That happened just after midnight. No suspense there. Well be back in the mid and upper 60s this afternoon. Got a full moon, a few clouds around, a calm east river in new york harbor. A lot of fog along the coast. We drop below 60, chilly, 59 degrees, 7 18 is the sunrise. A little chilly north and west. The visibility is down not as bad in islip anymore. Still in parts of long island down the shore it is very low and even into North Central new jersey. The fog advisory was a allowed to expire on the island. It still goes until mid to late morning in parts of central and southern new jersey. Be aware of that. Clouds around, well have thin spots, get a little sunshine after the fog leaves us. Well dry during the Daylight Hours into the mid60s. Humiditys down, and then some showers come back tonight. Lots and ups and down, a chill or a wintery mix will get into that and track santa. He may have finished with over 9 billion gifts delivered. A lot of cookies as well. Breaking news on long island. A mother and her two young daughters spending this christmas in the hospital. Two of them fighting for their lives. They were hit by a car while crossing old country road last night in the Nassau County hamlet of hicksville. Eyewitness News Reporter kala rama outside Nassau University hospital. Kala. Reporter i just got an update and their conditions have not changed in the last hour. That mom and her 4yearold are in critical condition. Her 11yearold daughter in serious condition in the hospital this morning. The three were crossing old country road when they were hit by a gray honda accord headed south on new bridge road. Police say the victims were apparently crossing near the intersection when the crash happened just before 10 on Christmas Eve night. The driver who lives nearby did stop at the scene after this tragic crash. Hes being interviewed by police. The 43yearold mom and her two daughters were rushed to the hospital. For a number of hours as they investigated the scene. No charges have been filed against the driver. Police consider this a tragic Christmas Day crash. Were live in hicksville, kala rama channel 7 Eyewitness News. New this morning, a 14year old is under arrest in a sex assault that took place last week in brooklyn. Police say kevante davis of westchester is the person seen in this surveillance video. Testifies taken at a subway it was taken at a subway station december 16th. That was after a 33yearold woman was sexually assaulted and robbed in her East FlatbushApartment Building the celebrations across the tri state and around the world. Thousands gathered for Midnight Mass at st. Patricks cathedral. Cardinal Timothy Dolan leading the faithful on this holiday and shining a light on the controversy over refugees in america. The cardinal weighing in on that controversy. Mallory hoff at st. Patricks cathedral with the coverage. Mallory. Reporter the cardinal did he welcomed two Refugee Families but said he would not stand. Take a look at the video from Midnight Mass here overnight. He welcomed siblings from el salvador, the brothers 17 and of retribution. He also welcomed a muslim family, a mother, father, and coast. Cardinal dolan discussed the popes visit to st. Patricks which was three months ago parishioners explained that Midnight Mass at st. Pats is something to experience. Its magnificent, the music is great and dolan is terrific. I was born in brooklyn, and we never have been before. First time. It was very special. Ive been coming every year with my brother. It was great. As a catholic its been very special for me. Reporter there you heard from people who have been coming year after year, and those here for the first time. Throughout the day. Live from st. Pats, mallory hoff channel 7 Eyewitness News. From st. Pats we go everywhere else around the world. Pope francis delivering his annual christmas message to the city of rome and indeed the globe. Take a look at live pictures from st. Peters square in vatican city. Beautiful blue sky there just saw in an earlier picture. 80,000 people filling the square. A year ago tens of thousands there today. Todays message follows last nights mass at st. Peters basilica, the pope noting jesus simple beginnings as he called on society to give up what he calls its intoxication with consumerism. And in bethlehem in the west bank, a service held at the church of the nativity built at the spot where christians believe jesus was born. Thousands of people crowding into the manger square for Christmas Eve celebrations. Tensions have been heightened recently after a new wave of violence between palestinians and israelis. Republican president ial front runner donald trump heard the message of christmas in florida. He attended a 10 30 Service Church in palm beach. Its the same church where ten years ago. One of the guests at their 2005 nuptials was Democratic Front runner hillary clinton. We are for the 15th year taking your emails, both tweets, facebooks, social media and to my own personal email bill. S. Ritter abc. Com. All the of the messages of your own personal hopes and dreams as you reflect on this Holiday Season and the year ahead. Were reading them several times a half hour. Merry christmas to the entire staff at Eyewitness News. Want to say Merry Christmas to the entire tristate area. I hope everyone enjoys this day. Lets be thankful for life whether the circumstances are good or not. Brittany writes this Holiday Season with all the commercialism and craziness feel jaded, caned of like minds with gratitude. Field so that they can inform you ask thats what their