is out now in bookstores everywhere. or you can bite online, amazon.com or barnes & noble.com. lauren: it is 5:00 a.m. here are your top stories at this hour. the trump economy is booming and markets continue to hit new record highs. why democrats could put markets into a tailspin. cheryl: an act of hate deemed an act of dough mess terro domes americans come together to condemn the horrific hon cay hah attack. lauren: an indiana pizza shop serving more than just slices. how it gave its employees a piece of the christmas pie.

it is monday, december 3 of of. hillary-- 30th30th. "fbn: a.m." starts right now. ♪ it's a beautiful morning. ♪ i think i'll go outside for a while. ♪ and just smile. ♪ cheryl: it is a beautiful morning welcome to "fbn: a.m.." i'm cheryl casone. lauren: one of the final mornings of 2019. your money is moving this morning. the dow higher by 25 25 s&p up , nasdaq up 9 and-a-half. the s&p 500, if i the best performance since 1997. lauren: stocks in asia mixed. china, shanghai composite up 1.2%, nikkei down three quarters of 1 today. cheryl: over in europe, come off a strong week for markets, a

little bit of red but last week a he very strong -- very strong week for the european markets. stocks are set to kick off the final trading week of 2019 with another round of records. the s&p 500 on track to score the biggest gains in 22 years. if the index rises 29.6% for the year, we should say that's the best level since 1997 and the nasdaq, got to point this out, as of this morning up 35% for the year. analysts see the momentum continuing into 2020 if it looks like president trump will win re-election. the l rally could be in jeopardy if a progressive democrat wins the white house in november. warren not easing investors minds when she said this yesterday. >> if there is a decision to be made in washington, it has been influenced by money. the only way we are going to fix this is not by going around the

edges, it's going o to take big structural change. cheryl: warren rallied against big banks and the wealthy. lauren: the pentagon released this image of u.s. air strikes hitting hezbollah militants in iraq andia, retaliation for a rocket attack that killed an american contractor last week. cheryl: doug luzader is in washington with the latest. >> reporter: these were attacks on five sites belonging to the hezbollah brigade, an iranian backed militia. three were in western iraq, two in eastern syria. they is in response to a series of rocket attacks on friday that killed a u.s. defense contractor in northern iraq. the secretaries of state and defense meantime traveled to florida to brief the president. >> in our discussion today with the president, we discussed with him other options that are available and i would note also that we will take dig additional actions as necessary to make

sure we act in our own self-defense and deter other bad behavior. >> reporter: you heard a clear threat to respond again if warranted. >> this wasn't the first set of attacks against this first iraqi facility and others where there are american lives at risk. we took a decisive response. >> reporter: the iraqi government was notified in advance about the strikes. they were none too pleased about it, though. lauren: thank you very much. cheryl: president trump and leaders across the country condemning the horrifying stabbing you attack at a hanukkah celebration. lauren: five people were hurt in the attack at the home of a rabbi. jackie, what do we know now. >> reporter: a celebration turns into terrorism after five people are stabbed inside a rabbi's home. no one was killed but two

victims remain in the hospital this morning. police say graphton tom man barged into the home on shall -- thomas barged into the home and started swinging his machete. he was arrested shortly after the attack after a witness took a picture of the truck's license plate and gave it to police. reports say he was covered in blood and tried to wash it off with bleach. family and friends say he suffers from mental illness. reports say he faced several criminal cases in the early 2000s. the new york post is reporting he may be tied to another synagogue attack. president trump is condemning the stabbing, tweeting the anti-semetic attack in new york on the seventh night of hanukkah last night is horrific. we must come together to fight, confront and eradicate the

scourge of anti-semitism. the ry rabbi is speaking for the first time, saying the brew l tall attack sent shock waves but with god's help the casualties were less extensive than they might have been. bill de blasio says the city will tack action. >> there is a crisis of anti-semitism. public safety is the answer here. >> reporter: the mayor will introduce neighborhood safety coalitions and a new curriculum for students dealing with anti-semitism. cheryl: thank you very much. lauren: more violence, two people were killed yesterday when a gunman opened fire at a church during mass outside of fort fortworth texas of. two armed parishoners returned fire and saved a number of lives. the motive behind the shooting is unknown. cheryl: north korea has not delivered on its promise of a

