the worse now confirmed. indonesian officials say debris spotted in the sea off its coast does in fact belong to the missing airasia flight. recovery efforts underway for the airline they're crashed on sunday with 162 people on board. the sony hack, an inside job? new evidence points to laid-off sony staff not north korea as the culprit. worrying numbers on the flu. the cdc warning of an epidemic as 22 states report high flu activity. that is up from just 13 last week. spilling secrets. ben bernanke is revealing just what happens if those closed-door federal reserve meetings of the because even when they say it's not it is always about money. adam: according to a a new fox

poll a majority of americans are feeling good about 2014 but what economic threats are on the horizon for the new year? let's bring in today's panel. pete hegseth concerned veterans of america and fox news contributor, jack hough from barons and simon constable from "the wall street journal." pete start with you, was this a good year for your family? 67% said yes and highest number going back since 2009. >> it is good to hear. but surprising as supposed recovery has not hit middle america. interest rates have to go up at some point. the economy is addicted to them. debt ceiling fight in march. where will that go with emboldened conference. adam: i tell you where it will go? jack we have the debt ceiling problem in march. oil will go up eventually in price. could it happen before march? >> oil could go back up. i don't think it will go anywhere near where its with.

this many looking fed rate hike will be less of a exciting event than investors think. adam: could be a minimal hike even if they do it? >> the fed will be very careful with dollar this strong and overseas markets this week. don't want to break anything. that is the key. don't break anything. adam: the market already priced it in. simon, talk about something everyone can relate to. the price of housing is accelerating at slower pace. still going up. >> still going up. adam: but we're lowering standards which we'll lend to people. >> what could possibly go wrong. never been done wrong. that just seems silly. one of the things that will keep house prices down is having tight lending standards you know? fewer people will buy and keep prices lower and people will be encouraged to save. adam: okay. but then you don't get the inflation that the federal reserve wants. >> you don't get that. but you don't get the banking system going under either. adam: how much, mitch mcconnell said that they're not going to shut down the government. so is the debt ceiling issue

really an issue or not simon? >> i think it is a bit of a faux issue. no way the u.s. will not pay its debts t would be ridiculous t would be like not a real country if it didn't pay its debts. that would be very bad. adam: there is nothing more boring than the debt ceiling we'll drop the debt ceiling and move to something quite interesting, the sony hack. a new report is pointing to an inside job at sony. security firm, norse believes it uncovered evidence on six individual involved in the hack attack, including one former employee. pete i will go to you not because of nordic where you're from in minnesota there was always suspicion someone on inside might be helping evil north koreans. >> nothing surprises me. how quickly we came out to deem it was north korea which is not indicative of way administration handles things, slow deliberate. they pointed finger very quickly because they needed culprit.

there was sense north korea capable -- >> their internet runs on an chimpanzee. adam: 12-year-old in silicon valley shut them down last week. >> there is evidence of a native russian writer playing a part not just korean writer. at home when anything goes wrong with the internet i like to blame russia first before i even know the facts so i'm totally satisfied with that term. adam: do you believe the fbi because the fbi said we see a the passenger in the software that indicates previous attacks launched by north korea. we know north korean attacks on banking system in south korea. do you trust the fbi? >> i do trust the fbi but very hard to track the trail of actions on internet. that is why people keep their pornography there. can't figure out what is going on. it is free. >> maybe it was someone inside of the company who was from the marketing department who refused to try to market this movie because it was so bad. maybe that is why.

adam: from north korea to the faa, not so much a dictatorship, perhaps. not so, rise of the machines. faa is on track to miss, imagine a government agency missing its own self-imposed deadline on drone regulation. that means the ban on commercial drones will stay in place or the time being. simon i got to ask you u.s. business which would use commercial drones, i mean one estimate, this is according to the association for unmanned vehicle systems international says we're losing $10 billion a year in economic activity because the faa is dragging its feet on drones. do you buy that number? >> 10 billion, 100 billion, two billion, who knows what that number is. that number i think they put their finger in the air to come up with that. economic activity is certainly lost there but also economic activity is lost when you have things flying up near jfk and la guard call wand everyone -- laguardia and everyone freaks out. adam: we hear about the drones.

