Times squar that wasme. We want too get right to that middle of the country. Youre looking live at dallas, texas, where tornadoes left at least 11 dead there. In missouri, this morning, a state of emergency. Heavy rains leading to dangerous flash flooding. This drone video showi small creeks now spilling over theheir banks. More than a dozen deaths. 11 states under a winter storm warning. Four states u under a tornado threat this morning. This huge system i is stretching from new mexico and east. Our extreme weather team covering every angle for us rob marciano is in st. Louis for us this morning. Good morning, rob. Long. We got anotherer 1 to 3 inches coming. Flash flooding warning in effffect the rivers behind me continue to filling up. Overnight a state of emergency in the hearand, as severe ather pounds the region. Producing flash floods and at least 15 people are dead. The in tennessee, the river surginin to the highest its been in 11 years. There is the probably the worst flooding that i have ever witnessed. Reporter in missouri, rampant flood waters engulfed homes. Swept ay rvs and shut down major highways. Overnight, st. Louis sandbaggers preparing for more. Our neighbors are totally under water. Repter across the midwest, tiny neighborhood creeks morphing into dangerous bodies of wate 12 feet wide, right now its probably every bit of 200 feet wide. Reporter in illinois, this flooded creek c claiming the lives of two adults and their three children when their car was swept away. And if the situation isnt bad enough the temperatures are hoveri right around 40 degrees. So, its a cd miserable rain and missouri is not alone. Take look athis 14 states under a Flash Flood Watch. As this system pushes off to the knot and the east. Ok at this, snow on the backside of this. Tornado watch out now for new orleans and parts of mississippi. Seear r veer weather will move off to the east. A huge multifaceted storm, david. All right, rob, watching i all. Rob, thanks the deay tornadoes tearing through texas, at least 11 People Killed in the dalla area hundreds of homes and building simply destroyed. Abcs matt gutman is on the scene this morning with much more for. Reporter good morning, david. A sense of the devastation here, this goes on house after house. Over a 40mile stretch here in north texas, mixing things like christmas stockings and cars. Were talking about places made out of brick and mortar. Overnight, that tornado spewing out debris. This, after a string of tornadoes scarred a 40mile swath of texas this weekend. Police saying at least 11 were killed here in texas. Just total disbelief. Everything on the backckside of my house was on the front side of my house. Reporter from the air,ou can see t path the storm reduce td to splinters. With the tornado bearing down, these people ducked d to a freezer at chilis. This storm blowing out transformers. In the pitch black, the lightning e illuminating the ef4 tornado. On interstate 30, some motorists had n nowhere to hide. In daylight, we drove through those devastated neighborhoods. The spe of the destruction in these neighborhoods is absolutely astounding. It nearly toppled rowletts water tower. Everything is gone. Reporter she was saved wn she and five family members crowded in their bathroom. Very grateful were alivive. I spoke to the police chief of rowlett overnight, he said no ones talking a about the cleanup right now. Clearing these mounds o o debris and hazards from the roadwayay so people can come back and get their belonggs. He said it could be months, years bore they can rebuild these communitieies. This system bringing heavy rain and wind for some, snow for others. Palm trees in texas coated in snow. Abcs Clayton Sandell is there now. Reporter good morning, amy, you can see the problem here in oklahoma, power lines have been snapped in half overnight. Thanks to those high winds that have been blastin through this area and alsohis heavy ice as crow can see has coated the power lines here. Fact, 60,000 customers are without power this morning. You can see what its donone to the tree branches in this area. Whats going to make the commute here dangerous this morning, a thick layer of ice on the i want to show you how thick it is, its a about an inch where we are which means this area has been turned into one giantce rink. Clayton, thank you very much. Incredible how thick that ice is Severe Weather causing headaches for travelers trying to get home now after the holidays. Thousands of flilits delaysnd abcs linzie janis live this morning in laguardia airport. Reporter the wther having a big impact on air travel, already thi morning, more than 690 flights cceled across the country. Now that comes on top of 1700 cancellations and 6,000 delays on sunday. One of the busiest travel days of Holiday Season. The worsthit airports this morning, chicago ohare, midway. And dallas is still bad afterer having a third of its flights affected on sunday. Millions of travelers now hoping today will be much smoother in the northeast. Linzie, thanks so much. Youll have so much more on the avel impact tonight on wod nene. The o oer news this monday morning, and to chicago now, another Deadly Police shoing in a city already on edge. Grandmother. Police saying her death was an accident and abcs alex perez is chicago. The families of victims demanding answers. Killed saturday after police were called to this house for a domestic disturbance. We got two people shot. Shots fired by the police. Just to confirm. Yes, they were. Reporter le grier was reportedly threatening his dad with a bat. 55yrold jones who lives on door for policee when she was caught in a sprayay of police buets. Upon their arrival, they were cocoronted by a combative indivial. Repter police say that jones was accideneally killed and extended can condolences. Will