With us on this saturday morning. It was pretty windy outside when i came in to work today. Really chilly and cold. I know. It doesnt feel like las vegas. Does it . Weve got snowfall we actually reported at the airport, a trace of snow. Okay. Weve actually had more snow this year than new york city. Is that crazy or what . My gosh. Not to mention were also dealing with the cold and wind, too. Here is a time lapse look. Well start things out with a time lapse look from Mount Charleston lodge yesterday. There were a ton of people as you can see right on the bottom coming out to check out all that snow, 6 inches of the white stuff that came down yesterday. Now, temperatures and wind, thats what well be dealing with today. Here is a look at those current conditions. Pahrump above freezing, 34. But look at these wind gusts. 26mileperhour gusts reported right now in pahrump. Boulder city reporting those winds are going to make it feel even colder. Temperatures themselves just the actual air temperature not going to be very impressive today. We only expect highs in the mid 40s. Wow. This is las vegas. This is cold. My brother is actually kind of backpacking through the east coast and i remember telling him back in november, youre crazy. Its going to be freezing there. And look now. Its warmer there than here. Exactly. All right. Thank you, kelly. We begin with some breaking news this morning. A local person is forced out of their home after firefighters say ashes from their neighbors fire pit spread to the house and caught fire. Fire Officials Say the fire started at 4 30 this morning on the 6200 block of the avenue near lake mead and jones. Crews treated one person at the scene for minor smoke inhalation. New this morning the syrian top syrian rebel leader was killed in an air strike. The army says the air strike p i suburbs of damascus. The Syrian Military released aerial video of what it claims was a deadly attack as you see there, which rebel sources say was carried out by russian planes. Experts say the disarray among rebel forces could also consolidate syrian president assads control over the rest of the area. Several rebel leaders have been killed since russia began an aerial campaign on september 30 in support of assad. Moscow has insisted it is concentrating its attacks on isis. The time now is 6 04. Happening today, now that the Christmas Holiday is behind us expect a lot of people to be out at malls and stores this weekend looking to use those gift cards they got for christmas. In fact, according to a survey by American Express today might just be the busiest shopping like black friday and cyber monday. Twothirds of all respondents plan to shop today. Thats compared to 45 on black friday and 47 on cyber monday. Shoppers say they will take advantage of some deep discounts and, you know what . Maybe even start working on next years Christmas Shopping a little early. Look at those over achievers there. , the other half of that equation is returning Unwanted Gifts but not all of those returns are made in good faith. The National Retail federation estimates 3. 5 of the holiday returns this year will be fraudulent. It is expected to cost retailers more than 2 billion. According to a survey by the retail federation, 9 of 10 retailers say they have experienced a return of stolen merchandise. A North Las Vegas family waking up on Christmas Morning without a home after what fire investigators believe was a case of arson. Fire Officials Say a house fire yesterday morning appears to be deliberately set. More than 20 dozen firefighters were called out to fight the blaze. It was so fierce flames shot through the roof and parts of it collapsed as you see there. It took firefighters two hours to get it under control. The house is a complete loss. Neighbors who alerted firefighters say their hearts go out to the family. You feel for the family. You hope nobody was in the house. You dont know. Just thankful that it wasnt any closer but hopefully the neighborhood can reach out and help them. Damage estimates of the fire are put at 300,000. A woman is under arrest accused of killing a man in a downtown Las Vegas Hotel room. At least one child was in the room when the shooting took place around 11 00 thursday night. Police believe the shooting was 34yearold Marie Escalante faces charges of murder and child neglect. Metro says there hasnt been a murder in their jurisdiction over the Christmas Holidays in three years. A local family who nearly gave up hope gets a phone call and a miracle just in time for the Christmas Holiday. It is a home coming you wont soon forget. Christmas is a time for reunion, time to reconnect with family, to share stories. However unbelievable they can be. I wish hed kept a journal. I would love to know what he did every day. This reunion is six and a half years in the making. This is the remarkable story of a dog named willie. I thought maybe an animal had gotten to him. It happened on a camping trip. Daniel and allison and their two dogs willie and waylon, brothers in the literal sense, both from the same litter, two it was april. It was snowing. And they searched. I got lost in the mountains in the snowstorm. And i was lost for over five hours. I was able to hear the traffic on 93, so i moved toward that and got to the road and the Deputy Sheriff picked me up. I went back out searching. Days went by. They finally gave up the search but never gave up hope, put ads in the paper, signs on trees, and went home to las vegas. As days turned to weeks, weeks to months, months to years, they added another, a brother of course, all the while not allowing themselves to forget about willie. I go to bed at night though even years after we lost him and think, what should i have done . What could i have done differently . So life went on as it does. That