and nasa determined to answer a question, is there life on mars? the journey to the red planet is about to begin on this american morning. captions by vitac www.vitac.com and good morning to you, and happy black friday. many of you are already up, shopped and are back home. watching from a macy s television set. probably so. ali and christine have the day off. i m carol costello here with alina cho on this friday morning. the leftovers packed away and the fridge and shoppers everywhere have already started hunt. pull back lines, say go in and it s like a stampede. everyone just darts in there. the holiday shopping season is officially under way. it startederer than usual last night at this toys r us in new york. the doors opened. crazy. in los angeles, ten people suffered injured when everyone surged into a walmart store. police are looking for a female customer who used pepper spray to get to the front of the line. police are still looking for her.
worldwide web of searches, black friday started earlier this year. online shoppers already out of the gate and chasing after deals in searches for black friday sales were trending up a couple of weeks ago. as we reported, they re still going up, a jump of 656% this week. all right. topping the list are searches for walmart, kmart, best buy and target. target alone shot up 7,056% this week. now, again shoppers hoping to stretch those dollars this season. all right. so what are the hot toys being searched right now? well, calico critters up 535% this week. searches for nerf toys, an old favorite, up 353%. and toy story 3 games up 885% this week. well turkey day travel is over but lots of folks going online to plan their family trips over the river and through the woods. searches for cruise and vacations were off the charts and almost all of these destinations right here in the u.s. we ve got the usual favorites, you know disneyland,