Lets go to cbs reporter alfonso van marsh in vatican city where pope francis delivered his first christmas message today. Reporter pope francis waved to the crowd that packed st. Peters square on this Christmas Day. This is the one place to be in the world today. Reporter many jumped up and down with excitement to hear his first christmas message as pontiff. This is what christmas bids us to do, give glory to god. Reporter pope francis called for peace in wartorn countries including syria and south sudan. Prince of peace, in every place turn hearts aside from violence and inspire them to lay down arms and undertake the path of dialogue. Reporter here at st. Peters square, pope francis message seemed to be resonating not just with the worlds 1. 2 billion catholics but to a broader audience. Theres clearly people from all over the world, all different ideologies, religions, uhm, so thats definitely a change, i think that has to do with this new pope. Reporter this american isnt catholic but says the popes outreach to minorities makes him the pope of the people. Im impressed with pope francis and im excited to see him. So this is a highlight to our trip. Reporter many catholics waved flags from their home countries, bidding for the popes first speech. Alfonso van marsh, cbs news, the vatican. Thousands of catholics gathered in bethlehem for midnight mass. This is where jesus christ was born. The church currently under a 2. 6 million restoration process. Turnout in bethlehem was the highest in years despite cold weather and powerful storm that dumped snow in the higher elevations. Back home, the spirit of giving on this Christmas Day is going strong. Kpix 5s cate caugiran live at glide memorial in San Francisco where volunteers are serving up thousands of warm holiday meals. Good afternoon, cate. Reporter good afternoon, and Merry Christmas to you, frank. The volunteers are still here. We have some washington huskies here in the room in town for the fight hunger bowl. There have been a total of 500 volunteers slicing up hundreds of happens and turkeys in order to help those of those in need. Reporter Danielle Maxwell is glide memorials resident holiday ham slicer. We first met him last year at glide where he spent Christmas Morning volunteers as he has done for more than a decade. Coming to places like this, theres always hope for the future. If we can bring ourselves together as people with gods love, well overcome. Reporter hundreds of volunteers like maxwell dedicated their christmas not for themselves but for the thousands of homeless in San Francisco. This place shares with everyone. You dont have to be a particular type of individual to come here and everyone can come in and get a warm meal, enjoy some camaraderie, enjoy a good time with the people who are here. Good morning. Merry christmas. Reporter what glide does is a wellknown story in the city. A story so many volunteers love being part of every year. For more than 40 years the organization has helped the needy 364 days a year feeding them three meals a day. Merry christmas. A lot of folks come every year every holiday. So you will see the same faces every morning at 6 30 in the morning. You become like family. I see them more than my own family for the holidays. Reporter todays menu was turkey, ham, Sweet Potatoes and stuffing everything one could want in a holiday meal satisfying stomachs and basic need for food organizers say is growing every year. We are seeing more and more people who just dont have the cash flow if you will to purchase food throughout the month. Reporter as far as volunteering goes, glide says they never have a problem getting those volunteers for the holidays. Its the days after christmas where they really need the help. In San Francisco, santas little helper, cate caugiran, kpix 5. Rocking the festive hat. Thank you, cate caugiran live in the city. Thank you. 120 byu Football Players are helping serve thousands of meals at st. Anthonys in San Francisco, as well. The players are in town to play washington in a couple of days for a bowl game. They were joined by Community Volunteers and residents of the foundations job training program. And if you are looking to help out, drop off a ham or some socks for the gift bags for those in need. San Francisco Police and firefighters are delivering thousands of toys to kids. The toys were donated to the 13th annual Christmas Toy drive at lefty odouls bar at union square. More than 10,000 toys were donated yesterday. Now to some other top stories on this Christmas Day. Alameda county sheriffs deputies are investigating a murdersuicide in san lorenzo this morning. Deputies were called to a home on via amigo and via lucas to find a husband and wife dead. He allegedly killed her and then himself. We dont believe there is any danger outside to the community. We believe its confined to the home. There were other people in the home when this happened. Sheriffs deputies dont believe anyone else in the home was atarget. They are now releasing more details they are not releasing more details presenting the investigation. Vta has now fully restored Light Rail Service in a san jose neighborhood after a woman was killed by a train. She was struck by a train. The woman was walking on the tracks in dark clothes and the train had no time to stop. The train was out of service at the time heading back to it the railyard. A man and woman from watsonville are in custody accused of stealing Christmas Gifts from homes in san joses rose garden area. Earlier this month police say they broke into six houses on lauralei avenue on the same night. They got in the homes through windows, garages and unlocked front door. Thefts happened at night while the victims were sleeping. Im lucky. Im sure if i woke up i would have been scared to death the. The breakins prompted people in the neighborhood to invest in Home Security systems. Investigators are looking into the cause of a fire that displaced ten people in San Francisco this morning. It began just after midnight at a home on potrero avenue near 23rd street. Crews controlled it in less than an hour. Nobody was hurt. A Union City Community really came