the more they use amazon. in the same way amazon prime customers become more frequent customers of amazon. caroline: shannon, great to have you on the show. give us a sense of the mobile element that you're covering, how much? there used to be a buoyancy. >> well, yeah, and i think before the big brick and mortar , people talked about the app, it's the battle of aps. they know consumers are only going to be using a couple of aps on their phone. amazon is really dominating that space. maybe there e a couple of other retailers who can make a dent to have the app on your phone, that you're using, in real-time or things while you're lying in bed at night, price checking from your app. so i think more and more, the debate is not going to be around who has the best website but who , has the best app and best mobile platform because that's where consumers are moving in the retail space. caroline: so all brick and mortar are playing catch-up. are they managing to lock in some of this payment? >> i think they are obvio

you've got now 24 minutes, amazon, to get it here. by the way comic quick look at amazon stock. anyone running with ice cream. this stock is tumbling on this development. maybe a little more time delivering stuff and less time lunching staff. we've got charlie gasparino here. you said a chance to try the donut. >> i want you to know your staff is trained to poison you. it says here for expiration date january 03. neil: well, maybe they are looking out for my safety. he saw that. wonderful secret service agent. he said go ahead and eat it. it is january 03. he interpreted the january 3rd >> i don't think so. they usually have the month in the year. as a northeastern italian american, we grew up into things. salvador is in a combo served by nuclear blast for many years. they are like rats and cockroaches and can't survive. i'm just telling you this looks like -- he's good for january january 03. i just tasted it. >> what is going on author that you're hearing? >> speculation and idea guy. rudy giuliani is a brooklyn guy. guarantee he ate a lot. i grew up with the guy related. >> a

at amazon's headquarters in seattle, 11:00 a.m. here on wall street, and "squawk alley" is live. ♪ ♪ breaking my back just to know your name ♪ ♪ 17 tracks and i've had it with this game ♪ >>> good wednesday morning. welcome to "squawk alley." with me at the new york stonge at post 9, brian sullivan and mike santoli. thank you both for joining us. carl and jon have the morning off. we have news from the trump transition and john harwood. >> we've just had the transition call with the incoming white house press secretary, sean spicer. he said that donald trump around 4:00 today is going to have an economic development announcement that will be good for american workers. didn't specify what it is, said he wants to keep everyone guessing. don't know if it's something like the deal that he engineered with carrier to try to preserve some jobs that were headed for mexico or a new investment. of course, he met with the softbank president who pledged $50 billion investment in the united states. don't know what it's going to be, bu

amazon. why tech gadgets won out as shoppers got mobile. episode inder that all of bloomberg technology are live twitter.g on check us out at bloombergtechtv. >> the consumer came roaring back this holiday season making its biggest gain in more than a decade. could the boost in sentiment pay off for the retail sector during holiday season? certainly there were signs of consumer strength in the online space. its best holiday season yet having shipped a billion items. the online retailer and its record sales of electronic devices. sean and eporter bloomberg editor at large cory johnson. amazon is very fast and loose with the numbers they throw out. the fact that this was the ever.t holiday if it wasn't it would be a for ter, the expectation 25% year over year sales growth. they soldnow how many last year so we don't know what their number means and the reticent to release actual figures. rbc capital markets estimated the company sold about a billion dollars of alexa products. very little profit

to amazon. and finally i think these online platforms also now realize they cannot rely on content through studios alone. what is netflix doing? we all are reading the stories of the budget for conservatorship is like five first -- $5 billion to $6 billion. why do we have to rely on studios? i can hire similar talent. i have a customer base and i know i have the data inability much more than anybody else? why not me produce the content and direct the compete with these traditional players rather than they dictating what sort of content can be and cannot be available? reality is a lot more complex. professor ate a carnegie mellon university in pittsburgh, codirector of the initiative for digital media analytics which is what? rahul: again, the book is a culmination of the research we have been doing for the last maybe 10 or 12 years. in the process we get a variety questions at the level in the policy level. we have done a lot of work on copyright and infringement and how effective it is. these a

