where is wal-mart today and what's the future in india for wal-mart?an incredible country. i've been there quite asr few times these last few years. we had a joint venture that didn't work out partially because of the rules the government wants to have in cash and carry unit that serves small businesses in india. and they're all doing really well. and we've got a strong team there, small but mighty ask we're just going to be patient and keep building those cash and carries. at some point india may open up toward what's called multibrand foreign direct investment for retail. if they do, that will be brate. frankly i think they need it because they need a supply chain investment. too much produce is going to waste. the food supply chain is not in tact and we could help. >> rose: china? >> china's an amazing opportunity for us. we've got about 400 stores. e commerce business is based in shanghai. i've been going to china for 20 years. i think that our opportunity in china to build a retail is -- >> rose: why is that other than the size of the population i

card. >> wal-mart is more my store. would. >> reporter: what card would you trade in? >> probably the burlington. >> reporter: why? >> for one thing it's closer. and they have a lot of things in here that i like. >> reporter: wal-mart is partnering with 200 different stores and restaurants to do this gift card exchange. it's a pilot program. depening on how -- depending on how it goes they could continue to offer it all year round. we have been at this wal-mart on davis street since six this morning. we have seen fairly business parking lot. you can see it this hour there are a lot of shoppers coming in and out. she was the first person we talked to who said she may -- this is something she may consider doing. it may take a while to find out about it. >> it i would imagine it all depend on if wal-mart is your store. have you seen a lot of people with bags that you brought in because we have been talking about returns? are you seeing a lot of that? >> reporter: you know i -- when i watched talked to people in the store t

but booming at this wal*mart wal*mart.s really crowded in there but really crowded at the other wal*mart. >> you've been to two wal*marts today? >> yeah actually i have what i didn't see over i thought i'd find it over here. >> reporter: shoppers like dion morgan stopped up on half off holiday surprise. others were thrilled to learn they could use gift cards to anywhere here. >> that's pretty cool. wal*mart is testing online gift card exchange allowing cuff mers to turn unwanted gift cards to wal*mart e gift cards. >> it would be more of a convenience since i'm shopping here. >> reporter: wal*mart spokesperson said more than 200 retailers and restaurants gift cards could be exchanged for up to 97% of the original value. >> it still bothers me a little bit just because it's not the full value. >>> a move this big box store is trying to further boost its bottom line this holiday season. >> groceries now this, right? so i guess yeah they're trying to connect to the masses masses. >> that was melanie woodrow reporting on that

you've been to two wal-marts today?> actually, i have. what i didn't see over there, i thought i would find it over here. >> reporter: shoppers like deion morgan stocked up on half- off holiday supplies, while others were thrilled to learn they could use gift cards to nearly anywhere here. >> it's pretty cool. >> reporter: wal-mart is testing an online gift card exchange, allowing customers to turn unwanted gift cards into wal-mart e gift cards that can be used in stores and online. >> i guess it would be more of a convenience since i'm already shopping here. >> reporter: a wal-mart spokesperson said more than 200 retailers and restaurants could be exchanged for up to 97% of the original value. >> still bothers me a bit just because it's not the full value. >> reporter: a move this big- box store is trying to further boost its bottom line this holiday season. >> groceries, now this, right? i guess, yeah, they are trying to connect to the masses. >> reporter: wal-mart's test gift card exchange program will run for severa

he has been at wal-mart for a very long time. having him on to hear his thoughts on all of those topics particularly many of them on public policy very important for us to understand the state of the consumer. >> retail? we talk about how much of a benefit it will get from lower gas prices. hard to see any other way. i think it puts back in people's pockets. who is going to win? is everybody going to win? >> i don't think it is just about gas prices. it is who is giving the best value whether online or in store that is what the customer is doing is really checking out where the best place is to buy it. that is what we saw in the past two weeks. they don't care. they are savvy now. whether getting in the car or going online they are checking it out all the time. >> we are going to have to like pay up a little bit because we have our penalty jar. do you feel like retailers need to come up with something completely new? these are old. they no longer are the kind of events that people are drawn to like they were in the past. do we ne

