producing with his leadership and the positive tone from the top. that is why they are so up in arms. lou: lauren: holiday horror and breaking news overnight. 14 people hurt after a nasty the most done pedestrians in melbourne, australia. two people under arrest, but no motives. police say this was a deliberate act. turning to very shocking. also, president trump celebrating a victory after comcast already saying they will use tax for employee bonuses. lauren: stocks fell for a second day yesterday, pausing after a major rally in 2017. features flatlined. train to they could determine

the future of the country in the independence movement in catalonia. ftse higher. cac and the dax down. lauren: stocks in japan closing lower. bank of japan holding steady on interest rates. shanghai composite at the third of 1%. gerri: apple admits what we are at the new. the iphone get slower as it gets older by design. we'll tell you why. "fbn:am" starts right now. trade 350 am in new york. it is theirs day, december december 21st and lauren simonetti. gerri: good morning. and gerri willis been for cheryl casone. lauren: subtlest week ever. gerri: you are eager for christmas. lauren: overnight in australia,

14 people injured after a white suv plowed into a crowd of pedestrians on a busy sidewalk filled with holiday shoppers in melbourne, the country's largest city. among those hurt comment a preschool child in serious condition with head injuries. police arrested the driver of the vehicle as well as another person. an investigation underway, but police say this was no accident. >> this is a deliberate act in a repeat at this stage we believe it was a deliberate act. however, we do not know the motivation and it's still early stages with the investigation. lauren: eyewitnesses say bodies went flying as they were headed. the driver ran a red light going at least 40 miles an hour. we continue to update the story as we get more information. some of america's biggest corporations announcing new plans to help employees hours

after congress passed a massive tax cut plan. at&t and comcast will hand out 1000-dollar bonuses to hundreds of thousands of workers. boeing will invest $300 billion its facilities employee training and wells fargo say they will raise the minimum wage of workers. chuck schumer is calling out at&t on capitol hill. >> at&t, big american company, find american company tax rate over the last 10 years as a mere 8% and 8% indicate 80,000 jobs. that one statistic lies all the trickle-down bulk. gerri: major companies have announced $80 billion in share buyback ahead of passage of tax reform. >> d. keep it running after tomorrow without part of the

story. >> good morning lauren, jerry. if this is a sporting event you sporting event you'd hear a lot of talk about not wanting to lose momentum fresh out this major legislative victory in tax cuts. the last thing anyone wants is a government shut down. that is at midnight on friday. >> a look at this than me into next year and we will deal with all the spending issues. military issues and all the other issues the beginning of next year. >> the house has a plan we've been hearing about in which they would be a stopgap funding bill to get us through the 19th of january. that includes the military, also then there's separately in a plan for $81 billion in disaster relief funding. the other issue coming up on the senate side of the so-called paygo rules come essentially requiring tax cuts be paid for

so the president can sign. will the democrats stand in the way? >> just as we've done in the past we need to avoid intercounty and waiver. americans are kind enough not to inflict harmful threats on medicare and other essential operations. i look forward to working together in the coming days to fund our government in a manner that is right by the american people. >> add up in the democrats are being pressured out week to get it fixed at the dreamers come together documentary right at it doesn't look like that stands in the way, that she never know how this will play out. all day today a day game tomorrow. we'll be watching. jerry, lauren back to you in new york. lauren: we love drama for christmas. confirming the obvious is your next story. your iphone made getting slower as it gets older.

gerri: who knew. tracee carrasco joins us with more on new headlines. good morning. everything we know. trying to how many times have you said is your iphone getting lower? whenever a new iphone is released with the installing new software update on an older model. apple finally confirmed what many of us have long speculated. older models closely with age. apple says such a slowdown were a deliberate effort to keep older phones running longer as the lithium ion battery wears down. not a push to buy a new model pull. believe it or not. unexpected shutdown some older phones and this in turn can lower the funds down. tree into its all about the battery. i thought they wou have some kind of excuse. inhe amazostory and rlly interested in. theyontinue thei fight with google.

