bye-bye. back in town. president obama returns home from his trip abroad to find and energized republican party and a lame ducki:x]- so, will they be able to compromise, especially on tax cuts? we'll take you inside the showdown on capitol hill. airport outrage. federal officials get set to announce an expansion of security proceedings as the cloefrgs full-body scanners and aggressive patdowns create even more lines and more frustration. now some are calling for a boycott during the busy holiday, we'll tell you why. and a missing family mystery. a 13-year-old girl found bound and gagged in a basement and a suspect arrested but her mother,

brother and friend are still missing. we'll go to live to hi o for a case that has police baffled early this monday morning, case that has police baffled early this monday morning, november 15th, 2010 . captioning funded by cbs you can tell the holidays are here, so many people visiting "the early show" and new york city. good morning to them and to all of you i'm maggie rodriguez. >> i'm harry smith. good morning, everybody. in a couple minutes we'll get details on this explosion down in mexico. it happened in playa del car man belieu cancun, a number of canadian tourists were killed. what caused the explosion? we're getting details on what may behind it. also ahead this morning, the largest missing person search in oregon history continues as dive teams get involved now looking for 8-year-old chyron hor mon, row disappeared almost six months ago now. they searched the waters off an island this morning hoping to find clues. we'll tell you if they did and

expect to hear from the boy's father later today. first, a new lear for president obama in warrant today. congress is back in session with democrats still controlling both houses but only for the next months. so, the question is, will he be able to get anything done during this lame duck session? cbs news congressional correspondent nancy cord des joins us from capitol hill. good morning, nancy. >> reporter: good morning, harry. the first item on his agenda, are tax cuts, the bush-era tax cuts set to expire at the end of the year so they don't have much time to figure it out. the president wants to extend some of them. the republicans want to extend all of them but are now signalling a willingness, both sides, to compromise. heading home from asia, president obama told reporters on air force one he's open to a compromise with republicans who want to extend the bush tax cuts to everyone, including the wealthiest americans. >> i want to hear from them how strongly they feel about it, particularly given that they're also saying they want to control the deficit and debt.

>> reporter: republicans, in turn, signaled they might be open to a temporary extension of all the tax cuts for a couple of years. >> well, if that's all we can get out of the president, and he is the president, so we'll work with him on that. >> reporter: for democrats, cutting a deal now is crucial because in january, they lose their house majority. nearly 100 newly elected members, all but eight of them republicans, arrived in washington this weekend for a one-week orientation. have you spent much time in washington in the past. >> i have not. i have not. but, we're looking forward to it. >> reporter: more than a third have never held elective office before. 32 of them are small business owners. at least 37 of the incoming members consider themselves part of the tea party, determined to make their mark on the republican party. >> i'm not going to compromise my principles, that's very important that we stick to our principles but as listening as i'm fighting toward a limited government, free markets, individual liberty, i'm willing

to accept that i'm not going to get an ideal system. >> reporter: today, all those new members will get a crash course in government, an all-day class, harry, called congress 101. >> nancy cordes in washington this morning, thank you very much. also in washington, cbs news political analyst john dickerson. john, good morning. >> good morning, harry. >> let's talk about the bush tax cuts a bit. we say it over and over again, we've been saying it for months now, a lot of people really don't understand what's at stake here. president bush put in these tax cuts a couple years ago, they are set to expire at the end of the year. what is all this -- what's all the haggling about? >> that's right. they were designed to expire at this time and the problem is nobody wants this em to expire but republicans and democrats can't agree at the moment on how to biscly design them. and if they can't come up with an agreement, then everybody's taxes will increase. so, the white house and president says he doesn't want to give a tax cut to millionairs and billionairs and republicans say you've got to give a tax cut

to everybody. now they are trying to dance around and figure out how to come up with some kind of agreement because they know in the end they have to do something. >> one of the things that's been floated in the last 48 hours or so was, okay, let's let the tax cuts -- let's keep this permanent for almost everybody except people making over a million dollars and then maybe add an incentive in here and we'll have tax breaks for small business people. like that actually get through somehow? >> senator mark warner of virginia, democrat, has suggested that republicans don't want to delink these two. they know if that happens they know maybe the middle-class tax cut the pass, more popular thing and they will lose the larger tax cut for everyone. this is being floated, one of the things in the pot. another suggestion from chuck schumer, democrat of new york, to raise that family level up to a million dollars. in other words everybody under a million dollars gets a tax cut. i don't think republicans will

jump right at those alternatives at the moment. >> congress and the president supposed to have dinner pretty soon and what's the anticipation about that? >> they are going to have dinner. there will be some humble pie and some crow eaten, probably. and they will have to get past the fact they've all been saying these terrible things about each other on the campaign trail for the last several months but this is the beginning of the ice breaking process. the president has said and he said on his way back from his trip last night that he wants to go back to his first principles, one of them is bipartisanship and so he's got to start trying to find a way to work with these republicans. >> so interesting, even as these young congressfolk come into town a tug-of-war already within the republican party. the "d" party folks say we're not so sure we want to go to all these orientations because we don't want to be corrupted by you. >> a lot of people have come to town to push against the system they are now a part of and we'll see it in two interesting ways, there will be a vote among republicans about what to do

