i'm bertha coombs with your cnbc business headlines. stocks set to open higher following yesterday's sell-off as investors continue to grapple with the rising number of coronavirus cases and another potential slowdown of the economy. the dow dropping more than 200 points for a second straight decline. the s&p 500 falling 100% wiping out all the gains for the week after stocks surged on positive vaccine news from pfizer on monday. jay powell says the outlook for the economy remains uncertain in the next few months could be challenging. today we'll be getting reports on producer prices and consumer sentiment. jetblue is gradually phasing out blocked seats on flights and will make all available seats for sale after the holiday travel season. jetblue says the decision follows a number of studies including one from harvard school of public health that validates the safety of aircraft cabins. jetblue will limit capacity for now to 85% between december 2nd and january 7th which is up from the current 70% cap. that's going to allow extra holida

. >> thanks, bertha. >>> taking new action.oming up next on "today in the bay." some say the white house is ignoring orders to help daca recipients. the new push from california to change all that. ♪ sfx: turkey gobble sfx: dog bark sfx: bubbles give thanks, no matter how you share it. >>> here we go. a live look at the golden gate bridge. is it wednesday? is it thursday? >> it's friday eve. >> don't forget that. get one thing straight here. it's been a long week. >> it has been a long week but the team is all here. we're keeping it going. 4:47 for you this morning. and something to make you smile, a look at that forecast for today. meteorologist kari hall has been telling us about that. i am excited and hopefully get out and enjoy it while i can. >> yes, you should definitely get out today. take in some sunshine and some warm weather this is the last day of it. let's go through our hour-by-hour forecast. as we're starting out this morning, mostly in the upper 40s and low 50s. as we take it through noon, we're going to see thos

coombs who explains bertha >> good morning, david we've been here on the plaza mall all morning andrankly. the stores are open, people want to be coming inside. there are fresh numbers from adobe and most stores are closed and we did see robust buying up 21% online. up $5.1 billion and these predictions and can you imagine, the e-commerce giants did the most smaller merchants doubled what they normally did. they were up better than 200%. here today, we're seeing quite a bit of the returns they're expecting to see mall traffic down 30% we are seeing a lot of folks coming in and coming out with lots of bags and what's interesting is that they are parking and shopping rather than just here for pickup pickup lines with mostly empty we saw few lines early this morning. game stop hoping they might be able to do better in person. a lot of people came away disappointed with nothing in hand and tyson's corner in virginia, the line was so long that in the interest of social distancing started taking people's numbers and basically did a virtual cue. they had them -- text them as to when they c

i'm bertha coombs with your top business headlines from cnbc.all street set to pull back at the open this morning. markets are coming off four straight days of gains, even as a result of the presidential election and some key congressional races remain undecided. markets are notching their best week since the dow and s&p up 7% for the week. investors are betting that democrats take the white house and that the senate will stay in gop hands and the odds with that means it will be lower for new tax increases of course the votes are still being counted. peloton, pizza and games, says sales more than tripled in its latest quarter. huge demand is leading to long wait times, though, for delivery. papa john's says sales are up 17%. that's the strongest growth in nearly eight years. the maker of red dead redemption reporting fewer gains this quarter. and watch out, tesla, bentley going ev. the automaker plans to shift to plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles by 2025 and fully electric models by the end of the decade. the century old british company which

i love it. >> your highness. >> all hail queen bertha.hank you. >>> well, happening today for you, out with the old, in with the new. the tree that will stand at rockefeller center this christmas is being cut down today. it weighs 11 tons. about 75 feet tall. meantime, macy's revealing the lineup for performers for the thanksgiving day virtual parade. broadway performers include hamilton, jagged little pill and mean girl and performers legendary dolly parton, ella mai and you can watch the macy's thanksgiving day parade right here on nbc bay area. laura? >>> also working to prevent another potential disaster. next on "today in the bay" the all-new cameras coming to parts of california that can help stop fires. we'll tell you all about it, when we come back. trelegy for copd. ♪ birds flyin' high, you know how i feel. ♪ ♪ breeze drifting on by you know how i feel. ♪ ♪ it's a new dawn... if you've been taking copd sitting down, it's time to make a stand. start a new day with trelegy. no once-daily copd medicine has the power to treat copd in

