1952. he had the third highest approval ratings in history. shortly after he took office in 1945 his approval ratings were at 87%. that is behind the bushes. george w. bush and george hw bush. thank you for watching the program. i will see you next week. hello everyone. these are the top stories this hour. snow, floods and tornados. a bizarre mix of severe weather that is affecting nearly half of the country and now it has taken a deadly turn on one of the busiest travel weekends of the year. and an american desperate to visit sudan may get out. carlos santana is reunited with

a former band member who has been homeless for years. and carlos santana will be here in the newsroom. >> first up the strange mix of dangerous weather may be hitting many americans in the south. rain is putting some roads under water. a live look in centennial park. tornados party fueled by warm temperatures damaged homes in mississippi and turned over four semi trucks. and roads are also treacherous to the north for very different reasons. an ice storm is moving through upstate new york and bringing down tree limbs and power lines.

nearly 100,000 people do not have power. the midwest is getting hit with up to a half foot of snow. you are looking at a shot of lake michigan. other warmer areas got hammered with rain and street flooding. we'll have more of that when nearly 100 million people. so we saw the morning rush plenty of people getting here and getting out early to beat the weather. now you see the midday rush. pretty busy here. standard for the airport. keep in mind what you see here, if you can pan down there. plenty more people will be joining the line here to get off

on time on their flights. what we see now is good news. the weather is cooperating here in chicago for the moment. >> traveling through chicago's o'hare airport on one of the biggest traveling weeks of the year. >> yesterday we changed to be on an earlier flight. when i saw the snow i thought good. if we get delayed we'll get there some time delay. >> rachel, john and their camera shy son didn't take chances on their way to new york. weather is top of mind as a winter storm threatens to snarl travel from the east coast to the west. >> we are thinking we are going to be okay. >> so far 15,000 flights have been delayed this weekend. more than 1,000 cancelled.

with widespread delays, major hubs from dallas to chicago are feeling the holiday ripple effect. >>nori fortunately when it come getting your christmas packages companies like fedex and ups are on the ready. executives in the shipping industry tell cnn they can route planes around the storms that they can deliver packages around the holidays. it is a different story for air travelers. >> we don't have anyone to watch our kids. if we don't show up we are just hoping that they will be okay. >> hoing that their luck holds up. >> if you think you can get to the airport within an hour before your flight. here in chicago it might be a good idea to get here two hours before your flight.

these cities that are dealing with the weather situation. in atlanta. the rain storms that are coming through, on this travel day given how many people are flying it is best to get out early. given you have so many more people. great advice. thank you so much. in chicago about 90% of people traveling for the holidays are in fact driving in the snow and ice and will make that trip to mom's house more difficult. here is nick valencia with that. >> missouri waoke up with three to five inches of snow. it is creating miserable road conditions out there. and take a look at the roads right now. not a lot of traffic out but those roads are slick.

travelers anyone getting in the car or taking the roads today to be careful out there. it has caused one weather related death. it is a microcos many across the midwest. possible tornado there. oklahoma waking up to severe weather as well. it hid it is creating problems for travel delays and anyone traveling this holiday season. the weather couldn't have come at a worst time. the first day of winter lived up to the hype. the first weekend of weekend of winter weather of the season.

no jacket short sleeves balmy indeed. bizarre experience right? can you imagine? standing outside in short sleeves on december 22nd? a lot of people at these booths behind me, they didn't know what to wear. we are seeing people strip those coats off. 70 degrees in manhattan. the high is expected to be 71 degrees. this is a record setter the last record was set in 1998 when it was 65. we are a few degrees above that. bizarre for that. tourists came to new york here they expect to see the snow in zone central park. >> that is miserable love the city all the time, you have your

layers and you are burning up. so, what a contrast we are talking about. there in manhattan it is balmy enough for you to wear sleeves. temperatures are falling and ice and snow might be on the way and am i being told that was lambeu field? >> all right go ahead. >> right. yeah, people are enjoying the elements here. saying they are getting a unique experience that they didn't plan for. they are getting their holiday shopping and buying t-shirts. but this is again a different picture from what we are seeing in the rest of the state. up north it looks like winter. crews are working on cutting

branchs on ice covered trees. the governor has issued a state of emergency from north. this winter is not going to last for long. the temperature is going in the 50s tomorrow and 30s later this week. we'll get the cold temperatures later in the week. >> don't put the jackets away. let's turn to jennifer gray who is tracking the storm or storms. we could see slow downs as we go throughout the late afternoon and evening. chicago could be delayed up to two hours. dc could see thunderstorms and showers. one to two hours there new york city because of the thunderstorms. one to two hour delay is possible. we are going to see this storm move out.

