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nearly $1 trillion, with shoppers shelling out more than 6 billion on thanksgiving day alone according to a brand new survey let's turn now to cnn's mina duerson, who is at a mall in new jersey. mina, how are you holding up out there? how's it looking out there you know, it's getting more and more crowded as the day goes on. >> so really, people are back in person shopping. you know, we heard about 65% of people plan to do their shopping this weekend in person. and that really seems to be the case. people are coming to take advantage of these deals in person, rather than just find them online. and we spoke to a number of shoppers who had sought out deals in advance and then come to take advantage of them so, you know, consumers told us, you know, they plan to spend a decent amount of their budget this weekend for the holidays. and here's here's a couple of shoppers who told us what they were looking for we came for the deals because we're trying to save money. what did you find? good deals. >> yeah, we actually bought a

lot. yeah, we spent a good amount today. >> what kind of stuff did you guys get? >> we got clothes. we got makeup, we got hair products. >> how much money do you guys think you spent so far? >> oh about like 600. >> we went out at 5 a.m. to go to kohl's, and we were able to get there um, walk away give away. and then we just came here afterwards. >> that's one of the many reasons we want to come out today. you know, just trying to find a good deal, especially for larger. we have larger families. so, you know, one gift adds up for for a family member so those, you know, younger shoppers are making up a big portion of the consumers that we're seeing out in person today. >> and that's a big trend right now. you know a large number of the people doing their shopping this weekend are in that 18 to 24 bracket. and we spoke to a number of shoppers who are intentionally buying products right now that they think might go up in price, you know, in the next administration. we saw a lot of people buying consumer electronics, things like tvs, maybe tablets, things that

might be impacted, you know, in a future administration by tariffs that president trump has promised, you know, might might come to pass in the next coming months. um, but you know, consumers here are they're excited they seem to be, you know, they've been dealing with inflation for a couple of years, but they they seem to be ready to spend their money at least this holiday season. a little bit, a little bit more than they have in past years. >> yes. that one young lady spending 600 bucks the day after thanksgiving. don't hold back, you know. um. all right. anderson, thanks a lot. appreciate it. uh joining us now is washington post syndicated personal finance columnist michelle singletary. she's the author of what to do with your money when crisis hits a survival guide i feel like we've come to the right person. michelle, with that segue holiday shoppers spent a record $6.1 billion yesterday. more than 183 million shoppers hitting the stores this weekend. are the are the deals really that good? and i guess judging by what we heard from mina a few moments ago people

are out there shopping and they're spending they're putting those credit cards out there, whether they can pay them off or not. >> i know, right? >> like i almost fainted. >> i was here going like, oh she said she did the same thing i was like, huh? >> so, you know, i get it, you know? >> but this is a phrase that i say all the time. i wrote about it in my column recently. you never save when you spend. people it you know, the act of saving is like, you know, putting money into a bank account or investing it for your retirement. what you're doing is you're spending less and you got to get that in your head. i know it's the holiday season. you want to be generous, but i would hope that that that that young lady had some money in her emergency fund. or if she's in college, she's got student loan debt, she's putting it aside for that. but i know nobody want to hear that right now so, michelle, i'm with you. >> i was thinking the same thing exactly oh, my heart was like, oh, that was my

child. >> oh, lord. i'd be on the phone right now. >> exactly. >> that's right you've obviously been warning consumers to be cautious about spending during this holiday shopping season. where can things go wrong i think the enthusiasm of this whole idea of i'm getting something on sale, i'm getting something with a discount, and we know there's actually a couple of apps i actually did something on instagram really like this app called camel. >> camel camel. and you can put in what you're going to buy and it'll show you how, you know, the prices have been over a couple of months. and my producer and i were looking at that and there were items that they were like, it's 40% off. well, you know what? it has never been at that regular price. i mean, you know, they spike it up just before black friday and you think that you're saving 50%. but if last week it was the same price and guess what? next week is going to be the same price. so don't feel so bad if you don't get it today or this weekend or monday that you're going to miss out, you should start with your budget first.

