House republicans voting against theth president s demand to anincrease payments from most americans from 600, to 2,000. And since its tied to a massive spending bill devito could trigger a shutdown. Correspondent mark merritt at this in West Palm Beach where spending the is holiday amid a stalemate. We still do not know whether the president will or will not sign that 900 billion stimulus package. That was a a bill that congress has already approved. We know the president is not happy about all this and now lawmakers are really trying to avert disaster here with millions of americans also wondering if they are going to get a check, or not. We do not have unanimous consent. Thiso Morning House democrats tried but failed to approve the latest demand to increase the amount of money some americans would get indirect stimulus payments. The American People need to know with certainty that democrats are trying to get those higher stimulus payments. This is Christmas Eve. The hold up . House republicans are not ont board that leading lawmakers scrambling to figure out if and when emergency checks will go out. Republicans in the house and white house cant agree on what they want. This week the house and Senate Approved a 900 billion stimulus package that would send money directly to some americans. Late tuesday the president released a video complaining its not i enough. President trump im asking congress to amend this bill and increase the ridiculously low 600 to 2,000, or 4,000 for a couple. The president also says hes upset that the stimulus is tied to a 4 trillion spending package which includes millionss in foreign aid. Republicans say its a fight worth having. Its up to congress to write this wrong and i appreciate the republican standing firmament. In this holy season we thank god for his infinite love. And his christmas message the president praised americans helping the country through the pandemic but being no mention of the 26 people he pardoned it tuesday night. That included some adorable names. Paul manafort was a Trump Campaign chairman which was tied to bank fraud. I thank you for the president ial pardon that you have bestowed on me. Words cannot fully convey how grateful we are. They talked about witness tampering. If they wanted me to bear false witness against the president and i refuse to do so. I think thats what this charge was about from the beginning. Also on the pardon list is Charles Kushner, the soninlawt jared kushner. It was tied to a family scandal and with hours of the pardon being released there was outrage from lawmakers including nebraska g. O. P. Senator Ben Sasse Ben Sasse who in a one sentence statement wrote this is rotten to the core. Mike we are still waiting to see ife the president mayn issue more pardons while hes here in florida. They are working to override the president s veto of the National Defense authorization act and also on monday the House Speaker says the house will be working or not to increase the stimulus payments once again with a roll call vote. It these are the payments of the president says he wants. Stay tuned. Mike it should be a busy next week. Mark meredith starting us off. Here are some good news. The stocks are up to date, the dow gained 70 and the s p rose 13 and that nasdaq jumped 34. A massive rush massive russia linked cyber attack allowed hackers to spend months mining federal Government Networks and private Company Systems across the globe which is proving to have larger than expected implications and now, and new warning from the federal government. Correspondent david spent has the latest. A Christmas Eve morning for governments across the country, not even a week after Cyber Security officials announced a widespread digital intrusion into several federal agencies. At the same officials warn locae municipalities may also be victims. It the Cyber Security and Infrastructure Security Agency warned it is tracking a significant cyber incident impacting Enterprise Networks across federal, state and local government. And thats a company that provides software for public and private organizations. Hackers dived into the c departments of commerce and energy. Pima countys were in the cross hairs, and no compromising data was stolen. Solar winds says in nearly 18,000 of its customers receivet a Software Update that included dangerous malware. They still have the ability and networks in which theyen maintained some persistent control to do the proof will bel bomb drop. Crowd strike was contacted by microsoft as a potential victim. The company says it was not impacted. It will take us weeks to t discover the whole extent, whats been taken and months to remediate. They are calling for ane investigation into the origins of the hack. Secretary of state mike pompeo and bill barr both boehm comic blame russia but the president shifted blame to china in a tweet. Cyber experts say both the current and future president must Work Together to prevent another outbreak. Hi this is going to be a very long response process. Not just, lets have a meeting the oval office. Experts are also paying attention to the Hospital Systems from the largest cities to the smallest towns to keep patient Information Safe especially in the middle of this deadly pandemic. Mike . Mike david, thanks a lot. President elect biden spent this Christmas Eve in wilmington, delaware. Sp ongoing discussions on whether a special counsel should take over the hunter biden tax investigation after former attorney general bill barr rebuffed President Trumps request before hes resigned. This after managing pressure from Interest Groups as i he filled out the last post in his cabinet. How likely is it that his special counsel is named . We refused to say whether he would appoint a special counsel and his predecessor bill barr said it wasntba necessary. And the appointed attorneys will be investigating his son which is textbook conflict. Business associates and business activity, i want somebody to look at all the oversizoverseas activity of hunr biden and the policy of President Biden if he goes to be president , and the guy in delaware doesnt have that mandate. The u. S. Attorney overseeing Hunter Bidens case has a trump appointee but insiders say its unlikely that biden will fire and b replace him because it has the appearance of interference. That includes his considerations for attorney general. Mike speaking of that, mr. Biden was expected to announce his pick for attorney general two weeks ago. Are we any closer . No. T, in fact biden said on tuesday theres no obvious choice in his mind in part because age, gender and racial diversity has been such a debate in the cabinet picks and now pressure from Interest Groups is also weighing on his choice for labor secretary. Ma sources tell me boston mayor marty walsh is being strongly considered and has support from a numbe a number oe prominent heads. Walsh also has longstanding relationships with, vitamin provided over his second inauguration in 2018 but the congressional black hawk has said its extremely important for communities and they appointed in a ipi nominee to any remaining cabinet spot. The Congressional Hispanic Caucus is also making a push. One source told me that its not just raise that biden is factoring in but also a diversity of experiences and viewpoints. The final decision for labor secretary has not yet been made. Mike Jacqui Heinrich live wilmington. With the renascent georgia less than two weeks away President Trumps veto over the defense spending bill and growing uncertainties surrounding him signing the covid stimulus packageur could have a big correspondent Jonathan Serrie has that tonight from atlanta. Democrats Raphael Warnock and jon ossoff spent part of theta Christmas Eve delivering food for a charity. They received an unexpected gift from the president and its rebuke of capitol hill lawmakers foraw being too stingy on stimue checks. President trump is as ever erotic and a all over the place but on this point in eight hes right. 