Theyll be there im happy im here and not in those lines. Me too. Thanks for join beiing us in th u. S. And around the world. Im natalie allen. And im errol barnett. In just a few hours pope francis arrives in turkey for a threeday trip. It is only the fourth time a pope has visited the predominantly muslim country. You watched live as he boarded a plane ahead of this trip. The pontiff will meet with turkeys president , and hes also expected to denounce violence by islamic extremists targeting christians. Cnns arwa damon shows us how a Small Community of Christian Refugees in turkey is trying to hold on to its culture and faith. Reporter in istanbul a generation of turkish assyrians has something their parents did not. A school focusing on ensuring their language, dating back to the early years of christianity, is not forgotten. Its the first of its kind in this predominantly muslim country, a rare positive development for christians in the region. Juxtaposed against that of a generation lost. For these syrian christian refugee children the staircase is the playground. Blissfully too young to understand all they have already lost and stand to lose in the future. In a cramped room downstairs we ask the young men, among the few that agreed to speak to us, if they have hope. Yes, we have hope, yusuf responds. Thats why we came here. To get out and live another life. To start a new life in another country. If there was 1 of hope in syria, we would not have left our country, maran adds. In the last decade first al qaeda and then isis have forced the majority of christians to flee iraq and syria. Only a fraction remain. Deciding to place their faith in god or pay the terrorists a protection tax. Growing numbers, especially from syria, are ending up in turkey, a nation already reeling under the influx of around 1. 5 million syrian refugees. The vast majority of them muslim. Politically uneasy with a highly controversial and conservative government that its opponents fear will challenge turkeys postottoman empire secular identity. And an atmosphere of increased insecurity with isis at turkeys border and its leader, abu bakr al baghdadi, announce the terrorist groups intention to conquer rome and the world. It is against this complex backdrop that pope francis makes what is arguably one of the most challenging trips of its papacy. Intended ton only strengthen bridges between sister churches but across religious divides. In a time of chaos in the middle east, in a time where there is muslimchristian fighting, it is a beautiful thing to have a pope visit a muslim country, canon gordal says. It is a very positive thing, and hopefully this can be a lesson to the world and that it contributes to peace. An optimistic thought. But for these Christian Refugees, who did not know of the popes visit until we told them, little solace. Georgette lives in constant fear for her son and grandchildren, still in syria. The rest of her children are in sweden. The pain of it all is just too much. She is waiting to join them, as is jalila georgis. All her children are also in sweden and she says shes been waiting for three years to be accepted by the family reunification program. Look, these are my medications. These are all my medications, she says, her eyes filling with tears. I just want to see my children before i die. Arwa damon, cnn, istanbul. All right. Now we want to talk about whats been happening in the st. Louis suburb of ferguson, missouri. A few protesters braved the cold on thanksgiving, a holiday in the u. S. And no confrontations were reported there either. Tensions, though, remain high over mondays grand jury decision to clear the white Police Officer who shot and killed an unarmed black teenager. The initial reaction was violent and destructive. But as sara sidner reports, some healing has begun. Reporter some of monday nights destruction finally accessible in the daylight. Tell me what democracy looks like reporter the protesters call for justice getting lost in the images of destruction created by the few, affecting the many. Spicy wings. Reporter in the wake of the destruction a glimmer of hope. Were having fun. Reporter at cathys kitchen where a window was smashed but the rest left intact their doors are now open, less than 24 hours after being vanlized. For us here in cathys kitchen its about people coming in, smiling a little bit. Laughing a little bit. Some people come in and theyre crying a little bit. Its a place to heal and what better way to do that than with food . Reporter they can do that because Peaceful Protesters stopped looters from trying to break into the business that was his wifes longtime dream. Cathys kitchen, the restaurant named after her. They didnt allow looters to vandalize the building. The new place that were opening, the barbecue place, we estimated it got about 22,000 in damage. They broke out 25 of the windows. Reporter Jerome Jenkins is also a coach, teaching many of the young men in this town about basketball and life. He says this community could have been saved from the devastation that hit his street and west florissant. My first reaction was the disappointment for my governor more than what was happening because we had an opportunity for this not to happen. Reporter he mostably blames the governor for not ordering the national toward to the streets earlier to stop the destruction. Dont you think, though, there is some personal responsibility that needs to be taken by the police that actually did this and committed the crimes . Well, we have to look at it from another point of view. Everybody out there that are protesting are not protesters. We also have criminals involved. As you guys have seen, we even have Homeless People involved. This is the first time in society where a criminal feels he has a voice, and hes angry too. So what do you expect a criminal to do . This is an opportunity that a criminal, all he has to do is look in the past and realize that theyre not going to do anything. So he gets to march up and down the street for once in his life and rob and steal without