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cavuto. shopping for christmas is up 19% from last year that could mean consumers don t want to be the grinch this year by not giving presents the readout from a guru, what does this mean, 19%, the saturday before christmas what does that mean for retailers going into this season? we re certainly seeing retailers benefit from this, and especially the small businesses, so according to the data catalyst institute 79% of small businesses have an offline presence, so this is a brick and mortar presence, while they are still selling online, they are expecting people to walk into their stores and buy last minute. so i m sure people are out there right now going and shopping, you know, literally in the 11th hour, brick and mortar stores are certainly getting the store traffic. in addition, these sort of offmarket venues that these retailers are taking advantage of, like the street markets and the street fairs, 57% of small businesses have presence there, meaning a brick and ....
families. we begin with the stunning transmissible omicron variant now in all 50 states and accounting for 90% of the cases in many parts of the country. the u.s. is averaging 146,000 new cases each day. that s 36% higher than a week ago and just 4% below the peak of delta, of the delta surge in mid-september. while cases are surging, hospitalizations are not, leaving a lot of people to wonder what this means. two new studies out of the uk and south africa suggest omicron may be less likely to cause severe disease compared to the delta variant. we ll have more on that in just a second. also this president biden is again defending his administration s response to the now dominant omicron variant. how did you get it wrong? how did we get it wrong? nobody saw it coming. nobody in the whole world saw it coming. how could the administration not expect there could be moments like this one where you have a highly transmissible variant around the corner? sure, it ....
when i tell people my story, they don t believe it. i guess i wouldn t believe the story if someone else were telling it, but i m telling it. and it s true. every word of it. it started when i was born. 56 years ago. but the real story began when i was 19 years old when i went to college. it was 1980. it was the first day of school at sullivan county community college up in the catskills about 110 miles from where i grew up. so i drove up there alone. i at least had this really old car. it was a volvo and it was a 1970 volvo. had like 130,000 miles on it. the car was burgundy and the hood was green. actually, the car was called the old bitch. but the old bitch got me there. sullivan was a community college. this wasn t some longstanding institution of higher learning. all these station wagons are dropping kids off. i was nervous. i just got to the school. i didn t know anybody. i was a freshman. i was never the captain of the football team in high school. so i was nev ....
what do you stand for? robinson apparently tired and rocked jake lamotta. a director, an actor find a story at the right time in the right place. out comes this amazing combination of cinematic verility and absolute fear. it s like watching an animal. i think raging bull is a great title. the film fulfills the promise. the reality of the boxing and the great slow motion and all of the black and white gore and the flashbulbs. when he designed the movie, mardi didn t put a clutch on the film. there s no clutch. hey, never got down. he never got me down. raging bull is a boxing movie for people who don t like boxing. it s not about that. it s about this man, jake lamotta, based on a real person who is at war with himself. harder. harder. i didn t understand boxing. the character was interesting. he was just so contraire as they say. evers just so difficult. what are you trying to prove? what does it prove? bob de niro, he s not afraid of the negati ....
stunning the white house and his democratic colleagues on capitol hill. hello everyone welcome to fox news life i am arthel neville hello erica. i am eric shawn. the white house as it manchin comments are at oz with discussions this week with the president. adding the president will continue to push manchin to support the bill. this is lawmakers on both sides of the aisle reacting to the center s nebraska republican senator ben sasse earlier today on fox news live . the should be a reality check on progress as they are not on the mainstream. we have live in a divided country a 50/50 senate were living through blood inflation and the american people do not want to upend this country with some nakedly partisan legislation they want to transform everything. the meantime the white house is dealing with a surgeon covered cases. just days before millions of americans head out of town for christmas for doctor anthony county s warning to the rapidly spreading omicron var ....