a fight broke out in a walmart in elken, north carolina, apparently over discounted flat screen televisions. look at that. similar incidents have also been reported elsewhere around the country. >>> and at 1500, walmart stores across the nation protesters were planned demanding higher wages, more full-time positions, and better working conditions. at this chicago walmart, ten protesters were arrested after scuffling with police. only two of them were actual walmart workers. with sales off to a strong start this holiday weekend, experts are predicting a very merry holiday shopping season for stores. the national retail federation predicts $602 billion in total consumer spending in the final two months of the year. that's a nearly 4% increase from last year. predicting 3.9% growth, so we think it's going to be a very strong season. historically for the last ten years, the average has been about 3.5%. so we're going to do better than that, but we're not back to the pre-recession number of high single digits, and a lot of that is due to the fact you've got these somewhat hollow indexes, so we l