♪ >> and good morning, everyone. i'm craig herrera. we're coming to you on fox weather stream and the fox business network. >> i'm kendall smith. welcome to our fox business network viewers. we have everything you need to get ready for the final days of 2021. let's start off with a final sun dive 2021. can you believe it? wow, this year flew by. i'm going to take you live to a gorgeous scene in portsmouth, new hampshire where snow is falling down. it's blanketed what we can see right now. parts of massachusetts picking up christmas snow this morning. we're going to take a look now out at graffen, massachusetts. we can see a video coming in from friday where fresh snow fell. what a gorgeous, serene shot with the snow flakes blowing in the breeze. the backyard turned into a winter wonderland. this morning we have rain and lots of it as we take a look at boston, mass you chew sets where we -- massachusetts where it appears traffic is moving smoothly. you want to allow for extra time because you might encounter a few slick spots. craig: to the north, all of that is rain and snow is flying including at yoke harbor beach, maine. we have a mixed precipitation, maybe freezing drizzle around the area, additional snow accumulations of less than an inch or so. we have winter weather advisories in place and these are going to be in place through this morning. these are going to include portions of upstate new york and burlington as well, this is through this morning. as we go through this afternoon, i think things start to dry out. the system's starting the to move out of here. here's a look at boston, there goes the rain. the green is the rain, the mixed precip is the pink and you had snow flying through, not all that bad right now. as far as road conditions, a slick start to the morning. maybe you're not only pictures from across america. but as you spent your christmas heart with a photo or your television on "fox & friends" yesterday morning. i know i was proud. we want to see more of your photos by the way. good morning, carley. carley: this is my favorite week of the year, the week between christmas and new year is the best. all you do typically, you hang out. people are off school, people are off work. who have to see pictures of you happening out by your christmas tree. best christmas celebration with your families, if you were able to. 996 flights were canceled. that number is already 570. and todd, that is a big deal, because today is one of the busiest travel days of the year. a aaa spokesperson said that if you plan on driving home today, leave early, because one of the busiest times to be on the road throughout the entire year is today, between the hours of 1:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. of course, because of those flight cancellations that would not help make the roads any easier to navigate. will: carley, i saw that statistic. between one and 7:00 p.m. on the day after christmas. when the busiest travel day on the roadway we talked about it yesterday. wising number of cases, rising number of positive tests. not the metric on health of the nation. deaths in the country, half of what they were one year ago. we have stats we can put them up on the screen. number of cases, 2021, have risen, number of deaths have been shaved in half. what that tells us is, omicron is much less severe than than any previous covid wave we've experienced. most likely we developed natural immunity throughout the population. i leave it with you, todd. i find this fascinating. throughout the entire pandemic, todd, we're two years in. throughout the pandemic the entire conversation can only be about vaccinations. it is fascinating to me. it is not fascinating, it is shameful, that we don't have a conversation about treatment. what do you do about people who are sick with covid. the answer from dr. anthony fauci touch and federal government, what are you talking about? were they vaccinated? todd: to your point yesterday. we had a good analogy, we're trying to stop the wind, especially when it comes to omicron. omicron is presenting itself like a cold that every single person in this world is going to get at some point. and so the focus now does need to be on therapeutics. if you get it, how do we keep you alive regardless of whether you had one vaccine, two vaccines, boosters, whatever is coming down the pike. and that is a crucial thing that some politicians are talking about. others are not. one that is, governor ron desantis. take a listen. >> starting with people like dr. fauci, they have really shied away from talking about any type of treatment of covid-19 and they are constantly talking about vaccinations but i think as you know many people who have been vaccinated are getting enteched and we service at our monoclonal antibodies sites, vast majority of people who get treatments are high-risk people who have vaccinated. people like dr. fauci, if you talk about treatments, i won't get vaccinated, i will get a treatment if i get it, they want to control peoples behavior. todd: my final thought on this, can you think of any other disease that we have ever seen in society where the reaction is, let's not focus on the treatment. let's only focus on the prevention? i've been racking my brain. if someone gets cancer the goal is to figure out how do we help that person survive cancer. it is not, oh, let's put 100% of our efforts into stopping whatever the carcinogen was in the first place. that is great. we would love to stop carcinogens. that is not the real world. people get sick. we treat the sick. we don't ignore the sickness. carley: you're absolutely right. the fact more politicians are not saying what governor ron desantis just said with dan bongino yesterday, i honestly find it infuriating because it makes so much sense. "the washington post" has a headline, with omicron it may be harder to tell if you have covid the common cold or flu. one doctor says that he is hearing an increased number of patients who have sneezing, stuffy heads, scratch think throats, things associated with common cold and only to get a covid test they turn out covid positive. if everyone has the opportunity to become vaccinated and omicron is number one strain in the united states, it presents more like a cold why aren't we treating it like a cold? in south africa, if you test positive in south africa, you are asymptomatic, you don't have to quarantine. if you get a positive test, do back to work the same day. with natural immunity, people tested positive for covid previously, because of their vaccinated population, the fact omicron is so much less severe, makes no point in destructing work lives, everyday lives to have people asymptomatic, will, stay home. will: you know, carley, not to make light again of something that can be, can be very serious but increasingly more often than not is not serious, i have allergies right now. i guess the juniper is out in texas, mid winter, probably because we have 80-degree december, i wonder if knees, could this be omicron? i don't know. because the symptoms are largely the same. let's move to this morning, eagle eyed i guess observers those that can see through the meaning of things have noticed that in kamala harris, vice president kamala harris's christmas tweet she put a train around the christmas tree a amtrak train around the christmas tree and i guess that has some hidden meaning to many. while there has been, some, i don't know tension in the white house between the two camps, harris and biden, apparently this might be an homage, carley, i'm not one who i see what you meant there, i'm a literal person, i guess that amtrak train might be literal high-five to joe biden after what has been a rocky patch in the relationship, according to reports. todd: let me take that, will. is this a public olive branch? probably. will it make a difference? no. until she does the jobs she was tasked with, no. the best way to improve, attitude as you know in the locker room, is winning. winning solves anything. will they get win or wins in 2022 is the question. based on how 2022 is shaking out, carley, no indication through politically, congress, build back better, second or 15th permutation there will be a win. didn't seem there will be a win at the border. they are not changing what they have done so far. that is the definition of insanity, literally the definition of insanity. carley: the reason, i thought it was so funny, people saw the tweet from kamala harris and they immediately saw the train, the reason everybody made a big deal about it because president biden calls himself amtrak joe. there is all reports of tension in the white house. some people are saying it is a olive branch to the president. i think it was a white house orchestrated christmas card thanked they wanted to put that in there as homage to president biden but going back to that tension, these new reports about the vice president and the president and what will happen in 2024, they are never ending. "the new york times" recently had a headline, heir apparent or afterthought? the frustration of kamala harris. the vice president's allies are increasingly concerned that president biden relied on her to win but does not need her to govern. that is the very same article where kamala harris says, and her people say she feels underutilized. she says that the news coverage would be better for her if she were a white man. the reality is her not being a white man has saved her from even more negative coverage will, but, it is very clear that there is tension between them and, you would think that they would get along because remember when they first when president biden first got the, got the won the election, there was a phone call between them, they were laughing and gig link -- giggling and things have not panned out. will: carley, what of the fascinating things seeing racism through everything or world of identity politics it absolves you of all your personality quirks. somebody may have a problem with you, as an individual, maybe your personality, not your identity group, that people are, showing unfavorables towards. it be a solves of any type of personal accountability or individual responsibility or even your own personality. always a great escape hatch. hey, on this note of seeing hidden meaning, president trump, former president trump also put out a christmas message, people say, hey, is this an indication he will run again in 2024? look what president trump had to say. merry christmas to all. we will make america great again. now look, again, todd, i'm consistent here. i'm not good ad hidden meaning. i can't tell you. is this an indication, get ready for president trump in 2024? todd: always keeps us guessing. does it mean 2024 or 2022 the midterms? you reported multiple times on the president really focusing on getting republicans elected in midterms and quite frankly republicans that do support the make america great again a agenda. is it that? is it 2024. i think whatever it is it does lead to fund-raising. we've seen the fun raising numbers for the rnc. this is part of an overall attempt to really make sure that you don't steal defeat from the jaws of what appears to be a midterm victory definitely in the house but all likelihood in the senate. it will be obviously fascinating to see how it shakes out. we'll be with you every step of the way in 2022. it is going to be fun. it is going to be awesome, guys. carley: i think that christmas card message is clear he obviously is thinking about running again. if the election were held today, he made so many hints at it. i also don't think president biden will run for re-election again because the numbers are just not there, whether it is his poll numbers or his age. so i mean, we are talking about something that is three years from now. so literally anything could happen. todd: less than three. less than three. carley: you're right. i guess it is two now. if the election were today i think it would be trump. kamala lairs is out. president biden i think is out. a lot of people say hillary clinton is thinking about running again because the democrat bench is not deep. who really do they have? i think republicans have a lot more viable candidates whether it's trump or ron desantis or, there is so many other people that could be contender. do they go to pete buttigieg, democrats? i think one of the things that hurt buttigieg is the supply chain issue, todd, him taking paternity leave in the middle of it. todd: interesting how it shakes out. absolutely tragic story in pennsylvania. a father and his two kids die. they say with the home christmas tree and lighting. but they are investigating the cause. mother and oldest child were able to escape. unfortunately the family's two dogs were killed. a gofundme account is set up. calling it a horrific tragedy. a man armed with a crossbow arrested breaking into the grounds of wind sore castle while queen elizabeth was there. the 19-year-old suspect did not enter any buildings within an hour of scare. the queen welcomed prince charles, his wife camilla and other family to celebrate christmas. there is no indication that the incident disrupted the queen's schedule. listen, you got to listen to this. a update to the nice story we brought awe few weeks ago, the man who learned of his wife's pregnancy on the orlando magic kiss cam. he learned another surprise, ultrasound revealed they're having twins. taylor and her husband joined us to share what the kiss cam moment you're like. >> we're on the kiss cam, which is cool. we break away from the kiss, she says, i have something i need to tell you. >> i love always surprising my husband, especially you know, go beg or go home i guess. todd: the baileys celebrating the latest big surprise. another blessed holiday. so much to look forward to in the new year. guys, we love stories that have levels, right. this story has more levels and i don't know what is coming next. 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pennsylvania. good morning to you all. merry day after the christmas. if you missed this because of all the christmas excitement president biden this week, he extended the pause on student loan payments until may 1st. the payments were going to restart on february 1st, but he is giving people a couple of more months not to have to pay their student loans and he is of course citing the on going covid-19 crisis. the wild thing about this is that the economy is wide open and there are 11 million unfilled jobs. we talked to somebody yesterday who is in the restaurant business and he said that the supply chain issue is linked to the fact that there is a labor shortage. we talk a lot about the poorest and the fact that there are ships stuck out in the los angeles ports that can't get into the u.s. because of all these supply chain issues but one of the big things, todd, is the fact that there is also this labor shortage. even if you want to get something, if you're in pennsylvania a company in georgia making it, because there are not enough workers to produce that. so that is a big problem. all of this is exacerbating economic issues of today. the fact there is an additional pause on student loan payments it doesn't do anything to incentivise people to get back to work. todd: the bigger issue i think is highlighted by mike rowe, obviously the host of how america works on fox business. he gets into it. what the problem is in our country. we'll talk about it on the back end. >> you talk about truckers, right now that industry, i just got off the phone with one of the big shots that run the whole trucking association, they could hire 50,000 people right now. it has never been this crazy. the shortages in so many of these essential industries, look, it is mind bog felling. why i started doing dirty jobs 20 years ago. why we're bringing the show back in two weeks. why i wrote santa claus got a dirty job. i never seen it this crazy. 