about earmarks, not a huge part of the budget, not a huge creator of this enormous budget deficit. very small, indeed. but they are symbolically large and a lot of the tea party candidates signed pledges. some of the members who came back are, you he know, in the senate want to keep earmarks. there will be a fight there and also a fight about the tax cuts, what kind of compromise will republicans stands for with the president. >> john dirk son in washington, thank you very much. do appreciate it. good to see you. >> thank you. >> erica hill is at the news desk and has a check of the rest of the headlines. good morning, erica. >> good morning on this monday. seven people dead this morning at least 20 injured following an explosion at a resort hotel. it happened on mexico's caribbean coast in playa del carmen. cbs's preeti arla has more. >> reporter: a powerful sploegs ripped through south of cancun mexico saturday killing five canadian tourists including a 9-year-old boy. two mexican hotel employees were also killed. witnesses werefy reported the

floor of the building blew through the ceiling sending bodies, glass and pieces of the restaurant flying. the grand rivera princess hotel in playa del carmen is a luxury 676-room resort. next months an international climate summit is scheduled to be held in the area. at first, it was feared the blast might be terrorists or drug cartel-related. >> translator: it is a sad event, but the possibility that it was an attack has been discarded, as we said, from the beginning. the reports from the hospital said the wounds might be from shrapnel, they are not. >> reporter: investigators later thought cooking gas might be to blame but it now appears the blast was caused by an accumulation of gas from a nearby swamp. preeti arla for cbs news. taliban insurgents on the attack in eastern afghanistan storng for the third straight day. rockets hit a fuel dump at a nato base igniting a huge fire that destroyed several vehicles. there were no casualties in that attack. nato reported, however, two more

deaths from an attack in the same area yesterday, which pushes the total now to five. u.s. and nato officials outline a possible exit strategy from afghanistan. afghan government forces could take or security duties starting next year with an eye to ending the u.s. combat mission there by 2014. the u.s. is expected to present elements of the plan at a nato summit this week in lisbon. newly freed pro-democracy leader naum namz talking about reviving her political party in myanmar also known as burma. visiting the headquarters of defunct party to discuss ways to have it declared legal again, meeting with attorneys, as well. the 65-year-old nobel peace prize winner spent 15 of the past 20 years under house arrest. a qantas airlines 747 forced back to sydney this morning. it did land safely but all happened after an electrical problem happened on a flight which was supposed to go to argentina. the good news here, none of the

221 people on board was hurt. this is the fourth safety scare for a qantas jet in less than two weeks. you really can't play football in the dark. >> -- he's overthrown now the lights go out. >> there they go. in the second half of the new york game with dallas, the stadium lights went out, not once but twice, delaying the game for a total of 11 minutes. it did finish, however. the cowboys upsetting the giants 33-20. residents are still being digging out after this weekend's snow in the midwest. almost a foot of snow fell in some places in minnesota, causing hundreds of traffic accidents. at least two people were killed in a collision in northern wisconsin. a good friend dave price is working on getting home to us in new york part of his "no way home" journey. i'm pulling a little weather duty for him while he's on the road. the southeast today looking at a sunny day with mild conditions, some cool spots in the higher elevations. if you live in the northern

plains, you are going to need a coat. temperatures are going to be chilly in the 30s and 40s, meantime grab an umbrella in southeast, where heavy rains are ex and that is your latest weather this monday morning at 11 minutes past the hour, back to maggie. >> thank you. more and more these days tempers fly at the airport, so much so homeland secretary -- is calling for calm asking for air

travelers to have patience when it comes to the new procedures some. groups including pilots and whole lot of passengers say the new security procedures violate a person's right and some even call for a boycott during the very busy thanksgiving holiday. cbs news travel editor peter greeberg is here with more on this. good morning. >> good morning. >> what are the main concerns you hear about the full-body scanners. >> talking about 2200 check points at airports, a lot of scann scanners. three big issues, privacy, health and safety and of course the process of going through them itself. >> exactly how long that will take. >> exactly. >> talk first about the privacy issue. i for one want to know who's looking at these images, are they being recorded anywhere? do we know the answers to any of those. >> the tsa claims they aren't archiving these images people can't archive them or store them. for those like myself who have gone through that machine you have to take everything out of your pockets, not just metal, everything comes out of your

pockets then they scan you then a guy with a walkie talkie talking to somebody else in a closed room to see if you have been cleared. it takes a while. >> do they know how much they can see? >> some of these grums are calling this like a virtually strip search or a grope. the points is after the underwear bomber they want to see everything you are carrying inside your clothing. there is a reason for it. >> the last couple of days the patdowns, some people need to forego these machines altogether and apt for a patdown have become even more invasive. >> the tsa changed the rules they are allowed to use the fingers and palm of their hand to feel around breasts and genitalia. >> what? have they gone too far. >> we are about to find out. you can opt out of the scanner machine but they are not going to tell you you can, you have to ask. once you do, they have to get another agent over there and delays the process. >> talk about delays, the main concern people have over the holidays. how much extra time will it take if you have to go through these machines versus the old ones? >> the old ones, just walk

through. the new ones, you've got to take everything out of your pockets and stand with your arms outstretched, they scan you as the thing goes around and you have to wait for clearance. that will take between three and four minutes. plult ply that by the number of passengers in line, assuming nobody opts out. >> or assuming they don't find anything suspicious and have to check, right. >> exactly. assuming you opt out they have to get another agent over there and they don't have enough agents to do that. if everybody wants to do this boycott and opt out, the lines will be really long wafnlsts do you suggest? are there any solutions? >> a couple, number one, not every airport has the scannerners right now coming in slowly some. airports you'll notice at the security check points there is a scanner and mag no tom ter. my advice go for the mag no tom ter. if you go for the scanner, you'll be later. >> or go to an airport that doesn't have them yet. >> or yeah, most people don't have the choice because they have already booked their fwlits. they are still learning this process at the tsa and if janet