griers mother said her 19yearold son hadad Mental Health issues but was dreaming of a brighter future. He cared about people. Rorter chica mayor rahm emanuel has b bn under prsure to make seping changes in an incredible tense chicago. The first step in that journey is my step. And im sorry. Reporter he is now calling for a review of how officers are cases. The officers involved are off as this shooting is investigated. Abc ale perez in chago. The rice to the white house. Donald trump taking aim at bill and Hillary Clinton. The republican frontrunner accusing the former president of sexism. Abcs mary bruce has more now from washington. Good morning, mary. Reporter all right, good morning, amy. After a few quiet days, t campaign trail is now roaring back into full swing this morning. The first primaries are still five weeks away. It seems donald trump is already looking ahead to a battle with Hillary Clinton. Donald trump eed his christmas asefire with a flurry of attacks and this new attack on Hillary Clinto shes playing that womans card left and right. And women are more upset about it than anybody else. Reportete trump intensifying hi war of wordsdsith the democratic frontrunner. Targeting her husbds alleged tweeting i think that donaltrump or any candidate on the other side of the aisisle would raisese bill clinton as somehow a negative to their peril. Reporter but trump told abcs this week hes being backed by a movement. Peoeoe are angry. They are angry. Im not tapping into the ary doing that. Reporter trump also taking aim at the Republican National committee. Blasting t Virginia State party over the requirement that they say theyre republican. Trump tweeting straighten out the Republican Party of virgini before it is too late. Stupid rnc. Now, these lates tweets reflects trumps distrurust of the gop leadershi and raise a big concern for the party tha its frontrunner could launch an independent run. As hes treated fairly. Moreow on this with abc political analyst matthew dowd whos in austin, texas, this morning. Obviously going after hillary and bill works for donald trump leading into the primaries, but is this a strategy that will be effective going beyond thatat . Well, as you said, amy, it works the one person mt hated by republicans is hillary clinn. So, anything he does against her is helpful to him. In the end, the needs mayo out. And donald trump is going to face some real problems if he wins the gop nomination in the generara eleltion. Matt, this goes both ways. Her going after trump, any downside for her. It helps her going after donald trump. It helps her there in the primaries. Trump i think she creates a problem for the general elections. Where independent voters dont like this back and forth. Trumpas been the dominant figure in the republican race for 2015, looking forrd to 2016, who do you think canan change that . Well, youre right, am he has been the domant figure hes led ever sce hes got into this race. I think the only person who can bring down donald trump is donald trump. The only other thing is, if hee finishes second in the iowa caucus to ted cruz, we don know wt happens if he loses for the first time. Thats something that we havent seen donald trump face. All right, matt dowd, thank you so much. 2016 will be very interesting. Lets turn to dan harris for the other top stories this morning. Big news out of iraq the recaptured the city of ramadi from isis ghters. This is a major victory, if true, for the iraqi fces who have been waging a fierce battle in recent days. Ramadis considered a crucial step towardrecapturing mosul. Back in this country, fires at two muslim houses of worship are b beingalled intentional. The fire bombing of a mosque near sacramento is being investigated as a posossible hate crime. And a mque in houston, a fire ther in los angeles, fiefrts said they could have this wildfire fully contained by tomorrow. The concern now is rain will trigger mudslides. A man in san diego, fell off a cliff in a scenic overlook, had been didiracted by a cell phone. He was t ting to take a picture when he walked over theedge. And look at these images the aftermath of a Train Derailment in a remote area of australia. The train was rrying sulfuric acacid which could cause severe burn millions of americans have been suffering at the airports during the holidays. Check o out wt happened to a Business Traveler named Larry Hendricks at the airport in atlanta. He was the 100 millionth passenger. They gave him a car and free roundtrip tickets to anywhere in the world. But heres the kicker, all the hoopla forced him t to miss his connecting flight. Hes aepted all the gifts. However, hes now going to sue no, i made that up. Thanks, dan. Well turn now to that wild lasted 20 hours. Alleged thieves taking on t coast guard on a nearly day long pursuit before they were caught. Reporter this morning, three suspects in custody after leading authorities on a 20hourr boatat chase across the gulf off mexico. They werent going to quit. Reporter the wild hunt beginning thursday morning when these men allegedly stole a speedboat in florida, they said the thieves beating several antitheft devices. The pursuit spanning over 300 miles,rying to ram a sheriffs boat at one point in the chase. Authorities saying the scene was something out of a james bond movie. Luckily enough, we were able to get out of the way right at the lastinute. Reporter the coast guard deploying three aircrafts to chase the men throughgh the ope waters. Aprehending them on chrisas morning. Well go the extra mile, in this case, we had to go an extxt 340 miles. Reporter depies investigating an organized boat theft ring nearbyby at the time of the incident. For Good Morning America, reena ninan, abc news, new york. All right, reena, thanks so much. Back to meteorologist rob marciano whos in