he expects police will make arrests. the mayor s office claims the camp of nearly 500 tents poses a public health and safety risk. jamie: let s get back to the holiday shopping season. it s off to a record start. according to shopper track, black friday sales were up nearly 7% and online shopping, a whopping 24%. it is not even cyber-monday. buyers spending $11.4 billion at stores and malls, up nearly $1 billion from last year issue the biggest amount ever spen on the day and the biggest year over year increase since 2007. how can this be? is it a sign that things may beaturing around? brenda butner joining us. brenda, it seems like just good news. how many days do we need to turn the economy around. reporter: the early birds were no turkeys, that s for sure. everyone laughed at the fact that so many stores were opening
an indianap police indianapolis businessman and two daughters were kill in the crash. officials do not know where the plane was headed. in an hour, woe will find out how well retailers did on black friday. but even if they are terrific number, can just one day on the stock market a boost? reporter, hey, shannon, after feasting on turkey, the real early birds gave thanks for deals offered hours before black friday begins. and the retail industry may well be offering gratitude as well because the early hours brought black friday sales to a record 6.6% gain, according to shopper track, the largest amount ever. buyers spent $11.4 billion. as many as 152 million people were expected to shop at stores and online.
it adds to already strained relations between washington and islamabad. americans spent $11.4 billion on black friday. experts say that s a 7% increase over last year, and the biggest amount ever spent on black friday. i m veronica de la cruz. now, it s back to lockup. due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. surviving a long prison term can often mean joining a gang. but this one yard at california state prison corcoran that s supposed to be gang-free. it s called the sensitive needs yard, sny. it s where gang dropouts or sex offenders or high-risk inmates go for their own safety. but even here gangs can spring up, and we found one of the most unorthodox gangs. they call themselves gbg, the gay boy gangsters.
driving along a newly built stretch of wall, showing a man clining right over the to. that s not all. the witness says another man then climbed over with a bicycle and quickly rode off. border patrol claims the men were caught on surveillance video and captured. just because you don t see border patrol out along the fence line didn t mean we re not being vigilant and watching the border. we had eyes on this individual making entry, we responded accordingly and made the apprehension. heather: the u.s. spent more than $11.4 billion on customs and border protection last year and that includes $800 million on fencing, infrastructure, and technology. immigrations and customs enforcement made more than 1600 arrests of individuals engaged in cross border crime. michael brawn, former chief of operations for the drug enforcement administration joins us with more on this. michael, how did this happen? well, i mean, heather,
grenade. now sources call these men lone wolves, not part of an organized terror operation. with gas at $4 a gallon around the country, five top oil company executives told congress today, don t blame us. they point to world events, weather, speculators, those type of things. but some in congress they want to kill billions in tax breaks for big oil. but one ceo says they already pay enough taxes and killing the subsidies would be un-american. for our company we earn $11.4 billion last year. and we paid $8.3 billion nin come taxes as well as $3.1 billion in other cases. so our total taxes paid actually equalled or income. so any fair-minded person would likely agree that we paid our full share. top five oil companies report their combined first quarter profits came in at $35 billion.