Celebrate christmas on gma. Happy holidays. Singing songs of good cheer and we do say good morning, america on this Christmas Morning. Everyone there celebrating at home. We to want let you know that we are on tape this morning. So we could be home too spending the holiday with our families. Trust us, we dont look like this at home right now. Were all around the tree. We have a special holiday show this morning. We hear the nyu madrigal singers, back with us again this year. Singing all morning long. Back by popular demand. Beautiful. And coming up, christmas breakfast, part of the morning for so many families. And we have great recipes to spice it up. Thats cuoming up. And we go to ryan smith. Good morning and Merry Christmas, im ryan smith. Christmas celebrations are well underway at the vatican, hoetly land and down under. Lama hasan has the details. Reporter overnight, pope francis was ushering in the Christmas Day. And he said the world needed more tenderness and warmth. Calling o
Have to run over here and then jump in the chair. Wow. That is exactly what will happen if you do. Good morning. Good to see you. High five. She and i were on the phone yesterday sweating out that eagles win. Was it a win. Yes, and then be like were good and just kept going. Perfect, hooray, we won, sue. I know. But you know what can i tell you my personal story. We were leaving center city and coming down i95 and we had a touchdown with the fumble recovery. So that is right when we start add approaching the link, boom, boom, fire works. Then right after that the other touchdown and then so we saw in the rearview mirror, fire works. It was perfect timing. And then the Third Quarter happened. Then i helped to yell at Merrill Reese in the radio i think we have this game, zone up. Dont jinks it, Merrill Reese. He had to a will guys later on. Im sorry. That was my Merrill Reese. Pretty good. Lets get to the weather. Nine out of ten today. Plenty of sun. But it is a chilly morning. Bus stop
Trying to clean up. There is a different mood from the police today. There is a sense that theyre not going to really put up with anything. There are National Guardsmen in town more than 1,000 taking up positions. Theyre wearing full combat gear. They have their humvees and they are heavily armed. Police have been holding briefings through this afternoon. This is the latest from them about the injuries their staff has suffered. We know that a minimum of 20 of our officers have been injured during the course of the lawlessness that took place. We expect that that number might be a little bit higher. Weve had reports that our officers sustaining minor injuries did not want to go off the line and seek medical treatment. Brad well, there is also a little bit of a sense of lawlessness in town. The big crowd just moved that direction. What i was showing you is because a bunch of young men on motorcycles are performing tricks. Theyre doing wheelies down the center of the street. Everyone is o
Jims alma mater harvard set to face cincinnati. So far, it looks as though stocks will open to the upside, as markets appear to be taking in stride crimeas vote in favor of leaving ukraine and joining russia, this comes after a week in which the dow had its first fiveday monday through friday loss since may 2012. Jim, good to see you. Good to see you. Referendum dominating the news flow over the weekend. U. S. Says under no circumstances is it going to recognize that. What does it mean for the markets today . I think that whats happening is there are oligarchs cashing out. We see a lot of sales of treasury last week. I have to believe that some of the russians are to be thinking, okay, if they do capital controls, ive got to get out of the u. S. , that was a lot of the selling. This was one of those big, bad event owes cs occurs, nothing h. I think they hope it go as way. I think people hope putins done or maybe hell say, look, i think that maybe its reasonable for me to have a corrido
Share. And we have got a very big lineup today. Special guests straight ahead, including cnbc boss, former fed chair and nba superstar and also now behind a Venture Capital firm. Car me lo anthony. Thats a nice mix of piece you wont see. All three on together would be a great conversation. I think so. Im definitely going to ask car me lo anthony about the flatt flattening curve. Digital athlete. Watching the markets. Heres the markets as we have it right now. The dow up 43 points. Some buying midday when word got out about a new survey in scotland that showed maybe a majority would vote against independence so our markets picked up some pace there. Dow was up 60plus at the peak. Now up 43. Nasdaq trading higher up 23. And the s p 500 index after the 13point drubing yesterday, up at 1993. Talk about this in the closing bell exchange. Quincy crosby is back with us. Jack barugian. David seaburg and my buddy Gordon Charlotte there on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Gordon, starti