called the student a "future welfare recipient." all the comments were caught on camera. you airline passengers, you are used to shelling out money for a lot of things to that airline, but you'll hear a story this morning of passengers actually paying for the fuel pore their flight. thank you very much for being here on this "cnn saturday morning." i'm t.j. holmes. reynolds wolf is about to join me, because we have a weather situation that is causing fits for firefighters fighting a fire this is going on in northwestern nevada. this is a fast-moving fire fueled by strong winds and dry terrain it is threatening hundreds of home. thousands are without electr electricity around the reno area, but most of those folks do have their power back on now. this fire is a day old and has grown to three square miles. tragically, at least one person has been killed as a result of this fire. also one firefighter had to be taken to the hospital with injuries. schools were closed yesterday. as many as 10,000 people had to be evacuated. 20 homes have been destroyed. we are talking about wind gusts of up to 85 miles per hour. let me get reynolds wolf in on this. good morning. the winds still causing a problem or are they dying down? >> they're done. winds dropping. winds 5 to 10 miles per hour today. that's the good news. humidity is back up. yesterday we had the hurricane-force winds and the low humidity. when you have the dry conditions and the strong wind, the strong win will propel those flames. the situation you have in this area, you have a big range of mountains. we refer to those as the sierra nevada mountains. as you have the wind that rides over these mountains what happens is the wind will go over and then a lot of that moisture will stay on what we call the windward side of the sierra nevada. all your rain and snow will drop in places like lake tahoe, but reno not as much precipitation. yesterday we had the dry conditions, coupled with the winds. today the winds will die down, so that will help. that being said, you already have a fire that's burning. about three miles up in flames. they will have a tough time working today. hopefully mother nature will cooperate with them. we are having a few issues with our weather wall. we will try to get that out of way. we have some video. plain and simply, we have flames everywhere. assistance will come in from a storm that we see further out towards the west. the storm out to the west, this system over here over parts of the pacific coast that will make its way off to the east. that might bring more humidity back in to help the firefighters. in the meantime, snow and a lot of wind up in the northern plains. four to seven inches of snowfall, 30, 40, 50 miles per hour could give you whiteout conditions along i-90. twin cities, you will get the snow, but sunny and mild for much of the seaboard. all right, t.j., you're up to speed in the forecast. we'll give this thing the fonzie kick and see if we can get it working. >> all right. let's turn to politics. an important event today for the republican presidential hopefuls. paul steinhauser tells us why most of the candidates are in iowa and why one is not. >> reporter: good morning. with just over six weeks to go to the iowa caucuses -- >> i'm always reminded when i show up in iowa, the pundits always think they're the ones that pick presidents. no it's the people of iowa that pick the presidents. >> reporter: texas governor richterry along with newt gingrich, herman cain, michele bachmann, they all speak today. conservative voters will have a big say in determines which republican candidate wins the iowa caucuses. while most gop hopefuls will be in the state today, mitt romney will not. he is campaigning in new hampshire, which votes second in the race for the white house. t.j.? >> tuesday night, right here on cnn, the republicans running for president will gather just steps away from the white house for a presidential debate on national security and the economy. this is a cnn debate, that's tuesday 8:00 eastern right here on cnn. herman cain is now being protected by the u.s. secret service. a source inside the government tells cnn that the cain campaign asked for protection after the candidate got some unspecified threats. here's how cain responded yesterday to questions about adding the secret service. the thing about secret service is that things are secret, so we don't discuss any details about it because that would not be appropriate. later in the day, cain admitted there were things he encountered in new hampshire that made it a little uncomfortable. it looks like a possible failure on the debt reduction deal is looming, but members of the super committee say they are planning on working through the weekend to come up with a deal by monday. but the deadline for the deal on $1.2 trillion in deficit savings is wednesday. they say they have to have it done and in the hands of the budget office on monday to get everything in order in time for a wednesday vote. so monday is the day. >> we were sent here to do 1.2 trillion or 1.5 trillion or 4 trillion. so the idea on friday of settling for half of what the american people need and what we were sent here to do is unacceptable to me. >> kerry is one of the members of that super committee. republican pat toomey sounded more optimistic. >> the hour is late. by law, our work on this committee must be completed by this coming week. i remain hopeful that we can complete our goal. i urge our democratic colleagues to join us on this issue. >> this whole thing came about after that debt ceiling debate that happened in the summer. one of the main sticking points is revenue, we mean