>> lori: breaking news this morning, extreme weather causing chaos in the southwest. tornadoes leave half of dozen dead. good morning, i'm lori rothman. >> nicole: good morning, protestors take mall of america and move to international airport. [shouting] >> nicole: more protests are expected today for chicago's busiest shopping district. >> lori: let's have a look at u.s. stock market futures ahead

of the opening bell, slightly lower after three days of gains, will open in positive territory albeit very slightly this morning. >> nicole: a decision has been in odell beckham's one day suspension. we will tell you who you will and who you will not see in this sunday's game. welcome to fbn:am, you're watching fbn:am, first look at morning markets and breaking news, and what to expect on the day ahead. >> lori: two deaths reported in tennessee, in arkansas an 18-year-old woman lost her life when a tree crashed into her home. multiple tornadoes had been reported across the reason. >> it was a small tornado. it snapped off a pine tree by my

truck and slammed my seat belt on and said, lord, let me survive this. >> lori: partly linked with el niño. new york city mid-60's and several degrees higher even los angeles. >> nicole: protestors are planning to gather again and protest followed fatal shooting of police officer laquan mcdonald. hundreds of people briefly shut down part of the nation's largest mall yesterday, they wanted to draw attention to a recent police shooting of a black man in minneapolis. the protests quickly moved to minneapolis st. paul international airport where demonstrators blacked access to a terminal and caused significant holiday delays,

police arrests a total of 15 people. >> lori: an american airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing in lubbock, texas, a mechanical issue forced the plane to touchdown. they did not reach lax until 20 hours after leaving miami. a southwest flight circled for hours due to landing gere issue, smoke from the aircraft tires could be seen, luckily no injuries reported. >> nicole: right now we are turning it to the 2016 presidential campaign. ben carson pointing toward a major shake-up in campaign before early voting in iowa. >> i do have concerns about, everything is on the table.

we are constantly looking for everything and see if there's a way to improve thing, if there are personnel changes that need to be made. >> nicole: carson telling the associated press, money must still be used efficiently. carson has been sliding in many national in early state polls. fox news will host its second gop debate on january 28th in iowa just days ahead of the republican caucuses but first you'll make sure to tune in to the next fox business debate, january 14th right here on the fox business network. >> lori: payment processing system was infected with credit card malware. attack was discovered three weeks ago. she did not say if the attackers succeeded in stealing payment card numbers and how many hotels were affected.

hyatt major fourth hoe teal to warn of a brief. customers should review payment card statements closely and report any unauthorized charges to their card issuer immediately. >> nicole: chipotle will reopen to business today in cleveland. the restaurant was shut down. the source of the problem was an employee who showed up to work sick. >> somebody has asked a boss, he was sick and told to be under the shift. bad mistakes with consequences. >> nicole: that manager was fired by chipotle. this comes on the heels of all the e. coli virus that they -- e. coli strength that they've trying to get rid of.

so october, november, december, 30% drop. >> lori: 25 people have been killed in a hospital fire in saudi arabia that also injured more than 100 others. blaze occurred blowing through maternity and intensive care unit. the injured were rushed to other hospital which were close by. investigation is under way to determine the cause of the fire. >> nicole: economic calendar is light today heading into a short trading session ahead of a long christmas weekend. we will seat a first update and estimate for 270 claims. basically unchanged from the prior week, whether he have the report for you when it comes out at 8:30 eastern time in mornings

with maria. >> lori: trending up, four tenths of 1%. >> nicole: let's check what's going on in europe. some of the markets closed. cac is down one-third of 1% and ftse is up 1 tenth of 1%. >> lori: a picture in the u.s., early hours before the opening bell. right now we are looking at a slightly lower open. >> nicole: let's check commodities, three gains. fourth day, 37.68 for oil right now and gold also higher by 4.60. >> lori: other currencies around the world. gaining strength versus the mexican peso. >> nicole: let's take a look here at the ten-year treasury bond.

