hi, i'm joel osteen. i'm excited about being with you every week. i hope you'll tune in. you'll be inspired, you'll be encouraged. i'm looking forward to seeing you right here. you are fully loaded and completely equipped for the race that's been designed for you. >>> despite some hopeful new economic indicators, consumers are watching their spending this holiday season. mark strassmann has more from atlanta. >> reporter: tis the season to be jittery, with an economy offering both the spirit of here's agiftescog >> inflation is coming down in america. >> reporter: down for the fifth straight month from its june peak. gas prices dropped more than 50 cents over the last month, averaging $3.15 a gallon. a steal compared to mid-june, when typical gas prices began with a number five. inflation's easing, but it's become a siege. still above 7%, still near a 40-year high. >> the u.s. economy has slowed significantly from last year's rapid pace. >> reporter: no surprise the fed this week raised interest rates again. this time by half a percentage point. >> without price stability

hi, i'm joel osteen. i'm excited about being with you every week. i hope you'll tune in.nspired, you'll be encouraged. i'm looking forward to seeing you right here. you are fully loaded and completely equipped for the race that's been designed for you. >>> one of the many surprises we were witness to here in washington in 2022, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy whirlwind trip to the nation's capital. >> this lightning fast washington trip, his first foreign visit since russia's full-scale invasion. it was less perilous than the front lines but just as important. as that price tag now nears $100 billion, a number of lawmakers have voiced skepticism. zelenskyy shared his gratitude. >> i think every american family, which cherishes the warmth of its home and the same warmth to other people. >> there was no holiday cease-fire. ukrainians kept up their fierce resistance, celebrating in subway shelters, decorating makeshift christmas trees and finding invadnovative ways to lt them amid a blackout. lighting the tallest menorah shows light it wiat resilience see themselves

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hi, i'm joel osteen. i'm excited about being with you every week. i hope you'll tune in.pired, you'll be encouraged. i'm looking forward to seeing you right here. you are fully loaded and completely equipped for the race that's been designed for you. >>> welcome back to "face the nation." we want to continue our conversation with california congressman pete aguilar. i had to cut you off. i apologize for that. i want to pick up where we left off. you are now finishing up this lame duck session before you move into this leadership role. we are seeing the focus really just being on keeping the government funded. as part of that, will you be able to put in the hundreds of millions of dollars that so many mayors are asking for to shore up border security in the next few weeks? you're from california.

hi, i'm joel osteen. i'm excited about being with you every week. i hope you'll tune in.'ll be inspired, you'll be encouraged. i'm looking forward to seeing you right here. you are fully loaded and completely equipped for the race that's been designed for you. >>> so many people have been calling out sick lately. maybe you felt some extra pressure to show up to work. apparently one olive garden in kansas is no exception. the manager there got in trouble for trying to make sure employees came to work the manager reportedly sent out this message to be staffing if you are sick, you can come prove it to us. if your dog died, you need to bring him in and prove it to us. what? the manager also wrote that they worked at the olive garden for 12 years and never missed a day. sounds like a fun person at parties. they also said they even showed up on time when they got in a car crash and totaled their car. the manager is out of a job. the owner of olive garden told cbs money watch have officially parted ways saying we strive to provide a caring and respectful risk place. >> what is

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hi, i'm joel osteen. i'm excited about being with you every week. i hope you'll tune in.nspired, you'll be encouraged. i'm looking forward to seeing you right here. you are fully loaded and completely equipped for the race that's been designed for you. >>> forbes released its list of the world's 100 most powerful women today. ursula von der leyen is of germany and she's number one for leading the eu's sanctions of russia after the ukraine invasion. also honored, iran's mahsa amini. americans on the list include the oldest and youngest honorees, 82-year-old nancy pelosi and 32-year-old taylor swift. >>> a concert for peace at the historic carnegie hall in new york city. we'll have the music and the story next. >>> finally tonight, a one time only concert at carnegie hall took place this weekend to raise money for ukraine. several ukrainian and american choirs joined forces to perform the carol of the bells written by a ukrainian composer in 1916. ♪ >> imagine this carol was first performed at the historic carnegie hall 100 years ago in october, 1922, by the ukrainian natio

hi, i'm joel osteen. i'm excited about being with you every week. i hope you'll tune in. you are fully loaded and completely equipped for the race that's been designed for you. >>> well, this time of year, some americans test their mettle by taking the polar plunge, diving into the freezing ocean or a frozen lake. not myself, but others take that even further by running a marathon near the south pole. again, not me. reilly carlson has the story from london. >> reporter: 60 runners from 20 different countries dashing through the snow in the antarctic ice marathon. it was the 17th run of what organizers call the southernmost marathon on earth. competitors battle freezing temperatures and, at times, a very slippery slope across the union glashier. but one run this year was especially memorable. >> i've never seen anything like it. to be able to run that fast in these kind of conditions. >> reporter: ireland's sean tobin won this year's event, running the 26.2 miles in 2:53, and that's with one spill in the snow. >> you just sink. it's like -- i don't know. it's like running

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hi, i'm joel osteen. i'm excited about being with you every week. i hope you'll tune in.nspired, you'll be encouraged. i'm looking forward to seeing you right here. you are fully loaded and completely equipped for the race that's been designed for you. >>> finally tonight, a story of hope and recovery. in 2020, a deadly tornado ripped through a tennessee town. cbs's david begnaud covered the devastation at the time, and he recently returned, and what he found is truly inspiring. >> there he is. >> reporter: we went back to cookeville, tennessee, to check in. >> wow, it's been a long time. >> reporter: nearly three years after a tornado hit in the middle of the night. >> there was no grass. it actually -- it pulled the grass out. >> reporter: it was a direct hit. 170 homes shredded. 19 lives lost, including an entire family that huddled together and are now buried together. josh, erin, and sawyer kimberlin. his grandparents are trisha and pastor rodney pitts. >> i'm not the same person i used to be. that's for sure. >> what's changed? >> oh, man. everything. >> reporter: m

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hi, i'm joel osteen. i'm excited about being with you every week. i hope you'll tune in.'ll be inspired, you'll be encouraged. i'm lookingg you. completely equipped for the race that's been designed for you. >>> finally tonight, some of the most famous pep talks in history were delivered by notre dame's legendary football coach knute rockne. today the fighting irish are taking that tradition outside the locker room. here is cbs's adriana diaz. ♪ >> reporter: notre dame's legendary school spirit is lifting the spirits of sick kids. two years ago, lacrosse captain max man yak started recording pep talks for ian macmillan, a then 10-year-old with leukemia. through a school program, ian had signed on to the team. then covid hit. >> he was pretty much trapped in his room. so what we started doing is we just started sending him a super quick video every day after practice. >> we're all rooting for you. >> you've got 55 brothers with this team. >> they were encouraging me, and it just made me feel like i could do it. >> reporter: kevin macmillan is ian's dead. >> it's a family u

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