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Another big retail sales period. the holiday gift returns he's in. sellers are hoping for a continuation of the big numbers they have been seeing since last month. correspondent anita vogel takes a look. >> whether online or actually waiting in a line, there's no question shopping was back in vogue this season. >> i am more excited about shopping. >> i usually don't go out and shop at this year i felt more positive. >> i like stores. i always prefer buying in stores. i see it and touch it and feel it. >> retailers got their wish sales grew at a faster pace than they have in the last five years...

The breadth of florida and going into georgia, so there will be hurricane-force winds well into georgia, perhaps into atlanta. imagine the potential impact of the storm. i just saw some research just this morning that was that pointed out that over the last 50 years we of got about $520 billion worth of damages from hurricanes. the estimate is the a combined harvey and irma, we may see 50% of that. >> why is this happening now? and is there anything these citiesing or states could have done to prepare? these are natural disasters. >> they are natural disasters. the risk is going to continue. t...

Bit about the export market that the chinese, that the united states so depends on when that is affected, what are the long term effects we're going to have on this economy? >> i think that the most important thing is you're going to see more and more money come out of china. you know, according to various estimates, there's been $520 billion that has left china in the last five quarters in both capital flight and capital investment. some people say that that number is more like $800 billion. but whatever that number is, a lot of it is coming into the united states. and that's also fueling the...

$800 billion perhaps has left china in the last year. 520 billion according to another account. and any event it's a lot of money and also coming into the united states, which is good for news one sense but it's not good for u.s. exporters. >> if you're the communist government, you're worried about what the people are going to do. >> certainly. and in shanghai, you had a mob which detained the head of a metals exchange nice were upset what he had donement they turned him over to at the police. we have had investors in china on the streets riot because they believe that the government should b...

>> david, let me help illustrate what you're talking about. we do have a graphic that we can show of the house defense budget. well it's actually the next one that i wanted to show because the one i want to show i need your help with the math here. this -- let me show you something. the house gop budget on defense is to the left side. the white house defense budget is to the right and these things look strikingly similar to us. for defense, 523 billion the house wants. the house wants 520 billion. the white house wants 51 billion. you end up with the same point 613 billion versus 612 billion. ...