own team in the czech republic. but after illness swept through the locker room, he suited up and jumped into the lineup and even picked up two assists in 15 minutes of action. there is one catch. his return to pro hockey is going to delay his induction into the pro hockey hall of fame until at least 2026. but what a leader. i love it. >> they should not delay his induction into the hall of fame. this should expedite it. >> exactly. >> thanks all of you for joining us. i'm kristin fisher. cnn this morning starts right now.

wow, this is serious stuff here. good morning, everybody. that video you're looking at is coming out of lake tahoe. this happened over the weekend. a very powerful storm hits the qu west. we're going to get to that. did you have a great weekend? >> hope nobody was on the ski lift. >> that's true. we're going to get to that, but we had a big night last night. >> cnn heroes makes you feel better about the world. >> yes. >> and we have a special guest on the show? >> me? >> you want to meet the guest coming up. this morning a major storm is bringing heavy snow and rain to millions and bring possible tornados. chad myers is standing by in the weather center. just five days left to fund the government. what the sticking parts are this morning. he's only been out of prison for a few days but now viktor

bout is saying if given a chance he would volunteer to fight in the war in ukraine. we begin with the massive storm across the country. 14 states are under winter weather alerts this morning. >> craziness. it's crazy out there. be careful. it's slippery. >> coming up, be careful it's slippery. even in my car i slid a few times. >> it gets bad. sometimes really bad. >> that storm has already dumped up to 5 feet of snow in northern california and soaked the southern half with up to 7 inches of rain in some places and is headed east. depending on what part of the country you're in, you could see a blizzard, you could see rain, hail, damaging winds, possible tornados within the next few days. we want to get straight to chad myers. this is serious stuff. where are you seeing the biggest threat right now? >> the biggest threat is the blizzard conditions across the

western plains and by tuesday afternoon, the potential as you said for tornados. and some of them big tornados, too. this is almost a spring-type system to the south but a major snow event across the rockies. it snowed overnight and still sn snowing so the numbers are going up. snowing all the way across kansas. this is how the storm marches. the winter part here, the severe weather part down to the south in the warmer air. almost a hybrid type of system here where we have so much severe weather tomorrow and so much snow with the blizzard like conditions on the north. not unusual but very, very big in its own way. wait until you see how much rainfall and snow spreads across the country this week. it is all the way from georgia and still raining in l.a. right now. there is the severe weather for today, here's the severe weather for tomorrow. here's the accumulating

precipitation from georgia and then nebraska it's changing to snow and snow west of there in the cold. but look how much precip comes down with this storm, don. >> a lot. we'll continue to check in with you, thank you very much. appreciate that. >> you bet. the clock is ticking this morning in washington as congress finds itself once again with just days left, five days to fund the government, keep it up and running, do their job and avoid the latest republican threat to shut it down. democrats are looking to seal the deal on a full year spending plan while republicans are trying to buy time until they take over the house in january. outsiders weighing in, prominent names on wall street like jamie dimon who says they need to fund the government. >> the default, not the debate,

i understand both sides how they want to use it, that's catastrophic or potentially catastrophic. i would never take that risk. if it were me, i'd get it done now, take it off the table. >> lauren fox is live on capitol hill. he's right. if business leaders ran their business the way congress is deciding to run this right now, they would never, you know, remain as ceo. why should we be on the bring like we were in 2011? >> reporter: well, poppy, this morning after the weekend negotiations, lawmakers moving forward but still not there on any agreement on this government spending deal. and the deadline is friday. they are still about $25 billion apart. that sounds like a lot of money, it really is just chump change when you're talking about the u.s. government budget. but it is significant because it's where they've been for several weeks. right now lawmakers are probably going to have to pass a short-term spending deal just to give themselves more time to try to continue these negotiations

but right now they are running out of options, poppy. and like you said, this is not the way most americans, most business leaders do business. >> can you explain what happens friday if nothing happens? i know there's talk about a continuing resolution or a short-term fill the gap. but what if sides are at odds and nothing happens? >> reporter: right now what i've heard from sources over the weekend is they are making some progress. they feel like they're going to be able to come to some agreement to pass the short-term spending bill. after that their options are really to try to find an agreement that has been elusive thus far or to spend the government spending the same way they've done the last year and the reason that could be a problem, a, that's not the white house's preference because they have all levers of government right now they want to set the levels how democrats want them. but obviously, poppy, it's a major question whether they'll be able to accomplish that

