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The countrys electricity, and theres a cost. Miners die. They were great men. They were awesome men. Thats why melissa lee says shes speaking out. Thank you all. Even though, she says its caused trouble for her in the county. I was receiving phone calls making ugly comments that i need to shut up. [ticking] why are hundreds of freezing people gathering in the middle of the night in this knoxville parking lot . Whos got number one . Number one. Number two . Theyre here in hopes of seeing a doctor...

And theres a cost. Miners die. They were great men. They were awesome men. Thats why melissa lee says shes speaking out. Thank you all. Even though, she says, its caused trouble for her in the county. I was receiving phone calls making ugly comments that i need to shut up. [ticking] why are hundreds of freezing people gathering in the middle of the night in this knoxville parking lot . Whos got number one . Number one. Number two . Theyre here in hopes of seeing a doctor. This is a clinic set up...

Their neighbors took them in. You think all this has changed you . Yeah, and i havent realized it, but i think ive gotten very mature in a very short amount of time. [ticking] [train horn honking] chances are the electricity your tv is using comes from coal. Coal, not oil, provides half the countrys electricity, and theres a cost. Miners die. They were great men. They were awesome men. Thats why melissa lee says shes speaking out. Thank you all. Even though, she says, its caused trouble for her ...

Their neighbors took them in. You think all this has changed you . Yeah, and i havent realized it, but i think ive gotten very mature in a very short amount of time. [ticking] [train horn honking] chances are the electricity your tv is using comes from coal. Coal, not oil, provides half the countrys electricity, and theres a cost. Miners die. They were great men. They were awesome men. Thats why melissa lee says shes speaking out. Thank you all. Even though, she says, its caused trouble for her ...

this is the "cbs evening news" ningh scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. mark the calendar: tonight we maybe experiencing the biggest heles day in the history of the in the his and that comes after the biggest an black friday ever. they call this cyber monday and the people who tally up online lly upng say americans are on track to spend a projecting $1.2 billion today alone. thats up 17% from last year. the stock market, like the sound ef all those mouse clicks, the dow closed up 2...

for retailers. >> its all crazy all over the place. a little too much but i figured this year why not. >> reporter: foot traffic was up more than 5% from last year, almost a quart over black friday shoppers were in stores by midnight thursday according to the national retail federation which estimated spending for shoppers jumped 9% for the post-thanksgiving weekend why do you think sales were so strong? >> the consumer is much stronger and healthier than people understand. >> reporter...

big sales matter because consumer spending accounts for 70% of the u.s. economy. will it last? we asked senior business correspondent anthony mason to look into it. >> reporter: the black friday weekend is the starting gun for the holiday shopping season and it went off with a bang. sales on black friday alone were up 6.6% to more than $11 billion making it the biggest shopping day ever according to shoppertrak. >> if i wait until later i wont get any good items. >> reporter: big disco...

this is the "cbs evening news" with russ mitchell. >> mitchell: and good evening. some encouraging news for the economy tonight. new figures out this evening show retail sales yesterday were the biggest in black friday history. up 6. the 6% over last year for a total of $11.4 well. thats a full billion more than 2010. as elaine quijano tells us, the hopeful predictions follow the earliest black friday opening ever. >> reporter: the turkey wasnt even cold when toys "r" us opened the hol...

dedeals. marshall cohen is an analyst. >> the consumers have asked for this. theyre saying we love these deals, we always come out in droves to take advantage of these deals. >> reporter: holiday shopping accounts for 40% of annual sales. many consumers are on tight budgets retailers decided the best strategy to increase their share was to get customers into their stores before the competition. some stores began offering black friday bargains last night. toys "r" us opened its stores a...

with scott p >> odonnell: good evening, im norah odonnell, scott is off tonight. noack friday is the most anticipated shopping day of the year. with the economy inching along toward recovery, the stakes are high for retailers between today and sunday, 152 million americans are expected to do at least some shopping. and the stores went out of their e two entice the early bird. we have two reports beginning with elaine quijano at macys in new york city. >> reporter: good evening, norah. ...