for us at aol the question i get all the time is aol is going to brand everything aol? is everything going to be aol? i said, no, aol is like disney. they have espn and the other things. we have patch and tech launch and damage jet. i think the niche brands are powerful because people have a set of interest living in a certain local and they have something they do all day. those niches matter a lot to people and the more you serve them in those areas is very powerful. >> you want a disney set up then? >> yeah, more like a disney set up. >> does that mean you abandon things, like disney when it doesn't work, they dump it. it's different in journalism to think about it like that. oh, this rock stuff doesn't make money. let's move on. >> yeah, in business you run for the shareholders, and it's efficient to meet capital to be profitable. if you're going to be number 17 in something, okay, the reason you're generally 17 in something is because you don't have the right people working on it. i would say in many cases, everybody likes to be upset about being 17. when you look a

and provides them with profile data in order to provide more relevant searches. >> tom: google and aol stock each fell, while yahoo saw a fractional gain. ahead of general motors' planned stock sale thursday, ford was very active, gaining 4%. the rally takes ford to a new eight-year high, despite reporting a drop in european sales and market share. and that's tonight's "market focus." the stock chart hasn >> susie: here's what we're watching for tomorrow: quarterly results from retailers abercrombie & fitch, home depot, saks, target and wal-mart. the producer price index for october is out as well. it'll give us a look at infl "gold." alix steel reports for thestreet.com. alix steele from thestreet.com will join us to talk gold consolidation trends. motorola is fine-tuning the timeline on the upcoming split of its business units. the company's co-c.e.o. today narrowed it down from the first quarter to january. the move will create two new companies. "motorola mobility" will sell cell phones and set-top boxes. "motorola solutions" will supply things like public safety radios and bar cod

. >>> for weeks, there have been rumblings of a merger of yahoo and aol. this morning all the talk has led to reports of potential layoffs. mark sayre is live at yahoo headquarters in sunnyvale to tell us what could be on the horizon for those workers. >> reporter: good morning. reports from the trade press this morning say that yahoo could lay off 20% of its workforce. but yahoo releasing a statement yesterday afternoon calling those reports inaccurate. now, citing anonymous sources, the techcrunch website says that yahoo was preparing to lay off 2800 employees. yahoo's response? quoting now, yahoo is always evaluating expenses to align with the company's financial goals. however, a 20% reduction in yahoo's workforce across the board is misleading and inaccurate. but in a separate report, the "wall street journal's" all things digital blog put that number of layoffs at 650 workers to be centered on the company's consumer product organization. it says those layoffs could take place as soon as next month. kcbs radio technology analyst larry magid says it's

. >>> yahoo could be in the sights aol. hay have hired financial had visors to merge with the bay area company. still insiders report aol executives are encouraged by the open mindness of the yahoo great promise. the south san francisco company says patients taking actemra felt differences. one study shows 85% of childrens experience results. >>> and comedy is the big draw at the weekend box office. the animated feature mega mind trying to take over the world. tina fey and brad pitt lend their voice. >>> 5:51 san francisco's health kept doesn't have enough food inspectors to check the facilities in the city. the health department has 19 trained inspectors right now. there is supposed to be 23. twice a year health inspections are required in san francisco but that staffing shortage means some restaurants are only inspected once a year. >>> money problems for a bay area airport. apparently even airports have to hope the banks will lend them money. >>> and she is the new queen of facebook. who will be her friend? >>> welcome b

remember when everybody had an aol account in the 1990s. >> i still remember that. >> we're going to get ready, ready, set, shop, we have a look at walmart's door busters leaked to the internet. i'll tell you what they have in store. >>> thank you. a freed democracy activist resumes her 'cause very publicly. >>> the search for three ohio kidnapping victims intensifies after the fourth one is found alive. >>> we hope you spent time outside this weekend. howard says our string of sunny days will end soon. >>> 5:09. we're worried about fog south and east of town in southern maryland and the northern neck, some visibilities a half mile or less. the day planner today by 9:00 we should start to see mostly sunny skies, fog burning off. a couple areas will be mostly cloudy and 52. winds will be fairly light today, near 60 by noon. northeast wind at 5 miles per hour. mostly cloudy by 5:00, right around 60. we'll look for highs in the low 60s. i'll be back at 5:14 with big weather. here's angie. >>> thank you, howard. happy monday. we are tie-up free headed eastbound on the dulles toll road. i