if you've been to a wal-mart there are 50 million things you can do in wal-mart but they refused to giveer that. we have a change a culture that says we don't want to even bend a little bit to recognize the quality and the sanctity of life that women are carrying when they are pregnant and put them in a position to have a negative reaction to themselves or the child they are carrying. >> i like that. and pro-life and pro-choice altogether on this case. all women coming together. >> you pointed to the fact that one-size-fits-all could end up not helping women in the long-run and i think we need to be careful to a low the companies flexibility. in the ups case there were union rules about giving light duty preferential to seniority and things can get in the way of allowing non-this case union contract details got in the way of them accommodating the pregnant woman's request. >> that is the concern i was trying to vocalize n this situation there were other jobs she could have done but rules that would require businesses to give them lighter duty would be unfair. because again, what if a bus

wal-mart on the fundamentals, katie scott on the technicals.both of you, the rules apply to you, too, if you say cyber you know what you owe a buck to the "street signs" cocktail squad. katie, let's take a look at wal-mart stock first. >> the chart looks great. you really can't not like it as a technical analyst. it broke out above important resistance on back of the earnings report in november, completed a bullish triangle formation and really since then it has exhibited very strong positive momentum. also recently we have noticed that wal-mart has started to outperform the s&p 500. that is important to note it has happened along with other consumer staple stocks that you have seen outperformance there. when you see bullish reversal in wal-mart relative to s&p 500 we tend to see positive follow through on an absolute basis. despite the fact that the stock is up by 21% since the october low i think there is further upside. >> so you like it from the chart perspective. give us the fundamental play for wal-mart, the world's biggest retailer, mere

they won't let them out for safety reasons. >> this is a wal-mart. it is a new wal-mart. they're trying to -- they're trying to keep more people from coming in. is the issue. several protesters went inside. carrying signs. and, the people in the store, came and shut the doors to keep people out. protesters want their group to be allowed out. this is what you are seeing. >> uh-huh. and would imagine. >> i don't know what's going on here. are they going to open it? >> interesting. there has been no violence right, athena, no looting. maybe, maybe that's a concern. there has been -- >> you're starting confusion. you're not letting them out. >> there has been no violence. many instances along the way, people using mega phones. warned the people, lying in front of cars or surrounding vehicle. when they're police vehicles. or ordinary vehicles. they're warning the crowd don't touch the cars. so they're trying to make sure that people do not -- do not -- go to the next level and show any violence. they're can seroncerned. we have not encountered this yet. >> it's a standoff. the

. >> my name is keesha calling from wal-mart -- >> workers from this wal-mart near harrisburg, were busy letting people know that someone paid off their lay away. the man only known as santa, pay $50,000 on lay aways due. some were going to drop it, because they didn't have the money to pay for it. >> feel like a million pounds of stress is lifted off my shoulders. >> i am grateful for whoever did it, it's nice. >> some how santa b knew how much to donate. but wal-mart insists this was not an inside job. >>> and there is a new place where you can really blow off stress and it's all legal plus coming up david murphy has the exclusive accuweather forecast. >>> well, are you planning a trip over the holidays? you'll have company according to aaa, the motor club predicts that 90 million americans will venture 50 miles or more from home and the number is up 4% from last year. greater consumer confidence and lower gas prices are the reasons, the price for a gallon of regular is $3.52 and the tricounty area is $3.62. >>> a flight from paris to atlantic landed in billings, montana after the crew

a man calling himself santa walked into a wal*mart, did something amazing. we'll explain. >>> and it may sound like a hollywood movie spot but this is real life incredible video as the coast guard rescues a man from a desert island. howard? >> the eagles play the washington redskins that's saturday in a game they absolutely need to win. hear from the quarterback who has to get better and new information on eagles quarterback nick foles injury. that's coming up in sports. >> and coming up in weather we'll talk about this rain that is expected to clear out. here it is, big storm system cycling in some showers. not bringing big impacts into the weekend we may have some more impacts in the form of wintry weather. we'll have your seven day forecast straight ahead. >> police found the murder of murder suspect bradley stonily investigators say he died from what they're calling self up flicked cutting wounds. they found his body early this morning in the woods near his pennsburg home. police say stone went on just a horrific killing spree across montgomery county ye