bertha, thank you.orning at all >> hey, bertha. >> steve, go ahead . >> reporter: yeah, steve. >> did you have a chance to walk through the mall i want to know, are stores closed down in there are they empty are there empty stores more than you normally see or are all the stores still open and ready for that delivery and pickup >> to be honest, i haven't really walked through the mall they just opened at 7:00 normally they open much later in the morning and a lot of retailers have restricted hours because of social distancing and frankly for their staff to be able to restock things a lot of them are using their stores to fulfill those online orders the biggest sort of lines that you are likely to see today will be people coming to pick things up >> okay. >> thanks, bertha. >> for more on this year's holiday shopping outlook, we're joined right now by bill simon, the former president and ceo of walmart u.s., also steve sadove, the former chairman and ceo of sachs, and a senior adviser for mastercard stev

bertha, thank you. i'm so glad, guys, that bertha brought up walmart at the end.e're focusing on shares of good rx, rite aid and walgreens i really think this is a move to become more competitive with walgreens. amazon prime users have typically been more affluent consumers. but over the last few years, we certainly see amazon trying to capture, you know, a broader base of prime users including walmart's customers. but, of course, carl and jon, this isn't guaranteed, right not everything that baez oes or amazon touches turns to gold i think about ambitions in grocery and 14 billion plus acquisition of whole foods, i think the ambitions have still yet to be realized they have a big boost amid the pandemic there is third party data that shows it may be looging behind other grocery stores when you think about the pharma states, there are issues of privacy and data involved as bertha outlined. >> i wonder what microsoft thinks they've been a partner with walgreens. they've been a partner with walmart as well. so from a technology perspective, that might be a place to

bertha coombs with a preview of cyber monday good morning, bertha. >> good morning, seema one of theemberships video services get us to subscribe with must-see content. retailers the holidays are like a block buster membership event. it's a game amazon has played to its strength for 15 years now. on its way to over 150 million prime members worldwide who executives say have spent and bought more during the pandemic. target's shipt has a holiday promotion, half off its $99 a year membership. they have seen over 200% growth for three consecutive quarters analysts estimate it's on pace to drive $1 billion in sales this year. >>> and walmart is offering a 15-day free trial of walmart plus which launched this fall as the pandemic has boosted digital sales. walmart plus is also priced about 20 bucks less than amazon. now, it provides free two-day delivery with a minimum $35 purchase, including same day service on grocery scanning app for instore shopping and 5 cents off per gallon on gas. meantime, prime includes free two-day including pharmacy now and same day delivery. a minimum $35 purc

coombs joins us now with more of that bertha >> reporter: while testing capacity has been expanding,s gone way up as well states reported a record 1.8 million covid tests remember formed, twice the seven-day average we saw during last july's surge according to data compiled by the covid-19 tracking project combination of new infections and people looking to be test it had ahead of the holidays is leading to long lines at testing sites like city md clinics in greater new york which this week limited hours because the volume of demand has strained the health of their own workforce, and they are prioritizing sick patients now over holiday test requests >> we're not rationing care. we just want to make sure that those who are sick are be seen and if they want asymptomatic testing we can arrange for it, too, but they might have to wait. >> reporter: inter mountain health care in utah has seen a 50% increase in testing demand and higher positivity rates including among its staff. a quarter of inter mountain nurses are out because they or a loved one are sick or just tired from long hours.

bertha, i actually want to follow up with you first again, with the best buy shares down 6%. mentioned their tone was a little different on the call what did they say on call because if they are more cautious going forward that would echo the consumer confidence numbers, the gdp forecast from jpmorgan the first quarter. what did they see that spooked everybody? >> they were just not as confident about the first quarter. they didn't think they would -- they sawed they aid they are noy seeing that for holiday quarter. again, dick's was much more upbeat they said we're seeing strength coming into the quarter and even going into 2021 when, you know, lauren hobart will be taking over at ceo. she's the president and talked about how the omni channel is really, working and help to bring down their costs whereas best buy saturday of said they were eating into margins. >> interesting. >> a little less kind of hopeful. >> dom, just cut a quick pin in it because this in some way, are they suffering a covid hangover, supplies >> i would say they capitalized on a number of fronts, outdoor

