department to discourage them to discourage other cops, rather, from joining the reserves. the officers say with christmas around the corner, they are worried about providing for their families. finance hard. there is no christmas presents for them right now. we will get through. this i have no doubt. but it s just, you know, everything i worked for up to this point. it s devastating. i have got a wife and three small children. a 3-year-old a a-year-old and a 6-year-old. i m without a paycheck now. lawmakers are calling for the state s attorney general to investigate. those are your headlines. yes, they are. rick reichmuth standing by with what s going on outside some drama in the world of weather. there is. you know what today is. 21st. winter begins today. shortest day of the year, right? shortest day of the year. best news of the day. this is the only way to get through this day. days from now on get longer. doesn t that feel good
son josh jumped out to help. he tweeted out a photo of himself along with the message first on the scene to big accident. see pics of car in the house. i lifted four people out to safety. all okay. thankful. why thank you very much. anna. and to add the icing on the news cake we have great rick reichmuth standing by. the cold icing. chilly, frigid as some would say. here you go. temps warming um from where they were from your thanksgiving. climbing 3 to 5 degrees. we will take it current temps as you are waking up. factor in the wind, great lakes around the north cool as well. texas, 36 is what it feels like this morning. el paso. after we dealt with that storm that hit most of the country last week and big messy day at least on the east on wednesday. we are quiet.
mcdonoughs southeast in georgia says his restaurant is dedicated to police, fire, and military and that s why he put up the flags three months ago. but friday a code enforcement officer told him to take them down. i m just floored and i said what are they for he said i m in violation of flags flying above my restaurant. called him and told him the ordinance he was cited for was two vague and needed to be rewritten. for that reason the owner is asking that citation to be thrown out. here is some more fun animal video for you. this flamingo took a walk on the wild side as workers were herding flamingos in for the night. this one tried to make an escape. he tried to take a dip in the lake. chased the fugitive for an hour before one worker jumped in the water and grabbed that bird after the chase the flamingo was returned to the zoo. and those are your headlines this morning. rick reichmuth standing by.
the great rick reichmuth standing by to tell us what it is like outside these walls. i had to go back outside to the normal spot. i felt strange in. there don t like the blue curtain. campus weather stations. exactly it felt like i was standing in front of prom. glamour shot. take a look at the weather maps. really spectacular start to your day. especially across the north. get ready for really cool temperatures. chicago is under kind of an incredible stretch. you typically should be around 83 degrees this time of year. probably pretty humid. take a look what the next seven days look like to you. tomorrow, close to your average, in general, see even more cold air come in. cool air. relatively cool air for much of this coming week and temps going to be down in lower to mid 70s for mid 70s. cool air great lakes and northeast. also not going to be humid which is going to be great news.
located. over here you have some of the metal structure that held it in place. none of it stood a chance as 170 mile-per-hour winds. the mayor out here says some 300 homes and businesses were destroyed and his primary concern tonight is for the people who were in those homes making certain they have a roof over their head, shep. shepard: you speak of concerns, mike, they must be mighty concerned about the new round of storms heading their way. specifically to this area it looks a little bit better. it looks like there is going to be rain. it could get colder on hand and turn to snow. the worst of the weather will be south and east of here, shep. shepard: mike tobin there. as you mentioned more nasty weather on the way. some of those same towns are right in the bulls eye. thankfully not the one where mike is get to the extreme weather center our chief meteorologist rick reichmuth standing by. show us. i took the map where severe threat is. put red dots on there. that s where the