. >>> ichiro won h 10th straight aol glove award. finally, another day, another wacky highlight to show from you highchool football. this comes from south dakota where derek swigger punted the ball. the wind blew the ball another 47 yards down fied. we sped up the video for the same of time. the ball finally came to rest at three. creditedo an 86 yard kick thanks toolth help from mother nature. that's your early look at sports on "early today." i'm fred roggin. >> every bit helps. >>> robert downey jr. swears he doesn't care about winning an oscar. your early morning entertainment headlines are straht ahead. >>> plus, monday was the 50th anniversary of jfk's election. coming up, we'll tell you about what kennedy fan who stumbled upon a cherished epsake. you're watching "early today." >>> welcome back on this wednesday. a rather quiet weather day out there. just showers lingering in new englandtoday. pretty tranquil in the southeast. dallas was all right today. we will be watching, though, a storm moving from the rockies into the midd

. >>> talk of a possible merger with aol has yahoo denying rumors of deep layoffs.mous sources tell the techcrunch website the sunnyvale-based company could lay off 20% of its workforce. yahoo hasn't denied the likelihood of layoffs but rejects the 20% figure. >>> the owners of a new ice cream shop in santa cruz are famous for praising the term stimulus money that put them in business. >> we were able to hire, you know, numerous contractors, numerous employees, got to buy some great equipment. >> zachary davis and kendra baker decided to thank the government by making an iphone video. vice president joe biden called to say he appreciated their effort. >> hey, zach. >> hello, mr. vice president. >> so here's the deal. i'm coming for ice cream. >> we were in shock. we were really excited. >> what we were really just trying to do is connect what was happening at the federal level to, you know, a little ice cream shop in santa cruz and how what they do really does make a difference. >> so far, about 16,000 hits for the homemade video they made to thank the government. t

. >>> ichiro won his 10th straight aol gold glove award. it.nd finally, another day, another wacky highlight to show you from high school football. this comes from south dakota where derek swigger punted the ball. that's had the real fun began. the wind blew the ball another 47 yards down field. we sped up the video for the sake of time. the ball finally came to rest at the 3. credited to an 86-yard kick thanks to a little help from mother nature. >>> that's your early look at sports on "early today." i'm fred roggin. >>> robert downey jr. swears he doesn't care about winning an oscar. your early morning entertainment headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, monday was the 50th anniversary of jfk's election. coming up, we'll tell you about one kennedy fan who stumbled upon a cherished keepsake. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning and welcome back pup need the umbrella traveling through much of the high country of nevada and also portions of the cascades here. even down into northern california, showers activity. higher elevations sno

>> you go on like aol.a few hours after the show. >> jimmy: i remember aol. >> we'll instant message each other. and it was like a week after barack obama had been elected president and i know this, because i got an instant message that said like from like air force 1 barack or something and it was like, "hey, have those documents arrived yet?" i was like, "what?" i wasn't friends with the person. and they were like, "have the documents -- oh, my god. this is a big mistake. delete this, delete this, delete this." i was like, "this is bull -- this is not really barack obama." and then i was like -- i was like it was like midnight in my house by myself. at the computer. i was like, "is this barack obama?" i was like, "seriously, bro, is it you? seriously." just in my head, i don't know why. >> jimmy: how could that be possible? >> about a year or two later i found out it was -- >> jimmy: qwestlove. >> yeah. [ laughter ] >> qwestlove: i don't remember. >> he was playing a trick on me and i'm dumb enough that i

and there have been reports that aol and some private firms have been eyes ill it as a possible takeover target. we shall see. >> a new program offered by california association of realtors will give perspective homeowners piece of mind just in case they lose their jobs. a new homeowner can now buy a type of unemployment insurance paying up to $1500 a month if laid off and cannot pay their mortgage. premiums range from 200 to $275 for six months of coverage. >> if you want cheap zpigz know the right people, vernon, california might be a place to live. reporting a dozen people are getting a deal on rent paying $200 for city-owned housing. low rents offered in exchange for votes. this won't seem necessary in a town with a population of just 90 people but there is more. state is investigating some administrators for paying themselves huge salaries. >> a lot more still to come tonight. including this. a pair of pepper sprayed muggers are making rounds in san francisco. >> also, troops say farewell to loved ones, getting ready to spend a year in iraq. >> i'm sandhya patel. temperatures headin

