Weekend as a chance to get a jump on the Holiday Shopping, chinas single day may actually be the biggest worldwide. In fact, ecommerce behemoths ali baba expanded its single day offering to take place over 11 days this year and nearly doubled sales to more than 75 1000000000. 00. And thats ali baba alone, while black friday was once and now known for outrageous door busters that caused consumers to line up in front of Big Box Stores like target, walmart, and best buy 2019 was the 1st year in which more people shopped online than in store for the most part, sales figures have continued to trend up over the last 2 decades. But the covert 19 pandemic has thrown a wrench in the works. The fact that many stores will not have in person a bed due to the pandemic, as well as millions of americans facing unemployment and a lack of another stimulus package to put cash in a customers pockets. Has many wondering what we can expect from this Holiday Shopping season. So lets get some expert analysis
Just the magnificence of your artistry. What the two have in common, plus, his new president ial portrait unveiled. Black friday blowout. Shoppers falling all over each other to get the best deals. Couch surfers ruling the day shattering online records. The hopes for Small Business saturday and a possible boost for the bottom line. And goal for it. College soccer star sarah fuller ready to become the first woman to participate in a power five football game. What shes saying about the opportunity to make history. Hey, good morning. Were going to start here with the latest on the surging pandemic. The u. S. Has now surpassed 13 million confirmed covid19 cases, adding more than a million cases in just six days, and that comes during a holiday week when some results and reporting are expected to be delayed. Hospitals from coast to coast are feeling the strain. This week, 24 states hit a Record Number of current hospitalizations with the number of patients across the country increasing near
Pretty true to form on this thanksgiving hence to be a positive bias. But nothing out of the mode for a moment here. And that was a few days ago. You know, not necessarily you might think so you kind of just, you know, get ab early slate there was a definite persistence to the quarterly strength. There is a dynamic though. Once it gets overbought, once sentiment gets overoptimistic as arguably it is right now, usually you can see the multiple times in recent years when the Fourth Quarter just melted up. And at some point nifrt few months of the next year, usually you have a little bit of a recession. Mike, see you soon. Malls may look a lot different compared to a normal black friday Bertha Coombs is live in new jersey with a closer look at whether people are showing up to shop in person at all. They are. Some people have shown up. Were coming off a record thanksgiving in terms of online sales with so many Stores Closed but today we found some folks lining up for door busters this morn
A look at how the black lives Matter Movement has impacted its electoral process. Will start with the escalating situation in ethiopia, where forces in the to grey region have confirmed they did attack a military base which sparked a federal government offensive in the area official from the to great Peoples Liberation front. The t. P. L. F. Says that it was a preemptive strike. Since the fighting began its escalated rapidly with reports of rockets hitting civilian areas, forcing thousands to flee. The countrys Human Rights Commission is sending a team to investigate reports of a massacre in one area. The government blames forces loyal to, to grays leaders. An allegation that they deny aljazeera as Mohammed Atta reports. Now from the city of gonda on the border of the tigre, a region. Its huge by every measure, because from that time the Prime Minister has accused the p. L. F. That they have cut it out. These are talks at the basis of the north and they have loudly rejected that statem
Of alleged unlawful killing of 39 people by 25, a struggling special forces personnel predominantly from the special air service regiment. Wanted to gauge has all the latest from canberra. This is been a very long running inquiry, and it has been extremely critical of the culture within a strongly is special forces unit in afghanistan, the inquiry looked at allegations and incidents that occurred between 2520168 said that there was a warrior culture that had been created one of deceit and coverup, and that is clear by the number of cases that are being referred to the federal police for prosecution. But the inquiry also said that it found evidence that Senior Leaders in offices actually knew of any wrongdoing that was occurring in these remote locations in afghanistan. But they are still responsible as well because it happened under their watch. But many of the allegations in this report will be extremely confronting to many people, including the families of alleged victims in afghanis