see what you want to get for each person, and if something fits in there, okay, but don't. don't delude yourself into thinking that you are saving money. you are not saving money. you're spending less. >> absolutely. and as black friday winds down, shoppers still have cyber monday to look forward to. i mean, we've come up with all of these gimmicks to get people to spend their money. i mean i and i just i'm so glad that you said we just said there a few moments ago, michelle, because you're absolutely right. they do sort of trick us into thinking that we're getting these deals. i sometimes feel like you get better deals the longer you wait. the closer we get to the big day. you know, sometimes things are marked down. even more. i don't know, what do you think that's exactly right. >> i listen i'm i'm one of those people sometimes in the store the night before christmas and people are like, what and i'm thinking things are definitely less because i'm spending less. not saving. um, and here's the thing. >> if you're not going to see them on the holiday, you know, just wait and buy it and get it for later. >> right you know, i mean,

there's always going to be sales. there's always going to be something there for you and i'm just concerned because, you know the amount of credit card debt hit that $1 trillion mark last year. and it's been consistently going up. and lots of people pay their bill off every month. but about 50% of the cardholders do not. that's a problem. so if you're shopping right now, you're listening and you have credit card debt that you're revolving every month, you ought to take your behind home and eat your leftover thanksgiving meal and and think about how you're going to get out of this debt to secure yourself for the coming year. because if there are terrorists and things happen you're going to need those savings in case inflation goes up. i know, i know, people don't want to hear that right now but i have to be the voice of reason, right? >> good medicine yeah absolutely. well, thank you very i know i'm sure there are a lot of shoppers out there who say, i'm going to go spend that money anyway, but it is good that you're out there giving us those tips. michelle

michelle singletary thank you very much. we really appreciate it you're so welcome. all right. this holiday weekend is colliding with some downright treacherous weather across the u.s.. ferocious snowfall threatens to trap residents in parts of the great lakes region, so please be careful. these images from ohio today show what some crews are already facing and even if it's not whiteout conditions, some freezing temperatures are predicted to grip the eastern united states. cnn meteorologist elisa raffa is in the extreme weather center with the details. sounds like it's going to be brutal out there for millions of people some of the coldest air that we've had so far this season and the snow will just pile on in the great lakes. >> i mean, look at this radar right now you can see the lake effect snow bands just pumping off of all of the great lakes we're especially worried about lake erie and ontario because that will just continue as we go into the weekend. so if you're doing some traveling grand rapids, interstate 196, some problems there, these lake effect snow bands can be very heavy, very localized windy as

well. so they drop visibility i-90, a mess from cleveland up through erie over towards buffalo this will have some huge visibility problems with these bands as we go through the day. today these are all the winter storm alerts again each of the great lakes and you've got those lake effect snow warnings east of cleveland, including buffalo and then off of lake ontario ontario as well the problem is is our lake temperatures are incredibly warm, record warm in fact, we have these lakes in the lower 50s. and you might say, well, that's not that warm we'll compare to the air that's coming over it it is much warmer than that. very cold air. so what that does is that very cold air will pick up the moisture from the warm water, and then it rises as it hits the terrain. and that's what pumps the lake effect snow. so there's nothing really to turn this off until the wind stops, which is why it will continue as we go through the weekend. so we could be looking at snowfall totals in feet off of lake erie and ontario that's the paralyzing part, because it won't stop and it

piles up feet on end, and it's coming because we have, again, that very cold air we're looking at 70% of the lower 48 with temperatures at or below freezing. as we go through the rest of the holiday weekend. and i'm talking even as far south as atlanta. you're looking at your overnight lows below freezing as we go through sunday and monday, 29 for a low in dc. how about teens in chicago waking up to 15 degrees on sunday 18 degrees on monday. so pretty bitter cold again. pretty far south that we've got freeze alerts in effect where that growing season might still be impacted. people need to watch out for the peas. the people, pets, plants and pipes as we go through the weekend. >> guys, very good advice elisa raffa. thank you so much we'll stay warm as best as we can still to come, russian president vladimir putin is praising donald trump just one day after the president elect announced his pick for special envoy to russia and ukraine. plus, a shocking breach of security at one of the country's major airports. how a

