breaking overnight, battling flames in boston, live on the scene with the latest. a tam re-- family reunited, two small children safe with their father, their mother heading to court. and a crane collapses, the overnight crew to clean up the mess. and new hampshire schools are open after a threat forced them to close their doors, new security now in place. >> from the channel 4 studios in boston, this is wbz "this morning" . . >> it is 6:00 a.m., good morning, great to have you with us, i'm kathryn hauser. >> and i'm chris mckinnon, tuesday december 22, let's get over to danielle and danielle, we've got some rain to talk about today.

some spots, not for everybody but areas of rain moving in absolutely, currently 49 degrees in the city of boston, 52 in the last hour, humidity is up just a little bit, seven miles an hour, lower 50s from taunton to 54 right now, nashua sitting at 39, amtraking drk i am tracking areas of rain, around the way to chat happy, dealing with rain, route 6, shutesbury to pelham, all this is moving from west to east, light right now but notice over the next couple hours this band of rain will shift north, get a little lull in the action then rain fulls back in around lunch time today, that's why i say have the umbrella with you, still areas of showers light to

and then tapering off during the evening hours with partial clearing after that. temperatures in the 50s too right on through the afternoon, gusty southwest wind by later on today, another round of rain tomorrow coming up, talk about that, first weather and traffic together. west of boston, few slowdown out there and a typical spot, for this time of morning also a live look at the pike right now building and the expressway, rather, that traffic down there is building as usual as you're heading up in to boston. well, breaking news overnight, crews battling a big al-- alston brighton area. >> you can smell the smoke throughout the area, let's get to nicole jacobs live on the scene, nicole some questions this morning with the investigation. >> reporter: a few questions, they're still looking in to the cause, but i can tell you right here at the corner of western ave and leo birmingham parkway, crews remain on that leo birmingham parkway section of

i can tell you the building is vacant. and it was vacant of course at the time of this fire, so good news, no one was inside, i do want to get you to some video of overnight, those flames really piercing from the top of the roof, i can tell you firefighters were in, to release some of the fire and the smoke, what we know right now, this building has been vacant for about 15 or 20 years we're told, it's currently a dcr building, they did have to do a thorough search inside to make sure no one was there, we're told at one point there were living quarters, right now fire crews says it was a labor intensive process because of all the ladder work that had to be done to relieve the fire and smoke but the department -- deputy chief says they're looking in say.

occupied, we look at fires that start electrical, in the heating system, some sort of accident, lz no indication that that would've happened, so we don't know at this time. >> reporter: they're taking another live look here at leo birmingham parkway, this building right at the corner here as you heard the fire chief say, there's still a question as to what exactly started this fire, whether or not it was suspicious, that's something they're still looking in to and we'll bring you that information just as soon as we learn it, live in brighton, thobs, wbz "this morning ".. >> nicole, thank you very much. 6:04, a father reunited with his two young children after a frantic day long search. their mother is in police custody right thousand face -- right now facing kidnapping charges, susie steimle live in lakeville, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, catholic -- kathryn, it was

custody of her kids but she's allowed visitation, she picked them up sunday and never brought them home. >> excited about going home and i am too. >> reporter: a sigh of relief prosecute a father whose world was turned upside down sunday afternoon. >> feel like i got 1,000 pound just lifted off my shoulder. >> reporter: steve carrigan says he allowed his ex girlfriend valerie mcgrath to visit with their son and daughter sunday. but when she didn't return the kids on the agreed upon time, he alerted police. that triggered a 24 hour search and her arrest. mcgrath took off with the kids and rented a car in fall river. carrigan noticed the ending with the kids safe and happy is the best he could've hoped for. >> i'm very glad it wasn't another state, far away or anything like that, just so glad it's just, you know, down the street and now we can just go home and enjoy the rest of the night. >> reporter: now he'll head home and answer questions over