people get injured. one fell -- >> much more important for them to get the to get rules right. they missed deadline this year. we're just hearing about it. now they need couple years? that is missing a deadline. >> by 2017, regulations will be older than the what they said. adam: there is definitely need for drone technology in the crop land where people want to look at fields and that stuff but in the city, this idea that google will deliver packages in large metropolitan areas. liability alone should it fall and hit someone on the head the lawsuit alone would prohibit this isn't it? >> it would. i'm tempted by this idea in 30 minutes and order something from amazon and would arrive. you look practically at millions of buzzing machines. i don't want to be regulator. adam: they had same day deliver i r already here. >> i want 30-minute delivery. >> don't order anvils or pianos.

>> can deliver halfway up the building if you need drink refill? that would be good. go straight through the window. adam: when computers take over. extending their run. hillary clinton and president obama topping gallop's list of most admired people in the world. simon -- he voted three times. >> my favorite was actually pope francis. adam: catholics love this pope. >> three times. actually non-catholics too like me. down at bottom, great dinner party, bill o'reilly, benjamin netanyahu and vladmir putin. that would be a dinner party that would be fantastic. >> that is my dream golf foursome. me and those guys. adam: how does hillary clinton beat out oprah winfrey 13 years in a row. i will mispronounce her name, the malala, the pakistani activist that survived after being shot by the taliban. how does someone beat her.

>> i think -- adam: these are people -- >> poll a lot of people on the list, asking who is the most fame must person on the list. they check box they know. >> 12%. not a wave of people cheering for hillary clinton. 12% admire her and couldn't think of somebody. adam: how do they know who ben bernanke is? tell us how you really feel, former chair ben bernanke, admits, this is quote meetings involving central bankers get a lot of attention though most of them are deadly boring expletive removed. he said that, not us. >> trying to hide something. breaking out whiskey. hacking sony. adam: janet yellen has a reputation, let me tell you. she is a party animal. does anyone care if the federal reserve meet something boring? >> i think boring is probably good. i can't think of anything more boring. my ninth ring of hello would be

continual fed meetings, time and time again. number staff. bulls and bears. >> i would be really worried if it was exciting. adam: he said it was exciting when lehman brothers collapsed and meeting in october and the world was coming to end. at the end of the day the federal reserve bank presidents come and go chairman comes and goes but bureaucracy system people who have been there 30 plus who write reports and influence the policy, right? >> they influence the policy a lot under direction of people on that board. think about this though. what cree have they committed to be working in that bureaucracy for 20 30 years and having to write those reports that are pretty dull. >> only you and i have to read. >> rates are set to rise for first time in 2008. you don't want them plying by the seat of their pants. adam: or drone. god forbid they should be driven by a drone. we'll have more of this later on. the search for a missing airplane end in heart break. the latest on investigation of

asia asia flight 8501. we heard i all before. we're sorry. wrapping up the latest apologies of the year 2014. coming up. ♪

adam: some good news. president george h.w. bush finally heading home after a week-long hospitalization of the 41st president was released from houston methodist hospital this morning after being treated for shortness of breath. bush's office released a statement saying, this is a quote he is resting at home grateful to the doctors and nurses for their superb care. at 90 years old the elder bush is our oldest living u.s. president. heart-breaking new details about missing airasia flight 8501. officials confirmed they found debris and bodies 60 miles away from the plane's last point of contact. fox news correspondent greg palkot is live in london. he has more for us. >> that's right adam. soon to be launched a major recovery effort after that break through in the search for airasia flight number 8501 but as you noted adam, a sad one to

boot. recovery teams today spotting debris from the plane off indonesia's borneo island near where that plane went into bad weather and disappeared on sunday. items found include ad door, a lifejacket a suitcase, floating on the surface of the water. sadly too among the debris, bodies were found. it was originally reported that 40 were located. officials are saying no more than three were found floatings on surface of the java sea. 162 including were onboard. fuselage has been spotted on seabed. the water is relatively shallow about 80 feet. that should assist recovery efforts. this is grim news to those related on board. indonesian tv ran at some point scenes of those bodies on the water making news harder to bear. they will soon have to start identifying their loved ones. final lit u.s. is helping out.

