Nicole meanwhile the Trump Transition Team split over potential candidate for americas top diplomat. Lauren market will only be open for three and a half hours today. Dow futures higher for 66 points, nasdaq about 8. Nicole lets check oil. 47. 61 the barrel. Down three quarters of 1 . Lauren 5 01 in new york. It feels like a monday. It is friday. Im all confused. Its friday november 25th, welcome to fbn am, first look at morning markets, breaking news and what to expect for the day ahead. Too much topping, nicole. Nicole black friday, biggest shopping days of the deal. The stores such as target, macys, walmart, the buyers and the doors have opened as even wednesday. Im not going to quit. I just started. Once a year i want to enjoy myself bigtime. Dont worry about it. Im not going to leave. I got here wednesday at noon. It was kind of cool tonight but we got through it. I cooked, had all the people in my house, rushed them out, i have to go shopping. Nicole some of the most popular items includes electronics, cashmere, toys. Hatchable eggs with animated animals inside. Black friday for the busiest shopping day of the year and saturday before christmas and theres cybermonday but youve seen deals, thats all close together. Lauren they are cool except expensive. Since 1930s black friday has been considered the start of the Holiday Shopping season but with the lines circling the night before, when does it really begin . Cheryl casone joins us live from gal earn mall in white plains new york. Charles, did you buy anything yet . Cheryl good morning, a lot of people have been buying but a lot of buying has been online. Let me give you a sense of whats happening across the country. Whether los angeles, chicago, or here in new york, but because Stores Opened up on black friday, the numbers maybe a little bit low as far as foot traffic but the money spent is not going to be National Retail federation saying that they expect to see 131 Million People shopping for the higher weekend because you said so much focus on black friday, now its more about the entire weekend and that started thanksgiving day. They expect overall numbers to rise, the amount of sales happening over the weekend. 3. 6 from last year. Part of that might be higher thinking about the recent stock market that we have seen. Let me show you some of the things that are going to be the specials. I want to show you right now. Look at this. You have thomas the truck, you have things like purses, you have cookies and things like that, your favorite, new york giants fan. I forget that youre a new york jets or new york giants fan, nicole. Hot items that they will be selling when the mall opens at 7 00 a. M. They have a macys here which styeded to open later. I think you have Victoria Secret, staples, types of items that they expect to sell. Flash sales all day here and also having different kinds of specials and all of these are going to be giveaways, price giveaways. But i will say one thing we are saying this year, a lot of companies have decided a lot of retailers saying they are not going to open thanksgiving day. They made it a Big Marketing push, we saw staples and also retailers understand that theyre online present is just as crucial as their physical presence so we are going see the Sales Numbers likely up according to retail fedderation but what we are going to see not likely a big rush that we usually see unless youre in a target somewhere in america and youre trying to get a great deal on a television and there are great deals. Money will be spent. We are doing it a little different this year. Thanksgiving day, more than a billion spent online, half of that on our phones. Cheryl have fun today. Nicole thanks, cheryl, awesome. Not stopping for thanksgiving, president elect trump attempt to go stop another American Company to moves jobs to mexico. He tweeted this yesterday in regards to carrier airconditioning. Working hard even on thanksgiving, making progress, will know soon. Carrier working 1400 jobs from indiana to mexico, a move trump is trying to counter and trump offering message to the nation on wednesday. Take a look at this. Its my prayer that on this thanksgiving, we begin to heal our divisions and move forward as one country, strengthened by share purpose and very, very common resolve. Nicole the president elect remains in florida today. Lauren ever wondered how the future of the United States spend thanksgiving . They spend time in maralago. Lobster bisque, oven roasted turkey, traditional stuffing, sweet mash potatoes. One of the options was a three layer trump chocolate cake. I guess hes a fan of chocolate. Nicole sounds good. Trump made appointments all over the ard. Many are saying he should appoint those loyal to him during campaign. Trump loyalists wilbur ross continued to be front runner for secretary of commerce. Included promises of withdrawals from free trade agreements and more jobs for americans. Then mitt romney remains a contender for the secretary of state position but certainly has been criticized for history of division with donald trump, some saying this should be a disqualifying factor. Rudy giuliani a trump loyalist is another top contender for that role. Lauren we will see. Jill stein is leading the effort to recount election day votes in three swing states that went to donald trump, wisconsin, michigan and pennsylvania. Stein has raised 3 and a half million so far. Looks like he might have done and deadline for count for wisconsin, fees . 