Who is cleaning up her city. One cigarette butt at a time. Deborah good morning and thanks for joining us. Im deborah souverain. Americans across the country are dealing with historic weather on this Christmas Day. From record breaking highs in the northeast. To flash flood watches down south. To snow out west abcs Kenneth Moton is keeping tabs on the weather. And has more. Holiday weather for the record books. This christmas morning, the Weather Threat continues for parts of the south with heavy rain causing flood watches. Sot no super we woke up to Civil Defense pounding on our door telling us we had about 20 minutes to leave our homes. In georgia and alabama, people evacuated their homes to escape flood waters. Nat tornado from the south to the midwest, severe more than a dozen were killed when two dozen tornadoes terrorized s sen states including mississippi. Itsselieved one stretched 150 miles destroying homes and lives. Sot governor phil bryantmississippi as you look at the damag
Conditions. His boat found capsized, friends and family now fearing for his life and the search under way at is hour. Go go high in the sky the College Students going headtohead for a recordbreaking battle of cornhole. Who will win one of the most popular games as the schools get ready for the huge football playoffs. Go big or go home good morning, america. Great to have world news tonight anchor dav muir with us once again. Alwa a pleasure and we ha breaking news to begin with on good morning america. That manhunt for the wealthy teen, ethan couch, on the run with his mom after allegedly violating probation for a deadly drundriving accident. Hes transformed his look there and now detained in mexico. Well have the latest coming up. Also breaking, the weather and that rough morning for millions of americans preparing from wcvb in boston. What a mess. The midwest, as well, reeling from that deadly flash flooding and rob is in missouri right no this whole system m moving eastward, as well
Deborah coming up this morning on abc9 news. Deadly storm systems continue to drift across the United States this morning. The latest is up ahead. Deborah and that same system is causing the Winter Weather were seeing in and around siouxland. We have tips on how you can stay safe on the road. Deborah plus. Want to return those Unwanted Gifts . Well you might want to hold off running to the store. Well explain. Deborah good morning and thanks for joining us. Im deborah souverain. A texas teenager who avoided jail time for killing four people. Has been located by authorities in mexico. Ethan couch was found near a mexican beach resort. Back in 2013. Couch who was and killed four people. And severly injured two others while driving drunk. At trial, couchs lawyers argued that the teen suffered from socalled affluenza. Meaning he was a rich kid whose parents didnt set limits for him. He was placed on a 10year probation and ordered into longterm Mental Health treatment. But last month, socia
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