how much could the kids get for this? >> not too bad of a sum, roughly $1,500 for the year, john. this is a proposed two-year pilot program that would cost roughly $1.5 million. as you point out, it would pay cash directly to the parents of kindergarteners and ninth graders who just show up for school. here are the details. the state would make biweekly payments of $25 to parents of participating students. students who kept up 90% attendance rate for the year would get $150 at the end of each quarter and $500 at the end of the year. this proposal comes as the nation struggles with growing absent teeism, 10% or more days. the number of students who are chronically absent has nearly

doubled to 28%. and in ohio, more than one in four is chronically absent, and the lawmaker insists it's worth the cost of the payments. >> fit works, it's a win-win, changing the culture of attendance. if it doesn't work, we need to be trying other things because this is an emergency. >> but critics, of course, say paying parents for school attendance is like paying someone to obey the law. this is just a state bill that's been proposed. it still has to go through committee. unclear whether it will actually pass, john. back to you. >> john: sounds like the slippery slope there that you just articulated. almost makes you want to go back to school. now this. >> one aspect of the plan to stop the houthis is have china pressure them to stop. does the administration have any

indication that china has sway with the houthis and interest in applying such pressure? >> china has influence over tehran, in iran, so what we have said we would welcome a constructive role by china. using the influence and access they know they have to stem the flow of weapons, ammunitions to the houthis. >> john: stunning admission from the white house briefing, john kirby says it's now up to china to help stop the houthi rebels. john roberts in washington, another action-packed hour, sandra. >> sandra: up to china, that is remarkable. i'm sandra smith in new york, this is "america reports". the pentagon is going to brief after all of that a bit later this hour. the u.s. and u.k. did launch more strikes against those houthi rebels in yemen but this time a much smaller scale as the administration tries to avoid escalation in the middle east. >> john: lawmakers on both sides of the aisle sound frustrated. listen here.

>> biden administration is predicting that it's going to -- that it will escalate, so thus far it has not been a deterrent, i have a lot of questions about what's the strategy. >> certainly has not diminished their enthusiasm and i just think that we are just -- we are just way too passive about it. i would like to see the president become much more aggressive. >> john: and with that, jennifer griffin live at the pentagon. >> we finally heard from defense secretary lloyd austin today for the first time since he underwent surgery for prostate cancer on december 22nd and two weeks hospitalized at walter reed. still working from home and addressed the 50 nations who make up the ukraine contact group today in virtual remarks. >> good day, everyone. thanks for working across time zones to join us for the 18th meeting of the ukraine defense contact group. we are eager to enter this new year with new energy. and we are all here to reaffirm

our support for a free, secure and sovereign ukraine. >> austin did not address last night's joint attacks by american and british war planes and cruise missiles against eight locations in yemen. there were multiple targets at each of these locations, and we are told by senior u.s. defense officials about 25 to 30 munitions were dropped on houthi weapons storage facilities, including for the first time underground sites. australia, bahrain and canada offered their support but left the attacks to the u.s. and british militaries. british typhoon and voyageur fighter jets were launched from the royal air force base in cypress. the second time since january 11th the u.s. was joined by britain to join in airstrikes. iran proxy has carried out 35 attacks on commercial shipping in the red sea since november 18th. super hornets from the u.s.s.

eisenhower were used as well as munitions from u.s.s. mason, u.s.s. philippine sea, and u.s.s. gravely, which contributed tomahawk land attack cruise missiles. a senior official told reporters we can tell you that we observed good impacts and effects at all eight locations, assessing that we did, in fact, destroy missiles, unmanned aerial systems, and weapon storage areas with few casualties. this is the first time the u.s. has struck an underground storage facility of this type in yemen. a senior official told reporters the eighth time the u.s. has carried out strikes on houthi sites since january 12th. most of those attacks, john, have included ballistic missiles being prepared to launch. last night's strikes were on storage facilities and an air field in the capital. john. >> john: given the houthis' intentions, i expect it will not be the last time either. sandra. >> sandra: a live look in

