Looking at Black Friday alone doesn`t give the whole picture, though.
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KARIN CAIFA, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Eagar for early deals, from this Wal-Mart near Atlanta, to the snowy parking lot in Denver, to Macy`s
flagship store in Manhattan. The difference: this was Thanksgiving night.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The way it`s been the last couple of years. Thanksgiving is the best night to do it.
CAIFA: The shift from Black Friday continues. According to the National Retail Federation, more consumers planned to shop on Thanksgiving Day this
year, than last. And sales tracker Adobe estimated more than $1.7 billion was spent online, on Thanksgiving Day.
In Arlington, Virginia, at the Fashion Centre at Pentagon City Friday afternoon, traffic had picked up from the morning.
TODD JERSCHAID, FASHION CENTRE AT PENTAGON CITY DIR. MALL MARKETING: The big indicators that we look for, is not only foot traffic, but foot traffic
with shopping bags. And we`re seeing a lot of that. So that`s a good indicator already, early in the season.
CAIFA: Some shoppers less focused on a specific item.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It`s not too bad today actually, but there are some good deals, and you can start your Christmas shopping. Be festive.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There are good deals here, I think, better than on regular days.
CAIFA: Bargains -- very much in consumers` minds. Despite lower gas prices and lower unemployment recently, retail sales have lagged. The
Black Friday frenzy was still alive and well in some places, like the Toys "R" Us store in New York`s Times Square, but there may have been a bit of
nostalgia at play. The location will close, when its lease runs out in January, another sign of a changing retail landscape, at the holidays, and
beyond.
In Washington, I`m Karin Caifa.
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AZUZ: The folks aren`t just shopping. They`re traveling to get home for the holidays. And flight attendants aboard planes aren`t just there to
help keep them comfortable. They sometimes save lives.
In the 1930s, the first stewardesses, female flight attendants, were all registered nurses. That`s not the case now. But today`s attendants still
know life-saving techniques like CPR that you`ve studied in health class. And there`s also a doctor on call.
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DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The holiday season is the busiest travel time of the year, with millions flying
to celebrate with friends and family. But that also means a higher chance of in-flight medical emergencies like heart attacks, strokes, even births.
And flight attendants who have to know how to keep passengers safe even at cruising altitude.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Welcome, welcome.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I will brief the crew as to the scenario.
GUPTA (on camera): Out of all the training that a flight attendant might go through, how big a component is the medical and safety part of it?
JUSTIN EPLEY, FLIGHT ATTENDANT INSTRUCTOR, DELTA AIR LINES: The medical and safety part of it is a heavy component of it, and we do put a heavy
emphasis on responding with CPR knowledge, using the EEDs and the equipment onboard the aircraft that we have available to respond for basic first aid
instances as well, too.
GUPTA: You try and put people through essentially real life scenarios through the training. I mean, you make it as realistic as possible. How
do you that? What do you do?
EPLEY: We actually use scenarios that we have experienced in flight.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Sir, are you OK?
EPLEY: Some of the scenarios that we bring into training could be something like passengers in discomfort, that are feeling weak, lightheaded
and how to respond and page for medical assistance onboard and how to respond properly using STAT-MD as a resource to report the symptoms that we
see.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Contact the flight deck. Get them the page STAT-MD and page for medical assistance.
GUPTA (voice-over): One of the most valuable resources the flight crews have at their disposal is a service called STAT-MD. STAT-MD is a ground-
based support center that provides medical consultations for in-flight emergencies. These are especially-trained physicians who can help the crew
make assessments and also give recommendations on how to treat the patients.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Can we also put him on his side to prevent him from aspirating if he vomits.
GUPTA (on camera): What is the call that is absolutely the worst call?
DR. TJ DOYLE, MD, MEDICAL DIRECTOR, STAT-MD: It can vary. I mean, I think the ones that probably raise everyone`s blood pressure are ones when
someone`s in labor, an imminent child birth and we`ve actually had that. We`ve had babies delivered on flights. And obviously, the most severe
cases are someone that actually goes on a cardiac arrest. And so, they may be applying the defibrillator, the defibrillator shocking.
VOICE: Stand clear.
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AZUZ: Hard to tell whether the people who built this are bigger fans of LEGOs or the Green Bay Packers. Both were incorporated in the scale model
of Lambeau Field, pieced together by students from the Milwaukee School of Engineering. It`s 1/72 the size of the real thing and it took more than
130,000 LEGOs to make. Now on permanent display at a museum in Wisconsin, the model includes the field, the stadium, even the entry way to the whole
complex.
And like the team itself, the LEGO stadium is packered (ph) with solid blocking. It`s got strong lines. It doesn`t pass on upright accuracy,
precision is the field`s goal and it gets a kick out of its Lam-bold-faced success.
I`m Carl Azuz. And today`s show has reached the end zone.
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