The National Retail federation reporting on average, shoppers spent 6 less this thanks giving weekend thn they did a year earlier. Friday, it looked like it was going to be better. 11 lower in total. Online sales were all sort of on to them at this point. Today dubbed cyber monday, the traditionally Biggest Online shopping day. The consumer will spend 2. 5 billion online in one day. Well check in with Courtney Reagan in 20 minutes along with our industry analyst. And we have congress returning from the holiday recess today. Legislators have less than two weeks to figure out how to keep the government running. Funding set to expire on december 11th. Fight over spending bills comes as the party is also debating immigration. So lots going on over this holiday. Really wasnt a holiday weekend. People did work on friday. We missed you, joe. Good. Yes, thank you. Nice to be missed. Were going to talk oil in just a second. Another Washington News today, the Supreme Court is going to hear argum
Pelley good evening. President obama is about to do something he has never done before he will address a congress controlled completely house and senate, by the Opposition Party as he reports on the state of the union and lays out his agenda for the final two years of his presidency. The question, of course, is how much of that agenda the republican majority will accept. The president will say this country does best when everyone gets their fair shot, everyone does their fair share and everyone plays by the same set of rules. Chief White House Correspondent Major Garrett has the speech hot off the press. Major. Reporter scott, the president will tell the country the time has come to turn the page on an era defined by recession and direct u. S. Combat in afghanistan and iraq. Another excerpt just released from the white house the april will say reporter for the first time in office, the u. S. Economy san asset to president obama. His Approval Ratings and Consumer Confidence have risen a
Down the east coast. While the storm was moving to the north. Now its made that right turn, its causing waves more to come in from the northeast a little bit. So it has stopped its momentum of building up these big seas. Because of that we have the dangerous rip current tonight. Tomorrow, conditions will be somewhat better, partly because now the surface winds are now offshore. That helps calm down the ocean as well. We have the storm moving out, offshore winds, conditions will be gradually improving day after day. I will talk more about the Holiday Weekend and the possibility of storms and heat with the 7day forecast in a few minutes. Glenn, speaking of the Holiday Weekend, organizers putting you the final touches on the stage ahead of this weekends made in america concert. Its an annual event featuring dozens of performers. Its expected to attract thousands of music fans. With any event of this size, you can expect road closures, heavy traffic, lots of noise as well. Nbc 10s doug shi
The story of real people and their real challenges. I describe whats gone wrong in their life, all we are doing about it now and what we can do better. Youll notice in the book there are many ideas that are bipartisan. They involve my collaboration with people of another party. Colleagues like chris coons of connecticut and cory booker in new jersey. Many of our policy proposals are part of it at all. Particularly when it comes to Higher Education. Youll read about how im working with mark warner to make Higher Education more affordable how im working with cory booker to provide more access to wifi and internet especially in disadvantaged neighborhoods. These are important initiatives as well. They are not easy to put on a bumper sticker. They dont win a lot of elections but they are critical to the future of our country. So we still have time and space and we should debate the issues we disagree on but i hope we can come together and cooperate on the essential issues of our time becau
Of this week its booktv in primetime. Up next, former congressman barney frank recounts his life and political career. He recently wrote a book a life in politics from the Great Society to samesex marriage. This is 50 minutes. [applause] [applause] thank you. Barney frank. First i will ask him questions and then we will get questions from the audience which i have on these cards. So i will accept or reject them as i wish. Congressman frank i was hoping you could say little bit about the two stories that you try to tell political stories you try to tell in this book which is about your life but also about your political world. It occurred to me as i started writing that their word to themes. I was a normal teenager in terms of my interest but part of it was my father wrote a Television Show called making 40. There were many Television Shows back then. I remember watching in the mccarthy era in 1954 where the republicans stood up to when he was smearing democrats. They said this has to s