11 million open positions, most of which don't require four-year degree. here we are telling kids the same old thing over and over, without your degree you're screwed. todd: that is the key takeaway. this country pushes people to college, pushes people to spend $60,000 a year on a degree that in many instances, not all, but in many instances is absolutely useless. yet we don't require any personal responsibility of those individuals who make that bargain if we don't enforce the bargain. it continues this notion of free government money. you get free government money, if you don't want to work. you get free government money if you want to go to college, get a useless degree and spend $60,000 a year doing it. we need to incentivize those individuals who say i will get a trade job. i am going to get a tiny amount of education it requires to get that trade job. but then on-the-job training that makes me skilled in that skilled trade. i will apply myself in the real world. quite frankly make a lot of money, be able to buy a house sooner. not be saddled with a lot of debt ultimately you and i, rest of the american people will be on the hook for if the progressives keep pushing, ultimately win this notion of debt forgiveness. will? will: you know this touches on two conversations that are near and dear to my heart. first of all, carley, to your point, what does canceling or extending the pause on student loan debt have to do with the pandemic at this point? what is the correlation? what is the relationship whatsoever? it only goes to show our response to the pandemic has been an excuse not about our health, an excuse to employ or put into place policies you wanted anyway. everywhere i look across the world, not just the united states of america i see authoritarian overreach as opportunity because of the pandemic. not in a solution to the pandemic. make the case for me why student loan debt should be paused because of omicron? i can't see it. second really quickly, i talk about it on the will cain podcast all the time. i have two boys, the oldest of which is 13. i'm unconvinced the best path to success is a college degree. that doesn't mean i won't send them to college, encourage college. i know the stats, if you get a degree you will have this type of economic success in life. increasingly, to your point, todd, a college degree is totally disconnected from reality what they're learning what they're taught is indoctrination. it is theoretical, it is good brain exercise but there are a lot of things you can do in this world, not just dirty jobs, entrepreneurial jobs, start something, do something, get to work building a business, to building your life. it doesn't always have to come hand in hand with some esoteric degree. carley: will, you're absolutely right. especially, on both fronts but your point about the fact that this has nothing to do, canceling student loan debt has nothing to do with the pandemic especially going into the third year of the pandemic, we're in a completely different place than 2020. it is the same as the pause on the eviction moratorium. it is stuff. these free giveaways, bigger government is making sure government is in every aspect of somebody's life, that really appeals to progressives. progressives want biden to cancel student loan debt, a complete forgiveness of all student loans which would be an awful idea because if your student loans are forgiven, there is pervasive incentive to take out major student loans, bigger student loans, thinking they will also be canceled. there will be a massive influx of cash in colleges, a lot of these colleges are extremely liberal. so it continues to promote that agenda as well. so there are, so many different elements to the student loan thing which is why progressives want to push it but i also love your point, will, on the fact that college isn't the only answer. sometimes people think that they're going to go to college. their moms and dads say you should go to college. they take out the student loans. they don't finish. you can get a leg up from doing a trade, going to trade school, getting a really solid, high paying job that way as well. we'll stop this conversation here and talk about this. a federal judge dealing a major blow to "the new york times" as the paper's legal fight with project veritas heats up. that rare ruling coming up next. learning is hard work. hard work requires character. learning begins in faith. it must move upwards toward the highest thing, unseen at the beginning - god. and freedom is essential to learning. its principles must be studied and defended. learning, character, faith, and freedom: these are the inseparable purposes of hillsdale college. i may have moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis. lear or psoriatic arthritis. faith, and freedom: but we are so much more. we're team players and artists. designers and do-it-yourselfers. parents and friends. if joint pain is getting in the way of who you are, it's time to talk to your doctor about enbrel. 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project veritas and its lawyer, the lawyer claiming the legal memos are not a matter of public concern and ordering the paper to return them. project veritas has been locked in a defamation lawsuit against "the new york times" since last year when the newspaper published a piece calling the group's work deceptive. here to react, beverly hallberg. beverly, great to talk to you this morning. project veritas does a form of investigative journalism very few media organizations are willing to do, go out to seek the truth. "the new york times" has these documents. they have negotiated on these lawyers on ways to push the boundaries. don't all media organizations have a legal team and talk to that legal team how best to follow the law? >> absolutely. let's not forget what project veritas has asserted the documents "the new york times" has, those were brought to them due to the fbi raid and the fbi leaking them to "the new york times." we don't know that for sure. if that is the case that is extremely concerning. what is interesting about the case. the judge was not looking specifically at that. that will be dealt with separately. what this judge was looking at, whether or not the documents "the new york times" has whether or not there was the ability to publish them. what makes this tricky as you just said, they're in an on going court battle. there is current litigation. the judge ultimately said no, one of the reasons because of that litigation and so you will have a lot of media commentators who are decrying this decision saying this is violation of freedom of the press. i would argue that could be a true statement but i would also ask the same commentators to call out biden's fbi for raiding a news organization. i would also argue that is violation of freedom of the press. will: so i appreciate you organizing this conversation for us. there are two separate issues at hand. one is the judge stepping in, stopping "the new york times" from publishing the documents they got from project veritas, however "the new york times" got it, from the doj or wherever. beverly, i would love for you to, that is a big deal, right, for a judge to step in. i believe they call that prior restraint. that hasn't happened since the '70s, right? >> yeah, this is something i would argue is kind of stunning a lot of people did not expect this decision. there are people who are praising it, people who are saying this is a violation of freedom of the press. i would argue it's a slippery slope. i would say that we want to make sure that news organizations, especially when they're investigating should be allowed to print the information they receive. now again, i have issue with how "the new york times" received it. i have an issue if it was due to an fbi raid. that is a major issue. i hope more people are decrying that and offering an investigation. i would even ask "the new york times" to do some investigative reporting into that as well. but they are not looking into the biden's administration into the fbi's raid. we are left what news organizations do with the information they receive whether or not it was leaked or stolen. will: right. really quickly, here is what "the new york times" is saying. in addition to imposing imposins unconstitutional prior restraint, there is that phrase, the judge gone further ordered we returned the material, a ruling with no apparent precedent, no obvious risk to exposing sources should be allowed this to stand. the second quickly, beverly, we have less than a minute, the second issue i want to organize this into, what is project veritas doing against some ethical code of journalists. they mask their identity. work with lawyers to go in with sting operations to get the truth. that is what "the new york times" is trying to expose. the methods by which project veritas goes about to get the truth. >> i'm all for anybody investigating project veritas, reality as a news organization they have the ability to get information they want. what is never okay for the biden administration to use the fbi to go in to raid a news organization. that is of the greatest concern. people can investigate all they want. when the government gets involved in that way. that is the problem. will: yeah. maybe more news organizations should put a greater emphasis on getting to the truth, not punishing project veritas for doing so. beverly, great to talk to you this morning. >> thanks so much. will: essential work energies new york spent months fighting for their jobs because of a strict vaccine mandate with no support from the top but now the state's governor is begging vaccinated health care workers to return to work sooner if they catch covid. >> you know you're the ones that got us through the first many months of angst seat. we need you again. we need you to be able to go to work. will: dr. jenette nesheiwat has been on the front line of covid and she reacts next. hite smile. try crest whitening emulsions... ...for 100% whiter teeth. its highly active peroxide droplets... ...swipe on in seconds. better. faster. 100% whiter teeth. shop crestwhitesmile.com. a must in your medicine cabinet! less sick days! cold coming on? 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>> in new york especially, across the nation we do have a shortage of health care workers t makes sense for a specific group of people if they have no symptoms. if they have no fever, if they test negative, that makes sense but the question is, carley, should we extend it to other people in the workforce and not just health care workers? i think the concern is, could you still be spreading virus even though you may still test negative? the answer is yes but those are likely dead viral particles. carley: south africa's government just dropped its quarantine restrictions for everybody but symptomatic people. that means if you test positive for covid and you're asymptomatic, you can still go to work. is that something you think we will see in this country? >> i hope not. if you still test positive you could potentially be spreading virus to others. remember you usually could, you usually most contagious two days before testing positive or two days before symptoms begin. then about three or four-days after symptoms begin. but fur asymptomatic and still test positive on a rapid antigen test, you can still spread to other people. now if you have no symptoms and you test positive on a pcr, the most accurate test, that is understandable. we expect a pcr test to remain positive for up to 90 days but not a rapid antigen. that is the key. that is the one that needs to be negative. carley: you know i think a lot of people watching this program right now they think you know, if omicron is similar to a cold then why aren't we treating it like a cold? why are we testing everybody and why are we making people quarantine even for five days? can you add some perspective to that thought process? >> and that may change as we learn more about this virus but for most people symptoms are mild there are a still people high-risk, underlying medical conditions you could be at high-risk for severe complications. if you are vaccinated whether you have two doses, three doses, you have a lot of protection against this virus. we need to, as we gather more information, as time passes we do need to modify and adjust our regulations, our poet calls as we learn more moving forward. carley: without a doubt. you mentioned vaccines. new york city's vaccine mandate for all private sector workers goes into effect tomorrow. is that something that is a good idea? >> you have zero symptoms, no fever, no cough, no sneezing, you test negative that is understandable. new york, once again the epicenter of the nation when it comes to positive covid cases. we have about 50,000 cases daily in new york. we have a shortage of health care providers. i even have some colleagues who tested positive. temporarily we have to do to do what we have to do to protect our fellow new yorkers. carley: switching gears, congressman michael waltz, he was on "fox & friends" yesterday. he revealed exciting news. take a listen to this. >> my daughter and i, 17-year-old daughter, loved to snowboard together but this year we're taking a pause because we have great news that we're expecting a baby boy in just a few weeks. so, we're about to have an empty nest but we'll refill the in the nest. carley: people at home are asking why do i bring this up, the congressman is married to your sister, congratulations all year-round. i'm sure your family is so excited about this news. >> we are. i'm excited to be an aunt again. we can't wait to meet the little ones. both parents are army veterans served in iraq and afghanistan. we will come out saluting with the a flag in his hand. we can't wait. carley: i'm sure you will. you are such a beautiful family. congratulations dr. nesheiwat, thank you so much. >> we love you too. happy holidays. carley: turn now to chief meteorologist rick reichmuth for our fox weather for cast. good morning, rick. rick: love that story. if you're heading out, looking to go back home things are looking pretty good especially across the eastern half of the country. look at temperatures, 54 degrees in raleigh, 46 in new york. the warm temperatures are back with us. i think they will remain that way with us for a good part of this coming week. sorry about this. got to get my maps going. this coming week they will be looking good. breaking all kinds of record temperatures. where you see one of the dots next five days, record temperatures are falling again. the heat sticks with us around for the negligence number of days. we have snow across parts of northern new england. that storm is pretty much gone. we have a nice day today. storms come in tomorrow night into tuesday. another chance of rain and more icing with this next one. the southeast you're looking great. no precipitation at all. all action across the west, even southern california getting rain. snow warnings in effect of the mountains of southern california and outside los angeles. back to you. carley: your game is flawless, rick. thank you for that weather report. carley: opening gifts from santa is easy but you have to figure out how to install them. never fear kurt the cyberguy is here with tips for your new tech ♪. such tree-mendous views. i'm at a moss for words. when a cough tries to steal dad's punchlines, he takes robitussin naturals powered by 100% drug-free ingredients. are you gonna leaf me hanging? 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outstanding writing, right? todd: thank you. that was all katie. >> loved seeing you guys yesterday on christmas. i have never been to your house t was really nice yesterday. we take you though, assuming you did exactly what we all did, we unwrapped presents yesterday under the tree. well today is sort of it is called boxing day, but in the tech world we call it unboxing world. when you get into the stuff you got, for example, as todd was saying, if you got a tv, you're lucky enough to do that, unwrap the tv, might want to consider adding this, two in one sound bar, four in kay streaming all in one, the roku stream bar. it adds robust sound. very inexpensive to do that. has inside of streaming on it fox news app, as well as "fox nation" on that, so you get those as well. you upgrade the remote, do it with this one. this is the voice pro remote which is unbelievable, because you you ear bud to listen to the tv, so you don't wake up the one next to you while you're doing it. plus it is voice controlled. what is better than that? did you unwrap maybe a telephone or got a new phone or got a tablet. here is is a great consideration. the world's thinnest lightest ear buds, t-2, wireless ear buds. just won the innovation award honor efor upcoming ces in las vegas. thinnest, lightest. incredible breakthrough ear buds, just gorgeous and super thin. you absolutely love them. they are about$0. really good. they will rock the market in 2022. easy bluetooth pairing. this game pass what to do, one dollar first three months, then 9.99 a month. upgrade to the xbox game pass ultimate for 14.99 a month. excellent add on if you did that. if you unwrapped, don't know if you were lucky enough, will tried to get this a ps5, maybe an xbox. adding wd-330game drive will add more storage. you can add up to 50 additional games to your console. it is a great add-on. starts at 80.99. get your money back on price drops. you can add a custom deal alert. you enter unwrapped gift info. monitor the return policy time. get notified if it goes down in price during the return period. cure rating a whole bunch of post-christmas sales. we'll have this at cyberguy.com. get you hooked up. todd: merry post-christmas for you, my friend. thanks for getting up. stay on, california. 