from luke burbank we have a postcard from leavenworth. washington state which echoes the sights and spirit of bavaria. conor knighton introduces us to carolers lifting their voices to the heights while deep underground in a kentucky cave. plus, a story from steve hartman. humor from jim gaffigan. commentary from father james martin, and more on this "sunday morning" for christmas eve, december 24th, 2023. we'll be back after this. ♪ will >>> once upon a time, three wise men looked to the heavens and saw a guiding star. millennia have passed. but as david pogue will show us, we are still looking skyward, aided by a wondrous tool. ♪ >> reporter: the story of christmas features a miraculous astronomical sight. >> yes, it was the star of bethlehem which shown so brightly. >> reporter: but this christmas we are blessed with an abundance of new visions from the skies. jupiter and its rings, 385 million miles away. the carina nebula, 7,500 light years away. the phantom galaxy, 32 million light years away. and the deepest regions of space, 13 bil

so much more to do in leavenworth. the world's largest collection of nutcrackers is there.can't make it by monday, all those christmas lights stay up through the end of february, you guys. >> gio: you were telling us to wait for the reindeer/beyonce crossover pun. you delivered, my friend. >> in the middle of the diagram of my life, beyonce and the reindeer meet in the middle. >> gio: they all sleigh. >> they all sleigh. >> gio: we'll be right back with our "play of the day." ♪ merry christmas! ♪ rich chocolate layers sprinkled with festive peppermint. with love from san francisco. ghirardelli peppermint bark squares. makes the holidays a bite better. the countdown is on! marshalls buyers hustle until the last minute, so there's always incredible new gifts in-store. we get the deals. you gift the good stuff. ♪ i'mma give you what you want ♪ i've always been prone to hair thinning. i was getting older. i was under a lot of stress. i started taking nutrafol. nutrafol is the number one, dermatologist recommended hair growth supplement. i am back to me. start your hair growth j

responded without delay to 421 leavenworth street, is 6 story supported housing home. at the time the building housed 47 units occupied by over 60 residents. the fire is believed to have started in a unit on the 4th floor where it spread quickly to the 5 and 6 floors driving the resident to flee towards the fire escapes on the building exterior. once there however, the residents found themselves trapped as a system of ladders leading to the sidewalk below were in inoperable. those who could flee the building fled, spilling on the sidewalk below. smoke billowed from the roof. it was ciotic scene as they arrived. officers adviceed dispatch of the fire calling units to the area knowing full well the life threatening danger of entering the building officers immediately went into aid in the evacuation. the air instd the building was thick with heavy smoke and sound of the fire alarm deafening. ash flooded the stair way and light wells pushing up to the third floor where embers were visible in the-air. the officers pounding on doors to evacuate those that had not done so the

there is the iary of leavenworth. see the tents are back lining the streets, it all comes as the city is tauting its progress on homeless. today, last fiscal year they were able to get 2100 people off of the streets and into housing. a 70% increase from before. >> all right, here is something you should keep in mind this holiday shopping season. >>> counterfeit goods are flooding the marketplace. they are getting hard to spot. now, recent survey found 7 out of 10 consumers were deceived into buying a counterfeit item once in the last year. and it is something that could put you and your loved ones at risk. in fact, here in the u.s. people are buying an estimated $2 trillion worth of counterfeit products each year. now, buying counterfeit items could be dangerous for consumers unaware of what they are buying. take electrics for example. earlier this year. two siblings were killed after a fire in queens, new york. the fire department said they found a burned scooter and charger in the home with a fake safety certificati

so this is leavenworth, washington.e, but they're in for more in the northwest. look at these rounds of storms battering the west coast. this is the upcoming week, so this is prompting a ton of watches, warnings, alerts. we have winter weather advisories in parts of nevada. flood watches up to seattle, right? we have winter storm warnings through idaho down towards santa fe. high wind alerts. a lot going on with this storm system, so we could see anywhere from a half a foot to a foot of snow, but also along the coastline, 5 to 15 i and >> somara: and that's your local forecast. now, whit, i said leavenworth, washington. did i get that right? i know you started near yakima. right? >> whit: yakima. i believe that's correct. [ laughter ] >> somara: our resident fact checker. >> whit: going back to my yakima geography. >> erielle: whit is getting a little red. >>> coming up on "good morning america," the alleged murder plot in paradise, the georgia mom in court in the bahamas accused of trying to get her husband killed. yin

this is video of leavenworth near ellis during apec. it looked awesome. no tents, and the streets were clean. many streets were actually sprayed down regularly right during the conference to make things clean. here's a look at that same walk today from our nbc crews. the tents have returned. in some places the sidewalk is nearly impassable. city crews acknowledge the influx of more than 1,000 officers and federal agents for apec helped in the cleanup. now that those officers and resources are gone, the tents have returned to the tenderloin and other spots in the city. >> i have seen the street teams out here, and the city is definitely putting forth a great effort. but the reality is that a lot of people do not accept resources, and they don't accept shelter, and that's frustrating, i think, for everyone involved. >> it is frustrating. joining us now is nbc's sergio quintana. you talked to the head of the street team in the tenderloin, i believe. this is tough because with the money and the resources, the streets are clean. whether that gets pulled, it ge