. >>> financial advisers of aol are exploring a partnership with yahoo! so far the company has not reached out to its on-line rival. >>> amazon.com plans to announce it's buying the e-commerce company that runs diapers.com for reportedly $540 million. >>> 7-eleven fast tracked the campaign to capitalize on the president's joke last week about a possible slurpee summit with republican leaders. now a convoy of trucks are trucking to d.c., passing out free purple to the people slurpees. purple because that's what you get when you mix and red and blue together. if it were only that easy. >>> more late game heroics from brett favre, the cowboy struggles continue, and a stun for the patriots. plus, rubber wasn't the only thing burning on the racetrack yesterday as two drivers square off. your early morning sports headlines are straight ahead. >>> the worst weather in the nation by far today in new england. snow, rain, freezing rain and wind. your regional forecast is coming up. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning. if you're just waking up this is "e

also aol is rolling out a web based e-mail program. limited number of users have access to the new site which is faster and let's them pull in the mail from microsoft yahoo and google. sign up at phoenix.aol.com. and net flicks is coming to -- netflix is coming to mobile gadgets. the service will be available next year but not for all android devices. they must work out security issues with each individual device maker. those are your tech bites, i am rob nelson. from now, "good morning, maryland." >>> tea partiers spent sometime in baltimore getting set for the opening of a new congress. and the day in washington we will look at all the hard work ahead. >> california man was supposed to board an american airlines flight on saturday morning but would having in to do with body scanners. don't you pat me down or anybody touching anything on his body. we will find out what happened to this guy. >>> the e-mal address could starred like this pringle, at facebook.com. everybody's favorite social network is going to add a new e-mail. >> i lik

sharon weinberger, the enormously gifted writer of books and with aol news, welcome back to the broadcast very talented margaret ryan of " energy now." would cover the energy industry for many years -- we both covered the energy industry for many years and have run out of energy as a result [laughter] i want to start with you, andy. one of the things we are facing in the new political alignment with the house of representative being in the hands of the republicans or more especially the certain kind of republicans which seem to be dragging three others to that place. one thing they will do is to try to defund programs they don't like. these are all the programs they don't understand. how does defunding work and is it a real threat to? >> it is but as everything else on capitol hill, it is complicated. the administration has the ability to move some funds around. the congress has some ability to stop it. you have a two-pronged system. you appropriate which is where the defunding occurs and you authorize which is where the process begins. the republican run committees will not authorize and

. >> i'll spend it with my mom, sister and extended family and aol serve my warm apple tea and a traditional turkey. >> what's traditional versus modern. >> well, i don't deep fry it or -- there's also different ways. i like a roasted turkey with giblet gravy. >>> and listen, do you present it to the table then take it back and ash it at the table. i'm a chef, i take it into the kitchen. >> thank you for having me. >> thank you for being with us. if you want more information go, to facebook and friend her. andouille find find all of her information. >> we have to take a break, we'll be back. . h

aol has not reached their to yahoo and they're not in formal discussions last month there were the aoln leveraged buyout firms about making a joint bid for yarborough. 9:11 a.hoo, now at . as we take a break less like a look at mountain and we have sunny skies. will be right back. and 3:00 p.m. were taking a look at snow in truckee. tahoe does have snow and so earlier this morning trains were required everywhere but in that chain stores and 88, so they have little snow we have clear skies we get rid of some rain. when will the rain beat that? >> tomorrow. we did not get much of a break in fact we can see more snow in the syrup to roswell right now shot in san jose highlights a bit of a breeze out there. clear skies, cool temperatures. 56 for san jose, not much more by noon high temperature of 16 san jose. back to the '50s by 8:00. starting off cool, 30 several hours to napa, fairfield's now or to about 47 degrees, 52 fairfield 60 oakland, '50s elsewhere. as we take on through the day it anymore '50s by 10:00, noontimes '60s into the picture high sedate topping in the '50s, '60s. back d

