An ohio state Football Player missing this morning as the team is going to the field against the biggest rival. The friends and family continuing their search to find him. And was it fixed . 62yearold Mickey Rourkes return to boxing against an opponent half his age ends in a knockout. Questions over whether the punches really landed. We will let you be the judge, today november 29th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today, with lester holt and erica hill. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today. Im erica hill. Im craig melvin alongside Sheinelle Jones and dylan dreyer. Lester continuing his holiday. Nice to have you with us. I dont think anyone is questioning whether the Mickey Rourke video is fake. Do people pay and believe they are watching something legit . It is the wwe. Right . Before he was hit. You decide for yourself. Yeah. There it is. It just didnt land. No connection. No. We will let you decide later. We want to get to todays top story. Thats a potential return of ray rice to the nfl. He had been under an indefinite suspension for the past few months after the video of him hitting his then fiancee in an elevator in public. Then the judge ruled that the former Baltimore Ravens player could return to the field immediately. The question is will it happen . Kristen welker is following it for us. Good morning. Reporter only with a month left in football season, will ray rice return to the field . Reaction, meantime, is pouring in to the ruling and we are hearing from his wife for the first time. A Second Chance for ray rice. Once suspended indefinitely for hitting his then fiancee in an elevator and now the arbitration let him take to the field again. This comes as his wife janay rice is speaking out with matt lauer. Taped before fridays decision. We have seen you months after the incident and i cant imagine you were that calm when you started to realize what happened in that elevator. Can you describe those emotions . 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. Didnt want to hear anything. I didnt want to entertain it. In my heart, in the back of my mind, i knew our relationship wouldnt be over. I knew this is not us. Reporter the big question now is centering on rices professional life. Will another team make him an offer to suit up . With ray rice, there will be an unknown. Reporter rice won his appeal after arguing the nfl was punishing him twice for the same offense. The nfl first suspended rice for two games in june. Upon learning the incident in the elevator and suspended him indefinitely after the video was released. Nfl officials argued they hadnt seen t seen the tape and not consistent about what rice told him about what happened. The judge said rice had the videotape and the nfl never asked him for it. Reporter now janay rice told espn that she and her husband are relieved by the decision. Quote, i made an inexcusable mistake. Im thankful there is a proper appeals process in place. The league respects the decision to reinstate rice and knowledge ray rice is a free agent based on judge jones decision, he will be eligible to play upon signing a new contract. This is a setback for Roger Goodell who has come under scrutiny over the handling of this case and others. Erica, back to you. Thank you. You can see the latest with ray and janay rice on upon here on today. And police made dozens arrests overnight as people were marching and protesting in the shooting death of michael blown. In seattle, protesters in a standoff with police. In st. Louis, demonstrators stopped black friday for a bit. Nbcs ron allen is in ferguson this morning. Ron, good morning to you. Reporter good morning, craig. After several days of relative peace and calm, protesters returned to the Ferguson Police headquarters last night. 16 arrested for blocking the street. On black friday, more staged an event there. The wave of protesters surged through the st. Louis mall demanding justice for Michael Brown and more. If black lives dont matter, black friday shouldnt matter. Reporter urging people to shut their wallets and focus on justice and policy instead of buying more stuff. You can shop and learn about civics at the same time. Reporter it must be close to 100 people. So far the police are staying back letting them do what they want to do. Several hours later, Police Shutdown the st. Louis galleria mall. The call to boycott black friday on social media. Twitter hash tags li like blackoutblackfriday. It shot up in new yorks time square and then the magnificent mile in chicago. It is silly when peoples lives are wrecked every day. You have exactly one minute to disburse. Reporter in los angeles, a demonstration blocking roads. In seattle, Police Say Officers and protesters used pepper spray outside the main shopping mall. In ferguson, people are hailing this mystery woman seen in the video that appeared on youtube confronting men outside a pizza restaurant in the middle of mondays madness. The images broadcast on local tv. She is quite a brave soul. Here is something that caught our eye. In portland, oregon, a Police Officer and young boy embracing. The officer apparently spotted the boy and spotted the sign that said free hugs. The boy returned to protesters and the officer returned to duty. We would like to see more of that. Ron allen in ferguson, thank you. Shifting gears now as we look at the Holiday Shopping season. It is officially in full swing. Millions awakened early friday, some did not go to bed, to catch the sales. Here in new york, shoppers waited in the cold to get inside the citys most popular stores. A similar scene played out across the country where in some cases traditional chaos ended in arrests. We have nbcs Miguel Almaguer outside rockefeller plaza. Reporter