taxes. republicans proposed a tax to the change code to raise some revenue, but democrats are not going for that. if no deal is reached automatic cuts go into effect. that would happen until 2013. >> we did see these occupy movements all across the country, they were commemorating the two-month anniversary of when the whole occupy wall street movement started. we saw arrests in new york and a big showing across the country. we also saw some scuffles and back and forth between demonstrators and police. take a look at this one. now, a lot of people are outr e outraged by this video. you see the demonstrators sitting on the ground and being pepper sprayed by a police officer this is at the university of california at davis. they refused to move tents they sent up. the campus is upset about rising tuition costs. police defend their action here's saying they were concerned for their own safety. turning to pennsylvania now where the charity started by former penn state coach jerry sandusky may shut down. the ceo of second mile stepped down earlier this week. sandusky has been accused of sexually assaulting at least eight young boys he met through that charity. the new ceo of second mile says closing down is just one of the options they're now considering. also a moment last night for the oklahoma state football team. they stopped to pay tribute to two women's basketball coaches killed in a plane crash earlier friday. the head coach, kirk budke and the assistant coach died when their plane went down in arkansas during a recruiting trip. the number two ranked football team did end up losing that game last night in overtime to iowa state, 37-31. an embarrassing and potentially dangerous situation in australia involving the president. a booklet loaded with confidential details of the president's trip was found lying in a gutter. we'll have the details from australia and talk to the reporter who found that book. stay with me. oh my gosh, oh my gosh.. look at these big pieces of potato. ♪ what's that? 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this is what it looks like outside one best buy store in st. petersburg, florida one family pitched their tent on monday. they're not moving until they get a good deal on a tv. here's a story i want you to chime in on this morning. this is out of kansas city where a high school basketball coach is on paid administrative leave right now after some controversial comments. the coach's name is derek howard. people have now filed a racial harassment complaint against him. the people i'm talking about are parents of a student. let me explain what happened. marcus williams is a student at the center of this he's a high school student in kansas city. he said his coach, coach howard, was speaking to him or has been speaking to him for a while now in negative and in a racially demeaning way. so he's done this with other african-american kids, according to the student. williams said the latest incident, he was able to capture it on his cell phone camera. williams, the student, said he was taking a picture from a photograp photography class and the coach was walking by. take a listen to what happened. >> he stopped and he was like, hey, take the picture and when you take the picture, at the bottom label it future welfare recipient. and i was just like -- i'm kind of hurt. they were just laughing. >> that wasn't the end of it. the student, again, he says he has been through this and heard negative comments from this coach before. so he grabbed his cell phone and actually said, hey, coach what did you just say? look at what the coach did. >> future welfare recipient. who. >> who? >> students who don't get their grades. >> you don't just hurt my son, you hurt me and us as a community. we don't have to stand for that. >> this has really set off the kid's parents. williams and his father filed a racial harassment complaint. the school system did put out a statement saying the behaviors reported by this student do not reflect our professional conduct standards and will not be tolerated. we expect all students to be treated with respect by all staff at all times. what do you think about this? is an apology enough? did the coach cross the line? did he belittle the student? is it racially motivated? since the coach is white, the student is black. however, many people out there chimed in with us saying, hey, my coach and my teachers said some harsh things to me, too. and the coach said if students don't get their grades up they will be future well stair recipients. send us your comments this morning. we want to know what you think about this story, you can also find us on facebook and our blog. we'll be reading your comments throughout the morning. as we get close to the bottom of the hour, we will turn to natalie wood, that accident drowning 30 years ago. was it really accidental? 