aol is redesigning its see wel iss e-ms we have reported, facebook is expected to make an announcement today insiders say the network said it is likely to launch its own internet service. you may hate paying airline baggage trees airline companies are loving them. the dollar amounts for 2010 first two quarters are in airlines have collected more than $1.6 billion in bigotry's this all according to the bureau of transportation they are ranked the 20 top airlines based on biggest revenue delta came in first. bring in more than $473 million. figures for the third quarter revenue are figured to september. a federal investigational falling in news report of lead in some reusable kirch rebates. many of the reusable greg'bags are manufactured in china. there is less concern that the lead would easily rub off on food, but there is a concern that as they wear down the lead could accumulate in landfills creating unsafe levels. >> news city that bind women's hearts can be born recalled to draw straws to. women who have jobs a big demands below authority or 40 percent more likely than women with l

aol redesigning e-mail from the ground up.he site is making it easier to fire a female's an instant messages. >> i you ready for facebook e-mail. the internet is a buzz about it reports of facebook may be on the verge of offering e-mail to 500 million members of the social networking site making it the biggest e-mail service and the world. right now hobnail has about 300 million ya who 273 million, g mel hundred 90 million. they are calling this a g males killer. >> will wait and see what happens we will be right back. the bay bridge toll plaza right now a back up at the bay bridge. save $523! 16 minutes could save you 16%! come on... isn't it time an auto insurer gave it to you straight? that's why you should talk to state farm. but not yet. first, talk to any one of the 40 million drivers who already have state farm. 40 million. yeah, that's more than geico and progressive combined. by a lot. 40 million drivers. more savings. and discounts up to 40%. where else you gonna get discounts like that? call an agent at 1-800-state-

it looks like aol is redesigning its mail service to be faster and easier to use. design displays fatah attachments at a glance and ls people toggle between several e- mails anytime. it is still in a test phase. we will get a report on retail sales for the month of october. with the team to watch events in europe. back on friday, concern that china may raise interest rates. speaking of china, china will be poised to overtake the u.s. and become the largest economy by 2020. chinese economy will be twice as large as the u.s. by 2030. at the new york stock exchange, i'm jane king reporting for wbal-tv 11 news. >> jane, thank you. we'll see you back here at 6:15 for your next report. >> 50 degrees on tv hill. coming up, will get another look at your morning commute. >> don't forget to e-mail us your response to our water cooler question of the day. do you think maryland should ban alcoholic energy drinks? e-mail your response to watercooler@wbaltv.com. >> 8 sailor got the surprise of his life. >> while father was hard work, mom and daughter were on a mission of their o

. >>> aol may be ready to target sunnyvale-based yahoo again. the two companies have previously talked about mergers but there's no former proposal right now. still, insiders report aol executives are encouraged by what they call the open-mindedness of the yahoo board. >>> there's now a facebook page fit for a queen. starting today, england's queen elizabeth will have her own fan page on that popular social networking site. the queen's facebook page will provide daily updates on the schedule of the 84-year-old british monarch but there's one royal restriction. you cannot ask the queen to be your facebook friend. >>> actor george clooney scheduled to appear at stanford university tonight to talk about the sudan and darfour region. he's trying to bring attention to the kurn which has been torn apart by war. tickets are required to attend the talk. >>> i know they'll want to be there. >>> sal, people have been stuck in really bad traffic problems. >> kind of a bad monday today. we are looking at 880 northbound still recovering from earlier problems

that is what aol small business tells us.ases the hiring manager already has a pretty good idea what you make and if they don't they'll probably find out by calling your references or the hr department at your old company. >> if you choose to inflate, not suggesting that you should, but you just can't pull a number out of thin air. is there a fair way to inflate your salary if you choose to inflate your salary? >> yeah, in some cases you might just tell on yourself by doing that. clearly, you didn't do your research. you don't want to inflate your salary for the sake of making yourself seem more valuable or in the hope you will get more compensation from a new employer. you can, however, this is the sneaky one here, talk total compensation rather than salary. in your total compensation that's your salary, your bonus, any upcoming bonuss you may have, the value of the company stock options and your 401(k) match. that's completely fair. that's what matt woller tells us. and keep the number in the ballpark range. remember that w

