This is the cbs weekend news. We left a lot more time to travel because we thought it would take a long time to get here and were told to get here earlier than normal. Reporter nationwide more than 60 flights were cancelled and over 1900 delayed. Many of them in snowy chicago according to flight aware, and those numbers were expected to increase. And without a doubt the travel for the yearend holiday has a lot to do with airfares being lower and airfares about 20 lower compared to last year. Robert sinclair is a spokesperson for triple a which estimates that Holiday Travel will set a record for the 9th consecutive year. We think that its totally linked to the economy. Folks have more money in their pockets and taking advantage and spending it by taking a trip. The greatest number of travelers, more than 97 million of them are expected to take to the roads. Where a band of Winter Weather has already created dangerous conditions from nebraska all the way to maine. About 70 of the United
This is the cbs weekend news. Morgan good evening, im Demarco Morgan. Slow going this Christmas Eve. Its tough driving across much of the u. S. Not only because millions of americans hit the roads but they are being hammered by bad weather. And at the nations airports long lines because air travel is expected to increase this year by about 4 percent to 6. 4 million flyers. Tony dokoupil has more. Reporter americas roads and runways runnette over this weekend and not in a good way as millions of Holiday Travelers gave each other gridlock for christmas. Yesterday traffic at Los Angeles International airport was bumper to bumper. Today things were moving a little better. Across the coast at newark International Airport in new jersey, there was a controlled chaos. I figured everybody would be in for the holidays but i guess this is a huge travel day. We left a lot more time to travel because we thought it would take a long time to get here and were told to get here earlier than normal. Rep
Now to the miss america email scandal more former page enlt contestants are speaking out. Resignation of the top three executives is a start. A lot more needs to be done. Your miss america 2012 is beyond the miss america celebration, seen every year on tv. , a scandal is rattling the organization. The shakeup began after the Huffington Post published parts of leaked emails thursday aperg to show a handful of miss america officials ridiculing past winners appearance intelligence and sex lives. In this one, ceo sam haskell laughed when the pageant lead writer referred to former crown holders using a crude term for womens genitalia. But after dozens of former miss americas published this open letter, calling on the Miss America Organization leadership to step down, haskell was suspended and resigned along with the organizations president , and chairwoman. Still have a lot of work to do. We would love your sta part and your encouragement. Former miss americas like mallory hagan, who haskel
No major hot spots. Bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. San mateo bridge less then 30 min from 880 to 101. Richmond bridge drive less than 20 min from the toll to 101. robin the search for mudslide victims continues this morning. 13 people are dead and dozens more are hurt. After a powerful slide swept away homes in the montecito area. Paul vercammen shows us some of the damage. A storm that slammed a California Coastal community is over. The search for its victims is not. Authorities in Santa Barbara county were still trying to reach new areas and dig into the destruction to find dead, injured or trapped people after a powerful mud flow swept away dozens of homes. At least 13 people were confirmed dead tuesday, at least 25 were injured and at least 50 had to be rescued by helicopters. Those numbers could increase when the search is deepened and expanded wednesday, with a major searchandrescue team arriving from nearby Los Angeles County and help from the coast gu
Europe correspondent peter oliver has met with locals in caucus. Here in court both around one hundred twenty kilometers to the south of. The they cant take any more refugees the citys mayor is saying that the infrastructure is being stretched to its limits. We have to realise that in court both social systems including kindergartens and schools are overstretched and under stress more is not possible we cannot do more now. Since the beginning of the year the city has been plagued by violence between refugees and locals just last week a german couple were attacked just outside of the Shopping Center by three syrian teenagers armed with way one of those boys a fifteen year old has since been ordered to leave khat posts on the surrounding area germany should start controlling its borders and stop the uncontrolled migration that has been going on for two and a half years and america must go the government should change it or it wont get any better. But there are Different Reasons why peopl