issue of sexual misconduct in television. it makes a lot of the male executives in television very, very wo what s the word? it s cora lee. tucker: i can see why. they show no restraint when they leaked the washington post. but that was a tape. i mean. t tucker: here you had tape. you had tape of women saying i was abused and/or raped by harvey weinstein and nbc said no, you can t use our cameras to record those interviews. that s suppressing the story. i don t know what else you would call that. there was just factually there was one interview. tucker: okay. toward the end of ronan farrow s reporting that nbc pulled the plug on. tucker: that s what i just said exactly. that s right. but you said interviews. go ahead, sorry. tucker: interview. as you noted, they already had done
be working. it s not just the brick and mortar malls that are making money today. online shopping sites like amazon.com bringing in new business by offering day after christmas deep discounts. this following a year in which online shopping jumped by 16%. as scott mentioned many shoppers were happy to use gift cards today. believe it or not a lot of people never use them. a retail group says every year 2% to 5% of all gift cards go unused. that s basically a $5 billion gift from consumers to retailers. here in california, gift card rules are stricter. most are not allowed to have expiration dates or service fees. merchants are required to reimburse you cash for any gift card balances less than $10. a fire in san leandro killed a woman and her two dogs. the woman did not have a working fire alarm in the home. firefighters say she died in her bedroom, probably from smoke inhalation. it appears the fire started in the kitchen or hallway and made its way into the attic. from t
today and tomorrow and our kids denim at $10 today and tomorrow. so we want to keep the great deals going for our customer to come in after the holidays. it s so much nicer, you know, the malls before is crazy. this is so much nicer. really enjoy it this right now. reporter: giving retail stores another shot in the arm. this is great. yeah. 75%, 50%. is that helping the economy? hopefully it is. reporter: call it the holiday shopping epilogue. another chance to get big deals, another chance to stimulate the economy. and it was, in fact, a big year for retail this shopping season. also a big year for online shopping. ibm research just today saying online shopping up 16% from this time last year. in san jose, scott budman, nbc, bay area news. retailers in san francisco are seeing a huge rush of post-christmas shoppers today. here s a look at westfield san francisco center, where shoppers brought their gift cards and enjoyed sales of up 2to 60% off in many stores. a
here all night keeping an eye on the area to make sure there are no looters taking advantage of the situation. a shelter will remain open at perryville high school until all the water has receded. in port deposit, cecil county, i m sheldon dutes. alung the susquehanna river, the flood water has dismantled a historic bridge. it survived agnus but it could not withstand lee. as residents begin the clean-up process, there is big concern about mold. i have a huge holed hole in my driveway. days big mess. officials are saying to take precautions when cleaning mold. clean, disinfect, and ventilate before, during, and after you enter. flooding has been an issue in baltimore county. some northern and western parks were hit hard. residents also found themselves fighting floods. they warn of possible danger, water near rocky point park. terry westhead is determined. this is pretty dramatic, and a lot of people have been gathering down here. see all the cars parked there
northeastern japan after the earthquake. that s according to a news agency. expect the death toll which is currently in the 30 s to go up significantly shortly. all right. right now we re on the phone with the ceo of the american red cross chapter in hawaii. good morning. good morning, cora lee. this is going to be a late night of no sleep as you prepare for what could be happening there in hawaii. what are you doing for preparation? well, we re taking this tsunami threat very seriously. unfortunately, last year, around the same time, we had some practice in that there was a tsunami that was generated off of chile. and everyone listened. they evacuated. we respect our ocean and we ve had tragedies before and so we re very well prepared and even the tourists are to be taken care of. i know that you were talking about why they evacuate vertically and the hotels know whether their particular