Black Friday is off to a good start with several stores opening their doors as early as 8pm Thursday night. Thousands of people stood in long lines in hopes of getting an early start on the shopping season and door buster deals. Retailers are hoping that the earlier openings will help boost sales this holiday season. It's estimated that Black Friday sales will be up almost 4-percent this year.

Thousands turned out on Thanksgiving day for the Hosea Feed The Hungry and Homeless event. This year's event, held at the Georgia World Congress Center, fed an estimated 10,000 people. This is the 43rd year organizers were able to take care of the less fortunate by providing them with a good meal. In addition, other services were provided such as clothing, salon, barber and medical care.

Officials at the Georgia Department of Labor say the unemployment rate for metro Atlanta dropped to 8.2 percent in October. That's down from 8.3 percent in September and 9.4 percent last year. Officials say the decline is because nearly 20,000 new jobs were added to the metro Atlanta job market.

There is a new rule for returning gifts this holiday season. More and more retailers are asking to see your drivers license. The new policy is to prevent repeated returns. The National Retail Federation says 62-percent of retailers now require workers in the customer service department to record a customer's license.

What do kids want for Christmas? According to a new study, kids hope to find a gaming system under their tree this holiday.  Nearly 40 percent of children surveyed say they want Nintendo's latest game console, Wii U.  Just under a third indicated they want a Nintendo DS,  Xbox 360 and a PlayStation 3 . In addition, kids say they would love to have any product made by Apple.

This holiday season store mannequins will have their eye on you.  Several fashion stores are using mannequins equipped with special technology in an effort to crack down on shoplifting and to see what folks are actually purchasing.  The EyeSee mannequin looks normal on the outside, but has a camera embedded in one eye that feeds data into facial-recognition software. EyeSee is the same software used by law enforcement