bargain hunters are lining up, and online shoppers spent billions already. and alison kosik is live. >> reporter: two people are lined up, but here's the shocker with all of this, it's 12 degrees outside. what are they waiting for? big screen tvs. as you said, people already have been spending thanksgiving day, $3.7 billion expected to have been spent on peoples' phones while they were eating theater key dinners. cyber monday, another $7.8 billion. yes, you can say we are in the middle of a big holiday shopping spending blitz. what are people spending on?