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("this little light of mine") gold bond. champion your skin. - [narrator] in the world's poorest places, they're shunned, outcast, living in pain. you can reach out and change the life of a suffering child right now. a surgery that takes as little as 45 minutes and your act of love can change a child's life forever. please call or visit operationsmile.org now. thousands of children are waiting. ♪. will: good morning. welcome to "fox & friends." as you take in a live shot of the christmas tree on fox square. it is december 26th, we're glad to be spending the morning after christmas with you. good morning, carley. good morning todd. we're like family on the holidays. day after day after day. no, it is wonderful to have both of you with me this weekend on "fox & friends." i want to share with you a little bit of my, my real family, not just my television christmas. my real family on take you inside a few of the moments here on christmas. that is my wife kathleen. my boys charlie and wes. the love of our life, daughter violet, who has a bad reputation there all across dallas, my dog. here is what happened on christmas. there was presents abound. this was the most popular. you guys see the things at bars. we did it on "fox & friends." pete and i did it. carley: saw that. will: put on those bubbles and kids loved it. they banged into each other. i jammed my finger, my ring finger is swollen this morning. i'm playing injured. no big deal. there was this, the most positive. take off the lower third on that if you can. the producer said we got your thing with the son and putter and golfing, you don't understand, that is a potty putter. that is a potty putter. he was super excited about that. you can fill gaps in your mind how you use the potty putter, he is pumped up to have that. carley: wow, you're the coolest dad in the world. the potty putters will see spike in sells from that picture. never seen pictures of your kids either. they are such good-looking kids. what temperature, will, was it in texas yesterday because everybody is wearing short sleeves? will: '80s, carley, mid 80s. carley: 40, 45, not bad. it rained in the morning. i had a very low-key christmas obviously because of spending time on "fox & friends" this weekend t was so nice. we went to bryant park. i capped off the night by watching, i, we don't have to have a repeat of yesterday but i did watch "a christmas story." it was wonderful. yes, i had a lot of fun with my husband. what about you, todd? todd: as you know i did put on "a christmas story." one thing i didn't disclose yesterday, it is my wife's christmas movie, i not only fight with my actual wife but fight with my work wife as this as well. went with my wife's family, to our 98-year-old grandfather. i know he is watching, world war ii veteran, an awesome guy. i spent the day picking up a pacifier 100 times, eating much the same food the past two days and having one beer and becoming very, very tired. merry christmas. carley: we've asked our viewers to send in some pictures of their christmas celebrations. we love showing the photos, seeing them ourselves. what about this one, todd? todd:11-month-old baby wallace with first christmas with cookies. well-done, young man. will: the reed family, matching pajamas in front of the tree, christmas morning. carley: judy certainty us their new dog enjoying his first christmas with the new family. that is so cute. email at sorry, friends@foxnews.com. we're heading back into reality after christmas. tomorrow the vaccine mandate on all new york city workers goes into effect. so you are even in the private sector, you work in new york city, you have to get vaccinated. you can apply for an exemption but if you, if that doesn't get approved they put you on unpaid leave. no surprise there are some class action lawsuits trying to fight this thing but in the meantime if you work in new york city you got to be vaccinated. that is now the law and there are so many business owners out there who are so fired up and upset over this. take a listen. >> we live in america. we're not under china rule. people have to understand that. we are private sector, the word private, does he know what the word private means? this shouldn't be happening. this shouldn't be allowed. >> our business is based basically only people that walk into the store or sometimes even call ahead. we have to limit who we can let in? that will only hurt other business more and more. >> it is hard to find employees. hard to find people to work. now we're putting another thing over them they need to be vaccinated in order to come in to get a job. if you're not vaccinated you can't get unemployment. what kind of world do we live? what city do we live in? todd: to the last point she made what is this going to do? it will force new york city to struggle even more with filling jobs because we're having a tough time to begin with. obviously that is a national problem but if you force these individuals who do not want to follow the mandate for whatever reason they are going to stay home. what does that do? it compounds fact that you have a number of other workers staying home, one because they haven't gone back to work yet since the start of the pandemic. two, following this omicron variant. they're not in the city. what does this do? it destroys the economy t makes it even more difficult for these liberal and progressive mayors throughout our country to enact their agenda with taxpayer dollars. what will they do? they will do it anyway. these cities go into more of a death spiral, and as a result we're in the situation we're in, will. will: you ask how much is connected to our health. let's walk through this really quickly you can add one, one, and one up to 3:00. carley made the point. what does canceling pausing student loan debt have to do with omicron? nothing. yet here we are. that is the course of action we've taken the next several months. how does that make us healthier? it doesn't. how do extended quarantines for omicron make us healthier? hard to make sense for that when they're shortening the period for health care workers f it can be shortened for health contrary workers, why not rest of our economy or the rest of our society? carley, you talked to dr. jenette nesheiwat about that specific point early in the show. >> in new york especially, across the nation we do have a shortage of health care workers so it makes sense for a specific group of people if they have no symptoms, if they have no fever, if they test negative, then that makes sense but then the question is, carley, should we extend this also to other people in the workforce and not just health care workers? i think the concern is that could you still be spreading the virus even though you may still test negative? the answer is yes but those are likely going to be dead viral particles. will: if it is good enough for health care workers, who, by the way, are working in an environment where there are potentially compromised people, meaning their immune system in a hospital it would make sense for the rest of the economy. then one, one, one. add final one to get it to three to show none of these measures have any connection to our health. did you know new york is also prepared to institute a vaccine mandate for children? to go into restaurants for five-year-olds. carley: they have it. will: vaccination. carley, when the vaccine was recommended for approval by the fda, that came with a lot of pushback in doctors within the debate around that, but their recommendation at the end was simply that, a recommendation. they did not recommend, in fact discouraged mandating the vaccine for children. what did politicians do? ran straight to the mandate. so what i'm telling you is, you add all of these together it has nothing to do with keeping us healthy. carley: giving government, will, new power is a very scary thing. once you give them new power you will never get it back. first 15 days to slow the spread. fine, shut down businesses, be maybe made sense in 2020. going into the new year, absolutely ridiculous. then it is the mask mandates being reimposed now. and now, everybody has to get vaccinated because because the government is telling us we have to get vaccinated? it's a never-ending thing. so that is why when people in the very beginning of this pandemic were hesitant and saying okay, we understand that covid is very serious and people are i doing but these mandates are making me very uncomfortable. the reason it made them uncomfortable because they could see the future. that we'll never get out of this cycle, todd. todd: that's the concern going forward and have we learned anything from 2020 to 2021 as we go into 2022? i think if you combine will's thought and your thought, carley, it doesn't bode well for what is coming down the pike, even though as we reported on at least with omicron it is much less deadly according to initial reports. that is a frightening harbinger of things to come. meantime a lot of people who watch this channel probably think joe manchin saved christmas. not this op-ed in the hill. quote, miserly man chen stole christmas and hope from american families. the headline right there. it reads as follows in the text, manchin has denied struggling families vital economic support which they desperately need. his role as a democratic obstacle, a democratic obstacle on spending proposals took priority over his compassion to help struggling americans make ends meet including those in his own state. he should be ashamed. the problem with that, will and carley, he actually saved american families including american families going forward and our country's economic survival for the next 10, 20, 30 years, is somewhat more intact, you know, barring anything else that happens throughout the remainder of the joe biden administration, i.e. gas price, i.e., inflation, i.e., the like. despite what this blue check brigade and amateur economists on twitter think, this isn't what real americans want. this isn't what west virginians want and it is so frustrating to see this narrative that joe manchin is a bad guy, and he will ruin the economy of the country by literally sag joe biden's boondoggle for tree equity isn't something that is going to happen. it is mind-boggling, guys, will? will: todd, two key words i think you said were, west virginia. you know joe manchin's job isn't to represent the democratic party. despite outrage from so many he is not pretending to be the president of the united states. he is not his job is representing west virginians. some west virginians say he did that perfectly. the west virginia manufacturing head said this, from supply chain to workforce shortages an rise of costs and goods and services west virginia businesses are struggling. they rushed in response to covid. adding additional taxes to small businesses to pay for myriad programs in the plan would crush the ability to recover and compete in a global economy. the question is not, carley, how charlemagne the god feels about joe manchin, the question is how west virginians feel about joe manchin. carley: the fact that president biden hinged the passing of the sweeping climate change bill on the senator from west virginia is hilarious. maybe he should have rethought that. joe manchin said he would not support it to explain it to the people of west virginia and he can't. in west virginia, people support it one to three. this is something as it stands right now it is never going to pass. if you look at it, west virginia obviously, natural gas, oil, energy, coal, and you're talking about climate change, that will not be something that the people of west virginia support. the other reason why he doesn't want this to pass is because of the child tax credit and the fact there is no work incentive attached to that. he says that that is, that is disincentivizes work, especially we're trying to get people back to work after the pandemic. that is not something that he thinks is good for the economy and the country. i think that speaks to a lot of republicans that, funny thing is he is not a republican as he stands right now. he is a democrat,. todd: todd carley, that child care component. every single american agrees the system of child care before you reach public school and kindergarten needs to be fixed. i agree. i see how much we pay for child car. fortunately we can afford it but not everybody can afford it. if you're trying to do your job and contribute to the economy by doing your part, there should be some measure of child care but to not have a work requirement is absolutely mind-blowing and to not actually require the individuals to bring something to the table in order to get that assistance is also mind-blowing. one final point, i know you're there in a republican state there, will, i'm in a very democrat state here in connecticut. connecticut, in all likelihood is never going red, at least for the time-being but i can say joe manchin represents more of the democrat that i interact with on a day in, day out basis. more of a democrat that i think all of us interact with on a day in, day out basis. the democrat party is hijacked by these progressives. they are forcing joe biden to disavow everything that he did during most of his career and and as a result because of this hijack the democrats are in the situation they're in now. i think this plays right into republican hands as we head into next year. of course the midterms where we are expecting this house blowout and also expecting republican those do pretty darn well in the senate. carley: question, todd, i think you're right and you know the progressives are definitely the loud minority and they're pushing the party much more to the left and really quickly on the child tax credit. this is something that people don't talk about a lot, but i think it is really important piece of this conversation. we do already have a safety net in this country. the build back better bill, democrats say people need help. think so. that is why we have things like welfare around america is such a great country. if you do need a little bit of support, taxpayers will fund that, but you want it to be a net, not a trap. the way a lot of progressives want to throw money at people it traps them in that position where they don't want to go to work for themselves and advance. i don't think that is something that is beneficial to anybody. and now we're going to turn to some headlines. more than 10,000 russian troops reportedly returned to their permanent bases after months-long drills on the ukrainian border. russian news outlet interfax announcing that news as president vladmir putin said the country successfully tested a salvo of its higher sop nick missiles. as the u.s. lawmakers hold virtual talks with the president of ukraine. estimates from ukraine put russian estimates troops at the border between the two nations at 100,000. blast i don't have. nasa successfully launching the largest space telescope on christmas morning. after the takeoff, they had to course correct the james webb telescope which is going on a million mile journey into space. fortunately that critical correction went off without a hitch. the telescope will track wavelengths of infrared light. scientists say this will allow them to see stars, galaxies, black holes have formed throughout time. how about that? arnold schwarzenegger donated $250,000 to build 25 tiny homes ahead of christmas for veterans living on the streets. this is so cool. listen to this. >> i'm really excited. i'm so excited. to me this is the greatest christmas gift. carley: he is not the only one giving to our veterans this christmas. yesterday, dan bongino made a massive donation that keeps getting bigger to folds of honor live on "fox & friends weekend." watch this. >> we wanted to do a special grift to my friends at folds of honor to provide scholarships, i said i would do a 10,000-dollar donationnation. i changed my mind. i want to do 15,000. >> you and your family are such a blessing. >> i think 25 is nice round number. 25 breaks up -- >> rick, you win. i will do 25. there you go, buddy. 25,000. 25,000 it is. carley: worthy, worthy cause, bongino going from 10,000 to $25 million donation. folds of honor provides educational scholarships to families of fallen and disabled servicemembers. a really cool moment, guys. how about that? will: we should say folds of honor is a charity near and dear to the "fox & friends," fox news family hearts, but another charity is tunnels to towers. frank siller announced on "fox & friends" they would also move into helping as their next phrase helping homeless veterans find homes. like arnold schwarzenegger made that donation with tiny houses. we talked about that, carley around todd. not just the house. you need a community around those tiny homes to help support those guys as they make their way back into hopefully off of the street. you build these little communities of tiny houses with support system around them. hoping to solve that problem that has been -- carley: will, real quick. so true. i was talking to frank siller about, he is building an entire neighborhood in florida of homes for families of fallen veterans, first-responders, gold star families and he said he could see marriages happening in the future because when you have that shared history, you know you really connect with people and he is really changing lives. it is so amazing. will: yes. todd: face it, this is something that should have been done by our country by now, the way we treat our homeless veterans is an abomination. something should have been done previous to this, but let's give all the credit where credit is due. first to arnold in the story we did and frank siller. it is unbelievable what they're doing. tiny home movement taken off in the last few years. it is a great step to bringing these individuals the dignity that they deserve, that they fought so hard for. we can never forget them this is awesome. will: no doubt. it's a tough problem. it's a tough nut to crack, todd. it's a tough nut to solve. often solutions are found among private citizens, not among government bureaucrats. carley: totally. will: good luck to frank siller. it would be a hell of accomplishment. we hope to help. thousands of migrants are still rushing to our border with dozens just landing in the florida keys. former acting dhs secretary chad wolf says this proves messaging from the administration is not working. he is next. i have something for you. 