Always gives him a warm feeling to celebrate christmas with the to uses of people who gathered here. He also welcomed two Refugee Families hosted by Catholic Charities who were there for the service. He didnt identify them but said one family fled el salvador and one from the ivory coast. He talked about his christmas message god is everywhere. Its something he shared with Savannah Guthrie on the today show. There is a freshness and newness there all the time. This year i think especially because we so crave the hope and the light and the promise. Reporter Cardinal Dolan had a lot to talk about in is homily and his sermon. He also reminisced, gus, about Pope Franciss visit here just three months ago he shared an he can dote of what pope francis said when he arrived here to st. Patricks cathedral. A little bit taken aback, a little surprised when he saw the cathedral. We will tell you all that b. And great to he so the cathedral with all the scaffolding off it after so many years. We will talk to you in a little bit. Speaking of pope francis he will deliver his annual Christmas Day message in st. Peters square in just about an hour. At midnight he celebrated mass. The pontiff also delivered his homily at the vet can, he spoke out against what he called societys focus on extravagances and nars sichl. Midnight mass in the holy city of bethlehem at the church of the nativity believed to be the birthplace of christ. Palestinian officials joined the faithful there, but there were fewer pilgrims this year, thats because of the ongoing violence on the west bank. Pill stin yan Security Forces thwarted a terror attack planned against a popular Player Service in bethlehem. The group was allegedly planning prayer at the patriarch of jerusalem service. Security was tight and services were subdued in france amid concerns over potential terrorist attacks there. Heavily armed soldiers were at churches around the country. France still under a state of emergency but the government says there have been no specific threats. Your time is 5 03. Definitely a morning where we didnt bring our coats in there. I dont think you need it today. Outside. No jackets needed but you do need the fog lights on the cars, dense morning fog out there. Were tracking that for you, also dealing with the warmest Christmas Ever. Already weve seen temperatures breaking that record that went back to 1982 and were doing it again on sunday, another record in jeopardy as we deal with this very warm december. Here is a look at the visibility were tracking, the trouble spots farmingdale, long island, nassau, Suffolk County and areas down the jersey shore. Good in the city, visibility at Hudson Valley for the most part. Were not tracking any rain, you dont need the umbrellas until later on today, probably south of town, you may see some showers and there is your record High Temperature of 6 degrees, lots of clouds on this christmas but its 66 degrees so enjoy. We will take a look at the seven day in just a few. I hope you dont have a commute today, but if you do a new accident out there on the roads, 280 westbound out by exit 16, cleveland avenue three lanes shut down. I will continue to keep a close eye on that. If you are going to be using mass transit to get around, new york city buses are on a Holiday Schedule, there is no bm 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 service. And dee camp is on a saturday schedule. Parking rules are suspended as well as meter rules. Another story on the roads we have been following today, at least one child was among three people hurt when a car jumped a curb on long island. Before 10 00 last night in hicksville at the intersection of old country road and new bridge road. Video from the scene you can see shows shoes lying in the street and also were seeing a car with front end damage, also a shattered windshield. There is no word yet on the season of the three people who were hit. Coming up on 5 05. New this Morning Police say an argument between two groups of people led to the death of a 16yearold boy, the victim was pronounced dead at the scene, shot multiple times in the back, he was found in front of 2270 jerome avenue, thats in the University Heights section of the bronx. A 19yearold was also shot in the back, he is in stable condition at st. Barn bass hospital. In brooklyn please have arrested a 14yearold boy for allegedly sex ri assaulting a woman inside her Apartment Building in east flat bush. This is video of the suspect after the attack allegedly happened. Authorities say the teen grabbed the 33yearold woman interest behind, assaulted her, stole her cellphone and money. Its christmas but thieves cannot steal the holiday spirit in one new jersey community. Everything was like a shambles, they went through the dresser, they went through the desk, knocked everything over. The joe hands ens were the latest victims in a string of breakins that have been reported in saddle brook. Police say a they have stole jewelry, a laptop, also an up opened tell vision that the couple bought as a christmas present. The Good Samaritan heard about the burglary and came through. Someone saw the story and actually wanted to gift us a television. Its an amazing ending. This is like really feels like christmas. Well, that generous donor wants to remain anonymous. Were talking about generous folks right now volunteers are working to prepare meals for thousands of needy families in new york. Today in new yorks mark san tee a is with the citys meals on wheels workers i see you took the hair net off. Pantry, the pantry section. Afte this is where theyre getting bags of shelf stable food, food that can sort of stay on the shelf for