arthel: tomorrow marks two weeks since the bootal murder of four students gripped the nation. investigators have collected more than 100 items of evidence, conducted does ons of interviews and they zaire looking into the possibility one victim had a stalker. but still no suspect and no murder weapon. welcome to "fox news live," i'm arthel neville bryan: and i'm bryan llenas. two other big stories at this hour, a dramatic rescue captured on camera.

the u.s. coast guard pulling a man to safety hours after he fell off a massive cruise ship in the gulf of mexico. they're calling it a thanksgiving mering cl, and migrants keep pouring in, questions about whether they're a being screened properly after border officials say they caught over 600 criminal migrants last month alone. arthel: and we have live fox team coverage for you, or casey stegall in eagle pass, texas, alexandria hoff on that dramatic rescue in the gulf of mexico, but first, dan springer many moscow, idaho, with the latest of the murders of those four college students. dan. >> reporter: in the absence of any concrete evidence in this homicide medication, there's been a lot of chatter, a lot of speculation that they may be connected to two other fatalal stabbing attacks that happened in this community and around here, and they have not come up with any evidence that there is

a connection to the four students killed in that horrific might have attack almost two weeks ago. the most recent case involved a couple in salem, oregon, in 2021. they were attacked in their bed while sleeping at 3 a.m., so some similarities, for sure. but police now say they don't believe this and a 23-year-old double homicide knife attack in nearby pullman, washington, about 6 miles away from here, are related to their case. we did see investigators back at the crime scene for the first time in a few days. it was the fbi's behavioral analysis unit with. they walked around the rent aral house, they also went inside for a while and came out carrying what could have been a small bag of evidence. this is the team charged with developing a profile the of the killer. if they have one, they have not shared it with the public. there was also some activity at the moscow police department last night. we saw the county prosecutor, bill thompson, meeting with fbi agents. we're told he has been here every day for a briefing, in fact, we saw him again today, but right now he's got no one to

prosecute for this heinous quadruple homicide that has shaken the community. tomorrow it will be two weeks since the fatal stabbings. classes are set to resume here on monday. we have no idea how many students will make it back. he was the option of going online. there is also a vigil planned for these four victims wednesday on campus. arthel? the. arthel: very sad story. dan springer, thank you very much. we're going to have a lot more when former d.c. homicide detective and fox news contributor ted williams joining us later this hour. bryan: now to that the remarkable rescue in the gulf of mexico. the u.s. coast guard saving a man who had a fallen from a carnival cruise ship hours earlier. the ship sailed from new orleans thanksgiving eve. he was pound thanksgiving day floating near the mouth of the mississippi river. alexandria hoff live with just incredible story. alex? >> reporter: well, bryan, what a makes this story of survival,

this passenger so miraculous and so unlikely is that no one reported seeing him fall in, so it's not even known -- it was not even known that he had gone overboard until the next afternoon, and yet he was spotted, keeping himself afloat inside dark waters of the gulf. it's believed the man had been treading water for up to 21 hours at that point. the coast guard rushed in to organize a rescue after a cargo ship spotted the man about 20 miles from the mouth of the mississippi river as you're seeing in that video. he was hoisted to safety. at one point you could actually see him wave to the rescuers. the coast guard rescue cue mission coordinator shared, quote: it took a total team effort from watch standers, response crews and our professional maritime partners operating in the gulf of mexico to locate the missing individual and get him to safety. first responders say the man who has not been identified was

exhibiting hyperthurmic-type symptom. according to the ap, he was last seen by his sister around 11 p.m. the night before when he left the bar. she reported her brother missing when it was clear he did not make it to his stateroom. just 6 hours later, before 8:30 p.m. that rescue was made9 -- made. and the cruise ship was bound for coaz cozumel, mexico. that ship turned around and retraced its route. bryan: 21 hours of treading water. water polo athletes tread for about an hour, and they're the best athletes on the planet. 21 hours is absolutely remarkable. looking forward to an interview with that person. alexandria hoff, thank you. arthel: it just wasn't husband i'm. now to the latest at the southern border where customs and border protection saying agents caught more than 600 criminals in october. they say fentanyl and cocaine seizures were up last month as well. senior koren respondent casey