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>> i think a lot has to do the with messaging as well as policies of the biden administration. what the migrants know, what the cartels know, other smugglers know, this administration is not serious about border security around immigration enforcement. even though they're reinstating remain in mexico they have redesigned the program with number of loopholes that allow it not nearly as effective as we had it operating under the trump ad administration. there are number of things they could be doing on the border to send a signal it is not okay to come here. unfortunately everything they're doing and saying encourages folks to make the illegal journey and come with thousands of folks approaching that border every single day. todd: the numbers do not lie. here is the rise in encounters over the last fiscal year, year on year. 279% fiscal year 2020. fiscal year 2021. chad, is there anything that the biden administration do starting to today to disincentivize these migrants from coming? >> well, absolutely. i think first and foremost is they need to make sure that there's a consequence to the illegal behavior. so individuals cross that border which is a crime, they need to be removed back to their home countries that they don't qualify for a seal lump. we know about 90% do not qualify for asylum. instead what the biden administration has done, they have gone back to catch-and-release policy which releases hundreds of thousands of these individuals into our communities each and every day. so if we go back to the haitians, if you remember, 15,000 haitians crossed in del rio, texas, a couple months ago. the vast majority of these folks remained here in the united states that sends a signal to other haitians to make the journey. you have to send a silknal it is not okay to break the laws of the united states. you need to enter through a legal port of entry. he nude to do it a legal way. that is the message they need to send. everything they have done in 11 months since inauguration day has been complete opposite. todd: 45 seconds on the final answer, chad. christmas is the season of hope. is there anything you see behind the scenes through your channels being in this business, that gives you any hope the biden administration will do the right thing going forward in 2022? >> well there is, i would say there is little hope. obviously they reinstated remain in mexico. it is not as effective it could be. they mentioned building small portions of the wall. it is not enough. they need construction on the wall. small things they need to be doing. at this point they're so far behind the eight ball, as far as dealing with the crisis they need to do pretty dramatic things to get this under control. todd: it's a shame you guys in the trump administration, not perfect, you will never solve immigration perfectly had it under control. the last 11, 12 months has been abject disaster for our nation. chad wolf. thank you very much. merry christmas to you. >> all right. todd: winter break is over soon. thousands of kids will not be headed back to school because you guested it covid concerns. remote learning could be harmful. we have a doctor next. ♪. it's once-monthly injectable cabenuva. cabenuva is the only once-a-month, complete hiv treatment for adults who are undetectable. cabenuva helps keep me undetectable. it's two injections, given by a healthcare provider once a month. hiv pills aren't on my mind. i love being able to pick up and go. don't receive cabenuva if you're allergic to its ingredients or taking certain medicines, which may interact with cabenuva. serious side effects include allergic reactions post-injection reactions, liver problems,...and depression. if you have a rash and other allergic reaction symptoms, stop cabenuva and get medical help right away. tell your doctor if you have liver problems or mental health concerns, and if you are pregnant, breastfeeding, or considering pregnancy. some of the most common side effects include injection site reactions, fever, and tiredness. if you switch to cabenuva, attend all treatment appointments. with once-a-month cabenuva, i'm good to go. ask your doctor about once-monthly cabenuva. ww's all-new personalpoints program is made just for you. you take an assessment, enter your goals, the foods you love and ww builds a plan just for you. i lost 26 pounds and i feel incredible. oprah: no two people are alike so no two plans are alike. with ww, i lost 30 pounds. this new program changed my life. live the life you love. lose the weight you want. the all new ww personalpoints program. download the ww app today for a 14-day free trial. ♪. will: the insanity continues. around 300 schools will keep their doors shut after winter break because of concerns over the omicron variant but could this cause more harm to our students? in a new "washington post" op-ed experts warn quote, our school district leaders continue to view public education as non-essential service. their direct consequences of school closures on children's mental health related to the isolation stunted social development and the associated learning loss. the writers of that piece join us now. their names are dr. carol vidal, child and adolescent scientist and jennifer liesman a psychologist works with children with learning, mental disabilities. thanks for both of you being with us. doctor, let's talk about the toll. we have two years worth of evidence about this. we talked anecdotally, depression, suicides, learning loss. what happened to our children? >> mental health professionals worsening in severity and need for mental health services and motivations for this was that we have seen a trend in public schools to close whenever there is a problem in the school, whether staff shortage or teachers being stressed or behavioral problems in children and we saw during the pandemic virtual learning caused a lot of problems not only academic development but also mental health and, even physical health including obesity. so by closing schools again which we thought was obviously wasn't working we're causing more of the same problems and we were concerned about it. basically what we're trying to say this is unsustainable. [inaudible] -- prevention and additional level where we offer some consistency for children. will: yeah, look at this really quickly. doctor liesman, 31% jump in mental health emergency department visits among kids age 12 to 17. this number is just heartbreaking. 51% jump in visits among girls for suspected suicide attempts. doctor, i sit on the show, we do the stories week after week. they come in one at a time. we know by the way there is not enough psychiatrists out there to meet the demand for mental health when it comes to children. he focus with those with disabilities. that is whole another angle as well. just, for example, those were hearing loss, masking for two years, what a toll on those who have to read lips? >> yeah. i think one thing that we can't forget, an again the data in our piece was really heartbreaking for us mental health professionals to write. this is something we see again and again up close an personal. i work with children with disabilities, i need to reiterate with your audience, you have done a good job with these pieces, virtual instruction is not the same as quality instruction and not acceptable for many students with disabilities, those with hearing loss, unable to access caption or blindness, low vision concerns, sitting in front of a tiny chrome book screen is not the same. when we make these policy decisions that affect the entire district we cannot forget many students are just left behind when schools close their doors. will: you know, dr. reesman to your point, i go whack to you, dr. vidal, i know, i had two children who did remote learning foreway too long. we all saw the toll. we know it. we experienced it. why do we allow this to continue to happen, dr. vidal? why do we allow, i don't know, school officials to shut down the learning environment? >> i mean, i think as parents we have the same questions. i think we're concerned for that we are not talking about enough is that these type of interventions are hurting mostly working parents and their children and the children that need public schools the most. so we, while we're seeing sort of a change in terms of the way officials are talking about it -- have been vocal about wanting to keep schools open and president biden made a comment having to -- [inaudible] maryland state board of education said it was important to keep schools open five days a week we need more than just talk. we need actually people to make sure that happens. our superintendent last week in baltimore county sent a letter saying their goal was to keep schools open. there is sort of a change the way we're talking about it but we're still not doing what needs to be done to insure schools are not closing because we need to stay open, especially public schools that serve vulnerable children that need the schools. will: doctor, quickly last word to you? >> we need our schools to be open. public schools is a public good and as mental health professionals we can tell you public schools are a safety net. they are the bare minimum what when he need in order to keep all of our children across the united states healthy and we need to look at the health of the whole child. so we bell of you, if you're watching in a decision making capacity, keep school doors open. all hands on deck. improve substitute teacher pay, whatever is mead needed but keep the schools open for kids. will: stop taking out your failures on the most vulnerable. as always the most vulnerable always pay the price, working class, now the children as well. thank you both doctors, for being with us this morning. >> thank you for having us. will: you bet. vice president kamala harris reflecting what she calls her number one disappointment as vice president. >> what is your biggest failure has been at this point? >> to not get out of d.c. more? 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[laughter]. people have a right to know and believe that their government actually sees and hears them and my biggest concern i don't ever want to be in a bubble. carley: vice president kamala harris reflecting on what she feels is her number of one disappointment as vice president but critics say she has got it all wrong. fox news contributor tammy bruce joins us now. tammy, good morning, merry christmas to you. what do you think about what the vice president says? do you think not getting out of d.c. is really her biggest failure? >> it's not. again the question was posed as a failure, not even as disappointment. it was a failure. afghanistan didn't come up. the economy didn't come up. crime didn't come up. supporting the rioters with the bail fund didn't come up. so this, it is interesting that the american people will see this as they have seen with her which is spin and at the same time she visited a half a dozen countries. she visited multiple states and cities, usually to do campaigning for joe biden or help gavin newsom. she has been fine getting out of the white house and getting out of washington, d.c., but just not on the issues and on the framework that the american people care about but what this tells you is, i have to say, and she laughed obviously again but she also said in part of that interview she said, no, i'm really, paraphrasing here but she said i'm being serious. in other words she knows it sounds absurd but this is now the new line that they have decided on. as long as we're hearing excuses like this that don't touch on issues, word salads, we know they're still scrambling and chaos in the white house. todd: tammy, to the point you just made, this is one botched answer after botched answer from kamala all year long. isn't that answer she gave to here, the most kamala 2020 answer she could have given? >> it is. what i said from the beginning regarding the harris-biden administration. she also went into how they really work as a team. it is interesting she wants to see someone as presidented, involved somehow in the management of the country. so she is anticipating something. she is still fighting to be considered that next one in line and for some reason she thinks if she gets into the issues or talks about details she's at risk and that is what is very, very strange. and i think for all of us, what i've said from the start is that the, our problems will continue. that than stan was not a one-off mistake. that nobody tripped over a log. this is who they are and when that is the case, just like during the campaign itself, they will mislead, they will lie on occasion. they will say a lot of things. you will hear a lot of sounds that don't connect to any real meaning. that is not going to change. she isn't going to change. the president's not going to change and the democrats are still trying to figure out how can they pull this over once again. i think they're going to be disappointed. there was a message that some kind of poll, that democrats liked her performance with charlemagne the god the other day and the fact is that they liked it. i think in part because she didn't laugh. that she seemed like a real person but even that message exposed her as being thin-skinned, as being defensive, and certainly out of touch with what it is that the american people are saying. will: it will be fascinating to see the process led that kamala harris will change. the obsession with identity politics. will they be obsessed with identity politics and satisfying that, i don't know, that priority for them moving forward in 2024. we'll see, we have a little time to find out whether or not that will still be their major goal, major priority. tammy, good to see you. merry christmas. thanks for joining us this morning. >> same to you. thank you. merry christmas. will: now to this, let it snow. americans in more than 20 states saw a white christmas, flesh blankets of snow fall on the northeast, parts of west, nevada, arizona. let's turn to chief meteorologist rick reichmuth for the fox weather forecast. rick? rick: a white christmas has not been a snow, warm winter exempt parts of the southwest. winter advisories still in effect even parts of southern california, the mountains up around big bear. we'll see a lot of snow over next couple days. temps are going to plummet. 30 degrees in seattle right now, by the time we get to tomorrow morning we'll look to temps probably around 15 degrees. record breaking cold across parts of the pacific northwest. down across the southeast breaking all types of high temperature records that will be the case four to five days with really warm air settled in there, and not going anywhere. across the northeast, we had a little bit of snow across parts of new england. look what happens. this is future track. we have a nice day today. by tomorrow afternoon we see the next batch of moisture coming in. two waves of moisture coming in. we'll see one tomorrow, another one tuesday night. aside from that the east coast looking absolutely great. not like christmas, white christmas and cold, really nice if you want to be outside. carley: we'll take nice any day, rick, thank you. comedian tim conway spent decade making people laugh on the carol burnett show. >> want a bun? [laughter] >> of course i want a bun. what is a hot dog without a bun? >> lonely weanie. carley: what is it like in growing up in the funniest house in america. his daughter tells us next. ♪. get a whole lot of something with farmers policy perks. [echoing] get a quote today. ♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ motrin works fast to stop pain where it starts. like those nagging headaches. uncomfortable period pains. and disruptive muscle aches. you can count on fast, effective relief with motrin. ♪. carley: comedian tim conway spent decades of making people laugh on the carol burnett show. >> what do you want on the hot dog? [laughter] >> i want it just plain. >> plain? >> plain. >> all right. want a bun? [laughter]. >> of course i want a bun. what's a hot dog without a bun? >> a lonely weenie. [laughter]. carley: but in a new book by tim's daughter, kelly conway, she proved he was just as funny at home. she joins now to discuss her new memoir, my dad's funnier than your dad, growing up with tim conway in the funniest house in america. kelly, good morning. merry christmas. >> good morning. merry christmas. carley: why did you want to write this book? tell us about it? >> i didn't want to at first. a few people asked me if i would and i kind of wanted to keep it right but then, after my dad passed away, some people just wanted to know what it was like growing up in that house with him an my five younger brothers. so i did. it happened to be the timing was, we started writing right at the beginning of the covid lockdown. so it was a great project to do. and something to do, you know, after banana bread and, and -- carley: toilet paper. >> spending everything on amazon carley: you said you grew up in the funniest house in america. what was he like at home? >> he was everything was an event to him. it wasn't just, let's go to the grocery store. he would pile us all in car, go to the grocery store, say, everybody get a cart. whoever catches the most things that i throw over the aisle with your cart gets $10. so, i think it was just to keep us quiet because there were six of us. we would go down one aisle. my dad would start throwing paper towels. he wasn't throwing jars of mayonnaise over, things for us to catch. we would be scrambling and trying to catch things or just, whatever he did. it was just. everything was a game and it was, like i said it wasn't just let's go swimming. he would have a swim meet, sell tickets. would have medal, barbecue for the athletes after. it was a really fun, happy place. carley: oh, that is amazing. this book is coming out. when is it coming out, how do we get it? >> it is coming out on the 30th, next thursday. and, you can buy it on amazon, wherever books are sold. amazon, target. carley: that's right. you clearly love your father so much. you pay trish beauty to him in such a special way. kelly, thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> big show still ahead. stay with us. ♪ i have something for you. 