Eastern time, italian unemployment 37year high and more signs of euro zone reflation. Shopper trak out with the first wide scale read on the Holiday Shopping season and its a mixed picture for november and december, instore foot traffic at the nations retailers fell 14. 6 compared to the year prior but instore sales grew at 2. 7 . Slightly hopper than what shoppertrak had forecast. The main reason for the traffic plunge they say is that. Shoers are making fewer store visits than in the past because most window shopping and browsing is done online ahead of time, so the shoppers that are making the Shopping Trips are going with intended purchases in mind. Black friday was indeed the strongest day for brick and mortar retailers both for sales and traffic. Then there was a large lull until the lastminute panic kicked in. The week ending december 28th accounted for four of the top ten sales and traffic days for the entire Holiday Season. When it comes to categories shoppertrak says electron
In eastern syria. The strike authorized by ut President Biden is the First Military action of this administration, and it comes in response to a series of rocket attacks on u. S. Targets inside iraq. According to the pentagon, the strikes destroyed multiple facilities located at a border u control point used, they say, by a number of iranianbacked militant groups. For the latest, i want to bring in msnbc News White House correspondent mike memoli by phone. E mike, what can you tell us about what just happened . Reporter well, chris, this c is interesting when you consider several things weve been nt talking about a lot in the last few days. One is a call that we also learned just happened tonight between the president and the king of saudi arabia, king salman. En there was an interesting momenta at the white house today where press secretary jen psaki downplayed what seemed to be a delay in that phone call, saying there was some misreporting e about when it was taking place. But in the
Returns because as you know theyre under audit. Ill talk to tax fraud prosecutors about what the manhattan d. A. Is looking for now that he has physically obtained trumps tax returns. Plus fixing the energy grid in the wake of texas. My exclusive interview with the newly confirmed secretary of energy, Jennifer Granholm. And does the perpetrators of trumps disgraceful family separation policy try to create a new controversy, Jacob Soboroff on whats really happening on the border when all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. We start tonight with breaking news. The pentagon is confirming tonight that u. S. Military forces conducted air strikes against what they say is infrastructure utilized by iranianbacked militant groups in eastern syria. The strike authorized by President Biden is the First Military action of this administration, and it comes in response to a series of rocket attacks on u. S. Targets inside iraq. According to the pentagon, the strikes dest
Higher taxes. Were breaking it down ahead. Fox and friends begins right now. I forgot to do my vocal warm up this morning. See sells seashells by the seashore. Anyone can mess it up. Can you get yourself back together . Yes, we can. Four hours of fun this morning weve got a lot of news. The ice is back as well. The ice skating rink. We have more of that outside. And a curling demonstration and a tribute to our friends to the north the canadians. There we go. All right. We need to get to the fox news alert. Over overgathering outdoors for the megamass. The pontiff dedicating the mass to the deadly typhoon that killed millions of people. He made the plea to save the millions of poor hung bring, and Homeless Children. We need to care for our young people not allowing them to be living on the streets. The pontiff left the mass in the famed popemobile and stopping to kiss babies and greet worshippers personally. He met with Homeless Children overnight at the biggest Catholic University in a
Mike with more on that, mike. Mike john, with recent polls showing close race in ohio and florida, that makes North Carolina critical. Hillary clinton will campaign here in the tar heel state for the second time in a week. Speaking of polls, take a look at the brand new New York Times cbs news survey of likely voters. When thirdparty candidates gary johnson and jill stein are factored in, Hillary Clinton and donald trump are tied at 42 support. That set it is stage for clinton to return to the campaign trail today. The last time we saw her was sunday leaving her daughters apartment after feeling ill at the 9 11 remember reins. Since then former secretary of state colin powell, he would rather not vote for clinton calling her a 70yearold person greedy. Clinton gave powell a pass. I have a great deal for respect for colin powell and i have a lot of sympathy for anyones whose emails become public. Im not going to discuss someone elses private emails. I have spent a lot of time talking abo