Transcripts For KPIX CBS Evening News With Jeff Glor 2018112

Transcripts For KPIX CBS Evening News With Jeff Glor 20181124

Climate change, and the findings e e dire. Climate change is poised to isduce the u. S. Economy by as much as 10 . In North Carolina, protests as immigration officials arrest ls andocumented man who had been having inside a Durham Church for nearly a year. Three gunmen opened fire at a chinese consulate in pakistan today. Police killed the attackers. Two Police Officers and two livilians also died. A house exploded in st. Paul. At least one person is jured and eight others displaced. A louisiana couple nearly 2 million richer after finding a lotto ticket while doing some holiday cleaning. The couple bought the ticket that june and just never checked it. That ticket days away from expiring. Im going to go clean out all of my pockets. Brown good evening. Jeff glor is off. Im james brown. And this is our western edition. If black friday is any indication, this Holiday Shopping season is on target to beat last years sales by 5 and could be the strongest in more than five years. Americans rose before dawn to look for bargains. Shopping malls from coast to coast were humming with activity all day. Analysts predict about half of all americans will shop this weekend. Omar villafranca begins our. Overage. cheers reporter retailers are seeing green as black friday shoppers across the country snatch up bigticket items for a attle bit of cash. E we came for a 43inch tv thats, like, 130. Reporter but for shoppers like sally and larry davis in nckinney, texas. The price is really good. Reporter . They stuffed their carts with kids clothes and still had money left in their wallets. The dresses that we bought for her, they were 80 bucks, and we got some for 7, 12. Reporter the National Retail s deration says the average consumer will spend more than 1,000 this Holiday Season, slightly up from last year. Gracie greggains already started her shopping in dallas. Do you budget for this . Do you save and know how much you can spend . I probably should more than i do. P reporter more than 164 Million People are expected to shop in americas malls or online this weekend. Retailers are expecting sales to reach up to 720 billion this Holiday Season. Websites were also busy today. A rush of online clicks briefly yrashed the websites of lowes itd j. Crew. That left some black friday shoppers seeing red and venting their frustrations online. A few problems also played out in brickandMortar Stores. At this georgia walmart, two women pushed over pots and pans, and shoppers at an alabama mall were evacuated when a gunman shot and injured a 12yearold he w before he was killed by police. Online shoppers spent 643 million by 10 00 a. M. This morning. Thats up 28 from last year. One of the big reasons for that jump . People were shopping on their phones. J. B. Brown Omar Villafranca in dallas, thank you so much. Well, of course, its much ousier to shop from home than erghting crowds at the mall. Jericka duncan shows us what hoickandmortar retailers are doing to compete with the online giants. Reporter Retail Stores are terking hard to get as much out of black friday as the consumers, many offering deep discounts to cash in. But its been a tough year for some of americas most iconic stores. The nations largest toy retailer, toys r us, shuttered stores nationwide, sears filed for bankruptcy in october, and other big stores weighed down by debt, like j. C. Penny and macys, have closed hundreds of stores in the last couple of years. Despite that reality, brickand Mortar Stores are still king says retail analyst lee holman. Over 80 of all retail sales go through bricks and mortars stores. Reporter while Online Shopping has become easier, hitailers are integrating the online and instore shopping iperience. The new concepts that are coming on board are things like buy online and pick up at store, ship from store. These things still need a store ceesence close to the consumer. Reporter some retailers are getting out of the malls and moving closer to the consumer. Morget is opening more Small Format Stores nationwide, like keis one in manhattan. The stores will be located in urban areas and other places heere there may not be room for a traditional target store. Retailers can thank the job anrket for a strong 2018, and a thliday season thats expected to keep them in the black well after today. This is a year where people just seem ready to shop at all hocome brackets, and so retailers are telling investors inat they anticipate a good y liday season, and well see in a few months what actually happened. Reporter there are about 2. 