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WTXF Good Day Philadelphia November 28, 2014

Paying. Yes. So, we needed it because we are trying to navigate traffic on this black friday but roads seem quiet. It is in the like it has been in years pad. All of the shopping started earlier in the week. Yes. But still there are some icy spots and there are folks out there. There are. We saw snow on the ground in our suburban areas. I was up in bucks county, couple inches up there. For rest of us, down right cold. Six on a scale of one to ten. Sunny and nice looking. Very chilly. With the winds gusting later today chills in the teens. Bus stop buddy is raising lines in the shops today, very cold. Temperatures in the 30s. But again those chills in the teens. Thirtyseven is your fox cast for today, bright sun, breezy and cold west northwest wind gusting to 25 miles an hour at times. Clear, temperatures will fall off quickly bottom out at 22, teens and the suburbs and maybe even some flurries flying on saturday. Wintry start to the weekend. We will have have that full seven day forecast coming up in a bit but now lets check with in with bob. Just after 7 00 oclock. 7 02. Tgif on a friday morning we are in good shape on our major roadways. There is light volume out there, but what we are finding though is some icy spots, on on and off ramps. We have had a handful of accidents right out of the early go. Heres a live look checking in with king of prussia, mall there in the background, there is route 202, light volume on the roads. We are seeing volume pop in areas, parking lot, but nothing like what we have seen in years past. Live look at 422, folks heading out toward the outlets in limerick. Live look at another shot of 202, better shot actually of the parking lot, the target there off to the left at king of prussia. So when parking in the, parking spots, walking up toward the mall, watch it there could be icy spots left over there with the cold temps overnight. Live look near Oxford Valley mall in problems or delays there. All bridges look fine and mass transit running with no reported delays, chris and alex, back over to you. Thank you so much. It is black friday. So millions of people around the country are rushing, Shopping Center trying to find a good deal this black friday. You are in mount laurel, in years past, black friday has been a crazy mad dash, right . This year seems a little different . What . Reporter that is because mad dash was thanksgiving night after dinner when all of the other Stores Opened like target this place has been opened since 6 00 p. M. And they had a line then and they had specials then and that is where everybody got here to get in line and get their shopping done a lot of people told us they would rather go out and have an early thanksgiving dinner and go out with the full belly, and fully rested rather than deal with the cold, and waiting out in line and sleeping in tents and all those things. I think black fridays mad dash and road rage situation he had in years past had been ease need thanksgiving opening and shoppers we met this morning are those anti thanksgiving people, saying they benefited by not having to deal with the big crowds, they used to deal with and the rushing and the elbow, and the knocking in to the doorways that we used to see at Franklin Mills mall. Plus, these stores have gotten wise. They hand out tickets to people inside line. There were fights in the aisles over the last thing that was on sale. Now you know, before the doors even opened that you have a guarantee thaw can get this item without the ticket they dont sell it to you in places like best buy. Dan is here with us. Lets start with the history. People dont necessity how we got name black friday. It originated in this area. That is right, philadelphia lure. Black friday, the name, started in the mid 60s when Philadelphia Police, nicknamed the friday after thanksgiving black friday because of the traffic problems. So this name comes from the philadelphia area. Reporter not getting in the black like everybody says, that is just a myth now. That is a myth now, it was by Philadelphia Police because of traffic problems. Reporter we talked about traffic to start this segment. Yep. Reporter traffic here is not as bad as we have have seen here. Heres the deal, the average family has about 15 extra dollars this week, because gas prices are lower. Average family has an extra 15 bucks in their pocket to spend. That is why most analyst think that this black friday, this is black week because it is extending the whole week will be more robust than last year. More robust. Reporter what do you think lead story will be on the financial pages about this seasons shopping season. Lead story is all about cyberspace because that is where the axis this year. Sales on the internet will be up about 15 percent this year verse stores, regular brick stars will be just about flat. It is all about the sliding and clicking on your smart phone. Reporter you are one of the best ads in history. You told us a story about your daughter. Shes shopping and spending but not leaving her bedroom. I have a 17 yearold out here somewhere having fun with her friend not spending much money because we didnt give her much. My 23 yearold home from medical school last night said ims doing my christmas shopping. She went back to her room. She was doing it on line. Shes not out here as she has been in years past fighting crowds for that last furby for a couple bucks off. Reporter shopping on line you get better deals. Interestingly enough they have done an a analysis and found on line shopping, in fact for the the most part you can get the same or better deals in many cases. There is always that head line door buster to try to get folks into the stores but more and more, steve, we are seeing a convergens between what you can do on line verse brick and mortar. Reporter big day cyber monday. 2. 