seven foot tall numbers before they are hoisted up for the ball connected tv. i'm courtney kealy, cbs news, new york. it's wednesday, december 21st, 2022. this is the "cbs morning news." holiday travel chaos. as we approach christmas, a major winter storm is moving across the country causing travel headaches. what you need to know before you hit the road. stepping down. elon musk says he will resign as twitter's ceo. see when he says he'll be stepping away. zelenskyy to washington. ukraine's president, volodymyr zelenskyy, is set to address congress and visit the white house today. hear how his visit is crucial to further funding to ukraine.

good morning. i'm dan lieberman in for anne-marie green. winter officially arrives today, and with it a dangerous storm bringing heavy snow, powerful winds, and soaking rain. tens of millions of americans could be impacted, and the system is expected to cause travel nightmares during this busy holiday week. the storm is forecast to bring record cold temperatures as it makes its way through the country. some places in the north could see windchills approaching 70 degrees below zero. it could fall below freezing in parts of florida by the weekend. errol barnett looks at what it could mean for those traveling. >> reporter: thursday is expected to be the busiest travel day of the holiday season with more than 47,000 flights scheduled across the country. airlines are considering cancelations after meeting with their respective weather teams. wavers are being offered to travelers to change plans, but the time to make changes is now. >> if you wait until flights

start being canceled, it's too late. >> reporter: while 7.2 minute -- million are expected to fly, more than 100 million will be driving. one gift drivers can appreciate -- falling gas prices which are hovering around $3.12 a gallon. the lowest since july of 2021. and for those who are flying, some of the best advice is to go ahead and download your airline's app. try to book the earliest flight in the day possible, and jump on the most direct route. you'll need all the resources and luck you can get. errol barnett, cbs news, at laguardia international airport. elon musk says he will stay on as ceo of twitter until a replacement can be found. last night he tweeted, "i will resign as soon as i find someone foolish enough to take the job. after that i will just run the software and server teams." the announcement came after millions of users voted for him to step down in a poll he posted on twitter.

he promised to abide by the results. musk has been mired in controversy since taking over twitter in october. he would still own the platform. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is on his way to washington this morning at the invitation of president biden. he traveled from ukraine to poland overnight and is expected to arrive in the nation's capital this afternoon. jarred hill is in new york with what's on his agenda. good morning. >> reporter: hey, good morning. the white house had been pretty quiet about this trip from the ukrainian president with obvious security concerns. this morning, zelenskyy tweeted that he was coming to the u.s. to speak with president biden and to congress to strengthen resilience. meanwhile, we're seeing a number of members of congress on capitol hill pushing back against more aid to the country. for his first foreign trip since russia's invasion nearly ten months ago, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is visiting washington to meet with

president biden and deliver an address to congress. >> this is very significant. >> reporter: former u.s. ambassador to ukraine william taylor says the world will be watching. >> he needs the support from us. he needs it from the europeans. and he's going to be making that case when he comes in. >> reporter: the trip comes as congress is considering a massive spending bill this week which includes $45 billion for ukraine assistance. >> the days of endless cash and military materiel to ukraine are numbered. >> reporter: with republicans set to take control of the house in the new year, this is an opportunity for zelenskyy to appeal to members of the gop who have balked at more aid. >> any republican who's going to vote against money for ukraine will be -- should be and will be the subject of harsh criticism. >> they're fighting for freedom, and we should back them, whatever it costs. >> reporter: a senior administration official says

president biden is also set to announce a new $2 billion assistance package to ukraine. that would include a patriot missile defense battery. before heading to the u.s., zelenskyy visited the front lines in eastern ukraine. troops presented him with a ukrainian flag suggesting they'd like it delivered to american leaders. now even as the president, president biden as well as ukrainian officials acknowledge that the war against russia likely will not end any time soon, president biden continues to reiterate that american troops will not be directly engaged in the conflict in ukraine. dan, back to you. >> jarred hill in new york. thank you. the house ways and means committee revealed the irs failed to follow policy by delaying audits of former president donald trump's tax returns while he was in office. the democratic-controlled committee said the agency did not audit trump during his first two years as president. that's despite its mandatory policy of auditing sitting presidents. the committee also voted to release six years of trump's tax

returns to the public following a three-year legal battle to obtain the returns. the biden administration is asking the supreme court to wait a few days before ending a trump-era pandemic order used to turn back asylum seekers at the southern border. title 42 was supposed to expire today, but the high court this week issued a temporary order keeping it in place for now. omar villafranca has more from el paso, texas. >> reporter: a dramatic scene on texas' u.s.-mexico border. before sunrise, texas national guard troops arrived to put a razor wire fence alongside the banks of the rio grande. texas governor abbott sending 400 more national guard troops to the border in an attempt to block the flow of migrants into the u.s. >> they're getting on the bullhorn and telling people you can't be here. you being here on this side is illegal. you need to move on. they're telling them to go to

different points of entry. when they're going to other points of entry, customs and border patrol is not letting anybody in. >> reporter: despite the uncertainty of ending title 42, the city is putting plans in motion to house as many as 10,000 migrants, even considering opening their convention center and schools not currently in use. meanwhile, in ciudad, juarez, mexico, this 27-year-old and her three children wait to cross the border. they have been traveling for three months from venezuela. "they would give us the opportunity to come in," she says, "only to put up a fence instead." her 3-year-old daughter is sick in her arms. she hopes to get to her brother in north carolina. i asked her what did she want to tell president biden and said she just wants a chance to get inside. shelters will be packed again with hundreds of migrants. the biden administration has asked the supreme court that if they're going to let title 42 expire they at least wait until

after christmas. omar villafranca, cbs news, el paso, texas. more than 10,000 people are still without power in northern california after a deadly earthquake. the 6.4-magnitude quake struck early yesterday morning more than 200 miles north of san francisco. at least two people were killed, and nearly a dozen others hurt. manuel bojorquez reports on the damage. >> reporter: this is what residents woke up to near the epicenter of california's most powerful earthquake in just over three years. >> it was just crazy, everything fell off the walls, and i thought my house was going to fall down. >> reporter: we saw firsthand the impact of the magnitude 6.4 quake which struck humboldt county near the oregon border just after 2:30 this morning. >> i woke up to this. >> reporter: darren gallagher says when he walked outside his home in rio del -- >> the porch fell off. there's a dirt bike holding up that end.

