ahead. >> congress for extending bush tax cuts in time. why this year you may have to wait for a tax refund because they procrastinated and signed that i think this on december 17th. "fox & friends" begins right now. ♪ >> good morning everyone, welcome in to "fox & friends" on this sunday morning, that's alisyn camerota, i'm clayton morris. we almost didn't have our friend and little buddy, dave briggs because someone didn't pay attention to the story we ran yesterday about the iphone and alarm setting. >> i didn't. >> this man, this man. >> listen, it's real people. this is a real glitch. you need a backup alarm and i plead with you, you'll not make it to work tomorrow if you don't set a backup. my alarm went off on new years day and i assumed i was all good on january 2ndments steven baldwin said his didn't go off. it's an issue. >> how much later did your alarm go off. it didn't went off. i woke up an hour and a half late and i felt so rested that i knew it must be the wrong time. i looked at my watch, i thought, oh, boy, so, if i stink this morning, my apologies, no shower. >> we're just happy you're here sort of at the moment. thank goodness you made it. >> let's get right to the news. this wednesday, congress will convene with new leadership and a republican controlled house, two big issues, at the very start, spending of course and then the massive national debt, but can they find common ground to compromise? >> caroline shively's iphone went off and she's live in washington with more. good morning, caroline. >> good morning, guys, as you said, it's a whole new congress this week, with republicans taking control in the house and two major fights brewing on capitol hill. both of them are about your money of the the first fight will be next month and congress will have to pass a massive spending bill to keep the government running. some house republicans say they plan to cut discretionary domestic spending by 100 billion dollars, billion with a b. they have to find out what to cut. they've been on four years and they feel pressure with voters aligned with the tea party. john boehner will be leading them in the house and he has work cut out for him. not only negotiating with democrats, but 241 members in line. so that's challenge number one. the bigger one comes this spring when they have to vote on raising the debt ceiling. take a look at the number. 14.3 trillion dollars and right now we're already the a 13.9 trillion and now, between right now, ap when you get up for work tomorrow, and the debt will have grown by 4 billion dollars. nobody wants to raise the cap and alternatives spreading by unprecedented levels. dave, alisyn and clayton, to you. >> that's going to be an interesting one. >> thank you, caroline. >> president obama will have a busy week and he in his saturday radio address after the new year talking about jobs. the focus this time around is jobs, if we haven't heard this before, take a listen. >> our most important task now is to get that recovery going, as president, in my commitment to you, do everything to make sure our economy is growing, strengthen our middle class and create jobs. that's my resolution this coming year. >> if you're having deja vu all over again, he's said it, i think even back to the campaign trail. >> i'm proposing a number of steps that we should take immediately to stabilize our financial system, provide relief to the families and communities, and help struggling home owners. it's a plan that begins with one word that's on everybody's mind and it's easy to spell, j-o-b-s. jobs. we've got to work on jobs. we cannot hang back and hope for the best when we've seen the kinds of job losses we've seen over the last year. i am not interested in taking a wait and see approach when it comes to creating jobs. what i'm interested in is taking action right now to help businesses create jobs right now, in the near term and we now have to pivot and focus on jobs and growth, jump starting the economy so that we actually start making a dent in the unemployment rate and we are kwepg ourselves so we can compete in the 21st century. >> jobs and easy to spell, just not easy to accomplish in this economy. so how will he get it done and how will he get it done with republican control in the house? that's the other question, they don't want to increase spending, they want to cut spending and he likes to add projects and stimulus spending. how do you hope to accomplish his agenda and the republicans in the house? >> people say this yesterday and i have tweeted something out about andrew cuomo's speech yesterday and a lot of people say they're tired of the inspiring rhetoric, show me, like missouri the show me state and actions speak louder than words. if he's committed to working on a bipartisan basis, they want to see it, see those guys playing golf, having meetings on a regular basis. >> did you say we want to see them playing golf. >> i'd like to see them playing golf. >> boehner and-- >> they're talking, i like that. they did accomplish a lot during the lame duck session, but it was late. as you recall, the tax, big debate over whether or not to extend the bush era tax cuts took a long time to resolve, therefore, if you want a tax refund, if you're one of the 50 million taxpayers who actually filed early and who is not a procrastinator, you will have to wait because it will take a long time for the irs to get their ducks in a row. >> here is the problem, 50 million taxpayers who itemize, really only for those who itemize. if you want some of them, irs won't be able to handle your filing until a few months into the process. so much so that turbo-tax, if you file electronically and do it on your computer they're telling customers you can go ahead and file as early as january 6th, we'll hold your taxes though and we won't submit it to the irs until they let us know that we're ready for them. >> this doesn't affect a tremendous amount of people in terms of 300 million here, but 9 million people file early in this country and those people will be affected here, 9 million so still a large number and you know, it's not an enormous amount. >> look, here is the deal. >> you'll get your money. >> if you wait until april 15th at midnight, you're fine, okay? so procrastinators unite today. feel good about this, you're just fine and this is a lesson i believe to the rest of you. >> put it on. >> put it on. are you an early filer. >> come on, you know about thor. >> and your wife handles it all. >> that's exactly right. >> i used to file early, i used to get excited okay, in january, get it done. >> she's right procrastinate, that's a lesson. thank you for being slow. >> why do today if you can put off what you can do tomorrow. >> and while you were sleeping, homeland security secretary janet napolitano speaking out about the terror attack in egypt and nigeria, terrible tragedy and our hearts go out to those injured and we don't have any information, suggesting a link between any of those attacks, one thing i think we live in a world and terrorism is part of the environment, unformer, and it's something we need to be thinking about, we need to be planning for. and fox news, fbi investigators have been dispatched to help with evidence collection in that blast that killed 30 people. a sheriff's deputy was shot in ohio after a stand off with a gunman and plotting for the gunfire in the complex. and the deputy never had an opportunity to return fire or take coverage from the gunman, she died at the scene. the sheriff would not release the name of the man shot and killed during the standoff and one sheriff was wounded and is still in the hospital. and the search for the person who killed at the hospital, and prompting a lockdown for than three hours. took dozens of officers to search 200 rooms for the attacker, no suspect was found. the employee was killed in an area the patients don't have access to, police believe he knew his killer. a 74-year-old woman from missouri died yesterday, nearly 24 hours after a tornado tore through her at that trailer. and the morning sun, says she was entertaining a friend when the twister hit. >> my neve knew and his friends were outside and said the house was exploded down into the road and my mom and friend were in the house. >> the storm killed seven people in total and leveled hundreds of buildings and homes. aen this new video showed all that's left of the zone outside of st. louis. missouri's governor jay nixon surveyed the damage in the stated and he and the governor of arkansas showed the aid to cleanup. . >> let's check with rick reichmuth to tell us about some of the wild weather, we're hearing the reports, warmer than normal weather, is that why it happened? >> warmer across the east and colder across the west and that moved, for the problems, kind of done now and the worst is completely over and you can see the warm air, 50 in new york city, and 60 in raleigh and you can see the dividing line of temperatures right now and causing the problem and the front moving through, behind it, windy conditions into the northern plains and felt like minus 17 and minus 10 in minneapolis and the cold air settled in here and not going to change much for a lot of the week and the cold temps are going to stay in place and this is the front that brought the damage this week and is moving across florida today, this morning at least, but once the front is gone. it's going to calm down seniorbly across a lot of the east, toward the west, another system moving in and bringing heavy rainfall, two to three inches across the mountain areas and north of l.a. and that will spread down to the l.a. basin today and that will cause problems as well. in general, guys, a much more calm pattern setting up the next few days. here is your high temps, cold towards the north and tampa, you're going to warm up and feel a little more normal and here is your day tomorrow. looks the same as today. >> rick, good to have you back and the calm weather as well. >> coming up on the show, the new congress heads to washington and there's controversy. senate democrats may be trying to block republicans ability to disagree. is bipartisanship already out the window. a fair and balanced debate next. >> secretary of state, and why is secretary of state shaking hands. and hugo chavez, she doesn't look like she wants to. what do you have on your hand. [ male announcer ] 100 potato chips or 100 pringles. both cost the same, but only the pringles superstack can makes everything pop! ♪ hey [ male announcer ] same cost but a lot more fun. everything pops with the pringles superstack can! >> well, even though democrats didn't lose the senate in the mid term elections, they did lose their ability to block a republican filibuster by getting 60 votes and now many want to abolish the filibuster altogether and removing the republicans only chance to approve legislation. will that get things done or create more divide. joining me former pollster, and norm coleman, good morning, gentlemen, happy new year. >> happy new year. >> senator, start with you. what do you think of this so-called filibuster reform? >> this is a bi-annual rite of passage. the filibuster protects the rights of minorities and what it does, promotes bipartisan consensus. they're talking about-- some of them talking about going back to the hal xeon days and look at health care. doug you've commented on many occasions it's a bad idea when one side stuffs the rules down the throats of the other side. if they attempt to change it i think it will have a terribly impact. >> and i want to interrupt to tell what the senator is it talking about. senator tom udahl says, we don't want to give the minority to block the majority, and louse things up. what do you think? >> well, i think as senator coleman's, one of his predecessors, the esteemed walter mondale said in new york times editorial, it's long overdue and i think we live with the consensus of the governed and the idea that an anonymous whole could be put on a consensus, if you could filibuster on the floor of the senate, is wrong and senator coleman he think you hope that the republicans win in 2012 would control the senate and if they do, my attitude, if they get rid of the filibuster and you guys get control, you should be able to legislate, majority wins. i think frankly the time is long overdue to end an antiquated process that retards rather than advances democrat city. >> what do you think. >> if republicans win in 2012, and the democrats can say this with as a terrible idea. >> they'd be wrong if they do it. >> and president obama says this is the most productive congress and in the history of congress and folks are talking about can changing something that really does promote bipartisan consensus. that's what the country needs, if they go this way, they'll tear this apart. not only does the institution suffer, but america suffers. >> does it promote consensus or gridlock. i think the filibuster, it's a device they use when they want to solve it. >> well, absolutely. it promotes gridlock, it promotes secrecy and doesn't encourage people to come together as they used to in the congress and the a senate to promote broad based policies that have widespread support. they need people like norm coleman who worked across the aisle. rather than they could put a hold on it and block it. the fact that we haven't been able to appoint, one of the reasons why the rules of senate are unfortunately and sadly antiquated. senator what do you think. >> ali. >> i don't think you would say that gridlock is it a good idea, but-- >> that's the point. our founders understood that. sometimes it's okay it step back and not do something. a gridlock and we haven't obama care and the democrats wouldn't be in the place they found themselves in december. and you reflect it a bit more and work cross the aisle. if you make the majority house, you'll destroy not only the confusion, but the balance that our founders created and being nor reflective and trying to get the folks on the other side of the aisle to join you. that's the importance of needing something more than a majority. >> doug, the last word. >> my sense, this is about individuals and senators and ways of governing and doing what the american people want, which is to promote bipartisanship not allowing honest individuals to hold up the works of progress in terms of legislation. >> we are going to heat things up. a blizzard walloped the east coast, but you may hear more and more about global warming. why the pr campaign is heating up on that and take a look at this, cars spinning out of control, creating a 20-car pileup. we'll tell you where. >> welcome back to "fox & friends." a couple of quick headlines for you now. an n.a.t.o. service member has been killed during an insurgent attack in afghanistan. the second service member to be killed there so far this year. 2010 was the bloodiest year for n.a.t.o. service members with two killed. a pilot causes a brief scare in the capital. the peedmont airlines flight lost contact when one of the pilots accidentally turned to the wrong frequency, whoops. alisyn. >> all right, 2010 was the year that americans cooled off about global warming. with climate gate and the death of the cap and trade bill, scientists and lawmakers have not given up. they have heated up their public relations efforts and will it have any effect in 2011 or for that matter when it's time to head back to the polls. we're joined by kohl license and doug schoen. they recognize that americans have grown more skeptical about global warming. >> and the numbers from 71% to 56% believing in it, indicating the degree of skepticism is growing and i think that's the result of a free and fair debate that's been held in the public arena about what constitutes global waing, is it happening and what indeed are the climatic conditions we're facing. i think that's to the good and that's healthy. i'm agnostic because i think the science is unclear and we do better legislating after we know the fact rather than legislating based on ideology based on facts or opinions masquerading as facts. >> and yet, senator, nasa put out a statement, saying that 2010 was the hottest year on record. so, obviously, something is being lost in the pr campaign, should scientists be doing more. >> well, that, by the way, to the folks on all of those, stranded in ground because they couldn't get back for christmas break because of the incredible snowstorm. the problem that you had is not just, you know, what's the-- what's global warming and what caused it, it's the solutions talked about. the solutions that are the mother of all economic redistribution plans and the solutions are cutting economic growth and cutting industrial output which means killing jobs and the president said his priority this year is to grow jobs. bringen 0 the debate. cap and tax, the democrat solution to global warming was one of those that resulted in big republican majorities in november. and talk to joe manchin, senator from west virginia about the global warming and solutions to it. i'm a green conservative, i want the air to be green and want clean water. and things that kill growth, redistribute income, they're unacceptable for most americans. >> senator, since you do believe, i think you believe, correct me if i'm wrong, in climate change or global warming, then what is the solution? >> i believe that putting more carbon into the air is going to have an impact, but there are solutions. let's talk about nuclear energy, the left doesn't want to do that. let's talk about ending independence on foreign oil and flex fuel cars and do things that cut our use of oil. there are a lot of solutions out there. on the one hand, the left talks about global warming and they fight efforts to really embrace nuclear energy, and so, i think there's a little disingenuous going on here, global warming has become an excuse, for redistributing economic income, for you know, telling people, get used to being colder, and by the way, minnesota, that's a big issue, and ultimately for impacting jobs, yeah, there are some channels out there. let's figure out a way to address them without stifling america's output and kind of limiting the economic power that this nation has always had. >> doug what on that, the senator brings in a lot of issues that the left is being disingenuous. >> i'm disturbed, senator coleman was talking about bipartisanship and he knows a lot of democrats have been willing to embrace nuclear energy, have been willing to embrace different schemes to promote alternative energy, and to break our dependence on foreign oil and this bears out the need for bipartisan energy independence programs that seengs to bridge the divide and seeks to do something we haven't done which is to kcome together for solutions. >> the house will be holding many hearings on this matter and we'll see what happens. thanks so much for joining us. >> thank you. >> all right. meanwhile, secretary clinton schmoozing with the enemy and why is our secretary of state shaking hands with a man who speaks out repeatedly against the united states? and they're willing to sacrifice their lives for us and finally getting r and r and you can help get one of our brave service members a well-deserved vacation. and did you eat too much, drink too much, spend too much time online, yes, clayton morris, i'm talking to you. >> huh. >>. >> do you lack the willpower to stay away from these things. how people are sourcing out their self-control. ♪ gecko: good news sir, i just got an email from the office and word is people really love our claims service. gecko: 'specially the auto repair xpress. repairs are fast and they're guaranteed for as long as you own your car. boss: hey, that's great! is this your phone? gecko: yeah, 'course. boss: but...where do you put...i mean how do you...carry... waitress: here you go. boss: thanks! gecko: no, no i got it, sir. anncr: geico. 