providing information her goal is to provoke fear and dread. that children have never experienced an atomic bomb that's why i use simple language while trying to make an impact on a family it's amazing but some us and it will. please let's look over here involve that turned ball see the airplane. in that airplane when they were car

he and his family launched mikey's meals.will be honored on new year's day for paying it forward and gets to ride on a float in the tournament of roses parade in pasadena. >>> if you always wanted to peek in on your neighbors on how they do thanksgiving watch this because mike sugerman chose a bay area family at random and got up the nerve to knock on the door and crash the party. >> reporter: on the news we are talking about people that eat at soup kitchens. what about me and you? how are you spending your day? let's go to some place random and find out. let's go to burling game. >> i know, it is funny, huh? hello. >> hi. we are with channel 5 television and we want to see what a typical burling game family does for thanksgiving. would you mind if we came in an watched? >> no. we have a houseful. come on in. >> thank you. >> my name is rebecca bingham. we have four kids. we have kind of a loud and active family and at thanksgiving we like to have a lot of people over. >> how many people? >> i think we planned for 40. >> 40 p

the tigers were once one of the world's mikey is president today fighting for their very existence now russia is rallying thirty nations to save them from extinction. years from what one of france's leading political scientists use outspoken views have allowed him.

. >> for the first time, mikey got to talk to the families and the other organdornor by phone and they hope to meet in the near future. >> a bay area policy to keep shelters closed has now been lifted. it takes three consecutive days of freezing temperatures to declare a state of emergency to open emergency shellers. homeless advocates they could not wait that long. sunnyvale national guard armory is now open to the homeless. >> we spoke with the office of emergency services and requested they call local emergency and they respond add and did. >> people start getting nervous because the weather is so cold and doing things that are kind of outrageous in order to get into the shelters. >> the freezing temperatures started tuesday. several san jose shelters added beds at that time but decided they need more. ing on this and gilroy armory mean one thousand beds are available but there are 7,000 homeless in santa clara county. this is a tough time to be out in stuff like that. definitely cold, if you are not careful and freezing temperatures. good morning to you. everybody else, i hope you

. >> three days ago, mikey heard for the first time from the family of his organ donor and two families hope to meet soon. >> bureaucratic policy that kept shelters from opening earlier this week despite freezing temperatures has now been set. it takes three consecutive days to declare a state of emergency, but homeless advocates they couldn't wait that long. national guard armory is now open for the homeless. >> we spoke with the office of emergency services and they responded and did. >> the weather is so cold, people get nervous. they start cutting in line, doing things that are kind of outrageous to get into the shelters. >> the freezing temperatures started tuesday. several added beds and they decided they needed more. that means 1,000 beds are available and there are 7,000 homeless in santa clara. let's talk about the temperatures they are facing on the streets and the shoppers are facing in font of the stores. >> at least at 9:00 we'll have the freezing temperatures and we won't see those lows for couple more days. we still have a chance of seeing frost around but nothing as cold

. >> very special and oakland, 200 received a west oakland at dinner by the mikey's meals with the california firefighters, random acts and a 13 year old liver transp.anet when i have my surgery in 2000 plant my mom wanted what i wanted to do? and i said let us speak at the homeless. and i cannot give back what the people keep to me. and it changed a lot of lives by donating organs. >> and to feeding this young man, he was shot to death at the day before halloween. his organs were donated on november 4th. >> these are my daughters, and and germany. wishing everybody in oakland a very merry christmas. we love you. >> of merry christmas. >> and kathleen brown, stationed and canada, my friend jennifer, kevin, and concord, california. happy holidays, i love you so much. be safe. . this friday only, buy one of these smartphones and get a great jawbone icon hero headset free. only at verizon. >> south korea's president has ordered more troops that was hit by the north korea military. and the defense minister, north korea has warned that any new provocation would be met with more attacks. washington