thehe thick of this. A holiday thats been tough for so many. Not a good day for travel. Not a weekend long. In the st. Louis area the rain has been coming down. I70 shut down in both directions. That doesnt include thehe snow and the ice thats falling further to the west of here. Winter storm warnings across states north. Potentially heavy ice just north of peoria. Potentially across parar o the western great lakes and some of this moisture nosing into the nonortrtheast,t,hich is going to see some ice north of the i95 corridor. Thats quick check of your the snow moving satellite and radar picturure. This will deliver moderate to heavsnow for most of us with the exception being far western communities where snow totals are e likely to come i ia little lower in the 13 range. Cold as you walk out teens. The wind iscoming in at 5 to 10 should get stronger as the day progress. Heres yourayplanner where the snow inte coming up next here on good momorning america the bomb shell report putting football hero pton manning on the offensive, defending himself against drug use allegaons. Its completely fabricated. Complete trash, garbage. The undercover video behind the accusations. Have you seen these veos the hoverboard fails. Gifts. Moderate to severe Crohns Disease isis tough, but ive managed. Except that managing my sympto was all i was doing. And when i finally told my doctor, he said humira is for a alts s like me o haharied other medicatioio but still experience the symptoms of moderate to severe Crohns Disease. 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This will deliver moderate to heavy snow for most of us with the exception being far western communities where snow totals are likely to coco in a little l ler in the 13 range. Temperatures are cold as you walk out the door in the coming in at 5 to 10 miles per hour, but should get stronger as the day progresses. Heres your dayplanner wcome back to Good Morning America. Youre looking live there at lahoma city, where a winter storm is bringing a treacherous morning commute to the area. Snow and ice hitting the center of the country along with tornrnoes andflooding, taking 4343 lives s sce Holiday Travel began. Alslso right now, those storm causining widespread Holiday Travels over the holidays. 151500lights canceled, 6,000 flights delayed. Snow in the forecast couldean more headaches today. So, good luckoday if youre traveling. Plus, one of the victims of that deadly shooting shown live on tv said shes almost readydy to vicki gardner, we wish her well. Also this morning, the atles back in thehe news, givingg everybody a speal Christmas Gift, by streaming their music online. Streamed 50 million times in the past 48hours. What was topop on the list . Youll be surprised sflp. Hard to pick the favorite we lead off this halfhour with Peyton Manning, one of the greatest and of f course tost popular football p pyers of all time. He fighting back,blalsing the report accusing him of using a banned human growthormone to help him recover from a potential careerending neck injury. He said it not true. Abcs ryan smith. Rorter Peyton Manningade e of the most stunning recoveries in nfl history. Winning the comeback player of thyear the very next season. Now, a documentary alleges he receiveded banned substances star denying it. Alalga jazeera making allegations about Peyton Mannin sending shock waves through the nfl. The dark side shows charles, claimed a farm soois at the geyer institute, the same institute that helped rehab him the superstar in 2011 after he brok his neck playing for the indianapolisis colts. All the time we would be sending ashley mning drugs, like a growth hormone, florida. Never under Peyton Mannings naname. Reporter ovever the weekend, Peyton Manning sacking those allegation and it completely fabricated. Complete trash, gargage. Reporter and furious of claims leveled at his wife. That 2011 injury, so rious, mannings career. His reemergence the stuff of legends. Its a joke. Reporter the institute slamming sly, saying he was nothing more than a threemonth unpaid intern in 2013, when maing w wasnt being treated. Now sly said he made it all u up to test the reporter and recanting in a video posted online. The statements on any recordings and communition that ja zeeeer ya plan to air are absolutely false. E. Reporter firm will in his corner ares mannings teams. His current team the denver broncoco saying we do not find this sry credible. While al jazeera claims he was working at the institute in 2011, they added that sly bricated this whole thing for reasons they cant fathom and he wasnt there when manning was being treated. With us on a monday. Peyton manning said its complete trash. Can h h sue . He certainly could sue. I dont think he will, heres why, even if itits false, hell have to show as a legal matteter that there was quote, reckless disregard for the truth by al jazeera. That means, because hes public figure hell have t to show that al jazeera knew or should have known it was false. Thats a much tougher legal standard. Also when youre talking about defamation, if he sues, a a lot of other stuff of his personal life end upcoming in, where there any damages, et cetera in the end, i dont think hes going to do ththat. In the meantime of the video of the young man recanting that story, how big of a deal is that . Yeah, that could help his lawsuit, i mean, he sues and he says its false and they should have known it was false because investating, a little pushing of this guy and you, too, would have been able t determine this was false. That would be a very important factor. If he doesnt go after the folks reportinghe sry can he go after the guy initially behind it . He sure could, thatould be a much easier lawsuit. I wouldhink if hes going to sue he would sue al jazeera, hell say, tyre the ones who were