15 minutes could save you 15% or more on car insurance. ♪ >> all right. welcome back to "fox & friends," boy, do we rely on things like technology waking yourself up in the morning. >> fails you. >> apparently now we're also turning to technology to control our own impulse control. yes, we can't control things ourselves, so we need technology to step in, don't we, clayton. >> we feature a number of apps on my tech show, one of which, losing weight and we rely on them to lose weight. >> and does it work out for you? >> one of our bosses lost 20 pounds. >> he said what's your secret. >> loses an app and lost 20 pounds by cataloging calories and now it's beyond apps and now people are doing it for software and their cars, and how about using gps in your car and music to stop you from speeding. think about this, you listen to your jam, bruce springsteen, ali, riding along and spreading to bruce, the music is going to start to slow down and bruce will sound weird to you over the speed limit and when the music stops altogether. >> and you shut the car off. that's an interesting one. many of them, some people can't resist logging on to the internet constantly not that i'm pointing fingers at any of my co-hosts, there's an app that blocks the-- i don't know if it's an app, it's technology that will keep you off the internet in two hour chunks and won't allow you to text while driving, that's an important one. >> this next one is surprising because you've heard about the devices that won't allow you to start your car unless you breathe into a breathalyzer, sure, the state requires those on folks with dui's, but the real interesting part of that is. one company says between 5 and 7% of the people that install these devices are doing it voluntarily. they're asking for that device. which actually sounds like a fantastic idea if you are a parent and want to install that on your kids car. kind of a no-brainer. >> like this one. the not text and drive device for the car that deactivates texting on the phone while driving and parents installing it and thinking it's great and the gps one, and all of these people have gps into it and gyroscopes and know if you're travelling fast. and over 10 miles per hour, shutting off the phone, you cannot text. >> that one is just not parents installing it for kids, that's people installing it on their own phone. they say i can't control my ability, my desire to text while driving, so please do it for me. >> good for them. i think if you can't do it. it's good to outsource the control and do it. this one is good for new year's eve if you're somebody who perhaps dials too much. can cut off the access to phone numbers. if you know you're going out and don't want to be, say, heckling your boss, take that phone number out. >> and we've seen nike plus technology, a little dongel that goes in a show and pairs with your iphone and track how many calories you're burning, and this a huge social network, nike and adidias in the process with the "my coach" device and feeds information about your form and speed while exercising. >> wait a minute does it talk to you. >> yes, it coaches you. actually gives you tips about your speed and your form. >> oh, get off the sofa, walk away from the-- refrigerator. >> and working out. >> one of the ones we featured on my tech show a few months ago, people sit down on the computer and lack focus, you want to sit down and write a novel or long e-mail, what do you do, you sit there and pop over and pop over to another thing, back and forth and this program shuts everything off in the background and makes your computer like one white screen with a curser, blinking like in the '80s with a dot. if you want to go to the internet you have to shut the program down. >> is this great or sad? we need the internet to control our impulses, friends@foxnews.com and all of us on twitter. >> i'll be on. >> no impulse control. >> the headlines, secretary of state hillary clinton and venezuelan president hugo chavez apparently setting their diplomatic differences aside for at least one night. these new photos, show the two shaking hands, and chatting at the inauguration of brazil's new president last night and he relations of course in the u.s. and venezuela have been strained for years and washington revoked the ambassador's visa following chavez's refusal to accept the nomination of the new ambassador to caracas. and fbi and police in houston are after a suspect after a bank robbery on new years avenue. two suspects are held on 13 million dollars bail each, they took ten people hostage and assaulted a bang manager when he would not open the vault. after five hours, the hostages were released and suspects taken into custody. it could be the start of a new political era, several governors officially taking office in states that took off yesterday and including rick snyder in michigan. and there was a mood in mexico for susanna martinez, the first hispanic female governor. and in new york, surrounded by family and girlfriend, and cuomo wasted no time, at least in his new post, holding the first cabinet meeting just moments after his inauguration. >> people were star struck by sandra lee. that's who they came to lee, says the new york times. >> we love her her, she's a friend of our friend show. and trying to figure out how an island of adventure ride caught fire at a universal theme park. believed to have started on the "dudley do right" flume. >> some of the spoke and teams did exactly what they were supposed to do. they shut the ride down and-- >> we're hearing some wonderful things, "dudley do right" impersonations and the ride is closed and fortunately no one was injured. dave, tell us about sports. >> temperatures at heinz field in the low 50's for the winter classic, it was raining and the game was supposed to be at one and moved up to eight o'clock. alexander with the puck and see crosby there. and there he is outside in the rain and the factor clearly wasn't the rain. he's getting-- hits it up the ice on a break away. malkin for the goal. penns up one and second game tied, flurry misplaced it and they put the puck into a wide open net washington 2-1 lead and win 3-1. a huge win for the washington capitals and you can see how emotional this was. everyone said the eight o'clock start time did not hurt the atmosphere, probably urt had the ratings though. up next, bob stoops in his 8th bcs goal against u-conn hoping to pull off the upset in their first ever bcs goal. demarco murray continuing to rack up the numbers for the sooners. 14-0. landry jones, what a day. and they find kenny for the 59 yard touchdown. ou up 27-10 in possession and u-conn looking to answer back, no, sir, and that tipped into the hands of fleming that takes off. and u-conn would never recover. stoops gets the gatorade back. 48-20. and the oldest game in the country, rose bowl. granddaddy of them all. unbeaten tcu taking on wisconsin. what a game it was. i know this word is banned across parts of the country, it's an epic game. and to bart johnson over the middle for 23 yard score. third quarter now, badgers down 21-13. scott tollsy drops back to pass and nailed by carter, another look at that one. ouch. and carter looks like a tank on that play. and fired up, fourth quarter, wisconsin which is, looking a mount a drive down 8. they scored, need the two point conversion to tie and the ball is batted down. what a game it was, as tcu caps undefeated season with the two point win in the rose bowl and gary patterson getting an ice cold bath. thankfully, there's the rose bowl, so it didn't bother too bad. i tell you what, i know you probably weren't watching a whole lot. >>, but this is one you missed. no bowl game. >> urban mayor's final game. >> victorious, urban mayor in the final game. >> gentleman paterno, let's check with you and see what's going on in the forecast. >> a lot better than it's been. the last week and a half crazy and the storms crazy and now we're dollaring down. cool air in place and both sides of the country, a little bit of weather and one is off the east and the last couple of days, now moving on across florida and the northeast, the very spotty and nothing is significant as we've seen. now, this storm though back towards can colorado with the road coming out to us in colorado, a 20-car pileup and really the first major snowstorm at least in the denver area, it's over, but the incredible videos keep coming in, from colorado springs and i tell you what, they're going to be a little more calm and denver, only an inch and a half of snow so far this season up until the storm and front range, six to 10 inches. we'll be calm across the central part of the country and another storm into the west and heavy rain in the central california air and spread there later on and we'll start to watch the move out towards the east. here is your forecast for the day today. 23 in chicago, some very cold air across the northern plains and you'll notice the snow towards montana and north dakota, a clipper system that's going to reinforce the cold air and bring the light snow across the northern plains and heff yes, sir of the storms are against california again and mudslides and washes as well. and high temperatures tomorrow, pretty cool. cooler rdz too the northeast as well, guys, back to you. >> well, coming up on the show, for those of our troops coming home to their families are already a great experience. one south carolina business owner is making that homecoming sweeter. fox's elizabeth has that story. >> it's a luxurious way for the resort to say thank you for our servicemen and women who fight for our country every day. they're donating week long vacations to those coming home from deployment. part of a program called operation rest and relax. >> there are three seagulls, yeah, one, two, three. >> after a recent tour of duty in afghanistan, sergeant first class james bock and his family are vacationing on hilton head island in south carolina. >> it's wonderful. we're reconnecting and having fun with the kids. and taking time out for ourselves. >> and this well deserved break in one of the country's most luxurious parts of the country is costing them next to nothing, operation rest and relax. >> r and r is overwhelming, the wonderful gift provided free of charge. >> i never dreamed this would be as large as it's become. >> what started out as a random act of kindness by grant evans, more than 400 homes owners 60 restaurants and 35 businesses donating homes and services for free. military families after long deployments. >> by the end of this may we will have well exceeded bringing in over 7 had,military families for virtually a free week on hilton head island. >> for a family that spent 20 years serving their country, a little bit of gratitude from this community goes a long way. >> we only are limited in certain ways that we can thank the military families for what they do for us and it's hilton head's way of saying thanks. >> he hopes the appreciation toward military families expands beyond hilton head and wants other locations to jump on board. back to you in new york. >> thank you so much. thanks, elizabeth. coming up he's one of the most revered generals in the history of america and helped to win one of the most famous battles. could that happen today? a look at a sign of the times. >> a group of military wives packed up christmas presents for their husband and shipped them overseas, well, now those presents have arrived and opened and we're reuniting these soldiers with their family right here on fo"fox & friends." ♪ >> some quick headlines for you. hundreds of hot mail users say that microsoft deleted their entire inboxes. the software giant now scrambling for answers. microsoft technicians say they are aware of the problem and trying to fix the glitch. switch to gmail. and singer shania twain is starting off the new year as a newlywed. they got married in puerto rico and started dating in 2009 after their previous spouses allegedly had an affair together. >> that's one way to handle it. that's a hollywood romance story. thank you, clayton. >> well, in early december 1944 just before the battle of the bulge. general george patton, fearing poor weather for the fight, directed his captain to type out a prayer and a christmas greeting on an index card and then gave them to all 250,000 soldiers in the third army. >> well, the rest of course is history. good weather ensued and general patton was victorious over the germans, but with today's politically correct climate would something like that ever be allowed to happen? best selling author of religion and american culture, steven, good morning. >> good morning, how are you? >> we're well, so that's an incredible story, i mean, now, obviously, people are so sensitive to the separation of church and state, would a general be allowed to handout prayers on cards to 250,000 soldiers asking them all to pray? >> i'm sure he'd get some flak, but he could do it today. the fact is that the military is an unusual environment. we actually pay clergymen within the military. give them a state check, so to speak to do religion and be chaplains and to speak of god in terms of the warrior life. and general petraeus or high ranking general could call for prayer and in fact in their ceremony, chaplains are there. would you like to open a prayer? this is done much more in a military context than in a civilian. so it could happen. >> steven, we talked about the one example before the battle of the bulge. how central was faith in the life of george patton and how public did he make that? did he have to keep things private in any sense? >> no, that's really the difference. you know, with general macarthur, with general patton, many of the famous j ens, they were deep, deep men of faith and they could speak of that openly. they are a lot like our young today, people of faith, but not really connected to church. general macarthur for example, hardly darkened the door of a church. the times were different so they could speak of faith publicly and they could urge prayer and make statements of faith and that had been going on all throughout american history and really came to a great crescendo there in world war ii. >> you've done the definitive biology on general patton. what else don't we know about him? >> he was a pretty amazing man. he was not the cussing, raging individual that we see in the famous movie, for example. there there's a much more subtle man, a man of deep faith, a man of prayer and he often quoted scriptures and prayed, and prayed on his knees every day and soldiers knew it. i think it's interesting, even president obama's grandfather, for example, for the rest of his life said, i fought with george patton. that's how his troops felt about him partially because he was a man of faith and primarily he was a great warrior. >> thanks for being here, could be a clash on the way regarding faith with the recent passage of don't ask, don't tell, to repeal that. could be a clash, thanks, sir. >> three military wives got together and sent christmas presents overseas to their husbands. now those gifts are open and we're reuniting those couples right here on "fox & friends." >> and then someone could get a whole lot richer this week, mega millions jackpot, an eye popping number. how much the lucky winner could take home. let's go get tickets. >> welcome back to "fox & friends." the holidays are a tough time to be away from loved ones and especially difficult for deployed troops and families back home. earlier this week, i had an opportunity to bring together stations in afghanistan and their wives in nashville. soldiers just received some christmas care packages from their families, withheld from a group called operation patriot care package. take a look. >> we're joined by first sergeant cory meyers, and corporal brandon sutton and their wives are joining us from nashville, the power of technology this morning. julie meyers, lindsey sutton and amy, nice to see all of you and welcome to "fox & friends," happy new year. happy new year. >> and i want to start with the ladies first. julie, how did you first hear about this operation, care package and why did you want to get involved and do this? >> i was contacted by mike as he mentioned this was his second year organizing patriot care palm and shoot the footage of the wives packing them and shooting the guys opening them. >> how valuable was it overseas to have contact with loved ones back in the united states? >> it was very important. they're not going to be home for the holidays and sometimes it's difficult to make sure they get a package that's going to reach them. >> why don't you share with us, what you received from your wives at home and tell us how special, just what you received. go down the line and start with corporal brandon sutton. >> i got a, a blanket with a logo on it, and i got a phone card, cd, and ended up getting a card from my wife, and there's some other little hygiene stuff in there that i've gotten. >> and private first class, what did you receive from your wife? >> well, my wife and my son, they put a real nice note on the box for me and you know, it's just nice to see the, you know, the love and effort that came in the package, nice. >> and sergeant meyers what did you receive? and how important was it for you to receive these incredible gifts from home, to have that connection during the christmas holiday? >> well, i had received each one of my sons had put an individual card in there for me, you know, basically right here, this is one of them, the biggest thing with operation care package was all of my soldiers received a package, whether it was their family packing it or our family packing it for them. it was just as important to see each one of them get a package from somebody back home. >> take it away. i'll step out of the way and say out of the husbands. >> i love you baby, i miss you so much and i cannot wait until you're home. >> and i love you, sam and i'm looking forward to you coming home (laughter) >> and is scotty misses you dearly. >> i miss you both, i'll be home soon. >> cory, jacob, nicholas and i love you very much. keep safe. we love you and we look forward to seeing you soon. >> i love you guys, too, jake and nick, i know, i know you're watching on tv and i miss you boys, and got a few more months, that's it. >> and happy new year to all of our servicemen and women serving around the world. dave and ali. >> that's so touching, clayton, thank you. all right, california of course is trying to recover from pounding rains and flooding and they want the federal government to pay for it. should americans who don't live there be forced to foot the bill? we report you decide. >> plus, the death toll from the unusual tornados on the rise, an update to the damage in moments. >> and remember that 30-foot fall during the performance of the new spider-man musical? well, the actor injured is now out of the hospital, why he says he's headed back to the show. iñm >> good morning everyone, it's sunday, january 2nd, 2011. president obama making a new resolution to focus on jobs. and he's been promising that for years, without yet delivering much. why will the new year be any different. >> and a tragic way to ring in the new year as tornados ripped through the heartland and now, the death toll is on the rise. the latest on the devastation and recovery. >> if you're counting on your tax refund this year, don't hold your breath. why you may have to wait longer than expected to get your refund, thanks to our good friends in congress, "fox & friends" continues right now. >> ♪ >> good morning erybody, thanks so much for joining us, happy new year to you guys. >> welcome back from your vacation. >> thank you. >> and thank you, we went to spend new year's eve at someone's house with the kids and it was festive. >> did they stay away. here is what we do and strongly recommend to parents, it's new years kids, toast, happy new year. >> tried that at eight and nine and my daughter said, the ball didn't drop. >> she's smart. >> you let her in on too much. our children don't know about that. >> she watches our show. >> it's interesting. >> and big mistake, our children cannot read, i mean, tell time and i am i plan to keep it that way for many, many years. >> hide the clocks like vegas in your house and flip the channel to iceland and start at 8 p.m. and celebrating, look at iceland. >> and that's more elaborate than i had planned. >> i tried that, too, meanwhile, just three days away from the new congress, starting the session, on the docket to start, two major showdowns on government spending and debt, both significantly impact our nation's economic health. >> caroline shively is live in washington with details and they have to tackle the federal debt. >> yeah, that's just one of the two of the biggest issues