600 is agh joke. They should send it twodollarar checks to the American People right now because people are hurting. Republican senator Kelly Loeffler said she will consider larger checks if the money is redirected from wasteful spending in other areas. Democrats are criticizing leffler and fellow storag assurs georgia senator david perdue for their continued silence on whether they will vote to override a President Trumps veto of the annual defense spendingpa bill. A Party Spokesperson says senator loeffler must choose. Will she block President Trump or block critical funding and military . More than two georgians have already cast early ballots in the january 5th run off and of Voting Rights that Stacey Abrams has filed aa federal lawsuit to block the conservative texas watchdog challenging the eligibility of more than 364,000 georgia voters saying and amounts to widespread and wellpublicized attempts at Voter Suppression and intimidation. With nearly half a billion dollars invested in the Georgia Senate runoff, the New York Times reports that campaigns are buying advertising and outofstate broadcastma markets that overlap even if you georgia counties. Es these type races every voter matters. Mike no doubt about it and come up atlanta. A winter storm in nebraska has already claimed three lives. The National Weather service predicts a wide range of hazardous weather is on the way for much of the east this christmas. Fox news chief meteorologist joins us now to tell us what to expect. Good evening, rick. An incredible storm, blizzard across the northern plains. Behind it cold air has settled in and that means the air wont go anywhere quickly. In fact what you just saw, thats a heaviest where that blizzard was. About a week and a half ago we had a massive recordbreaking storm, almost 4 feet of snow in some spots in that we have temperatures into the 50s. Very heavy rain falling with the storm and that means we will talk about rapid snowmelt, plus the rain thats falling and potentially a lot of trees going down. It potentially some roofs collapsing, certainly some basements flooded and rivers and streams with ponding on the road. The southern part of the storm is not as severe, throughout georgia and into the carolinas. E you noticed the snow turning into snow and behind us as part of the central appalachians. Severe weather out in front of this across the outer banks and we could be looking at a few tornadoes over the next couple of hours. Then very heavy rain into the northeast, that rain might total in a few spots, maybe two or 4 inches of rain. And ihe behind it you will see e snow. Winter storm warnings in effect with probably 48 inches of snow by the time this is done. One last thing make it that we will be watching from the storms incredible window. Tonight during the overnight hours we might see when discussing thigustingto 5070 me city. That could create power outages. Mike that sounds like another good reason to stay home. Despite warnings to stay home, millions of americans areri flyg the friendly skies thisee christmas week. According to the tsa more than 5 Million People passed through the Airport Security checkpoints between friday and tuesday alo alone. Garrett tenney is at chicagos Ohare Airport with more. Americans are heading homeid for the holidays. Nearly 85 Million People are expected to travel over the next week and a half according to aaa. The vast majority are avoiding crowded airports packed planes to drive to their destinations. Thats despite Public Health officials urging travelers to stay home. This type of travel is risky. Im afraid that if, in fact, we see this happen, we will have a surge that is superimposed upon the difficult situation we are already in. It could be a very difficultom january coming up if these things happen. A lot of folks we spoke to acknowledge they are taking risks by traveling but they say for them, being reunited with family is worth it. There is tension in the air and a little bit of riskr involved, just hoping for the best. I just felt like i needed to be around who i can be before i lose too many more. I think we are all scared of coated during our daily life. I think its something that i have to do, just see my family a couple of days and then come back. This week travelers sound 40 and overall Holiday Travel is expected to drop by 29 compared to last year as more than three quarters of american stay home for the holidays according to aaa. Us just like at thanksgiving, people have been doing the waitandsee approach, kind of deciding at the last minute. While people may have travel plans, they may cancel and stay home just because of the pandemic and to the rise of covid19 cases. For those that do travel over the holidays, the cdc recommends being tested before andyo after your trip, limiting the number of people you interact with and quarantining for seven days when you get home. Mike garrett tenney, thanks a lot. Still ahead, creative ways to still be social during this pandemic. 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Its a move towards nefarious activity and quickly assesses no americans were injured or killed as a result of this operation. The United States military continues to move its forces out of the wartorn country. A distressing trend from our southern border where the number of children illegally crossing without their parents is on the rise. William la jeunesse and explains why the increase is occurringse even with the backdrop of this pandemic. I have a body on my camera betweensh offenses. That should be alarming to anyone. An unaccompanied child crossing the border by themselves. A surge hasnt agents on alert. Children and miners are being traffic and more remote locations, out in the west area of south texas. Here a smuggler crosses ther border near brownsville with four children all under the age seven. When agents approach he the kids andhe rafts back to mexic. Confused and shivering, the children huddle until the Border Patrol arrives. The other day we had a 3yearold child with phone number written on her leg and some information written on her tshirt. To me that is just a recipe for disaster. The phone numbers make it easy for u. S. Officials to contact parents or relatives already here. Unaccompanied children crossing the border jumped from 25 per day in april 2150 per day now. Officials say 35 of the kids test positive for covid. And worried for my coworkers, worried for my family and my friends. Im worried for the migrants. While the increase floods of the the pandemic cut families and adults the u. S. Cannot return unaccompanied children over the border. The resulting surge agents say tends to overwhelm the limited number of availablef beds. We dont want to keep them in our custody any longer than we have to come our facilities arent equipped for that. Agents fear the rise in unaccompanied children will continue to