Been waiting for flights all day. Reporter the arrival, departure boards spelled out bad news for many travelers. These days, they dont call them delays p they just time. When we first got here they didnt say they were being delayed so we were aggravated but we got coffee and now we are just hanging out until he comes. Reporter by midday, the an hour. Arrivals were closer to an hour and a half. Its slow but its okay. Reporter adding to the overload tighter security courtesy of tsa. Fewer passengers able to opt out of body scanners. The ones critics call virtual stripsearch machines. I do enough traveling that im like, you know, really thats not much to see. [ laughter ] [ music ] reporter tis the season for more people more security so be sure to pack some patience along with your ugly holiday sweats. Reporter the latest average delay times at new york area airports newark the worst delay 3 hours 28 minutes. Laguardia is second 2 hours 35 minutes. Jfk 1 hour 9minute delays. We have talked to some passengers who say the Ripple Effect is they may not be going anywhere tonight. Brian webb, cbs 2 news. A developing story now. An mta bus rolls backwards causing an accident on the upper west side. Cabsvalerie castro reports. The Southwest Corner of 96th and west. It rolled through the intersection. Its unclear which bus on the corner was involved in the incident. It started at 3 p. M. The bus driver left that bus parked in [ signal breakup ] reporter line of parked cars. You can see the damage to this car smashed in bumpers with a chain collection and these two cars collided also. The front end and bumpers are damaged. The mta put notices on the windshield. You can see that white paper. Thats a note from the mta to all of the drivers involved. Were damaged. That note is letting them know what happened this afternoon and to Contact Police and the mta for more information. We are told there was no one on board the bus when this happened and no drivers were in these cars so thankfully, no one was injured. Having a little problem with her signal. We apologize for that. In the meantime, a retired nypd officer is praised for capturing the suspect in a botched robbery attempt and shooting at the Roosevelt Field mall. That suspect appeared in court this morning as we learn more about how the armed guards stopped the crime. Carolyn gusoff reports. Reporter stonefaced and silent, oliver lee headed to court charged with ayou will sa, robbery and illegal weapons possession. The 21yearold accused of pulling this loaded gun in crowded Roosevelt Field mall setting off a desperate struggle over the weapon by a fearless security guard. Kenneths actions are heroic. He was engaged in a lifeand death struggle and his actions resulted in the defendant only being able to fire one round. Reporter high praise today for retired nypd detective krug credited with the brave pulled a gun on a clerk showing him a 19,000 watch. Krug armed and in plainclothes lunged wrestling the gun barrel away. One shot went off striking a passing mall employee in the back. He was brave. His hand on the gun to detain it as i understand it. And control it from dislodging and other bullets. Reporter within seconds, Nassau Police say more than 400911 calls came in four hundred 911 calls came in from frantic shoppers setting off mobilization and lockdowns. Lee alone in court represented by a public defender. Neighbors at his little neck condo say he lives with his mother, has a father in china and is helpful and friendly. Thats horrible reporter but aroused suspicions with late nights comings and goings of strangers. His Facebook Post of guns, pills and alcohol can be the the 68yearold shot in the back is recovering at the hospital with a bullet still in his neck and will be okay. It could have been worse. Carolyn gusoff, cbs 2 news. Now, krug told cbs 2 that lee had been in the store with the second person earlier in the day. Police continue to investigate if he had an accomplice. Reporter right now, police restoring order at the mall of america near minneapolis. Hundreds of black demonstrators gathered for a protest this afternoon. At least one arrest was caught on camera. Several stores shut down as a precaution. The demonstrators are now swarming mass transit just as people leave work. The group is protesting the Deadly Police shooting of 24 yearold jamar clark last month. The remains of six american soldiers killed in afghanistan are returning to america tonight. Among the victims an nypd veteran and a Staff Sergeant [ inaudible ] it was an ee emotional farewell in afghanistan an emotional farewell in afghanistan. A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd. Adrianna vorderbruggen was killed in the attack. She is a hero. And, um, i hope she is a hero to all of us not just to me. Reporter her older brother said his sister was charged with protecting the largest u. S. Military base in afghanistan. She intentionally would go on these patrols with her men because she wanted to show them that she would do what she was asking them to do. Reporter vorderbruggen is one of the first openly gay female air force officers killed in action. She had long championed the repeal of the militarys dont ask, dont tell policy a change that now makes her family eligible for military benefits. She inspired us all, i and being proud to be