ditch thanksgiving dinner for a door buster buyer beware. many of the other so-called black friday deals are duds. it was the night before thanksgiving and all through the store, deals, sales and door busters plastered from ceiling to floor. but for those not already camped out in line, door busters are unlikely and the remaining deals not always so fine. >> just because something has a 50% off sticker on it does not mean it's the lowest price. >> reporter: mark locastro from deal news analyzes some sales. >> some retailers mark up the price high and put a discount on it. >> reporter: but you would notice the savings were lackluster if you gave the price a true audit. for instance, this ipad 2 at best buy for $299 seems like a steal but it was actually $20 cheaper in may a better summer deal. in fact, you can skim black friday and score an ipad mini deal now online. both frye's and target offer the 16 gig for 479. looking for a washer dryer? skip the lines. home depot and lowe's discounted these maytags for $599. this singing giggle is a gre

on thanksgiving day are guaranteed to get the door buster deals. if the store runs out of the item they get a voucher. wal-mart promises to deliver the product before christmas day. >> it is funky they are doing it within this one hour. the fact they are offsetting that with guaranteed availability is big time in our favor. >> here are the guaranteed deals. an ipad minute -- mini for $299 and comes with a wal-mart gift card. if you shop there it is a big savings. these are the few of the thousands deals. it is easy to scan the offers yourself to find the right gift at the right price. i posted the links you need to see the deals for yourself. just go to abc7news.com under 7 on your side. tomorrow night i de bunk the myth about black friday to make sure you get the most for your money. >> it is a great series. >> a lot of fun, michael. >>> a dream come true after a series of tragedies for a high school basketball player. austin hatch lost his mother, brother and sister in a plane crash in 2003 and then believe it or not in 2011 his father and step m

on thanksgiving day are guaranteed to get the door buster deals. if the store runs out of the item they get a voucher. wal-mart promises to deliver the product before christmas day. >> it is funky they are doing it within this one hour. the fact they are offsetting that with guaranteed availability is big time in our favor. >> here are the guaranteed deals. an ipad minute -- mini for $299 and comes with a wal-mart gift card. if you shop there it is a big savings. these are the few of the thousands deals. it is easy to scan the offers yourself to find the right gift at the right price. i posted the links you need to see the deals for yourself. just go to abc7news.com under 7 on your side. tomorrow night i de bunk the myth about black friday to make sure you get the most for your money. >> it is a great series. >> a lot of fun, michael. >>> a dream come true after a series of tragedies for a high school basketball player. austin hatch lost his mother, brother and sister in a plane crash in 2003 and then believe it or not in 2011 his father and step m

[bostezo] no, buster, no! levantate, buster! [respiracion agitada] [puerta cerrandose] [grito ahogado] [grito ahogado] estamos en la esquina, amigos! sabia que esto pasaria. rompan la bolsa. asi! [grito] no se rompe! ay, olvidenlo. es triple hoja de polietileno de alta densidad. tiene que haber una salida. si andy ya no nos quiere, ¿cual es el punto? punto, punto... puntas! empujen, empujen! ya escucho el camion de la basura. se esta acercando! [tarareando] agh! buzz! jessie! [cristales] [suspiro] andy nos desecho. como zapatos viejos. basura, nos dijo basura. ¿por que lo hizo? [llora] algo esta mal aqui. debi saber que esto pasaria. emily hizo exactamente lo mismo. el sargento tenia razon. si, woody se equivoco. un momento, tranquilos, no hay por que ponernos histericos. es el momento ideal para ponernos histericos. nos ponemos histericos! no. si. tal vez. tal vez, pero no ahora. yi-ja! muchachos, ya tengo la solucion. ¿que estan haciendo? quisiera haber hecho esto hace aÑos. jessie, escucha, ¿que pasara con woody? el esta

on thanksgiving day are guaranteed to get the door buster deals. if the store runs out of the item they get a voucher. wal-mart promises to deliver the product before christmas day. >> it is funky they are doing it within this one hour. the fact they are offsetting that with guaranteed availability is big time in our favor. >> here are the guarant deals. an ipad minute -- mini for $299 and comes with a wal-mart gift card. if you shop there it is a big savings. these are the few of the thousands deals. it is easy to scan the offers yourself to find the right gift at the right price. i posted the links you need to see the deals for yourself. just go to abc7news.com under 7 on your side. tomorrow night i de bunk the myth about black friday to make sure you get the most for your money. >> it is a great series. >> a lot of fun, michael. >>> a dream come true after a series of tragedies for a high school basketball player. austin hatch lost his mother, brother and sister in a plane crash in 2003 and then believe it or not in 2011 his father and step moth