. >>> good afternoon, sara bloomquist is off and in the news wal-mart is slashing its prices on the new iphone trying to entice holiday shoppers and a jaw dropping death defying ski run stunning millions on social media. next on "action news" at noon the arrest of a man in a series of attacks and sexual assaults, "action news" reporter katherine scott has the latest. >> a 55-year-old man was caught by police when he was assaulting a grad student. but police warn that he is not responsible for all the attacks around here. so stay cautious. >> a recent string of assaults on drexel students have left people on edge. >> last night they arrested a 55-year-old man with a criminal history but students cannot keep their guard down. >> i am keeping a watch to make sure nothing happens. >> a graduate student got off the bus and walked to 41st and pine and a man struck her in the head with a metal bicycle lock. the woman fought back and he dragged her down the street with her books and papers scattered around here. officers had beefed up patrols because of the attacks and when they spotted the cri

wal-mart will give you one of their cards this change for one you don't plan to use.the swap is good for cards for more than 200 retailers but there is a catch: you will not get the full value. some cars like those from amazon.com have a 95 percent exchange value while others are worth only 70 percent of face value. >> and here is leyla gulen here if meteorologist mike nicco. did you get different cars? >> no, cash please. that never goes out of style. and you get 100 percent on your return. >> we are looking at beautiful conditions, some are breezy and we have higher than expected temperatures overnight. lake tahoe is gorgeous, if you head to the sierra this week, it is currently a crisp 26 degrees and we might even see some snow showers by midweek. we will look right new at live doppler hd and first, we will talk about the win. it is gusty. sfo airport reporting 17-miles-per-hour gusts and 30 miles per hour at fairfield and concord at 10 miles per hour and mountain view is eight miles per hour. as we look at live doppler hd not seeing a single cloud in the sky, stil

and more people camping in the wal-mart parking lot on story road. >> we got moved out and we went from here to there. >> we had to pull ourself all over the place. i just like to be free. >> this community is part of the family. >> a security guard monitored the homeless at wal-mart but did not ask temperature to leave. he said they are dispatching outreach teams to the catch site. >> we will not allow the re-establishment of any major encampment site anywhere in the city. >> i got off the phone with a wal-mart spokesman and he told me they are not sure what they plan to do with people who are capping in their parking lot but they will provide a statement later on today. meanwhile, cleanup crews at the jungle have already removed 50 tons of waste from the site. >>> thank you. today, police in palo alto are looking out for a man who exposed himself to elderly women in their 80's were walking on the avenue on tuesday night and a man walked up to them and slashed them before running off of -- flashed them before running off. it is not believed to be related to three other indecent expose

. >> wal-mart has a way did get rid of gift card you do not want. >> in today's technical bytes sony playization is back online after outages that began christmas day into the weekend. many found the new consoles under the true but could not use it. the "lizard squad," claimed responsibility for the attack. >> wal-mart is seeming up with "car cash," to exchange unwanted cards for a wal-mart card and offering 97 percent of the value of the original card for more than 200 retailers. the new cadillac has 48" tv in the back in its s.u.v. lab of luxury is not say how much it costs but if you have to ask you cannot afford it. those are the tech bytes. >> in weeks ago, we had cool temperatures in the morning but we should gear up for tomorrow. >> the temperatures are going to take a plunge and we will talk to meteorologist mike nicco about it. >> polar plunge because at the love us will see forecast for the -- see forecast for -- see frost for the first time with the winds at three miles per hour until half moon bay and then they are only six miles per hour. when the cold front arrives we w

it's really crowded at the other wal*mart. you've been to two wall marches today. >> actually i have. what i didn't see over there i thought i'd find it over here. >> reporter: shoppers stocked um and a half off holiday supplies. others were thrilled to learn they could use gift cards to nearly anywhere here. that's pretty cool. >> this having an and line gift card exchange allowing customers to turn unwanted gift cards into wal*mart e gift cards that can be used in stores on online. >> more of a convenience since i'm already shopping here. >> reporter: wall march spokesperson says more than 200 retailers and restaurants gift cards could be exchanged for up to 97% of the original value. >> no, it still bothers me a little bit just because it's not the full value. >> reporter: a move this big box store is trying to further boost its bottom line this holiday season. >> first grocery now this, right. i guess they're trying to connect to the masses. >>> that was melanie wood roy reporting. the program will run for several weeks. >

>> interesting. >> i wonder what's in it for wal-mart? >> i don't know thousand works. >> i've been sitting here trying to figure out the same thing, doing the math. i think they must think that people are going to spend more than the gift cards worth? >> typically do. >> attract zombies. >> makes sense. >> so it is a test, though, so if success full this year, they'll continue it, they winds up losing tons of money i think in the middle of the year -- >> that would make sense. >> good business plan, all right, jill, thanks. >> coming up after the break whether and traffic on the >>> good morning, if you are traveling our majors i have a feeling i'm be saying it almost every single hit really no problems, no delays as of yet. still pretty early anyway, not even at 5:00 a.m. anyway. but traveling the tac-pal bridge allowing traffic to get by. it was up for an opening. they have finally put it back down. we are seeing now few more vehicles passing through. we're not seeing too much after delay on 73, even with the opening, so all-in-all, yo

