goodness this did not happen yesterday. it was a proper scottish summer is macro day yesterday, a bit of sun, a lot of rain, and a fairly ferocious wind. but look at this. the eyes of the world are on edinburgh today, and the city is characteristically showing off. the sun is out, it is shirt sleeve weather. this is constitutionally a big day for scotland, and so far, at least, very good. thank you very much, martin. we will be back to you later. the mascot of the royal regiment of scotland, that lovely black shetland pony. let s have a word about the honours of scotland that will be presented today, consisting of the crown, the sword, and the sceptre. the old sword has been too fragile to be moved from edinburgh castle, so a magnificent new one has been fashioned in time for today s
my little girl told me the other day that she knows that christmas is about being with family. i am incredibly thankful that she will have something to open so that she still has the magic of christmas in her heart. it might not be that much for some people, but for us it s a lot. well, she says the money saved will go towards their savings to rent a home. nice christmas story there. those are your headlines. thank you, anna. a bizarre mix of weather across the country today including tornadoes, ice storms and record-setting warm temperatures. deadly tornadoes in arkansas injured five people, damaged two dozen homes. two people killed in the state of mississippi. and in texas, kansas, nebraska, several inches of snow have fallen. meanwhile, it s shirt sleeve weather in new york city. it s threatening last-minute christmas shopping and travel plans for millions. rick is tracking it all. here s the good news. it s today and a little bit of tomorrow and then we re done. this wee
quite fine. a rough day yesterday and today will be another rough day. not as bad as far as the severe weather goes. tucker, talking about shirt sleeve weather in new york city. 67 degrees in the morning in new york city. 70 degrees down in raleigh. incredibly warm air across the eastern seaboard. that will continue today. we ll break some records today across the eastern seaboard. the west is looking mostly fine. you can see exactly where this big storm is here. very heavy rain falling across areas of the ohio river valley, down across the southeast. we ll see another four inches of rain today. that means more isolated flooding. big time flooding across ohio and indiana especially. the northern side of this storm there s still snow back towards kansas and illinois and in towards parts of michigan, but this peace that you see here, that s icing. a big ice storm is ongoing across the northern part of new york and parts of upstate most northern areas of new england. ice storm warnings