Will continue. As we start the weekend on sunday and looking ahead to the upcoming week, little rain chances. Ill be talking more about your dry weekend and the mainly dry weather in a little bit. For now, joe fox, the roads problem free . Very problem free. A quick look at virginia now. Down to Potomac Mills really no problems. Those bright lights hyped you are the bright lights of Potomac Mills. All the outlets down there looking to be moving pretty smoothly and here is a quick look at pentagon city. No problems on 395. As you can see northbound southbound all moving freely. Regular rush hour configuration. Richard and a angie, back to you. While many of you may just be waking up from your food induced naps, thousands of hard core shoppers are already at the stores for one of the biggest deal days of the year. News 4s Megan Mcgrath is at the newly opened Tanger Outlets where many of the stores have been open for four hours now. Good morning. Reporter yeah, thats right. Theyve had several hours of shopping here already. But the dynamic has changed a little bit because so many of the stores are opening earlier and earlier. Theyre not waiting until midnight to open. Theres quite a few people here shopping but its not absolutely packed. Were not seeing the frenzy that you used to see at the midnight openings but some great deals to be had. Theyre rolling out discounts depending on what time you shop. Right now offering 30 off between 3 00 a. M. And 6 00 a. M. And leshai here has done a lot of shopping. You have bags. I have a lot of bags here, going shopping are for my niece, my nephew, my sister, everything is out of the way. Reporter all right, what time did you get here and what kind of deals are you getting . 2 30. It was 20 but now were up to 30 and also they have 50 off a lot of the entire stores. Reporter what was the vibe here . How was it . Was it really crowded . No, it was calm, cool and collected. It wasnt really hectic at all. Every store is pretty organized surprisingly. Reporter all right. Well let you get back to it. Have a good one. Reporter you, too. You can see all the displays are out. They have a lot of the discounts are listed here, the black friday deals be and the like. And if you are going to be heading out this morning, that 30 is in effect until 6 00 a. M. And then theyre going to roll out a different discount after that. It depends what time youre shopping and what store you go into. Lots of people with bags. Definitely some shopping being do done. Reporting live, Megan Mcgrath, news 4. Back to you in the studio. Timing is everything. Thank you very much. To molette green at the live desk with some breaking news. New this morning a suspected u. S. Drone has taken out alleged militants in pakistan. This overnight strike hit in the countrys tribal region in north waziristan. Official Officials Say the drone faired two missiles and struck a house used as a hideout by militants with ties to the afghan taliban. Three suspected members of this group were killed. Two others injured. The American Government rarely makes public anything about its Drone Program in that country but pakistani officials regularly criticize the attacks as a violation of their countrys sovereignty although they have reportedly supported at least some of these strikes in the past. That is the latest now from the live desk. Im molette green. Back to you. Thanks, molette. We expect to learn how a missing National Guardsman tied. Evan can curbeams body was found on wednesday. A meddlecal examiner will release the cause of death today. Curbeam spent a night out with friends in fells point, last seen walking to his car. His family reported him missing after he failed to pick up his 4yearold daughter the next morning. The d. C. National guard released a statement that reads in part, it is with heavy hearts that we learned today of the loss of one of our own. He was a consummate professional. This car crash involved a Police Cruiser as you can see. Take a look at it. It snarled traffic in Silver Spring last night around 8 30. The accident involved a cruiser and a minivan and despite how bad this looked, no one was hurt. Covering Prince Georges County this morning, officials gave the all clear after a huge sinkhole swallowed up an suv. A broken water main forced the road to give way. This is at marlboro road. People were without water until 4 00 yesterday afternoon and traffic was a mess. Backed up as crews removed the suv and repaired the broken pipe. A big delivery today at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. First Lady Michelle obama will welcome the White House Christmas tree. The 18 1 2 foot douglas fir is coming from pennsylvania. The family that owns the farm will walk along a horse drawn cart that will deliver the tree late they are morning. Then it will sit in the blue room. Things will look a lot more festive after two Tree Lighting ceremonies. Santa will be busy today. And then at 7 00 in Prince Georges County, baker will host a ceremony at National Harbor are more than 200,000 lights are strung around the tree. It will be followed by fireworks at 8 00. A popular lights display in the district opens up tonight. Zoo lights comes to the national zoo. More than half a million lights will transform the zoo into a Winter Wonder land with lit animal silhouettes, musical lights display. It is open every night from 5 00 to 9 00 p. M. Now through january 1 except for christmas eve, chryst mistmas day, and new yea eve. It was a lot of fun last year. Should go back this year. We should. For all you parents, they have the choochoo train running thats very popular. Coming up, new developments in the deadly cranes collapse in brazil. The new video of that collapse as we learn about the warning that was given shortly before that tragic incident. Accident or something planned . The play in last nates ravens game lighting