the non-profit group transparency international has released its list of most corrupt countries. tied for the number one spot are somalia, north korea and afghanistan. the countries with the cleanest records include new zealand, canada and germany. the united states is tied for 19th cleanest with uruguay. well, these brown snakes are becoming a huge problem in guam, particularly at andersen air force base. to combat the snake species, 2,000 mice stuffed with painkillers will be parachuted in. why? well, painkillers are deadly to the snakes, which won t be able to resist the para trooping rodents. now for a first look at business, cnbc s hampton pearson. hampton, good morning. reporter: hi, mara. first of all, cyber monday sales topped $2 billion for the first time ever. adobe, which tracks 2,000 retail websites, says online sales rose 16% with a record 18% coming from smartphones and tablets. as of monday evening, amazon
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in both the which is and us constitution. propone pro-pon nents were ecstatic, declaring victory. governor walker vowed to repeal the ruling you and said the judge is a liberal activist. deja vu all over again. looks like enthusiasm for the third round of the fed s quantitative easing effort isn t lasting too long. futures are pointing to a lower open on wall street today but since we are minutes away from the opening bet, get a quick market run down. cnbc s hampton pearson is heer . why is the market lower? just had the opening bell, friday closed a at stellar week for stocks, dow jumping 53 points to close at 13,593, 2% begin for the week, nasdaq up to 2,183, powered by an all-time high for am. some of that momentum seems to have run dry today. all three stock indexes pointed for a lower owe. shifting gears, it is not even on the store shelves yet, expect record lines for apple s newest
airports throughout the u.s. so that s been the biggest thing here, the backup from the closed airports and the major east coast corridor, the weather issues here, still more planes sitting on the ground parked at gates than we see taking off and landing with any great frequency. what s everybody here, especially the airlines are watching is again opening times for major east coast airports. as jim cantore told you, philadelphia s open but newark, now, we re told, won t open until 2:00. jfk and laguardia, around 4:00. boston around 3:00. waiting and hoping is the mood here most of the travelers coming through reagan national airport. waiting, hoping, and you can shop there because the weather s not so bad as it is in other parts of northeast right now. hampton pearson, thank you at reagan national airport. how about this for a travel horror story? it was a flight to nowhere. look at this on your screen. for 200 us airway passengers
ghat line. i might be going home. reagan national airport is one of the places feeling some of the ripple effect. cnbc s hampton pearson waiting it out there. on a scale of one to ten, how bad are things there, would you say? reporter: well, number one, we escaped brunt of the storm, but we ve got windchills in the teens and 35 to 40 mile per hour gusting winds impacting us, especially air travel here. again, the backup of the major airports along the east coast in boston and new york, basically being closed. it really hits an airport like reagan national particularly hard at least 50% of the flights were canceled or delayed. most of the activity here, as a matter of fact, we ve had surges from time to time of people going through who have been rebooked, had flights canceled or folks, you know, trying to get out of here today and experiencing delays all up and down the east coast and at major