4 00 a. M. In the east. The Obama Administration focusing on ferguson and the aftermath. The president holding a series of meetings with Law Enforcement and elected officials and faith leaders. These meetings will cover federal programs that provide military equipment to local police to Building Trust with law officers. The attorney general heads to atlanta today. He kicks off a series of nationwide public conversations with a meeting and speech at Ebeneezer Baptist church. Five members of the st. Louis rams raised their hands in the dont shoot gesture that is symbolic in the ferguson protests. The st. Louis Police Officers association criticized the players for doing this. In ferguson, the streets remained quiet following the resignation of wilson. That city will increase minority representation on its police force. Cnns ed lavandera is in ferguson with more. Reporter john and christine, the streets have quieted since the riots one week ago. Darren wilson is not a police officer. He turned in his resignation over the weekend and the mayor said no payments will be sent to darren wilson. The mayor talked about bridging the gap with the Africanamerican Community here in ferguson and its police department. Announcing a series of steps and incentives to bring more africanamerican Police Officers to the force. The mayor here sounding like he wants to focus on the future and turning the page on the bad time. We continue to move on and officer wilson and his family has moved on. The city of ferguson is talking about how we can bring the community together. Reporter john and christine, the focus is getting the businesses that have been shutdown over the last week back up and running. When you look up and down many streets in ferguson, stores have had to board up and organically people have painted the boardup windows, the symbol after such a terrible week. Ed lavandera, thank you. A nationwide walkout in communities affected by police violence. Ferguson action is urging people to walk off their jobs or leave class at 1 00 p. M. And two years, jailed in qatar, the hopes of freedom is raised and shattered. Morgan and grace huang were sentenced in prison. When they got to the airport, immigration officials prevented them from blocking their plane. Matthew huang says there is a warrant for their arrests on unknown charges. We are tired of the process that seems like it will never end. The Court Process was long and tedious and never until todays ruling did we hear truth from any justice or anyone involved in the Court Process. Now again, we are finding ourselves stuck and waiting while we were promised we would be allowed to go. Secretary of state john kerry is speaking out on the flight praising the Appeals Court decision and saying it is time for them to return home. How far can you go in a facebook or twitter post . Anthony elonis is trying to get his threat against his exwife overturned. He was sentenced to 44 months in prison. He claims the posts were artistic and cathartic and free speech. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says she will be back on the bench this morning following the heart surgery last week. We are following breaking news in nigeria. Reports of gun battles in the city of damaturu. Reports of boko haram launching an attack and intense fighting. All of this happening right now. We will keep you updated. Lets turn to the battle of isis. The coalition is refocusing the battle on raqqah. More than 30 u. S. Air strikes hit raqqah overnight. In afghanistan, the taliban is stepping up its pressure on the capital. The chief of kabul resigned. The chief did not give a reason for stepping down. I want to start on the fight with isis with cnns Nic Robertson in london with more. Reporter good morning, john. A lot of the step up on the International Campaign on isis is focused on kobani. It is a border town with turkey and visible from across the border. We have seen the air strikes impacti impacting. Kurdish fighters have gone in against the fight of isis. The real fight is raqqah. The town they took over two years ago. They had beheadings on the streets and executions by other means on the streets. It is where effectively the government is. The islamic courts are there and bigger or more secure jail systems were believed to be there. Going after raqqah which is what it appears the coalition is doing according to the syrian observatory of human rights is going to the heart of the isis problem. Has the leadership scattered in advance of the Coalition Campaign is not clear. That is where raqqah made a stance. Any attack will have a significant impact. John. Lets shift to afghanistan, nic. New leadership in the country. A new surge of violence created by the taliban. Reporter you have this new leadership. President gani and representative Abdulla Abdullah abdullah. Possibly a vote in support of Bilateral Agreements with the United States and nato to continue to support afghanistan as it transitions to running its own security at the beginning of next year. Out of 102 parliamentarians, 7 voted against it. They will keep bolstering the Operation Resolute against the Afghan Security forces next year. The reality is the taliban is trying to match that. Two significant attacks in kabul over the weekend and the attack on the british convoy. One is a British Security worker, aide workers killed and a