there have been reports that aol and some private equity firms have been eyeing it as pay takeover target>> san jose hopes to open a 15,000 seat soccer stadium in 2012 according to the team owners. a los angeles developer will build the privately funded $60 million facility across from the airport. comments of the latest sign of ownership commitment to keeping a soccer team in san jose. they moved another version of the quakes in houston in . >> check out this picture. you like the color? quite a few of them as we look from mount tamalpais down along sausalito and into san francisco. and all the way over -- gotta be fremont. it's at least hayward as we can see the san mateo bridge. look at the visibility this morning. let's talk temperatures. and it's still rather cold in santa rosa at 37. fairfield 35. livermore 38. 40s for the rest of us until you get to los gatos. fremont and san francisco holding on to 51. the monterey bay and selenes, low to mid-50s. sunny and mild days throughout the weekend. clear and kind of chilly during the overnight hours. this dry pattern holds all the way thr

president obama stayed out of sight on monday giving radio interviews and releasing a video to aol. >> hi, this is barack obama. you've got a chance to change your community and your country. all you have to do is vote. >> and now it does all come down to voter turnouts. democrats are a reputation of a strong get out the vote reputation but republicans have enthusiasm on their side and, harry, we are looking at early voting registration. neither party has a clear-cut advantage there. >> nancy cordes here in new york, thank you so much. >>> joining us exclusively is ed rendell and in indiana congressman mike pence, chairman of the republican conference. >> good morning, harry. >> good morning. >> 24 hours from now, when all is said and done, the most important lesson in this election will be what, mike pence? >> i think the most important lesson of this election is that the american people are still in charge. i think after years of run away federal spending, frankly, by both political parties, borrowing, deficits, bailouts and takeovers, today, as of a little over an hour ago starting

here is regina lewis, aol's adviser. >> hi, carl. >> your advice is you have to still get annerly starthink so. it starts at midnight tonight. prioritize your time based on price. if you are after a big ticket item like fine jewelry, a laptop, an e-read and you want a discount you have to be fast. it starts at 12:00 midnight. lunchtime on the work force is prime time. >> the earlier you're on, the more likely you are to get a bargain and that the items will be in stock. >> selection, yep. >> what can you do ahead of that? we have 15 hours to go. how do we prepare? >> start to register for sites you're going to shop on. type in your shipping address, billing address. here's why. people get burned on this. it's not enough to have the item in your cart. tomorrow when you find the deal and put it in the cart, it is not yours until you complete the checkout process. by being registered for the site, it is speeds up the whole thing. >> you say there are big box websites you would go to maybe first. >> walmart is all about how low can you go. what people don't understand about walmart is they

they reported lackluster third quarter earnings last month and reported in tech blogs at aol and private equity firms as eyeing a takeover of the company. >> the san jose earthquake hopes to open a new 15,000 soccer stadium in 2012. a los angeles firm will build the privately-funded $60 million facility across from the san jose international airport. the latest sign of ownership commitment to keep a soccer team in san jose. it moves another version of the earthquake to houston in 2005. >> there's proof this morning you never know who's paying attention to youtube.com videos. the owners of an ice cream shop posted a video to thank the white house for help with a stimulus loan. as david louie reports, the thank you call they got was quite a surprise. >> it doesn't have to be a hot day to see lines forming at the penry ice creamery in three months it developed quite a following. yesterday it got its first call from a fan, vice president joe biden. >> he said how much he liked ice cream and talked a little about the act and the legislation. >> the vice president called because of this youtub

group evaluated the child appropriateness of four online video portals, hugh lieu, comcast's fan cast, aol's slash control and at&t's u verse. none received a grade better than a d. >>> well, cash in your trash this holiday season. it is a -- because a number of stores will give you some green for your gadgets, cell phones, ipods and video games are among the tradeable items, target, radio shack, game stop, walmart, staples participating in the program. electronics can have a second life instead of going right into that landfill. >> depending on the condition of the item, we will go ahead and give you what we can or will appraise it for. you're also welcome if there is no value to it for some odd reason, we can recycle it for you properly. >> a 3 g phone can get you about 100 bucks, ipods can earn you almost 30. video games, get between $5 and $20. >>> hunger is a sear ruse matter but food and fun drives don't have to be. bay area food banks pretty creative offers helping to raise the money and millions of pounds of food it takes to feed people all year long. nbc bay area's kris sanchez show

