Most critical for brick and mortar stores. With the last minute push to buy gifts, many will be heading out to the malls or local shops for fear that packages wont be delivered on time. In fact tomorrow is super saturday, one of the busiest shopping days of the year. And it falls at the tail end of the Holiday Season in which most retailers earn a sizable chunk of their holiday sales. Courtney reagan caught up with last minute shoppers at the Queens Center mall in. Reporter if you havent chd off your christmas list yet, you are far from alone. I just started, because i work all the time, so today is my first day of shopping, im not even close to being done. Im stressed. None of its done. Were just Getting Started and i have two days to finish it. Reporter half of u. S. Consumers are expected to hit the stores in the final hours before christmas. Last year consumers took advantage of deals starting early in november. My Holiday Shopping has been pretty okay, except for those few hard la
And breaking out of a maximum security prison upstate. We will learn his fate today. How much time could they tack onto the life sentence hes already serving . Good morning, thanks for joining us. It is wednesday, february 3rdrd. Youre halfway there and never more than seven mains way from weather and traffic. We we will check in now with the forecast. Yes, wind and rain coming your way. We start with cloudy skies, 44 degrees. 44 degrees. And rain is coming your way. We have snow in some spots. And the overnight hours, we will have cooler temperatures. Look at belmar, 45. 39 long island. 33 toward montauk. Actually, everybody should be on the lookout for flooding because of that. See the rain from binghamton to that starts around 10 00 to noontime. Windy and rainy this afternoon. And i know what shes going to say. I know heather very well. What were you going to say . Because of the wind and rain later on today you want to use mass transit this morning. I thought you say take an umbrel
Have done is more of his ongoing battle with the palins. This friday, august 27th, 2010. Captioning funded by cbs good friday morning to you. Thanks for being with us. Im erica smith. Harry is live in new orleans. Harry, good morning. Yeah. Erica, can you believe that it is five years already . In one sense it seemed like it went by in a blink of an eye. We spent the last two days down here sort of retracing our steps. All the way from gulfport, mississippi, through the coast of the mississippi coastline, through some of the hardest hit neighborhoods here and in new orlea orleans. The levee system where the corps of engineers spent more than 14 billion. We have a lot of angles of this story to cover. We are going to start with it here in just a couple of minutes. But if you want to know about the katrina and nola, this is the place to do it. We are glad you are there for thus morning. Thanks. We are also following this morning so much talk about Hurricane Katrina five years ago. There
Hold. The peace talks expected to begin in cairo tomorrow. The enormous devastation in gaza and how people are living in the middle of it all and what the Israeli Government thinks it accomplished. We begin with the shock waves and sadness spreading tonight after an attack on nato troops in afghanistan, the attacker an afghan soldier. His most notable victim, herold green killed by gunfire. The highest ranking since vietnam. Jim sciutto has details and joins us now. What is the latest . Reporter this took place in afghanistan, Senior Officers, one important because it would be presumed to be a safe place but central to coalition plans for transitioning Security Control in afghanistan from the coalition to afghans. This is a senior delegation including not only American General but senior afghan commanders and told a soldier underwent a vigorous betting process for afghan soldiers. This attack open fire on them, killing that American General herold green, injurying a german general and
The 33 miners trapped in a Chilean mine got a message of hope from rugby players who waited months before being rescued from a plane crash, officials said.