a lot of businesses open last night and offered door busters. one shopper told us a lot of the good deals hit online already tuesday and wednesday. he took advantage of that. one guy we spoke to says shopping this year is a lot easier compared to last year. >> last year was crazy. i mean you got to wait in line for up to two or three hours. even in the later hours. when it was past 1:00 the stills were -- the lines were still long. >> and people were cranky. >> the stores are a mess now. >> reporter: so still some deals but most of the good door buster deals happened yesterday. many folks complained about those opening on thanksgiving since they believe the holidays are meant to be spent with family. we'll tell you which states put the breaks on doors wanting to open on thanksgiving. obviously california was not one of them. >>> police officers and security guards will be out in force at bay area shopping malls this morning. they are going to try to protect shoppers from what they call the dark side of black friday. there has been a growing numb

online, a warning tonight: just because you buy a door buster doesn't mean you get to keep it. every year about a week before christmas -- >> i was livid. >> reporter: -- we get flooded with complaints about online black friday deals. >> i went online thanksgiving night. it was there. i grabbed it. >> i put my credit card information. >> got an order confirmation and i thought, i'm good to go. i don't have to look for any other tvs. >> reporter: but then days later after all the other black friday deals expires -- >> they sent an email saying the item is no longer available. >> they supposedly had some type of technical error which allowed more tvs to be purchased than they had in inventory and they would not be honoring those orders. >> reporter: mark lo acastro from deal news says it's a common problem and pitfall of the black friday shopping frenzy. >> the action is happening so fast that sometimes the online resource cannot keep up the inventory. sometimes it could be technical glitches. >> reporter: that was a problem in 2010 when target, buy.com and frye's oversold limite

the record fila buster in 1957 was 24 hours, 18 minutes against a civil rights bill. these days senators don't have a right to speak. to stop a filibuster requires a special vote called closure to bring the debate to a fast end. the closure rule was adopted in 1917, at the request of president woodrow wilson. you will notice for the next 50 years phil busters and closure votes were relatively rare. by 1962 when the nixon administration was mired in watergate. we saw the first spike. 20 years later during the administration of president bill clinton. but the dramaticics increase occurred in the administration of george w. bush. interestingly upped president obama closure votes declined as some of his initiatives stalls. it took 3/5 of the senate 60 votes to stop filibusters. harry reid, a democrat threatened to lower the vote to 51. he took a step towards that goal by challenging the votes needed to stop phil busters, but only of presidential nominations. >> turning to afghanistan where thousands of tribal leaders gathered to discuss a security pact with the u.s. if ap

democrats are thinking of using the nuclear option, changing the rules to stop fila busters. for more on this i'm joined by bill schneider. a contributor for al jazeera english and jim warren, joining us from washington d.c. >> is palmresident obama treated differently to any other president. we saw senate democrats using phil busters to stop george bush's nominees, and delaying by years confirmations by others. >> it is a difference. he is being treated in a different way. the republicans virtually every day that they are here, and they are not here all that many days given the meagre workload of the united states congress, seem to be bent on blocking president barack obama at virtually every turn. here on an issue most constituent don't know about and if they knew wouldn't care. it's a simply politics, trying to block barack obama. it's not to say the republicans are laying down and being a rubber-stamp. what played out is the opposite. as an example, during the term of gw bush, he had six nominees to the same important court. four got through with considerable democratic s

. >> and michael finney looks at holiday door buster sales coming up. whose door should you bust when black friday arrives? stay with us. >>> about a million californians will not get an extension on their health insurance plans the board voted today to allow plans to be terminated because they don't meet higher standards of the affordable care act the president pleaded with states to let americans keep existing policies. >> affordable care act says every health plan, every coverage you're going to get can cover basics. some people had thin coverage that is going to be more robust. >> the chair says it's growing by rate of 3,000 april politics every day. 22% who apply are young adults. >> nra has begun a battle against city that's passed a local gun law and san francisco is the first battle ground. >> this is what the gun law bans. magazines. high-capacity magazines commonly used in mass shootings. that gunman was equipped with 5, 30 round clips. >> if we're able to eliminate that, that is a tool. or a tool that a person carrying out a crime will use. >