we're going to see in the next two months, ali on capitol hill, it's all about spending your money and if they don't come up with answers, it could mean the government shut down. the first fight we'll see is next month, when congress will have to pass a massive spending bill to keep the government running and some house republicans say they plan to cut discretionary domestic spending and they haven't said where and john boehner has his work cut out for him. they've been out of power the first four years and feel the pressures when voters aligned with the tea party want them to do something about the crushing debt that you mentioned, ali. and that's where we start fight number two, the federal debt ceiling 14.3 trillion dollars. right now we're already at 13.9 trillion and set to bust through that ceiling within months and it grows by 4 billion dollarevery single day. now, another thing to look for is president obama's state of the union address late this month aen where he'll leave off any initiative. back to you. >> thank you for getting the ali and caroline dressing memo. day and i were not-- >> great minds think alike. >> nice coordination. >> and president obama is going to be facing quite a bit of a heavy climb this weekend and heads back to washington from his vacation in hawaii on january 4th. he heads back in and yesterday laid down what he wants to do in his weekly radio address, jobs not surprising. i think that's what most americans wanted focused 0en earlier aen we were talking in the show about jonathan alter's book, dysfunction, why jobs wasn't a priority and is president obama once again trying to talk about jobs yesterday, listen. >> our most important task now is it to keep that recovery going, as president that's my commitment to you, do everything i can to make sure our economy is growing, creating jobs and strengthening our middle class. that's my resolution through the coming year. >> nothing surprising there. nothing surprising because we've been hearing this since 2008, yet, the unemployment number instead of going down, has continued to rise. we're still around 10%. here is what the president has said in case you missed it in '08. >> and i'm proposing a number of steps that we should take immediately to stabilize our financial system, provide relief to families and communities and help struggling home owners. it's a plan that begins with one word that's on everybody's minds, and it's easy to spell, j-o-b-s, jobs. we've got to work on jobs. >> we cannot hang back, hope for the best when we've seen the kinds of job losses we've seen over the last year. i am not interested in taking a wait and see approach when it comes to creating jobs. what i'm interested in is taking action right now to help businesses create jobs right now, in the near term. we now have to pivot and focus on jobs and growth. >> jump starting the economy so that we actually start making a dent in the unemployment rate, and we are eequipping ourselves so we can compete in the 21st century. >> he also said there's good reason to be optimistic this new year, that there are indicators that things are on the upswing. >> there are. >> retail sales among others. >> the dow is up over 10% in the last year. >> exactly. >> however, let me not rain on the parade. we'll be speaking to a real estate expert. when things are bad. >> we'll hear from him. meanwhile, let's talk about filing your tax returns. can you ever start thinking about it too early? well, apparently yes, you can. if you're one of the people who likes an early jump on it in january or february, you will not be able to because of what happened during the long tax debate on capitol hill, the irs is not prepared, they say, and they frankly can't go i have you a date certain when they will be prepared, take at least as many weeks to be able to go through people who itemize their deductions and they don't have those in place, because it too so long on capitol hill. >> looking at an estimated 50 million americans who itemize their deductions, although not many of them file early. the lesson here is do not get things done early, procrastinate people. why do today, what you can put off till tomorrow and how many of you can file early or itemize deductions and they say about 9 million taxpayers, 140 million about 6% of tax paying citizens get those in early and itemize them and i guess you're going to have to hang on, clayton, you're probably an early filer who itemizes. >> and when you get the nuanced things you worry about when. and when your receipts are scattered all over the place, i'd rather watch football. >> and there will be rewards for that. procrastination is in this year. >> you lead from the top, right? congress was procrastinating and though you follow the leader, right? >> and also, what is it? turbo-tax, the computer company which, the software and people should file electronically, they say they will start accepting applications on january 6th. if you itemize, they're going to hold on to the electronic omcations for a few months until the irs say they're ready and they'll submit them. >> and the irs does not nt with a you to send in any returns until they give that all clear, green light. do not send it in. they are not ready for you. >> we'll have a tax day party, april 14th and 15th and get together and do our taxes. >> i don't want to be there. >> and that would be really festive. and here are your headlines. let's tell you what happened while you were sleeping. homeland security secretary janet napolitano speaking out to fox about nigeria. >> right now we don't have any information to suggest that there's a direct linkage between any, any of those attacks and anything in the united states. but one thing i can illustrate is that in a world where terrorism is a part of the environment, unfortunately. >> napolitano also tells fox news that fbi investigators have been dispatched to help nigerian officials in a blast that killed 30 people on saturdayment and travelling with secretary napolitano and joins us with more on the exclusive interview coming up later on the show. >> a sheriff's deputy was shot dead in ohio yesterday during a standoff with a gunman. the deputy susan hopper never had an opportunity to return fire or take cover from the gunman. she died at the scene. the gunman shot and killed during the standoffment one other officer was wounded, that person is still in the hospital at this hour, and a tense scene at a suburban hospital in bethesda, maryland. they were on lockdown after a 40-year-old employee was found murdered on hospital ground. it took dozens of officers to search 200 rooms for the killer, but did not find the suspect. the employee was attacked in an area of the hospital the patients do not have access to. police believe he knew his killer. and a pilot causes a brief scare at the u.s. capitol. workers evacuated after the plane entered restricted space. they reportedly lost pilot contact and reportedly turned to the wrong frequency. the f.a.a. is reviewing the incident. the update on deadly weather in the heartlands. and spent new years day touring some of the hardest hit neighborhoods and left almost completely decimated by towards and listens to incredible stories of survival from families who do make it out. >> and there's so much pressure and what they had is three seconds and i went to the spot my dad was talking about and we got down on our knees and put our heads down and hung on to each other and it just exploded. >> well, both nixon and the governor of arkansas, declared the state of emergency. and another woman died yesterday from injuries she sustained when one of the twisters hit her home. those are your headlines. >> let's get over to rick reichmuth and a check of calmer conditions across the country and it's been nasty what's going on from california to the tornados on and on. >> i know, very, very bad. 42 tornados reported over a two day period and that moved off to the east and made things much more calm and a lot of this week is going to be pretty calm and maybe you're still trying to travel home and that's good news and trying to recover from everything that's going on and cooperating. and the cold front across the east and very warm across the eastern seaboard and moving off to the east and going to moderate a lot and not nearly as cold as it's been. if you're in the northern plains, get used to it, these temperatures pretty typical for this time of year and cold air south minus three in kansas city as you're waking up and the cold is going to settle in here, and reinforced by a clipper system. here is the eastern seaboard and the rain showers, a little lighter and snow in towards the interior sections of the northeast, but for the most part, not even that cold at this point so we're not going to see a lot of snow anywhere. the next snow across the west, heavy rain in central and southern california today and tonight and going to weaken and not spread too far inland. that's good news. tomorrow, here is what your high temperatures are looking like. 23 in minneapolis and notice across the northeast, cooling back to 35 year and 30's much of the coming week. overall things are calming down quite a bit and looks like this week is going to be better for a lot of people. >> and a lot of the massive snow is melting here. >> and i tell you what, coming back in yesterday, can't believe how much snow is on the road. >> and dumping it and chopping it off the sidewalks and you can't park along the sides of the road. >> everywhere else, everyone managed to get cleaned up, but got time square cleaned up in three hours. >> not angry about it. >> and i don't know if we told you 2010 closed down with unemployment at 9.8%, but this year, could be more promising. experts tell us exactly who is hiring. >> in california, they're trying to recover from pounding rain and flooding and want the federal government to help pay for it. should americans who don't live in california be forced to foot the bill. we report you decide next. remember that horrifying fall during the performance of the new spider-man musical. 30 feet. boom. an update on the injured actor's condition and where he's going next. join 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why single out california? >> first of all, it's a pleasure to be here and i don't think it's a question of singling out california, in the lt. governor, acting governor, a man who perfectly describes the concept of a rhino, republican in name only, and then he used the right word, begging the federal government for their money back. this conversation wouldn't have to happen. it wouldn't have to exist if taxation was less to begin with and taxation in sacramento was less to again with, california would have moan in the coffers and businesses that would want to open here, allowing more tax revenue to happen and they'd be able to take care of the problem. we don't need to go about begging government because it sends the wrong message that somehow we the people are a tool of the state and lucky to get any crumb that comes back to us. it's a mindset issue that has to be arranged in order for all of us to do better. >> sally, you're not a verbal communication, says a lot. what is your verbal response? >> so, george washington said we're either a united people or we're not. you live in the united states of america, that's what the founders created and they did not create the you're on your own, good luck with that of america and frankly, i'm proud to live in the united states of america, where we take care of all 50 states and all 350 million plus people, that's what we do as a nation. we look out for states and other people, when they're in need and i also want to point out, it's ironic that we're having this debate about california because you know, california, for every dollar that they pay in federal taxes, california gets back only 78 cents on that dollar in federal services and programs. whereas the rest of the country, if you're in the midwest, you're in the south, you're in the southwest, you're paying, you're paying for every dollar that you spend in federal taxes and you're getting more, so california has actually been subsidizing the rest of the country for years, for, you know, why are we complaining when they have a legitimate disaster and they need help. >> of course, the federal government may have to cover some of the massive debts. but tony, when it comes to the other states, arkansas, missouri with the tornados, down south and the gulf of the hurricane, should they not get federal funds when they need help? >> i don't think it's a question of whether or not fema is going to come in and help people. i think that fema is going to do that anyway, it's about whether or not you have to vet the federal government for the scraps that's left. and sally is talking about the states and we're the united states. i appreciate the reminder, didn't need it, but i love the fact that you want to help, but the states have rights and right now, what is happening, we have a federal government that wants to usurp the rights of states and wants to be the all-knowing, the omnipotent, all being, all powerful odds and that's not the country that we should want to strive to be, because that's not founders had in mind. do i have objections of people in missouri and arkansas where i'm on the air? of course not, i also know that here in california, riverside county, church groups are getting in there and doing the work and they didn't need the government money, they're just taking care of the problem. the people aren't capable. that's the issue. >> okay. sal sally, finally, california if they didn't have the massive debt and poor management of the funds and pensions, the list goes on and on, would they still be in the situation they need help? >> california is not in a debt crisis because they mismanaged things. the reason they're in crisis, the majority of states in the united states right now are in a fiscal crisis because, a, we're in a recession and tax receipts are lower, and b, because at the federal level which always helped the states, we've cut, taxes, at the very, very top, to an unprecedented level and that's why they have less to pay for it. right now the highest tax rate is 36%, under reagan 50%, under nixon, 70% so we've literally sucked all of these resources out of the state and including states like-- >> a quick word there. >> a higher taxation destroys growth. lower taxation spurs growth. california would be much better 0 of with a lower tax base and if they had a lower base, maybe they wouldn't have lost a company like northrup grumman to virginia. and if california lost northrup grumman, that's a taxation issue and there's no other reality. >> california got here by cutting taxes. >> i tell you what. >> that's absolutely not true. >> one thing is clear, tony is absolutely awake. >> thank you. >> and sally, a spirited debate. prices of homes are crashing in cities across the country. does this mean we're heading toward another housing dip? how to protect yourself next. also federal money meant to help improve one state's school system and keep teachers from getting laid off. now going towards teachers bonuses. how did that happen? who's your someone? campbell's healthy request can help. low cholesterol, zero grams trans fat, and a healthy level of sodium. it's amazing what soup can do. >> 21 minutes after the hour. time for news by the numbers. first 900, how many homes in one long island home had to be evacuated because of a propane tank leak? the problem was fixed and residents head back home. 70 1/2 million dollars, how much true grit has made so far at the box office. the coen brothers film that stars jeff bridges and matt damon, good times for bridges. 290 million dollars, that's how much the jackpot is for the mega millions lottery on tuesday, if a single person wins the jackpot, the largest payout for a single about earn in u.s. history. ali, clayton, rick, you're on the hook for ten tickets. can't wait. >> well, in early 2010, the housing market appeared destined it seemed for recovery, but now, it could be heading towards another dip as home prices in major cities appear to plummet. >> joining us now, alex, nice to see you this morning, alex. >> good to be here, clayton. >> we're talking about this trend for possibly more foreclosures, what are we expecting in 2011? you know, clayton, i think we're going to see a lot more of what we've seen already. there isn't any macroeconomic indicator of us coming out of the foreclosure issue that we have. jobs are still a major issue, the economy is still a major issue, when people don't have jobs, they have trouble paying their mortgages and at the beginning of this crisis, there was a subprime issue and now we're seeing a macroeconomic issue and i think that 2011 is going to give us a lot more of what we've seen in 2010. >> that's discouraging and the president was talking about jobs, this weekend, as he often has, but also saying that the economy appears to be on an upswing and that there are some indicators, such as the dow, that things are looking up. why has housing been such a stubborn problem? >> with he will, i think that, you know, when you look at economic indicators, you have to look at each individually and housing and unemployment are so closely tied together. when people can't, don't have jobs, they doesn't have a normal income, they simply can't pay their mortgage, so, until we see dramatic, steady improvement in the unemployment market, we're not going to see dramatic steady improvement in housing, now, there are some bright spots and there is some positives in the housing market. i think 2011 will see some dramatic increases in investor opportunities, we've already seen that in 2010. and houses that for a long time having, are, and there will be an influx of cash and capital in the market. until we get people who are buying to live in homes, back into the market in force, that's when we'll see a major, dramatic recovery. >> you and i both know, one of the big problems of course is the ability to get the loan modifications and people say, hey, we want the value of our house down to acceptable level so we can stay here, are we going to see an up tick in loan modifications for folks? >> you know, clayton, i think we will and we already have. we've start today see a serious increase in how many permanent modifications have gone through and the other major increase we'll see in 2011 and this is going to be major, is the number of short sales that are being approved by banks. it's been slow to start, 2009, 2010, but on a monthly basis we've seen short sales increase, so, home owners who simply can't pay their mortgage, even if it was modified, they've lost their jobs and the house is way out of their league right now as far as income, they can sell their home for less than what it's currently worth and still get out of that mortgage where they may be underwater. >> you know, how one of the short sale points, they take a long time and that's one of the hurdles for a long periods. and banks waffling, going back and forth and are we going to see a speedup in the short sale process? >> absolutely, we already have. a lot of the major banks have now converted to electronic platforms like equators, so bank of america, citi, wells fargo, wachovia showed dramatic increases in approval time, as much as 50% decreases and so he think 2011 we'll continue to see that and clayton, the real issue here, the average loss on forecast is 30 to 40% and the average loss on a short sale can be as low as 15%, so it's a financial issue for them to do everything they can to get more of the short sales approved. and i think we'll see a lot more improved this year and dramatic increases in the way that they're processed, and speed with which they're processed and approval. >> a certified property expert.com. thanks so much for coming in. >> thanks, alex. >> my pleasure, alisyn, thanks. coming up on the show from wikipedi wikipedia, to oprah's big network, the stories we're looking forward to 2011. >> 2010 may have closed out unemployment 9.8% and people out of 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[ female announcer ] join for free today. weight watchers online. finally, losing weight clicks. announcer: when you earn your ged diploma, the barriers in your life fall. take the first step