2.26% and make sure to watch mornings with maria today, maria bartiromo has an interview with treasury secretary jack lou and that will be right here. >> lori: look forward for that for sure. the remains of six americans killed in afghanistan are home. they arrived at air force during a dig any fied transport ceremony. one by one paid respects, six air force members were killed when a bomber ran motorcycle into a patrol. one victim is new york police department joseph, organization is raising family for his family and you can donate. >> nicole: driver 24-year-old driver lakeisha drove her car

into pedestrians on a las vegas sidewalk killing one person and injuring dozens of others. her 3-year-old daughter was in the car at the time of the crash. >> according to the statement she chose to engage in this kind of behavior. we believe it was an intentional act. >> nicole: prosecutors say more charges are expected to be filed as investigation continues. >> lori: wal-mart truck driver severed morgan. first-degree aggravated manslaughter and third-degree aggravated assault charges. the driver had not slept for 28 hours before the crash but lawyer disputes that. >> nicole: raids to deport

illegal immigrant family. first large-scale effort, homeland security johnson has reportedly been pushing to these moves due to recent spike. one thousand families have crossed mexican border into the united states. >> lori: according to wall street journal, iran's markets and sanctions are expected to be lifted. apple, ge and hp all looking to pounce on this opportunity to do business with the country of more than 77 million people in a raise to beat out european and aishan counterparts and starting to draft contrast. could rise to 13 billion within just four years. >> nicole: all right, let's take a look. early luck, headlines in wall street journal.

malice wheel as web roars. some retailers warn of delivery delays and they are blaming fed e. its system on schedule but unforeseen volume from some customers and ge, utt tighten supply chains, squeezing or realigning suppliers to maintain the profit margin. >> lori: all right. coming up, this is unbleesk. ski federation banning drones who nearly hit austrian raker. it could have been a disaster. more on that. a decision has been made to the odell beckham suspension. we will tell you who will and who you won't see in giants-vicings game.

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>> nicole: take a look at u.s. stock market futures, energy and materials, two groups that have not done well this year have lead the week. today futures up slightly, dow futures down about 10. s&p futures down 2. >> lori: nicole you know the surge in oil prices lead to rally. crude oil climbing again. 3 handle in barrel price. sixty-four cents a barrel. moving in the right direction. now, make sure to watch mornings with maria for maria's interview with treasury secretary jack

lew. right here in the fox business network. >> nicole: more of legal troubles for sport fantasy websites, sports betting is illegal. the legal opinion last night mean that fanduel and draftkings will have to stop accepting those bets in illinois. the ruling could set up a legal battle similar to the one underway in new york state. order has been put on hold while fanduel and draftkings challenge the decision and fox 24th century actually owns a stake in draftkings. >> lori: no more drones, banning camera drones. look how close that came. the incident happened wednesday where a drone almost dropped directly on top of skier during

race in italy. drones had been use many times and stated that the federation agree today use the drone tuesday but the pilot was not allowed to fly directly over the race course. the situation still being looked to to determine what exactly what caused. in the meantime, that guy was tearing it up. >> nicole: odell beckham, jr., lost abale -- appeal of one-day suspension. will not have any exact with the team this week. not being allow today attend meetings, sunday's game. beckham did apologize for actions on sunday. panthers quarterback, josh norman was fined for his role in the confrontation. squared off in the go-daddy bowl last night. eagles ran away with the game in

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>> nicole: breaking news this morning, extreme weather causing christmas eve chaos in the south and the midwest, tornadoes and storms leave half of dozen dead and trigger nationwide delays for travelers. good morning, i'm nicole petallides. >> lori: good morning, i'm lori rothman. protestors take the mall of america and move to st. paul international airport. [shouting] >> more protests are expected today for chicago's busiest shopping district. we will have the details. >> nicole: on an economic calendar. holiday short in trading day. let's check u.s. stock market futures. after three days of gains, let's see what the dow is doing right now. s&p is down just over 3. >> lori: in sports a decision has been made in the oh dell beckham one-day suspension.

we will have the details on sunday's giants-vikings game. welcome to fbn:am, first look at morning markets and breaking news and what to expect on the day ahead. >> nicole: two deaths reported in tennessee and in arkansas an 18-year-old lost her life when upward tree crashed into her house. multiple tornadoes had been reported across the region. >> it looked like a small tornado. the debris that comes in the cloud, snapped up a pine tree by my truck and slammed by seat belt on and thought, lord, let me survive this. >> nicole: weather pattern linked to el niño, new york city expected to be on mid-60's, several degrees higher than even los angeles.