on the scene right now i am told, the uss sampson destroyer from the 7th fleet. it include on board two helicopters, cargo lifts to recover wreckage as well as sonar equipment. there is surveillance aircraft on the way as other assets. adam along with the recovery of first the bodies of, then the wreckage, of course the search for the black boxes the telemetry that could unlock some of the mysteries why this accident happened and maybe insure the safety of future air travel. back to you. adam: greg very quickly you mentioned the flight data recorder the black box. have they picked up the ping from this device? >> not that has been we've heard b the other thing that the united states is offering, adam, is actual ping locators, something that can help the indonesian authorities find these boxes. that again is kind of a parallel urgency alongwith of course the recovery of the bodies and wreckage the battery on those

things will last 30 days. greg palkot, from london. anksor upding tt. >>hankou. ad:ncleamypasng congss a oerin a new w o invesentnetirent onf y're inteste in gornme deb "walstre joual'sjame frman isere with detls iss anrde comg dn from high, is it not? >> right. you mentioned you will have ceo apologies of the year coming up. i wish the president would apologize for this one because it is really dangerous both for investors and for taxpayers. as you said this is a new ram he is voting out without any vote in congress. adam: so this is, but he did say, he asked that congress, he would go to congress to create what is called my ira. program for people who learn less than $129,000 and don't have retirement taxpayers will wind up saying if you don't have savings when you retire, taxpayer will get hit with the bill. >> he never went to congress except to tell them in last

january's state of the union on doing this, he directed the treasury to start setting up these accounts. it is a version of a roth ira. but as you said, the only investment is, non-marketable treasury securities. basically an ieu in -- iou in the social security trust fund. giving small rate of return. 2% some years. a little over two this year. this is not how a young person should built a nest egg. it is really i think dangerous for young people to get them into this type of investing which won't pay for their retirement need. adam: you will need a return of eight to 10% when through that young. very quickly, what is more troubling about this? the wrong message on how to save and prepare for retirement is being made? or the fact that the treasury department is doing this without authorization from congress, just kind much creating it as they go along. >> hard to find any winners here outside of washington. you mentioned there is a question of authority. they are claiming that given their general authority to

manage the government's debt they can do this but this is not an efficient way to fund our government. it is going to have a cost. they're going to pay private companies to manage this thing. adam: they're not saying how much they're paying them. >> they haven't told us how much. probably not much at the start. adam: comerica, right? >> comerica has the contract. and, like all government programs it is bound to grow over time. and i think the danger is that from a rule of law perspective the idea that the president can set up a subsidy program and never get congress to vote to approve it is dangerous. adam: as mel brooks once said, it is good to be the king. history of the world part one. james freeman. >> great movie. adam: the year of the foreign threat from the rise of the world's richest terror organization to russia's move into 2014, 2014 brought up unprecedented events. we'll look where america goes from here. if you thought the weather over christmas was strange waist

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adam: all right. so between security threats from isis in the middle east to russia in ukraine and crimea, 2014 has prove vern to be the year of a resurgence in foreign threats. peter barnes is in washington with more details for us. peter, can you break it down for us? >> yeah, adam, with isis rampaging across syria and iraq and russia invading the ukraine were not enough for the u.s. to handle in 2014, north korea made it a national security trifecta over hack of sony pictures and movie "the interview" and threat of 9/11 style attacks that showed the movie. mike rogers, chairman of the house intelligence committee

