captioning sponsored by cbs >> morgan: travel troubles. a record 107 million americans are traveling for the holidays. >> chaos. it's pretty wild. >> morgan: also tonight president trump unleashes another tirade on twitter this time targeting the fbi's deputy director andrew mckaib. fallout from the miss america email scandal. the top brass has quit but former contestants are demanding more. amazon's nomadic camper force retirees looking to make some extra cash. >> i thought it would be more robotic and i didn't know it would be human robots. >> morgan: and how some tlc and a lot of repotting created a lasting christmas tradition. >> the tree talker. >> i'm a tree

this is the "cbs weekend news." >> morgan: good evening, i'm demarco morgan. slow going this christmas eve. it's tough driving across much of the u.s. not only because millions of americans hit the roads but they are being hammered by bad weather. and at the nation's airports long lines because air travel is expected to increase this year by about 4 percent to 6.4 million flyers. tony dokoupil has more. >> reporter: america's roads and runways runnette over this weekend and not in a good way as millions of holiday travelers gave each other gridlock for christmas. yesterday traffic at los angeles international airport was bumper to bumper. today things were moving a little better. across the coast at newark international airport in new jersey, there was a controlled chaos. >> i figured everybody would be in for the holidays but i guess this is a huge travel day. >> we left a lot more time to travel because we thought it would take a long time to get

here and were told to get here earlier than normal. >> reporter: nationwide more than 60 flights were cancelled and over 1900 delayed. many of them in snowy chicago according to flight aware, and those numbers were expected to increase. >> and without a doubt the travel for the year-end holiday has a lot to do with airfares being lower and airfares about 20% lower compared to last year. >> robert sinclair is a spokesperson for triple a which estimates that holiday travel will set a record for the 9th consecutive year. >> we think that it's totally linked to the economy. folks have more money in their pockets and taking advantage and spending it by taking a trip. >> the greatest number of travelers, more than 97 million of them are expected to take to the roads. where a band of winter weather has already created dangerous conditions from nebraska all the way to maine. >> about 70% of the united states is subject to ice and snow, so you need to be aware of that before you hit the roads, slow down. >> reporter: and if you do still have to travel, experts say pack lightly and drive

slowly. and if all else fails, play the host and have everyone else come to you. demarco. >> morgan: all right, tony dokoupil reporting, thank you. let's get the latest forecast from meteorologist rob ellis at our chicago affiliate wbbm, rob, good evening. >> reporter: good evening. the big weather maker is the one that rolled through chicago today and now all of that will be heading east it is going to impact unfortunately new england for christmas day. here's better news though, it's going to be heavy rain right along the coast from new york up to boston although eventually we will see some snow wrapping around. this will add some snow to the ground for those that are traveling. and unfortunately on christmas day. one to three just inland of new york, however those totals go up pretty quickly for new england with six to 12 up to a foot of snow or more for some locations and unfortunately the lake effect snow bands will have to deal with that. other lotion locations have already picked up one to three, as much as four inches of snow in the midwest. so it begs the question, who et goes the white christmas? well, some of the locations you kind of expect, we have that

snow on the frowned in chicago but over no new england with that system that will roll through as we head into christmas day for a good portion of the northern rockies and up into locations that may not normally see a white christmas. places like seattle, especially some of the higher elevations. unfortunately they do have some rain showers that will start to change over to a little bit of snow. that's going to make for some snowy travel not only here into parts of the rockies but also when you head farther to the east that snowy travel not just if you are concerned about traveling by air, but also if you are traveling on the roadways. once the snowy system moves out, bitterly cold air moves in for the end of the year. >> morgan: rob ellis, thank you. two sides of president trump this christmas eve. he praised the american servicemen and women stationed around the world but also took to twitter and blasted the fbi's deputy director. chip reid is in florida with the president. >> i just wanted to wish everybody a very, very merry christmas. >> reporter: from his estate in palm beach today president trump sent christmas greetings by teleconference to service