>> lori: nearly a month after disrupting black friday shoppers on chicago ice mission protestors are plan to go get together for a black christmas demonstration. protests followed the fatal shooting of police officer. minnesota mall of america, target members from black lives matter. shutdown part of the nation's largest mall yesterday. they want today draw attention to recent police shooting of a black man in minneapolis. now t protests quickly moved to home st. paul international airport where demonstrators temporarily blocked access to a terminal and caused significant holiday delays, police arresting a total of 15 people. >> nicole: we are turning it to the 2016 presidential race, republican hopeful ben carson pointing to a major shake-up, six weeks before early voting begins in iowa. >> i do have concerns about everything.

i mean, everything is on the table. we are constantly looking at everything, looking to see if there are ways to improve things, you know, if there are personnel changes that need to be made. >> nicole: carson speaking in an interview with the associated press, quote, i have 100% confidence in my campaign team, we have come a long way and accomplished greats things together and together we look forward in winning in iowa and beyond. fox news will host second gop debate, first tune in to fox business debate january 14th, thursday, that'll be right here on the fox business network. january 14th, january 28th, make sure you get them both. >> lori: all right, got it. hyatt hotel processing system was attack on malware.

discovered three weeks ago, did not say if they succeeded in payment card numberses and how many of the chains were affected. hyatt is the fourth major operator to warn of a breech since october. customers should review payment card statements closely and report any unauthorized chargers to card issuer immediately. >> nicole: here is something interesting chipotle will open in boston. it was shut down for two weeks after a break out of virus. for source of the problem was an employee who showed up to work sick. >> somebody had asked a boss, mentioned he was sick and he was told to stay till the end of the shift. bad mistakes here and consequences. >> nicole: manager was fired by ship ot lee. restaurant received a clean bill from health inspectors and

they've been battling e. coli. >> lori: holiday shortening trading session. we don't have to remind you that tomorrow is christmas. release of the weekly jobless claims. 8:30 eastern. estimate for 270,000 basically unchanged from the prior weekend. we will have that report for you as soon as it crosses. 8:30 a.m. eastern this morning. >> nicole: let's get you caught up in the global action, just nikkei and kospi as well. hang seng squeezes out a gain and that's up a half of a percent. >> lori: let's have a look and see what is going on there. cac is moving in opposite direction. >> nicole: three days of trading

with up arrows and dow is up and s&p 2.9% in the week. today we are seeing some down arrows. dow futures down about 14, s&p futures down about 3. >> lori: price of oil, at least these days, oil is cruising up for third consecutive session but the gains seem to be fading. oil is 37 handle. 37.67 cents. minor gains at the moment. make sure to watch mornings with maria today for maria's interview with treasury secretary jack lew right here on the fox business network. >> nicole: coming up extreme weather is causing christmas eve chaos as millions travel home for the holidays. we will tell you what you need to know for holiday travel plans and santa is on his way, whether he have the latest from google as he makes his way around the world. there he is. you're watching fbn:am, first look at morning markets and breaking news.

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>> lori: let's get you caught up u.s. stock market futures pointing to the downside. dow is up about 475 points this week. but today dow futures pointing down about 15, s&p futures down

3 and we'll are sr. the weekly jobless claims as well. make sure to watch mornings with maria because maria bartiromo has an interview with treasury secretary jack lew. >> lori: millions of people are on the move. triple a said that travelers will tops 00 million and that's thanks to oil prices. and despite resent ter recover attacks air travels expected to increase people to thanks to airline prices and thousands of people packed airports last night. some airports were still packed well into the night due to weather delays. >> nicole: it's christmas eve, folks and santa is on his way

and is over marshall islands. >> lori: how do you know that? >> nicole: helped kids and adults just see where santa is. as a matter of fact norard celebrated 60 years on tracking santa claus and when santa claus leaves the north pole, one of the first stops is russia, last year norad website had almost 22 million hits from people from 234 countries and territory around the world. norad receiveed 134,000 phone calls and emails to track santa, ww.norad santa.org. >> lori: he doesn't need a hat and jacket, it's 70-degrees, unbelievable. extreme weather conditions are not a good thing everywhere around the country. ripping through the u.s. and