irresponsible for putting this o on the air. All right, dan abrams on the big Peyton Manning headline this morning. Now to a c christmas murder mystery. Police piecing together clues after a young couple was found shot to death in a suv in maine. Reporter this morning, Police Investigating a christm murder mystery in maine. Arrived found a vehicle, and nz of that vehicle, found two deceased individuals. Reporter police say the bodies of 35yearold Eric Williams and his girlfriend 26yearold bonnie were discovered in this suv, parked on a remote dirt road. Just reall feeling horrible for their families. Repororter Police Say One of the victims called 911 early friday morning. When officers arrived,hey discovered tt suvless than a mile from the couples home, the victims in the front seat. Dead, from gunshot wounds. Shock. Disgust. Scary. Reporter authorities are now seching for information on the mysterious double homicide and are hoping to hear from anyone who had contact with them on christmas eve, leading to their deaths. Anyone who saw or observed anything contact state police. Reporter families hoping for loved one and amazing person. Very outgoing. Reporter the suv has been found and towed for evidence. They have set up a go fund me page for funeral expses. Such a terrible news. Right around the holiday and incredib sad. We hope they get s some answers. 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And those empty boxes may be outside for recycling. And if they are. Be careful. Because thats exactly what thieves are looking for around this time of year. Criminals can take notice of what types of valuable gifts. Or electronics you have. By the trash you leave outside your home. Deborah if youre looking to recylce your you can drop off Dorothy Pecaut natu center. Will accept youre until januy tenth. The trees should be undecorated. Meaning no ornaments, tinsel, lights, price tags, stands or plastic bags. You can drop off your trees in the lower parking lot. The trees will be chipped for the Nature Centers trails. Jessica lets check in with for the weather. Matt today friday Christmas Day mostly cloudy earlier part of the afternoon. Slight chance for a wintry mix after 4pm. That chance increases through the night, especially areas nw where there is a Winter Weather advisory in effect. Totoght snow, wintry mix likely. Around sioux city and se. Higher nw. 13. Cloudy. E 1015 mph. Low 33. Tomorrow saturday chance lingering wintry mix in the morning. 30 shot. Cloudy and breezy. Nnw 1020 g30. High 34, with temperatures temperatures turn colder next week. Matt today friday Christmas Day mostly cloudy Good Morning America. Its 8 00 a. M. , deaytorms pounding the heartland. Tornadoes ripping through arkansas, snow storms smming th midwest. Now, new travel nightmares for everyone trying to get home from the holidays madonnas fight for here son the pop star embroiled in a custody battle with her ex. Her son refusing to come home for christmas the hidden dangers in your katies got one open. Dr. Besser breaking down the risks. The billiondollar blockbuster, star wars the force awaken slamming records at high speed and were kicking off a new year with a bang, buzzfeed is here to help you row an amazing bash o on a budget as we say all Good Morning America. And good morning, evereryone, youre looking at the football tete from rosemary hall, yeah, as we look forward to tonights monday night football game. Peyton mannings Denver Broncos taking on th cincinnati bengals. The wild boreres in time squares. Look at that. Left and right. His way of working out me all the difference for her and his mother. Deb roberts is here to break it down. Speaking of new ars, if youre throwing a party to welce in 2016, we have the titips on how to throw the ultimale bash at a bargain. How to raise a glass to the new year without breaking theback. But first, lets raise a glass to dan harris. Thank you, guys. Big story this morning, the killers storm delaying travel across the south and thehe midwest this morning. At l lst 15 people have died in mid midsouth and Mississippi Valley. Near dallas, theyre just now beginnin to assess the damage after powerful tornadoes left at least 11 people dead, damaging or destroying hundreds of hes and abcs matt gutman is right there. Matt, good morning to you. Reporter good morning, dan. I want to give you a sense of ththe mountainf debris g go on house ter house. In north texas. That or thetornado packing 200 miles an hour winds. 11 People Killed in that storm. Five killedalong i30. The srm descending in the dark. They had nowhere to run or hide. That tornadodo illuminated only by the flashes of lightning insisi. From the air, you can see that 100yard s scar that the tornado left in the earth here in texas. Cars and tbailers tosd like cars i spoke a police chiefere, theyre not even talking about cleaning up, theyre talking out diing out, gettingid of this debris and hazards so people can come and get their thgs. He said it could be mont, maybe even years, before they rebuild these communities. Dan. A long road ahead of them. Meanwhile for millions of amicans today, snow and ice in new mexico a oklahoma, blizzard conditions trapp drivers with drifts up to 10 feet high. Thatat srm now stretches all of the way to wisconsin. Rob marcianos full forecast coming up shortly. The other big story which appears to be major defeat for isis. Iraqi forces saying they have now recaptured the strategic city of ramadi. Chicagos mayor is demanding a review of how police h ndle calls after two people were shot and killed this weekend, including a 55 yearold grandmother and mentally disturbed teenager. Police acknowledge the shooting of the woman was a mistake. The teen had allegedly threatened his father with a bat. Some good news about ildhood asthma, after increasing for