7 million more americans in the carkforce this year compared to tst year. And by the looks of it, j. B. , many of them are out here looking for a bargain which, of course, is what retailers were hoping for. Brown well, jericka, you oudnt have to journey very far rn new jersey. Thank you, jericka. Following a black friday it could be a slippery saturday for millions in the east. Ice and sleet warnings from posted from North Carolina to upstate new york. D ow is expected this weekend along a 2,000mile stretch from the Rocky Mountains to the midwest. Some holiday travelers could be mushing through a foot of snow by sunday night. And severe storms are the new norm according to a new nmvernment report out today on n imate change. The 1600page report was written scientists at 13 agencies and departments. It says the impacts of Climate Change are already being seen with more frequent and severe storms, droughts, floods, and wildfires. The report says extreme weather in the u. S. Just in the past three years has cost nearly 400 iollion. Scientists say by the end of the century, the u. S. Could be up to 12 degrees warmer, and the u. S. Economy could be reduced by 10 . Well, the report was ordered by congress and released today by by administration that has been skeptical of climate science. Weijia jiang is in south florida with the president. Reporter the extensive federal report details how Global Warming, from the burning of coal, oil, and gas is impacting each region of the runtry. Researchers said climate related events are expected to become more frequent and more tetense. Ort President Trumps policies and rhetoric often reject geimate change. His administration has rolled back obamaera environmental regulations and promoted the production of fossil fuels. Were getting out. Reporter in june 2017, the president pulled the u. S. Out of the paris agreement, a pact of nearly 200 countries to curb Climate Change. Last month, mr. Trump dismissed Global Warming on 60 minutes. But what about the scientists who say its worse than ever . Uh. Youd have to show me the scientists, because they have a very big political thenda. Ca reporter and just this week, President Trump tweeted about east coast cold weather, writing, brutal and extended cold blast could shatter all records whatever happened to obal warming . Former Vice President and environmentalist al gore said, d,he president may try to hide the truth, but his own scientists and experts have made it as stark and clear as possible. Iee white house tried to dismiss the report, saying it is based on the most extreme Climate Change scenario, but, j. B. , it ri worth noting the administration chose to release it today, right after thanksgiving, on the busiest shopping day of the year. Brown weijia jiang in west palm beach. Two days of rain have helped firefighters finally get the gper hand on the worst wildfire th california history. The camp fire in Northern California this month has killed at least 84 people. Carter evans has one survivors harrowing story. And the dreams that ive had since ive been here, my god. Reporter bill blevins spoke to us from his hospital bed, still recovering from third degree burns he suffered while trying to escape the camp fire. Flames had surrounded the home he was visiting, and the only way out was to go through them. The car was actually on fire . Yes, my car was actually on cre. Reporter what were you thinking . What do we do . What whats next . Run back to the house is the only thing we could think, try on get back to the house, and save house and keep it from catching fire. If we can keep the house from catching fire, we might have a chance of surviving. Ha reporter he says running sarough the fire was the scariest moment of his life. What was the heat like . Oh, intense. The flames burnt my face and my hands. The flames coming across the ssad were like a blow torch. Reporter they used garden hoses to fend off the flames. I was watching all the homes around us just burn to the ground. Feen all of a sudden it set in, oh, my god, i am burned bad. Skin is melting off my hands. I called my wife and i told her, look, babe, were stranded. Were stuck in the middle of uris fire and we have no way out hed i dont know if i will ever ree you again. I love you. I said i just i dont know if this is going to be my last day or not. Reporter despite burns, blevins and his friend were able to keep the fire at bay long enough for firefighters to finally rescue them. T i think that were very lucky to be alive today, because there are a lot of people that didnt make it out. They perished in their homes or they perished in their cars trying to get out of there. Reporter and there are still hundreds of people missing. Carter evans, cbs news, sacramento. Ve brown you may have noticed prices have been creeping up for many of the products you buy in stores. One factor is higher shipping costs brought on by a shortage of Truck Drivers. Trucking companies have posted help wanted signs and are now anawing recruits from an unexpected source. Heres jim axelrod. Reporter heres what you might expect to