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Bit of extra special sales maybe today but throughout the whole holiday season you will see incredible sales. last year you saw a billion dollars on what we called cyber monday. 30% of people have gone to shop online. this will be double this year online than it was last year because we saw google third quarter sales up 30 per. the retailers are doing huge advertising online. you can go online right now and go ahead and start shopping and you dont have to wait for the stores to open. julie: goin...

theyre acting as though its today. is there any news in the last 50 or so minutes since we last spoke? >> reporter: since we last spoke, that impromptu meeting you and i were talking about between a bipartisan group of members of the super committee, that has broken p up. as members were leaving, senator max baucuss, facing a mass of reporters, the only way to describe it, he actually mentioned that theres possibly a new tax idea being floated possibly by senator john kerry. as you and...

southern desert. fighters had been chasing the younger gadhafi for more than two weeks to the capital of libya right now, tripoli. what can you tell us about how this all unfolded? >> reporter: well, were hearing from senior military officials among the revolutionary fighters who are telling us that the capture took place after a stake out, an 18 day stake out deep in the southern deserts of libya. we understand that is where saif gadhafi was hiding and they tell us they believe he was...

past several months. you know, we went back and took a closer look at incumbent presidents a year before their re-election, brooke. and i know youre interested in this as well. >> how do they compare? >> obama is at 46% a year before his election. november 2012. look at president bush. in 2003 he was at 50% and got re-elected. clinton was at 52% and got re-elected. the economy began to deteriorate and he was defeated in 92 to bill clinton. ronald reagan, 53% the year before his re-elec...

Theyd used a huge cooler as a coffin. >> there are newspaper and television reports about this cooler that gerry dumped over the side that contained faheys body. thats the first we hear, any of us, of a cooler. >> incredibly the day after details about the cooler were made public, investigators get a call from a fisherman about a cooler that he found floating on the ocean the previous summer. >> the guy is out fishing on the fourth of july weekend. the same weekend that theres a massive search i...

Passengers, while allowing their agents to focus on higher risk or less known travelers, shep. >> shep: you wont know til you get to the airport? >> you dont know until you get to the airport. its imbedded in the bar code on your boarding pass. when you turn it in, thats when you find out whether you get to go to the expedited line. the tsa says there are no guarantees even if youre a safe traveler, that youre going to be able to go through this line each and every time. it remains a mystery unt...

weaker but what they really need is for it to move a little faster. it is just sitting there over parts of the gulf coast right now, already causing flooding and it doesnt seem to be going anywhere anytime soon. also, listen to this, buy a raffle ticket and you could win a glock handgun. its part of a republican fund-raiser in tucson, arizona. the same city where a gunman using a glock handgun killed six people and shot congresswoman gabrielle giffords in the head. critics are callin...

good sunday morning. it is september 4th. hope you are having a good start to your holiday weekend. i am t. j. holmes. we have some tornado warnings in place right now. all of this because of tropical storm lee. it is kicking up waves, slamming a boat here in mississippi, but this is a taste of what this thing is doing. we will have the latest on the watches and warnings in place and what tropical storm lee is doing. sexual assault charges against them have been dismissed, so dominic...

ground and folks who are still trying to get out of the mess. thank you, kyra. live from studio 7, im suzanne malveaux and up to speed for august 30th, tuesday. here we go, again, the rivers in new jersey are bursting the banks overwhelmed by all of the rain that hurricane irene dumped on the state. the passaic river has been overrunning parts of paterson, new jersey, all morning long. emergency workers pulled some 1,500 people to safety after the passaic flooded homes. governor chris ...

From hotheads to hot dogs "big brother" is now becoming your mother. as part of a pilot program, five grade schools in san antonio, the city, have instald -- have installed cameras to track what kids are eating. the cameras have been placed in the cafeteria line and trashcans and scanning a bar code, the school finds out what food each punk is geting and what they are eating. the program is funded by a $2 million grant from the department of agriculture. whats that? and the programs creator says...