americans saving $250 million a day on less expensive gas. about $1,100 a year for the typical family. savings that can go to everything from food to travel to holiday gifts. a lot of motorists i ve talked to said that the added income is going right under the christmas tree. reporter: it s also accelerating auto sales. november the strongest month in more than a decade. americans back to buying suvs. sales of the eight-passenger lincoln navigator up 88%. who are the losers? top oil producers like russia where vladimir putin says falling oil prices could shock the russian economy and saudi arabia and even iran. which is in the midst of high stakes nuclear talks with the u.s. but perhaps the biggest question how long will the price plunge last? that could depend on who blinks first. the big oil-producing countries in opec which may consider cutting production to boost prices or u.s. companies which may be forced to cut production if prices get too low. oil will continue to be
of them will go along with the speaker of the house, john boehner, with eric cantor, the majority leader. they will go ahead and pass what s called this continuing resolution, this stopgap measure to keep the government funded, all aspects of the government, they will be funded at their current levels with the exception of obama care, which of course is the law of the land. that will be the one exception. no money going to the affordable health care act, the law right now, and it will pass, it will go to the senate and then it will be up to the senate to decide what to do with it. the democrats control the senate, so almost certainly they will not vote for this legislation. they will probably pass a separate continuing resolution which will keep the government funded at least temporarily, if not for a year, and send that back to the house, then there will have to be a house-senate conference committee, they ll have to decide since there will be two pieces of legislation, they ll have t
achievement as republicans consider a blunder. let s take you to washington to our cross fire host, newt gingrich. he has firsthand experience with government shutdowns. he s been there. mr. speaker, or newt, i guess, as we re now colleagues. you have played this game of who blinks first. you heard the president just then. what s your reaction? well, i think today s speech, like monday s speech, like tuesday s speech to the business roundtable, is one more step towa towards hitting head on. the president could have stayed in washington. he could have sat down and talked with legislative leaders. he could have tried to find a solution. this is his third partisan attack in one week. part of what he says is just plain not true. the fact is that since president eisenhower, we have over and over again had things attached to the debt ceiling, so he s making a case to the audience there that s baloney.
piers morgan live starts now. this is piers morgan live, welcome to the viewers in the united states and around the world. a massive fire on the jersey shore and battled a year ago by super storm sandy. it grew to a six-alarm fire. chris christie is urging residents to stay away. do not come here. do not travel. stay away. meanwhile in colorado, at least three people are dead and rescuers are continuing tonight in the wake of devastating flash floods. we re keeping an eye on all of it. syria comes down to a big game of russian roulette and who blinks first. this is not a game and i said that to my friend when we talked about it initially. we should follow the peaceful way of resolution of the
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