she thought i was crazy. i said, debby, i'm locked on a plane. >> he fell asleep and woke up on an empty airplane. they locked it up, turned off the lights. the story you have to be awake to believe. wake up. "fox & friends" starts right now. oh, good morning. it may be early, but no less cheerful here at "fox & friends." 6:00 a.m. on the east coast. >> welcome. >> where is the oddest place you've fallen asleep. >> at the dentist. >> right here on this couch. >> yes. yes. >> the dentist? >> while you're waiting. no. no. you're very sleep deprived. >> must have been a two-hour wait. >> one of the oddest places, i'm trying to think about that. >> where is the oddest place you've ever fallen asleep. >> we have news headlines to get to on your sunday morning. a 16-year-old boy on his way to celebrate christmas with his family dies on board the flight. the pilots tried to make an emergency landing as the teenager suffered an emergency landing. the unidentified teenager died of natural causes due to some kind of pre-existing condition. his father is in the military and stationed in washington state. an american war veteran held captive in north korea over a month waking up in his own bed. 85-year-old merill newman receiving a warm welcome in san francisco and greeted by his son and wife. north korea gave no reason why they let him go but newman said he's grateful to be home. >> it's been a great homecoming and i'm tired but ready to go with my family. thank you all for the support we got. very much appreciate it. all smiles. newman's family and the white house calling for the release of another american, kenneth bae. he's been held in north korea for over a year now. a shaky weekend in central oklahoma. a magnitude 4.5 earthquake rattling towns near oklahoma city saturday. >> things fell off the wall. things fell off shelves. at first you don't know what's happening and then it sort of settles down and you can take inventory. >> luckily no other major damage or injuries reported. this quake comes just weeks after the two-year anniversary of the strongest earthquake ever reported in the state, a magnitude 5.6 back in 2011. 60 survivors attend an anniversary of the attack on pearl harbor. a moment of silence was observed at 7:55 a.m., the minute the bombings began. >> it was a day of gallantry and unquestionable heroism even as it was a day of sacrifice and loss. for those who gave the last full measure of devotion that day, we feel a deep sense of sorrow for the loss of such potential. >> 2400 sailors, marines, and soldiers were killed in the attack that day. those are your news headlines. >> jess dean is here. we have a storm alert. deadly storm blasting the southern states, snow and ice heading east. icing conditions in dallas causing thousands of flight cancellations. janet dean had to cancel that marathon down there in dallas, 25,000 participants in the dallas marathon, canceled. >> a lot of things will be cancelled. this is kite an event affecting millions of people. if you're flying, call ahead. the temperatures are frigid across the u.s. 40 degrees below average in a lot of areas. dallas, 26 degrees. the ice that is on the roadways is not going melt. it is very treacherous. people are urged to stay off the roads whmpt you factor in what it feels like on the roads, it feels like 19 in dallas, you get the picture. it is frigid across the u.s. it's not even technically winter on the calendar. we are worried about freezing rain and sleet and just a mess across the ohio river valley, the tennessee river valley up towards the mid-atlantic and the northeast. it's going to be impossible to travel in a lot of these areas. you can see the pink here on the radar. that's where we're seeing the icy mix across nashville up towards places, tennessee, kentucky, west virginia. north of that where it's below freezing, that's where we'll see the snow. there is that mixing line throughout the day today. it will creep towards the mid-atlantic and then into the northeast. by sunday overnight we're looking at pittsburgh, dc, up towards new york an icy mix heading into the commute tomorrow. then as we go throughout the day it will finally exit. for the next 12 to 24 hours it will be very tricky on the roads and in the air and taking a look at the forecast precipitation, we could see several inches of snow and then that icy mix here south of that. that's where we'll see the heavy rain. it's going to be a trying time on the roadways. if you don't have to travel, please do not get on the roads in any of the areas where you're seeing that icy mix. >> well, thousands of californians are waking up finding out that their personal information isn't safe. they tried to sign up for obama care and the california insurance, cover california. you know at the end of the form it says, do you want us to have your marketing information so we can e-mail you and provide extra information for you? even if you don't check that box, you don't want it, doesn't matter. that's exactly what the folks in california do. they