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>> t.j. what we understand now from a number of different sources here, senior military commanders in tripoli are telling us that saif gadhafi, the most wanted son of moammar gadhafi has been captured by revolutionary fighters in the sahara desert. we understand the capture was made in the town of ubari, in southwest libya, not too far from the algerian border. saif gadhafi is wanted for crimes against humanity. he has been on the run since august, since before the fall of the capital, tripoli. we are hearing outbursts of celebratory gunfire, people honking their horns celebrating what they have been waiting for for a long time. >> all right. jomana with the news for us. cnn continues to work to confirm, but the word is that saif gadhafi, you probably recognize that face, he was visible during the time of the uprising, speaking on behalf of his father and the government at the time. but the word is saif gadhafi has been captured in libya, possibly trying to flee but has been captured. we will turn back to politics here in a moment and the rise of newt gingrich. up in the polls, with just six weeks to go until the iowa caucuses, but can he keep this up? stay with me. rt. my mother said, "well, maybe we ought to buy this hot dog cart and set it up someplace." so my parents went to bank of america. they met with the branch manager and they said, "look, we've got this little hot dog cart, and it's on a really good corner. let's see if we can buy the property." and the branch manager said, "all right, i will take a chance with the two of you." and we've been loyal to bank of america for the last 71 years. turning to politics now. pretty busy week for the republican presidential candidates, but isn't every week now until iowa? bigger news may be coming out of washington, the debt super committee is running out of time to reach a deal on spending cuts. here with me now is matt towery, former campaign adviser to newt gingrich. and lee may, democratic county commissioner in suburban atlanta's dekalb county. let me start with this, you don't have to get into it, yes or no. will they reach a deal? >> no. >> no. >> absolutely not. >> absolutely not. what does this tell us about washington? the big debt deal. already some people don't think much of what's coming out of washington. will this hurt them more? >> they kick the can always. nobody thought the super committee was a good idea other than the people on the super committee. you already have a split off group called the gang of six rising, trying to offer another alternative. i think lee would agree, everybody is playing to their own constituencies. republicans realize conservatives and independents are important this year, they can't vote for tax increases, and democrats can't settle anything without tax enhancements. >> so who will get the blame when this goes down? >> all of congress. with the 9% approval rating, all of congress. this is the worst game of football ever. this is a football game with, you know, no touchdowns, no field goals. it's a football game full of punts. so an unattractive game, you wouldn't want to watch it they're just kicking the can down the road. >> moving on from that, going back to a guy you used to work for, newt gingrich. can he keep this up until iowa? >> i think he can. he is in a precarious situation, he sort of made his peak early. he would have done better had it been after thanksgiving. 2008, if you recall, we did the cnn youtube debate after thanksgiving, we went into the holidays, mike huckabee won that debate and never looked back. during christmas people don't care about politics. then you get into the early iowa caucus. gingrich so far is weathering the storm better than i thought he would he's quieter than he used to be, not just firing left or right. he has to get his story down right, but so far it's not penetrating as much as the herman cain issue because it's not as "sexy." >> talk about the republicans, as you watch this as a democrat, what do you think they're thinking at the white house as they are watching what's happening on the republican side? >> they're loving this. this is showing either the republicans don't know what they want or they have such a high standard that none of the candidates are able to fulfill their needs. >> who does the white house not want to go up against in that group? >> i think they don't want to go up against newt gingrich, i think they don't want to go up against mitt romney either. but, you know, at the end of the game, it's going to be such a battle that goes on. the candidate that comes out will be bruised. it's going to be like the game of "survivor," you will be on the island -- >> newt is not the one, given his background, history -- >> they all have baggage. newt just has a longer tenure of baggage to bring to the table. if he can make it through this portion of the primary as the nominee, then he'll have more time to be able to filter through that. >> i think the other point to be made here is that i don't think the white house really is as afraid of newt gingrich as they are mitt romney. the reason you've been seeing all these things come out about herman cain, newt gingrich and the like -- i run these campaigns, i know how they are. reporters were pitched on the herman cain story months ago. reporters told me so. don't be shocked that the romney folks are not floating some of this gingrich stuff right now. if i were running the campaign i might do the same thing. >> cain, we've seen more polls come out, he runs in number three of them as opposed to one or two as he has been. lee, has he at least steadied the ship, if you will? on top of this, we have another national security debate coming up. after what happened down in flori florida with his comment about speaking cuban and libya -- >> i think you will see herman cain fade to the background. it just shows that he wasn't really ready for the big time. can he get ready in the next six weeks? >> no. he's made so many blunders now. i think his campaign wasn't prepared for such a steep trajectory they made over the past weeks. >> is it fair to say that -- a lot of people say he didn't want to be president any way, he's just promoting a book. were they surprised at their own success? >> we both know herman, i think at the beginning herman was doing this for other reasons. he wanted messages to get across. >> you think he never really wanted to be president? >> i think he thought it