na pal ton no is asking for patience, there's a reason for that. >> thanks so much. harry. turning to the case of chyrkyron horman, the boy missing since june his father is again holding a news conference to again ask for anyone with information to koum forward. our correspondent jeff glor has the latest. >> good morning. his parents say this morning they still have hope he'll be found alive but after months of a fruitless investigation authorities have launched a new search for evidence and this time is under water. dive teams from eight agencies began a painstaking process of searching the murky waters of this channel. they were hampered by water so black one official called it diving by braille. >> not a lot of visibility. some places, only a foot. but, they just take it, you know, slow and take it carefully. >> reporter: it's been more than

a month since official and volunteers on horseback scoured this island for evidence. while the search for him seems exhaustive, investigators still have not found the one clue that might crack the case. >> this is not a homicide. it's not a kidnapping for hire we know of or ransom. the fact is there's not even a discernible crime scene. >> reporter: the latest search comes days after his father asked the judge to punish terry hor mon if she doesn't answer questions about her step-son, the last known person to see him alive and a focus of the investigation. in divorce documents, he insists teri has information concerning kyron's whereabouts and that she won't talk because her testimony will lead to criminal liability for kyron's disappearance. >> no judge, particularly in a divorce case, is going to force terry harmon to testify. she's entitled like every other citizen to maintain her silence. >> reporter: the two locked in a bitter divorce battle also fighting over custody of their

daughter. earlier she withdraw her request for parenting time with her after he questioned her mental state, fitness as a parent and credibility. police have not named terri horman a suspect in his disappearance and her attorneys say he is using the divorce to vilify her in the court of public opinion. harry and mg gee? >> jeff, thanks. coming up for us a 13-year-old girl found alive but her mother, brother and friend are still missing. we'll have the latest on the desperate search this morning that has police in ohio baffled. holiday shoppers, be ware. we'll tell you the five traps retailers have in store for you when you head to the mall. this is "the early show" on cbs. ♪ would you like me to read you a story? you can't read. [ grandma ] 'twas the night before christmas, and all through the house... whoa, that's grandma. [ grandma ] ...nothing was stirring, not kara, not maya... how does she do that? magic. [ grandma ] ...grandma loves you. [ both ] goodnight, grandma.

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left, turn left at the rotary, right? a lovely voice. this morning, you'll meet the person behind the voice many gps users know as australian karen. isn't that cool. >> really cool. at 7:30, the mysterious disappearance of four people in ohio. one of them, a 13-year-old girl, was found yesterday and a suspect arrested. this morning the girl's mother, brother and family friend are still missing and the suspect isn't talking. cbs news national correspondents dean reynolds is in mt. vernon, ohio, with the latest this morning. dean, good this morning. >> reporter: good morning, maggie. authorities believe that the man who lived in this house behind me and who is now under arrest can provide significant information to help solve this mystery. police found 13-year-old sarah maynard bound and gagged in the basements of the em home where the kidnapping suspect matthew hoffman lives, ten miles from where the girl and three others disappeared on wednesday. >> she is in good condition.

she was taken to a hospital for evaluation. >> reporter: there's been no sign of her mother, tina her man, 10-year-old brother kody or family friend stephanie sprang despite a massive search. hoffman, a 30-year-old ex-con was arrested without a struggle about 8:00 a.m. sunday by s.w.a.t. team officers who blasted their way through the front door . >> there was two sheriff cars walking the road here and all kind of sheriff cars started pulling up and the s.w.a.t. team came. >> reporter: the suspect is expected in court later today. authorities say intel jins gleaned from interviews led them to hoffman's home. police believe he had been in control of sarah since she was abducted wednesday. >> he is a weirde, he really was a weirde. he sat in the trees. if you look back in the tree, there's a hammock he would sit and watch people. he's just different. >> as far as knowing the family,

we're uncertain whether he knew them, they knew him. >> reporter: for now, the case is still classified as a missing persons investigation but police found what they called an unusual amount of blood in the family home, though whose blood is unclear. but, so far, authorities say that suspect is not cooperating and they say it's likely additional charges will be filed against him. maggie? >> dean reynolds in mt. vernon, ohio, thank you. joining us from washington criminal profiler pat brown. good morning. >> good morning, maggie. >> from the details we know so far, the fact an unusual amount of blood was found in the home does that tell you the people were likely alive or dead? >> well, it's not very good news. obviously we know one has been severely injured and the simple fact they are somewhere out there and we don't know where and this man is not telling us leads me to believe something probably not too good has happened to them. >> wouldn't it be difficult to hide three bodies? no one has found a trace anywhere. >> this whole case is like an incredible mystery.

we don't know everything that the police know at this point so there may be some pieces of evidence that, you know, i'm not aware of that would really lock this in. but, they got their information through interviews, so how this was pointed to this particular man is going to be something we're going to find out. one other thing i can't imagine how this man worked alone. we are looking at this a lot of people saying this guy wanted that 13-year-old girl. when you have a sex predator he wants that teen-aged girl she is usually walking down the street one day, he's watching from a nearby house. she's home alone, he grabs her. why would he go in there and take a 13-year-old girl when he knows everybody else is there, as well. there were two cars parked tht driveway. it doesn't make sense that was the entire motivation here and he'd do this alone taking four people with him. it's a little confusing. i think there might be somebody else involved. >> wouldn't it seem to you this girl, 13-year-old girl who was rescued would be key to finding out what happened to the other three. >> you would think so, at some point she had to have her eyes available unless he she is so emotionally tramtized she can't

discuss anything at this point but you would think she would have an idea who was in the house and who took them and where they went so they are probably not telling us what she knew. >> neighbors say this suspect was odd. one mother was so afraid of him she would bring her kids inside whenever he was outside. it seems to me as though there were warning signs but then again being odd is not a crime. is there anything that could have been done? >> oh, no, not really there. are many, many odd people out there and there's certainly a lot of psychopaths living in our communities and we say, god that, guy is creepy but doesn't necessarily go out and kidnap and rape and murder people. all we do is try to keep away from them -- >> he did have a criminal record not as a pedophile, but an arsonist. can you take me inside his bound. >> it means he has a criminal mind. people don usually set fires unless they've got some kind of personality disorder. we often see they will commit that kind of crime and some other kind of crime, as well.