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>> lori: breaking news this morning, extreme weather causing chaos in the midwest and tornadoes and storms leave half of a dozen people dead and trigger nationwide delay for holiday travels. good morning on this christmas eve, i'm lori rothman. >> nicole: good morning, i'm

nicole petallides. protestors take on mall of america and move on to the international airport. [shouting] >> nicole: protests are expected today for chicago's busiest shopping district. we will have the details. >> lori: ahead of the jobless claims reading, here is a look at futures. a little bit low of after three days of gain. positive territory slightly for the year. >> nicole: and in sports a decision has been made in oh dell beckham's suspension, we will have the details. you think he gets suspended? you're looking fbn:am, first look at morning markets and breaking news and what to expect on the day ahead. >> lori: three victims include a

7-year-old boy killed in mississippi, two deaths in tennessee and in arkansas 18-year-old woman lost her life when a tree crashed into her home and multiple tornadoes had been reported across the region. >> it looked like a small tornado. the debris that came in the cloud, snapped off a pine tree by my truck and i slammed my seat belt and thought, lord, let me survive this. >> lori: partly linked with el niño and brings warmth. mid 60's, several degrees higher than los angeles. >> nicole: nearly a month after disrupting black friday shoppers, protestors to gather again for a blacks matter demonstration. meanwhile minnesota mall of america, target of another protest of black lives matter,

hundreds of people briefly shutdown part of the nation's largest mall yesterday. they want today draw attention to a recent police shooting of a black man in minneapolis. protests quickly moved to minneapolis st. paul international airport where demonstrators temporarily blocked access to a terminal and caused significant holiday delays. police stepped in arresting a total of 15 people. >> lori: american airlines flight was force today make an emergency landing in lubbock, texas yesterday and passengers were heading from miami to los angeles when a machine -- mechanical issued forced the plane to touchdown. they did not reach lax until 20 hours after leaving miami. southwest flight circled for hours over oakland international due to a landing gear concern when the plane finally landed, smoke from the tires could be seen.

luckily no injuries reported. >> nicole: let's turn to campaign trail. 2016 presidential race and we are looking at ben carson, major shake-up in struggling campaign six weeks before early voting begins in iowa. >> i do have concerns about everything, i mean, everything is on the table. we are constantly looking at everything, looking to see if there are ways to improve things, you know, if there are personnel changes that need to be made. >> nicole: carson speaking in an interview with the associated press. carson telling fox business is quote, i have 100% confidence in my campaign tame, we have -- teem, second gop debate in iowa just days ahead of the state republican caucuses, make sure to tune in for the next republican debate on thursday january 14th right here on the fox business network.

>> lori: hyatt hotel says infected with malware. attack was discovered three weeks ago, she did not say if the attackers succeeded in stealing payment card numbers or how many of the chains 627 hotels were affected. hyatt is the fourth major hotel operator to warn of a breech in october. customers should review credit card payments closely and report any unauthorized payments immediately. >> nicole: damage control for e. coli. they will reopen for business today at cleveland circle in boston, the restaurant was shut down for two weeks after breakout of noro virus which sickened more than 150 people. the source was something at work sick. >> he was told to stay at shift.

bad mistake. >> lori: economic calendar is light today heading into a short en trading session. 270,000 basically unchanged from the prior week. we'll have that report when it comes out for you at 8:30 eastern. >> nicole: ftse and crack, dax, closed, ftse up one tenth of 1%. >> lori: let's see what is going on with u.s. stock market futures. coming three days of gain, perhaps some buying coming in ever so close to opening bell. >> nicole: looking forward to it. oil commodities, touch new low on friday, right, 34.70 and change. right now $37.58.

gold up to 90, 10.71 an ounce and we want you to make sure to watch mornings with maria because maria bartiromo has a great interview with treasury secretary jack lou 8:30 a.m. eastern time right here in the fox business network. >> lori: the department of homeland security is preparing raids to deport illegal immigrant families, raids will be the first large-scale effort to deport people who have been fleeing violence in central american countries. johnson has been reportedly been pushing for the move because of spike of illegal immigrants. >> nicole: here is a look at the headlines in today's edition of the wall street journal, malls reels as web roars. don't forget amazon is one of the best performers of the year

this year. retailers warn of delivery delay and blame fedex, fedex ceo said the system is on schedule but there's been unforeseen volume from some customers. ge, utc tighten supply chains. they're squeezing or realigning suppliers and maintain profit margins. >> lori: coming up ski federation banning drones. wait till you see this. and in sports a decision has been made in odell beckham's one day suspension. we will tell you what that decision is and more details on the giants-vikings game. still pointing to a slightly negative open. you're watching fbn:am, first look at morning markets and breaking news. ♪ ♪

