World News Tonight (ABC) - 1999-11-26
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[0:00] He's not.
[0:00] >> Great evening everyone.
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[0:13] [Music]
[0:18] >> On World News Tonight this Friday, the
[0:21] great American shopping spree begins.
[0:24] But will the boom in internet commerce
[0:26] hurt sales at traditional stores?
[0:29] In Texas, two rival schools united in
[0:32] grief, paying tribute to those who died
[0:35] building the bonfire, waiting for a
[0:38] court to rule on giving people who were
[0:39] adopted access to their birth records.
[0:42] Some biological parents would rather not
[0:45] be found. And the power play at
[0:48] Christianity's holiest shrine, debating
[0:50] an emergency exit at the tomb of Christ.
[0:59] From ABC News World Headquarters in New
[1:02] York, this is World News Tonight with
[1:05] Peter Jennings. Sitting in tonight,
[1:08] Charles Gibson.
[1:09] >> Good evening. We are going to start
[1:11] tonight with a great American tradition
[1:13] that's changing. More people were in
[1:15] stores today than any other day of the
[1:17] year. The question this year is where
[1:20] they'll be buying and how. On the
[1:22] internet or at the mall? For millions of
[1:24] people today, it was the mall. Some
[1:27] people call it retail therapy. For
[1:29] others, it's more of a headache. Either
[1:31] way, by one estimate, the average
[1:33] American will spend more than $800 this
[1:35] holiday season. Last year, when shopping
[1:38] on the internet came into the
[1:39] mainstream, the media called it the
[1:41] first internet Christmas. Now, there are
[1:43] more than 700,000 websites that sell
[1:46] things. ABC's Brian Rooney on what the
[1:49] second internet Christmas will mean for