did not check that box and their information was still given away without their consent. >> some of these people had just hopped online basically to check it out or they hopped online and found out that a plan that they already had or found one elsewhere was a better deal so they never filled out the rest of the application and their information was shared as well. now this information is e-mail addresses, phone numbers, home addresses, cover california is saying though that no personal information like social security numbers and personal income -- >> they're calling your house. >> some people aren't buying it either. how can you trust it? >> the people calling the homes are insurance companies who have been paid off in the very beginning to get behind obama care on the promise that they will have more customers and access to information exactly like this. so the obama care website is doing what sleazy marketers do. pass on your information to other marketers like people who make the civil war chest set or whatever. right? it's like a lead list. >> it's for your own good. >> the "los angeles times" piece says they were shocked. they didn't even complete the application process and they were getting phone calls. take heart in peter levy. he says, i can imagine some people may be upset but i can see some people will be comforted and relieved to get help navigating the website. >> your average sleazy marketer knows he's a sleazy marketer operating over a space above a starbucks. these people are doing it because they feel they have a moral right to do it. you ought to be grateful they're giving away your information to no one you've never heard of. >> it's okay for big government to do it but not mom and pop shops who have to adhere to the do not call list. >> or the do not e-mail list or canned spam act. >> it doesn't apply to the government. >> it's all because they're trying to make their deadline. that's the arg gurmt that cover california is making, too, hey, we have these deadlines for enrollment numbers and we're behind schedule so we have to do this. >> further, we talk about these electronic issues. in this story we're talking about with cover california, we know so many issues with the online and electronic versions of signing up for obama care. now a new report out, the navigator navigators, those magellan type teenagers who are led to help you through the difficult courses of obama care are being told to stop using paper, stop using the paper applications and just begin using the electronic signup process because that deadline is quickly approaching. they're getting a little nervous that the paper is going to take too long. >> we need to get them on the same page. the representative from cms says there is plenty of time and the paper applications are just fine. which one is it? >> when i read her comment, julie batali, who is the director of the cms saying that, no, no, no, paper is fine. as you're an employee, navigator, you're hearing use electronic, then a director is saying, go ahead. use paper. >> nobody is in charge. the reason nobody is in charge is because nobody ever gets fired. there's no penalty for screwing it up. it is just a royaling sea of mediocrity although we did learn today one person may have finally lost their job. somebody resigned in the state of maryland. we have more on that in the show. you have to call your attention to an interesting report in the new york post that pales in the personal venom that developed between president obama and charlie rangel. been in the house of representatives 44 years. it turns out they hate each other. there's no way to put a finer point on this. they despise each other. a new book has the president calling charlie rangel, quote, a hack referring to his many ethical challenges. there's no doubts charlie rangel is a hack and been caught not paying his taxes. >> it breaks it down, the sort of back and forth. it seems to be that rangle is, as they describe it, old school. he's been there for 44 years, harlem congressman. he does it old school and he has seen president obama as an up start, a beginner. he famously backed hillary clinton. and then of course when he was elected, brought na office. charlie rangel thought he would have access to the white house as chairman of the house ways and means committee. he didn't get access. >> and who did? >> al sharpton. that's who they went with for their community outreach. they went with al sharpton over charlie rangel. charlie rangel has been pretty honest about the failures of obama care. the real difference is style. charlie rangel likes other people. he is a warm person. spend an afternoon with charlie rangel. he exsuds an affection for other human beings. that is wholly absent from president obama. name five people close to him? they don't exist. you can name 500 for charlie rangel. >> remember the picture of him on the beach in the dominican republic. he evaded taxes on the cottage. the president didn't take to his side and also you remember the $30,000 plate