Second to capture the images they have waited hours for. Meet the photographer out to shoot the moon. But we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Felt like someone was clawing the tin off the house, the roof. Another round of storms slams the southeast. Birmingham getting hit with a tornado. Record highs for the holiday. And out west snow storms in the forecast. Snow a huge problem across the pan handle of texas as well as portions of new mexico. President obama paid tribute to six u. S. Troops recently killed in afghanistan. We never take for granted what all of you do for the american people. Forced the closure of two major roads in Southern California. Firefighters are working to and firefighters in australia are struggling to contain bush fires that have destroyed homes. Furious that fedex didnt deliver packages in time for christmas. There is your lesson. Dont procrastinate. I still dont think aisle ever learn. A astronaut calling from a above the earth. Pretty good service. And that awkward moment, when you call king james a cry baby and he looks right at you. Oh oh, oops. A full moon hasnt appeared on Christmas Day since 1997. Next time well see it is 2034. Do the math, right . Cbs this Morning Saturday. Mid court, over durant. Oh, Merry Christmas timmy butler. We hope your christmas was merry. We have some great guests for you this morning, including two of the key figures behind to controversial new film concussion concussion. Well to to bennett omalu, the real life doctor. Also call him the commander of commanders palestine. Hes run new orleans restaurant for nearly 15 years. And hell bring his stories from the big easy to the dish. And the members of this group called the best newcomer at this years la la plooz. They will perform ahead in our saturday session. First breaking news overnight as more Severe Weather batters the south. A clean up is under way in North Central alabama including the city of birmingham after a flooding is also a big problem. Tennesessesee,e, a arkansasass and mimissssisissippi i stst. Louiss 1 155 peoplplee f f f fororororor a a a aboboboboboutututut t t t tenenenenen were killed during christmas week. Another storm system is moving across mississippi bringing wind, hail and winds over 40 miles per hour. This is bad. This is really bad. She came home to no sign of christmas joy. This is where i used to live. And its gone. The house she shared with her husband, son and daughter for the past nine years is shattered among a grove of shattered degree her 35yearold son was the only one home. Hes hospitalized with a broken pelvis and cuts. Could have been worse. We could have been planning a funeral instead and were not. So im so thankful for that. They searched for mementos. Pictures of my mom. She passed away in 2010 and i would look at it every night before i go to bed. The wilkins home is among hundreds destroyed by the cluster of deadly tornados. The youngest victim was trapped in a car with his mother and sister. The winds ripped him out of the vehicle. Among the six who died in tennessee, three were found in a car submerged in a river. This aerial view shows the devastation of the most powerful storm. It reportedly stayed on the packing winds of up to 160 miles per hour. Rooftops torn off, trees pulled from the earth roots and all. Barbara williamson was inside her. I dont know how im alive. Its a christmas miracle. At the Red Cross Emergency Center the Christmas Spirit was on full display. Laverne zin picked out new gifts for her nieces and nephews. Had the gifts under the christmas tree. They got destroyed. And anything that anybody give them. They are thankful for. The smile on their face, that makes me happy. Some families have lost everything have yet to return home to salvage what they can. The weather is still too rough. This is one Christmas Anthony they will always remember. Thank you mark. Severe weather is expected across much of the nations midsection through the weekend and parts of the northeast could get a winter wallop. From chicago. Good morning. Good morning to you. We see rain now pushing from the gulf of mexico but this is going to be enhanced. Instability ahead but a lot of winter warnings available today. Blizzard warning in purple and winter storms in blue. From albuquerque to minneapolis were going to be dealing with this major storm. The Severe Threat is in the area in red. The gulf coast states could see tornados today as the wind shear ahead of the system. Its an icy mix behind this but the snow were focusing on for 1218 inches with white outs and Poor Visibility there. You can see these waves of thunderstorms building ahead of the main system. Especially during the day tomorrow into eastern texas. Then on the backside of it were going to see that heavy snow more the texas pan handle wrap through on monday. So this is a long lived storm behind the jet. Colder air in salt lake city, 18 in denver. 