becky worley, thank you very much. we'll come back to you later on. if you weren't taking notes during becky's presentation, you'll get details on how to get the best black friday deals on our website, abcnews.com/gma. now, over to bianna. >> dan, i'm with becky. i'm not feeling the sales enthusiasm from you over there. >> i'll gin it up. >> good, good. >>> meantime, we let you know that sales started earlier this year than ever before. something that is being called the graying of black friday. will these extra days of bargain beef up the bottom line for retailers? and what does it mean for shoppers at home? marshal cohen, chief industry analyst for npd group is joining us this morning. >> good morning. >> this graying of black friday. i was joking. i didn't go shopping before the show. but we are seeing more and more stores opening earlier. but is black friday not as relevant anymore? >> it really is an interesting dynamic because the consumer is now being offered sales three weeks before black friday weekend. through the weekend. and now we'll get d

here's becky worley. >> reporter: imagine driving down the highway and having your tire disintegrate. ]. >> reporter: in these test videos, even skilled drivers couldn't keep control. >> i think i'm okay. i think i'm okay. >> reporter: many experts agree that tires have a shelf life even when they are not driven a single mile, air separates the treads. robert moore brought what he thought were new tires for his son's car, and just five years later -- >> andy's mother called and said a policeman just came to the house and he told me that andy had a car then, accident, and then her voice started to crack, and he told me that he died. i got my vehicle maintenance records together, and that's when i discovered the tires i thought were new were four years old when i bought them. >> reporter: crash investigators said the tread had peeled right off one of the then 9-year-old tires. >> i would not drive on tires older than six years. the problem is, tires degrade over time. >> reporter: tires have a date code. the d.o.t. stamp followed by a four different digit number. the first two letters i

become becky worley is live in arizona. y, becky. >> good morning, george, i'm here with hundreds of thousands going out to you. we've got deals, deals deals. including this hot holiday item. >> she's always right smack dab in the middle of it. back to you after local news and weather. [ male announcer ] introducing listerine® zero™. we removed the alcohol and made it less intense. ♪ it still kills bad breath germs for a whole-mouth clean. and it's never felt so good. new less intense listerine® zero™. hi. chili's tonight? do i know you? yeah. your mother's brother went to summer camp with my uncle's friend's accountant. we're practically family. jason? who? my mom's brother's accountant. yeah. that guy is a maniac. okay. i love jason. isn't he a riot? chili's $20 dinner for two. all you need is somebody to go with. share one appetizer, choose two entrees. now with crispy fried shrimp. just $20 for two at chili's. >>> a firefighter is one of two people hospitalized in connection with a san rafael apartment fire. a woman insi

so, our becky worley is with us this morning, skyping in from oakland, california, with some advice. , good morning. hello. >> good morning, dan. buy now or wait? >> let's start with the tvs. >> yeah, tvs, wait. here's the deal. in 2007 and 2008, tvs were lowest price all year long in december. but in 2009, if you wanted a tv right around the holiday season, you actually got the best price in january of 2010. right around super bowl time. so, if you can, hold on for a little while. i think you'll see the prices on big-screen tvs come down a little. >> what about ipads? everybody talks about ipads. >> this is a -- i'd say it's a buy now if you have to have it for the holiday. we saw apple had a flash sale. $41 off for black friday on the ipad. don't -- i do not expect to see anymore sales from apple. we have not seen discounting of this in any way in the retail outlets. so, i think if you need it for holidays, buy. but keep in mind, that the ipad is due for an upgrade in 2011. i think we'll see a camera come on to the ipad. you may see a price drop on the first generation ipad. so, if

becky worley reporting. we'll be back with more after this. >>> welcome back, everybody. start "the skinny" off on a sad note but there is some sad news to pass along out of hollywood. we all know this guy, know his face, know his characters. leslie nielsen, the actor, has passed away yesterday about 5:30 in the evening on sunday. at the age of 84, he passed away in his florida home after complications of pneumonia. surrounded by his wife and friends. he was 84 years old. we know this guy from "the naked gun" series and back in the 1980 classic "airplane" where he played that hapless doctor, and frank drebin in "the naked gun" movies. hilarious, three or four of those movies. he started in the mid '50s in hollywood, a serious actor, was a prankster behind the camera. "airplane" put him out in front as this comedic guy. had this great, great career. i didn't know he was 84 years old but he passed away in florida. we wanted to pay our respects. he had a great career. >> he really did and no doubt his great body of work will live on. obviously a sad time for his family. we s

