threw that on your lap. thank you for joining us. louis back tomorrow. among his guests, congressman >> the united states is committed and most continue to put maximum pressure on north korea. we must not be silent. the people of iran are crying out for freedom. lauren: breaking news this morning. as interim prints up rhetoric against north korea and iran cracks down on pro-democracy protesters. cheryl: major media between democratic leaders in president trump top aides on the agenda of immigration at january by jill lives. lauren: the s&p 500 and the nasdaq was closed about 7000 for the first time ever yesterday futures this morning pointing up across the board. trained to look into it.

european markets all in the green especially as you can see the dax at 41. lauren: another day of gains in china in a two thirds of 1%. japan still closed for a holiday. trading to peter feels placing a big bet on bitcoin. the billionaire making millions more. "fbn:am" starts right now. lauren: 5:01 a.m. in new york said wednesday, january 3rd. m. lauren simonetti. cheryl: hello, everybody. i'm sure up to sony. i did not make millions last night. the mega millions rolled over last night. lauren: man has been rained out last night and got more. train to withdraw more we want to get to. north korea reopening along

border crossline. the move was made after so offered high-level talks in january made to find ways to cooperate in the winter olympics, which is next month. >> president trump tweeted last night one of seven teen tweets yesterday see north korean leader kim jong un insane the nuclear button was on his desk at all times. some uninformed and i have a nuclear button but it's much bigger and much more powerful and my button works. sarah huckabee sanders said the u.s. policy in north korea has not changed. >> the united states is committed and will still continue to put maximum pressure on north korea to change and make sure it the nuclear ice is dependent. articles at the same and we share that with south korea butter policy and process has not changed.

lauren: u.n. ambassador nikki haley warning against the new missile test following reports that the regime may be prepared to fire yet another missile pretty soon. cheryl: stainless global tensions. but talk about iran. the iranian government blocking messaging a telegram. telegram has been used to organize antigovernment protests which have at this point cost 21 deaths and hundreds of arrests. u.n. ambassador nikki haley addressing the situation as well. she calls for the security council to hold a session as a session issue since the iranian government. >> now the iranian dictatorship is doing what it always does, which is to say that the protests were designed by iran's enemies. we all know that it's complete nonsense. the demonstrations are completely spontaneous. they are virtually every city in iran. this is the precise picture of along long people rising up

against dictators. lauren: they first broke out on thursday largely driven by young people in rural areas and small towns as they are again protesting against khomeini. they are tired of being ruled by a big hater. lauren: going out of broad. the big four congressional leaders to discuss legislative priorities for 28 team. cheryl: we get more from our own adam shapiro. "fbn:am" good morning from the white house at all attention on capitol hill. mick mulvaney along with marc short here at the white house legislative affairs director going to meet with mitch mcconnell, nancy pelosi, chuck schumer and paul ryan to work out the details perhaps in an agreement to keep the government running posted january 19th deadline. this is a negotiation apart over recent spending caps.

we heard from sarah sanders on to take him in the press secretaries that is part of the trump administration agenda for 2018. >> a lot of the meetings the president has this week with leadership will help determine what the best strategy is on each of those individual areas, but those are certainly welfare reform, infrastructure responsible immigration reform and health care will be top priorities for the administration this year. >> funding the government will be one who takes place on capitol hill. we are told this sessions about immigration reform and building the border wall of mexico and an agreement for daca will not be part of the discussions. back to you. lauren: first it was the week will was the week-old lost twin for now another investors bitcoin. lauren: for the first time happy new year to you. >> "the wall street journal"

root for is the venture capital firm cofounded by billionaire peter teal has accumulated hundreds of millions $0 in bitcoin and it's not worth hundreds of millions of dollars up to the digital currency rise in the past year. so for missing few mainstream investors by large sums of bitcoin because they've been scared off by cybersecurity concerns of liquidity. lauren: of may. food shopping. organic milk. don't get it because this sales are dropping. >> this is a shift in the industry for shoppers who once drove the demand for organic milk have now moved on to newer alternative sleeping terry sellers and producers with an oversupply. "wall street journal" reported supplies they were off for organic milk demand continued at the initial pace but also omen, coconut another milk with an