londonderry, people are voting for what could be a make or break for nikki haley. we saw donald trump on the ground talking to voters a few moments ago. bryan is in concord. what do we know, bryan. >> bryan: off the phone with the haley campaign, they say they are feeling good about today. they say they have left everything out on the field here in new hampshire. look, nobody has spent more time and money in this state than former governor nikki haley. she's made over 100 campaign stops, almost 30 this past week, and spent some $30 million on tv ads. it's more than double than former president trump. as far as the expectations for tonight, they have spent the last week lowering those expectations, about what they could expect, but haley said look, ultimately that she just wants to finish stronger here than in iowa. when i pushed the campaign as to

what stronger actually means, reluctant to give us a point margin or percentage that they are looking at tonight that could meet that definition. now, the haley camp is looking for high voter turnout today. the state is anticipating some 100,000 undeclared or independent voters to show up for the polls and haley will need to win a lot of those votes. even if she loses tonight, the haley campaign has spent the entire day today signalling that they are moving forward. they talk about a $4 million ad buy in south carolina, they have a rally in charleston tomorrow, and the campaign chose today to release a memo outlining their plan at which they say they are going to go all the way through super tuesday. she'll be making her speech tonight here in concord, new hampshire. sandra. >> sandra: bryan, thank you. john. >> john: sandra, bring in fox news contribute ben domenech, on

the ground in new hampshire. great to see you ben. so nikki haley was on "fox & friends" this morning saying she expects she's going to do well in new hampshire. listen to this. >> i've been consistent. i wanted to be strong in iowa. we started with 2%, ended with 20%. i want to be stronger in new hampshire. we'll know what that is when the numbers come in. stronger than that in south carolina. it's just continuing to build. >> john: how do you think she's going to do today? >> i think she's going to do well, john, and i was out there earlier in bedford, new hampshire, where governor sununu and governor haley were there talking to voters, talking to supporters and i think that they are pretty confident they are going to certainly come in a very strong second and potentially, you know, overperform the expectations that have been set by a lot of polls that have shown former president trump well ahead. i think that one of the things to keep in mind is governor haley is facing a different situation when it comes to going to her own home state after this in south carolina.

then someone like ron desantis was in terms of the kind of competitive field that he was going to have to deal with going forward. and so there's a lot of optimism on that front. i spoke to haley's campaign manager who released the memo that bryan referenced and they are very confident that they are going to be able to take up the kind of time here and put in the kind of effort in order to compete and in order to win several states saying through super tuesday and the like. does this end up meaning she's competing for the nomination, i'm not sure. it seems to be in the camp of the president and in cum ben si in the primary, but she will stick around longer than some pundits have suggested. >> john: to that point, she was asked point blank on "fox & friends," will you drop out if you don't win today in new hampshire. >> i don't get out if i lose today. first of all, again, i'm going to say this, we have had 56,000

people vote for donald trump and you say that's what the country wants? that's not what the country wants. we'll have new hampshire vote today, they deserve to have the power of their voice said. >> john: so let's make the hypothetical calculation here. she's got a huge hill to climb to beat donald trump. so, let's just say that he wins today. she has got a month to erase a 30-point deficit in south carolina. if she goes into the primary and loses, forever branded as the presidential candidate who lost her home state and that for her going forward would be political kryptonite. so, when does she make the calculation whether or not to drop out? >> yeah, i think that's absolutely the big question, john. if this is a situation where she's going to go down to what would be, you know, the defeat in her own state it has to enter into the conversation. but i also think one of the things we are underestimating about this current moment, there seems to be a much stronger

