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Words "big sis" in the sand in front of her. seems to confirm rumors the 32-year-old singer is once again pregnant. despite slashing prices, it was a disappointing holiday season for retailers. cnbc's jackie deangelis is here. how's it going? >> good morning, richard. the numbers are in and not pretty. according to mastercard spending pulse unit, sales for the eight weeks up to christmas rose only .7 of a percent from a year ago. compared with expectations of 3% to 4% growth and a 2% figure last year, and it's really not that fantastic. not only was the overall number disappointing, but the ...

Online shopping not as good as they thought it would be. they were thinking 15% to 17% growth, only 8.4% growth. $40billion fro. jaime: this is not from the retail federation, but the number five most popular gift on shoppers' lists this year were shoes. and no surprise a lot of thermathletic footwear. i'm just saying. >> reporter: when you're paying 500 bucks for a pair of sneakers could you get an ipad for that. jaime: you might be. the numbers you're telling us about, are they going to hold as we continue through the return season coming up? >> reporter: that is the key figure, right. are t...

Before election day. so what can we expect? we're joined by charles payne. before we get to that, earlier when you were on, we were talking about some of these utility crews coming from alabama and maybe that they weren't allowed to do some of the work there because they were in new jersey, which is a union state. it turns out now a lot of our viewers have said that actually they've seen the alabama crews working. so hopefully that is what's happening. >> hopefully it is. absolutely. although we saw the reports contrary to that. it wouldn't be surprising if that were the case. but hopefully ev...

Would say. obviously it was 7.8 percent unemployment and numbers suggest that we were sloppy as any other match we have the establishment and household survey. they did not match and people were calling the federal government saying they lied about this. there is incentive if it was 8.4 and we learned about it after the election. >> brian: big picture question. this will cost the economy billions of dollars and insurers 20 billion at least. this is devastating hurricane. what is that for the overall economy mean? >> it is not going to be much for the over all economy. for the insurers they kno...

Up 12.4 percent. the report sites job lost and high prices for the rise. if you break it down problems increase 8.4 percent in north central region and almost 30 percent in the west while they actually declined in the northeast and south. households earning more than 100,000 also experienced a slight rise in financial trouble. the largest was inability to afford medical care. the economy lost more jobs than created in the last four months. that changes the hardship levels are unlikely to get better. >> devil killer that could be my new nickname. >> that's right. it is 47 minutes after the hour...