it was a blockbuster weekend for retailers, 35 million americans getting an early start by shopping on thursday. that is 6 million more thanksgiving day shoppers than last year and 89 million people braved the crowds on black friday itself. that is up from 86 million in 2011, and the record 247 million people shopped over the entire weekend with the average shopper spending $423, that s $25 more than last year, but the biggest number of all, 1 billion online shoppers spent more than that this black friday and could spend a billion more today. cyber monday. joining me now courtney reagan following all the cyber monday action. courtney, i understand it is estimated this cyber monday could not biggest ever, up 20% from last year and cyber monday and who is offering the best
here s what s happening. the national retail federation is releasing strong numbers on holiday shopping. 247 million shoppers spent more than $59 billion over the weekend. favorable weather and few airport delays are greeting the millions heading home on what is traditionally the busiest travel day of the year, and the twilight saga took in $64 million followed by sky fall and lincoln, all part of an all time box office high of $290 million for thanksgiving weekend. back to caught on camera. what do you get when you combine green slime, a 7,000-degree flame, and a scientist willing to try anything? pure internet gold. so this guy introduces this fire retardant foam and actually spreads some on his head. you can see him putting the flame right to his hand.
right now. good morning, welcome, everybody. our stastarting point this mor is day four of the jerry sandusky sex abuse trial with three victims set to take the stand. the prosecution is moving at a rapid pays. the state is expected to rest tomorrow. cnn susan candiotti is live at the courthouse in bellafonte, pennsylvania this morning. good morning. three more alleged victims are expected to take the stand today and tomorrow before prosecutors wrap up their case. among them, we expect to hear from one youngster, back in 1988, her mother went to police after she discovered her boy had been showering with jerry sandusky. charges were never filed in this case, but the mother said the little boy was naked, jerry sandusky had bear hugged him and she was worried he might have touched some of his private areas. charges never filed in this case, however, police did eavesdrop on jerry sandusky and they said he told them this, quote, i understand i was wrong. i wish i could get f
journalists take quote, unquote, content, from the press releases and other people build the stories from there, everybody is borrowing from everybody else and let s just face it. jim, let s start with two points. one, the media as they laid off all of their investigative operations are desperate for anyone to come along and hand them the story and they can have it free, who wouldn t? and i think the the fact that every time you turn on the tv and see some journalism school professional being interviewed or a form of editor or formerly for profit to the nonprofit world is happening and the fact the sandlers are a part of what a fellow named matt fine, call the conversation, which is a group of liberal billionaires the last ten years have been since the 2000 election when bush won have been trying to buy their way into power through the democrats and the sandlers who gave 247 million to progressive causes,
journalists take quote, unquote, content, from the press releases and other people build the stories from there, everybody is borrowing from everybody else and let s just face it. jim, let s start with two points. one, the media as they laid off all of their investigative operations are desperate for anyone to come along and hand them the story and they can have it free, who wouldn t? and i think the the fact that every time you turn on the tv and see some journalism school professional being interviewed or a form of editor or formerly for profit to the nonprofit world is happening and the fact the sandlers are a part of what a fellow named matt fine, call the conversation, which is a group of liberal billionaires the last ten years have been since the 2000 election when bush won have been trying to buy their way into power through the democrats and the sandlers who gave 247 million to progressive causes,