who she was. Reporter a Staff Sergeant was also killed, peter taub. His mother runs this washington restaurant closed as she mourns her loss. Also killed, two men from our area, 15year nypd veteran joseph lemm of West Harrison and 31yearold lewis bonacasa his family in Suffolk County remembering him. He loved what he did. He fought for his country just as hard as he fought for his family and he was a loving person and he will be missed. Reporter now, 15 other u. S. Service members have been killed in afghanistan this year. In the meantime Iraqi Forces Continue their quest to take isis. Officials reporting that they made the most significant break into the city tonight. Since may. A spokesman for the u. S. Military says there are more than 250 isis fighters in ramadi as well as hundreds of the city. An investigation of a dam ago. It remained a secret even to many local leaders. As cbs 2s alice gainer reports reporter trespassing of a different kind at the bowman avenue dam in rye brook. This dam breach happened online. The town of rye brook, the county of westchester, didnt even know about this until they read it in the paper. Reporter the wall street journal reported that back in 2013, iranian hackers were able to breach software that controlled the floodgates. Investigators believed they were just looking around to see what they could get into. While no damage was done, local and state officials are demanding to know why they were left in the dark. That this was important enough for the secretary or the department of Homeland Security to brief or alert the white house, then why wasnt the county part of the joint Terrorism Task force alerted as well . Who is to say this wasnt just a dry run on a remote dam that in the future they might be testing to do something on reporter senator Charles Schumer is now urging the department of Homeland Security to investigate just how vulnerable americas infrastructure is to cyber attack including the nations power grid. We want to know how often that this has occurred, who has done it, how successful they have been and what is being done to prevent it. Reporter schumer is also calling on the feds to work with state and local governments as well as private companies to prevent future hacks. The department of Homeland Security has no comment on the hacking incident but a Spokesman Says they continue to coordinate National Efforts to strengthen security of critical infrastructure. In the newsroom alice gainer, cbs 2 news. Still ahead, a dangerous bump. Police search for a man accused of stabbing another man while pretending to bump him in the subway. Home for the holidays. Reality star Teresa Guidice is out of prison. See what she looks like now. A miracle in the rubble a man buried is alive days dozens of buildings. And later peter and Carolyn Margaret twins doing something called kangaroo care. Im dr. Max gomez. Good for everyone. If you could see your cough, youd see all the sickness youre spreading. New robitussin cf max severe soothes and delivers powerful relief of cough, sore throat, stuffy nose and fever. New robitussin cf max severe. Because its never just a cough. Fact. When emergency room doctors choose an otc pain reliever for their patients muscle, back and joint pain. The medicine in advil is their 1 choice. Nothing is stronger on tough pain than advil. Relief doesnt get any better than this. Welcome back to cbs 2 news at 5 00. Not a pretty picture. A live look at Newark Airport where they are experiencing delays of 3. 5 hours. You can also see that traffic on the turnpike going southbound is also moving very slowly. This is all due to the rain and the fog that we are experiencing here in the area. Jfk and laguardia doing a little better, one to two hours delayed. A family rocked by scandal today real housewife Teresa Guidice returned home after a year in prison. First photos after her release. Reporter Teresa Guidice fully alabama up after primping in a prison bathroom seen here leaving the danville correction facility in connecticut this morning as reported and shown in these exclusive photos from people. Com. Her attorney greeting her with a latte and speaking for her. The car right here was, um, she was extremely upbeat. She was calling home. She asked me to put on discrimination music. Reporter Teresa Guidice and her motorcade of suvs, cameras inside and out, arriving at home this morning at 5 a. M. Her anxious husband joe seen awaiting her arrival in this people. Com picture, her four daughters waiting for her inside. She was greeted with, we love you, signs and a lexus in the driveway wrapped up in a bow. Home for christmas. It was very emotional. It was a private moment. But it was very emotional. Very powerful. Reality star from the real housewives of new jersey and her husband joe pleaded guilty to bankruptcy fraud. They admitted to hiding assets from bankruptcy creditors and submitted phony loan applications to get some 5 million in mortgages and Construction Loans for which Teresa Guidice served nearly a year. Her lawyer discouraging Media Attention saying guidice was sleeping and wouldnt be giving interviews. This as throughout the day there was a series of tweets from the family. From her daughter, a simple, welcome back, with a smiley face. From her sister in law, with christmas comes miracles. Welcome home. Guidice