Some homes here were badly damaged. Others are completely gone. This is bad. This is really bad. Reporter this woman came home to no sign of christmas joy. This is where i used to live and its gone. Reporter the house she shared with her husband, son, and daughter for the past nine years is scattered among a grove of shattered trees. Her 35yearold son was the only one home when the tornado hit. Hes hospitalized with a broken pelvis and cuts. It could have been worse. We could have been planning a funeral instead. Reporter they searched for family mementos. Pictures of my mom. She passed away in 2010 and i would look at it every night before id go to bed and just say, good night. I wish i could find that picture, too. Theres a tornado in front of us reporter the wilkens home is one of hundreds destroyed. The youngest victim, sevenyearold nikolas pumroy, was trapped in a car with his the wind ripped him out of the vehicle. Among the six who died in tennessee, three were found in a car submerged in a river. This aerial view of ashland, mississippi, shows the devastation of the most powerful storm. It reportedly stayed on the ground for at least 145 miles, packing winds of up to 160 miles per hour. Rooftops were completely torn off, trees pulled from the earth, roots and all, scattered cinder blocks stood where homes used to be. Barbara williamson was inside her clarksdaily home when it shredded out around. I dont know how im alive. Reporter in hole springs, display. Donated toys for children who lost their presents in the stormed. Laverne zinn picked out new gifts for her nieces and 97 use. The smiles on their face, that made me happy. Reporter a hard rain here families from salvaging what they could. Jim, the forecast brightens stormy again. Axelrod mark strassmann, thank you. The storms disrupted holiday deliveries, so today was no day off for some fedex employees. Heres Demarco Morgan. Reporter employees for shipping giant fedex found themselves in overtime playing santa in the air and by ground. Joe anne baron is a grateful customer. Elation. Annoyance for my husband who i asked to go running back to the apartment to get the packet. Reporter fedex predicted a recordbreaking Holiday Season for pickups and dropoffs. 317 million shipments between black friday and christmas eve, a 12 jump from last year. What they didnt predict, mother natures unexpected delivery of more than a dozen deadly tornadoes across the south, including tennessee, where the company is headquartered. With airports shut down and pride itself with ontime delivery had to work fast to get distribution offices back open and trucks rolling. During the Holiday Season, every Second Counts for businesses large and small. Jim shock runs a dessert store in tampa. With us, a Small Company doing 5,000 packages, some of the Larger Companies with the packages theyre doing. Its incredible. Reporter fedex released a statement postal workers also got in the act. Carlie turner pitched in with his coworkers in san jose. When everybody is expect a gift and they dont get it and ald of a sudden we knock on the door and all of a sudden they get their gift. Reporter fedex just release another statement to cbs news, saying their hearts go out to all of the victims in the storms in the southeast, and they say thaer working directly with the states to deliver aids to those hardest hit areas. Axelrod Demarco Morgan thank you. For most of the country it was much less a White Christmas than a warm one. Record weather continues. Another day with record warmth. Were not talking necessarily 70s today but a lot of 60, and compared to the normal, which should be the 30s and 40s, you see is here we did set records and pushed the 70 degree mark. In new york city, a record was set, 66 degrees. The incredible warmth continues. Axelrod is the eastcoast ever going to see winter . We do anticipate a little bit of wintry weather next week because of a system right now out west. S we look at the National Picture on satellite and radar, what we note is there is snow out to the west associated with this area of low pressure over the four cornerrers. Over the next couple of days, through your weekend, it explodes. As that happens, were talking snow. Were talking excessive rainfall through places like new mexico, texas, oklahoma, arkansas, you see it here. Snow, a huge problem across the portions of new mexico, 1218 inches. It doesnt stop there. The wind will be gusting up to 60 miles per hour, blizzard warnings already in effect beginning tomorrow night. Theyre expecting Power Outages and major travel troubles. So thats the meas of the snow but as we look toward the rain, its also going to be a huge problem through portions of oklahoma, into arkansas, missouri, as well as, not just rain but Severe Weather expected from the system. Again, its the same system that could bring a little bit of snow to new england as we head toward into next week. Axelrod okay, vaness athank