was a long shot, and when he got there, he did not have the infrastructure you have. running for president requires the very best. you have to have the very best minds, be very tough. i don't think they were quite prepared for it. >> all right. gentlemen, good to see you. hope to get you back in here. so good to have guests in studio with us. good to see you. six weeks to go until iowa. we have next year to talk about. plenty of politics. tuesday night on cnn the republicans running for president will gather one more time for our national security debate, cnn putting it on, co-sponsored with the heritage foundation and the american enterprise institute. that's coming your way 8:00 eastern tuesday night rite here on cnn. >> we are at the quarter to the top of the hour. we will check back in with reynolds wolf, he can keeping an eye on all things weather-related, including things in nevada where high winds spawned a massive fire. we provide you with instructors who are professionals working in the fields they teach. it's an education designed for today, from a university that holds the same level of institutional accreditation as america's top schools. experience the university of phoenix difference at phoenix.edu. can i help you? 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>> these folks had to go -- >> yes. >> i thought the flight would stop right here -- those are their options. we will not be able to take to you your destination or get the money. >> we need to get around $30,000. they're finally clapping because it means we are taking off. those people who didn't have the money didn't get to go to england. but i want to hear from one very frustrated passenger about the ordeal. let's hear from him and the gentleman we will hear from actually took some of the photographs you're seeing. >> it was a complete and utter sham. i could not believe was i was witnessing. it was as if we were being held hostage, you know, against our wills with the 24,000 pounds -- which we all eventually had to pay, being the ransom. so, it's -- it was just a nightmare. >> can you imagine that? because the travel agency is british, even though the airline is austrian, the british aviation authority will refund the money. >> good. >> and is going to help those stranded in vienna to get back to england. but can you imagine? >> this is incredible. i hope airlines are paying attention to this for the right reasons. some airline executives, hum, maybe we can find a way -- >> exactly. more money, never mind charging for food, let's charge for fuel. >> we have another story, another outrage story about an airline. this is out of hong kong. i'm sure you heard of this one. the passengers -- i was proud of them for this -- they staged a sit-in. the airline had them sitting through a nine-hour delay, all right? you heard some of these horror stories, people sitting on tarmacs. this was in hong kong. when the hong kong airlines flight finally landed where it was supposed to land 5:00 a.m. wednesday morning after that nine-hour delay, some of the passengers refused to leave the flight until they were compensated. they wanted to be refouunded moy for unused hotel rooms. initially the airline offered 50 bucks, the passengers said, no we won't settle for that. they held out and the airline paid them $150. >> it's a matter of principle. >> it is. to make the point. after they sat there for nine hours, they sat there for another five. i don't think i had it in me. >> if you think about it, here you have the comtel air passengers, let's hope they get refunded, too but is it worth the hassle to get the money back? >> nadia, we'll see you again for another morning passport. coming up, another story you are all chiming in on. this is about that high school coach in kansas city who is now out on leave after he made a controversial comment to a student and it was caught on camera. listen to what he is. >> future welfare recipient. >> who? >> who? >> who. >> students who don't get their grades. >> a coach calls a student a future welfare recipient and repeats it on camera for the kid. should the coach be suspended, fired? or is the apology enough? meineke's personal pricing on brakes. i tell you what i can spend. i do my best to make it work. i'm back on the road safely. and i saved you money on brakes. that's personal pricing. earlier we were telling you about a coach's controversial comments. he is now on administrative leave after telling a student he's a future welfare recipient. the student taped this on his cell phone. look at this. >> future welfare recipient. who? >> who? >> who. >> students who don't get their grades. >> the student and his parents say this is just one of a number of really negative and sometimes racially motivated comments from this particular coach. we asked you to weigh in. is an apology enough from the coach? here's what some of you have been saying. juan says the coach is correct. students who earn cs, ds, fs will have a terrible time in our current economy, education is key to success. another saying, no. that teacher should be fired. no question. no tolerance for treating our children this way. another still saying fragile, politically correct panic attacks? coaches motivate students, it's not always with kid gloves. another one saying coach, apologized before he got caught. kudos to son and father for evidence. what's to investigate? video doesn't lie. a lot of you have been chiming in about that. keep those coming in. some of you kind of split here. some of you are saying, yes, if you're not a good student, that's the point the coach is trying to make. some of you saying that's too far and not how you