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DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS)(OC): Good evening. We hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving and we have all been looking for [1]a white knight to rescue the American economy and today [2]an army of holiday shoppers came riding in, some using shopping carts, some the click of a computer mouse. In fact, today half of all American adults shopped for bargains online.
DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS)(VO): An estimated $1.2 billion, [3]shattering records, [4]giving a vitamin shot to Wall Street.
DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS)(VO): [5]The Dow closing up nearly 300 points.
DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS)(VO): So we set out to answer a question tonight, does this signal the start of the comeback for the American economy?
DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS)(OC): And ABC anchor David Muir tackled the question for us again tonight. Hey David.
DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS)(OC): Diane, I know you've been [6]tracking these numbers too all day long. They're coming in tonight. They show it could be [7]a blockbuster Cyber Monday for this country. One estimate, sales up 20% over last year. And you might be wondering what happens after you click "place order online"? Tonight, we track here what happens next.
DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS)(VO): Cyber Monday, once [8]a made-up event, is now [9]the real deal. Sales figures skyrocketing tonight. Shoppers online already [10]breaking records just since Thanksgiving.
DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS)(VO): $816 million spent online, up 26% over last year.
LEAH HARDING (GAINESVILLE FLORIDA): I love Cyber Monday, because you get great deals.
DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS)(VO): Today "World News" viewers from Florida to Texas [11]documented their hunt for bargains from Peggy Kaiser in Midland, Texas.
PEGGY KAISER (MIDLAND TEXAS): So we go through the e-mails.
DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS)(VO): To Leah Harding in Gainesville, Florida, buying for her family back home. She's [12]on the hunt for a digital camera, a Sony Cyber-shot. She searched three retailers' prices, ranging from 99 to $124.
DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS)(VO): She chose Wal-Mart and the $99 price and one very big difference too.
LEAH HARDING (GAINESVILLE FLORIDA): If you buy this item, [13]you get $45 of store credit.
DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS)(VO): For Leah, it was a deal.
LEAH HARDING (GAINESVILLE FLORIDA): Hope this doesn't ruin the surprise for my sister, but I think I'm gonna go ahead and get one from Wal-Mart for her for Christmas, so I'm Leah Harding, ABC "World News."
DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS)(VO): And our producer on this story, Diane Mendez taking a break too, looking for her own deal, her glasses on, [14]reading the fine print, buying two Kindle Fires from Amazon.com.
DIANE MENDEZ (ABC NEWS)(OC): [15]Place my order.
DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS)(VO): But we wanted to know what happens after she clicks. We went all the way to Phoenix, Arizona, to find out, one of Amazon.com's 34 warehouses. Workers holding portable scanners in the aisles and as soon as you hit send, that item pops up on one of their little screens. They [16]pull it off the shelf, put it in the bin and down the conveyer belt it goes to the person who will pack it and label it. Her two Kindles ordered this morning?
SPOKESPERSON (AMAZON.COM): From the time that the producer hit click and buy, [17]it's just a mere hours before it's on a truck and sent to her doorstep.
DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS)(VO): Not only is [18]her Kindle on the move, so is Wall Street.
DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS)(OC): Why is it so important these final few weeks of the year for retailers across the country?
TRISH REGAN (ABC NEWS)(OC): Because retailers, David, they don't become profitable until now. They [19]operate primarily in the red, meaning at a loss, until the last few weeks of the year.
DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS)(VO): In fact, tonight, Amazon.com predicts they'll [20]blast through the number last year, 14 million items ordered in one day alone. And those predictions tonight, could they be the beginning of the comeback this economy needs?
DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS)(OC): Can this spark be sustained?
TRISH REGAN (ABC NEWS)(OC): That's the big question. It's all gonna [21]come down to the consumer and whether or not the consumer feels confident enough to go out and keep spending money.
DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS)(OC): No question tonight, [22]off to a huge start. And we all know, Diane, that retail makes up two-thirds of this economy, so, so much riding on this continuing even beyond the holiday weekend.
DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS)(OC): And you're going to be back tomorrow night. Made in America returns.
DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS)(OC): It is back.
DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS)(VO): And tomorrow we go back to where it all began, Diane, to that brave family in Dallas, Texas, with a simple question, every American spends on average $700 on holiday gifts and we wondered how little of that could you spend on something made in America, one gift.
DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS)(OC): Not all of the gifts, just one to create American jobs. You won't believe the number of people who are already jumping in on this one.
DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS)(OC): You'll be asking "are you in?"
DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS)(OC): Are you in?
DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS)(OC): Are you in tomorrow night? Thanks David.
[1] 백마를 탄 기사
[2] 연말 연시 쇼핑객들이 대거 밀려들다
[3] 기록을 단박에 깨다
[4] 월 스트리트에 활력을 불어 넣다
[5] 다우 존스가 300 포인트 상승한 상태로 장을 마감하다
[6] 이 숫자들의 추이를 살피다
[7] 대박을 기록한 ‘사이버 월요일’
[8] 허울 좋은 행사
[9] 진짜배기다
[10] 기록을 깨다
[11] 세일 제품 쇼핑의 진행 과정을 기록했다
[12] 디지털 카메라를 찾는 중이다
[13] 45$달러를 포인트로 받다
[14] 세부 내용들을 읽고 있는
[15] 주문합니다
[16] 매장 선반에서 제품을 꺼내다
[17] 불과 몇 시간 만에 택배 트럭에 올라 소비자의 집까지 도달한다
[18] 그녀가 주문한 ‘Kindle’이 운송 중이다
[19] 주로 운영 적자이다
[20] 그 숫자 (기록을) 깨다
[21] 소비자에게 귀착되다
[22] 대단한 출발을 시작하다
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