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injuring at least eight people. russia's defense ministry says it shot down dozens of ukrainian drones, as well as the two sides traded blows for more. let's bring in retired u.s. army major mike lyons. sir thank you so much for being with us on this holiday weekend. i do want to ask about the fact that this is russia's 11th large scale attack on the country's energy supply. that is, according to kyiv. obviously, the energy supply is a frequent target of the kremlin. just before winter sets in. but i do wonder how much of this renewed aggressiveness from the kremlin is tied in your mind to the result of the u.s. presidential election well, boris i think all of it is. >> i think russia is racing to get to this point where they can claim some kind of strategic advantage over ukraine, given these kinds of strikes, knowing full well that attack missiles now have been released on the ukraine side as they continue to strike deep inside of russian targets there as well,

with drones as well as that weapon system. >> but i think it's 100% knowing full well that the trump administration wants to get to some kind of cease fire. they want to end this conflict in some manner. the current administration doesn't seem interested in trying to even start to do that right now. so i think the clock is running for russia to do as much damage as it can and get as much land as it can right now before the trump administration takes hold and starts this process in earnest. >> i do want to ask you about what that might look like. but first, i wonder if ukraine managed to shoot down two thirds of the 130 drones that were reportedly sent overnight. how you might describe the state of ukraine's aerial defense well, they have to pick and choose. >> they do. they're doing what's called economy of scale. when it comes to their capability to shoot down all these targets, they don't have necessarily the ai, the artificial intelligence that you see in the middle east with the iron dome system that's there. they don't have really the best systems that the united states could actually provide them so they have to

pick and choose what gets shot down. it's a very tough task. they're probably hanging on very much as each one of those rounds are fired on their on their land. so it's not a great situation for ukraine as they continue to try to defend their land as best they can. >> and on trump, president elect trump selecting retired general keith kellogg as his envoy for ukraine and russia. he's argued that a proposed nato membership for ukraine should be put off indefinitely. i wonder, as we are likely heading into some kind of cease fire negotiations, if you think that is the right move, and would that be enough to bring an end to the war boris, i think that nato membership to ukraine is the reddest of red lines for russia and that's that's one of the things that that's non-negotiable for them. >> we've got to consider that if we want the firing to stop, i think that the trump administration will likely go into this negotiation telling ukraine that we're going to you're going to have to give up something or else we won't provide the military support. but they sell the same thing to

russia that says if they're not willing to give up something then we'll pour weapons and military supplies into ukraine instead of giving them 50 battle tanks, we'll give them 300, 400 tanks. so i think that's the leverage they'll try to use. but i do think that it's not in our best interest. the united states best interest to have ukraine anywhere near a planning process to get into nato any time soon, just based on where they are and how the russians feel about it. i was never actually for some of those other countries getting in as well. we need military allies that are going to fight alongside us not military dependents, which some of these countries have become. even some of the larger nato countries, frankly, they've not paid enough of their gdp towards their own self-defense. what ukraine wants is the nuclear umbrella of nato. and maybe we can come up with some bilateral security agreement to make sure that they have assurances from the united states but they want that nuclear umbrella that frankly, some of these nato countries now live under, that they haven't, frankly, met their obligations towards a major. >> there is this $7 billion

that congress has authorized for ukraine. but it doesn't seem that the pentagon is likely to use it before president biden leaves office. do you think there's more the administration could do to put ukraine in a stronger position before these hypothetical negotiations begin? >> there's always more we can do. they can they can release more active duty military equipment that can go there from europe. they can provide them more training and support with their aviation assets, more air defense platforms, as well. it's just that the time from their perspective is they just really want to punt it. i think, to the next administration and so it's causing both sides to do all it can to kind of figure out what's that line of demarcation going to be when this whole thing starts what that boundary looks like. because one of the other negotiations is going to be what's what's the new border look like between ukraine and russia? you saw i saw a report today that president zelenskyy agrees that he might have to give up land mass now inside of ukraine. what was the former border? i think that's a starter as well for the

