The third hour of today in the bay continues right now. Good friday morning to you. Im kris sanchez here for Marcus Washington. Boy, wasnt it nice to see his smile . Oh, yes. Were going to have him a little later in this hour as well. Im laura garcia. Before we get to weather right now i want to tell you about a small earthquake that hit the north bay this morning. A 3. 3 magnitude quake hit about 5 00 a. M. It was about 13 miles north of healdsburg. No reports of injuries or damage so far. But what a way to wake up at least for those folks. And yesterday we were waking up to pounding rain across the bay area. Kari has a look at our forecast right now. That rain is getting lighter. This storm system is moving out but it was impressive. Now as we take a look at storm ranger, we are catching a break for much of the bay area. Still some lingering showers down around gilroy as well as around the napa area over toward Solano County. Weve seen some of the showers that are now starting to mov
1000 pandemic has thrown a wrench in the works. The fact that many stores will not have in person a bed due to the pandemic, as well as millions of americans facing unemployment and a lack of another stimulus package to put cash in the pockets. Has many wondering what we can expect from this Holiday Shopping season. So lets get some expert analysis from dr. Banky shankar, director of research at the center for retailing studies at Mays Business School at texas a and m. And dr. Barbara stuart, the coordinator of retailing and Consumer Sciences at the university of houston. Thank you both for being here today. Dr. Stuart, i want to start with you. Were seeing a change in black friday due to the pandemic and stores want to avoid crowds. What are some new trends that were already seeing for the black friday this year . Well, here are 3 aspects that will make this a black friday, like, you know, rather firstly, Online Shopping has exploded 2nd playing well shopping. And thirdly, retail is i
Thats ali baba alone, while black friday was once the now known for outrageous door busters that caused consumers to line up in front of Big Box Stores like target, walmart and best buy 2019 was the 1st year in which more people shopped online than in store. For the most part, sales figures have continued to trend up over the last 2 decades. But the copa 19 pandemic has thrown a wrench in the works. The fact that many stores will not have in person a bed due to the pandemic, as well as millions of americans facing unemployment and a lack of another stimulus package to put cash in a customers pockets, has many wondering what we can expect from this Holiday Shopping season, so lets get some expert analysis from dr. Vankin shankar, director of research at the center for retailing studies that made Business School at texas a and m. And dr. Barbara stuart, the coordinator of retailing and Consumer Sciences at the university of houston. Thank you both for being here today. Dr. Stuart, i want
As well as millions of americans facing unemployment and a lack of another stimulus package to put cash in the pockets. Has many wondering what we can expect from this Holiday Shopping season. So lets get some expert analysis from dr. Banky shankar, director of research at the center for retailing studies at Mays Business School at texas a and m. And dr. Barbara stuart, the coordinator of retailing and Consumer Sciences at the university of houston. Thank you both for being here today. Dr. Stuart, i want to start with you. Were seeing a change in black friday due to the pandemic and stores want to avoid crowds. What are some new trends that were already seeing for the black friday this year . Well, here are 3 aspects that will make this a black friday like, you know, rather firstly, Online Shopping has exploded. Secondly, shopping, and thirdly, retail is innovating and so on the on line explosion, as the panamic began. My degree said consumers change the way they shot 40 percent of peo
Mr. Jeffries for working closely with the caucus to be able to pull off that organizational meeting entirely virtually, given the dynamics of the pandemic and the extreme Public Health crisis that we continue to confront. We were able to convene with full participation from every Single Member of the House Democratic caucus and the incoming memberselect. We are unified in our sense of purpose, to go out, to work closely with joe biden and Kamala Harris to fight for the people. To make life better for working families, middle class folks, senior citizens, young people, veterans, those who aspire to be part of the middle class, the poor, the sick, the afflicted, the least, the lost and the left behind. Thats what House Democrats do. The House Democratic caucus elected nancy pelosi as our speaker designee for the 117th congress. Steny hoyer as our majority leader for the 117th congress. Jim clyburn as our majority whip for the 117th congress. And Katherine Clark as our assistant speaker f