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>> lori: breaking news this morning belgium authorities announced arrest of nine suspect. had been contact with ring leader's cousin. man is being held on charges by taking parton terrorist group and terrorist murder. >> nicole: let's turn it into the markets. we will do a market check for you. it could be the first negative year since 2008. we will see. dow futures are pointing down 9. s&p futures are down two and a half, nasdaq futures down 3 and this is after the dow gained 475 points this week. make sure to watch mornings with maria today because maria bartiromo has an interview with treasury secretary jack lew,

8:30 a.m. eastern time right here in the nosm business network. >> lori: more legal trouble for fantasy websites. sport betting is illegal. the ruling can set up a legal battle similar to the one underway in new york state. new york attorney general is against the game. twenty-first century fox does have investment stakes in draftkings. >> nicole: ski federation is banning camera drones, the decision comes after an incident on tuesday for which a drone almost fell on top of a skier. that drone is huge. drones have been used many times before and at ski races but the

direct director states that the sis agreed to -- that the use of drones on tuesday but the pilot was not allowed to fly directly over the race course any longer. situation is being examined to determined what caused the drone to crash. dangerous. >> lori: that skier didn't turn around. impressive. odell beckham, jr. has lost appeal. he will miss the game against minnesota and will not have any contact with the team this week. not being allowed to attend meeting, practices or game. beckham did apologize for action on sunday and josh norman was charged about 26,000 for his role on the confrontation. godaddy bowl last night where the eagles won.

ran away with the game quite literally, 452 rushing yards on the night. running back fabián led the way with 199 yards on the ground and four touchdowns, the first bowl game victory in history. cavaliers struggled against knicks, however, lebron james played well when it counted. seven of 24 points down the streech which helped lead the cavs to 91-84 victory. they were without their star carmelo anthony who set out with a sprain right ankle. >> nicole: coming up we will run global action that we are seeing this morning before we hand it over to maria bartiromo. stay right here on the fox business network. dow futures down. you're watching fbn:am. ♪

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>> nicole: let's take a look at the global action market that we are seeing. ftse is higher by one tenth of 1%, while the crack down about half percent. germany closed today for obviously christmas. industrial average futures looking down 10 points after gaining, the dow gained 470 points so far. looking to the downside. oil up all week long after hitting the lows last friday. 37.56 right now, that's up 6 cepts and we are also keeping a keen eye on the u.s. treasury yield 2.25% ahead of a great interview with maria bartiromo with jack lew. now it's time for maria bartiromo, mornings with maria. >> maria: it is thursday 24th, merry christmas, with me the wall street journal ryan and mike murphy.

good to see you both. we will get to the top stories first. deadly storms sweeping across the southwest and mid-west this morning. the brutal storms claiming the lives of at least seven people. >> it looked like a small tornado, comes in the cloud and snapped off a pine tree by my truck and i just slammed my seat belt on and just thanked, lord, just let me survive this. >> maria: millions of americans hit the road in skies today and for the week for the christmas holiday. delays limited and we will have holiday forecast after severe rains yesterday. black lives matter protestors try to spoil shoppers. hundreds of demonstrators for mall of america to shutdown. take a look at the pictures. protestors move to minneapolis st. paul international airport. similar protests heading san

francisco, los angeles and chicago. turn to markets this morning. it's been a wild week. today is the final day of trading and the markets close at 1:00 p.m. eastern today and the markets are closed tomorrow. fractional decline at the opening of trading. not a lot going on this morning. we will keep following this. we have had pretty good economic dividends and we will take at markets coming up. the dax in germany is closed today but in france and london we are seeing mixed moves. cac down. in asia overnight mostly lower markets, take a look. hang seng and hong kong with one exception. they are the major averages to the downside. three days of gains there. new details with the assad regime in syria. white house pursued secret communications with syria over several years to try and get