The warm east Coast Weather opened up more than just a pandoras box. It is hot. It is all of a sudden. Its so warm in washington, d. C. The Cherry Blossoms bloomed again or three months early. The National Park service says the late blossoms will not coming spring. Because that was my question. If only one bud ens,t would already be open for the spring. Maybe they have an sunday study bud that can open in the spring. I like it. The understudy bud opens in the springing. I know nothing about Cherry Blossoms. Im fumbling in the dark. Last week on this program, i start add Instagram Account for you to take you behind the scenes richard p bacon. Ive done that badly. Richardp, thanks, noel. Like the meat, if you go to instagram. Im going to put up a couple of youll be able t see them a little bit later. One, theyre last weeks photos. Thats reena in her curlers holding some coffee. Who knows what brand of coffee that is. Yes, starbucks. And thats look, on the left, that is us holding signs. I had Food Poisoning and you scenes. Very exciting including a picture of reena. Well post this in a minutef reena in her civies. You weree explaining them to me. If youre not in the police or the military, youre a civie. Not in uniform to present the show. Preshow clothes. If this doesnt get us thousands of instagram followers. Reporter i dont know what will. Im going to show you the news meeting where we discussed Cherry Blossoms. Buzzing about an aaggressive gang of thugs targeting a in particular. A postal carrier u uer attack by wild turkeys determined to make his workday living hell. The gobblers have become so beling rent, the mail mann is forced to fend off with a pole just so he can do his job. This may be living hell for him but hes the hit of youtube. A million followers were talking about. What will be bigger . That or our Cherry Blossom news meeting chat. This is impressive video. Its great video. Coming up, riah carries holiday tune all i want for christmas is you. No longer the song of the season. Wait till you hear what song is on top. The mad house at the post office even at this hour. Were taking you there live on this busiest shipping day of the season to see how your precious parcels are being handled. The hover board, its potentially explosive problem. Another retailer refusing to youre watching world news now. World news now weather, brought to you by olay. We are in the age of ageless. Age neutral. Age defiant. Age agnosticic olay is a purveyor of ageless. Only the best 1 of ingredients make it into our products. For tranormed skin without expensive brands or procedures. Its the ultimate beauty victory. Nobody has any idea how old you are. With olay, you age less. So you can be ageless. Olay. Ageless. Theres moving. And theres moving with move free ultra. It has tripleaction support for your jnts, cartilage and bones. And unlike the big osteobi flex pills, move free ultra. Get your move on. H c im alex trebek. 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Abcs Clayton Sandell has the story. Reporter after frightening scenes like this. Holy cow. Reporter a hoverboard suddenly catching fire in a Washington State shopping mall, theres new concern about someme of the seaeans hottest gifts getting way totohot. Its on f fe reporter r he federal Consumer ProductSafety Commission says it is now investigating ten hoverboard blazes in nine states that have even sent a couple of riders to the emergency room. Now, megaretailer amazon has stopped selling at least one brand firefighters say was being charged when it ignited this new york home. That manufacturer, swagway, says it meets all safety requirements. Telling abc news, were glad that this is taking place, concerns with the fires with the poor quality batteries. Concern over lithiumion batteries is also prompting american, delta, united and jetblue to ban hover boards on planes. And experts say not to charge them overnight. Theres so many of them out there with different prices, battery life. Brian fong says buyers should avoid lowerquality boards. Under 300. Shana haines bought one for her 10yearold daughter hanna but now has second thoughts. So you sent it back, why . Not willing to take the risk, the thing catching on fire with no warning. Reporter even hannah says the oncecoveted hoverboard is now off her list. I dont really want it anymore. Reporter really . Youre kidding reporter Clayton Sandell, abc news, denver. Exactly. Coming up, taylor swift takes a few steps closer to global domination. Meanwhile mariah carey skinny. Announcer world news now continues after this from our abc stations. [male announcer] if youve served in the military, certain habits may be hard to s ske. For reintegration and adjustment issues big, small and everything in between, visit easter seals dixon center. Org. Jones. Zero, three, two, six. Here to make a deposit. Tt2w`tsi`r bt q];\ tt2w`tsi`r a qm78 tt2w2wsi`r bm qf apparently the superstars birthday spurred her resurgence. Lots going on for taylor including a huge deal with apple music, former nemesis. After going toe to toe after permission to stream her songs, taylor wants exclusive streaming for a live concert she recorded last month with her many super friends. Also announced yesterday, simon schususr