Oh, my god. We need to be. Its right there. This ominous sight was videotaped from the interstate near mobile, alabama. The driver wisely stopped and turned around. I want you to listen to the funnel cloud as it approached the city. Christmas day tornado. Going through mobile. Oh, my god, look, thats a tornado. Oh, wow. Oh, jesus, look at that tornado. Look at that. It caused a lot of damage. And knocked out power to more than 20,000 customers. Incredibly, no one was killed, although at least two stormrelated deaths were reported elsewhere. But even natures most Destructive Forces can have a beautiful side. The storm generated this endtoend rainbow as it passed near jackson, mississippi. Lets get to alexandra steele. The legs on this thing are insane. Certainly one for the record books. On the snow side and on the severe side, mobile, two tornadoes, one yesterday and then one five days before that. It was the greatest Christmas Day tornado outbreak on the records, for the record books
With odor free aspercreme. Powerful medicine relieves pain fast, with no odor. So all you notice is relief. Aspercreme. Possible tornadoes, freezing rain and some folks waking up to blizzard warnings. And the storms, they are just getting geared up. Fiscal mess. Exactly one week until we go off the cliff and new word that no one is reaching across the aisle right now. And remembering a legend. Hollywood says goodbye to the odd couples cigarchomping Oscar Madison. Im dana bash. Alina, Merry Christmas. Merry christmas, everyone. Its tuesday, deebs 25th. Starting point begins right now. And our starting point, those dreaming of a White Christmas may be paying for that this morning. Extreme weather is on the way this Christmas Day. Millions could be in store for a foot of snow or more. It could even be a rare White Christmas down south, along with a threat of tornadoes. Bonnie schneider is tracking the holiday storm and, hey, good morning. Good morning and Merry Christmas. Unusual to see a
Day. They were hunkered down and watching at least one tornado rip up trees, whip around power lines and just in this one spot from east texas to the gulf coast of alabama you have weather officials counting 28 tornadoes that hit ground on Christmas Day. Now, in southern alabama right now more than 200,000 homes are without power. We are live from mobile in just a minute with the full picture of the damage there. All right. You are watching this is an enormous funnel cloud. It formed and touched down near interstate 165 in mobile. David and whitney sarasino were driving to see their family for christmas and realized they were headed right into the tornado. Well, the first thing was i had asked my wife it to pick up the camera and start getting some footage of it, because i know that the local news stations and everything were want wanting to see what was going on. At that point we just kind of drove as fast as we possibly could get out of the way. I know we were actually on i165 northb
Thank you, suzanne. Im Victor Blackwell in for Brooke Baldwin. Thank you for being with us today. The president is pulling the plug on his trip to hawaii to tend to urgent matters in washington. With tax hikes looming in less than a week, hes scheduled to return to the white house tomorrow, just as a Deadlocked Congress reconvenes days ahead of the socalled fiscal cliff. Youre just six days from feeling this. Now, first hit is coming on january 1st when your take home pay will drop by 2 because of a scheduled hike in the Social Security payroll tax. Thats just the start. Income taxes are set to climb too. And youll notice that when employer gets to around the adjusted withholding, the Government Spending cuts, those are also scheduled for january 1st and bound to slow the economy and some argue theyll weaken the military. Congress has seen this coming, but an effort to limit the damage failed last week. Republican House Speaker john boehner could not persuade enough members of his part
Costello now. Tornadoes in the south and blizzards from arkansas to ohio. Do you have the right to know if your neighbor owns a gun . A newspaper in new york says yes and publishes the name of those who have gun permits. Christmas is over but shopping is not. If youre heading out to return the gift that wasnt exactly what you wanted, you will not be alone. Tom cruise may not be the ideal action hero but his love life made it into the top ten. Newsroom starts now. Girnlgs low. The day after christmas means relaxing or wracking up deals at the mall. For people in the west and the south its cleanup after Severe Weather ripped through the region. Waterspout was located in lake pontchartrain. Parts of arkansas saw several inches of snow and snapping power lines and of course canceling flights. In mississippi the governor declared a state of emergency after at least eight counties reported damage. Strong winds and heavy rains made the commute along this stretch of i20 east of jackson a diffi