Squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla with john fortt. Retails are stories once again, with Online Shopping soaring to a record 5. 3 billion on black friday alone cyber monday is set to possibly become the biggest internet shopping day in history. For more on that we send it out to our Courtney Reagan whos at Amazon Warehouse in robbinsville, new jersey hi again, court. Good morning to you, carl cyber monday has always been a really big day for amazon, but now that they have the prime day, they are going to have to beat their own record in order for it to be the biggest day of the year for amazon. You can see were in this Fulfillment Center in new jersey and its just one of 75 of amazons Fulfillment Centers like this in the country here it covers a million square feet there are 14 miles of conveyer belts running 24 7 thousands of both human employees, as well as robots fulfilling those cyber monday orders last year amazon said 64 million items were ordered on its website. They are not givi
Telling cnbc we may not need the type of tax cuts being proposed. We have those details coming up. And a major deal in the media space. Maybe youve heard about it. It brings together bbetter home gardens and people magazines, Meredith Buying Time Inc for nearly 2 billion. Will this pave the way for more deals especially in the media sector where theyve been trying to get them done we have that coming up in a little bit. First, our top story today, the cyber monday surge amazon shares hitting yet another alltime high today. Courtney reagan joins us from an Amazon Fulfillment Center in robbinsville, new jersey, with the very are you packaging anything and sending it off as well reporter no, no, im not allowed to touch anything, so i will not be touching anyones packages dont you worry about it amazons prime day, bill, actually still Reigns Supreme at least as far as we know for its biggest day on record. Last year on cyber monday, amazon shipped 64 million items worldwide. Thats what was
At c. U. Boulder to encourage students to vote. Bennett will hold an event at 2 45, talking about Student Issues and encourage students to vote early or on election day. Colorado voters should be getting their early ballots next week and some are sending them in. In the race for the white house, Hillary Clinton has a team of people campaigning in her name. Michelle obama, vice spread out across the country at various rallies. Trump and mike pence are covering the country for their campaign. Both are set to give speeches in florida, ohio, and in pennsylvania today. Donald trump is trying to build positive momentum after negative attention. Women are stepping forward saying trump touched them against his will, ranging from former pageant contestants to he talked about in that 2005 access hollywood tape, but Hillary Clinton has seized the opportunity. Hes doubleddown. He doubled down on his excuse its locker room talk, and i got to tell you after he said that in the last debate, the most
Becomes a real prisoner of the government as she serves her sentence for fraud. Those are just some of our top stories on this monday, january 5th. Announcer from abc news, this is world news now. Good morning to we begin with the latest on the little girl who survived a deadly plane crash. Funeral services will be held friday for sailor gutzlers parents and sister and cousin who died in the crash. Gloria riviera has more. Reporter as the National Transportation safety board works to salvage the wreckage from a plane crash that killed four people they are trying to figure out how a 7yearold survived. Shes one remarkable young lady. Reporter sailor gutzelr pulled herself out of the smashed upside don plane. The second grader bloodied with broken bones braved the 38degree weather to find help. She first tried to light a branch in a small fire from the plane but it didnt work. Sailor set out barefoot wandering in total darkness. She actually probably went the best route she could have gon
Communiques. Market perceptions had they will take patient out next month in march and then they will raise rates in june. These come out whether its jpmorgan saying theyre more dovish than expected or capital e con saying this just adds to all the confusion. The signal to markets is clear, this sounds like a fed thats slightly more dovish but the shelf life may be a couple days. We hear from janet yellen on tuesday. The data in the month has generally not been that great. Well talk about that in a moment. Were keeping an eye on a story developing in Southern California. Some kind of incident at an exxonmobil refinery in torrance. Theres a fire well have the latest details on. The Energy Market reaction. Weve seen an update in gasoline prices in georgia, gasoline futures, what they call car bob futures in l. A. The price has gone up 10 to 18 cents per gallon. Well keep an eye on that because oil has had such an impact on this market today. The stock of the day though has got to be, tak