And i realized, yeah, this house is on fire. A husband and wife each play holiday heroes at the same time miles apart. What they did to save christmas for two groups of total strangers. A good tuesday morning, everyone. Im diane macedo. And im gio benitez in for kendis gibson. You know, Winter Weather is delaying travel for millions of americans trying to head home after the holiday. Yes, it was a White Christmas for millions, and that is expected to continue into the new year. One area east of the great lakes is bracing for up to 50 inches of snow while many other areas are preparing for icy conditions and dangerous below zero windchills. Abcs Elizabeth Hur is here with the latest on that. Good morning, elizabeth. Reporter well, diane and gio, good morning to you. Theres more snow on the way but already weve seen plenty of snow, ice and rain, and so as you can imagine, trying to get anywhere for so many, it wasnt just messy, it got downright dangerous. Whiteout conditions from upstate
The unicycle. Brian is on the unicycle, the hatchet is made by unicycle. Com. Hes sponsored and is good at it. He does well in the snow. Could they get him a heated seat . Oh, now you are talking. This is whacky. He encountered a blizzard in boston, massachusetts. What makes it easier to do it on the snow is a low pressure tire. He says, and i dont believe you, brian, anyone could do this, if you can do a bicycle. But, brian aint met me. You know, you make it look easy. We are going to watch you do it. We have to admit, when i found this, i wanted to take my nieces and nephews and your kids to columbus, georgia. Take them. You would love this and so would they. Can you tell me what that is . That is a ski lift for stuffed animals. You guys, this is columbus, georgia. This is part of the christmas spectacular. Gary loody erected this thing, 20 feet in the air and across the street. This is part of a spectacular they have been doing a numb bore of years. 155,000 lights, 2. 5 miles of ext
Chew and swallow and show an empty mouth to the witnesses after each chocolate, before you can commence opening the next door. If you accidentally rip a door completely off the advent calendar, you are disqualified. He wants to do it in under two minutes. Thats what they established. He says hes been doing about 2 052 06. Come on. They invited him to their new york offices to break it. Will he do it in under two minutes . Hes not chewing that chocolate. He looks so funny doing this. So seriously. They have to be precise. Here we go with the last one. Did he do it . Well, they step away to verify some things. Then, when the guy comes back 1 27. 84 seconds. A new guinness book world record title. Congratulations to the guy. Another world record. How many do we have . Zero. Feels like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders. Checking his christmas list, there are people on the ground spreading Christmas Joy. His first Christmas Joy helper here is simon. Hes been pulled by a 4 x 4 on his
Outages and damage due to wind. And on top of that, look at these snowfall totals. New york city area getting three to six inches of the white stuff. Kendis, linda . And the frigid weather is raising concerns about the price of natural gas. The extended cold conditions could put serious strain on the usually abundant supply of natural gas. It could result in some shortages by the end of winter. And the unusually cold temperatures in the southeast created a major problem for some residents, about 80 sea turtles had to be rescued in panama city, florida. If the water gets too cold, the turtles go into shock. Ah. Yeah, they float to the top. They cant help it. Staffers at the Gulf World Marine Institute are checking them out and will release them into warmer waters next week. They get incapacitated. Yeah, they need help. A st. Louis mom has set an interesting record. Take a look. Theres a cheetah. The three boys and five girls were born. The zoo just went public with the births. The cubs
Less than an hour ago we took these pictures. If you look closely you can see the rooster tails spraying water behind those cars. Lets go to drew tomb and live dopplar 7. The rain gear certainly getting a workout tonight. Life dopplar seven showing you were tracking widespread showers. I do want to take back about an hour and a half ago because live dopplar seven showing a couple of thundershowers on the west. A couple of lightning strikes. Many of you were saying you saw lightning and heard rumbles of thunder and thats why. We have downpours through san leandro just worked through castro valley, 880, highway 105 showing those downpours to the peninsula. Belmont, south to redwood city, atherton, palo alto. Benicia downpours in your neck of the woods. Highway 4 we are wet at this hour even into the east bay, downpours there working through alameda and right now San Francisco just some light rain overhead. Lets get you out the door tomorrow morning lots of clouds and isolated sprinkle. T