they simply have no respect for the law and they like taking advantage of people. we really can't say that makes him, you know, the kind of guy who would do this particular guy, can't link the two together. >> pat brown, thank you so much, as always, for your insigh up next, they're all over the mall, traps set up and waiting for you to fall into. but we'll tell you how to avoid them this holiday season and

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start on holiday shorpg but are retailers really cutting prices or just making it look like they are. our business and economics correspondent rebecca jarvis here to have a list from consumers reports to help you avoid costly traps. good morning. >> good morning. >> how much are we going to spend. >> average american will spend $689 this season, up slightly from last year. the most money we'll spend will be on our family. >> we are seeing all of these sales advertised online, in the papers, all over the television and radio. these door-buster sales. what do we need to keep in mind when we go it a doorbuster sale. >> couple of things. you mentioned this in the introduction, discounts, is it really a discount if the price started so high that, you know, 50% if, it looks like a big number on its face but in the end you can still get the product cheaper somewhere else. keep in mind maybe the price started high and therefore the discount looks big but it's not

significant when you look at the total price. one way to check this out and to vet this, comparison shop. we've told you previously about websites. all of these places are places you were check and figure out whether or not you are gestd the lowest price on something. >> all right. we're out there and decide to go on a saturday morning at 9:00 maybe not the best time to go. >> probably not your best shot and the national retail federation says the best time to go shopping is the night before a sale. after 6:00, when crowds are going to be less but the computer in the different retailers probably reflect the prices and in many cases if you go to a retailer and say you're having a big sale tomorrow, i want that price, they'll give it you to. >> sometimes it seems like the bate-and-switch. you see the ad, the comeon and you go to the store and they say, oh, we're out of that. how do you avoid that. >> do your research before you get to the mall and make sure you have your information straight. >> the other thing that happens,

we go in and get a great deal on whatever it, is a flat-screen tv and the first thing we're asked as soon as we agree to buy the thing is whether or not we want a warranty. >> and this is the way retailers make so much of their money. they keep about 50% of what you pay for the warranty. most -- most people will tell you not to take that warranty. most people will say, most of the experts will say you're already going to get most of the things that you would want under warranty, under warranty under the standard warranty without paying for it. also if you pay by credit card a number of credit cards extent it for you. >> should be able to back it up. last but not least, what about return policy, especially this time of year, all these sales will and, you know, sending the gift to grandma or whatever, if she doesn't want it can, we send it back? >> she can send it back if she keeps the receipt and everything in the box. make sure each retailer, some have different return policies so check before and make sure you include that receipt for whomever is getting that gift. >> all about the receipt. thank you so much. up next, they can recalculate like nobody's business.

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>> turn right on west 57th street. >> reporter: chosen ten years ago for her calming accent guiding drivers around the world. i hate that. you sound so con den sensing when you say. >> that no, no, no, no. it the's the way you are hearing it. it is never said in an con desensing way. right now up to 25 million people are listening to me give them directions around the world worldwide. >> reporter: they actually have the ability to go on the little device and hit "karen." how does that feel. >> awesome. i feel popular. i always wanted to be popular. >> reporter: they may not know her face but her voice is instantly recognize disable. >> you have reached your destination. continue to eighth avenue. >> reporter: karen's now trying to relocate from your gps to your car radio. she's even launched a music career. ♪ the questions never seem to

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>> i dismantled the voice because i find it so distracting. >> how do you, try to look at the map as you're driving. >> i have, what do you call it? heads-up so the direction -- but even that still, i was somewhere on long island yesterday and when there's three things like this and the arrow starts going like this -- give me a map, by golly. >> anyway, we'll be right back with a whole lot more of "the early show." don't go away! >> stay tuned to "the early show." oh, oh-oh ♪ introducing wisk with stain spectrum technology. try new wisk. we upgraded the formula, but not the price. ♪

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we welcome you back to "the early show" on the plaza with so many great folks spreading an important message this morning, sharing the warmth this winter. so many people find themselves homeless in the winter, they don't have something as basic as a coat on landsinn.com today you go there and buy one and will donate part of the proceeds to a foundation that helps homeless. >> it that a great thing. help people stay warm, we like. >> that i'm maggie smith along with harry smith. coming up, got stress? yeah, who doesn't, right, especially with all these

high-stress jobs and all these work hours we put in. specifically now, researchers have looked at how all this stress from the job affects women and, as you would imagine, it's not good. our dr. jennifer ashton will be along this morning to give us the results and, more importantly, teach us to reduce risks. >> as you all well know know friday we sent dave to anchorage, alaska. his job to get back to new york. we gave him, what, a cell phone and abucks. he's taken on all these odd jobs chopping wood, driving a zamboni to making frapp chinos, all kinds of stuff. he does have enough cash to get back home. there's a live picture of dave. >> he looks homeless. >> we don't know where he is exactly but he has a map of the united states and looks chilly. and a little weather-beaten. we'll check with him to see how he's doing in just a couple minutes. >> first, we want to check back with erica hill at the news desk with another check of the headlines. good morning. >> i'm excited he has the new coffee skills and can put them to work for all of us monday.

