that s what s interesting about what s going on. temperatures are cold enough for it. even if you don t see snow, it s cold enough to make you feel like you should be wear something sort of sweater. let s talk about the radar out west. finally, you ll see breaks in action. check out the ireport. earlier today, we showed you the ireport where a guy was getting splashed by a car unfortunately. these two knuckleheads throughout are in it with the wet suit and the goggles on. and dad, by the way, is filming this. so that s the way you have fun in san diego when it rains too much, i suppose. luckily, none of those cars hydroplaned and swerved off to the right. all right, kids, merry christmas to you. we re looking at snow in the upper midwest getting into the western parts of the great lakes. here s the snow that carol s talking about. very, very light amounts. just enough to dust the roadways at times but that is about it, getting into new york. all right. let s talk about the storm as i
tomorrow and express mail on wednesday. most of us will settle for a few strings of light, but really hard core christmas fans are going all out. sandy is back showcasing some of our favorites. why not go all out, right? let s get you into the holiday spirit with some eye reports of amazing displays. this is from lake mary s, florida. this is an ireporter who is this house basically lights up their neighborhood every year. he says there s a traffic jam and long line of cars just waiting to drive past this house to see the lights. you can see why right there. taking a look at this other ireport, this comes from marshall field, wisconsin. this was made up of 700,000 led lights. 800 volunteers came out in the 14-degree weather for this event benefitting the less fortunate.
of facial recognition technology. this will be a feature that launches next week. basically it will suggest the names of your friends of photo albums that you download, basically making it easier to tag them in their pictures and facebook says this is all a way to make it easier for people to tag each other in pictures and be more addicted to the site. so i don t know if we need all that, but certainly they re going to try it out. nice. also trending on cnn.com s ireport, it s so beautiful. take a look at these pictures submitted from a couple in tennessee. these are beautiful picture perfect snowflakes. they were sent to us by kristin and david cook. basically they saw all the snow out there on their driveway, they ran outside, had a close-up lens and took some shots before freezing too much. here s one reason why not to curse the snow, right? that s very cool.
internet to reach out to many people. moms and dads who lost someone a. so many people with so much to say. i ve been reaching out online. let s start off with an ireport, a video someone sent remembering liz bed edwards. let s focus on the strong women she was, what she did for the fight in health care, breast cancer research. this was a hero in her own right. reporter: getting a lot of that. will have her what a lot of writing on facebook and twitter. let s go to facebook here. classy beyond words. the epitome of dignity and grace in the face of tragedy. auto one. i believe she was an inspiration to those she knew and touched in life. rip, rest in peace. she looked like jackie, held her head high. first class and then some. elizabeth was an intelligent, powerful and beautiful woman.
missing i-reports from. so in september we made a really big push and scoured the internet for bloggers and photographers and put the call out on ireport, and with our help from our tv colleagues and we met the goal. so people were very anxious to be participants in all of this. even though it took you about a half a year to get all of this done, did people send things, quite feverishly? were you getting many entries in a single day or per week or how often do we have to remind people to participate? not exactly. we reached out to a lot of people in a lot of countries and people were really excited to participate in a lot of places, but because some of these places are very small or remote, they went flooding in, exactly. okay, some of the highlights.