strigl -- correspondent casey stegall is live with the latest. >> reporter: hey, arthel. this as growing calls from republicans for secretary alejandro mayorkas, the head of dhs, to resign. but dhs signaling that secretary mayorkas is going nowhere, saying that the agency actually inherited a broken immigration system, and then they pointed the finger right back at lawmakers saying that members of congress should come to the table and work on solutions for the broken system and outdated laws. mayorkas also contends that they do have a plan in place to deal with another possible migrant surge when title 42 comes to an end next month. but those out here on the front lines say that plan has not been made clear and laid out to them, and they can barely keep up with things as is. >> well, let's be clear why we're not seeing a relief, and the reason is because the white

house continues to deflect and lie about what's currently going on. they're trying to set a new normal. >> reporter: meantime, two large groups captured by our cameras here in eagle pass morning illegally crossing, one about 180 in size and then a second of almost 3 to-- 300 captured on the outskirts of town. this sector the continues to be a hot spot for crossings in terms of those large groups. while in philadelphia, two more migrant buses a arrived from texas there in the last 24 hours carrying more than 70 migrants to the country's interior. texas has sent a total of four buses now to the city of brotherly love in addition to those that have already gone to chicago, new york and d.c. arthel, back to you. arthel: all right. take it back here, chris city steigel live there in eagle pass, texas. thank you, casey. bryan: a live look at the white house where president biden will return tomorrow from thanksgiving weekend on the

massachusetts island of nantucket. he'll face the possibility of a railroad strike that could devastate an economy already strug having with high inflation. lucas tomlinson is following the president and joins us live from nantucket. lucas, i want to start off with this breaking news. chevron, apparently, has given a new u.s. license to pump oil in venezuela. what's the latest that you have on that? >> reporter: that's right, bryan. just a short time ago when president biden arrived here to do some shopping in nantucket in this little town for small business saturday, the treasury department put out a statement and and said it was authorizing chevron to reassume pumping oil in venezuela. now presumably this is to help lower the price of gasoline. it's a 6-month license, surely going to anger republican lawmakers on capitol hill who want to see domestic oil production increase inside the united states and perhaps anger some progressives who are against fossil fuels. while shopping president biden was also asked, bryan, about his

plans for or 2024. >> reporter: mr. president, how are your 2024 conversations going? >> not happening. we're celebrating. >> go to amazon, okay in. >> biden enjoys shopping off the coast of massachusetts, around the world thousands of amazon workers walking off the job citing low pay and poor working conditions. the protests come with a massive railroad strike potentially looming and a shutdown could be devastating for the economy, bryan, because trains move about a third of all goods in this country including toys and coal. here's the american chemistry council president and ceo. >> and our country literally cannot afford a shutdown of the rail network. this is an economic calamity waiting to happen, and it's something that is the completely preventable. >> reporter: if there is no deal, the railroad unions will go on strike on december 9th, that's just about two weeks

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♪ ♪ arthel: well, there is some unfinished business on capitol hill before lawmakers leave for the holidays. the lame duck session needs to deal with funding the government past the december 16th deadline, renewing the national defense authorization act and confronting the debt limit. let's bring in david hawking now, what i'm going to do is ask you to game out how congress will swing on and other critical legislation. so let's start whether they fund the government and avoid a government shutdown? and also, who stands to suffer muttically during the process? >> oh, great. well, that second part's a great question. he was until december 16th, that's the next deadline. i think it is possible that the republicans will feel ornery and will want to push towards a shutdown by saying no to whatever deal the democratics --

democrats cut, but i don't think any shutdown would last very long. i think at this point mt. year the democrats have everything to gain and not much to lose by pushing hardt. of course, their time -- hard. their time with unified control of the government ends at the end of the year, so they're going to push very hard, and republicans, this is the time when republicans don't have to share in the power, they can say no as much as they want, so they might try and say now over -- no over that weekend of the 16th, but i think government will be funded by the time congress goes home for the year. arthel: and that second part, whoever's saying no for no real good reason, are they going to be kind of scorned politically? >> oh, right. so this is the golden moment. in the congressional cycle where almost nothing -- [laughter] nothing silly or nothing obstructionist that the naysayers will do would be held against them because there's almost two more years til next election. it's sort of why they call it the lame duck.

this is the time when members who are leaving, obviously, have no political, nothing political to gain or lose -- arthel: they have a legacy. >> i'm sorry? arthel: i said they have a legacy, but we move on. i got your point. let's go to the ndaa. will they pass a must-pass bill to set up our military policy for the next year, david? >> i think, yes, yes, they will. this is one of few -- this is the only bill that has to happen every year that has always happened without fail. for for now i think it's the 63 straight years. if they do it this year, it'll be the 63rd consecutive time they've gotten it done. sometimes it takes til the last minute, but sticking up for the national defense, in the end, is something they don't want to play politics with, so it'll get done. arthel: some republicans have threatened to hold the debt ceiling hostage. of course, deep spending cuts. for example, les talks of cutting social security. would be a smart political moye for the gop?

