who is cleaning up her city. one cigarette butt at a time. deborah: good morning and thanks for joining us. i m deborah souverain. americans across the country are dealing with historic weather on this christmas day. from record breaking highs in the northeast. to flash flood watches down south. to snow out west! abc s kenneth moton is keeping tabs on the weather. and has more. holiday weather for the record books. this christmas morning, the weather threat continues for parts of the south with heavy rain causing flood watches. sot no super we woke up to civil defense pounding on our door telling us we had about 20 minutes to leave our homes. in georgia and alabama, people evacuated their homes to escape flood waters. nat tornado from the south to the midwest, severe more than a dozen were killed when two dozen tornadoes terrorized s sen states including mississippi. it s selieved one stretched 150 miles destroying homes and lives. sot governor phil bryantmississippi as
gatherings to celebrate and then there are people who like putting up holiday lights. one homeowner in davenport.put up about 36-thousand lights and synced it all together withthusic for all totonjoy aarik k ods from our quad cities affiliate checked it out you have nine of the white christmas trees, which only had 400 white lights on them. but i put 600 red lights on each one of the trees. when it comes to holiday decorating.there s one davenport house that stands out. since i m retired now, i itook me three e eks of anywhere from five to ten hour days. james peachee puh shay runs what he calls candy cane corner. thousands of lights.likely hundreds of cords.and one computer program. it s all defined over here on the left hand side. tells me which exact tree it is, where it s at, and what it does. the result is a mix of music -nat- and lights that work togegeer in harmony. jenny schaumburg siberian orchestra and he does one of their songs and it s just beautiful i mean
christmas on gma. caroling all the season here words of good cheer from everywhere filling the air grazing theound joy gaily walking singing songs of cheer christmas is here. mey, merry, merry, merry christmas good morning, america and merry christmas to everyonet hohome celebrating. we re really not here. we re at home too. this isll on tape. we wanted to be [ laughter ] it s a christmas miracle. w went bac in. we are spending the holidays with our family this glorious christmas morning. but we wanted to be here with you too. yeah, on a very special holiday show ahahead. the baby is watching at hom and singing all morning long. our friend, emeril is with us with some greatays to help you celebrate. he ll show us s someoliday hors now a check of the news and weather from cecilia vega. good morning, and a very merry christmas to everyone. we begin with a holiday message thousands gathering at the vatican to celebrate the holy day. pope francis urging the ba
if you are driving this morning, give yourself a little bit of extra time because it could be difficult to see some spots. we will eventually clear the fog out by the 8:00 or 9:00 timeframe. shaina: thank you, jason. the snow on thursday meant a lot of traffic headaches but for many people it also meant the christmas they had been hoping for. kcci s vanessa peng shows us how iowans feel about snow on christmas eve. vanessa: just like the ones iowans used to know. it just wouldn t be christmas without snow. vanessa: mother nature brought what many had been dreaming of. i think it s beautiful. i expect to see snow around this time of year. vanessa: so far this winter, it s been relatively mild. when i saw the snow i was like it s about time. vanessa: some iowans can t imagine celebrating a green christmas. it s the tradition i mean you think of snow you think of you think of presents you think of family. vanessa: others will take green or white. i would have enjoyed
christmas morning coming up. shaina: good morning, everyone. thanks for waking up with kcci 8 news this morning. 25. merry christmas, everyone. a lot of people were very excited to see the snowfall yesterday and it might stick around in some areas. jason: i think it will, with the almost 10 inches. we will continue to see that linger on the ground as we have temperatures will help to melt some of it. it will be hard to get rid of all of it. fog today because of low level moisture and disabilities to the central portions of the state around the quarter-mile range. a half-mile in ottoman. if you are headed out and about, note that it could be a little bit slick and disabilities could be down disabilities could be down. cloud cover lingering and a system off to the southwest but snow cover a cousin that but there could be one to two inch totals on northwestern edges of the state. a bit of a mixed bag of precipitation and light rain into south and central portions of the state.