bitterly cold air moves in for the year. >> meteorologist rob ellis in chicago.e breathed in the snow to get done with that holiday shopping. 6% of americans were looking for gifts on christmas eve. the number was higher in my family. they are spending more than expected and could make for the best holiday season in years. >>> president trump is celebrating christmas in florida. they attended midnight mass at a church in palm beach. they were married at the church in 2005. earlier, on christmas eve, the president praised members of the military, taking to twitter to call autothe fbi's deputy chip reid is in florida with the president. >> i just wanted to wish everybody a very merry christmas. >> reporter: christmas greetings by teleconference to service members overseas. >> we are grateful for each of you spending this christmas away from your families. >> reporter: a different tone on twitter, lashing out at deputy fbi director, andrew mccabe. he had a supervisory role in the hillary clinton e-mail investigation and trump claims he was bias in clinton's favor. w

let's get the latest forecast from meteorologist rob ellis at our chicago affiliate wbbm, rob, good evening. >> reporter: good evening. the big weather maker is the one that rolled through chicago today and now all of that will be heading east it is going to impact unfortunately new england for christmas day. here's better news though, it's going to be heavy rain right along the coast from new york up to boston although eventually we will see some snow wrapping around. this will add some snow to the ground for those that are traveling. and unfortunately on christmas day. one to three just inland of new york, however those totals go up pretty quickly for new england with six to 12 up to a foot of snow or more for some locations and unfortunately the lake effect snow bands will have to deal with that. other lotion locations have already picked up one to three, as much as four inches of snow in the midwest. so it begs the question, who et goes the white christmas? well, some of the locations you kind of expect, we have that snow on the frowned in chicago but over no new england with that syste

. >> let's get latest forecast from meteorologist rob ellis at our chicago affiliate, wbbm. good evening. >> good evening. the big weathermaker the one that rolled through chicago and all that its heading east. it is going to impact unfortunately new england. for christmas day. here is better news though, it is going to be heavy rain right along the coast from new york up to boston although eventually see snow wrapping around. but this is going to add snow to the ground. for those that are traveling. unfortunately on christmas day. one to three, just inland of new york. however the totals go up quickly for new england with 6 to 12, foot of snow or more for locations. unfortunate leave the lake-effect snow bands are going to have to deal with that. loits cases have picked up, one, three, four inches of snow in the midwest. it begs the question, who gets the white christmas? well some of the locations you kind of expect. we have the snow on the ground in chicago. but all way over off to new england. with the system that will roll through as we head into christmas day. for a go

. >> irma ellis stewart who lives on nearby 13 place has the surveillance cameras that point everywhere. including the front porch. she bought them house was robbed. no porch pirate worries now. >> some of them have dependencies so they take what belong to others. >> the police branch, the postal service tracking the mail thieves and taking advantage of the holidays. >> they keep us busy. we are investigating them. >> the postal service has new delivery tips including the intercept program where a package can be rerouted, route in transit if you are not home. they suggest to have packages sent to a neighbor or post office and they are urging the victims to contact the inspectors directly. the link on the shipping receipt. >> you don't want the packages sitting out because it makes them vulnerable to be stolen. >> another simple idea is get a severe box at the post office. >> with that stuff i would tell them hey, make sure you hand them to them. if not they can pick it up. >> miss stewart says she likes her surveillance setup but she has an local postal worker. she said her car isn't parked here. the postal worker doesn't drop off the packages. r

robbed a man and a woman in north philly. investigators say the couple was walking along the 2100 block of west ellis street on december 10th when two men ran up behind them it happened a couple of weeks back. police just released the surveillance video. one of the men pulled out a gun and forced the woman to give him her phone and keys. the other punched the man took his wallet. if you you've got information about what happened, call poli police. >>> new year's eve in new york city may set another record other than just being the coldest one in decades. the nypd says security in and around times square will be the tightest in the city's history. officials are preparing for more than a million people to ring in 2018 in the bitter cold. this year more officers and explosive sniffing dogs than ever before. plus i wasn't plus denned number of police snipers and for the first time detectives will be stationed inside every hotel along seventh avenue. >> each hotel we're going to have uniformed officers working in each hotel. and we'll have multiple emergency service and critical response command response teams located throughout the