funt raising event that went on in harlem, which is the district of charlie rangel. he wasn't invited. >> but you can have a conversation with charlie rangel. charlie rangel is a politician. he understands compromise. two people coming together to achieve something. the obama white house wants to lecture you on how they're morally superior, shut up and obey. one has a realistic understanding of human nature and the other thinks he's jesus. >> more on that coming up. first, this. it's not too early to talk 2016. there's already chatter about who's going to make the next run for the white house. >> it's something that i'll certainly consider. >> i'm a very able politician i'll tell you whether i'm able to persuade my wife. >> our next guest has those few names no one is talking about yet. >> remember this, it had so many of you outraged yesterday. spaghetti owe's tweeting out this picture on pearl harbor day. stay tuned. farmer: hello, i'm an idaho potato farmer. and our giant idaho potato truck is still missing. so my dog and i we're going to go find it. it's out there somewhere spreading the good word about idaho potatoes and raising money for meals on wheels. but we'd really like our truck back, so if you see it, let us know, would you? 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we turn to the president and ceo, way rashburn, founder and owner of probably the best restaurant chain, la casina. you're always everywhere. finance chairman of the rnc. you meet with donors and voters all the time. what are republicans looking for in the 2016 campaign? >> looking for three things. somebody who can govern, lead, and win. a lot of money spent in the primaries that ended up being wasted. this time they want to focus on someone that can win. >> you said govern, a quality. that suggest someone who runs something like a state. >> also shows the current occupant of the white house can't govern. >> room for a senator right now? >> right now at the rnc we're building our grassroots platform, structuring the party, the platform. from the senate standpoint, this he have to prove they can lead. >> show us some of the names. mark could rubio. bobby bobby jindal. the list will be long. >> it is. the candidates are crisscrossing the country. we're trying to get through the 2014 seasons. behind the scenes they are calling donors and checking guys out. >> so the democrats have indicated what they're running on. this is what debbie wasserman schultz said. >> all of our candidates are running on the provisions of obama care. >> you won't say it. >> i just said it. >> so they're going to run on obama care. >> they'll use it as an advantage. >> do you think that's true, they're going to run on obama care? 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♪ ♪ well, score one for christmas. a new jersey mayor fighting the pc police renaming his town tree a christmas tree. for several years it's been called a holiday tree, and now the mayor is saying, enough is enough. the people across the nation are really rallying behind him. david fried, the mayor of robinsville township, new jersey, is here. >> good morning, thank you for having me. >> thanks for being here. you've been mayor for eight years, a small town of 17,000 people. you had a menorah celebration and christmas tree lighting. what happened in 2007. >> we started calling it a holiday tree. this year they wanted to make it a tree lighting. >> they even dropped the holiday. >> they were going to drop the holiday. i said, enough is enough. we have a menorah lighting. it's not a candle lab bra. we can have a christmas tree. we wrote a letter explaining. we can't continue to chip away at our culture and who we are and what we believe in. we decided to say enough is enough. >> sounds like your residents are happy that you're not chipping away at the culture. we can show a letter from our viewers from one of your constituents. news flash for robinsville. this is christmas. it's been celebrated for 2013 years as the birthday of jesus christ. whoops, said that name that nobody likes to mention anymore. happy holidays. the rest of us are going to celebrate christmas since jesus, there's that guy again, is the reason for the season. >> we've had some backlash. for the most part i think people have been positive. people have been feeling they've wanted to say things like this. oftentimes in conversations we say happy hanukkah. do we say merry christmas? you say, happy holidays. when did merry christmas become something that's uncomfortable saying? >> you're getting support internationally. sweden has contacted new. >> amazing the amount of e-mail i've gotten all over the country. we've been responding as quickly as we can. one thing came in from sweden where they said things have gotten so politically correct where they can't sing the national anthem in school. that's incredible. >> we want to make sure that doesn't happen here. >> you wonder, right. it's micro creeping. that's how the political correctness happens. they can talk about taking aw