francisco police officer when he sees his camera gear arrive at this location in the 300 block of leavenworthe goes, oh yeah, that's a known major fencing operation. >> everybody in the bay area knows that they can bring their stolen goods and offload them there. so mark rober rigged a laptop with a tracking device. >> we took an actual gaming laptop, removed the extra fan and in its place added a gps tracker that would continuously stay charged by using the laptop battery that way, we'd always know where it was, even if they wiped the hard drive. >> he got it stolen and tracked it to the same location. >> that was bonkers to me. like you publicly outed this as a fencing operation a month and a half ago, and it's still being used as a fencing operation. >> our work has given me many other leads to follow. oh, by the way, you have to see the car that mark rigged with bulletproof glass, just as a way to mess with the criminals. as i said, very entertaining, but some valuable information, dan. >> and yeah, it's a win win. and i have to say, very satisfying to see the thieves get theirs a little

just that this one, over the weekend, was cold enough to produce snow in a winter wonderland of leavenworthell. take look at those beautiful christmas lights, absolutely fantastic. of course, that snow trickles down the entire spine of the rockies. and throughout the entire event, we saw impressive snowfall amounts as far as colorado, phenomenal, along the continental divide, 40-plus inches within the past couple of days. this is the first storm system. here's the pacific northwest. here's california and washington. that's the secondary storm system. it's important to note where it's originating from. as it lines up on the pacific northwest, it's got moisture feed all the way from hawaii. this is going to be a significantly warmer system and i'll show you the impacts on that. we do follow the severity of this, this is a level 4 of 5. you can see it's relatively pointed at the coastline of oregon. that's where they'll feel the brunt of the next system. but the whole pacific northwest will feel heavy rain and extreme rainfall. and the majority will see that in terms of altitude. look at the d

i was scared to death of spending a long time in fort leavenworth. and it was literally years before i would discuss what i did. and i would like to know, who is doing the clearance now? the fbi interview people at my home. and even back then if you had been a member of some obscure group that may have had connections with the communist party, that could keep you from getting a clearance. host: all right, tim. guest: tim is putting his finger on the problem here, which is that the air force spoke to this. they investigated these leaks and what happened. what they found was confusion even among the people who had security clearances about what they were and were not allowed to look at. it is not clear if this is an isolated incident, but i have to think that particularly as hundreds of thousands of people have been given clearances, some of them are looking at having a clearance as some all access pass to look at intelligence. that is not what it is. a clearance-holder still has to have a reason to look at information. as tim put it, having that fear

we are live in leavenworth, washington. this tinseltown takes christmas to a whole new level.ting with the holiday rush, as travel could reach record level especially in the air. let's go back to our transportation correspondent. good morning, gio. >> reporter: michael, good morning. it is officially the start of that very busy holiday travel period. perhaps even the busiest ever. we've been seeing so many people at newark. let's look at the numbers now. the tsa said it expects to screen 2.5 million passengers a day between now and christmas. we've been talking about this week being busy. but just how busy? the faa says more than 47,000 planes will be in the air today nearly 49,000 planes tomorrow. in fact, tomorrow will be the busiest holiday travel day. on the roads expect lots of traffic, too, with 104 million people driving to those holiday destinations. if you want to avoid the traffic try your best to get on the road early in the morning or late at night. otherwise be prepared for that stand still traffic. back here at the airport, the good news is i'm not seeing a lot o

police, the man and a woman started arguing around 04:30am, in the morning on eddy street between leavenworth and jones streets. that is in the tenderloin. she was taken to the hospital and is expected to survive. officers tried to make contact with that man, but they say that he barricaded himself inside of his home until 11, 30 this morning. police were then able to resolve the standoff just after noon. no word on any arrests. and our coverage of the hit and run crash that killed a 13 year-old and a 12 year-old in any act will continue. now. we first heard from the mom of the 13 year-old earlier this week and now the mother of that 12 year-old is talking to kron 4 about that deadly crash. she spoke with kron four's dan thorn about what happened. >> the horrific hit-and-run in antioch leaves a mother mourning what could have been 13 year-old our wrapped and his brother. i'm a j were killed last friday when an suv slammed into their deaths he was worried about was playing video games being around family with lot of those. >> a great visual. malaysia duvall says her son and stepson were in the