seniors, including, natalie, you will appreciate this, the italian christmas bread here which will be going home. City meals on wheels depends on new yorkers generosity. They have so many bags of shelf stable food ready to go out to nearly 10,000 seniors across the city today on christmas. They do this on the weekends, they do this on holidays, emergencies. So this food will be going out as well as hot feed that theyre starting to prepare right now. And not only that, gus, and notally, but what theyre also doing the volunteers, hundreds of volunteers today, its facetoface contact with these seniors, many of whom are homebound, they never leave, they dont talk to folks, they stay at home. This is why city meals on wheels so important. Theyre having that interaction, facetoface communication with seniors across the city. Food, but they are also getting hot food on this very special christmas. Natalie, gus, back to you. Mark, thanks. Like you said, just getting the chance to chat with those folks and interact is great. A controversy thats divided a small new jersey town nearly grounded a send off for santa. It started with the referendum failing to give money to improve an aging firehouse in roosevelt, new jersey. Then allegations that a fire truck ran its sirens outside of an opponents house a few nights ago. The Fire Department a uns no it had would cancel the fire engine escort for Santas Christmas eve parade after a noise complaint was filed. If theyre being used inappropriately and out of anger because someone isnt happy about a referendum passing thats wrong. Were doing silent santa now . Maybe just facebook everybody . How ridiculous. So instead of sirens kids know santa was on his way from the north pole. New york city has a Christmas Gift for more than 50,000 homeowners who are poor, elderly or disabled. Its a 115 break on their next water bill. The credit is part of the home water assistance problem. That program started last year and is expanding to include people po qualify for the federal Home Energy Assistance program for property Tax Exemptions for Senior Citizens or the dis i believed a. The credit will show up automatically on their next bill. One of the smartest gifts you can give yourself or family is a flu shot. This flu season off to a slow start but the centers for Disease Control expects activity to pick up in a few weeks. Right now its high in south carolina, moderate in arizona, mississippi and texas. Cdc Officials Say flu season tends to peak in february. Definitely doesnt feel like this right now. But eventually. Coming up on 5 10 toek. Panic for last minute shoppers and busted, the cops who finally caught up with the grinch. Plus your warm weather and traffic on the 4s. Police say an argument between two groups of people led to the death of a 16yearold boy, the victim was shot multiple times in the back in the University Heights section of the bronx, a 19yearold was also shot in the back, he is in stable condition at st. Barnabas hospital. The search is on for the thieves who stole Christmas Decorations from a teenagerss home in connecticut. Chris sauls set up an elaborate display, but thieves made off with his reindeer set and other decorations. We are witnessing a rare holiday treat today. We will see the first full moon on Christmas Day since back in it will peak in size around 6 11 and a full moon wont happen again on christmas until 2034. Today is the warmest christmas on record. We made history at midnight hitting 66 degrees. And the warm weather continues this morning, temperatures still in the 60s out there, we have patchy dense fog to worry about as well. You can see dense fog advisories in place for nassau, Suffolk County, down the versy e y shore. If you have to travel on this Christmas Morning leave yourself extra time and the distance between you and the car in front of you. Temperatures in fairfield counties in the 40s and 50s. A cold front came through yesterday, thats what brought us a few showers, its cooled things off north of town where that front has passed, 48 fairfield, 60s to the south, 40s to the north, we are split in the middle. 41 monticello, 45 in knew berg. Nothing christmas like about it. Were tracking a quiet picture besides the fog, no rain to worry about on this Christmas Morning. We are headed towards the warmest december on record in central park by a long shot. This is since december 1st, the average temperature for the month has been 51. 6 degrees, thats over 13 degrees above average. Take a look at the previous warmest decembers we are not even close to these breaking a record like this by such a large margin, really unprecedented, i havent seen anything like this in a very long time and we are coasting towards the finish line. We finally got some rain, almost 4 inches for the month, were above average, we have been so dry for so long, this is a nice change at least. You can see on future tracker some clouds around 9 00 a. M. , a couple of showers popping off to the south around 2 00 this afternoon, thats where the best shower chance remains off to the south, 6 00 p. M. Also looking pretty quiet as youre making your way around town. 66 your record temperature making it the warmest christmas on record in ken tropical park. Stays cool for tomorrow. Get ready for change. Still above average but you will feel the difference, 52 for your high on saturday, back to warm, record warmth on sunday, 66 your high there and then white chilly on monday, wind chills in the 30s, maybe a wintry mix monday night into tuesday changing over to rain, that could make the roads interesting. We havent seen any of that so far this season. Im sure we are all thankful, messy roads arent fun. We still have