resistance among independent voters in particular, but also the faction in the gop that haley appeals to the most to voting for donald trump or coming back home to support the party nominee in the situation where he is just the de facto, you know, incumbent, someone who is agreed upon without a real fight, so i think there is going to be a fight. but whether haley reaches the conclusion before south carolina next month she does not have the ability to contend with in her home state and ultimately decides to get out, that's going to depend on what we see from the polling and from the reaction among these different faxes who still are resistance to coming around for the former president. >> john: and you had a great article in the spectator, the fine magazine where you suggested that haley was the last great hope of the republican donor class who didn't want a trump redux, you said that leaves the donor

class, that nikki haley could pull off a monumental upset in minimal amount of time and up end the political trajectory of the republican party. even with a candidate who looks good on paperbacked by all their dollars and endorsements, looks like a bed parrot pining for the fjords. a little monty python. >> thank you for including the monty python reference. if they liked and backed her from the beginning, it could be a far stronger campaign effort. because they never came around to her, they held on to the hope of glenn youngkin or brian kemp, even chris sununu getting into the race, they didn't given her the kind of money that could have made a very big difference for her in this crowded field. >> john: we will see later tonight whether the parrot has expired or if it will live another day. ben, great to see you, thanks.

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they don't really push adoption, they don't push carrying to term, they don't push prenatal care, postnatal care, it's one issue, abortion. at any time right up to the moment of birth and joe biden has not been able to explain to the american people why he has had such a radical change. he used to believe in abortion restrictions but he doesn't anymore. i don't know why reporters don't ask him, mr. president, when did you stop believing abortion should have some restrictions. 75% of the american public think there should be some restrictions. the debate may be on what they are, but there are very few people who think there ought to be just abortion on demand right up until the moment of birth. >> sandra: it's not as if they are not being given the opportunity to clarify where the president stands on this. this was our own peter doocy just yesterday in the briefing room. he put this question to karine jean-pierre. listen. >> how many weeks into a pregnancy does he think abortion

should still be legal? >> you have asked me this question before. i've been very clear, the president has been very clear, we want to see protections in roe, roe become the law of the land. that's what the president wants to see. that's what the president believes in. >> sandra: how should that be interpreted, governor? >> i think it should be interpreted she's not answering the question because they are afraid to. if they answer the question honestly and say we want unrestricted abortion, they lose 70% of the american public. who thinks there should be some restriction, you should not take the life of a baby minutes before it's capable of being born. and most people don't think it should be done even after three months. many after a point of pain. so there's a lot of view on that. some of us are pro life to the point we believe that life is life, and there is no such thing as any life that is worthless, dispensible, disposable, expendable, but some believe there should be some time for a

abu -- and we need to go on the offense and say look, we believe in life. some of us believe it to a point maybe earlier in the pregnancy at the point of conception, others later. but we don't think that you can just willy nilly have the attitude no such thing as a human life in the womb, and it's just a clump of cells and you guys on the left want to preach about science. let's talk some science here. >> sandra: governor, maybe is an issue, republicans are not getting in front of this. we saw what happened in the midterms and a fair question to ask your party. this is kamala harris saying former president trump is proud to have taken rights away from women. listen. >> the previous president expressed his intentions quite clearly and fast forward to just

recently says he's proud of what he did and let's be clear. so by inference he is proud that women have been deprived of fundamental freedoms to make decisions about their own body. >> sandra: so clearly they are on the offense here. are republicans thinking this through in a way that they should so close to election day? >> no, i think republicans have blown it because we have acted like we don't have a message here. yes, we do. i would say to kamala harris. ok, so you think that the only body that matters is the body of the mother. what about the body of the baby? it's a separate body, its dna is not the same as the mother. so tell us when it's ok to take that body and end its life because you can't do that, you won't do that, and blaming this on donald trump is ridiculous. the fact is that we as a culture, as a civilization need to decide.