and the other thing wal-mart has done, they've come up with a very innovative product called "savings catcher" where you can look on your mobile phone, you look at the bar code of a product you're purchasing in wal-mart, and in a 12-mile radius, if, in fact, you could have purchased the product at a lower cost at another store, they will refund the difference to you on a gift card. now, if you use a bluebird card, you could double the savings. so this is meeting a need and an unmet need at a lower cost, and it's opening up a tremendous opportunity. >> charlie: small businesses are an area of great concern for you. >> i think what's very importance, charlie, with small businesses, because this is not an issue of small businesses against big businesses, the reality is big companies generate substantial opportunities for small businesses. but i think as we all know, the reality is that 23 million small businesses in the united states, they employ half the private workforce, generate two-thirds of the net new jobs, and what we did 25 years ago is we were one of the first financial service

you have to go to wal-mart's website first to redeem a card.t cards won't get spent this year. and most people using gift cards spend more than is on the card. >> i may have a few of those. there may be hope for those who thing the iphone 6 is too big. an analyst says a smaller version may be released next year. the phone would be the same size as the previous iphones and have a smaller price tag. while iphones get smaller, analysts predict a bigger ipad will be introduced soon. >> that's not very apple like to do a smaller phone and smaller price tag. >> catering to everyone. >> guess so. all right. so the hottest chefs in the country are not necessarily the ones you see on tv or trendy restaurants. >> that's right they're amateurs turning their homes into restaurants inviting strangers like you and me in to eat thanks to a new app linking diners to chefs. here's abc's juju chang. >> reporter: don mayfield is hunting for the best shellfish at san francisco's famous fisherman's wharf. because today only the best will do. >> we have tons of thes

. >> shock and horror after a freak accident at wal-mart. how a two-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed his mother. another little boy holds the key to a possible break-through of the ebola outbreak. and enough years eve parties could leave you with a huge bill in 2015. >> to the west, a tragedy story coming in from idaho where a two-year-old boy accidentally killed and -- shot and killed his mother in a wal-mart. the boy reached into her purse and found the weapon and fired. she did have a concealed weapon license. >> they came in to do some shopping. >> it was a terrible incident but it turns out that no one else was hurt. researchers in germany think they pinpointed just how the ebola viret started in africa. they believe it started with a two-year-old boy playing in a tree trunk where fruit bats had lived. he became the first known case of the epidemic. the epidemic is the worst in history. now to a 7 on your side alert. flu season started early. now the centers for disease control has declared a flu epidemic. the declaration comes

>> reporter: flashing lights called the entrance of be in wal-mart at the art deco happened call thet christmas shopping trips it appears seventh bourse our children here at the holidays the woman stomach's were in the electronics section security cameras confirmed what witnesses saw the child was in a shopping cart the field in the shopping will happen next on imaginable excess a concealed weapon belsen side of the victims aren't and discharged a striking but childless died in the store wal-mart has proposed a dent in grief counselors will be on hand for employees but the story vacuity woman and her family were visited the area for all artists and messages will see all afternoon processing the same box as a tragic morning. >> reporter: camille next by high winds in the bay area creates a problem all over the place especially and o'malley there's a place online where you always get more than you pay for tjmaxx.com. better brands at better prices to help you maxx what matters most to you... anytime. maxx life. shop tjmaxx.com. over a million californians have gotten something that's b

deputy from the cocoa sheriff's department went shopping today at richmond wal-mart store.they were helping kids from low income family by toys clothes and other gifts for the relatives. 18 kids took part in the shopping spree. >> some of the proceeds are donated. some of the officers add open funds to make sure that the child sign with us and family have special gift to open christmas morning. >> officers in san m te'o also doing good deeds members of the police department spent the day bagging grocery at the whole foods store donate 5 percent of the day revenue to the police activity league. >> such a is in thing for them to do. concord police officers are donating 1,000 dollars to the local salvation army following a theft last week. someone broke in the storage box last thursday stealing food clothing toys other groups have stepped up as well to help local family. the agency expects to provide gifts and have had for around 4000 people in concord this holiday season. terrific outreach. >> another storm. >> really coming down. >> second storm in two day. powerful one. we