we called them block buster video. well, today, block buster admitted it's over. its parent company, dish network is shutting down block buster by mail. >>> think back to the last time you watched someone give up a seat voluntarily in first class. it happened on board a flight from chicago to san diego. there were 13 veterans on board and in uniform, returning from deployment in afghanistan. the airline could only accommodate six of them up front, but when the remaining first class passengers saw this, seven of them got up off their seats and allowed them a better ride. >>> and joe biden got all caught up in the moment last night and was trying to do the right thing. so he called marty walsh to congratulate him. the vice president yelled into the phone, you sun of a gun, marty, you did. sadly, he got the wrong marty walsh, he was thrilled to be talk being to the vice president. the walsh was an aide to ted kennedy previously for years, and even he says he knows at least eight other marty walshs in boston. >>> when we come back here tonight, our colleague, dr. nanc

you have the pamphlet already of the door busters? anything you really want? >> there is nothing real major so -- you know my kids are all growing so, you know, all the toys that you get the really good deals on i don't need so much anymore. >> reporter: there is good news for you. this is one of the selected target stores that is offering 40% off all merchandise throughout the day. right now actually they have some folks that are restocking their shelves. they expect more of a crush later this afternoon. that is it from here in fremont. we will send it over to the best buy in dublin where mark kelly joins us. >> reporter: good morning, ryan. we're here at the best buy in dublin. not that typical stampede we're sometimes used to seeing on black friday but they definitely got a good amount of customers inside. joining me is kevin rose, store manager here at best buy. how do you think black friday 2013 is going so far? is it all right? >> yeah, it has been a great year. we're having a lot of fun. giving us a great opportunity to take care of customers and help t

a lot of businesses offered door busters. one thing you will miss from shop the chaos, long lines, and cranky sleep deproved dust -- deprived customers. did you find a lot of good deals? >> yeah. all the good deals are still here. >> reporter: now one shopper told us that a lot of the good deals were already offering online tuesday and wednesday so many folks to do advantage of that. some stores -- some states even put the breaks on stores wanting to open on thanksgiving. obviously not in california. live from emeryville i'm tara moriarty. >>> time is 5:07. new information from illinois about gunfire among holiday shoppers. it happened last night near chicago at a kohls department store. as one officer struggled with the suspect, his arm got tangled in the car and he was dragged by the car briefly while other officers fired shots into that store. >> got over there and attempted to slam the door. the driver attempted to take off. the second cop came with gun. telling him to -- >> it shattered a window. the police officer and t

. >> now the south bay where early bird shoppers look for board buster -- door buster deals. matt? >> a lot of people have been up all night shopping. there are a lot of people with coffee cups. the biggest line is outside purse stores like this coach store. doors opened at 8:00. a security guard talked about it. >> it was good. hectic. a lot of people were here but it was smooth. >> people are plight? >> very polite. very polite the. >> this is a shot of the parking lot after 4:00 filled with cars and will stay open until 10:00. many were upset with the retailers opening up on thanksgiving day saying shopping was in the way of the holiday and forcing employees to miss family time but now it is officially black friday we will see if the crowds are smaller. i was told the big sales last until 10:00 tonight here at the mall. >> some retailers decided to start black friday last night as you heard in hopes of attracting true early bird shoppers. macy'sdown -- macy's union square, 300 stormed the doors when they flipped the looks. >> i have never then macy's to open at 8:00 on thanksgiv

. >> and michael finney looks at holiday door buster sales coming up. whose door should you bus >>> about a million californians will not get an extension on their health insurance plans the board voted today to allow plans to be terminated because they don't meet higher standards of the affordable care act the president pleaded with states to let americans keep existing policies. >> affordable care act says every health plan, every coverage you're going to get can cover basics. some people had thin coverage that is going to be more robust. >> the chair says it's growing by rate of 3,000 april politics every day. 22% who apply are young adults. >> nra has begun a battle against city that's passed a local gun law and san francisco is the first battle ground. >> this is what the gun law bans. magazines. high-capacity magazines commonly used in mass shootings. that gunman was equipped with 5, 30 round clips. >> if we're able to eliminate that, that is a tool. or a tool that a person carrying out a crime will use. >> nra saying the violates the second amend

they could be a bcs buster this season. louisville was off this week. ucla beating colorado right now. >> gus: first down and ten at the 49 for texas tech. another low snap in the middle. ball caught by eric ward. he'll get down at the 41. shaun lewis again. >> charles: shaun lewis one of my favorite players in college football. all over the place, playing coverage, blitzing. good, sure tackler in the open field. there's joe mitchell. a former safety, now turned linebacker. he's played well for oklahoma state this

