Suddenly taking on a surprising role in her familys ironfisted regime. Im brianna keilar. Youre watching cnn newsroom. Thats a chaotic scene nearly disrupting one of the holiday traditions. Dozens of people protesting the grand jury decision in ferguson, new jersey. They were chanting no justice, no peace, and justice for mike brown. Cnns Miguel Marquez is in new york. Tell us about this. This was a promise after two days. They made good on it around 37th and broadway. Just where the front of that parade was getting to the 2 1 2 mile parade route of the macys thanksgiving day parade, protesters rushed the barricades and threw bottles at stores. Very, very heavy crowds were here to watch the parade. They tried to get on to the parade route in order to disrupt the very beginning of the parade. Police were at the ready, though. They knew protesters had been talking about this on seeocial media for several days. This is becoming more about economic justice, occupy wall street sort of concerns moving away in some ways from the only injustice in the Michael Brown issue. A lot of frustrations among protesters here but police were at the ready. They believed they could turn them away and they certainly did. That is not deterring protesters, though. Where . Harold square where macys is located. Miguel, thank you. Were learning new about a new terrorist plot, the st. Louis arch. This is interesting, pamela, and very alarming. Thats right. Were learning new details, brianna. Law enforcement says the fbi used a sting to set up a purchase of what the men thought was a pipe bomb and now were learning from Law Enforcement sources that the men have plans to bomb, as you said, the iconic landmark in st. Louis. Federal prosecutors say the plan, if carried out, would have terrorized ferguson and sent everything into chaos. Even before the grand jury decision and this weeks riots, the two men were plotting to blow up the iconic st. Louis march as well as two key figures in the Michael Brown case. Prosecuting attorney Bob Mccullough and ron jackson, the police chief. They were allegedly buying what they believed was a pipe bomb. Investigators say the men planned to buy more bombs when they got more money. A Law Enforcement officer says davis was part of the new black Panther Party and they say the claims are baseless and have no merit. The alleged plot was amateurish, at best, and its unlikely the men had the ability to carry out the attacks. So far, they have only been indicted on federal weapons charges after allegedly buying weapons at a store outside st. Louis. And authorities expect more charges to be filed against the duo relating to the alleged bombing plot. Pam brown, thank you. Lets get the latest about the situation in ferguson with cnns sara sidner. Whats the mood like . Reporter we saw on monday night this aerial view where there are lots of cars being sold and they were on fire. This is what it looks like now in the daylight as were able to get to some of the areas that we were able to get to because the streets are blocked off. This is west florissant. Certainly there is an Investigation Underway trying to figure out who is responsible for the criminal activity and thats exactly what it was on west florissant, south florissant and this part right here when people came out and damaged the city. I want to talk to you about what were hearing from Darren Wilson and his attorneys. They are talking after months of silence and after months of Darren Wilson basically being in hiding, trying to keep out of public view. Heres what his attorney said about his life now after weve heard quite a bit about whats happened with the browns family. He has had to learn to live in a way that makes him completely unnoticeable. As a consequence of that, there are several techniques that he utilizes that makes that happen and its an odd way to live your life and for him its all about his family. Its all about safety. And for Michael Browns family, they have said after hearing from Darren Wilson that they dont believe a word he says and, in their words, at least he still has a life, unlike their son. Obviously theres a lot of sorrow and bitterness about what has happened and how this has all unfolded. Were hearing now from Darren Wilson and his side of the story for the first time publicly. I want to talk to you, because it is thanksgiving, about some of the things going on here that doesnt have anything to do with destruction, about rebuilding and trying to get this community to grow yet again. We were able to go over to cathys kitchen. Its owned by a husband and wife and the husband is a basketball coach in the community, knows a lot of the young men in ferguson. They reopened after 24 hours after having their windows smashed out but were able to reopen because the protesters stood in front of their building and made sure none of the looters got inside. Brianna. Its so important. People were wondering whether ferguson could become economic deserts. Its good to know that they are reopening. President obama followed these developments. Hes continuing to follow them in ferguson from the white house where the first family is celebrating thanksgiving and many wonder whether the president will visit ferguson. Athena, what does the president say about this and what is going on there today . After days of protests in ferguson and across