CBS Evening News - 2008-11-30
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[0:05] [music]
[0:06] Tonight, shoppers crowd stores and
[0:08] retailers add up the receipts during the
[0:11] first weekend of the holiday shopping
[0:13] [music] season. I'm Kelly Wallace. Also
[0:15] tonight, President-elect Obama is poised
[0:17] to name Hillary Clinton Secretary of
[0:20] State [music] tomorrow after her husband
[0:22] agrees to reveal his foundation's
[0:24] donors. With growing concerns about the
[0:27] safety of infant formula in the United
[0:29] States, the government sets new safety
[0:31] [music] standards.
[0:32] >> Because it's not just a farm
[0:34] >> and a harvest of hope for disabled
[0:36] workers on a Cape Cod farm.
[0:45] >> This [music] is the CBS Evening News.
[0:50] >> Good evening. [music] Russ Mitchell is
[0:52] off tonight. Despite all the talk of an
[0:54] economic slowdown, the holiday shopping
[0:56] season is off to an energetic start,
[0:58] according to a retail survey out
[1:00] tonight. The survey says 172 million
[1:04] shoppers visited stores and websites
[1:05] this weekend, up 15 million from last
[1:08] year. And the average shoppers spent
[1:10] more than $372,
[1:12] up 7.2% from a year ago. Randall
[1:15] Kingston has the details.
[1:18] >> You need to sign on here, please.
[1:20] Like an unexpected present under the
[1:22] Christmas tree, retailers received a
[1:24] pleasant surprise from shoppers on this
[1:26] bell weather weekend. Despite a national
[1:29] economic slump that's driven consumer
[1:31] spending down to its lowest level in
[1:34] almost 30 years, many Americans put
[1:36] anxiety aside and opened their wallets.
[1:40] >> Try to be as smart as we can be with our
[1:42] dollars because it's uh it's it's not
[1:44] getting any better anytime soon. The
[1:46] National Retail Federation repo