up twitter this morning. Shoppers, make sure you bundle up before you head out in search for the Holiday Shopping a stunt pulled by nba coach thats gone viral is going to cost him a chunk of change. You have probably seen this video of jason kidd telling one of his players to hit him so he could get a timeout. Kidd claimed the drink slipped out of his hand but League Officials dont buy that. Multiple sources say hes going to pay a 5,000 fine. And to make matters worse, the nets lost the game. Theres also some controversy brewing this morning from the gridiron over a bizarre play during thanksgiving day football right here on nbc. Take a look at this. Baltimore ravens jacoby jones there returning a kickoff in the Third Quarter when it appears Pittsburgh Steelers head Coach Mike Tomlin gets in the way. Jones appears to try to avoid tomlin and gets tackled saving what looked to be a possible touchdown return. Tomlin said after the game that he was watching the return on the jumbotron and did not realize how close he was to the field. The ravens wind up winning that one 2220. And the nets jason kidd will pay 50,000. I said 5,000. Thats a lot to pay. Yesterday a good day to stay in and watch football. It was cold out there. It wasnt too bad to play some touch football either. It wasnt that bad out there but it was certainly breezy yesterday. Temperatures were runninging a good ten degrees below average, and that will continue to be the case today. However, light winds today and once again plenty of sunshine. It is a cold start, 31 degrees right now. By noon were flirting with that 40degree mark. A High Temperature this afternoon in the low 40s, about 41, 42 for a high. So youre out and about today maybe doing l some shopping, going for a run, walking the dog. You definitely need to bundle up but there wont be a severe chill in the air. Tonight, however, not the case. It will be very cold tonight with low temperatures inside of the beltway by the water mid to upper 20s. The suburbs, low temperatures there around 20s so i know High School Football is in the playoff season. Right now maybe you have some friday night football going on for your team. Make sure you are bundled up. Now tomorrow we continue to be cool but more clouds. Heres 4 00 p. M. Tomorrow afternoon. A high for your saturday of 41. Coming up, ill be talking about what day i think is the better of the weekend if you plan on hanging holiday decorations this weekend. Joe fox, how are the roads looking . Amelia, not bad at all. All of the construction has been picked up so we dont have any incidents or accidents in the area. Lets take a quick look where megan was at National Harbor. No issues on the wilson bridge. Also around tysons corner, this is greensboro drive, i believe, and no problems on route 7 or reported around tysons corner. People going to work today, there is no marc service. Vre is running on an s schedule. A developing story this morning out of the midwest after a pipeline explodes overnight. What were hearing is next. Live to mall of america in the twin cities for a look at some of the Holiday Shopping im molette green at the live desk. Right now were gettinging a number of reports that several buildings are burning after a large blast in missouri. Apparently a natural gas pipeline exploded overnight. This happened near hughesville, missouri, about an hour and a half drive east from kansas city. So far no reports of anyone hurt by this. This blast so powerful people 15 miles away reported feeling the impact. Others 60 and 70 miles away said they could see flames. And a number of people reported smaller explosions after the big one. The pipeline is still burning and fire crews are on the scene. Keep it right here for updates throughout the morning. At the live desk, im molette green, back to you in the studio. Check out brandnew video we just got in of a deadly crane collapse in brazil. That shows the moment the crane fell on top of part of the main stadium being built. Two workers were killed. A safety engineer warned his supervisor the cranee on unstable ground. That was ignored. The construction can company has denied that claim. And says the stadium will had be ready for the world cup this summer. A daring rescue. Three people needed to be airlifted out of san mateo county. Officers on the scene say a driver drifted off the road, overcorrected, turning into oncoming driver forcing another to swerve. That sent the second car down a steep 600foot embankment. Police said the heavy brush on the hill slowed the car down so surprisingly no one was hurt in the accident. Hundreds of ohio families are thankful to be back in their homes today after a chemical spill. Nearly 425 people were evacuated from their homes tuesday night when a train derailed southwest of cleveland. The train spilled flammable liquid used to make plastic and rubber products. As of now only about three dozen homes are still off limits until later tonight. No injuries were reported. A power outage may be partly to blame for a fire that destroyed a Northern Virginia home. Firefighters snapped peck tours of the flames that shot up from that home on lucasville road in manassas. When the power went out, the homeowners left to cook dinner at a relatives house. When they came back, the fire destroyed their home. They believe a power surge after the outage possibly sparked that fire. Fire investigators are looking into that. A tough loss around the holidays for a Montgomery County family. A man was killed in a construction accident in Silver Spring. Rescuers say it appears the man slipped on a small patch of ice. He was working on thanksgiving to get ahead of a project delayed by recent rain. Right now police are calling this an accident and foul play is not suspected. This Morning Police in North Carolina are looking for a real life grinch. Someone stole a Salvation Army red kettle. James