you. From the vatican to the white house this christmas, and far beyond, there were prayers for peace and calls for compassion. Under tight security, thousands packed st. Peters square for the popes annual Christmas Day message. Pope francis condemned brutal acts of terrorism, and prayed for an end to wars in syria, libya, and other parts of the world. Love and compassion. Axelrod president obama and the first lady urged americans to follow the values jesus lived. Caring for those on societys margins, the sick, and the hungry, the poor and the persecuted. Axelrod great Britains Queen elibz beth joined other members of the royal family at church today. The queen offered a message in the times of terror. The light shines in the darkness. Axelrod and 250 miles up merry christmas, happy holidays, and happy new year. Axelrod american astronaut scott kelly sent greetings to earth. British astronaut Timothy Peake tried to call his wife, but spaced out and dialed the wrong number, later apologizing on twitter to the lady he called by mistake. Now to the race for president , donald trump remains the republican frontrunner heading into the 2016 election year. Mr. Trump at thrieb 39 , far ahead of ted cruz, ben carson, and marco rubio. Its a quiet holiday on the campaign trail, but as Julianna Goldman reports, not a completely silent night. Reporter on christmas eve, donald trump attended midnight mass, a service wishing peace and good will to all. But trumps holiday spirit has its limits. In a string of twitter attacks, the republican frontrunner took credit for the obama administrations plan to deport hundreds of illegal immigrant back to central america, ridiculed jeb bush, and said, i look forward to running against hillary clinton, a totally flawed candidate, and beating her soundly. Trump has used an unconventional playbook to dominate the race with insults and controversies. Hes remained on top without pollsters or a single tv ad. Some cracks may be showing in iowa, where ted cruz is ahead by nine points in the latest cbs the texas senator spent the last week on a multistate tiewrk complete with a santa at every stop. But its possible that polls are underestimating trumps support. A study earlier this week found he performed six points higher when people were polled online very over the phone with a person on the other end. One reason voters may be embarrassed to admit theyre backing someone who has been criticized as a racist. Trump say bit of an embarrassing person. And so if you think of yourself as a seriousminded, you know, voter, and you like trump, youre not going to want to tell people that. Reporter cbs news political analyst says iowa will test a possible trump effect. Iowa is a place where unconventional candidates tend to do pretty well, and if trump overperforms in iowa i think that gives us a guidepost what might unfold for the remaining season. Reporter the candidates are taking a rare few days off for christmas but theyll get back on the campaign trail starting sunday, jim, with just about five weeks to iowa. Axelrod Julianna Goldman thank you. More than a year after we first learned of problems at the phoenix v. A. Hospital, they still have not been fixed. A new government report describes long waits for veterans seeking treatment. Whistle blowers charge the hospital is missing something essential enough doctors. Reporter ground zero for the Veterans Affairs wait time scandal was here at the phoenix v. A. Hospital. A 2014 Inspector General report detailed how thousands of veterans across the country were put on secret waiting lists. Whistleblower dr. Sam foot maintains at least 40 veterans died in phoenix since april 2014. So two years later, are the problems fixed . No. Reporter the report did not blame the wait times for the deaths but did call for changes in how the phoenix v. A. Schedules appointments. A bandaid has been put on this and, therefore, everything is okay. Everything is not okay. Physicians and providers to provide medical care. Reporter in october, the i. G. Released a new report about critical staffing shortages in the Urology Department from april 2013 to september 2014. The report says leaders can not have a plan to provide urlogical services and the staffing crisis impacted thousands of patients. They killed him. The phoenix v. A. Reporter debbie alans husband, mel, was being treated at that time for bladder cancer. The Urology Department had to refer the vietnam veteran to an outside hospital. There were no doctors in the Urology Department that were qualified to do that surgery to remove his prostate and his bladder. Reporter debbie says it took eight months for the referral to go through. By then the cancer had spread and mel died in march 2014. Could that have contributed to mels death . Yes. You dont mess around with cancer. Reporter the v. A. Would not specifically talk about mel issues, but, jim, they did send us a statement saying they have reduced the number of patients on their wait list by hiring additional staff for the Urology Department, and by also referring patients out to private medical providers. Axelrod thank you. Ing up next, a singing santa nearly silenceed by a Dangerous Health condition. A rare and beautiful sight in the christmas sky all around the world. And a stylish look for christmas news level. To avoid longterm injury, seek immediate medical help for an erection lasting more than four hours. Stop taking viagra and call your doctor right away if you experience a sudden decrease or loss in vision or hearing. Ask your doctor about viagra. 