tracee: this continues to play out. not long ago google pulled you to print some amazon devices because amazon has long refused to sell google is competing product on its website. a week seemed like a truce had finally been called, but not for long. amazon file to get trademarks for two items. amazon tube and open to. amazon may be planning for a youtube list future or perhaps launching a competitor. lauren: going with the latter and i have to say youtube kids has saved me on many occasions. downtime at work, we don't know what that is. no idea, but pretty costly. tracee: american workers are spending hours doing nothing and it's costing their companies more than $100 billion a year according to research by the journal of applied psychology. idle time when an employee from

the clout that unable to get any work done. the industry and occupation raised him from an investment anchor who can't finish a powerpoint presentation because he or she is waiting for data from a college to a store cashier without customers to check out. three quarters of the 1003 workers surveyed across 29 occupational categories said they experienced idle time experienced idle timeout work was nearly 22% but it happens daily. employer should encourage workers to be open about their walls so bosses know who's free to do some work. tracee: basically the companies fault that some employees have nothing to do. >> sometimes you overload the employees are at employees are at a stretch of employees are they stretch out their work so they seem busy. gerri: on the other hand we are working more hours than ever before. social media, eight to 10 to 12.

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gerri: welcome back. the picture caught up in the headlines. heightened tensions on the tour korean peninsula. warning shots at a turning back north korean soldiers apparently pursuing a defect or they ran through a heavy fog. officials say is the fourth time this year and north korean soldier has tried to flee across the heavily armed demilitarized zone. blaming the driver for the best crash that killed eight americans in mexico yesterday. they say the driver was most likely speeding when he lost control of the bus. when he tried to get back on the narrow highway, the bus flipped and struck a tree before landing on the road side.

the 11-year-old lawyers among the dead americans. senator al franken had a date for his departure from congress. the last day will be january 2nd. his appointed successor, minnesota lieutenant governor tina smith will be sworn in the next day and that is what is happening right this very minute. lauren: thank you so much. a victory lap on historic tax reform. democrats however jury not to use what they call a tax scam against republicans in the 28 t. midterm elections. we want to know if that strategy is going to work. robyn biro and former colorado state senator and committee to defend the president chairman ted harvey. good morning, gentlemen. i begin with you because let's face it, democrats have momentum. they are coming off in new jersey, virginia, alabama and for a first-year president,

trump's approval ratings are pretty low. they have momentum. >> yes, we do. we are from nancy pelosi and chuck schumer how they plan to frame this and they work it also may very well backfire on the democrats because not a single one supported this. what americans do start to see tax cuts in their paychecks come february, it could backfire, but the americans were promised massive tax cuts for the middle class will get $15 extra per paycheck. i think when they see that, it may work as far as nancy pelosi's plan to frame this as a tax scam. i would like to call up more of a shell game because we were promised these giant massive tax cuts mostly going towards the rich and corporations. >> you a democrat saying this could backfire because in

february the administration and the irs had told us americans are going to start to see savings. i don't know about you, but when i go to the polling station to vote a vote with my wallet. if i'm richer, is not bad for democrats and good for republicans? >> is this one for tad? >> i'm sorry, but you're talking to robin. >> actually, a great tax cut for republicans in 2018. the main reason why as we are lowering the corporate tax rate from 35% down to 21% and that will encourage corporations to hire more employees and we are to have the lowest african-american unemployment rate in the history of the country. hispanic unemployment rates are dropping as well. you have this tax cut to the plate, you are going to see more and more people across the country employed in people who are employed will have more money in their pocket.

going into 2018 will be a huge plus for the american people in the republican party. >> maybe we'll see more companies come with the likes of at&t giving up on essays, hiking wages. they won't. robin, this is for you that dan hettinger wrote in "the wall street journal." if barack obama pursued bipartisan efforts to 2011 to cut the corporate tax rate, hillary clinton would be president. >> yet, i see what you are saying. i also want to point out this plan is not popular right now in the polls and neither was upon the care after we adopted a 507 gop amendments to it. and it kills us come 2018. in the midterms. i think that may very well have been to republicans come 2018 because this right now is losing

popularity and i think that that nancy pelosi and chuck schumer planning on seizing on. i just don't know like i said come february that will be the case because it's not a lot of money that middle-class americans will be saving, but money is money. lauren: you are right to my right out of the gate tax reform in the past is often unpopular. andrew cuomo, governor of new york says he sees tax reform plan could trigger an economic triggers an economic civil war. this is a tax scam. let me ask you a question. what if say the governor of new york or california started to repeal surcharges to pay most of the taxes. could that happen and are we going to see state action here? >> you should see state action because the reason why liberal governor cuomo saying you will have a huge hit on the date is

because the taxpayers across the country have been subsidizing those very leftist states and their high taxes. under this bill, they are not going to be able to write off those high taxes on their federal tax return. the high income earners and those states will have a significant tax increase and that is why cuomo in california will have their wealthy taxpayers will have a tax hit because of this tax bill. >> we hope they stay put and don't move on out. thank you so much. coming up, santana is coming to town. -- santana is coming to town. gerri: i love will ferrell. he's so awesome. traffic jams. we'll tell you how to avoid them. we will get the forecast from fox meteorologist adam klotz. you are watching "fbn:am."