and get free ged information in your area at 1-877-38-your-ged, or yourged.org. earn your ged diploma and begin your brighter future. >> welcome back. it's time for your shot of the morning, some things are in black and white and even when they are, you're looking at a newly born panda cow. a miniature cow whose genes have been hipped to make it look like a small panda bear. that's not nice. the rare animal born in my home state of colorado. one of 24 in the world and the former you see there may milk this cash cow for all it's worth and he says he intends to sell it for $30,000. >> wait, you can manipulate the genes, it's not like it happened by chance. >> right. i agree that does make it a little bit less special. >> and remember that show monster quest, that thing belongs on that show. >> or a circus. >> i wonder if it eats bamboo. >> why not manipulate the genes of every animal to make them a panda. >> they're adorable. >> adorable, but rip your eyes out and that's the problem with pandas, they're adorable, but sharp-- they're bears. >> no, they're stuffed anima animals. >> in the meantime it's the second day of 2011 and i have been keeping track and already major events on the calendar many of which are expected to bring lots of intrigue. and correspondent shannon bream takes a look. >> a new congress is set to arrive at the nation's capital while after 25 years, oprah winfrey will end her talk show, 2011, a year of celebration, but also sadness. the popular online encyclopedia wikipedia, separates an anniversary, more than 250 languages one of the largest popular research sites on the internet. speaking of birthdays, president obama turns 50 years old and twitter marks the anniversary of the first tweet. the social networking site more than 200 million users in just a few months. over to politics, republicans take control of house of representatives, ending more influence in the senate and presumed house speaker john boehner vowed to end big spending and repeal president obama's health care reform. americans will likely see the emergence of republican candidates for the race. frontrunners, sarah palin, mike huckabee, mitt romney. >> and secretary of defense, robert gate, may retire. a wedding fit for a princess, the entire world will be watching prince william and kate middleton get married in which is minister abbey, the historic church where princess diana funeral was held and another royal wedding takes place in monoco, prince albert ties the knot. oprah winfrey ends a tv chat show. however, it's anything, but a retirement. and oprah the efforts to own the oprah winfrey network along with communications and american idol tuesdays and wednesday to more competitive wednesday-thursday combo. nasta is scheduled to retire the nearly 30-year-old space shuttle program, leaving american astronaut dependent on russian spacecraft. a sad milestone in 2011, marking the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attack, elaborate xhen r ration, -- commemoration and anniversary of the attack. and the obama administration wants to begin pulling out sources from afghanistan despite reservations from military generals, deadlines are a mistake. and the last remaining u.s. troops are set to leave iraq by the end of the year, and the iraqi government may request some soldiers to remain in that country. the struggling economy will continue to be a major focus in 2011, as experts and pundits survey the situation for signs of improvement or a double dip recession. >> shannon bream, fox news. >> a crystal ball. >> one thing she forget was the launch of the movie green lantern, very excited about that. >> i cannot believe she forgot that. >> how she overlooked that. >> i'll e-mail shannon later and we'll fix that. >> and the fbi and police near houston are on the hunt for more suspects after a bank robbery on new year's eve. two are held on 13 million dollars bail each. they assaulted a bank manager and after hours of negotiations, the hostages were released and taken into custody. >> and the mexican city of cuidad warez had 3,111 people killed to are drug violence. it's over the border from el paso, texas and highest violence because of drug gang violence. and wyoming teachers avoid layoff and the money is now used for bonuses even though the state told the department of education it did not need the money and the agency persisted and now several school districts are using millions to cover new teacher salaries and some in wyoming declined. a stuntman in the spider-man performance will be released from rehab on wednesday. suffered a skull fracture and had to have back surgery and his family says he'll be continuing treatment in new york. and scary stuff has been happening on that set. and dave with sports. >> you think new years day is all about college football, this year different because of the nhl winter classic moved up from one o'clock to eight o'clock, because of the 50 degree temps. and rain in the forecast. and nonetheless, quite a spectacle at pittsburgh time field. the two biggest stars, sydney crosby and ovechkin. the caps went on to win 3-1 and they were emotional and they started out in january on the right foot. wonder if the ratings hurting because of that moved up start time. the college football now urban meyer coaching in his final game and joe paterno having a word before the game. here is the end round. takes it 16 yards for the touchdown. game tied at seven of the later in the second. same score, penn state punting and solomon patton blocks the punt and it's picked up and returned 27 yards, 14-7 florida, second half, penn state q.b. takes it in for the two yard t.d. went back and forth and penn state driving with florida, up 27-24, and here is the game in one interception, ahmad black, they said he was too small to complete at division one. oh, he's gone. and 37-24, gators win, urban meyer goes down a winner and yeah, he'll be back showing no signs of stopping. and meanwhile, the oldest game in the country is the granddaddy of them all, the rose bowl. unbeaten tcu taking on powerhouse wisconsin. look at this play, it was packed and outstanding game. it was epic. andy dalton was fantastic in the game. 23 yards score. tcu up 7-3. the third quarter, wisconsin down 21-13 and tolling was hammered on that play and thrilled about it. and back comes wisconsin. they score late and need a two point conversion to tie up this ball game. it's batted down by tcu and how about the horn frogs. a huge win in the rose bowl. 21-19. . >> all right. let's bring in rick reichmuth and tell us about weather. how is it looking? >> hi, guys, you know you're complaining about the blizzard out east. take a look at the picture. this is around lake tahoe. this is-- no, it's not. that's not a picture of-- >> no, that's not. >> it's not. >> there it is. >> put that picture up. >> stunning. >> you like that? >> about two feet of snow across the sierra nevadas at the river ended out of lake tahoe and in towards-- all right. take a look now at the other picture, this is the sad side of the storms from montana and a roof collapsing because of-- under the weight of the. he they received there. so, the school, and that's going to make for some rough going back to school and kids are getting back the next few days. go back to the weather maps to move forward and take a look at temperatures across the country right now. aen cool air certainly across the far northern plains. and across the east where the warm front is and it's balmy across much of the eastern seaboard and move forward, take a look at the forecast for today. shaping up like this. a few scattered showers across the area of florida, georgia and eastern seaboard, but it's going to be light. this big storm that brought all the severe weather, it's tapering off now and behind it, some cooler air once again. across the west, very heavy rain in across central and southern california for today, we'll see more mountain snow in the sierra nevadas and cold conditions across the plains, a bit of a clipper system moving in, light snow across the dakotas and towards minnesota and chicago area as well. take a look at your forecast for the day on monday, temperature-wise, shaping up like this, cooling down across parts of the northeast and lake effect snow. speaking snow and ice, dave and clayton, what's going on. >> thanks, rick. >> lots of ice here, last year the story of a marine stationed home in afghanistan and couldn't make it for christmas and the family wasn't going to spend the holiday without him and in his place, sent an ice sculpture of himself to his family and they all spent christmas together. >> pretty amazing stuff. joining us now the people who made this gift happen, the owner of ice, and we have dan here, the ice sculptor who made it happen. >> how are you. >> you received a phone call from lieutenant, lieutenant neil over in afghanistan. but it was difficult for you to hear what in the world this thing was. tell us how you heard about this? >> it was on my voice mail and i played it and scratching, garbled and the general mcneil, a marine in afghanistan, couldn't come home and gave his e-mail address and i type in the e-mail address and sent it to him and got his voice mail, but it came back, i must have had the wrong dot someplace and thank god i didn't delete the message and asked my son, check that voice mail, maybe your ears are better than mine. >> and you managed to pull some information together and got in contact with him. bear in mind he's in hellmont province, in afghanistan not exactly portland, oregon and not easy to communicate. what did you find out about him. >> i contacted a friend of mine, the marine and got in contact with him finally and put together a sketch and droo you it up and we scanned the sketch and e-mailed it to him and got a few details wrong, but you know, the metals on the wrong side and stripes on the shoulder got it perfectly down to detail and he okayed it and we got it out to him. >> and we want to ask dan. the gesture overwhelmed you and probably don't hear a whole lot of requests like this. you decided to make it free, could have made a profit, but why free? >> when knew a marine, over there, and something that his leave got canceled and couldn't be home and this is something i have to do. this is, whatever it takes, it's got to be big, got to be perfect, it's got to be right. and like you normally would do anyway and i said whatever it takes what we have do do. >> so, it really was-- it's the bulk of everything was communicating and getting the details, obviously, and, but it's one communication i had with my son, how much is this thing. >> the cost. >> how much was the cost and everything and said, my father and my intentions were strictly only to help out a marine and his family and make it special for christmas. i didn't realize it would turn out like this. >> and his little sister sullivan on the show with his mom, were completely touched by it to wake up on christmas to see this and incredible work with something like this. one thing for dave and i grab a hack show and cut something, but if we show the video on the screen. creating a marine out of ice, what goes into something like this? >> well, i have to say that, by far the most difficult pieces to do would have to be human figures, particularly if it has to look like a particular individual and you know, i tried to make it look as similar to him as possible. you know, promise merrill with the metals on his jacket and stripes and everything else, and you know, i was also trying to make it as big and impressive as possible. >> you did. >> well, you've got a big block of ice here. >> unbelievable. dave and i want to see this now, you've driven in here, happy and as we cost it back to alisyn, fire up the chain saw on this and check with you throughout the show. >> thanks so much. >> and throughout the program, alisyn, back inside. >> fire it up. >> very cool, pardon the pun. we'll check that out soon. in the meantime, the unemployment rate of course is dangerously close to 10%, but there could be hopes for 2011. where you can find jobs this year. we will map it all out for you and we've all seen some youth sports getting out of hands with both parents and kids behaving badly. one state changing the rules of the game to encourage better behavior and some say it will make the kids soft. is this a nanny state? we report, you decide. 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>> we're doing well, so 2011 is now two days old. where is it the number one-- well, let's start with actually, the top five places that you think that people should start looking for jobs. >> well, i think a couple of things you should look at. first of all, when you look at the survey of the 2400 respondents that we had. about 25% said that they are going to increase hiring this year, which is a big deal. that's up from previous years, now, obviously, it's not at levels a couple of years ago, but we're more optimistic now than we've ever been and one of the key indicators that we look at are the positions that you discussed. i look at the top three, you have sales, i.t. customer service and you look at sales and that's an overlying indicator that companies are getting a little bit more confident and optimistic about the future. we're talking sales, let's get more specific because when people see that they say to themselves, well, my local department stores aren't hiring and i don't know where this is going. are the specific sales jobs in a certain quadrant we need to be paying attention to? >> i think when you look at the tech sector, number one, i mean, health care has continued to hire, the numbers there are strong. and when you look at most major markets, too, i mean, we could look at other indicators, like the number of job postings on our website, which is are up in some cases up in areas of 22%. so i think if you're looking for account executive positions and looking for a general sales position, those are available at most businesses today and continue to be on the rise. >> let's dive in a little bit more to the other five. and information technology, that sector, what do you mean? what exactly kind of jobs? >> well, when you're an i.t. professional, that could go everywhere from a network administrator all the way to a website designer and those types of positions continue to exist because as i pointed out, now that we see, sales increasing, companies can only become so efficient and that's what they focus on, efficiently and business. now that they have sales, they need the support mechanisms in place and i.t. being the first. whether it's like i said, networks, phones, computers, all of the above. those types of positions. >> and you mentioned customer service, engineering and technology and i want to dive into engineering for a second. i know a lot of people who have college degrees who are earning engineers, and they were perhaps without a job for a year, trying to find work. they're hiring and where can people look for those types of jobs? >> well, i think on the west right now, we're seeing a lot of engineering and san francisco. according to the survey the west is up and the areas optimistic, 27%. so you can look at the west like i pointed out most of the major markets, even when you look at some of the larger employers there and survey, companies with 250 or more employees, they're up, hiring, 30% and those are big numbers. >> and hour viewers can go to career builder.com to see more. jason, thanks so much for coming in. >> thank you for having me. >> coming up on the show, some people's vocabulary going to be an epic fail this year if they don't listen up. a look at a list of words that some say should be banned this year. >> and dave, meanwhile, to keep violence out of youth sports, one league is pushing a new rule that gives points for fewer penalties. good sportsmanship or is that changing the game? that's epic. >> things like these have become common place in youth sports, but in one state, they're trying to promote sportsmanship over violence and it seems to have worked. kids in minnesota will be penalized if they fight in youth hockey leagues. does this teach them the right lesson or make them soft? joining us to debate us with the metro league hockey championship and romano sports agent and law professor at st. john's university. good morning to both of you. >> good morning, thanks for having us. >> good morning. >> excuse the mixed metaphor, but it sounds like a home run. i'm one to talk about the you've succeeded with this. fighting is down and violent hits are down and what you've done is hide excess in the standings to sportsman-like behavior. >> it's worked for us. not only the fair play point which clamps down on inappropriate behavior, we've also gonna long way in training coaches, getting at coaches in our league, to have them understand behavior issues not just x's and o's, but how to deal with young men at this age to get in their heads and figure out. let them know that this is a game of skill. a fun game they are carry on years and years and don't have to take someone's head off in the process. >> robert, it sounds like again, an overwelcoming success, we're talking youth hockey, more than 60,000 young players, lets fights and violent hits, what's wrong. >> this is an example of the softening of the american youth. i think, you know, the league has a role in protecting the health and well-being of its players of course, and i understand that. and actually, this is the mandate coming down from the nfl and nhl and they're new puni punishing players for blows to head and monetary fines, i don't agree with the fair play point which basically rewards the team that loses and the pair play point, if a team loses, they don't play aggressively, they don't win. they're still rewarded with a point. the flip side being, if a team does play aggressively, does win, they possibly won't get a point and possibly can't advance and this is a problem and what is fundamentally wrong with the program. >> tom, is this about playing aggressive? does it in any way set them up for failure later on as they go to high school and college hockey? >> we don't believe, we don't believe there's any effect on aggressiveness. it's an issue of whether i hit a kid in the head, hit them from behind and hit them after the mra play is over, during the game, the aggressiveness is high, it's a competitive league and we have found it's a lot healthier and not to have the extraneous hitting. it's not. i don't know what it is, the kids looking at ultimate fighting, but we're not trying to compete with the provided experience of ultimate fighting or boxing. it's more, the skill of the game is what we want to accent right now, but it's an aggressive game and there's still a lot of hitting within the confines of rules and checking and it's been very, the level of excitement in hockey is not deteriorated. >> robert, you say this is part of the game. it is certainly part of the nhl game, but do we want the violent hits and do we want fighting and penalties at all involved in youth hockey? >> no, we don't, but what we need to do is punish the perpetrator, not reward the losing team. punish the player that hits somebody from behind. and high sticks and punish the player that hits somebody in the back of the head and punish them appropriately, do not reward the team that loses because they are-- they don't, they don't get pent points. >> okay, robert romano and tom, thanks for being here. i think the interesting question will be if this spreads across the country to other sports as well. thank you very much for being here, i think it's an interesting subject. >> thanks for having us. >> do you eat too much. drink too much. do you lack the willpower to stay away. how people are now turning to tech to outsource their own self-control. and he's an enemy of state. so, why is our secretary of state shaking hands with him. the secretary clinton's meeting with venezuelan president hugo chavez. the top of our next hour. ♪ naturally colorful vegetables are often a good source of vitamins, fiber, or minerals. and who brings you more natural colors than campbell's condensed soups? 