>> so the gop can't -- if the debt limit happens, if legislation to extend the debt limit happens now, it will be because the democrats want to use their majority control over the congress during these the last weeks to take away from the republicans the chance to take the debt limit hostage. but it would take time, and i don't think that they will do it before christmas. i don't think it'll happen this year. too time consuming. they will say, look, next year when the republicans have partial ownership of the governor, they need to be the responsible and do it. this is one of the great, i call it some of the great made-up crises in all of government, because this shouldn't be an issue. it's the an issue only in the united states and denmark. every other country in the world the debt goes up as congress needs to borrow money or as the government needs to borrow money. here for the last 30 years it has been a republican hostage-taking exercise whenever they can. it's not a good idea. this is about paying the bills of the past, not about charging new things in the future.

this is about paying for things that presidents of both parties, congresses of both parties have agreed to do. but i don't think that democrats are going to let them off the hook by spending valuable time in this lame duck getting it done. arthel: really quickly, although this is a big deal, but the president while he still has that raise razor-thin majority, do you think president biden will secure an assault on -- ban on assault weapons? >> no, because to do that would require at least 60 votes in the senate. there aren't 60 votes, meaning 10 republicans, to do it. it will not happen year. that's a long way off, and a very, very tall is ask. i think there are other things that might get done between now and christmas that are equally big deals. i do think they will enact a law enshrining the right to interracial and same-sex marriage, and i do think they are likely to get a law done called the electoral count act which would close a bunch of

loopholes that allowed much of january 6th shenanigans to happen two years ago. arthel: david hawkings, we will leave it there. editor-in-chief of "the fulcrum." thank you very much. >> thanks so much, arthelful. arthel: take care. bryan: just ten days to go until georgia's senate runoff, but early voting is underway today as of today after the state supreme court ruled many favor of democrats. governor brian kemp is out stomping for republican herschel walker as he looks to unseat incumbent raphael warnock. senior correspondent steve harrigan is live at an early voting site in atlanta. steve, how's it looking out there? >> reporter: bryan, big crowds here and at many polling places across georgia. there seems to be a lot of excitement and enthusiasm to come out yet again and vote in another runoff race here. the line at this library is about an hour and a half right now, and this is a runoff race for senate between democratic

senator raphael warnock and former football star, republican herschel walker. and both sides have been pouring a lot of money into this runoff campaign. more than $350 -- 35 million total on both sides just for tv and radio ads. we spoke to some people online today, asked hem why they were coming out to vote early. >> every election's important to me because someone went through the trouble of making sure that i had the right to vote is, so i want to exercise my right to vote every single chance i get. >> we're voting early because the opportunity to vote early is really nice but also because we're a headed out of town, so we're thankful for this opportunity. >> reporter: war mach was ahead by -- warnock was ahead by 37,000 votes in the first round, he failed to reach 50%, however. the real battle has been around here in the atlanta suburbs. both sides moving toward the center, trying to reach independent and moderate voters, and walker is now end enlisting

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arthel: detectives looking into the idaho quadruple murder saying they do not see a connection between the case many

two other unsolved saabings mt. pacific northwest. there are striking similarities though as all three victims were stabbed multiple times, and two of them -- a husband and wife in oregon -- or were also sleeping when they were attacked. no suspect or murder weapon many those cases either. meanwhile, tomorrow will mark two weeks since the deadly attack in moscow, idaho. ted williams, a foreman d.c. homicide detective -- former d.c. homicide detective and fox news contributor joins us now. ted, investigators are ruling out a connection to those other stabbings. still, many unanswered questions. as a former homicide detective yourself, what did you glean when you were on the ground there, and what do you still want to know at this point? >> well, good afternoon, arthel. i can tell you law enforcement has a tremendous job to do there in moscow, idaho. on the scene you see it full in

front of you that this house, house where the killer entered that primarily you want to determine where did he enter, through the front door or through one of the sliding glass doors on the second floor? i believe that he possibly or she, the perpetrator, came through that slide aring back door. my reason being is that the first floor is where the two surviving students would have stayed, lived. so if he came through the sliding glass door on the back side of the house, you're automatically on the second floor. bodies were found on the second and third floor of this house, and i think that's where law enforcement is focusing its attention. pleasure. arthel: understood. so do you think that investigators perhaps maybe know more than they're telling the public, and is it possible that they might have an idea of when they could be able to wrap this case up?