5 million. Steins Campaign Says its not intended to help Hillary Clinton but deserve what we can trust. Nicole 19 shots were fired near the juice bowl at 1 30 p. M. Mayor was uninjured and taken to safety, the motive for the shootings is still unknown. But louisville homicide record to 112 and thats a new record high for that city. Lauren such a sad thanksgiving for those families. Global Market Action over night. Great day, great friday in asia. Check out nikkei in japan. We saw that core consumers prices fell for the eighth month and that could push pressure to introduce stimulus. Check out shanghai composite in china, up twothirds of one percent. Kospi in south korea up about two tenths of 1 today. Nicole lets check out whats going on in europe. Dent forget we hit records again on wednesday, thursday, we were close and we are seeing up arrows around the globe. Cac quarante is up 4 points, again a fractional move. Trying to find direction here. German dax up 1 point. Lauren here in u. S. Markets close at 1 00 eastern. Very likely see new highs today for the dow and the s p, those futures up 4 points, nasdaq futures gaining 7. Nicole black friday is here and we want to know about the hot items, where the goto sales and how going out compares to staying and shopping at home. She is a retail analyst, Consumer Spending columnist at u. S. News and world report and author of the book black market billions, how to organize, joining us live in the studio to make some headway here on black friday. When youre thinking about black friday, traditionally this is the day people go to the stores and now we have competition for online. You are seeing retailers, walmart, they spend so much in infrastructure online, almost a billion dollars there trying to beef up and prepare for online sales going into black friday, but while it was out, it was just out at the store a couple of hours ago, there was still a lot of traffic. People going in there shopping, mostly buying things like televisions, toys. Nicole overnight shopping, thanksgiving night. What was interesting that over the couple of years i have been doing it for eight years. The traffic started to get really heavy during the hours of 12 00 to 3 00 many years ago. This year because a lot of the black friday sales started at 6 00 a. M. 6 00 p. M. I should say, the traffic was really high during 6 00 p. M. To maybe 8 00 p. M. And then start today started to peter down. Lauren 6 00 p. M. On . This year it was 6 00 p. M. On because started deals started at 6 00 p. M. Target opened the doors. Raur lawyer what stores were the hottest . I was in walmart, a lot of traffic there. They were selling things like televisions, i did do the search finish the hatch bles, we heard about this, hot item around 70, 80. They sold out at the store i was at at walmart. The tv was the besthottest item. When you went to like kohls it was mostly apparel. 25,000 per second. Nicole per second. Tough economy, 25,000 a second. Thank you so much for joining us and giving insight into the shopping that begins now for the holidays. Lauren hopefully you can see sleep now. Not now. Lauren death toll continues to rise in disaster in china. What happened there . We will let you know. Youre watching fbn am, first look at morning markets and breaking news. [vo] quickbooks introduces jeanette. And her new business i do, to go. Jeanette was excellent at marrying people. But had trouble getting paid. Not a good time, jeanette. Even worse. Now im uncomfortable. But heres the good news, jeanette got quickbooks. Send that invoice, jeanette. Looks like they viewed it. And, tada paid twice as fast. Oh, shes an efficient officiant. Way to grow, jeanette. Get paid twice as fast. Visit quickbooksdotcom. Whythen get worse . Nks taste chalky . Introducing protein shots from 5hour energy. Protein shots from 5hour energy are smooth and tasty, and still deliver 21 grams of protein with 100 calories. 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Half day today, stocks and equity markets closing at 1 00 p. M. Today right after. Right now dow futures are looking higher and s p futures up 4. Lauren, thats whats happening now. Lauren u. S. Military suffering first combat death in syria. Officials are reporting an American Service member is dead from an improvised explosive device, ied in the northern part of the country. Americans are in the area organizing an offensive against isis, u. S. War planes have been bombing inside syria to help thousands of fighters. We have 74 dead after the collapse accident in more than two years. The power plant tower collapsed, more than 500 rescue workers digged by hand along with rescue dogs, two are reported injured. Well, the fallout continuing for wells fargo over phoney account scandal. The bank has asked the u. S. Court to order customers suing the company to resolve the matter through private arbitration. Wells fargo has agreed to pay 185 million in fines plus 5 million back to customers over this scandal. Nicole. Nicole thanksgiving shopping already has been breaking records. Adobe hit 1. 1 billion, 149 million has come from shopping on mobile device. Thats nearly 60 higher than the prior year. Lauren that only goes till 5 00 p. M. , when we get the overnight numbers we will see how big it got. Carroll brady died after heart condition surrounded by friends and family, tributes to henderson have poured in on social media with many calling her americas mom. Lauren henderson dead at 82. Nicole she would be fondly remembered. The Holiday Shopping season is kicking off. Millions taking advantage of the black friday deals. Burn calories after thanksgiving dinner. My wife is shopping. I hang out here and guard the grandchildren. Nicole big retails stores have already opened giving shoppers early start, we will tell you who are early winners so far. Russell hit lifetime highs yesterday. 