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Airports and roads are crowded as folks get away for the holidays on what is one of the busiest travel days of the year.

Scott Pringle reports.

Triple A says more than one hundred and twenty two million people are expected to travel during this year end holiday period, and that's a record high.

This woman spending a little too much time at Laguardie Airport.

It was laid three hours, so now we're here five hours early.

Her advice to other flyers get there.

Early, Bring your patients with you.

If you have a child, bring some toys.

Meanwhile, on the roads, drivers are experiencing lower gas prices, with the national average round two eighty five a gallon.

Triple A says most days is holiday period, the afternoons will be more congested than mornings on the roads.

Scott Springle, New York.

What's being called life threatening rain has some southern California residents facing possible evacuations right before Christmas.

A deadly atmospheric river is triggering dangerous flesh flooding that killed one person in Reading, California.

The National Weather Service says a major rainstorm arriving tonight will bring an extreme risk of dangerous mud and debris flows on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

The Justice Department is slapping a warning on mentions of President Trump and the latest batch of Epstein files.

The DOJ released more than eleven thousand files in its latest release, saying some of these documents contain untrue and sensationalist claims made against President Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the twenty twenty election.

The DOJ was required to release all documents by this past Friday under the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

The Trump administration is preparing to garnish the pay of student loan borrowers in default.

According to an email from the Department of Education, beginning the week of January seventh, roughly one thousand borrowers who are in default will receive notices informing them of their status.

The email didn't contain any details about the nature of the garnishment, but the number of notices will increase monthly.

The Trump administration began enforcing its repayment efforts earlier this year, and mark the end of a five year reprieve on student loan repayments in May.

I'm Chris Crashio.

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett is set to step down from his role as CEO of Berkshire Hathway.

Greg Abel will take over operations of the company on January first.

The ninety five year old Buffet aka the Oracle of Omaha, has served as CEO of Berkshire Hathway since nineteen seventy, when he became the company's majority shareholder.

The Trump administration is taking steps to shut down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau by claiming it can't be funded by the Federal Reserve.

A coalition of twenty states plus the District of Columbia has now filed a lawsuit that would force the administration to fund the agency for seventy years now.

Every Christmas Eve, NORAD, the North American Aerospace Defense Command tracks Santa's flight.

Sarah Walters explains how.

Using forty nine radar sites in Alaska and Canada, infrared satellites, even Air Force fighter jets, Santa's tracked with infrared sensors, the same system used to see heat from lawe launched missiles or rockets.

Satellites then follow Santa and a sleigh by detecting Rudolph's nose, which gives off an infrared's signature similar to that of a missile, the merriest blip on radar.

Pittsburgh Steelers star wide receiver DK Metcalf has been suspended two games over an altercation with a fan during Sunday's twenty nine to twenty four win over the Detroit Lions.

The incident happened in the second quarter when the receiver had an exchange with a fan sitting in the front row.

He appears to either take a swing at the individual or grab their shirt.

Metcalf will be eligible to return to the Steelers active roster on January fifth, following the team's games in Week seventeen against the Browns.

In Week eighteen against the Ravens, the Kansas City Chiefs are heading across the Missouri River for Kansas.

The team and the Kansas governor have reached an agreement to bring the football franchise to Kansas in time for the twenty thirty one season.

The new stadium will have a dome, which could attract higher profile events such as the Super Bowl.

In the final four the Chiefs have been in Kansas City Missouri since nineteen sixty three and in their current stadium since nineteen seventy two.

I'm Chris Kraggio.