>> well, i think they clearly know more than they're telling public. i think that case is going to be driven by the forensics. the idaho state police crime lab, i understand, is working around the clock on this case. the problem they're having, arthel, is that this was considered a party house meaning that there were a great deal of people in and out of this house. so they've got a great deal of evidence that they're having to process. as to whether they will identify the killer, i think that that clearly will happen, and i'm hoping it happens soon. arthel: what's your thoughts on the stalker angle? >> i don't think there is mig to that. i do -- anything to that. i do believe law enforcement, it's a lead that they have to check out. law enforcement has told us that the individual or individuals

who murdered these four young people, that somebody in that to house was targeted. and so if that is the case, it is more likely than not it wasn't a stalker, that it was someone who was somewhat familiar with that home and had been in there before. arthel: hmm. i hate to ask this, but you're also a lawyer. could civil lawsuits be filed at some point? >> there are the always a possibility that the families of these kids may very well file a civil lawsuit, but i think what they're doing right now and while on the ground i saw it, arthel, they're doing all they can to help the authorities to bring the perpetrator or perpetrators to justice. they've put flyers up there, they've posted hem, and so they're really trying to help. one of the things that they're doing is asking anybody that has

any any video to give it to law enforcement. and to think about this, this was a very vicious crime scene where there was a lot of blood. so if someone came home and they had bloody clothes or someone had scratches about their body, law enforcement would love to hear from those individuals. arthel: yeah. and, of course, it makes total sense that the families just want to get answers. i mean, you know, who took the lives of those innocent students and their loved ones in not worrying about any kind of civil lawsuit at this point. that makes total sense. so, ted, you've been doing incredible work on this. we're going to keep talking to you as everyone, the nation, wants answers in this horrible, brutal murder of those students. former d.c. homicide detective and fox news contributor ted williams, as always, hang. >> my pleasure. thank you. kaylee goncalves, madison logan,

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city of kherson, officials there are now organizing evacuations of locals. kyiv and cities across the country clawed back their vital services. the critical infrastructure here the latest target of moscow's menace while 75% of the pour has been -- power has been restored since the latest barrages, there are still blackouts and shortages of water and if energy. as folks here today remember with feeling an historic moment. take a look. candles lit at a memorial in kyiv marking the 90th anniversary of a moscow-orchestrated horror against ukraine. meaning even more today. at the time ukraine was a part of soviet union. then-soviet leader josef stalin enforced a brutal program that ended up starving and killing millions. now widely considered genocide. this period in the '30s is called death by hunger.

as ukraine deals with the current invasion by and suffering from russia. >> translator: i think it's important because this is a bitter page in our history, and we need to bring it to our younger generations. >> it is very important now even in the wartime to remember the victims, remember the reasons. >> of course it's important because i feel that russia has the same gall in this war as in 1932, 199 33. >> reporter: president zelenskyy also visited the memorial today. his words, once hay wanted to destroy us with hunger, now with darkness and cold. he went on to say we cannot be broken, our fire will not go out. we will conquer death again. doesn't get much stronger than that. back to you, bryan. bryan: no, it does not. greg palkot, thank you for your

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media, and now officials in mexico have issued an arrest warrant for a suspect in the death of an american tourist who is apparently seen being beaten in a social media video. the suspect is an unnamed american woman. 25-year-old robinson was found dead in cabo, mexico, october 29th just one day after she and six so-called friends arrived at the resort. a local prosecutor says the case is being treated as a potential homicide. >> just or horrific. bryan: elsewhere around the world protests now in their third month many iran after a woman died in police custody for allegedly violating a dress code, and equally rare demonstrations in china over prolonged covid lockdowns while in ukraine russian strikes are crippling critical infrastructure and in and around the capital, kyiv, as winter approaches. let's bring in former cia

