Christmas on gma. Caroling all the season here words of good cheer from everywhere filling the air grazing theound joy gaily walking singing songs of cheer christmas is here. Mey, merry, merry, Merry Christmas good morning, america and Merry Christmas to everyonet hohome celebrating. Were really not here. Were at home too. This isll on tape. We wanted to be [ laughter ] its a christmas miracle. W went bac in. We are spending the holidays with our family this glorious Christmas Morning. But we wanted to be here with you too. Yeah, on a very special holiday show ahahead. The baby is watching at hom and singing all morning long. Our friend, emeril is with us with some greatays to help you celebrate. Hell show us s someoliday hors now a check of the news and weather from cecilia vega. Good morning, and a very Merry Christmas to everyone. We begin with a holiday message thousands gathering at the vatican to celebrate the holy day. Pope francis urging the backing of peace agreements for t wa
Gatherings to celebrate and then there are people who like putting up holiday lights. One homeowner in davenport. Put up about 36thousand lights and synced it all together withthusic for all totonjoy aarik k ods from our quad cities affiliate checked it out you have nine of the White Christmas trees, which only had 400 white lights on them. But i put 600 red lights on each one of the trees. When it comes to holiday decorating. Theres one Davenport House that stands out. Since im retired now, i itook me three e eks of anywhere from five to ten hour days. James peachee puh shay runs what he calls candy cane corner. Thousands of lights. Likely hundreds of cords. And one computer program. Its all defined over here on the left hand side. Tells me which exact tree it is, where its at, and what it does. The result is a mix of music nat and lights that work togegeer in harmony. Jenny schaumburg Siberian Orchestra and he does one of their songs and its just beautiful i mean its just breathtakin
Items have you gotten so far . I have three, i have three more to get. The National Retail federation says the average Holiday Shopper completed about 50 of their shopping by the second week of december. And about one third of those shoppers bought their Holiday Gifts this last week. We got a lot of stuff. Were going to see santa today. Retail experts say, jewelry, clothing, and shoes are among the products with the deepest discounts compared to last year. And the National Retail federation says, sales could increase by 3. 7 this Holiday Season compared to last year. And were looking for dresses for our winter formal and stuff. So its like great to come here ound christmas and find things. Aaot of people out here. I enjoy seeing the kids. I just wish everybody have a Merry Christmas, remember the reason for the season. And shoppers are expected to spend approximately 463. 00 for standard out. 3 now. The Southern Hills mall has closed for the night. It will be closed tomorrow as well. A
Building was destroyed in the fire. Which was caused by unattended cooking materials. The red cross is helping the families who lost their homes in the blaze. 3 a storm lake iowa woman is facing charges of stealing from her employer. Police arrested 30 year old Rachel Wunder on a charge of 2nd degree theft. The arrest comes after a three week long investigation of claims by her former employer that wunder made unauthorized purchases, account withdrawals and cash withholdings totaling more than 33 hundred dollars while working there. Wunder was booked into the Buena Vista County jail on a 5 thousand dollar bond. 3 23 hours after florida senator marco rubio visited sioux city. Were being visited by another g o p contender. We are taking a live look at a house in morningside where former pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum is speaking getting ready to speak expected to show up any minute now. This is the Second Campaign event in publican president ial candidate. He had a lunch event at a d
Xxx morning. 3 3 look for a very cold day today with partly cloudy skies and a high in the teens, but with moisture in the upper atmosphere, cant rule out a few light flurries either. We will see some sunshine for the start of 2016, but it will stay cold through the weekend. Temperatures will remain mostly in the upper 20s for highs with single digit lows. We may see our first chance of snow for 2016 on wednesday, so keep your eyes open for that. 3 3 3 we start off this morning with bill cosby. His attorney insists her client will be exonerated of what she calls an unjustified charge of Sexual Assault. C b s news correspondent Kenneth Craig has more from elkins park pennsylvania. Where 3 bill cosbys lawyers are confident their client will be cleared of the Sexual Assault charge he faces in connection with an alleged 2004 incident. sot Monique Pressley attorney were actually glad to have these matters ferretted out in court. Prosecutors say the 78 year old entertainer drugged and sexual