>> reporter: the road buckled near ferndale, a town of 1,300 residents closest to the epicenter. >> we're talking about damage to homes, damage to critical infrastructure, and life lines, so water, power. >> reporter: as powerful as this jolt was, the damage could have been much worse. the quake hit 11 miles beneath the surface. >> when it's releasing down further in the earth, then that -- some of that energy has a chance to die down before it gets to the surface. >> reporter: most buildings held steady. the injuries due to what state officials call nonstructural items. could fall over that aren't bolted down. short of a house or building collapsing on you, the potential for having a bookshelf fall over is high. >> reporter: most unsettling is the that tumbler may just be a warning. >> we have no way of telling whether had is a foreshock it a larger earthquake. we don't know, but this is a great reminder. >> reporter: there have already been more than 80 aftershocks,

the strongest measuring 4.6. ironically, a 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit the same area exactly one year ago. manuel bojorquez, cbs news, rio del, california. coming up, an emotional day in court. relatives speak out at the sentencing hearing for a former police officer convicted of killing a texas woman. and education ban. why the taliban government in afghanistan is facing outrage for its latest action. this is the "cbs morning news." even when things seem quieter, the urge to protect means staying on the lookout to help keep others from harm. at pfizer, we're driven by this impulse. we've reached hundreds of millions of lives with our covid-19 response. and we keep innovating. whatever comes next, we will respond fiercely. like family. ♪

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window in 2019 killing atatiana jefferson. police were responding to a report of an open front door. dean said he acted in self-defense when he saw jefferson pointing a gun at him, but prosecutors said there was no evidence he saw the woman holding a gun before he fired. jefferson's sister read a victim impact statement in court yesterday. >> the only legacy in this life will be the murder of my sister, and that will be the punishment you will truly have to face. >> jefferson was playing video games in the house with her 8-year-old nephew the night of the shooting. "reuters" says the taliban banned all female students from public and private universities in afghanistan effective immediately. it's the latest crackdown on women's rights and freedoms in the country since the taliban took control last year. girls have been banned from middle and high school. most women have been blocked from working and are banned from parks and gyms.

the u.s. and the united nations condemned the move. the "wall street journal" says wells fargo agreed to pay $3.7 billion to settle allegations it harmed customers. regulators said the bank charged millions of customers illegal fees and interest on auto loans and mortgages. it was also accused of incorrectly applying overdraft fees to savings and checking accounts. the settlement includes a record $1.7 billion penalty, $2 billion will be used to repay customers. still to come, a diamond double take. the newest ad from kay jewelers appears to feature a royal doppelganger. doppelganger.

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free wi-fi could be available on your flight in the near future, and the postal service is going electric. courtney kealy has that and more in today's cbs "money watch" report. >> reporter: stocks closed higher tuesday putting an end to a four-day losing streak. the dow closed up 92, nasdaq up by 1, and the s&p 500 gained nearly four points. 3m said it will no longer make so-called forever chemicals and stop using them by the end of 2025. the company has come under litigation for using them despite their alleged health and environmental impact. they're used for nonstick co a chemicals to be about $1.3 billion. the u.s. postal service said by 2026 all its new delivery truck purchase will be fully electric. the white house welcomed the announcement saying it's the biden's climate strategy is on wheels. the more than 220,000 vehicle

fleet makes up one-third of the federal fleet which is the largest in the world. delta airlines could offer free wi-fi on a significant portion of flights as early as 2023. the atlanta-based airline declined to comment on plans but said it is in the process of testing wi-fi with various offerings on select routes. that is your cbs "money watch" for this wednesday morning. i'm courtney kealy, cbs news, new york. the phoenix sun and phoenix mercury will be getting a new owner. billionaire mortgage lender mat ishbia and his brother justin have reached a deal to buy a majority stake in both teams for $4 billion. they'll replace robert sarver who agreed to step down after an nba investigation found he had a pattern of verbally abusing players and using racist language. a new christmas commercial for kay jewelers has many people doing a double take. it also has tongues wagging. the commercial for a $300 love

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here's a look at the forecast in some cities around the country. ♪ the celebrations got out of hand in buenos aires yesterday as argentina held a parade for their recent world cup victory. fans were seen trying to jump off a bridge to get to the open-airbus carrying the soccer team. security stepped in and decided it was too dangerous for the players to be on the ground. they put them in helicopters and let them enjoy the view of the millions of fans that were there from the sky. this is argentina's first world cup title since 1986. coming up on "cbs mornings," ed o'keefe shows us the family-owned company that has made the annual white house christmas ornament for more than 40 years. i'm dan lieberman.

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this is the morning edition. it is wednesday, december 21, we take you to humboldt county to show you the cleanup that the residents are dealing with after the deadly earthquake. the damage from the earthquake may not all be obvious. a new device created in the bay area could provide a solution. we are looking at boots on the ground helping with the recovery process. they will deal with scattered showers shortly. we will have more coming up in the full forcast. carlos correa will no longer be a giant. we will dive into the deal that fell through. >> i'm still wrapping my head around this one. we need to wrap our heads around traffic as well. here is a live look at the bay bridge, coming right up. good morning to you, thank you for watching us and the morning edit