mississippi river still has to crest this upcoming weekend. this is from valley park, missouri. and i think there was something like 70 to almost 80 highways closed in the state ever missoun of missouri alone. and the same system produced a tornado in garden city, georgia. did significant damage there. and still a tornado threat with us this morning in eastern north carolina. numerous tornado warnings have already happened. no confirmed tornadoes. but if you re in the wilmington area, washington, greenville, plymouth, elizabeth city, that area has a chance of an isolated very strong storm and weak tornado this morning. the rest of the northeast mid-atlantic, soaking rain from d.c. to state college to pittsburgh. everywhere from cleveland to new york, now getting into the rain shield. it would be heavy at times. here is the lunchtime. heaviest right over the top of philadelphia and new york, d.c. starting to clear out. boston it looks like you have to wait until the evening rush hour fo
in addition to the wet weather along the east coast, a new storm is dumping rain and snow in the northwest. the midwest will be mostly dry, but much chillier than usual for this time of the year. and take a look at the numbers in minneapolis and chicago. 20s and low 30s. it has not been that chilly there since last winter. the main exception though is the east coast where the stormy weather is bringing readings mostly in the 50s. not too bad out east. well, the bad weather is not keeping millions of americans away from malls this morning. black friday is the traditional kickoff of the holiday shopping season. but major chain stores are pushing that back a day. for the first time, they were open on thanksgiving day. here s diana alvear. reporter: this self-proclaimed bargain betty has been ready to shop since before the sun came up. i love to shop so when it s open i can get out there, i m going. reporter: the thing is, it s not black friday. it s black thursday. for the first
show solidarity with seoul. drug gang leaders are being blamed for five days of violence in a slum in rio de janeiro. police are using military armored vehicles to patrol the shantytown. at least 23 people have died so far. the police moved into the drug-ridden slum earlier this week to clean it up before the city hosts the soccer world cup in 2014 and the summer olympics just two years later. three teens who had been given up for dead have been rescued in the south pacific after nearly two months at sea in a small boat. they were found not by the extensive search crews that had looked for them, but by a fishing boat taking a shortcut home. abc s david muir has the story. reporter: the three young castaways who spent nearly two months lost at sea are finally on their way home. they spent 50 days not knowing if they d ever go home. the boys went missing in early october, trying to row their tiny 12-foot aluminum boat between two islands near their home off new zealand.
friday shoppers are going to be greeted by rain, snow and also the cold this year. we take a look at the nation as a whole. our latest cold front is going to sweep its way along the east coast. that is going to bring rain for the big cities. boston all the way down to cities like atlanta to kick off your black friday. and the big stories behind that, much colder air surging in. and that s going to cause some slippery travel. let s focus on the northeast. our latest storm tracking its way on in. that s going to cause soaking rain along the coast to begin your day. and on the northern edge of that we re talking a wintry mix. western pennsylvania extending out through northern parts of new england. as we head southward, you can see that front is going to bring shower and thunderstorm activity along i-10 and right along the atlantic seaboard, but the big story is the chilly air moving in behind it. that s certainly going to be noticed across parts of texas, dallas houston and brownsville,
an attack earlier this week by north korea. now, that comes after the north warned that this weekend s u.s./south korean military drills are pushing the korean peninsula to the brink of war. today the u.s. military commander in south korea is touring the ravaged island to show solidarity with seoul. three teenage boys who spent almost two months adrift in the south pacific are now safe and heading home. the boys from the new zealand territory had been given up for lost. their parents reported them missing in october. an extensive air and sea search had failed to find them, but then yesterday, they were spotted by a new zealand fishing boat. one of my crew members was standing watch at the time, and he noticed that he could see something floating on the horizon off our bows. and as we drew closer, we realized it was a small craft, and then when we drew even more close, we realized there were people inside this craft. they were in need of some assistance.