And walking in a Winter Wonderland, from sacks fifth avenue to radio city. How some of the most popular spots transform into this, the elves working behind the scenes to decorate america. A special edition of gma starts right now. Good morning, america, and Merry Christmas to everyone at home celebrating. Everyone here in the audience celebrating with us. Its actually not Christmas Morning. We are on tape so we can be home on this Holiday Spending time with our family. Im waving to myself in hawaii right now. On the beach. Weve got a very special show for you this morning. The nyu magical singers and jazz choir, so happy to have them back with us again this year singing some of our favorite Christmas Songs and theyll be doing it all morning long. How lucky are we and some really touching stories about incredible people stepping up to help those in need, including a 12yearold boy who spent the entire year collecting gifts for others. Thats what you call the christmas spirit. Yeah. Were
So any hot spots will need to be monitored very closely. This fire is well to the north and also to the east of concord, right throughout the delta and the locater on the fire that we have right now has this just to the south of california 12. Winds southwest at 22 Miles Per Hour. Blowing this smoke off to the north towards isleton. Temperature, 92. Humidity of 35 . We will continue to see these winds gust anywhere from 15 to about 25 Miles Per Hour as we continue throughout tonight. Well be tracking that of course coming up in that full forecast. Thanks, jeff. In other news tonight, we have new details now on the Maddy Middleton murder case in santa cruz. You are looking at the suspected killer, 15yearold Adrian Gonzalez. Appearing in court for the first time this morning. Hes accused of kidnapping sexually assaulting and murdering maddy who was just 8 years old. Nbc bay areas Michelle Roberts is live at the courthouse in santa cruz. You spoke with a childhood friend of the suspect to
No reports of any injuries and no word yet on what caused that blaze. New this morning, a c carjacker faces charges. Just about 11 30 last night, police on routine patrol attempted to talk to a group of people. One of the men ran away. As officers chased him, he pulled a gun and started shooting. Officers fire backed as that suspect attempted a carjacking, failed and then successfullied carjacked another driver. The chase made it to onto the freeway where the suspect tried to drive into an officer. Witnesses say they saw the driver speed by in upwards of 100 miles an hour. This guy was shooting at the police. Shots fired three times on 101 and 28th in santa clara. He was hopping on the highways and going crazy. No officers were injured. The suspect did hit another car in the chase and both people in that car were taken to the hospital with nonlife threatening injuries. The suspect was taken to the hospital. Investigators say his injuries are not from gunfire. He will be booked to count
Dozen homes and forced people to evacuate. Shifting winds are not helping matters. Nbc has the latest now from clear lake. Slide it from the side and bring it to me. Fighting fire with fire. Early this morning firefighters taking advantage in the change in the winds to burn a stretch along a california highway on their own terms. This is highway 20 right here. Can you see the fires tc burning. And that dry brush is a major concern. And the concern is that embers from the dry brush will fly across and hit all of the dry brush here. This whole area is a tinder box. For hours, back burning continued all it create a fire break. It is very important to create a buffer where fire cannot get in. If we create a large buffer between this road and the fire front then we accomplished our goal. With you this massive fire remains unpredictable. Last night enormous frames the rocky fire doubling in size since ye9 ning more than 6,000 structures. Sarah workman is one of the 12,000 people forced to ev
This morning, a remarkable journey revealing resilience and massive need as millions still struggle for food, power and shelter. And here in my hometown, houston, the hidden crisis. I mean this is your life. Everything. And we find that mother who was stranded on her roof and the hero who let people make his store his home. Mattress mack with a new surprise this morning for his city. A very special edition of Good Morning America starts now. And good morning, america. Great to have you with us this monday morning. It is a special one here on gma. We are live in those areas hit so hard by recent hurricanes. You see robin there surveying all the damage still there in puerto rico and then we have some other remarkable images coming in. This is the florida keys, many weeks after the storm struck there. Our team is reporting from the heart of the path of destruction this morning as we mentioned, robin right there in puerto rico perdue. Michael in houston and rob is in the florida keys. Ther