and -- no more waiting in line-- amazon announced it's latest idea called "amazon go"-- how it works and when more stores are taking a look at the market if you're one of those people who hates standing in line at the grocery store ... you're in luck. online retailer amazon has just announced its latest big idea.... a new way to shop for groceries in person.it's called amazon go. sheinelle jones explains how it works. - what would shopping look like if you could just walk into a store, pick up a few items, and just "go"?no lines .... no check outs ... no registers ...the online "just walk out" concept on monday ...amazon is taking the best of every type of technology right now and stitching it together. this is artificial intelligence at its very best. how does it work? you'll need a smart phone and a free app.as you shop, the "amazon go" technology detects when products are taken from ... or returned to the shelves ... and keeps track of them in a virtual cart. when you're done shopping, you just leave the store. shortly after, account and send you a receipt. it's amazon's attempt t

you use amazon and go devices, the more you use amazon. if you can put this in people's house, they become more frequent customers, like prime customers. >> shannon, it is great to have you on the show. give us a sense of the mobile element you are covering. buoyancy in the way we shop. shannon: before the brick-and-mortar retail's -- retailers talk about their apps, it is the battle of the apps. consumers will be using a couple apps. dominates that space. maybe a couple retailers can make a dent their, you have the app on your phone, you are using mobile in real-time, ordering things, price checking in the store. the debate will not be around who has the best website but who has the best app and mobile platform. there -- that is where consumers are moving. playingrick and mortars catch-up? think they are doing better than they were a couple atrs ago, but when you look amazon and the sales of alexei and the way amazon continues to dominate this space and is drawing more consumers into their echoes system with -- with prime and alexa, the h

has amazon locker where you canou c pick it up at a designatedigte location. police say they want you toou take advantage of that adviceic and do those things becausesau this continues to happen. hapn. we heard about two otherwo other juveniles picked up todayp tay possibly doing the same thing removing packages from thatom tt front doors. so police are looking intooong that. it also happened here in theede germantown area. and they say that some of o these suspects have beenee returning items to stores without the receipts so they get a gift card in return.e reit they found gift cards on some oo of these people.hese so, they are saying that thereha are some folks who won't be getting their gifts back in time for the holiday that'she hd the latest here in t germantown, lauren demarco fox5 local news.ne >> d.c. police are still searching for the suspects in this brazen robbery caught on camera. but take a good look at the video. would you just sit there whileu this happened? this didsipeneds happen monday night o avenue northeast. you can see a suspect walkpect

they have fulfillment by amazon. if they're moving into store concepts, we know they're trying to connect with local businesses. they could very easily offer their systems to the business for a fee, for a cut the way they have with logistics. do you expect that? if so, how does a company like yours react? >> i think it would be much better off partnering with us. a real true point of sale is very, very difficult to do. there's a lot that goes into it. it's much better to partner with someone that focuses on it rather than just doing it. it's easy to create a register type product. it's easy to create a payment product, but it's really difficult to create a true point of sale. something that really runs your business. >> it's also difficult -- >> six years behind us. >> it's also difficult to launch rockets into space, but that's not stopping b abazos. how do you adjust if somebody of your that size gets into your space? >> yeah. i mean, we're always ahead of the curve, right? i mean, we're two years ahead of everyone

the end of jobs, cover of the "new york post," with an amazon robot. scary. >> mark carney in a speech yesterday said 15 15,000 uk jobs could go to robotics. >>> if it's happening in the world, chances are it has a hashtag on twitter. it's like the time person of the year. rio2016 had the highest number of tweets followed by election 2016 and pokemon go was third. >> you know what was fourth? >> no. >> "worldwide exchange." >> that was our first year. we're coming up on our one-year anniversary. >> >> 4th of january or 5th of january. we didn't make it into the top ten. >> no. >> next year will be the one. >>> millions of viewers tuned in to watch the victoria secret fashion show last night. it took place in paris for the first time. the show cost nearly $20 million, likely the most expensive in its 2 1-year history. the weekend, bruno mars and lady gaga sharing the stages with models to perform several songs. lady gaga sporting a kis tom made $1 million hat made of crystals. >> a million dollar hat. did you stay up to watch? >> i did not. >> shocked.