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bertha, thank you very bertha coombs covering retail for us ty >> the growing spread of covid-19 across u.s. has put pressure on already cautious consumers. a new report from jpmorgan shows spending on chase cards fell significantly in early november, especially in states being hit hard by the virus. here now to discuss is jpmorgan's senior economist jesse edgerton good to have you with us tell us what you found by reelk -- region, by spending category and overall. what kind of dip are we talking about? >> a dip of a few percentage points at this point over the last week or two we're tracking a panel of about 30 million card holders of chase branded credit and debit cards across the country and in the data through november 9th, those numbers had fallen by about 4 percentage point from where they were a week prior in the week ending november 2nd. it is true that those declines were bigger in some of the states where the virus is spreading most rapidly, places like north dakota, wisconsin, minnesota, spending down like 7 percentage points. basically in almost every state, we were seeing n

bertha coombs has that and more on this friday >> good morning.t's right, disney reporting strong growth for disney plus with more than 73 million subscribers as the company americaed t marked the first year of service. its lost of 20 cents a share was much better than expected along with revenue of $14.7 billion. shares are higher in extended trading. and speaking yesterday, disney ceo said given the success of disney plus, the company will have a big focus on content. >> we also realize that new content adds subscribers it is clear to us that new content adds subscribers so i think that you will see a continued increase in investment in our direct to consumer platforms and that will then fuel some of the growth that christine will talk about at the investor conference that we expect december 10 >> content is king and content created by folks out there can continue tiktok has been given the green light for now to continue operating in the u.s the commerce department announcing yesterday that it will comply with a preliminary injunction preventing

the stock today down 20% bertha coombs here with the late for us bertha >> reporter: we've seen thisoming for the last three years. amazon's new online normalcy is in network with most insurers build begun on its $1 billion acquisition of pill pack while it won't have physical pharmacies, if you need a prescription right away you can download a card at get it filled at a drug store. you can also talk to a pharmacist virtually now prime members get free two-day shipping and a quick comparison on cash prices when you pay without insurance putting it in direct competition with good rx the best known of the cash discount players to the get a look at comparisons you have to open an account and after entering the last four digits of my social and date of birth i was surprised when the system automatically generated my insurance membership number which makes you wonder about your personal data t.j. parker, the founder of pill pack, tells cnbc the experience inside the pharmacy is separate and distinct from amazon.com and that data will be stored in compliance with health policy rules and no

this is bertha and she's just great.oing this. so she's worked really hard! beate and her electric bike, bertha, are part of a team of 16 couriers. this business was set up as demand grew for local deliveries from local shops during lockdown. so what kind of things do you deliver? oh, my goodness. we've delivered everything from vintage clothing down through organic vegetables to, you know, things that need to be kept cool. we've got chiller boxes. today, she's doing the cheese run. the crumbly cheese is the latest retailer to start delivering by bike. when pubs and cafes shut, andrew's wholesale trade disappeared, but he's managed to pick up new customers. it works brilliantly for us. people can access — those that are shielding that are stuck indoors, they can access what we do and then it's delivered to their door without any worries. with non—essential shops in england shut for a second time, the british retail consortium estimates £2 billion worth of sales will be lost every week during november. it's forced indepen

bertha coombs is at a mall in paramus, new jersey, and has more for us this morning bertha >> we are at the west field garden state plaza, and we are seeing some traffic. they opened early for black friday at 7:00 a.m if you look, people have been pouring in since sun up for the most part, but certainly the parking lot is nowhere near as full one woman told us by this time on a normal year, you couldn't park anywhere near the front of the door to get to a store it makes her a little sad to see it, but she says in some ways it is a little bit of a silver lining >> i think of huge crowds, but obviously there aren't this may end up being the best time to come it might be the safest time. >> yeah, she said she's here because her daughter brought her, she wouldn't have otherwise, but a lot of these mall-based stores have been doing well on line over the last week coming into thanksgiving, kohl's, macy's, both up more than 50%, taking some share from rivals like nordstrom. of course, they're not ding as well as the big box stores, they continue to be the monster share online target up 167%

