Willie and tamron. My morning jam express yourself by n. W. A. I interviewed ice cube. Yeah. Last week. Hanging with him. And been in that n. W. A. Mood, that and sinatra and his 100th birthday, that kind weekend. Thats good. Great mashup. Am, lets talk about the weather. Yes. Did we head 72 in new york . Jfk got to 70 degrees sunday. Incredible. Its its been nuts. So many cities saw record high temperatures. In fact, according to the administration, National Centers for environmental information, at least the first ten days of december, this is before this weekend, 574 record daily highs have been tied or broken. Wow. During the first ten days. That graphic is ominous. In fact today some places could be 0 degrees above average. Come on, wow. Is it true that this is going to continue potentially through christmas . Well, its going to moderate, but right now brutally cold, unusually cold weather is still banked up in canada. Seeing below normal temperatures out west which well get into a little bit and Cherry Blossoms in washington, d. C. Popped out again, and you can see buds on your freeze, its not going to be a problem because they will re reblossom. Right. Once they go back into hibernation. Crazy to see. It is. Last week, first great class at an Elementary School in new york tossed their coats into the air to celebrate unusual thats who you want to hang out with. Thats the crew you want to hang out with. And not to be undone santa decided to get in on the action, in the Niagara River in buffalo hanging ten. Oh, come on. Dont see that every day. Remember this time last year, buffalo was like in a state of emergency. They were buried. Doesnt seem christmassy enough though. Out in short and tshirts. Other parts of country, florida, california. Generally. I need a little cold. You need snow, really . Yeah. I need like the scarves and mittens and put if on and walk around. I dont mind this. Al, heres my theory based on absolutely nothing. Okay. Its a setup. Get the mild weather and then were going to get slammed with a horrible winter. In the northeast thats the what happen, we haveairly mild weather in december and boom. Were in an el nino year right now which means colder, wetter out west and a little drier, warmer here as we get into january and february, a little wetter and then a little colder. Yeah. So we will eventually get our winter, but we are in the middle what have could be a record el unusual temperatures. About last year, remember dylan all over boston. I mean. By this time. I was talking to dylan about this on friday. By this time last year she was already literally burnt out. She had been on the road for weeks covering brutal weather. And the people in the northeast burnt out. Dylan, keep sleeping in. Natalie mentioned some of us cant get into the Christmas Spirit without some snow around and christmas music, that should be able to help a little bit. Yes. So the university of illinois has set up a 24 7 service, get this. You call in and you choose a song, and a student will sing it to you live. Its the whole new meaning to rent party. Weve been doing this for years, since 1960s. Just got in on the party. Thats good to know. Better late than never. We just somebody told me it was trending. Well, in 1960. Well, it was. A slow long trend. A slow build. On it. Okay. Both of my parents went to the university of illinois and this predates them. This is a long tradition. Wow. But its a great tradition. And just now catching on. So, do we check it out. Because they have been on hold since the 60s just for you. Your call will be received shortly after this message. Please have your name and coming from. What song do we want to hear . It make take us a few moment to get you your song. Thank you and happy holidays. What song do we want . Last christmas. She goes right to wham. Last christmas i gave you my thats right. Thats sad. Gave the heart and then she tore it apart. The they are on the phone. They are on the phone. Happy song. Hark the herald angels sing. The Market Herald is that the name of it. Hi, university of illinois, angels sing. The what is your name . My name is sharon. Hi, sharon. Runt in the middle of finals right now . My name is sarah. Hi, sarah. How are you . So youre ready. Were ready. Three, two, one. Hark the herald angels sing glory to the newborn king peace on earth and mercy mild gott god and sinners reconcile the joy full all ye nations rise join the triumph of the skies with angelic hosts pleau claim christ is born in bethlehem hark the herald angel sings glory to the newborn king nice. Fantastic. Nice. Are you in the Christmas Spirit now . You, university of illinois. Thats amazing. You guys are terrific. Let me ask them one more thing to make sure they are illini. Ill. Ini. That gets you in. Dont sound like youve been singing sin oat 60s and bless your hearts. Were so happy. Do you have a tip jar. We should give you something. What do you guys get out of it . Well send you today show mugs. Thats the Christmas Spirit. They dont get anything out of it other than bringing Christmas Joy to others. Well send you guys today show mugs. Signed today show mugs, not the ones from the gift shop. You might not want the signed ones. Erasing names every day. You know. Its your choice, but i would go with the plain ones. That you knew the lyrics just like that. Thats awesome. Have a little thing called a computer in front of them. Im impressed. I think thats amazing. Great job, guys. Thank you. Well done. They are in the middle of finals right now, too, so. Thats good. All staying up 24 7 to sing to us. How about the christmas lists with the hover boards. Here, josh my son wanted wanted is the key word. Uhoh. And maybe the biggest gift of the Holiday Season or at least it was, but even santa apparently had a little messup on a hover board. Take a look at this the. Oh, no. Merry christmas. Ow. Well, you remember that video, i guess it went viral. That still hurts no, matter how many times he did that. Could have been worse and caught on fire. Is that the hovers board . I feel like that it was santas fault. Steer issue. The door should have been made wider. Can i talk, please. I just want to say one thing, please. Lets top calling these hover boards. They are not hovering. They are wheels. They are on the ground. Its not marty mcfly time. What are they called . They are not hover boards so start stop calling them hover boards. They are more of a rover board. Your turn. Okay. Anyway. As youve heard by now, no doubt seen hover boards, mono rovers, whatever you want to call them, they have become safety concerns because the lithium ion battery inside of them are causing some to catch fire and now amazon has pulled some of its brands from its sight. Overstock. Com is not selling them at all, and amazon is asking for some sellers to provide documentation that they comply with the safety standards. So bottom line is because they are not a toy they dont fit into the toy category. They are not really