Mini Cassie: Hey guys, it is Cassie Hudson.
Mini Tom: And I am Tom Hanson. Cassie, do you think they are going to notice something is a little off?
Mini Cassie: Nah.
Mini Tom: But my lips aren’t moving, and my hair has never looked better.
Mini Cassie: Don’t worry. We will explain later on in the Next Big Thing. Just say your line.
Mini Tom: All right, here we go.
Both: Channel One News starts right now!
Azia: Thanks,Mini Tom and Mini Cass. We will have more from them later in the show as they reveal this week's Next Big Thing.And welcome back from Thanksgiving break. I am Azia Celestino, and let's get right to it.
Okay, ’tis the season for shopping, because once the turkey is finishedand those sales kick in, everyone is watching.Because how much we spend tells us how well the U.S. economy is doing. Emily Reppert breaks it down.
Emily: Today is Cyber Monday. It is the shopping holiday that followsBlack Friday, when people shop for deep discounts online, like on Amazon.But this year, online shopping broke records long before today.
Many stayed in and shopped Black Friday deals from the comfort of their homes, spending more than $5 billion onlinealone, up nearly 17 percent over last year.Up to half of those orders were on Amazon, where top sellers included Echo Dot, an AncestryDNA testing kit and this pressure cooker.
Butdespite fears that Black Friday is fading into gray, analysts say up to 90 percent of sales still happen in stores.And there were early morning lines and scrambling for deals to prove it.
Woman: It took me maybe like two hours to get these sneakers.
Emily: To lure shoppers inside, retailers offered Black Friday deals on Thanksgiving Day and even as early as October, with some discounts deeper than ever.
Kennedy Smith: Everywhere is pretty much like 50 percent off; buy one, get one — all those good deals that I definitely want.
Emily: The shopping weekend continued with Small Business Saturday, a campaign to support local stores in the community, like Hyde Park Records, a store in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois…
Ian Irwin: I think that this place has spirit.I think that this place is authentic.
Emily: …giving customers an experience instead of doorbuster deals.
Woman: There is something about engaging with local entrepreneurs, with their neighbors, with their community.
Emily: From Black Friday to closing time today, experts say 164 million people will likely open up their wallets and shop. That is up from 154 million last year.
Tonya Garcia: Consumer confidence is high. It helps that people are working.They're earning money; they feel really good about the shopping environment.
Emily: And when it is all said and done,shoppers are expected to spend about$1.4 trillion this holiday season.
Emily Reppert, Channel One News.
Azia: Yeah, I still have a lot of shopping to do. Thanks, Emily.
And did you guys catch today's Word in the News? The phrase "consumer confidence" — it is a measure of how shoppers feel about the current economy.And when consumer confidence is high, it usually means more spending. And since consumer spending makes up the majority of our economy, experts are watching how much we spend during the biggest shopping season of the year.
Okay, now over to the country of Egypt. The military there is fighting back after the deadliest terror attack in the country’s modern history. The massacre took place Friday in a region known as the Sinai Peninsula, at a mosque where Muslims go to worship.
Egypt's response to the massacre at the mosque came as quickly as it could fire up its warplanes. The military handed out this video, saying its forces launched airstrikes and night raids targeting those responsible.
More than 300 people were killed in Friday's attack by explosions and gunfire. Thirteen-year-old Abdullah Suleiman managed to get away.
Abdullah Suleiman: Everybody was climbing on top of each other, trying to get out of the mosque. As I tried to get out, a bullet entered my leg.
Azia: The mosque was packed with an estimated 500 worshippers attending Friday prayers. The Egyptian government has been battling Islamic extremists for more than three years. Many of those extremists have pledged loyalty to ISIS.
The attack on the mosque targeted Sufi Muslims, a branch of Islam that supports the Egyptian government and has different beliefs about the Islamic faith. Egyptians are still coming to terms with the scale of the attack, which took place in a small village.Some households in that village lost every single male member of their family.
Okay, after the break, we are taking your selfie game to another dimension.
Azia: Okay, it is time for the Next Big Thing. But before we post this week's idea, let's see what you thought about last week's.