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>> sandra: drivers in chicago reporting a record number of car thefts last year as the rate of arrests for those types of crimes hits an all time low. and some officials say that has a lot to do with the lack of police officer in the city. kelly is live in chicago for us. what could be encouraging these type of thefts? >> sandra, it could be the shortage of police officers or the city's policy that aims to protect civilians from the residual dangers that come with going after these thieves. someone was even threatened outside the governor's mansion

where there is usually some type of law enforcement just last week. the thieves attempting two other carjackings that same day. of the over 29,000 reported auto thefts, only 754 arrests were made last year. record low rate of about 2.6%. there are about 1500 less sworn police officers working right now than there were five years ago. meanwhile, auto thefts were up around 36% since 2022. there is an ordinance that could be encourage people to pursue the carjackings. the city has a pretty relaxed approach in regards to pursuits. chicago police department policy says "necessity to immediately apprehend the fleeing suspect outweighs the level of inherent danger created by a motor vehicle pursuit." this is done to prevent crashes as taxpayers have paid millions in settlements for wrongful death lawsuits related to police chases. in december, the head of one of

the civilian oversight panels said the chicago police department should ramp up these rules again on vehicle pursuits and the city has gone back to the drawing board multiple times over the last 20 years or so on this topic, sandra. >> sandra: sad to see what is happening there, and it is going to be a huge, huge challenge to turn things around. kelly, thank you very much. >> why are you guys making it easier for people to enter the country illegally? >> i don't believe we are. i don't do you think we are? >> well, you guys sued to cut razor wire that was put in place by texas officials. >> the border patrol could actually do their jobs. the border patrol needed access and that's why we sued to get rid of that razor wire so that they could do their jobs. >> john: john kirby defending the biden administration strategy on immigration but

seems americans are not buying what the white house is selling about the migrant crisis. a new poll reveals immigration is the top issue for voters in 2024. comes amid a huge blow by the supreme court allowing the biden administration to tear down razor wire in texas. for more on this, let's bring in ohio senator j.d. vance. good to be with you. according to our correspondent on the ground, no razor wire has yet been cut because the national guard will not let the border patrol in shelby park, but it ultimately will happen. >> the message is clear, joe biden is threatening the state of texas to enforcing border even when the federal government does not do the job for it. texas dealing with overwhelming flow of illegal migrants, joe biden using the power of the courts, every tool at disposal

to prevent texas from doing what joe biden should be doing, enforcing the southern border. what kind of message does that send to illegal aliens across the world. the message that america is open for border. even our own federal government will not enforce our border laws so come on in, america is open. >> john: for so many months the economy is the top issue for voters in america, but the new finding from the harvard harris poll shows it has been eclipsed by immigration. 35% of people say that is their topic issue. the next issue is inflation at 32%. then look at this finding, should biden make a deal with republicans to increase border security? 77% of people, including 65% of democrats said yes. and should biden make it tougher to get into the u.s. illegally, 68% of people, including 50% of democrats say yes. and when you take a look, senator, at the number of people coming over the border illegally, more than 300,000 in the month of december alone, how

big an issue do you think this is going to be come next november? >> it's a massive issue, john, and affects everybody. it affects your family if you know somebody who has died from a fentanyl overdose, it affects your family if you know somebody who has tried to buy a home. interest rates are too high and home prices are through the roof. one of the reasons why that is, john, you've got 30 million illegally aliens who shouldn't be here competing for the americans for the housing stock in the country. this is a disaster that does not just affect the border states, it affects everybody from every act of our shared life as americans. i know schools in the state of ohio, john, that are catering to illegal aliens, they are not spending the resources to educate american children because they have to deal with this influx of illegal aliens. it affects all of us in many different ways. i'm not surprised it's a big issue. we have to remember, john. this is an issue of joe biden's own making. he could solve the border crisis tomorrow if he wanted to.

he has the tools at his disposal. he just refuses to enforce the laws of his own country. that's disgraceful stuff. >> john: at the same time, the president is saying this is congress's problem that they refuse t work with him on comprehensive immigration reform and safe to say in this election year no appetite from the republicans in the house or the senate to deal with comprehensive immigration reform. >> border security. comprehensive, he's talking about amnesty, giving illegal aliens the right to be in the country which just invites more illegal aliens to come in across the wide open southern border. this is a president who from day one has signalled to the world that he doesn't want to enforce the border of this country. he ended remain in mexico, one of the most effective policies the trump administration to keep down the flow of illegal migrants. he's done a number of things that have said to the world come on in, america has an open border.

