A lot more on tha ahead this morning. Look at bb88 coming. Hell the one of the most popular. What a weekend in the east. Central park packed. There i i is. People running in orts. Ke a lk at this, as well. Mountain skreek ski resort in new jersey. Thats last year. Here it was on sunday. Nothing. Nothing at all. We all know about green bay. Coldest place in the world to play football. Not yesterday. They dont wear shirts even when its cold. Even when its the frozen tundra. Those cheeseheads are seris. No doubt. Ginger will have more. Lets go to kendis gibson, hes in lufkin, texas. Powerful srms there. Reporter george, powerful being the key word. This give use a sense of how powerful the storms were. This, riright here, 1 of 64 Freight Train cars tossed around. Across the highway, there goes ananother one. Today, a massive cleanup effort under way here as well as other rts of tes. Reporter and it was. A weekend of wicked weather terrifying texas. A white wallf stuff flying everywywhere. Reporter three tornadoes touching down. Tornado just hit my neighborhood. Reporter that home completely obliterated. The homes to the left and right, missing the twister. At least 50 houses suffering dama. The mayor of lindale declaring a diszaster. I think the lord sent us away and he spared us. Reporter this morning, as people are left cleaning up, the red cross on the scene to help. And here in lufkin, that tsed Freight Train. We had really heavy winds. Reporter winding picking up and fligining 64 car on their sides. A lot le a frozen tundra. Blizzardlike conditions sent cars slidi off the road. This tractor trailer getting bogged wn. Crcrs struggling to keep up. Texas d. O. T. Officia cleared the highway just in time for the morning rush hour. But with 62 more of these cars to go, it will be days before theyre all upright. Robin . Quite a scene. Kendis, thank you. The weather a headline here for a different reason. Record heat in the east. Tetemperaturesitting the 70s in some areas on sunday, including the new york area. Its going to be warm on christmas. Lets head outside to ginger. This mild and warm pattern is going nowhere. Ju the fact that i can stand heren a dress in mid december and not be chilled at all, you know somethings up. Lets look up at lake superior. You canan see last year, the snow and the ice covering it. Weve been allowed this kind of tropicical warmir coming up. Dozens of highs brokeover the weekend. Cleveland hit 70. New york city central park, 67. The jet stream, all through next week. Blocking the polar air. It wont block santa. Will be much above average. Were talking 10 to 20egrees by the timime we reach mid and end oaf next week. George . Wow, that is something. The re for president now. The big shakeup as gop kptds get sed set to face off tomorrow night. Ted crse is surging in the polls. Closing in on donald trumump nationally. Reporter good morning. Onon of the iowa polls shows senator cruz with a tenpoint lead. Trump o usually loves the polls when hes winning, calling that poll biaiased towards him. Hes still the frontrrunner nationally, as you can see. On the eve of the debate, the this morning, a shakeup inhe gop race for president. Backtobackolls showing senator ted cruz now the manan to beat in iowa. Dornld tru not happy about it. You look at how he has dealt with the senate. He goes in there a little bit li a maniac. Reporter cruise reacting on social media. Posting a vivid yo othe famous maniac dance scene. Shess a maniac maniaiac at your love reporter but trump not laughing offer the audio of cruz speaking behind closed doors with dononors surfaced, questioning if trump was fit to be commander in chief. That a question of strength. But its also a question of judgment. Reporter trump striking back. Tweeting i was disapappointed that tedruz w wld speak behind my back, get caught. Target on his back. The only budge hes voted for is a budget that cut defense spending. Rorter over the weekend, snl takg a look at the gop race with blast from the past. Rubio and cruz sounds like a miami law firm. If youve been injured on the job, call rubio and cruz. Reporter will ferrell repriseing his role as george w. Bush. Jobing he is entering the race. They wnt someone who is cuckoo for cocoa puffs. Reporter controversy has been brewing. He took on the media and moderators. Tomorrow, well see if he take on trump. Were all going to be tuning in. We are. Lets talk to jon karl. Cruz really firming up his support. These new iowa pols is ted cruz. Hes surging. Jumping more than 20 pointnts since october in that d Moines Register poll. While drumps numbersave essentially remained the same. If you look deeper into t the poll you see cruz has more potential to keep rising. Fox news poll, 30 say they would never voteor donald trump. Only 6 6 say they would never voteoror t ted cruz. The most unpopular republican in iowa right now, is by far, j bush. Ted cruz is above 50 if you add up some of the numbers. The last one before the christmasnew years freeze. It is crucial. Once again. Donald trump will be at center stage. Gegege, five debates. All ve, donald d ump has been in the middle because he still has a commanding lead i the national polls. For the first