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with bargain hunters. thats right, serious shoppers are out in force this morning, snapping up black friday deals at some of the nations biggest retailers, and this year, the official holiday shopping season actually kicked off even earlier with some stores offering deep discounts thursday night. nbcs janel klein is in new york city for us this morning. janel, these people are like late to the game, at 5:00 in the morning. its like, you know, people have been out there for hours. >> re...

black friday deals at some of the nations biggest retailers. and this year the official holiday shopping season kicked off even earlier with some stores offering deep discounts thursday night. nbcs janell klein is live for us in new york city. janelle, how does it look out there now? >> reporter: its busy, lynn. in fact, many shoppers went right from thanksgiving dinner straight to the mall this year. for the first time, dozens of stores opened last night. one sign that the competition...

thats right, serious shoppers are out in force this morning, snapping up black friday deals at some of the nations biggest retailers, and this year, the official holiday shopping season actually kicked off even earlier with some stores offering deep discounts thursday night. nbcs janel klein is in new york city for us this morning. janel, these people are like late to the game, at 5:00 in the morning. its like, you know, people have been out there for hours. >> reporter: theyre pretty ...

friday -- on a wednesday so you earn 50 percent more cash. morning. it feels like a friday, and if youre not satisfied with 50% more cash, send it back! welcome to bedlam. im matt lauer. ill be right here, waiting for it. >> and im ann curry. good morning, everybody. talk about fan devotion. who wouldnt want more cash? these people have been out here [ insects chirping ] for days, and you know whats ill take it. ill make it rain up in here. really remarkable is theyve been braving heav...

"today," wednesday, november 23rd, 2011. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >> announcer: live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> good morning everyone and welcome to "today" on a friday -- on a wednesday morning. it feels like a friday, and welcome to bedlam. im matt lauer. >> and im ann curry. good morning, everybody. talk about fan devotion. these people have been out here for days, and you know whats really remarkable is theyve been braving heavy rains as you just m...

first, the congressional super committee has reached a stalemate. thats the word on capitol hill where the bipartisan group of lawmakers has failed to agree on a 1.2 trillion spending cut. the deadline is today to present a plan of some kind to trim the budget or face a series of automatic cuts. of course washington doesnt work and it doesnt today. theres still time for a last-ditch effort to make a deal, barely. sources say it is highly unlikely. an official announcement expected toda...

stalemate. thats the word on capitol hill where the bipartisan group of lawmakers has failed to agree on a 1.2 trillion spending cut. the deadline is today to present a plan of some kind to trim the budget or face a series of automatic cuts. of course washington doesnt work and it doesnt today. theres still time for a last-ditch effort to make a deal, barely. sources say it is highly unlikely. an official announcement expected today after the markets close. the deadlock has already sen...

and called him an al-qaida sympathizer. police believe he was targeting troops and intended to bomb nypd squad cars. investigators say he stopped him before he made the bombs operational. >> the nypd intelligence division did outstanding work in tracking this individual. the police also constructed a duplicate of an explosive device the suspect build and designated in a way he intended to use his weapon and we wanted to show you a video about the resulting damage. >> police say he is o...

according to police, jose pimentel had almost finished making a pipe bomb from supplies he bought at a 99-cent store and home depot over the past month. this is a model of some of the components of this bomb. this is what police say could have happened had it been set off. >> we had to act quickly yesterday, because he was in fact putting this bomb together. he was drilling the holes and it would have been not appropriate for us to let him walk out the door with that bomb. >> reporter:...

for all of this to burn off. lets look at the radar. we had rain showers overnight, but not now. its pushed off to the east. i would not rule out another shower or two popping up here or there. i think for the most part were done. main event will hold off until foam. cloudy skies today. morning fog. a shower or two here or there. highs in the mid-and upper 50s. 55 in frederick. 59 in fredericksburg. 58 in downtown d.c. thats a look at whats happening with the weather. now lets go to ju...