high winds and brutal cold. buffalo getting a stunning 40 inches of snow and could see more today. at least 12 people dead in the area. new york governor kathy hochul is a buffalo native. used to rough winters but not like this. this will go down in history as the most devastating storm in buffalo s long storied history of having battled many battles, many major storms. buffalo s airport is set to remain closed until tuesday. 3100 flights were canceled christmas day nationwide and more than 1,000 have already been can elide today. charles watson is live at atlanta international airport. hi, charles. good morning. today is looking to be just as busy here in atlanta and at airports across the country. it is 9:00 and check out the long lines that have accumulated at the delta check-in counters. this is the scene, large crowds we re seeing all over the airport leaving the real possibility that today could be a miserable one for folks who are trying to make it onto flights a
booking and i won t make to any of that. so their next flight doesn t work for me. julie: the roads not much of an option either, check this out from seattle. oh my goodness. this is a hill sliding down. that range rover sliding down the icy hill nearly crushing pedestrians. people struggling to walk on the sidewalks. i guess that s a better way to travel on your butt walking on sidewalks impossible blanketed with ice. if you must drive seriously, please be careful out there. my goodness. alicia: the group that brought us mack gruff the crime dog. the national crime prevention council said they make it easier for drug dealers to target teenagers, cdc reports overdoses among teens ages 10-19 were up
julie: the number of gifts the average consumer purchased this year tward to last. 9 to 16. half essentially. as far as credit card debt is concerned, i was always raised by the assumption if you don t have it, don t spend it. i don t use credit cards. it is good for having good credit but i think people need to stop relying so much on credit cards. they are paying these high interest rates which will only inflate their debt. it is a lose/lose situation. is there any other alternative for people stuck in that place? some people get second jobs. we re seeing a lot more americans getting second jobs because the paychecks they get from the normal jobs aren t keeping up with the 8% inflation that we saw in 2022 under joe biden. again, the root of the problem here is people do have jobs. they are working. they are working 40 hours a week
operation being conducted by what some people call the deep state. there needs to be an absolute reckoning and accountability on this and housecleaning. there were people doing things the first amendment prevents the government from suppressing what it might regard as disinformation. now, some people say this was a private company. but the level of coordination between the government agencies, which were weekly meetings and conversations, the government does not have the legitimate authority to delegate the suppression of information to a private company. this is a grotesque dereliction and transgression constitutionally. we ll continue to follow it. hugo, thank you for being with us this morning. thank you. julie. julie: a violent christmas weekend in some cities. police if colorado say a man shot and killed his wife before turning the gun on himself. on christmas day this happened.
it happened inside a kingdom hall north of denver. they found the couple. in minnesota police arrested five teenagers who shot and killed a 19-year-old man at the mall of america near minneapolis on friday. investigators say it all started after an argument between two groups escalated into a gun fight. the five suspects are being held on suspicion of second degree murder. you come to bloomington and think you are going to kill people and get away with it? we re not playing that here. you are going to jail and we ll make sure that anybody else that helped these folks are going to go to jail, too. julie: a florida sheriff s deputy shot and killed on christmas eve while serving a domestic violence warrant. police say the officer was