the country, the president is using his weekly address to talk about one of his favorite things, being each others keeper. He talks about justice and equality. Lets play a clip of what he has to say. As we gather with loved ones on this thanksgiving, lets remember and be grateful for what binds us together. A love of country, our commitment to justice and equality. Now, you mentioned, brianna, a lot of folks are wondering whether he will travel to the city. The president was asked this earlier this week and basically dodged the question. He said lets take a look and see how things are going. He pointed to the fact that attorney general eric holder has been to ferguson along with a whole team from the Justice Department. The Justice Department is in the midst of a federal civil rights investigation into Michael Browns shooting and they are investigating allegations of unconstitutional policing practices or patterns by the Ferguson Police department. Those investigations are ongoing and could take a while. In addition to having the Department Look into the incident in ferguson, the president asked attorney general to hold a series of meetings, regional meetings around the country to look at ways to improve relations between Law Enforcement and the communities they served to make sure that Law Enforcement is applied fairly and justly to everyone in the country. And so as part of that, we know that next week they are going to be the Administration Officials will be meeting with state and local officials, community leaders, faith leaders to discuss some of these specific steps to improving relations. Brianna . This is an issue that stretches beyond ferguson. Athena jones at the white house, thank you. Next, well talk about all of this with Community Activist john gaskin who is in ferguson right now. Plus, disturbing news for everyone who flies. The growing threat that drones pose. A sudden surge in near collisions. coffee being poured into a cup. save your coffee from the artificial stuff. 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Ferguson grand jury decision is far from over as protesters try to disrupt the new york thanksgiving day parade. In ferguson itself, relative calm after three days and nights of protests. Lets get more now with Community Activist john gaskin. Hes in ferguson right now. I wonder, weve seen things calm down, john, but do you think were going to see any violence tonight . I dont think so. I think the community will be passionate. This is the first thanksgiving dinner that the browns will sit down without their son. They are going through one of the most difficult holidays, especially when youve recently lost a loved one. But i believe that tonight people will be peaceful. If protests continue, they will remain peaceful. I certainly hope and pray that people will stay home and consider what the family has said to act in a dignified way. I do know that tomorrow there are a number of boycotts planned across the country and especially here in the st. Louis area encouraging people, hands up, dont shop in a boycott honoring the memory of Michael Brown and calling upon some of the area businesses to take note on what is taking place here. Weve seen, obviously, some of the violence. Its very important to note that youve had a lot of Peaceful Protesters in the last few days in ferguson trying to deter or certainly discourage people from looting, from being violent. Theyve been protesting for months now. But where do they go from here, john . How do they turn the protests into something more . Well, where we go from here now is hoping that leadership, like the mayor, like the county executive, like governor jay nixon will take the courageous route and step out and meet with many of these protest leaders to bring them to the table to begin to have a discussion regarding systemic changes, regarding education reform, regarding Police Reform. To begin to have those discussions on what we do to move past this. You know, the looting happened monday night. Now it turns into what i would call a healing process. And in order to heal, weve got to begin and get people to work, provide resources within the communities that are struggling most. And like i said, begin to really talk about working with Law Enforcement to recruit minorities, to be on Police Forces and to really improve the image that africanamericans and people of color have with Law Enforcement within their communities. We have to begin to, you know, bring legislation about. There is a march to jefferson city, i believe, on saturday where groups like the naacp will be marching to the Governors Mansion to demand that the governor put forth a bill for Police Reform here in the state of missouri. Thats how we move past the protests and into legislation so that we begin to see real changes. If you look at the Civil Rights Movement, yes, the Civil Rights Movement and the boycotts and protests, yes, they were important but it made a difference when they took those efforts to washington, d. C. , and to the state capital and began to have legislation like the Voting Rights act, thats the only way we will move past the unrest and protests unless we go to legislation. Thats the only way were going to do it. Tension between local officials in the ferguson area and federal officials. Weve been hearing from some local officials who say that they