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"fox & friends" continues right now. ♪ >> happy new year, everyone, welcome into "fox & friends" on this sunday morning. alisyn camerota back from her new years break. >> thank you, great to be with you guys. have you broken your new years resolution. >> no, doing well and started using that app on my iphone, lose-it, keeping track of calories and not eating the pastries. you're the only one whose new years resolution is to put on weight. >> well, i'm well on my way in that case. >> what's up with that. >> and you still have yours? >> i'm still good to go. >> what was your uto not lose your cool. [laughter] >> okay, dave. maybe it's already broken. >> i don't know. >> we'll ask, send that to our twitter accounts about your new years resolution, homeland security secretary janet napolitano speaking out to fox news about the terror attacks in egypt and nigeria. >> right now, we don't have any information to suggest a drink linkage between those attacks and anything in the united states, but one thing i can illustrate is that we live in a world where terrorism is a part of the environment, unfortunately. >> napolitano told fox news that fbi investigators have been dispatched to help nigerian officials in evidence collection on the blast. and joining us with more in an exclusive interview later in the show. a sheriff's deputy shot dead at a trailer park in ohio yesterday, during a standoff with a gunman. deputy susan hopper never had the opportunity to return fire or take cover from the gunman, she died at the scene. the gunman shot and killed during the standoff and one other officer wounded and that person is still in the hospital it morning. deadly weather claiming yet another life in the middle of the country. and a 74-year-old woman from missouri died yesterday. nearly 24 hours after a tornado tore from her trailer, and the woman's son said she was entertaining a friend when the twister hit. >> my nephew and her friend were outside and said some house exploded, blowed into the road and my mom and friend were in the house. >> and the storm killing seven people in total and leaves uns had of buildings and homes destroyed. this new video showing all that's left of the baptist church in robertsville outside of st. louis. missouri's governor and said the damage in the state yesterday, both he and the governor of arkansas have declared states of emergency to aid in cleanup and secretary of state hillary clinton, and hugo chavez, getting their differences aside at least for the moment of the photo op this year. the new pictures showed the two shaking hands and chatting at the inauguration, relations between brazil and venezuela strained for years and why they were a socialist dictator and calling president bush the devil. >> and she's like oh, wait a second, i want to shake your hand and you shoved it in your hand. you have to when you do this. >> yeah, that's what he does when you come up. >> hey, yes. >> and stuff on my hands, story. >> that's a tough one. and here is your temp as you're waking up, the cold front in across the east and you're warm in front of you, 48 degrees in new york city, 60 in raleigh, the only nice hair is. across the west, 34 in phoenix, 11 in albuquerque and the wind conditions are pretty brutal even towards the south. 11 in amarillo last hour, minus 3. and it's going to warm up slowly today, but no major warm-up at all. here is the front that's moved through, bringing rain in across parts of florida and also rain toward the mid atlantic and parts of the northeast, light at this point, nothing that's going to be severe like we saw two days ago, and that's good news and once this goes, the proper temperatures about another 8 to 10 degrees again. a clipper system moving into the northern plains and light snow in across the dakotas, today and tonight and minnesota and parts of iowa. and heavy rains anywhere in the u.s. is across parts of california. another two to three inches of rain and because the ground is waterlogged at this point. could be seeing some mudslides throughout the day today. certainly be careful there. the high temps and see the cold air settled across parts of the north, 16 in san antonio and if you want some nice weather, go to florida and kind of like-- >> and let's get on it, 73, i'm there. >> thank you, man. >> thanks, rick. >> congress can be for the republican controlled house on the agenda to start, two huge issues, spending and the nation's debt. will they find common ground to compromise? caroline shively live in washington, good morning to you, caroline. >> good morning, guys, congress will decide how much the country owes and how deep in debt we can go. the first decision comes next month when congress has to pass a massive spending bill to keep the government running and some house republicans say they plan to cut discretionary domestic spending by 100 billion dollars. they haven't said where, it won't be easy. harold rogers is trying to sniff out extra spending, the house appropriations committee. he wants tops of all major committees to appear before the committee and justify spending. how would you like to be one of those guys. this spring congress will vote on raising the debt selling. 14.3 trillion dollars right now, and right now we're already at 13.9 trillion and set to bust through that within months. it grows about 4 billion dollars every single day. and the president may be enjoying hawaii now, but in a few weeks giving his state of the union address. that he is where he'll layout any new budget initiative and expect to see cuts laid out. dave, alisyn and clayton, back to you. >> thank you. >> thanks, caroline. there's going to be a rude awakening this week at the 112th congress comes to washington. >> sure. >> the very first time. a lot of tea party activists already angry at what happened in the lame duck session. they thought that republicans didn't hold the line well enough against democrats as they tried to ram through some extra stimulus spending as it tied to the bush era tax cuts. and mark mekler is the co-founder of tea party patriots and lays it out this way, do i think that they recognize what happened on election day? i would say decisively no. we sent a message expect them to go home and come back newly constituted and come back different. and when they lost their mandate shows the arrogance of the ruling elite, but the new york times reporting this morning the ep at that-- tea party activists angry at republicans. >> and tailored specifically the democrats voted out and didn't listen to the american people and they wanted to get things done in the lame duck regardless what the american people said because of course, they repealed don't ask don't tell and passed the arms reduction, start treaty. the list goes on. food safety program. the tea party didn't like a lot of the accomplishments. >> didn't like the 9/11 victims fund. the money for 9/11 first responders, as well as as you mentioned, start. don't ask don't tell on the food safety bill. those were worked on with republicans and that's the thing. >> in the senate. >> and the bush era tax cuts, if they weren't worked on they wouldn't expire. >> the tea party has a mission statement. less is more when it comes to government and all of the programs are lame duck and made them angry, something interesting coming up this week, they, they believe they've had an impact because john bainer, house speaker starting this week, that he will have to visit proposed new procedural rule. >> right. >> that is because of the tea party demands and basically house members will not be able to introduce a bill unless they can explain the constitutional underpinning for it. unless they're using reason and a rational in the constitution and they have to say it when they introduce a bill. some of this will obviously be an art form. people can make a constitutional underpinning, i think for anything that they want. such as obama care, well, the commerce clause in the constitution. >> sure. >> however, that's what they're going to have to talk about. >> about mekler says about the republicans they've been a disaster and only reason they stood strong because we stood behind them with a big steck. this is a clearly a big clash coming in the week or next two weeks. >> governor huckabee hit on this extensively. when it becomes a party, moves from becoming a movement to a party and they have to worry about governing you're starting to see some of the clash unfolding. let's talk about taxes because congress was, well, nancy pelosi, a lot of people criticizing nancy pelosi for dragging her feet on renewing the bush era tax cuts. bringing this thing up for a vote. why did it keep getting delayed, delayed, delayed. we knew the deadline in december, needed to get it done. president obama working with republican got it passed on december 17th, but learning this morning that that still may have been too late for the irs. >> but there are repercussions having done it so late and the irs said they don't have the systems in place to process the tax returns for 50 million people who do deductions. if you take itemized deductions and i am deducting this moment right now. and if you take itemized deductions they don't have their computer, i guess, model ready. so this will ultimately affect about 9 million people, those people who file in january and february, and by the way, our hats are off to you, if you're that much of a doer, that you get your taxes done in january and february, they're asking you to hold off and not send in your taxes. >> the lesson is folks, procrastinate. >> just like congress did. >> all right, a lot of trends ahead in the new year, one of them rather shocking. people are turning to technology for a lot of things and now turning to technology though to help control their own impulses. that's right, turning to your phone, turning to devices, to do things you can't do for yourself. >> earlier the top of the show starting my new years resolution and keep track of the calories, the late at night and use an app called lost-it on my iphone. a lot of different apps, putting things in the car, using a gps will actually, use gps tied with the music system, to force you to slow down. if dave is listening to hannah montana listening. >> the climb, right. >> and speeding over the speed limit, the music will slow down to a wash, wa, wa, and stop, and let you know you're going over the speed limit. >> when there's a great song on sometimes you get lead-footed. and this one is valuable, breath alcohol ignition locking device, this locks your car and you can't drive it if you've had too many. that's a good one. that's for self-control, if new year's eve, maybe you need something like that. >> and the other one, it deactivates your texting ability if it reads your car is moving. so if you can't control the impulse to not text, your phone will do it for you. going over 10 miles per hour. people need that. i'm getting that one. richard writes we're so lazy we have technology to do what we want to. >> a little sad. thank god for technology. >> maybe we'll go to carla. yes, we are a pathetic when we relinquish control to the machines. where can i get that app? >> i know. >> and we talk, via twitter 851, i use technology more than my wife would like, she's amazed how much of a nerd i am. >> and another tweet from dawn, i have the calorie card, work out app and i use it, it helps me keep track of what i'm eating. again, you don't want this to be the problem, but thank god for technology. >> that's different. keeping track what you're eating during an app is different from something that puts something on you when you're trying to open the refrigerator. >> and apps for cars, the first wired car where you can be in your house and on an app in the driveway, you can turn the car on, you don't have to walk outside to turn on the car and cold feet and get warmed up. let us know if you're using any apps to improve your life, friends@foxnews.com. >> the new congress gets down to business this week and they're by the-- why it may not be the only problem, we have chris wallace to talk about the week ahead. >> and people always say blonds like reese witherspoon have more fun, but a new study says they have a lot more of something else, too. this time it could leave brunettes and red heads demanding more cash. >> ali. >> and are you a blond or a brunette. >> i had highlights. . >> he think she likes to be bold. straddle the fence a little bit. ♪ [ female 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the capitals did well. >> and michigan-- >> and chris, when they return, who blinks first, republicans or the president? >> well, that's a good question, i never thought of that way. i don't know that anybody blinks right away. the interesting thing that's going to happen. i think you're going to hear a lot of rhetoric right away and the house is going to do some things like, for instance, cutting its own funding which it can do unilaterally and the president, i suspect will make a kind of deficit hawk speech in the state of the union, where the rubber will really hit the road is in late february, early march with the continuing resolution runs out, and also, when they have to vote on the debt limit and francly, both sides have some leverage there. on one hand i suspect the republicans don't want to be seen responsible for the country defaulting on its loans, that could cause a national and international cries cities and on the other hand the president doesn't want to be seen as a liberal tax and spend, and the way that they saw the democrats. at least some areas of compromise, i'm sure there's going to be a lot of disagreements. they've got to find some way to deal with the debt limit or we will be in a fix here and some people say we should be, but it will be interesting to see how that plays out. >> and the debt limit we're talking about, let's put some of this on the screen. debt selling 14.3 trillion and right now, 13.9 trillion. i have to say, chris, as we were talking this morning, i think everyone expects there to be clashes between the democrats and republicans going forward that's the boring stuff, but the tea party activists angry at the g.o.p., we could see some clashes there as they are angry against the g.o.p. leaders moving forward and you talk about compromise, i think the hinder or help compromise? >> well, i think actually they're going to-- they're certainly not going to help compromise with the democrats because they're going to say we've got to stick to our principles and they're upset with all the compromises that came out of the lame duck session. remember, we did extend the bush tax cuts, but at a cost of another trillion dollars of debt. billions of dollars to 9/11 first responders, and reinstating the estate tax, the death tax at zero now it's at a lower level than it would have been as a result of the compromise, but still is back up to what, 35% forest states over 3 1/2 million dollars. and a lot of tea partiers say, hey, that wasn't the message. wasn't it to deal with obama and the democrats and you know, split the difference, we want to go back to first principles and so, i think that they're going to be very much in opposition to, well, let's, you know, kind of make a deal here. that's going to be interesting and we're going to be talking on our show to both two new committee chairman, darrell issa the head of house oversight and really, a lot of people think holding hearings, dozens of hearings over the course of the next year and upton, the head of energy and commerce going to be dealing with health care reform and also, with the epa new regulations on greenhouse gas emissions and then we'll have two of the new tea party members, alan west of florida, i think is going to be a really key voice for the tea party and new senator mike lee of utah. >> that sound like a good fox news sunday. check your local listings, thanks, chris. >> you bet. thank you, guys. >> coming up nearly two dozen christians were killed during church services in egypt yesterday, the latest in a string of similar attacks, are christians losing a voice in the middle east? and their right to worship without fear? >> then, a terrifying moment at a theme park, a popular ride catches fire to the horror of the park visitors. here is the latest on this >> welcome back. here are a few quick headlines. video out of the gaza strip and forced several terror posts overnight and two people were injured and the air strike after three days of mortar, from the gaza territory. investigators are trying to figure out how an island of adventure log flume ride caught fire, forcing visitors at the universal theme park in orlando to evacuate. the ride is closed indefinitely. fortunately, no one was injured. >> all right, this is an interesting trend. in the past few years, enrollment of muslim students in catholic colleges has spiked around the country. >> and many believe this is due to the fact they feel safe in the environment. is this growing trend, is this a growing trend or a good thing for religious relations? >> father jonathan morris is here with the answer. good morning to you, sir. >> it's absolutely good for religious relations and the goal of making sure to get rid of any extremist elementen with the muslim community. i believe, i think most people would agree with us, that education, pre-found education, not only in different religion traditions, but in general. education in general is the best way it purify the extremist elements. >> it would be good for the catholic colleges, but why would muslims want to go to catholic colleges? >> that's a great question. i think the judeo christian ethic of a respect for the dignity of the human person from which we derive what we call universal human right, dignity of the human person is a foundation for the universal human right is really the basis for such respect. so, they're going to come into a community that's not like their own, but they're going to be respected, without any reservation whatsoever. >> also, there's some difficult being respected at home. some christians living in iraq, we were reporting of course during the holidays there in iraq, christians who weren't able to practice, christians who weren't able to leave the house and they didn't want to practice for fear of retribution. >> a huge one in egypt of a christian church. and during the christmas season. when we talk about the respect at home. that respect has to be reciprocal and i think generally of course, muslims are respectful of christians and jews. and the best way to get rid of those is education, education, and then part of that education is going to be understanding that every right is reciprocal. in a-- in the middle east. there has to be that respect for christians as well. and the pollsters, offer the holidays, made a very, very strong call, to christians, not only against the churches, but saying christians must stand up and not despair in the face of these attacks and stick it out in the muslim countries and it's tough to tell people to stick it out. >> it's tragic what's happening in nigeria and people are praying and of course you'd want to hold up at home and a lot of people are brave enough to go back, knowing they're targeted. >> that's right, i was visiting syria not too long ago and finding the christian iraqi refugees into that country because they were fearful for their lives and here, you have their leaders, the pope, in this case, saying don't despair, stick it out. there's value in giving witness to the base even if it costs your life. you don't hear that very often. that's a very, very strong statement. it's scary stuff and even muslims killed in the attack over there, too. father jonathan morris. >> about to be a great 2011. >> and a lot of optimism. >>. >> not hearing enough of that, thank you. >> very positive. >> coming up on the show, it's a new year and means brand new law is enacted from coast to coast and we have the ones that will affect you in your state. some people's voe ckacabulary i going to be an epic fail, if they don't loosen up. many words should be banned for 2011. >> jessica simpson, brand is better and she has good reason, why they might demand more cash after this one. ♪ . what's going on? we ordered a gift online and we really need to do something with it... i'm just noture what... what is it? oh just return it. returning gifts is easier than ever with priority mail ft rate boxesfrom the 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[ female announcer ] grab a box of multigrain cheerios. get a code to... ...a 7 day plan to get going on that new years weight loss. get the box. get the code. get started! >> welcome back everyone. there's an ice sculpture being carved as we speak in real time outside on our plaza and we're going to see if the ice expert will have it done by the time we're off the air in well, an hour and a half. he's not making much progress. he already made one. >> now we're waiting for 2011. >> he's fast. you're right. >> he's doing very well. >> and now you're seeing the progress. >> and set it up and explain he is part of the ice sculpting team that was responsible for carving that sculpture out of a black of ice, while he was in afghanistan. he called upon them to send a christmas message to his home and an incredible sculpture. >> he was in afghanistan. they did it free by the way, these guys. >> they tossed them in free because they're so inspired by the gesture and a half artist, after lumberjack. do you start as an artist who picks up a chain saw or a lumberjack who says i have some artistic skill. >> he was carving faces out of trees. >> i've got a knack for this. >> or painting, says i could do this in ice, something to ponder for you. >> and while you were busy ringing in the new year, more than 40,000 new laws went into effect across the country. what are the new do's and don'ts for 2011? fox's rick leventhal has the rundown. >> reporter: a new year and new law ringing in across the country. in california, lawmakers are waging a war on cyber-bullying, using a fake online profile or address to hurt others could lead to a fine of a thousand bucks and a year in jail. after a harsh treatment attributed to several high profile suicides across the nation. california restaurants, continuing to cut the fat. the state outlawing trans fats in local goods. in illinois, laws are changing to mary jane, primates are banned as pets and pet stores have to give health of all pooches and purres they sell. and a new law in hawaii is aimed at large scale animal breeders, kennels and other pet enclosures must have an area large enough to lie down and wire floors cause damage to paws. and over in iowa, people who have a concealed weapons permit don't have to keep the weapons concealed anymore and a new law says that owners can show off their guns in public, even in bars. can also have some drinks while they do it until they reach the legal limit of 0.8 and kentucky will start enforcing laws drivers banning texting. people underage 18 aren't able to use the cell phones behind the wheel at all. the new laws designed to keep people safer in 2011. in times square, new york, rick leventhal, fox news. >> the texting stuff. you think about it and they equate it similarly or worse than drunk driving in some instances as people are texting and driving. we assume it's okay and it's not. >> and need the app to stop you from texting while driving. >> we'll read some of your responses to that. meanwhile, your headlines. people in maryland are looking for a person who murdered a hospital employee and apparently fled hospital grounds. the employees's body was found in a restricted area and the building locked down more than three who yours after the officers searched each and every room for the attacker and the victim likely knew his killer. the son of the iranian woman sent to death by stoning, in the first public meeting with journalists, her son said he's ready to devote his life to saving her. in october, he was arrested after talking to two german reporters, about the case. and iranian authorities have currently suspended, the stoning at the supreme court reviews for the sentence. it could be the start of a new political era. offic officially taking office in states, including rick snyder in i shall m. >> this is our moment of opportunity, to realize we have a bright future instead of a declining future. [applause] >> and the mood was celebratory in new mexico as well for susanna martinez, the country's first hispanic female governor. and andrew cuomo was sworn in as new york's governor, with his girlfriend sandra lee, food network. and blonds have more money? a study by a british retailer found that the average blond female takes home about $900 a year more than her brunette or redhead d counterpart. but despite earning better salaries, women with lighter locks claim they're not taken seriously at work. >> the highlights, you want the highlights for more money, but want the brunette if you take a seriously. >> i'm hedging my beds, i have all. >> brilliant, that's why dave and i are about to get blond highlights. >> i recommend it. >> to the show. >> i digress. typically we're talking about all college football on new years day. what a sight to see the winter classic in heinz field, forcing to be moved from one o'clock to eight o'clock and showdown the for brightest stars, sidney crosby and ar arec-- alex goes down from there. all caps, pour on three goals to win it 3-1 and this team desperately needed a win after a tough december. in college football, what a seating. as urban meyer coaching his final game in florida at age 46. joe paterno at penn state 84, showing no signs of stopping. interesting, right? i thought so. >> i love this, the one game i watched yesterday. >> gators really fantastic in this one. back and forth it was. here we go penn state on a solid pattern, blocks the punt and mcrae picks it up and returned 27 yards and florida would hang on and win 37-24, what a great interception return for a touchdown to win that game and it's the oldest game in the country, the rose bowl. unbeaten tcu taking on wisconsin, first quarter, andy call doulton, tcu, the score there. wisconsin would tight back. they would get within two points, but they needed that to tie the game, with just a few seconds left gary patterson would get a very cold shower, tcu finishes undefeated 21-19 your final count and all about the nfl, the couple playoff seats to be locked up. >> what do they do about the losers and the treatment the winner gets. >> you walk away dry. >> get a warm shower. >> let's check with rick reichmuth out of the cold weather this morning for a look at the forecast, not that cold across the eastern seaboard right now. much colder once the cold front moves through, it's balmy i've heard from people and take a look, we go to lake tahoe on the vacation, up to 17 feet of snow from the last storm and take a look at the picture. absolutely stunning area and the skiing so amazing, if you have a chance to get out there. go see it because it's one of the prettyiest places i've seen. >> move forward, take a look forward at the next picture. the current temperatures as you're waking up. one in minneapolis, a lot of cold air there and you can see where the cold front stretches. passing through atlanta now and 61 in raleigh and right along there is where we have some showers this morning, move forward, take a look at the forecast for the day. eastern seaboard, some light showers and still the storm that brought the tornados two days ago, but the storm has really kind of weakened quite a bit and so we're just going to see the light showers since florida, across the mid atlantic and across the northeast and boston getting to 49 today. you'll take that in the month of january for sure. much colder behind it. chicago 23 and as you go out to the west, a couple of things going on. one a clipper system dropping from alberta, canada and far northern plains today and tonight. snow levels, pretty much as wellment and for your temps tomorrow. getting into the swing of things tomorrow. we're going to be dealing with pretty cool air across parts of the for northern plains, including cooling towards the northeast. >> thanks, rick. 2011 is upon us, is it time to retire some used words? perhaps we overused in 2010. there is a blog from the northwest progressive institute. they suggest. >> and they do this every year and these are some of the most overused words of 2010. on the first screen here, viral, epic, and fail. now, dave is-- he uses epic like every-- >> i've used epic for years, and for folks that picked it up. >> it happened on twitter, people do a hash tag on twitter epic fail or whatever they're criticizing, epic fail, it became an overused word on twitter. >> i just made a mental note to myself, start using epic. >> my wife criticizes it, and says you should retire it. >> i don't want it to retire. >> i am had a he not going to. >> when you say epic, i start paying attention. >> this is epic. >> viral is a definition, that's how you define the videos, how else do you describe one that goes viral. >> or becomes popular i guess. >> the argument against viral, it should be used only to describe bacteria, going viral, having a viral bacteria, some sort of issue, but not for a video going viral. >> and those i've heard and these ones i never used, wow factor. >> never used that. >> i use that all the time. but again like you, a-ha moment and back story. >> three of my favorites, i didn't know they would be banned, i like and have been using wow factor for years. and i don't want to-- >> and all-- (inaudible) (inaudible) people and politicians over using the american people. the american people want this, want that, you know and that's not all. the technicians in lake superior state university they also say i'm just saying it's panned for this year. >> that's annoying. >> again, i like that one. and facebook and google, they're going to name those, and facebook ap google. live life to the fullest, also banned and i take issue. you know what i want to ban. i want to ban, really, really, really? the real. >> that's thanks to "saturday night live." >> i know. >> and others and people say awesome. bottom line, let's be clear and the middle class. >> and 1998. >> yeah, okay. >> let us know what you like to ban and should we keep a few of those? friends@foxnews.com, we're all three on twitter, too. >> and use that as a verb. the new congress heads to washington this week and there's already controversy trying to block the republicans, is bipartisanship out the window? fair and balanced debate over a football is next. >> and lost the post and may talk about global warming this year, a new pr campaign is heating up. úwp9,ñç÷-któvñ?=ñ/mwvóyntk úç>?[ozo welcome back, even no the democrats didn't lose the senate, they did lose the ability getting a filibuster by 60 votes. how, many democrats want to remove the filibuster altogether and removing the republican's chance to oppose legislation. will it get more done or create a divide. joining me a former assistant with president clinton and senator coleman. why do we have the filibuster, lay it out for me. >> it protects minorities, gives the right for minorities for their perspective. if you like majority rule. if you like the way that nancy pelosi ran the house then that's what folks want to do now on the senate side and that's not good for the country. the filibuster, right to continue to debate bipartisan consensus, if you want something done on an important issue get folks on the orthoside to agree with you, if it's my way or the highway with obama care, 60 votes and ram down the throats of minority you get problems. democrat had those problems in november and they paid as price. when bill frist talked about doing this for judicial nominations when i was in the senate. democrats called it the nuclear option. it was going to destroy the senate. it still is the nuclear option, we don't need a press to minority. we should allow folks to get the perspective in. >> this is proposed by senator udahl of new mexico, doug, would it impress the minority if in fact mr. udahl gets his way? >> no, i don't think it will. i mean, the football used to be a substantive device that allowed people to disagree vigorously in the course of the debate on an issue rather than a procedural device that was used in the dark of night and senator coleman, i'm a little surprised, in 2005, you said, i came to the senate to get things done. i've never been for a filibuster. even for the most controversial issues, why change your mind? >> well, first of all, i-- we keep going back in history and i have-- >> december 21st. >> and i've always, always supported our substantive issues, our judicial nomination, it was a-- a philosophy of the constitution that said you could act with majority rule, however, in debate, clearly, there are a whole function of the senate is to be reflective, is it to take your time. and clearly, i think what folks are doing here is what i call election nullification, they've lost that hal ceo n ability and stuff things down the throat. it would destroy the bipartisan consensus and never supported getting rid of the filibuster ever, ever. >> and doug, in changing the rules he wants less than 67 votes they need to change legislation and he wants to use less than that to pass it. i don't want to get too caught up in that. they wants to allow the speaking filibuster. might we have more fili-bernie's, bernie sanders speaking 9, 12, 15 hours, is that what's going to happen? >> this is a procedural process, i think we should move back to up and down votes on the merits, put aside the procedural processes and the unlimited speaking. i'd like to get rid of the whole process, i think the american people would as well. what's right is right, is majority rule and it's not a question of nancy pelosi or john boehner or norm coleman or anybody else, it's a question of majority rule, in the congress, up aen down votes. doing the people's business, bipartisan should be the result of reasonable people coming together, rather than hyper partisans playing political games. >> last word on this, senator. isn't it a political football that goes back and forth and back and forth. democrats want to reform it and republicans want to reform it. will this football ever stop? >> it shouldn't stop. the idea of protecting the rights of minorities to continue it debate offered amendments i think is part of the brilliance of our founders and the history of the senate, every majority leader has understood that. to change it now is more than procedural change, it really kind of undermines the whole kind of balance in our democracy. you do not want the majority to simply get their will. you really do want the minority to be able to hold things up, deliberate, take our time and perhaps not do things that shouldn't be done. >> gentlemen, stick right there. with our panel next, people digging out of the snow may not agree with the new pr campaign that's underway. quite a hot topic and scientists and lawmakers, and this alike is global warming. we told you about a businessman who lost his job, but started helping others, including veterans get back in the work force. he's back with an update now on life since he appeared on "fox & friends".." >> 2010 was the year that americans cooled off and global warming. lawmakers have not given up. they've heated up public relations efforts and we're back with norm coleman and doug schoen. doug, let me start with you. the public is cooling on this. here is what the nonpartisan yale project on climate change found. down from 71%, down to 50% believe in global warming. so, is this about swaying public opinion? because it's not going in their direction? >> i think it's about educating the public. i think that it's a profound mistake to treat global warming as a fact. it's a profound mistake equally to say that it doesn't exist. the science is unclear, we need more research and we need more of what senator coleman did when he was a senator, which is bipartisan coalitions, to create a basis for alternative energy policies, reducing our dependence on foreign oil and working together to try to make us independent forces that are destroying our economy and making it more difficult for america to prosper. >> mr. senator, i know you're no climateologist, but 2010 was the hottest year on record according to nasa. should we all work together as doug schoen said? >> actually doug and i have somewhat of an agreement on this. the issue is, i don't think what's causing, listen, i'm a believer that we put stuff in the air, has an impact. the question, what do you do about it? the global warming advocates would say there should be zero economic growth. that means cutting industrial output and hurting jobs so in the end we shouldn't be doing those things that make it more difficult for folks to put food on the table and in cold places like minnesota make sure that you've got adequate heat. how do you deal with it? i think there are things to be done. nuclear energy, i'm a supporter of that. i think my friends on the left are rather disingenuous about nuclear energy, say they support it and find all sorts of reasons why we don't do right now. we'll be much more aggressive on a whole range of new technology and flex fuel engines and bottom line, let's not have the debate what's causing it and figure out solutions that we can agree on bipartisan that will promote economic growth and opportunity. >> let's be honest, gentlemen, is there any chance at that bipartisan work here, the house controlled by the g.o.p. when they reconvene. we know that cap and trade has been shut down. is there chance of legislation? >> i think there is, when you cut down the rhetoric, there's the energy policy. nuclear is certainly part of it. i think you have to be frank, i think he's right about that. we have to develop alternative sources of energy and drill off shore and we have to do that. the obama haves has moved in that direction and there's murray they can-- there's more they can do. if we stop attacking one another we'll be better off. >> senator, i think the fear on the right in the face of opposition in the house, might the president use, say, the epa to make some of these changes without actually legislating them? >> i think it's a legitimate fear, i think you're going to see the issue on climate change, i think you're going to see it in health care, see it on financial reform and so, in the end, we talk about promoting bipartisanship, but the administration uses the-- the regulatory route to do things that the public doesn't want to have done, we're not going to have a very cooperative bipartisan climate. >> i know the climate will be taken up this week, as we turn the page of the 112th congress, what's the first big clash we'll see between the president and the house? >> the big issue is going to be spending and then it's going to be extension of the debt. the tea party members coming in have a mandate to cut spending, reduce the deficit, hold the line on taxes and we've got fiscal realities with the 13, 14 trillion dollar debt, they're going to have to be addressed in the first couple of months so there's going to be, i think, a real donny brook in the new congress. >> and the tea party unhappy with what's happened in the lame duck. the first battle should be over raising that debt ceiling. about that happen? and what will come of that, the tea party become furious if john boehner approves to raise it. >> it will only happen if there are con-- they're making hay right now and salaries are going up and their jobs are growing and he's got some base problems, but it's not just the tea party, the american public spoke in november and they want to see limits on spending and fiscal responsibility and they want the president to focus on growing jobs. >> one thing sure, the fireworks did not stop on new year's eve. it's going to be an interesting week. senator norm coleman, doug schoen. thank you. >> thank you. >> some democrats are so fed up with the party they're leaving it. one of them joins us with why she's now a republican. and californians, trying to recover from flooding and pounding rain and want americans to pay for it. should americans who don't live there foot the bill? we report you decide. how's it going ithere, hon? um, almost ready. 