rebecca jarvis is telling us how the whole family can break those screen habits in 2020.♪ once in a while >> reporter: screens are everywhere. in our homes, in our schools and for many of us in our own hands. >> 20 minutes here, 20 minutes there. i mean, that adds up to a big chunk of your day that you're scrolling on your phone. >> reporter: so many days, in fact, that the cdc says if you added up all the hours kids spent watching their screens for fun, it would total 114. >> even leisure activities that used to be about relaxing, now we have to document it and write a witty caption and check if people responded. that suddenly becomes like work too. >> reporter: the acting of unplugging becoming a weekly tradition carried out by tiffany shlain and her family. >> my husband and i feel more productive afterwards. more creative. there's so many benefits. >> reporter: shlain's family including a 10-year-old and a 16-year-old daughter view the day as a time to recharge and reflect. even homework is off the agenda. >> board games, napping, reading, journaling, going to the lib

let's get straight to rebecca jarvis at the new york stock exchange tonight. >> reporter: david, after today's declines the dow completely wiped out its gain for the year, and the big question on wall street tonight, how long will this outbreak last and how hard might it hit? many major u.s. companies from apple to nike to mcdonald's and starbucks have significant exposure to china. as you just heard with the number of airlines from delta to united to american, suspending the flights to china, their stocks hit hard today. the big question going forward, how much longer does it last? david. >> rebecca, thank you. >>> next, the dangerous incident outside mar-a-lago. a speeding suv breaching two security checkpoints. shots fired by the secret service and two sheriffs. david wright is there. >> reporter: tonight, this woman is under arrest after a chaotic scene near the president's palm beach club just hours before his arrival. police say 30-year-old hannah roemhild drove a black suv through two of mar-a-lago's security checkpoints. >> this woman's driving on the wrong side of the road, go

our chief business correspondent rebecca jarvis is here now to help us with that and i love how you'vemply. what type of goals should we be setting right now for 2020? >> the whole idea here, lara, and happy new year. >> happy new year. >> is to have a truly happy new year of financial freedom. make 2020 your year and that begins with paying down debt so think about all your goals. if you have debt that is going to eat into every single one of your financial goals. so start there. build an emergency savings, start some short-term investments and think about that nest egg. most are 401(k)s. start think about that. if you're not doing that and not contributing that's leaving money on the table when there is a match from your company. >> i know it seems daunting but you have to start sometime so start throwing it -- you know, just putting a little bit away. it will add up. you ke this great bullet point list and hopefully everybody has jotted those down. number one, pay down debt. it seems so hard. >> yes, it can be so daunting. >> please give us advice. >> lara, there are two ways that w

rebecca jarvis is here with much more. you got our interest here, rebecca.>> good morning. yeah, i love this because in a world that can feel dominated by beauty and fashion influencers enticing you to buy, buy, buy, this is a breath of fresh air. a new wave of personal finance influencers encouraging you to save, invest and pay down your debt because living your best life is being financially free. they're some of the most searched for word, budgeting, financial freedom and debt free, hashtags that lead to bols, a certified financial education instructor from clever girl finance and has more than 200,000 followers all looking for guidance with their money. >> you're going to find tip, quotes. you're going to find motivation and find humor. >> reporter: after coming to the u.s. for college, the nigerian immigrant landed her first job but realized she knew nothing about money. >> i learned how to budget. i learned how to invest. those are things my parents couldn't necessarily help me with because coming from nigeria they didn't have a 401(k). they didn't hav

been sharing how you cut debt out of your lives and we want to share it with everyone else so rebecca jarvis something a lot of people can relate to. finding yourself deep in debt. this single mom said she hit rock bottom when she couldn't afford to do her family's laundry and then she made a plan. >> all right. >> reporter: three years ago 27-year-old mom shonsay was drowning in debt. now she's debt-free. she paid off $50,000 in debt accumulated from years of overspending? >> paying off debt, it's not easy. i had to give up a lot of things but i was really motivated. i wanted a better life for myself and my son. >> reporter: her turning point the day in 2015 when she realized she couldn't afford to do her own laundry. that was it and now she's gone from a single mom living in a low-income apartment to a financial guru with her own personal finance blog. >> i just got to the point where that was it for me. i'm just tired of living like this. i need to get out of debt. sit, stay. good girl. >> reporter: first she turned into a megasaver cutting costs by moving to less expensive housing and fr