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and amazon workers are probably happy to finally get a break. the online retail company says it shipped more than a billion items around the world through its prime loyalty program this holiday season. amazon also says more people tried prime than during any previous holiday season. prime costs 99 bucks a year and comes with guaranteed shipping, and other perks. it was at the top of many christmas wish lists. but thousands of parents are now reporting a pretty big problem with the popular hatchimal toys. they won't hatch. the 80-dollar toy is supposed to emerge from an egg when or rub on the shell after about 30 minutes of playtime. parent company spin master is asking disgruntled parents to contact them on twitter. it also uploaded a video, showing how to manually break the egg open. it's xx and we're just getting started. a shocking death-- now rocking an entire community. how loved ones are remembering a beloved yoga teacher-- as the man charged in her death breaking news in syria. a reported ceasefire deal is reached, but not everyone is pro

react toes amazon this? >> we work closely with amazon when we can find something awesome to do with them. the most prominent thing we have done with amazon is twitch prime. twitch prime is a twitch-oriented part of amazon prime, comes with all the amazon prime benefits, but also twitch benefits. that is awesome for creators and helped to drive a lot of money into their pockets. it is good for our customers because amazon prime is a great product. the twitch add-ons have been really great. outside of gaming so far we are in the learning phase. i am absolutely positive that we will find amazing things to do with amazon, but we are still focused on growing that nascent community. >> the community you have already that has loved you for the gaming side of things, are they worried about the expansion? >> we really did worry when we started to expanding beyond gaming whether our community would embrace that or not, and the awesome thing is that they have. we recently ran a survey to ask people what you think abou

they point to amazon fresh, amazon drones, amazon flex. they call it hot air. possible to put a valuation on that business, a large part of that business? >> how can we -- those diversified business streams are new. they're new businesses so how can we classify them at this point as not being abt to contribute. >> they're being modeled when you come up with a stock price. >> and they should be modeled where they are currently because you're talking about a company that has proven it self over the last couple of years having an ability to go out and spend and spend and spend understanding they need to diversify, creating things like aws and it is contributinging to the revenue stream. they're classifying them as not having the ability to contribute any further based on what they're saying. and keep in mind when you talk about the stock, again, it goes back to we discussed retail, brick and mortar, you mentioned e-commerce and the growth isn't there. that's fine. that's the cash cow that allows you to do other things. brick and mortar is retailing. you have amazo

as soon as they get a great website, amazon has a great app. amazon has one hour shipping. now they have something like alexa to compete with. they are trying in making some progress, but i don't know if anyone is slowing amazon to -- down. through category by category of the top-selling products and they were wonderfully random and weird. i went through about 30 of those items and i noticed these were very cheap items. for $7.99, bathtub baby toys for $6.95. driving so much volume and having a tiny margin, they are taking money away from other retailers and that changes the nature of retail. caroline: i think that is fascinating. especially out, today, when consumer confidence is better. consumers seem to be pretty 35itive when they are over millennials and not sounding confident. amazon is now getting into a peril. apparel.-- into year for apparel, i don't know it is going to be catastrophic, but it is important. millennials are not wanting to spend on a peril -- apparel. they would rather be spending their money on tech. retailers were forced to offer bigger discounts th

so far amazon refused the prosecutors' requests. for now, more from martin savidge. >> alexa what did you hear? is it possible the device witness add murder inside this arkansas home. what police in bentonville are wondering. only not asking the device. they're asking echo's maker anson. so far the tech giant is saying no to a police warrant seeking data and recordings, the always-on gadget may have picked up. >> a lawfully issued search warrant by a judge. amazon's position they simply don't have to comply. >> reporter: this man was found dead face down in a hot tub. there were indications of foul play arresting 31-year-old james bates on suspicion of murder. bates' attorney says the death was nothing more than a tragic accident, and her client is innocent. she applauds amazon's refuse toll comply with police demands calling it chilling a christmas gift could be used against people. >> it scares me our criminal system is coming down to technology supposed to help our daily live its and now used agat us. >> reporter: in a statement