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lauren: giving you two just to see her khmer holiday forecast. a series of data to determine whether it's the best thing to the road. >> to try second of december between 3:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. the heaviest of all traffic at the best data travel is on christmas day itself. here is the sacking gift. leanne neeson's voice. users have the opportunity to

choose his words to direct somewhere they want to go. you have until january 14th because that's when his new movie comes out, the commuter. tranter thursday thing that could make holiday shopping orders, the first day of winter. is that also the solstice? there's a lot going on. i'm telling you. fox meteorologist adam klotz here with your holiday travel forecast. transfer with him like scientists, add-on. reporter: you guys are really good. from here on out longer days. the worst is now behind us. here is your forecast across the country. the upper third of the country looking into the 30s in some cases the coldest spots but the real question will be precipitation in the next couple days. the last 24 hours we are seeing solid iraqis.

eventually affect teen travel plans for a lot of folks the next couple days. pay attention to that area as it sweeps across the country eventually what the line of thunderstorms in the south the stretch and into texas on friday. folks on friday across the country. it continues to track east eventually running up into boston and new york and all up and down the east coast. it is an issue for folks traveling on saturday. you will see some cold temperatures soaring mix of rain and snow. possibly delays again on friday. more of these threads and travel problems saturday, so that is something we're watching closely the next couple days. >> are you going home to atlanta? >> i will be here. gerri: they have a good christmas dinner just so you know. lauren: merry christmas, add-on.

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lauren: breaking news at least 14 people hurt after a nasty vivos down pedestrians in melbourne, australia. two people under arrest. no word on the modus. police call this a deliberate

act. president trump and republicans celebrate a victory on tax reform like at&t and comcast already seen daily use tax savings to get employees bonuses. stocks lower for the second day of tax reform. features this morning up four points. europe all could determine the future of the country in the independence movement in catalonia. take a look at the markets for the ftse higher. asia's hawks closed the session. japan holding steady at manchester a policy in china the shanghai composite rising by 4%. the latest health scare at chipotle sending stocks down. we'll tell you what happened. transcendence starts right now. lauren: good morning. almost 530 in the morning in new

york. thursday december 21st. m. lauren simonetti. gerri: ayin gerri willis in for cheryl casone. a very sad story today. and it's overnight in australia. 14 people injured after a car plowed into a crowd of pedestrians on a busy sidewalk full of pedestrians in melbourne. a preschool child in serious condition with head injuries. police arrested the driver and another person. police say this was no accident. >> at this stage would live a deliberate act. gerri: bodies went flying as they were at running a red light around 40 miles per hour. we continue to update this story is to get information.

lauren: the train station -- onto better news. president trump and republicans but tax cut plans. the largest tax cut in the history of the country of president trump is tapping its first major legislative victory surround on the south won by republican lawmakers to bypass or tax reform bill a strictly partisan vote. the president and the speaker and the speaker and has touted it as a speedy promise kept. >> we haven't even been a year and we did the largest tax cut in our history. this represents a promise that each and every one of us made to the american people last year as a promise that is kept today. >> attacks kill to repeal and replace about medicare. the tax bill includes a repeal of obama carries individual mandate. the president now arguing that constitutes as obama carry po

and admitted he purposely told others to lay off that talking point until now. >> essentially repealed obamacare because we get rid of the individual mandate. and that was a proper source of funding of obamacare. >> the white house did not get everything you wanted. chief economic adviser says they could take one thing out of the boat it would be to close the carried interest loophole. they tried to do that on 25 different occasions that cast the blame on capitol hill. that you and new york. lauren: blake from incoming thank you. to celebrate tax reform, but not so fast you lawmakers continue to work on a spending bill to prevent a government shutdown that could have been midnight tomorrow. trade you how the tax cut plan affect the housing industry? the national association of realtors chief economist. hi, lauren.

