Good morning welcome to the weekend and welcome to Sharyl Attkisson filling in for rebecca. Great to see you. Thanks. Were very excited to have some special guests this morning in our studio, members of a championship Junior High Chess Team whose story is told in a new documentary called brooklyn castle. Lets get to your open story. The death of actor larry hagman. His most famous role was that of j. R. Ewing. It was one of the most successful in history. Manuel bojorquez is at the South Fork Ranch which served as j. R. s television home. Good morning. Reporter you may recall in the 1980s whenever someone talked about dallas you have to wonder whether they were talking about the tv series or the actual city in texas. And, of course everyone remembers South Fork Ranch as the home of the fictional ewing family. It was the cliffhanger that ended the 1980 season which everyone over a certain age will always remember. It was one of the most famous moments in television history. The world asked who shot j. R. And this morning the world mourns the loss of the actor who played j. R. Ewing in the hit cbs show dallas. Larry magazine hahn has died at the age of 81. There we are. Reporter hagman rose to fame as good natured astronaut Anthony Nelson in the i dream of jeanne. He came from a show business family. His mother was mary martin. Hagman was candid about his personal life acknowledging years of heavy drinking that so damaged his liver he eventually needed a transplant. After many years of smoking, hagman quit and became an antismoking advocate. Recently he acknowledged that his wife of nearly six decades as Alzheimer Disease and he was battling throat cancer. Hagmans spirit never false terrified. Earlier this year dallas was revived as a new series on tnt. In an appearance on this program in june of this year hagman told jeff glor what he thought about returning to television as the villain that everyone loves to hate. Larry when they first came to you and said i want to reboot this what did you think . Yahoo dallas ran on cbs from 1979 to 1991. I dont understand why you think youve changed. His role as j. R. Ewing made him a cultural icon and a symbol of 1980s american excess. Hagman said he loved playing j. R. Because he could get away with anything but acknowledged that he couldnt get away with cancer. Hagman moved back to dallas for the shows revival. He died on friday in a city that was synonymous with his success. Larry hagman is survived by his wife of 59 years, two children and five grandchildren. Anthony. I understand that hagmans costars linda gray and Patrick Duffy were both at his bedside in his final hours. Is that right . Reporter thats right. Thats from our understanding of what happened yesterday afternoon when mr. Hagman passed. Patrick duffy was there as well as linda gray who remembered hagman as her best friend of 35 years and said quote, he brought joy to everybody he knew. Manuel bojorquez, thanks. Black friday the annual start to the Holiday Shopping season kicked off yesterday and by all indications it was a strong start but there are also was another major black friday event a nationwide protest against walmart by some of its employees and their supporters. We go to a kmart here in new york. Reporter good morning. Were at a kmart which was one of those stores to open on thanksgiving day itself and was rewarded for it by quite a bit of foot traffic in its stores and a boost in sales. Nationwide walmart as you mentioned saw protests at its stores. It was workers who were walking out of the job to protest unfair labor practices. Walmart tells us it wasnt just employees in some cases it was members of outside labor groups who are trying to get employees to unionize. Walmart said it had one of its strongest, perhaps best black fridays ever. Nationwide retail sales are expected to jump 4. 1 this Holiday Season but thats modest compared to the 5. 6 retailers saw last year. Retailers say they will take what they can get. 147 million americans are expected to shop this black friday weekend. An estimated 41 million got started on thanksgiving itself. In stores that made for more of a steady stream than the usual stampede of shoppers. But the day full of deals wasnt without a fuel dust ups. More shoppers are turning online and ecommerce is connected to increase 17 this year. Retailers have tried to bring that digital experience into stores too. We met tom blushy at macys. Basically an app of all the stores and says the discounts for today, whats on sale. The retail environment is super competitive and we love that. Reporter amazon. Com vp say they are expecting their best year yet. Looking for parking, fighting crowds and possibly not even finding what you wanted and what you were looking for. Those are all great reasons to relax, shop from the comfort of your couch use a laptop computer or a tablet computer. Reporter toys r us ceo said they dont shy away from dotcom. His company does more than a billion dollars in internet sales. How important is it to have a brickandmortar store . Very important. Were human beings. Were social animals. They want a bargain. They want an experience being a part of humanity. People go out to see other people. To spend time outside of their homes. Even if it crushes people filling a store. A lot of people enjoy the crowds. Its fun. Reporter yes, fun indeed. The next stop on that Holiday Shopping calendar of course anthony is cyber monday the day that we all or most of us return network and turn on our computers and buy things instead of working. Unbelievably holiday sales for cyber monday are expected to jump more than 20 . Seth doane, thanks. Now to the big picture of Holiday Shopping how retailers are doing in the wake of black friday and how the walmart protest could affect their bottom line. We have a leading retail analyst and an expert on the Holiday Shopping season here. Well talk about walmart in a minute. Lets start with black friday itself. Not all the numbers are in yet but