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amazon sends everything to you. off the top of my head they have facilities where they process your order and there is such demand that maybe they are experimenting with a new way they will actually encourage people to go to a traditional brick and mortar. >> they are competitive. >> if you look at their whole brick and mortar, everything from mall stores to grocery stores and strip stores, they are all being cannibal liesed. >> that's a great point. it is a bitter enemy of trump. it is interesting with the trul p rally we saw on wall street, technology has not been benefiting as much. >> and he goes after companies. he is calling them out by name and you know amazon is next. coming up, see why donald trump going to the white house is sending one woman to the heartbreak hotel. generosity is its own form of power. you can handle being a mom for half an hour. i'm in all the way. is that understood? i don't know what she's up to, but it's not good. can't the world be my noodles and butter? get your mind out of the gutt

amazon will pick up the shipping cost. just print a free shipping label at give back box.com. >> and there are no doubt a lot of empty amazon boxes out there. the company says it shipped more than a billion items around the world to its prime loyalty program this holiday season. that number includes orders shipped by third party merchants but fulfilled by amazon. amazon also said more people tried prime than during any previous holiday season. >>> well, it was one of the toughest gets this christmas season. the hatchimal. it's supposed to be a furry little companion has turned out to be a headache for dozens of parents in our area. nbc 10's keith jones has more on the hatchimal headache. >> this, my friends, ask a hatchimal. it comes in an egg, and then this little guy comes out. hours after using it, they discover they got more than they bargained for. it's the most popular toy. it talks. it walks. it swears? >> very inappropriate to say. especially to a 9-year-old. >> mom patty crystal couldn't believe her ears. you may

that is the vision behind amazon's new amazon go venture. but is the byproduct of go something that jobs are going to go away. the company's latest move getting slammed by the new york post and sending shares higher. with no people, make a lot of money. what does the stock go from here? that part of the story straight ahead on "power lunch." ♪ ♪ get up to $2500 customer cash on select 2016 and 2017 models for these terms. see your lexus dealer. >>> welcome back. amazon getting lots of buzz after they will test grocery stores without checkout lines. it is set to open next year. here's how it works. customers logon into an app and go shopping. as they shop, the amazon go technology detects when products are taken from or returned to the shelves. and keeps track of them in a virtual cart. when the customer is done, all they have to do is leave the store. amazon charges them. some are calling the experiment a jobs killer. we'll dive into that later on. for now, let's talk about that this could mean to amazon. eddie roomia, always a pleasure

the same story with amazon. boy, was that the stock of 2015 up 117% and look at amazon, 2016, just 13% higher. i think you could say that the techs have slowed down and some of them are laggards. i want to talk more about amazon. adam shapiro is here, you reported extense-- extensively from a warehouse. >> it's smaller than the one in new jersey, 28 football fields, totally automated. this is a prime hub, they call it. stuart: did you tell us you can get delivery one hour. >> one hour. stuart: after you've ordered something? >> yeah, i don't think so it's something they've got in stock, you'll get it, pay $7.99 within an hour, guaranteed within the metropolitan area of new york and have these in 30 different cities across the country. stuart: the metropolitan area. >> brooklyn, queens, and it's free delivery as long as you're amazon prime member $99 a year. it's two hours. stuart: that's astonishing. there's another there there's another angle. holiday sales, bricks and mortar, december 10th, that's the amazon e

