where we have some westbound, that s where we have some unsettled weather. we have a second storm across portions of the four corners bringing in some showers already early today and even some isolated snow showers, but that s really along high elevations, so we re not expecting a whole lot of problems with slippery roadways. they are an issue further off to the north where we have that second snow system. most to have snow will continue to wind down across portions of the cascades. now, as the storms head east, they re going to combine into one across the center of the country, and it s going to continue to head eastbound, and for everybody that s, basically, headed back home saturday or sunday, that s when we re looking at potential for some travel problems. by saturday afternoon we re going to be looking at rain from the great lakes to the south, the heaviest along the mississippi valley, so that s where we could be looking at
we are happy with the sales we ve had. we have a lot of merchandise, we are full, it s a good way to unload merchandise to our good customers and give them good discounts and kickoff the holiday season. reporter: those business owners also say that the people who are lining up in the middle of the night outside best buy and outside target and outside wal-mart are not their normal clientele so they don t think that all the action away from her at malls, outside, places that have big parking lots are going to hurt them on this black friday, jon. jon: tomorrow is supposed to be this thing called small business saturday. i imagine they are looking forward to that, huh? reporter: it s interesting, tomorrow the second annual small business saturday. it s a day where people are encouraged to go out and support their independently-owned local businesses. they are looking forward to that. the business owners are clear that today is the kickoff for the holiday shopping season. they call it b
look around. i had more than one person come and ask me this morning why we even had sam ras here on the sidewalk. when i told them it was for black friday they seemed surprised. the busiest shopping dave the year not on the minds of people here. if you look behind me it s pretty representative of small town america. there are no big stores, there are a lot of small ones. there have not been any long lines outside shops at any point today. there are a lot of people who are shopping. even though this kind of a place is quiet, there is not a lot of chaos like you ve seen in other places the retailers here do think that they are doing okay. i m crossing my fingers. we are already up from last year at the same time in the morning, so hopefully we re going to beat our numbers. my girls better beat their numbers. so, yeah, i think we ll beat them. we are pretty happy with the way it s going. we had a line at 9:00am. we opened an hour early.
gary giordano not held any longer after the 29th according to a judge in aruba in the disappearance of robyyn gardener. jon: you might be feeling a little bit of the thanksgiving hangover from the feast yesterday. for those who had a couple too many glasses of wine there is a warning out there. doctors warn of holiday heart syndrome. dr. manny virginia re manny alvarez is here to tell us more about it. a study clearly shows that we are entering the peak season for heart attacks. december 26th probably being the biggest day where everybody high school a heart attack. jon: that is not from opening your christmas gifts. absolutely not. it has to do with a phenomenon that occurs when people binge drink. when you drink a lot of alcohol you dehydrate yourself, you lose a lot of electrolytes.
the connected consumer is also able to get into store applications that have been built. these can be downloaded to your smartphone so you can do price comparisons while you re in the store. you have the possibility to scan bar codes and compare, price compare against other merchandise that would be available on e bay or amazon ebay or amazon, for example, and you also have a number of in-store apps that are built just to make a better experience for the consumer in the store. jon: but even though you re going to be doing your shopping online maybe from the office or the comfort of your living room, whatever, you say you should do your homework in advance. absolutely. so you can still find good deals available even if you missed out on the black friday deals this morning. you can still find good deals that are available throughout the holiday shopping season. in addition to the deals that are being offered, there s a lot of affiliate programs that are also giving some additional in