how is it tooking . Looks decent. Doesnt look as spectacular as it was last year but dont forget consumers had more time to shop. Not only were they able to shop online you did have some stores that were even open on thursday and thursday night. Saw a big jump in the stock market on friday and courtroom confidence numbers are looking pretty good. How critical is this moment in time to our economy . Overall black friday weekend can account for up 120 of Holiday Season sales. Consumers are always pro procrastinateor procrastinators. Is this a big time its important for retailers. Were building up to the fiscal cliff. How will that affect how retailers treat this Holiday Season . They are manage very carefully. If one thing came out of the recession they know how to manage. For holiday 2012 retailers bought less inventory. Yes, there are discounts and they planned carefully for them but you may not have what you want if you wait too long. Are retailers worried shoppers may spend less because they hear talk about the fiscal cliff and taxes going sfup thats allocated to the high end or lower income. When retailers look for they manage those high end income inventories and its january or february. If theres discussions about it thats definitely a concern for christmas. We heard about the protests on walmart. They said it was benefits wages, treatment of employees. Walmart is our nations biggest retailer. We want to bring in diane brady. Shes reported extensively on walmart. Walmart is basically saying when he the best black friday ever. Is that the case . Will we know how the numbers are showing up . When they put that out they were talking very much about thursday, so those of you who are lining up at 8 00 p. M. To get your ferbies they didnt have a lot of protests on thursday night. Walmart has done very well this year and they have a vested interest in telling us that because of these protests. It was a gig concern for people. How much of a case do the employees have here . You know its the Worlds Largest retailer. They make almost half a trillion dollars, almost 440 billion last year. They are a great target. Walmart for years has been a target. Whats interesting this year were seeing them going out and protesting and in some ways its a good sign for economy. It means people have some confidence. But its a sign that they are not making enough money to live. Their premiums are going up. What do you sense the mood is right now going into this season. Everybody is trying to anticipate and we always have these projections. What do you sense the consumers mood is . It is up a little bit. The reality is you still have 8 unemployment. I dont think the fiscal cliff is such an issue. The big issue is frankly people are nervous about whether they are going to keep their jobs still and the reality is that americans who shop a lot and we can spread it out over online not one big day where we go out and shop. So i think it will be good. I dont think it will be a great blockbuster season. Back to the protest. Does walmart treat its workers differently than other Discount Stores like target or kohls . Walmart is in line like every retailer. Its not a great job for some people because you have varied hours and such but its the biggest its famous to some extent with Health Care Benefits and things like that. No they make the point that 250,000 of their workers are more than ten years. Thats actually not bad in the Retail Sector when you have 1. 3 million employees. Thank you both for being with us this morning. Clashes resume in cairo, egypt as protesters protest against dictatorial power. Holly williams is in cairo this morning. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Well earlier this week president morsi brokered a truce between hamas and israel a truce that seems to be holding. After Winning International praise for that hes now angered many egyptians who said he made a brazen power grab by removing all checks and balances on his rule. Last year egyptians came together to oust their on time dictator hosni mubarak. But on thursday they threw stones and hurled insults at each other. Liberal egyptians are furious and said president Mohamed Morsi is behaving like a pharaoh, ruling by decree. Im upset. Reporter this woman told us she feared that president morsi could use his new powers to take away womens rights. She wants him removed from office. In alexandria angry crowds ransacked and set fire to the freedom and justice power the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood for which president morsi draws his backing. When he addressed the nation yesterday the president said the new measures were aimed at members of the old regime who still oppose him. He described them as vermin. There are weebles eating away at egypts nation. If i see my country in danger i will act. His actions have left egypt more divided than ever. Many egyptians still support president morsi and his program of reform but people weve spoken to say they feel betrayed. Last year during the arab spring they fought for freedom and democracy and they say those things are being stifled in egypt. Holly williams reporting in cairo. In the same week that egypts president brokered a ceasefire between israel and hamas in gaza he triggers a cry since his own nation by grabbing extra power. Joining us from our Washington Bureau now is a middle east Program Director for the International Crisis group, an organization dedicated to heading off deadly conflicts around the world. Good morning. Good morning. Where do you see this headed at this point . I think its anyones guess. What you really have is a very politicized judiciary on the one hand which is trying to null all the decisions that the elected president has taken and on the other hand the president is trying to push back and ignore the powers of the judiciary. The tiebreaker may be the street. As we saw the street itself is very deeply divided. This starts with morsi being applauded as a peacemaker one minute