before the holidays. >> let's hope so. lauren fox, thank you. and now this -- >> mr. president, did you speak to president zelenskyy today? >> yes. >> that's president biden confirming that he did speak with ukrainian president zelenskyy yesterday the white house saying yesterday the president emphasized the u.s. would prioritize strengthening their air defense system after strikes yesterday killing two, injuring ten. frederik pleitgen is live in berlin. i know there's been a lot of conversations that zelenskyy has been having with world leaders yesterday, spoke with president biden, and the leaders of turkey and france as well. now he's getting ready to virtually take part in the g 7 meeting today. what's the context of this? as it seems to be coming on a focus of what the aid is looking like but peace talks still appear far-off.

>> they do appear pretty far-off but it's something where at least all sides agree some sort of peace talks are going to have to happen. but, of course, the u.s. and others are saying the ukrainians need to win as much territory back as possible and that seems to be part of what the president talked about yesterday with volodymyr zelenskyy. zelenskyy thanking the president of the next installment of the security assistance, $275 million, the key items in that were additional ammunition for high mars, the rocket launching systems, and then about 80,000 additional rounds of 155 millimeter artillery shells. so that's something to keep ukraine in the fight and help continue to win back some of their territory. one of the things the ukrainians thanked the u.s. for was humanitarian assistance but assistance to try to get their power grid back up and running after the massive russian strikes continuing for months now. zelenskyy telling the u.s.

president about 50% of ukraine's energy infrastructure has been hit. obviously the ukrainians are saying that needs to constantly be repaired, it's a big task, the u.s. helping in my way it can. >> we're also hearing from viktor bout. he's back in russia saw him getting off the plane. he's been speaking out. he talked about endorsing russia's invasion of ukraine. what else is he saying? >> reporter: yeah, he pretty much said everything that vladimir putin wanted to hear. there were people asking why this guy was so important to vladimir putin. certainly he has been parroting the lines that vladimir putin was saying. he did say he supports the invasion of ukraine. and he said he believes it should have started much sooner and that's what vladimir putin said about a week earlier where he said he believed the annexation of donbas should have happened a lot earlier than it actually did.

viktor bout saying if he could have he would have volunteered for russia's invasion of ukraine. so he's basically saying everything that vladimir putin would like to hear, kaitlan. >> not surprising. thank you. it's the second deadliest terror attacks for the americans after 9/11. and this morning a man is facing justice 34 years after the explosion over lockerbie. the attack killed all 259 people on board that flight bound for new york. most americans headed home for christmas. the u.s. first charged him two years ago while he was already in custody in libya for unrelated crimes. he traveled to malta where he met two other libya intelligence agents they say, saying he was set to instruct the timer on the

device so the explosion would happen 11 hours later. the timing is interesting. the anniversary. cnn's chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst john miller joins us now. he spent time in lockerbie after the bohming. the s tell us about the investigation, how investigators were able to get the suspect? >> he is the missing link in the case after megrahi was released, families were relupset he was released after his cancer he lived for another three years with his family. the new suspect may be that. he is the expert bomb maker for

the libyan intelligence agency. when you look at the fact he traveled to malta where the bomb was placed on the process to get on the plane, he left the day before the bombing. there's a witness that can describe his role, his fingerprints were on the boarding card that was recovered. there's a strong case against h him. >> 34 years later. the reporting i read didn't have any detail on how they were able to get him extradited. >> libya has been a fragmented country, he was captured by militia groups, held and put on trial by the provisional government with really ada fee's command staff of his intelligence agencies, he was very much a background figure. a documentary maker named ken dornstein whose brother died on

pan am flight 143 went back to libya, through switzerland where the guy who made the little circuit board that controlled the timing of the bomb, then over to germany, where east german intelligence have kept intelligence files on the bomber's movements there. then through libya where he found contacts with the former intelligence service and put a lot of this together, matching fbi records that had become public, cia records that had become public and pushed the pieces back at federal authorities and said these are the missing pieces and they moved forward with the case. >> can i ask you, is this confession something that could be admissible? >> so that's not ideal when a defense lawyer in a u.s. court goes at a confession extracted by libyans in a very, how do you say it politely, uncertain