together to make this Christmas Day very special for a family that lost everything he when their home was destroyed by fire. Kpix 5s brian webb reports the Fire Department helped. Reporter a union city house goes up in flames destroying much of the home and all of the Christmas Gifts with only two days to go. Rushed back in the house, and i said, donna, call the Fire Department. Ill go next door and see if anybody is in the house. Reporter sixteen people were staying in the home for christmas, many of them children. Out of the ashes, an idea. A lastminute entry to the toy drive to include the family forced from their home by the fire. Especially when we have a traumatic event like a house fire, kids dont understand sometimes what happens so we are just trying to put some smiles on their faces for christmas. Reporter so the Alameda CountyFire Department went to work buying up more gifts like these and spreading the word to a Community Already excited to help. People like kenneths family who pulled gifts out of their own piles to give to a family they dont even know. Just helping out. Thats the biggest thinking and paying it forward, always trying to do the right thing and being there when people need you. Reporter everyone in the family survived the fire and will spend christmas together and now have presents to open too. Firefighters couldnt save their home, but they did save christmas. Brian webb, kpix 5. That family is staying with relative for now. The gifts were delivered last night. Firefighters are still trying to determine exactly what caused that fire. Coming up a number of people across the country didnt find everything they expected under the tree thisser. Whats behind the delivery delay putting christmas on hold for some. A bay area couple calling it a christmas miracle after stolen gnomes are returned safe and sound. Why the ornaments mean so much to the family. Count them, 18. 18 days now during this winter season that we have had his spare the air day. Another day with haze in the atmosphere, well have your complete pinpoint forecast as the news continues. ,,,,,,,, northeast are spending christmas in the dark aftert weekends hundreds of thousands of americans from the midwest to the northeast are spending christmas in the dark after last weekends winter ice storm that knocked out their power. The red cross local churches and schools have opened Warming Centers throughout the region. Crews are expected to have power restored by the end of the week. At least 37 people are dead after two separate bomb attacks targeting catholics in baghdad, iraq. In one a car bomb went off near a Catholic Church during mass. Shortly before that, a bomb ripped through an outdoor market in a catholic section of the city. Near 60 people are being treated for injuries. So far, theres no claim of responsibility. But iraqs Catholic Community has recently been targeted by al qaeda and other insurgents. Some developing news from the south sudan where tens of thousands of people have fled their homes to find safe shelters at United Nations camps. Meanwhile, the violence is getting worse between Government Troops loyal to the countrys president and rebels who support a former vice president. United Nations Security Council voted unanimously yesterday to beef up their forces in the region. Our military resources are now without the with the exception of the patrols in juba, are fully engulfed and occupied with the protection of our bases. And even that is not adequate everywhere. Secretary of state john kerry talked with leaders of both sides yesterday. The rebel leaders indicated he is ready for peace talks with south sudans president. U. S. Supreme court could decide by friday whether or not to get involved in utahs same sex marriage battle. A federal Appeals Court ruled yesterday that samesex marriages can continue in the state. Earlier this month a lower court ruled utahs voter approved ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional. Utahs Attorney Generals Office is asking the u. S. Supreme court now to step in and stop gay marriages until the issue is settled. Some people might have noticed some gifts missing from under the Christmas Trees this morning. U. P. S. Is backlogged meaning some Holiday Gifts never got delivered on time. A u. P. S. Spokesman apologized saying the Consumer Trend of more Online Shopping was a contributing factor. Amazon was one of Many Companies impacted. They are offering a refund of shipping charges and 20 gift cards for those that were affected. The gnomes are home finally stolen treasures returned to a concord family. Kpix 5s Christin Ayers explains why they mean so much. Reporter people are coming from all over to see the home that the man known as mr. Christmas lights up every year. Its he me back. Still. Rossini put up asking the thief to return. And Christmas Eve morning. Right on the front lawn. Frank rossini gnomes the gnomes its crisp and very bright. Its beautiful. And its very pretty. I never seen any kind of lights like this in my life. Reporter while all eyes are focused here, a christmas miracle is unfolding at the house across the street the one with no lights. I call it a miracle. Reporter the miracle frank is talking about, the only decorations on his lawn. A couple of ceramic gnomes that mean the world to him and his wife. His daughter carolyn made them when she was 4. Carolyn died in a motorcycle accident two years ago and the family put the gnomes on their lawn as a tribute but right after halloween a grinch stole them. I didnt think they would come back. Reporter still he put up this sign asking the thief to return them. Christmas morning, right on the front lawn there set the gnomes. I just couldnt believe it. I know miracles happen. But it was happening to me. Reporter the seems the crooks conscience kicked in. I would just like to say thank you to whoever brought them back. They mean so much to us. Reporter the family brought the gnomes indoors tonight and gave them a new home, safe on the fireplace. Outside, they replaced the sign with this one. Thank you. Our faith in humanity is restored. In concord, Christin Ayers, kpix 5. And shortly