decades. Asthma rates are finally dropping off. Celebrating a special christmas delivery, theyre the proud owners of a cloned puppy. Hes the first puppy produced from the dna of a dog deceased for more than five daysys. They spent 100,000 to college him. And f finally the man known as the clown prince of basketball has died, Meadowlark Lemon was the star for the Harlem Globetrotters for decades. Playing more than 16,000 games before he retired in 1978, he was a coststarn several tv shows and later inducted into the Basketball Hall of fame. He was also a fulltime minivter. Meadowlark lemon was3 years old. Lets head it over to sara with the morning menu. Lets take a look at whats ahead. Madonna madonnas legal battle. And the hidden dangers in your home the pill boxes that could be a surprising risk for your kids. Dr. Besserr is here what you nd to know and this mans amazing weig loss story, how he flipped the switch and changed his life for good. Oh, come on, come on. Come on Good Morning Americas aman menu is brought to you by centrum. He Nations Capital to support an important cause that can cnge the way you live fofoyears come. How can you help . By giving a little more, to yourself. I am running for my future. 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Twted, writing merry xmas to reporter shes currently imbroiled in a custody battle with her exhusband guy ritchie over 15yearold rocco, hes apparently living with his father in england and reportedly doesnt want to return to live with his mother in new york. Last wednesday, madonna asked a new york cy judge to order his return from london. Its a little unclear exactly whats going on. It may be a case of a teenager growing up and having some rebelliousirit. Recently, madonna said he really bodes the heart. Itsard under the microscope. Reporter madonna photographed leaving court last week. The teen will repordly get his own courtappointed attorney, which might allow him to make a request to live with his father if he still wants to. Since september, madna has hes been helping out backstage. Reporter madonna and ritchie en divorced in 2008. Abc news has reached out both to madonna and guy ritchie and neither have responded. Lets bring back abc news legal alyst dan abrams. Rocco is 15 years old. Does his opinion matter when the court hears this . It does matter. But he doesnt have the final say. He c ct say i want to stay with dad and he stays with dad. He has to come home and have this litigated in new york what will happen is, hell be assigned an attorney, called a guardian who represents the child in this case, if he wants to liv with dad, hell tell his lawyer i want to live with d, hell list the reasons. In all likelihood, if the guardiangrees thesere good reasons, they would then recommend to the court, this is what my opinion is as representative of the child is in this case. That could have a lot of sway in a court. There are a lot of issue ss here. Likely this will take place in new york, any chance that guy could have this heard in britain, over in the uk. He could try but because the child is still considered a new york reside, i think almost certainly the british courts will say, theyre dealing with this in new york. This is unlike Kelly Rutherfords case, they sent the kids to monaco and invited the monaco court to take over. You dont have anything like that here. York court resolving it. Its ctainly possible if rocco els strongly about it. It should be very quick. Now to a warning for paren this morning about the hidden risks of pill boxes for your children. As so many travel to visit grand parents thisoliday ason, little ones could find their wayay into medicine thats not childresistant. This is eye opening this morng and take a look at what dr. Bezer heard. Repter its a sound no little kid suld be making. Clicking open a p pill box. Childresistant capss are design to help kids under five from getting into medications. In 2012, more than 646400 children under 5, went to a emergency room for medicine poisoning andn cases, the medicine belonged to a parent or with the help of a montclarare school in new york, we got them together to see if they could open bottles. How do you open these . Yeah, im not going to tell you. Reporter but getting into weekly pill organizers easily opened by eerly is a different story. 3yearold mar go opened this pill box in nine seconds. Okay, you got that one open. That one opened up, gabriella . Yes. Reporter r let me see. Use them for storage for toys or for arts and craf. Reporter while 3 out of our 5 little kids broke into those boxes in under 15 seconds. Our group of 4yearolds were even faster. Got one open. Katie got onopen. 4yearold kai got into a childresistant bo. Every 4yearold in our group opened it up in under 4 seconds. Parents were shocked. I was surprised that he could open this up. I thought maybe we should make sure that pill box goes on a higher shelf. Reporter but the kids catch on fast. If you find Something Like this at home, who shohod be tell right away . Your mommy. Reporter our mommy or your r ddy. No, you don take it out of their home. Dont touch. For Good Morning America, dr. Richard besser, abc news, new yo. Wow, thats eye opening. Most dangerous pillskiki get theirr hands on antidepressant and keep it high up on the shelf so they cant reach. With small kids, im passed that. Its a scary thing. The new year is just days awaynd were helping you jumpstart your 2016 with the number one new years resolution for so many yep, losing weight our Political Insider whos helped win elections is now reveing how he also won the battle ofhe bulge in his new book fatburning machine. Anand abcs Deborah Roberts is here with more. Reporter you may be wondering what a political strategists knows about losing weight. He knows plenty after he put his skills to work