Snow a huge problem across the pan handle of texas as well as portions of new mexico. President obama paid tribute to six u. S. Troops recently killed in afghanistan. We never take for granted what all of you do for the american people. Forced the closure of two major roads in Southern California. Firefighters are working to battle an uncontained fighters. And firefighters in australia are struggling to contain bush fires that have destroyed homes. Furious that fedex didnt deliver packages in time for christmas. There is your lesson. Dont procrastinate. Learn. A astronaut calling from a above the earth. Pretty good service. And that awkward moment, when you call king james a cry baby oh oh, oops. A full moon hasnt appeared on Christmas Day since 1997. Next time well see it is 2034. Do the math, right . Cbs this Morning Saturday. Mid court, over durant. Oh, Merry Christmas timmy butler. And welcome to the weekend, everyone. We hope your christmas was merry. We have some great guests for you this morning, including two of the key figures behind to controversial new film concussion concussion. Well to to bennett omalu, the real life doctor. Also call him the commander of commanders palestine. Hes run new orleans restaurant and hell bring his stories from the big easy to the dish. And the members of this group called the best newcomer at this years la la plooz. They will perform ahead in our saturday session. First breaking news overnight as more Severe Weather batters the south. A clean up is under way in North Central alabama including the city of birmingham after a tornado struck on friday. Flooding is also a big problem. Trees were knocked down. Some on top of houses, trapping people inside. Power is out for about ten thousand customers. Tennessee, arkansas and mississippi st. Louis 15 people were killed during christmas week. Another storm system is bringing wind, hail and winds over 40 miles per hour. This is bad. This is really bad. She came home to no sign of christmas joy. This is where i used to live. And its gone. The house she shared with her husband, son and daughter for the past nine years is shattered among a grove of shattered degree trees. Her 35yearold son was the only one home. Hes hospitalized with a broken pelvis and cuts. Could have been worse. We could have been planning a funeral instead and were not. So im so thankful for that. They searched for mementos. Pictures of my mom. She passed away in 2010 and i would look at it every night before i go to bed. Hundreds destroyed by the cluster of deadly tornados. The youngest victim was trapped in a car with his mother and sister. The winds ripped him out of the vehicle. Among the six who died in tennessee, three were found in a car submerged in a river. This aerial view shows the devastation of the most powerful storm. It reportedly stayed on the ground for at least 145 miles packing winds of up to 160 miles per hour. Rooftops torn off, trees pulled from the earth roots and all. Barbara williamson was inside her home when it shredded around her. I dont know how im alive. Its a christmas miracle. At the Red Cross Emergency Center the Christmas Spirit was laverne zin picked out new gifts for her nieces and nephews. Had the gifts under the christmas tree. They got destroyed. And anything that anybody give them. They are thankful for. The smile on their face, that makes me happy. Some families have lost everything have yet to return home to salvage what they can. The weather is still too rough. This is one Christmas Anthony they will always remember. A very rough one. Thank you mark. Severe weather is expected across much of the nations midsection through the weekend and parts of the northeast could get a winter wallop. Mary kay is tracking the storm from chicago. Good morning. Good morning to you. We see rain now pushing from the gulf of mexico but this is going to be enhanced. Instability ahead but a lot of blizzard warning in purple and winter storms in blue. From albuquerque to minneapolis were going to be dealing with this major storm. The Severe Threat is in the area in red. The gulf coast states could see tornados today as the wind shear ahead of the system. Its an icy mix behind this but the snow were focusing on for the texas pan handle. 1218 inches with white outs and Poor Visibility there. You can see these waves of thunderstorms building ahead of the main system. Especially during the day tomorrow into eastern texas. Then on the backside of it were going to see that heavy snow more the texas pan handle wrap through on monday. So this is a long lived storm behind the jet. Colder air in salt lake city, 18 in denver. 70 in lexington and 42 degrees in chicago. Vinita back you do. It is going to be difficult for all of these people coming back for the holidays. Moolks Mary Kay Kleist, thank you. Fires in los angeles forcing evacuations. Parts of the nearby Pacific Coast highway are closed. Rail traffic suspended. A massive wild fire burning in southern australia. More than a hundred homes were destroyed at that fire raced through a popular coastal area. Thousands of people were forced to evacuate. Hundreds of firefighters spent Christmas Day battling the flames, which was triggered by a lightning strike. The fire is expected to burn for weeks during the hot summer in australia. Hours after an air strike, the Insurgent Group has named a successor. His death could be a major blow in upcoming peace talks in assads government and rebel groups. The crucial peace talks between the Assad Government and leaders will scheduled to take place in less than