And a look back the at how we shared holidays with you. And music from the gramming Award Winning group train and a surprise hoda couldnt wait to give to her up before her fans. Lets get to a chur with nbcs Kristen Welker. Kiss ten, good morning to you. Good morning to you. Merry christmas, everyone. Tens of thousands of faithful gather today for Christmas Day celebrations at vatican as pope francis delivers his traditional message. Last night the pontiff celebrated Midnight Mass at st. Peters basilica and urged the worlds 1. 2 billion roman catholics not to be in his words intoxicated by possessions and also sounded a cry to right injustice. Today, american troops posted overseas are also taking time to Mark Christmas and remembering family members celebrating without them back at home. Heres nbcs Kelly Cobiella. Reporter it was a somber Christmas Day in afghanistan where they honored six Fallen Soldiers killed in a motorcycle bomb attack called earlier this week. Especially important
Tens of thousands of faithful gather today for Christmas Day celebrations at vatican as pope francis delivers his traditional message. Last night the pontiff celebrated Midnight Mass at st. Peters basilica and urged the worlds 1. 2 billion roman catholics not to be in his words intoxicated by possessions and also sounded a cry to right today, american troops posted overseas are also taking time to Mark Christmas and remembering family members celebrating without them back at home. Heres nbcs Kelly Cobiella. Reporter it was a somber Christmas Day in afghanistan where they honored six Fallen Soldiers killed in a motorcycle bomb attack called earlier this week. Especially important here where we got the opportunity to remember those who we have also lost. Reporter more than 200,000 members of the military are spending the holiday far from home in 100 countries on every peninsula in japan to the middle east. 3,000 are in turk to and another 5,000 just arrived in the arabian sea and 4,000 i
Postchristmas crush, the mad dash to the malls. The biggest deals happening today. Plus, the best ways to return those less than perfect presents. Hoverboard horrors. The family that saw their scooter go up in flames, the hottest holiday gift. It started smelling and smoking and then it caught fire. And it was like a fireworks show. This caught fire while one was charging. How to stay safe if you found one under your tree. And good morning, america. Dan and paula are off. Im tom llamas with cecilia vega. Someone let us come in this morning. Rachel, good to see you. You too. Hope you had a happy holiday. Cant leave ron out. We want to start with showing you the incredible video were getting out of southern take a look, the hills blazing, all along this higginbotham, drivers blinded by the thick smoke. The flames whipped up by strong winds, as well and that fire right now is still growing. Families in the path forced to evacuate. Firefighters cutting short their christmas to fight these
The seemingly unshakeable rise of donald trump marchs on. His popularity is exploding surrounding the proposal of his proposed muslim ban. According to a new nbc news wall street journal poll, 57 oppose his ban. And support for the ban out numbers the opposition, 42 to 36 p. And last night, Hillary Clinton says she does not find donald trump funny. But now he has gone way over ther saying now is not only shameful and wrong, its dangerous. Even ben carson is getting in on the action. He wrote in the uks the telegraph saying donald trump may be afraid of muslims but he and just hours ago after being indorsed by a key police union, an, very strict executive action. Anybody killing a Police Officer, death penalty. We cant let this go. But there could be trouble on thero horizon. Early signs of a fracture in the unofficial ceasefire between cruz and trump. Could that be over . Reporter its kind of interesting. When cruz was asked about trump in recent days, including yesterday, he really tr
Today. Plus, the best ways to return those less than perfect presents. Hoverboard horrors. The family that saw their scooter go up in flames, the hottest holiday gift. It started smelling and smoking and then it caught fire. And it was like a fireworks show. This caught fire while one was charging. How to stay safe if you found one under your tree. And good morning, america. Dan and paula are off. Im tom llamas with cecilia vega. Someone let us come in this morning. Rachel, good to see you. You too. Hope you had a happy holiday. Cant leave ron out. We want to start with showing you the incredible video were getting out of Southern California right now. Take a look, the hills blazing, all along this higginbotham, drivers blinded by the thick smoke. The flames whipped up by strong winds, as well and that fire right now is still growing. Families in the path forced to evacuate. Firefighters cutting short their christmas to fight these flames overnight and abcs Kayna Whitworth is right the