Outfront next, we're bringing you some outfront cheer.

An incredible story of friendship and kindness.

A Florida chef saves a regular's life after he stops showing up for his daily order of gumbo.

Light on the rice without the cracker.

And tonight, the two have a lot to celebrate.

They'll be our guests.

And heading home, an American citizen who was sentenced to 16 years in a Saudi prison for tweets critical of that government.

Now back in the United States.

A miracle. His son greeting him at the airport.

We captured the moment with our cameras and the man's son is out front.

And actress Ricky Lake thought she lost everything in the LA fires, including all of her

family photos.

But one woman, a complete stranger, stumbled on some.

She's my guest.

Let's go out front.

And good evening.

I'm Aaron Burnett.

Out front tonight, a very happy holiday. In a time when the news is often full of dark headlines and a world full of anxiety. We wanted to spend the next hour with you celebrating the good from a restaurant chef who saved the life of his longtime customer to his son finally reunited with his father who'd been detained in Saudi

Arabia, to what this blue VW symbolizes to a community reeling from devastating and deadly

wildfires. There are reasons to smile. And we begin tonight with the kind of story that we don't

get to tell often enough.

78-year-old Air Force veteran Charlie Hicks is a regular at the shrimp basket in Pensacola, Florida.

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