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Kids eating fast food may be getting lower levels of nutrients and more fat and sugar. Maybe your family is planning an a turkey or ham for christmas dinner. Thats not the case in the czech republic. Theyre getting ready for their annual dinner of carp. Its the most popular holiday meal there. 80 of families will have a carp on the table to celebrate on thursday. Why not . Delicious. Its different and interesting. I want to try ive never had the feast of the seven fishes. Its on my list. Are you doing the turkey . Im not doing anything. I did thanksgiving. Im off the hook. Off the hook dance . Im going to relax and say can i have a gin and tonic please . Its all good. The holidays with you sound like a good time. When im not hosting, its great. We talked about this lastminute rush for christmas presents. It might not be too late still. Here we are on the 23rd. All right. For those of you looking to shop and ship some lastminute deals that may have made your wait worthwhile. Abcs Mara Schiavocampo has the details. Reporter looming deadlines for shopping and shipping. Some stores open around the clock offering deals, not seen in years. I just got a pair of shoes for 70 off. Reporter online sales up an estimated 13 this year leading to a whole lot of deliveries. After reports of missed christmas deliveries last year, shipping giants umpts p. S. And fedex each hired an additional 10,000 workers. Some of their most crucial employees, teams of meteorologists. 15 at fedex, five at u. P. S. Helping route precious cargo flights around unpredictable winter weather. They can really look into the future for us and help us better plan contingencies to make sure our customers get their packages every time. Reporter time is running out for sending those lastminute gifts. But you can still get them there in time for christmas if you send them out todayution next day service. Although at this point it will cost you. A lot of Free Shipping deadlines have passed. If you havent gotten things ordered yet you may be paying a heftsy price. That shipping rush doesnt end at christmas. U. P. S. Expects to deliver about 4 million gift returns back to retailers in the coming weeks. Mara schiavocampo, abc news, new york. Thats right. When you want to send it back, theres the next shipping rush. It happens, folks. You done . Anything to do today . No, im good. I did get a lot of my things shipped this year. Very convenient. But you have to deal with all the cardboard at the end of the day. Its all well worth it. Talking still about christmas but songs of the season. Christmas without all that great quote unquote music. All right. Lets check out the latest holiday track and see what t. J. Thinks about them, coming up next. Announcer world news whether you prefer the faint loo familiar or the biggest songs from holidays past, music is a clear sign that christmas is here. And every year there are new tunes to try that try to break into that class. What about the new tunes of 2014. Lets get insight from bruno del granado as we close in on the big day. Hey, guys. This has been a great year for Christmas Music. With the return of a holiday hitmaker and new renditions of christmas classics. Have yourself a merry Little Christmas thats one of the years most buzzed about new songs. Sam smith singing a stripped down somewhat somber version of the iconic tune immortalized by judy garland 70 years ago. Troubles will be miles away the song caps an incredible year for the breakthrough brit. Six grammy nominations including best new artist. He was only 2 when this happened. I dont want a lot for christmas there is just one thing i need yes, Mariah Careys instant classic is 20 years old. First released in 1994, its become the ultimate contemporary christmas mash hit selling 15 million albums. This year it has topped spotifys radio chart since early november. Its been 30 years since do they know its christmas featuring u2, sting, duran duran and boy george. Its a christmas radio must play year after year. Getting a reworking this year. How can they know its christmas time at all hit maker bob geldoff wrote the original to spotlight t ethiopia. This year it was to spotlight the ebola crisis. And coldplay and one direction lending voices to create the fastest selling single of the year in britain and raising muchneeded funds for africa. The original has long battled another 1984 release for Christmas Song chart supremacy. Wams last christmas. Last christmas i gave you my heart but the very next day you gave it away the George Michael classic, another of those rare modern songs to top the charts year after year was last years most streamed song on spotify on christmas day. So wam and mariah carey still are modern favorites after all these years. And if you didnt get enough of them this year, well probably hear them again about 11 month ares from now. Back to you. Dont remind ubruno. Some of these songs are great. We hate Christmas Music because we go into a store and hear these jingles playing constantly. Over and over. And some of them are great. Its hard to remake them. Hard to find a good one. Once you do, its yours for life. You hold on to it. Coming up, grandma with a chainsaw. Christmas decorations fit for a lumberjack. Nothing says christmas look a chain saw. At least for one connecticut mother. Shes found her cawling by using the tool to create