in the news this morning, officials in mexico blame a buildup swamp gas for a huge explosion that killed seven yesterday. five of the dead were canadian tourists, two were hotel workers. at least 20 others were hurt, including two u.s. citizens. wit they says say the blast was so powerful, the floor of the building blew up to the ceiling. u.s. and nay he toe officials say they are working on an exit strategy for afghanistan for end the u.s. combat mission there by 2014. they hope to hand over security duties to afghan government troops and police beginning next year. congress returns to work today for a lame duck session that will focus heavily on taxes. the top issue here, income tax cuts which are set to expire at the end of the year. democrats want to keep those cuts only for the poor and the middle class. republicans want to leave them in place for everyone including the wealthy. other pressing matters include extending unemployment benefits and debating the military's don't ask don't tell policy

towards gays serving openly in the military. also today, school is in for more than 100 freshmen lawmakers who will be learning the basics of just how congress works. in myanmar the just released opposition leader aung san suu kyi took first steps this morning to bring back her political party. property-democracy leader met with lawyers and party members to talk about reviving the i did banded party. the nobel laureate spent 15 of the last 21 years in detention. a british couple also free this morning after more than a year captives of pirates in somalia. cbs news correspondents elizabeth palmer reports. >> reporter: paul and rachel chandler stood safe on the porch of the british high commission in nairobi. just hours earlier, they'd been flown to safety when their kidnappers let them go after receiving a huge ransom. in mowing dish she, the chandlers were escorted by somali officials to a press conference looking thin and tired but delighted. >> it's good to be alive.

happy to be here and desperate to see hour family. >> reporter: what began as a dream retirement sailing around the indian ocean turned into a nightmare when somali pirates seized their boat n. videos made by the pirates, it emerged in captivity the chandler didn't even have each other for company. >> it's because i'm not with my husband that i'm feeling so lonely and desperate and finding it difficult to sleep. >> reporter: kidnapping is big business for somali pirates. reports say up to a million dollars was paid for the chandlers although not clear who paid it. as the relieved couple get ready to pick up their interrupted lives, something like 500 hostages remain in somali pirate hands. elizabeth palmer, cbs news, london. katie couric with a preview of tonight's "cbs evening news." >> good morning. how this man reached for the

stars and came up with a way to move heaven and earth right in his own backyard. that's tonight's "assignment: america" only on the "cbs evening news." now back "the early show." >> dave on his own assignment so i'm going to do a little weather for you this morning. taking a look at weather across the country, showers heading into the northwest and wintry mix of snow, sleet, freezing rain expected for the northern rockies. along the gulf coast a storm system should pass through dumping heavy rains throughout the region. in the midwest, you can expect a mix of sun, clouds, and breezy conditions with temperatures ranging from the 30s all the way up to the

>> announcer: this weather report sponsored by verilast technology for knee replacement from smith & nephew. now maggie. >> thanks. still ahead a warning for women with high-stress jobs. you have an increased risk for heart attack. our dr. jennifer ashton will be along with advice how to reduce that risk and the stress. you're watching "the early show" on cbs.

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of this week's session for the american heart association, the biggest cardiology meeting in the world and looked at almost 20,000 healthy women, average age 57. most were health care professionals anyone from a nurse's aide to a ph.d. and followed them for ten years. what they found is that those who had a higher degree of job strain actually were at 40% increased risk for overall cardiovascular disease. as you said, maggie, an 88% increased risk for heart attack. >> how did they define "job strain". >> job strain for this study included people who felt they were in jobs with little or no decision making, they were very demanding jobs and in particular didn't allow them to use their individual creativity. >> not necessarily the boss but worker bees. >> exactly. this could be an ph.d. or rn. it wasn't necessarily at the lower end of the work hierarchy. >> got it. they also looked at the particular affect of job insecurity which so many feem in this economy.

how does that affect you physically. >> as you said, job insecurity could be someone swo has a job and fears they might be losing it or out of work potentially. basically what they found those who stated they had a degree of job insecurity also were at higher risk for obesity, hypertension, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, all those things as we know really stack the desk for us in terms of risk for cardiovascular lar disease. >> ideally we would eliminate all the stress but that is not realistically. how do you handle the stress in a better way nimplts general, whether at home working, because a lot of people do, or a job place you feel is giving you significant stress, try to minimize the negatives and accentuate or maximize the positives. obviously one of the biggest negatives people should strive to cut out completely is smoking. >> i knew you would say that. >> smoking outside their jobs, standing on the street. >> a stress buster having the opposite effect.

>> exactly the worst thing you can do for your help, meditation or deep breathesing exercises if you can't leave your desk or step outside for a mental health break, do deep breathing, 10 minutes a day can really, really help. obviously avoiding junk food we know especially in the health care profession there is junk food everywhere, the watercooler. >> you have access. >> exactly. you want to try to minimize that and try to eat more healthfully at work. if you can, take a walk during the day. i know near high hospital i see a lot of health care professionals walking during their breaks which can do wonders not only for your skik lolg cal but physical well-being. >> do you find stay-at-home-moms have a similar level of stress. >> well, they haven't done the study yet but in terms of the patients i see they are balance can a lot, a lot of balls in the air worrying about their children, worrying about what they are doing at work if they work from home and all of that

stress can lead to a reduction in immune system, causes chronic inflammation with short-term and long-term consequences and this study really shows that. >> so your recommendations apply to everyone, all -- >> including men. >> including men. thank you. >> you bet. >> it could really be "no way home" for dave price at this rate. we dropped him off in alaska friday. we'll see how far he's gotten and what he had to do to get there. that's coming up here on "the early show" on cbs. >> announcer: "no way home" sponsored by new windowsphone. e. this one's got everyone i know in one place. so without fumbling through a bunch of apps, i can see what they're up to... quickly post that i care... and my phone's back in my pocket. so i can actually watch my son's game... go buddy! and not be... other dad: (cheering absentmindedly) yay! dad: ...that guy. vo: less clicking, more kick-butt dadding. new windows phone. get yours at at&t.

