katherine scott is live in robinsville, new jersey, with a look inside the amazon distribution center. >> reporter: this is a huge day for amazon, cyber monday, amazon has been rolling out black friday deals for weeks now. it's a peak day for them, they are expecting a lot of trask here today, in robinsville thisf their busiest in the country. there are more than 4,000 employees who pick, pack and ship customer orders in this buildings alone. amazon hires thousands of people in new jersey. you can hear the work, the equipment, packages and parcels are zooming around on conveyer belts. look at the size of the facility. it's more than 1 million square feet. about the size of 28 football fields. amazon is expecting this to be their biggest holiday ever. net sales are expected to be $33 billion as the shopping trend with more people shopping online. this black friday instore sales were down a billion dollars. shoppers turned to the internet spending 2.$4 billion. i'm sure your inbox is loaded with e-mails for cyber monday deals and bargains. one of the peak days at the fulfillment center

katherine scott has been inside at amazon's distribution center in robinsville, new jersey. a busy day there, katherine. >> reporter: it is erin, you can hear all the equipment around me, it might be early in the morning, but this place has not stopped. in robinsville it's one of their busiest fulfillment centerlines in the -- centers in the can country. there are 4,000 workers in this buildings alone and more seasonal employees in new jersey. last year on cyber monday, amazon customers ordered 500 items per second that's 43 million items per day that was their busiest day ever. they expect to you are -- expect to surpass that number this monday. be black friday, sales were down a billion dollars. instead shoppers turned to the internet. it was up 14% from last year. today they will spend more, it's a huge facility it's more than a million square feet, about the size of 28 football fields. the use of robots makes operations more efficient. >> in the facility there are 20 million products. we have 4,000 people working here today, and the robot shelves bring the packages or th

brand new facility here in robinsville.nds of robots to make sure those products get out the door as quickly as possible, bringing shelving units to our associates so they can pick them off the shelves and get them out the door. >> seamless. >> we have super busy day today. and in order to make sure all of the packages get out we have to be pretty seamless with our work. >> talking about busy day today the fourth quarter, 37 billion, what are some of the hot holiday toys and deals you got going on today? lots of great deals, of course the holidays, toys are big thing, we have 50% off of hasbro toys, today, star wars toys are super pop lay this time of year with upcoming movie. all movie tie in's very popular. so if you have daughters like i do, frozen, a good choice, we have got lots of frozen tie in's, other things like consumer electronic, amazing deals on kindle paper wire, e reader, amazing deals on kin del tablets. so we're ex seated about today, fun time of year to make the holiday dreams come true. >> very interestin

amazon fulfillment center in robinsville is busy now. we'll have a live report from the hub at 6:30. let's switch live to maribel aber at the nasdaq in time square. i hope you had a great thanks. >> had a great one, hope you did, as well. stocks little change, a full week of economic news construction spending and motor vehicle sales and jobs reports due out. november jobs report could be the deciding factor for an interest rate hike. the report is due out friday, economists forecast 200,000 jobs were created unemployment rate should hold steady at 5% or dip to 4.9%. that will be enough to raise rates when federal reserve meets in december. >>> creed took in $42 million nationally, that's good for third place overall. the variety club created a massive box office success where the movie is set. entertainment trade said the city is almost a sporting character in the film. what else no to love about the story. characters you love, favorite balboa quote nobody owes nobody nothing. >> that's my favorite quote. >> the movie has so much in phi

. >> i facility here in robinsville is huge. there is more than million square feet of space, that's just about 28 football fields. >> we have 14 miles of conveyor belts here. >> where boxes are from one end to the facility to the others, 4,000 employees just as many robots work together to get the boxes packed. >> during the shelves and the product to the associates, so they can pick them off the shelves, get them out the door. this one time of year to make holiday dreams come true. >> the next time you make amazon purchase, your gift may have just been sorted, packed, and shipped from robinsville. in mercer county, jan carabeo, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". >> all right, so, do you plan on doing any on line shopping today? jim, i'm sure you will? >> no. >> why not? >> i'll wait. target website was down for little while. >> was it really? probably a lot going on with so many people logging onto try to get dis dismount. >> indeed the tenth anniversary what we call cyber monday, 121 million americans millions expected to shop on line

"eyewitness news" reporter jan carabeo live at one of the company's fullmentment centers in robinsville, new jersey, jan, what's it like over there? good morning. >> reporter: nicole, good morning, what a treat. cyber monday is of course the busiest day for amazon.com. it is understandable, why that would be, projected net sales today between 33 and $37 billion getting behind the scenes look at the robinson ville -- robinsville fulfillment center, 28 football fields large, we will bring in scott right now, amazon spokesperson, who tell us what all of this activity behind us is this morning? >> thanks for being here, jan, super busy day for us it, will likely be our busiest day of all time. last year on this day, customers when going to cyber -- or amazon.com/cyber monday, ordered 43 million items, that's 500 items per second, so this is one of 50 facilities like this we have around the country, we have thousands of people working here today to make sure we get those orders out the door as quick as we can. >> thousands of people working but also a lot of technology where people don't nee

there with no problems on northeast extension this morning and we're getting word of new problem in robinsville mercer county it's a crash involving a vehicle that ran off the road along 195 westbound past the new jersey turnpike and it is foggy in that area. watch out. each though most of the activity is on the shoulder. speaking of fog. 55 mind an hour it max this morning an length of in new jersey turnpike because of less than ideal business vilt. long term construction moorestown being blocking mount laurel road expects cop juston on around childrenry hill and norristown mall. eva. >> thanks matt. >> officials in bell yum say alert level in brussels was lowered one notch because threats of attack is no longer considered imminent. they didn't give any other details and capital an country are both under second highest alert level. that sniffs attack is possible and likely. and meantime authorities have rated three places outside of brussels they say are linked to paris attacks and no arrests have been made. >> and black friday taking on a more serious tone in check chick protesters plan to ma