consequences in court. >> i was just afraid she was going to take off shw -- somewhere and not bring them back and who knows. >> reporter: mcgrath was held here on $10,000 cash bail, she's due in wareham district court facing kidnapping charges today. live in lakeville, susie steimle, wbz "this morning". 6:06 right now, crews are working through the night to upright a crane toppled on a home, trying to remove a tree when the crane fell and slice tlud the roof and second floor of the home on lisa ave, investigators still trying to figure out exactly what went wrong. extra patrol in schools in nashua, new hampshire after an online threat against two high schools there all nashua schools were closed yesterday at an abundance of caution, police checked all the buildings by late afternoon they gave the all

current threat. >> this cancellation has given law enforcement the extra time to conduct extensive safety checks of all of nashua schools, and determine that no threats or devices of any kind were found. >> in addition to extra police, counselors will be available at the school for any students who feel anxious about what happened. a new york city police detective is one of six u.s. service members killed in afghanistan. joseph lemm was a 15 year veteran of the nypd, he served in the national $15 year veteran of the nypd, he served in the national guard as well, he leave behind a wife and two children, a suicide bomber drove a motor bike up to it a patrol unit outside the bagram air base and detonated an ied, taliban now claiming responsibility on twitter. a woman who drove her car through a crowd of people on the las vegas strip charges with murder, killing one person and injured dozens more, police say she'd been living in her car with her 3-year-old daughter also in the vehicle at the time

it on purpose. >> she did not demonstrate signs of being under the influence of alcohol, but, we had drug recognition expert respond to the scene, and determine that he believed she to be under some sort of stimulant . >> she had both hands on the wheel, looking straight forward. >> terrorism can't be ruled out just yet, she told a valet to call 911, investigator are morning. the friend who bought weapons for the san bernardino shooters being held without bail this morning, enrique marquez faced a judge yesterday, he's charged with conspiring to provide materials to support terrorism, investigators say marquez gave two semiautomatic rifles to the shooters who opened fire on an office holiday party killing 14 people. today the man accused of loaning a gun to tsarnaev expected to be sentences,

tsarnaev because tsarnaev said he wanted to rob university of rhode island students, police say the -- tsarnaev brothers used that gun to kill officer collier. infant twins home with their mother when flames broke out, medford crews working another fire in town so when police arrived officer paul giordano ran in to see who was nd -- inside and grabbed the 5-month-old. >> ran up the second floor, the female was up there holding infants, black smoke in the hallway and stairway, just said hand me the infants, hand me the infants. >> the babies were treated on the scene, doing just fine, police say they're just glad they were there to help. officials say the fire started in the basement, they're not sure what sparked it. glad they're okay. >> and sometimes we forget just how much our first responders

the children's names most likely to end up on the naughty plus, the gifts you don't surprising reason why. affect your children. and the new apology after a big mix up at the miss universe pageant, good morning, danielle. >> good morning, kathryn, good morning everyone, a lot of clouds around, couple showers out there too, launch in boston by the time we get to 8:00 a.m., maybe just before that, temperatures in the 50s, the mild weather continues, let you around, live look at boston common, some of the lights and decorations out there, stay with

. a battle of ski seasons, it's been warm. >> but noshopa valley fired up the slopes, this time of doing it. >> when you're talking about temperatures! >> i don't know. >> hitting the mid 60s doesn't last that long. >> yeah, but along with noshopa

>> skiers probably, just hurting this season. >> snow lovers too, you know, but we can turn it around, january and february, get colder air in here. >> optimistic, so cute. >> staying positive. melting away in the 50s this morning, so, i mean, it's impressive, the warmth is really, all across southern new england right now, 50 degrees in boston, showers end of school, areas of rain the umbrella necessary for the kids at the bus stop this morning, now it is cooler north and west of town, 49 logan airport, 52 taunton, upper 30s nashua, 36 keene and colder to our north, live doppler shows a couple showers around right now we're going to see an increase in the coverage but really all the way from the cape cod, stretching east over cape cod, back over towards eastham, wetting route 6 and then to worcester county west of that, downpours filling to the west 91 in the lower connecticut