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this morning on "no way home" dave price still has thousands of miles to go. last friday, he started his adventure in alaska with just $50 in his pocket and a cell phone. his goal, get back to new york by the end of the week.

so, let's check in with dave, who has made it all the way to -- >> drum roll? >> yep. >> yakima, washington this morning. >> dave, how are you doing, buddy? >> a little disappointed we're not further to the east, but we're in good shape at this point. i'm off interstate 82, we're at the gear jamme rsdzs truck stop right now. to give you some numbers -- and i've got to tell you, if you are ever in this area and need a good breakfast and i know because i'm watching people eat right now at gear jammers. >> are you warm enough? you don't look warm enough. >> no, i'm not because i got a ride from bellingham to seattle with a great guy named devon yesterday. and i left my jacket in his car and i'm not kidding. so, he's going to fedex it to me but i don't know where i'll be the next day somewhere so that's a problem in and of itself. we've traveled 2,098 miles by air and car.

still to go, 27, 076 by car or 23, 31 nautical miles. we're well behind. anchorage, i don't know how bright an idea. anchorage up to fairbanks to bellingham, drove to seattle, drove over to fpiff washington and here to yak man and i have $383 in my pocket, i'll live large today. not bad. we worked really hard. to understand this whole journey, you have to begin at the very beginning. anchorage, alaska, the morn-most major city in america, rugged and frigid, it would have been a hard pick to find a starting point that felt more remote. i got a warm welcome in this very cold place, although it seemed that the odds were stacked against me. >> i'm kind of scared, i have to

say. i don't know if you are going to be able to do this. >> this is tough. >> i began my odyssey in a place of breathtaking beauty, more than 4300 miles from home and dependent on the kindness of strangers to get me back. if you wanted the front sheet, you should have called it! strangers like jessica peterson who offered me my first ride. >> there is so many nice people here alls you need to do is flash your pearly whites and i think people will take sympathy on you. >> thanks for letting me carpool. i appreciate that! with only $50 in my pocket, the girls order of business was to earn some cash. >> how many pounds of fish will i process today? >> today, you are probably going to be somewhere right around two to three thousand pounds of fish during the time you're here. >> we got a little sloppy here and here. but, you know, if you hold it the right way, you really don't

know. word of my willingness to work spread and job offers poured in. soon, i was changing tires. shoveling snow, and driving alaska's version of a dream machine, the zamboni at the university of alaska, anchorage. then, an air ambulance company e-mailed me. they he had an open seat on a flight to washington state but it required an overnight pit stop in fairbanks. wrong way, but i had no other options. air ambulances are used frequently throughout alaska. for some, the only way to get medical care is by airplane. what are you to these people you help? >> um, i hope -- my goal is to treat patients the way i want my family and friends to be treated. >> although i wasn't a patient, i felt that same type of care. nonetheless, i had to pay for it by unloading 300 pounds of medical cargo.

although i only had 12 hours in fairbanks, i was able to land a job at china hot springs and remote resort 60 miles outside of downtown fairbanks. bernie carl put me to work. i chopped wood. even carved martini glasses out of ice for their ice hotel. foeshz magazine voted this the dumbest business idea in 2004. we tell everyone foeshz can kiss my [ bleep ] it features and amazing collection of ice sculptures, ice bar and chandeliers made of individually carved ice crystals. >> here's where you'll be staying tonight. >> the resort gives all their employees room and board and bernie showed me where i'd be sleeping. >> can you sleep in a 20 degree room like this? >> if you're a man. >> oh. >> pretty cool -- and cold. 20 degrees all night inside. in the morning, it was time to

defrost and then to wing my way to the lower 48. as we took off and i looked down on alaska's frozen beauty, i realized what an amazing land i was leaving and what an amazing trip it had already been. >> cool stuff, dave. now what's on the agenda today? >> i have absolutely no idea. [ laughter ] >> you know, we have the -- the problem is, to be honest with you, with anyone i approach at this point, i smell like halibut and cigarette smoke from working in the bingo hall last night. we're at a truck stop. i'm near an airport. and i really have no idea what we're going to do. the key is, i need miles today. i need to get eastward. >> you need to make some serious progress. although you've made some great friends. >> there is that. >> i've got to tell you something, i have a new appreciation for how seafood gets to our plates. it is remarkable.

and -- and, you know, all kidding aside, you travel to these cold locations and wonder, who would live in such brutal conditions? and the answer is, people who can provide their own warmth. and we met the most special people throughout alaska. and the scenery is captivating and the people are ingratiating. i consider myself very lucky. i'm not as far as i wanted to be but i've really had a great experience so far. i'm just tired and cold. >> we want to get you farther. here's your chance, make your plea to the viewers right now. what do you need from them today? >> well, to be honest with you, anyone on twitter in any time zone or e-mail, access to e-mail please, e-mail me at "no way home" at cbs news.com. nowayhome@cbs news.com or follow me on twitter @earlyshowdave. any suggestions, relatives, modes of transportation. i could use the help.