for black voices, aol has black voices, and they directly came to me and said we want you to create areach a demographic that you speak to. there is a lot of representation -- okay, there is not a lot of representation. >> there's more. >> there's more representation on television, but i feel like i don't relate to anybody on television right now. so i wanted to create something that could. >> so with your show "the spark" people are able to see the type of issues you have, but through the internet. >> exactly. >> in this day and age where i think any news junkie gets their news from a variety of sources. i'm going to be honest here, one of the things i find is often "the new york times," you know, msnbc, cnn, a number of them are doing black stories. i think what's missing more often is perspective. you know, perspective not just on black stories but perspectives on main stream stories that come from a black voice or from a black mind or black sensibilities. these one of the things we strive for every day is to say, look, we don't just cover black news, because as african-americans w

television news with cnn, who married a movie star and was involved in the biggest media merger ever, aol together with time warner. when he was surprisingly fired from that venture, he reinvented himself with a second career as philanthropist, and in 1997 he stunned the world with one of the largest donations in history, $1 billion to create the united nations foundation. was it scary to give a third of your wealth away? >> it is scary because everybody is always afraid that they're going to go broke. >> nevertheless, these business giants are not afraid to give back in a big way. >> i've got everything i possibly need. i've never given up a meal, a movie, a vacation trip, anything in my life. and i've got all this huge surplus. i've got a whole bunch of what i call claim checks on society, little stock certificates. they sit in a box. they've been there for 40 years. they can't do anything for me. they can do a lot more for other people if intelligently used. >> you said you won the ovarian lottery. is that because of opportunity? was it because of smart. >> it was being born in america

this could be to compete with g-mail, aol, hotmail and yahoo. to its 500 million members., mel is the leader with 300 million users, yahoo tran and 73 and g e-mail on hundred 90 million. facebook will go public with this morning. >> crabs season is especially under way. it started just after mid that the crab fishermen are taking a relaxed attitude kron4 explains. >> the state says it's ok for the crab fishermen to go ahead and start harvesting of what all of these tribes tribes into the water however the crab fisherman this is a self in exposed expansion, they went out to get samples they'll bring the crowd back way it, cricket, cracked it to see if there's enough meat inside the crowd. i asked wired a waiting? when the state says it's ok? according to the fishermen they want to make sure the club of luscious they don't want to go out and get car that looks great is heavy passes a smile on the eye test but then you go home to cook and racquet and is very little means side.me insight the cross or will be upset and not come back and buy more. i talked to the kron boat owner

. >> what happened to aol? >> life is complicated.ht back with more after this. ♪ [ male annonocer ] every day thousands of people are switching from tylenol to advil. to learn more and get your special offer, go to takeadvil.com. take action. take advil. >>> now to the topic we all love to hate. the latest on ththfight against bedbugs. man's best friend has been called in as reinforcements, putting their keen sense of smell to work tracking down the bugs. some are calling out the little four-legged detectors saying they're not very good at the job. so jeremy hubbard put them to the test. >> let work, rex. come on. >> reporter: are dogs really the four-legged champions of the quarter-million bedbug extermination business? >> you feel you're ripe to be taken advantage of by people that are marketing these dogs as the be all, end all. >> reporter: eririand jessica silver spent more than $3,500 to treat their home after a canine detected bedbugs. they threw away thousands in clothing and furniture. when the bugs kept biting they called i

aol did this.acebook announcement, they announced a big change, what they are calling project phoenix. they are revolutionizing their e-mail. 1:00 p.m. eastern, we're following it very closely. we're following this online as well. go to facebook and twitter. everything we get we are facebooking and tweeting. we have a twitter account for cnn tech that is getting all of the details inside. we really could have repercussions for years to come. >> yahoo! is number one. i didn't know that. >> yeah. >> yahoo! is number one when it comes to e-mails. >> yahoo! established a system with e-mail users and since then they came along and managed to get a chunk of the market given how much later they start. >> rob marciano put it in the last hour, it's plain yucky. he said that. went on the chilly side, too. what do you do in this kind of weather? stick around. you wouldn't believe it. >>> it's snowing and coming down. do you call off the races? >> no. cycle cross goes on no matter what. it's rain or snow or sh

