People. According to the National Retail federation, 10 of all gifts will be returned. Experts predict today will be the top five shopping days. Last year shoppers spent more than 7 b amazon is offering a tv marked down 40 . Best buy cutting the price of a camera to 129. 99. And a cashmere sweater from bloomingdales now 89. 99. This shopping season has been the worst since 2008. It was dammenned dammenned by hurricane sandy, the new town shooting and the fiscal cliff. Sales increased only 7 10ths of a. Experted expected it to increase to 3 to 4 . We want it hear from you. Have you been waiting for hanukkah and christmas to pass to pick up the sales. Will you be heading to the mall over the next few days. Well, have you ever left homeland forgot on it close your garage or worse, come home to an overflowing toilet. Angies list home Automation System. Reporter it can integrate all the systems of your house. She and her family were moving into a house her grandmother had lived in for 4345
Chance. How do you regard it . Unlimittd but they are giving unlimited but throttling the data. What does that mean . Gerri that is not unlimited, if theyre throttling i cant use data so what is the point of that. Just allyoucaneat, not as fast as you can eit. That is what shaping here. Gerri i dont understand that. To be fair at t, theyre not only ones throttling data. This is something that happens for high bandwidth users. Here is the thing that is interesting, most people use well under a gigabyte of data per month. That is pretty standard. Theyre saying that they dont hit the throttle switch until they hit two gigabytes of consumed date that. That is going to target obviously a much narrower set of users but i get the idea. Gerri let me stop you there. That number doubles every year, simply the way we use this data. If the company will promote unlimited data they should give us unlimited data. The result of that for consumers, the proof in the pudding you can actually see video on
State set a grim new daily record for deaths. Just in to cnn, the cdc says that a travel ban for a city the epicenter of the u. S. Outbreak too little, too late. More on that in a moment and what that means Going Forward but theres one thing increasingly clear and that is cities and states taking action on their own in the absence of a plan of President Trump and the white house. Republican Governor Hogan of maryland writhing about the states struggle to obtain test kits in fighting alone writing in part quote it was clear that waiting around for the president to run the nations response was hopeless. So every governor went their own way which is how the United States ended up with such a patchwork response. Hogan also questioned President Trumps dismissal of Public Health experts, the target of a coordinated attack by the white house and its allies. Cnn has learned that fauci and the president spoke yesterday for the first time in a month. And a growing number of retailers are also no
The companys ceo speaks to a report hes looking to take over a londonbased company. We will ask the ceo coming up. The day of reckoning arrives at General Motors. 15 heads roll for the recall controversy but no one at the very top taking the fall. Can gm now put the issue behind it . Well have the latest and hear from a consultant for the company, as well as lawyer for the plaintiffs whos still not satisfied. Take a look at markets here heading into the close, scott. Welcome to the hour where we seem to keep setting these new record highs. Lately its been the s p. Today it looks like the dow is going to join it, it is up 95 points at the moment. 1,6 1,682, a new high. The nasdaq also having a reasonably strong day. Adding 43 points or 1 . Finally the s p 500 already been setting a string of record highs. Looks like it could do it again today adding almost 12, 1,939 is the level there. Joining our Closing Bell Exchange today, rich peterson, jeff layman, dick burress, Steve Leisman and R
Here in las vegas at ces international, samsung has a rather Large Display and the communicators is joined by david steel executive Vice President of strategy for samsung. Mr. Steel begin by giving us a snapshot of the samsung corporation. Guest samsung is now the Largest Technology company in the world by sale. We cover all the way from components like your chips at and all the way through finished goods like appliances, televisions and smart phones so you will see a whole range of products here at the booths where we are showing Audio Systems and televisions in the whole range of electronic products. Host what is your position at samsung as executive Vice President . What are you responsible for quest. Guest i am responsible for north america covering the United States and canada and looking at all the strategies so overseeing all the different products areas and how we put together strategies. Host you spend quite a few years in korea correct . Guest thats right. Host why are you no