unexpected degree with lactose intolerance becoming the leading allergan shoppers avoided. 2017 organic milk sales fell in volume in dollar terms for the first time since 2013. cheryl: maybe they can turn that into organic cheese. >> they are transferring that into different organic dairy products. cheryl: i like coconut milk. captain morgan is now bringing back that chat. >> in june captain morgan rum ran a sponsored nonsense that chat that let users picture their faces in this case to look like the grand alongside two classes clinking together. the watchdog in the u.k. said they breached the advertising code there because it is likely to appeal to users under the age of 18 which is the legal

drinking limit their end was inappropriately targeted. it is now suspending all of its advertising globally unfound chat because of this. cheryl: made a good move. lauren: i get it i guess. cheryl: let's got to start advertising cigarettes to kids again. he wants to go back to the kids a cad. lauren: coming up, looking for a cure for diabetes but instead came up at the major recruit for alzheimer's disease instead. if you look outside, blizzard conditions causing trouble in many parts of the country, including this major pileup in buffalo, new york. 75 cars involved. we will be right back. ♪

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tree into welcome back. that's good chicago back. the pitcher got up and it's happening now. a report reveals an eye-popping stats on government spending for the workforce. tens of thousands of federal employees earned more than money than any governor in the country. a watchdog group opened the book with 407,000 federal employees

mid-six-figure incomes in fiscal 2016. that is roughly one in five. science is working on cures for diabetes may have stumbled on a treatment for alzheimer's. researchers at lancaster university england say a drug england say drug tested on mice with severe nerve cell degeneration ended up improving memory loss. the drug was clear promise being developed into a treatment for humans. car buyers did more than just kick the tires and 2017. early data showing passenger cars and trucks surpass 90 million for the first time last year. asian buyers are the main engine for sales growth for a quarter of the cars sold last year going to chinese customers. car companies report their december sales later today. lauren: cheryl, thank thank you. north and south korea across the board could kick started easing tension between those two countries.

all this warming of relations affect u.s. policy with north korea? care to weigh in with the london center for policy research, jesse jane does. good morning. >> good morning. the first talks in two years between north and south korea. what message does this send to the united states? >> it's about time because the united states has demonstrated that we are not playing anymore in president trump by us last week that we are solved state 81 to play games, making board is bigger than yours. in the military that is basically saying to your enemy all bets are off. we are not here to play around why you try to take over the entire peninsula which has been north korea's entire goal. they want to take over south korea in a way so that they have full occupation. a lot of people don't realize that. they think it is enabling with more food and supply, but finally the sanctions have worked and they are going to have to negotiate.

cheryl: the u.s. is 30,000 troops and you have been north korea's ruler attempting to drive a wedge between a new progress bv. what are your thoughts on this? a un trained to drive a wedge in any progress we've made to deter their nuclear ambitions? >> of course they want to drive a wedge. un has the ideology of being the supreme leader of the entire peninsula. people have to recognize he is the fourth-largest army in in the world however we don't know how much nutrition they have because literally they are allowed to take leave to forage for food. the sanctions that have impacted the road army significantly. at the same time, people think he take up a nuclear capability but he has a lot of mobile site. you could move them around and you can't really catch up to them. all it takes so that those missiles to work pretty a service to air missiles and intercontinental ballistic missiles are far ahead of where

the united states have affected at this point. a very touchy situation because you don't want to trigger had literally. lauren: meeting between the north and south they are expected talk about the olympics. what are their issues do you think they will discuss and do you expect the denuclearization of north korea to be one of those issues where we are not going there because south korea is concerned. >> the nuclear situation is the biggest item on the table. keep in mind that north koreans have merchandise their nuclear capability. they have been the largest stream of parameter for their nuclear capability. when your merchandise to natively affect you're merchandise admittedly have got to cut off the money flow somehow someway and a lot with china not allowing them to have been a banking relationship, when you cut the money for your severing their nuclear capability. as long as money, they are finally make it managing it and continued to increase capacity.