being penalized. Reporter sara sidner, cnn, ferguson, missouri. One thing happening on this black friday in the u. S. Is that protesters are using social media to urge a nationwide boycott of retailers on what is the biggest shopping day of the year. This is after anger, right . Over the ferguson decision. Its also threatened to overshadow the macys thanksgiving day parade in new york. Thats what this footage is from. Seven people were arrested after they tried to disrupt the parade in protest of Michael Browns death. Now, coming up later this hour, well bring you an indepth report on this man. Take a look. His name is Shawn Parcells. He assisted in one of the autopsies on Michael Browns body back in august. Now people are accusing him of being a fraud. Why he says thats actually not true. Later this hour. It is getting cheaper to fuel up your car these days. I have certainly noticed. And especially after Oil Prices Hit fouryear lows on thursday. The plunge followed opecs decision to maintain Oil Production levels despite a 30 decline in prices since june. This was a departure for the cartel, which usually cuts production to drive prices up. There was pressure to make that cut as well. But opecs largest member, saudi arabia, was firmly against it. This all comes as bad news for oilproducing nations that desperately need the cash that would have been generated by higher prices. But opecs secretarygeneral says theres no need to worry. Four years or four years and a half we have a very decent price. So now price decline. That does not mean we should really rush and do something. We have to wait and see how the market will settle. For a closer look at opecs decision and its impact lets turn to our expert on all things, nina dos santos. Live in london. Why did opec decide ton cut right now . Yeah, natalie, good morning. Opec is basically in a bind between losing market share and its market share is already shrinking as you see, more oil being pumped online by the United States because of its own Shale Oil Boom over there. And the other thing they have to consider is of course price. The pendulum swung definitely in favor of market share here because they decided to maintain their current pumping capacity at a ceiling of over 30 Million Barrels of oil a day for these 12 members here. They already pump a little more than that. They already have a tough time getting their members to police their own targets for the reasons that errol just mentioned there. Because every extra bit of cash that comes into their revenues is badly needed. They definitely err on the side of market share to keep their momentum going, refusing to turn off some of these pumps but thats really difficult for a number of opec members. Why . Because theyve been budgeting for the oil price and about 100 a barrel to balance their budgets. And now what were seeing if you take a look at the oil prices in todays session a really sharp selloff. Remember this commodity was well over 100 a barrel six months ago. Take a look at the plunge for brent crude in particular. This is the largely european traded contract which is the very aektive one to these kinds of opec decisions as you can see. Currently trading down just shy of 72 on the barrel. That is way down from what weve seen about six months ago. If we look at wti, which is the west texas intermediate contract, natalie, this is the main United States contract. Remember that over in the United States where you are the benefits of lower gas prices are passed on far more rapidly toward consumers and this is where were really seeing the reaction. Look at that. Way below 70 a barrel. Many analysts say it could fall even perhaps as far as 60 and even below that ceiling, and if that does happen, boy, that will give the u. S. Economy another boost. Its been amazing at the pump. You just look and go oh, my goodness, is this the correct price for this gasoline . We used to say opec and everyone would jump. Today, though, it is opec losing some of its relevance, nina . Opec still has about 80 of the worlds proven oil and gas reserves but it only pumps about 40 of the worlds crude at the moment. And the decision we saw this week really raises some credibility issues for opec. Many people will be asking themselves, especially the members within opec themselves that wanted the price to rise and supply to be cut, theyll be asking themselves what really is opecs role here . Because opec was set up to try to Police Supply to try to keep prices high for its members. One school of thought dictates that what saudi arabia is trying to do is protect its Business Model in the long term, keep the prices low to ride out the current Shale Oil Gas boom in the United States, but a lot of people skeptical about whether or not this will come at the cost of severe disruptions for opec down the line as koufrnts like nigeria and iran feel the bite. The Current Oil Price today stands at even a third of what iran had budgeted for. Thats going to knock their finances seriously out of line. And if this situation continues and the oil price continues to fall what some people expect here is that opec will have to have an extraordinary meeting perhaps in february to address another falling oil price. All right. Well wait and see when that happens. Nina dos santos, as always, thank you. Australian cricket fans are facing a tough weekend ahead as they remember phil hughes. Well see how they plan to honor their fallen hero coming up. Also ahead this hour the trults of a trial for an ebola vaccine are in. Find out what it might mean for this current outbreak. Thats coming up. It is friday evening, in australia where cricket fans will spend this weekend remembering one of the games fallen stars. There are tributes nationwide for batsman phil hughes who died thursday two days after being hit in the head by a ball. Some matches are being canceled and players across the country are being asked to wear black arm bands. Statistics say its clearly a freak incident, but one freak incident is one freak incident too many. That of course puts us in