getting a jump on black friday door busters. while many of the extreme bargain hunters, they're home. others are starting their holiday shopping in san francisco's square. katie utehs is live in the city to tell us why police are also saying you should be very careful. >> reporter: well, dave, police have seen a recent up tick in cell phone robberies. they are passing out fliers. this warning of muggings, stay vigilant, put your cell phone away, and the other side is you don't walk across the street while on your cell phone. don't be distracted while walking across the street. let me show you some video from the morning. there are a lot of officers on the streets, just patrolling union square and market street to make sure that shoppers stay safe. now, they tell me things have been pretty quiet. no reports of thefts of robbery during this black friday. that is so far. union square becomes a hub for holiday shopping and many people are also taking b.a.r.t. into the city, and we have spoken with a few of those folks who say their

also, many stores that offered door-busters yesterday, have a new set of door-busters rolling out today. walmart will have their entire lego and barbie collection marked down 30% until 2:00 p.m. appliance prices are also slashed today. this washer/dryer combo is marked down to $499, $200 off at kmart. i think dad would like a pressure washer this christmas. just $69. discount, $30. who wouldn't want a pressure washer for christmas? and remember, most mom and pop local stores are open today with their own discounts. and finally, you could just stay at home in your pjs and shop online. bargain-type deal news analyzed brick and mortar prices from last year and found 70% of black friday deals are available online at the same price. so, if you only have a few targeted items, you're better off saving the gas and avoiding impulse buys by shopping online. so, whether you're headed out or you're going to try to find some digital deals, i have a list of my 21 top best smokin'-hot deals. they're all at "good morning america" at yahoo!.com. i know ron claiborne, of course, is running out. >> you're

. >> we need more than a dorm buster, we need a storm buster. open the storm door, maybe we should get in the front of line. >> they keep coming and coming. love them. >> not for a lack of storms out there, but they keep missing us. that will change for next week. that will be good news for you. we have been cloudy, we will stay that way through thanksgiving and hanukkah. tomorrow, a lot of you heading out of town. sacramento tomorrow, partly sunny, 66. ukia up near 70. slight chance of a shower, 56, heading up to tahoe. the reason why we have more rain fall to the south, more sunshine. it's only a couple hundred miles goff shore. we're going to miss out on the rain fall around here, but we will be cloudy. thanks giving will be slow through and southern arizona. so, missing e us, what moves in after that inform another big ridge of pry pressure. the pressure will come back which has been a dry month. we had two days of rain fall. it will be a dry end to a dry november. it's going to get wintery, in the form of cooler weather. rough surf tomorrow

>> reporter: more door busters are being offered online so you don't have to go in the door and cyber monday deals can be better. waiting can pay off. some credit cards will price much after the fact so if you buy something and find can cheaper later you can get reimbursed for the difference. . >>> all right, so how much does it keep to keep gotham city safe for a day? a hundred grand, give or take a few thousand. and thousands came out to watch miles scott get the key to the city after finding all the bad guys on friday. the city will pick up most of the tab for the celebrations. make a wish foundation is also helping out. >>> beautiful weather. pouring down rain but we needed it. >> batkid would be wet as it poured out there today. if you don't have an umbrella you're trying to dry out the outfit you have on. it poured earlier but right now it's clear. scanning the skies tw the radar and nothing within 200 miles of the bay area right now. we have a lot of low cloud cover and fog out there. take you live outside. this is video, grizzly creek has fog. thick deck out there. fog is a ma

the backpack graffiti buster that's safer for the environment. that story ande at five. itish artist >>> coming up at 5:00, the backpack graffiti buster that's safer for the environment. that and more at 5:00. >>> the painting by francis bacon sold at christie's auction last night for a record $142 million. it's the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction. the three studies of lucian freud, a grandson of sigmund freud. the previous record was $120,000 for edvard munch's "the scream" > where do you put that thing? >> i don't know. >> in a vault. >> your mancave. >> there you go. i don't think so. [ laughter ] >>> that's it for kpix 5 news at noon. have a great afternoon, everyone. >> take care. captions by: caption colorado comments@captioncolorado.com ,, >> justin: i am really happy for you, dollar bill. both of you. both of you. >> bill: incredible, isn't it? >> justin: yeah, these things happen for a reason. >> bill: yeah, i never really believed that, but hanging from that mountain, face-to-face with death... >> justin: yeah, it changes a man. >> bill: it chan

and in north carolina, see the man in orange as he wrestles to grab a door buster. a father even leaving his infant in the car outside of a best buy so he could shop. the baby is okay. bullets flew outside this kohl's in illinois, multiple injuries reported after police chased an alleged shoplifter into the parking lot. even protests at some walmarts over wages. but from coast to coast, most scenes were just eager shoppers enjoying early store openings. walmart, doing more tan 10 million transactions in the first four hours of the frenzy. 2.8 million towels, 300,000 bikes, 1.9 million dolls. but in spite of crowds like this one, a record 15,000 people at macy's in new york city, shoppers hung tough. carts leaving stores filled to the brim. and at this best buy in new york city they have been opened since 6:00 p.m. last night. the store showing steady stream of traffic, people waiting outside, coming in in waves, because it is at capacity, analysts anticipate americans will spend nearly $40 billion. that's up from last year. >> not everyone likes the adrenaline rush