griffin is a bell ringer at a Shopping Mall in winstonsal winstonsalem. He left his post to hold the door for a grandmother and four kids. When he returned the kettle and 50 in it were gone. He says the crime hurts others in need this holiday season. The feeling you have when you work all day, you come out here and look and its gone, i was surprised and very hurt whoever would take from god 24,000 people that were trying to clothe and feed and buy toys for. Theres no Surveillance Video of the theft, but in an effort to restore some holiday cheer, the manager of a nearby store pledged 100 into the replacement kettle. You could see protesters amid the shoppers, about 1,500 protests planned at wal martz around the country including one in Northern Virginia. This is video of a black friday pr protest from last year when 30,000 employees and supporters demonstrated. The protests focus on wages and benefits offered to walmart employees. The average hourly wage for the retail giant is around 8. 81 an hour. Thanks to your smartphone, many malls and individual stores have their own apps that help you find deals. When youre in a store you can even check the companys facebook and twitter accounts because some stores will offer exclusive coupons and giveaways. Meantime, some apps compare deals or search black friday ads for you like fatwallets black friday app. The countrys biggest mall, thousands spent the night shopping at the mall of america in minnesota. Abcs jay gray is right in the middle of it all. How are things going there, jay . Reporter good morning. You are absolutely right. Started last night, continues this morning and will throughout the weekend. Its finally here, shopping is a big day. Black friday merged with thanksgiving in a way for many and not everybody is buying that. The dash for deals. The push for presents. The rush for a little Retail Therapy actually began just after all the turkey was gone. I live for this day and i take this it day off from wok every year. Dinner is cooked, my belly is full, and now im ready to shop. Reporter the lines stretched around stores, shoppers all in search of the same thing. Its holidays, trying to get as much as we can for the kids. Reporter starting early and stretching even past the weekend. I think black friday is gaining relevance because its becoming are more of a season than one day in particular. Reporter but not everyone is sold on the idea of shopping thanksgiving day. They should all be closed on thanksgiving. Its thanksgiving. Reporter if theres a debate about what to do on thursday football and beer and pret st pretzels and food. Thats what its about. Reporter finding that perfect gift at a great price. And there are a lot of people at the mall of america doing just that and most of them carrying bags so theyre buying something here. Look, black friday obviously not a bad deal for retailers either. This year shoppers on average expect to spend nearly 650 over the weekend. Thats up 11 from black friday last year. Live from the mall of america, im jay gray. Angie, back to you. jay, you mentioned a the lot of people with a lot of bags. What are we finding in them as far as big ticket items theyre scoring big deals on . Reporter clothes are always a big deal and a lot of people with a lot of clothes bags, people buying sweaters, a lot of people buying jeans and things like that. Of course electronics is always the big deal this time of year and its no different this year. The gaming systems, sony has a new psp4 out. The newest pads or smart phones and laptops are making a resurgence. A lot of people are buying laptops. Any of those when you get out and do your shopping today. Ive taken the note. Thanks, jay, so much. Ill take a laptop while youre at it. Amelia, do you want anything . I think im good right now. Maybe some warmer weather, though. Thanksgiving, the coolest thanksgiving since about 2000. Really . Yes, absolutely. It was definitely very cold yesterday and a little bit breezy, too are, for the first half of the day. Today, though, you can see as we look out at Union Station the flag not moving there. No wind. Less wind throughout the entire day today. Were also mostly sunny once again so thats good news. However, that chill continues and it doesnt just continue today but into tomorrow, the weekend, and really the upcoming week as well. The good news for this weekend a dry weekend. A lot of folks have outdoor plans, maybe youre going hunting or hanging those holiday decorations. Well, for saturday a High Temperature of 41 degrees. More in the way of clouds, mostly cloudy skies. Sunday i think will be the better outdoor day. Its a little bit warmer, high of 47. Also more sunshine. Part partly sunny skies for your sunday. And as we look ahead to this upcoming week, the first week of december, can you believe it . Little rain chances n. Fact, the best chance a of rain youll see on the seven day will be next thursday. The big story this morning, how cold it is. Heading out the door now, make sure you dress warm. If youre going shopping, though, i would definitely recommend layering. You know how warm it gets once youve been shopping after a while. Temperatures right now generally in the 20s across the area. 21 in warrenton. 31 degrees for those of you in a annapolis. And here is your morning planner for areas like arlington. Temperatures continue to remain in the low 30s through 8 00 a. M. Plenty of sunshine today. Definitely grab those sunglasses. Hayes across the area will be in the low 40s. 42 in bethesda. 41 for those of you in upper marl bore he oboro marlboro. Again, saturday continued chill in the air. 41 for a high sunday. Upper 40s, 47 for a high. Here is that average high temperatu temperature. 51 degrees. So you can see were not even breaking any 50s over the next seven days. Monday and tuesday, plenty of clouds. Mid to upper 40s for highs and