a position of looking into that, and we will immediately in consultation with the manufacturers and the other safety providers or regulators look into it to make sure that these things are addressed and improved, and its a matter of interest not just for us here in australia but for cricketers all over the world. Considering sutherlands comments there we asked an expert about what kind of changes could make cricket safer. Well, i think there are issues of technique again that its very uncommon to get hit in the back of the neck. So that could be a factor. And players of course are taught to duck away from the delivery if they cant play it. But i guess once youre committed to play it, if you dont keep your eye on the ball youll get hit in the front of the head, which of course would be safe. So the key was that phillip seems to have he moved his head away and wasnting watching the ball, and that probably was the problem. All these things, theres a combination of factors. So it was a technical problem, and then i would guess there might well be something that was slightly wrong with the vertebral artery that it could rupture. Im not saying that is the case. But its very seldom when you have a tragedy like this that you can explain it simply on the basis of one factor. Well, according to peter ruckner, the darkt for the australian cricket team, the ball that struck hughes caused his vertebral artery, which you can see here in red, to compress. The artery then split with the bleeding flowing up into the brain, sms that is frequently fatal. A study published in the european spine journal found the injury is common in patients with head and neck injuries. Brazilian football legend pele is in the intensive care unit at a hots in sao paolo, brazil. But officials there say the 74yearolds condition has improved. Hes apparently been battling an infection since he had surgery recently to remove kidney stones. A statement on peles twitter feed says, i want to take this opportunity to let you know im doing fine. We hope so. In mexico a disturbing find is rattling the families of those 43 missing college students. 11 bodies were found in guerrero state thursday. The victims have not been identified, and its not yet known if theres a connection to the students who disappeared in september but the discovery of the remains came on the same day mexicos president proposed giving the state control over local police forces. He is under growing pressure to do something about complaints of Police Brutality and corruption. U. S. Scientists say human trials of an experimental vaccine against ebola have delivered promising results. Research has been fast tracked because of the outbreak in west africa, which has claimed more than 5,000 lives now. More on the vaccines results and its promise from our naima al bagar. Reporter finally some good news in the war against ebola. The first human trials of an experimental vaccine have been called by the new england journal of medicine an unqualified success. There still are some unanswered questions. We know from some of the preliminary work that went on in Animal Studies previously that the antibodies that are generated in response to the vaccine dont last as long as we would like. There was a clear reduction over a fairly long period of time. Reporter glaxosmithkline has said that by the end of 2015 they could have as many as 1 million doses ready to go but in west africa the need is growing and the need is very much present. The United Nations has said that a december 1st deadline to contain as many as 70 of ebola patients safely and to bury as many as 70 of those bodies of those who have died from the disease safely will not be met. Its very much a disheartening blow to the scaledup international response, to bring this epidemic under control. Nima elbadir, cnn, london. Winter weather knocked out the power for tens of thousands of americans trying to cook a turkey on the thanksgiving holiday. Not sure what happened with that. Up next more on where the cold front is headed. Welcome back. Israeli Authorities Say theyve broken up a hamas terror plot to attack civilians. They say targets included jerusalems biggest football stadium and its light rail system. Security Officials Say they arrested 30 hamas operatives back in september and confiscated rifles, am snigs, and explosives. They say the network was based in the west bank but included recruits trained in jordan, gaza, and syria. Israel says hamas leaders in turkey were the ones calling the shots here. A Reuters News Agency quotes a hamas spokesman as saying the group has no information about these israeli claims. Now, torrential rain has brought flooding to northern gaza city, forcing hundreds of people from their homes. As weve been telling you these past few hours. The u. N. s Relief Agency has declared a state of emergency there as well. People throughout gaza are already struggling to rebuild after a heavy israeli bombardment earlier this year, you may remember. Thats just not right. They dont even have homes yet. Well, that winter storm that hit the northeastern u. S. This week has left tens of thousands of homes without power, and for some it may not be back on until later today. Authorities in maine and vermont say wet snow on power lines left many people trying to prepare their thanksgiving dinners in the dark. Well, the meal must go on. So im sure they found a way, right . Thats true, actually. Noreaster . Im saying what noreaster. Im just trying to figure out how i can get in between my weather hits and take advantage of those black friday specials. Good luck with that. People have been lined up for hours. Im just still eating. Ive got my to go plate behind me. Shes not kidding. There is food back there. The good news is temperatures are going to start increasing and that nester we were talking about a couple days ago, thats out of here. Lets talk about it. Weve got plenty to discuss here but first and foremost we will just quickly touch on what was the noreaster thats brought the snowfall and travel headaches for the busiest