will publish a book with material from her super fan. They say it will have the feel of a scrapbook. Theyre looking for one super swiftie to be is an editorinchief overseeing the project. Taylor celebrated her birthday yesterday and turned 26, which, of course, means she was born in 1989. That year also the name of her latest album. Swift intends on trademarking 1989. You cant own a year. What . Along with other phrases that include the term swiftmas. She can have that. Anyone else want the phrase swiftmas . Thanks. Taylor, have it. Next, this is a story about, its probably, do you know the website humans of new york . Yes. Its such a fantastic website. If youve never read it it, i would urge you to have a look at it. There was a story last week about a syrian refugee. We dont know his name who is coming to troy in michigan. Hes an elderly man, a scientist of some repupu. He createded an invention that is used on the raiaiays in istanbul. He has cancer and lost his wife and daughter in a bombing in syria and his story was on this website, humans of new york. Barack obama saw the story and sent him a message on facebook. Now edwin norton the actor is raising money for him. Its just, if you go to that website, almost all the stories are moving. I can see why norton responded to it. The story of that syrian doctor and not cry. He kind of gives t light to the idea that anyone comingg an from syria might be trying to do america home. He said ive got a lot left to give as a scientist. Its a fantastic story i think. Reena. Yeah. Its the Holiday Season. Mariah carey has this is fantastic song, a fe holiday song for many people all i want forchristmas. Apparently its losing its top spot. It used to be number one. The number one song most likely to be heard while shopping till now, richard. The person whose job it is to go around shopping malls working on songs are the most populathe song most likely to be heard while shopping is this. This time of year the shins with their cover, of Paul Mccartneys wonderfulp people think is Paul Mccartneys worst ever song. This is now making a resurgence. Finally star wars premiere tonight. Happening tonight. But where will it be, richard . Theyve closedd down hollywood boulevard and theyre b bng crypt tick where the p pmiere will be. Its not that hard to work outut because theres only three big theaters on there. One of them the dolby theater. Terrible talking over the trailer. This is such a beautifully composed trailer. Just the music on this trailer. I will finish what you is that the listen. My theory, that bad guy is luke skywalker. Remember, darth vader, Luke Skywalkers dad. Im predicting it now. Well know by tomorrow night. On twitter. I think itt going to o a theater. I think it will be somewhere everybody waiting outside. Theres going to be no satellite and well be blacked out and not able to see until you buy your ticket. Thats a funny idea. And i hope its true. Luke skywalkers father, if im right, dont call me a hero. If im wrong, dont mention it. Even at this hour, the post office hard at work. Well be right back. Enough pressure in here for ya . Im gonna take mucinex sinusmax. Too late, were about to take off. These dissolve fast. Theyre new liquid gels. And youre coming with me. You realize i have gold status . Mucinex sinusmax liquid gels. Dissolves fast to unleash max strength medicine. Lets end this you get a cold. You cant breathe through your nose. Suddenly, youre a mouthbreather. Well, just put on a breathe right strip which instantly opens your nose up to 38 more than Cold Medicine alone. Shut your mouth and say goodnight mouthbreathers. Sometimes we use ky ultragel to enhance my bodys natural moisture so i can get into it a bit quicker. And when i know shes into it, i get into it and. Feel the difference with ky ultragel. Whoa, yes, wait a minute mr. Postman, wait, wait mr. Postman welcome back. Todays the busiest day of the year for americans sending christmas cards and gift packages. Also the biggest day for online sales. Even though it may be quiet at this hour where you are, there are some places busier than santas workshop. Live to abcs trina trinh. What going on . Im here at thehe morgan mail facility. One of the largest in the country. On a typical day, over 500 million pieces of mail processed here. Today is actually the busiest day of the year though. So that adds an extra 112 million pieces of mail that are going to be processed. Im right behind a bar code scanning machine. This is where all the holiday cards and letters that you send start off. They all get scanned by the barcode here. And sorted into carriers binns where ill show you this machine right here. Once they pass through the machine and are scanned, they automatically get sorted into binns for carriers, individual carriers. So theyre going right now into zip code, very specific zip and theyre going to be shipped off to individual post office stations in the city where the carriers will pick them up and deliver them to your mailbox. So just because its middle of thee night right now doesnt mean that they stop working here. Its busy all over the place as you can see. Lots of mail. Lots of letters. Lots of holiday packages. To get shipped off. And make it in time for the