Day. They were hunkered down and watching at least one tornado rip up trees, whip around power lines and just in this one spot from east texas to the gulf coast of alabama you have weather officials counting 28 tornadoes that hit ground on Christmas Day. Now, in southern alabama right now more than 200,000 homes are without power. We are live from mobile in just a minute with the full picture of the damage there. All right. You are watching this is an enormous funnel cloud. It formed and touched down near interstate 165 in mobile. David and whitney sarasino were driving to see their family for christmas and realized they were headed right into the tornado. Well, the first thing was i had asked my wife it to pick up the camera and start getting some footage of it, because i know that the local news stations and everything were want wanting to see what was going on. At that point we just kind of drove as fast as we possibly could get out of the way. I know we were actually on i165 northb
Westbound interstate 40 was temporarily shut down for two miles in a suburb of Oklahoma City this morning. They say freezing rain is probably to blame for a Chain Reaction crash involving 20 vehicles. You see it there. Including three big rigs. Alexandra steele is the storm. Take a look at this. Severe weather is just beginning to ramp up today. Were looking at a whole day with Severe Weather. Tornado watches you can see. Look at this. I10 right along the gulf coast, houston to new orleans. And this is just really the beginning of it. Were looking at incredibly Severe Weather. Tornado watches and tornado warnings. Tornado warnings meaning these storms have produced rotation and have been detected. You can see right there. So right now its eastern texas moving into louisiana. Kind of to give you a perspective, south of i20 here is tyler, texas. Heres shreveport, louisiana. All of these moving northeast and this is just the beginning of really what could be an inundation of Severe Weathe
Christmas. Stories were watching in the newsroom on this Christmas Day. Pope benedict xvi tells people not to up hope even in the worlds most troubled reasons. His appeal for peace. And its not the grinch stealing christmas cheer. Its the weather. Blizzard warnings may turn your White Christmas into a travel nightmare. And tornados threaten the south. Your forecast is coming up. And were seven days away from going off the fiscal cliff and with washington in a political gridlock were getting closer and closer. The question, how will it affect you and your paycheck . The images, the words, the names, highlights and low lights of 2012. Newsroom starts now. Good morning to you. Im Carol Costello wishing you and yours a Merry Christmas and we begin with Pope Benedict xvi using his an ill christmas message to speak about the hope for peace even in the most difficult times and situations. Translator in this world theres a good soil which god has prepared just hours ago the 85yearold pope spok
Lish this is the bay areas news station. News at 11 starts now. Rain swept through the bay area Christmas Day as the third storm system and a hand full of days hit the region and were seeing scattered showers. Im here at the Weather Center with brian. Youve been busy today. Whats happening with this rain . Things are wining down for tonight and were seeing improving conditions and the rain is starting to taper off. Heres the live from tracker 4. A few scattered showers around san jose and those are moving out in the next hour or so. Some showers on the peninsula around san carlos and bellmount. Most of the heavy rain off to the east and a lot of snow in the sierra and thats the blue band. See the speck le, thats cold and a lot will rotate through the bay area. Rainfall totalled from this afternoon and evening have been over an inch in many locations like San Francisco is one of the weather spots with an inch and a quarter of rain and there still is more on the rain and ill let you know
Support and aid from the United States and allies. A crime has been committed against ukraine, and we demand just punishment. What does Ukrainian Ambassador to the United States oksana markarova, say now . Firing line with Margaret Hoover is made possible in part by. And by. Corporate funding is provided by. Ambassador markarova, welcome to firing line. Thank you for having me. This weekend marked seven months of war for your country. Id like to ask you what the numberone message you have for the American People about ukrainian resolve seven months into the war. We always said we will not surrender, and we will defend our country. I think that does not require proof anymore. Everyone knows we will not surrender. So our message now is that we, together, have to win. And Russian Federation should be defeated, because if they are not punished for what theyve done, for all of their criminal acts, then our planet is not a safe place to live for any of us. This week, putin held referendums i