motivate. we'll continue the conversation. as we get close to the top of the hour, let's continue with this cnn saturday morning. the breaking news out of libya, moammar gadhafi's son has been captured. more on that in a moment. also ahead, an embarrassing potential security breach for the white house. a secret document details president obama's minute-by-minute movements is found in a gutter. we talk to the reporter who found it. and pizza as a vegetable. sounds about right, doesn't it, reynolds? >> absolutely. this is the latest food fight in washington, d.c. and the holiday shopping season is here. we have details on how you can get gifts but also save that money. hello to you all. i'm t.j. holmes this is your "cnn saturday morning." wherever you may be, we are glad you are right here. let's begin with the breaking story out of libya, where saif gadhafi has been captured in southern libya near the algerian border. he is one of the most recognizable men in libya behind his father. he had been on the run since opposition forces took control in tripoli. saif gadhafi is wanted for alleged crimes against humanity. we are just getting this word that he was captured. much more on this story throughout the morning. just past the top of the hour. we will turn to weather and a big firefight going on in reno, nevada. a fast-moving wildfire fueled by gusty winds, dry terrain is threatening hundreds of homes. thousands of people lost fire. the fire is just about a day old. people who evacuated their homes are still in a state of shock. no word on how the fire got started. not important right now how it got started, it's important to get this thing out and weather is playing a role. >> certainly did yesterday when we had winds well above hurricane force. today the winds will drop. at the same time the humidity will be back up. the thing that really sparked this flame, accelerated the flames, caused burn to enhance is due to a storm system that pulled well to the north. high pressure over parts of the great basin. the two working in concert made for some strong winds. they were basically coming in from the southwest over the sierra nevada. normally when you have storm systems that move oversee yarea sierra nevada, you have rain and snow. what happens is one side robs the moisture, the other side gets the deficit and also the wind. that's what happened with reno. today the humidity is back up, with that the winds will drop. a lot of work. three miles completely scorched. the weather system that caused that to happen will cause delays out to the west and could see delays not only in san francisco but further to the east, in fact in boston, the midwest delays, miami and minneapolis getting in on the action. the storm system that brought the winds to the four corners and the great basin moving into the rockies and the central plains. before the day is out, that will move to the twin cities bringing snow and strong winds there. in terms of the snow s becau, bt is leaving the high terrain, will you see some snow. dakotas, three to seven inches of snowfall. with sustained winds of 25 miles per hour to 35 miles per hour, that will knock things around. isn't that right, t.j.? what we will be seeing is whiteout conditions for parts of i-90. this storm system will drive its way towards the great lakes. for places like green bay, mainly a rain event. on the other side of the boundary, it's all snow action. as we wrap things up from the great lakes, your high today in chicago, 55 in minneapolis, you're only going up to about 36. once that storm gets closer, your temperatures will be pummelled. 68 in kansas city. 68 for memphis. 80 in new orleans. 59 albuquerque. san francisco with 57 degrees. all right, t.j., back to you. >> construction going on. >> what was that noise? >> construction of all times. they can do construction any time of day, but not while we're on. >> i will get my skill saw and help out. >> we will see reynolds plenty throughout the morning. turning to politics. an important event today with republican presidential hopefuls. paul steinhauser says why most candidates are in iowa and why one is not. >> reporter: good morning. with just over six weeks to go to the iowa caucuses, it is time to kick off the calendar. >> i'm always reminded when i show up in iowa, the pundits always think they're the ones that pick presidents. no it's the people of iowa that pick the presidents. >> reporter: texas governor rick perry, former house speaker newt gingrich, herman cain, congressman ron paul, michele bachmann and rick santorum will all speak to. social conservative voters will have a big say in deciding which republican candidate reasons the iowa caucuses. while most gop hopefuls will be in the state today, mitt romney will not. he is campaigning in new hampshire, which votes second in the race for the white house. t.j.? >> thanks as always to paul steinhauser. remember, tuesday night right here on cnn, the republicans running for president will gather steps away from the white house for a presidential debate on national security and the economy. cnn hosting this debate co-hosted by the heritage foundation and the american enterprise institute. that's tuesday on cnn. one of those presidential candidates, herman cain is now being protected by the u.s. secret service. a source inside the government tells cnn that the cain campaign asked for protection after the candidate got some unspecified threats. this is how cain responded yesterday to questions about getting that secret service protection. >> the thing about secret service is that things are secret, so we don't discuss any details about it because that would not be appropriate. >> later