you mentioned, because of this el nino, we have warmer winter this warmer winter weather in many parts of the country. in terms of businesses that it is not so good for, a lot of ski resorts don t benefit from this. also some of the apparel retailers stocked up on winter coats and other types of cold weather apparel. in terms of winter, home depot, at this location here in new jersey, the location says that it is selling a lot of christmas trees now and mulch. mulch is something you don t normally see a lot of demand for at this time of the year. the company says despite the fact the midquarter can t share a lot of specifics, consumers aren t necessarily purchasing as many winter products right now, that overall when you see warmer weather in december, it is overall good for business. it drives a lot of outdoor projects. that s something wall street analysts say is the case for lowe s as well. auto parts retailers like auto zone because you see warmer weather, more driving. that mean
severe area, 35 million people with a slight risk of severe weather and mabe even a really doors off. 76 in washington, d.c. 73 in new york on christmas eve. these are going to approach all time december temperature records. not like it gets chilly on christmas. still in the 60s and 70s as far north as boston. just unheard of. i still think you made a mistake on those. doesn t look right. doesn t feel right. up next, some stunning numbers on rising gun sales this holiday season. this gun shop in georgia says business doubled since this time last year. we re live with more on the reason why coming up after the break.
going to beat obama. i don t know who would be worse. i don t know. how does it get worse. but she was going to beat she was favored to win and she got slonged. she lost. donald trump using vulgar language to describe hillary clinton s loss in 2008. hillary clinton has been more aggressive in calling out instances of sexism over the course of this last campaign than maybe she was in 2008. but it looks like this may go even too far for a response. her communications director jennifer palmieri saying on t t twitter, quote, we re not responding to trump, but everyone who understands this e degrading language inflicts on all women should respond. #i mwithher. it looks like the clinton campaign will respond to this by not responding, by backing away and not giving trump additional room to run on this. as they may have yesterday, when they said hell, no, in the
federal health officials are looking into more e. coli cases to see if they re part of alarger outbreak that started in october. the cdc says five people in kansas, north dakota and oklahoma got sick about a week after eating at chipotle last month. the company believes the cases are related to the earlier outbreak that sickened about 50 people, but the cdc says early evidence shows a different strain of the bacteria may be involved. now to michigan where a 13-year-old led police on a brief car chase with his little sister inside. police tried to stop him for erratic driving saturday night, but the boy drove off. didn t get too far, though. the boy lost control and crashed his car off the road and tried to run away with his sister. the chase and crash were caught on police dash cam video. the teen is now in juvenile detention. his 8-year-old sister back home safely. look at this, passengers on board the sky tower at seaworld
and back now to the race for the white house. donald trump s lead is growing in his bid for the republican nomination but ted cruz also rising in this latest poll. the texas senator now within four percentage points of the front-runner in a national quinnipiac survey. this morning trump has created yet another controversy by waging a very personal and vulgar attack on hillary clinton. he referred to her bathroom break saturday night as, quote, disgusting and used a vulgar term for a piece of male anatomy when describing her 2008 primary loss to president obama. steve kornacki is back and hallie jackson on the campaign trail. tonight there is a new documentary citizen trump. yes, we don t realize he has been in the public high really for 40 years.