station chief dan hoffman. he's served in moscow, iraq and pakistan. also a fox news contributor. dan, thanks so much for being here. let's begin in kyiv. 70% of the capital city's, well, power, water supply knocked out by the russians. where are we right now in terms of the war? it seems to me that this is now a war of attrition. i'm wondering what you think of where we are now. >> i think russia's resorting to these brutal tack techs, terrorizing ukraine's civilian population, because their military strategy has been such an utter failure. fox news has reported that u.s. ambassador to ukraine bridget brink has said that russia's tack techs are the i give -- tactics are the equivalent of war crimes, and that's a big deal. and, you know, it's not going to sap the will of ukrainians to fight back. they're going the take this fight to the finish, and i think that russia's brutal, savage tactics are only energizing the

european union and nato to step up support for ukraine. bryan: where does this say about where vladimir putin stands with his inner circle given the fact that he's resorted to these types of attacks and, i believe, has been out of the public eye for quite some time. what do you believe, what do you make of where vladimir putin is right now and the pressure he's facing. >> i think vladimir putin is at his most vulnerable point in his 20 the-year reign -- 20-year reign in the kremlin. just a week ago my former colleague at the cia, the deputy director for operations, dave marlo, made a very rare appearance, public appearance, and said, hey, we're open for business to all those to russians who might disagree with vladimir putin's horrific strategy which has spilled a lot of ukrainian blood, but it's also spilling a lot of russian blood and treasure too. that war is coming home to russia. and putin's inner circle --

putin didn't do what stalin did, he purged his inner circle when the nazis were at the gate. so putin has to deal with his own military, intelligence and security professionals who may not like the way the war has gone. and he's also got to deal with a population that is increasingly at odds with russia's war. it's now entering its 10 month, a war that putin said would last only a few days, and you'll recall he called it a special military operation. of bryan: the fought is perhaps putin wants to prolong the war to break western unity. there are some signs that perhaps that may be happening, politico reporting there are european political officials who are outwardly accusing the u.s. of profiting from this war. obviously, europe is dealing with a serious energy crisis. what do you make of these private and public comments from the unipeen union that perhaps -- european union that perhaps the the united western front might be cracking. >> i think often times foreign

policy's making the best maybe of two bad choices. you know, it's costing a lot to support ukraine. but remember, the ukrainians are the ones on the front lines fighting and dying. they've done more than any nato member has ever done to confront russia's aggression. but the worst strategy would be to deny ukraine the air defense, the stingers, the javelins, the drones that they need to counter russia's brutal offensive. we've got, you know, it's the right thing to do because of all the human rights violations. just a couple of days ago russia targeted another maternity ward in zaporizhzhia, and ukraine is fighting for democracy. they're on the geopolitical fault line between russia's dictatorship and a country striving for freedom. bye. brien: january: the ukrainian -- iranian ayatollah praising the revolutionary guard paramilitary force for what heavy been doing

in cracking down on protests there since september 16th. what to you make of the ayatollah coming out publicly and where, what the u.s. how old do about this situation? should we be doing more? >> well, so, you know, the iranians are frustrated and angry over their economic, other their just horrific economy, over the fact that iran spends an inordinate amount of money to support these proxy militias in lebanon, hezbollah, yemen -- in iraq and other places. these protests have been going on over two months, and they've got serious staying power. the united states is doing the right thing by working with the united nations. the human rights council is going to take up an investigation of iran. we can sank iranian officials. behind the scenes there are things we can do to help make sure there's communication inside iran so that the protesters can engage effectively with one another and plan. but make no mistake, we also

have to be concerned about the potential for iran to launch aggressive military attacks to take the attention away from these domestic troubles. we've got to be on the highest alert not just in the middle ooh east, but beyond that region as well. bryan: and finally in china, public anger a making itself -- this is rare. we're seeing public anger mt. streets in china over lockdowns. some 10 people died in a residential building after they were locked in, essentially, during these covid-19 lockdowns. what do you make of these will public protests and their threat to chairman xi? >> yeah. well, look, china concealed the outbreak of the coronavirus, they concealed the severity of the virus from the international community and their own people. their health care system is horrific and can't handle the dress and the strain of a real -- the stress and the strain of a pandemic that they are faced with. and the people there are frustrated with government mismanagement. and the hinge that we all have in common here, russia, china, iran, it's not like the people

can turn to their elected leaders and have a debate about policy and have their voices heard. i know it's messy in our country and democracy's not perfect, but it works, and it's not working real well. that's why these autocracies are so brittle. the other thing in china's case, right next door in taiwan, that's a democracy, and they've done fantastically well dealing with covid-19, coronavirus pandemic. and that's a great contrast that, i'm sure, angers xi jinping quite a bit. bryan: no doubt the greatest threat to autocratic regimes is from their own people. thank you for that autocratic tour around the world, dan hoffman. [laughter] thank you, i appreciate it. >> all right. arthel: yep. the threat is from the inside. some health officials are once again recommending that people wear masks, but it's not just covid they're concerned about. we'll tell you what else coming up next. pleasure

