The Future of Delivery; A Look at the Future
CUOMO: I like the Steve Miller version of this song.</s>BOLDUAN: Do you?</s>CUOMO: Yes, it's just me. Yes, it's just me.</s>BOLDUAN: I'll take</s>CUOMO: So everybody's coming back off Thanksgiving. Indra Petersons, you think she's going to make people feel good, you know, coming back. What's the first thing she says -</s>BOLDUAN: So thankful for you.</s>CUOMO: Freezing you out. That's the message.</s>INDRA PETERSONS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: I'm saying I did make people feel good. At least they got home safely, right? See. Nice and mild conditions compared to what they had going on the way out, right? Now take a look at the big storm though. Yes, there is a change. This is what Chris is talking about. Big storm in the Pacific Northwest will be changing a lot. But first let's talk about what's going on in the southeast. Yes, just a tiny little wave. It just means some cloudier conditions and, of course, maybe some light rain. But it's the temperatures you want to focus on. I mean look at this. It's beautiful. We're talking about 77 degrees in New Orleans by Wednesday. Look at Dallas, Tuesday, 78 degrees. So that system that is there is currently going to be trying to make its way up the east coast. Notice it stays offshore. So we're not looking for any rain into the northeast, but just some milder conditions. You know nothing that nice, but either way, typical for this time of year. We'll see very seasonal temperatures in the 40s and 50s. Again, we'll take you out to the west. That's the big story here. We're talking about one to two feet of snow -- Idaho, Montana, Wyoming. Wow, has the pattern changed. Even through Colorado, by tomorrow, we'll be talking about snow. If there's snow, we are talking about the cold. Here we go. Look at these temperatures starting to drop today. Yes, just kind of maybe the same region here. But as we move through the middle of the week, you're going to feel this change by tomorrow, Denver, 34 degrees below normal. And that trend continues eventually by the weekend, guys. Look at that cool air expected to come here. A chill coming our way.</s>BOLDUAN: All right, Indra, I'm going to blame you, but that's OK.</s>PETERSONS: That's fine.</s>BOLDUAN: Thank you.</s>PEREIRA: All right, there it is, the flying hibachi. We're going to talk about it now. A bold, new plan from online retail giant Amazon. The company revealing future plans to deliver your packages under five pounds via drones. The so-called octa-copter set to drop off your special delivery in 30 minutes or less. Sounds like a pizza. Our chief business correspondent Christine Romans here with more. Joining her, Brian Stelter, CNN's senior media correspondent. Brian, we know where Christine stands on this. I'm curious about you. I know you're a bit of a geek like I am.</s>BRIAN STELTER, CNN SENIOR MEDIA CORRESPONDENT: Yes.</s>PEREIRA: I like the idea, but is it logistically feasible?</s>STELTER: They say they'll be ready if the FAA, if the government allows it.</s>PEREIRA: The big if.</s>STELTER: It will become a government story now. Will the regulators allow this to happen? But it was interesting last night on "60 Minutes," Jeff Bezos said, maybe three, four, five years. Then the Amazon spokeswoman said over e-mail, we'll be ready in 2015, in two years. So they're serious about this if the government allows it.</s>CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN CHIEF BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT: Look, it makes a lot of sense if you think about the cost of truck and oil and fuel and all that. I mean it's pretty cheap to make a drone, depending on what kind of drone they're making. Eighty-six percent of their traffic is this kind of within 10 miles of a fulfillment center.</s>BOLDUAN: In this radius.</s>ROMANS: In this radius.</s>PEREIRA: Right.</s>ROMANS: But they do 2 million packages a day, right? Estimated 2 million packages. Even if they had a quarter of their business as Amazon Prime Air, that would be - that would be, what, 500,000 of these little black spiders in the sky. I mean are people going to go for it for the privacy issues, for the safety issues? What if one of these things drop out, scratches your car? I mean - you know what I mean?</s>STELTER: Right, it's kind of like the Tesla, right? These car fires have gotten a lot of attention, even though regular cars are maybe even more dangerous. Delivery trucks certainly are dangerous.