members overseas. >> we're grateful for each of you spending this christmas away from your families. >> reporter: but he had a very different tone on twitter lashing out once again at deputy fbi director andrew mckaib. mckaib had a supervisory role in the hillary clinton email investigation and mr. trump claims mckaib was biased in clinton's favor. why? because in 2015 when mckaib's wife was running for the virginia senate, she received a large political contribution from aipac connected to clinton friend terry mcauliffe. if his tweet today the president wrote mckaib, in addition to his wife getting all of this money from mcauliffe, clinton puppet, he was using allegedly his fbi office email to promote her campaign. mr. trump provided no evidence that mckaib teurlly did that. democrats say the president's attacks are just another attempt to divert attention from special counsel robert mueller's

investigation into the trump campaign's contacts with russia. cbs news has learned that mckaib has decided to retire from the fbi by march. white house official marc short asked today if it is helpful for the president to repeatedly attack top fbi oskses. >> i think the president believes the american people have a right to know what happened with that investigation. >> we're told the president is still celebrating passage of the republican tax cut bill. sources with first hand knowledge tell cbs news that he told a group of wealthy people at his exclusive mar-a-lago resort, quote, you all just got a lot richer. demarco. >> morgan: chip reid reporting, chip, thank you. >> now to the miss america email scandal. more former paj eptd contestants are speaking out. they say the resignation of the top three executives is a start but a lot more needs needs to b. here's roxana saberi. >> you're miss america 2012 is.

>> beyond the miss america celebration seen every year on tv, a scandal is rattling the organization. the shakeup began after the huffington post published parts of leaked emails on thursday appearing to show a handful of miss america officials ridiculing pases past winners appearance, intelligence and sex lives. in this one c.e.o. sam haskell laughed when the pageant lead writer call used a crude term for again tellia. in a statement he said much of what was reported is dishonest, deceptive and dispicible. but after dozens of fompler miss america's published this open letter, calling on the miss america organization leadership to step down, haskell was suspended and then resigned along with the organization's president and chairwoman. >> still have a lot of work to do so we would love your support and your encouragement. >> former miss america like mallory hagen whom haskell called a piece of trash in one email are applauding the move.

but they say more needs to be done. >> we have to laser focus on the actual benefits of the miss america organization. >> reporter: actor and writer kate shindle who won miss america in 1998 was derided by haskell in another leaked email. >> where should the organization go from here? >> if we're going to expect the public to believe that the miss america contestants and miss americas are among the brightest, most intelligent, most educated, most passionate, talented you name it young women in the country, then we have to start treating them like that every single minute. >> the miss america organization says it remains committed to the education and empowerment of young women. demarco n full disclosure, mi a normer miss north dakota and competed in miss america several years ago but have i no connection to the people who wrote the emails leaked to the huffington post. >> morgan: roxana, thank you. for last minute shoppers the clock isic iting, christmas is just a few hours away and some stores will still be open but

this holiday season experts say more than half of all consumers shopped online. at amazon a unique group of workers filled some of those orders, here's brook silva braga. >> it's four a.m. in campbellsville kentucky and the night shift is heading home from amazon fulfillment center here. home is across the street in an rv park. >> how old are you guys. >> how old? >> i think we're 67. >> yeah. >> reporter: to help ship an estimated 50 billion dollars in goods this holiday season, amazon needs lots of seasonal workers. enter camperforce, a group of nomadic retirees who cluster their mobile homes near certain amazon warehouses each fall. >> how many of these rv's are other amazon folks. >> every one of them. >> ken kiernan, 72 used to work in real estate. >> down the sheut, like lose aye at the chocolate factory. i wanted to see how that system worked. i thought it would be more robotic and i didn't know it was going to be human robots. >> reporter: the job comes with a free camp site and starts

at 10.75 an hour. enough to fund a nom ad's travel so the work isn't easy. >> the woman that was right here in this spot, she con take it. she just pulled out and said i can't take it. i'm bored to death and i am hurting all over. >> reporter: but jim fitzpatrick, 62, retired air force doesn't mind the 13 miles of walking in a typical ten hour shift. >> i've lost just shy of 53 pounds. >> reporter: that's more than four pounds a week. >> probably about four pounds a week, i feel healthier than i ever have before. >> it's definitely a lot of physical work. >> reporter: not everyone here is supplementing their retirement. >> this is qulur whole life. >> this is whie whole knife. >> deana 36 made this mini van her home when rent became hard to afford. >> just a basic living expenses was taking everything. and not able to save up and try to get ahead to dreams of the future, just basically surviving. >> reporter: amazon says the program is small, there are about 600 camper force at this full ilment center and more that