is now on home confinement until february. Her Attorney Says she will be allowed to work and do Different Things with permission from her probation officer. As for her husband, joe guidice, he will begin his 41 month prison sentence in march. Scott rapoport, cbs 2 news. And to see more pictures of Teresa Guidices release from prison, visit people. Com. A grand jury has indicted the truck driver that plowed into comedian Tracy Morgans limo last year. Kevin roper is charged with manslaughter and vehicular homicide. He was severely injured in the crash. His passenger james mcnair was killed. He was driving for walmart at the time of the accident. Morgan and mcnairs family settled their lawsuit against the retail giant this year. A woman accused of driving into a crowd of people in las vegas was in court today. 24yearold lakisha holloway faces murder charges for killing a 32yearold woman walking on the strip. Dozens of other pedestrians were hurt. Prosecutors charged holloway with child abuse because she had her 3yearold daughter in the car with her at the time of the crash. Saved by a door. Thats what rescuers are saying about a man trapped after a landslide crushed a mountain of construction debris toppled dozens of buildings sunday. Today rescuers pulled a 21 yearold man from the rubble in shenzhen. He had enough breathing room to survive. The landslide killed four and 70 others are missing. Unbelievable. Now to the weather and, of course, more rain and temperatures going up on december 23rd. Elise finch is in for lonnie quinn with a look at our unusual forecast. It is unusual, kristine, dick. And, of course, you take one look at our camera and that kind of says it all, doesnt it . The wipers are on wiping off the raindrops but, of course, the fog is pretty ridiculous out there. So we have the light rain and the fog, 55 degrees right now so we have dropped a couple of degrees from our high. Its 50 in monticello. 55 for central park and the hamptons. 58 edison. 59 degrees in belmar. It was mild across the tri state area. Jfk tied a record with 59 degrees so far. Park, islip, a high of 58 degrees. But as you said temperatures will be rising over the next couple of hours. We had a dropoff here over the past couple of hours, a little raincooled air but by 11 p. M. , we go back into the upper 50s and low 60s. So temperatures rise through the night into tomorrow. In fact, tomorrow as we have mentioned, we are expecting record temperatures. So we are 58 and rising for your wednesday. For your Christmas Eve thursday, expecting a High Temperature of 73 degrees. If we hit that, it will shatter the previous record of 63 degrees. And now were also expecting record warmth for christmas day. We are expected to hit at least the record, 64. We have cooled down for saturday but not much and temperatures rebound for sunday again of course rain remains an issue and well have more details coming up in your full forecast. Christmas is a beach day. Thanks very much [ laughter ] i thought i was invincible but clearly i was completely wrong. And federal Officials Say distracted driving deaths are increasing among teenagers. Now see the new car features designed to keep them safe. The growing concerns surrounding candles. And later a mysterious light spotted streaking across the sky. What the military is saying about the unusual lights. Could it be santa . Maybe. Right now, a live look at the l. I. E. Around exit 20. This is westbound traffic. You can see its bumperto bumper and the roads are wet. Going to be a little bit of a commute home for a lot of folks p stay with us. Well be right back. Meet the moores were the moore family, and were always looking for ways to enjoy more. So we called Time Warner Cable and got even more than we expected. Call now to get more. More speed. Like, 300 meg. More tv shows and movies on demand. More places to make more unlimited calls. Call now. For 89. 99 a month, youll get 100 meg ultra fast internet, hd channels included, and unlimited calling to international destinations. We find more good things every day on more wifi connected devices in our house. Time warner cable made switching easy with a one hour arrival window. They even made sure all of our connections were up and running before they left. Why settle for less, when you can get more call now. Get free installation with a one hour arrival window. And ask how you could get a 300 reward card. Tonight on the news at 6 00, talk about a damper on some families christmas holiday. This woman an aide she is accused of stealing from disabled children. What Authorities Say she took from students on their school bus. Also the person in the brown coat seen attacking they tried to take her down . How she responded today. Well see you at 6 00. The centers for Disease Control says Car Accidents kill 6 teenagers every day and now Car Companies are adding new features to make driving safer for teens. Cbs 2s Brian Conybeare introduces us to one teen whose life was change forever because of one text. Reporter liz marks used to look like this. But then she texted while driving. I was a good student. I was a role model. I was like a popular girl in high school. Reporter her life has never been the same because of distracted driving. The consequences of my life now after the car accident, the fact that im blind in one eye, i