. >> on new year's day mikey will be honored for paying forward his gift of life. he gets to ride on the float of the tournament of roses parade in pasadena. >>> a record-breaking success for the silicon valley turkey trot. it drew nearly 15,000 runners and walkers to downtown yesterday morning. that's despite temperatures in the 30s. pretty chilly for the city in november. the turnout was a new record for the event in it sixth year. it raised $416,000 for three charities in the valley. >> the black eyed peas will perform during the super bowl halftime. the announcement was made yesterday during the cowboys- saints game. the group sold more than 20 million albums worldwide. other halftime acts have included u2 the rolling stones and prince. the super bowl is on february 6 in dallas. >>> 6:26. there is black friday and there's signer monday. the special campaign being held tomorrow. >> reporter: it's on here. i'm live at the target in colma where hundreds of people lined up to get the deals. coming up next, we are talking strategy for these black friday shoppers com

. >> mikey called up and said he saw a plane go down in san bruno.i don't think it's an aircraft. >> it is totally confounded. it's a plane crash. >>reporter: they pass on the false report to the san mateo county command center. about where the busy dealing with the disaster. >> yes. we had off duty fireman that said he saw a plane go down. >> yes. no confirmation of that yet but we get reports of that as well. we don't have any confirmation. huge fire. >> i'm telling tu off duty san francisco fireman said he saw a plane go down. >> stress makes you stupid. pichlt says confusion is common in the early stages of most any incident. but dispatchers and first responders should be accurate. >> accurate information is certainly one of the most important things because that helps you determine where and how much resources you aplay to the event. >>reporter: san francisco fire deputy chief of operation defend his command staff. >> lieutenant was passing along information the way that it was worded wouldn't have changed the story but i think that the lieutena

this is mikey, chuck's dog. i think he should be the new mascot around here. here's adorable. one eye. >>> moving on, if you have a bird, congratulations, you are most likely to be satisfied with your job. cat owners are more likely to be doctors, real estate agents and lab techs according to this survey. workers with a snake or other reptile were the most likely to report earning six figures. now, this last one isn't covered in that survey but we think chia pets are the best for white house correspondents. these are really the only kind of pets allowed for the press corps because they're never home. pet rock, it's a classic, it sits, it stays and you can allow it to roll over with a little bit of help. >>> coming up next "chris jansing & company." and at 1:00, don't miss "andrea mitchell reports." have a great weekend, everybody. >>> i'm meteorologist bill karins for your weekend forecast. west travel coast problem spot for saturday and sunday. high elevations will deal with snow and everybody else east of the rockies looks fantastic saturday and sunday and, overall, it looks

mikey likes it all. what about the sweet potato pie.et potatoes. >> both and one was made with what and one was made with what? >> this one one was made with egg whites instead of egg yolk, one have a low, what you would call non-sugar called stevia. >> one of them has all the bad junk and one of them has supposedly the good junk. all right. >> mm, mm, mm. >> that ain't bad. >> now tell me which one do you like better? >> a lot of sugar in that one. >> great, that's perfect. because stevia is made from a plant, and it's very important that we use stevia. >> this is the stevia? okay. >> see t.j.'s face? he liked it. he doesn't want to admit it but he liked it. >> i liked that? oh, come on. >> give me some good stuff, come on. >> you get an idea, it's not bad. not at all. this one certainly jumps out, you can taste sugar in there. it's quite frankly delicious. our executive chef, kim, thank you so much for bringing this over to us. everybody's waiting to get a hold of this. we'll get reynolds' answer here and then we'll go. >> this is rea

he's been feeding the hungry ever since today hundreds joined mikey in a park to hand out a special holidayve to me, i can't give back to them. i pait it forward giving them what they need. >> and there is more to be thankful for. he heard from the family of his organ donor. his name was johnny 18 from southern california died in a motorcycle crash. a few families hope to meet soon. >>> a family in brentwood understands the value of an organ transplant celebrating the gift of life that their young son is finally home. laura anthony has our story. this is a thanksgiving like anyone other for eric and his family. this is a holiday the family wasn't sure the 5-year-old would live to see. >> he was deteriorateing. we're having a lot of worry. >> eight months ago, he was in december prit shape and his backpack carries vital iv fluids. all the tanners could do is wait knowing as his health failed the only thing that could save him was an organ donation. the tanners received a call on august 13th. a heart and kidney were available from aaron from an 8-year-old oregon boy who died after a tragic ac