. >> cnbc bertha coombs watching it all for us this morning. bertha? >> hey, marcus and laura. the futures pointing to a higher open. right now the dow looks like it could open up another 380 points. that's after yesterday's post-election rally when we saw a 370-point gain. even though the dow closed off the sessions of the high, it was pretty bullish. the nasdaq was the real standout. up 430 points or 3.8%. both the s&p 500 and the nasdaq produced their best post-election gains on record. and the reality is that tech stocks were a part of that big boom. investors right now are calculating that we are going to see this presidential race wind up in split government. that's good for tech stocks, they think, because it means that congress would not raise taxes most likely. so a whole new tax plan really kind of fade away and also regulati regulation -- that's likely not to happen in a mixed conference, as well. and health care also likely remain in place in terms of obama care if you don't have a clear blue wave or a clear red wave. so, a little bit of gridlock is something that i

but first, cnbc's bertha coombs outside a target store in new york city. bertha, a quiet day? >> yeah, quiet day, though busier than you would have thought. this is normally the super bowl of shopping days but unlike football, this year black friday a lot less of a contact sport. we did find some lines we saw that a couple dozen gamers were lined up in the wee hours outside of the garden state mall not for bargains, but hoping to score a coveted ps5 console. by the time the store was set to open at 7:00 a.m., well that >> crowded in to try to get the word and the news was not good >> gamestop manager came out a minute ago and said i've got no playstation 5s i've got maybe six xboxes. and people started leaving because they just need information. >> but while they were leaving by midmorning, there were a lot of people coming in, filling up spots in the parking lot, and shoppers were actually driving past the spots for curbside pickup to shop inside in person for bargains the crowds thinner than normal for a black friday, but that was comforting for some. >> i guess i always thi

. >> joining us now at cnbc bertha coombs.ertha so far so good when it comes to the markets. >> that's right, marcus and laura. we have actually the dow looking to open up about 300 points. the nasdaq up about 250 points after a huge rally yesterday. we saw the dow actually gain 370 points, though that was well off of the highs of the day. the nasdaq was huge. up 430 points or 3.8%. in fact, the s&p 500 and the nasdaq had their best post-election day rally on record. investors right now are focused on the possibility that it looks like you may see joe biden take the presidential race and you may see the senate remain in republican hands. gridlock generally good for the markets. think about the two biggest pieces of ledgestratigislation last decade. they would hold. one being obama care. health care stocks up big and the others the tax breaks passed by the republicans in 2017. you have gridlock. you're not likely to see major change on that. that would be good for tech and that's what you saw that big tech rebound, people comin

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. >>> welcome back popping after hours, let's hear from bertha. >> another blowout doing more than aollar better than the estimate. it's 17th streak quarter of meeting or beating expectations. 1.75 billion in revenues, well above the estimate as well and about 100 million shy of their record quarter last year it's just continuing to show the strength of home the company has not missed since 2016, august on any of its comps. overall comps, williams-sonoma up a record 30%. pottery barn and west elm up better than 20%. digital commerce up 9% we talked about the strength of home, but on the call just now, the ceo says she blows they are also well positioned to take market share she thinks they are on pace for 300 million in business sales this year. she thinks that could be a $1 billion business in five years they are firing on all cylinders and trading close to their all-time high. >> thank you, bertha this happening on a day where we had strong numbers, record low mortgage rates so this whole thing is working >> it's extraordinary. back to williams-sonoma, 24.2 overall. expectation was

. >>> as tensions rise ahead of election day and any possible uncertainty after, cnbc's bertha comes repor coombs reports. >> reporter: from sack's on new york's fifth avenue to upscale stores, the nation's luxury retailers look like they're preparing for a storm. it's the same story at walmart in birmingham, alabama, and businesses near the white house where a non-scaleable fence is going up bracing for potential unrest of this year's election retailers like macy's and target are adding extra security though they're quiet about the details hoping to avoid a repeat of last summer when looters ran sacked businesses in riots across the country following the death of george floyd resulted in more than $1 billion in insured losses according to the insurance information institute. in chicago the city has mobilized an election security plan and like last summer is prepared to block off business areas if there's trouble. >> chicago, we have to be smart, safe and peaceful. no matter the outcomes, we all noe motions will be high because they already are. >> reporter: in beverly hills, city of

it happened just before 9:00 on bertha lane. there is no word on the victim's condition or a suspect. >>> a ruling in the case of a former uc burkely employee known as nor cal rapist. he is facing life in prison for a string of crimes. a jury convicted him on 46 counts of sexual assault and kidnapping. prosecutors say waller raped nine women in six cities between 1991 and 2006. every assault had the same mo, women tied to a bed for hours with their eyes taped shut. investigators used a geneology website to break the case, same technique that captured the golden state killer. >>> 6:09, a fan plan shot down. >> still ahead on kpix5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, why san francisco health department told the warriors their plea to allow fans is just too risky. >>> here is a look at current visibility starting the day with dense fog, down to a quarter mile santa rosa, petaluma, napa and livermore. >>> traffic is backing up at the bay bridge toll there's no bad time to start at amazon... ♪ i like the flexibility. it also allows for p