back over towards the south side of barry, these are all moving from west to east, going to get in to some of this over the next few hours and then pockets of rain are likely, at times during the day today. notice that rain kind of filling in here across northern connecticut, so all of this moisture is going to kind of move in this direction, lift north ward and there's more wet weather back to our south and west. so hour by hour, between now and mid to late morning, that rain shifts north, by 9:30 coming from the merrimack valley, southern new hampshire, quarters lifting in, additional rain mid morning to the north day, shower soggy in some spots, moderate and downpours your evening commute, the roads will still be wet, although the rain will be tapering off to leftover showers, wrapping up west to east during the evening drive and then actually partial clearing can comes in temporarily, this evening, tomorrow night the clouds back in but a dry start, no issues for your morning commute,

the day though, next round of rain moves in tomorrow afternoon, falls steadily and at times heavily, late afternoon thu the evening commute, maybe a bit of snow and tough go tomorrow evening and then just some leftover showers on christmas eve, then we won't be a washout, late day breaks of sunshine possible and that record warmth could be humid too on christmas eve as well. middle to upper 50s and today, a gradual rise in temperatures tonight, not all that cold, right around 40 in some of the coolest suburbs, 46 downtown, 50s will do it again tomorrow, another well above average day on our way to a record warm december, 68 record warmth on christmas eve, still around christmas eve and christmas day, a little unsettled, pockets of shower this evening, don't forget, your prediction for our snowfall contest, season passes

to submit your guess on cbsboston.com. traffic and weather together, chris? thank you very much, danielle, rather listen to the christmas carols than talk about the bad traffic out there, a live look at the expressway, see the brake lights heading up in to the city of boston, it is not that good out there, we're hoping for a lighter commute this week, but look like people are still working. all right, give yourself extra time out there. on the health watch this morning, the night shift could be putting workers at risk on the road a study from brighamon women's hospital shows that those who stay up late to get behind the wheel, workers skip driving and use another mode of driving is suggested. 6:17 right now, a major data breach exposed nearly 3 million people and all hello kitty users, the breach occurred at the sanriotown.com the online community for hello kitty users,

hundreds of local firefighters say they're losing their hearing because the sirens firefighters joining thousands across the country, they're filing a lawsuit against federal signal, the maker of those sirens, they say the volume and pitch are unreasonably dangerous and the company could've designed siren directing noise away from firefighters. >> it's up to the companies that manufactures the sirens to work on it. they are tremendously loud. >> the company is defending their sirens saying in a statement the claims don't make sense and restricting the full sound range of sirens increases the risk of accidents by reducing the warning sound to the sides of fire trucks, this reduction puts firefighters and the public at risk. this is a big story yesterday, organizers of the miss universe pageant are apologizing for this embarrassing mistake we told you about it, host steve harvey announced miss columbia the

miss philippines, a big mix up, harvey called it a human error social media. this was all over the place, my facebook feed, everybody was right. this morning the children's names most likely to end up on the naughty list. >> first the top three girls' names on the naughty list are: leah, eleanor, and jasmine. >> and for boys: joseph, james, and joshua. who's on the nice list? >> anna, courtney, mille. >> for the boys, harry, ryan, and ethan. >> i thought you were going to put in chris! my boy's name. >> but the list put together by schoolstickers.com. >> you notice all the boy's

>> i don't know, something going on. >> you're split though. >> ethan's on the nice list, pretty good about that. moving on. coming up, the pats pick up a key player to the drive to playoffs. plus, how football is helping to train military recruits over seas.

welcome back, 6:23 right now, football becoming a rain -- training tool for israelis entering the military, robert kraft who has supported the endeavor. israeli coaches say the grid iron serves as a training ground