felt some of the violence on monday night happened because there was a lot of scrutiny and they were very much encouraged by federal officials to take a softer approach. I guess they felt that it ended up being more lax. You have federal officials saying, thats not the truth. What we wanted was for there to be smarter policing. Where do you come down on that dispute . Well, i have some mixed emotions about that because, to be quite frank with you, the governor had very little communication with the prosecutors office. You know, he issued and many people here will tell you that, many elected officials will tell you that there was very little communication between the officer of the state, the prosecutor, and the governor of the state. The governor issued a state of emergency before the announcement was made. I dont think his office knew when the decision was going to be made. As it goes to softer policing, i can understand that to some extent, but i would hope that the federal officials of this area who have, in my opinion, been absent the vast majority of the time but i would hope that they were not advising anyone to take a softer approach. Because as you look behind me, its quite obvious they took a very soft approach because the town was torched. You think they took a softer approach and not a smarter approach . Do you think people were hell bent on causing trouble . Well, i think that you had if you talk to the Business Owners here, for example, north county incorporated, which is a coalition of Business Owners in that part of town, they will tell you, they met with Law Enforcement and they were promised that the National Guard would help to protect their businesses. You have one part of ferguson that is predominantly white where the Police Station is, where you saw Leslie Mcfadden and her husband over there when the announcement came. The only damage was broken windows. Here where the africanamerican part of ferguson is, those buildings were completely torched. So i believe you have police protecting one part of town and the other part of town where there was no much effort. You had businesses and malls here in st. Louis where the National Guard was located and they were nowhere to be found when it came to the businesses and the africanamerican community. You know, to be honest with you, i have no idea why the National Guard would be in a completely different part of town protecting businesses when there were no people in those areas. So there are many questions here, many Business Owners obviously are hurt that their businesses were burned down but they have many questions regarding the leadership of this community and federal leadership regarding the fact that they were promised that the National Guard would protect their businesses. And as you can see, there was not much protection there. All right. John gaskin, thanks for being with us. Happy thanksgiving to you as well. I know youre going to have your thanksgiving dinner with your family. We appreciate your time. Same to you. Thanks, john. Coming up, more drones in the skies over the u. S. And how a sudden surge in near collisions with planes could affect air travel. What kind of dangers are flyers now facing . Plus, kim jonguns sister takes on a Surprising New role in the north korean regime. By 1914 the Dodge Brothers and set out on their own. Pany they believed in more, than the assembly line. They believed driving was a holy endeavor. A hundred years later the Dodge Brothers spirit lives on. New details are coming out about a harrowing mission to rescue al qaeda hostages from a remote stronghold in yemen. Cnn correspondent Barbara Starr has the latest. Youre learning some things from your sources. What are you hearing . Al qaeda in yemen is one of americas most dangerous enemies and u. S. Commandos walked right in to their territory. It was a daring raid deep into the mountains of yemen. Yemeni forces moved in under the cover of darkness into this remote al qaeda stronghold into the eastern part of the court. Sources say the rescue mission was launched after intelligence showed the location of western and other hostages being held by al qaeda, including an american. The pentagon didnt want to talk about it on tuesday just hours after the mission ended. We continue to support Yemeni Counterterrorism operations. Reporter but today cnn has learned more details of the raid. More than a dozen hostages, including yemenis, american and possibly others were being moved into remote caves. The hostages were chained and covered with blankets in pickup trucks. Special forces wearing night vision goggles were dropped in from helicopters some four miles from the al qaeda hideout before hiking to the cave on foot. Just 100 yards from the cave a fire fight suddenly broke out. The u. S. And Yemeni Forces eventually killing all of the al qaeda fighters. When youre talking about caves where hostages are moved repeatedly and in a standard pattern, it becomes extremely difficult because its hard to practice. Reporter eight hostages were found but cnn has learned just how close the mission came to rescuing the rest. Five hostages, including the american, had been moved away just two days earlier. Now, cnn agreed not to name the american hostage until he is rescued and, yes, u. S. Troops and u. S. Intelligence agencies are continuing to look for him. Brianna