similar reports all across the land bertha coombs tracking the wait tim times. >> at community healthrs in connecticut, some days they've had to close a few sites early pause they don't have enough tests >> 200, 300, 400 people a day coming in to almost every single one of our testing sites >> reporter: the american clinical lab association says the current coronavirus surge could mean some of the laboratories that process tests could reach capacity in the coming days and result in delayed results. it's already happening at the pro health care clinics in new york city, where demand has doubled over the last week >> a week ago i could count on a 24-hour turn around for our pcr testing. now we're seeing that increasing to 36, 48 hours. >> cbs health's field operations chief says demand has gone from 60,000 tests per day nationally to 80,000 this week and so far test turn arounds remain in line but with more people seeking tests before thanksgiving, rite aid is warning customers tush arou -- turn around time could take from three to five days. >> it doesn't help if you have your test on

bertha coombs is live in pa ram miss, new jersey which some might call the mall capital of america. quiet, but they are opening early here at the westfield garden state plaza and we did find a line, not huge, about a couple dozen people in line for the entrance near the game stop store a lot of them have been there since before midnight last night. what could get them to come out so early ps 5 if not for that, they said that they would not be here they haven't been able to get it 00 line oi online, so they are hoping to get it in person but for most of us, we are not planning to shop in person according to deloitte, last year you saw 60% wanting to be in-store and more than half, some combination of in-store and online this year it has flipped the majority say we're shopping online as opposed to in-person although they do plan to try to get to the mall and the store if not today sometime this weekend. >> if we look at saturday and sunday, there seems to be a preference for in-store versus online on those days other two days, we're finding folks want to be online. >> yeah, generally

more in a minute as you look as those names on your screen first bertha coombs as details from the nrfis forecasting spending of $450 billion and sales growth of 3.6 to 5.2% this holiday season some of those sales have already been pushed forward with four out of ten consumers saying they started holiday shopping early as retailers have spread out black friday deals in response to the pandemic. seasonal hiring has also been pulled forward, retailers expecting to add between 475 and 575,000 jobs this season the retail group expects a strong finish to the holidays, driven by less spending on travel, record savings after this year's stimulus and optimism over vaccine developments at the high end of the estimates, that would represent the strongest year-over-year growth since the big tax cut in 2017, in strong contrast to the declines we saw during the 2008 great recession. and macy's pushing for an efficiency easy play this time around. >> it's going to be a tough battle for them i think, bertha, thank you. our next guest is feeling upbeat about the holidays and consumer overall. this as

bertha coombs joins me now with more bertha >> that's right. kelly. off the table and for investors a divided congress reduces the risk of a major health care policy upheaval be it the democrats' public option plan or the potential for major legislation and drug pricing which has failed to materialize despite bipartisan support in congress drug-makers among the biggest gainers today with the fda saying that it has enough data to support biogen and lily's alzheimer's drug but we're also seeing double-digit gains for health insurers today, the strongest performer since march and cigna up 25% this week ahead of its earnings tomorrow and ben isker says regardless of who wins the white house a divided congress now effectively means that most regulatory changes will be incremental rather than wholesale which is a relief at a time when the health care industry is in the thick of the pandemic hospitals today not getting as much of a lift they will still face pricing pressures as more people lose employer coverage due town employment, and potentially switch to

from browsing when you're online. >> yeah, provided that the platform has a good discovery option bertha, certainly not a bad thing but you've got to hope that all of these retailers can deliver on the e-commerce logistics and deliveries frank has had me worried about procrastinating. that does set us up perfectly for our next guest, ubs retail analyst. michael, i know all week we've been talking about how big this holiday season is going to be for online sales, but when you look at q3 digital sales the rate of growth has come down a little bit part of that may be reopenings, stimulus running out, less need, perhaps, for repeat purchases. do you think that we will see sort of a return to that double, triple digit growth from the big box retailers given this holiday season >> i think the most likely case is that we see steady online growth over the course of this holiday season because of the same factors that have been driving it over the last couple of quarters like the need to social distance, the convenience of it, the repetitive behavior of buying online now, it will become important

