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actual science behind giving the best possible gifts. all that and much more on cbs this morning saturday, december 21st, 2013. captioning funded by cbs and welcome to the weekend. we also have some very distinguished guests for you here in studio 57 this morning, including holiday music from one of new orleans very best the one and only aaron neville sings in our holiday session. and he became one of the most honored and accomplished chefs. and on this holiday weekend, we ll have christmas. christmas abbott is her full name. after working in iraq during the war, she s become a world-class weight lifter and is now nascar s first female pit crew member. but our lead story this morning, major weather threat to an estimated 94 million travelers. a huge storm system is making itself felt in the northern midwest and it s headed east and south. and for the millions of americans traveling this weekend before christmas, the bad weather means headaches whether you r ....
pelley: tonight, change is coming for government spying programs. there may be another way of skinning the cat. pelley: and for the health care law. since i m in charge obviously we screwed it up. pelley: major garrett on the president s year-end news conference. dangerous weather heading into another big holiday travel weekend. meteorologist eric fisher has the christmas week forecast. high drama as american astronauts prepare for a risky mission. jeff glor is covering. and steve hartman on the road. how jackie turner got the christmas gift she wanted most. found my mentor! captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. pelley: good evening, today a very optimistic president obama predicted the that 2014 could be a breakthrough year on the economy for the united states, but he conceded that he ll have to deal with some unfinished business from 2013, including the surveillance programs exposed by edward snowden. on monday, ....
a shocking split, gwyneth paltrow and chris martin call it quits. how they re working together to maintain their family. if you had only joined us a few seconds before we were on air, that much. we say good morning, america, wednesday morning. we want to take a look at this. we all know it s spring. tell the map here in new england. we re going to show you a picture off the coast of cape cod. oh, wow. a blizzard up there right now. it s like a movie scene with a bad rain. that s all snow, my friend. it s the real deal. you heard it here. ginger is going to have the latest. we begin with the search for the missing plane. they re now calling this the most incredible lead. 48 hours after the prime minister declared all 239 lost, planes race to this area. we re going to go to abc s david kerley. good morning to you. good morning, josh. could this be the break the searchers are looking for. as the malaysians say this is the most credible lead so far. this s ....
dollars corporations that build prospers when we get them to change their policies we can ask them do you protect people based on gender they ll change their policies. eaten after we get the corporations in advance we can go back to congress and create the political cover to include the sexual orientation in our genders thank you. next speaker. hello, i m janey i m a staff attorney for lesbian rights i want to thank supervisor wiener and the committee for hearing it this proposal makes clear that housing discrimination in lbtd is nationwide it should be eradicated the housing criticize in this city displaces lgbt people from california and in the absence of federal fair housing protection it often pushes them into the 29 states where sexual orientation is on the based on of the gender it s important for the lc o r to make clear that housing fairness is a priority and to move the national conversation forward on this issue per this ordinance makes project sponsors th ....
2013. good morning. good to be with you. i m anne-marie. president obama heads to louisiana today to talk about the economy and jobs, but yesterday he tried to dampen the growing furor over the botched rollout of his health care plan. specifically mr. obama apologized to the millions of americans who are losing their health care insurance policies. tara mergener is in washington with more. tara, good morning. good morning, anne-marie. the cancellation of insurance policies for millions of americans because of obama care may top the growing list of troubles with the affordable care act, sparking a mountain of criticism, trouble for democrats, and damaging the president s credibility. if you like your plan, you can keep your plan. for years the president has promised again and again that no one would be forced off an insurance plan they wanted to keep because of his health care law, but more than 3 million americans have gotten cancellation letters, and late yesterd ....