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Friday specials on thanksgiving day. people have been lining up for days to be sure they get exactly what they want. >> a tv for 180 a lap top for 200. my mom and dad think i am crazy but i will have cool stuff so it will be all right. >> the national federation says holiday spending will only increase 4 percent this year. >> a cease fire between israel and hamas appears to be holding. 8 days of bloody conflict and burning full scale ground invasion. peter doocy is live with all of the details for us. good morning, peter. >> good morning patti ann. the cease fire is more than half a day now. i...

Degrees. quick stop one cold front across new england another one across the midwest. >> thank you so much maria. now to stories you can bank on this morning. if you have an iphone, ipad or ipod hackers say they got their hands on millions of unique user id's. joining us is lauren simonetti. this effects most of our viewers. >> members of the hacker group said they broke into a lap top and found it contained the id numbers of 12 million iphones i pads and i pods. they dumped that data on to the internet to show the world the fbi is using your device information and tracking you. fbi officials ...

Math, 27th in science 27th in literacy. 30 percent drop out and never graduate. that statistic was dramatically illustrated on the national mall. one empty desk for each of the 857 students who drop out of school of every school day. there is no doubt public education is in crisis and the time to find a solution is now. coming up how innovative technology is revolutionizing learning. kids and parents tell us why it is working for them now. start off a public charter school in uma, arizona. ricks oxen the school's founder looked around his office one day and saw a lap top, a smart phone, tablet...

>> we have repurpose pussed or funding. we have 19 districts in funding we are considered a modestly funded school district. >> how much do you spend per purple? >> 7,400 per pupil per year. >> what's a cost of the a family? we charge a $50 what we call a user fee. we have had families who fwraut in a big jar of coins who are in tough times they said we are in. here's our $50. >> while his budget was cut he had to layoff 10 percent of his calf including 37 teachers his reforms improve graduation rates from 77 to 91 percent in five years. how did he find the money for a lap top? >> we have move...

For school was a notebook. don't forget lugging all of the expensive heavy textbooks around. >> you don't have textbooks. >> the biggest thing in your book bag is your computer. >> welcome to what could be the future of education located here in moorsville north carolina. stop here. moorsville is probably best known as the home of nascar raci racing not tore state of the art school. now the school district is gaining national attention over its conversion to 21st century technology. it's visionary superintendent is dr. mark edwin. >> all of the students 3rd through 12th have laptops and we are...