rebecca jarvis showing us how to get the most out of your return. py new year. yeah, that's right. the game has changed. all that online shopping means more returns than ever before and even though we love the convenience of buying online, when it comes to returning or exchanging, people still want to take it back in store. this morning, a new year and many happy returns. americans predicted to return a record $100 billion worth of gifts. u.p.s. anticipating 1.9 million items returned through their mail service today alone. experts expecting a record-breaking $42 billion worth of merchandise bought online this holiday season will be returned. $5 billion more than last year. and many major retailers including walmart, target, best buy and amazon even extending return policies over the holidays. some up to an additional 60 days. but beware, not all products are included under that umbrella. one standout, electronics, and the sales aren't over. retailers looking to clear out their inventories and with after-holiday sales on everything from linens to exe

rebecca jarvis is here with the story and a lot of people want to hear this. >> oh, yeah, absolutely.erage student is now graduating over $30,000 in debt but that woman you're about to meet had more than seven times that amount until she made a plan and took action. as the daughter of immigrants 30-year-old cindy zuniga says she was raised to understand how destructive debt can be. >> stay away from the debt. we just can't afford it so we're not going to purchase it. >> reporter: but cindy's decision to go to law school came with a hefty $215,000 price tag and says she thought she was doing well chipping away at her mountain of debt but automating her monthly minimum payment of $2,000 until she saw her income tax statement. >> out of the $24,000 that i had paid off that year, about $20,000 went to interest, 20. and about 4,000 went to the principle. i think i started crying. actually, i did start crying. >> reporter: cindy says she turned to every financial guru she could find and came up with an aggressive plan to pay off her student loan in just 48 months. her first step, refinancin

rebecca jarvis is here with a story of a family who was hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt, andget out of it too. good to see you. happy new year. >> reporter: happy new year, robin, and for people who are out there hearing this, think about it this way. debt is a claim on your future. it is always hanging over you. everything you earn. all your plans and all your dreams, the family you're about to meet was more than $250,000 in debt when they said, enough is enough. ♪ meet this family, not long ago they were more than $250,000 in debt. until they decided to make a big change. >> my husband was talking to some friends, and he came home one day and he said, i think we should, one, go on a budget, and two, become debt-free. >> reporter: lauren and her husband kyle were deep in debt due, in part, to car payments, a giant mortgage. even christmas expenses. >> once i saw it, i was shocked and i felt like a little overwhelming. >> reporter: overwhelming, but not impossible. their first step, building a new budget. >> when you do create a budget, you should make it realistic. notdealis

. >> rebecca jarvis is here with that. >>> a lot of news to get to including the senate impeachment triale republican leader is going to introduce his resolution laying out the proposed rules for the trial. expect a big fight over that. want to go back to mary bruce on capitol hill. good morning, mary. >> reporter: good morning, george. well, before they even get to opening statements here on the hill this morning, they are gearing up for a fight over the republican rules governing this trial. now, the president's team says they will allow for a fair trial while democrats say they will prevent the american people from learning the full truth and amount to a cover-up, to here's how the republican rules work. they will allow each side 24 hours over 2 days to make their opening statements. meaning senators here will have to sit through marathon 12-hour sessions back to back part of the republican strategy to move this trial along quickly. then likely sometime next week there will be a vote on whether or not to consider calling in additional witnesses. that is something that democrats here ha

rebecca jarvis is here. we've talked about this ourselves.ing the audience a question, show of hands, guys, how many of you in here know how much your co-workers are making? very, very few. how many of you would be willing to ask how much your co-workers are making? would you be willing to have this conversation? no one. >> interesting. >> wow, okay. so let's break this down. what are the risks in asking how much your colleagues are making? >> so, as the daughter of a mother who pushed me to negotiate my salary from the very are first summer job i had, i love that women are having conversations about money. that's such an important thing to understand money and to be thinking about it from an early stage, but it's a delicate thing. as you saw from our audience, a lot of people, frankly no one here, is willing to ask their friends about how much money they're making. the good news is there are a lot of places that you can actually go and find out about how much money people in your job are making. for example, linked in, pay scale, glass door