>> interesting, he's made a couple trips to israel. meanwhile, the pats making a offense. plus, kg returns to the garden, steve burton has more in your morning sports. >> reporter: well, good morning, everyone, guess who was in town last night? kevin garnett, perhaps making his final appearance in boston, but he didn't play because he played on sunday is and he has a rule, he doesn't play the second rule in back to back nights. celtics fans did get a special moment at the end, kg got an a little emotional, fans were chanting his name all night long, jonathan also out with injuries but the green didn't figures, had a high 19 points. [ cheers and applause ] won it 113-99, a skid, enjoying some gino time, crowd lost their mind. >> appreciate that, not only the

northeast, it gives me the love is unconditional, and i'm very appreciative of that. i definitely heard all the chants. >> what did boston mean to you? >> everything, it meant everything, i love to say that minnesota made me the man i grew up when i came to boston, learned a lot, coming from the minnesota situation and i applauded my boston situation, i got all the great memories there. to the patriots! former rams and running back stephen jackson for the rest of the team, lewis out for the year, toefr 11,000 yards season. and retiring wade boggs number 26 on may 26 next season, winning five battle titles and was an eight time all-star, holt has been wearing 26 now search -- switching to the previous number, 12. and blues at the garden, that's over to you. 6:25, president obama is out

yesterday he hit the links in hawaii where he and the first family are spending christmas, last year the president managed to fit in nine rounds of golf while on vacation. not bad. well, soon the president will ride with jerry seinfeld, he'll be the first elected official to appear on seinfeld's popular web series, the two will ride in a 1963 corvette picked by the president and have coffee at the white house, the new season premieres december 30. very cool, lots more coming up in our next half hour, how a cartoon pand pan did -- panda is landing a local man in trouble. plus a special brewing for police. this is jon keller, i tried my best to get a rise out of governor charlie baker last night and didn't get far. how that helps explain his sky high poll numbers.

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work, would you take it? it's our daily talker. >> from the channel 4 studios in boston, this is wbz "this morning". good morning, 6:30, i'm chris mckinnon. >> and i'm kathryn hauser, great to have you with us, december 22, counting down to christmas, not a lot of time. >> heavenly, so warm. >> seasonably challenged, right? what's going on, too warm. >> i feel like we have, i got to put up one of those pulls out on twitter and say, do we want temperatures near 70 or would we rather, a foot of snow or something like that, i'm wondering, interested. >> we like when it's cloudy on christmas day, because even though it's warm, it feels christmassy. >> cloudy, you can kind of trick your mind if you're nd to thinking yeah, it's a little bit like winter out there, right? look at the holiday decorations here, beautiful shot over the boston common here and we're

are running near 50 degrees right now in boston, we're own 10 degrees above where we should be in the afternoon, it is a warm start to the day, 52 taunton, 50 chatham, 39 nashua, 36 keene, live doppler shows a little bit of rain that's been filling in now across the route 91 corridor here, lower connecticut river valley, couple sprinkles right on the north side of eastham and well fleet well along route six that's where you'll need the wipers, most of us are dry, couple showers filled in brook field stretching back down at least to near the quaba, over the next few hours, ha band of rain lift north ward and fill in a little bit, 8:00, 8:30, metro west, new hampshire western corridor, a lot of us dry in hachz -- massachusetts, another batch, and light to mod rap -- moderate

during the evening commute, another round on the way tomorrow, we'll talk about that but first, traffic and weather together, kathryn? you can see volume is building on the bridge, traffic is heavy on 93 south and the leverett connector as well, take your time, thought a lot of people would be off this week but apparently heading to work. crews battling a big fire in boston, this one in the al-- alston brighton area, you can smell the smoke throughout the neighborhood this morning, let's get right to nicole jacobs on this scene for us this morning, hi, nicole. >> reporter: hi there, chris, the good news traffic is flowing again at the intersection of western and leo birmingham parkway there's a state trooper that remain on the scene, all the fire crews have cleared but i want to get you to video around 3:00 this morning, the deputy chief says is they first received that call of heavy