good to see you. luscious start with what's going on here for homeowners in this country. this tax plan amazing, thoroughgoing but the benefits for individuals if they own a home could go away because it would have been home prices. what do you see happening in home prices because of tax reform? >> good morning, jerry. we are pleased that the last moment they did provide a $10,000 property tax deduction. that means that 95% of homeowners will pay less than $10,000 in property tax. they are well secured. furthermore, the interest deduction cap a $750,000 per min $95,000 of homeowners and homebuyers to be out of the cab. furthermore, initially talked about one change revenue would be taxed on capital gains, that they referred back to send stay

in the home for two years. we do have some concern. because of the larger standard deduction, there will be a larger number of americans who bypass mortgage interest deductions. gerri: let's blow this down just a little bit to make it more understandable. the thinking is to attach a premise that together fewer people will itemize to be a lot of homeowners that don't get the interest adoption, don't use it and that's part of my thinking here about why homeowners ultimately can suffer. let's talk about if we can what is the impact on prices in the housing market. i know you've done a lot of work on this. >> people at the tax reform some of the market momentum is very strong. we anticipated maybe in 20 teen prices for 6%. because of the tax reform an incentive to buy a home that we

think price growth will only be about 1% or 2% in 2018. some states were they pay large amounts in property taxes will be some price decline in new jersey, perhaps in california, connecticut and illinois, but most of the homeowners are well within the limit. the prices will continue to rise in most parts of the country. trade to the effect on prices, and this is interesting, will be set against what they would go otherwise. if they were heading higher in places like some of these blue states, you will see them out, but not cut into negative territory obviously. i read an analysis runs allowed and they say 23 million fewer homeowners will be incentivized to buy a home. what happens to the market? home sales this week go up

dramatically, but do expect people not to get into the market because of these benefits? >> most homeowners recognize they are purchasing. at the margin come as some people look at the tax analysis, but over the long haul of 80%, 90% of americans believe owning property in america is part of the american dream. a vast number of people will be purchasing for that purpose. some will be influenced by the financial aspect of the tax changes but we have to wait and see how it all plays out over time. even though people do not take the mortgage interest adoption, people feel comfortable knowing they could if their financial circumstances change. >> a long way to go on this. i wish i was as optimistic as you are. thanks for coming on today. >> thank you.

gerri: two words being used in the same sentence a lot. one word chipotle, the other sickness. tracee carrasco, what's that all about him utter the other headlines will discussed this morning. tracee: yes, that's right to send and referred all too often. health officials with the outbreak under outbreak of illness from the chipotle restaurant in los angeles. people reported on the website i was poisoned.com that they got sick after eating at one of the restaurants. they are aware of the online claims, that says right now there is no proof behind those claims. shares of chipotle fell as much his three-point 3% yesterday as the news came out. gerri: i don't understand. is that fresh fruits named small producers means you are more likely to have a problem? lauren: i didn't know there was a website i was poisoned.com.

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fbi director andrew mccabe's testimony and capital raising marked questions than answers. exclusively powering fox news conflicted with previous witnesses saying he founded the anti-trump dossier even though signed documents proving he do about it. now prompted the house intelligence committee to issue new subpoenas for next week the justice department and fbi personnel. top democrat on the senate intelligence committee, mark warner warning president trump a significant consequences if he takes any action to remove special counsel robert mueller. trump and his lawyer have publicly said the president won't fire mueller but he still worried it could be on the way. the federal judgeships are in a mistrial in the case accused of leading an armed standoff against the government.

the judge claiming prosecutors for withholding key evidence for defense lawyers. accused of the mussina gunman to intimidate to pay grazing fees. bundy will face senate trial early next year. that is what is happening. lauren: how to prepare for the upcoming tax code changes? president of advisory group, also the host of the financial quarterback radio program. josh, good morning. how can we get ready for tax reform? >> number one, take advantage of the property tax cap, which is 10,000. property taxes over 10,000, pre-pay your property taxes. also look to see how you can bunch or deduction. maybe take the property tax rate off this year and to pay significant amount in state and local income tax, take that next

year. about 90% of the new tax plan will save money on h&r block, but they won't be able to itemize. generally because the increased standard deduction. plumbers, elect or shouldn't have that new pass-through bracket, so they went to incorporate and they couldn't save money on taxes that way for people in art, entertainment like you, finance like me we don't get much of a benefit here, but it's good for the trade, good corporate rate. if a company is considering a c corporation between% tax which is good, we see it as a mixed blessing. neil: to think more people will be going to h&r block are doing it themselves? after everything you said, my head is spinning.

