CBS Evening News - 1999-11-26

Name: CBS Evening News - 1999-11-26
Uploaded: 2025-10-13
Duration: 1729 s
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Uploaded: 2025-10-13

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Read a transcript preview of “CBS Evening News - 1999-11-26” from malgent, uploaded on 2025-10-13.

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Language: English (original, YouTube automatic captions)

[0:00] schoolers with their parents.

[0:01] >> Only exclusive cities at Coliseum Ford,

[0:04] Northeast, First and Broadway in

[0:05] Portland. You can't afford to miss it.

[0:08] >> See how Portland's live in Lvita Latina

[0:10] tonight at 11:00.

[0:14] >> They're off and shopping. Up before the

[0:16] sun, Americans hit the stores for the

[0:19] start of the holiday gift buying season.

[0:22] Companies launch an allout advertising

[0:25] war for a share of the business. And the

[0:27] Aggies of Texas A&M score a victory even

[0:31] as they mourn a tremendous loss.

[0:37] This is the CBS Evening News with Dan

[0:42] Rather. Hey, good evening. Dan is off

[0:44] tonight. I'm John Roberts. Millions of

[0:46] Americans set off today on a grueling

[0:48] 29-day marathon that will take them from

[0:51] mall to mall, store to store, counter to

[0:54] counter, fighting crowds, battling for

[0:56] parking spaces, and hunting for

[0:58] bargains. It's the holiday shopping

[1:01] season. CBS's Jim Axelrod reports from

[1:04] the starting gate

[1:06] >> in America.

[1:08] >> To get the best deals on the best stuff,

[1:11] >> got to get that WWF stuff. There's a

[1:14] simple rule at holiday time. You snooze,

[1:16] you lose. 6:00 this morning in New

[1:19] Jersey and the stores were already

[1:20] humming. 6:00,

[1:23] >> right? He ain't had time to put on no

[1:25] socks, no nothing.

[1:26] >> They were literally shopping in their

[1:28] pajamas.

[1:30] >> Americans are expected to spend $185

[1:33] billion this holiday season, up 6% from

[1:36] last year. It's

[1:37] >> not always like this. And this is

[1:39] madness.

[1:41] >> Actually, this isn't even the worst of

[1:42] it. Not even close. Last year, the day

[1:45] after Thanksgiving was just the eighth

[1:47] busiest of the holiday