christmas gift of to the united states but kim jong un is calling for positive and offensive measures to protect his country. these remarks coming days before he's scheduled to give his new year's address to the country. the u.s. and north korea have been stalled on nuclear talks. lauren: let's take a look at shares of tesla. they shifted into high gear and elon musk is telling employees to ignore the stock price. shares are higher by 62-cents. they rallied 32% this year. musk was fined $20 million by the s.e.c. last year, also forced to step down as tesla's chairman after he tweeted that he wanted to take tesla private at $420 and another milestone fors tesla today, it starts to deliver model 3 cars built at the new plant in shanghai china. that lowers the cost for chinese customers by 20%. this of course is the world's biggest auto market. cheryl: 2020 is bringing more

money for a lot more workers. lauren: that is great news. tracee carrasco here now with the details. tracee: the first federal overhaul of overtime requirements in 15 years will make 1.3 million more u.s. workers eligible for overtime pay. starting on january 1st, the overtime threshold will rise from 23,660 to $35,658. the labor department saying the increase is needed to he reflect the higher cost of living. california, new york and washington have set higher thresholds while other states like pennsylvania and michigan are considering options. well, apple facing a lawsuit over technology in its apple watch. a new york doctor claiming that apple willfully ignored his patents on heart he beat monitoring technology. the doctor says he's been working on the technology since 1999 and that apple has rejected all of his attempts to resolve the dispute. apple hads has not yet commented on the lawsuit.

and long-time congressman and civil rights leader john lewis says he has stage four pa pan t pancreatic cancer. he has he di declined to say whe he was receiving treatment and what it would detail. he did say he plans to fight it. ledge dairdegenerative.legendars has died. he was known for his work with veterans and numerous charities including his work with tomorrow's children fun and the founding of the imus ranch which helped children affected by cancer and bloodies eases. don imus is survived by his wife and children. lauren: we remember him well. cheryl: tracee, thank you very much. lauren: let's take a look at your money this morning. with one and-a-half trading days left for 2019, dow up 23 points,

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lauren: we could see more records on wall street today after the dow and s&p 500 set fresh highs on friday. as the year winds down will the bull run for stocks begin for 2020. we bring in gus gaco. good morning. >> good morning. lauren: we're in the sweet spot or so it seems, interest rates low, taxes low, republican held senate. what's your take? >> i think all of those things come into play and you're right. you have interest rates that are basically in a box, they can't be risen because of international flows or basically at zero overh overseas. we've had a lot of stimulus. we're looking at at 178 to 180 in terms of earnings and that might be low, based on where margins are and you had a couple head winds last year, the gm strike and boeing which is the

largest exporter. so a lot of things are being discounted on good news right now. so let's see how the year plays out. lauren: and what sectors or stocks in specific would you advise for 2020 investments? >> we're going to start looking at the industrials in a bigger way. a lot of the sickly cyclical a, business don't do that well. the economy was driven by the consumer. the consumer still will be there this year. you'll be looking at industrials starting to pick up in a bigger way. look at boeing, our largest exporter, that should see a pop right there. lauren: the manufacturing contraction, the manufacturing recession that we've seen, that ends or continues? >> i think it's going to end. you have overseas starting to pick up and 35% of the s&p's profits come from overseas. so you'll see a pick-up in europe as well as china. lauren: i'll take it. do you think -- speaking of china. ems like we're in a trade truce now. do you think it stays this way between now and november or do we try to pay for phase one and get to phase two and three and

so on? >> right now they're writing out the specifics and you're translating it. you'll get an understanding of where we're going but you're going to start phase two. in terms of phase one, we should having written by the end of the month and the chinese have been very quiet. in doing that, it means we're going to end up probably having something right now that gets signed. lauren: all quiet on the trade front. let's talk about the decade of debt as we wrap up the decade. the national debt has hit a record $23 trillion this year. if you break that down, that's $70,000 for you and for me and for cheryl and everybody. that's crazy. it seems to be getting worse not better. what do we need to do to change this? how worried are you? >> in terms of interest rates being low, that helps. looking at the amount of debt we're paying on right now, the debt coverage ratios are okay. as long as interest rates stay low we should be all right. it will be a problem when it becomes a problem, when rates get higher, probably around 5%. lauren: it's amazing that the