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feeling. will: i feel great and in the spirit of inclusivity we have been asking viewers to send in their holiday fault-- photos at friends@foxnews.com. and you have been participating. let's include you in the program this morning like this photo of a finnegan at the lab or doodle sporting his reindeer hat on christmas morning. carley: he is festive. check out these grandparents, santa and missus claus is celebrating with the grand children on christmas morning. look at that crew. todd: and this is rick smiling at santa with his daughter in front of a flag as a proud of their american on this christmas day. awesome shot. keep sending in your photos. e-mails: friends@foxnews.com. we have one more hour to show them. will come over to you. will: let's start with this this morning in the third hour of fox & friends. president biden may have been forced to reinstate president trump's remaining mexico policy, but it doesn't seem to stop the migrants as a thousands of haitians once again all along the border, this time in tijuana and dozens have landed in the florida keys. border in cowher-- encounters are surging throughout 2021. this has left many to point out the human toll, the cost of this illegal immigration of course, illegal activity invites the opportunity for criminality. criminality of serving as the conduit, as the business enterprise, the cartel of organizing this illegal immigration. robert almonte said this puts migrants right in the bull's-eye of cartels. mexican cartels he said have been heavily in the human trafficking for a long time and now with the rational border crossings they are involved more than ever and they don't see them as people. they see them as commodities like drugs and if the trapped migrants along to the cartel they will kill them. carley: that's right. courtesy of the supreme court that biden administration was recently forced to reinstate to remain in mexico program. that program is one that former president from originally put in place. if you cross into the country illegally from mexico the program says you can't wait in the united states or it's not a catch and release. you go back and wait in mexico as your asylum claim plays out and that really disincentive eyes illegal immigration under former president from, but it's not working and chad will former acting press secretary was on and talked about why. listen. >> the migrants know with the cartels and other smugglers know this administration is not serious about border security and immigration enforcement, so even though they were reinstate remaining mexico they redesigned the program, i think, with a number of loopholes that allow it to not be nearly as effective as we had it operating under the trump administration. you have to send the signal it's not okay to break the laws of the united states and you need to enter through a legal port of entry and you need to do it legally. that's the message they need to send and unfortunately everything they have done in about 11 months since inauguration day is been the complete opposite. carley: chad mentioned the loopholes of the program and the biden administration is only rolling out remaining mexico at seven entry point so that means if the points where it's not implemented it's the same deal so it's like the program doesn't even exist and also if you are pregnant woman, child, physically or mentally ill, older person, indigenous or a member of the lgbt q community, remaining mexico doesn't apply to you so even though the supreme court said the biden administration has to roll it out, they are doing it at eight minute level and essentially paying lip service like it's not implemented at all. >> the problem at this point is wildly out of hand and the biden administration is applying a band-aid and cutting the band-aid in half, taking off that white part that actually does all the work may be sort of an sticky the sticky part of the band-aid so they are absolutely doing nothing as chad wolf explained. i want to go back to something will said when he read the quote from the individual describing this is no longer a border crisis. this is now carnage. people are being slaughtered and yet if we had just stuck with what president trump had done under the trump administration obviously, this would've been preventable. if biden had held, we would not be in the situation, not to say there wouldn't be human smuggling, obviously there would be because it's a worldwide problem that the world it needs to come together to stop, but what the biden administration did was say hey come on here, that facilitated the carnage that we are seeing and it's absolutely heartbreaking. will? will: it's the power of your words. it's the power of the message you send out an carly alluded to that moment ago. it's not just the policies policies are important and you have to put action to the mensch sewage you sent out, but even for joe biden was elected president he put the message out about how they would handle illegal immigration and that served as an invitation. look, you don't have to take my word for it. listen to the words of the illegal immigrants and they will tell you the sense of welcome or the invitation they thought was extended to enter the united states of america. by the way, much harder apparently these days to travel within the united states of america than it is to cross the southern border into the united states of america. covid has wreaked havoc on flight plans call it a plans, flight travel in this country, so you can look at delays and cancellations in flights over just the last couple of days, over 2000 flights were canceled this past weekend, but it wasn't limited, by the way, to holiday travel plans. omicron has already become to take its toll on other day holiday plans like this. college basketball games canceled or postponed this season. hawaii bowl canceled, broadway shows in new york city no more, times square, new year's eve celebration has been dramatically scaled it down. todd, you know i'm a sports fan and i know you are as well and i covered sports for many years. we have already seen for example texas a&m pulled out of the bowl game because of positive oh run tests pick something fascinating to watch over the next couple of days quite honestly is the national championship for the college football playoffs begin, semi finals just before new year's. all these kids went home. they all went home for christmas for at least a day or two. they come back, they are going to go through the testing regiment. how many will test positive? how many critical players will be able to play in the college football semi finals? just another example of our culture somewhat canceling itself over a pandemic of positive tests. carley: yeah, absolutely and now you have in the nfl changing the rules because so many people test positive and then they sit out of games when they feel completely fine, so now they are only testing people who aren't vaccinated or have symptoms, which is i think is what the country is ultimately going to be doing. the nfl has been the first page organization to sort of change of those rules. there's also a "washington post" headline and article that really caught our attention. apparently, all of us should feel ashamed if we catch covid-19. the headline is: thousands who followed the rules are about to get covid. they shouldn't be ashamed and they have some tips. they say acknowledge it. set it aside and-- in favor of proper health protocol also. don't know or explain the situation. consider it a learning experience. keep in mind that you can't control what others do or think. practice self compassion and remember you are not a failure. i mean, this was so cringe worthy and i said that at the top that if you catch covid we should feel is shame because implied in the headlines is that even though you don't feel ashamed now that if you catch covid at one point there's a level of shame in their. it's always been, todd, this moral superiority that people on the left avenue when it comes to covid-19 is. todd: yeah, that's the question. why is there this emotional baggage attached to covid to begin with? it's an illness. people get sick. it kind of is the whole human experience. why would there be shaving in the first place? we know the answer to that. it's because of the way the liberal media and liberals in general have handled that this virus basically saying you are unvaccinated there in trump country so you are the ones that are causing this virus. it's your fault, when in reality we all know that's not the case. we all know that the numbers that show this is every city in every country throughout the world and when you look at the blue states, for example, you often times see higher numbers, but again politics should be out of this. it's irrelevant whether you are red, blue, purple, doesn't matter. people get sick. we don't shame people for cancer. we don't shame people for heart disease. we shouldn't shame people for this. it's amazing what we are doing in this day and age and to circle back on something you are talking about, will. you mentioned his points earlier. if i'm not mistaken on the national championship college football playoff situation, alabama plays at cincinnati. if i'm not mistaken, alabama if they can't go with a number of players, they have to forfeit and that's insane. will: cincinnati in that scenario. todd: that's absolutely-- in my mind-- will: by the way, todd, if both teams can feel the game or don't have enough players or don't feel safe than the other becomes the national championship game so they've already made a contingency plan and really to give the final word on what you said carly coming you know we have spent the better part of two years pretending or at least not we, you know much of it-- i don't use these words as like overgeneralization, but they serve useful, most of the mainstream media and yet it comes from politicians largely on the left have politicized the idea of covid and getting covid has been treated like getting an std. if you got sick, you did something to deserve it, you went unvaccinated, lived in florida, you didn't wear your mascot. they treated it like these were things that good rule followers would have done to protect themselves. as time goes on in reality sets in, you have to amend that judgment or at least try to amend that judgment because it was absurd from the beginning. they ignore blue state infection while you cry florida and like mask would protect them all along and they did not. now they have to reconcile the fact that vaccination status isn't a big differentiator. when we do? treated with compassion, the way you should've done all along, by the way. carley: i know and it's a wild that tomorrow in new york city there's going to be a city mandated vaccine mandate on all private businesses, which is such a wild government overreach for the government to-- by the way who's leaving office in like a second to implement something that affects all workers that's not the point of government. america was founded to inhibit large government , big government and keep it small. this is, like i said, such a massive overreach vaccine mandate will be implemented, todd, when we are learning that even vaccinated people are spreading omicron, so why are we even doing it? todd: not to get graphic, but omicron exists in the upper passageway of the nose and it is this there and can be spread from there and vaccine status-- yes, it may help some, but it's not a panacea. people need to be safe and do what they need to do to keep themselves safe while realizing look, going forward if this does continue to present itself like the common cold and spread like the common cold, it's going to in all likelihood become another, cold that you are going to get at some point in your life and considering all 8 million or so people on the planet will likely get it, it's probably not something we should be shaming-- shaming each other about the first place and second, support groups on "washington post" to help people will deal with the fact they got covid. you got sick. take the medicine i.e. therapeutics and hopefully you will get better and we will all move on with society the way it was in 2019, but all i know is-- well, i circle back to the sports because i love sports. i did love the fact that the nba yesterday basically called anyone who ever dribbled a ball to basically hey, can you suit up? we need bodies because we are so hard up. i'm pretty sure that's where head-- pete hegseth is he's probably getting the call, suit up for the nba. do your fox nation and now do your nba. full slate along with seven kids. will: i don't know. he's capable of winning a competition on fox square, i don't know if he's capable of an nba game. quickly, the nba is talking about returning to a bubble tournament for the regular-season. old is new again, 2020, 2022. carley: feels like we're going backwards. have to turn to headlines in a tragic story, pennsylvania father and two of his children died in a house fire on christmas. officials say the flame started near the home's christmas tree and its lighting, but they are still investigating the cause that. the mother and her oldest child were able to escape. the families of the two dogs were also killed. a gofundme page has been set up calling it a horrific tragedy. god bless the family. a man reportedly armed with a crossbow was arrested breaking into the grounds of windsor castle on christmas while queen elizabeth was there. police in the 19-year old suspect did not enter any building. within an hour, the queen welcomed her son chris-- prince child and his wife as well as other) families. there's no indication the incident disrupted the queen's schedule. a scary situation there. speaking of scary, the supply chain crisis taking a bite out of french fries. >> there are several things in this world you don't ever maths with one of them happens to be another man's fries. carley: famous new york city burger joint jg mellon as saying they have had to stop selling their beloved fries completely because of a shortage in potato supplies. bloomberg reporting both mcdonald's has temporarily restricted sales in japan due to shortages importing potatoes from north america. shake shack has heard roebling's of a shortage, but hasn't been affected. those are your headlines scary news they are, well. what are we going to do? will: big jg mellon fan. carley: me too. will: wonderful. the circular crinkle cut fries is a really good fries, on the verge of a tater tot. it's almost eight tater tot. carley: it's a highbred. we love it. will: hopefully no shortages there. coming up, crime rocking major cities this christmas season with some american saying it's too dangerous to go outside. jack brewer joins us next with white liberal reform is to blame. ♪♪ align. fast acting biotic gummies helps 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as residents in major city see a surge in balance with many blame means far left crime laws and jack brewer is on the board of the federal enforcement homeland security foundation and he joins us now to react. good morning, jack. merry christmas. glad to see you here on the day after. >> good morning. will: jack, when you hear that quote, to the point i don't even want to go outside anymore from a new york resident, what are your thoughts? what can be done? >> it's really sad, you know, when lawlessness has abound in the land is so much and the disrespect for law enforcement officers has become a part of the culture in many ways and 70 parts of our society where you don't have that basic respect for order. when an officer says something you feel like you can say something back, do something back. when you see so many law enforcement officers that are slain in our streets, and now with all the session grabs and a national push to take resources away from law enforcement officers when we should be giving more resources to law enforcement officers, it's really sad. i tell you what, you can see that folks are understanding the depth of the situation and the hypocrisy when you hear a certain folks that want to defund the police, all of a sudden when they start to get carjacked or when they start to get robbed or when these crimes start to move into their rich wealthy communities they want to all of a sudden do something about it. that's really sad. will: jack, look at the numbers. we continue to set bad records. this is new york city, 1828 people shot in 2021, up from 2020, which was also a record bad year when it comes to shootings. you brought up something interesting, when someone changes their tune. crime is a quality-of-life issue. it's one that motivates people to vote, any quality-of-life issue does, that which impact you directly. here's what i want to ask you, the african-american vote, black vote overwhelming democratic, many of these crimes stats coming at least correlated if not causation only related to summoning these elected democratic policies talking about a quality-of-life issue where the major victims of these crimes are black, aren't minorities, are the people that voted for the politicians that put the policies in place. when does the quality of life issue changed about >> man, that is for our time that's a question that most people have been been able to figure out and i think that's because when you look deep at it, when you look at it spiritually and you start to understand what being a voice for the voiceless really means, unfortunately those folks that have been elected in those districts you know, in those communities, those mayors, they aren't really speaking for their people. they are double minding and when the bible talks about being a double minded man, that is someone that's only