so it's really insane for the president to blame congressional republicans at the same time that he's suing the state of texas for enforcing the border. i don't think anybody with common sense buys that. it's the president's fault and the president needs to stop doing what he's doing. >> john: interesting to see what our voter analysis in the state of new hampshire says about this issue as we dig into that as the primary continues today. senator vance, appreciate it. a live look in new hampshire where former president trump just made a stop at the polls in londonderry. plus this. >> make the house tour extra special, brought justin timberlake. this is justin's house. >> no. >> sandra: youtube mega star mr. beast, everybody is talking about him, big bucks after taking on a challenge of elon musk. now he's in talk for a record-breaking deal with

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former president trump, good thing i'm wearing converse, i was able to run over there and then over here, and president trump tells me this is -- might be a two-person race in new hampshire but does not care about what nikki haley is doing. he believes he's in the lead, stay in the lead and is going to win. feeling confident in the granite state. >> you have a big crowd here. are you pretty confident here? >> i'm very confident. this is -- we just stopped here, stopped at a polling site, picked it at random, may stop at one more, nobody knew we were coming. this was amazing. >> there was a crowd in front of the polling station in new hampshire, and a live look there. and also show the rems, and people take the first in the nation primary seriously and they are expecting record voter turnout. halfway through at this polling location where i am right now, they already have had 1,000 people come out and vote and what are the issues they care

about, the northern border and border security and immigration and also the economy. i asked president trump about that, and he thinks he has a strong stance on the border, john. >> john: alexis mcadams, let you run off to your next assignment. see you soon. >> sandra: and thanks, great job today. updating a story we brought you a couple weeks ago, the viewers had great interest in it. youtube star mr. beast is shattering the business world, all eyes are on this 25-year-old and he has even caught the eye of elon musk and his status is spearheading a new world of content creators out there, that includes our next guest. jake franklin, also known as from his millions of followers, jake the viking on youtube. jake, welcome. >> hello. thank you for having me. >> sandra: i mean, the "wall street journal" even wrote about it with this headline, parents are baffled by the celebrities their kids love.

you know, used to be like the movies or sitcom and parents like watched with their kids, and what they were watching and understood. they are not always on the youtube channels that a lot of kids are on like yours and mr. beast. so, who are you, first of all, jake? why are you so famous? >> obviously i was a part of the mr. beast channel but i'm jake, known as jake the viking. i played football at lsu and from there, fell into the social media world. am>> sandra: see, i didn't know that. >> hey, lsu tigers. >> sandra: you are super popular, to be fair, your followers pale in comparison to mr. beast. >> you are not wrong. >> sandra: he's got 50 million, you have a couple million, but still you are popular as well. there is big, big money in this business. we all know that. >> oh, yeah. >> sandra: content creation is something kids everywhere are seeking. mr. beast was being courted by

elon musk. he took him up on the offer to post a video on x and i think even he was shocked. i think like $260,000 he made posting one video. were you surprised by that? he was criticizing elon musk saying youtube is where it's at. >> i think the only thing i was surprised about was how i think i was expecting more just because when you look at the mr. beast name, it's a household name, so many people watch it, i thought more advertisers would have taken advantage on it, but cool to see what kind of money can be made on x and twitter. >> sandra: you are young, too. mr. beast is 25 years old, started it in his house, still lives in his hometown and now amazon, first elon musk, and now amazon is in talks with amazon for $100 million deal. you just mentioned you used to work with mr. beast. that came to an end on good terms what we have been told. he's got all these celebrities.

