lauren craig joins me again. lauren, are the the ambassador f newark. thank sops. >> thank you. ju to have one attorney. you need one in the room at all times. our ticks director of face in new jersey. so, guys, just an awful, awful night, horrific range dy. from the perspective, you think about just general fire safety. aim listening to the former deputy chief. i don't know those rules. i don't know. do you? >> you bring up a good point. think all of us have to do a bter job preparing ourself for the worst case scenarios. i am mainly thinking about my own family member and own chondrois going and we went over the steps of worse case scenarios. what do we actually done this protocols we do. think we need do a better job in the season. >> yeah. throws really important. the question is, do people actually read them? what is interesting in new york city, if you work in a corporate high-rise building in a commercial space. the fire safety expert has to cone and tell you. the same rules don't apply to residence but maybe there is something to that when you have the million ty familie

lauren's 18th birthday. ♪ >>> welcome back to "today." i'm craig melvin, alongside sheinelle jones.de in a bit. >> my favorite moments of the show. >>> there's a lot going on this morning. let's get right to your news at 8:00. a snowy christmas is giving way to dangerous travel conditions on the way home. ron allen is at logan airport in boston. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, sheinelle. terrifying moments for the passengers aboard a jetblue flight, arriving around 7:00 p.m. the flight landed safely. then, the passengers said the plane was skidding as it made its way to the terminal, fish tailing and doing a 180. the passengers were put on to buses and taken to the terminal. jetblue said there were no passengers injured in all this. a tough day at logan. at one point, they had to close the airport down, because of the zero visibility. no takeoffs or landings for about an hour or so. it was the first white christmas here in boston in nearly 14 years. a white christmas for much of the country's northern section, from the northwest to the northeast, feet of snow out west and i

lauren: people had to make that mad, last-minute dash. alix: do you have any read on the discounting we had to see to get that $671 billion number? craigscounting that provided the number. the malls were about the same as last year, but there was a full price selling, particularly on the hard lines. this is a home oriented, hard lines versus soft lines, meeting -- meaning apparel. apple does not discount anything. they were all great sellers at full price. when you go to the home improvement sector, most of the stuff at home depot and lowe's was at full play -- price or vendor supported pricing. craig johnson and loren coleman lochner, thank you. expecting oil revenue to increase. ♪ ♪ >> this is bloomberg daybreak, we are an hour from the open in the u.s., nowhere. futures off by two points, very steady as she goes, not a lot of volume, not a lot of movement across the board. in the currency market is the story of a relatively stronger u.s. dollar, the dollar down 1% after a immediate slide yesterday on christmas day when there was no trading. many were -- dollar-yen is flat although the yen has seen flat across the last week or so, it