goal is, and they are bred to do this. They love too it. We all love to do it. The ones in the field take risks and our camera crews risking their lives sometimes to bring you the latest information and keep your family safe as well. This is from william. Everyone regardless of race, religion, political affiliation or sexual prereference could put their differences aside and appreciate each other as people sharing a mutual existence on the planet. Arent we all neighbors sun sky and galaxy. Back to star wars somehow. We have time for one more. This is from Karen Davidson i want to wish my husband diley and mother gera a happy and christmas. And one more real quick, karen rogers says she wishes everyone a Merry Christmas but says im thinking about the people in the terror attack, the families in San Bernardino thinking what theyre going through this Holiday Season and we are too. And karen thank you for keeping still ahead on Eyewitness News this morning, we will tell you about some news, a developing story overseas a gas explosion ripping through a predominantly Christian Village in nigeria as families gathered on Christmas Morning there. We also have new video of the devastation from down south tornadoes overnight. And were not seeing any snow here, but not the case in further west. Well tell you where this storm is causing some Christmas Morning headaches. Hey, weve been through that over the years. But not this its the holidays, which means a house full of people, who all want to get online. So hurry and get verizon fios. And right now, for only 79. 99 a month online, you get 50 meg fios internet, tv and phone for your first year. Plus, with a 2year agreement, fios gives you 400 back, and all the premium movie channels for a year. So go online or call now for this great offer. Ch we have a development on a tragic story that happened yesterday in nigeria, more than 100 people are killed after an explosion at an Industrial Gas plant. It happened in a predominant Christian Community as families lined up to fill their tanks with cooking gas for christmas. The tanker truck ignited the blast when it left the plant without waiting after discharging fresh gas. The plant took hours to get the fire under control. A horrible situation there. Last Minute Christmas Shopping was shattered by gunfire at a mall in north carolina. Police in charlotte say an off killed and also killed a man who pointed gun at him. The gunfire was apparently sparked by a fight between two groups. The offduty officer was working at the mall when he heard the shots and confronted the gunman. The officer is now on administrative leave pending an investigation. Tough news on this Christmas Morning. We have more tough news. The cleanup continues across several Southern States after deadly storms and reports of two dozen tornadoes. And at least 14 people were killed in mississippi, tennessee, and arkansas when Severe Weather hit seven states wednesday night. Mississippis governor issued a declaration of disaster after the storms destroyed at least nine homes left dozens badly damaged, and there are still thousands without power this morning. And then there was this, a rare funnel cloud in Northern California spotted yesterday afternoon, el dorado just a short time after a Tornado Warning was issued in the area, folks there were told to go to the lowest level of the fortunately no reports of any injuries. And farther north a heavy snowstorm caused some problems on the roads. Plows were out in reno after 20 crashes on major roads yesterday morning including one involving two state troopers. No one hurt there. Now as we deal with record warm temperatures, people in reno will be celebrating a white christmas. Big drought in california for so many years and now el nino is helping to break that, but we according to meteorologist lee goldberg, we are getting the is it benefits, the record warmth is one of the fallouts from el nino. It is. Its typical evolution we have. Its a very mild start to a winter. The west coast gets belted with its moisture and what happens as the season goes on, the moisture shifts south and comes across and starts coming up, and we have more coastal systems and eventually we get cold enough. Tracking santa, last stop back at north pole. Get some rest after a long night of successful work. We have clear to partly cloudy skies. Theres the full moon. Looks like its setting with cloudiness. Were at 59. The the northeast wind is light. A pair of 6s. Your highs after midnight good enough for the warmest christmas on record. The coldest one in1980 at 1 below. Soho at 59. Brighton beach at 58. We saw kala rama in hicks vim. A lot of fog on the island and down the shore and more clearing north. Thats why its gotten a lot cooler. 41 in poughkeepsie and 45 in andover. Those are actually closer to typical daytime highs in december. Early fog at the coast, clouds will break for sun at times. Clouds thicken again late day and watch out for a couple drizzles or some showers as we go through the overnight. A lot of high clouds around. There will be some thin spots and some filtered sun at times. The fog should thin out along the coast. Clouds will hang tough at the shoreline. As complicated situation because theres a front draped right along the coast. Area, feels a little drier, a little bit more breaks, and then fog and more humid still at the coastline. This high a little more to the south and isologous to get some brightening. The high moves away and this moisture can come back up and thats why were forecasting more rain tonight into tomorrow. You can see how the clouds hug the coast. Then some light showers and drizzle tonight ask into the day tomorrow. Looks like the afternoon tomorrow, a little better chance of seeing some showers. The big difference tomorrow, well be 66 today and only 52 tomorrow. 