cannot smell. I cannot hear very good because a bone broke in half inside my eardrum. I cant create tears because my tear ducts are damaged and i cant sleep naturally. So i take medicine to go to sleep. They werent. They got tired of me. They got tired of the problems. I looked up on her Facebook Page and she said [ indiscernible ] can anybody please hang out with me today . [ crying ] i dont have any friends. Reporter now several Car Manufacturers want to stop teens from being distracted behind the wheel. For example, the new chevy Michael Brown the moment i unbuckle the seatbelt the music stops. Reporter the new system is called teen driver. Parents can program the key fob so the car knows when the teenager is driving. And if the seatbelts arent on, the radio isnt either. Parents can also set a maximum speed limit and teens get a warning if they surpass it. Chevy is just one of several Car Companies adding features specifically for teens. Fords my key has several similar settings. Hyundais blue link will send parents a text if their child aaa says these features can save lives. Car crashes kill approximately 2600 teens a year and injured 130,000. Reporter in the Michael Brown, parents can also view in the malibu, parents can also view a report card on their teens driving. Theres an app for that if your car doesnt have the feature. Text arrest and others disabled Text Messages and emails while teens drive. Parents blocked locks the phone when its traveling higher than 10 miles an hour. All too late for liz marks. I thought i was invincible. But clearly, i was completely wrong. Reporter a quarter of teens respond to a text message once or more anytime they drive, any program that is available to help may be worth it. Brian conybeare, cbs 2 news. And right now, heres something even more 20 of teens and 10 of parents admit they have extended multimessage text conversations while driving. Thats shocking. Poor girl. Terrible what happened but you feel so badly for her now. All right. Coming up another subway attack. Police search for a man. How they say he repeatedly stabbed a subway rider without the victim noticing. Things heat up on the campaign trail. One candidate is on the defense and another is lashing out. What has everyone so tense . An early Christmas Present from the beatles streaming [ music ] cant afford to let heartburn get in the way . Try nexium 24hr, now the 1 selling brand for frequent heartburn. Get complete protection with the new leader in frequent heartburn. Thats nexium level protection. If you could see your cough, its just a cough. Youd see how often you cough all day and so would everyone else. New robitussin 12 hour delivers fast, powerful cough relief that lasts up to twelve hours. New robitussin 12 hour cough relief. Suspected subway menace a man accused of stabbing another peak twice. Welcome back. It was an attack so strange, the victim didnt even know he was stabbed. Now police are hoping someone will help identify the suspect before he gets the chance to hurt anyone else. Cbs 2s dave carlin reports now from forest hills. Reporter investigators say the man in this subway Surveillance Video randomly targeted a 42yearold man using an unknown sharp object the 71st avenue subway station platform then again as he followed him on a queens bound f train. I dont understand why people be doing this. Reporter the shocker for riders we met is learning the victim said there was no argument, no contact at all leading up to sunday evenings bizarre attack by the 6foot 200pound man in his 20s with a cast on his right arm, goatee, black knit cap and plaid coat over a raiders t shirt. Initially the victim felt discomfort but he wanted to get away from the suspect who ran away at the union turnpike stop. Police say in the moments after the attack, the victim didnt realize how badly he for help. Discovering that only after he left the station. Once home, the victim found four stab wounds on his back side and went from his house to the hospital. Walk away. I dont keep close to no one. Absolutely. We want to keep, you know, with her husband and sons karen asked where are the cops . We should see more Law Enforcement around and especially with family and the holidays and everything thats happening. Reporter this is the latest in a series of random knife attacks three incidents and no arrests yet. On wednesday, december 16, this 48yearold man who we identified only as john was slashed in the neck at nostrand avenue station in brooklyn. This person was caught on video slashing two people on an a train at brooklyns j street station. Police cautioned subway riders to get their eyes up off their phones newspapers and other distractions. Be aware of surroundings and increase personal space to get away from those who might harm them. Donald trump is heading into the Holiday Weekend with a solid lead over his rivals and trumps closest rival ted national newspaper. Cbs 2s mark albert has more from the white house. Reporter the Washington Post retracted this animated cartoon depicting ted cruzs children as monkeys. The cartoon was based on his political ad which spotlighted the candidates two daughters. Dont be attacking five yearold girls that has no place in politics. Reporter the campaign quickly turned the incident into a fundraising event asking supporters for instant emergency