Everyone. Thanks for joining us on this thursday morning. Im diana perez. And im rob nelson. Happy thanksgiving, everybody. Filling in today for john muller. Hope youre having a good start to your holiday. And of course, Many Americans are forgoing the traditional turkey dinner to cruise for bargains instead. Some have been in line for days, waiting for that black friday for the doors to open. So, is it all worth it . Abcs Tahman Bradley has the inside track. Reporter no turkey for these bargainhunters in ashwin, wisconsin. Instead, theyre lined up at best buy, waiting for brown thursday deals. Mainly for the cheap laptops. Theyre like 177. Cant beat that price. Reporter and you can get those special offers tonight. Black friday eve. Go, go, go, go, go shop, shop, shop, shop reporter 140 million americans are expected to shop in stores and online this weekend. Doors opening at a number of retailers tonight. And are luring you in with eyepopping deals. The American Consumer likes to fee
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not backing down. In the past 24 hours israel has made it clear that it will not tolerate rocket and missile attacks on its civilians. Nbcs Martin Fletcher is live for us in tel aviv with the very latest. Martin, whats the latest . Reporter lynn, good morning. Following up on netanyahus threat, last night they are stressing they will do anything it takes to stop the palestinians from firing rockets into israel. Overnight or last night rather 30,000 reserves were given a potential order to report for duty. Overnight 16,000 soldiers were told, reserve soldiers were told to report to their units. Theyre going to join army units amassed on the border of gaza. Tank transporters and personnel carriers, thousands of troops going towards the border with gaza ready for a Ground Invasion. As you suggested in your introduction, lynn, is it a show of force or is it the real thing . We dont know at this point. Its definitely partly a show of force but it
Leesburg. Loudoun county will be hit hard. It is going to disrupt everything. It is going to be pretty icky. Know well is headed to the supermarket. You feel for those who have to weather the storm and next we have to commute into d. C. They are getting shovels. Im repairing for the ice storm. Motorists raced to gas stations ahead of the storm. I am trying to make sure i have enough gas in my car. Forward to it. Others, not so much. I will be taking care of my nineyearold. They you see the leftover snow from the last storm. Despite these intense efforts of treating the roads to remove sleet and ice, i spoke with were present at who said unless you have to get out, try not to drive. Thank you. Preparations are underway in maryland. Snow could snap and lead to widespread power outages. Some residents since spent the day fueling up generators. Others prepared for a possibility of days in the dark. The team will be on the air starting at 4 00 tomorrow morning. They will have the latest on
Ticking time bomb. The massive security breech affecting every target store in the country. Credit card information stolen. Millions of customers could be victims. Good evening. Im dan ashley. Im ama dates in for carolyn johnson. You could be a victim. John alston is live at the city target in San Francisco with the story. John . Hackers picked the busiest shopping season of the year to launch their scheme. They may have hit nearly all 1800 target stores coast to coast over the past two and a half weeks. Shoppers in San Francisco didnt leave the target store on geary with a warm feeling after hearing about the massive security breech knowing they had used a credit card here. It is scary. Like i said, this is the first time i have heard of that. I am curious how that happened in the first place. No one is saying for sure, but they believe hackers broke into the Computer Network stealing Data Collected when customers swipe the strip on the back of the debit and credit cards. It lets them
From jana katsuyama. Live at a target store in fremont after asking a security expert how a massive breach like this could have happened. Reporter that Silicon Valley computer expert outlined some possibilities. I did go into the store, talked to the manager, and also contacted the corporate offices in minneapolis. So far, target has issued no explanation. It appears thieves might have hit their mark. Potentially stealing target customers credit card information. A worry for many shoppers tonight. I come at least four or five times. And i always buy with american express. Kind of shocked that target would have this. Reporter target says its investigating. A security expert said the breach involved nearly all of target stores nationwide. I think theres potentially three options of what happened. Reporter we asked a Silicon Valley security expert to explain the possible breach. He says it could have been a skimming device, physically added to a credit card reader. More likely though, he