are door buster sales on black friday-- a boom or bust for consumers.. in today's cover story...the debate shifts away from the affordable care website as a new health care fight forms. plus....weather watch as a bout of bad storms threaten the early holiday shopping rush. and...companies that are still stocking up on staff for the holidays. first business starts now! you're watching first business: financial news, analysis, and today's investment ideas. good morning! it's wednesday, november 27th.i'm angela miles.in today's first look: the nasdaq tops 4,000 for the first time in 13 years-- as upward momentum continues in the stockmarket.also in tuesday's trading action the dow ended unchanged. the nasdaq up 23 and the s&p inchedup 1 point. gold up a dollar oil down 25 cents. hewlett packard swings to a profit.shares rallied 6% last night after the tech company posted weak sales, but a profit for the quarter shows the company is turning around. and, new jersey takes a gamble. the garden state now allows online gambling on 13 websites. larry shover of sfg

it is a clot buster. it reopens clots that are blocking blood vessels and restores blood flow to threatened regions before irreversible injury has occurred. one of the main surgeons felt it was very important that i see her right before they started the procedure, and so they took me in, and they were just very quickly preparing her. at that point, she wasn't... she couldn't speak, she couldn't say anything. we didn't have more than a minute, and karen doesn't remember anything. i just went in and tried to pretend that it was no big deal, and it was like holding back tears and stuff. time was critical in the use of the clot buster, tpa, to counter the effects of karen's stroke. when blood flow is blocked to the brain, a number of processes leading to cell injury begin to occur immediately, and unless the blood flow is restored within a few hours, then the brain that's at risk is irretrievably lost. so unfortunately, we have learned that the time window for intervention in acute stroke is very brief, on th

enjoying the whole shopping experience as opposed to just coming in and making buying out one door buster. >> great experience if you're not so hung up on having to get something. if that's your -- i think if that's your mission, you get lost in it. >> reporter: many customers say the crowds aren't as big as last year, it could be because many people shopped on thanksgiving day, more people are shopping online or they are waiting for even bigger sales still to come. brook silverbraga for abc news, new york. >> national retailer federation expects shoppers to spend $2.6 billion, a 3.9% sales increase from last year and retailers are preparing for tomorrow's small business saturday. that's a day when shoppers are encouraged to spend some cash at, well, small businesses. >>> it's called operation turkey chase, the montgomery county police department's multiagency task force, which is dedicated to cracking down on drunken driving and underaged drinking. officers kicked off the effort on the wednesday before thanksgiving, which is a notoriously big drinking night. so far police report 131 traf

how would you characterize the environment generally, and are you seeing the door busters? >> reporter: yeah, you know, kelly, it sounds like i'm in a mall different from where you and bill are today. here in dayton, ohio, this mall is very much a middle-class type of mall, as far as the shoppers and the stores are concerned. i've been here since 3:00 in the morning, and i can tell you that the foot traffic is probably right now at its peak. over the last two hours or so, i would actually guess that we've probably doubled in foot traffic. i went up to the food court. every single table is taken here. seeing a lot of folks walk out with bags from macy's and jcpenney. though some victoria secret and gap mixed in. just anecdotally, those seem to be the hot stores. from what i'm hearing from folks shopping here and the area, they hit the big-box retailers on thursday night, thursday afternoon, went home, took a break, and are coming back out to hit the mall now. the foot traffic is pretty good. most folks do have bags. it's not window shopping. it does look as though people are

and you listen here, buster. you better have damn good evidence to back up those charges you just made 'cause i'm gonna haul your sorry ass in the court and sue you for every damn cent you're worth. calling me a hypocrite and a fraud in front of all these witnesses was your big mistake, buster. what do you say, am i right or am i right? you're right, orville. you're damn right i'm right. now come on, we got business to take care of. i'll see you in court, asshole. just a minute, reverend tarbrush. i'd like to have a word with you. well, i've got no argument with you. no, no, you don't. in fact, i just wanted to agree with that last thing you said. i expect you will be seeing these boys in court. yeah. in fact, i expect you'll be seeing lots of folks in court. what do you mean? well, when i said i was here on a legal matter, i wasn't really looking to represent you. what i had in mind was more along the lines of arresting you. what? on what authority? united states department of justice, good enough? well, that's