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pentagon, and this is cnn next week, the supreme court will hear a potentially explosive case involving transgender care that's even dividing conservatives. >> the case centers on a tennessee law enacted last year that bans puberty blockers and hormone treatments for children. critics say the law injects the state into family medical decisions and overrides parental rights. we're joined now by cnn legal analyst jennifer rogers. she's a former federal prosecutor. jennifer, good to see you. happy holidays. walk us through what the supreme court is about to hear. >> yeah jim. well, they're about to hear a case out of tennessee that, as you said prohibits gender affirming care. so puberty blockers and also bans surgery, all that. that's not very common for minors in the lowest court. the trial court level blocked the law. they said that it was unreasonable. they said that it violated the constitution's equal protection clause. and then it went up on appeal. the sixth circuit reversed. so now we have it up at the supreme court and it's not just tennessee where this matters

about half of states now in the last four years have passed laws that discriminate against transgender people by saying that they cannot get their gender affirming care. they cannot play on sports teams and all sorts of stuff so this really is one of the hottest issues in the culture wars right now yeah, absolutely. >> and parental rights won't be the main issue. the court is deciding on. but advocates from republican and trans rights circles believe it should factor in. tell us about that. >> well, the legal issue is a little bit different than the social issue, if you will. you can talk about whether it's right to discriminate against transgender people, whether parents and doctors and the patients ought to be the ones making these decisions versus state legislators. but really, what the court is deciding about is the standard that applies the standard, the legal standard, right so in these kinds of cases the issue is what level of constitutional scrutiny? it depends. the highest is strict scrutiny for things like race. the intermediate level is where sex discrimination falls. and

that's where the plaintiffs say the court should decide. this has to be evaluated under. and then the lowest level is rational basis. and that really dictates what will happen here, jim, because rational basis can be just about anything anything the state can say. well, we have a rational basis to pass this law because you never know what these drugs are going to do to people. it probably passes scrutiny if that's what they decide. whereas if they say intermediate scrutiny and it has to be substantially related to an important governmental reason that's where you say, okay, what are the pros and the cons on each side? what are the medical issues involved? that's where you see that it most likely would be struck down. >> and jennifer parental rights are not absolute under the law. correct. what are the limitations at play here? >> well, again, it depends on the level of scrutiny that applies. but if the state can show an interest under the rational basis test, it just has to be a rational interest. intermediate scrutiny has to be an important interest. then you can override parental rights. so you know, let's say the parents think that children

should only eat 200 calories a day. that's very dangerous to health. so that's where you would see the government has an interest that's going to override the parents decision about how to raise their children so that's kind of where it falls. you have to look at the legal test and decide how strong the government's interest has to be to override parents rights, but you know, we need to know which testifies before we can put the interests up against the test to see where it all comes out. and that's what the supreme court is going to tell us. which of these tests applies to this law. and by the way, if they decide it's sex discrimination, we know it will be intermediate scrutiny. the court has never decided whether transgender discrimination is just on the basis of being a transgender person. what level of scrutiny that would apply. so that's a secondary issue here. it's possible that the court finds it's not sex discrimination, but that transgender discrimination requires intermediate scrutiny. we're waiting to hear on that as well. >> okay. that's a very big

issue potentially, that we could hear about. and you were just mentioning tennessee is one of 26 republican led states that have enacted restrictions on gender affirming care. have any of those states faced legal challenges i mean, what does this look like from a bird's eye view of all of these states to any stand out as being interesting that the court may be you know, taking into consideration here well, you know, they don't directly take it into consideration because they're only looking at the case in front of them. >> but of course, in the back of their minds, they understand that we have 50 states. they're all over the map as far as where these laws are. some have them, some don't. the ones that have them, some of the laws are different from other laws. so they understand that when they need to set a standard here, they should be thinking about how that will apply more broadly so that other states know what to do. you don't want to have to take up 50 different cases on this issue, right? you want states to be able to get guidance from this. that said, a lot of these laws look a lot alike. these right leaning groups drafted legislation and

kind of shopped it around in different state legislatures. so a lot of the language is the same. so i think whatever the supreme court does will likely be guidance for all the states in the nation. as far as what's going to fly and what's not going to fly under the equal protection clause. >> very interesting. all right. we appreciate the expertise on all of this. jennifer rodgers, thanks so much thanks as president elect donald trump's team prepares for his second term, there's growing speculation about who might get a pardon once he takes office. cnn's john mueller reports on whether high profile new york democrat could make that list. >> the ridiculous and baseless indictment of me by the biden administration's weaponized department of injustice will go down as among the most horrific abuses of power in the history of our country. >> it's one of president-elect donald trump's most common refrains. >> they weaponize the justice department. every one of those cases was involved with the doj

