out what exactly may have happened this is not the 1st such incident in delhi just last year and john moody 17 people lost their lives through a similar fire incident in a illegal fire cracker factory so the action that the parties need to take should not be limited just in this incidence it would be what's watching what exactly they will do to ensure that such incidents do not keep repeating themselves in the cup. now let's turn to some of the other stories making news around the world several 1000 people have gathered in the ukrainian capital kiev to urge president vala lenski to resist pressure from russia a rally comes on the eve of a summit between zelinsky and the russian leader vladimir putin the talks aimed to end the 5 year russian backed insurgency in eastern ukraine. the f.b.i. says it believes the shooter in friday's air base attack carried out an act of terrorism the saudi air force officer killed 3 people and wounded several others before being shot by police the agency is questioning other saudis who were training at the base with him in. finland is set to get its youngest ev

out what exactly may have happened this is not the 1st such incident in delhi just last year and john moody 17 people lost their lives. to a similar fire incident in a illegal firecracker factory so the action that the parties need to take should not be limited just to this incident that would be what watching what exactly did we do to ensure that such incidents do not keep repeating themselves in the. let's get a check now of some of the other stories making news around the world north korea says it's carried out an important test at a rocket testing science this comes as the country appeared to shut the door on further disarmament talks with the united states pyongyang warned that it would not restart nuclear negotiations unless washington eased sanctions. firefighters in australia are racing to contain almost 100 bush fires in the east of the country weather conditions have eased but a heat wave with strong winds is forecast for early this coming week which will likely mean even more severe blazes. new details have emerged about friday's fatal shooting at a u.s. naval base authorities sa

to the cow guy and scott shellady and moody's economist john lonski. welcome to both of you. scott, what do you make of what is happening right now? maybe because of stormy weather, folks expected to participate in online shopping more than otherwise would be the case. how do you sort of look at that? >> the shocking numbers, online shopping still has not eclipsed bricks and mortar. depending who you read about 20, 25%. what do the malls look like when there is 50/50? there is a still room to have online shopping area. i think bets, ultimately death knell at some point in time but right now it is small. we need to see 10 billion, the market would love. that would be something good to underpin we see what happened today. u.s. economy, u.s. consumer, the way they feel, it is a good recipe. stuart: john, you've been telling me the consumer is the key to this recovery and even when ceo's, cfos, sort of dialed back expectations or not hired as many or ratcheted down their plans, the consumer had none of that. is that still going to be the case? >> i think that is the case. let's n

post christmas day show this morning for all of you joining the conversation, moody's capital markets chief economist johngood morning. >> good morning. cheryl: did have you a good chriss mass 1234. >>christmas. >> yes. >>

. >> aisha moodie-mills, alice stewart, enjoy all your thirds of neveruary. >> thank you, john. >> thanksveloping overknight, the death toll is rising to over 85 after a truck bomb exploded in somalia's capital. the military retaliating with air strikes. we are joined live from nairobi this morning with more. what are the details you have at this hour? >> reporter: good morning. absolutely. good morning again, poppy. the truck bomb that went off on saturday has killed 85 people. this is because also the somali national emergency committee keep adding up fik yurs. people had been missing but now have been found. we're up to 85. this is all to do with al shab b shabab. of course the main victims are constantly the somali people themselves. we know this went off at a busy intersection which was bordering a university. so young people, young somalis are part of the many victims. this is not the first time this has happened. remember october 2017, over 500 were killed in yet another truck bomb. but the u.s. and africa command have been strident about this. they say this an organization that wa

post christmas day show this morning for all of you joining the conversation, moody's capital markets chief economist johnis here, veronica cleary and james freeman. guys, good morning. >> good morning. cheryl: did have you a good chriss mass 1234. >>christmas. >> yes. >> yes. cheryl: veronica? >> i hosted so i'm ready to be done. we have a lot of news coming up this morning. our top story this hour was, well, it was christmas, americans spending more money online for the holiday season, e-commerce sales jumped more than 18% compared to last year overall. holiday retail sales excluding cars rising more than 3%. thanksgiving did fall later this year which pushed a lot of retailers to start sales earlier. president trump touted the news, here's what he tweeted. 2019 holiday retail sales were up 3.4% from last year. biggest number in u.s. history, congratulations, america. veronica, your reaction in the middle of all this political abusinesabyss that's happening , you have an economy and consumer that's on fire and we have numbers to prove it. >> it sounds like you're trying to get away from washington but t