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Reporter at the John Engelman theatre in northport, maguire is kris kringle in the musical adaptation of miracle on 34th street, where his sweet baritone and rosy cheeks are on full display. Its beginning to look a lot like christmas reporter but that ruddy complexion was an outward cipe of a serious problem inside his body, one he couldnt put a name to. My skin was very red and very purple and i started getting joint pain. A lot of joint pain. Reporter and trouble singing . Definitely. Reporter were you worried about your career . Of course. When your vocal chords are in that kind of distress and you dont know why, thats terrifying. Reporter in may 2012 air, blood test showed skyhigh iron levels and a doctor finally figured out the cause. He said, kevin you had something called hemochromeitosis. Reporter what did he say was the problem . He said youre rusting from inside out. Reporter the disorder is overloads tissues and organ. 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Axelrod we end tonight with a detective who didnt have a clue what was missing until he found it. Heres Steve Hartman on the road. Reporter generally speaking, if youre a kid jesse and george, the last place you ever want to be is in a courtroom across the table from detective jack mook. I do. Reporter mook is a bythebook, nononsense, chewemup spite em out, veteran of the force. Outside of work, hes a committed bach lor, a mans man, who had never so much as let a vidalia see his soft side. For fun he hits people and volunteers at the steel city boxing gym teaching the sport to underprivileged kid. Most of the kids that come in this gym are street kids. Many of them have been born into poverty. Reporter kids like jesse and his older brother, josh. Long before their date in court, jack had been working with them. Turn that hand reporter he really liked these kids and knew the feeling was mutual, so when they just stopped showing up at the gym one day, jack went out and found them. And he was asking me about reporter what jack didnt know, what no one knew till that moment, was just how bad these kids had it. They were in a foster home with Foster Parent who, jack says, were extremely abusive and neglectful. They have had it as worse as any other kid thats ever lived in the city of pittsburgh, living conditionswise. Reporter really . And that just i had enough of it. Reporter so jack mook took matters into his own hands, cashed in some favors, and got the kids placed in a new home. You want Something Else to eat . Reporter his. For jack, its been quite an adjustment. Im here in trying to learn my culinary skills, brother. Reporter but i get the sense that youre really lovely lofg it. Yes, its awesome. Its the best thing i ever did in my life. Reporter at least it was the best thing, until the day he went to court and did one better. Theyll be successful. Reporter adopted the boys. Come on, guys. Reporter and made them mooks. Youre a mook, right you happy . First aired in 2014, we got a lot of email, a surprising amount from women, who wanted to meet this guy. So did you email us . Are you one of those . No, no reporter mary says she saw the story but she met him at a bar. Reporter did you go to the bar because you knew hed be there. Yes. Aah yes for all of america to see. Reporter they were married last summer. She came with three of her own, so now jack and the boys are part of a brady bunch, a family none of them could have ever imagined just a few years ago, jack especially. I thought being single was fun because you dont have no responsibilities. But when youre single, you dont realize what youre missing. Im glad i let her break through that barrier, and take me away from that life. Reporter sounds like it wasnt just the boys who were rescued. Steve hartman, on the road, in pittsburgh. Axelrod and you can see stories from his on the road series starting right after our broadcast on our digital broadcast on cbsn, on cbsnews. Com. And that is the cbs evening news for tonight. For scott pelley im jim axelrod in new york. And for all of us here at cbs news, merry christmas, and good night. Captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by access. Wgbh. Org this is jeopardy please welcome todays contestants a substitute teacher from hebron, connecticut