Lines everywhere. Already this morning, several videos popping up online, allegedly showing chaos in the aisles, as customers battle to save a few bucks. The International Council of Shopping Centers estimates black friday is now such an event in our country, four out of ten american shoppers do their holiday buying today. The question thats on a lot of consumers minds is do you actually go out and buy today or do you maybe play the waiting game. The answers both. You probably do a little bit of shopping today. And then you supplement that in subsequent days. Retailers hope this years falling gas prices will help accelerate sales it its estimated for every one penny drop in the price of gas at the pump, consumers have an additional 1 billion in congressional spending money. The outlook for Holiday Spending is good. Stronger than what weve seen in a number of years. Many folks are forecatting well see holiday sales grow overall more than 4 which is quite strong. For parents my teenage s
All that and so much more ahead at this hour. Happy monday everyone. Im john berman. Happy new year john nice to see you. Im michaela pereira. We start with the search for airasia flight 8501. Setbacks in the search now. Todays operations had to be called off because of storms. Officials say divers who were able to make it to the bottom of the sea encountered muddy waters leaving zero visibility. A large piece of wreckage initially believed to be part of the plane, well it turned out to be from a sunken ship. Search teams did recover three more bodies today, bringing the total number recovered to 37. Each victim is returned to surabaya in indonesia. That is where the flight originated. Our david molko is there. David, we now know one of the large objects searchers spotted, they were very hopeful, it turned out to be from part of a ship wreck, not the jet at all. But there were other objects they found. What do we know about those . Thats right, john and michaela. A lot of news coming i
Deal to prevent iran from developing Nuclear Weapons is expected to go through, and this week it has garbered enough stepth support to withstand any opposition in congress. That obviously did not silence either cruz or trump today. If i win the presidency, i guarantee you that those four prisoners are back in our country before i ever take office, i guarantee that. They will be back before i ever take office because they know thats what has to happen, okay . They know it, and if they dont know it, im telling them right now. So, i have a story that just came out an hour ago, and as president obama calls him very routinely, he calls him the supreme leader. Our president is calling the person who is really the boss in Iran Supreme Leader and i look at people shaking their head and they cant believe it, but it just came out a little while ago he said israel will not exist in 25 years, think of that. He just said this. He also said very strongly, very, very strongly, that this is the end of
Hunt. U. S. District court judge is now ordering Robert Mueller to handover his secret documents related to the questioning of Michael Flynn. Even your young son has been brought into this at times. Should be missed, and i protect him and i want to give him the child he deserves. Friday december 14th. Were just about ten days away from christmas eve. Welcome aboard folks a busy three hour telecast prepared just for you. Video of our Christmas Party from yesterday. [laughter] it was karaoke should be scary. Exclusive video. We also have another exclusive will as good Homeland Security secretary will be on our couch. Changing the subject because to get everybody singing i know that your favorite art fist is billy joel. So i said brian lets sing a song by billy joel. What was your mistake, though, asking you if you would sing . Second mistake. We knew you doesnt dance and didnt sing too. You have to stay in your lane in life other thing is you picked which song. Which song. Up town girl.