justice system. but when you take all the other evidence that was put together, way back in 1988, the boarding pass that shows that he went to malta, his fingerprint on it. the fact he left right after the bomb was placed. the fact that he was the intelligence services main technical expert on bomb making. there's a lot more to the confession plus a couple live witnesses from the libyan side that can string these together. >> and it's interesting the economic fallout of pan am, which we had the pan am building, and then the rca building. the economic fallout, the end of an airlines, what it did on an industry. obviously the families hurting but that was a huge ripple effect from lockerbie. >> and in the pre9/11 world what we thought rewrote the book on security, a tremendous effect on

how we get on an airplane and how cargo gets on the airplane. it was a massive explosive bomb, massive in terms of power, a bomb hidden inside an electronic boom box in cargo with a timer that could be set 24 hours ahead. >> i just hope peace and justice for these families. they've been waiting so long. we have a lot still this hour, why the biden administration isn't apparently worried about what elon musk is doing with twitter, even though democrats are concerned. plus this. >> we would have won. not to mention that what's been armed. >> sitting congresswoman marjorie taylor greene suggesting she would have won the insurrection by being armed. we have a lot to talk about, that's next.

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heroes. let's talk about marjorie taylor greene, sometimes it's a tough call what to give oxygen to and what to ignore. but this morning a sitting congresswoman said if she had been in charge of the january 6th attack on the capitol, the crowds would have been armed and they would have won the insurrection. speaking at an event marjorie taylor greene said this, watch. >> i come to washington, i swear it's january 3rd, i get accused of giving insurrection tours which i thought was hilarious i couldn't even find the bathroom in the capitol. hilarious. and then january 6th comes along and i organized the whole thing with steve bannon here. i want to tell you something if steve bannon and i had organized it, we would have won.

not to mention, it would have been armed. see that's the whole joke, isn't it? they say that whole thing was planned. are you kidding me a bunch of conservative second amendment supporters went in the capitol without guns and they think we organized that, i don't think so. >> that's interesting. during the attack she messaged mark meadows i quote here, please tell the president to calm people, this isn't the way to solve anything. publically a different tune. a week and a half later she pushed meadows to stage a coup getting the military involved so trump could stay in power, quote in our private chat, the only way to save the republic is martial law. she justified that request perpetuating the lie writing they stole this election, we all

know they will destroy our country next. kaitlan? >> don, let's talk about this with senior political analyst john avlon and political commentator erol lewis. they did bring weapons to the capitol on january 6th, correct? >> yeah. they're saying -- what this congresswoman is saying is they were insufficiently armed, she was playing to the crowd but what she is saying is without accountability, failed insurrections are just practice, they would have succeeded and would have come armed, that's a statement with real weight if you're a member of congress. that's an endorsement of vio violence. >> and it would have been illegal to bring weapons into the district, as show knows. it's the thing in the name of being cute in front of the

donors or whatever group she's addressing, she could talk herself into a grand jury, this is not stuff to take lightly. this is a country on the edge in a lot of ways and if she really means this, she should repeat it under oath. i'd love to hear it. >> it's problematic for, i would say for republicans and it's problematic especially considering where kevin mccarthy is right now trying to become the leader. what does he do about this and does this affect any of that? >> look, the central problem for american politics and has been true for a number of years is what to do about these kind of extremists, not just the statement but the actions, the undermining of institutions and elections and the faith in those elections. if he can figure that out, he'll have a successful speakership, i don't know that he can. i don't know he can contain her. when people say crazy things for money, attention, a combination

of both or because they believe it. he's going to have to decide who gets the gavel, who doesn't, who gets the chairmanship, who doesn't. how much he's willing to fight with these people. he has the same problem as the rest of us. what do you do about the extremists. >> it's more difficult because he's trying to thread the needle with majority support. let's be real clear about this. for all the republicans who pretended this was a bad tourism day, nothing happened. what marjorie taylor greene just said, the quiet part out loud, as she is want to do, if we would have been organizing it we have been successful, successful in what, overturning an election, our democracy, why? because we have been armed. >> this boils down to also the dangerous division, to say the least in this country. you have some interesting new data that should make us hopeful. really? thank you. >> you're welcome. >> i do think it's important to keep perspective. we need to create a sense of

context. we have seen how our schools have become front lines in the culture wars, used to divide us. there's a fascinating new study by a group called more in common about diffusing this t history wars showing the divisions aren't so much. for example, a statement all students should learn about the declaration of independence and the constitution and how it advanced freedom and equality. 92% of democrats agree with that statement. but only 45% of republicans think that democrats support that view. on the flip side, by the way. look at this statement. it's important jim crow and segregation. >> critical race theory. >> thank you. 83% of republicans agree with that. but only 51% of democrats think republicans do.