after enlisting the help of personal trainers for years, micel steered political campaigns. But while his career was expanding so was his waistline. You were on the campaign trails, eating junk. Yeah, i was 245 pounds. I said thats enough. How do i solve the problem . Use the same research and anytical techniques. Reporter after d dpping nearly poundsds hes now sharing his secrets in a new book called become a fatburninmachine. He was a fat storer not a fat burner. Gaining weit arnd the middle. Reporter then he discovered as he says how to flip the switch. Flip the switch means eating the right combinations of food th your body can process and use for energy. Reporter focusing on meals the big moment came when he learned, miracle interval and my coach taught me these, if i was jogging, jog a little faster for a lite longer and then take it easy. I was getting the benefits not from accelerating but when i was slowed down. I would think the harde you work out the more weight youre going to lose. Deborah its the opposite. You need to work out a really even pace and speed it up from time to time to teach your body to burn fat. If we want to speed up again, youre beating me. You boil it downo why this is different. This is different b because were combining a highoctane foods design to md and miracle interls that are going to teach your body how to access that energy. Reporter including someone the hardest candidate i ever worked with was my mom. Getting h on the plan. Mom has lost 61 pounds in less than 9 months and im so proud of her. Mike says h h m likes 63 of amerins belieieve she was a fatstoring machine, h success added when she added a lot of fatburning foods like egg whites and roasted veggies, leafy vegetables and then she began slow exercising, walking even swimming a began losing weight. The key is to d do the nutrition part first and slowly add in that excise. Not so much that youre starving. You looked great on that exercising machine. I was starving afteterwards and he was feeling pretty good. Deborah, thank you. Fatburning machine is available tomorrow. Get diet tips and three easy yahoo . Louis. Good morning, again, amy, the cold rains continue along here the Missouri River. Severe Weather Threat with ththis system as well, new tornado out for the florida panhandle. Also looking at flooding, 14 states under a Flash Flood Watch in some cases for the next several days. Atlanta, youll get a second rorod on wednesday. 3, 4, 5 inchess of rainfall there. Some icing this morning in chicago. Some winter storm warnings posted across the norththe area on our monday. We canee the snow moving northward on the satellite and rar picturure. This will deliver moderate to heavsnow for most of us with the exception being far western communities where snow totals are likely to come in a little lower in the 13 range. Temperatures are cold as you walk out e door in the Single Digits and miles per hour, but should get stronger as the day progress. Heres yourayplanner where the snow intens the rains forecast to evtually end later on tonight. Until then, its cold and wet. Pop news right now. Ck toou guys inew rk. Come back soonon rob. Oh, no. Hes always in a warmer outfit here it is. Because we cant get enoh of it. Star wars the force awakens took a hyperspace route to a billionmark in box office. Fast faster than any other movie. Best second weekend ever for a movie. Some secrets of the film are no spoilers here. Some came that i missed. You dont see him baa youz hear comedian bill hader. British actor simon peg plays an alien. Okay, wouldnt have known that. Ewan mcgregor void obiwan kenobi. And daniel craig was a stormtrooper. I saw the movie that was a collision off two you know, the thing is, you hit the billiondollar mark. Il be heading more to that im going again. Ill take everybody for the second time. From star wars royalty to just royalty. Prince william and prince harry getting very candid about what their father Prince Charles is really l le in a n documentary. The princes say their fathe has a tendencyy to laugh at all the wrong times. Charles also has such poor penmanship the kids dont know if theyre being scolded or congratulated in a letter. Hes grateful for them he can take care of them when theyre older. Lets be honest come on. When the royals scold they write letters. You know when yourn trouble in the haynes household. Finally, whatt did you get your grandma for christmas . Grandmother marie trying Virtual Reality for the first time. [ screaming ] [ laughter ] is she watching did she have a eggnothingg. Ss watching a roller coaster, but how amazing is grandmother marie the p pipes on that woman are still fresh and ve youthful. Shes holding on to someones hands. If you put those goggles on, you can fall over. Safer thahan the hoverboard. I thought she was watching Good Morning America. Just wantingo make sure. David, were good but not that good. Pop news with sara. Coming up here, we have a moving and emotional story of a father son after h his son came out. And performance from on your feet. Jumpstart your2016 brought of the judgmentfree ze. Deborah and a few political candidates will spend timen the Hawkeye State this week. On tuesday. Democratic candidate bernie a town hall meeteting atmuscatine high school at four pm. From there. The Mississippi Valley fairgrounds in another town hall at seven. Hell also be making an appearance in burlington on wednesesday. For the Chris Christie wl competitive in the wa caucuses with a trip here as well. The new jersey gogovernor wl hohost a town hall wntown davenport. And on tueay. Hell stop by a local coffee shop in muscatine. And fellow republblican marco rubio is also working to build supporort for his campaign. Hes starting a threeday bus tour in io. The florida senator will hosos a town hall inin burlrlingtonmonday morning at eleven. Rubio wiwill a also bein clinton on tuesday. Jessica lets chk in with for the weather. Matt today friday Christmas Day mostly cloudy earlier part of the afternoon. Slight chance for a wtry mix after 4pm. That chance increases through the night, escially areas nw wherere there is a Winter Weather advisory in effect. Se 510 mph. High 36. Tonight snow, wintry mix likely. Accumulations light t around sioux city and se. Higher nw. 11. Cloudy. E 1015 mph. Low 33. Tomorrow saturday chance lingering wintry mix in the rning. 