time, ted cruz will be standing next to him. Becaus he has surpassed marco ill be lookiking for how both trump and marco rub ye go at ted cruz. He nowow i competition to be the alternative to donald trump. And chrishristie back on the big stage well. Abc news sponsoring the neck democrating debate thi saturday. And National Security is sure to be a hot topic. President obama heads to the pentagon this morning for a meeting on the campaign against isis. As we learn major government lapses oned the door for one of those San Bernardino killers to enter the country. Brian ross iss here with that. Reporter good morning, robin. Nish the u. S. And eure deal with warnings about possible isis attacks to disrupt the christmas holidays. New question this is morning about where the pakistani woman involved in the san bernardrdino shooting r rampage should have been allowed to come here in the first place. Credible intelligence reports at isis leaders wan a parisyle take here timed t to christmas. Over the weekend, two men were arrested for the manufacture or transport of explosive or toxic gases as a search continued for four others. In california this morning, the fbi is not saying whwh, if anything, it found in its now compmplete search of this lake. Still investigating if more attacks could be coming in the u. S. And now, abc news h has learned that a secret u. S. Policy evented immigration investigators last year from looking for tashfeen maliks extensive social media messages that the fbi says i iluded talk jihad and martyrdom. Uring that time period, immigratn officials were not allowed to vieiew social media as reporter john cohen, now an abc news consultant, says homemend officials a aed for new policies last year. But they were opposed by the Departments Office of c civil rights and civil lishties. The primary concern was that it would be viewed negatively if disclosed publicly reporter malik received her fiance visa last year i just three weeks, with no check done for whether she had any online messages. Had they checked her out more, maybe she wouldnt have got a visa. Maybe those people inan bernardino wld be alive. Reporter if a a statement to abc newshis morning, the department of Homeland Security says it has started three pilot prprogra to search the social media of visa applicants. Insiders say its still not a widespread policy. And major impedint. A lot of people are notidespread yet. A Deadly Police shooting in los angeles is getting scrutiny this morning. Sheriffs deputies opened fire on an armed man. Police say video shows he was ill holding his gun. Ryan owens has the stor [ gunfire ] reporter two Los Angeles County sheriffs deputies unleashing haiail of gunfire. 33 rounds in alall. Thr target this man. We willll nothow you theest of the video. Cops keep firing even after he had fall on the the ground and is crawling away 911, somewhat your emergency. Theres a black male walking down the street shooting a gun in the air. Reporte this is 28yearold cholas robinson earlier. Armed with a gun. Walking erratically in the street. We dont know. H many times did he shoot at least six, seven tes inn the r. Reporter the deputs said they repeatedly told him to put down the gun. He refuseded. When he walked away there them and toward this crowded gats station, deputies say, they fired. Two people, two wom and three children in a car at gas pump within five feet of him at the time. Ife goes into theas station and takes hostages or shooting somebody, well have a different topic to talk about. Like why didn the Police Officers do something . Reporter robertsons fily questioning whether he had to die. Some members of the Community Coming o the to protes they shot h in the shlder. He was crawling to this gas station. They could have tasered him. Reporter in response on sunday, the Sheriffs Department reelsing this freeze frame from a nearby camera. Even when he was on the the pavement, e even after initially handnds. Investigators think this all started when robertson had a fight with his wife. This morning, hes survived by that wife and three young chililen. George . Okay, ryan. Thank k u. L ls go to amy for todays other top stories. Starting with a new fbi investigatn. Attack on two mosques south of los angeles are under investigation as hate crimes. Vandals defaced the mosques wit spray paint and left a fake hand grenade outside one of th. A fire police s s was delibeberately s by a man now in custody. Police outside paris said a man entered a school and stabbed a kindergarten student this morning. The teach sir okay. The suspect, wearing a mask and gloves, fled the scene on foot. There are new details in the october crash of the russian ane that killed 224 peopl russia and eastern governments say a bomb brought it down. This morning, egyptians Officials Say they have found no signs of t terrorism so far. A Southwest Airlines flight had to make an Emergency Landing in san antonio becse part of the wing that reduces drag appeared to be at an odd angle. One passengerer said people were screaming in panic. The plala was able to land safely. The post office will be swamped today. It is the busiest day of the year. 640 million cards, letters, packages expected