here's landon dowd with details on the business report. >> reporter: your amazon could be making you spend more money. examined the spending habits of amazon customers and found people who own this spend more. . on the average amazon spends that much a year. voice shopping is enabled by default. amazon also provides exclusive offers only to amazon echo devices. >>> says dipping into la new business, cryo genics, company offer technology to businesses in pharmaceutical, agricultural and animal feed industries. new industry called cryo dots, use liquid nitrogen, they could freeze culture,al vera, and probiotics for pets companies. business report. i'm landon dowd. >> if you are still deciding which diet you'll try this year, you are probably not starting on the right foot. but for the 8th year in a world u.s. news report lists dash diet as best. national institutes of health. designed to lower blood pressure by only eating low grains. and mediterranean also tied for first place. >> and the mind interesting. >> i don't know, i'm a little sad i had to pull out the scale the other day aft

. >> now over to landon dowd for a news update. >> here's your cnbc news update.d pounding the northeast. strong winds and snow began pounding the jersey shore. massachusetts started dealing with 60-mile-per-hour wind gusts. the snow could pile as high as 1 inches in portions of new england today. >>> a fiery train crash in south africa involving a truck trying to cross the tracks. officials say at least 12 people have been killed and more than 260 people injured the train burst into flames after the collision. >>> a dangerous strain of e. coli sickening nearly 60 people in the u.s. and canada canadian health authorities linked it to romaine lettuce the cdc in the u.s. has not determined the source. >>> and the powerball jackpot is getting bigger no one won wednesday's $460 million prize. it would have been the biggest, the seventh largest payout in the game's history don't worry, you get a chance to play again on saturday for an even bigger prize, $550 million. that's our jus update at this hour jackie deangel lis >> you can see natural gas prices are slightly lo