that alice police escorted this group of shoppers who were inside the store out into safety, she did her best to cover the eyes of her young daughters as they walked past multiple bodies there. we do know that there are three people, victims in critical condition at area hospitals. the age ranges of the victims is five years old to 61. yasmin? yet another traumatized community. thank you. i want to bring in a former fbi supervisor and former member of the hostage rescue team. thank you for joining us. one of the things i found suspect about yesterday and even into today, especially after covering uvalde and how much misinformation came out of uvalde, it was the drip, drip, drip of information. it was initially in that very short press conference outside that mall yesterday. they heard from officers on the
king charles to reach out to young people, to reach out to people in general, to show that this is a modern-damon nauseaky. still relevant, we do represent the people, all people. absolutely. it was wonderful to see him doing the royal walk-about down the mall yesterday, taking so many by surprise. mark, you covered extensively the breakup of charles and camilla. how do you think charles and diana, pardon me. how do you think camilla will be received, do you think? well, camilla, that is amazing for me. i was obviously in the eye of the storm covering that on a day-to-day basis, the breakup of charles and diana. and the one thing i never thought would ever happen is that the british public would accept camilla. they absolutely adored diana. so i remember in 2005 when i was in windsor at the wedding of camilla and charles and i saw the plates and the tea towels,
inflation will stretch across your gift giving, and people are having to make compromises, and you wonder if that s going to extend in 2023, as inflation remains high and it s coming down, but will they remain more deliberate and tighter-belted as they spend how much of that might be related to interest rates, if people are not paying off every month knowing their credit card interest rate may be a little higher credit card interest rates are at a record high, and 15.55% is the average rate, and that s something you don t want to miss a payment on because that will hurt i talked to a lot of shoppers this season you were at the mall yesterday. a lot of people saying i am aware the interest rates are high, and i will deal with the interest rates after the fact and that lines up with what we have seen in the overall retail
restaurant spending, up 15%. so if you are someone that owns a restaurant, that s a good thing and this lines up, you know i was at the mall yesterday. a lot of people were out shopping, but the longest line i saw in the mall yesterday was at starbucks. at california pizza kitchen. tgi fridays. people wants to go walk around the mall, soak up the atmosphere and eat at the food court. that explains why the numbers we re seeing shows the boost in spending at restaurants and a more muted boost in retail broadly. brian, thank you very much. appreciate that breakdown. speaking of money and speaking of your money, would you like to get $565 million more of it? well, you have your chance a one and i think 302 million chance to win megamillions with the sixth biggest prize in the lotto s 20-year history. again, the odds are long, but you want to chance it, the drawing is tonight here s kerry sanders with more reporter: i m at the local
block after u.s. of a very challenging economy. for more on that, we turn to nbc news business and data reporter brian chung. brian, good morning, are people out there spending? good morning, not yet, it is a little early out here in new jersey, katie. but i was at the mall yesterday, garden state plaza, and a lot of people coming out to shop for black friday. a few numbers for you, all this against the backdrop of high inflation. 7.7%, that is how much more expensive things are this year compared to this time last year. the ask used american budgets. we had data from delight that showed americans one of spending about 1400 $55 this holiday season, that is about the same as it was last season. of course, with everything more expensive, that means that budget is going to stretch across fewer gifts so americans say they might only be able to afford about nine gifts without budget instead of 16 as they might have spent in previous