there's a gap in our politics that doesn't necessarily reflect reality. that's something we need to focus on. >> errol you made the point that's appropriate here, some people have a vested interest in making sure that americans don't act on that information. >> absolutely. there's a whole range of consultants and donors and there's a lot of money at stake in trying to make sure that what you just showed is not perceived by people. people think the other side is evil. you can raise a little bit of money if somebody's got the same point of view as you. you can raise a lot more if you can convince them that the other side is evil, dangerous and a threat to the country. that's where the money really starts to roll in. it's unfortunate because you have media organizations that do it, consultants who do it, politicians that follow along, marjorie taylor greene, for example, and next thing you know we have a truly divided nation because people are being misled. >> why is that dangerous? look, america is the only nation

founded on an idea not a tribal identity that means we are dependent on unifying stories. we need to be teaching history, civic education. this study shows we can do it in a way without letting the extremes determine the agenda. they don't represent us. >> i think you hit but we didn't talk enough about it. >> what? >> i think it's media literacy. what you're saying as i'm listening here is that we don't know each other, we don't sit down and talk to each other, we don't go to breakfast, dinner, that people hang out with the people they know all the time. >> that are like us. >> that are like us. so people have -- i can only context of me and probably you and you. people think that i am a caricature that they see on fox news. when they meet me you're not at all that person. because they're getting their information about other people through the media. and i think that is a problem.

when -- if you want, you know, when politicians come on here or -- they want to own the libs. so as soon as they finish an interview here, they go to the conservative media and say i owned that guy on cnn. and then they go and fund raise on it. so they are contributing to this -- so it's the politicians and quite frankly the media that contribute to the partisan divide. it happens on the left but not nearly as much as on the right. it does happen on both sides but it's pretty much -- am i wrong? >> it's interesting. i get inundated i'm sure all of us do with all kinds of partisan fund-raising appeals you have to get into that system for news gathering purposes. you never see anything, here's me with my arm around someone of the other party, please send $50.

it's you should have seen the way i cracked down on them, the horrible things i staid, the extremist statements i made. >> remember charlie crist and obama? >> it was chris christie. >> yes. >> one of my favorite don lemons is young reagan republican -- reagan supporting don lemon on a college campus in the 1980s. >> and then i grew up. >> and then you grew up. but hold on, first of all not a typical college student at the time, reagan did well with young voters. we're more interesting when we take the time to get to know each other. >> what happened with me was the whole stance on gays and i was like, i'm out. >> i got you. >> and it sort of woke me up. but it was fun to be part of something that was different. >> folks probably don't know that about you. >> now they do. >> he's been public about it.

>> but it's also about the -- you said like the founded on an idea. >> it was char lelie crist as w. >> my point the american experiment. >> talk to each other. i'm not going to promote my book, but that's what my book said. what i say to my friends about racism. >> so good. >> even republican friends, everyone. we are a little loop y guys because we were up for heroes. i'm loopy because i took an ambien also. >> should we go to commercial? >> i think the audience is begging us to. >> bye, guys. thank you both. this morning the effects of hurricane ian delivering a crushing blow to florida's bee

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♪ look at that, new york city this morning. welcome back to "cnn this morning," everyone. here's what's coming up, hurricane ian ripped through florida and damaged properties, including thousands of bee colonies. plus how concerned is the white house since elon musk took over twitter.