national debt keeps going you up. the republicans are supposed to be monitoring this, saying let's cut the spending. it's not happening. >> not at all. politicians want to go forward and have a spending bill in terms of putting infrastructure in place and a couple other things that might ad to it. lauren: does tesla go private? >> i don't believe it does. it's too much debt. they'll end up being $12 billion in debt this year. cheryl: we have a lot more coming up this morning. how much information is too much? we have details on amazon's plan to know you better than the back of your hand. and this is something straight out of the x files. a mysterious swarm of drones that keeps appearing out of nowhere and no one knows why. we're going to figure it out, coming up on "fbn: a.m." ♪ a sky full of stars. ♪ as a struggling actor,

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cheryl: amazon is looking to make purchases as easy and waving a hand. the company filed a new at that time only for new technology that would allow users to scan their hand into a day day base, link -- database, link it to a debit or credit card and use it to pay for things. it would identify users by surface characteristics of their palm. this is not their first attempt at a payment system, with the launch of convenience stores without needing a checkout. germaphobes i think would be happy with amazon. lauren: that's a very good point. possibility or pipedream? cheryl: very possible.

100%. eye scans are happening at airports. it's happening, folks. lauren: biometrics are out there. a mystery taking shape in colorado and he nebraska as large swarms of drones between 17 and 30, they've been seen flying between the hours of 7:0e december 23rd. the drones are estimated to have a six foot wing span and stay between 200 and 300 feet in the air. one local sheriff's office says the swarm seems to be flying in a grid search pattern, moving on once a certain area is covered. so far, no one has taken credit for the drones, with the local police, airport, dea and u.s. army all denying that the drones are theirs. the faa said they do not know where the drones are coming from. do you know? cheryl: no, i do not. thank you for asking. i think it's actually -- it's probably a group of probably younger kids who are good with drones and they're probably trying to do whether it's a show or formation or whatever they're trying to do but i have a feeling it's a regular group of

folks. sharon osborn is facing backlash for a recent inters yo interviee describes sending her assistant into their burning home to retrieve art work and find the family's dog before she fired him. she said she took the oxygen mask from the assistance and putting it on her dog of. she said she fired him for not finding the incident funny. there's viral backlash against her for those documents. lauren: an out-of-touch celebrity, that's what i'm going to go for in in this instance. we have green arrows across the screen as we wind down 2019, dow up 20, nasdaq up 5 5 this morn. could president obama step back into public service? if one presidential candidate has his way, you might see him on the supreme court.

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cheryl: heres is your morning cheat sheet, the top headlines to get you through the day. the pentagon releasing an a image of u.s. air strikes hitting hezbollah militants in iraq and syria in response to rocket attacks that killed an american contractor last week. the nypd will increase their presence in jew communities --

jewish communities in the wake of a stabbing inside a rabbi's home. the yo attack left five people hurt. tomorrow is new year's eve but the ball will drop today over new york's times square. officials will conduct a test drop right at noon eastern time. it's got 32,000 lights and it will create billions of different patterns as it drops. lauren: bernie sanders makin tg about his long-touted medicare for all plan. >> what i want to tell you is we are putting into medicare for all what we call a just transition program which will help everybody in the industry for a five-year period maintain their income, get their job training that they need to get another job of. i think that's the fair and right thing to do.

okay. lauren: the vermont senators was forced to address the issue during a rally in new hampshire on saturday l. saturday. elizabeth warren has also embraced the plan. some say it could result in a loss of 2 million jobs. did you hear this? joe biden said he would consider nominating former president barack obama to the supreme court if he wins the white house. bidens was responding to a question at a campaign stop over the weekend in washington, iowa. biden's comments coming even though he hasn't been for mallly endorsed by president obama, his former boss. so if biden is elected and does nominate obama to the supreme court, the former be president would only be the second person in history to be both commander in chief and a supreme court justice. cheryl: joe biden was once again the r target of heckles and insults during a rally in milford, new hampshire last night. >> this is a democracy. >>

