Lets get to a chur with nbcs Kristen Welker. Kiss ten, good morning to you. Good morning to you. Merry christmas, everyone. Tens of thousands of faithful gather today for Christmas Day celebrations at vatican as pope francis delivers his traditional message. Last night the pontiff celebrated Midnight Mass at st. Peters basilica and urged the worlds 1. 2 billion roman catholics not to be in his words intoxicated by possessions and also sounded a cry to right injustice. Today, american troops posted overseas are also taking time to Mark Christmas and remembering family members celebrating without them back at home. Heres nbcs Kelly Cobiella. Reporter it was a somber Christmas Day in afghanistan where they honored six Fallen Soldiers killed in a motorcycle bomb attack called earlier this week. Especially important here where we got the opportunity to remember those who we have also lost. Reporter more than 200,000 spending the holiday far from home in 100 countries on every continent, fro
Yesterday soggy day, mild day, temperatures still mild to start in philadelphia, but you do notice difference, as we look north and westward up into the Lehigh Valley and poconos, temperatures down into the 30s, and 40s, and that cold air is moving south and eastbound, so cherish the 50s while we have them. Because we are not going to be feeling them again as we head throughout the upcoming weekend. And temperatures are going to be chilling down, and already seeing the effect as far as windchill temperatures are concerned, feeling like mid 20s right now in mount pocono, feeling like the freezing mark, in reading, not having quite an impact right now on philadelphia and part of southern new jersey, but we do have those elevated wind speeds, winds out of the northwest, driving in the colder air, wind speeds right now, at about ten to 15 Miles Per Hour. We will have rather blustery conditions through the day today, tonight, saturday, even into the first half of sunday, and even at this ea
The Fire Department are actively looking into it. Reporter Surveillance Video of a previous fire on november 17th shows a man black near the scene. The video though is grainy and described as poor quality. Investigators would like to talk to this man in black. Most of the fires in the past month have been set at vacant buildings being renovated or while investigators are casting a wide net when it comes to a have one. I think somebody is doing this on purpose over jealously. Reporter development in this neighborhood has been an ongoing issue for years. Renovating and expanding their homes into what opponents have dubbed mcmansions. Owners of the socalled mcmansions say they are being targeted for their culture. Many live with three generations under one roof. Now they feel unsafe if their own homes. It could be somebody who has a vendetta against certain type of people. People are scared to buy houses here and Start Building anew. We are the target right now, i think. And i dont know i
From getting the deals they were looking for. Tim furlong has a look at what went wrong. Going into the store to see what im really getting. Cyber monday not for tanya, she and others are going to actual stores today. Many target shoppers would be better off doing that. My time is limited as far as when i can and cant shop. This is lauras day to shop, off from work, decorating almost done, 15 off everything on target. Com sounded great, except when she and millions of others clicked on the site, an error message saying the site was too busy. Knowing it is cyber monday, they had enough time to work on it. Reporter target didnt return my email on this. Laura hopes they extend the sale as an apology. Paypal also had problems today, but as for good deals you can still grab through tonight, great prices on laptops at lenovo. Com, home depot has great deals on things like power tool bundles, and if you dig rubber shoes, everything at crocs. Com is 40 off today. Also means thieves are going t
We begin with breaking news. The patriots nation, a big update on rob gronkowski. We learned more about the tight ends injury in last nights denver. Houser. And thank you for being here. A potential sigh of relief for fans. Steve . Reporter he was scheduled to have an mri on his right knee this morning in boston. There is no information on that and they sweeted that sources tell him gronk is unlikely to miss more than one game, if that and that looks serious when he went down with under three minutes to go. The play today didnt look bad and tom brady said it was not a dirty play but his reaction is scary. Hes in excruciating pain and that is the same one he hurt two years ago. It whipped back. And [ indiscernible ] never a good sign and nothinged managed to give a salute. It was emotional when they talked about it after the game. And [ indiscernible ] a tough guy, so, hopefully its not too serious. Well see. The best time in football, so, its just, you know, its hard to see them get hu