repeated claims without any evidence that the multiple criminal cases against him, even the ones brought by state prosecutors were ordered by the biden white house. >> the justice department has consistently denied the baseless claim. >> i have devoted my entire career to ensuring that the rule of law is the rule that the justice department applies, that we do not have enemies or friends, that we do not pay attention to the political parties or the wealth or the power or the influence of the people that we are investigating. and when new york's democratic mayor, eric adams, was indicted earlier this year, he pleaded not guilty and began to invoke a similar argument. >> i always knew that if i stood my ground for all of you that i would be a target and a target. i became. >> adams has been indicted on

five federal charges related to bribery, wire fraud conspiracy and soliciting campaign contributions from foreign nationals. prosecutors allege his illegal actions stretched back a decade, but adams claims that those charges seem to emerge only after he sharply criticized the biden white house for not doing enough to help new york city with an influx of migrants. the president and the white house has failed new york city on this issue, despite our pleas. >> when the federal government did nothing as its broken immigration policies overloaded our shelter system with no relief i put the people of new york before party and politics. >> if mayor adams was taking a page from donald trump's playbook he was also becoming a validator of trump's claims and donald trump became one of the democratic mayors. most prominent defenders. >> we were persecuted, eric. i was persecuted, and so are you

eric. mayor adams has been treated pretty badly you know, when he said that this whole thing with the migrants coming into new york, this is just not sustainable. he said it very nicely. i said, well, he's going to be indicted by these lunatics for saying a year later he got indicted. >> would the founder of the maga movement use his power to rescue a high profile democrat from criminal charges and scandal? sources tell cnn the two men have spoken since trump's election win, but it's unclear whether a pardon has ever been discussed. >> would you accept a pardon if trump offered it to you? >> i don't deal with hypotheticals. >> so can i assume that's a yes no, i wouldn't do any assumption. >> i will allow my legal team to handle that our thanks to jon miller for that report. >> right now, an investigation is underway to find out how a woman got past multiple security checkpoints at new york's jfk international

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green card and with a russian passport. at last check, she was still in paris, awaiting deportation back to the u.s.. wild stuff. our cnn transportation analyst, mary schiavo, joins us. mary, i mean, i mean, the russian passport thing. i'm just going to put that to the side for a second, because i don't know what to make of that. but, mary, how does something like this happen? because when boris and i go to the airport, we play by the rules. we go up to the nice tsa person, we give them our passport and our driver's license, or maybe we have pre-check and we get to fly past all that but we've at least gone through the process. this person went through all of these layers of security and got on the plane. i don't that just help it make sense. if you can. >> well, actually we can't make sense. and unfortunately, this is not the first incident this year where that has happened. there was one in march on delta. there was one in, um february on american airlines there are two already this year. last year there was one. as someone with a russian passport came to the united states on a scandinavian

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lots of people messed up here. lots. >> yeah. mary, is there anything about what we know? at least publicly, about this person that would give you insight as to how they were able to carry this out, whether they may have had some kind of inside knowledge of the layout of the airport to get around some of those security checks yeah, that's going to be the most important part of the investigation. >> and the fbi does have jurisdiction over this. so hopefully they are deep within the investigation now and pulling every, every bit of the airports covered by cameras. so they're going to have big help now, unlike nine over 11 when most of the airport and nine over 11, 2001 when most of the airports were not covered with camera footage they have pulled, i'm sure have pulled those tapes already are looking how this happened. but when there was one earlier, this year, the person claimed that she bypassed security altogether. she just hopped over a gate a barricade and went on through to the gate the tsa disagrees on another one that happened this year. they used a buddy

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are we talking about for us, we're talking about a 26% increased risk researchers found that people who don't have a consistent bedtime and don't wake up around the same time each day appear to be at a 26% increased risk of a major cardiovascular event like a heart attack or heart failure or a stroke. >> and this is based on data on more than 72,000 people in the uk. researchers tracked their sleep and their health for eight years, and that's how they came to this finding. and this was despite differences in people's age and lifestyle factors like exercise or smoking or drinking alcohol so this is a major finding when we think about sleep and our health. boris and jim and even if someone doesn't have a consistent schedule, what if they still get the recommended 7 to 9 hours of sleep each night and what if they work in news? >> i mean, that let's just admit here this is tailor made

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