they have some really nice door buster deals on strong brand names. there were 15,000 folks, the krae of macy's said lined up outside the flagship store. a lot of bags coming out with the macy's logo. walmart also a winner, they are having their best black friday in history. so far we don't know the exact numbers, but sounding very promising there. losers, sears and k-mart. k-mart opened at 6:00 a.m. on thanksgiving day. doesn't seem it attracted many shoppers, though. >> quick thought on online shopping. what are you hearing there? >> ibm says that thanksgiving sales online up 20%. department stores, very strong online. they are a standout of 60% sale numberwise from what we saw last year, apparel one of the strongest categories online. so far, decent traffic on the computer, as well as here in the stores. >> bring me back one of those wonderful killer brownies from out there in dayton, will you? >> i will do it. i will do it, for sure. >> have a great weekend, courtney, courtney reagan reporting. it was not all smooth sailing. a fight broke out in a

in fact, we have over 300 door busters this year compared to 200 last year. we have deals at 5:00, at midnight, at 5:00 a.m. in the morning and the whole weekend we'll have a series of really great deals including deals on our new toys r us online shopping channel that we launched. our strategy here really is to make sure that we give customers the greatest option to enjoy the deals that we have and to really make sure that they can decide when they want to shop. so for those customers that want to stay at home, that's cool, too. so at 12:01 a.m. on thursday our.com site went live and you can get to the store at 5:00 p.m. on thursday or you can also get that at 5:00 a.m. on friday morning. whatever suits you, we got the opportunities for you. >> let's talk about different categories of toys. is there one must have toy this year? i realize that children of different ages and so what might work for a 3-year-old isn't going to work for an 8-year-old or a 14-year-old, but what do you expect category-wise is going to be the hot area this year? >> there is a load o

you have to walk into the store to get a door buster price. >> many if not all door busters are available on line at the same price sometimes even cheaper. >>reporter: no. 3. you have to go to the apple store for its black friday sale. >> certified reseller of apple product like amazon, best buy, mack connection they offer almost double the discounts on a el products. >>reporter: for many shoppers it's not just about the sales. they brave the crowd because black friday has become a cultural phenomenon. >> the whole experience. the happening. holiday cheer in the city. >>reporter: myth number 4. all deals are advertised in the newspaper. some secret deal only show up on line as competitors try to out do each other. myth no. 5. nobody will match black friday prices. stores like staple. target. best buy. now matching prices of even on line competitors such as amazon. just a few of the thousands of deals you find next week. now i posted the link you need to see the deal yourself. go to our web site 7 on your side. >> great ways to >> good evening after 5 game road trip shark back home for the

you have to walk into the store to get a door buster price. >> many if not all door busters are available on line at the same price sometimes even cheaper. >>reporter: no. 3. you have to go to the apple store for its black friday sale. >> certified reseller of apple product like amazon, best buy, mack connection they offer almost double the discounts on a el products. >>reporter: for many shoppers it's not just about the sales. they brave the crowd because black friday has become a cultural phenomenon. >> the whole experience. the happening. holiday cheer in the city. >>reporter: myth number 4. all deals are advertised in the newspaper. some secret deal only show up on line as competitors try to out do each other. myth no. 5. nobody will match black friday prices. stores like staple. target. best buy. now matching prices of even on line competitors such as amazon. just a few of the thousands of deals you find next week. now i posted the link you need to see the deal yourself. go to our web site 7 on your side. >> so, this board gives me rates for progressive direct and other car insurance

the only way to be sure you're going home with a door buster is to be the first in line when the doors open. julie watts, kpix 5. >> go pick it up. and you california law would you have the right -- under california law you would have the right to sue if would seek the same deal elsewhere but it would be a long process in small claims court. >>> it is 4:46. lawrence, in between chomping on turkey, he has been checking on the weather forecast. >> i had a turkey cookie already this morning. >> your little girl made it. >> yup. some good stuff. thankful to be here guys with you today on this thanksgiving. and yes, it looks like it will be a good day ahead, clouds moving across our skies. but right now looks like it's going to stay dry. got a great thanksgiving ahead here as we are going to see a mix of sun and clouds throughout the day. a little cool in spots. 37 degrees in santa rosa now 47 in san jose and 49 degrees in san francisco. as we head throughout the afternoon, we'll see some sunshine and some clouds moving on through. and then more sunshine and some dry weather as we look towa