i do have to go to bertha coombs, who has breaking news on the affordable care act. >> a brig supreme court hearing over the constitutionality of the affordable care act. and from the arguments, which wrapped up two hours' worth, it appears that the justices are not inclined to throw out the whole law. of course it's foolhardy to say what the justices will decide. basically the republicans are arguing that when the penalty for the individual mandate was zeroed out, it was no longer a tax and that had been a linchpin of just roberts' argument for upholding the law back in 2012 but just roberts didn't seem to be inclined to hear that argument today in fact, some of conservative members, justice alito said you're talking about perhaps a plane that you pull it out and it's not going to fly but from what we've seen, the plane has not crashed. and justice cavanaugh said he's not inclined to go against this issue of servability and say once you ib validate the mandate that the whole law needs to come down it's ub clr whether -- it doesn't appear they want to bring the entire law down. what w

tell you don't go because i thought both am securing the net on about no one here are probably fair bertha those are not ok but i want to avoid them for a good test program talking about it on the ground but after all they called it what our forefathers were 1 put together because they're tired taught us all don't work while those who are there at the boat wait the good of the water all the doubt that they get all the right to get well. i call that hope. this is the way he did i don't want to vote for a lot more from the fact that we get healthy all the occupant always. oh. i don't i'm afraid we can't really hear each of you. were hearing those fireworks and we're seeing them. let's keep talking here in the studio william because in bloomington there are of course we are not and we don't have the heart honor that they do that all of us and they do that actually they're probably live tweeting. what they are witnessing there which is history in the making what do you make of these remarks by vice president elect come on harris 1st and then. i mean you could see in a couple of hours as eyes a

scott fox flew over the area of that shooting on bertha lane earlier today. the medical examiner's office identified those two victims as 38-year-old lamarr williams and 30-year-old hampton, both of san francisco. officers responded to the scene just before 9:00 last night and found the two men suffering from gunshot wounds. >> medics transported the victims to a local hospital where the victims succumbed to their injuries. this is an active and ongoing investigation being investigated by the homicide detail. >> no arrests have been made and police have not yet released any information on suspects or a possible motive. >>> the nations new unemployment numbers are out. coming up today at 4:30 we will have a look at the health of the american economy as the pandemic ramps up. >>> first, she is the first woman to hold the rank of commissioner in the history of the california highway patrol. coming up next, a one-on-one interview with the bay area native to learn more about her and her plans for the department. >>> and the storm clouds have moved out of town. sti

this happened just before 9:00 on bertha lane. no word on how the victims are doing and no information on a suspect. >>> the coronavirus, with holiday travel discouraged as covid-19 cases keep rising students at uc berkeley and other colleges across the country are left in a predicament, to go or not to go home. not only is concern that students can potentially infect their loved ones when they go home, but they can also bring back the virus to the bay area. >> i myself am going to be tested before i got down, we i get down, as well as when i come back. >> epidemiologists warn a covid test is not without flaws. while it can tell you if you are infected, it won't stop the spread. >> to just get a single test and say now we can bring the kid back from college in wisconsin and have him meet up with his grandmother on thanksgiving for six hours with no masks, not a good thing. you need to be really careful about those situations. >> health experts recommend a two week quarantine if you travel to an area with a high infection rate. som

let's get to bertha comes now who is having a look at the retail movers particularly today.>> yeah, not doing so well, best buy and kick's sporting goods both beating third quarter estimates after reporting more than 20% same store sales growth but both shares are down after 174% online sales growth in the quarter. best bye executives say they don't expect those trends to continue in the current quarter citing higher display chain costs. dick's says curbside pickup is resulting in stores driving 90% of total sales no guidance from the ceo ed stack but he was fairly upbeat about holiday and the momentum continuing into 2021 after the bell we will be hearing from gap which hit a new 19-month high today. >> thank you bertha. mike is the broader market slugging off some soft consumer data this morning? >> a bit yeah it is not that focused necessarily on the real time you see some of the daily and weekly mobility and job posting numbers haven't been going in the right direction. the overall market perfectly willing at this point to look through. fast moving dynamics on the covid