tom brady is throwing footballs off his yacht to hit drones in the air. what does into creating good videos? >> good ideas, good work ethic, you know, just understanding your audience, what they want to see, and then the ability to capitalize and that goes with the team that's behind it and obviously mr. beast from experience has an amazing team behind him with the co-stars, the camera men, the ideas that are pumped behind and the idea creation, so i mean, it's no wonder it's successful. that's what it takes. solid team, worth ethic and vast understanding of the analytics, youtube offers so numbers, and he's super successful, 234 million subscribers. >> sandra: he's caught the attention of celebrities, justin timberlake, pete davidson, and obviously tom brady. and you worked with him, so obviously you learned a lot and congrats to you.

some of what we see on that channel. some of the secret sauce. >> can hit my drone out of the sky with the football. if i hit the drone on the first try, maybe i should come out of retirement. oh, got it. >> whole other house down here. >> if you come over here, this is literally an ice room. where you lock me in? >> please don't. >> where are they going? are they backing away from us or are we that much better? this -- the guy that's bigger and stronger than all of us. wow, shocking. >> sandra: wow, shocking. and a big part of this, too, and i know you are involved in this, is the merchandise, right. mr. beast has the chocolate bars and i know this is a little bit of what we see on your channel. listen here. >> where he just got some new pit vipers, let's check them out. >> what's up with the bad boys. >> i lost them at sonic temple in a mosh pit.

>> what is going on here? people see millions and millions of dollars going to these content creators. a final thought to people who are bewildered and now pushing the merch. >> yep, everybody wants the shirts, hats, shorts, hoodies, i got into the music industry, went on tour and everybody wants the clothes, to either remember the concerts they went to or show off their favorite people. it's cool there are different avenues to essentially create money you dump back into your content creation. >> sandra: one thing i note looking over the shoulder of some with the mr. beast stuff is it's somewhat clean, is that fair to say, like you know, there's not a lot of swearing, there's -- there's not -- nobody is drinking, there's no -- i don't know, bad activity that -- you can let a younger audience watch it, right? >> right, yeah, and that's the biggest thing he's been able to capitalize on, the videos he's making without crossing that like pg rating and so that

allows him to get the higher, what i'm looking for, basically the highest amount of money to make per ad showing the videos, something i don't do, i cuss like a sailor if you watch my content and i'm, i do more of like adult style, i mean -- guns, coast hunts, swearing, i don't get those numbers. >> sandra: thanks for cleaning it up for us. >> youtube side, yeah, you get it. >> sandra: >> sandra: we are learning, thank you for joining us. john, it's -- and go tigers, by the way. john, just fascinating. like mr. beast talks about how it costs him millions to make the videos. you watch them and what's costing millions? he has to pay staff, and high production value now and then every dollar he made for years since he was a teenager he said he invested back into his company to make the production value of the videos better and

better. so, i mean, these are not just holding up an iphone and posting a video on youtube. these are the highly produced videos that he's making the mega bucks and now amazon wants to pay him $100 million to come on to prime. >> john: why so many children in america are beginning withholding up the iphone and making youtube videos and hoping they can be the next mr. beast or jake the viking. love the lsu connection even though you were not aware of it. >> sandra: i must have missed that data point. that's good, good. thriving tigers. >> john: how about this? beverly hills 90210, no. will a judge's ruling stop homeowners from adding bathrooms or pools to their property. how residents are reacting coming up. ♪♪ but what happens when you need affordable health care? christian health care ministries could save you up to 40% today.

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critics are pointing out these are the same folks pushing affordable housing on other areas of the country, just not in their own back yard. the judge is putting bans on permits for home renovations. all of these multimillion dollar homes, no bathroom remodelling, no new pools going in. the problem is there's a long way to close this gap. let's show you a couple of numbers. the new housing plan calls close to 1,700 lower million income units to be built. 20 were constructed. the judge's decision is being appealed so the construction can continue for the time being, but this will take a mindset shift. beverly hills has argued there's no room for the affordable housing and agents say they're worried this will affect the city's character. >> i think everybody in l.a. wants more affordability for people that can't afford houses.

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