worse out there, we will head over to the major deagan. Two lanes shut down, all lanes subject to cloesh you are auto. There is a minor delay there. Heading over to new jersey on 280 westbound by exit 16, cleveland avenue, an accident blocks three lanes there. Those are your two trouble spots. The new jersey turnpike, here things are doing just fine, theres very few cars and trucks there is a speed restriction out there heading between the delaware Memorial Bridge and interchange 12 because of low visibility. Parking rules and meter rules are suspended. In charlotte, north carolina, Police Say Two groups of people got into an argument before shots rang out in a busy shopping mall. One persona lejdly pulled a gun and opened fire sending all those Christmas Eve shoppers scrambling for cover. Authorities say an offduty Police Officer responded to the gunfire and shot a suspect who pointed a weapon in his direction. Witnesses describe the panic inside northlake mall. I heard six gunshots and it sounded like fire crackers to me and then i saw people turning around running towards me and trampling each other. You can imagine how scary that was. Authorities say the feud was not gangrelated. The suspect was given emergency aid but later today. Chicago where protesters spoke out against the Deadly Police shooting of a teenager. Demonstrators blocked the citys magnificent mile and tried to dampen holiday purchases. They also demanded the resignation of chicago mayor raum eel newel. They remain furious over the shooting of laquan mcdonald. Nearly half a until suvs are being recalled for a second time. Fiat chrysler says a wiring problem could spark a fire in come 102011 and 2012 jeep grand dare keys and dodge do you remember range goes. The auto maker is also recalling 2015 jeep compass and patriot suvs for potential power steering issue. Santa is not the only one making special deliveries on this Christmas Day, fed exdrivers will be dropping off packages that could not be customers will be able to pick up their own shipments at fed execs press stations. They say they are doing everything possible, but deliveries were delayed by bad weather and last minute shipments. Hundreds of santas were hanging ten for the holidays. They took part in the seventh annual surfing santas event, an event so big it set a world record with 648 jolly st. Nicks if you are if i think at cocoa beach in florida. We started surfing santa back in 2009, myself, my son and daughterinlaw paddled out and had a family day at the beach. Weve grown from three in 09. We can exceed 500 surfing santas this year. Merry christmas. So we teamed up with grind for life. Grind for life helps people with cancer. Im a two time sarcoma survivor. We have Great Charities for cancer but they are not always we raise funds to help people get to the right treatment. Last year we gave out 20,500 to help people with their travel. We should raise over 30,000 by the end of the day. I like surfing and i like i like santa. Did you know santa just photo bombed you . Hi, santa. Look how big its become in a short amount of time. This is awesome. Its awesome that we have so much fun and some money is actually raised and goes to a good cause. It says a lot of the community in cocoa beach. Just a great Surf Community and city in general, but its a pretty tight knit thing, you cant help but love it. One Police Department in the tv show cops as the inspiration for a holidaythemed video. Drop it. Turn around. Okay. So you have to take a look at the video to understand this. The video showing the grinch trying to break into the who family home. Thankfully they show up to stop him. The grinch is found guilty of attempt to go steal christmas. Especially, you know, it came around in the end, proof that you could be rehabilitated. Planet wrong number, the astronaut who gave someone a bit of a shock when he tried to phone home from space. Plus a massive tornado captured on camera. Where this hit and all the News Reporter hurricane patricia, hit Vallarta Nayarit and manzanillo, mexico, on october 23. Yeah. But no major damage was done. And as you can see, everything is. Exactly as it should be. So, mexico invited the good patricias to come. A lot. Of good patricias. Who do you think names the no way. Savor an egg mcmuffin any time you like. A fresh cracked egg, canadian bacon and an english muffin with real butter. Mcdonalds all Day Breakfast menu. Im Sergeant Matthew hagen iii in romania. Id like to say happy holidays and Merry Christmas to my mother and rest of my family in long island, new york. I miss you, love you, happy holidays to all, god bless. Take care. Welcome back, a live look at the queens borrow bridge. Mild out there, so far 60 degrees, Merry Christmas. Your cellphone listen to what happened to british astronaut tim peek. Peek seen here on the right in the video tried to make a call from the International Space station, then he tweeted id like to apologize to the lady i just called by mistake saying, hello, is this planet earth. Not a prank call just a wrong number peake had to leave a christmas greeting message because his parents were home for the call. Who you do you miss that call from your astronaut son . Temperatures we hit official reading the reason i called i saw 65 at midnight but you never know, sometimes you want to call to check to make sure that wasnt at 11 55 then its not an official record. John told me the temperature went up to 66 at 12 30 which is a shocker. Oh, wow. So, yeah, 66 degrees. Thank you, john at the National Guys are working harded on this christmas. Take a look at what that cold front did yesterday. Temperatures are about 20 degrees solder in places like danbury