holidays and theyre working round the clock here to make sure that all those packages get sent on time. Yeah. I would imagine middle of the night is like peak time. Yeah. To do that sorting. It looks like reems of paper behindnd you. Are people buying paper at this lawyer . Whats going on . Reporter yeah, you know, paper is one of the few things you actually end up mailing this time of year, right . Every other day its an email we all send off. Paper passing through this place over the next couple ofweeks. Thats why they throw in started delivering on sundays. Tina, how many of those pieces of mail are fan letters talking about the british guy on havent g g time to hearer goodmorning. Im richard bacon. Im reena ninan. Here are somef the top headlines were following thihi morning o o world news now. Parts of texas are cleaning up this morning from at least three confirmed tornadoes that damaged dozens of homes and even threw 64 cargo trains off their tracks. After a weekend of severe storms, not a single injury has been reported. Full coverage straight ahead. The l. A. County Sheriffs Department says a man shot and killed by deputies on saturday was armed. 33 bullets were fired at nicolas his relatives say the shooting was unjustified. Jury deliberations are expected to begin today in the first trial of a Baltimore Police officer in in the connection with the death of freddie gray. That d dth triggers i das of violent protests. A Southwest Airlines jet was forced to make an Emergency Landing in san antonio over what appeared to be a wing irregularity. A piece of the wing that reduces drag tilted at an angle. The plane landed safely and those are some of our top stories on this monday, december the 14th. Announcer from abc news, this is world news now. Good morning. We begin with a weekend of Severe Weather. All across parts of texas. Yeah, at least three confirmed tornadoes destroying entire neighborhoods forced the mayor of one town to declare a state of disaster. Abcs Kendis Gibson has the reporter a view from the air of devastation across the state of texas. Wow. I think thats a tornado. Reporter in willis, a tornado destroying roofs, uprooting trees, toppling vehicles. Tornado just hit. Reporter tiny lyndale, texas, described as a disaster a totoado damaging up to 50 homes. We ararstriving to keep unnecessary pele out and have into this area. Reporter the twister coming home. Where did it go . It just started back that way towards the high school and you can see up there on that lane where it started and just came right through here. It was just a white wall of stuff flying everywhere. Reporter jennifer skender, out Christmas Shopping when the tornado ripped apart her home of 11 years. A neighbor texting her these photos of her house. Im just thankful we werent home. I think the lord sent us away and he spared d. Reporr two dozen severe some parts of the state receiving up to half a foot of rain and wind gusts powerful enough to throw 64 large cargo train cars from the tressel and on to a roadway below. As people all across texas begin the passive cleanup effort, residents and authorities alike are astounded there wasnt a sing injury reported in this weekends storms. Kendis gibson, abc news, lyndale, texas. Thank you. In the northwest, its a punishinginter storm taking its toll. Watches and advisories are posted across a wide region including the cascades east of attle. This could dump up to two feet of snow on themans before moving the midwest. Accuweathers Paul Williams has the predictions. Good morning. Thanks. Im looking for somewhat of a ontwo punch to hit the midwest. Heres the jab in the form of scattered showers pushing from chicago to st. Louis over towards nashville. Everywhere you see the green mornininand thean the Early Morning commute. Here comes the hayemaker later in the week. Well have much colder air whats going to settle in and another low pressure system that is going to create snowstorm. Not snow flurries, not a few flakes, real all together bigtime storm. And so we have to watch out for much colder air thats going to filter through. Were looking for cold and snowcovered roads and then blowing snow on top of that. Get ready. Here comes old man winter. Always good to hear from you, paul. Thank you vy much indeed. We expect to hear from president obama later today in the battle against isis. Mr. Obama will make remarks after he visits the pentagon for an update from his National Security council. The white house spokesman said last week no major policy shifts are expected as a rult of this meeting. And after a threeday search, the fbi finished drying out a lake in San Bernardino. Whether they found any trace of that missing computer hard drive belonging to syed farook and tatafeen malik. There are n n questions why they didnt scrub thehe socialedia accounts. After the attack they found mahliks Facebook Post how she wanted to be part of a violent jihad. Also in california, a San Jose Hospital on alert. Officials are tracking down nearly 1,000 patients including 350 newborns 0 who may have been exposed to tb. Aditi roy has the story. Reporter a Major Medical scare in san jose, california. Officials at the Santa Clara ValleyMedical Center are racing to contact more than 1,000 pe