Department Stores and shopping malls across the country, they will be backed. If black friday is any indication of whats to come, this weekend will be a zoo. Three, two, one reporter out in force and in some cases, out of control. The crowds. We are diehards now. 16 years we all have come together. Reporter the chaos. Its all about the deals. Reporter and of course, the savings. Business discounts. Some were under 10. Reporter but black friday blowouts can come in more ways than one. Across the pond, mayhem in manchester, england. While here at home, the sales got downright criminal. Two arrested at a kohls. The fist fight in baby aisle. The lady in the green jacket fighting. Reporter brick and Mortar Stores saw sales up 4 . Online, up 14 . You are seeing a huge shift online. That gets a bigger piece every year. Reporter so much web traffic, best buy broke the internet. The web site crashed. Still, the crowds kept coming at the mall of america. A record 230,000 people showed up since thanksgiving. More than doubling the city of bloomingtons population. Even when the lights went out in south carolina, the crowds kept shopping. Everyone Walking Around with their phones and trying to find out where to go. Reporter today is officially dubbed Small Business saturday where are you encouraged to shop at the Small Businesses, but the ones behind me will be busy. Craig. Miguel almaguer in new york city. Thank you. If you could make it to the cities for black friday, you can take advantage for the sales. We have dana here with us who is a retail analyst. Good morning. Lets start with things you can scratch off your list. The shopper, average american shopper, is feeling better. What items should they go with first . They will buy the apple iphone 6. We are seeing a lot of apple products sold. Outer wear and athletic is working. Watches and handbags. A michael kors store across the street. A lot of those items too. Is that because they are discounted more than usual . They are the most popular items that people want. Very giftable. For the traditional shopper. Folks who dont like to go online. They like the brick and mortar store and they want to touch the item. Where can they go . Macys. You see at macys across the board whether it is for millennials or other categories, it is a wide assortment. A lot of discounts . Discounts, but not deep like last year. We are seeing the promotions and tracking what it was last year. Retailers are smart. They manage to black friday weekend carefully. They manage the margins and the promotions. It will be a profitable Holiday Season. Which online retailer . Amazon, walmart and ebay. That is the case year in and year out. And today, as miguel mentioned, Small Business saturday and monday is cyber monday. What does that mean . There will continue to be deals. The holiday weekend, black friday, it started a month ago. Retailers were trying to attract the consumer them. Based on what you are seeing and hearing, are we going to top last year or will it be about the same or off . It will be a little better than last year. Overall, for the past ten years, a 2. 9 increase. Last year was a bit more than 3 . Hitting 4 could be an opportunity. Dana, thank you so much. Sheinelle is following the popes trip to turkey this morning. Sheinelle, good morning. Good morning. The pope is on a threeday visit to the nation. We have Richard Engel with the latest in istanbul. Reporter in a region torn by war, the pope continues his tour. On a rare papal visit to turkey, pope francis met with the president and strongly condemned religious extremism and persecution by isis of christians in iraq. All forms of fundamentalism and terrorism demean every man and woman and exploit religion. Today, pope francis arrived in istanbul. Built in the sixth century, it was a church for a thousand years. The Spiritual Center of an Orthodox Christian empire. In 1453, the empire was conquered and sofia was converted into a mosque. Today, it is a museum. Some turks had threatened to protest, but it didnt happen. The pope was given a warm reception. In a spirit of religious toleran tolerance, the pope visited the mosque praying alongside a cleric stressing that it has been a theater of fractured wars. Pope is expected to return to rome tomorrow. Richard engel, thanks. This morning, an Egyptian Court dismissed the charges against hosni mubarak. He was charged with ordering the protesters that removed him from power. The fbi this morning is investigating fridays shooting rampage in austin, texas which targeted key government buildings. The dead gunman who fired off 100 shots before trying to set the Mexican Consulate on fire. Investigators say he was shot outside headquarters. It is unclear if police took him down or whether he took his own life. The faa is investigating what caused a small plane to go down in michigan on friday. Narrowly missing a home with two people inside. Four people were aboard the singleengine plane. Three passengers crawled to safety, but the pilot was pulled out with serious injuries. Now to a smashandgrab caught on camera in michigan. Look closely as the driver repeatedly rams his van into a liquor store. Then crawls through the broken glass. Police say, get this, the suspect is a local eighth grader who targeted the store before. In september, he made off with 2,000 in alcohol. Finally, we were talking about this at the top of the show. Hollywood star Mickey Rourke returned to the ring in russia defeating a fighter half his age. Almost too easily leading some to question if it was scripted. Rourke is 62 years old and fought against a Golden Gloves champ who is 29. He said age is not a factor and he lost 35 pounds to prepare. I dont know if age is a factor, but hitting is not a factor. Can we see the video