the best thing on 3rd avenue is ethan allen.ut digital strategy, you have to bring people. and they come. people today are hungry for personal service. you have to define yourself. these folks are doing well, but that is not the only strategy. we differentiate, as i said in october, we use digital strategies -- website, e-mail, and we got people in. we increased our business by 33% , not on e-commerce. in fact we said, the only way you're going to get that 30% off is if you come to our design center, and they did. and we continued strong trends in november. year or so, we have changed 70% of our offerings. 70%. not easy. we are fully integrated. 70% of products are made in north american workshops. we have 100 locations outside north america and 70% we ship from north america, even in china. >> thank you very much, farooq kathwari, ethan allen interiors. mark wheaton is staying with us. --mark wiedman is staying with us. ♪ >> welcome back. >> i believe the decision to delay rates runs risks that are easily reversed but subsequen

place and let you feel what it was like to be grant on that night or feel what it was like to be ethan allentie -- ticonderoga. also somewhat drunk. so this is my conclusion and we're coming back to the may mayflower for my final words about the nature of history. in the second week of december 1620, almost a month after the mayflower landing on cape cod, after braving unimaginable hardships, the journeys, the failed explorations inhospitable cape cod fans, winter storm that almost wrecked the ship they were using to explore the coast. a dozen men landed in what would come to be named plymouth harbor. they landed right around the bend in province town harbor but nye they couldn't settle there so they spent a month looking for a place to settle. i'm not saying that this happened because the ration was a gallon of beer a day, but they were between two of the greatest harbors in the world, new york and boston, and they got in their ship and made little circles until they found a place to settle, plymouth. not that there's anything wrong with plymouth, but they had to drink beer because they cou

and like ethan allen, housing looks like it's coming on now.u see a housing boom and if so, do you think that ethan allen will be a winner? >> on-line, but know the on land. bassett furniture will be okay, bassett better. home depot the clear winner, clear pure play. >> retail in and of itself. on-line and brick and mortar. 2016 better than 2015 overall? >> 2016 better. amazon's going to be the clear winner. a number of losers. some of them just by incorporation issues, so, dollar tree buying family dollar, which was a marginal dollar player, you've got to wait a year. you're the best, merry christmas to you. black lives matter protest minneapolis, disrupting shoppers and the nearby mass transit trains. they've got more planned. ashley: yes, yesterday's protest at the mall of america, the biggest in the country, one of the biggest in the world. they claim that was a decoy so they could block the roads and terminals. the protests of rail stations are victimizing people on probably one of the busiest shopping and travel days of the year, people w

. >> farouk kathary from ethan allen interiors. i was -- my question is the unintended consequences of our own actions. even the way we are shaping the debate that has been just discussed. with all due respect, sir, earlier it was mentioned the fact that there were attacks on san bernardino, paris, madrid, even mumbai. but the fact is that every day hundreds of muslims are being killed by these -- this cult, by the criminals in afghanistan, in iraq and syria, pakistan, africa and that is not mentioned. and i think we have to -- my question is really the question of the debate taking place by the political to the media is helping i would call isis and the cult is criminal. >> i think that was a point that i think everyone has been making on the panel. let me just tweak your question ever so slightly and ask you, because isis is killing so many muslims, this was eventually what ended up bei inin ining th. >> isis is essentially al qaeda of iraq or al qaeda of mesopotamia, rebranded. this is the organization that was part of al qaeda,

allen schauffler, roseburg, oregon. >> so according to the associated press, the negotiate of the so-called affluent teenager is expedited back to the united states, but ethan mexico. a judge blocked his deportation. the process could take days or weeks. couch used affluenza as a defense in a fatal drunk driving crash that killed four people. he was arrested along with his mother. just outside of texas, residents at a porter ranch are dealing with the fallout of an environmental disaster. for the past nine weeks, a gas well has been filling with methane. jennifer joins us now with the latest on this. >> reporter: tony, don't be fooled by what appears to be an idyllic neighborhood at the end of another beautiful southern california sunny day. methane gas has continued to fill the air, making many people here sick. this is what an environmental disaster looks like. a massive natural gas leak, spewing methane into the air since late october. captured by infrared cameras. downwind of the leak, 30,000 people living in the upscale community of porter ranch, 28 miles north of los angeles. >> it's tough to go outside, and we have to close all of the doors and the w