77 in little rock. 70 in lexington and 42 degrees in chicago. Vinita back you do. It is going to be difficult for all of these people coming back for the holidays. Moolks Mary Kay Kleist, thank you. Fires in los angeles forcing evacuations. Coast highway are closed. Rail traffic suspended. A massive wild fire burning in southern australia. More than a hundred homes were destroyed at that fire raced through a popular coastal area. Thousands of people were forced to evacuate. Hundreds of firefighters spent Christmas Day battling the flames, which was triggered by a lightning strike. The fire is expected to burn for weeks during the hot summer in australia. Refusing to blink. Hours after an air strike, the Insurgent Group has named a successor. His death could be a major blow in upcoming peace talks in assads government and rebel groups. The crucial peace talks between the Assad Government and leaders will scheduled to take he led thousands of fighters and was opposed to isis. Fridays air strike targeted a meeting of rebel leaders just outside the capital. Syrias military claims he was killed in the blast but it is unclear whether russian or syrian war planes carried out the strike. Russia has been supporting the zaud government with air strikes since september. Iraqi troops are moving closer in their effort to capture ramadi from the Islamic State. Forces have been moving further into the city which has been held by the Islamic State group the iraqi o what do the latest standings mean for the republicans . Joining us now to break it down is phillip bump. Good morning. If you rook at the latest poll cruz is 4 points behind trump. What happened. In the latest poll cruz has moved up into the place that ben carson once held. And ben carson stumbled in the wake of the paris terror attacks. People werent confident in his ability to handle National Security issues. And as hes fallen, trump and cruz have gained support. A different poll has the gap much wider for trump. But cruz is now solidly in second place. Hes arguing it is now a two man race. Right. Is he right . s still a 200 person race as it has been for a while. There are a lot of things at play here and National Polls arent indicative of whats going to happen over the longterm. Whats so fascinating about Trumps Campaign is that hes doing it without any pollsters, no ad team, no research. Do you think that could effect him in iowa . Hes run an unorthodox campaign from the beginning. And i think hes banking on the grass root support particularly more support from people who dont vote as often. And that could be good or bad. More could come out. Or they could end up not voting. So well see what happens. Iowa, traditionally is not a great predictor of who gets the nomination but it can be influential in terms of who gets to stay in the race. Iowa, and trump loses how do you think that shapes things . New hampshire is only a week later. We dont know whats going to happen in iowa. A lot of things can happen very quickly. I dont think trump is going to lose iowa and say i give up. I think New Hampshire seven days later is going to be something that allows him to say no im still the winner ive been talking about. 61 of Women National have an unfavorable view of donald trump. How does that effect him . I think in the primary it is not great for him. But i think it is more of a general election problem. Wrem also strong supporters of the hillary clinton. So they are not going to have a positive view of donald trump. In the primary ben carson had strong support from women and from trump away from carson and not to trump which is a problem for him. Why do you think that is . Head to head match up, think achblt it usually comes down to partisanship. There are a lot of Bernie Sanders fans right now who are not going to say i want to vote for hilly clinton. Thanks for being with us this morning. My pleasure. The Veterans Administration is still struggling with problems at the hospital in phoenix arizona. Veterans are still facing long waits to get an appointment with doctors. As Mireya Villarreal reports they dont have enough doctors to go around. Ground zero for the Veterans Affairs wait time scandal was here at this hospital. A 2004 report detailed how thousands of veterans across the waiting lists. And at least 40 seniors died in phoenix since 2013. Are the problems fixed . No. It did call for how the v schedules appointments. A band aids been put on this and therefore everythings okay. Everythings not okay. They still dont have enough physicians and providers to provide medical care. In october the ig reported a new report about critical staffing shortages in the Urology Department from 2013 to 2014. The leaders did not have a plan to provide Urological Services and the staffing crisis failed to provide for thousands of patients. They killed him. That Urology Department had Urology Department that were qualified to do that surgery, to remove his prost and his bladder. Debby said it took eight months for the paperwork and everything to go through. And he died. They would not discuss his case specifically because of privacy issues but they did send us a statement saying they have reduced the number of patients on the wait list by adding staff to the Urology Department, by also referring patients out to medical providers that are private medical providers. For cbs this Morning Saturday. Fedex played catch up on chromosomes Christmas Day. Dimarco morgan has more on the scramble. Employees for shipping giant overtime playing santa in the air and by ground. Joann is a grateful customer. Elation. A fedex predicted a record breaking Holiday Season for pick ups and dropoffs. 