>>'asking people to avoid the area of eddy street between leavenworth street and joan street because of police activity. people are being asked to find another route through that area around that area. we have reached out to the police department for more information. we'll keep you updated as soon as we get some updates into the kron. 4 newsroom. strong and dangerous ways of the coasts leaving behind a mess and several communities up and down the bay area. this is video from stinson beach and you can see just how close the waves got to the homes. this was yesterday where the tide was high. huge waves causing do out, causing flooding in that area. a coastal flood advisory is now in effect through this afternoon. kron four's sara stinson has the story. >> waves crashed over berms rushing onto streets and into some homes in stinson beach thursday morning. this due to high tides and serve stand on this deck by me and watch it. this long open air about 10 and then it just shoots down the road. and you wonder, you know what's going to happen? but stinson beach fire issued an evacuation or

francisco police officer when he sees his camera gear arrive at this location in the 300 block of leavenworthand he goes, oh yeah, that's a known major fencing operation. >> everybody in the bay area knows that they can bring their stolen goods and offload them there. >> so mark rober rigged a laptop with a tracking device. >> we took an actual gaming laptop, removed the extra fan, and in its place added a gps tracker that would continuously stay charged by using the laptop battery. that way, we'd always know where it was, even if they wiped the hard drive. >> he got it stolen and tracked it to the same location. >> that was bonkers to me. like you publicly outed this as a fencing operation. a month and a half ago, and it's still being used as a fencing operation. >> our work has given me many other leads to follow by the way, you have to see the car that mark rigged with bulletproof glass, just as a way to mess with the criminals, as i said, is very entertaining. but with some valuable information. >> definitely. yeah. all right. thank you dan. thanks. >> all right. if you have a story for d

leavenworth, up in washington state, came in at number one for coziest wintertime destinations, the city california's gold country ranked 50 1/51, rather ferndale in humboldt county was number 86 on the list, and slovak, near santa barbara, ranked number 103. there's a new holiday honor for san francisco's fairmont hotel, and it's a very popular gingerbread house, too, according to the usa today newspaper, the fairmont is second on its list of the ten best hotels renowned for decking their halls and cranking up holiday cheer. besides the 25 foot tall gingerbread house and festive lobby decorations, the fairmont also has luxurious santa suites, which includes santa inspired decor and the do it yourself gingerbread house kit, as well as hot chocolate and a holiday movie for the family number one on the list is the roosevelt new orleans hotel in la, louisiana. thank you so much for watching ktvu fox two news at noon. you can also watch our newscast li on amazon fire (upbeat music) - [announcer] can you guess what this is? ♪ hey, hey, hey ♪ - [announcer] if you guessed champagne, then you'd

police, the man and the woman started arguing around 4.30, in the morning on eddy street between leavenworth street and joan street. that's in the tenderloin. that woman taken to the hospital and is expected to survive. officers tried to make contact with the man, but he was barricaded inside a home until 11, 30 this morning. police were able to resolve the standoff just after noon. no word on any arrests. our coverage of the hit and run crash that killed a 13 year-old and a 12 year-old in antioch will continue. now we first heard from the mother of that 13 year-old earlier this week and now the mother of the 12 year-old is talking to kron 4 about this deadly crash. she spoke with kron four's dan thorn about what she has lost. >> the horrific hit-and-run in antioch leaves a mother mourning what could have been 13 year-old arsenio wrapped and his brother. i'm a j were killed last friday when an suv slammed into their deaths car. he was worried about was playing video games being around family living without was had a lot of those. >> a great visual. malaysia duvall says her son and stepson we

john kuhn, incumbent fleet admiral, professor of naval war college, but currently teaching at fort leavenworth, kansas, argus. as for panel, what the impact of the august agreement on the calculus. thank on on what the australia and u.s. north korea agreement on on the couch gillis oh of the region thank you thank you phil bizarrely taxpayer. if you change all your from the pejorative chinese communist party the person of the nation of the leadership. and just say china. and you look at in the context of it could be thomas jefferson or the president monroe fdr. ah how does that change the prospect of on china versus the u.s. and i apologize for using versus versus great we've got 3 minutes so that's a minute each to pick between one or both of those question so might when we go to you, i think orcas, uh. i don't know for sure if xi jinping is his hands over orcas or not but anything that raises the prospect that there are going to be more nuclear attack submarines running around the western pacific is something that is not good deal for the play. the fact that the kingdom, another nuclear weap

i was scared to death of spending a long time in fort leavenworth.literally years before i would discuss what i did. and i would like to know, who is doing the clearance now? the fbi interview people at my home. and even back then if you had been a member of some obscure group that may have had connections with the communist party, that could keep you from getting a clearance. host: all right, tim. guest: tim is putting his finger on the problem here, which is that the air force spoke to this. they investigated these leaks and what happened. what they found was confusion even among the people who had security clearances about what they were and were not allowed to look at. it is not clear if this is an isolated incident, but i have to think that particularly as hundreds of thousands of people have been given clearances, some of them are looking at having a clearance as some all access pass to look at intelligence. that is not what it is. a clearance-holder still has to have a reason to look at information. as tim put it, having that fear of under --