lauren: finally here, what are the best options for north korea and getting them to dismantle her positive nuclear development program? is the "nuclear option" the only one left on the table? >> absolutely not. if we get china to ensure that they are no longer banking with north korea can be said with a pipeline of revenue in the trace china houses do business with us or do business with them. if we sever relationships with them in analyze every country for doing banking with them, we've got it made. military is not the only option. cheryl: we've got to enforce those options. thank you very much. cheryl: it's amazing the winter olympics next month. this is weeks away. they've got to figure this out. lauren: while coming to think that north koreans will participate in the winter olympics? cheryl: now, but a mean, who knows. we shall see.

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75 car pileup near buffalo, new york paid at least one person was killed in that. several others injured. be careful on the roads, everybody. >> you couldn't see it i started thinking for an idea. complete wideout right now. i still can't feel my fingertips from walking from a vehicle. trade to meteorologists janice dean is walking at all. we hope we don't see more of what we saw on the pileup on the freeway. >> unfortunately wintry mix that areas who typically don't see this by thread florida, carolina sudden concern people are prepared and i'm rather people be overprepared than underprepared. if you live in the east coast piedmont in your forecast and listen to your local officials. if they're going to close schools, you need to know that. certainly a very powerful storm.

the cold air base right now. 35 in jacksonville, 28, told an valley. a warm-up ahead of the system and the potential for quite a bit of smell. here's overlooking up right now on the last 12 hours along the gulf coast this now in the wintry mix over north florida and toward georgia amid some freezing rain, sleet, ice and snow when they are not used to that. watch this develop into a coastal nor'easter potential from an inch too if an inch to a foot of snow depending on where you live. i cannot urge you enough to keep looking at your forecast because forecast will change to have a hard cast in some parts of time. trendy janice dean comic thank you so much. airline employees, the latest to score bonuses. competition from shake shack another fresh burger chain pushing for changes at mickey

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to the confidence and now i feel unstoppable. narrator: find free adult education classes near you at finishyourdiploma.org cheryl: breaking this morning the major link between democrat leaders the feds will talk immigration is the new budget deadline lands. that report from washington. lauren: utah senator orrin hatch is retired opening a door frame that romney ran for the seat. cheryl: records for the s&p 500 and then as back for the first time ever. features pointing to a higher open. lauren: europe stocks trading to the upside and retailers leading the way in europe. cheryl: in asia another day of gains for the shanghai composite up more than half a percent.

stocks closed in japan for that holiday. lauren: certainly a day of green across the board. airline workers see some more green as well and they have president trump to thank for that. "fbn:am" continues right now. cheryl: 5:31 a.m. in new york. wednesday, january 3rd. i'm cheryl casone. lauren: good morning. i'm cheryl casone. more bonus checks are coming to war workers. cheryl: corporations big and small are sharing the wealth. a lot to talk about this morning in olivet out of d.c. white house budget or mick mulvaney and legislative affairs remarks short are set to meet with the big four congressional leaders today to discuss all the priorities including the budget and immigration.

lauren: here to break it to break it all down as quick chicken flavored washington. good morning. >> good morning lauren and cheryl. january 19th to come up with a plan to fund the government with a partial shutdown as you mentioned mick mulvaney had been up on capitol hill to meet with the big four leaders. to try and hammer out a deal front and center. laying out the administration's goals. >> for responsible immigration reform. that would need to be part of any package that includes daca prevailed to work with members of congress to get that done. >> keep the funding budget sci-fi. what to do with the so-called tree raises on democrats who came here legally as children face a march deadline. minority leader nancy pelosi has reiterated the emergency of

their situation. >> the tremors have a discrete piece that needs protection now and now way for the entire comprehensive immigration reform to be resolved before we deal with this emergency. >> president trump was that there is no about a wall without daca they just have better politics daca will go hard against dems will start falling in love with republicans in their president. we are about results. we'll see what happens. a lot of focus on this meeting. the meeting could address issues like infrastructure for health care that could get give bipartisan support. only time will tell but it gets more difficult in the senate as alabama's doug jones could sworn in as a democrat today. cheryl: griff jenkins in washington. thank you very much.

