Under siege. But front line er doctors still manage to send a message of hope plus, weve got a live one shark tanks mr. Wonderful kevin oleary in the news tank, talking Small Business survival. Live from cnbc global headquarters, the facts, the truth, the news with Shepard Smith. Good evening. The United States just topped more than 13 million covid cases, according to johns hopkins. Los angeles has just issued a new stayathome order it starts on monday. A full report coming and all of this as the virus has disrupted another american tradition. Black friday, normally one of the busiest shopping days of the year not in covids 2020 in many parts of our nation, thinner lines at stores. Smaller crowds at malls. Many people opting to shop from home instead its a trend accelerated by covid. Shoppers projected to spend as much as 10. 6 billion today. Thats according to the data firm Adobe Analytics and thanksgiving day spending rose by more than 21 compared to the same day last year. Total sp
How to get through this. Its been an extraordinary outcome. One i could have never perceived could happen in march when we were scrambling for ppp loans, the majority of my companies were cash flow negative we shut down retail, until we went through this extraordinary transformation we would have never shut down our headquarters we would have never assumed that we could make a pivot and start selling direct to our customers instead of through retail. Thats exactly what happened and when you sell something direct to a customer, you make almost 100 cents on the dollar versus 0. 50 when you sell through retail thats the reason that theres a massive digital pivot going on, and theres major cost savings also occurring i could have never foreseen this, 15 of my staff including the areas of accounting, logistics and compliance never want to come back to the office. Wow. Theyre raising kids at home in the suburbs, taking care of elderly parents. Another major savings. This is happening to ever
In our ongoing series, we call issues that matter, a closer look at americas longest war. Why were still in afghanistan. Conflict spanning three presidencies and where the u. S. Can go from here. We begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener your world in 90 seconds. Any senator who votes against starting debate is telling america that you are fine with the obamacare nightmare. Senator mccain returns for a crucial vote on health care. It shows how desperate they are not wanting to go home in august having accomplished absolutely nothing and frankly having to listen to donald trump beat them over the head with that. By the way, youre going to get the votes. He getter get em . Oh, otherwise ill say tom, youre fired a truck driver could get the Death Penalty if convicted in a deadly Human Trafficking case in texas. The driver told investigators he had no idea people were inside. Just devastating. Its like a war zone. Severe weather across the country. Tornado damage to extreme fl
Congress got an sos today from the common cant of the coast guard. He said the guard is busier than ever, chasing drug runners but it cant do the job without more money. Carter evans now on whats at stake. Reporter this what 800 million worth of cocaine looks like. We were aboard the coast guard cutter back in 2015 after it seized tons of drugs from fast boats and make shift submarines. There was so much flow right now. But the drugs keep coming. And last year the coast guard couldnt even chase hundreds of shipments they knew about. How much is still getting through . There were over 500 events that, that literally alluded us. We knew they were out there. This came done to we didnt have enough planes, didnt have enough ships. Reporter he says much of his fleet is decades past retirement age. And the coast guard needs 1. 5 billion dollars just to catch up on maintenance. Copy. Thank you. Chief warrant officer, bill hansman is captain of the 55yearold sledge. This ship is 11 years older
Americas longest war. Why were still in afghanistan. Conflict spanning three presidencies and where the u. S. Can go from here. And a look at todays eye opener. Your world in 90 seconds. Any senator who votes against starting debate is telling america that you are fine with the obamacare nightmare. Senator mccain returns for a crucial vote on health care. It shows how desperate they are not wanting to go home in august having accomplished absolutely nothing and frankly having to listen to donald trump beat them over the head with that. By the way, youre going to get the votes. He better get them. Oh, otherwise ill say tom, youre fired. A truck driver could get the Death Penalty if convicted in a deadly Human Trafficking case in texas. He told investigators he had no idea people were inside. Just devastating. Severe weather across the country. Tornado damage to extreme flooding. In the phoenix area streets flooded after a second round of storms. A vintage military plane crashes after ta