and deputies say a man faked a heart attack to create a diversion while his friend walked out of wal-mart with a cart full of stolen items. what they were after was a barbie power wheels car. wal-mart caught on when they reviewed security camera footage and alerted police and had in trouble finding the men who have long arrest records. >>> now a check with mike and the forecast. what is going on, mike? >> we have a camera here and it is showing cloudy conditions but a bit of a break in the rain. let me show you one of the advisories out for the next storm and it comes tomorrow afternoon at 3:00 through saturday at 3:00 so 24 hours of high surf along the north bay coast and we could get breakers at 20' and dangerous rip currents and each -- beach erosion. as far at what we are looking at, right new, we are...let me show you the drought monitor. compared to last weak we are 55 percent exceptional drought. in most of the bay area, it is now mostly in the southern part of the industrial valley where it is going to stay because we have another storm system coming our way. lack at live doppler

finally wal-mart's carmello anthony doll may be suffering an identity crisis. starters the doll of the new york in this case star is advertised at anthony carmello on wal-mart's web site. it gets worse. the picture of the doll being offered is a jeremy lin doll. lynn hasn't played for the knicks since 2012. all i can say is wow. >> yeah. >> wow. how about this? at least the knicks won more than two games this season. [laughter] >> that's the problem with the sixers. >> did you see the one this weekend, that were up like by nine with a minute left. >> and they lost. >> storm tracker 6 live double scan and we were looking at no precipitation out there this morning as we take a look outside, we have cloudy skies over philadelphia. there might be some sunny breaks early but we are generally speaking looking at the clouds getting thicker today and then eventually some rain arrives. 33 degrees right now in philadelphia, 32 in wilmington, 32 in reading, 31 in trenton. not a lot of fog out there but if you do encounter some, slow it down on the roads because sometimes

and if you got a gift card for christmas wal-mart is giving you a way to use it.hey will exchange the card for a wal-mart cord, it will be worth 97% of your original card. >>> and "action news" team is working on stories for 4:00. someone has been leaking on madonna's new album and she says the recorders are not even finished yet. plus, canceling christmas, why russian president, vladimir putin is not letting people take their holiday this year. those stories coming up today beginning at 4:00. accuweather is around the corner when "action news" continues in just a moment. so imagine ... what if there was a new class of medicine that works differently to lower blood sugar? imagine loving your numbers. introducing once-daily invokana®. it's the first of a new kind of prescription medicine that's used along with diet and exercise to lower blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes. invokana® is a once-daily pill that works around the clock to help lower a1c. here's how: the kidneys allow sugar to be absorbed back into the body. invokana® reduces the amount of sugar a

tragic accident. >> a spokeswoman for wal-mart said the store was cooperating with the local sheriff's department investigation. she added the shooting was a very sad and tragic accident. bbc news los angeles. >>> more than a dozen antigovernment activists are arrested in moscow including a member of the russian protest group. they've been demonstrating against the conviction of a leading russian opposition politician. he received a suspended three and a half year sentence for fraud he was detained as he tried to join the demonstrations. >> 18 protestors who spent the night on the streets rallying with 2,000 or so came onto the streets tuesday night. this was a freezing night with temperatures around minus 20 degrees. continuing their protest against the conviction of the man for fraud. he is the man who submerged as a popular and charismatic opponent to putin here. he and supporters believe the case against him was politically motivated. these 18 protestors then joined dozens who were arrested tuesday night for taking apart in this unsanctioned rally. their fate will be decided in com

for $648 with a $100 wal-mart gift card.s promotions like this kitchen aid mixer for $224, the cheapest rice we could find for it online. home depot has seven days of deal including appliances. now, clothing. ploy kids are growing out of everything, shirts, pants, dresses, i need a sale. >> huge sales from clothing retailers. >> 20 percent an entire line through the end of day. hallelujah, k-mart has 25 percent off if you spend $125 and carter's 25 percent off if you buy $50 worth on wednesday. if you shopped over the holiday weekend, you could be concerned the things bought on sale could actually get a bigger discount. good news, there is an app for that, slice tracks the rich and if there is a drop it alerts you. most scores have a price drop refund policy if you act fast. >> still ahead, taking luxury to a new level. what makes this convertsible so expensive in this particular >> coming up at 4:00 and 5:00 we are watching a series of storms moving through the bay area, live team coverage on the damage, potential flooding