[ indiscernible ] >> golly, i hope it does. i hope it does. let her go. let her go. cheryl: biden spent his weekend backtracking on comments he made about not complying with a senate subpoena to testify, this as republican senators are inching toward having a no witness impeachment trial. here to talk about ought of this is the president of freedom works, republican strategist, adam brandon and democratic strategist laura fink are both here. great to have you both here. >> great to be here. cheryl: i want to start with you, laura, on this. there's been a lot of talk that if joe biden ends up the nominee, that the hunter biden story is going to do nothing but plague him and this could be a political negative for him. >> we know that was by design and president trump went overseas to even make sure that that happened. and so this is a plant like this quid pro joe, that's a plan

in a nutshell. i know this becaus i because i n campaigns. this is probably all happening by design. i think joe biden is handling it pretty well. cheryl: what do you think this means for president trump, the talk about a no witness trial in the senate seems to be a better option for the president. chuck schumer is pushing for witnesses. he wants to see john bolton and mick mulvaney, among others. >> in the house impeachment you needed 51% of the votes to proceed. the senate's a different animal. you need two-thirds or 67 votes to impeach the president and right now i don't see any t path forward for 67 votes. so i think what mitch mcconnell rolled out is let's get through this as quickly as possible, constitutionally we have to take the charges but it's up to him to figure out what the struck your chur churro be. i think this will be a quick trial and this will be over within weeks of it moving from

the house to the t senate because i don't see a path forward of 67 votes to remove the president. cheryl: we still don't have the articles of impeachment from the house sent to the senate. nancy pelosi is you waiting. there's now discussions that she could add more articles, that possibility has been floated out there. what do you make of her i think maneuvering i guess is a good word to call it. >> i don't think she would deny that. it's a question of who do you choose to prosecute the case. you can't do that until you have the rules. she's waiting for mitch mcconnell to set the rules. he's waiting for some of the republicans to settle in. you have susan come links and troy gardner -- collins and troy gardner in swing states. there's going to be noise made by swing state republicans running for re-election. cheryl: lisa murkowski said she found it disturbing that mitch mcconnell would work with the white house. that's true. adam, let's move on to the issue of other candidates. we're about a month away from iowa. there's fund raising problems for elizabeth warren.

she raised $17 million in the fourth quarter. that's only a third of what -- the fourth quarter. that's a third of what she pulled in in the third quarter. now she's looking for smaller donations. is she still do you think a threat to the republicans? >> absolutely. a absolutely. she may have peaked too early. she was just on a tear there for a little while. but remember, iowa is a very close -- it's a very grass roots election in these caucuses so i could easily hold her on if not even win iowa. even if she doesn't win and she has a good strong showing, just remember, the rules changed a little bit in the democratic primary. you start with iowa but just about a month later you have california and california just has so many votes. they're going to be critical for the democratic primary. she could have -- if she does well in iowa and surges in california, she is right back in this race. cheryl: pete buttigieg has spent a lot of money in iowa, we've seen some polls showing he's strengthening, not in all,

but in some. some say elizabeth warren has a strongly run campaign and that's her -- that's going to be a good thing for her in iowa. but buttigieg seems an outlier. he's a more moderate guy. >> she's done a little bit of a dip. biden and buttigieg would like to hit her numbers. she's on pace to raise 20 million. i think her organization is on the ground and it's fierce. it's fierce in california, a huge state. she's doing really well and she knows what she's doing. the grass roots campaign will continue. cheryl: it's fascinating to watch. as we look ahead to iowa, new hampshire, it's game on for 2020 and politics. who do you think on the democratic side has the strongest chance from a wall street perspective. i ask you that because we're a business network and there's a lot of folks on wall street who donate to democratic campaigns who are nervous about sanders

and warren. >> they should be. the leading candidate is called brokered convention. it's hard for me to see someone breaking out of the pack right now. and that means you go towards -- go to the convention and this person will be picked in milwaukee this summer. that being said, if i was wall street, i'd be waiting to see who is going to get the nominee. for wall street it's scary because the democratic party is moving farther to the left, more taxes and the rest. cheryl: every time somebody brings up brokered convention on our show they have a twinkle in their eye. >> like you're rooting for it or something. cheryl: it's going to be great. adam and laura, thank four beinr being here. lauren: as 2020 aapproachs, we take a look back at this year's biggest scandals. cheryl: we have more on the top controversial headlines of 2019. >> reporter: from jessie l jussl