. >> and amazon crowned ever core's top internet pick. did the company do enough to win christmas though? >>> but first up, the trump rally, that's what we call it now, and the march to dow 20,000. that continues for yet another day. futures as you just saw are higher, certainly would indicate we will be close at the open. the dow aiming for its eighth straight week of gains. and, well, what else, of course another tweet on the markets from president-elect donald trump. quote, the u.s. consumer confidence index for december surged nearly four points to 113.7, that's the highest level in more than 15 years. and as his typical, he ends with the exclamation point. thanks, donald. >> i wish he was watching "squawk on the street" because we broke that number way before 10:00 p.m. last night when his tweet came out. >> did you say thanks donald though? >> i didn't say thanks donald. the why is up for debate, obviously. but you can't ignore the fact that consumer confidence is up, business confidence is up, home builder confidence is up. you've

amazon has a lot of cash. will we potentially see them eating up some of the older content providers? gerry: i think there is always speculation going on. there was speculation about netflix and disney at one this year. another company we have not mentioned is buzzfeed. abc has invested $4 million in buzzfeed. i think we will start to see more and more of these old media companies and digital publishers joining forces, because the old media companies want their younger audience and the buzzfeeds of the world really like the money and television. cory: to your point, the buzzfeed deal is a g-route. netflix is a business that is not generate a lot of free cash flow. we might say the same about hulu, we don't know their financials, but right now it is still a drop the market. there are still very high valuations. these businesses can be supported by wall street when they can't support their own operations. that is a thing that could dissuade investments. if the rules of the road were to change with the fcc and ne

they are asking amazon. and so far they are saying no. >> it was a lawfully issued search warrant by a judge and amazon's position is they simply don't believe they have to comply with it. >> 47-year-old victory collins was found dead face down in a hot tub last year. authorities say there were indications of possible foul play. arresting james bathes on suspicion of murder. bates' tuattorney says the deat was nothing more than a tragic accident and her client is innocent. he applauds amazon's refusing to comply with police demands calling it chilling that. >> chilling that it's supposed to help daily lives and now being used against us for an innocent client. >> in a statement amazon replied it could change its lgness saying amazon will not release customer information without a binding legal demand properly served on us. amazon objects to overbroad or otherwise inappropriate demands as a matter of course. amazon did give police bates' subscriber information and authorities have analyzed the information con

>> it is called amazon go. it may make standing in line for milk or butter a thing of the past. nbc's channel jones has more. >> reporter: what would shopping look like if you could walk into a store, pick up a few items and just go. no lines, no checkouts, no registers. amazon unveiled their just walk out concept on monday. this is artificial intielligenc at its very best. amazon is taking the best of every technology right now and stitching it together. >> reporter: you'll need a smartphone and a free app. as you shop, the amazon go technology detects when products are taken from or returned to the shelf and keeps track of them in a virtual cart. when you're done shopping, you just leave the store. shortly after amazon will charge your account and send you a receipt. it's amazon's attempt to enter the brick and mortar arena, aiming to take a bite out of the estimated $674 million market for groceries. the new way of shopping sparked instant reaction online. some poking fun at the idea. took a soda from the ga

[laughter] melissa: might help me so it could be good for amazon, it could be bad for amazon. what do you think they do? >> this cuts both ways. amazon -- this is apple case all over again. i was at the rsa conference when loretta lynch says one company does not get to determine the national security policy of the united states. amazon does not get to determine what the courts and the law consider evidence in the case. i think here is the real shock, people are going to realize these things are listening to you and following you. you go back and take out of this data, we will be able to reinstruct people's lives from the time they go to sleep to where they go, what they eat, i mean, this is really it's very 1984 and we don't realize it. melissa: morgan, thank you very much. all right, jon. jon: eerie scene, heavy fog, canceled flights and it could continue through new year's day, we will tell you where. plus new developments in the investigation into a deadly russian plane crash, what authorities are ruling out and y melissa: it looks like a lot more halloween than winter in d

everybody benefits when amazon does well. amazon needs everybody right now. vonnie: let me guide you into the bloomberg because the of charts here. what is the outlook given that prices are starting to rise again? quarterll be the first were costs are up again until i'm companies such report earnings. fedex and ups are not as leveraged as the airline companies would be. u.s. airlines don't believe hedge anymore given the volatility we have seen. hedges everybody else. most of the other airlines have not put any hedges on in the past year. vonnie: what are other airline to our liking the most? it is a very volatile industry. >> delta is our top pick for 2017 and is down 2%. united and american are up? --e -- quite dramatically united and american are up quite dramatically. we think that delta will catch up to the other two. american was all about latin america turning around. united is all about self-help with a whole new management team. there is a lot of good stuff going on in the industry. we are seeing strong traffic from millennials. well.nk that should b