they say they're not stressed but how are other democrats reacting? we'll talk about that. and remembering soccer journalist and friend, grant wahl. he died at the world cup. how colleagues are honoring him this morning. we reported on hurricane ian but here's something you didn't hear about, when the storm hit it took out hundred of thousands of bee colonies. now beekeepers are still struggling from the losses. our bill weir met with some of them. i never thought about this. but i know bees are important. >> reporter: more than one out of three bites of food is courtesy of a pollinator. they're in deep trouble as a result of climate crises. i went down to florida to get a state of things. they know the state of

agriculture better than everybody. and they're worried. take a look. >> you have to get a handful of bees. >> reporter: i'm not usually in the habit of accepting a handful of stinging insects. but keith has a 40 year professional relationship with honey bees. >> you rarely wear a vail or gloves or anything. >> don't need to. >> reporter: these days they need all the love they can get. hurricane ian arrived at the worst time as they were set to get the autumn bloom of the brazilian pepper tree. the storm drowned and crushed hundreds of thousands of lives, killing countless, millions of bees. >> it's gone. there ain't nothing left. >> reporter: you can see a water line where it came up to here. >> reporter: and because ian blew away so much vegetation. those that survived are starving.

>> you're talking about 36 pounds of feed already and you can still go back after they suck the feed down and it look like they were never fed at all. >> reporter: they're starving? >> they're starving. it's not stop. you have to make that tough decision of really is it worth the money, the financial cost to try to save it or do you just have to walk away and take your medicine? >> this is all bee food? >> this will be used for liquid bee food. >> reporter: they're mixing sugar water as fast as they can, and while some bee farmers file for federal relief, the greater good shcharity is given away a n of substitute. >> we've donated food to humans, and animal shelters and now we're donating to the bees. >> you can't forget what gets the food to the table as well. >> reporter: even if the bees

recover, the business depends on the health of the almond crop, in california now shrinking under megadraught. >> if the drought takes out -- >> the whole bee keeping industry is in trouble. wild bees can't survive on their own. >> reporter: he explains that pesticides, development and invasive pests have made it impossible for bees to survive without deliberate human care. >> if all the beekeepers re released all of their bees, every beekeeper in the country if they released their bees into the wild we estimate it would be two to three years before bees would just collapse. they're the most important farmer, they're the most fo forgotten as well. that's why we need the public to continue to get involved in bees. and a little -- two beehives makes a big impact. >> they went totally underwater. somehow made it.

>> reporter: in the meantime, all keith can do is pick up the pieces and focus on the survivors like the hive he found drowned inside a water meter box near fort myers beach. >> it's a different feeling when you have bees walking all over you. >> it is. >> and nobody is getting stung. >> no. >> they're doing their thing. >> reporter: maybe they can sense we're rooting for them. we appreciate them. >> that's part of the thing. you have to treat them with respect. when you get down to it, the bees are the pillars to all ag culture and our civilcivilizati. >> he's a trained beekeeper don't try it at home. no stings. they're chill as long as we were. i brought you honey and palmetto from down there. i got you some, don, kaitlan. >> two jars over there?

>> i have a third jar. you can fight over the cinnamon spread that's the best. we're at a place that bees can't live without us and we can't live without bees. we have to pay attention to what's happening to those busy partners. >> this is what i give to my kids when they're sick or under the weather. it's a natural healer. >> good for allergies. we're feeding them, they're feeding us. >> and it tastes good. >> a spoon of honey for you in the break. okay. oh, okay. thanks, bill. >> you got it. up next we'll talk about this. the chilly reception that elon musk received from a crowd at a dave chappelle show. new cnn reporting that the new special counsel is moving fast on two criminal investigations surrounding

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♪ new reporting this morning that president biden and his white house don't seem to have the same concerns about elon musk's takeover of twitter as many in the democratic party do. it comes from the new digital media startup. joining me is ben smith, the new site's chief. now that we made it through your resume, this reporting is interesting because it is something that's constantly being talked about on capitol hill. lawmakers are asked about it every day. we talked to many of them about it on the show. but it seems to fit with the biden campaign ethos ignore twitter. >> thanks for having me on. i think right now a lot of democrats are very freaked out that elon musk, richest man in

the world buys this powerful platform for speech and he's immediately tweeting all sorts of far right jokes and in-jokes theories. and the white house i think isn't that focused on it. biden became president in part telling his staff ignore twitter. twitter represents not the right but the left of his party. alexandria ocasio-cortez gets all the retweets, joe biden doesn't. i think one of the reasons he won his primary was realizing there were many, many voters who were less online, older, less educated, more diverse than the group of people on twitter and those were the people who would vote for him. so he's just as happy to have twitter turn into something else and democrats to ignore it. >> it's fascinating because it has real world implications. >> and the danger of spreading m misinformation that can lead to

