A virus lockdown winner has emerged. Its walmart. They have had the advantage of remaining open and they finetuned their delivery and pickup services. They have done very well. Look at this. Same store sales, up 10 . Huge. Sams club sales up 12 , even bigger. Ecommerce, now, this is a big one, up 74 , online sales. That is remarkable. The stock, we are quoting premarket now, the stock is up nearly five bucks, 3. 8 . Okay. This is going to be a live action day. Two top money guys head to capitol hill. Speaker mnuchin, jay powell, they will be discussing what they think still needs to be done for the economy. You want my opinion, please give us Liability Protection. The president addresses the nations farmers. What do they need and whats with the Food Supply Chain. We will carry his speech live. Thats in our 11 00 hour this morning. Then theres the market. After yesterdays 900point gain. That rally followed encouraging news on a vaccine from moderna and the rapid reopening of the economy
Ecommerce growth that even as they do sends some other packages out through u. P. S. , fedex, logistics and others the vast majority, Something Like twothirds of their packages go the last Mile Delivery to peoples doorsteps through the Postal Service back over to you. Sometimes Postal Service delivers on sunday specifically for amazon, several years ago. Thanks, morgan. Lets talk about this. Are the president s attacks on amazon a sign of bigger issues ahead for the company . Donald, and dave are both with us. Welcome to you both. Tom, you think a strong argument could be made that amazon is getting a sweetheart deal here right . I definitely think if you look at the research ive read, theyre getting as much as a 1. 46 subsidy on a perpackage basis. I do think in the case of the u. S. Postal Service Amazon is definitely getting a sweetheart deal, yes. Donald, what about you . Well, absolutely. You know, the bottom line is the post office is subsidized its Parcel Delivery through its fi
Clouds will be thickening later this afternoon. Highs today only around 28 to 30 degre degrees. Chopper 4 over the out hear loop between the toll road and 2. This is where we had report of slick spots. Nothing falling from the sky. There was a vehicle fire earlin morning, putting water on the road. Now it is icing over. A warning if youre headed out soon. Westbound 70 after 75, vehicle fire with the left lane getting by this morning. Right now the routes looking fine. Well take a look at 66 coming up. It is brutally cold out there. Today is the day to stay inside. Many of you dont have that luxury. Some people have to get to work. News 4s chuck finc gas station in alexandria where people say its a whole different kind of cold. Reporter this is more than nuisance cold. Let me tell you, its brutal out here. The kind of cold that makes even filling your tank a tough task. Trust me, if youre coming out today, youll want to put on your heavy coat. In the teens. It feels much colder. If your
Been pretreated, despite problems that the cold and ice can bring, some people dont mind it at all. In fact, they say they welcome in. Kristen wright is at an outdoor skating rink in southwest d. C. How, kristen. Hi, doreen. If theres anywhere to be when the weather is this cold, this just may be it. But you know, the roads probably not the best place to be. D. C. Tells us theyre working hard to make sure theyre not bad. This is the full deployment for us. Well have over 200 of our vehicles out. In d. C. , the salt trucks will be out starting at midnight because were about to see a lot of this on the roads. D. C. Says they pretreated across the city. We have been treating them with a liquid brine and not with rock salt, given the current ground temperatures, the brine is much more effective at making sure that any snow or rain the tropics arent a bad place to be on a day like today. Isnt it wonderful . I love it. Elma and her friend ann came to the u. S. Botanic garden to feel the warm
Trying to steal her car. That confrontation took place at coleman road just a couple blocks from west ridge oakwood mall. We have developing news from Heather Holmes live a short distance away from where that car was recovered. Reporter truly, we are here in just a few minutes ago, we watched as a tow truck loaded the victims vehicle. This is apparently where the gunman ditched the victims vehicle after stealing it about a mile away. Around 6 30 pm tonight, a 17 yearold girl was walking with a group of friends when she saw a man breaking into her car. Police say she confronted him and thats when she was shot once in the upper part of her body. We are told the bullet hit near her clavicle. She is expected to survive. After the man stole the vehicle, he reportedly drove it to this area and an abandonment. We have been here the last couple hours as police combed through the vehicle. They are looking for any evidence that could lead them to that gunman. We also overheard officers talking t