going all out to get your business this holiday season, including black friday style sales online, aolbeen scouring the internet for the best deals and she's here with some good news. we don't have to wait, do we? >> it's prime time. >> you might as well head to your computer right now. what kinds of deals are we seeing out there? >> well, we're seeing some exceptional deals. if you take amazon by way of example. they have something called lightning deals. they emerge every two hours, in the evening it picks up and is every half hour. deep, deep discounts. here you've got to be decisive. remember it's not yours just because you have it in your shopping cart. you actually have to complete the checkout process before you own it. you can get burned on that. >> wow. so there are limited numbers of items out there? >> correct. >> you suggest you really have to pull the trigger. >> act fast. >> now, is it just in every single website out there that sort of everywhere? because it used to be you'd have to wait until cyber monday. >> right. >> forget about it. >> no, they're absolutely starting

here with tips how to navigate the crowds and get what you want, aol consumer adviser regina lewis.lls fill up early. watching more and more people arrive. 138 million people will be in the malls this year. >> big number. >> up last year from 134 million. >> it is. 4 million more people, to put it in perspective. 48.5% of consumers. i think, maggie, every time we roll the tape of people standing in line, the wisdom of crowd mentality comes in. they can't be wrong. it creates a sense of urgency and it works. >> a lot of people thinking, that's 4 million more headaches and i'm not going near there. the key, point to make this morning, you have to be strategic when you go out today stow won't be a headache. >> yeah. advance work goes a long way. if you go to any of the major retailer websites you see advance circumstance cuelers. it's a day where a lot of driving is involved. people head to outlets, head to malls. these places aren't always close together. so one, prioritize by price. make your first stop wherever you're going for the biggest ticket item. those are the ones with the hi

here with advice on how to get your sales timing down is aol consumer adviser regina lewis. >> thanksere 40% off. so in my experience, these discounts are starting sooner and they're just as deep. >> there's even a term for it called christmas creep. as in creeping up on the calendar. retailers are dealing with roughly the same economy as last year. so you saw 40%. i think we'll stay in that neighborhood. we're not going to see what we saw in 2008, 80% off. it's going to be very much about what you buy and when you buy it. >> when you buy it is what our segment is all about. >> yeah. >> there are some things you should buy right now and some things you should buy later. let's start with the buy news. >> sure. >> the grill, i guess because it's off-season, it makes sense that it would be on sale. >> off-season, but going, going gone. i think you've got about ten more days left to get your hands on them. places like lowe's and sears and home depot will actually shep them for free now. also cutlery, we found at macy's was orangely $290, now $100. deeply discounted right now. >> here's on

experts tell aol that they are enjoying their lives more doing things like traveling and shopping anding out which are much easier to do without a baby in the picture. oh, yeah. they say that many women are delaying getting pregnant, because they can't find someone they want to have a child with. they are either very picky or very educated. also in the last 30 years contraception is better and there are improved job opportunities for women. research shows less pressure from society now to be a mom, and the decision to have a child is seen more as an individual choice, and don't forget about money, es p, wi s, -- especiall tough economic times like this, people who are not employed feel like they are not in the position to have children and pay the cost to raise them. so here is the question, why do you believe that the number of childless women is at an all-time high. >> well, it is an interesting question, jas question, jack. >>> well, the terror plot may be more cynical than we thought. one of the devices was timed to blow up over the east coast. we have also have a closely watched

this is interesting, in advance of this announcement, aol did this, made a big change to here e-mailonizing their e-mail system trying to compete. short book version, the battle is on. the expected announcement at 1:00 p.m. eastern. we are going to be following it for you. you have my facebook and twitter pages up there. also follow on twitter @cnntech. we will be following it for you. can you expect repercussions from this announcement for a long time to come. >> we'll take a quick break.

aol consumer adviser regina lewis has been scouring the internet for the best deals and is here withit? do we? >> it's prime time. >> head to your computer now. what kinds of deals are we seeing out there? >> seeing exceptional deals. amazon has lightning deals. they emerge every two hours. in the evening it picks up, it's every half hour, deep, deep discounts. you've got to be decisive. remember, it's not yours because you have it in your shopping cart. you actually have to complete the checkout process before you own it. you get burned on that wow. a number of limited items. you suggest you really have to pull the trigger. >> as fast. >> all right. is it just in every single website out there? sort of everywhere? it used to be you'd have to waitful cyber monday. forget about it now? >> no. they're waiting, because thanksgiving day emerged as one of the biggest online shopping days. one exception to buying early, i point out, buying electronics, oftentimes 15-day return policies. buy now, put it under the tree, by the time you upwrap it you're outside of the window, because the cloc