is until a phone rang. It was the Animal Shelter in elk horn, nevada, 295 miles up the street from that peoche wilderness where their family shrunk so suddenly. They had found him. Very much so. Very much so. Unexpected. It turns out just like his owner willie got lost in those woods and, like his owner, followed the sounds of traffic. A deputy picked him up on the 93 and nursed him back to health, gave him up for adoption to a family who moved to elco and then one day this time he landed at the shelter. You know the story. Just in time for christmas three brothers were reunited again. In time to make a holiday photo that almost never happened and probably share a story as unbelievable as it is. News 3. What a wonderful story to bring you this morning. Still to come, a raging wildfire. Homes are threatened after a wildfire breaks out in california. We take you to the front lines of the flames that are shutting down parts of the highway. Plus mother natures fury, not to be outdone. We are seeing new video of a how the storm ripped through parts of the southeast just before the holidays. A look outside on our d camera, weve got clear skies and chilly temperatures. Just how cold it is in your thats coming up. Good morning. Welcome back. The time now is 6 12. Several investigators in texas are calling a fire that broke out at a houston mosque suspicious. The blaze started just before 3 00 p. M. Yesterday. No one was inside at the time but Officials Say just an hour earlier there were 200 people people who went to that mosque for prayer say it was a place of peace and learning and should not have been the target of a possible violent act. It is just a place where people look for peace, people look for solutions, and people commune with god and it is very sad. The mosque is doing a great job to educate the community not to hurt people. And to educate people to do good and forbid the evil. Fire investigators say they found multiple points of origin for that fire. No injuries were reported. Hey, take a look at this video of the wild fire burning right now in southern california. The brush fire in Ventura County quickly spread to more than 900 acres early this morning. More than 100 firefighters are trying to control the blaze. Fire investigators say at least 30 homes are in the fires path. The california Highway Patrol shut down a stretch of the mandatory evacuations in area campgrounds have been issued. Thankfully, no injuries have yet been reported. Heavy rain falling in southeast australia has helped control a huge wildfire there that burned at least 52 homes. Officials in australias victoria state say the danger isnt over. The fire had co 5400 acres by this morning. Local emergency Officials Say the soaking would only provide temporary relief from hot, dry summer conditions that fueled the flames. This fire doesnt go away. This fire is a fire that will remain with potential to burn in january and february this year. The forecast for the long, dry, hot summer is there. Residents of two towns that were evacuated have been allowed to return home. People across the south and midwest are picking up the pieces after this weeks deadly prechristmas tornadoes. Mississippi, tennessee, and arkansas. A Mississippi Bank surveillance camera caught this compelling image of a wedge tornado as it roared through holly springs. At least 14 tornadoes slammed the state, killing seven people. Among the dead, a 7yearold boy who was in a car with his family near holly springs. He is the youngest of the victims. Weve been seeing a lot of wild weather across the nation here. Wow. Very different all throughout the united states. Yeah. Even wild weather here. This is weather we dont typically deal with either. We had snow flurries reported at the airport. 6 inches upon the mountains, even some snow around centennial and providence that stuck. A White Christmas for some people in las vegas. How about that, right . Now, here is a live look on the resort camera. We have beautiful colors as we wait for the sun to come up this morning. Clear skies but clear skies means chilly temperatures. This is what it is right now as youre heading out the door. Summer lynn above freezing. 36 degrees. Paradise at 37. Temperatures are still going to drop another degree or two before the sun comes up. Now, in addition to the cold were dealing with the wind. These the sustained or constant wind speeds were dealing with. Theres my dog. Shes just wand earg round helping me do the weather today. Wind speeds downtown 12 Miles Per Hour. Summerlin 14mileperhour winds. Henderson 3mileperhour winds being reported. Now, as far as the gusts go, this is what were dealing with. Look at this. Summerlin 34mileperhour wind gusts reported. Green s moment. 14 Miles Per Hour. Henderson 25mileperhour gusts. When you combine the temperature and the wind, we get the wind chill. When it feels like outside. North las vegas, it feels like 27 degrees. Mountains edge 29 is what it feels like. Green valley feeling like 36 degrees. And were not going to see temperatures warming up much as we head throughout the day today. Well deal with the wind chill all day long. Hats and gloves are going to be a must. Because of the winds we actually have a wind advisory in place for las vegas. Thats all the areas shaded in tan. The darker is a high wind warning as we look at winds gusting up to 65 Miles Per Hour along the Colorado River valley. In the blue, hard freeze warning for some locations as well. Now, satellite radar picture not showing much for us. Just high, thin clouds. 46 degrees. Lots of sunshine. Breezy. Winds gusting up to 40 Miles Per Hour today. Overnight, 27. Clear and breezy. 