>> i think i've taken shelby like a big shelf. >> a shelf. a wooded shelf. >> the ground war for speedy delivery as the battle for your holiday dollar heats up. >> hey. >> janet shamlin, nbc news, new york. >> wow. pretty cool stuff there. pretty interesting technology and only -- you said five bucks? >> yeah. but i tell you, what's old is new again. i'm old enough to remember cosmo.com back in the late '90s, early 2000s this model, local delivery for -- >> you played with fluze, the whoopi goldberg currency. >> the idea wasn't terrible. the chief technology of that founded max delivery.com that's still running in new york. what's interesting is that this time you got a big company like ebay, trying to make this take off. they bought a company, european couple called shuttle that does this. trying to expand as many as two dozen cities within a few months. the model could be different this time because local information is so precious so maybe there's more in it for them than trying to make money on the delivery. >> one more nail in the coffin

and s shelby asks this. i'm looking for a good lease deal. >> a good place is kbb.com and also, edmunds. there are lease deals. i know you want to check those out. manufacturers are offering best deals now. you're talking about deals of 39 1.9%. so check out what the car manufacturers are offering, first. >> mona le mails i received an e mail from someone claiming they're with california lotto and i won $50,000 and i need to give personal information and pass words. is this real? >> no. it's a scam. someone has your telephone number. do not do this the lottery never calls you to say you've won money. have you to contact them. any time anyone asks you for personal information over the phone or through internet. reject that. if they give you a number to call back, don't call back the number. instead, look up the number on your own. you're going to find it's a different number. >> nobody is calling you to tell you here is money. nobody, nobody. >> that does not happen. >> they only call to ask for money oochlt

shelby's comments are important because democrats would need to pick up only five republicans vote to clear procedural hurdles and bring yellen's nomination to a full senate vote. yellen's nomination needs only a simple majority. joining us this morning from washington is eamon afterers. this is getting back to some tense times in the senate when it comes to these nominations. we thought we had averted these issues. >> mccain threatening to pu put a whole here on janet yellen in the united states. they wanted to see more of these documents related to ben fwazzy. they wanted to see the survivors of benghazi testify on capitol hill. they would like more information as to what exactly happened there. they don't have any particular animous towards janet yellen herself. this is just the leverage they have to get this done. it's been a very bad week for for obama admin appointees. yesterday, the senate rejected mel watt, the housing agency nominee for the obama administration. it's a very rare thing for a sitting congressman to be rejected. but they did that yesterday in the senate. it's a

. >> senator shelby, thank you. welcome, governor. would you describe the portfolio of the federal reserve as unprecedented, the size of it today? >> yes, senator. >> have you -- you're an economist and you've been on the fed and you also are the chairman of the economic advi advisers to president clinton. have you looking back in recent history, the last 30, 40 years, have you noticed any portfolio of the fed approaching what it is today? >> not at the federal reserve. >> that's what i mean. >> but other central banks. >> i'm asking about the federal reserve of the united states of america. >> no, i have not, senator. >> okay. would you describe what you're doing here by -- you call it quantitative easing, a term you make up, i guess, we all make up terms, but is that a stimulus for the economy, tool? you used the term "monetary tool", is that what you would call it to help augment, stimulate the economy? >> it is a tool that is intended to push down longer term interest rates. >> yes, ma'am. i understand that. >> and to stimulate de

sleep psychologist shelby harris. >> i hope the study will help to get more people to be assessed for insomnia. >> reporter: the findings are based on a treatment call ed cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia or cbt-i which has been around for decades. here's how it work. through a series of sessions, doctors change your sleep schedule, drastically at first, training your body that your bed is only for sleeping. get up when you can't sleep and don't try to force it. >> do you see this revolutionizing the way we treat depression? >> if we treat insomnia patients as part of the depression, we will see better outcomes overall. >> reporter: they claim a 40% decrease in depression symptoms. if the solution has been there in front of us the whole time what does that say? >> sometimes the most obvious things are the things we don't see. >> reporter: this is not a cure for depression. but we are talking about significant improvement. john and diana? >> all right. paula, thank you. >> so much with this chronic sleep loss. there are studies that you gain weight if you get depressed. rough s

to some of the problems other fed chairman and other fed nominees have had, for example, when rich shelby was the chairman on the ranking committee, that had to do with proilg unsatisfactory answers. at this point, i just don't see anything getting in the way of her confirmation. >> ip, did you see that mckenzie study? >> which mckennedy study? >> it said qe did nothing for the stock markets, but saved governments around the world $1.3 trillion in funding costs. >> i didn't see that, but i'm looking at the stock market 20% this year and -- >> check it out. it's a mckenzie study that says -- you know, mckenzie, i don't know if i believe it, but they somehow determined that it had nothing to do with the rise. but the funding costs, it was something like $1.3 trillion saved global government. .after reading that, i was thinking why not make it permanent? if you can get governments to run $1.3 trillion cheaper, then hey, let the good times roll. but -- >> swroe, this is a great question. i think actually they're going to get this question because a lot of people in the markets are asking this

>> shelby. >> wishing her a chilled -- i brought you foot warmers for your birthday. giving gifts away out here. ft. lauderdale by the sea. it is a little rough there. clouds moving in. onshore flow. today's high temperature, at least 76. atlanta only 49. new orleans, is sub-60. a lot of the temperatures are ten degrees below average. and then, we go to the pacific northwest because they are drying out. portland, 55 today. redding, a little warmer. >> our brave kara, sticking with me here. >>> here's a look at what's coming up on our "gma morning menu." first in "pop news," we have breaking cookie news. >>> and think you're born to run? could you be a ph.d. in bossology? we'll explain that one, too. >>> and exclusive first look at angelina jolie as maleficent. her first role in more than three years. >>> and so many of you from coast-to-coast, entered our "gma" great car giveaway. there's melissa on the road in one of three shiny, new cars, that could be all yours. we'll tell you more on "good morning america," in chilly times square.armers, we make yom about insuranc