we are going to track it through atlanta and it is going to push off the east coast through monday. the forecast looks better and better by the hour. but that doesn't mean we are not going to see heavy rain still across the east coast. totals by the end of the day could be three to five inches in atlanta. and the dc could fick up a couple of inches as well. temperatures so spring like. new york city forecasted to be 58 on monday. temperatures coming down from the 60s where they were today. temperatures are going to get cooler and cooler. it will feel like the holidays on christmas day with the high of 30 degrees. forecast on monday of 60. temperatures get down to the 30s on christmas eve and christmas

day. this is for monday. snow in the pacific northwest. rain with mostly suspect skies down sunny skies down in the south. >> all right very good. thank you so much. >> a musician who played with carlos santana back in the day may have fell on hard times but the two actually found each other thanks to a reporter in oakland. there is part of the rue union. the violence is getting worse in sudan. we have more on the americans who were trapped there on the other side of the break.

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we understand from the state department that we have been evacuate i evacuating they fleed the fighting there. they make sure they can get these people out. statement issued moments ago say they have safely evacuated american citizens.

so far they have been able to get 300 americans out of the country trying to get the rest out. that has been the primary mission are you able to tell us how? they are not going to get involved militarily. president sent 45 military personnel to protect the embassy there.

u.s. secretary of state is ending donald booth. he walked back from the brinth of what he find out about the plit solution. we are live from where the president is spending christmas with his family. has the president made a statement in the situation in south sudan. >> the white house has been putting out updates letting the press know that the president is being briefed all along the national security team. as soon as he landed he was

given an update on the status of the american personnel. he was updated a short time ago saying that he was given another update today after his national security advisers and also with personnel spoke with personnel on the ground in juba. we know that the president is being kept up-to-date during the situation. we expect at some point to get another statement but not likely to see the president himself. >> tomorrow, is a big day for obama care. people who want to enroll need to pick a plan by tomorrow if they indeed want health insurance by january first. what do we know.

official in that press conference on friday, the president said as of the first three weeks of december, more than half a million people had signed up via healthcare.gov. even that was a lot faster than previous months. in october. he also said that when you put together the state marketplaces being run by the states themselves, that as of october first when all of this began more than one million people signed up. it is unwusual to get the numbes himself. he wanted to share certainly what the admin stlaistration ha see as good news. thank you so much. >> of course there have been lots of ups and downs in 2013

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responded to some direct questions. >> has this been the worst year of your presidency? >> i got to tell you that is not how i think about it. i look at this past year. there are areas where i wish congress had moved more aggressively. my polls have gone up and down a lot. >> i'm joined by my guests. good to see you. the president says it wasn't all bad. but he knows there were bis issues. you first. what do you think are the biggest lows of 2013? >> not nearly enough got accomplished. the president had a big agenda. similar to what he said. >> well, but, the frustrating

think about it was that honestly he had plenty of good things to get done. and thatmaddening to be in that position. the low point is illustrated or imsymbolized by your health care you can keep it. it is not just about mistaked. i think that line. does not only become emblemattic about obama care. you have seen the polled about this credibility statements like that. or setting false red lines. what has happened in 2013, his credibility has cratered. if there are high points, what do you see? >> he said i look at it as glass half full.

so, how is he looking at this in a more positive way? >> will knows this. you know how losing football coaches say this was a building year? >> this was a building year. it is doing better. the roll out was horrible and we have podesta in the white house and we have the filibuster in the senate and appointments can be achieved. and you know, i think that things are likely to be better next year. i cannot honestly point to you and say here were the six achievements. this was not the year for that. >> his credibility was once and asset is his biggest liability. if he has a big old to do list. how does he restore his credibility or how does he focus

on turning the page in 2014? >> well, i feel like you are asking me a political question and the answer is. it is going to be very difficult. he has lost collateral, with the american people he never had it with the republicans. he has nothing to work with. that is not just me pontificating. they have said they are going to use executive orders to push through who knows what. climate change measures. who knows where he is going to go. that is what it looks like right now. we come on these programs and we sit here left and right and here i am and there is a certain expectation. the truth is, there weren't many. you just can't put lipstick on

this past year. it is republican self wounds and he had very little to do with it. all right. what is on the agenda you see on your view for the president, 2014? >> let's hope that will is right about those executive actions. no president has had to deal with the congress as obstructive as this one has been. maybe it is just watch us get stuff done. >> i hope it didn't go that way. >> we'll have you back. thank you so much. appreciate it. happy holidays. >> you too. >> all right. a reporter didn't know what to think when a homeless man told him that he used to play with santana meaning an instrument and the band. it didn't take long to check out the story and led to a pretty

amazing reunion. you will see more of that next. and i'll talk to a former commander and ask him why they are delaying this next space walk. ♪ ♪ ♪

