Thankfully our house was safe. You may mark her down as thankful person number one. Meanwhile, number two. From the look of brian hoyts duplex, it might be hard to tell. When you hear about the underinsured trying to recover, he is one of those. Im getting 199 a square foot to rebuild this place. That explains the dirty hands and philosophical thanksgiving sweat equity. City, people must eat. In Sonoma County where so many have lost so much, the giving keeps coming. John opened his santa rosa restaurant to anyone and everyone. He will have served hundreds by tonight. Enter debby castillo, thankful person number three. Oh, my, we wouldnt have had dinner. Or food for the day. The pleasure, says john, is all his. Thanks for being here and letting us provide something for you. What do you get out of it . Just to help people. That would be thankful person number four in a region redefining the concept. Abc7 news. Thousands took in a warm thanksgiving meal at San Franciscos glide Memorial Ch
Stretching from new mexico to michigan and georgia. Continu eastward this morning. At least 43 people have been killed in 7 states from severe weather. Abcs megan hughes has details. The christmas twisters marched across the texas landscape in the neighborhood of rowlette they tossed trucks and tore trees from the earth. The twister that hit garland, texas was clocked as an ef4. Mos you could see transformers blowing up the survivors count themselves lucky. Norma jimenez grateful were alive and safe. This can be replaced mandatory on screen courtesy youtube roamin rich in missouri, flooding like this led to several deathsand led the governor to declare a state of emergency sunday night. In oklahoma, west mexicosnow created whiteout conditions on the roads. nats snowplow in oklahoma Mike Springer from affiliate koat cut after coated in snow just last week it was 60 degrees in roswell now its covered in snow. Trucks out of control rest in the snowbank more than 20 motorists were stranded
Gatherings to celebrate and then there are people who like putting up holiday lights. One homeowner in davenport. Put up about 36thousand 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. Theres one Davenport House that stands out. Since im 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. Its all defined over here on the left hand side. Tells me which exact tree it is, where its 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 its just beautiful i mean its just breathtakin
Almost 100 feet. So far authorities have not released that persons name. We will keep you updated on this story as we work to learn more. Moving now. To the southeast. Where the death toll has risen to 18 people. Severe weather wreaked havoc over the christmas holiday. Flash floods took over parts of georgia and alabama. Meanwhile a tornado smashed through birmingham on christmas day. It was like pouring down, heavy rain. And then all of a sudden the glass and the windows just broke out and then it sounded like someone was clawing the tin off of the house the roof more thunderstorms are expected going into next week. Now to a developing story were following back at home today. Sources tell us two metro officers shot what they thought was an intruder overnight. Turns out that intruder. Was one of their mothers, according to a metro source. North Las Vegas Police tell us midnight startled the couple. Thinking it was an intruder. The married pair fired approximately 27 rounds. Hitting the
Today, were dealing with the effects of the winter storm that hit siouxland yesterday and overnight. As the morning snow hit, roads and sidewalks began to freeze over. Sioux city was a white out earlier yesterday, with less than half a mile visibility. And the icy sidewalks and streets were making it more difficult for travel. Earlier in the morning, crews were out clearing the streets and spreading sand, but it was slow going. The Winter Weather conditions did cause some problems for drivers. Ktivs tommie clark shows us the tricky travel on sioux city roads yesterday. Snow. This morning after about 9 30 they just started to deteriate quickly. We really saw that significant change. Weve had troopers staggered. Some came out at 4am, 6am, and then i came out at 7 and then well all extend our shifts throughout the day, said i state trooper, john farley. Trooper john farley says with the limited visibility, its important to take extra precautions. We encourage people, turn your headlights