they have to go to amazon. you know, if amazon just handed over that information, who's going to buy it? this was a big seller this year. and so, in this case, amazon, they're not saying they're not going to turn over any information, but right now, they're saying it's just too overbroad. >> quijano: so this wasn't the only device in the suspect's home. this was a-- quote, unquote-- a smart home. as technology becomes more integrated with our lives, what is happening to our right to privacy? >> reporter: well, and in this case, the defend may have more problem, not so much with the echo, but with his smart water meter. the prosecution is saying that he used an abnormal amount of water, early-morning hour, to clean up. he's saying the clock on his smart water meter was off, and he actually filled a hot tub the night before. so that's a real problem. >> quijano: the technology could in fact be wrong. >> reporter: it could be wrong, and it could be used against you in court because you've brought this in your home

let's take a look at amazon because amazon says that it ships more than 1 billion items worldwide this holiday season. its peak day was december 19th. and a big day for many of the shippers, as well. but expect a lot of those items to actually get sent back. analysts estimate that about one third of all on democratic line purchases do get returned. that means services offered by reverse logistics firmsdemocrat purchases do get returned. that means services offered by reverse logistics firms that resell unwanted gifts that's the reason fedex bought genco and u.p.s. announced an investment. u.p.s. expects to ship 5.8 million packages back to retailers. still a tiny fraction of the overall peak season volumes, but it is one that is growing at a double digit rate. in terms of that peak season leading up to christmas, u.p.s. saying that the season has been very successful with the company setting record volumes and meeting customers' needs sfek effectively. coming in to the holiday weekend, fedex said it had been handling a record number of packages and on time delivery at record levels. am

first, thought amazon's delivery drones were a wild idea? how about an amazon warehouse in the sky? that's next. look at this... a silicon valley server farm. the vault to man's greatest wonders... selfies, cat videos and winking emojis. speaking of tech wonders, with the geico app you can get roadside assistance, digital id cards... or even file a claim. do that.. yeah, yeah that should work. it's not happening... just try again. uh, i think i found your problem. thanks. hmm... the award-winning geico app. download it today. >>> coming up, amazon thinking big with it latest endeavor. why someone here says this pie in the sky idea could really take off. plus, the best and worst picks from our guys and their new >>> it's a bird, it's a plane. it's a flying warehouse. news leaking this week amazon is landed a patent for a blimp size fulfillment center 45,000 feet in the air. and it could act as a launching pad for drone deliveries. jonas, not a good idea? >> you know, sometimes i think when we all watch "blade runner" and we're scared of what the future will look like, jeff bezos is l

without a warrant they go to amazon and amazon gives that information up. you would be chagrined to say the least that amazon is doing this. i think amazon is doing absolutely the right thing. police have proven time and again that when they search, sometimes they go overboard, beyond what the warrant requires. can you imagine what they would do without a warrant? this is a safeguard we are guaranteed in the united states constitution. they can't just search us as citizen, they can't search devices without a search warrant, usually. i am all on board with amazon doing what they are doing protecting their consumers. they are not saying they won't, they are saying have a judge review it and then with illegal search warrant we will give you what you want. >> i want to switch gears and talk quickly about dyllan roof, the young man found guilty of killing nine black worshipers at a south carolina church in 2015. representing himself in the sentencing phase, today he told a judge he did not plan to call any witnesses or present evidence to ask a jury to spare his

