super saturday. also tonight, president biden leaves washington for the holidays. what the economy strong, but some voters saying bahumbug. the campaign season now just days away. in the czech republic, a day of mourning, one of europe s deadliest mass shootings. plus, christmas canceled. cbs chris shows us why bethlehem s big night is silent this year. normally, celebrations would have bound, but because of the war, there s hardly anybody here. later, it s an american town spreading the holiday spirit all year. this is going to the united kingdom, australia, japan. with festive flair and a special stand. you don t think of like christmas things in florida. announcer: this is the cbs weekend news from washington with adriana diaz. good evening. adriana is off. i m robert costa in washington. the holidays are here. around 115 million are packing up suitcases and are headed on their christmas and new year s travels. today was forecast to be the busiest trav
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junior year of college in america. i just fell in love with it. i knew this was what i wanted to do, to deliver my promise to my mother. most of these computer ened up ended up in land fills. we faeb them and install our own systems. it s still perfect, it s still a line. we have a line that says the key to poverty is a computer lab. we really hope it can change the culture and transform the entire school, music production, personal branding and so on. the world is your oyster when you are educated. i m living so that i can
looked him up, found his phone number, said hey, i heard you had trouble moving onions, we d like to help. reporter: its a heartbreaking dilemma. farmers are paying $80 a ton to throw away food. reporter: like the lemons. the skin is dried. reporter: and papaya. ejected because it had spots. reporter: end up in land fills creating greenhouse gases. what do you want people to know about the environmental impact. it plays one to have the one of the biggest roles in climate change, greenhouse gas emissions. we need to create a bridge between the mountain of food and the tremendous need. reporter: and in is constant with rising grocery prices and double lines at food banks. we still need the fresh food and the health benefits it gives. reporter: driven by student volunteers during the perching and now operating in 48 states, this month farm link hit a mile
so this is really common and i think something all of us do. one thing that s always worried me is i put out the recycling, it gets picked up. but is it all recycled or does it all end up in the landfill depending where you are? is the recycling system effective? the recycling system is pretty broken and i think it s clearly easy to say that. a lot of what we put historically into the blue bin just winds up being thrown out at the sorting station. and most significantly, for the last couple of years, there s often no market for those recycled goods. so you put some plastic or some paper that s totally recyclable in the bin, and there s nowhere that the sorters, the collectors can sell it on to. one of the reasons is that china closed its doors to importing all of this stuff. so that means it gets thrown out, land fills, and only the best stuff, especially plastics.