lauren: the longest-serving republican orrin hatch 83 years old says he will not seek reelection this year. >> when the president visited utah last month he said i was a fighter. i've always been a fighter, but every good fighter knows when to hang up and for me that time is soon approaching. trainers sparking rumors that met romney and for the vacant seat. the former presidential candidate even up to just twitter location for massachusetts where he was governor from utah. republican strategist and a turkey named and eric ramberg joining us now. >> good morning. lauren: do you think that romney would be well-received in utah? >> is he the right pick for the senate seat? >> a very strong chance. used over 73% approval rating in utah according to the public

policy polling that includes 50% among democrats over 85% among republicans. he won with over 80% of the vote in 2016 -- and 2012 against president obama. i think it's a very strong chance. he's still very respected they are. he has a lot of support among donors and officials there. ironically a few weeks ago when steve bennett unleashed a big attack against romney in alabama and how the utah political community really rallied behind romney showed the support he has bear. lauren: another good question to ask, amy, touted work for donald trump. would you be if our native side? would he be more positive than getting the president to do things businessman to businessman? how are relations?

>> that's an excellent question. a great concern for possible senator romney. in the past is called president trump a felony, fraud. he was very vocal being a member trumper. in the state of nevada he led the charge here with numerous candidates in 2016 with senator heller being a member trumper. our candidate's congressional joe hack who is running for senate at the time along with other congressional members. what happened to the entire stake here for the republican party dropped more than six points overnight when that romney joined them in disavowing dominique trump. i am not so thrilled on the side of that romney running for senate. when he ran for president in 2012 i was the state party chair. i worked my tail off for that

man. for him to come and then backend as to help us lose at home president trump is thursday by 2%, i'm not thrilled. lauren: clearly. eric i'm a chance to respond to that. maybe you can bring up the issues of the fact that president trump event type about having romney as secretary of state. i'm trying to figure out the relationship between these two. >> the actual election itself, romney adapted a very anti-president trump attitude. however since the election is that much was supporting president trump on certain issues on certain policies as well while opposing president trump on other issues he disgraces them on. as a senator he would be the same way supporting president trump sometimes an opposing president trump at other times. he would necessarily be that

movement. a very moderate approach and certainly across the country looking for that particular time. lauren: let's move on to minnesota because al franken tina smith will be sworn in today. 28 team would run for that. what are the chances in your opinion, amy, that minnesota has voted democrat since 1976 would elect a republican senator? >> when you listen to her interview that she recently gave her by saying that this font is extremely toxic and she and her husband are not many people and

that basically this is going to be an uphill battle for her. if this is the route she decides to go come i hope the republican party will rally behind her. i find it interesting that you have a woman who was attacked viciously with lots of is comment is looking to replace a man who basically was a. more power to her. >> it could work in her favor, too. thank you for your perspective. cheryl: switching gears now. california. there is no way to prevent their plans. lauren: tracee carrasco joins us with more on that and other headlines making news this morning. >> tie-dye $7 billion industry starting on january 1st. a computerized system menus for

the sellers to keep track of everything. right now they are using paper invoices. the stated that oversees everything says this computerized system was implemented however there's been no training at so it's not been required for the sellers to use, which is a concern because the sales could push everything to the black market. a little bit of a rockstar affair. things haven't really been in place before january 1st. a lot going on in california right now the region shake her head without. is there a chance that the flight attendant would be more friendly on my next flight because -- >> a good chance the flight attendant is from southwest or american airlines because they have said they will share the wealth with their employees. they will be giving a thousand dollars bonus because of the gop tax reform bill.