30 shot. Cloudy and breezy. Nnw 1020 g30. High 34, with temperatures falling to the upper 20s by 5pm. Low 10. Matt today friday Christmas Day mostly cloudy earlier part of f e afternoon. Slight chance for wintry ch let your body feel the heat dont you worr youre looooking at speci performance of gloloria estefan dance classic on your feet. From her new smash hit broadway musical. Well have much more. Isnt it beautiful out here . It is beautiful. Its nice and refreshing. However. Tough. Sara is going to showw us how to celebrate theew year in yle. We got the secret to throwing a basho remember without here to help uslan an a amazing new years party for under 75 our friends from buzzfeed. Were starting right off with some yummy delicious food. With the food, right, so these are pizza pops and champagne pops. No utensils necessary. The cake pops are just cake dipped in chot lack. Its super easy. You can make them with your kids. You do have to have champagne. If you want a cheaper party, you can ask your friends to byob. How much those ring up to . Ok, so far, not bad. Not bad at l. Okay, and weve still got some food going on. This fun dip. Its a champagne cheese dip. You can useeer if you want to, just threeingredients, cheese, you make itn your slow cooker. You can do it ahead of time. You can serve it right in there, totoo. Okay, this stays in. Lets see e e price for this. Youre literal making my menu onetem at a time. Its not bad. Now, we have to drink 37. Absolutely. Heres a great way to make your drinks even more fun, glitter ice cubes. Beautiful. Thi is so cool. This is so inedible. More sparkly than regular glitter. You canan get it in a cake store, make ice cubes like regular, sprinkle the glitter up top. You want it to be clear, boil it, let it cool, boil it again. Youre promising me we can eat it. Can it be on your tongue . Yes, but its new years. So, how much is this . Lets see. I feelike im on family feud dtssh we got to dorate ourselves as well. Party hats, a new years must. You let guests f fill them up. Theyre perfect conversation starters. Cut them t, tie them on with ribbon. Also something that you can get the kids in on. What iss our price for these hats . Okay, wow, ththat was almost as much as myhampagne cake pops. We got our glitter, our pops, we need to make sure we said w uld stay under 75 and the total is 70. 99. This is for 15 people. Party is all funs and gam until that went off. Thank you to our friends at buzzfeed. You can get these recipes on our website. We send it back to rob marciano in st. Louis. Happy new yeye. H hpy new year to you guys, celebrataten style and inse if you cano it. Its time for Good Morning Americas football countdown, tonight the broncos take on the broncos at Mile High Stadium for monday night football on espn. Mike greenberg and mike golic have a take on thegame. Both guys say denver is the team to beat. Heres the forecast for the game itself, looking at cold around 19 degrs, so the snow ll be well off toward the east. The action starts tonight at 8 15. Tune in to see the unsung hero of the game and the grudenstorm warnings encompass much of the area on our monday. We can see the snow moving northward on the satellite and radar picture. This will deliver moderate to heavy snowowor most of us with the exception being far western communities where snow tot they would be playing in a dome here int. Louis foror surure as the rain continues to come down. Amy, back up to you. Rob, tnks so much. Joy isaking on the box office with superstars jennifer lawren, Bradley Cooper and the onon and only robert deanywhere e, he plays a divord dad who moves back with his daughter. Youre going to tell me how what do you do . You sing all night. You get repeatedly fired from campbells soup. Im going to divide the basement. Thihi isnthe proper way to divorced. Im about to be late for work. So try not to fight in front of the kids. Were happy to he twotime oscar winner robert deanywherenero here with us this morning. You work more closely with Jennifer Lawrencess character in thatoure the father. She said about you, worng oppositete you is like driviving an astonmart. E shes being very nice. If Jennifer Lawrence were a car what should be . Thats a good question. A very nice car. This is your third te working with Jennifer Lawrence magic is just truly there. How was this different if to at all from the other two films . The other two s Silver Linings was what it was. And america hustle, i wanted to do it to be a part of the group again. You can meld those thing easily the formula is clearly working. He said he e eoyss giving you a part where youre a man in love. He also has a a temper. He always thinks hes in love. My character thinks hes a romantic, but also, hes not so sure at times. He suspects he might be the same type. Takes one to know one. They spat a bit during the whole thing. There arere some newcomers to isabellarossolini. You were a wness in her weddg. One of the best men at t their wedding. That was 35 years ago. We did a little digging we found yo featured film debut. The wedding party. It wasas the french movie. Lets take a look. I dont know if youll see me, i was an extra. Youre right behind her shoulder. Youre saying, you have never seen it. Thats your featured film debut. I was going