think that this is indicative this is why they're such directors there they're always sick well jane west i don't know. this one's from them girls are cool any new big projects coming up for random acts of random random acts is the charity that i founded with the with my twitter followers a few years ago it started as a just a little seed and i quickly saw that while they are really incredibly responsive and and so now we have a staff of twenty volunteers and then and we were eating budget of half a million dollars and we do projects like we just finished building a really amazing community center an orphanage in haiti and we're about to. i think we're going to do something in san juan del sor nicaragua next year and we do things like we just reunited a woman who was slave traded. and brought sort of the states you do really random good acts we try to. we received more twitter questions for me than for any guest ever we got so in fact we decided to vote an entire segment to it that you're a cool be mets' wants to know if you're ever going to write a book yourselves. i do occasionally fant

think that this is indicative this is why they're such directors there they're always sick well jane west i don't know. this one's from them girls are cool any new big projects coming up for random acts random random acts is the charity that i founded with the with my twitter followers a few years ago it started as a just a little seed and i quickly saw that while they are really incredibly responsive and and so now we have a staff of twenty volunteers and we're eating budget of half a million dollars and we do projects like we just finished building a really amazing community center an orphanage in haiti and we're about to. i think we're going to do something in san juan del sor nicaragua next year and we do things like we just reunited a woman who was slave traded. and brought sort of the states you do random good we try to. we received more twitter questions for me than for any guest ever we got so in fact we decided to vote an entire segment to it that you're a kook the next wants to know if you're ever going to write a book yourselves. i do occasionally fantasize about writing books

so so hopefully $63, plus a $10 tip is enough to beat my colleague jane wells on the west coast.etting dinner ordered. and to the table. >> revenge is a dish best served cold, courtney. >> that's right. i win. i win. and we didn't -- it was -- we had no idea how this was going to work out. we really, okay, let's do this and also see what happens. >> i was telling jean yesterday i tried to order to maamales we $90, the shipping was $178 which i just don't get. i'm going to make them myself and it's going to be ugly. >> thanks. >> got it. >> you can vote for who you think you won each battle at holidaycentral.cnbc.com. >>> andrew? >> thank you, sue. we got some headlines for you. 173 days before the world cup. another embarrassment for brazil. terrible mudslides forcing massive evacuations there. a family of six was buried and killed by the slide. so far there have been two other confirmed deaths as well. it happened after days of heavy rain. shelters have been set up. people in the area literally running away from the slides. >>> and fairs from mexico city's metro jumping 70% yest

. >> so hopefully $63 plus a $10 tip is enough to beat my colleague jane wells on the west coast gettingordered and to the table. >> and courtney and jane, they're both here onset with us. so, ladies, it seems to me, i think courtney won. >> i did. i won. take that, jane, and amazon. i won this round. >> what was the -- would you do it again? >> what do you think? >> i would say, no. you guys on the east coast are used to getting food delivered. the only thing i ever get is a pizza delivered. and so i have tried food delivery services before, and i don't find it that convenient. and in the case of amazon fresh, it costs you $300 to join. and i couldn't get a turkey. i had to get a roast and i couldn't get a pie. >> i have to say, i actually test services myself. i use fresh direct and pea pod and i game it back and forth to find out when i'm going to get the best delivery time. it started when i was on maternity leave. and i started gaming the system. if you're organized and put things into advance. you've got to think ahead, think about your menu, think about what you need. if you do th

jane is back, phil is back. there is backlash on west jets's holiday promotional video.adian airline giving away christmas presents to two flights full of passengers. the video has received more than 27 million views on youtube. where is the outrage coming from? why are people annoyed by this some. >> >> not a ton of people but we wrote it for cnbc.com and a few analysts saying look, there's nothing wrong with doing this video, but in a season of giving, should you be giving passengers presents? wouldn't it be better to ask people what would you give to somebody who is needy or what would you conate to a charity. but i have to say, tyler, if you look at it this video, watch it all the way through, more than five minutes, but it's one of the best corporate videos that i've seen put together in a long time. >> what they were doing is what, asking people what they would like for christmas when they boarded -- >> at departure. >> it's there waiting for you. >> yeah. >> when you checked in, santa came on the screen and said what would you like for christmas, people thought th