going to say what they need to say to gain power, but not really stand up for the people. i think that is the problem we are having. we are having this representation in these communities, not really standing up for our best interest and if we don't go to the root cause of that and stop trying to pander to one another, i think the welfare programs that we have in our society have hurt the fabric of our nation. i don't think people work as much as they should and so those folks that are actually hurt a lot of times aren't even voting and that's the unfortunate reality, will something's going to have to change, something will have to give because in the city of chicago when 409 kids get shot in one year, kids i'm talking about, 10, 11, 12 years old, when things like that start to happen and you and the youth of our nation that are hurting the way they are with the reading and math proficiency levels, those kids will commit crimes. we have people that don't have education and they will commit crimes. grown folks need to step up and get the paddle back in our schools. we have a real issue with discipline, disrespect, law and order in this nation we need to start wilting these kids again pick i'm going to keep it straight up with you on the day after christmas, if we don't put the order we keep sparing the rod, we are hating children and that's the unfortunate fact of our society today. will: how ever accountability-- however accountability is brought to bear beat within our family or with politicians, accountability is the issue, lack of accountability is a issue. jack, merry christmas and great to see this morning. thank you for joining us on "fox & friiends". >> merry christmas to all the fox family. god bless you. will: outcry over a truck driver sentenced to 110 years in prison over a deadly accident. the push to reduce his time and what it means for other truckers, next >> i'm so sorry. along with your statin medication. the brand i trust is qunol. will: welcome back. truckdriver rrogel aguilera-mederos begging for mercy in a court where he was sentenced it to 110 years in prison for a 2019 crash that killed four people. >> i know, take responsibility. will: following public outcry the prosecutor will now ask the judge to reduce the sentence to 20 to 30 years instead. here to react a retired truck driver advocating for that truck driver. rick santiago, thank you for being here. what's the reaction to the da. >> i don't think it's enough. there are too many guilty parties in this other than rogel aguilera-mederos. the trucking company that he was driving for has since reopened another company using the same equipment. that's called a chameleon carrier. it's things like this that our government has to stop. there is crime committed with far left-- less sentences than what rogel aguilera-mederos got and it's an outrage. it's a miscarriage of justice in my opinion. will: to that point, in terms of other parties bearing responsibility, there was a line in your note i found interesting. you say the driver is the sacrificial lamb for pete buttigieg's failures are what is say that? >> what, i mean, by that, sir is we need stricter training policies for the new drivers coming out on the road. we can't just issue cdl's new drivers and send them down the road with no training, no weather training, no terrain training and it's putting families at risk and i want to make it clear that although, an outrage over the sentence, i'm equally-- i grieve it with the families. this could've been prevented with proper training. todd: what do you think the penalty for this driver should've been if any? >> well, i'm not in the legal field. i can tell you that there were truckdriver sentenced to three to five years in nebraska for identical-- a similar situation where lives were lost as well. why is it rogel aguilera-mederos sentenced to a decade and a century behind bars when other truck drivers were sentenced to three or five years? makes no sense to me. todd: what are the ramifications of this case on the entire trucking industry? >> excuse me? todd: what are the ramifications of this case on the entire trucking industry? >> well, you know the truck drivers of this country, we take pride in one thing and that is safety. we do proper pretrip inspections, but there needs to be more training. i feel that pete buttigieg should enact tougher training policies before we send it drivers down the road delivering america's freight. for 24 years i drove-- i almost died in a mountain in wyoming in august,-- august 19, 2019, similar situation. i lost my brakes. this was an accident. a tragic one where there was a loss of life and again, we grieve it with the families, but with proper training, this can be avoided. todd: we have been highlighting for the last six months the inability to even higher truck drivers. i can't imagine the case will help in recruiting if people on the other end to think about this profession think it's ultimately what could happen to them when a number of factors are outside of their area of control. rick santiago, we appreciate your time. thank you very much. >> thank you for having me. todd: ahead, parents in texas outraged after a teacher shared this problem mocking their concerns. listen. >> at our meetings all hauling and humming, we must stop this indoctrination from coming. todd: oh, trust me it gets worse. big sunday show host rick sinking, doctor nicole safire joins us live next. >> liked reading a lot, but some did not. these bigots don't get to choose for us, that's clear. then how, i am wondering did we even get here? they growl at our meetings, we must stop this indoctrination from coming. carley: parents outraged after a teacher used dr. seuss dial lyric to openly mock them as bigots at a recent school board meeting. here to react, fox news correspondents griff jensen, dr. nicole saphier and fox news contributor david webb, the big sunday show later today. david i will start with you as she criticized parents over their concerns for sexually explicit content in a some books. what's your reaction to your -- to her poem? >> i would like to put up a couple things on the table for everyone watching. this is important so i'm going to read it. when you go to the website is is where children can achieve anything they want to be, but in round rock 8% of black students at 11% of hispanic students performed math on a grade level according to the 2021 star performance data, so krista tyler who mocks evangelicals and parents or everyone as a bigot that she doesn't agree with would rather promote law-- includes sections about explicit experiences at 10 years old and gender queer, a memoir that includes photos of sexual acts between a man and a boy. i wanted to make sure i got that right because i want people watching to understand the contrast, you can be all you want to be as a child, but only 8% and 11% of hispanics and black get to do it, we don't have the other numbers from the star data, but this is what's pushed in school versus education by kristin. carley: griff, the father of one child in round rock and he said to fox news the opinions of the teacher who recently spoke at the board meeting illustrates the utter disconnect some teachers have with their communities. parents such as myself are increasingly participating in school board meetings because we see firsthand the detrimental effects that woke us on has had and our schools and children a lot of parents, griff, are upset. >> there's a political dynamic, carly and that is just as a glenn youngkin who turned the republican party into the party of parents because of what we have seen near or where i am in a loud and counting, i think there's a susie and message for democrats if they want to lose it next year's midterm, that famous oh, the places you will go, today is your day, your mansion is waiting so you will get on your way. that way is massive losses because parents have a fundamental right to what their children are taught and it to mock them as brainless bigoted tubes isn't going to play. i'm not even certain-- sure this teacher can fully grasp the political divisiveness that she is created. carley: dr. nicole saphier, what your reaction to this teachers comments to parents? >> the irony is not lost that you have this educator his supposed to be a leader in the community who's going up and reading an elementary level dr. seuss like a poem mocking parents and this is what she's doing in a public forum. imagine what is said behind the scenes by this technology teacher. carly, when you have the skilled workers say filling in potholes because the person filling in the pot holes every day don't actually have a say over which pothole is filled and where. they are the workers. they are there because you have elected officials who have been elected by taxpaying individuals and that's why they are there. the teachers are the exact same way. they aren't there to say their beliefs should be influenced on these children. it's the rights of the parents and taxpaying individuals who elect their leaders and school board members and that's where the content is. by the way, reality is that school board had pulled 11 books because they found there were more sexual pages and information in it then deemed acceptable so therefore the parents are on their side of the right as well as the school board and you just have this one teacher who is going off giving her own beliefs yet she's calling the parents bigots? that in itself is a bigot. carley: this teachers name is krista tyler. she did not respond to fox news respect-- request for comment and a spokesperson for the school district is said staff or out of office for holidays and could not comment. real quick, david, how do you think this ends? >> well, i don't know where it ends, but i think i will take what griff said and what nicole said and we will probably talk about this later today on the 5:00 o'clock show that parents are getting more involved and to nicole's point about what's being done behind closed doors in griff's point about the politics, that plays into discord and americans need to take back their school boards , take these pretended teachers, that's what she really is, like krista tyler out of their schools, so their children have a higher graduation rates, a higher functional education rate and meet actual standards where they are not the people just doing the lower end of jobs for the rest of their lives. carley: there will be a lot of people watching fox news later today because it is a holiday cozying up on their couch watching fox news hopefully, so griff, what can we expect on the big show other than this topic? >> it's not just big, it's enormous, it's huge tonight because it's a lie that big show of 2021. think how big that is, massive pics so massive i'm not even going to tell you what we are talking about. carley: is that because you haven't gotten a run down yet maybe. [laughter] carley: we will certainly be watching griff, dr. nicole saphier, david, and lisa boothe will be on what a great lineup for the last big show of 2021. can't wait for more in 2022 as well. thanks for waking up early. >> thank you. carley: let's turn to chief meteorologist rick with our fox weather forecast. good morning, rick. >> griff made a big promise they are. griff, better figure out what's on the show and deliver. if you think it's been warm across the country this month, look at this in the last seven days 175 broken high records and this month, 6500 daily records for high temperatures, that heat has been across much of the eastern part of the country. if you are at in the west you are thinking we have not had any heat. it's going to get colder, get ready for probably the coldest air of the year across parts of the pacific northwest may be the far northern rockies. we have a lot of snow on the ground and more coming this week with all kinds of winter weather advisories continuing to be in effect and also by the way it's across parts of the far northern plains area and we will see snow there everywhere to the south of that, nothing going on at all. we have storms across the west, across the east we continue to see more broken records. over the next five days, a lot of areas will be breaking daily high temperature records with some damage years pushing in the '90s across parts of west texas. today, looking at 81 is the high-end dallas. 73 el paso. 70 to atlanta. it's absolutely gorgeous except it's december and it's a little too warm. amateurs are around 20 degrees above average. in the pacific northwest this week we might be almost a 40 degrees below average, so a tale of two seasons across the country. carley: without a doubt, 20 degrees above average is no small number. get your sunscreen. thank you. we deck the halls and unwrapped the presence, but what if some of those gifts weren't on your list? what you do with presence you don't want and how to make some money along the way? you don't want to miss this coming up next. ♪♪ we can create a kinder, more inclusive world for the millions of people on the autism spectrum. go to autismspeaks.org. is now a good time for a flare-up? enough, crohn's! for adults with moderate to severe crohn's or ulcerative colitis, stelara® can provide relief, and is the first approved medication to reduce inflammation on and below the surface of the intestine in uc. you, getting on that flight? back off, uc! stelara® may increase your risk of infections, some serious, and cancer. before treatment, get tested for tb. tell your doctor if you have an infection, flu-like symptoms, sores, new skin growths, have had cancer, or if you need a vaccine. pres, a rare, potentially fatal brain condition, may be possible. some serious allergic reactions and lung inflammation can occur. lasting remission can start with stelara®. janssen can help you explore cost support options. switching wireless carriers is easy with xfinity. just lean on our helpful switch squad janssen can help you explore to help you save with xfinity mobile. they can help break up with your current carrier for you and transfer your info to your new phone. giving you a fast and easy experience that can save you hundreds a year on your wireless bill. visit your nearest xfinity store and see how the switch squad can help you switch and save. get $200 off a new eligible 5g phone when you switch to xfinity mobile. talk with our helpful switch squad at your local xfinity store today. will: the halls have been decked, presents unwrapped and now some of us are stuck with gifts we'd rather not get. here now with how we can make the most of the unwanted presence is retail expert carrie riley. carrie, it's something we don't talk about, but maybe we can admit i don't really want this. what we do? >> i know, it is, but sometimes we get a lot of gifts that we aren't necessarily loving, so one particular item that i wanted to make sure you don't throw in the closet is your tech items. a lot of times you might get a tech item whether it's a tablet or laptop and thing i don't know how to work this thing and i will throw it in the closet. don't right now there's a free tech hotline, a tech health hotline and you can call 855-355-tech. they have experts available now through december 31, from 7 to 11:00 p.m. every day to help you connect with your tablets or set of whatever kind of tech item you have, which is great because it frees up time to help your parents with their new tack. [laughter] will: that's helpful. i don't want to be spending the next several days setting up tech, so maybe someone can help me out. are there other options like maybe regifting or selling? >> regifting used to have a bag signal or secondhand gifting. it's very much appreciated. a lot of people find it's great for the environment and it's also-- you know you can save on shipping delays and costs, so regifting is great and there's a lot of secondhand stores online that we really have a surgeon's of popularity. real real and another one is mpv.com. you can actually send them if you have photography equipment or videography equipment and you can sell it on their online platform or you can buy with 30% less than what you would buy for a new, so that's a great option as well. there is a warranty. will: you know, what about the whole gift receipt then? it's almost like people have gotten used to the idea, hey, if you don't want it you can return it. i know my mom always says that like 10 times you can return it if you don't like it, so do i have had that gift receipt? i do usually; right? i don't always if i don't know the store? >> this is exactly when you want to know the retailers return policy because right after christmas, there's a lot of leniency that stores are taking anywhere from one to two weeks out, so you want to check with the retailer and see what is their return policy. some like i said are one to two weeks, but i just found amazon you can go until january 31, and return your items. so, either way if you missed the return policy, though the window there you could risk getting cash back and being stuck with a gift card for that store. will: store credit, right that's always the best, store credit. >> exactly. will: all right, good ideas. return it, regift it or call that tech help flying to figure out how to actually use it. carrie riley, lifestyle expert. thank you for helping us. good to see you. >> thanks for having me. will: don't move, our number four starts right after this with larry kudlow, karl rove, victor davis hanson and carissa thompson get us ready for a big weekend in the nfl. ♪♪ superpowers from a spider bite? 