The bigotry has blustered and bullying have become his campaign. Hillary clinton fires back at donald trump. Im so tired of hearing about the bickering between donald trump and hillary. They should all grow up and Start Talking about issues. Today is getaway today for millions of Holiday Travelers but some sever weather could put a damper on holiday plans. Weather coasttocoast and much of the central and eastern u. S. Are headed for the warmest christmas on record. Recapture the city of ramadi from isis. Iraqi Security Forces are backed by Coalition Air strikes. New security rules at the airport. Screeners can have people go through body scanners and policy is effect now. Another embarrassing blunder to the secret service. Radio and a handcuffs stolen near the white house. The secret service continues the heroic. A survivor in china from a landslide. A drone crashed between this skier and missing him just by seconds. All that. A firefighter is inside a building when he realizes he is on fire too. He is reported to suffer only minor burs. Zach hodskins a walkon for the Florida Gators just scored a basket. Thousands of people witness the bright lights streak across nevada. The debris is from a Russian Rocket. Is that santa claus . On cbs this morning. We wish you a Merry Christmas we wish you a Merry Christmas and a happy new year randell gets up and punching i love the holidays this morning sponsored by welcome to cbs this morning. Charlie rose and gayle king are off but anthony maven and va son and vinita nair are here. A new poll shows more voters prefer donald trump than his three strongest rivals combined. The poll finds trump has 39 support and ted cruz is second with 18 and followed by ben carson and marco rubio at 10 . Chris christie is fifth at 5 . The poll came out as trump defended using a rude word to president ial run. Trump tweeted last night that media reporting was, quote, dishonest. He said the word in question was not vulgar and only meant that clinton was beaten badly. Major garrett in washington has reaction from both campaigns. Major, good morning. Reporter good morning. Trumps latest verbal barrage and described him as a bully and dangerous one at that she said who is proposed to ban all muslims from america has inspired and probably continue to inspire isis recruitments. His big theory and blustering and his bullying have become his campaign. Reporter Hillary Clinton in an interview with the des moines register. Was not surprised by Donald Trumps questionable use of this vulgar yiddish term. On the trail, clinton, instead, opted to attack trumps proposal u. S. And his unfiltered campaign style. Its not the kind of language somebody running to be the president of United States should be using. Reporter even one of trumps gop rivals, jeb bush, said the frontrunners attack strengtheneds clintons hand. She is great at being the victim, you know . The victimology status. People with profanity. Reporter trumps closest rival in iowa ted cruz is showing momentum nationally and drawing within four points of trump in the latest quinnipiac poll. This is turning more and more into a twoman race between donald trump and me. We are seeing the washington establishment in utter disarray because the American People are fed up with washington, they are fed up with being lied to. Reporter with cruzs climb in the polls has come increased excrete knee. This the Washington Post editorial cartoon depicting his children as holiday props this and this parody that features cruz and his Children Reading conservative christmas stories. Ill use my own and no one will be there. Reporter the candidate quickly denounced the cartoon demanding on twitter the children alone. Stick with attacking me, he added his daughter are out of post defended the cartoon at first and said later it did not live up to its standard and retracted it. Senator marco rubio sent out a disgusting. Last night the Cruz Campaign were sending out fundraising contributions. Attacked my children. Major, thank you. Nearly a third of americans this morning are in the path of potentially severe weather. A line of powerful storms is targeting the southern u. S. They are capable of producing tornadoes and damaging winds. Storms have already hit southwest louisiana. One man there was hurt when his trailer was torn apart. Meteorologist Danielle Niles of our boston station wbz is tracking those storms and the potential for recordbreaking temperatures along the east coast. Reporter good morning to you. Lots going on weather wise. We have got warm, moist air out of the gulf of mexico and cold, dry air behind it and along that battle zone, storms firing up right now. The greatest risk stretching back down to nashville and memphis and little rock in there as well. Damaging wind gusts, along with tornadoes, are likely to develop later on this afternoon and into tonight. Record highs, meanwhile, from texas stretching to maine up and down the eastern third of the nation for Christmas Eve, temperatures 30 degrees above the average. We should be in the upper 30s in boston and we will be 68 degrees tomorrow. 