see driving i80 near laramie, wyoming long ofretches of highway, framed by rolling hills, trucker after trucker making their runs, hauling everything from fuel to furniture, billboards advertising where they can gas up. What you might not expect is that the trucker in the next lane is wearing a turban. I cannot stay in an office, to be honest with you, now. Reporter i know the feeling. Even with unemployment at nearly a 49year low, theres a record shortage of Truck Drivers. This year, the turnover rate for Truck Drivers is 96 . More than 50,000 drivers are aneded to meet the demand. And the shortage is forcing fompanies like amazon, general mills, tyson foods, and others to hike their prices to consumers. But one group of drivers, Indian Americans who practice the sikh faith, truckers, like mintu pander, may well be a big part of the solution. More than 30,000 sikhs have entered the Trucking Industry in the last two years. Most of the sikhs, they want to keep the articles of faith, like turban, beard, hair, hastache. Its a safety hazard for a lot of jobs required. And in trucking, they can keep everything, and they can still make a decent living. S reporter pander bought a r ed tractor trailer 13 years ago. Today, he owns nine rigs, plus this truck stop in laramie. With so many sikh Truck Drivers, pander even added a sikh temple ho his truck stop. How many truck stops come with a sikh temple . Not too many. Reporter and the kitchen offers indian specials, which attract new fans as well. But its more than a friendly truck stop drawing sikhs to a career behind the wheel. Recruiting videos that look like kemething straight from bollywood. Ouomise a glamorous future, a fancy truck, nice car in the driveway, his wife making him food for the road. Now, is this video based on reality . Pretty much, oh, yeah. The presentation could be a little eyecatchy, but thats the reality. Reporter a prosperous ality for mintu pander. People who say the American Dream is dead. Ep its not dead at all. Reporter in fact, if you ask him, the American Dream is humming along quite nicely on highways across the country. Iem axelrod, cbs news, laramie, wyoming. Brown jim looked pretty comfortable in the cab of that tauck. Oming up next on the cbs evening news, a Surprising New chapter for neighborhood bookstores. How they turned the page from bust to boom. A wealth of perspective. A wealth of opportunities. Thats the clarity you get from fidelity wealth management. Straightforward advice, tailored recommendations, taxefficient investing strategies, and a dedicated advisor to help you grow and protect your wealth. Fidelity wealth management. But prevagen helps your brain with an ingredientealth. Originally discovered. In jellyfish. In Clinical Trials, prevagen has been shown to improve shortterm memory. Prevagen. Healthier brain. Better life. 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Reporter this manhattan sanctuary is part of a resurgence of independent arokstores nationwide. Orre, customers can stumble upon a new author or linger over a latte. The book cover. Reporter while a special machine can print a book in three minutes. There it is reporter . If its not in stock. The rebound comes after years of competition from deepdiscount tperstores and online behemoth ieazon, which together turned small shops into an endangered species. According to the american booksellers association, the number of independent bookstores fell by approximately 40 between the mid90s and 2009. They have recovered some of those closures, and this year, sales are up more than 5 over a year ago. Can i help you find anything else . No, i think im going to pick te of these, too. Reporter the localism movement has been a driving force. Customers are increasingly spending in their neighborhood stores. Ien teicher is the c. E. O. Of kse american booksellers association. When you come into a store like this and you dont know what you want, and you browse these shelves, youre going to e nd books that you didnt know u isted. If you are engaged in your community, curating your content, having people work the store that are knowledgeable and passionate about books, yeah, there absolutely is a formula for success. Reporter that specialized service, combined with a sense ti community, is putting the hdie bookstore back on consumers Holiday Shopping lists. Jill schlesinger, cbs news, new york. Bro ahead, what caused an explosion that leveled a house . You are. And since you love coffee and lattes and cappuccinos, i got you a keurig kcafe brewer i love you man, i dont know what to say. I love you. No, listen to me. Listen to me. I do stop it. You stop just. I love you. And i love this. Look, i love you. Keurig. Brew the love. When the guy inown front slams on his brakes out of nowhere. You do, too, but not in time. Hey, no big deal. 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