base handed over in helmand. That attack by the taliban. They are sending a message. Symbolic, to say the least. Nic robertson, thanks so much. New concern about sports related concussions after the body of missing ohio state player Kosta Karageorge. Police say it appears karageorge died from a self inflicted gunshot. His parents said he has had several concussions and confusion spells and complained of the symptoms before disappearing last wednesday. The ohio state athletic official said they were shocked and saddened by his death. His teammates say he will be missed. He had the great stories. Always laughing. You get to sit down on the couch next to kosa, you will walk away remembering something. His body was identified through tattoos. Nine minutes past the hour. Time for an update on cyber monday. The Biggest Online shopping day of the year. Made up by the industry to get you to spend money. Expected to be bigger today. In the United States, online sales are expected to reach 2. 6 billion. That is expected to be a 16 increase from last year. The industry knows how you love to spend your money. 127 Million People expected to shop online today. One difference this year, cyber monday is no longer a oneday event. Amazon is calling it Cyber Monday Deals week, berman. It lasts eight days. Target is pushing cyber week. Best buy dropped it and offering cyber saving. More convenient deal shopping. More reasons for you to spend money you have, not on a credit card. Make sure these gifts arrive by christmas. Stocks looking weak despite the spending. U. S. Stock futures. They are lower. Stocks around the world are lower. Oil prices are plunging. This is a huge business story. These oil prices down to 64 a barrel. Potentially destabilizing when you have them move from 107 a barrel this summer to 64. Just to back up. Are you telling me cyber monday is not a real holiday . Cyber monday is made up by industry marketers who want you to spend money. John, come on. 2009, it did not exist. How did we live without it . I dont know. 11 minutes after the hour. New clashes erupting in hong kong. Some of the worst unrest in the two months of demonstrations. We will go live there with what sparked the latest round of violence. Growing anger after a Facebook Post of the obama daughters goes viral. Should a republican staffer lose her job over the comments she made online . 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Our Senior Correspondent ivan watson is there for us. He is live in hong kong with the latest. Good morning, ivan. Bring us up to speed about, i guess, a new turn in the protests. Reporter thats right, christine. We were here before dawn this morning and there was certainly clashes taking place. The demonstrators tried to occupy new territory. They tried to block off the entrance to the government headquarters here in an effort to kind of, as their leaders put it, paralyze the government to get more concessions out of it for what they say are their democratic demands. The police after being pushed back a little bit after about an hour or two, they came backswingibackswin back swinging batons and pepper spray and clearing the area. I can say the scene is clear at the moment. This has been a tent city that sprang up more than two months ago as a result of the dispute over how the future elections will be held in hong kong and as we have seen over the past 24 hours, the police, the government are not going to tolerate the protesters trying to occupy fresh territory, but they dont seem to be making any move whatsoever against the sprawling tent city, which again, has been in place here for more than two months. So this test of wills, this marathon sitin continues. Marathon sitin. Ivan watson, thank you. Lawmakers head back to capitol hill today. They face a jam packed agenda. They have until december 11th to pass a government funding will. Angry over the executive action over immigration. Stay tuned. That is one of the big things we are watching. On the democratic side, outgoing Massachusetts GovernorDuval Patrick is blaming the losses on president obama. He said the president , quote, wasnt very good about delivering a clear, concise message. Election day was a good day for republicans. A bad day for democrats who dont stand for anything. When democrats stand for something, or grow a backbone and stand up for what we believe, we win. Patrick told meet the press he thinks Hillary Clinton would be a great candidate. There are growing calls this morning for republican congressional staffer to resign. Elizabeth lauten has taken a dig on the first daughters on facebook. She works for Steven Fincher of tennessee. She criticized how the daughters carried themselves last week. She said, quote, try dressing like you deserve respect, not at a bar. Brian stelter talks about why the story has received so much attention. Reporter i think the story has gained traction because historically, the first daughters and sons of president s have for lack of a better word have been off limits. They consider scrutinize the adults, but a sense people dont go after the children of president s. That is probably why this has gotten so much attention. It is interesting this woman is a communications director. She works with the media and speaks to the press and public for the Congress Member. Now she is in the pr nightmare, i would say. It all