a month. He led thousands of fighters and was opposed to isis. Fridays air strike targeted a meeting of rebel leaders just outside the capital. Syrias military claims he was killed in the blast but it is unclear whether russian or syrian war planes carried out the strike. Russia has been supporting the since september. Iraqi troops are moving closer in their effort to capture ramadi from the Islamic State. Forces have been moving further into the city which has been held by the Islamic State group since last year. The iraqi troops have been delayed in their advance. Ramadi is a provincial capital. Donald trump has led the field for the past five months but ted cruz is closing in. The other candidates remain far behind. With a few weeks too go what do the latest standings mean for the republicans . Joining us now to break it down is phillip bump. Good morning. If you rook at the latest poll cruz is 4 points behind trump. What happened. In the latest poll cruz has moved up into the place that ben carson once held. Wake of the paris terror attacks. People werent confident in his ability to handle National Security issues. And as hes fallen, trump and cruz have gained support. A different poll has the gap much wider for trump. But cruz is now solidly in second place. Hes arguing it is now a two man race. Right. Is he right . No. Its eess still a 200 person race as it has been for a while. There are a lot of things at play here and National Polls arent indicative of whats going to happen over the longterm. Whats so fascinating about Trumps Campaign is that hes doing it without any pollsters, no ad team, no research. Do you think that could effect him in iowa . Hes run an unorthodox and i think hes banking on the grass root support particularly more support from people who dont vote as often. And that could be good or bad. More could come out. Or they could end up not voting. So well see what happens. Iowa, traditionally is not a great predictor of who gets the nomination but it can be influential in terms of who gets to stay in the race. If cruz holds on and inwins in iowa, and trump loses how do you think that shapes things . New hampshire is only a week later. We dont know whats going to happen in iowa. A lot of things can happen very quickly. I dont think trump is going to lose iowa and say i give up. I think New Hampshire seven days later is going to be something that allows him to say no im 61 of Women National have an unfavorable view of donald trump. How does that effect him . I think in the primary it is not great for him. But i think it is more of a general election problem. Wrem also strong supporters of the hillary clinton. So they are not going to have a positive view of donald trump. In the primary ben carson had strong support from women and that support has shifted away from trump away from carson and not to trump which is a problem for him. Why do you think that is . Head to head match up, think achblt it usually comes down to partisanship. There are a lot of Bernie Sanders fans right now who are not going to say i want to vote for hilly clinton. There is a lot of time. Thanks for being with us this morning. My pleasure. The Veterans Administration problems at the hospital in phoenix arizona. Veterans are still facing long waits to get an appointment with doctors. As Mireya Villarreal reports they dont have enough doctors to go around. Ground zero for the Veterans Affairs wait time scandal was here at this hospital. A 2004 report detailed how thousands of veterans across the country were put on secret waiting lists. And at least 40 seniors died in phoenix since 2013. Are the problems fixed . No. It did call for how the v schedules appointments. A band aids been put on this and therefore everythings okay. Everythings not okay. They still dont have enough physicians and providers to provide medical care. New report about critical staffing shortages in the Urology Department from 2013 to 2014. The leaders did not have a plan to provide Urological Services and the staffing crisis failed to provide for thousands of patients. They killed him. That Urology Department had to defer him to an outside hospital. With no doctors in the Urology Department that were qualified to do that surgery, to remove his prost and his bladder. Debby said it took eight months for the paperwork and everything to go through. And he died. They would not discuss his case specifically because of privacy issues but they did send us a statement saying they have on the wait list by adding staff to the Urology Department, by also referring patients out to medical providers that are private medical providers. For cbs this Morning Saturday. Fedex played catch up on chromosomes Christmas Day. Dimarco morgan has more on the scramble. Employees for shipping giant fedex found themselves in overtime playing santa in the air and by ground. Joann is a grateful customer. Elation. A fedex predicted a record breaking Holiday Season for pick ups and dropoffs. 