Court today. Accused of killing three people, including a police officer. Those are your first word stories. More at bloomberg. Com. I am emily chang. This is bloomberg west. Coming up, cyber monday sales surge. Targeting Neiman Marcus and even paypal. Plus, amazon reveals a new drone prototype for its planned 30minute Delivery Service and here is the man behind 30 billion startups. First, what is shaping up to be a recordbreaking day for Online Shopping. Sales this cyber monday expected event hit 3 billion, capping weekend,sive Holiday Consumer spending 8 billion online. This morning, targets website was overwhelmed by demand and shoppers were greeted with this message, apologizing for delays. At the impacting paypal. Neiman marcus, its website crashed twice and was down almost all friday. Joining us now, shannon pettypiece, our correspondent. Ontributor i was one of the shoppers who tried to buy something from Neiman Marcus on friday. I did not go back. Break it down for us. What wen
Good evening. And th im oliver north, and this is an engine of war. The value h1 helicopter, better known by its nickname, the huey. Theyll tell you that the whoop, whoop, whoop of that rotor was one of the most welcome sounds youll ever hear. To americans the huey meant life. It brought us food, ammunition, supplies, reinforcements. When we were wounded it carried us out. I ought to know, i was medivaced in vietnam not all that different from this one here. To the enemy the huey meant 5 in death. Ets an the gunship was armored with 2. 75 inch rockets and a machine gun that would fire over 4,000 rounds a minute. A virtual shower of zeroing lead. Tonight on war stories, the men who pioneered air warfare, warriors who risked their lives in a strange and dangerous land called vietnam. Rous april 29th, 1975, the end of the vietnam war, and as they hao throughout the long and bloody conflict, helicopters provided some of the most memorable images. The frenzied evacuation of the u. S. Embasy
Zuckerberg and vanity fair. All of that ahead on bloomberg west. Host as gearing up to big event tomorrow and unveil a new version or versions of the iphone. Last year we saw the most significant redesign of the iphone since it came out in 2007, but were not asked that thing another major redesign this time. More like a minor upgrade. What exactly will we see . Director forrogram the Mobile Division and a senior wireless tech analyst. Thank you all for joining us. Everyone is so excited about tomorrow, even though it will be a minor of rate. Adam, i will start with you. What do we know about the new features of the phone . Adam it will look like the ones that are out there now. Part of the a pump cycle where apple focuses more on the software. You will get a better camera and processor and some other new features, but like you said, is not as big as an upgrade as last year when there was anticipation for the bigger screens. We saw a hugear upgrade cycle, 74. 5 million iphones shipped.
The second quarter. It is teaming up with panasonic to build a socalled gigafactory. The plant will produce lithium iron batteries, which has been a challenge for tesla. Cory, what is your take on the numbers . Are they good, not so good . Yes. There were some numbers that were good and some numbers that were not good. There were some things that were weird. Lets give tesla credit where credit is due. They showed a revival in sales. The company has seen a decline in sales in a quarter over quarter basis. March quarter going into june, you thought maybe in the early parts of summer they would sell even fewer cars. Tesla saw an increase in the number of cars sold. The sold about 1200 more model s cars, and that meant a 17 quarter over quarter increase. They need to do that. They have had a big target out there for annual sales in terms of units of 35,000. Even the revenues are really hard a lot of times we look at companies and say, look at the revenue number, look at the earningspershar
The scene of a road accident. What we dont know yet is whether there was a connection to yesterdays attack. There is still a huge sense of fear across paris. The city feeling like its in lockdown. But we are now getting reports that the two men suspected of having carried out the attack on the Charlie Hebdo magazine have been spotted. Were going to bring you the latest on the operation to track them down. And defiance in the face of terror. Cartoons are published around the world in response to the terrorist attacks. Well be taking a look at satire and how it makes sense in this kind of violence. Welcome to gmt. Its 1 00 p. M. In paris where the bells of Notre Dame Cathedral have tolled and a minutes silence has been observed. Weve had we understand a sighting of the two men suspected of the attacks on the french magazine where 12 people were killed. Theyre reported to have robbed a service station in the north of france. They stole food and petrol firing shots as they struck at a road