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i m yasmin vossoughian here in new york city. you hear the music. you have seen the ads. you maybe have gotten one of those text messages, campaign text messages. it means we re almost there. one day away from the midterm elections. this morning with just hours left to make the final pitches, candidates, they are hitting the trail across the country. 42 million americans have already early voted. but it is election day turnout that could make all of the difference. and in a topsy-turvy election year, the issues driving folks run the gamut. the main thing is we vote for people who are willing to accept the results at the ballots. abortion, firearms. inflation. just all the policies and the changes. just cutthroat. try to vote for the lesser of two evils is my way of thinking about it. that last point there, the lesser of two evils, that mind-set can make all the difference. our final round of nbc news polling showing that democrats and republicans are now neck and ne
additional american citizen, who s just been sentenced to life in prison. ivan watson, cnn, hong kong. now to some of the other headlines that we are watching this hour. johnson & johnson s covid-19 vaccine is no longer available in the u.s. the cdc says all doses expired last week and providers have been told to dispose of any leftovers. the j&j covid shot was the first t to be administered in the u.s. about 19 million people received it. and the most expensive private jewelry collection to appear at auction just fetched $196 million. the controversial gems from the late austrian billionaire heidi horton went under the hammer despite concerns from jewish groups about the source of her wealth. her first husband was a german businessman who bought jewish businesses sold under duress during the nazi era. and a 13-year-old michigan boy is being praised for saving
myerson. we re done with black friday. done with cyber monday. this is at the peak on monday, $12.8 million a minute being spent online. it was a very good performance in terms of a test of the consumer, wasn t it? s a you said the other day, christine. never under estimate the strength of the mighty american consumer. despite inflation. despite you know, despite inflation. despite continued shopping shortages, shoppers are still spending over 196 million americans shopped during the thanksgiving weekend. 10% increase from last year according to national retail federation. cyber monday sales broke a new record up more than 5% from a year ago. we ve talked a lot about how stores are overstocked. how they have too much stuff. they re marking that stuff down. all the discounts got shoppers to spend online and to visit stores. they ve stayed back the last couple of years due to pandemic
dropping a lbit again but sales are going up, what s going on? it s almost like a tale of two sides of the consumer, what consumers are doing and what they re saying. what they re doing is they seem to be shopping like there s no tomorrow when you look at the cyber monday figures. $11.3 billion spent one day online. that s the best online shopping day of the year, if not ever. the national retail federation says a record 196 million people shopped over the weekend, and that certainly blew away expectations as well. what s going on with consumer confidence? consumer confidence is the part of it where consumers are saying they re feeling a certain way and they re saying that they re feeling uneasy about where the economy is headed. consumer confidence falling to its lowest level since july, falling for a second month in a row in november. and they re basically reflecting that there s uncertainty going forward, that they re feeling pretty gloomy about where the economy is headed. why? t