detailed wood carvings. Checking out granny in action with her trusty chainsaw is a gift that keeps on giving. Its really fun because you create something. Reporter 71yearold june mirwin picked up this hobby and the chainsaw for the first time when she retired two years ago. She wanted to carve one of these bears. I always enjoyed seeing them when we went to alaska and vermont and all that. Reporter now her nativity scene is getting a lot of attention smeep has mary, joseph, jesus, three angels and three sheep. One of the sheep is black because every family has to have a black sheep. These are special chaps that if the chain saw, the gas powered chain saws hit them it will turn off the saw. And ive done that, so it does work. Reporter most of her creations start out with a 3foot log and a sketch. You have to plan it out. You do. Because once you cut, its all over. You cant go back. And then the chainsaw takes over. She now has three. I work out every day at the gym. You really have to be strong. Reporter she also has three grandkids who are proud of their woodcarving grandmother. They kind of accept me for my novelty. Automatic not im not the typical grandmother. This is her latest creation, a rabbit, if you couldnt tell, for easter. In clinton, tina detele, news eight. I like that nativity. Thats was a lot of characters. She carved all of those. Shes fast. Shes really into it. Wonder if she takes request. Me and my chainsaw. I dont know you well but nothing about you says chainsaw. I think i look pretty good in that picture with a chainsaw. Time to run to the hardware store. Thats the news for this half hour. Follow us on facebook. This morning on world news now plea for peace. New yorks mayor has a message for protesters after the ambush killing two of officers. The families in grief. This is a difficult time for both of our families. The support for the officers family and the growing antipolice tension nationwide. Remembering joe cocker. He could turn any song into his song. The tribute comes in. Later, calm don. This internet sensation known for her whispering has found a world of believers. It puts you in this euphoric like can her voice lull you to sleep or cure depression . Listen for yourself on this tuesday, december 23rd. Announcer from abc news, this is world news now. A good morning on this tuesday. Im tai hernandez. Im t. J. Holmes. We start with the mayor of new york city calling for protests to be put aside for now as the two murdered Police Officers are mourned. The widow of one of the officers has spoken to reporters and his parents have issued a statement from china. Heres tom llamas. Reporter two days after wenjian liu and rafael ramos were shot executionstyle while sitting in their patrol car, investigators are piecing together the movements of their attacker. Ismaaiyl brinsley, a troubled 28yearold with a long history of prior arrests who ultimately took his own life as s. W. A. T. Teams chased him to a nearby sub way station. Nypd releasing this video from a brooklyn mall showing him several hours prior to the shooting holding a white bag that Police Believe contained the murder weapon. At the scene of those homicides, a growing memorial. Members of the nypd family, even the daughter of eric garner, the man who died this past july after police took him don. My family stands wuths their family. Reporter they visited the families of both officers. You can only imagine what a Family Member is going through at that moment where their lives have suddenly been made unimaginable. Reporter and lius wifes tearful message. This is a difficult time for both of our families. But we will stand together and get through this together. Reporter the mayor who many in nypd say has been too sympathetic to antipolice protesters called for calm. Put aside demonstrations until these funerals are passed, lets focus just on these families and what theyve lost. Reporter tom llamas, abc news, new york. Protesters in milwaukee are demanding a federal investigation of the Police Department after a former Police Officer was killed in the shooting of a black man. He was fired from the police force after the shooting but the Prosecutor Says he shot dontray hamilton in selfdefense. That doesnt sit well with hamiltons family. The death of hamilton is a tragedy for everyone involved. Were not going to be laid back and stay sheltered from justice. We deserve justice. Hamilton was shot 14 times during a struggle at a milwaukee park. The Justice Department is reviewing the case. Authorities have shut down a pipeline to funnel guns into new york city. A Delta Airlines baggage handler in atlanta was arrested. Detectives say he allowed a former baggage handler into a secure area bypassing security. He allegedly flew to new york with 18 guns in his backpack. Were hearing for the first time from the texas weatherman recovering from a mysterious attack. Patrick crawford said his main focus is returning home with his family from the hospital. He had surgery after he was shot. He didnt know the man who shot him in front of the parking lot of the tv station. The one thing that i do want to state about the incident that i was reading online and everything is that the man that shot me didnt say any words to me. There was no interaction whatsoever. Police have released a sketch of the suspect. No word on the motive. North korean websites are back online again after a major blackout. The