building, we know it was a vacant building, this been vacant for about 15, 20 years, currently a dcr building that had living quarters at one point, a thorough search to ensure no one was inside and that did prove to be the case, we are told there were no injuries to firefighters in this situation, certainly good news there. i can tell you that the fire chief says they don't believe this fire started inside the building, fact they say it started outside which does lend them some suspicion, it gives them an idea that perhaps it was intentionally set but certainly that is something still under investigation, a very labor intensive process here this morning, as they had to release the ceiling to release all of that fire and smoke that was trapped inside of the building, but again, back here live, the scene is clear, traffic is flowing again, but certainly, the cause of the fire remains under investigation. that's the very latest from brighton this morning, nicole

nicole thank you very much. 6:33 right thousand, a mother in court today accused of kidnapping her own children and sparking a frantic search, susie steimle is live with the latest, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, kathryn we know that mother was valerie mcgrath who was held here at the lakeville police department, her two children accused of kidnapping were found safe, a 5-year-old boy and 7-year-old girl now at home with their father unharmed after that lengthy and extensive search. she is due in court later today and mcgrath does not have custody of her two kids, but is allowed visitation and that's what happened sunday when she picked up the kids for a couple of hours, but never returned them prompting a 24-hour search, certainly scaring the father especially after she reportedly rented a car in fall river. >> i'm very glad that it wasn't, you know, another state or, you that.

know, down the street and, now we can just go home and enjoy the rest of the night. >> reporter: mcgrath was held on $10,000 cash bail, she is due in wareham district court facing kidnapping charges, later today. live in lakeville, susie steimle, wbz "this morning ". >> susie, thank you very much. governor charlie baker is nearing td -- the end of his first year in office and his numbers suggest voters like what they see so far. >> jon keller sat down with the governor for a one-on-one interview for the secret to his success. >> reporter: you have the highest approval rating, why? >> we tried to live up to some of the key commitments we made to people when we ran and the biggest one we were going to work across party line and just focus on getting stuff done. >> reporter: that's baker's story and he's sticking to it, even in the face of a persisted effort to take on a man he

would you vote for him if it comes to that? >> we certainly have a long way to go. >> reporter: i know you don't want to answer this question, but wouldn't real leadership be in, taking a position? >> i think we have a long way to go, jon. >> reporter: you think he's going to fold? >> i think there's no way to tell, i think people who predict this sort of thing are often surprised. >> reporter: if he's a nominee, you'll consider voting for him, that's what you're leading me to under. >> there's a lot of room, time, plenty of opportunity for thoem -- them to make their case. >> reporter: do you feel it's a risky for the party? >> we have a lot of time. let me say there's a bunch of things i find ridiculous and i'll continue to say that. >> reporter: what are you afraid of? >> not of anything. most voters in massachusetts don't want me to participate in presidential politics at all, that's not why they voted for me, that's not why they elected for me. >> reporter: baker will be judged on how well he cleans up

sky high ratings surely can't last. but for now, he's giving a clinic on how calmness, focus, and refusal to give and take the bait that passes for discourse in our politics these days can make you a very popular guy with voters who surprise, surprise works. hey, your comments are welcome, reach me at keller@wbz.com or via twitter at @kelleratlarge. well, sticking with campaign 2016, lindsey graham is out, ending his campaign yesterday, wouldn't say who he would support but questioned were front runner donald trump could defeat hillary clinton. and it looks like another clinton on the campaign trail next fall, chelsea clinton and her husband announced they're expecting their second child next summer in a tweet hillary clinton said she's excite to do meet her. your tuesday morning, a randolph man who said he created the characters of kung fu panda

prosecutors say he made the whole thing up, they say jamie gordon produced this sketch which he says dreamworks stole to create kung fu panda but they say now it's something he traced out a lion king yolor -- coloring book, dreamworks spent $3 million defending. savannah's ninth birthday was last month but instead of getting gifts she asked her family if she could give the gifts they would've given to her to toys for tots, she's going to do it next year too, she says, use it for people who could use help. amazing at 9 years old she can do that. we can learn something from her, i love that. a special thank you, how one woman is honoring hole police.

