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retailers are trying to jump-start holidays to get consumers kind of in the groove early to start buying, teeing them up because they know that consumers are going to be getting hit with higher prices. so they want to get retailers in the mood to shell out their money earlier. victor? three weeks ahead of halloween and folks are already buying christmas trees. alison, thank you. thank you for staying with me. i m victor blackwell. jsh joe biden and world leaders are condemning russian missile strikes that targeted civilians in ukraine. [ explosions ] wow. overnight, russia unleashed a barrage of missiles in kyiv. multiple other cities too across the country, knocking out critical infrastructure. at least 11 people are dead, dozens more injured. today, putin is boasting about the attack and vows there will be more. he says this blitz is retaliation for the weekend attack on a key bridge that links annexed crimea to russia. joe biden says russia s attacks demonstrat ....
dozens more are hurt. today, putin is boasting about these attacks and vowing there will be more. he says the attacks are retaliation for the weekend attack on a key bridge that links annexed crimea to russia. ukraine s president zelenskyy meanwhile says putin s latest assault shows a world he is a terrorist. cnn nick paton walsh is in onei targeted overnight. nick, what are you seeing there? reporter: what we saw here was a sign that while russia boasts about the precision firepower, it s hard to discern what the target was and clear it hasn t really hit it. across ukraine, we ve seen startling brutality, frankly. this is not the first time that russia has it seems targeted or killed civilians since the start of this war, but we haven t seen a level of violence unleashed across pretty much all of ukraine s major population centers like we ve seen today for a number of months, possibly since the start of the war. kyiv fundamentally gained the blunt brunt of this. carn ....
Cybermonday. you have some say it s the beginning of black friday and they were upset that employees had to work on thanksgiving and is it true, has it peaked? i think it s a disturbing trend we see holiday creep throughout the month of november, obviously throughout the month of december. i don t believe for a moment we ll see a curtailing of stores starting to open on thanksgiving day and more spending happen. some think because thursday, the traditional thanksgiving holiday had so much spending and we ll see less on over the weekend or in the coming weeks ahead but it usual works in the exact opposite and people tend to keep spending more and more as the season goes on. what groups push cybermonday? demographics-wise. you mean from the retailer standpoint? millennials or just about everybody? what groups are pushing in? ....
Find some black friday deals or actually on thanksgiving day. target the latest retailer saying they ll open at 6:00 p.m. on thursday of thanksgiving. macy s and sears will do the same thing. toys r us saying they ll actually open their doors at 5:00 p.m. to try to lure in some young parents perhaps a little bit earlier. but as you know, the holiday creep continues. it s starting even as soon as halloween. many retailers including amazon perhaps no surprise out in front offering deals. they ve been offering thousands of these lightning short-term deals starting november 1st. even pottery barn and bloomingdale s right now are already offering sort of preholiday sales. this is because as a retailer there are a limited number of holiday dollars out there to get and you really want to be first to get to those consumers. so the competition is fierce between retailers. it is also fierce between the shoppers themselves. a disturbing survey out this morning showing that 23% of americans poll ....