violence. >> i say twitter is not real life. the smartest thing that the biden administration did, when he was running not the administration, the biden campaign is ignore the fringes of their party, as you pointed out because i say it's ladies in church hats who go to the polls. it's guys who with the lunchbox go to the polls and vote, not necessarily the people on twitter. he ignored it, trump did the opposite and leaned into the extremes of his party and the people on twitter and he lost. biden won. i think it's a smart strategy. they're right onch. >> they told us in the meetings they think about television and facebook. those are the places where a lot of working people are getting their news. that said people on twitter are us and the thing that the white house uses twitter for is to work journalists and persuade us what to say and write about. >> is the question the same as ignoring twitter and who's

running it and the implication of that? >> reporter: i don't think they're fans of musk. i think they just don't see it as -- they see it as a problem in the world like many problems the white house thinks about but nothing that affects biden's re-election appearances. >> speaking of musk -- >> what? >> dave chappelle. should we play it? >> yes. >> this was in san francisco. dave chappelle brought up elon musk on stage and musk was booed for several minutes. we'll get your response, but watch this. >> ladies and gentlemen, make some noise for the richest man in the world. [ cheers ] >> elon. >> hey, dave.

>> controversial, buddy. weren't expecting this, were you? >> i couldn't hear dave there. >> he has time to go to a dave chappelle show? he's like running twitter, tesla is mad he's not there enough. sorry, i digress. what do you make? >> is it boos. i'm sure some people were happy. does it sound like boos to you? that was in silicone valley, his hometown. >> in a way it's the power. we're talking about joe biden not caring that much about twitter. that is the power of twitter to change how elon musk is seen very, very rapidly. i think he's been tweeting essentially a lot of right wing politics so when he shows up in san francisco at a comedy show, tough reception. >> not even just right wing politics what he tweeted over the weekend, the latest thing

he's under fire for, when you talk to the people around him, they think it's distracting when he tweets, the thing about fauci saying his pronouns are prosecute fauci. >> and mark kelly calling him out -- scott kelly, i'm sorry. >> the dangers of misinformation and what twitter can do it can insight towards violence. and also incite people to do good things. and it can give out misinformation and incite to violence. but that is a public sentiment. that's not people tweeting that's people voting with their mouths going boo. >> it can incite people to booing in this case. i think more broadly you had people managing the platform who were worried about the things you were talked about, particularly after january 6th, ban donald trump from the platform, the spectrum of people

on the right because i think of their concerns about violence and musk is saying you went too far trying to pull it back. i think there's a reasonable argument going on about free speech but musk is separately just totally torching his own brand for lots of people who liked him. >> we have to go but let me say this. we can sit here in america because we're privileged when it comes to free speech and we can criticize twitter, we shouldn't do this, that. but if it goes away we have real world consequences for people who use it to get the word out about the mistreatment of women and lgbt community. but as americans we're like free speech, what do you do, take it off, because we have other outlets. >> come back for the free speech debate. >> any time. >> i think people misunderstand how it applies to twitter.

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gabe cohen has more now. >> reporter: in maryland, anya, an hr professional is christmas shopping for her children on a stricter budget than ever before. >> it's a few items for the kid this is year, as opposed to getting them all the things on their list. >> reporter: high inflation has left budgeting a complication for middle class families. 40% of americans have less savings than a year ago, and 42% plan to spend less on gifts this season. only 8% plan to spend more. up till now the national retail federation says overall holiday spending hasn't slowed. families are just making sacrifices. gennett is relying on coupons for the first time. >> we have the same quality of gift they used to have. >> it's a little pinch. >> reporter: joe said he won't limit spending for his family, just himself. >> they good kids. they do what they supposed to do so i supposed to fill my part.

>> reporter: 54% of americans say rising prices caused ha hardships for their household. lindsey is one of them, she's a teacher, her husband a school resource officer. >> i'm living paycheck to paycheck. it's scary. >> how does your holiday budget change? >> how do you create a budget with no extra income. >> she decided to spend no more than $100 for each of her two children. i sense the stress in your voice. >> i don't want to upset my kids, i don't want them to be upset. >> reporter: then parents like karissa, we met her in march when she could barely afford gas with surging fuel prices. >> if we fill our tank we wouldn't have enough for the rest of the week. >> reporter: with gas prices down, she felt more secure