in the day, cain admitted there were things he encountered in new hampshire that made the campaign a little uncomfortable. that's all the detail he would give. six minutes past the hour. back in washington, d.c., looks like another failure on a debt reduction deal is looming. but members of the so-called super committee say they're planning on working through the weekend to come up with a deal by monday. the deadline for the deal on $1.2 trillion in deficit savings is actually on wednesday. but they have to have it in the hands of the budget office by monday so they can get everything in order in time for a wednesday vote. monday is the deadline now. >> we were sent here to do 1.2 trillion or 1.5 trillion or 4 trillion. so the idea on friday of settling for half of what the american people need and what we were sent here to do is unacceptable to me. >> kerry is one of the 12 members of that super committee. it's split six republicans, six democrats. one of the republicans, pat toomey, sounds more optimistic. >> the hour is late. by law, our work on this committee must be completed by this coming week. i remain hopeful that we can complete our goal. i urge our democratic colleagues to join us in this effort. this whole thing came about after that sometimes nasty debt ceiling debate over the summer, you remember that one? one of the main sticking points is revenue or taxes. republicans proposed a tax to the change code to raise some revenue, but democrats are not going for that. if no deal is reached automatic cuts go into effect. those wouldn't happen until 2013. also this week, we saw occupy mark an anniversary, the two-month anniversary of the occupy wall street movement. we saw a day of action this week in washington, d.c., new york, l.a. we also saw some confrontations like this one between the protesters and demonstrators and the police. this one out in california. you see people being pepper sprayed. a lot of people are reacting to seeing this video. police are defending their action. this is at uc davis, the occupy the campus movement they call it. this was over rising tuition costs. police are defending their action, defending the use of that pepper spray. they say they were concerned about the officers' safety. an embarrassing slip-up for the white house. supposed to be protecting the president, but an important, secret document is found just lying around in the gutter. we talk to the man who found it. at bank of america, we're lending and investing in communities across the country, from helping to revitalize a neighborhood in brooklyn to financing industries that are creating jobs in boston or providing funding for the expansion of a local business serving a diverse seattle community and supporting training programs for tomorrow's workforce in los angeles. because the more we can do in local neighborhoods and communities, the more we can help make opportunity possible. to bring you a low-priced medicare prescription drug plan. ♪ with the lowest national plan premium... ♪ ...and copays as low as one dollar... ♪ ...saving on medicare prescriptions is easy. ♪ so you're free to focus on the things that really matter. call humana at 1-800-808-4003. or go to walmart.com for details. good morning to our listeners out there on satellite radio right now and a lot of folks sitting in airports right now. good morning to you all. thank you for watching. talking about the president, he is returning tomorrow from his week-long tour of asia. if the "sydney morning herald" what is right, the president comes back on an embarrassing note. a reporter said he found this in the gutter near the australian parliament building. it is a booklet outlining the security details around president obama earlier this week. dylan welch is his name. i talked to him moments ago. >> it tells you how he will get out of the car, limo one. there is a detailed outline of the convoy, and phone numbers for australian military commanders as well. >> no response yet from either the white house or the secret service on this report. also coming up, clyde anderson will join me. you know it's that holiday shopping season. are you one of those early ones that gets out there? 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don't just say i need a gift for mom or dad? what gift for mom and how much will that cost? >> do you always need to be so specific about who you need to give gifts to? >> especially these days. everybody doesn't need a gift. we have to shrink that list down a bit. >> that helps me out a lot. food. shopping and eating, these things go together? >> when we are talking about food, use things that you already have in your pantry. let's cut out on eating out. where are we pulling some of this money from? average person spends about $704 annual on christmas gifts. that's average. a lot of people go over that. what we want to make sure we're doing is find out where we're pulling that money from? >> can't do the stuff you've been doing all year. i was asking you this. the best time to start shopping. i thought we would talk about the middle of the day, morning or night. you are talking about the season. >> start early and shop late. you want to make sure you're getting the best deals. we have black friday coming up. people are always saying that's the best times. there's times to shop throughout the holiday season. those are not always the best days. you want to figure out can i start right now and deals after the holiday as well. >> do i start early or do you just need to monitor throughout? >> don't try to lump it all in it's stressful. >> people are like let me get it over with right now. >> you don't have to get