after the gnomes were stolen, they said they were have no hard feelings if they were returned. And they stand by it. They happened to get them home. Lets check in with roberta for your Christmas Day forecast. Good afternoon, everybody. And Merry Christmas on this Christmas Day, we are experiencing lots of blue skies, albeit hazy, in fact, it is completely illegal to burn for 24 hours today through tonight. It is the 18th spare the air day of the winter season. A little bit of haze in the atmosphere with particulate matter and also the Carbon Monoxide being trapped very close to the surface. We need a good wind today. Not going to see t air mass is warming up. In fact, temperatures today 65 in Consumer Report to 69 in livermore. These numbers are actually averaging anywhere between 7 and 13 degrees above normal for this time of the year. So you might want to head to the beach today where santa cruz is 72 degrees. However, the National Weather service has issued a beach hazard statement for sneaker waves and also some very strong rip currents so keep that in mind if you are heading into the water, which by the way that water temperature is a cold 53 degrees. The winds are flat. It appears as if today you can expect the haze in the atmosphere also the rough surf at the beaches. And then we are looking at sunny and dry weather in the forecast all the way through new years eve into new years day. The reason is this right here. This is the culprit an area of high pressure. Its diverting the jet stream well to the north of the bay area. That ridge has been trying to erode somewhat by a couple of storms to the north but not doing a good job of it. So its stagnant. Its in place and therefore, the air is not getting mixed up at all. And thats why we have the stagnant air quality and also why we will remain dry all the way through the new year. So if youre traveling into the central valley, no tule fog into the 60s. 67 degrees in monterey bay as well as to the north in redding. 48 degrees in the greater lake tahoe area. 40s and 50s today through thursday. But it is cold enough at night for them to continue to make the snow. But that snow is not interfering with any traveling on u. S. 50 or i80. Todays highs, 60s to even the low 70s near or record warmth again today for the third consecutive day. Heres a look at the extended forecast. Sunny skies and above average temperatures through the period. Make it a great christmas. A las vegas cab driver makes an incredible find inside his taxi but what happened next is more surprising. That story when we come back. , hundred thousand dollars in vegas. But thats not whys lucky. The man left the cash in ge gamboas cab a poker player won 300,000 in vegas but thats not why he is so lucky. He left the cash in a mans cab on monday. The driver did the right thing, too. He took the money straight to his boss to be returned. He say all i want to do just return this money to company. I want to give the cab drivers a good reputation. Well, he did. The money was linked to a prominent poker player who then got to back. Taxi driver got 1,000 for his honesty from his boss. If you are looking for something healthy after you finish your christmas feast today, Tony Tantillo has just the thing. Well, todays tip of the day is going to be is with mineola oranges. Now, of course, all the summer fruits out there now im talking about citrus, they are coming in with such great quality right now and, of course, citrus on a hot day is so refreshing and i love this variety. Its got this little knob on the top. So its easy to peel. When you buy them, nice and orange around. The knob part of this it peel shouldnt be too big. This is perfect. Nice and medium. And heavy for the size. Thats all citrus. When its heavy its loaded with juice not pulp. When you bring them home store them on the counter, do not store them in the refrigerator. If you do, i said this many times before, with citrus, cold temperatures deplete the flavor. It turns the juice to pulp. That you do not want. Theres also these are great when it comes to juicing. Mineola oranges in the juicer, fantastic. Im Tony Tantillo, your fresh grocer. And always remember to eat fresh and stay healthy. Easy to peel, great to juice, refreshing. Not a bad thing. Ciao. Up next, a Young California boy isnt letting a chronic illness stop him from spreading Holiday Cheer to other sick kids. His story coming up. Well be right back. ,,,,,,,,,, firefighters will be makingo ries. That st you can expect to see a lot more fire trucks in San Francisco today. Why city firefighters will be making some very special deliveries. That and more at 5 00. Well, santa claus is synonymous with christmas. And if experts say that santa was a brand he would be the most valuable in the world. The Company Brand finance crunched the numbers saying santa is worth 1. 6 trillion. Thats how much people spend on gifts, travel and accommodations over christmas. A 10yearold boy in Southern California is battling a chronic illness but thats not stopping him from spreading christmas cheer in Southern California to other children in similar situations. Casey a Breast Cancer suffers from a rare disease of his intestines which causes him to experience pain often. He has been organizing a toy drive every christmas for kids battling chronic illness since he was 6. He says giving back is his therapy. I just want to see all the happy faces and hopefully that will take some of the pain away. This year, casey delivered 600 toys and a 500 check to mattel Childrens Hospital at ucla. Thats it for kpix 5 news at noon. We are back tonight at 5 00. Have a Merry Christmas, everybody. Take care. Captions by caption colorado comments captioncolorado. Com , [ indistinct conversations ] pam um, you dont think that maybe theres a few too many red ones . Kristen what . Red is a great christmas color, pam. Pam okay. Felicia where is dads famous hightest eggnog when we need it . Thorne oh, come on. You know this cant be easy for her without mother. Felicia where is the father of us all, anyway . Thorne i dont know. Kristen ask rick. Maybe he knows. [ birds chirping ] pam [ sighs ] [ bird chirping ]