Most critical for brick and mortar stores. With the last minute push to buy gifts, many will be heading out to the malls or local shops for fear that packages wont be delivered on time. In fact tomorrow is super saturday, one of the busiest shopping days of the year. And it falls at the tail end of the Holiday Season in which most retailers earn a sizable chunk of their holiday sales. Courtney reagan caught up with last minute shoppers at the Queens Center mall in. Reporter if you havent chd off your christmas list yet, you are far from alone. I just started, because i work all the time, so today is my first day of shopping, im not even close to being done. Im stressed. None of its done. Were just Getting Started and i have two days to finish it. Reporter half of u. S. Consumers are expected to hit the stores in the final hours before christmas. Last year consumers took advantage of deals starting early in november. My Holiday Shopping has been pretty okay, except for those few hard la
This hour europe is down a little bit. Were giving back just a little bit today after another great session but descent session yesterday. You can see if youre not listening on the radio, were down about 40 points on the dow jones. The nasdaq is going to benefit from the great numbers from google. It benefitted earlier this week by netflix and has i wouldnt say diverged from the other averages but certainly been much stronger than a relative basis. S p is down less than a point. In europe, there were green arrows after what has been a pretty good week and since last week when the feeling that this would be resolved favorably in terms of greece started and seeped into the markets. France. The only index at this point up but upright at a fifth of a point. Asia this morning is better with japan higher. The hang seng higher. And what were watching closely is shanghai up sharply. Up 3. 5 in a snap back. Crude continues to be on the weak side. Now down under 51. Next stop potentially under 5
Police department. Reporter neighbors say despite what happened overnight this is normally a quiet neighborhood. A quiet that was shall abruptly in the middle of the night. Mark estrada is a 21year old from oakland. The suspect worked for his Fathers Company in hayward. Although police say he has gang ties, they dont think he has a criminal history. He is not cooperating with the investigation so far. Officers from the bay area rushed in to honor the fallen hero. They stand in formation and salute as Sergeant Lungers body is taken into the Coroners Office for an autopsy. Da lin reports. Da. Reporter flags fleeing at halfstaff at city hall. Police say not only did Sergeant Scott lunger love his job, he also dedicated himself to his two daughters. Its the most dreaded outcome for law enforcement. Police officers escorting Sergeant Scott lungers flag draped body out of eden medical center. They lined up and saluted the fallen officer as his body was nene a coroner van. Ideal police office
Five. This month ive scheduled i think about seven scheduled already this month. More than usual . Way more than usual. Reporter but even with a lot of rain, experts say our drought wont go away right away. Will this be the drought buster we need . Reporter thats the question we asked Santa Clara University professor and Civil Engineer ed mahrer, who says our warm weather is bad news even if we get very wet. More likely than not to be a warmer year than weve experienced in the past. What that means is theres less snowpack. Snowpack is our Los Angelesst natural reservoir we rely on for our water supply. Reporter even with a very rainy forecast experts say we should still conserve water. Because the drought is likely to stay around for a while. The National Weather service says the el nino is not likely to be short but could last into the spring. Reporting live in san jose, scott budman. We remember 1997, a lot of floods and mudslides around here. What will happen this time around . Jeff
It began in april when surface temperatures hit more than half of one degree in average. It spiked in june to moderate and from june to now it spiked nearly 2 degrees celsius above average well into the strong category. Live at lands end, what el nino does is increases the odds of a wet winter. Nothing is a guarantee. We do not know for sure whether its going to pour this winter but past history says an el nino this strong will lead to a wetterthanaverage winter. Frankly thats wonderful news. We dont want the flooding but we need the rainfall. But guys, all were going to hear is godzilla. Thats the only word anybody is going to hear. Heres what i want you to remember. Strong el nino, wonderful news, will seriously help with the drought if we get that rainfall. We have gotten better at reading the signs of el nino better than in 97. Reporter thats a very good point and we floss that el nino is the number one factor when it comes to winter precipitation, know that, the number one leading