6 billion in sales is the estimate, the biggest on line shopping day in history by the way. Not a lot of people will get a lot of work done. I dont know about you over at fox. There is a lot of companies that will not see productivity on cyber monday. Reporter what do you think is the big draw on line on monday. Big gifts will be no questions, i phone six, number one. That will be the kill they are season. After thaw will see things like that fit bit, you are a fit guy, i dont use one. I dont know if you use one. I dont under tan those things. Fit bit is number two. Youre also going to see anything related to the movie frozen is real hot with the little kids this year. Look at this guy here. That big tv. Alex and chris dont be afraid to warn people about this a lot of people are buying big tvs like this and cannot fit it in the vehicle once they get it in the vehicle. I saw one lady. I said what did you do she said i thought i had 60 inches of space in my car and didnt realize the tv box was going to be so big. This guy, even though he has the suv he will struggle to get that in there. It is a hard to believe any one doesnt have any of them yet but big screen tvs are real popular especially those High Definition big screen tv this guy will do a good job. I will they tonight my minivan. Reporter that is the new business if you want to start a business. Go to one of these place west a pickup truck or big truck and offer to follow people home and make sure you are bonded and insured of course and offer a delivery service. Im telling you, that is happening a lot. We want to watch them put it in the car. Reporter we have these curved tv that makes the box even wider accord together guys in the story talk to. They say people are buying these things and then they want to take it back and return it, until they can figure out a way or ask if they have a delivery service. Thises a common site we will see today. Afterwards i will put the mike down and i will offer to help. I have help like five people today and making tips. He is by himself. It looks likes good start there. I will hand chris the the microphone and go try to help him. They have to get that hatch closed. There they go. Look at that. All right. You know what they will do now, it fit, lets trade it in for a bigger one. Reporter this does not fit in here. But it is sticking out 2 feet out the back so it is funny, i mentionedded that on the air and these guys are realizing that they over bought, and the vehicle looked a lot bigger inside the store when you are buying one of these big tvs. That is a common occurrence, folks, in the market for 55 or 60inch tv make sure you have a big truck. All right. Victory. No Rearview Mirror use though. That is true. That is great. Thanks, steve. Now you have to go by a bigger car first and then head out. Are there black friday deals on cars. There will be now. Lets go to king of prussia and check with jenny joyce talking to bargain hunters out there. Reporter hi alex, good morning to you. All morning long we have been talking about how it is not that crazy because mall has been opened pretty much since 6 00 oclock yesterday but what i did find interesting is i was Walking Around in between live shots and certain stores, steve is talking about vittoria secret earlier. Vittoria secret was absolutely pack. It depends on what you want and what you are looking for. Kathy smith is here. You are with the mall. How is morning looking, what do you think. I think morning is shaping up. We have just reopened up at 6 00a lot of people here were overnight shopping at Victoria Secret and stores like that. Im thinking we will see a peak traffic time between one and 4 00 this year. Because of having opened early yesterday. Reporter that is interesting. Maybe some people went home, they slept and they are getting geared backup for this afternoon. If they do, in addition, you have a lot of parking but we see a lot of people with bags. So if they dont want to drag everything out to the car there is some help, and shuttles. Absolutely, we wanted to make the experience as positive and stress free as possible. There are a couple things they can do, or if they dont know the the mall that well. We have anybody who is interested can check those, check their coat and bag. At one of the Guest Services center. We offer a free courtesy shuttle. It takes customers from every entrance to the mall to the next entrance to the next if somebody wants to get to two different end of the mall they can just take the shuttle. Reporter and rest those legs. I like it. Without the credit card, rest the legs. Something else we want to tell you. We have seen stores in the the storefronts. They post their discounts and deals however there is a big social media push. King of prussia mall is on twitter. You guys are posting deals on twitter. We have our black friday twitter page, busy at work and these are for people who comb the mall and look for best deals and they tweet them out. If you follow us on twitter, you will get these tweets as to where to find best deals in the mall. Social media is really important for us and it is a great way for people to stay involved with the spellings sales and offers. Facebook page, web sites, twitter, instagram, all of these are great ways to stay in touch with what is out there right now. Reporter twitter handle is at kop under score mall. Correct. There is also a hash tag, black friday kop. Hash tag black friday kop, thank you. Also, coming up king of prussia mall lots of new stores, 15 new stores what are the highlights. Thanks wonderful, thank you. We have opened up a lot of International Stores this career year including ted baker london, uni clothed. We have opening up of 640 bit. And club monaco. Those are just a few out of the 15. Reporter more than 400 stores out here. If you didnt think king of prussia could get any better, and bigger, it can. Big addition is expect to be done in 2016. We can all be excited for. That chris and alex. All right, thank you very much. This was a great, great feeling. Philadelphia eagles knocked the stuffing out of the cowboys yesterday. Mark sanchez was 20 for 29, most importantly, no interceptions, how about shady mccoy, ripped through the dallas defense with 159 yards on 25 carries. There he goes. Off the right side, he will break left. He is going. This is the shady we saw all year last year and in the last couple few games shady had looked good. Is this the same player. Same guy. That was a controversy he faced earlier this week, right. Twentyfive carries, a 38yard touchdown run in the third quarter. Eagles wound up with 256 yards on the ground while Holding Cowboys to just 268 total yards. Heres