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Jon: new york city' devastated staten island hoping for a boost on this black friday after taking a massive hit during superstorm sandy. lines at local retailers seem healthy so far despite a major drop in sales ever since that storm slammed into the big apple. many residents still recovering, some without a home, that boost might be hard to come by. fox business network's lauren simonetti live at the staten island mall. how's it going? >> reporter: yep. well, the traffic has definitely been building. we saw a huge rush with that typical black friday midnight opening til about three this morni...

Black friday deals, many of them cutting thanksgiving short to get in lines. they are offering deep discounts on popular items today. it's not all fun and games, thousands of walmart workers are off off the job. and stores are trying to recoup some of their losses from storm sandy. those stories coming up in hour. first, brand-new stories and breaking news. >> the hamas terror group now accusing israel of breaking the cease-fire rules two days after a truce was reached along the israel-gaza border. they are investigating reports of a palestinian man getting killed today. >> a massive chickenpo...

Violence. also it should be noted without any dissoonerrable disruption to commerce here. the parking lot is filling up. we were expecting a ruling from the national relations board which would hand down an opinion as to whether it would be legal to organize the pickets around the country on black friday. the ruling never came and today they tell us they are not going to have that ruling this week. arthel: james rosen at the wall smart. they came and went, took care of business and things are status quo for the moment. thank you, james. jon: but business isn't up and running yet for a lot of s...

Jon: well, there's a new study just out of media coverage during the 2012 presidential campaign. it finds that in the closing week before election day president obama got a big surge of positive news coverage. the pew research center finding both candidates got more negative coverage than positive throughout most of the race, but in the final week the media presented a lot more positive stories about the president while the coverage for governor romney stayed about the same. let's check in with our news watch panel. judith miller is an investigative reporter, cal thomas is a syndicated columni...

The president and also to the appropriate members on the hill. >> one analyst told fox that this investigation by the senator appears to be one where he is setting the same framework he did with the fast and furious investigation into the justice department, jon. jon: catherine herridge live for us in washington. interesting developments there. thank you. >> it was one of the most devastating images from super storm sandy, the jersey shore's famous roller coaster literally dropped into the atlant atlantic ocean. why it might stay that way. shoppers are trying to find stores. rick leventhal has...