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welcome back to "the early show," everybody. it's a great crowd of young people archbishop malloy out in queens. you know what they did? they brought coats in. can we do this one second, come here. >> do it. >> what happens today if you bring coats? >> everyone brought coats today to really share the warmth for the national coalition for the homeless and you can go on landsin.com, buy a coat and we'll donate a dollar as well for the national coalition. >> a good thing, young people, way to go. thank you very, very much. we like that a lot. >> spreading the warmth and we're happy to spread the message. coming up we'll spread the bargains. you'll meet a woman who can save you hundreds this holiday season

teaching you how to use coupons wisely. here's a preview of one deal, you pay 40 bucks for batteries and get back 50 bucks. it's really, really true. >> whoa! >> we will be paying attention to that. >> my frugal new englander ruth my eared popped up at that. our super fan tyler mcgill is here sharing another of his amazing adventures. look at that. tyler's working out. he will fly through the air with the greatest of ease performing a unique tribute to elvis. where else? vegas, baby. it'll never be the same. >> we've been enjoying the -- >> aromas. >> this morning in the studio. we got a cowboy in the kitchen this morning, chef tim love has come up from texas to show us how to make the perfect pulled pork. >> yea! >> along with chili cheese grits. >> my favorite. >> right? and other incredible dishes.

we'll hear from him in a bit, as well. >> i'm glatd dave can't here us right now. >> the poor man is hungry and cold because he is, of course, trying to find his way home. so, while he's working on that, i'll work on his job, of course, the weather. we'll take a look at the weather around the country, cloudy skies patches of fog and drizzle lingering over the northeast. toward the gulf coast is storm is expected to hit the region, looking for heavy rains today. it promises to be a nice day, however, in the central plains with partly cloudy skies, temperatures in the 50s. further north, though, it look for chilly and breezy with temperatures in the 30s and 40s. grab that extra

that's your weather on a monday. maggie? >> thank you, erica. will holiday shopping season kicks into high gear coupons are a way to dramatically cut your costs. heath ther wheeler author of "pick another lane, honey" and she has great coupon deals for all of us this morning. good morning, heather. >> good morning. >> not just about clipping coupons anymore, so much more complicated. >> it is. there are so many ways to save. we have printable coupons, online coupon codes. we even have rebates. on thekrazycouponlady.com, we call it the perfect storm and can use a coupon with a sale and multiply our savings. that's what we'll talk about today. >> great. >> a lot of people think all that is too complicated. you are going to show us exactly

how to do it. >> yes. >> nice and easy for everybody. >> absolutely. >> this blew ray so popular right now was originally, what $1999? >> yep. >> you bought it for $59 using coupons. how did you do that? >> this is an online deal, right now disney has a promotion on their website. you join their disney promotions site and when you buy five blew ray movies there are codes, magic codes, and all you do is enter those online and you'll be able to buy the blew ray player for only $59. >> but you do have to buy the five movies. >> you do. and you can choose from 20 available titles. it's movies like "toy story 3" and "beauty of the beast" titles likely on our shopping list for christmas anyway. >> anyway. >> exactly right. very good. after you put the codes in you get to buy the blu-ray for $59. really good. this i like, i love books. these are really cool ones. you got seven books for seven

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same, will you? >> believe it or not i don't belong to a gym and can't even touch my shows, for that matter but weaseled my way on stage with some of the best performers and athletes in the world at circ you did so lal viva elvis in las vegas. check it out. what do you get when you combine the king of rock 'n roll and the city of city? "viva elvis," baby. the new production from cirque du soleil feature as cast of 57 trained performers who use music, dancing, and dazzling acrobatics to create an electrifying tribute to elvis presley. tonight, i'm joining them. what am i getting into this evening. as of now -- >> mayhem. >> straight mayhem, perfect. ♪ it's now or never >> my role is shall but important to the overall spectacle of "viva" elvis"

flying over the stage at high speeds during key moments in the show. it's going to take everything i've got to pull in this off. the physical demands of circ deso lal are intense. before i could take the stage i had to take a physical. this two-time olympic gymnast kindly offered to test my abilities. looks like it's fun on stage and the torture chamber is down here. >> be happy we're not doing swings. >> i'm happy about everything we're not doing today. ridiculous! >> ten shows a week, 438 shows a day. >> how many a year? >> 478. >> and training during the week, as well. >> yes. >> that blows my mind. after the toughest workout of my life, they raised me to the rafters for rehearsal. my stomach was in knots. >> stay calm. don't wiggle around a, just --

>> don't panic. i almost missed that grab going across. i can do it during the show, i think. that grab was a bit more strenuous than i thought. i think we need to give it at least one more go-around. there will be 1800 people out here tonight. my heart rate will be going pretty quick again i think by the time i'm on stage. >> the successful rehearsal boosted my confidence. i was ready to do this thing! but first, i had to make a small sacrifice for the sake of show biz. >> when elvis went into the military it was a big deal we had to have his haircut. we need to clean up your haircut and get you clean shaven.