>> it does not negate you need a good financial planner. you need a good tax advisor. 90% will not be able to take advantage of many deductions anymore, so it will be cheaper. they will not have to spend that, but they will defer to should they itemize, not itemize. should they max out their 401(k), should they not? before december 1st -- december 31st, use your flexible spending accounts come the user health spending accounts, but it's a mixed blessing. lauren: i'm running against the clock here, so sorry. i want to ask you about bitcoin because we just heard a $50,000 call for it has basically tripled the current price. >> i think 50,000 could be there. i also think 500. bitcoin is a speculative thing.

worried about protecting their wife and kids, husband and kids. disability insurance, saving 50%. in the lake but it do next gold rush. there could be a problem there. thank you so much. i spoke to your financial advisor the other day. let's not even go there. what do you move on. the houston rockets 14 game winning streak is over. but the lakers lose one of their stars to an injury. jared max has your sports highlights. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell helps president trump celebrate a home run for tax reform with a baseball bat. we will explain. you are watching "fbn:am."

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lauren: senate majority leader mitch mcconnell said president trump hit a homerun with this tax reform bill the mussina came up with the perfect day to celebrate. you're looking at a page a louisville slugger baseball bat from his home state of kentucky and it has president trump name on it. gerri: winning team, homerun, lauren: good picture. gerri: tennis star venus williams will not be charged with -- the driver of the other vehicle not charge. neither driver was at fault. the passenger in the car died 13

days after the june and car crash. true through rough night on the basketball court. jared max is here with the highlights. >> card, court, rough all around. the rackets might have the best record in the nba, but how great can they be if chris hall cannot play. fourth quarter last night, limped off the court. the sore left leg unrelated to his recent knee injury. james hardin scored 51 including 30 of the first half. he scored 38, became the first team in the last 15 games to beat the houston rockets. 122-116. one of the best teams in college basketball loss last night. north carolina tar heels by

ongoing 79-75, keeping things in the target state. cam newton spoke out in defense of panthers owner jerry richardson. maybe not in richardson's defenses he's embroiled in misconduct scandal but in defense of his rights and public perception. blessed. >> in this day and time, you are automatically guilty until proven innocent, rather than the judicial system you're supposed to be innocent until proven guilty. everything that i have heard were allegations and nothing was actually proven. just another person's word first that person's word. >> he takes sexual assault extremely personally. i didn't want to offend anybody, just having a lot of allegations thrown at a person is unfair.

ballgame blowout weekend continues in football. florida atlantic scored 15 points in. louisiana tech scored 51 to give smu appeared jamar smith ran for another louisiana tech smashed smu 51-10. st. petersburg to gasparilla bull and temple. saint pete particularly fn one gloria spent his entire major league career playing home games will no longer from 28-2017 played for the tampa bay rays baiter in home runs rbis is going to favor the san francisco giants. al gore had traded for infielder kristin arroyo and two minor league pitchers. last year detroit red wings goalies were specially designed holiday masks. check it out this year the gingerbread cookies.

prater brassica jimmy howard wearing these cookie masks. they included images of the equipment managers dressed as elves. the best part of the goalie gets hungry during the came on to start nibbling away. the helmet is a cookie, too. gerri: i like it because it's so cheesy. seriously, the games are hilarious because the kids are all involved. the big video of it. it's so much fun. >> hockey players are the toughest in every sport. gerri: i know. and they have no teeth. lauren: i was going to say i have no teeth. garrett, thank you. is fox news headlines 20% income is serious xm channel 115. gerri: coming up, checking out the world's largest ahead. stay with us. ♪

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gerri: welcome back. let's get you caught up in global market action overnight. asia stocks now, let's take a look. next as we see the bank of japan holding off on raising interest rates as you can see the

shanghai higher, nikkei down, hang seng now. mixed picture there and in europe stocks now start to watch the drive in catalonia for a vote on separatism. this was the up 20 points, quarter of a percent. cac 40 down dramatically. a little bit there in the dax down as well. u.s. stock market futures as well. the dow was tired today. s&p 500 as well. very small amount to nasdaq down as well. key commodities, oil and gold as a common. crude oil down fractionally and gold down as well. no surprise there. it is time for dagen mcdowell filling in for maria bartiromo. take it away my friend. dagen: what were we talking about at 4:30 in the morning? we were talking about taxes.

we were in the weeds. we will see you later. thank you so much. good morning, everybody. i am dagen mcdowell in for maria bartiromo. there is a coming december december 21st that 5:00 eastern. four people injured after an suv slams into a group of people in melbourne, australia. the driver and another man had been arrested. tags have been 5:00 p.m. local time near the city's main train station. bringing you the latest from mussina had. making history in the united states good republican lawmakers delivering a big old christmas gift to america. approving a $155 trillion tax cut for corporations and individuals. president trump celebrating the victory with lawmakers at the white house. the move trickling down to the american worker. at&t among the big major corporations sayin