thely others. >> amazon travels all over the country advertising camperforce. >> jessica bruder's book nomad land argues it has given amazon an easy sowrgs of good cheap labor. >> they are perfectly evolved predator for the economy we created. do you blame the player or the game. >> but for the most part the workers we spoke to thanked amazon. >> i'm loving it here. >> it's definitely filled a gap and helped me on the road to the future. >> but dena said she didn't plan to come back. brook silvaa cbs news, campbellsville, kentucky. >> morgan: an ordeal today for about 200 ski ares, their ski lift got stuck about 25 feet above the slopes, to get them down a helicopter dropped a first responder over each gonedolla and then had to lower the skiers to the ground. officials say the entire operation took a couple of hours and no one was reported injures. the cause is under investigation. now here's a cbs weekend news

feed, bomb scare near the los angeles home of treasury secretary steve mnuchin. a suspicious package was left in the driveway next door and the bomb squad was called. officials say it was a gift wrapped box of horsemannure with the words, the american people scrawled on it. the secret service is investigating. flames tore through a shopping mall in the philippines, firefighters recovered one body, 36 other people trapped in the four story building are believed to have died. officials say most of the missing worked for a call center on the top floor. the cause sunday investigation. >> and santa is on the move this christmas eve and norad is tracking its flight, usually the agency keeps track of aircraft and space vehicles that could be a threat to north america. but today they are making sure santa and his reindeer have a smooth flight around the world. they have been doing it for 62 years since 1955. if you want to see where santa is going, go to norad santa.org. >> coming up, no holiday hugs. a look at the girl scout's new

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>> morgan: we end with a unique christmas story about a california family and the struggle maintain a tradition that is now spanned for more than three decades, here is mireya villarreal. >> reporter: joe and gina amidst retta bought this potted scotched pine 34 years ago when it was about three feet tall. >> it looks different every year. some years are good, some years are not, happen to catch it on a really good year. >> reporter: in 1983 it was so small it could only hold one string of lights. and when the holiday was over out it went, not to the trash or recycling bin, but to a new year-round home in the yard. >> it's got its own shape, it's own character but it's still growing. >> reporter: a few years later swroa and gina had two little boys who grew to love christmas morning around their tiny tree. now 27 and 31, it is the only

christmas tree michael and joseph have ever known. >> if someone is more traditional for a try angular tree, that's great. but it's really what the tree represents. >> it's like people t has good years, bad years, but you know, even when we thought it wasn't going to make it, they were like i what-- you can't get rid of this tree, this is our tree. >> while it looks more like a christmas bush, with a little tlc it continues to thrive. >> i enjoy trimming it, i go out there i spend time with it, how are you doing today, you're doing good, don't worry i will clean you up. >> you are a tree talker. >> i'm a tree talker now. >> he has repotted the tree four times t even survived a fire. the home's front door had to be doubled in size so the nearly 300 pound tree can still be rolled in. >> i mean there is no perfect light, no perfect tree, we like it that way. the ornaments that we put on it are not perfectly put in the perfect spot. but they mean something us to. >> the tree is a time capsule of

their lives. it was here when gina's parents were alive and shared the holidays with them. it was here when michael was diagnosed with leukemia's at the age of 13 an five years later when he went into remission. >> it's really a family member, you bring it in and go okay, it's time for you now, come on, have i taken care of you the whole year, now it's your turn. >> it definitely represents tradition. it brings back memories. >> and it will continue to be here as the family makes new memories. after all, the scotch pine could well be around for another hundred years. >> there have so many people that have touched this, our lives and have been part of that tree. we're getting older. and the tree is getting older with us. and yeah, it's growing with us. >> mireya villarreal, los angeles. >> morgan: and that's the cbs weekend news for this sunday, later on cbs, "60 minutes," i'm demarco morgan in new york, for all of us at cbs

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