to be mailed. That will only add to the woes of one perturbed postman. Under siege by gobblers. Theyve been on his tail every day. Theyve become so belligerent. Hehe forced to fend them off with a tenfoot pole. You couldnt hearim in the video. He just looks and goes, every day. Can you imagine . Every d day facing that. He just keeps leading the on. Hes got dinner for a week. Ththats a nobrainer. Ththats one way of looking at it, sse. Thank you. Thank you, amy. It is the bigst movie event of the year. Who knows, maybe ever. The star wars world premier is in los angelestonight. The blockbuster opening for the rest of us at the end of the week. Ni watt is in the center of the galaxy in hollywood. Good morning, nick. Reporter good norng, robin. There are already star rs die hard fans camped out outside the chinese theater, hoping to snag the bestt seats for opening night, whihich isnt until thursday before then, the premier that starts in 14 hours and abou15 minutes. Get ready. Okay. For what . Reporter for the stars aligning at tonights premier, security is tighter than the oscars. Four blocks of hollywood boulevard closed since last thursday. Hap star wars. Already these fans have been in ne. Caroline and andrew from australia are serious. Getting married in the line. On thursday. Whos officiating . We have a good friend who is a celebrant and is named obi sean. Reporter the force wakens will debut on overr,000 screens this week. Back in 77, star wars opened on 32. An instant hit, darth vader was soonon leaving his footprints here outside the theater. George lucas watched the the first one from here. Are you kidng me . This is the place to be. Feels grea reporter in 1999, for the born. I met my husband in line. Reporter and this is the result . Thiss the result. Reporter nates been in line alread screen, a little kid insid me issaying, is this really happening. Theres a center of the universe ib star ws jts nerddom, thats right here. Reporter these nerds, their word, not mine, are making money for a childrens charity. It rained overnight. Its chilly by l. A. Standards. They have another 80 hours to go. Im not sure i can takee it. Can you guys . Nerd is a high complimentt for them. Were going to a special screening torrow in new york. Weant get details. Its so top secret zplp no phones. They take them when you walk in the door. This is all lockdown. Cant blame them for that. Were given instructions. Not going to say anything on wednesday. No, we cant. Another big storm in the west. This one hits san ancisco . Nick was just alluding to it. This is san pablo, california. Trees into homes. Aa look at w where that storms now. Up through the dakotas with Winter Weather advisories and warnings. The select cities now brought to you by walmart. Rain and snow combo tomorrow afteteoon. Then well see a transition over to pure snow by tuesday night into early wednesday. Expect a tenth to a quarter inch of rain and less than a half inch of snow. Todays forecast calls for a moing mix then well have cloudy skies and a high of 40. The w tonight is 28. Tomorrows high is 39 with an afternoon mix. Heres the 7 day forecast. Another system will approach us tomorrowowwe expectctsee a light rain andnow w combo tomorrow afternoon. Then andoming up here on gma, the nfl facing a billionglar lawsuit. And now a big new hollywood movie over the dangers of concussions. So why was Roger Goodell laughing at a joke about them. Aot of people speak outut this morning. And hover boards catatching fire. We have they had of one of the biggest manufacturers standing by to a your questions. Are they safe to put under your tree this christmas . Re quitehe expert at waking people up in the morning. Let me show w you howgrandma does it. Your daddy made this when he was a little boy. This is your dad at my house, where he had his first christmas. Thanks for making the coffee. Well look whos up. Im really glad youre here mom. Me too. With the pain and swelling of my moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis. Ordinary objects often seemed. Intimidating. Doing something simple. Meant enduring a lot of pain. 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Jessica rae both bertrand and ernst served in the iowa senate together from 2010 to 2014. Jessica lets check in with for the weather. Matt weve got some rain and mixed precip to deal with this morning. Another system will approach us tomorrow. We expect to see a light rain and snow combo tomorrow afternoon. Then well see a transition over topure snow by tuesday night into early wednesday. Expect a tenth to a quarter inch of rain and less than a half inch of snow. Todays forecast calls for a morning mix then well have cloudy oh youre looking live right now, our nations capital. Oh, those Cherry Blossoms still going strong. And on lake erie. Waterskiing. Yeah in december. Temperatures there in the 60s on sunday. And it will be warm a ginger told us in the east. Right through the Christmas Day. You d need the wet suit. The water was in the 40s. Very cold. My forsythia is ming outside. Its usually the first sign of spring. What did you call it . The bright yellow flowower. Yeah. 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