said that made eight nation-state attack on united states. by end of 2014 in iraq, isis appeared to be a standoff against iraqi forces helped by american air power. the air power u.s. also used against isis in syria. in ukraine government in kiev and rebel forces in the east, and russian backers were bogged down in negotiations to end the conflict there. it was hacking of sony pictures appeared to be the most sensational national security threat to the u.s. this year. it wasn't just about the movie. it wasn't just about a studio. it was about the vulnerability of the u.s. financial system, telephone networks, electric grids, defense systems and more to cyberattack. >> what is important is the lesson here. that if north korea can do this, so can virtually any other competent group, whether it is a foreign government or a group of terrorists or simply a group of criminals. >> so the u.s. government and

u.s. companies are on notice and on guard for cyber attacks for 2015. adam? adam: we'll be watching that to see if that is the big issue in the next year. thank you very much, peter barnes in washington d.c. let's break this down with a panel that we have prepared. stephen yates ceo of d.c. international advisory and lieutenant colonel ralph peters is a fox news strategic analyst. let me start with you mr. peters. this is really troubling in all respects. i mean the cyber threat can come from any number of people who have ill intent for the united states whether it be russia. whether it be perhaps isis at some point or whether it be north korea. >> we have two self-inflicted problems with the cyber threat. one is a lack of leadership. two is the lack of laws. our laws on everything from intellectual property piracy to actual cyber attacks lag technological generations generations behind the threat.

and on the other hand you have got no leadership, not in congress either, but certainly none from the white house until a little bit of dismay with the sony hack because that affected their hollywood base. adam: let me bring in mr. yates on this you used to be an advisor to vice president cheney and if you look at isis in iraq, part of the reason isis was able to become what it is today the united states had promised sunni muslims in iraq they would be part of a government and then the shia majority in iraq said no you will not be part of this government in a simple explanation. there was no leadership from the united states to prevent what has now happened with isis's rise in iraq, was there? >> well there are just similarly generations of mistakes in iraq that have fed into the growth of isis. not just in iraq. there was a of course related developments in syria. the advent of the iraq war, most recent iteration there were a lot of things fled across the border into syria and waited

there. when we had a precipitous withdrawal of course the civil war was festering in syria that fed that and across the border back into the iraq. there are really layers and layers of mistakes that fed into that crisis. adam: with the obama administration looking at 2015 and rest of us looking to the future, what is the biggest threat facing the united states? does it come from the middle east and isis? does it come from north korea or come from mr. putin? >> well it comes from a lack of leadership within the united states. when the united states is strong the world complains but when we are weak, the world suffers. and it is really impossible to handicap it las vegas style premier putin he is the biggest threat. he could be. we could see a catastrophic hack that really did devastating damage but what we do know, the enemy that is active right now and deadly right now is the islamic state and other militant groups such as al nusra.

al qaeda is back. khorasan group and boko haram. boko haram is not a threat to us. if we don't get serious about islamic fundamentalist fanaticism, we're still not serious despite airstrikes in iraq, if we don't get serious that will continue to metastasize. adam: very quickly mr. yates do you agree with that. >> i agree with much of it. the danger is conflation, and geographies and islam i'm, open border and this is disasterous for us. adam: i have to thank you you both. we're out of time. all the best in the new year. >> happy new year. adam: major health concerns as the flu near as frighting mile step in the united states. we'll show you which areas are being hardest and how you can keep your family safe. plus while the rest of the world parties into the wee hours of the morning americans are at home committing the ultimate new year's party foul. "piles of money" coming up. out you know "hidden things..."

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>> the cdc is warning about a flu epidemic. that is the dark red on your screen. let's bring in doctor kevin campbell. one of the hardest hit states more virulent than we have seen in years past. >> it really is. one of the more severe strains. we are seeing lots of cases and lots of complications. this flu is not well covered by the flu shot this year. it is making things a lot worse. >> it makes me wonder why we bother with the vaccine in the

first place. >> it is still important to get the flu shot. if you do. the flu you are likely to have a less severe case. it is usually a little short lived. >> children obviously susceptible. and the elderly. >> certainly good hand hygiene. you try to isolate them as quickly as possible. contact your primary care physician. >> which is better, good old-fashioned soap and water