contributions totaling 1 million in 24 hours. Cruz is enjoying a surge but a new cnn poll still shows him at a distant second to donald trump. This is turning more and more into a twoman race between donald trump and me. Reporter meanwhile, donald trump defended his use of a crude word to describe Hillary Clintons loss to the democratic nomination to barack obama in 2008. She was favored to win and she got schlonged, she lost. I mean, she lost. Reporter trump went on frequently used in politics to say beaten badly. His bigotry, his bluster, his bullying have become his reporter clintons remarks are what she also said on tuesday. Its important to stand up to them where we are and why we shouldnt let anyone bully his way into the presidency. Reporter clintons Communications Director tweeted that trumps comments are degrading to all women. Mark albert for cbs news, the white house. Well, for his part dr. Ben carson tells the Associated Press that a shakeup in his campaign is coming. So far no details on what that will be. The Top Republican candidates will literally have more room when they take jabs at each other during the next debate. Host fox news announced plans today to thin the crowd. Candidates will need to place in the top 6 nationally based on recent polls, or be in the top 5 in iowa or New Hampshire polls which holds their the debate is january 14. At this point, john kasich, rand paul and Carly Fiorina seem most likely to get bumped. Still ahead, hidden dangers. Safety concerns about Scented Candles . How you can be putting your health at risk. [ music ] beatles music will stream at midnight. And in 1888, dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh cut off part of his left ear. He is now regarded as a genius and his pieces sell for record breaking prices. A live look at traffic. Different roads, same story. This is the belt parkway. Stop and go. Looks like from these pictures rain continues to fall on the high travel day this holiday season. The forecast coming up. [ music ] thats the classic holiday film. Now elf is on stage at the theater at Madison Square garden. The musical takes you from the north pole to new york city for a story that kids and adults will love. Cbs 2s Jill Nicolini has a look behind the scenes. Reporter the musical follows the story of buddy the elf who just like in the movie was a baby living in an orphanage until santa stopped buddy accidentally crawls into santas bag of gifts and has north pole. He was raised by elves and he decides that its time for him to go to new york to meet his real father. He goes from the north pole to the lincoln tunnel. He tries to fit into life in love. That and opens up because of him and excitement about christmas. We bring to to life with music and dance. Reporter the cast gets ready throughout the show. Theres hundreds of costumes wigs and shoes. Sometimes we are changed in 30 seconds. These are all these custom shoes with a little twist at the end. Reporter walk with caution. So here we in the wardrobe room. This is where all the costumes get their maintenance, all of the wigs get taken care of. Preps for the show. Reporter there are 25 cast members in the show. But 95 wigs because the characters are constantly changing their looks. Jill nicolini, cbs 2 news. Elf the musical will be running until december 27. Tickets start at 39. Both my kids two thumbs up. We were just watching the if you like those shoes . I love them. I want them in red. With big heels at least one inch. The beatles are giving their fans an early Christmas Present. Take a listen. [ music ] they are letting it be [ music ] and letting you stream. Starting at 12 01 a. M. The music will be available on demand. You will be able to access the catalog on streaming services from apple to spotify. Pandora the one that i have is the only service that will reportedly not have full access but they will get it soon enough, lets hope for us beatles fans. Love them coming up, skin to skin survival. How cuddling newborns like this could save their lives. And a live look at the Grand Central parkway. Things are moving right along well, not really near laguardia airport. When we return, elise finch has the forecast. But first, dana tyler has a reporter hi. Coming up at 6 00, two sanitation workers jump into action when they spot a running car with four children alone inside. I need a Police Officer right away. So i dont know what the protocol is. I got to get these kids. How they got them out and who is in trouble for leaving them alone in the first place. Plus this. I got scared santa wasnt going to come. A new jersey girl, why she called 911 because of her elf on the shelf. At 6 00. Than any other leading brand. To treat their aches and pains more people reach for advil. Relief doesnt get any better than this. Advil. Its here, the first gummy multivitamin. From centrum. A complete, and tasty way to support. Your energy. Immunity. And metabolism like never before. Centrum multigummies. Imagine if doctors could reduce the rate of low birth weight the death rate of low birth weight babies with no negative side effects and free. Dr. Max gomez says its called kangaroo care. Reporter meet these two twins, tiny sevenday old twins born six weeks early. Clearly, as calm and peaceful as babies can get. Mostly because they are sharing skintoskin