NBC Nightly News - 1992-11-27

Name: NBC Nightly News - 1992-11-27
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[0:00] One,

[0:04] 28 days till Christmas and the shopping

[0:07] season is underway.

[0:09] Will American troops go to Somalia?

[0:11] President Bush considers the options.

[0:14] And on America Closeup, hard questions

[0:17] about college football injuries.

[0:21] >> This is NBC Nightly News with Tom Broth.

[0:24] Tonight, sitting in for Tom is Deborah

[0:27] Roberts.

[0:29] Good evening. In between Thanksgiving

[0:31] leftovers today, Americans hit the

[0:33] ground shopping. And the amount they

[0:35] spend will tell a lot about how well the

[0:37] economy is doing. One good sign, people

[0:39] have more money in their pockets this

[0:41] year. Personal income is up. It rose a

[0:44] solid 1% last month. Consumer spending

[0:47] also rose in October by 7/10en of a

[0:49] percent. NBC's chief economics

[0:52] correspondent Irving Aravine is out

[0:54] among the shoppers of Arlington,

[0:55] Virginia. Irving, what's in store?

[0:58] Deborah, there's a lot at stake for Bill

[1:00] Clinton and the nation's economy at

[1:02] malls like this around the country

[1:04] today. Good Christmas business would

[1:06] relieve Clinton of a lot of the pressure

[1:09] to take drastic steps to revive the

[1:11] economy.

[1:13] When the doors opened this morning for

[1:15] prech Christmas sales at the Bone Maret

[1:18] Mall in Seattle, shoppers were already

[1:21] waiting. At this Virginia mall, Santa

[1:24] was getting a lot of orders. I want a

[1:26] wallet, some wallet sk and a helmet.

[1:31] >> As for the real shoppers, spending plans

[1:33] were mixed.

[1:34] >> I'll probably spend more than previous,

[1:36] but not extravagantly.

[1:38] >> I'm going to shop a lot less this year

[1:40] because of the fact of the recession and

[1:42] there's no money.

[1:44] >> Merchants are encouraged by