70s from new york city to philly. And 70s and 80s down across the southeast breaking records here as well and feeling more like spring than winter. Danielle, thank you. Iraqi forces are reporting progress in their battle to defeat isis fighters in the key city of ramadi. Isis has been in control of ramadi west of baghdad since may. Iraqi offensive is winning parts of the city amid fierce fighting. The army says it will regain control within days. Michael morrell is a former cia Deputy Director and joins us now from washington. What is the significance, do you think, of this setback for isis . Norah, i think this is a very significant fight that is going on for two reasons. One is what is being attacked here, which is ramadi, its the capital of anbar province, the home to the majority of sunnis in iraq. Its only 60 miles from baghdad. The loss was embarrassing to the Iraqi Government earlier in the year and on the main series to jordan and this is an important target. Secondly, who is doing the attacking. Most of the gains in iraq have been done by shia militia and the kued. In this case we have the Iraqi Military working with sunni tribesmen so the test here could be a molged for the model for the rest of the country so this is very important. What does it say about the iraqi army . It says the iraqis and united able to conduct this kind of fight. I think the iraqis may be a little optimistic here that this will take only a few days. The American Military is saying being a little bit more cautious. We are talking about 300 isis fighters in a heavily contested downtown area. Streettostreet fighting. This may take sometime. Perception is, obviously, very obviously in all of this. How important is the perception that isis is losing . I think that is one of the most important things here. Isis has had the perception for over a year now that they are winning and that gets them recruits, both in iraq and syria, and overseas. It gets them money. So to the extent that we can begin to turn back that perception and take the momentum away from them, that will be really important. This could be a first step in that. Mosul, which is the second largest iraqi city is the ultimate prize here. That comes next after ramadi. Mike morrell this morning, flags are flying at halfstaff to honor a policeman killed in afghanistan. He is one of six members who died on monday. The attack by the suicide bomber was the t on the for in afghanistan this year. Margaret brennan is at the pentagon as we learn more about the victims. Reporter good morning. It has been a brutal christmas week for the families of those six fallen american servicemen killed in afghanistan. We spoke to the brother of one of the victims who called his sister a true leader. Air force target adrianna mondays attack. She is a hero. And i hope she is a hero to awful us, not just to me. Reporter older brother christopher said his trail blazing sister was charged with protecting the largest u. S. He intentionally would go on these patrols with her, men, because she wanted to show them that she would do what she was asking them to do. Reporter she is one of the first openly gay female air force officers killed in action. She had long championed the repeal of the militarys dont ask dont tell policy, a change that now makes her wife and son eligible for military benefits. She inspired us all, i think, by just being hearst and being proud to be who she was. Reporter on his first in afghanistan joseph lemm returned home to his wife and children but trammic end this week. The veteran of the new York City Police department was member of the Air National Guard and killed by a taliban suicide bomber who drove a motorcycle packed with explosives into an air force patrol. Peter taub was also killed. His mother runs this washington can mourn this horrible loss. The three other airmen killed were Michael Cinco and Chester Mcbride and louis bonacasa. The taliban has gained strength since the end of the u. S. Combat mission and proudly released a photo tuesday of the bomber they claimed killed the americans. Today, u. S. And British Forces are, once again, coming to the aid of these struggling afghan army, which is trying to hold off a taliban takeover of a crucial Helmand Province in the south of that country. A newly released document this morning shous how one of the San Bernardino shooters helped the other to get a visa in the u. S. Farook explains in his own words how he met and married malik. After several weeks of emailing each other they decided to together in saudi arabia in october 2013. They showed officials visa went to mecca. One congressional critic says not ufed evidence the couple met facetoface and that is required to get this type of visa. Immigration sfgs said malik underwent several background checks but did not raise any flags. Aaa estimates for the first time a hundred million americans will travel 50 miles over christmas and new years. Most will drive but nearly 6 million will get on a plane and they may not have a chance to avoid controversial airport body scanners. Officials tell cbs news the tsa is changing its passenger screening protocols. Jeff pegues is at the National Airport outside of washington. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Tsa officials stepped up security after the paris attacks and feel this is another important change and it means more passengers will likely be funneled through those body scanners whether they like it or not. Last week, the Transportation Security Administration quietly changed body scanner protocols at airports. In this document, tsa ofgs ficials wrote they were updating the ability of individual to opt out of ait, advanced imaging technology, screening, in favor of physical screening. That now clears the way for the tsa to direct mandatory body scanning. Over the years, the technology has evolved. Those body scanners that some critics label strip searches which officials believes lessens privacy concerns. Airport security has been under the microscope over the summer report released general in some cases, cruising through tsa patdowns. It led to a security overhaul that tsa secretary jeh johnson talked about again just last week. In july, i gave the new administrator of tsa a tenpoint plan for improving Aviation Security and airport screening domestically. That plan has been and is being implemented on schedule. Reporter those body scanners are extremely sensitive. The experts say they can pick up a handkerchief stuffed into your pocket which is why you have to take everything out of your pocket when you go through those body scanners. Most importantly, the scanners can pick up nonmetallic explosives, the kinds that terrorists are trying to sneak on planes. A secret service this morning is investigating another embarrassing security lapse. Agents car in broad daylight. The agent from the president s protective division parked near the white house on monday and when he got back to the car 45 minutes later a bag was missing inside his car and the bag contained the agents handgun, badge, i. D. Card and radio and encrypted thumb drive. The secret service is not yet saying anything about the incident. A glimmer of hope for the survivors after a massive landslide buried a Chinese Industrial park three days ago. Migrant worker this morning. Hours. The state tv reports the man only suffered a broken hand and foot. Some people were buried under possess feet 30 feet of debris and some are still missing. U. S. Military is investigating what caused a mysterious light across the sky. Spotted the fireball last night. U. S. Strategic command said it was caused by Russian Space degree returning to earth. Anna werner is here with the details of the celestial light show. Reporter good morning. Well, it wasnt a bird, a plane, it wasnt superman or even supergirl. No, it wasnt a meteor. But it could be seen for hundreds of miles. And appeared alarmingly close to those who got a glimpse. What is that . What is it . What is that . Reporter it was the midnight mystery, keeping people awake in parts of california, arizona, and nevada last night. A blazing bright light streaking across the sky. Just all over facebook. Really wonder what it is. Reporter local news stations were baffled. We have been getting all kind of phone calls. We are hearing reports of a bright fireball. But what is it . We still dont know. Reporter witnesses offered a variety of theories. Could be an airplane. Is that really long shooting star . Might be santa claus . Reporter others just watched in amazement. Wow liftoff. Reporter according to u. S. Strategic command which helps monitor thousands of items orbiting in space, the object was the remnant of a used Russian Rocket, one that may have helped launch a soy uz supply vehicle to dock this morning on the u. S. Space station. Every day hundreds of comets slam into the atmosphere but we are fortunate most of them are tracked and we can control to some extent what their characteristics will be once it comes back to earth. Reporter the Russian Rocket is one of 16,000 Space Objects tracked by the joint Operations Center which had predicted the spacecraft would fall over arizona tuesday evening. Its unclear for how long the joint Operation Center knew well as where any of the debris may have landed. Many thought that fireball was part of the earths meteor shower which was also scheduled to appear last night. Wow. Really interesting. Nice light show. Until you know what it is, a little scary. Exactly. The nfl is caught up in a new controversy. Ahead why the nfl is facing new questions this morning about why its not helping to fund a Ground Breaking new brain study. First, its time to check your l good morning, areas of fog dents and a dense fog advisory in effect for a lot of spots, and otherwise drive. We will stay dry through the afternoon with temperatures rising through the 50s, scattered showers and pockets of light rain for the evening commute, and steady rain after 10 pm. 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