southwest is that they will also exercise right to vote at 40 new jets from boeing also give an extra $5 million to charity. that is fair for both of those air than 10 employees. cheryl: land for growing. go ahead, southwest. let's talk about that donald's. they are trying something different with their burgers. what are they doing? >> they are launching something called the arch burger made with fresh beef. it also has something called arch sauce which is a combo of mayo and mustard to cure this was the gourmet minded customer to compete with other burger chains that offer shake shack, and enough so they are testing this out in markets in oklahoma and texas. about $2.19. a good deal with the donald's low price. cheryl: wait, wait, my burger at

mcdonald's was frozen? lauren: try the fresh beef with a quarter pounder and that was pretty successful. >> lunacy of this experience to other places. transgressors outthink but donald is healthy, but nonetheless not present. cheryl: well, let's talk about the money. winning the money. forget investing in it. the mega millions jackpot now soaring to $418 million. including the mega ball: the next mega millions drawing is on friday night. tonight a powerball drawing. the powerball jack about 440 million bucks. i hope it rolls over. you see how big these can get. we never win but it's fun to watch. lauren: last night my husband had to go out to get a ticket.

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lauren: welcome back. let's get you caught up on what's happening now. iraqi forces catching one of the mars executioners. abu over dozens of tour groups former stronghold of the school. the iraqis are now pretty earned its reputation for conducting horrific killings and putting them on video. karen taliban hostage said to be in court today facing 15 charges including sexual assault and even death threats. joshua both a canadian man accused of those kinds all since he and his family were seen in october. he and his american wife captured by terrorists back in 2012 other backpacking across afghanistan. they do have three children, all of them born in captivity.

a crisis could be on the way. scientists predicting the world's chocolate supplies will multiply it by the year 2050. why? present arbitration climate change. good news is candy maker mars is pledging a billion dollars to help scientists find a way to keep the trees alive and chocolate to keep on coming. cheryl: just make synthetic chocolate. i don't care. keep it around. lauren: i don't know if you've noticed i've always been a chocolate bar and it's always going up in price. trained to thank you, lauren. as the housing industry facing a perfect storm. the prospect of higher interest rates from the federal reserve. jeff taylor, cofounded direct or, good morning. >> good morning. how are you? trinket good morning. the national association of retailers have been forecasting the tax reform planning the real

estate market is going to get paid. now we see clear evidence there is going to be. we are showing the fact hardest hit states. how rough is this going to be for those especially in the blue states? >> it's a good point if you look across the country especially new jersey, new york on the west coast the west coast, with the cap of $10,000 for state income tax, you are going to a lot of the affordability factor come down a little bit with rising interest rates it is going to be a challenge. people will be invading sea. property taxes are coming down. cheryl: let's talk about specific counties down. a lot of folks especially in blue states are looking not potentially a loss in value because of tax reform. you look at places like essex, new jersey, a value less than

25%. westchester, new york, passaic, new jersey, lake, illinois and the list goes on. new york, 9.5% by the estimates now. mercer and somerset, new jersey. only illinois mention one in the list of top 10. these are both too blue states that ibm had. >> again, time will tell because the flip side is the personal income tax is more in their pocket. it should be being able to have our money. like you are saying a percent to 9% project it declines are things that are going to be the entire year of 2018. what is interesting is house prices are expect it to rise to around 6% year-over-year but the entire right now.

cheryl: we know that. is that there has to be tempered by the factor not only going to have tax reform value double the standard deduction and people will not get the benefit of owning a home especially first-time homebuyers and you've got the fact that the fed is likely raising interest rates in 28 games. these seem to be that negative against buying a home. >> also 6% for by the fact that inventory is still as tight in the last six years. that's kind of making a 6% rise right now. 2018 all along for the first time of home buyer would have you could be right. cheryl: obviously these are predictions of real estate groups are bracing for 2018 as