quickly . We need to. Heres my thing. Do people pay to see the real fight . The guys are really selling it . Look at him down on his knees. I cant get up. The poor guy. What did he say . All right. Ill take the hit. I have bills to pay. Im sure he made out all right. I will take the other side. Its real. You dont believe that. Were not buying it. Sheinelle, thank you. Dylan has a check of the forecast. This is real. The forecast is very real. We hope. I cant fake the forecast. No. It is very real. We are looking at these these tables back here. Can i hold this up . These are clear tables. You cant see the clear tables. Okay. Back to the weather. We have rain and snow in the Pacific Northwest. The rain is moving down into northern florida, but actually we turned over to snow in seattle the where we could see 1 inch or 2 which is possible. Winter weather advisories is cooling things up. In the Pacific Northwest and the rockies and in montana with Winter Weather advisories. Thats where most of the accumulating snow will fall in the highest elevations. Muchneeded rain with the moisture off the pacific. That will fall across parts of california, especially as we go into tonight and then we get a break. Another round of rain moves into Southern California by tuesday. Thats t and a good saturday morning. Im meteorologist Michelle Grossman. A cold one today. Temperatures topping 41 degrees. You could see a flurry or snow shower throughout the day. Otherwise we are looking at mostly cloudy skies. Then we warm it up nicely on sunday and bring sunshine back. Partly sunny and milder. 53. Could see a shower in the afternoon. Tuesday, colder, back down to 40. By wednesday, were looking at temperatures around 52. Could see a shower or snow flurry as well. Cloudy skies. Have a great day. We decided to help you out. Thank you. That is your latest forecast. This is the latest table decoratin decorating. This is what it is used for. We have tissues. You have been walking past that table for years. They are clear. You cant see them. You have on the 9 inch heels, too. Maybe thats the problem. Behind the scenes. Dylan, thank you. A 13yearold boy has turned into an overnight sensation after he nailed the National Anthem at the lions bears game on thanksgiving. Turns out he is no stranger to us at all. We could not stop talking about him. I had chills. His name is quintavious johnson. He appeared on americas got talent. He is wowing crowds again. Well be a very special christmas he has a lot to be thankful for this weekend. O say can you see the 13yearold won praise and lit up social media with the National Anthem at the lions and bears game on thanksgiving day. As the rockets red glare some writing, holy National Anthem chills. As good as the late whitney houston. He promised one time. I let the lord take over. I let my voice fly. Johnson could not basking in the attention too long. O holy night it was on to San Francisco for the Tree Lighting ceremony. It is amazing. It feels great. Im happy and thankful. It was a special day for a different reason. Happy birthday quin i turned 13 today. If you recognize the teen, it might be from americas got talent. Where he performed with jennifer hudson. Paid us a visit at today and ultimately finished in fifth place. He was always encouraged to use his gift. My grandmother was the one that got me in church. Whats next for the little man with the powerful voice . Sing Christmas Songs around christmas. [ chuckles ] good stuff. Quintavious has been singing since he was 11 months old. Before he was talking, he was singing. He was incredible on the plaza and a nice kid. We will see a lot more of him. Yes, we will. Still to come on today, may the force be with you. Dylan will talk about what fans are staying about the trailer released for the up coming movie, but first this is today on you know what that means. We are back on a saturday morning mu morning. Everyone talking about the trailer for star wars the force awakens. That trailer went live friday and nearly broke it. It is getting a lot of reaction, dylan in the orange room. The movie will not come out for another year. That is not stopping fans from buzzing about the 90second trailer. Heres a clip. The dark side. And the light. The millennium falcon. Old School Star Wars is back. So far, reaction on social media has been positive. The teaser wasnt enough. I want to see more. Im remaining hopeful the movie will be good. Chris says, i loved it. Counting the days. I am a huge fan. Rose says a teaser in the true sense of the word. My husband says the trailer is similar to the ones he saw when he was growing up. Let us know what you are talking about use orangeroom. Back to you. They owe us a good one after jar jar binks. Yeah. Biker gangs taking over california highways, can police do anything to good morning. Its just a few minutes before 7 30. Before you head out the door, lets get a check of the forecast from meteorologist Michelle Grossman. Cloudy out there. Yes, were going to see peeks of sunshine. But well call it mostly cloudy for our saturday. Its a coal stard. Thats the big weather headlines today. 28 in philadelphia. 16 in allentown. 6 in mount pocono. And so for today, 40 degrees. 11 degrees be e low what is typical for this time of year. Sunday milder and 53 degrees. A warm breeze on monday and 56. Colder on tuesday, back down to the 40s. Back to the 50s. Were well over the place. And maybe a snow shower early on wednesday. Now to breaking news that weve been keeping you updated on this morning. A twoalarm fire at a nissan dealership. But they are now under control. Nobody was hurt, but they unsure what caused the fire. Be sure to stay with nbc 10 for updates. A developing story that were following. The search is on for a College St