27 is the actual low were expecting. But the winds will make it even colder. Thats why we want to bundle up with all the winter necessities if youre heading out tonight. In the sevenday forecast not warming up. You want to help me out . Show people. Shell lay down onlo sundays high. 44 degrees. Well warm up into the low 50s week. Thats still below normal. That means some pretty chilly conditions for people heading out for new years eve on the strip. Going to be cold for that. Oh, yeah. Looks like rainel wants to make an appearance. So good, though. Thank you. Well, in a new movie out now it has the National Football league taking notice because concussion is all about hard hits to the head and the danger it leads to following a career of those hits. The nfl says they have made numerous changes to the game in the name of player safety but the film suggests the league isnt going far enough or they arent athe issue at all. This week the government announced a 16 million effort to help identify c. T. E. , which is a progressive, degenerative disease of the brain in living patients. And speaking of sports, here is amber with a look at your in the battle for l. A. The clippers had won seven straight games against the lakers. Last night for good or bad those lakers had a kobe bryant back for christmas. Because of injuries he had not played on december 25 since 2012. He scored more points on that day than any player in league history. But this season he is shooting just 34. 4 from the field. He is retiring. So last night was his 16th and final christmas game. Second quarter looking like his old self. Lakers down by 13. Hes scoring nine. Its a 10point game. He has 12 points in total in 26 minutes. Here the clippers up again by 13. Deandre jordan the put back dunk. Clippers win, 9484, but do not cover. Yesterdays marquee matchup in the nba was an nba finals rematch, Cleveland Cavaliers the Golden State Warriors in oakland. The 271 warriors were the 6. 5 to 7point favorite. The cavaliers riding a sixgame win streak. First quarter lebron james off the pick and roll lays it up to bring the cavs to within seven. Hed have a game high 25 points. Third quarter steph currys beautiful bounce pass leads to a Draymond Green dunk and an eightpoint lead. Green led the warriors in scoring with 22 points, curry with 19. And a lefthand layin in the fourth puts the warriors up by five. Golden state wins, 8983. 140 at home. Other nba scores from yesterday, Oklahoma City was on an eightgame home win streak but fell 10596 to the chicago bulls. In houston an all texas matchup between the rockets and san antonio spurs. The rockets held on to win, 8884. Over new orleans in overtime. It was the heats seventh straight win on christmas. They are the best team in the christmas with a 102 record. She finished the year 533 and came within two wins of being the first grand slam winner in more than 25 years. Yesterday the Associated Press announced Serena Williams is their female athlete of the year. She got 51st place 50 first place votes and this year captured the australian open, french open, and wimbledon before getting knocked out of the u. S. Open in the semifinals by italys player. This is williams fourth time and she joins fellow tennis star chris evert as a fourtime winner of the award. Only Babe Didrickson has more with six. The a. P. Male athlete of the year will be revealed today. Thats all for sports. Back to you. Thank you, amber. Todays show correspondent and is now a married man. He married his longtime girlfriend during a small ceremony on wednesday. Pinter shared the moment with he on instagram. The two have been together for 10 years and got engaged in 2013. Pinter regularly appears on the today show to share delicious recipes. Still to come, the controversial character dead pool is hitting the big screen next year and fans got a sneak peek at what to expect on christmas. We have your first look at the newest trailer. And not your usual passenger. A Police Officer casually cruising with his windows down when a certain animal decides to jump in. News 3 l welcome back. Marvels latest super hero movie, excited fans on Christmas Day with its newest trailer. Take a look. What if i told you we can cure you . And give you abilities most men only dream of . Id say you sound like an informercial but not a good one. Like slap chop. Well, yes. That is dead pool. Marvel and 20th century fox put out this trailer yesterday. Dead pool isnt like most marvel movies. You can expect an rrated film when it hits theaters in february. And a new species of shark has been discovered in the Pacific Ocean. Check out the ninja land turn shark. It was discovered by a cal state graduate student and her professors. It is the first land turn shark Pacific Ocean near central america. Its jet black and that keeps it camouflaged in deep ocean water and inspired the students young cousin to add ninja to its name. Something else about the ninja land turn shark that is pretty cool, it also glows in the dark. Look at that. A Police Officer in louisiana has quite the story to tell after crashing his patrol car on christmas eve. The good news is hes okay. So what caused the crash . An owl. The large bird flew right into officer lance benjamins patrol car and made himself right a home as you see there in the passenger seat. Apparently the bird wasnt too fond of officer benjamins driving skills. As i was in the subdivision going about 10 miles an hour suddenly i felt something hit the left side of my face. Im thinking okay. Maybe its a football. Then i felt scratching on the back of my head. Slapped me a few times with its wings. Kept on going with its talons. Officer benjamin drove his car safely into a ditch and got out. It took about 45 minutes for the owl to decide he had enough of the patrol car. Of course he is not facing any charges because hes an owl. Officer benjamin of course couldnt cuff him. The time is 6 26. Dont be an easy target. It is something alm