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christmas tree is set to be delivered to the first family. the first liddy michelle obama is standing by for that. it s an 18 1/2-foot douglas fir from the crystal tree farm in leyton, pennsylvania. not the first time we are getting this tree from this particular tree farm. last time was. juliet: the year. rick: 2006 stkwra 2006. juliet: why? we have a fact sheet here. juliet: the national christmas tree growers association proclaims the winner after a national competition. the white house officials go and go to the farm and pick that specific tree. rick: very nice. see that. thanks very much. juliet: all right. we are going to move onto a completely different story and shifting gears now to a mystery, the disappearance of a college student in central new york. jenni-lyn watson is her name. she was last seen one week ago. she was visiting her family for thanksgiving. today the watson family has been
course. there is a horse-drawn carriage and on that carriage is the official white house christmas tree which comes from the crystal spring tree farm which is in leyton, pennsylvania. it s an 18 1/2 douglas fir. it will be in the blue room. rick: maybe we ll go back to washington when we get a better picture of the tree. we have our eye on this and we ll bring you more in a couple of minutes. juliet: the white house doesn t actually pick the supplier. rick: okay. you ve got all kinds of information. when it comes to black friday shopping forget the old fashioned circulars, today s holiday shoppers are pulling up the best deals right on their phones. elizabeth is live with more on this, hi elizabeth. reporter: hey, rick how is it going? i must say it s a very busy black friday here.
there will be cuts who is going to feel the most pain under what you think is going to come out of this commission? on your first assumption which is a good one, let s grow the economy. we can t grow out of this. we ve dug such a huge hole and the projected deficits are so massive, a trillion a year for the next 10 years on average, doubling the debt in five years, trip butting in 10 years. let s say we had 5 or 6% annual growth we wouldn t get from underneath our debt situation as we need to avoid if i fiscal insolvency as a nation. so we have to reduce spending this is a spending problem. federal government has gone from 20% gdp historic level since world war ii. it is headed towards 27% gdp in spending. revenues are constant about 18 1/2% gdp and headed up.
there will be cuts who is going to feel the most pain under what you think is going to come out of this commission? on your first assumption which is a good one, let s grow the economy. we can t grow out of this. we ve dug such a huge hole and the projected deficits are so massive, a trillion a year for the next 10 years on average, doubling the debt in five years, trip butting in 10 years. let s say we had 5 or 6% annual growth we wouldn t get from underneath our debt situation as we need to avoid if i fiscal insolvency as a nation. so we have to reduce spending this is a spending problem. federal government has gone from 20% gdp historic level since world war ii. it is headed towards 27% gdp in spending. revenues are constant about 18 1/2% gdp and headed up.