Stores with reduced capacity could mean a 40minute wait. The National Retail federation on its website predicts online sales will be capturing 20 to 30 of the holiday market, up from last year. There are no corporate parties and reduced inventory and fewer employees are in many stores according to consumer expert and San Francisco State University marketing professor. The projections are that because the consumer demand has been suppressed so far, starting with today, which is black friday and the start of the Holiday Shopping season, there is some kind of penalty up demand that people, you know, they want to give gifts to family and friends to uplift their spirits in a very challenging year. Reporter walnut creek downtown there is a 20 vacancy rate right now but Property Owners say they are getting inquiries about renting the vacant sites according to the walnut creek Downtown Business association. Whats missing is probably, you know, the ice rink. Were unable to host the ice rink thi
With that light wind overnight, look at the temperatures, dropping into the low 30s in the north bay, 31 in santa rosa, 32 in novato, 33 in livermore with freezing conditions in the san ramon valley. 39 in oakland, cold for oakland, anywhere from two to seven degrees colder this morning, along the shoreline and your forecast calls for plenty of sunshine, upper 50s by noontime. By the afternoon weve got low 60s around the bay and looking at another clear and cold night tonight. Temperatures are going to stay on the mild side. Well tell you how mild and talk about the rest of the weekend, the week ahead, coming up. Liz . Lisa, thank you. Today is Small Business saturday as we mentioned, but no matter the turnout, some berkeley shops are getting some extra help. The city of berkeley raised millions of dollars for a relief fund. Abc 7 News Reporter luz pena spoke to the mayor of berkeley who says there are still more ways for the community to now chip in. Reporter may 2020 marked ten years
Mr. Lehrer good evening from the Clark Athletic Center at the university of massachusetts in boston. Im jim lehrer of the newshour on pbs, and i welcome you to the first of three 90minute debates between the democratic candidate for president , Vice President al gore and the republican candidate, governor george w. Bush of texas. The debates are sponsored by the commission on president ial debates, and they will be conducted within formats and rules agreed to between the commission and the two campaigns. Tonight, well have the candidates at podiums. No answer to a question can exceed two minutes. Rebuttals are limited to one minute. But as moderator, i have the option to follow up and to extend any particular give and take another threeandahalf minutes. Even then, no single answer can exceed two minutes. The candidates, under their rules, may not question each other directly. There will be no opening statements, but each candidate may have up to two minutes for a closing statement. The
That. A modest down trend. Tomorrow, though, thats the big jobs report. Almost certainly the worst in history. Okay. But look at this. A rotten economy and a Big Stock Market rally. We get a lot of inquiries as to why is this happening and the short answer is well, the market looks to the future and its clearly seeing an economic recovery, and the trillions pumped into the economy are very much appreciated. Put it like that. The dow is going to be up over 300 points at the opening bell. Thats better than 1. 3 . A similar gain, 1. 5 for the s p. Look at the nasdaq go, up 1. 5 . Thats because of this. Big tech. Again, leading the market. Just look at this. Apple is at 303. Amazon up 21 bucks premarket. Nice gain for microsoft. Nice gain for netflix as well. Thats whats happening. Big tech again dominating the market, plowing higher. Bombshell news in politics. Mr. Impeachment, congressman adam schiff, he is not looking good. There are dmumennew documents o russia, russia, russia probe. M
Oh max kaiser this is the kaiser report the response has been overwhelming people are demanding for staceys pro way kaiser report and you know as we continue with the lockdowns and the bailouts because of the lot downs from the coronavirus couvade 19 pandemic situation sweeping the world fairness is what justice really is and that was a quote from Potter Stewart who was a Supreme Court justice member Sandra Day Oconnor took over for him afterward fairness is what justice really is so as we look at these bailouts and the lack of fairness that weve seen. Since the intervention of the fed days so say in 1907 when the plunge Protection Team and Alan Greenspan came to the rescue of the bad bets made on wall street chicago. And ever since and weve had more and more and more unfair system it starts off a little bit unfair and as we see like a little change of direction way back then in history becomes a huge gap we see that with the wealth and income gaps and we see that with every single cra