also ahead, taking fear to new heights, visitors at one park get stuck. good morning danielle. good morning, kathryn, thankful for your reports every morning on the mild side, depend on where you are, 51 degrees plymouth a lot of spots on the 40s, belmont, new hampshire, 35 degrees in the 50s that afternoon but it does come with rain and another round for tomorrow, break it all down, hour by hour together when we

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boston police are thanking a jamaica plain woman for her thoughtful act, an officer moved construction cones, she asked if she could get him a coffee, he declined and he drove off. >> about two hours later, the man was leaving and the woman handed a dink -- dunkin' donuts gift card, thank you for protecting the city, they were touched by it ask thank you for thinking of us, it means more than you know. >> simple things, simple gesture, can go a long way. nice thing to do. >> yes, it is. >> and free coffee, there you

no complaining, we love coffee around here. we need to get a check of your forecast. and i see you've got the lovely bright christmas lights, danielle! >> getting a little, it doesn't look like this, no snow out there but a full moon this year is what we're talking about for santa going to help guide the sleigh this year, along with rudolph, a full cold moon coming up on christmas morning, at 6:11 a.m., pretty rare, last time happened in 1977, the next time won't be until 2034 on christmas. latest .10 of an inch of snow in logan boston, latest for worcester, december 24, so christmas eve back in 1923, we are going to break that record as well for the latest snow fall .10 of an inch, no snow because

our way to it a record warm month in december, worcester, 36 keene, 49 boston, 50s right now from taunton back down to the cape but it does come with moisture, areas of shower filling in, steadier downpours right along route 91, crossing through the lower connecticut river valley, zoom in a little bit, couple light showers, need the wipers from plymouth stretching back down along route 3 in to sandwich, bourne, to the southeast, showers generally light here, south of the mass turnpike now grafton, sutton, oxford in to some it, oxbridge you'll get in to it as well, maybe want to have the umbrella because additional showers will fill in along with steadier rain to our west, all working in our direction and that's just rund one -- round one, another round on the way for tomorrow, mid to late morning, one band north, rest of us spotty shower or two,

and that will continue at times light to moderate right on through the early evening, wrapping up from west to east during the evening drive, so there will still be wet roads, pockets of rain on the cape, then partial clearing comes in later on this evening, overnight tonight, tomorrow morning, dry start, no issues for your morning commute but rain fills back in tomorrow afternoon and the evening commute will be the roughest go tomorrow to areas of moderate to heavy rain for the evening drive, could be some ponding of water on the roads, that will taper off around midnight tomorrow night, just a few leftover showers on christmas eve morning to midday, some may actually break out by late mt day christmas eve and it's going to be a little bit humid, breezy and mild, warm i shouldn't even say mild, mid to upper 60s on christmas eve day. so, a lot of us in the 50s along the south coast, going to slowly rise through the day, upper middle to 50s, partly cloudy

30s and the coolest suburbs, that is it. dry morning tomorrow and the next round of rain moves in high temperatures once again in the 50s and jump in to that warmer air, 68 record warmth on thursday, still around 60 for christmas it itself, and cooler this weekend, but unsettled too, a front nearby and that may help to focus areas on showers saturday and sunday, don't forget to submit your prediction for our snowfall contest, haven't seen any, but how much will we see at logan airport? closest guess will get you snow passes for the season, submit it on cbsboston.com. the expressway, the cars heading toward you on boston, you can see there's a decent amount of volume out there, heavy traffic heading in to the city, pack your patience dare we say, kind of a rough go on the roads this morning. following breaking news this