>> jane, you have to say west coast basketball doing better than we're doing out here in the east right, but maybe once kobe gets back on the court. >> yeah, maybe it'll be the shoes. jane wells, thank you so much this morning. jane, thanks. how would you like the chance to win cnbc history? guess what? now you can. it's as easy as nailing the number that is the jobs report number. we'll explain that coming up next. ya know, with new fedex one rate you can fill that box and pay one flat rate. how naughty was he? oh boy... [ male announcer ] fedex one rate. simple, flat rate shipping with the reliability of fedex. i love having a free checked bag with my united mileageplus explorer card. i've saved $75 in checked bag fees. [ delavane ] priority boarding is really important to us. you can just get on the plane and relax. [ julian ] having a card that doesn't charge you foreign transaction fees saves me a ton of money. [ delavane ] we can go to any country and spend money the way we would in the u.s. when i spend money on this card, i can see brazil in my future. [ anthony ] i use the expl

jane and still amazing. >>> we begin with the extreme cold snap making half of the country feel like a frozen tundra. temperatures are plummeting this morning from the west and well to the south. the entire state of montana is dipping below zero at some point this morning and that's without factoring in the windchill. abc's ginger zee is braving it all for us. >> reporter: the brutal storm is sending us careening into winter. roads littered with spinouts in salt lake. sliding in sioux city, iowa. even our minneapolis truck skidding. then the inevitable. the storm inspiring strong words in colorado springs. >> i hate this. >> reporter: but this whole deal is not just the snow but the biting, record-breaking cold. terrorizing citrus crops in southern california. >> we have protection and crews ready. we have water, wind machines. >> reporter: watch this time lapse of a thermometer in denver plunging from 54 to 10 in 14 hours. when it is this cold, veteran postal carrier, has a strategy. >> layers, proper shoes and water. >> yes, drink plenty of water. >> reporter: another warning, frostbite. it can set in quick and can be deadly. in bismarck, where the win

a rotary, near where i lived, the west concord rotary, one of the most dangerous in the state. but, janetest. how accurate was it for you? >> it is interesting. i was somewhat disappointed to find that they pemegged me for mobile or tallahassee, but i'm from texas. i said median and service road. i don't know how they pegged me on that, but i was thinking about tells and one of the things that is a tell for me, someone watched me on tv and said i didn't know jane hall was from texas until i heard her say might could. it is a texas conditional. we might could be able to go. it pecked me as more southern. i have southern heritage so that made sense. >> there is a dictionary of american regional english that the university of wisconsin puts out. there is great expressions i've never heard, blind pig. this is a california expression apparently, that's a place that sells liquor illegally. there is an appalachian verb to get schnydered. you got scammed. kentucky, tag tale. a wyoming expression. someone who lags behind. in wyoming, i guess with would say liz cheney is tag taling in the race for

jane ferguson, aljazeera, kabul, afghanistan. >> the world thinks as afghanistan's declines to 13% from 14% laster. >> a historic flight between the u.s. and cuba. a commercial passenger plane from key westavana. before the 1959 cuban revolution, key west was a regular departure spot. monday flight called a test carried just nine people. it comes two years after federal officials gave the green light to resume flights and the passengers will remain in cuba until january 3. >> there are no federal guidelines rewarding lung cancer screenings. a panel of medical experts for the first time ever is recommending annual c.t. scans for the those with the highest risks. doctors say it could save the lives of thousands suffering the deadly cancer. >> leslie lit up his first cigarette in a foxhole during world war ii. >> i think i was nervous and upset, and one of the guys said here, light up, it will it will you down, so i did. >> after decades of smoking, he was diagnosed with lung cancer picked up during a c.t. scan in 2007 that eventually saved his life. >> they showed me the pictures and said you better see your doctor. >> he's one of the lucky ones. lung cancer claims 160,000 lives a year, th

is on the rise on the west coast, but the two states where weed is legal have very different ideas of how to deal with the baked backpackers. here at post 9 to explain is our own janer, if anyone can turn post 9 into pot 9, that would be jane. >> i'm not sure, again, what to make of all of this. you mean pot tourism is up? i am shocked! shocked, i tell you! guys, washington and colorado are taking two very different approaches. colorado is planning for tourists to come to smoke pot next year, and buy it. washington wants to keep them out by limiting the amount of supply to only what's needed for residents. so how much is that? well, it hired the rand corps corporation to find. usage is more than twice expected. 575 metric tons of marijuana is being consumed this year in washington. the state thought it was only 85 metric tons. washington recently hosted the national marijuana business conference as it prepares to issue licenses to sell pot for any adult use whatsoever after the first of the year. yes, people, this is happening. it's real. and for those wondering about the dollars and cents, based on current average retail rates in seattle, that 175 metric tons is w