bertha, great to see you and we'll talk to you again soon. >> unbelievable.here. he's my movie guy. you remember row bbocop, do you remember that there was one company. there was one company at that time >> amazon. >> we're headed there. it's going to be amazon. nothing else. >> we finished talking about walmart, and how there's not a weak point in their earnings, and a couple percent of gdp. >> can i still buy a book at amazon >> you can >> yes, you can. >> you don't have to yet, though, but you can. >> think about amazon, think about that think about, i mean, there's a picture of him here at the nasdaq, becky, remember that picture of him, and you know what he looks like now. >> ringing the bell. >> yeah, exactly ringing the bell he looks like robocop. >> terminator, the guy we used to put on with the funny laugh now he looks like adonis classic the way the world works. >> you were talking about 30 years ago, buffet should have bought that company. that company didn't exist 30 years ago. i'm one of the early subscribers to amazon and i think my account goes

since we're out for instance we have a state a local races frankly your local aldermanic your council bertha will have a lot more to do our. this winter goes for you but the presidency will but i do think we're on a pathway for because people now better understand what is going on of the system and we better understand what their role is in change yes i think one of the most telling exchanges during the debate was when president when i were debating the stimulus bill working for the congress and president wrote so i can't get it through because congress' job immigrants will give me a bill to vote on don't buy this of or you're the president you need to push it through literally 5 minutes later job audits of what the result of it was so what we were in office would because we had a republican house or become a republican senate that what a lot of get things done the president well i would have made a deal on it since that show you how impotent both parties are because both are claiming that it will presidential power they could have unlimited ability to change the before and then what caught

hi, bertha >> hey, how are you, carl?are in herald square and this is one of the areas last summer following the death of george floyd that saw a tremendous amount of unrest and some of thatunrest and some of that spilling over into violence an looting, so businesses here have begun boarding up. macy's in fact across the street yesterday started putting up boards on its windows, though officials sit they were doing so normally because of their holiday displays they are preparing that, but they acknowledge they are taking extra precautions if there's potential disruption maky's of course, where some major looting occurred saks fifth avenue similarly put up more modest look boards, but they do acknowledge that they are implementing additional security measures because of the election they are boarding up their windows, and they are also adding additional security personnel. meantime, in washington and across the nation you're seeing a lot of preparations. at the white house yesterday we saw new fencic going up, nonscalable

this is bertha and she's just great.rked really hard! beate and her electric bike, bertha, a part of a team of 16 couriers. this business was set up as demand grew for local deliveries from local shops during lockdown. so what kind of things do you deliver? oh, my goodness. we've delivered everything from vintage clothing down through organic vegetables to, you know, things that need to be kept cool. we've got chiller boxes. today, she's doing the cheese run. and this was an innovation that came out of lockdown. so we thought that we'd see more deliveries just happening and that we wanted to do that in a much more sustainable way that's much more appropriate for our circumstances and our valley. the crumbly cheese is the latest retailer to start delivering by bike. when pubs and cafes shut, andrew's wholesale trade disappeared, but he's managed to pick up new customers. it works brilliantly for us. people can access — those that are shielding their stock in indoors, they can access what we do and then it's delivered to t

. >> certainly, to say the least, mike >>> dragging down the retail sector bertha coombs has more ona >> despite a sales beat dragged down by higher costs, shares giving back about half of its gains over the last three months digital sales jumped 61%, driven by higher margin, athleta and old navy sales, that was part of the problem, shipping costs associated with digital, aiding to two percentage points of margins. banana republic continues to be a drag, sales plunging 30% tl. gap was upbeat about holiday on the call management also a cautious note about covid spikes muting store traffic overall, that kornacki khaki boom not enough to overset their problems. >> kornacki khaki boom even mentioned on their earnings call thank you very much. josh, you mentioned nordstrom and the boost they got why is the picture so different than a company like gap? >> it's a beautiful knot. >> oh, yeah. wow! >> i think -- yeah i think the sell-off is wrong. i think gap is a buy a number of analysts actually reiterated their buy ratings on it although they did get a downgrade. what's really going on her

video from citizen app shows emergency responders on scene last night on bertha lane. no word on the victim's condition or suspect. >>> an ambitious testing plan to allow warriors fans to return when the season starts has been shot down. players won't hear the roar of the crowd any time soon. the team outlined a $30 million effort to test fans, employees, players ahead of every game but in a new letter the health department rejected the idea saying bringing thousands of individuals and households together, many of whom would travel from and return to other counties creates too much risk of widespread transmission. the warriors had this response saying we believe the thorough reopening plans we have been developing will help us accomplish our goal of welcoming our fans and staff back when the time is right. >>> next on kpix5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, a new battle over big coal in contra costa county. why opponents say kids are paying the price to export dirty fossil fuel to asia. >>> the rain is gone and fog is back, even dense fog in spots this morning. we'll tal