find out why amazon is not ready to turn over all of the data. back in a moment. justice is spelled b-o-x.hero, say hello to a powerful tool that gives you options to fit your budget. ♪ oh, i'm tied to this chair! ♪ dun-dun-daaaa! i don't know that an insurance-themed comic book is what we're looking for. did i mention he can save people nearly $600? you haven't even heard my catchphrase. i'm all done with this guy. box him up. that's terrible. >>> a popular piece of technology is at the center of a murder investigation in the united states. a prosecutor in arkansas once accessed recordings from an amazon echo device that was in a house where a man was killed. >> but amazon is purning back, refusing to turn over some of the data connected to the murderment is's account. and the case is renewing the debate about technology and privacy. >> people are concerned because it's something that actively listened 24 hours a day. but there are a lot of things, you know, technology and data has been convicting people for a long time. the information in y

so they subpoenaed amazon. but amazon refused to release any information. privacy advocates are suspicious if cops can get info we are on the vernal of big brother being able to listen in on anything we do in our home. remy, let's talk about this. amazon has received two subpoenas they will not comply with. they say they won't comply with anything that's not a valid and binding legal demand. >> an arkansas judge found probable cause that there might be information relevant to this murder investigation in amazon's possession. it raises an interesting question as to how much does law enforcement get to know about us. if you voluntarily put one of these device in your home and it's recording or at least on 24/7, amazon has the ability to be recording 24/7. >> one of the reasons math that might differentiate it from the apple san bernardino case where apple refused to comply with law enforcement demand that they unlock the terrorist iphone, amazon may show that they are in fact recording and storing everything and they have that capability. >> it's very scary t

amazon moved up to 5.7%. just behind them. they are both behind one slightly larger player but it is a larger older one. they will likely it ahead of that in the next couple of quarters. carol: is it high fashion? for those of us not familiar with this online fashion site. >> it is high-ish fashion. they have got nice stuff, but not super high-end. it is not one of the luxury houses. they have good stuff. they tend to have more up-to-date fashion than amazon. we got a report from bernstein that talks about the relative kind of penetration of the brands they have got and you see they have something like half of the top 20 fashion brands on the u.k., whereas amazon has about four of them. and then also, it has quite a bit more up-to-date stuff. amazon, most of their stuff or a lot of their stuff tends to be kind of last season things so they discount it. they look more like a discounter. the lender looks more like a full price store. zolander looks more like a full-price store. carol: when i think about amazon, i think about a l

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the amazon prime service sell everything. at this hub in manhattan theyhe have a good example.exam they have all kinds of goodsds from refrigerated items, grocerr items to big ticket items, fore, instance ts television right here, this big screen tv, 279ed, but you could get somethingmeth small as this who the item, nintendo, availability is the key.ke according to the folks they sell everything right up to 9:45 christmas eve. we are constantly shipping right up to the last minute. sometimes people run out ofout important things at the last minute, holiday wrapping paper, scissors or last minute gifts.f. the key is you have to order by 9:45 on christmas eave and it's guaranteed to be delivered by 11:59:00 p.m. christmas eve. as for future expansion for this service. well, they're in 30 cities right now. amazon says it will grow. they just won't say where yet. adam shapiro, fox business. > wow, it gets faster and faster. >> yes, it does.oes. pretty amazing. > we're still talking about getting packages delivered and for christm

why is amazon refusing to help the police? fox business' jeff flock is on the case for us. >>> and a busy day for donald trump. the president-elect expected to make new comments on the economy in the next hour. we're going to be listening. a potential roadblock on cabinet pick hurt mr. trump's plans to kick the economy into high gear. we have a political panel tackling that question and a lot more. "countdown" is live from the floor of the new york stock exchange. we're coming right back. . . cheryl: all right, we're getting some breaking news on the floor right now. japan's troubled auto parts company takata, we're told is nearing a settlement with the u.s. department of justice. this would resolve allegations of criminal wrongdoing how they handled the rupture-prone airbags linked to several deaths and injuries. the agreement expected to be reached next year, they would pay up to one billion and agree to criminal misconduct. it may take a little longer to reach a final outcome but that news just breaking. wanted to bring tha