regulate. Hmm. So a lot of kids i think are going to be upset. Santa doesnt deliver that because of the lithium ion batteries. When you say santa doesnt bring it because of safety, theres no reason to be upset. Nearly fell off of it and im pretty good on skates and skis and whatever so it took some figuring out and now thats not even the risk anymore. To als point. So many different ones and even my neighborhood a couple of popup shops have started selling them. A lot havent been through standards. Not a good idea to ride probably not. Speaking of on fire, look at warmth that weve got here in the east. Theres that High Pressure pumping up and the jeemp is way up to the north, so today well see a high of 64 here in new york city. By wednesday it cools down to 63 and charleston tomorrow 75 degrees and look at this. 54 in chicago by wednesday and 61 in evansville and 42 in kansas city, but then the cool air is really banked out west. The jet stream has dipped down and so with this low pressure moving through you can see that swirl. From kansas on into parts of illinois and iowa, i should say, and weve got a deets ent amount of snow coming in with that cold air, upwards of a foot and a half or more through the rockies and cascades and great news for the skiers. The Christmas Gift there for anybody who lovers to ski. Good morning. Day. Rain gear likely on standby the commute. Patchy drizzles, and 40s and 50s this afternoon. Were tracking rain on the way from the great lake states. Doesnt get into new england until 8 00, 9 00 tonight. And well have showers and even brief downpours tomorrow night and that moves out very early tomorrow morning. That stays, temps 60s in the windy. And thats your late weather. Al, thank you very much. Coming up next rossen reports live, yeah, live, baby, from you use them to fake websites. Just got a warning about three common skaks and how to karl, dont you have friends coming over . Yeah, so . It stinks in here. Youve got to wash this whole room are you kidding . Wash it . Lets wash it with febreze. For all the things you cant wash, use. Febreze fabric refresher whoa hey mrs. Webber inhales hey, it smells nice in here and try pluggable febreze. To continuously eliminate odors for. Up to 45 days of freshness pluggable febreze and fabric refresher. [inhale exhale mnemonic]. , two more ways to breathe happy pain from your day can haunt you at night, dont let it. Advil pm gives you the healing sleep you need, helping you fall asleep and stay asleep so your body can heal as you rest. Nights sleep. You know the love you feel for olive garden s fresh baked breadsticks . Well multiply that by a million. New breadstick sandwiches, part of olive garden we are back now with another installment of rossen reports live and today were exposing holiday scams. National correspondent jeff rossen did some digging to uncover three of the biggest cons that are happening right now, and how you can protect yourself. Good morning, guys. Start off with the gift cards right beside you there. You were saring youre saying you are scared of gift cards. Why . My fear is always that youll buy it and then youll give it activated there. Hes no verification. This is along those lines. We have some of the most popular gift cards on my hand. You go to the store and buy them for somebody and what the tonight racks of stores and they are turning the gift cards over, have this one right here, zoom in that camera on it real quick what, they are doing is they are scratching off, took a freezeframe of it, see that little number on bottom right at the bottom of the card, scratching off the number and putting it back in the rack so when you go bite card most dont look to make sure its not scratched off and when you go to activate it they keep calling the number to see when the thing has been activated and they have that code and they spend it before you can spend it. Wow. What should you do then to protect yourself . When you go to the rack and bite gift cards, make sure youre buying it and its like this. Its sealed up. If not a lot of stores sell them loose, flip it over and make sure it is not scratched out, and a lot of stores keep it behind the counter. Thats always the best advice to you. Okay. Make sure nothing is scratched out. A lot of us love Online Shopping and thieves are getting in on that as well when your package is left. This is huge. Yeah. We talk about this on the today show every single Holiday Season and this is when the thieves go to doorsteps and know a lot of gifts are being delivered and they steal them right off of peoples doorsteps. We actually have some video to show you of this in action. I think we do. We do. These thieves walk up. How heartless is that stealing these gifts. Actually a case of a woman, a mom, who stitched together a bunch of tshirts of her killed in action soldier son and there she is right there. It was delivered to her, a company do it, and a heartless thief stole it right off her doorstep and police got the thief later on but there are ways to avoid this. Are these thieves cruising the neighborhood looking for they follow delivery trucks and will find a ups truck and fedex truck, any one of these run to the doorstep when the guy takes off because most people arent home during the day and know the critical hours during the day that youre probably not what do you do . Number one, manage your deliveries in most cases. What you want to do is click on delivered at a certain time and want to know when its being delivered. Track your delivery. How easy is that, they give you i like this one, too, if your employer allows it, have it delivered to work and that way you know theres somebody there, you can actually take it. And the other way do it, the best advice, set up the shipping address to your local fedex or post office and then you pick if up how you want to. If theres a business like you frequent, dry cleaners, some of them will let you if youre a good customer since someone is usually there 9 00 to 5 00 kind of hours. Third scam has to do the website youre shopping on. Make sure theyre authentic sites. There are so many fake sites out there, and when we do, the counterfeiters have figured out a way to make themselves come up high in the google search. When you type in rayban, for example, if you want sunglasses, you may get a fake website that comes to the top. We actually have a side by side to show you. Can you guys tell which one is fake and which one is real. Which one is fake . I think the one that says now open is fake. I think thats the fake one. Believe it or not, thats the real one on the right. The fake one on the left. Real quick, piece of advice, when you go to the url at top, make sure it says https, the s means secure. And dont go through google. Type in rayban. Com and go there yourself. Thanks, jeff, keeping us hot days. The holiday hassle already stressing you out . Next what will save your sanity. Thats coming up up. 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