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astronauts spent hours working on a broken cooling pump on the space station. the second walk was scheduled for tomorrow but that is now being delayed while they make adjustments to the space suits. what should we make of the delays to this space walk? >> he is also the author of the book an astronaut's guide to ear earth. nasa says they are delaying this space walk to make adjustments to a new suit for one of the astronauts. what happened to the suit from yesterday? now what? >> the spacesuits, they are like

one person space ships. you are completely separate from the space station. it has to be as reliable as we can make it. and there are three onboard. you build them out of pieced parts. everyone's arms and legs are different lengths. you start with the core and built t build the suit. one showed a sign that it get water into the evaporator on the back. so just to be good and safe because they only probably need one more spacewalk. if things go well they will be able to get everything down priv to christmas. they want to have the two best ones. >> best is good. i think everybody agrees on that

one. yesterday we understand that the space walk that were happening, they were happening ahead of schedule. they stayed out five, six, 7, hours. might the stress of those hours outside of the space station doing that work might have impaired the suit or are you saying that this is fairly c cust customary? >> all machinery eventually breaks and the suits are very beautifully honed machines. and it would probably work fine if we went out? if we had a choice we would probably take it.

so, you weigh out all of the variables. you get a suit that is very good. just line up all the things so that we have the best chance of success. in your experience can you reflect on what has been the most sill raexhilarating part o the experience? >> nerve racking you try to minimize. but it is like a thousand dominos in a row. it is like a complex ballet and they have to do everything properly for the ballet to come off. you recognize if you have a problem early on. that could escalate the whole

rest of the eva. i was blinded during my first space walk. and fortunately we work through it and my eyes cleared and we stayed out 8 hours and that type of event could be one of the more difficult parts. the sill rating part is the one that dominates. imagine your self outside being able to see the whole world in the 8 hours that you are outside. you are going to go around the world six times. you will fly through the northern lights sometimes. so that they are pouring under your feet. it is more dangerous than staying inside. it is necessary but so beautiful and such an amazing way to see the planet. >> the premise in your book, you talk about how you prepare for

the worst and by way of doing that means you are always ready when something happens that is unexpected. >> that is what the guys are doing out there today. they are sweating the small stuff right now. >> the book called the astronaut's guide to life on earth. >> happy holidays. >> hey, here is another story for you. very up lifting. marcus malone's friends called him the magnificent. he is living on the streets now. but lucky for him, his most famous friend hasn't forgotten him. find out who that is next in the newsroom. d"

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you. >> reporter: back on december 9th, i talked to his man who was picking through trash. i asked him what were the things he found? >> one time i found an old pair of jeans and it had $800. >> reporter: i found an old pair of jeans with $800 of cash on it? >> yes, i d i was riding by one day. >> reporter: i asked him what he did with the money. >> used it to by equipment, i'm a landscaper and a composer. >> reporter: and then i asked him his name. >> my name is marcus. marcus malone. >> i was with the santana blues band and now i'm homeless and on the streets. >> reporter: i went back to visit him to bring him something before we parted ways. >> i didn't get your name. >> reporter: my name is not

important. >> to me it is. >> reporter: i brought you a friend. >> who? >> man! >> marcus the man. >> marcus the magnificent malone. >> oh man. look at you. >> marcus the magnificent malone. >> man. it is so great to see you. >> it is an honor to be in your presence man. >> you and your family were so gracious to us. >> after the show aired. carlos santana made numerous attempts looking for him. >> i went searching and found him in less than 20 minutes. >> we got to hook up. >> this is the only photo of marcus that i could find. that is him in the sombrelo.