lebuy rerbuyer education,hollywd ceos among those accused of paying millions of dollars to bribe their kids' ways into some of the top universities. many of the accused accepting plea deals in exchange for lighter sentences while some like lori loughlin and her husband plan to take their case to court in the new year. major offscreen drama for jussie smolett. he said two attackers yelled racist and homophobic slurs at him before putting a noose around his neck. in a twist plot twist, police se to blame. k kelly was accused of forcing women into sex and holding them

in captivity at his home. and l peloton releasing a holiday ad that drew heavy documenting her fitness journey on the exercise bike given to her by herusband. many slammed the company for slamming body positivity for women. canadian prime minister justin trudeau and virginia governor ralph northam faced scrutiny after photos surfaced of the politicians in black face. northam refused to step down and true dough watrudeau was reeleca second term. jeffrey epstein was found dead in his jail cell, ruled a suicide by the new york city medical examiner. two jail card jail guards were d

with allegedly not keeping frac of epstein. plenty of these scandals will still be making headlines in 2020 and we will be there to cover it all for you. in new york answerl, fox news. lauren: the dow, nasdaq and s&p 500, which by the way is riding the best year since 1997, up this morning. look at the nasdaq, just down 1 point this morning. we'll continue to monitor that for you. fearing the checkout after your checkup, you're not alone. why americans are paying the heftiest prices in the world for healthcare. and farmers throwing a wrench in one major point of aoc's green new deal, we'll have details ahead on "fbn: a.m." ♪ stop dragging my. ♪ stop dragging my. ♪ stop dragging my heart around. fun fact: 1 in 4 of us millennials have debt we might die with. and most of that debt is actually from credit cards.

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lauren: the international federation of health plans which represents ceos of health insurers worldwide said americans are paying far more than most other countries for healthcare. in one example, americans play $32,000 for an a angioplasty whe playing 6400 in the netherlands. why are americans paying so much more? let's bring in dr. neshua. thank you for joining us. >> good morning. lauren: it's the obvious question, that healthcare is better in the u.s., that's why it's more expensive, or is that

an incorrect statement? >> well, that may be part of the reason. but what it comes down to, lauren, is it's a fragmented network of health insurance companies. there's no standard. there's no federal oversight. they can charge as much as they want. and for different prices for different services. there's a lack of transparency. prices are going up but the services are staying the same and nobody knows what everybody costs in advance and that's why people are upset. they're getting surprise medical bills in the mail and it's putting them into financial ruin. on top of that, hospitals have to increase their prices to make up for their losses and the debt they incur for those patients who are uninsured and then we have to deal with those who have chronic diseases, that accounts for a huge increase in healthcare cost such as heart disease and diabetes and that sort of thing. lauren: should the government play a bigger role here as many on the left are advocating for? >> we might need a little bit of oversight. for example, the country of

norway, they spend a third of what we spend here on healthcare. their government sets benchmarks for standard of care and standard pricing throughout the country. so that they're able to take care of their citizens without putting the citizens into financial ruin. but on top of that, what we have in america that they don't have in other countries is lots of waste, administrative cost, fraud and frivolous lawsuits and liabilities and then on top of that, a lot of he research is conducted by major hospitals in this country and that research requires funding, requires money. so that's why some of the costs are higher, in addition, hospitals and healthcare providers that are in rural parts of america, sometimes they have to charge interest and raise the prices just to stay afloat and to make up for the lack of business in that community. so lots of factors that play a role here. i think one of the he key points is, we have to have transparency and know what we are paying for,

what exactly is the cost, because if we have transparency, that gives patients choices and options and that will hopefully drive down prices through competition. lauren: i know, i think a lot of us have sticker shock when we see that bill. all right. there is such a thing called blue monday. it's the third monday in the month of january. >> sure. lauren: why do we get depressed in january? >> so this happens, it's real, it's not a myth. it's what's called seasonal affective disorder. and what happens is there's a lack of sunslight. when we go outside, the sun hits our skin and a it provides us with hormones, vitamins and minerals we need to help us function, keep our mood stable, keep us happy and healthy. when that happens, when there's a lat of sunlight, when it's gloomy outside, that can change the way we feel, it can change our mood. then on top of that, we have all these sweets during the holidays, so people eat sugars