the police warrant involving an amazon echo igniting a privacy debate. >>> sliding down a rock face. see what happens when a b.a.s.e. jump goes very wrong. >>> we do say good morning, everything, on this wednesday and start with the death of carrie fisher, the iconic "star wars" actress passing away at the age of 60. >> she died yesterday morning at a los angeles hospital four days after going into cardiac arrest on a flight. she she's being remembered for a legacy that stretches beyoung her role as princess leia. >> an outpouring of grief across the country. fans in san francisco leaving flowers and notes at the yoda fountain on the lucas film campus in the san francisco area. abc's byron pitts with more. >> help me obi-wan kenobi. >> reporter: it was the role that defined her career, princess leia, the heroine of the sci-fi series that swept the world. >> luke! >> reporter: she was just 20 when carrie fisher made the role larger than life. at age 59 rereprised the role. >> some things never change. >> true, you still drive me crazy. >> reporter: she died after suffering a heart att

could amazon be experiencing holiday turbulence. a pilots' union says poor working conditions may cause packages to arrive late. >> however, the retail giant is quick to dispute that claim. adrienne bankert has the story. >> only ad campaigns run of google and facebook, these pilots say they are paid less and have less rest between flights and killing morale. the first holiday season for amazon's prime air service and when it comes to being on time for the holidays, things are very much up in the air. millions of amazon customers who rely on the company's two day prime delivery getting a warning of what some claim is a possible holiday doomsday scenario. >> we want the kids expecting presents to make sure they get their presents on time. >> pilots for th shopping giant's prime air service using the company's trademark review format to give a one star rating to their pilots' union contract writing at this rate there may not be enough pilots to deliver for amazon around the holidays. >> the airlines are so undermanned due to us not ha

amazon says it won't comply. the suspect's father and his lawyer say the police request is overreaching. >> i have a strong feeling about personal privacy but i have a much stronger feeling about my son's innocence. however it is felt like to me that i am in this particular case -- i have exhausted all of my personal resources proving his innocence again and again and again. >> but what they're trying to do is novel but it's a deep invasion of privacy. >> then you have the other side, the prosecuting attorney argues if you can get a search warrant for someone's home, if you can draw someone's blood against their will. obtain a warrant for someone's cell phone, their computer, then this device shouldn't be any different. let's talk it over with danny cevallos. danny is this device different? >> this isn't exactly the same as getting a warrant for your blood or searching inside your him. in this case, police are seeking information not from the home but data from amazon itself and that raises all kinds of issues in

amazon knows about customer decisions about -- and about purchasing and amazon is driving marginal sales and top of this platform. because of what amazon has got in the background they can drive a lot with these devices things that google does not have and that apple does not have. apple has missed the boat. then: they're taking a little bit of a different approach. theire trying to let assistant drive the home. it is a different strategy and we will see. caroline: thank you. . story we are watching falling as much as 13%. software company reported disappointing third-quarter earnings. coming up, we dive into the european stocks ahead of a leading firm. that is next. this is bloomberg. ♪ caroline: u.k. has seen a number of their startups have impressive exits. bot magic pony for $150 million. head andith the firm's got his take on exit strategies for u.k. startups. >> this remains the big challenge for europe which was -- we areo see starting to see develop and it is about taking those businesses from a few hundred million to being billion dollar businesses. the ecosystem and silicon v

a rhode island man claims amazon messed up his order-- in a big way. alex bai (bye) says he ordered two wood burning kits... for his daughter and her friend. but when he opened up the package-- well, he found something quite different. bai says he is just thankful that he opened up the box before giving them to his 11 year-old daughter. he reached out to amazon, and says they told him he could get a total refund. no word on where his wood burning there is much more ahead on good morning washington. coming up at 5 a.m.-- more on the breaking news overseas. a wanted terror suspect killed in an early morning shoot-out with police. we have the latest details from police coming up at the top of the hour. people spend less time lying awake with aches and pains with advil pm than with tylenol pm. advil pm combines the number one pain reliever with the number one sleep aid. gentle, non-habit forming advil pm. for a healing night's sleep. fortified.tored. replenished. emerge everyday with emergen-c packed with b vitamins, antioxidants, electrolytes plus more vi