317 million shipments between blk friday and christmas eve. A 12 jump. Natures unexpected delivery of more than a dozen deadly tornados across the south including tennessee where the company is head quartered. The company that prides itself with on thyme delivery had towork fast to get distribution offices back home and trucks rolling. Jim runs a dessert store in tampa. Think about the larger companies, how many packages they are doing, its just incredible. Fedex released a statement. As the good thing for when everybody is expected to get it and all of a sudden they get their gift. First lady celebrated in hawaii. Visited hundreds of u. S. Marines and their families at a base in hawaii. He thanked them for their service on behalf of the american people. The president also addressed Service Members from each branch of the military who were stationed around the world and there were prayers for peace and calls for compassion on christmas around the world. Jim axelrod has more. Thousands packed the square for the popes message. He condemned brutal acts of terrorism and prayed for end to wars in syria libya and other parts of the world. President obama and the first lady urged americans to follow the values jesus lived. Caring for those on societys margins, the sick and the hungry. The poor and the persecuted. Great Britains Queen of the royal family at church. The queen offered a message in these times of terror. The light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it. And 250 miles up, american astronaut scott kelly sent greetsgreet greetings to earth. British astronaut tried to call his wife but spaced out and called another number. Later apologizing on twitter for the lady he called by mistake. Can you imagine getting a wrong number from space . Time to show you the head lines. The Washington Post reported hits jailed correspondent got a rail christmas treat. Iranian officials granted him an extended visit with his wife and hes been held more than 500 days even though he was convicted on spying charges just this year. The length of his sentence has not been disclosed. Arson is suspected in the home of form are president clinton. They also found graffiti spray painted on the ground. No one was injured. The site is operated by the National Park service and suffered minor damage. The plunge in oil prices is putting the squeeze on alaskas finances. It has Governor Bill Walker proposing a first in the nation Oil Income Tax as the climb in Oil Production is creating a multiple dollar budget hole. State lawmakers say they will consider the plan. About twothirds of the budget revenue cant be collected they say because of the drop in oil a british crematorium has become the first funeral home to land a Liquor License in the uk. They will now have the option of granting loved ones whats described as the complete sendoff. A sendoff without the need to travel off the premises. And this company says they are going to do it at like all of the 20 sites. I actually dont think its a bad idea. It is awkward to go to a pub or a bar after. And the bbc have one upped Justin Bieber, with his help. The groups version of a bridge over you landed number one on the christmas charts topping biebers love yourself. The pop star urged his followers included a link to download the tune on twitter. Thats great. Im going to like Justin Bieber all day today. He campaigned to get today a chance for rain in the morning. Cloudy, with a steady temperature around 36. East wind 8 to 13 mph becoming north in the afternoon. Sunday partly sunny, with a high near 32. Breezy, with a north wind 14 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph. Monday snow before 7am, then snow, possibly mixed with freezing rain between 7am and noon, then snow after noon. High near 32. Windy, with a northeast wind 18 to 24 mph. Coming up. Hover boards are one of the hot holiday gifts. So hot in fact concerns are mounting over the popular toy. Well tell you the new places the boortds are banned. And just before the ball drop, what americans thought of 2015. And it wasnt great. Morning saturday. Praised as one of americas best mayors who governed as a pragmatist. Bernie sanders passed more amendments in a Republican Congress than any other member. Cracked the gridlock with john mccain to strengthen veterans healthcare. Bernie sanders. A consistent, principled, and effective leader. Building a future to believe in. The gifts are unwrapped. Now some are headed back to the stores to make returns. And where some go, so do the scammers. Its never too early to plan your summer vacation. Well show you picks of destinations you will want to check out in the new year. Welcome back to cbs this Morning Saturday. One of the holidays hottest toys but has seen a season of controversy. On thursday a safety alert warns hover boards as car go without following Hazardous Material regulations is illegal. This follows as some colleges are banning hover boards on campus over safety concerns. They are the hottest gift of the Holiday Season and now they are literally the hottest because they also explode. They have become the butt of jokes this Holiday Season. But some of these topselling toys may pose a real danger. Holy cow. Cell phone videos like this one claim to show hover boards burning, here in a Washington State mall. A rider from alabama posted this video saying his hover board just caught fire. The Consumer Products launched an investigateinvestigations over many consumer reports. And online retailers discontinued. They even made the no fly list. Major airlines banned hover boards from flights earlier this month. And the Postal Service limited shipping to ground transportation. They are concerned about the toys lithium ion battery. They ignite and catch fire very violently. Aviation consultant denny kelly. The faa probably would ban lithium batteries from airplanes period if there wasnt so much pressure from the airlines not to do that. Cell phones, tablets and ion batteries. But airlines are concerned about hover board batteries. Delta pointed to the size or power of the batteries and found that the strength often exceeded government limits for what is allowed on