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Ritual. cnn's margaret conley is keeping tabs on the crazy crowds in new york and beyond. tell us how bad was it today? >> reporter: jim, there were massive crowds of shoppers across the country. wait until you see some of this video. but with those crowds, there were also sporadic outbursts of violence. chaos as stores opened earlier than ever and shoppers rushed in for black friday deals. there were swarms of shoppers from puerto rico to nashville to here in new york city. and in some places, it got ugly. there were fist fights in north carolina, a stabbing in virginia, and brawls in texas. ...

>> reporter: the state department is obviously aware of this. they issued a statement to cnn, it says basically that the u.s. government is troubled, it says in part, the u.s. embassy and consulate general have engaged with the uae counterparts there to urge a fair and quick trial or judgment in this case. bottom line is the family is very upset and confused because if you watch this video, it is clearly a parody and the fact that he has been sitting in prison since april, it's just shocking, really. the family is very, very concerned, saying that they have a member of the family taking turns ...

Helicopter has crashed into the roof of a popular pub and music hall on stockwell street. this is a very popular area. it's 11:00 at night, peak time there. these are photographs just coming in to "the situation room." you can see a helicopter here on the roof of the building. again, we do not have a lot of details. it is very early but there are reports coming through on twitter right now that there have been injured pub goers pulled out of the bar. i can read you some of the tweets. an eyewitness tells me she has seen a helicopter on the roof, a number of ambulances and fire engines here. an...

Days into this, they are facing overwhelming opposition, of course, not just from the u.s. but japan, south korea, all the other u.s. allies in the region. so biden will say to the chinese what are you trying to accomplish here, and maybe, just maybe, everyone might look for a way to dial some of this back. but right now, that is not happening, at least not with the chinese rhetoric. they still appear to be really determined to enforce this zone with their new restrictions. jim? >> we'll be hoping that both sides find a way to rachet this down. thanks very much to barbara starr at the pentagon...

>> both of them said to me go back and live your life fearlessly, and it was around that time that i started to come back. >> so how long were you in the coma? >> about 30 hours. i was in the intensive care unit but within four days, they were able to take off the oxygen, they were able to take out the food tube and the tumors shrunk by 70%. >> and the doctors, they kept testing you, right? they kept looking for cancer, they kept treating you. >> they were saying there's no way that cancer disappears like that. >> check out anderson cooper's special report "to heaven and back" sunday at 7:00 p...