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good for you, sir. check out felicia. hello, felicia. christmas morning. will: and this one from kimberly of her son jared posing with an american hero. proud to honor him and their christmas photo here on fox & friends. carley: great picture. will: festive and patriotic at the same time. again, send in your photos at friendsat foxnews.com. we start with this, holiday plans, travel plans suffering under a pandemic of positive covid tests flights have been canceled, entertainment venues have been canceled, new year's eve festivities on times square scaled-back and now new yorkers are bracing for the vaccine mandate that may or build the put in place starting december 27. look across the landscape across what's happening. 2000 flights canceled this past weekend. 60 plus college basketball games canceled or postponed. hawaii bowl canceled. broadway shows in new york city canceled through the holidays and as i mentioned new year's eve will look much different in times square and across much of your television dial, but not in a nashville tennessee and not here on the fox news channel where you can celebrate new year's with your fox and friends weekend crew carley: that's a plug i can absolutely get behind. i will be there and i can't wait to see you do your thing. you are the perfect people to kick off that celebration, but here in new york city there's something big happening tomorrow. mayor bill de blasio vaccine mandate is going into effect for all private businesses, so if you work in new york city, you have to be vaccinated unless you seek some sort of exemption. if the exemption doesn't get passed, then you can no longer work at a new york city building and you get placed on unpaid leave and this is something that a lot of business owners say will exacerbate the worker shortage. it will have a lot of devastating effects to businesses across the city. i think we have a montage of some new york city business-- we do not have that, but there are some a business owners fired up and one person said we live in america, we are not under china rule. people need to understand that we are a private sector. does he know what the world-- with the word private means? they should not be happening or be allowed. there's so much frustration, todd, and when we talk about where we have come over the past two years as we enter the third year of the coronavirus pandemic and where things started where mandates were reasonable because we didn't know anything about this virus and it was killing sony people. three years later and now, we are talking about a vaccine mandate on private businesses when we know even vaccinated people can spread the virus. todd: these businesses have spent the last two years barely getting by if that, i mean, so many have gone out of business and the ones that have survived are now taking another huge body blow at a time where they need that business. let's take a step back for a moment and think about what this vaccine mandate is going to do, specifically justin new york city, just starting tomorrow. you have a city that is missing workers to begin with. so many didn't return once the pandemic started and obviously we have reported on this for months with the inability of businesses all over the country to hire people, so you have that and now you have a new tranche of people who won't continue with their jobs because of their position on the vaccine. they are now out of the mix. and what will those people not do anymore combined with all the other people that are in the city? spending ancillary dollars in the big apple and that has a cascading effect, not just on the economy and new york city, but as it often times goes the nation, so that to me is the big concern going forward. taking a step back and looking at just what christmas means, what new year's means, what the holiday season means in general, think of what those flight cancellations mean. it means another year of traditions deferred. it means you lose those memories for yet a second year in a row in many cases. christmas isn't something that happens every single day. it's a very special time to be with your family, often times when you have older relatives you think of ear-- to yourself, could it be the last christmas i have with this older relative you put all that together and you realize for some of these people because of the flight delays, because of the pandemic of positive tests you will have a situation where there will be people that won't spend that final christmas with grandma or grandpa and that is sad. that's a sad state of affairs of where we are in 2021. will: todd, to your point, i mean, it's become a cliché, but it's no less true that you can't sacrifice life for fear of dying. you have to go at the business of living and that seems to be what we have forgotten over the two years. we moved on to this as well because senator joe mancini of west virginia is being accused of being the grinch specifically quote stealing christmas and hope from american families after he voted against and said he would not be a yes vote on bill back better. of course, he gained the ire of much of the democratic left, far left across the country now see joe manchin is the grinch, an op-ed in the hill said, miserly mansion stole christmas and hope from american families. that's the headline and inside it's an joe manchin denied struggling families vital economic support which they desperately need and his role as a democrat obstacle on spinning proposal took priority over his compassion to help struggling americans make ends meet including those in his own state. he should be ashamed. but, it seems to me, carly, the mistake might be the wrong word because it's a purposeful spin, piece of spin, is it these commentators attempt to make joe manchin another figure international politics and the point is he represents the people of west virginia and build back better if it was something he thought not helped, but her west virginians and it was his duty to vote against build back better. carley: so there's this business owner named rebecca mcphail, a west virginia manufacturers association president and she spoke to foxbusiness about this very issue and she said, from supply chain and workforce shortages to the rise and cost and services west virginia businesses are struggling as these are the very businesses that rush into action during-- responding to covid adding an additional taxes to small business to pay for programs in the plan would crush their ability to recover and compete in a global economy. polling shows most people in west virginia do not want build back better to pass the citizens of west virginia are by and large not supporters of president biden or things like this massive social spending bill, climate change bill which would fundamentally change how much government would be in people's lives. that's one side of the equation. the other side though, todd, president biden and jen psaki has said they are not done with this and they are going to put the pressure on it joe manchin. they still want to keep talking to him and apparently, joe manchin is open to continuing the conversation before he definitively said no one build back better and he did the interview with bret baier he had delivered a plan, an outline of $1.8 trillion deal that he said he would sign on to. there is some chance that build back better in some form could pass in 2022. .: okay, but you mention the word pressure. how much more pressure and they apply on joe manchin to get the bill they want? i don't think they can do much more to this guy short of doing something illegal and obviously that's not how government works hopefully. taking a step back for a moment and looking what joe manchin did. joe manchin is not going to cave unless the legislation that the president and his allies want to enact does what the american people needed to do, which is help the american people , build roads and bridges, not tree equity and cripple us from inflationary perspective for the rest of our-- the people we are talking to right now, for the rest of our lives much less the lives of our kids and their grandkids. it's a scary proposition , one that democrats in charge went to get through. joe manchin is the last line of defense to that and so i do not see him caving. he stuck to his guns this far. i can't see him caving anytime soon going forward and while everyone wants this new fdr sort of new deal type image, that was a different time. what fdr ultimately enacted did help the nation, but it came at a cost. we cannot afford the cost right now. my kids cannot afford the cost going forward and neither can my grandkids. will? will: yeah, and meanwhile kamala harris amidst an onslaught of news that is negative, highlights her failures, the border crisis or any of the other duties she has been tasked with, she said in the midst of that her biggest failure so far in office has actually been not getting out of washington dc. watch. >> what you think your biggest failure has been at this point? >> to not get out of dc more. [laughter] i mean, and i actually mean that sincerely for a number of reasons. when we came in, we really couldn't travel, you know. a large part of the relationship he and i built has been being together in the same office for hours on end doing zoom or whatever because we cannot get out of dc. people have a right to know and believe that their government actually sees and hears them and my biggest concern is i don't ever want to be in a bubble. carley: yeah-- sorry, go ahead. will: am sorry. i was going to say this is interesting because it's true for one thing. she exists in a bubble as all politicians in washington dc do, but i think there's a hidden escape valve in that statement and that is if the biggest problem is that she might not have gotten out of dc enough and she can always blame that on the pandemic. her failures actually not her fault. it's omicron. carley: such a good point. i also thought tammy bruce who was on with us earlier in the show, she made an excellent point when it comes to what kamala harris said in the interview where she said you know, she could travel and she did travel to places. it was just the places that she wanted to go listen here. >> she's visited, i think, half a dozen countries. she's visited multiple states and cities. usually it's to do campaigning for joe biden or to go help gavin newsom. she's been fine getting out of the white house and getting out of washington dc, but just not on the issues and the framework that the american people care about. she knows it sounds absurd, but this is now the new line they have decided on. as long as we are hearing excuses like this, that the home touch on real issues that are word salads, you know they are still scrambling and there is still chaos of the white house. carley: and you know we will be talking about what we can expect in 2022 and tammy bruce also mentioned something i thought was insightful point and she said that the issues of 2021, they don't stop here because the administration isn't going to change. think about afghanistan, it was not a one off people who are in office when that happened, still are today and this is how they rule. this is how they govern. we can expected to continue with what the issues we see today going into the rest of the administration's term in office the next three years. todd: that sorry not sorry by kamala harris reeks by the lack of accountability and it's like the old interview question like what would you improve about yourself, oh, i need to work less because i work too hard. i think it comes off like that a little bit. it ignores the fact that she did travel like tammy bruce and like you guys mentioned she did travel to what she didn't do is have follow-up for example with the president of guatemala peer she went to guatemala for that photo up and said i'm doing the work here. i'm working on the root causes and then didn't follow up on the root causes or anything involving the border and so if you just do a bunch of photo office, travel is irrelevant. stay at home and try to get some work done and actually do something for our border and the other things you have been tasked with by the biden administration which quite frankly you are not doing. will? will: that's absolutely right in knowing when to share with you a positive story. this morning arnold swarts necker has donated $250,000 to build 25 tiny homes ahead of christmas or veterans living on the street watch. >> i'm ecstatic. i'm really ecstatic and so ecstatic, to me this is the greatest christmas gift. will: he's not the only one giving to veterans this christmas. yesterday dan von gmail made a big donation that kept getting bigger. live on fox & friends weekend, watch the new nation grow. >> we wanted to do a special gift as you see for my friends who provide scholarship so i said i would do $10000 donation, but i changed my mind and i want to do 15000. >> you and your family are such a blessing to so many, so thank you. >> i think 25 is a nice round number like 25. >> i tell you what, we will do 25. rick, you win, i'm going to do 25. there you go, buddy. let's do 25,025,000 it is. will: going from $10000 to $25000 donation, folds of owner provides educational opportunities, scholarships to families of fallen disabled servicemembers and we spoke a little bit earlier this morning carly and todd, about the work tunnel to towers is doing to help provide not just tiny homes, but community for homeless veterans. carley: there are so many good people out there. todd: will, i don't know about carly but you and i have been in the situation where we do that charity event where you do the auction and the thing keeps going up and people feel the pressure from the people in the room to go up with the money and here's a situation where dan fought the-- felt the pressure of the entire nation to go up and how could he not because it's amazing because. carley: is from the heart for him. will: great stuff. from a wave of retirement to party in fighting the new year could bring new troubles to the democrats. karl rove breaking down what we can expect from washington in 2022. hi. so you're the scientist here. does my aveeno® daily moisturizer really make my dry skin healthier in one day? 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(cheers) xfinity brought us together, after all! power your whole home this holiday with wifi speeds faster than a gig. click, call, or visit a store today. sing 2 carley: nearly 2000 democrats hope of maintaining control of the house next year, this is the party remains divided with the progress of it lashing out at senator mansion for rejecting joe biden's spending plan and leaving his agenda stalled. what does this mean for capitol hill in 2022? let's ask fox news contributor karl rove. good morning america christmas. >> thank you. merry christmas. carley: there are a lot of things democrats have to worry about going into the new year and one of them are all these retirements happening just ahead of the midterm elections. >> there are a lot of retirements and what's interesting to me is three of the retirements are chairs of committee, chairman of the transportation committee, budget committee, science committee, clearly a sign-- if you are a chairman, for most people in congress, that's the highest point in what they are doing is walking away because democrats understand they will begin the minority and these people are not going to be chairman again for four, six, eight years, god knows how long so senior democratic leave years-- leaders deputy whip in a swing district in florida is pulling the record. one of the cardinals, these are the people on the appropriations committee who chair a subcommittee, have enormous sway over parts of the budget, california lucille is leaving. we also have the former chairman of the democratic congressional campaign committee of illinois, here is someone who knows politics and she's getting out. butterfield, former chair of the congressional black caucus is leaving. we have four people running for the senate. if they are going to have a bad election year at least go for an open senate seat. if they lose they are out of politics and if they win they don't have to run for another six years and there is someone saying i would rather run for la mayor. some said i'm running for the nomination maryland attorney general then rather than run again. that's a sign that they understand what will happen which democrats will lose control of the house. carley: we heard the biden administration is still in talks with senator mansion on build back better even though he said he is a know what this time. they are still putting the pressure on him. what happens next year? do you think they can get anything done on this front? >> no, they will get anything done. he's been very quick about this and if they wrote a bill that would get joe mansions vote and kristen cinemas about in all likelihood they would have serious perfection on the far left of their party because the progressive caucus won't stand for just a little way and that's way they wanted the whole enchilada. they had every bit of that bill stuffed with welfare expansion, expansion of the welfare state and in order to hide the because they made the expansions to the welfare state last between one and six years paid for with 10 years of revenue so anyone who looks at that says it's a financial disaster and something we can afford as a country. we don't want the government to be growing that big and take over so many things. no, they will get it done. that has not stopped them from attacking joe manchin. it's unbelievable. if you wanted to get something done, would you have one of the rising stars in the