way this will go in anything. thank you, good to see you both. bill: cyber monday today. a new survey from the national retail federation showing sales both in stores and online from thanksgiving through over the weekend dropped around 11%. the number of people shopping this black friday weekend down 5% from a year ago. customers blame early scowrnlgt and improving economy. we ll see whether people online the numbers go up every year. martha: dangerous out there in those mols. those in those malls. it s safer to stay at home. pope francis with a message. it s a strong message against isis. what the pontiff had to say
this group is not isis, not to use the word core or non-core, this is local group in the sinai that pledged allegiance to baghdadi and isis and now committing these acts of violence. this is what isis wants, the belief that the ink blot is ever expanding and caliphate is expanding itself. this is essential to isis s narrative that they are on the march. wouldn t be surprising to see more from affiliated groups. bill: reflect on what jennifer is reporting expansion in southern turkey to stage attacks against isis at a time when the syrian government saying what we have done so far has not weakened that terror group in syria and in iraq. yeah. you know it s a good development if we re talking to turkey about utilizing their paces. it gives us another power projection platform closer to northern syria. at the same time they have got very different interests. limited scope of whatever agreement comes underscores the complicates of this arrangement.
syria has been reluctant to be involved directly despite harboring more than 1.5 million refugees that escaped violence in syria. national security correspondent jennifer griffin live from the pentagon. have they agreed to set up a no-fly zone over syria with turkey involved? not as of yet, martha. the wall street journal was first to report there were negotiations and those negotiations entered a more serious stage following vice president joe biden s visit to turkey over a week ago. turks want a no-fly zone over a third of syria in exchange for using the base at incirlik which would allow to carry out manned strikes bense isis. the u.s. is willing to set a narrow no-fly zone like the one it set up over kobani over the turkish border. the u.s. does not want to go too far south for fear it would have to take out president bashar air
further away. how tense relations remain with turkey over u.s. policy in syria turkey s presidenter dough juan is quote, against impertinence, recklessness and demands coming from 12,000 kilometers away, indirect condemnation against isis. russian president vladmir putin is in turkey for talks, martha. martha: we ll see where this goes. thank you very much. bill: fox news alert. isis in egypt claiming it killed an american. oil expert william henderson was reportedly being held in egypt s sinai peninsula. posting personal photos of personal belongings on twitter including his passport. we re working for more information on that story. pete hegseth, ceo of concerned veterans for america and fox news contributor. pete, good morning to you. good morning. bill: the killing will continue as long as they get their hands on americans according group.
thank you, martha. martha: what is the latest on on the job ahead of them. reporter: they need to pass something to fund the government late night december 11th. we re hearing that the top appropriations people on capitol hill, republican congressman hall rogers and democrat barbara mikulski over the thanksgiving day holiday to hammer out a deal. they expect it to be on the floor next week. complicating factors push leadership to do a short term extension in february so then a gop controlled congress can tackle government funding early on to get it started. whether they will strip funding to finance president obama s executive action which could lead to a big fight on capitol hill, martha. martha: that deals with the issue of immigration and action before us on that. the military and the mission against isis. funding is an issue there as well, right? reporter: no question about