bit careful for your drive tomorrow. good words of advice. thank you, rick. appreciate it in the meantime, forget the weather hurting holiday sales. wait until i told you if it might help those sales. new york times square on the flip side of all this buy doom and gloom side. diane? neil, it might be surprising that we spoke to a few retail analysts today all of whom says that the cold weather or the wet weather i should say earlier in the week might actually give holiday sales a boost this weekend there are a few reasons for that one is pentagon up demand. people would be so sick and tired of being stuck in their home because of the lousy weather earlier in the week that they re driven thatch more to go out shopping this weekend and spend that much more because of it. the other part of it is that cold weather apparently reminds us that it is the holiday even and puts us in more of a holiday shopping spirit. and then, of course, there is a simple fact that when it s cold outside