democratic caucus in the house, congressman bowman of new york call him a racist? saying he's a white man it doesn't care about what-- black people or latinos. the leader of the house of the progressive caucus called him a liar and a traitor. president biden referred to him in a news conference as a deceptive which had to be walked back later by jen psaki and aoc said he misled the president and lied to the president. the white house had to deny it took place, but these attacks on joe manchin will do no good for the democratic caucus and for every action of a politics there's an opposite and opposing reaction and among centrist democrats they will say really, that's how they treat us, the people that gave them the majority, the progressives hate us, but little less because we-- may disagree with them, that doesn't make for a good caucus. carley: really, we talked about the executive branch. talking about kamala harris this morning. is there anything she can do to write the ship her poll numbers are in the tank, down the tubes, however you want to describe it they are low and she's speaking out to the media and her people say she's not happy. >> well, there's something she could do to right the ship and that's to do a confident job, but thus far whether it's immigration or voting rights or anything else they have given her she's been incompetent. i love your segment on her earlier. in politics some politicians have a tell, just like in poker, you look for that little thing that indicates there's a weakness. hers is the cackle. whenever she goes and laughs inappropriately in the middle of an answer at the start of an answer, it means she's really nervous because she knows she doesn't have a good answer and the question was have you done anything wrong and she started to laugh and said well, i didn't get out of washington enough. no, no, you didn't get your job done. you didn't do anything on immigration, nothing on voting rights that made anything political horse sense and what else have you done that's been useful to the country? this woman's problem is not getting out of washington, it's staying in washington and getting her job done confidently. carley: thank you for joining us. >> thanks for interviewing me rather than those two mugs you got there. carley: i had to fight them to get this interview. kidding. lucky to have it. see you, carl. >> thank you. carley: hundreds of schools are returning to remote after the holidays, but some mental health experts warn that will do so much more harm than good. victor davis hanson reacts coming up. ♪♪ i may have moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis. or psoriatic arthritis. but we are so much more. we're team players and artists. designers and do-it-yourselfers. parents and friends. if joint pain is getting in the way of who you are, it's time to talk to your doctor about enbrel. enbrel helps relieve joint pain, and helps stop permanent joint damage. plus enbrel helps skin get clearer in psoriatic arthritis. ask your doctor about enbrel, so you can get back to your true self. play ball! enbrel may lower your ability to fight infections. serious, sometimes fatal events including infections, tuberculosis, lymphoma, other cancers, nervous system and blood disorders and allergic reactions have occurred. tell your doctor if you've been someplace where fungal infections are common. or if you're prone to infections, have cuts or sores, have had hepatitis b, have been treated for heart failure, or if you have persistent fever, bruising, bleeding or paleness. don't start enbrel if you have an infection like the flu. visit enbrel.com to see how your joint damage could progress. enbrel. eligible patients may pay as little as $5 per month. >> learning caused a lot of problems online. not only academic development, but also mental health and even physical health. >> those with hearing loss are unable to access and for those who may have blindness or low-vision concern, sitting in front of a tiny screen is not the same. todd: mental health experts warning about the impact of a virtual learning if nearly 300 schools cancel in-person classes due to colored concerns. hoover institution senior fellow victor davis hanson joins us. thank you for being here. merry christmas. these numbers are not very jolly and in fact these numbers are frightening. 31% jump in mental health er visits among kids age 12 to 17 and then there's this one, this is a punch in the gut, 51% jump in er visits among girls for suspected suicide attempts. victor, what becomes of this covert generation of kids when they become adults and have the future of our country on their shoulders? >> you had the right word there with generation because we are now going to be into maybe the third year of this and we are going to have six -year-olds that have never been to school and a seven -year-olds and eight -year-olds, so i think the damage is geometric. it's not arithmetic, it's cumulative speaking of the grandfather was special needs-- granddaughter, when you see her and see the damage that's happened for two years of being at home, this is aside from spousal abuse, drug abuse, suicides and the detriment to the workforce. we are inculcating a whole generation that you stay home, you don't interact, you don't work and then we are bewildered we have a labor shortage, but we all want to eat we all want to have medical protection, but someone is doing that someone is going out there saying despite the omicron variant we will go out and keep the country running and that includes education and notice none of our experts ever talk about a cost-benefit analysis. these are the dangers of the omicron and these are the dangers of what you just listed and in addition, ms. cancer screenings, mammograms, prostate exams, all of that and we are starting into get into cases aside from the psychological damage and then there's the medical profession. we get such mixed signals, the president said vaccination, vaccination, masking, mass, but scientists tell us cloth that masks are inadequate, unless you have a n and 95 mask you really won't get protected that much and even people with 35, 35% we are told people with two vaccinations still can get omicron and even people with boosters are less likely to be hospitalized and injured , they are sick, but they can get it so we need someone to come out and say, this is what we know this is what we don't know and this is the cost benefit analysis and then talk to us as adults rather than talk down and say we will shut down the schools, omicron is the next essential danger that can kill us, all of that paranoia does more damage than just being honest with the american people and give us the facts as they know them at this point, but we are treated like children. todd: we have about a minute left. why is it the pushback from parents and a psychiatrist been to undo these as school closures and this overall push to online versus in person learning? >> i think you know the answer that the media and a lot of people in politics have created an environment and landscape went to talk as you and i have just done is somehow subversive or antiscience or anti- vaccination and so people are silenced. the teachers union has played a role in all of this. they've never come out that we have got to get back to work and take chances where people on the front lines just like er workers and we can't let a generation of children be destroyed a psychologically or even physically, but they have been silent. they need to step forward. we all have to say, this is a free society and we welcome free debate discourse and we aren't going to be bullied as if we are in a totalitarian country. we are not in yet we can't talk honestly about the cost and the benefits of all these decisions. todd: victor davis hanson, we appreciate your time on the day after christmas. thank you for your insight. have a great rest of your sunday. >> thank you. todd: as millions of americans celebrate the extended student loan pause, dirty job start micro is asking why sony americans are taking out those loans in the first place. we will talk about the good high paying jobs that do not require a degree with larry kudlow he's a still ahead. ♪♪ i'm james corden and i'm here to tell people that ww is getting even more personal. keep on shopping. ignore us. i've lost, like, 28 pounds. you look great! wow. i love that my clothes fit better. but i just love ice cream a little bit more than that. the new ww personalpoints program is particular to you. so what kind of foods do you like? 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the economy is wide open >> he's extending the pause, so that's actually a good thing, i mean, i don't think that the rest of the country should have to pay-- it's roughly 70, 75% of the country would have to finance 30 some odd percent of those that have a quote unquote debt repayment problem and even that debt repayment problem can be broken down, college graduate school and so forth and so on, so he extended the pause and i got to give him a little quick hat tip here on christmas because that is what we wanted. eventually, i think we should reform the entire system. todd: we need to make it so college is not the only answer. there's a lot of other options out there. meantime, could president trump's christmas message be a sign he will run for office again? here's the message, merry christmas to all. pretty benign, but: we will make america great again. larry, you know him. how do you read that? >> i loved it. in fact,-- excuse me-- sunday morning futures filling in for maria, i'm going to lead with a written on this subject, his thanksgiving statement very very optimistic about america coming back. his christmas statement, very very optimistic. it is donald trump at his best and it's providing just the kind of leadership that we need, just the kind of leadership. biden gives something press conference the other day, talking about a hard cold winter and death and all of the stuff that stuff drives me crazy. i think it drives most americans crazy. donald trump on the other hand is giving us optimistic leadership. good for him, my former boss. what i would say to him is a stay on message, sir. stay on message. you got it right. will: you mentioned it, you will host sunday morning futures today filling in for maria. we know you had that rift coming up, what else can we expect from the program today? >> we are going to have a good interview with former secretary of state mike pompeo. just today vladimir putin in russia starts making some statements about military retribution if we can't figure it out. i think america's been very wussy not tough enough, america first. we have my great friend senator kevin kramer will be on to talk about the attack on fossil fuels and oil and where we are going in the budget. i mean, i think this bbb thing is absolutely dead, save america, killed the bill. jim jordan will talk about the cultural breakdown in this country and my pal steve miller is going to talk about why in less than one year, in less than one year joe biden has completely lost the confidence of this country in less than one year let me just say we have to fight inflation, we must fight inflation, joe manchin is completely right on this. unfortunately, because it's behind the eight ball federal reserve, the inflation side may turn into a recession sometime in the next 18 months. that's an issue. that's a tricky issue. carley: we are larry summers say the same thing. big show ahead for you. larry kudlow, thank you for joining us. can't wait to tune in. >> thank you. merry christmas. todd: thanks, larry. carley: to this, let it snow as americans and more than 20 states saw a white christmas yesterday, fresh flakes of snow falling on the northeast, pacific northwest and even some parts of california, nevada, new mexico and arizona. let's turn to cheat me are all just with our fox weather forecast. good morning, rick. statement good morning. isn't that the kind of nice white christmas you like, you get the mood and then it's gone and it doesn't stick with you to shovel it off. that's what a lot of people saw. really warm temperatures for the most part keeping really any significant snowfall from anywhere except across the west we will continue to see 30 degrees in seattle. snow in seattle, down at sea level. that doesn't happen that often. that said, the warmth is out there across much of the east. over the next five days, a lot of places will break records again including areas of west texas, amarillo, has not seen rain in over two and half months and along with that dry conditions it will be windy today and tomorrow and we have got continued to fire threats across that area. we have seen significant fires across the plains and we have another couple days of that. we had one storm moving in across parts of the northeast and that's out. that brought that little bit of snow. there will be another little system developing across parts of the great lakes. watch what happens over the next couple of days with future track seen the first batch of rain moving tomorrow morning, rain mixed with snow and another batch of that for tuesday night. we will watch for couple of chances across the interior sections, mostly rain. unsettled more rain, more snow and they desperately needed and they are getting a lot of it. will: thank you. todd: obviously we are focused on the weather across the country because this-- there's football to be played today with biggest nfl games on fox and our friend charissa thompson. well, what you think the chances are she picks the giants? will: who cares. ♪♪ these are the faces of listerine. the face of millions of germs zapped in seconds. the face of clean. the face of whoa! some are of intensity, others joy. all are of... various: ahhh... listerine. feel the whoa! a must in your medicine cabinet! less sick days! cold coming on? zicam is the #1 cold shortening brand! highly recommend it! zifans love zicam's unique zinc formula. it shortens colds! zicam. zinc that cold! will: week 16 of the nfl season and fox has a slate of mutts to see match ups that you don't want to miss in here to break it down is the host of fox nfl kickoff, charissa thompson. great to see you. >> great to see you. will: berry for stuff-- festive in your read. i made a joke during commercial, who cares about the giants. >> i heard you. will: it was not about you, carissa. i didn't want you to misunderstand that. i mean, it's about the giants, we will get to them in a moment. the rams and vikings is a good game my buddy pete hegseth has something on the line as a vikings fan. >> i never take anything you say personally, well. i'm going with the rams even though the vikings play good football as of late they are winners or two straight and also lead the league in sacks so looking for matt stafford to stay upright today. his line will need to go to work because the team brings a lot of pressure, but the rams will clinch a playoff today with a win. aaron donald on the other side of the ball also playing good football with the defense finding their rhythm. i like the rams. it will be a close game so i only like them by three points. will: vikings need that. okay, let's deal with the giants. i understand, big fan base, i mean, giants are looking ahead to 2022 already, but the eagles are also in the playoff hunt. >> they are and jake is actually making his first nfl career start for the giants. it's a lost season for them sitting at four and 10, but the eagles are running the ball great over 200 rushing yards and four of the last five games and jim is a big reason for that playing good football so i like the eagles by seven. will: okay and then you have the liens at the falcons. >> you can also say who cares and this one, but that's only because the liens are without jared golfed because of covid. although, i laugh and yet i'm losing in my standings here on our kickoff show because i picked the arizona cardinals to beat the lions last week and i lost that bet. i thought that was my lock of the week, but i'm going with the falcons to beat the liens this week by seven and i told you last week we were giving away a house. louisa from oklahoma won the house, unbelievable. she also had an option to take the cash if she already had a house and she did that so she's $250,000 richer and she will use that extra cash to pay off the mortgage of her current house. we are giving away winds and money over here. will: not all talk, gave away a house and as you were talking there's another $100,000 up before steak this week, so clearly if you are watching at home you can win. >> if louise was any indication you can be richer with $100,000 of terry bradshaw's money. we've given away over $6 million so far this year. fox bet super six. will: i was wrong about the cardinals last night, so that makes two of us. we are together. >> look at this, simpatico. will: i like it. i will see-- we make it a date to see each other again next weekend. >> you got it. will: more "fox & friends" omits away. ♪♪ >> new year's eve live from nashville. and we hope that you will join us right here on fox news channel. >> new year's eve sounds like a really good idea. and everybody, we are hoping that you have a fantastic sunday. i will see you tomorrow morning bright and early at 4:00 a.m. go have a great sunday, everyone. ♪ ♪ ♪ merry christmas, everyone. welcome, i am larry filling in for maria. it has not been a great year for our country. save america and kill the bill is one of the greater things that happened. i'm an optimist and i believe it's conservative values will defeat joe biden's transformational drive. in just moments we are going