started because of the Facebook Post on thanksgiving. It was barely noticed until a reporter at the africanamerican web site the root noticed it. Now there has been calls for her to be fired. Im not sure that will actually happen. We have not heard from the Congress Member about this over the weekend. They may be trying to wait and see if it blows over. It gets to the point i was making the children of president s have been off limits. That was true for george w. Bush and bill clinton and all into the past as well. It is one thing to criticize the president and say as she did, your mother and father dont respect their positions or the nations, but another thing to say try showing a little class. Thats what created so much outrage in the case. Thats why people are waiting to see what the Congress Member is going to say. Back to you. Thanks, brian. This was at a turkey pardoning ceremony. A lot of people remarked on the girls expresses at the eve event. When you Start Talking about what they were wearing, i think it crosses the line. Brian, thank you. You can go to facebook. Com earlystart. We have a shocking story from georgia. A father accused of hiding his son behind a wall for years. How he was finally found and emotional reunion with his mother. And janay rice breaking her silence. What she says about the night her husband knocked her unconscious, what that says about the spark of National Domestic violence. A secure retirement. A new home. Earning your diploma. Providing for your family. Real associates, using walmarts benefits to build better lives for their families. Opportunity. Thats the real walmart. The World Health Organization announcing it has not reached its goal in the fight against the deadly Ebola Outbreak in west africa. The group wanted to isolate 70 of the sick and bury 70 of the dead by today in sierra leone and new guinea. The father and stepmother accused of hiding a 13yearold boy behind a wall in their georgia home will remain in jail. A judge denied bond for a gregory jean and amanda davis for the cruelty to children when the boy was found over the weekend behind a wall camouflaged with towels. Gregory jr. Was reunited with his mother after he was reported missing four years ago. Ray rice and his wife janay are speaking for the First Time Since the former Baltimore Ravens running back was suspended for assaulting his then fiancee in a hotel elevator. In the today show interview, janay talked about her feelings after the incident. I was furious. We came home and we didnt talk the entire ride. I didnt speak to him the entire ride home. He tried to talk to me. I didnt want to hear anything. I just knew he hit me and i was completely over it. I was done. I didnt want to hear it. I didnt want to entertain him. In the back of my mind and in my heart, our relationship would not be over. I know this is not us and it is not him. In a separate interview, she said the two have been attended counselling and they are more ex committed and stronger. Ray rice is free to sign with any team who will have him. Interesting to see if any team takes that risk. Those flying home from the holiday weekend, they faced a huge round of travel woes. Thousands of flights delayed and hundreds canceled on the busiest travel day of the year. The security line at Midway International airport in chicago was reportedly over a mile long. 1. 2 miles. Midway is huge. That is crazy. 15 Million People were expected to travel 50 miles or more from thanksgiving marking the highest volume since 2007. A mile long. If you are watching from an airport lounge trying to find your way, good luck. Goodwill toward men. Much more ahead, including president obamas big day ahead focusing on ferguson and the grand jury decision. We have that ahead. Let us march on to victory. Focusing on ferguson. President obama spending his day talking about ferguson with his cabinet and civil rights leaders and police. Can they come up with the strategy to lessen the anger . The nightmare for a u. S. Couple in qatar is not over. Cleared for the death of their daughter and the country will not let them return to the United States. We have a live report. Its cyber monday. The Biggest Online shopping day of the year. What some companies are doing to get you to break out your credit card ahead. Oh, yes, the whole scam to get you to spend your money. I thought it was a federally mandated long weekend. Welcome back to early start. Im christine romans. Im john berman. There is a big series of meetings at the white house about ferguson. President obama talking with se civil rights leaders and faith leaders. The meetings will discuss military equipment provided to police departments. Attorney general eric holder heads to atlanta to kickoff a series of public conversion says with a meeting and speech tonight at the Ebeneezer Baptist church. Five members of the st. Louis rams raised their arms as they took to the field, the hands up, dont shoot gesture. What you have evseen in the protests in ferguson. In the streets in ferguson, the streets were quiet over the resignation of officer darren wilson. Our ed lavandera is in ferguson this morning with more. Reporter john and christine, the streets of ferguson, missouri, have quieted dramatically in the last week since the riots and violence of a week ago. Darren wilson is no longer a member of the Ferguson Police de