thank holiday and frigid weather keeping peopled in. we hoped to raise 150 million in the red kettle effort. we started five days short because thanksgiving was five days closer to christmas eve. and that represented 22.7 million from those five days. if you are wondering where the change you toss in the red kettles to provide 58 million moles for homeless people and assistant for drug abuse and after school programs. you can host your own red kettle campaign. and you can text the word kettle to 8008 listens. and when you do that you will donate $10. and anchorman two having a fabulous woke week in the box
and is now moving northward, the boston area being hit, maine, new hampshire, vermont all those points north. the weather keeping a lot of people at home right now but there are still some diehard shoppers hitting the stores tomorrow returning those awful gifts they got. nbc s kerry sanders has more. reporter: for some this is a family tradition. shopping for deals after christmas. yes. sport jacket for $39.95. i mean that s ridiculous. reporter: from balmy miami to snowbound virginia and across the country, retailers sfoekt make up to 15% of their year s sales between now and the end of the year, much of that thanks to shoppers redeeming gift cards. the girls got gift cards and we had to come shop. we re looking to see exactly how much we can get for how little. reporter: despite the near 10% unemployment rate, retailers say it was a record season. we ve seen a lot of pent-up