We told you about the idea for speedy transportation that can get you from New York to London in 11 minutes — the hypersonic jet. So is it the next big thing? Seventy-eight percent said,“Yes — time to check in!” But 22 percent said,“No —Houston, we have a problem.”
Class: We are Mr. Ricki's second-hour speech class from Regina High School in Warren,Michigan, and we think hypersonic jet travel is the next big thing! Because we love to travel!
Class: Hello,Brianna, where are you? You're going to be late for class!
I'm in New York,at the Big Apple;I'll be there in five minutes.
This isMr. Martin's fifth-grade social studies class from…Minnesota, and we think the hypersonic flights are the next big thing!
Azia: Abby said, “No, because regular flights are expensive enough.”
Awesome — thanks for sounding off, guys. Love those videos!
Now, if your selfies are falling a little flat lately, this Next Big Thing might be just for you. Cassie Hudson teamed up with Tom Hanson to go 3-D.
Cassie: We are checking out one company that is stepping up the selfie game, and I brought my best friend to help me try it out.
Tom: We are taking it to the third dimension — let's check it out.
Cassie: Hi!
Michael: Hi! Welcome to DOOB! We make 3-D printed replicas of you.
Cassie: I think we need a 3-D selfie in our lives, right,Tom?
Tom: Absolutely.
Michael: Basically, when you come to DOOB, you step into our full-body 3-D scanner;we call it the DOOBLICATOR.
Cassie: Love that name!
Michael: Fifty-fourimages of you instantaneously, and then we take that information and turn it into a 3-D model, and then we 3-D print it into these lifelike figures. People come in, and they really try to capture these special momentsin their life — things that they want to remember forever.
Cassie: I feel like the stakes are really high when it comes to you and me coming up with what we are going to do for our DOOBs.
Tom: Oh, I know. What are our poses going to be?
Cassie: Time to get DOOBed.
Michael: All right, you’re all set.
Cassie: All right, awesome! That was so quick!
Tom: Painless!Yeah, Idig it.
Cassie: I like it!
Tom: I dig it — or IDOOB it.
Cassie: You DOOB it!
With our 3-D scans taken, we took a trip to the factory in Brooklyn, New York, where DOOB prints and ships all of the figurines.
But now I want to, like, hold my Mini Me;I want to meet Mini Tom. How do we get there? What do we do?
Michael: Yeah, so we're going to step over to the printerright now, have youguys put your hands in and dig them out yourselves. But before we get started, how about we put on some of the safety gear?
Tom: I think this one is a little too small.
Cassie: So how do you know whenit is ready? Is there, like, a dinger, or — ?
Michael: The printer lets us know everything. It showcases every single layer and how many layers are left and at what time it will be complete.
Tom: Our mini replicas are thisright now — this big block.
Michael: You’re going to, in a sense, be excavating your figures from within this block of powder.
Tom: Oh, there is a foot! We have got a foot!
Cassie: Wow, it is strong! Oh, there is little me. He looks so cute!
Tom: What happens to all this excess powder that gets vacuumed up?
Michael: It all gets returned right back into the system and reused for the next batch of powders
Tom: Oh, my God! Oh, there we are! This is amazing.
Cassie: This is insane!Even straight down to, like, my heel, my wedges.
Tom: Look, you can even see the Channel One logo.
Cassie: Bath time, baby girl.
The final part of the process is dipping the DOOBs into a solution that reveals their colors.
Tom: Look at that!
Cassie: Do you think that looks like me?
Tom: Yeah, totally.
Cassie: Because I think yours looks just like you.
But before we could play with our DOOBs, we had to let them dry.
Those smize eyes, like, they definitely nailed it.
Friendship goals.
Tom: All right, so we just got our 3-D selfies, and now we want to know what you guys think. Are 3-D selfies the next big thing? Head to ChannelOne.com to vote, and leave us a comment.
Cassie: Or, better yet,they can send us a video response to , and when you send us that video, if you do think 3-D selfies are the next big thing, let us know what pose you guys would strike.
Tom: All right,that is going to wrap it up for us today. We will see you tomorrow.
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