this fulfillment center in robinsville one of the busiest will do its part. >> hundreds of thousands of products go out of this buildings today. >> reporter: this facility is about the size of 28 football fields with 14 miles of conveyer belts more than 4,000 employees pick pack and ship orders in this building alone. one is erica. she is a picker. once an item pops up on the screen you one of the robot she was takes it to erica and she takes it and scans it to the right bin. >> halloween we had all the halloween costumes, it's been a transition from that to christmas, toys, play station things like that. >> reporter: we tailors have seen a surge -- retailers have seen a surge in online sales as more people buy online. in store sales were down a billion dollars. shoppers spent $2.7 billion online up 14% from last year. buying online is easier than ever and you can do it everywhere. >> shopping online has been convenient and more so, last year we had 60% of our customers shop from their mobile phones. >> reporter: this is amazon's busiest day of the year, it could be their busiest day

is live look at what will be a busy place t amazon.com fulfillment center in robinsville.ay is cyber monday so they are going to be busy. this is where a lot of your packages might come from. it's expecting its busiest holiday ever. the national retail federation predicts 121 million shoppers plan to shop on line today. and that number is down slightly from last year. likely because many stores started their online deals last week and shoppers have spent billions shopping on line. let's get more from landon dowdy keeping track of the numbers. she joins with the cnbc business news. good morning. >> good monday morning to you. consumers may have opted to shop from home this weekend. adobe says on line sales rose 18% thursday and friday to $4.5 billion. the firm is predicting $3 billion in sales today, cyber monday. several retailers are rolling out new promotions. walmart launched on sunday and best buy and amazon extending theirs all week. on wall street the markets look to start the week on a good note. stocks ended last week flat to mixed. we get data on manufacturing and

it's in robinsville on 195 westbound around exit 6 at the new jersey turnpike.e'll give you a good idea of that location. on route 309 around norristown road northbound in here no problems, southbound the same. no lane restrictions, accidents around. 95 not seeing an increase yet. considering this is a time it normally is where wree see that volume especially into center city. we're at 13 minutes southbound from woodhaven to the vine street expressway. heading into philadelphia, maybe you have to do some shopping, no scheduled openings for right now. and no problems on the ben. watch for ongoing construction. >>> good morning. taking a live look at the belmont plateau. look at the city from this angle. we're going to see lots of sunshine, you can see a little patchy fog. we have dense fog in some areas so you want to be careful. i'll go over those areas. heading into the rest of today we're going to see near record highs so it's going to be a warm day again. a little warmer than what we saw yesterday. so comfortable and enjoyable if you like mild conditions. wee

morning, amazon.com gave us behind the scenes look at one of amazon's busiest fulfillment centers in robinsvilley expect between 33 and 36 billion in sales in this holiday season, now, besides amazon, almost all retailers offer bargains for shopping on line, so get the shopping going. we turn it over to katie. probably good day to stay at home and shop rather than go snout. >> specially by tonight, that's true. we will see the next warmfront bring with it the potential for wet weather to over spread the area. for now dry, we have hint of blue skies out there. you can see even up toward the lehigh valley, pocono region, clear as a bell. off to the south, that's what is waiting in the wings, warmfront begins to lift north at the moment, do you have at least a glare from that reflection of the sunshine over center city as we look live in the neighborhood network here take friend palmyra cove nature park, but, eventually those clouds will take over the city sky scape, will also eventually see some of the wet weather moving in. from south to north, especially by tonight, and then stuck basically with

msnbc business correspondent olivia sterns joins us from an amazon fulfillment center in robinsville,e, olivia. how big is cyber monday so far? >> i'm down here in the green. i'm waving. this is amazon's biggest day of the year. the center i'm in is the size of 28 football fields. this facility alone is going to ship one million packages out of its door. this area is called inbound, the workers are unpacking boxes from other fulfillment centers that they put all these goods on the shelves here, so they can ship out to customers in the new jersey area even faster. truly an extraordinary range of things come down the conveyor belt, everything from playstations to socks. this is a playstation game, a lot of books and everything you can imagine. amazon has been offering these lightning deals since the beginning of november. so a lot of people were saying maybe that's going to suck some of the wind, some of the momentum out of cyber monday. earlier, i spoke with the head of global operations for amazon, dave clark, and asked him how big of a deal cyber monday still is. have a listen. >> la

this facility in robinsville, new jersey operates nonstop, 24 hours a day.es here during the peak holiday season. in years past cyber monday has been an important shopping day for retailers following the black friday rush in sores. but the shopping event days have become blurred with so many retailers offering black friday-like discounts online and in stores days before the thanksgiving weekend and shopper access to high-speed internet all the time, cyber monday is feeling a bit more like an after thought. still the national retail federation estimate 21 million shoppers will be online today. that's down from 127 million last year explained in part by promotions attracting a record number of consumers beginning their holiday shopping before november 10th. now cyber monday sales will hit $3 billion for the first time. an increase of 12% year-over-year. adobe also says shoppers have hit the web pretty hard spending $4.45 billion on thanksgiving day and black friday combined. back to you. >> okay. thank you courtney. we'll get data on black friday spending at 7