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dollars over his pronunciation of the word gangsta. >> a song by coolio from dangerous minds goes back in time to become a 6760 john milton classic. >> what his gangsters paradise lost. >> yes. our judges have reevaluated whenever responses. you said gangsters instead of gangsta on the song by coolio, so we take 3200 away from you. you are now in second place. lauren: give it back. coolio even jailed. he won the game anyway. stranger alex trebek is like we are so sorry. it was worth the wait for cleveland cavaliers fans. and by last night was opening night of their seizing. jed max is here with the story. >> good morning.

isaiah thomas acquired in a blockbuster trade for the boston celtics but because of his off-season hipster he was unable to play with his new team until last night. check out the introduction, scott. welcome to the land, isaiah thomas. cavaliers taken in the portland, trailblazers. hot to trot from the start hitting a couple of early shot and fans say it was worth the wait. he scored 17 points in 19 minutes about the cavaliers beat the blazers 127-110. ticket prices to the national championship game next monday in atlanta flying hike thanks to the georgia bulldogs make a name into the game. if you want to see the mercedes-benz came monday consider buying a used mercedes. cheapest tickets nearly $1900.

average ticket price tuesday, 2689 bucks. more than 100% from last tuesday which also featured alabama but this time georgia is in it only 70 miles from home. finalists announced for the pro football hall of fame long time minnesota vikings randy moss who may find out to do for the super bowl he's been a lot good one of the greatest defensive players ever released the ravens as a finalist. longtime chicago bears ingrain defense plan her locker and terrell owens a finalist. bengals quarterback andy dalton for an unexpected touchdown lead sunday that eliminated baltimore and said that goes into the playoffs. bills fans continue to contribute to the charitable foundation as a sign of gratitude. check this out. >> over $170,000 a thank you to anybody supporting our foundation.

let's keep it going to how much we can get. and the more kids that will make an impact on. over $170,000 in donations already a still climbing. this is one of the coolest stories that the group benefiting from the seriously ill children and their families and all a result of the buffalo bills fans seem thank you, andy dalton. cheryl: may be things like this can turn around the image. jared max, thank you. catch the sports reports 24 sided sirius xm xm 115. cheryl: the u.s. has lost its famous billionaires plans by many grants. find out why, next. the ♪

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♪nothin' is makin' sense ♪for me and you ♪maybe we can find a way ♪there's got to be solutions ♪how to make a brighter day ♪what do we do? ♪we've got to give a little love♪ ♪have a little hope ♪make this world a little better♪ ♪try a little more ♪harder than before lauren: major deal blocked. u.s. government blocking china and financial services owned by owned by from buying u.s.-based many grants taking a look at shares of money grab a share 7%. "the wall street journal" joins us now. as national security, are those concerns the reason for the opposition from team trump?

>> yes, national security are some of the concerns that have played into the decision is other deals that have been last year. one of the concerns from the u.s. regulators is that u.s. property, intellectual property to chinese donors at a time when chinese vendors trees, many companies are still closed to foreign investment including u.s. and bananas on the u.s. side involving the financial sector as well as the semiconductor industry will resolve three do dropped in with the increased scrutiny and also political tension between the two countries. cheryl: does this mean more trouble for deals between chinese companies cover you if companies in particular for u.s.

corporations are u.s. pieces of real estate, for instance? >> this is going on on a deal to build bases. you can't necessarily draw lines and say because this doesn't go through, other deals will fail, too. it means more scrutiny on each and every deal and could also mean from a chinese buyer perspective you might be more likely to wait and see forward to just sit there and wait and do nothing. it could mean that we see less steals from the chinese side. lauren: from the backdrop we were curious how were curious to chinese for help us. thank you very much. cheryl: now we send it over to maria bartiromo. >> good morning, everybody. i had maria bartiromo. it is januarythird, 2018. 6:00 a.m. on the east coast. reading big on set