authorities say a 2-year-old boy has accidentally shot and killed his mother inside a wal-mart.he concealed gun when the child reach into the woman's handgun. this happened in hayden idaho. peter gives us more details. >> reporter: it was a family shopping trip veronica with her son and three other children. they were visiting relatives in hayden, a small town in northern idaho, 100 miles from the canadian border. the tragic sequence of events was recorded on the store's a security camera. the 2-year-old was sitting in a shopping trolly when he reached into his mother's hand bag, grabbed the small caliber handgun that went off. his mother died at the scene. her husband was not in the store at the time but arrived soon after. the children were taken to a relative's house. the victim's father-in-law said she was a beautiful, young, loving mother. she was not the least bitter responsible. she was 29 and had a permit to carry a concealed weapon. >> here it is around the holidays, just after christmas right before the new year. tragic. tragic accident. >> a spokeswoman for wal-mart s

crawford then walked around the wal-mart with that unloaded air rifle in his hand.pper called the police, saying a black man was walking around with a gun in the store, adding, he is pointing it at people. later the caller admitted that crawford did not point the rifle at anyone. you can see crawford holding it while talking on the phone withl mostly poem going about their business. the next footage is disturbing. police officers prompted by mainly the information in the 9-1-1 call, enter searching for him ask when they found him crawford appears to drop the air rifle and take cover, and according to the special prosecutor, the police shot him before the dropped. hi collapses. the police shot him twice, winds that resulted in his death. police say he ignored commands to put down the air rifle, and a grand jury declined to indict the officers in september. like so many other cases around the nation, it is not only the outcome here that is concerning to many people. it's many of the basic steps in our criminal justice process that are now subject to a little bit of ex

wal-mart has an interesting program called wal-mart card cash. you can trade in over 200 different merchandise card at wal-mart and they have really good values. >> yes good check those out. values are higher, at least as of yet then anyone else. >> for example macy a's card or apple card depend on the car but you can get up to 90 percent value solve card. here's the catch. you get it back with a wal-mart card not cash. >> it is still a good deal if you are shopping at wal-mart. lets say you are feeling generous and want donate the card. you don't need it, you just want to give it to your favorite charity. charities love gift card by the way. they do alex you are in the 40 percent tax bracket. >> big dollars. >> yes. >> i wish. >> in your case alex you donate hundred dollars gift card and that comes back to you as a 40 percent or hundred percent tax deductions, and that is worth basically 40 bucks that hundred dollars is worth 40 bucks. >> is there something called card pool. >> is there card pool is another site where you can buy sell and trade

. >> the controversy over the eric garner grand jury decision is hitting wal-mart. >>> criticism facing the big box chain and how it is now responding. >>> a vice in san francisco, with the city finding itself with a wind fall it was not expecting. you can he the visibility issues we been talking about. we have weather and traffic up through the entire commercial break. i am an electric crew foreman out of the cupertino service center. i was born and raised in the cupertino area. it's a fantastic area to work. the new technology that we are installing out in the field is important for the customers because system reliability i believe is number one. pg&e is always trying to plan for the future and we are always trying to build something stronger and bigger and more reliable. i love living here and i love the community i serve. nobody wants to be without power. i don't want my family to be without power. it's much more personal to me for that reason. i don't think there's any place i really would rather be. >> covering walnut creek, burlingame, campbell, and all the bay area, this is abc

if they said we are ging to attack a wal-mart -- if they said we are going to attack a wal-mart everybody says maybe it is my wal-mart. >> it is a question of whether you want to play the odds. you can't call yourself the guardians of peace. you have to pick one. >> maybe it is a game of semantics. they are saying there is a bomb in every theater. perhaps there is. >> you like the move vea itself. >> yes. >> that's hilarious. >> you have a look of horror. >> i just got it. >> should they release the movie on demand and be cowardly about this? >> i hardly go anymore to the movies even. it is like no one is doing me a favor. with this threat we don't know everything. god forbid if something does happen and they didn't stop it from being shown, then that's awful. it does make us look weak. >> this could by a great moment though. this is progress. this is what everybody wants. nobody wants to go to the movie theater. they want to watch it at home. they will make it cost $30, but offering it on demand, it may be a good action that is righting righting -- thwarting event. >> the funny thing is

and she is also exactly right about this question of inequality, when you have a company like wal-martwhich is really the poster child for inequality, where six family members have the same wealth as 42% of the american public, and they are paying workers poverty wages. company could do better. it is mcdonalds, it is burger king, it is the whole range of these companies that are really driving down wages and standards for all workers in the country. we cannot have a consumer based economy if they don't have money to buy things. >> you talked about what a difficult time it is to live be volatility, but if you make $30,000, it doesn't go that far, even if you get paid in very neat $575 a week increments. does it. >> no. i think they have emphasized. there's another form of inequality, but the way that they earn that income and some of i think what we are seeing is many of the people making decisions don't have any experience of what it is like. of trying to piece this together. and so they are making decisions without really any understanding of what that means for the workers. knew, we

