Who is cleaning up her city. One cigarette butt at a time. Deborah good morning and thanks for joining us. Im deborah souverain. Americans across the country are dealing with historic weather on this Christmas Day. From record breaking highs in the northeast. To flash flood watches down south. To snow out west abcs Kenneth Moton is keeping tabs on the weather. And has more. Holiday weather for the record books. This christmas morning, the Weather Threat continues for parts of the south with heavy rain causing flood watches. Sot no super we woke up to Civil Defense pounding on our door telling us we had about 20 minutes to leave our homes. In georgia and alabama, people evacuated their homes to escape flood waters. Nat tornado from the south to the midwest, severe more than a dozen were killed when two dozen tornadoes terrorized s sen states including mississippi. Itsselieved one stretched 150 miles destroying homes and lives. Sot governor phil bryantmississippi as you look at the damag
Christmas on gma. Caroling all the season here words of good cheer from everywhere filling the air grazing theound joy gaily walking singing songs of cheer christmas is here. Mey, merry, merry, Merry Christmas good morning, america and Merry Christmas to everyonet hohome celebrating. Were really not here. Were at home too. This isll on tape. We wanted to be [ laughter ] its a christmas miracle. W went bac in. We are spending the holidays with our family this glorious Christmas Morning. But we wanted to be here with you too. Yeah, on a very special holiday show ahahead. The baby is watching at hom and singing all morning long. Our friend, emeril is with us with some greatays to help you celebrate. Hell show us s someoliday hors now a check of the news and weather from cecilia vega. Good morning, and a very Merry Christmas to everyone. We begin with a holiday message thousands gathering at the vatican to celebrate the holy day. Pope francis urging the backing of peace agreements for t wa
Gatherings to celebrate and then there are people who like putting up holiday lights. One homeowner in davenport. Put up about 36thousand lights and synced it all together withthusic for all totonjoy aarik k ods from our quad cities affiliate checked it out you have nine of the White Christmas trees, which only had 400 white lights on them. But i put 600 red lights on each one of the trees. When it comes to holiday decorating. Theres one Davenport House that stands out. Since im retired now, i itook me three e eks of anywhere from five to ten hour days. James peachee puh shay runs what he calls candy cane corner. Thousands of lights. Likely hundreds of cords. And one computer program. Its all defined over here on the left hand side. Tells me which exact tree it is, where its at, and what it does. The result is a mix of music nat and lights that work togegeer in harmony. Jenny schaumburg Siberian Orchestra and he does one of their songs and its just beautiful i mean its just breathtakin
Christmas morning coming up. Shaina good morning, everyone. Thanks for waking up with kcci 8 news this morning. 25. Merry christmas, everyone. A lot of people were very excited to see the snowfall yesterday and it might stick around in some areas. Jason i think it will, with the almost 10 inches. We will continue to see that linger on the ground as we have temperatures will help to melt some of it. It will be hard to get rid of all of it. Fog today because of low level moisture and disabilities to the central portions of the state around the quartermile range. A halfmile in ottoman. If you are headed out and about, note that it could be a little bit slick and disabilities could be down disabilities could be down. Cloud cover lingering and a system off to the southwest but snow cover a cousin that but there could be one to two inch totals on northwestern edges of the state. A bit of a mixed bag of precipitation and light rain into south and central portions of the state. Plan on cloud c
Ripped through the south when a tanker truck ignited at a gas plant in nigeria. A deadly shooting at a mall in North Carolina. An off duty officer shot and killed a man who pointed a gun at him. New protests on the streets of chicago over the death of a teenager shot 1 6 times by a police officer. All that oakland takes it in overtime. And the raiders off the right way. Go raiders. And all that matters. According to norad, santa claus may have already paid you a visit. School cafeteria with her voice. Merry Little Christmas now this mornings eye opener is presented by toyota. Lets go place Merry Christmas and welcome to cbs this morning. We recorded parts of this broadcast in the days leading up to the holiday. Merry christmas on this christmas morning. Absolutely. Merry christmas. Im wearing the sweater you got me, charlie. Im not sure i like it. Im not sure i would have bought this sweater. Charlie says, its make this clear. I picked this out of my closet this morning. It looked bett