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"fox & friends" continues, right now. >> alisyn: happy new year, we are on twitter, and if you have proning new year's resolution. >> clayton: send them, in while you were sleeping, janet napolitano speaking out exclusively -- that will be my new year's resolution, take 2, exclusively to fox news, about terror attacks in egypt and nigeria. catherine herridge is live with that story. >> reporter: a short time ago i spoke with janet napolitano about those terror attacks in nigeria and egypt and she said there was no evidence these incidents overseas had a section to operations inside the u.s. this is the second stop on the overseas trip which began in afghanistan in doha, the focus is on airline security and the airport here is really a major international hub for travellers, and, transiting pointed and now, the airport handles about 5 million passengers, a year. what is critical is a second expanded airport is being build and by 2015 they expect to handle 15 million passengers a year and two million tons of cargo. we went today to a ceremony at the interior ministry between janet napolitano and her counterpart in qatar and they signed what is called a letter of intent, not a formal agreement or contract. but, it says, basically the two parties will try and work together, on airline passengers screening and argcargo careenin and before that she spoke exclusively to fox about the importance of nations like qatar and the importance of passenger and cargo screening, because now terrorists do not discriminate. >> they are all about trying to expert power over the aviation system, the aviation system is global, it is globalized, it has been safe and we want to it remain so. >> reporter: one thing important for context, in october, al qaeda, one of the affiliates in the gulf, sent two printer bombs and one was intercepteded in dubai and one passenger jet was run by qatar airways and feeling to deal with the cargo issue in the gulf has major implications. >> clayton: obviously that is the blow back, yemen and their ability to screen the cargo coming out of the countries, what this is the response when we have asked for their help. >> reporter: these countries want to help us try and shore up the cargo issue because it is in their interest and don't want to see a successful attack, let alone on a cargo but a passenger jet to could kill upwards of 2 or 300 people and would have an effect on the entire global aviation community and it would be seen as a blow against the global economy and the u.s. airline industry and what homeland security officials told us privately is they want to see more progress in the gulf nations in places like qatar, because if you have one gap or loophole in the system, that is all you need, and we saw that in october and the thing was, those bombs were set to debt night by time are over the u.s. and they did not detonate and, this place then gulf was the intermediary place, to a jet that was on its way to the u.s. and the transit point was here in the gulf. >> alisyn: thanks for sharing your exclusively with secretary janet napolitano. >> reporter: appreciate it. >> alisyn: the rest of your headlines, a deadly day in ohio, yesterday, a sheriff's deputy shot dead in a trailer park during a stand off with the gunman and, never had the opportunity to return fire or take cover and died at the scene, the gunman was shot and killed during the stand-off, one other officer was wounded in that -- and the person is still in the hospital this morning. picking up pieces, a string of deadly tornadoes in missouri, and many say they are lucky to be alive. >> within a matter of three seconds we had to get to this -- i went to the place my talking about and we got down on our knees and hugged each other and it just exploded. >> alisyn: the governor of missouri and arkansas filed a state of emergency, and the storms killed 6 people new year's eve and another woman died yesterday, when a twister hit her home. a brief scare at the u.s. capitol, workers were forced to evacuate after a plane entered restricted space and the piedmont airlines flight lost radio contact when a pilot accidentally turned to the wrong frequency and the faa is reviewing the incidents and new video of mahmoud ahmadinejad's 33-year-old car, is fetching big bucks, the 1977 white peugeot sedan receiving $1 million bid, at the charity auction. some people have too much money, raising money for a low-income housing project in the country. that is valid enough. and the car is reportedly worth $2,000. those are your headlines. >> clayton: next up for auction is his members only jacket as well. checking in with reich rick muth. >> rick: i love the car! 34° in phoenix, 35 in caribou, maine, big differences across the country, eastern seaboard warm and the rest of the country, cold this morning and the cold air will continue, also windy and factoring in the wind, feels like -13° in minneapolis and 5° in albuquerque and 15 in el paso and a lot of cold air and behind the system, bringing rain showers around the mid mid-atlantic and the mideast and snow will be coming across the plains, and snowfall totals will not be extreme. but look at the video from colorado, a 20--car pileup around the colorado springs area. there you go. that is a serious slide, causing all kinds of problems, unfortunately. roads there, are bad and the first big storm they had across the front range this season and they've had more snow in western colorado and the front range, not the case and another system moving in across parts of california, not catching a break at all, heavy rain, from san francisco down to just north of l.a. and we'll see some of those showers move into l.a. and the mountains will be seeing maybe up to another 1 to 1.5 feet of snow by the time it is done and high temps, a little bit across the north, below averages and san antonio, 60°, tomorrow, staying in the 60s, across texas and the northeast will cool down gaevenlt back to you. -- again. back to you. >> dave: the bad sign is if the chief meteorologist is away, he was away with the massive blizzard and tornadoes and devastation in california. and if he's not here, look out. >> rick: and now that i'm back, there is nothing going on. >> alisyn: there's a lesson. >> dave: he wrecks havoc on vacation! >> clayton: we're three days away from the new congress starting its session, up first networks show downs on government spending and debt and will lawmakers be able to compromise. >> dave: caroline shivley live with details, will they be able to compromise, caroline? >> reporter: they haven't so far and that is why they have the continuing resolutions, guys. but, you are right. the next few months congress will decide how much the country spends and how deep in debt we can go and the first decision comes next month, congress having to pass a massive spending bill to keep the government running and house republicans plan to cutest discretionary domestic spending by $100 billion and have not said where yet and an issue that could come up, remember pay-go, short for pay as you go and meaning any new costs have to be offset by taxes and reducing spending and a g.o.p. rule is cut-go, forbidding tax increases to pay for new en toometicement entitlement spending and the debt ceiling is $14.3 trillion and we're at $13.9 trillion and set to bust through the limit within months and grows $4 billion every day. and this president may be enjoying hawaii now but in a few weeks will give the state of the union address and will lou out budget initiatives including, potential cuts. dave, alisyn and clayton, back to you. >> alisyn: thanks, they could see a government shut down? not that many would object at this point. given how much they think government is spending but we'll see what happens in march when it comes up. the national debt ceiling. >> clayton: and president obama of course coming back and having to deal with congress, right now, going back and forth and whether or not jobs will be the top priority, the president saying, though, that jobs will be the top priority and took at these numbers, right now. 15 million americans out of work at this hour. >> dave: and he has, of course been talking about jobs, since he came into office, and the unemployment rate continues to go up, we are still near 10%, as you saw, right there and, again, on saturday, it is focus -- the focus of the weekly address, you guessed it... jobs. >> president barack obama: our most important task now is to keep that recovery going. as president, that is my commitment to you, to everything i can to make sure our economy is growing, creating jobs and strengthening our middle class. that is my resolution for the coming year. >> alisyn: people who are unemployed are frustrated. they've heard that from the president before, not that there is a silver bullet, if he knew the answer, they would have done it already however, he has been talking about jobs for the past three years. >> president barack obama: i'm proposing a number of steps that we should take immediately to stabilize our financial system, provide relief, to families and communities, and help struggling homeowners. it is a plan that begins with one word that is on everybody's mind and it is easy to spell. j, o, b, s. jobs. [cheers and applause]. >> president barack obama: we've got to work on jobs. >> president barack obama: we cannot hang back and hope for the best when we have seen the job losses we have seen over the last year. i am not interested intakinge i wait-and-see approach, what i wam wanting to do is help businesses create jobs now in the ner term. >>... we have to pivot and focus on jobs and growth, jump-starting the economy so we actually start making a dents in the unemployment rate, and, we are equipping ourselves so we can compete in the 21st century. >> clayton: you have heard the nuances, and one of the reasons we were hearing the nuances, the way he addressed jobs over the last three years, we learned from jonathan alter in his epilogue to the book "the promise" which will be out soon, he says, there was massive dysfunction within his economic team, rahm emanuel disagreeing with larry summers and dragging his feet a bit on actually moving forward and getting jobs to be the priority and there was frustration among the president's economic team and you can almost hear it in his voice the past three years, how he was trying to address jobs. >> clayton: now there is some optimism, there are good numbers out there and jason lovelace joins us from careerbuilder.com with some of the sectors that are beginning to hire, and what he sees as good news on the horizon. >> now that we see sales increasing, companies can only become so efficient and that is what they focused on the past couple years and now that they have sales you need the support mechanisms in place, health care has continued to hire, the numbers there are strong, and, when you look at most major markets, too, i mean, we could look at other indicators, like the number of jobs on our web site, which are up in some cases in areas of 22%, so i think if you are looking for account executive positions, for a general sales position, those are available, in most businesses today and continue to be on the rise. >> clayton: why is there optimism out there? here's a look at some of the numbers. look at some of the numbers right now and some of the sectors, 24% higher, full-time permanent employees in 2011. >> alisyn: 13% expect to hire part-time employees the next 12 months and a lot of people would take that and 34% will hire contract or temporary workers, you have seen that in the past year and people didn't want to commit to full-time employees and looks like full-time will pick up and we took a pass and i don't know if you were here during the commercial break, dave and i made a resolution to be more optimistic and bring more good news, and clayton i know you will sign onto this. >> clayton: john steinbeck, about being paessimistic, a sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ. >> dave: be optimistic, america, jobs are on the way. >> alisyn: we'll -- >> clayton: we can't give you one. >> alisyn: but we'll give you information to keep you optimistic about what is coming up. >> clayton: coming up, three staunch democrats are so fed up with their own party they are leaving. one of them explains why, she's now a republican. she's next with. >> dave: and secretary clinton schmoozing with the enemy? why is our secretary of state shaking hands with a man who speaks out repeatedly against the u.s.? she seems a little timid about the handshake. @ñçm@; [♪...] >> announcer: every child deserves the hope and healing of a children's miracle network hospital... [♪...] 170 hospitals helping 17 million kids each year. children's miracle network hospitals-- hospitals helping local kids. for information on how to help, visit childrensmiraclenetwork.org. >> welcome back to fox friends. three elected mississippi democrats announced last tuesday they are switching to the republican party. a move republicans describe as a victory for the g.o.p., and a rebuke of democratic ideology. according to the mississippi g.o.p. chairman, at least 17 elected mississippi democrats have defected to the g.o.p. in the last two years. the three recent defectors are state senator cindy hyde smith and, senator hyde-smith joins us this morning. >> thank you, thank for having me doctor, 16 democrats defected to the republican party, why, what is behind the moves. >> it is the numbers, it this is economy and the state of the affairs we find ourselves in, now we are $13 trillion in debt and that continues to move. so, when you look at where you are what party you are affiliated and where are going you realize there have to be changes made and i want to be part of the factor that makes positive things happen. >> clayton: as a democrat you saw the democrats were spending way too much money and that is the driving force for switching parties? >> absolutely. the predictions now in 2010, that we will be -- i'm sorry, 2020, we'll be $23 trillion in debt, that is the time my daughter is graduates from college if all goes well and when you look at the future and look down the road and you realize things have to change. most people in mississippi are conservative anyway and when i ran the last time i had a republican opponents and i took 80% of the vote and the republicans were already voting for me and so this is nothing about getting cindy hyde-smith reelected to the state senate. >> clayton: and folks say it is political opportunism, and obviously redistricting and you saw the big wins for republicans in that corridor in the census numbers and more republicans in the south and so, some would say, hey, you know what? these state senators, they are take advantage of the situation right now and jumping ship ahead of time. not the case? >> absolutely not the case. we are voting conservative, and, we go into session tuesday and you will not see my voting pattern change, the things near and dear to me as a democrat are still those things as a republican. i live in the south. we want to bear arms, private property rights, very passionate to me. when you want to get a rise out of me, in the state capitol, bring up that issue and my colleagues can tell you, don't put her at the podium on take her on on private property rights, these things will still be important to me. >> clayton: both parties have been to blame for high spending and some would say, where were you, when you were a democrat, with the runaway spending in the 2000s and i've heard republicans themselves as spending like drunken sailors. were you out spoken against it then. >> i was then and continue to be so. like i said, people in smap mississippi are cattle farmers, in brookhaven, mississippi. this year the prices of cat were good and we could get a dollar a head in some instances and next year it may change to 75 cents per pound. and, where we were getting $1 per pound this past year, you cannot go out and spend everything you have just because things are good right now. you have to prepare, you have to plan and you have to have a strategy, to take care of every issue as it comes along, being those conservative values that the republican party has. >> clayton: another criticism of washington is that they talk a big game, but don't want to cut spending. in your home state, we know that we need to cut spending. states are going bankrupt across the country. what are republicans prepared to cut out of their budget in your home state? >> we are looking at ways to cut back where we feel there is waste. there is some out there but out will be a lean year. we have cut so much of the waste out already it will be a tough job when we go into session on tuesday. there is no doubt, but we have to incrementally, each year reduce the deficit and we are going to have to do a job we were elected to done and make the best of what we have, and stay within our appropriations and what we can live with. >> clayton: thanks for bringing the message from mississippi, appreciate it. senator, good luck to you. >> thank you. >> clayton: we told you about a business man who lost his job and spent his down time helping other including veterans get back into the workforce and today he has an update since his last appearance on "fox & friends" and how it led to more people finding work and he has been called a spy and trader and now julian assange receiving an honor, who is calling him a hero? that is next. come celebrate exciting cars that are stunning to look at, exhilarating to drive and worry free to own. celebrate this holiday season with the gift of platinum. jaguar platinum coverage: five years or 50,000 miles of complimentary scheduled maintenance, and no cost replacement of wear and tear items visit your jaguar dealer during the platinum celebration foa $599 lease offer on the 2011 x >> dave: welcome back, here's a few quick headlines for you. a disaster of biblical proportionses. that is how australia's state treasurer described the recent flooding in queensland which killed one person and more than 20 other towns have been affected across an area larger than france and germany, 200,000 people said to be stranded. he has been called a spy, a traitor and an enemy of the state, but, now, wikileaks founder julian assange is being called a hero. romanian news web site honoring him with a press freedom award for his work revealing thousands of government secrets. ali? >> alisyn: thanks, dave. two weeks ago, bob dixon came on "fox & friends" with his story how he spent the last 6 months looking for a job and went on linkedin to network for himself and helped dozens of other out of work people improve their resumes and job skills and started coaching and mentoring, active duty military person them as they transition to civilian life. 21 year army vet keith charlotte was one of his success stories. >> connected with him and, shot him my resume, immediately bob called me and we started going over some of the verbiage i had in my resume, and, we had to work on taking out a lot of military terminology, and putting it into civilian language so recruiters could actually understand what i was trying to say. >> alisyn: all right, keith end u. getting a job with target corporation. and, now bob dixon is back with us this morning to give us an update on what else has happened, since his last appearance. bob, great to see you! >> alisyn, good morning, happy new year. >> alisyn: you got quite a response from our last appearance, two weeks ago. tell us what has happened. >> the response was phenomenal and i think it improves that the world is full of very, very good people. over 220 echlts mail 0 e-mails c e-mails of members of the military looking for help and civilians that also asked if i could help. 300 views of linkedin, and, people in leadership roles, in different companies wanted to know how they could help with the work i was doing with the military personnel. >> alisyn: what you have done now as we understand, you have started a group on linkedin, the social networking site, military civilian career coaching connection, or, mc4 for short and today it is up and running. what is it. >> alisyn: it is up and running. because of the number of military personnel who contacted me, plus the offer of help from other leaders and business people, it became clear that a movement was beginning and we had to have the capability to begin offering this coaching and mentoring to a larger group of people but in a more organized way than it was when i was doing it and the military civilian career coaching connection is on linkedin and it brings active duty military personnel that are in transition to civilian life, into a group with volunteer civilian coaches, who, again are entrepreneurs, business people, senior leaders, within their corporations, to provide an environment where we can do direct one-on-one coaching and mentoring, working with them, whether it is on resumes or interviewing skills or giving them the kind of feedback that they need to be successful and competitive in their job searching. >> alisyn: that is so... i mean, it is a -- obviously a great plan, it is obviously -- you found a market, a void and filled it and, also, i understand that snap-pages has extended a really nice offer to you as a result of this. >> that's right. one of the people who contact meade was the ceo of the investment firm called bgi. he put me in contact with charles laudler of snappages and snap pages wanted to make their product available to the people we were working with in this group, free and snap pages allows you to create your own web presence based on your linkedin profile. >> alisyn: i'm sorry to interrupt you but i want to get this in before our time runs out and all of this is heartening and so selfless of you to have helped all of these people, and even arranged these web pages for people who want to make the transition. but, bob, part of the story was that you needed a job. and, that you have desperately been looking for a job. have you found a job yet and what can we do today to help you? >> i was contacted by two companies, one in new jersey, and one in alabama, who asked fire department i would do some short-term consulting for them and i'll actually be in alabama, the second week in january, and, then, promise there, i'll be going over back to fort mcpherson in atlanta, georgia, to teach one of the transition classes at fort mcpherson. so, i'm making progress. no full-time role yet. but, the consulting will be helpful to me. >> alisyn: well, bob that is a go good start and i'll put your e-mail address, again on my blog and twitter, so people can get ahold of you, for how to take advantage of all of this great stuff. bob, thanks for coming in and updating us and thanks for all of your doing -- all are doing for our military servicemen and women. good luck to you. >> thanks, alisyn. >> alisyn: meanwhile, it is usually a gesture of friendship, secretary of state hillary clinton shaking hands with venezuelan president, hugo chavez but isn't he the man who insulted an american president before and you want to pray at the wailing wall? there is an app for that! we're live in jerusalem, how technology is helping spread faith and checking back in with an ice sculptor, who has been working furiously all morning on our plaza, a look at what he has been up to, next. >> power is off. >> alisyn: that's a problem. >> need power! 