>> that is him man, he is his spirit is indemnable. >> stanley roberts made the discovery and has brought it to us. carlos santana on the phonous. first, you stanley. how did marcus end up on the streets? what is it to that part of the story that you would like to share? >> first of all, i got to say this, the fact that carlos santana watches people behaving badly and new to go out and look for this guy blows me away. oakland has a big problem with illegal bumping and it has been going on for years. and i was asking people what was the weirdest think you have found.

when he said $800 wow that was a lot of money and then he also said he found jewelry too. >> and then you did a little digging come to find out he really is who he said he was. did he ever reveal to you or did you learn in detail what happened why did he fall off the map. what led to him living off the streets? >> he whispered to me, on the original piece i did. which in talking to me, he said i got in trouble and i ended up in jail. i said to him, you are telling me the truth, right? because i'm going to look this up. no, it is the truth and he actually worded to me, hey, if you can get me some help i would appreciate it. i said i would do the best that i can do. hey, everything he said to me jived. i went back and started doing the research.

one of the technical guys sent me information said this guy spent time in prison. i said wait a minute this might be the actual guy. >> you didn't just find him help you connected him with carlos santana. you had been looking for marcus the magnificent for a really long time. why were you looking for him and what did you understand to have happened to him all of these years? >> hi, um, well we knew he got in trouble and before we worked with him and he wound up in san quinten. we were trying to look for him because we have royalties. he co quo some of the songs in the beginning. and though have been going to his family someone in charge of the fipgs al stuff for him. the important thing i want to

say for stanley, that you are doing something from your heart and to you too cnn. in the news people are starving for good news thing that is make you cry. the prodigal son happens every day to a lot of people. and i think that if i had a chance to talk to my brother ted turner that congratulations that you created this tv station 24 hour news station but now can we create a 24 hour good news station people need to do other things. someone said one positive start creates news and positive vibrations. i want to offer him a place to stay and apartment and get him out of the street.

>> that is so sweet. and i'm sure marcus would appreciate that. and stanley you are key in helping to facilitate this. you know where marcus is and how to find him. more great news to deliver so you know, wanting to give him a place to stay. >> i just got off the phone -- >> and people are in need and it has gone viral. people are crying and they don't mind crying. in gratitude and joy the brothers can get back together. >> we have people that are getting misplaced and for me, what i would like to see before i die is a tv station 24 hours that only shows excellent and take the high road the big

picture which is compassion. >> well, carlos. your positive vibrations are being felt everywhere now and this is so beautiful it is an up lifting encouraging story. to see how genuinely happy the two of you are to see each other in this videotape that we are looking at. it is heart breaking and touching and it brings tears to everybody's eyes. so now what? you had been looking for him for years. you know he fell on the hard times as you had explained. and you are offering him a place to stay which is amazing and beautiful and brilliant. what now in terms of your relationship is it difficult to look in the crystal ball and look ahead? >> no, it is very clear. there are two things that i'm concentrating right now. miracles and blessings,

blessings and miracles. i want to offer my brother marcus malone and opportunity to record on my next album. we wrote a song for him called, "magnificent marcus malone". we are going to start next month january or february. i would like to stay in touch with him. get him some congas to get his hands hard again. he hasn't played for a while. so there is a follow through. you are a manifastator. you created this. i offer you my gratitude. what you did, it is a story of redemption like bob marley. it takes all of us together. we can make a difference in the world. less money for the pentagon and

more money for love. >> i just got off the phone with marcus minutes ago and we were both on the phone crying. because he is, he thinks this is a blessing and he wants to get back into the way things are. you are an icon of history in san francisco and in the music history. you shouldn't be living what you are living right now. this is the biggest story i have come across. it happened by happenstance. i firmly believe there is a reason for everything. i want to see marcus perform with the band again. >> we all do. >> oh he will. this is not -- i know time is valuable to all of you. it is important to invest at

this point emotionally with less fear. let's invest in love. a lot of people all over the world are connect wg the story and they in return will do something for someone near them. god bless both of you this course that you started with marcus is a on due course now to have a divine story. with elegance and grace and live a happy life. thank you so much. stanley roberts for bringing us this story and bringing these two men together. congratulations for an incredible effort and happy holidays and it is a christmas miracle and thank you so much to all three of you for inspiring

us all appreciate it. >> i have to say if it wasn't for a crime to create the ability to create this segment. had i not talked to him, this wouldn't be where it is today. the beauty of never make ago sup supgss. >> thank you to all of you. we'll have more right after this.

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the bible contains ancient and dramatic stories. adam and eve and noah escaping the great flood.

tonight christiana investigates evidence of noah's flood as well. >> he believes about 12,000 years ago much of the earth was covered in ice that began to melt. the oceans began to swell causing a series of devastating floods all over the world. he thinks there was and testing a controversial theory that the flood happened here. >> why the black seat? >> the black seat appears to have had a sigiant flood. a really big flood and people

were living there. >> the theory goes this was once and isolated fresh water lake. but then the mediterranean swell, at some magic moment, it broke through and flooded this place violently. 400 feet below the surface he pla believes he has found proof of the catastrophic event. >> they unearthed an ancient shore line. >> that is the time the bible says noah and the great flood happened. >> nailed it.

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