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Director of research at consumer edge research. good to see you. thank you for joining us. talk to me about black friday. is it what it used to be, the day at which after being in the red all year, retailers would finally make a profit and be profitable for the rest of the year? is that what it is or is it just an occasion? >> it's an occasion. it's a season. we go from back to school to halloween and then pretty quickly into the black friday event. it's starting earlier. it incorporates the holiday itself, yesterday we were in stores, a team was in stores. then it will be next week with cyber...

On about five or six rows. >> announcer: what you just have to see. ♪ this is "new day" with chris cuomo, kate bolduan and michaela pereira. >> good morning. welcome back to "new day." it's friday, december 20th, 7:00 in the east. mother nature is threatening to mess up your holiday plans again. it's already snowing out west. there have been hundreds of accidents, thousands of people without electricity. in utah. tornadoes are possible in the midwest and severe storms are expected for parts of the east. so getting where you need to go this weekend could be a problem. indra petersons is track...

gw toye, "feet first" that's how we're going to start? >> little confusion? >> i have a really hard time reading today. >> i thought you didn't know who they were. >> one of the guys on the crew is actually in the band. political comedian, brejohn fugelsang and brett o'donnell, presidential campaign adviser and will cain is a columnist with blaze.com. nice to have all of you with us. no surprise, i think, about the charges yesterday. there was sort of a flurry that, in fact, george zimmerman would be charged and then there was a sense that maybe it wasn't coming immediately and then ...

♪ food, glorious food ♪ and finally, our favorite story of the day. when it comes to national days, saturday is a big one. it's national kazoo day and national blueberry pancake day. >> mm. are you kidding me? can you guess which of those two holidays we're going to celebrate here on "world news now"? well, thanks to the good folks over at driscoll's berries we are celebrating in style. we have like a platter full of berries here, raspberries, blueberries, and of course the holiday itself, blueberry pancakes. >> it's a very good time. laura and irene, we thank them again for coming in. >...