. >> a wal-mart store in idaho expected to reopen today after a terrible accident yesterday that killedtors say her own toddler shot her to death. it happened as the 29-year-old woman shopped with several of her children. her two-year-old son was reportedly sitting in a shopping cart with her purse when he grabbed the loaded handgun inside and somehow pulled the trigger. wal-mart was evacuated as a precaution but no one else was hurt. >>> cleanup crews in chicago are dealing with a serious. take a look at this. that's not snow. that's salt pouring out from the morton salt factory in chicago last night a wall partially collapsed dumping tons of the white crystals onto parked cars at the dealership next door. no one was hurt. city engineers have been called in to take a look at the building's structural integrity. >> coming up at 5:00 a.m., new details on the search for the record of airasia flight 8501. >> but next a new theory about sony pictures hack. an official says they don't think it was north korea. >> 6abc is new and better. it fits any device when you open it up. we'll be back >

owe reporter is in a wal-mart in the south by. matt? >>> we are here at kohl's and we have seen a lot people coming here the last hour or so and it is not over here at kohl's with the christmas shopping season not ending until 6:00 p.m. tonight. we have seen two dozen come in the last couple of hours and kohl's has been open nonstop since friday after a disappointing last friday they are playing catch up. people are not necessarily shopping for other people. >> i figure, science they are open 24 hours why not save myself some time and get some stuff for myself. >> looking for christmas deals for director self? >> yes, absolutely, no one else but me. >> what a deal. >> some of people we spoke with say they just got off work and this is a good opportunity to get the last minute items. not just kohl's but macy's and target and wal-mart and toys 'r us are extending their hours. what are people baying? the national retail federation says the number one item requested by boys and girls is smart phones or tablets. >>> a bay area filmmaker vide

he matched the description of a suspect seen with a shotgun inside the story road wal-mart.same store where homeless people began camping in the parking lot after being evicted from the jungle. police found shotgun shells in his backpack and he was detained. >> i think this is maybe a little too intense. >> reporter: neighbors hope it is not a sign that crime is now on the increase. what has gone up, literally overnight, is the number of homeless people now on the streets. about two dozen camped in the wal-mart lot, but they were moved along by police. >> get out of the street. >> reporter: they just went across the street to a taco bell parking lot and strip mall. >> they were asked to leave last night. it is a cat and mouse game. asked to leave, come back. several other people went to other locations. you put a bunch of people on the street, you have nowhere to go, they are going to find a location. >> reporter: the city continued to clean out the 67-acre encampment hauling out trailers, trash, and hundreds of shopping carts. police arrested four people this morning who re

. >> so i think for a while and i have a very busy mind even though i am out in a wal-mart parking lote the biggest hazard is parallel parking for me all of a sudden things are hitting me. >> he told me later he was in his truck at the wal-mart down the street here. after i hung up the phone he couldn't get out of his car for 20 minutes. >> there was something in the tone that got me. >> then he was walking around wal-mart he ran into his sister who is a nurse. >> what a better time to run into my sister, the practicing registered nurse who knows of course everything. she sees me and -- there's two words i love to miss pronounce apaflectic and cat tonic. i am a combination of both probably. she takes me aside, what's wrong? looking back now, i really do know what's wrong. at the time i am guessing. my mind is all over the place. but it's, you know, after 17 years i think it's over for him. what we typically say in every phone call is i tell rob how proud of him i am to this day and that i love him. in this call i remember i said i wish i could go with you. just what he needs, you know,

. >>> well, tragedy inside a wal*mart. up next a horrific accident that led to the death of a mother. also ahead an interesting new link to the origin of the ebola outbreak in west africa. wool tell you how researchers think it all started. >> kathy? >> cold and getting colder as we countdown the new year. holiday forecast coming up and it promises to a cold one. we'll trach a look as we begin 2015 and i don't know. >> and a man with quite a story to tell. we'll tell you what he has to say about his near death experience with a great white shark. ♪ >> new at 11:00 o'clock tonight a masked murder in western canada. nine people including two children were found at three separate locations in the city of edmonton. but police say all are connected to the same domestic dispute. the man police believe to be responsible is also dead tonight tonight. they've not released any other information about this connect to the victims also new tonight a mother is shot and killed at a wal*mart in idaho after her two-year-old son gets a hold