contact with mom. Its an ageold practice called kangaroo care. Its the most amazing feeling. And the babies are so calm as soon as you do it. Reporter turns out that enjoyable calming effect Sharon Butler sees in her babies is also scientific. So the chief of neoand a tolling at cohens childrens neonatology at cohens childrens is all for it. They analyzed 124 studies and found in low birth weight babies it helped regulate breathing, body temperature and heart rate and lowered the risk of preemies dying in the first month of life reduced infections and spurred growth. Another study found it improves the health of the new mother lowering her stress level and improving her mood. And its not just for mothers. Whats more manly than being a father . Very calming, right . You look at the monitor, the heart rate went down. And you can just feel the bond between the two of us. Pretty much all babies even those hooked up to monitors and oxygen can be held skin to skin and will benefit from it. When you take them out they get very upset. So its obviously enjoyable. Reporter the mother child bonding that takes place with kangaroo care also improves breastfeeding and even the babys immunity all with no cost or downside. There arent many things in medicine you can say that about. Dr. Max gomez, cbs 2 news. And its not just for preemies. Full term babies benefit from it. Mysterious streak across the sky marveled and baffled people on the west coast last night. People across california, nevada and arizona witnessed the blazing bright lights. That is really blazing. Some speculated it could be a shooting star, others wondered if it was santa. Mmhm. Well, maybe not. U. S. Strategic command said it was Russian Space debris a lot of debris. A big old piece. Lets check the forecast. Elise finch is standing by and things are still a bit rainy outside and i dont know what you have behind you there. Thats a foggy skating rink. Thats what all the cameras look like because we have the rain and the fog. 56 degrees now. I want to point out why thats important because earlier, it was 55 degrees. So we are going to start to see these temperatures rising again so hang on for that. 58 is the high so far today. We hit that a couple of times. Well likely hit it again as temperatures are back on the rise. 41, thats where we should be. 58 was the high today. Not expecting to hit the record 66 hit in 1990 but we and we continue to close in on the most 60degree days in december. The record is 8. So far we have had 7. If we hit 60 before midnight well tie the record and tomorrow well break it. The vortex satellite and radar shows you a steady stream of moisture so we continue to have some widespread rain, a lot of it light although we do have a few pockets where we are seeing some moderate even heavy rain. As we head into northern westchester, moving out of bedford into cross river into Fairfield County so ridgefield seeing some of that heavy rain moving out of new canaan into wilton, connecticut, norwalk also seeing heavy rain. Long island seeing heavy rain. It moved out of babylon. So we are watching heavier rain, again they are pocket of heavier rain, most of of it is that lighter rain. But as i mentioned it is a steady stream of moisture. Its not done with us yet. Well see the heaviest rain over the next few hours before things taper off. Its being fed from the gulf. Heres the moisture. All out in advance of a cold front, now that front is producing some violent weather in the nations midsection. Severe thunderstorms even some tornado watches and warnings. For us we have at least a chance to see a thunderstorm tonight before its all over. Futurecast at 7 p. M. Showing pockets of moderate to heavy rain same at 9 p. M. , more of those pockets. We head into 11 30. We start to see it tapering off then we head into tomorrow morning. Now we have the clouds and also a recurrence of some of that fog for your thursday morning. And still a chance for just a few showers on thursday but certainly thursdays big story is going to be about temperatures. So how much rain are we seeing . We have already had about a half inch of rain in the city. We could definitely add another inch to it. So anywhere from one to two inches when its all said and done. And take a look heres your sevenday forecast. Tomorrows forecast high 73 degrees. Of course if we hit it, it shatters the record of 63. Record or christmas with 64 as the forecast high on friday. 64 ties it, warmer breaks the record. 73. No white christmas. Trouble for santa. How is he getting around . He has rudolph. Firing up the Santa Tracker back there, right . Indeed. The norad Santa Tracker. All right. Thank you. As we have been saying its been an unusually warm december. And all this warm weather means people are doing things a bit differently. Cbs 2s Vanessa Murdoch shows us what that means. Reporter sandals, shorts, have you made them part of your winter wardrobe yet . Think about it. This december is one for the record books. And by a large margin. The warmest december on record, 2001, averaging 44 degrees. This month, its over 50. On track for the warmest december on record. Actually weird like to be i feel like its not christmas. Reporter so many we spoke to say this springlike warmth isnt festive. Not Christmas Shopping for sure. Reporter even to buy has affected it or