good evening. on this night every year, we come on the air and talk about so-called black friday, the day retailers count on so much for their holiday sales. every year we talk about percentages, how many people are out shopping and so on, but how do analysts know that? the short answer is they can see you. they re watching you shop, using satellite, some of them. here s one such technology. a satellite company in colorado hired to track the same shopping mall in california with their eye in the sky, they count the cars in thparking lots. they note their location. g ey can see the dference in shoppers, foheexample, from november of last year, to this year. another way to measure it is to add up the cash registers at the end of the day. if you ve ever worked in retail on the day after thanksgiving, you know the end of the day can t come soon enough. our own rehema ellis is out in it for us tonight, here in new york. rehema, everybody is watching this day for indicators on th
that i could go golf with him. only problem is i don t golf. so the word got back, you have a week. for four days with the esteemed help of a fabulous golfer, at least he tells me, we went down through with incredible instructors. i got a short game, a long game. i got my swing analyzed. calloway actually made me clubs and i had a chance to go golf with the president for 18 holes with major dan rooney who created it. staff sergeant heath calhoun who lost both his legs in 2004, courtesy of an i.e.d. great guy who is now a paraolympic skier and jim remey, president of pga. the president has been golfing since he was 18. for 18 holes, it was surreal. thus and followed by the secret service, golfed on the beautiful ridgewood golf course in waco, texas. brian, what i loved is you didn t embarrass us, number one. i thought you were going to. but you don t know how to golf and you did so well on that
money. the checks barely clear but here s the deal, i hit these great shots but we want into an abyss. always better that way. when the light actually came up is when never fails. brian was down in texas on friday. he ll share the pictures and the memories in a couple of minutes. right now of all 18 holes. we have some headlines and it starts with some weather. it does. while you were sleeping, tropical storm hermine made landfall in texas. the storm came ashore last night in northeast mexico and is moving north packing winds of 65 miles per hour. it s churning up waters near galveston forcing beaches to close. forecasts say it could dump up to a foot of rain. a tropical storm warning remains in effect for parts of mexico and texas. the firefighters could not even save their own homes. a wildfire being fueled by 45-mile-per-hour winds burning four of their homes to the ground. this is northwest of boulder. dozens more homes were destroyed and hundreds more
tell us about it, you met him last hour. we ll see him again. dan rooney is playing the position of outside left. inside left right now is heath calhoun. heath calhoun in 2003 was hit by an i.e.d. in iraq and dan, it s about people like keith who made you say, hey, not only am i serving. you re in the reserves right now. i m going to take action for the families of servicemen, their spouses and their kids. absolutely. brian, we re out here today for guys and girls just like heath who have sacrificed their lives and their limbs for the freedoms that we enjoy each and every day and that s the reason that a pga official are passionate about growing the game and look the awe, you re a perfect example of picking up this game. in four days, no pressure, but really we ve awarded nearly 1,200 scholarships to spouses and kids that have somebody killed or disabled in iraq or afghanistan.
it is now the 6:00 hour on the east coast here and we re tracking this big, huge storm. brian and steve both off today. we have peter johnson jr. and mike is back. we haven t seen each other for so long. we see each other but not work together. it s been three or four years. we see each other in the building. sometime in the show, i m going to share a secret about you. there s many but i m going to share one. in the meantime, we have a fox news weather alert, right? that s why we re all here today bright and early because hurricane earl has made landfall drenching north carolina. downgraded though to a category 2 storm but still packing winds up to 105 miles per hour. we have live team coverage. we ll start with rick leventhal live in new york and jeff in nags head, north carolina but first start with janice dean in our extreme weather center. can i just say that most women around here have secrets about mike? no kidding! moving on, let s take a look. we have earl.