66. Front settles to the south. Occasional showers and drizzle on the cooler side of the front, and then this front busts north again and were again. Forecast. Record warmth, its already happened. Happened just after midnight. Well get right back to that 66 with a few breaks. Light rain over southern new jersey. A little rain or drizzle tonight, not a lot. Dinner. Occasional rain and drizzle. Sunday, monday a lot cooler but dry and sunny. Tuesday could be a slippery morning commute well north and west, a little taste of winter there. Theres more to come later in the season with this type of pattern. We are taking your emails and thoughts on tweeting us, posting on facebook. We have a message from jill that we actually received on the earlier side so we were able to put it into a nice graphic wishing everyone who celebrates a Merry Christmas and a very happy and healthy new year, a special shoutout to Diana Williams and to the family of Lisa Colagrossi. Of course we lost lisa in march, and we are thinking of her boys and her husband and diana who has been public about her familys struggles in this past year, her husband dealing with a rare form of blood cancer. Stem cell transplant. And was injured very badly in a motorcycle crash. So he is receiving hes had surgeries and treatments and tough times for her family. So many of you have responded to it. This is a viewer hack med thinking about todd, Lisa Colagrossis husband and her sons davis and evan. A lot of you thinking about our Eyewitness News great family member, Lisa Colagrossi who we lost this year died of a brain aneurysm, and you know what, we have the same relationship with you. We get close to you, you get close to us, and we miss her every single day. Yes, we do. At this news organization. A powerful picture of diana, of doug and embracing on facebook. You have to see what she writes about it. It gives such perspective and shows how powerful she is. Wishing all my family, friends, relatives, neighbors and coworkers and everyone a very Merry Christmas, happy Holiday Season, a wonderful kwanzaa, everything coming from richard. Thank you. Detective john madden of writes, this is a very sweet sentiment. Many families have empty seats around their holiday tables. Lets say a prayer for those families and those who gave their life so you and i can he suggests lighting a candle in honor of the Law Enforcement or fdny and having it be yellow for military, blue for police, red for firefighters and this is written in memory of Police Officer david willis when died in the line of duty in 1995. Thank you for that. A good thought indeed. This is from agita who says ive been watching abc for 40 years, charlie gibson, diane sawyer, sam donaldson, hew downs wishes. And this is a fan letter from lauren from someone named mtg as in meeting, thank you all for working. I cant wait to celebrate your birthday with you later today, which is his daughter ellie. Id also like to ask lauren out to dinner and drinks. Oh, sure. The marriage requests for lauren are over here for right now. Have my secretary get back to those. Thank you for your cards and letters, well read more of them as the morning continues. 6 20 right now. A Christmas Present for actor Robert Downey junior. The governor of california erasing one of the demons of his past. And this morning as we said we are reading your holiday greetings at bill ritter, at lauren glassberg. So many of you have been writing us, so many beautiful thoughts for this Holiday Season and the year ahead. Keep them coming. Well be reading them throughout the morning. Im sergeant tamika deslow, this message is from the valuen teen family out of bronx new york. Especially to my nephew loren ju i have asthma. One of many pieces in my life. So when my asthma symptoms kept coming back on my longterm control medicine, i talked to my doctor and found a missing piece in my asthma treatment. Oncedaily breo prevents asthma symptoms. Breo is for adults with asthma not well controlled on a longterm asthma control medicine, like an inhaled corticosteroid. Breo wont replace a rescue inhaler breo opens up airways to help improve breathing for a full 24 hours. Breo contains a type of medicine that increases the risk of death from asthma problems and may increase the risk of hospitalization in children and adolescents. Breo is not for people whose asthma is well controlled on a longterm asthma control medicine, like an inhaled corticosteroid. Once your asthma is well controlled, your doctor will decide if you can stop breo and prescribe a different asthma control medicine, like an inhaled corticosteroid. Do not take breo more than prescribed. See your doctor if your asthma does not improve or gets worse. Ask your doctor if 24hour breo could be a missing piece for you. See if youre eligible for or actor Robert Downey junior is getting a Christmas Present from californias governor, a pardon for his 1996 drug conviction. Down knee was convicted of felony drug possession after authorities found heroin, cocaine and a gun in his vehicle. In 1999 he served nearly a year in prison after acknowledging that he violated his probation, and since then the ironman star has gone on to become one of hollywoods highest paid actors the big ballpark in the bronx, Yankees Stadium hosting the pinstripe bowl, duke and indiana doin