involved >>> to the first official votes cast in the company and unofficial polling by a soda company, berthas has the top trending stories >> the election version here, so of course we'll start with the votethat everybody watches they are in this dixville notch, new hampshire. the small town opens and closes its polls just after midnight every single presidential election the five votes cast there, joe biden took them all. that is the first candidate to sweep since richard nixon. the other new hampshire town that voted around the same time, millsfield favored president trump, 16 votes to five. meantime one connecticut based soda maker is out with results of its own avery's beverages has been selling campaign inspired drinks to predict the race and this week trump tonic has been outselling the biden berry 56% to 44% now, savoe r its soda sales have predicted every election since they started making them in 2008 and what would election day be without some free stuff? krispy kreme is giving a free glazed doughnut, shake shack is giving poll workers a free sandwich with proof of badge and chili'

let's get over to bertha comes with more on his new approximately sees >> that's right, sara. a lot of this had been basically anticipate ltd it has been 60 days since the rules were proposed. now they are being timized one of them is a rebate rule which basically weeps out the negotiated discounts the pharmacies and the middle men negotiate. those roberts are used to bring down premiums. drug makers say that forces them to raise their prices the sticker prices and that's what is causing the inflation when it comes to drug provides it not really hitting the pbm companies hard, all the big companies own the pbm. united health, cigna but we are already getting bush pac. lindsey graham is going explored the campaign for sustainable rx pricing said this is essentially a giveaway to big pharma because it doesn't really force big pharma to rein in their prices it basically says now the pbms can only charge a fixed fee. those pharmacy benefits, the insurers in particular are hit hard this week already, after news that amazon is getting into the mail order pharmacy business the other

bertha comes it is alwa i'm thinking back to when they bought whole foods and when kroger tanked on the news and came all the way back. as an investor, how do you see this if you are in some of the pharmacy names >> it is not an unexpected threat i think you could argue that today's one-day move seems exaggerated in the likes of cvs and walgreens. but that's also because they were up so much this month even with today's declines they haven't give up half of what they gain eed month to date i think they got caught up in trade of the oemt. you have hot money backing out i think there are longer term questions probably about the economics of the pharmaceutical distribution food chain. it has been opaque people for years have said there is too much friction, too many middle men along the way taking a cut. if amazon comes in there and maybe cleans some of that out it could be a theoretical threat. i think today's action is just stocks that were on a huge run that had this unexempted little kinds of knee capping by amazon. >> mike, thanks for the perspective. >>> after the break, shares of co

. >>> another tech giant making headline, well, it is amazon, bertha coombs has more on the company,jump into an online pharmacy business big one at that. >> something we've all been sort of anticipating for awhile amazon launching a full online pharmacy building on its acquisition of pill pack two years ago, the pharmacy is in that work of major insurers and medicare and patients can pay for prescriptions with funds from health savings account or flexible spendings account and can talk with pharmacists online or over the phone. now, one of the other things, prime members get free two-day shipping patients who need meds right away can get a card and go to a physical pharmacy for that but in addition they get a prime prescription savings comparison, at checkout that shows them scoupes if they don't use insurance like with a high deductible when it comes to personal health data, t.j. parker tells cnbc that the experience inside the pharmacy is separate and distinct from amazon.com and that data will be stored in compliance with health privacy rules and not used for migrating unless you

bertha coombs has more on that >> that's right, john. notice macy's windows are boarded up now they say they were doing that anyway because of the holiday preparations to prepare the windows. but they admit to cnbc that they are taking extra precautions anticipating that we may see demonstrations surrounding the election macy's and most retailers, actually, refrain from discussing damage totals from last summer during the rioting and looting that followed demonstrations on the death of george floyd but there were more than one billion in insured losses nationally according to insurance property claim services from those demonstrations this week here in new york and across the country, you are seeing a number of cities and businesses that saw damage during the unrest boarding up their store fronts, adding extra securities out of dhaern we could revisit that situation over the next few days in chicago, in fact, officials have been in communications with the city's businesses about election safety plans. in anticipation of demonstrations th