. >> becky worley has all the answers. >>> first, when prince william announced his engagement this week love. and a son determined to honor the memory of his mother. bianna golodryga joins us again from buckingham palace. >> reporter: good morning, elizabeth. it's fair to say that no one would have loved planning this wedding more than prince william's mother, princess diana. and that begs the question, what would she have thought of kate? he was only 15 when diana died. but in those 15 years, mother and son had forged a strong bond. from the first moment we saw them together, the new mother and her first born, we knew this was a mother whose high hopes for her child would be realized. >> she cared for me. we would told that we were the most important thing in her life. >> reporter: despite her royal obligations, diana's children always came first. and the pictures tell the story. the young family, sharing a quiet afternoon in a park. and just a few years later, diana's hand, tightly holding william's, on the young prince's first day of school. >> the royal family has always thought the

becky worley's been jumping up and down all morning. >>> you know, every year, there's a hot holiday for x-box 360. becky is trying it out. it takes playing games, watching tv, listening to music, literally out of your hands. it will be in stores tomorrow. we get to try it out first. let's get to becky worley, who is literally jumping up and down. it ee's hands-free, because the are sensors. >> you have no buttons to push. and it's more intuitive. >> but it's clearly microsoft's answer to wii. >> it's been four years since the wii came out. they're hoping this is the next big play. it's an add-on to the x-box 360 console. there's a camera that tracks your movements in 3-d. and. >> it sees if you move. >> if i step out, watch this, it will go to a single-player game. you're running the show, juju. i'm getting out of the way. go, juju. go, juju. >> it's a little pricey, right? >> right. >> if you get the entire thing, it's 3,0 ee's $300. it has 17 games that come out between now and christmas. >> don't tell my boys. i think it's on the list. >> sam, come on. >> it's got yoga, guys. >>

(sound of breath) >>> in today's "countdown to thanksgiving," becky worley has a few time-saving tricksut together an entire thanksgiving dinner with a few mouse clicks? is this real? >> you can order your thanksgiving dinner online. there's years when i luxuryate, in the planning and the cooking. not this year. >> i know your feeling. >> i love you for saying that. >> how does it work? >> you figure out where to go. one of the most popular places is gobblegobble.com. smoked turkey, $60 for 14 pounds. >> that's a 14-pound center. >> that will feed a lot of people. we're thinking ten people or so. >> when it arrives at your house, is it hot? >> frozen. you reheat it when the time comes. and $60 is a little expensive. but a similar turkey, if you bought it would be about $35. and shipping and handling is on top of all this stuff. keep that in mind. you have until monday to order any of the things we're going to talk about. if you get panicked, it will arrive by thanksgiving. >> ordering earlier makes it cheaper. >> that's right. >> you'll pay if you wait until monday. >> and there's speci

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abc's becky worley is in phoenix where all those packages are starting to move out. >> reporter: packages wrapping, conveyor belts humming and gifts making their way all across the country. at this amazon facility, they'll send over a quarter of a million packages today alone, and this is just 1 of 25 different amazon distribution centers all throughout the country. and the cyber monday projections are even more impressive -- a 10% increase in online shoppers from the estimated 96.5 million who shopped on this day last year. they say as the cardboard boxes go, so goes the economy. what are the boxes telling you? >> the boxes are telling me it's cyber monday -- not only the boxes but the forklifts we hear in the background. it's a busy day. it's just huge for us. >> reporter: and while the orders are pouring in here from the web, they don't seem to be cannibalizing sales at the mall. the average brick and mortar shopper spent $365 this weekend and that's up $20 from last year. and if sales keep up, it could mean even better news. experts say many of the 600,000 new jobs created this holida

next, we turned to abc's gadget guru becky worley. what's the best online deal? >> walmart.com has some pretty aggressive deals. they have $30 off the nintendo dsi system. that's a good one. and then starting on black friday at 9:00 a.m. pacific, the kindle two, the older model, is going on sale for $89. limited quantity, but that's a steal. >> reporter: david, the projections are that a lot of americans are going to snap up those steals, spending over $450 billion this holiday season. now, retailers are banking on something that they call frugality fatigue. that means that people are tired of pinching every penny, of watching everything they spend and maybe, just maybe, will splurge a little bit on themselves. david? >> all right, matt gutman, our in-house dealmaker today. matt, appreciate it. we posted everything that matt found there on the phone on abcnews.com, just find "world news" on the website. >>> we were reminded today that politics takes no break, even on this holiday. with new questions about whether a man who was once one of the most powerful politi

and our becky worley has worked her sources to create the ultimate deal-hunter's guide. tie. >> good morning, juju. it's like my super bowl of sales. >> it is. and all that shopping is enough to give you indigestion after the food. but let's get right to it. you found some deals like on flat-screen tvs. >> these are the door-busters. let's get to it. at target, a 42-inch westinghouse lcd, was $298 to $201. from walmart, a 32-inch emerson elc, that will save you $120. and from best buy, a 50-inch plasma panasonic, $699. that's a lot of screen real estate. >> those are jaw-dropping prices. i was shocked low cheaply you could get a bluray. >> they are internet connected. so, they can stream. the best deal at walmart. it's a magnavox. it was $118. it's $69, for those that grab one. >> streaming netflix on bluray. i was at walmart last night, getting a video game. don't tell my kids. but walmart is where i found them. and that's where you found a lot of deals. >> the tvs and the bluray player i just mentioned. but at midnight tonight, they are putting zhu zhu pets on sale for