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[no audio]. >> alisyn: perhaps we need an app for audio... >> clayton: sometimes you have the delay to jerusalem, that is what happens. but, basically, there answer app that allows you to send your message to the wall, you don't actually have to be there. >> dave: it takes threw visually and everything. >> clayton: and here's -- leland has a great piece, as he puts it together an explains for us exactly how it works. take a look at this: >> the most amazing thing is now you are able to take the wall with you wherever you go. >> reporter: bringing the holiness and the experience of the wall to people all over the world, even a place like this bar. one button and you have a live video feed from the wall in jerusalem. one more button you touch, and you can actually send a note to the wall, of your prayer, to then be printed out and put in the most holy of places. this office above jerusalem's old city has -- is this nerve center of the app, a thousand prayers a day come in, they are printed off, don't worry, nobody reads them, before they are placed into the wall and all part of the western wall heritage foundation, and of course their job is to bring the wall to the world, as they do to the app, but, also, preserve the tradition, so, sundown on friday, that web camera that you can view the wall from anywhere in the world, is turned off. all to preserve shabat, or the sabbath, making it a kosher iphone app. >> clayton: that is better and the kazoo you had to welcome in the new year yesterday... he couldn't get an actual one, he had to get an iphone app for it. >> dave: there's an app for it. >> alisyn: i'll look forward to that. in the meantime, to your headlines, because we have new details, this morning in that church bombing that killed 21 people in egypt. people are focusing their investigation on an islamic group modeled after al qaeda. the bomb exploded after people were leaving midnight mass, a nato service member, killed in an attack, the seconds this year and 2010 what's the bloodiest year for nato service members, 702 men and women killed and polices in maryland, forced the lock down of a hospital in bethesda after an employee was murdered on hospital grounds. the lock down lasted three hours while officers searched each and every room for the killer, in the end they didn't find the suspect, right now, police don't have a motive but they say the murder was probably not random. and secretary of state hillary clinton in and hugo chavez apparently setting the diplomatic citizensdifferences for at least one photo, the photo shows them shaking hands and chatting at the inauguration of brazil's new president, and, relations have been strained for years and washington revoked the venezuelan ambassador's visa this week following chafe visa's refusal to accept the new ambassador to caracas and the acting governor of california, m is asking for help for storm damage that hit the cash strapped state, should we all be responsible for a sthat ca stat cannot afford to clean up for its natural disasters, we had guests on fox friends to debated it earlier... >> we live in the united states of america, that what is the founder created, they didn't create the you're on your own, good luck with that, america. >> flight, what is happening is we have a federal government that wants to usurp the rights of states wants to be the all-knowing, omnipotent, all being, all powerful oz. >> alisyn: the acting governor cites the economic crisis and the budget short fall in his request for the federal government and the estimate, needed in los angeles county alone is $6 million. those are your headlines. >> dave: gordrick with a check our weather, calm since he's back from vacation. >> rick: i know, nothing to do now, it is nice across the eastern part of the country and a little bit drizzly but the big storms we have been dealing with are pretty much gone. look at -- the last picture, sorry for making everybody go through my vacation pictures, but lake tahoe, they've had over 17 feet of snow from the last storm and most cases the ski resorts had over 20 feet of snow, the snowiest december ever and are off to the best season for skiing. absolutely beautiful conditions, move forward, look at your temperatures, as you wake up, very cool, across a lot of the country. the eastern seaboard, you move forward on the maps there, guys, it is where we have the warm temps and the rest of the country, extremely cold. zero in minneapolis as you are waking up and 23 in el paso and cold air is settling in for everybody and look at the forecast for the day today. eastern seaboard, light rain and drizzle at times and the temps warm. 49° in boston, early january, that is not bad. 23° in chicago and as you move out across the west, we will have a little bit of an alberta clipper moving in, bringing snow across montana and north dakota today and by tonight, stretching into minnesota and the bigger story is heavy rain and more mountain snow, across areas of california, and temps cool, only getting to 59 in san diego, as you head toward tomorrow your temps for monday, looking like this, cool air across the north, but, down across the south, temps a little below your average, getting to 56° in new orleans and that front will move all the way through tampa, getting to 68°, has to go to miami to get into the 70s, clayton... >> thank you so much, dan -- dan! rick! we'll talk to dan, who has been out here doing all the ice sculptures, look at what we have been doing, earlier this morning and we have the 2011 already carved down here and we have some we'll reveal in a moment and he has been here in warm temperatures for us, and we'll get to that in a moment and take us through the story, vin sent. you donated -- decided to donate this ice sculpture of lieutenant neil, and he said he wanted to send something back home to his family. what did you do. >> i typed in his e-mail address and, it came back and i didn't delete it and at that point my son said, you know, maybe i had the dotted in the wrong spot, i thought, but he was in communication with all the details and, you know, the rest is history. >> clayton: and you had the beautiful sculpture for neil's family to wake up to on christmas morning and it is amazing, you donated it free of charge but it's not out of reach for people and dawn is here from ice sculpture designs and you decided to donate it and the industry changed and, it is actually cheaper to get ice made for an event. >> absolutely. absolutely. unless -- in the last 15 years the industry exploded and take in off, hotels, catering halls, temples work with us and partnered with us to move ice and to -- as many events as they kosably can and what we find interesting is we're out in different events like this, at trade shows or anywhere, people will come up to us and think ice costs, you no, 700, a thousand dollars and impact it is very, very, very affordable, whether wading, anniversary, backyard party, it starts at $100 a block and that is... people are speechless when we say that. >> clayton: we wanted to have you guys on because you donated this to the military family and we were touched by the story. thank you for doing that. and dan has been out here all morning, carving incredible sculptures and you have been working here, what do you have here and what ice blocks are you working on. >> this is 2011 and right over there, we have a happy new year, individual block letters. >> clayton: how much do each of those weigh. >> a block starts at 300 pounds, so... >> clayton: our "fox & friends" logo is there, that you made, incredible, also. that is beautiful. incredible. can we keep that until the summer? >> if the temperature holds up. >> clayton: beneath the red, i don't know what is hidden there, we have been waiting to see this. do you want to give us a hinted? >> no. no. not readily. >> clayton: do the big reveal. can i pull them off? >> sure, i'll give you a hand. >> why don't you stand next to me. and you look this way, okay? and... on three, 3, 2, 1... >> clayton: my gosh! how in the world? i like the best i've ever looked. clayton... alisyn, dave, and rick and you managed -- look at this, you got dave's hair correct! dan, how did you manage to get pomade in the ice here? that is incredible! >> dave: i got a haircut. that is incredible! >> alisyn: they got all of our hair right. mine is the spitting image, rick's looks life-like. >> clayton: you managed to add extra hair to rick's statue! >> incredible! >> alisyn: how did they do that? >> clayton: i want to take it home and put shrimp on top of it! >> dave: the hair club helped out with rick's statue. this is beautiful! thank you very much, guys! thank you, clayton, that is fantastic. >> alisyn: i know, that is... >> dave: too bad it is 50 degrees and they'll melt. >> alisyn: put 'em in the fridge. >> dave: a daughter killed when her soccer team's bus flipped and her dad says states are not doing enough to keep our kids safe on school buses and he's here next with what he says needs to happen, now. >> alisyn: then a stunning new study finds a possible link between traffic pollution and autism. a look at how a child's environment affects their chances of developing the disorder from one of the researchers behind that study. ♪ every time it's so right ♪ well, it feels so good [ female announcer ] when you have a softer bath tissue, you can joy going more... while still using less. introducing w charmin ultra soft. new charmin ultra soft has an ultra-cushiony design that's soft and more absorbent. so you can use four times less versus the leading value brand. 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[ female announcer ] using less never felt so good. new charmin ultra soft. enjoy the go. >> dave: in 2006 two girls tragically died, these two, when their school bus overturned on the way to a school soccer game and today their families say their lives could have been saved had proper seatbelts been on the bus. since the accident their families have lobbied for what they call ashley and alicia's law. and to make buses safe ewith seatbelts and, steve's daughter was severely injured and, they are spokesmen for ashley's and alicia's law, and, there are numerous school buses without seatbelts in the state of texas. why? what is the problem? >> well, the law requires that every new school bus purchased after this september be equipped with lap shoulder belts and that was a good place to start, knowing that we couldn't expect complete retrofit of all school buses for every school district but we knew we had to start somewhere. >> dave: steve, we understand budget cuts are holding this up as well. what are you saying to administrators and to local officials, about how important this is for the safety of their children? >> we know in 2010, that the seatbelts save lives and prevent injuries. our children -- if our children had seatbelts on their bus, their lives and their injuries would have been spared, our legislature got it, and that is why texas passed the law. our governor supports it. we know that the money is tight. but, we are pursuing a reasonable solution in texas. we have $10 million that has been put toward providing new lap shoulder seatbelts in buses and we are moving those to the highest exposure routes which have been determined so, they understand that this is the right thing to do. this is what parents want and expect and are putting their money where their mouth is in texas. we hope the rest of the country would follow suit. >> dave: it has always blown me away, brad as a parent and shocked me to see buses, still not required to be equipped and states are doing things and california requires a three-point system and an every time in florida, louisiana, new jersey, new york, but why is more not being done on a national level to require this in all buses? >> isn't that surprising? it is a head-scratcher for us. you know, the school bus is the only environment that your child will be in, and -- in which there is no lap shoulder belt available to them. there is just no logical sense that seatbelts aren't provided on buses. the equipment is available, and, our children certainly deserve it and parents expect it. >> dave: how dangerous in the current situation for those who don't understand? 30, 40, 60 kids, sitting on this bus with no seatbelts, in some wayses, whatsoever. >> all you have to do is look at the real crash videos we have, buses have video systems in them and we have pictures of a bus in a rollover, and children literally being violently lone from their seat, and we have crash test videos of crash dummies, when a bus has an accident, your child, without a restraint system, is going to be thrown from their seat and we know that seatbelts add a 50 to 70% increase in protection for our child. there is no good reason. it is a dangerous situation. thankfully, school buses have a pretty good accident history so there aren't many accidents. but when an accident does happen, our children deserve much better than the protection -- total lack of protection that they have now. >> dave: steve foreman, brad brown, what an important issue, boy, we hope parents, administrators and congress, we hope, is listening to both of you. thank you for being here. >> thanks for having us. >> dave: a shocking study may have parents thinking twice about where they live and why there could be a link between living near a freeway and autism. next. >> alisyn: there's a fascinating study, researchers at the uc davis found that children who live within 1,000 feet of a freeway at birth have twice an increased risk of developing autism. this suggests that environmental factors may play a role in the disorder's growing numbers. the doctor joins us now, an autism researcher with uc davis mind instituted and the principal investigator of the study. doctor, thank you so much for being here. i want to let the viewers know, basically, what you did was you looked at the addresses of children with autism, and then you plugged those into a database, that showed traffic density. i think. and what did you find. >> right, so, this is part of a larger study called the charge study, childhood autism risk from jen neshtingenetics and th environment and we had interviewed the mother and had birth soifrcertificates and hacs of autism and autism spectrum disorder and, a control group of children who were developing and compared their residences with regard to distance to freeways and found the cases were about twice as likely to life at the time of the delivery within, as you say, a thousand feet of a freeway. now, this is a first study i would say, there have been some other studies on air pollution, and this is the first with individual-level data looking the at the individual addresses, and, individual distances. distance to a freeway is a good indicator of the level of pollutants in the air coming from vehicle emissions. so, we then look around and we say, well, what do we know about the compounds that are in automotive exhaust, and we find that many of those compounds in fact are problematic and have been shown to have effects on a child's cognitive development. now, autism is note same as cognitive development but it is the brain that is involved in both and so, we think it needs to be followed up. >> alisyn: is this a problem for babies in utero? in other words, mothers who are pregnant or children after they are born? >> we looked at the residences during the pregnancy and also at the time of the delivery, we did not look out past the birth. it seems as if the pre-nateding exposure is important, it is possible that a post natal exposure in the first year of life, during infancy, might also be problematic. but, definitely, around the time of birth, seems to be a period, if these findings are replicated, we'd be probably most concerned about it. at least the way the evidence looks right now. >> alisyn: i don't have to tell you, there is a huge debate about the role of childhood vaccines in autism. does your study suggest if environmental toxins or pollution trigger autism, does it stand to reason that then something in vaccines might as well? >> there is a large universe of environmental exposures and i think we really need to think broadly about the exposures that happen both in utero and as i say, in early life. in utero, does seem to be a particularly vulnerable period, and, as far as vaccines go, i think more work is needed, it is a very complicated subject, a lot of studies do suggest that there is not a problem with, for instance the mmr vaccine, was at one point pointed to and there is such a world of environmental exposures, i think we need to look broadly and we are looking at, in this study, traffic pollution, but there are a lot of pollutants in the home. household products that emit lots of chemicals, into the air. and, get into the dust and children breathe those and a lot of hand-to-mouth activity with children and we have a lot of factors that need to be looked at and we need to look at the interaction with genetics, because, it is probable that most of these environmental factors are operating in children who have some sort of gin -- genetic susceptibility. >> alisyn: and you believe there should be studies done on all of this, but your study is eye-opening, thanks for coming in and telling us about your research. >> thanks for having me. >> alisyn: more "fox & friends" in just two minutes. looks like we're in for a bumpy ride. go ahead, ignore me. but in this turbulent market, you're going to need help... protecting some of your assets for retirement. an axa equitable annuity could give you... guaranteed income for life. i'd call them, but what do i know? 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