and next minute hes making a power grab in his own country. Do you think this is what he had planned all along . I mean who knows. The onetwo punch, the timing of it, the day after he gets all this international applause, particularly from the u. S. , the day after that he does something at home which is to say at least is controversial would suggest he was using the cover of the International Approval to do something that he knew under other circumstances would have registered stronger criticism. What position does this put the United States in having come out and publicly praised the egyptian leader to have it followed up by this action. The u. S. Comes out and condemn it. What position has the u. S. Been put in . The same position its been in for decades. Regimes that are allies when it comes to National Security when it comes to peace effort when it comes to counterterrorism doing things at home that we dont like and always the same dilemma. Do you turn your back you dont look at what they are doing at home for the sake of what they are doing abroad or do you criticize them and jeopardize the relationship you have . What were hearing now from the state department and white house is trying to tow that line. Mild criticism but not enough to jeopardize the relationship. Does this foretell the possibility that theres more instability in the middle east. Its a troubled time right now . Innent itself were seeing scenes of violence. Whats remarkable on the one hand what president morsi you can understand it. He said everything were trying to do success threatened by this judiciary which is politicized. But these are exactly the same arguments weve heard in all these circumstances, all of history itself invoked the will of the people and the revolution and to say what youre doing is temporary. The problem is hes the judge of what is revolutionary and in line of the will of the people and hes the judge of what temporary action means. What do you think of this ceasefire deal. Some people criticized it and said its empowering hamas. Whats your opinion of it . I think the real irony in the tragedy in what happened this time is what should have happened four years ago. We all knew that what was needed was to normalize the situation in gaza and prevent smuggling of weapons renewed violence. Thats what they agreed to this time. It has to be enforced. Hamas is a reality. They are there to stay. Every time a war like this happens that kind of an organization tends to be empowered because you say we resisted. Those calling for negotiations are marginalized. Thank you for wk us this morning. Thank you. Investigators this morning are trying to determine the cause of a national gas explosion that rocked springfield, massachusetts. The blast on friday night leveled a strip club and left a huge hole in the ground. Debris was scattered for blocks. Dozens of buildings were damaged. One Police Officer said it looked like springfield was hit by a missile. A generic version of lipitor is being recalled because some batches may be contaminated with glass particles. The recall covers 10 20 and 40 milligram doses. No reported injuries. The recall is the latest in a string of manufacturing problems for the company dating back as far back as six years. Big day for starry eyed open otimists. Chip reid is following the story as excitement builds and ticket lines grow longer for the powerball. Reporter this weekend the amount that shoppers are spending is not the only number. Take a look at the powerball jackpot, 325 million. Nearly 213 in a single cash payment. 44 states and territories offer a chance to play. Since the lottery raised the price of a single ticket to 2 in january, the prizes have increased even while the number of tickets purchased has declined. The chances of winning saturdays jackpot 1 in 75 million. Recently theres some big winners. Iowa hit it big with two jackpots this year. Its the number one cash jackpot to an individual or a couple in iowas lottery history. Reporter the couple bought a ticket in a 202 million contest and took home 90 million in cash. A group of 20 quakerr oats worker split winnings in june. The surge in ticket purpose before a big jackpot but they say they are not sure how thanksgiving will affect tonights drawing. For cbs this Morning Saturday chip reid, washington. And its about 21 after the hour. Heres Martina Brown from cbs atlanta with our first check of the weather this morning. Lets talk about the weather. Big changes on the way. Really all across the nation. Lets start with the northeast where they have an area of low pressure that will start to bring them and is already bringing them lakeeffect snow down to the southeast. An area of High Pressure around. Theres sunshine but eventually they will cool down and already are starting to see that as well. Off to the northwest were talking about an area of low pressure there as well. So get ready for the big chill. It is already starting to happen. Our 50s and 60s will turn into 30s and 40s. Look for gusty northwest winds and lakeeffect snow and all because of a front thats moving across the entire country and everybody is going to be a lot colder than they already are. That is a look at your national forecast. Now heres a closer look at the weather for your weekend. Back to you. And coming up the fighting irish of notre dame and alabama. It will be one of the highest profile matchups ever for the championship in College Football than weekend could be the key. Also a look at the influence that actor larry hagmans j. R. Ewing character had on the history of tv. Youre watching cbs this Morning Saturday. It may sound silly but some researchers insist we human beings as a species are getting dumber as we go along. Could it be true an ordinary citizen of athens 3,000 years ago would be some kind of a genius today . It explains a lot. A new survey thats coming out that is suggests those folks are smarter than we are. Hard to believe. Kind of wonder how they know. Wer