you have to walk into the store to get a door buster price. >> many if not all door busters are available on line at the same price sometimes even cheaper. >>reporter: no. 3. you have to go to the apple store for its black friday sale. >>ller of apple certified resele product like amazon, best buy, mack connection they offer almost double the discounts on a el products. >>reporter: for many shoppers it's not just about the sales. they brave the crowd because black friday has become a cultural phenomenon. >> the whole experience. the city.ing. holiday cheer in. >>reporter: myth number 4. all deals are advertised in the newspaper. some secret deal only show up on line as competitors try to out do each other. myth no. 5. nobody will match black friday prices. stores like staple. target. best buy. now matching prices of even on line competitors such as amazon. just a few of the thousands of deals next week. next week. now i posted the link you need to see the deal yourself. go to our web site 7 on your side. >> great ways to this is the creamy chicken corn chowder. i mean, look at it. so indu

was heavy for those door buster deals you talk to some sales associates they said that things started to tail off around 2:00 a.m. this morning and they did not pick up again until around 11:00 a.m. and wages are stagnant in the united states which has really cut into the spending power of the american consumer and so bargains are important. one of the most telling winds are the lack of bags that people are carrying. you are seeing cautious shoppers looking for the best bargains that they can find. >> and for retailers, patricia, this is d-day, this is the day. >> reporter: absolutely. it is a very important day and weekend. many retailers, especially those catering to the cost kconsumer they've warned that earnings will be lower than expected and so they are preparing their shareholders and we're seeing the squeeze that is on the american consumer, that is one thing that we're seeing and consumer reports came out with a poll showing that 56% of americans have no intention of setting foot inside a store on black friday, they would rather just shop online. >> one year it was the xbox o

>> i think so. >> reporter: that accent, transylvania, real estate ghost buster and flipper. david wright, abc news, las vegas. >> we want to thank you for sharing your halloween photos with us all day today. amazing costumes you sent us. keep them coming all night long. go to abcnews.com to find out how. for diane and all of us at abc news, have a safe and happy halloween tonight. >>> breaking news, a bay area flight makes an unexpected stop. we will bring you a live update on the threat made on this plane. >>> only on abc7 news a civil rights claim in the death of a santa rosa teenager. tonight, the first response from the deputy who shot him. >>> and we will follow up on a vicious dog attack in antioch last night. the search for the owner and what could happen to the dog that survived. >>> and why a popular ex-49er could be spending time next year in a federal prison. >>> that breaking news is in phoenix right now, where united airlines flight from san francisco to san antonio, texas, has been diverted because of some sort of threat. >> the nature of that threat has bought

which will still be subject to a 60 vote requirement to break a film buster. the democrats did not take this step lightly. they have been considering for years. after it was first threatened by republicans when they were the snath sena senate majority. harry reid blamed republicans. >> there has been unbleaelievab unprecendented obstruction for the first time in the history of our republic. republicans hatch u s have used filibuster. >> of the 168 fill busters against presidential nominees in the history of the united states senate, half of them were against president obama's nominees. president obama welcomed the change. >> one of the president's constitutional responsibilities is to nominate americans to positions within the executive and judicial branchs. over six decades before i took office. only 20 presidential nominees t overcome filibustersme. in five years, 30 treated this way. >> mitch mcconnell could offer nothing more than a threat. >> the friends on the other side of the aisle. you will regret this may regret it a lot sooner than you think. >> joi

this was like buster douglas coming back from tyson. i know there are viewers who remember that fight. phil, you may or may not be one of them, but what is in the market psychology at the moment? i mean, this was a tiny dip. i'm with teddy on this. every dip no matter how small seems to be a buying opportunity even with the span of a couple of hours. >> yeah. and the day traders have beene, taking advantage of it. every time come down to about 16 50, that's been around your buy mark. 17630, that's your -- 1760, that's your sell mark. it's all a lot of taper talk, rumors here and there. if you look at earnings, there's been about 375 companies that have reported, 76% of them have beat what analysts' expectations were. the key is, do we get two or three economic numbers that, you know, either miss what the estimates are, or do they beat them exceptional? that's the next direction in the market. liz: you can see the direction is down for crude, and when you pull out light sweet crude specifically, ira, it's not so much that people invest i

while there will be store buster deals, maybe store buster, it stocked 60% more televisions, load up the carts, five times the number of bed sheets. people give that? the company promising free shipping on almost all the items ordered on line. >> happening today organizers expect a record number of people to show up for are aen annual thanksgiving tradition. runners, they are going to swarm. to run for the fresh air and chir think. people donated 1.2 million in 26,000 pounds of foot. organizers expect 20,000 to participate. which is a great number. when it first started nine years ago 1900 took part in the first turkey trot. meteorologist christina loren not only getting up early for us but you're going to head out as well. >> yes, the 5-k, mike has the day off. he is lacing up his running shoes. he's going to host the fun run. should be a good time out there. you know what, it's going to be the same scene at the turkey trot that you're going to find at the walmart later on. a lot of people racing to get to those deals. they say 40 percent, that's where you should look f. you get a 4