honor the memory of all those who have been taken from us, including american citizens on 26 slash mikey 11 and indian citizens on 9/11. this is a bond that we share. it's why we insist that nothing ever justifies the slaughter of innocent men, women and children. it's why we are working together, more closely than ever, to prevent terrorist attacks and to deepen our cooperation even further. and it's why, as strong and resilient societies, we refuse to live in fear. we will not sacrifice the values and goals law that defines us coming and we will never waver in the defense of our people. america's fight against al qaeda and its terrorist affiliates is why we preserve in afghanistan, where major development assistance from india has improved the lives of the afghan people. we are making progress and our mission to break the taliban's momentum and to train afghan forces so they can take the lead for their security. and while i have made it clear that american forces will begin the transition to elfgin responsibility next summer, i've also made it clear that america's commitment to the afg

there might be more accurate or profitable for us to say or to think about the misperceptions and mikey and awareness or trying not to choose the fact to fit our assumptions, assuming we can become aware of what our assumptions are. and that leads to a spoke of the terror of the inbox, which is very hard to avoid, to the terror of terrorist threat reporting. when one first to gains access to terrorism reporting from any sort of reporting, but the issue is terrorism reporting, it is overwhelming everyday there are hundreds of reports literally that come in, ranging across an entire spectrum. there is no threat whatsoever and we cannot go to the beach. every muslim is a terrorist that has islamabad in its packet and in between. and it's our job of course to sit through several hundred reports a day, each officer in their thousands receiving several hundred reports a day to make sense for them, to identify what is weak, what needs to be forwarded and how to understand or interpret what it is we receive, assuming we've been able to identify the report that merits analysis and further work.

a lot of these countries have been using is it's kind of like the old commercial you remember, lit mikey ebit and they think what the united states be it, take care of solving the problems carrying the weight on security doing these kind of things and that seems like a pretty good strategy because this far united states has stepped up and terrorism is a global problem but we are the ones that took it upon ourselves and i think not entirely successfully managed the effort to go after the. we have gone into some regional issues and we are paying the price for this which is what is it to $.7 billion a week in afghanistan or whatever it is? we are paying a lot of money to do these and they are free riders. how long can that go on and more importantly and let me turn this to you, stewart, how long can we go on playing the role we've been playing or do we have to figure out a new burden sharing calculations or we're just going to go about perhaps more accurately go more than we already are. >> there's no question that domestic political dynamic and fiscal situation in the united states but sai

well, let's, you know, it's kind of like that old commercial you remember, let's let m irk key eat -- mikeyat it, you know? and they think, well, let's let the united states eat it. let's let the united states take care of solving these problems, carrying the weight on security, these type of things, and that seems like a pretty good strategy because thus far the united states has stepped up. terrorism's a global problem, but we were the ones, you know, that took it upon ourselves and i think not entirely successfully managed an effort to go after it. we've, you know, we've gone into some regional issues, and we're paying the price for this which is huge, you know, what is it $2.7 billion a week in afghanistan or whatever it is? we're paying a lot of money to do these things, and they're free riders. how long can that go on, and more importantly, stewart, let me turn this to you, how long can we go on playing the role that we've been playing, or do we have to figure out some new burden-sharing calculus or we're just going to go bust of, perhaps more accurately go more bust than we already a

mikey take him the monotonous loop altogether. >> to talk about them in stages with one person and executive control of many machines. again, if there is an executive control, that's fancy because it takes away the whole point of having them autonomous. you need them autonomous for things like dogfighting. if you go into deep mission and if you're fighting a nation such as china or russia, not the taliban, someone who is technologically sophisticated, they will chip the signals, be able to jam the radio signals. but for me, this is a much, much worse scenario than having people take over the drones. >> they can also -- if they take over the drones, they can send our weapons against us. >> will stop using them. >> i would also just mention in this context that some of the folks on the stage here, but other scholars that a number of institutions, including this one, are involved in a research consortium to look at some of these issues. but those of u.s. interest it is called stepmom, which is a long acronym that stands for consortium on emerging technology military operations and national secu