. >>> tragedy in wal-mart how a young boy ended up accidentally killing his mother in the store. also this. >> my heart was beating and my mind was racing, if it will cover us. >> reporter: sprinting through snow a couple manages tout run a avalanche see their dramatic escape. >>> it is the biggest party in the big apple you are looking live at times square security extra tight for tonight's new years festivities at times square. we will go their life with how they are preparing for more than 1 million people later on tonight. >> ♪ >> yep, tonight is the tonight, fire works, love to fly over penns landing, in the one but two big shows over delaware river and don't forget you can watch the fire works right here on cbs-3 from the comfort of your own home. >> in the bad. >> yes. >> we will be right back. >>> it is being called the worst mass murder in edmonton's history. nine people were killed, in the murder/suicide. police found victims yesterday at three different crime scenes across the city. the gun man was also found dead. detectives will say there was a domestic dispute and s

ever the retailer will accept gift cards from more than 200 other stores in exchange for a wal*martt card. the catch, it will be less than the value of your original card. although i don't know exactly how much. >>> wisconsin teen who spent her live battling a rare disease thought it was just her luck when she was pulled over by the police but this officer had a few very special tickets for h her. >> got some good news and good news for you okay. >>> okay. >> bad news first i'm giving you two tickets, all right. >>> all right. >> one is a ticket to new york, airplane ticket and the other ticket is to a band called time flies. >> oh, my god! >> thank you so much. >> you're welcome. >> you're my favorite cop in the and tire world she said. if you couldn't tell the tickets were for a trip to see her favorite band. it was all thanks to her dad who enlisted the help of the local police department to help surprise her. that is very cool. >> breaking news right now. sky fox live over the scene of a nasty crash in springfield delaware county much this is on state road right near gulf view r

not wal-marts where they're open. there's some places out there. but help us out in other areas where we really can -- >> and the trillions spent fighting a war on poverty we're losing. >> it's great you have linked these two additional issue0s to the protests surrounding ferguson -- >> you linked these to the folks in the businesses. >> think these are all primary factors in people's day-to-day in the public sphere is the real meaning of democracy. >> blocking the lincoln tunnels for four hours is not a conversation. >> we're talking about it. >> yes, indeed we are. >> katherine, thank you. charles, i want to thank you. remember to catch charles on fox business weekdays. if you're having trouble finding it, charles will go to your cable operator and have a little conversation. just saying. just saying. meanwhile, the one who called americans stupid so why is the judge saying republicans grilling jonathan gruber tomorrow are the ones who better be smart. many people clean their dentures with toothpaste or plain water. and even though their dentures

wal-mart is offering to let you spend tonight their stores. for next few weeks wal-mart will exchange gift card from more than 200 retailers from armani exchange to zappos. they say it will give you up to 97 percent of the card's value. it does vary by retailer. for example an amazon card will get you you 95 percent of the value. other store brand will be worth only 70 per event. >>> now time to check your philadelphia jobs market report, cbs news business analyst jill schlesinger is here with more. >> reporter: 2014 is on pace to be the best year for total and private sector job growth since 199 # nine. but whiz sector did santa shower with gifts and which got a lump of coal. overall employment has listen by .5 percent in the philadelphia area but there were five industries that led the way nationally. mining jumped by 6 percent, construction up 3.9 percent, professional business services gained 3.8 percent, transportation added 3.1 percent and food services increased by 2.8 percent. now other industries, didn't fair as well. the five slowest

this really generous anonymous person told wal*mart managers that he only wanted to be known as santa. no publicity please. joyce evans fox 29 news. >> santa b. pretty amazing. >>> celebrations across the world mark this first night of hanukkah and right here at home. ♪ >> traditional singing filling 30th street station for the afternoon celebration mayor michael nutter was on hand to assist in the lighting of the menorah for the first night of the jewish festival of lights along with music there were dried dell games and potato pancake. >> of course, christmas celebrates the birth of jesus. so who in the world would put up a satanic display next to a holiday display? it's going up in one state capital. >> and take a good look. police say she swiped a bulldog, a full grown bulldog. how police say she made off with the pup from the local spca. >> i'm from down south and i'm your mother. >> did you hear him. >> even grown mother can't escape the long arm of mom. what these two brothers that compelled their mom to call in on live tv. ♪ >> taliban stormed a school in pakistan killing more