6:46 a boston building badly damaged by an overnight fire. >> right now, fire crews still on the scene at a vacant building on western, you can smell the fire from blocks away, the flames started around 3:00 this morning, crews had to cut holes in the roof to get to the fire, luckily no one hurt. a mother set to appear in court today accused of kidnapping her two young children, valerie mcgrath arrested in raynham last night, accused of taking her two young children and not returning them to their father, the kids are okay and reunited last night. overnight cranes helped right another crane that lapse -- collapsed on to a house in plymouth, that fell right on the roof, went through it and the second floor of the home on lisa avenue, still trying to figure out what went wrong. schools back open in nashua but with an extra police presence a threat forced

schools yesterday, officials now say there's no longer a specific threat. there are more health troubles for chipotle, people in three more states have gotten sick from eating there and a new outbreak of e. coli is suspected. the new vps -- victims are from kansas, north dakota, and oklahoma. but it's not clear if the case is link to the e. coli case in other states, the cdc investigating locally dozens of people were infected by the norovirus after eating at the cleveland circle location, those cases not linked to the other outbreaks. dozens of people trapped high in the sky, see -- seaworld, sky tower trapping them at 400 feet, the tallest observation tower in florida, crews eventually manage to do bring the cabin down, no one wrong. a historic rocket landing in

rocket soared in to space and for the first time ever landed vertically a similar event in june failed when the rocket exploded. while landing. 6:48 is the time, coming up the gifts you don't want to give this year. why. plus, facebook wants its employees to move closer to it?

it is time for our daily talker, would you consider moving closer to work if your employer paid you more? >> hmm, okay, that's what facebook workers are now considering the social networking site is offering thousands of dhars for -- dollar for employee to move within 10 miles of the california campus, anywhere between 10 and $15,000 to relocate, but facebook says that number is confidential. critics say the move could squeeze out low income residents in the area but one economist says this could actually be a good thing. >> facebook's offer combined with their offer for menlo park to build more housing and for them to support low income housing is a good thing, it's a package. >> so the question, we are posing this morning, would you take facebook's offer? what incentives would get you closer to work? david on facebook writes if they are paying for the move, why not? think of the time you can save. marie had this to say, i think it is a thoughtful and generous

commute is from the second floor to the first noor -- floor no stress here and no snow days either, comment on our daily talker on cbsboston.com, facebook site. >> talk about the talker. stairs, right? 6:53, christmas almost here and chances are you may not like everything you get. >> true, in fact, a new report finds shoppers return approximately $70 billion worth of purchases, or gifts during the holiday season, that's more than 10% of total retail revenue expected for 2015. among the most returned gifts, overly fancy jewelry, i'm like hey, bring it on. olive oil, and antiaging products. i could see that being a little offensive like, somebody gives you that, wait a minute, i thought i was okay. >> i didn't think of it that way!

>> no, random. >> olive oil, i didn't know that was a big popular gift to give in the first place. >> yeah, it is. >> the fancy kind, yeah. 6:53 right now, time for a closer look what's coming up on 7:00 on cbs this morning. >> nora o'donnell. >> good morning, chris and kathryn we're in northern california tracking the heavy rain and snow that could impact nearly 25 million people. and only on cbs this morning, we'll take you inside the amazon fulfillment center where the company says it can now deliver the christmas present than hour -- in an hour, the news is back

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under the sea! under the sea! darling it's better, down where it's wetter! >> santa rofing -- proving he'll go anywhere to deliver christmas gifts. >> this time trading in the rain gear for slippers, catching a ride on a dolphin or two, santa was spotted scuba diving in romania after he visited with military families, handing out gifts, sang songs and even red -- read some poems. >> case of the wet beard. >> i know. >> that's awesome though.

absolutely. maybe the lighter jacket as he's coming around new england this year, you know, not the heavy coat, mrs. claus if you're listening, we're talking about record warmth before that rain, another round comes around tomorrow, mainly dry, just a few leftover showers, christmas eve, 60 on christmas day and then cooler and unsettled for the upcoming weekend. >> not bad, thank you very much, danielle, cbs this morning is next on wbz, we'll see you here