countrys Internet Service was unavailable for about nine hours. Last week the president accused the north of orchestrating the hack against sony pictures. The president said the u. S. Would respond. Didnt say exactly how. The state department would not confirm or deny u. S. Involvement in the north korean outage. If the u. S. Did this, they are clearly defining what the parameters are for this type of activity. Not only north korea but other nation states participate in this type of activity. There are going to be repercussions. You have people on both sides saying maybe it was, maybe it wasnt. Several experts saying the u. S. Was not involved in north koreas internet blackout. Powerful winter storm may make it hard to get home for the holidays or anywhere else. Gusty winds, torrential snow, thunderstorms, rain and fog moving into the midwest and east. More from rob marciano. For the more than 98 million of us hitting the roads and skies for the holiday, the first full day of winter is in full force. Blizzard warnings for the rocky mountains. These motorists were making their way to california for the holidays. Another perfect example of how horrible these conditions can be. Watch this traffic cam perhap you can see the only way to get around was an skis. The mountains hammered with over two feet of snow. And all that snow causing avalanches. In california, more mudslides closing down part of a highway. This is a significant amount of earth. Treacherous travel in the upper midwest, too. Frozen roads in wisconsin and deicing planes in minneapolis. All this after at least seven people were injured in a that same system traverses the east coast an Christmas Eve for a wet and windy travel day. Rob marciano, abc news, new york. Investors burned by Bernie Madoff could be getting back more of their money. They want to distribute more than 300 million. That would bring the total returned to more than 7 billion, or half of what madoff lost. Some investors will be getting back everything they invested with madoff. No one could interpret a song like the british rocker joe cocker. Hes remembered for his raspy voice, body contortions and making any song his own. Cocker was 70 when he died of lung cancer in colorado yesterday. Abcs john donvan has our tribute. Reporter a voice that could do this with words what would you do reporter joe cocker lasted through transformation. He was woodstock, a little help from my friends. Lend me your ear and ill sing you a song i will try not to sing out of key reporter a generation later, listen. The wonder years. Same voice. A little help from my friends reporter in between the rocker in joe cocker receded a little bit. Somewhat of a balladeer emerged. You are so beautiful reporter one thing stayed there always. The grind around the sillibles. The gravel. You are so beautiful to me reporter yes, and so is the sound. Listen. Reporter john donvan, abc news, washington. Word is muhammad ali is winning his fight against pneumonia. The champ has vastly improved since being admitted to a louisville hospital wibt a mild case of the illness over the weekend. They hope ali can be discharged from the hospital soon. The murder trial of former think in patriot Aaron Hernandez is set to begin with jury selection two weeks from friday. Hernandez was in court yesterday for one of his final pretrial hearings. Hes pleaded not guilty in the murder of oden lloyd. The trial is expected to take six to ten weeks. A wild one on monday night football. Peyton manning and the broncos visiting the bengals in cincinnati. Manning went to work. You knew he would. A couple of short touchdown passes. Denver up a point. After retaking the lead with a field goal, cincinnati ends up putting the game away with a pick six. Would you believe they actually picked off Peyton Manning four times in this game . Four interceptions for hyim. Bengals claim a playoff spot in a win over the bengals. The inaugural miami beach bowl. Elliott hit the longest ever overtime field goal. Then got ugly. They are playing byu. The game ends and a brawl ensues. You see that . Teams brawling in the middle of the field. Not sure what set off who. But it got ugly, got nasty and took away from what was a Great College football game. But this is what everybody is going to be talking about after this game. Im sure some punishment is going to be handed out. Oh, yeah. Its christmas almost upon us. New years is just over a week away. Making plans to start a new tradition in indianapolis. It involves, what else, an indy car. No engine in this one. Its a bit lighter than shall. Its going to be hung up from a crane in downton indy on new years eve. Is that guy going to be in it . Or that guy . At midnight it will be much lower like the ball in new york. Its part of a street party they are planning that will include music and fireworks. You havior 2015 glasses yet . Yeah. Im just getting to christmas and you already got us to new years. I shouldnt have because im not done yet either. Getting ahead of myself as usual. A department score scare. A scorpion found hiding in the womens apparel department. The common household hazards that could make your tree ereport in flames. Find out three easy steps to avoid this disaster. Youre watching world news now. Announcer world news now weather brought to you by airborne dual action. Approaching medicare eligibility . 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