>> elvis made sacrifice for the country and i'm making mine with the moustache. >> you. >> are with my warrobe and makeup complete i transformed into a real cirque du soleil performer. >> our newest castmember, everybody, tyler. [ cheering ] >> they are all amped up. i'm fired up now! the show started and i walked into position, my heart was racing as i began my descent. this was happening. i reached for the net, climbed down and saluted. mission accomplished. ♪ return to sender ♪ return to sender >> that went pretty quick. >> good job. >> thanks. >> having the chance to perform with this amazing cast was a

dream come true. >> i was a little bit nervous holding on to the rope but once i started going i don't really remember it at all. all i remembered was to keep my butt and legs up. i somehow was allowed often the circ today so lay stage. seeing it that close, was cool, absolutely amazing. >> the true test, of course, of your performance, none of the 1800 people asked for their money back, right. >> no. at least not that i know of so far. >> it's funny. you said it looked, you know you see you going down the zip line and have to grab it and it doesn't look that bad. it's really tough. >> like significantly more strenuously than i thought because you are kind of hauling when you come in. i only got to practice twice in warm-ups. >> that's it. >> one with lights on and one with lights off and music going. the first time i almost missed it. i went and grabbed with my right and lost the grab and got it barely. i was a little shook for the

real deal. >> after you are done and see the rest of the show and see the performers afterwards they look a little nervous like tyler might move in on my territory? >> i don't think they were too nervous about that. when you see them train and work out they do over 450 shows a year and train, as well. when i saw the hindz the stage stuff, i had a new appreciation for it. the guy, grant, who trained me, two-time olympian, it was, i mean, a little tough. >> a lot of these folks you may not realize people see the shows but like you said they are dancers and gymnasts and have to be able to do it all. really the hardest workout you've gone through, huh. >>? by a long shot. i knew i was in trouble. dude rips off his shirt, with the olympic tattoo and thought -- >> do you think you were a little over your head, we sent you on the toughest assignment. >> my alpha came out and i'm like i got this, i like this.

halfway through i was -- >> by the way i'm glad they made you get rid of the moustache. it wasn't working. tyler, thank you. >> thank you very much. >> nothing says cowboy cooking like pulled pork. and chef tim love, the master of meat is just the man to show us how to do it, the executive chef and owner of fort whort's loendz some dove western bistro. good to see you again. >> good to see. >> drew: howdy, partner, as we said out west. i'm looking at stuff here but tell me how we get to pulled pork heaven. >> i know. we've been talking about this 45 minutes but we are going to get there very quickly. let start off here with a pork shoulder here. >> pork shoulder. >> some people, you know, you have pulled pork butt which is actually the shoulder, the butt of the animal. >> the shoulder. >> bone-in. >> what soaking in in? >> in salt water brine, salt, water, a little bit of chili

flake. we'll pat it and dry it a because you want the seasoning to stick to it like this. >> right. >> i have a seasoning of chili powder, you could min, salt and pepper, thyme and rosemary. we'll season the heck out of it. >> you don't have to rub it. >> you can rub it, harry, if enjoy doing that, that's fine. >> oh, whatever. [ laughter ] >> get it nice and seasoned. don't be shy with the seasoning because you want to really coat it on. >> it's going to sit in there for a couple of hours, right? >> a lot of hours. this is something i like to do, i add coca-cola to give it steam, instead of water. >> i like it. >> being from texas we like our coca-cola in texas. >> i like it. anybody ever tried doctor pepper? >> people try it a lot because we like doctor pepper. >> just curious. >> couple cokes. >> that's it? >> that's it, really. >> do you have to cover this thing up. >> absolutely. you can do that, put a little foil on there. we're going to cover that up and

i'm going to let you bring it over to the oven and i'll pull the hot one out. >> deal. >> getting to the part you like. >> yeah, because we've got to see the finished product. >> we'll put it in the oven, harry, 200 or 210 degrees. >> really low heat. >> really low heat about 10 or 11 hours. it's definitely a set it and forget it kind of situation, you know? then we reveal this here. look at that. >> oh, my lord! look at that. >> so, it's been cooking and you can see the bones -- >> literally -- >> -- take themselves out. that's kind of how we like to do it. >> maybe one of the coolest things we've done soinchts then you can take this and we're going to take it out of the coca-cola bath here, very, very carefully. >> like, what, 10, 11 hours? >> yeah, about 11 hours. you can see -- how this is going to kind of -- >> oh, it's going to just come apart. >> see that? isn't that beautiful? this is, you know -- why we live

down where we are, that and come up here and watch the giants lose one game this season. >> yeah. [ laughter ] >> you know, what we deserved it. if we can't even keep the lights on, we probably deserve it. >> you know, the lights went out because the rent is too damn high! [ laughter ] >> so -- >> thinking about ginning that party. >> if you really want to get kind of fancy on it, you take a little bit of this coca-cola syrup and a drizzle on that. tell me how that tastes now. >> start the grits. >> i don't want this to be too hot. >> now i've got a little bit of cream and chicken stock here and that's got a nice little simmer to it as you can see and i'll add in the grits. >> wow! >> now we'll have me some grits, great comfort foods you want to eat on a day like today, nice and cold out. >> damp. >> a bit damp out and you can

make all this food and can sit for a while, easy to make for a family. sometimes we talk about making these quick meals but sometimes it takes a little bit of time to make a dang good meal. >> the truth is, with that kind of smell in the house, right. >> that's right. >> by the time you are ready to go, everybody is like -- oooh, when the s the pulled pork done? >> a little green chili. >> by the way, this is just wrong, it's just so good, so perfect. >> so, for reference of time, we're going to let this come up to what we call the grits start popping look like little volcanos popping and we'll add cheese. the secret to the grits here to add in whisked eggs. >> oh, wow. >> that will hold them well, the finished prout there. >> take a look at that. >> the finished product. >> a think of beauty. >> a little potato grautin, because of the winter wrapped up

in bacon all that and a cowboys's win right here in the city. >> we set you up, pal. always a pleasure. >> thank you. >> if you'd like these repeas go to our website "the early show" show.cbs news.com. we'll be right back. you're watching "the ea g ♪ ♪ hello sunshine ♪ sweet as you can be ♪ i love waking up [ chuckles ] ♪ to your morning melody ♪ i can tell it's gonna be ♪ a sweet day

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