what chip kelly said a after the game. I thought i guys played hard. We knew like i said, nontraditional week you have to play with a lot of energy and bring it. I thought our guys did that. They were all over romo. I love that dance. Look at that. Boom. Eagles are nine and 36789 they lead nfc east by within game over the dallas cowboys. They now have ten days to get ready for their next game against the defending champion seattle seahawks, that game at the link, not this sunday but next sunday. We will face cowboys a week after that again at the link this will be fun. Before the show is over i will teach you to dance. You can do it. You know, these rolling chairs they move too much. Everybody dancing and celebrating, we have caught up with the eagles fans to get their take on the game and their predictions for what is to come. They are somewhat in an advantage in their division and two weeks we will find out more because they will play them again. Lesean mccoy showed up. Offensive line is healthy again. Lesean is playing great. Sanchez looks like a stud like he is, you know. Next week we will take care of seattle and send these cowboys all home. Cowboys down, eagles going up. Playoffs here we come, lets get ready philadelphia a. Were excited. Fans seemed to like the way the team looked yesterday and, of course, we have high hopes for the future. We will have g. Cobb in here at 7 45 to talk eagles. After the grand jury decision in the Michael Brown shooting, they are boycotting black friday. Some protesters spend a few minutes in stores shouting from the outside. Organizers of boycott black friday say they mean for things to be peaceful and they want to draw attention to what they call an unfair justice system. They are encouraging africanamerican consumers to turn to economic activism by staying home on the busiest shopping day of the year. They say boycotts like this, they have been have been successful in the past. Baltimore maryland, the government got the message and they changed their patterns. Others are planning to march through Shopping Mall in silence and pray tore get their message across. All right. If you are out shopping today on this black friday it could not be any better weather. Not wet, really. We did see overnight temperatures dip below freezing point, so there might be ice to wake up to. Just a little bit and just cold thaw are braving out there other than that, maybe cleaning up still from our wednesday storm. It is quiet. Ultimate doppler showing snow showers back to the west and not making it here not to day. Fox future cast lets zoom ahead into saturday morning after a sunny nice day clear skies tonight, flurries possible early up in the mountains and Higher Elevations where it is easiest to get those snow showers to make ate cross the state. By noon we see that snowfall southward. That could drop an inch quick as those squals move by. It looks like it is quick moving. Not out of the question especially north and west of fail to see a little bit of snow tomorrow on a cloudy still cold saturday. We will clear it out. We have sunshine coming back for sunday. Lets check temperatures. Twentyfour mount pocono. Twentyeight allentown. Twentyeight pottstown 32. In philadelphia a lowest our temperature has dropped to. Thirtyone in wilmington. Twentynine in millville. But even with a 10 miles an hour wind which is what we have outside right now wind chills in the 20s. For today very chilly. Thirtyseven is our high temperature. Mostly sunny, breezy and cold gusts to 25 miles an hour at times. Seven take forecast a little bit of warming but these chances for warm weather are fewer and further between. But 37 breezy and cold today, last temple home games at the link. May have flurries flying, it is cloudy and cold. Not as harsh buys for sunday. We will warm it up to 60 on monday. That will feel nice. We will see temperatures falling off quickly. Thirtynine that colder change on tuesday, chance of some showers, wednesday and thursday. So lets look at your seven day forecast, no problems in the weather department. How are we looking at the roads, bob. Not that bad, 7 18 on this friday morning. Hello deptford new jersey. Live look, stack and pack in the parking lot there. We have change the name by the way from sky fox, i had chopper relettered it is call shopper chopper. I like that. It has a ring to it. I got a good deal on the letter. We will be flying around all over the area. Live look from the deptford mall, deptford, new jersey as the sun begins to rise. I have asked the friend of my to help fly the chopper this morning. Cap you have them coming backup here in just a moment. There is santa. Alex, you need to be on your best behavior. Santa is in the chopper. Im on the nice list. Chris. Nice list . Well, vote is still out on that one. Thanks, santa heres i95 near the stadium areas as sun begins to rise but watch on and off ramps that could have icy spots on them like here on route 611, icy spots near easton road. Major roadways are in good shape, schuylkill, i95 and 202 rolling into kop, no problems there. Chris, back over to you. You know what today marks one month. One month. And listen, you have a theme song, we found it out this week. From the eagles pep band. And now changing name of sky fox to shopper chopper. Wow. I got a deal on the paint job too, may co, boom. He is changing things. Congratulations. He bought us coffee this morning. Thanks, bob. Before you head out, listen up, there are some things that may seem like a great deal but they are not, what you should not buy today straight ahead. Plus Christmas Lights they are going up on homes around the country and this home owner is going all out, can you guess, how many lights are on this house. Deciding which bread to buy can be tough. Deciding between buying bread and health care is much tougher. Healthy pa is now here to help, with namebrand Health Insurance for the cost of a few basic groceries. If youre uninsured, visit healthypa. Com to learn more. Clear skies today. If you are planning to help for black friday for day on these clear skies day you need to know there are some things not to buy this black friday. So lets get to the Fox Business Network studio lauren simonnetie i necessity a lot of

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