we see customers buying into our door busters. but what was exciting last night -- >> boor busters is a euphemism for an unprofitable trade for you, right? >> it can be. but what we saw last night is customers coming in, buying whole shopping carts of goods, literally doing their complete christmas shop on this day. so that helps us with our margins outall. but the fact is, wpt to give our customers a great place. >> one final question and then would he have got to run. all of these door busters and they promotions and all of what's happening, is it just pulling forward the sales or do you think it's actually increasing incrementally the sales? >> i think we've got a couple of things to look at. first you'of all, we have a compressed holiday season. we have to make sure every single day counts between now and the 24th of december. it's not our fault this is pulling forward sales. this is absolutely necessary. it's important to give our customer tess convenience, the time to be able to do that shopping so that they can get the righ

you can see some door busters that are still available here. and these are, we're talking tvs, down this line, and the aisle. now i want to show smu video because there was -- show you some video. there was a long line that wrapped around the video. this is cell phone video we took. people we talked to are here for the second time so far in the last 10 hours. take a listen. >> we got here probably around 6:30 and the line was awful. it was wrapped around the store. >> reporter: so how that is from years' past? >> it is basically pretty much the same. >> but we just came back for the memory foam. there is no more so now she did an impulsive buy of dishes that are not even a gift. >> reporter: there are still deals to be had out here. 40% off. colorrance items are 50% off. -- clearance items are 50% off. some people say they may wait until afternoon instead of hitting the stores early like they normally do on black friday. for many people this is a tradition. many that we talked to spent time with family last night. we're live in fremont, ryan ta

. >> some 230 plus years there have been 168 fill busters of executive and judicial nominations. half occurred during the obama administration. mr. president, 230 plus years, 50%. >> just on the d.c. circuit court senator reid pointed out republicans have blocked 4 of 5 obama nominees while democrats affirmed 4 of 6 bush nominees but if you ask senate minority leader mitch mcconnell it's all part of a made up, democratic shaggy dog story. >> break the rules of the senate in order to change the rules of the senate. and over what? they cook up some fake fight over judges. i'd be talking about something else too if i had to defend dogs getting insurance while millions of americans lost theirs. >> yes. aside from claiming today that republicans have been extremely fair to the current president, senator mcconnell also claimed that a dog was able to successfully enroll in the affordable care act so i guess the website is getting easier to use and make no mistake house speaker john boehner did get the memo on republicans' nuclear talking points. >> sounz like harry reid is trying to cha

they will have door busters. another at 12 and another on block friday at 10 a.m. if you don't want to wait can you come at midnight or the next day well let's face it they want more people to come. >> you don't have to worry that everyone will buy it out. enjoy a day and thursday all morning long. we have the forecast. >>> happy thanksgiving. >> all eyes on the forecast. for raindrops. it has been removed. >>> the north bay and dipped down. and san francisco milder out the door at 49 and 43 degrees. as we progress you will notice mid to upper 60s. that's a possibility. fair skies and not too bad at thanksgiving. low 60s in san francisco. temperatures will stay in the mid-to-upper 60s in the south bay and 65 is the high. satellite and radar shows the clouds that are streaming into the area and from time to time we pick up showers. and this is not expected to impact the bay area any more. not much change into the temperatures. sunshine into saturday into sunday tuesday into wednesday with a 20% chance for rain. that is something we will monitor. i want to shift our

they're already lined up for next week's door busters. doug, getting cold. >> those guys are going to need heaters. not jus cold. we have frigid air making its way. >>> if you want to be first in line for black friday deals you have to start early in this town in ohio. three people are already camped out. they're standing intense. they have generators and heaters to keep them warm. bestbuy door busters start at 6:00 thanksgiving night. that's still 191 hours away. >>> edward snowden is the former nsa contractor who admitted leaking u.s. secrets. he is still hiding out in russia, right now. but there's a group supporting him here in washington. they want to say thank you to him. they are trying to raise enough money to pay for ads to wrap around buses. the group says it wants to thank snowden for defending americans' right to privacy. >> they pushed congress to reopen the investigation of the kennedy assassination and succeeded. we talk about conspiracy >>> a daring helicopter rescue caught on video near baltimore. it happened last night.