reducing god bless america or the hand sanitizer's? >> honestly, for the most part, warm soapy water is probably the best that we can use. >> thank you for joining us. we wish you the best. all the best to you. >> thank you. if you are planning a new year's jaunt to sin city, you may want to grab a parka to go with. janice dean, the weather machine joins us. they need water and not part of the world. >> they do. the ladies will have to cover up a little bit. look at the coolest

temperatures. the cold air is in place. factoring the windchill. what it feels like. we are expecting some snow. let's take a look at the forecast. you can see more snow in the mountains across the southwest. that will continue through new

year's day. we could see a little bit of measurable snow in sin city. pack warm clothing. dress appropriately, ladies. >> or drink heavily because that will keep you warm. >> you are so smart. all of these great recommendations. >> america is a friend that goes home at 10:00 p.m. staying up well past 3:00 a.m. here in the united states, the boroughs of new york set the standard.

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care. you are training people. >> with the millennial's, we are not getting the information out there. if you like engineering, you like it, this is the industry for you. adam: 40,000-$50,000 depending on where you live. there is everything from coming out immediately if you decide in

a year from now and you want to be a tech mission in atlanta georgia are you would be able to go to places you have never seen and been to before. adam: when i think of auto mechanics -- i was a terrible mechanic. to be able to, so many of them have questions of thinking. we are out there right now trying to make sure that they

are getting excited about what opportunities are. showing them what their opportunities are. thank you for joining us. all the best to you. >> thank you so much. have a great day. adam: let's go to lori rothman. she has more. >> it is always fantastic when a stock doubles. it actually helps stage parkinson's disease sufferers avoid an alternative which would

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to spend on other players. it allows the patriots to spend an extra $24 billion elsewhere. making a little less money than he expec i it is one of the highest salaries for coaching for all. i do not think many people would complain. 2014 was a sorry state of affairs in the most literal sense. leading people in charge again for forgiveness. managing partner. let's start with, well, let's

start with such. be quiet and it will happen naturally. >> i think that his apology was pretty weak, honestly. are there actions that follow up with it? i do not know. i am not in side microsoft. it is hard. everybody is human. i know i have said anything that i have regretted later and i apologize. her way to apologize was to be with reverend al sharpton.

>> yes him. studio executives speak in a right or loose weight. it was not her fault that these things got disclosed. it makes it seem like it is pandering. l'oreal is not pandering. the 401(k) controversy. they decided very briefly that they would not let people take their 401(k). also, complaining about healthcare costs. >> a lot of problems over there.

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it, red light crash, traffic lights raking in $500 million for chicago but there is concern that this may increase the number of accidents. jeff flock joining us from chicago. jeff: you are looking at one of these cameras one takes a wide shot in the that takes a tight shot of your license plate. there's a big light to eliminate it even at night and then you ticket in the mail for 100 bucks. it is the biggest red light camera enforcement program in

the country and there's new evidence that not only is it not leading to a reduction in accidents but causing an increase because people when they see these lights and the sign and the flash bill haas slam on their brakes so rear end crashes have been increased. look at the number of u.s. cities with red light cameras. it is on the decline because of all this sort of thing. a lot of people opposed to it. here is the other thing, this intersection of mccormick and lincoln. look at the numbers on the numbers of tickets. usually is a couple tickets a day. in december of 2011 they spiked up to 23. the next day there was 81, the next day even more. what happened, they reduced the time of the yellow light. the people that went through the thing actually wound up getting ticketed with a shorter yellow. the city eventually corrected it

but that's sort of thing has turned people against red light cameras. adam: i have gotten snagged. thank you, that is all the time we have. i hope you are making money today countdown starts now. >> below 18,000, the dow tumbled for a second straight day but is still up more than 8% from 2014. what will the new year bring to this record market and your money? we are looking for answers all during the next hour on fox business. the biggest corporate blunders of 2014, the nfl, general motors microsoft and more find themselves in communications crises, one top pr export tells us what they do wrong and which companies got it right coming up as well. flank private for less. rising up offering private jet flights to members who pay a fee. the new apps turned into the uber