to ask you what you were thinking . But you probably have no idid. No. You looked really cool. You steal the scene actually over her shoulder. I thinink. Thank you so much for being with us. Robert, always a pleasure. Thankyou. Nationwide is on your side. The thing is, none of us even know. Were not even in on is. All righgh our friend kevin newman sat here in the 90s. In his new book, he and his son are writing about their relationship after his son came out. Juju chang had their story. They still most warn them of their rights. Good morning, americic reporter on the outside ken newman seemed to have it all, gleaming career, per faekt family. But inside, the former good morninamerica was struggling. What prevents some dads from having that kind of conversation is this idea of being a hero to their kids. Were uncertain but when they hit that in their lives, they reporter in chasing succes newman saidd he neglected the people w neededd him the most, particularly son alex, who at 17 came o about being gay. He was having a midlife crisis and he i was struggling with my identity in american television. Alex was starting to struggle withis own identity as a teenager. Reporter in new book, all out, they chronicles the journey of acceptance of one another but also themselves. You tal about feelings of suicidal. I was nervous, i didnt know what my father would do. I had moments of proof while i was growingp tha he time that was homophobic and i that i could always accept my son. But i didnt always acceptt his friends and social settings. An that to me as a liberalminded intellectual semismart man was disturbing and disasaointing. s a v vy dangerous transition, fraught w wh anger, confusion, but most of all, the fear of rejectn. Reporter it took reporting on another familys gay son for a canadian documentary for newman to understand his own son. An evolution perfectly captured by this spontaneous photo. That met everything, ten years of wondering w over. I have a dream as a father out there that i i frightenene byy their childs sexuality, they want t love their chd. Theyre confused. I hope that this book in that manss hands allows him to feel safe to open the conversation with their child. For goodod morning america, juju chan abc news, toronto, canada. Really brave. Grt to see kevin again and alex looks just like his dad. When we come back here get on your feet. Break. Seventime grgrammy wner Gloria Estefan a and her husband are turning the beat around on broadway with the music about its calalled on your feet. Youre about to see why. I spokeith the superstar couple and we have a very special performance from them. What was it like watching a performance of your life . It was surreal. They actually they pulled me into the sty. Its like im watching someone elses story. Some momts hit home. Otr than that, its party. Youre in the audience almost every night, what is the reaction from the audience . Were hiding. What happens is would disrupt the show. Last night a guy in front of me, he was crying. I ve him a akleenex. Heres the cast of on your feet. With a medley of songs from the show. At night rit similar going to get you theres no place you can hide oh no the rhythm is goioing to ge you no clue of whats happening to you but before this night is through the rhythm will get you everybody gatrr round now let your body feel the heaeat dont you worry if you cant dance et thehe music move your feeee come on, shake your body shake your body shake your bodydy note turn it upsidedown love to hear it ove to hear it makes me want to move my body turn the beat around love to he it love to hear it love to hear it get up and dance open your eyes and then you realize here i stand with my need you by side always be my bride youll never be denied get on your ft get up and make it happen get on your feet david in the morning. David at night. David all day. Its been an interesting year. Thanks. The guys are the best. Wello it aga tomorrow morning. Before we go, we want to sw you that grandmother who was so excited the Virtual Reality shes trying out Virtual Reality for the first time and hopefully n the last. Well have what shes ving. See you tomorrow. You now. Deborah a fire yesterday morning in dixon county, nebraska left a family with a devestating loss over the holidays. Dixon county shereriffs office. Fire crews from xon, ccord, allen, laurel and wafield all responded to the re sunday morning. Officials say the home. That t was once the old methodisth church in dixon. Was completely destroyed. The owners , francis s tman and cassandra ford, maged to escape the fire without any injuries. The cause of the fire is still under investigation. And assiting the family. Friends and family will be gathering later this morning high school roberts to rest. Funeral services for austin will be spencer high schools gymnasium. Expectedly after collasping on the mat during a wrestling urnament. Autopsy resulso determine the pending. Jessica lets check in with for the weather. Matt today friday Christmas Day earlier part of the afternoon. Slight chance for a winintry mix after 4pm. M. That chance increases through the night, especially areas nw where there is a Winter Weather advisory in effect. Se 510 mph. High 36. Tonight snow, wintryryix likely. Accuculationlight arouound siouxity and se. Higher nw. 13. Cloudy. E 1015 mph. Low 33. Tomorrow saturday chance lingering morning. 30 shot. Nnw 1020 0. High 34, with temperatures falling the upper 20s by 5pm. Low 10. Temperatures turn coldlder next week. Matt today friday Christmas Day mostly cloudy earlier part of the afternoon. Slight chchce for a wintry mix after 4pm. That chance increases through the night, especially areas nw where there is a Winter Weather advisory in effect. Se 510 mph. High 36. Tonight snow, wintry mix likely. Accumulations light