Awful all day long. These people along with millions of americans are taking advantage of all of the deals and stores are raking in the big bucks. Holiday sales are expected to top 655 billion this year. Online sales are already breaking records with thanksgiving day spending reaching nearly 2 billion. Amazon said its sales yesterday exceeded both thanksgiving and cyber monday last year. Todays online sales are 3 billion mark for the very first time. Amazing. News 4s justin finch has been talking to shoppers all day long and joins us now from tysons. I could still see a smile on your face and you are in one piece. Are you doing all right . Reporter susan, it has been very, very busy out here. The tysons mall opened at 6 00 and since the crowds began showing up in mass at 11 00 a. M. And continuing out here every and inside of the mall, the same story. Very packed and it all makes sense because black friday is the biggest shopping day of the year. Black friday parking doesnt come easy o
They do one locally here. Reporter we will have to try one. Happy national do nut day. Croissant day. Reporter outside this morning will be a chilly start for a gorgeous weekend sun on the way. Mild temperatures as l. Talking the 60s today and tomorrow. Rain will be returning . When . Do you need the umbrella . I will let you know in your forecast. Reporter now police are still looking for two Home Invasion suspects. The masked men broke in a home on hope creek in hendersonville on friday morning. They ran when the woman began screaming. One of the men had a gun. Police believe they drove away in a dark colored car. Mountain Community School was put on lock down. Authorities investigating a crash that killed the driver of a tractor in polk county. Friday on i26. The road was closed in the eastbound lanes for several hours and one lane remained closed until 1 00. Tony of South Carolina was the driver. Trailer. Firefighters say it happened on a dangerous stretch where they see a lot of a
Beginning to see improvement for the north bay. The showers breaking up as the storm front departs. Its going to move out of here pretty quickly for tonight and about the next two to three hours we should see the rain start wrapping up but showers are expected to continue through tomorrow. Rainfall amounts heaviest in the north bay so far about a half inch. Lesser amounts for the south bay. Ill let you know how much longer this is going to stick around coming up. Lots of rain falling in San Francisco at this hour. Storm drains are starting to overflow and flood streets. Scott is live for us along with pretty dramatic pictures. A lot of streets when i was driving in here were flooded out. Drivers having a hard time trying to get their cars through the ponding thats starting to form. Down here, theres a lot of people out. Theyre Walking Around and enjoying the shops. But i want you to take a look at this video here. I shot this about a half hour ago. You can see water gushing out of the
Lets have a chat later. 32 in town right now. Nothing going on advisory wise for baltimore wise, but outside of town, carroll county, fredrick county, youre under a Winter Weather advisory. Were advising you that things are going to get pretty tricky, especially for travel up near hanover pike later today. Temperatures, we are subfreezing right now. Its 35 in annapolis. So when we get any kind of moisture that comes in, it will start as some snow. Were just about two hours outside the the band of snow, rather, is two hours outside of town and that will lift towards the north during the course of this morning. So i do think your morning commute is okay, but its toward the tail end of your morning commute where things could get pretty interesting, especially towards the south of the city. Again, notice the storm system right in here, dropping tornadoes over the gulf coast states. That is whats lifting in our direction during the course of your day. So your hour by hour goes like this, 7
Wholl meet ministers later. They say big shops selling non essential items are taking all of their christmas trade. Today we have some squally rain and gusty winds across the north and west of the uk. Some early fog in the south east and generally to day more cloud developing through the day. All the details in about ten minutes. Its wednesday november the 11th. Our top story. A plan to get students home from English Universities in time for christmas has been published by the government. The operation will involve mass coronavirus testing and a planned travel window in early december. Scotland and wales are expected to announce similar plans in the coming days. Dan johnson reports. A negative test result could be the passport students need for the journey home at christmas with a week set aside at the end of englands lockdown as a travel window to return to their families. Departures will be staggered by universities to manage the numbers moving each day. It should lift the question m