and becky worley is on skype to tell us where the best prices are now.hat have we got? >> well, we learned that retailers are starting early with their discounts. and they're very aggressive. it was just halloween last weekend. but that's not stopping these stores from rolling out the discounts now. let's get started with sears. they have their black friday now event. friday and saturday only. friday and saturday. big deal to start with, craftsman lawn mower. this is one of the shoulder season deals. it's not summer anymore. it was $329. now, it's just $269. this is a dad gift, alert, alert. then, we've got the hamilton beach stand mixer. it was $199. now, 50% off. under $100. those are perennial favorites for a cook. and then to tvs. panasonic, 42-inch plasma from sears. it was $599. now, it's $449. as i think about tvs this holiday season, the big screens, over 50 inches, that's where we're going to get really good deals. you might even see a 50-inch plasma for under $500. >> wow. $449. the graphic said $499. you're saying it's $449 right now? >> it's

becky worley is joining us via skype from her home in oakland, california. answer, becky, we just can't let you sleep in this weekend. >> i'm on the case for your holiday shopping and shipping needs. and, bianna, leave to it a bunch of geeks to quantitatively assess how safe your packages are in transit. the editors over at "popular mechanics" put a bunch of cool gadgets in a box to test out all of your shipping options this holiday season. you send a gift because you care. >> and there you are. >> have a merry christmas. >> reporter: and you hope when you ship it, the handler will care too, but the internet is awash with video proof that sometimes they don't. so "popular mechanics" wanted to find out what really happens when you send those holiday packages. >> we wanted to get inside a package and see just how much damage was really going on. >> reporter: editor glenn derene teamed up with tech masters at national instruments to outfit them with motion sensors. the packages are then sent on a cross country trek from the magazine's offices in new york city t

here's becky worley with some good advice. >> reporter: black friday is a cultural phenomenon. of the deal. and this year, the mania is more intense than ever. soon black friday deals have been leaked, posted on facebook, and officially released two-plus weeks early. all to get you in the mood to buy. the retailers have to guess almost a year early how many tvs to order. if they overbuy, we get the deal. like walmart's emerson 32-inch lcd. was $328. will be $198. and target's westinghouse 40-inch lcd, $549 down to $298. but the deep discounts this year will be on some of the biggest sets. at best buy, a 50-inch panasonic plasma, regular price $999. after thanksgiving, $699. and at sears, a 55-inch samsung lcd is selling for almost $1,000 off. >> retailers are spending loads of money to get you in their stores and spending. they're going to try everything they can, slashing prices left and right, to make sure you leave with a shopping bag or two. >> reporter: at jcpenney, a five-piece luggage set for just $38. a kitchen aid cutlery set down 80 bucks. at best buy, the barnes and

next we turned to abc's gadget guru becky worley. so, becky, what's the best online deal?rse as opposed to getting better. >> well, the "wall street journal" reports that online shopping is getting a boost as well with sales up 15% over last year. >>> most shoppers not only have to battle those crowded stores and all those long lines today they'll also be taking on the elements today. >> accuweather's amy aaronson joins us with the details on how black friday's weather is shaping up. good morning, amy. >> thank you, rob and mike. and, unfortunately, the weather will not cooperate for black friday shoppers especially across the northeast. we are tracking our latest storm system here, sweeping its way across the region and the timing of this, certainly going to clash with anyone up and out early on, hitting the roadways here to head to the malls. we are calling for soaking rain from d.c. along i-95, heading into cities like philadelphia and also boston. and to top it off on the northern edge of this, a wintry mix is expected for western parts of pennsylvania, heading into ci

becky worley has more from oakland. >> reporter: when booking a vacation, vpictures tell a thousand wordss the written word on sites like tripadviser.com, that worry this inn keeper. >> if they're being spiteful, that's a bad thing. >> reporter: now, allegations of libellous comments and competitors with negative reviews, are calling the system into question. >> when it started, i thought it would be terrific. but it didn't occur to me that people would write reviews that aren't true. >> reporter: 800 businesses have inquired about a lawsuit against tripadviser. the lawsuit alleges there's not enough human insight. like this one that says the owner is perverted. anyone can flag this review as, please, trip adviser, take a look at it. and we look at it. >> reporter: as for accusations of fake reviews -- >> if we find a particular hotel that's writing negative reviews or trying to pump up their own rating, we will put a big, red badge on their property saying, we believe this hotel is trying to influence the rates. >> reporter: with more than 40 million reviews on the site, a few spiteful o

becky worley is here. >> reporter: i'm on a mission. see all of the products?e thanksgiving, prices will be slashed. i've been combing the internet, looking for leaks, talking to retailers, all to find you the best deals, come black friday. black friday is a cultural phenomenon. the thrill of the deal. and this year, the mania is more intense than ever. and so soon. black friday deals, posted on facebook and released two-plus weeks early. all to get you in the mood to buy. let's start with flat-screen tvs. the retailers have to guess, almost a year early, how many tvs to order. if they overbuy, we get the deal. like walmart's emerson's 32-inch lcd. was $328. will be $198. and target's westinghouse, 40-cinch lcd, $549 down to $298. but the deep discounts will be on some of the biggest sets. at best buy, a 50-inch plasma, regular price $999, after thanksgiving, $699. and at sears, a 50-inch samsung lcd, is almost $1,000 off. >> retailers are spending loads of money to get you in their stores and spending. they're going to try everything they can, to make sure you