</s>ROMANS: True.</s>STELTER: People get hit by delivery trucks.</s>ROMANS: True.</s>STELTER: But, the first time this drone maybe falls on someone or even comes close, it will get a lot more attention.</s>BOLDUAN: But maybe from a marketing perspective or just an image perspective, even if this doesn't take off, isn't this great for Amazon?</s>STELTER: Exactly.</s>ROMANS: Innovate thinkers.</s>BOLDUAN: It lets them -- lets them show that they think big.</s>STELTER: Yes. Yes.</s>ROMANS: Yes. And I was saying earlier, if you Googled Jeff Bezos' crazy ideas, there's all sorts of cool stories about what he's been up to, you know? I mean he likes to think big, he likes to spend the money to try to fix problems that maybe we haven't thought of.</s>CUOMO: That's great. He should get his inner Di Vinci working whenever he wants.</s>BOLDUAN: But?</s>CUOMO: Now, here's the problem that I don't think you can ignore with this. The moment that the books or whatever you get on Amazon don't get delivered through this, they take a huge hit in goodwill.</s>PEREIRA: Right. Yes, that's true.</s>CUOMO: If you can't get what you order from amazon.com promptly, there's no reason to use them.</s>ROMANS: And there are people who say terrorism, drug trafficking, theft, all of these other things that can, you know -- spying, privacy issues, you know, all these other things that could happen if you just decide that we're going to have these things flying around. You know, it's a real shift in public perception about drones.</s>STELTER: Right.</s>ROMANS: Drones have been for war and spying. You're going to see more commercial use of drones, no question.</s>PEREIRA: Right.</s>STELTER: And what a coup (ph) -</s>PEREIRA: I was thinking about another layer too is the workforce. So suddenly all these driver delivery guys, are they going to be the personnel that will be trained to operate the drones? I mean that's kind of a massive shift.</s>STELTER: I noticed in the YouTube video that Amazon put out last night to reveal this, there were almost no humans in the video except for the person who was picking it up on their doorstep.</s>BOLDUAN: Right.</s>PEREIRA: Right.</s>ROMANS: It could revolutionize Santa's workshop.</s>BOLDUAN: And that's where Jeff Bezos wants to be.</s>STELTER: That's right. And what a coup, by the way, to reveal this on "60 Minutes" in front of a huge television audience.</s>PEREIRA: Yes.</s>STELTER: Some people on Twitter last night felt like it was an infomercial, but it was a great way to start changing public perceptions about drones.</s>PEREIRA: If you're a betting man, do you think it will actually, actually happen?</s>STELTER: I do. But like you said, I'm kind of a geek. Do you think so?</s>ROMANS: I - you know, the online perception, the talk about it today has been almost entirely negative. You know, people just don't like -- but people in general don't like change.</s>STELTER: Right.</s>ROMANS: I mean what Jeff Bezos has to do is try to change sort of the public perception of this</s>STELTER: Right.</s>BOLDUAN: Speaking of online, can I get your quick take on Cyber Monday. I think it doesn't exist. It's like Black Friday syndrome, it doesn't even exist anymore because we're getting the sales early.</s>ROMANS: You know, I think they're -- they're going to give big - they're going to give big numbers this Cyber Monday. Look, it's invented by the retail industry to make you spend more money, if you haven't already spent it over the weekend. And over the weekend we saw that people are acting like it's a recession. People spent a little bit less. So there are high hopes that Cyber Monday -- a lot of tech deals today. Kindle Fire, Moto X, Roku streaming device and stuff like that is what tech is where you're going to find the deals today.</s>BOLDUAN: OK.</s>ROMANS: It could be a big day.</s>BOLDUAN: Awesome.</s>PEREIRA: Christine and Brian, thank you so much for sounding off on the drones.</s>ROMANS: You're welcome.</s>PEREIRA: I still go with your flying apache.</s>BOLDUAN: I'm into it. I'm into the drone delivery. I'm just going to say that.</s>CUOMO: Noted.</s>CUOMO: Coming up on "NEW DAY" unbelievable new video showing the moment, listen, let's focus on this guy for a second. We hear about great rescues but this one -- this is singular. Three days under water, trapped inside an air bubble. OK. How does he survive? Can you imagine the moment that they found this man? We'll tell you about it.