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bryan: a new report commissioned by the federal health and human services department recommends masks and social distancing to protect people from long covid. in los angeles county, they're strongly recommending maxes indoors as cases of covid, rsv and the flu are on the rise. they're calling, what, the

triple-demic? christina coal coleman live in los angeles, this is tough. three serious things at once. >> reporter: yeah, definitely, bryan, and i don't want any of them. under cdc guidance, a weekly rate of 100 or more covid cases per 100,000 residents is considered a high rate of transmission. over the past week, more than 1400 new cases have been report countywide each day. however, covid hospitalizations and deaths do remain low, and the spike in cases is way below the surges we saw during the height of the pandemic. but health officials still want people to be careful, so they strongly recommend l.a. county residents mask up in public indoor spaces, public transit, contradictional facilities and is homeless -- correctional facilities and homeless shelters. >> when it comes to what they're doing in l.a., you know, the health department, it's their job, it's their duty to monitor and assess, to look for what the prevalence of disease is in

their community. and it makes sense for them to make these recommendations. but we want to keep it at that, recommendations, and keep it optional for all. >> reporter: optional being the keyword here. health officials strongly recommend people mask up, they are not implementing a mask mandate. >> the mask is a very polarizing way to go given everything that we've been through over the past couple years. but a mask mandate is a different type of thing, you know? a mandate is different than voluntarily wearing a mask. >> reporter: and now that we're coming off the holiday break with lots of travel and people gathering together in close settings, health officials are warning people to not let their guard down especially with these increased circulation of different respiratory illnesses including as you mentioned rsv and the flu. back to you. bryan: christina coleman live in los angeles, thank you. arthel? arthel: well, guys, it is a holiday tradition that goes hand in hand with turkey and stuff thing. looking for the best bargains, of course, for everyone on your

list, and this year shoppers are hitting the stores despite the highest inflation in decades. nate foy is live in new york city with that story. where are you, mr. nate? >> reporter: we are right outside macy's here in new york city, arthel. you mentioned budgets are tight, but that's part of the reason why a lot of people are trying to come out and take the advantage of the best deals they possibly can if they have enough money to buy some items this holiday season. an stunted 166 million -- estimated 166 million americans will shop between thursday and cyber monday. two of those people actually flew here from scotland. they told me that their arms are tired from carrying all the stuff that they bought. take a listen at their experience as they took the train in from the airport to the city. >> went -- when we go off the train at penn station, we get the excitement. >> nowhere does christmas like new york. >> no, absolutely not. >> it's the best place for the holidays. >> yeah. >> reporter: so, or arthel, consumers expected to spend

$34.8 billion online in 5-day stretch alone. that's up 3% from last year. black friday online sales at $9.1 billion. that's 1% higher than last year. however,you account for inflation which is almost 8%, retailers are actually losing ground in online sales. take a look at video we shot outside macy's, a lot of people really excited to shop in person for the first time many two years after pandemic disruptions. popular items, a lot of apple air pods, apple watches, smart speakers, tvs, digital cameras as well. take a look at this, you're looking to knock some things off your holiday shopping list, according to adobe analytics, if you're shopping for toys, you should do it today. is sporting goods and apparel tomorrow and then computers, of course, on cyber monday where deals are expected to reach possibly 27% off. now, back out here live, arthel, to give you some perspective in

terms of demand for electronics, they were up over 200% on black friday compared to a normal day in october, and we're expecting an even busier cyber monday. we'll send it back to you. arthel: all right. you're looking good out there, mr. international airport foy, amongst the shoppers. looking all warm, so good job. okay. [laughter] bryan, i just need to know what are you going to get your adorable niece for christmas? bryan: that is a good question. i got her a car her first year, i don't know. but now we've got to deal with my neff pew and niece -- nephew and niece in crag, another nephew in january. it's all going towards nephews and nieces and not adults right now. arthel: and by the way, that a car that you got her, it was an electric car, to be clear. [laughter] she's 2 years old. bryan: you're right. it was electric, no doubt. arthel: all right, bryan, thanks. we'll be right back. [laughter]

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