but don t have the money. do you have to be creative? you have to be creative and think outside the box. is there a way to make things stretch? yeah. we don t think about the meaning for the season. it s giving, but it s not always monetary. you can volunteer your vservice. you can also give in someone else s name. volunteer your time, be creative and donate to charities. you have a lot of charities out there hurting and looking for people to donate and looking for services. you can donate, sometimes money can be donated on somebody else s behalf. can you donate goods or time? not time but goods. clean out your closet. people don t think about that a lot of times. things you can give away. you can give them out then you can get a receipt in someone
what could be a historic vote on don t ask don t tell. it could be repealed this weekend. kept families apart but the holiday is getting them together. they are reunited. thousands of soldiers come home for the holidays. from the cnn center, good morning to you all. this is cnn saturday morning. this is your last weekend to shop before christmas. i hope you are getting it done. i m t.j. holmes. a mexican american border, 141 prison inmates have escaped. this is from a mexican state prison. this is according to a mexican news agency. even though the prisons in mexico is awfully close to the u.s. border. it happened right across the rea grand river. they made a break for it near a
congress will look a whole lot different in january. a whole lot dincht. that s why the democrats and president wanted to get it done in the lame duck session. starting in january the house will be in control. the republican vs the large majority in the house, and in the senate the democrats go from 58 seats, which they currently control, down 53. it will make it tougher. there was a timetable and the clock wasticki ticking to get ie now. also the s.t.a.r.t. treaty and the dream act didn t succeed. the s.t.a.r.t. treaty. we talk about dream act and don t ask don t tell, but that s another big, big measure that the president wants to see taken care of. go ahead, paul. wait, there s more. there s so much at issue right now, so much this congress is trying to get done in a few remaining days. it never ends, t.j. we ll try to catch our breath and get a break in there. the voting continues there on capitol hill. when we come back, we might have
three weeks of the season. ever since that cleveland game, they have gelled together and won 11 games in a row. they were the dominant team everyone predicted. i liked this story. for those who don t know, a place for the pittsburgh steelers. he s been fined how much? $125,000. he s the face of whatnot to do when you tackle a player. don t lead with your heldment. don t spear a quarterback. he s the example of how not to tackle. four fines, $125,000. pittsburgh fans quickly came to his defense and started sending him money to pay the fines. he s a millionaire, he doesn t need the money. a lot of the donations were sent anonymously. he started a foundation to assist kids in emergency situations. today is their first event.
a building with bamboo. bamboo, yes. stronger than oak, i m told. lighter than steel. grows pretty much anywhere. why isn t it used more often in the u.s.? nadya is here and going to be joining me next. she is going to sell us on bamboo, even if she has to whack us upside the head with the bamboo she has with us this morning. don t want to deal with a lot of flibbity-flab or mumbo-jumbo. sounds like you need to name your price.