not but its been slow. Its crazy. This warm weather has, you know its a dream come true. Reporter seems ice cream is the hot ticket item on wish lists. James healy owns two ben jerrys and business is up 26 over last december. He bumped up the supplies and staffing. Typically in the winter we cut hours back. But this winter we have had a lot of employees very happy they are getting a lot more hours. Reporter tomas hildago said he would normally be in florida this time of the year but the bicycle business is blooming too. Goes to the weather i stay making better money than last year. Keeps us busy. How often do you have to mow in december . Its been about every other day where, um, typically this time of year we just dont have to mow at all. Reporter dave at a golf course in new jersey says its been a blockbuster month. Tomorrow, on Christmas Eve, this course is already fully booked. Great. Its been awesome weather. I love it. Im sad there wont be snow. Reporter so instead of building a snowman, considering about a mudman. Vanessa murdoch, cbs 2 news. Can burning a candle make you sick . The growing concerns over Scented Candles. A school aide arrested accused of stealing from disabled children. A live look at the Whitestone Expressway at 25th road. Traffic is barely moving on this rainy warm wednesday night. Meet the moores were the moore family, and as you can see, we need an internet that can do more. We do more games, and more streaming. So we need more speed. Thats why we switched to Time Warner Cable. You can too. Call now. At the same time. The wifi in this house is amazing. So is my guacamole. Hi grandma and grandpa ha, look at that [laughs] Time Warner Cable even has an internet plan for us. Get the Internet Speed thats right for you. From 3 megs to ultra fast 300 megs they even made it easy to switch with a onehour arrival window. Why settle for less, when you can get more get 50 meg internet for 39. 99 per month. Call now. You could get free installation, no data cap, and access to over 400,000 twc wifi hotspots with select plans. Candles are a fire hazard but now there are more candle concerns. Reporter megan says she didnt any she was doing anything wrong last thursday when she lit two large Scented Candles in her hoboken apartment and continued on with her daily tasks. I didnt think anything of it. I had them burning probably six or seven hours. Reporter but the next morning, she noticed black specks in her nose. And i picked up the baby to feet him and i noticed that inside of his nostril it was all, um, it was all black. What the babys nose looked saline. I read about the candle and it said dont burn more than 3 hours. Its a common mistake. Have you ever heard of this soot . Yeah. I mean, definitely. Patient come in all the time. I go through a checklist of Different Things. Is there anything about your environment that you have been doing differently . And inevitably, this time of year, its yeah, you know, were burning candles. Reporter now, while any candle can produce soot there are ways to reduce it. Experts say keep the wick to an 8th inch above the wax and never burn it in a drafty area to avoid the flame from being interrupted. Most importantly, if you do see soot, put the candle out immediately. The National Candle association also says on its website that candles containing too much fragrance or fragrance not approved for candles can burn unsafely so buy from a reputable candlemaker. As for this woman, she and her be paying close attention to those warnings from now on. In hoboken, new jersey, diane macedo, cbs 2 news. Thats it for us here at 5 00. Well see you again at 11 00. The news at 6 00 starts right now. Captions by caption colorado comments captioncolorado. Com your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. Heavy fog and rain putting a damper on the holiday getaway. Flights delayed at all three major airports. Some people might not even get out tonight. Bumpertobumper traffic on the l. I. E. . The weather causing gridlock on many roads. Also, developing tonight, a runaway bus, an mta bus crashes into cars on the upper west side. No one behind the wheel. And she is trusted with caring for disabled children but tonight this bus aide is accused of stealing from them. Good evening, im dana tyler. It is a soggy start to the holiday commute. Circle tonight but it is the fog thats causing the biggest problems in our area. Low visibility, creating delays at the airport and on the roads. Cbs 2s elise finch in for lonnie quinn tonight with more rain ahead through the night. Elise. Reporter you are correct. We have more rain and the fog remains an issue for several hours. So take a look. This shows our visibilities now down to a mile and a half for belmar, two miles in babylon and in white plains. Three for central park. The problem is, it gets worse before it gets better. As we go through future visibility, it will be down to twotenths of a mile less than half mile in many places as we head into the next few hours before it finally gets better. So fog a problem now. It will remain a problem through tomorrow morning. Your vortex satellite and radar showing that we are seeing widespread rain most of it light but we have seen a few pockets where we have seen some of that moderate and heavy rain. We have a steady stream of moisture so the rain isnt