317 million shipments between blk friday and christmas eve. A 12 jump. Plus they didnt predict mother natures unexpected delivery of more than a dozen deadly tornados across the south including tennessee where the company is head quartered. The company that prides itself with on thyme delivery had towork fast to get distribution offices back home and trucks rolling. Jim runs a dessert store in think about the larger companies, how many packages they are doing, its just incredible. Fedex released a statement. As the good thing for when everybody is expected to get it and all of a sudden they get their gift. President obama and there were prayers for peace and calls for compassion on christmas around the world. Thousands packed the square for the popes message. He condemned brutal acts of terrorism and prayed for end to wars in syria libya and other parts of the world. President obama and the first lady urged americans to follow the values jesus lived. Caring for those on societys hungry. The poor and the persecuted. Great Britains Queen elizabeth joined other members of the royal family at church. The queen offered a message in these times of terror. The light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it. And 250 miles up, american greet greetings to earth. His wife but spaced out and called another number. Later apologizing on twitter for the lady he called by mistake. Can you imagine getting a wrong number from space . Time to show you the head lines. The Washington Post reported hits jailed correspondent got a rail christmas treat. Iranian officials granted him an extended visit with his wife and mother on Christmas Day. Hes been held more than 500 days even though he was convicted on spying charges just this year. The length of his sentence has not been disclosed. Arson is suspected in the home of form are president clinton. They also found graffiti spray painted on the ground. No one was injured. The site is operated by the suffered minor damage. The plunge in oil prices is putting the squeeze on alaskas finances. It has Governor Bill Walker proposing a first in the nation Oil Income Tax as the climb in Oil Production is creating a multiple dollar budget hole. State lawmakers say they will consider the plan. About twothirds of the budget revenue cant be collected they say because of the drop in oil price us. A british crematorium has become the first funeral home to land a Liquor License in the uk. They will now have the option of granting loved ones whats described as the complete sendoff. A sendoff without the need to travel off the premises. And this company says they are going to do it at like all of i actually dont think temperatures across the area this morning in the 40s and 30s. So its colder than weve been but still above average. Its a little bit of precipitation to the west. Tomorrow morning when we will see rain. Temperatures mostly in the 50s. Coming up. Hover boards are one of the hot holiday gifts. So hot in fact concerns are mounting over the popular toy. Well tell you the new places the boortds are banned. And just before the ball drop, what americans thought of 2015. And it wasnt great. Youre watching cbs this the gifts are unwrapped. Now some are headed back to the stores to make returns. And where some go, so do the scammers. Its never too early to plan your summer vacation. Well show you picks of destinations you will want to saturday. Fety. Announcer one candidate tough enough to take on the bully. Jeb bush donald, youre not going to be able to insult your way to the presidency. Thats not going to happen. applause announcer one candidate tough enough to take on isis. Jeb will destroy isis. And keep america safe. Jeb bush the United States should not delay in leading a Global Coalition to take out isis with overwhelming force. Announcer tested and proven leadership matters. Jeb bush. Right to rise usa is responsible good saturday morning, everyone. Im kerry connolly. Carbon monoxide apparently killed two people in a milford home. Police found the bodies of a man and woman inside of a bedroom just before 2 00 yesterday afternoon. The District Attorneys Office tells us two others living in the duplex went to the hospital with Carbon Monoxide poisoning. Investigators are trying to figure out where the deadly gas came from. A fiery end to a s. W. A. T. Standoff in everett. Investigators say there was an explosion and fire inside of the home on sommer street moments after 53yearold mark surrendered to police. He held officers at bay for nearly four hours. Neighbors called for help after hearing shots fired inside of dave is here with a look at our forecast for today. Doesnt look too bad. Weve got sunshine and clouds. Its dry today. Temperatures will not be what you saw yesterday. You wont run around and have dinner at tames. 53 at best. Tomorrow its rainy in the morning and then just cloudy. Very mild south of the mass pike. A little cooler north of the mass pike. Mondays a cold day. It feels like winter and maybe wintry weather on tuesday and a bit unsettled and mild for the rest of the week. Monday will be a shocker. Have a great day, everybody. Welcome back to cbs this Morning Saturday. One of the holidays hottest toys but has seen a season of controversy. On thursday a safety alert warns hover boards as car go without following Hazardous Material regulations is illegal. This follows as some colleges are banning hover boards on campus over safety concerns. They are the hottest gift of are literally the hottest because they also explode. They have become the butt of jokes this Holiday Season. But some of these topselling toys may pose a real danger. Holy cow. Cell phone videos like this one claim to show hover boards burning, here in a Washington State mall. A rider from alabama posted this video saying his hover board just caught fire. The battery just shot out. The Consumer Products launched an investigate investigations over many consumer reports. And online retailers discontinued. They even made the no fly list. Major airlines banned hover boards from flights earlier this month. Shipping to ground transportation. They are concerned about the toys lithium ion battery. They ignite and catch fire very violently. Kelly. The faa probably would ban period if there wasnt so much pressure from the airlines not to do that. Cell phones, tablets and