3 record straight closes. Wednesday, i mean, this morning stocks up in asia, euro and also right here in the states. Dow futures up 54, s p futures up 4, the dollar index soaring a 14year high as well. Something to watch as well. Youre watching fbn am i cant believe we broke old man hennesseys window correction dude, you broke. I just threw the ball. This is really bad. What are we going to do . Dude, kiss your life goodbye. Lets go. Oh. Keep smiling, keep shining knowing you can always count on me, for sure hi knowing you can always count on me, for sure tell him it was an accident and we can fix the window. Knowing you can always count on me, for sure ill come with you. Woah, thats what friends are for lauren welcome back, with several Stores Offering a variety of deals its hard to determine which black friday sale is the best. We will hear more on that and the big retail winner was, strategic resource managing director and you were up, youve been up 48 hours shopping . Along with the country, not shopping as much, some lines were so long in stores that i couldnt check out. Lauren what stores caught your eye and why . The rocky balboa, a couple of weeks ago toysrus and jc penny. They were packed, new Management Team was fantastic. All the wrong advice for penny almost killing the company, best buy was doing phenomenal business as well, macys, american eagle, urban outfitter, big disappointment was target, they according to merchandise christmas. More vacuum cleaners than christmas items. Nicole interesting, you are giving us some of the winners. Millennials are out. What about the tough economy . Youve been up 48 hours straight. Millennial are still on 34th street now, forever 21, american eagle, urban, macys, millennials are using it as a great event to socialize, stocks are reported well, they will spend record amounts online too. They want to get together with their friends and there are a number of great buys. Lauren you find the door busters but also the experience but i say to myself, its like cyber week, all week ive seen coming through to my email. You can get something equal to black friday maybe a little bit less but you can do so in the comfort of your own homes. Theres a number from retail fedderation that Online Shopping is only 11 of total Holiday Retail sells at 655 billion. I dont get it. It doesnt make sense to me. 17 . Thats it and growing 17 a year, itll double in the next decade. Only about a third of the business within ten years. Lauren interesting. Walmart is under doug dynamic ceo making phenomenal comeback, the depth, quality of the apparel they have, even art which is on the edge of the cliff had terrific and target really disappointing. Nicole you mentioned jc pennies, winners, you are putting positive spin on retail overall going into the holidays. Are you really bullish on this Group Overall . Bullish on the companies that have great leadership, barish on the landbase retail. Youve got 400 for retail footage in the u. S. And to your present point online is growing and almost an accelerating retail ice age where less capable retailers will reach a point of unplanned. Did you see the 18,000cartier watch that walmart is selling online, walmart and cartier, never thought i would say that in the same sentence. And Nieman Marcus with the new Trump White House on fifth avenue, nieman owns, so nieman markets both members and women are barricaded around both blocks as tiffanys. Tough times ahead and with walmart saying the 18,000dollar cartier watch maybe tougher for niemanmarcus. Lauren hopefully youll be in the market for that. [laughter] nicole shopping spree has started and began last night to some customers even for this boy. Im going to go shopping for my parents, my uncles and cousins. I guess im not going to go to sleep tonight. We will go to dinner and then go shopping. Nicole president elect donald trump working hard even on thanksgiving rock guitar yeah rock music you cant do this, you cant deny they feed us lines, but i wont act and all good things will come to pass but the truth is all you have to have and would you lie for it . Cry for it . Die for it . Would you . I believe believe were still worth the fight youll see theres hope for this world tonight i believe, i believe ive got headphones. I wasnt planning on these. Xbox, movies, games, tv. We are just looking around right now. How happy are you right now . Happy as i can be. Better than christmas. Lauren black friday maddens then happiness underway. Turkey has been cleared from the table and time to shop, shop, shop. We go live to new york on one of the busiest shopping days of the year. Good morning, happy black friday. Nicole how happy are you right now . Good morning, im nicole petallides. President elect trump spent with family in florida saying hes been working hard on keeping jobs right here in america. Lauren Trump Transition Team reportedly split for candidate for secretary of state. Nicole lets check out u. S. Stock market futures, s p and nasdaq on wednesday and lets check in on u. S. Stock market futures this morning, all up arrows, s p futures up 5. Lauren price of oil was down two days in a row and down again today. Day number three. Down 1 . Nicole good morning, 5 31 a. M. Here in new york, november 25th, we hope you had a nice thanksgiving. We welcome you to fbn am, first look at whats moving in todays markets and the latest breaking news. Lauren black friday, folks, if you didnt already know, one of the biggest and busiest shopping days of the year. With the deals rolling out earlier and earlier every year, stores like target and macys and walmart had buyers at their doors as early as wednesday. I got some headphones, i wasnt planning on these. X box, movies, games, tv. How happy are you right now . Happy as i can be. Better than christmas. [laughter] lauren popular items include electronics, cashmeres, hatchable eggs, they are not cheap. Cybermonday which is monday after this weekend following close behind. Nicole someone right on it since