it done right now. if you take your time, you can find out where the bargains are. look online, figure out the prices, compare prices. >> cash or credit? >> cash. >> cash is king. >> cash. >> people have not prepared for the interest they will pay, and they will not pay it right away. don't feel like i will charge this and it will disappear. it's there and you will pay for it over and over again. >> so literally, i should go in with a stack of cash. >> go back to that budget, find out how much to put on there, how much i allocated, find that cash and use it. >> good stuff. even if it makes my life more difficult sometimes. >> swrjust don't cut me out of t list. >> all right. another story, we have been talking about this week, all congress has to do, they're worried about what you're eating. should pizza be classified as a vegetable? listen to how jimmy kimmel summed this up. >> welcome to your new vegetable garden. >> show us around. >> we have big vegetables here. we have medium, even little bits, little bites. the best thing about these vegetables is they're always in season. >> stay with us. we have a dietitian here who will give us the real story behind us and what a real vegetable is supposed to look like. but with advair, i'm breathing better so now i can take the lead on a science adventure. advair is clinically proven to help significantly improve lung function. unlike most copd medications, advair contains both an anti-inflammatory and a long-acting bronchodilator, working together to help improve your lung function all day. advair won't replace fast-acting inhalers for sudden symptoms and should not be used more than twice a day. people with copd taking advair may have a higher chance of pneumonia. advair may increase your risk of osteoporosis and some eye problems. tell your doctor if you have a heart condition or high blood pressure before taking advair. if you're still having difficulty breathing, take the lead. ask your doctor if including advair could help improve your lung function. get your first full prescription free and save on refills at advaircopd.com. whoa. whoa. how do you top great vacations? 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>> well, two tablespoons of tomato paste is considered a vegetable -- >> is that ridiculous? >> actually -- well, tomato paste, two tablespoons that 25 calories two grams of fiber and some minerals. technically it could. what concerns me is how are you going to regulate and make sure that two tablespoons of tomato paste is getting on each slice of pizza. >> you can't do that. >> right. >> and you have to make sure the tomato paste they're purchasing is just tomatoes no additives. i think that, again, is going to be hard to regulate. >> now, the standard they wanted to bring it up to, would go up to a half a cup of tomato paste. that might have been the new standard. if you have that much tomato paste on a piece of pizza, would that qualify as healthier? >> it's not necessarily about the tomato paste, it's about the pizza as a whole. and you can't classify pizza as a healthy food item because it has two tablespoons or a half cup of tomato paste on there if you're not using whole wheat crust and real low-fat cheese. >> what are schools using these days? will a typical pizza have whole wheat crust -- >> no. >> so in your mind, pizzas don't belong in schools? >> i don't believe so unless they use the whole wheat crust, the two tablespoons of tomato paste and low-fat cheese. >> what are they supposed to be eating -- you're telling me this is off limits, but this is probably still typical what should kids be eating in schools? >> i brought two examples. >> all right. >> i always recommend my families include one thing from every food group. it's easy and low-cost. so you can do a piece of grilled chicken, low-fat plain milk, brown rice, an apple and then your mixed vegetables. that lo >> that looks great here, but is the only way for a kid to get that for a parent to pack a lunch like that? >> usually school also have a hotline kids can go through. they have that as an option. kids don't always take that option because they are choosing the pizza and the burgers and fries. >> is it a disappointment to you to see congress might roll back some of the healthier lunch choices? >> it is. we know childhood obesity is an epidemic and school is a place to learn, and that should expand into nutrition and school choices. how can we expect them to learn about good nutrition if we are not offering healthier choices in lunch. >> the task you're up against, you, literally, are having to battle lobbyists in washington. that's how these changes come good. how difficult is your task to teach a parent or student when, quite frankly, a lobbyist can go up, do their thing in washington and get these regulations overturned? >> it's very difficult. it's a challenge we face every day. education is part of the -- that's the main issue here. parents just don't know. i don't think any parent would want their kid to eat unhealthy items that will contribute to health problems in the future. but they just don't know. so -- >> we make light -- i was having fun before the break, telling you what a kid might prefer. pizza, as great as it sounds f a kid is eating pizza every day all those years in school, it adds up. >> that's right. >> thank you very much for coming in. >> thank you. thank you for having me. >> thank you very much for being here. an important story. we wanted to make sure we got it in this weekend. we will take a turn now to what we saw at california as part of the occupy protests. pepper spray in the face? 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