and carbs and blood sugar spikes up and it goes down and they crash. that can have a negative impact on mood and cause inflammation in the body. the good thing is, lauren, there are things we can do to help tackle it. very simple things. the most important, in my opinion, is to stay active. exercise, because remember, those happy hormones, happy endorphins that are released when we exercise, so stay active, go outside, go for a walk, watch what you eat and see your doctor if you're not feeling very well. lauren: thank you very much. cheryl.cheryl: we have green as for the dow, nasdaq and s&p. nasdaq is up 1 and-a-half. coming up, new york city mayor bill de blasio was sued for quietly shipping homeless people to other big cities. guess who he is blaming now? did somebody say free coffee? where you can finish out 2019

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revenue. this comes as the federal government phases out tax incentives to bilek trick -- buy electric vehicles. demand could be hurt by cheap gas prices. the national average is $2.58 a gallon. if you plan to hit the road today, the weather's not making for good travel conditions. adam klotz is live in the fox weather center with the monday forecast. a lot of folks are trying to get home. >> there is a big weather system that we're paying attention of to affecting a really large area. here it is, plenty of spots just a lot of rain, to some of the northern areas, from upstate new england, back across the northern plains, that is a big snowstorm and it's been that way for a little bit, back across the dakotas and stretching farther south. winds of 40 to 5 o 50 miles an a hour, on top of snow and you start to see blizzard conditions. these are winter storm watches and warnings, the readies a blizzard warnings, -- readie rea

bring injureblizzard warnings. many cases the temperatures are too warm for snow and it will just be rain. it will be a mess for a lot of folks out there today. cheryl: adam, thank you, sir. new york city mayor bill de blasio is pinning new york city's growing homeless crisis on president trump. tracee carrasco has got this one. what did the mayor say now. tracee: he made the comments yesterday during an interview with fox news' ed henry. de blasio claims the president is not giving new york city the tools needed to help get people off the streets. the mayor is asking the federal government to issue more section 8 vouchers to help get a hoed on the issue. his remarks follow a treat. hillary:tweet frompresident truk aim at new york and california leaders for their homeless problems. well, the key to down on cow flatulence may lie under the

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♪ cheryl: well, employees who worked on christmas day at a pizza shop in indianapolis are taking home a piece of the pie. the restaurant shared that days' entire profits with their workers. joining us now is rock star pizza general manager and owner. good morning. >> good morning. cheryl: colby, i guess to you first, why make the decision to -- you didn't even -- this is everything that the pizza

restaurant took in. did word spread that you all were going to be doing this for your employees? i think they made $700 each? >> this is our fifth year doing it. but it was by far and away our most successful. i always post about it on facebook and i did again this year, but it just -- sometimes these things just catch fire. and it caught fire, for sure. cheryl: rob, you're the owner here. this obviously cost you a piece of business. but staying open on christmas day, you had always told these folks that they could work but it was completely volunteer, there was no pressure. they seemed pretty happy to come in, though. >> yes, they did. yeah, correct. i'm the general manager, not the owner. cheryl: sorry about that. >> yeah, everybody was super excited, colby does a really good job with the social aspects of it so it's grown. we've gone doing it for five years. each year it's grown a little

bit more in each way and it just all came out at once this year and a here we are now. cheryl: let's her hear about te day, christmas day for these folks. you were going to be hope 4:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. all of a sudden the phones just go crazy and people started ordering pizza after pizza after pizza, it sounds like to support the employees there. >> it was amazing. we let the employees set the hours and the restrictions as far as if they're going to do dine-in or carry-out. it's their rodeo. rob let me know he wanted to do carry-out from 4:00 until 9:00. i posted about it and people were like can we preorder. i said rob, what do you want to do about that. he said they could start calling at 3:00. >> and they did. >> they started calling at 3:0. cheryl: oh, my gosh. how do you top this next year, rob? >> we've got a year to plan for

it, like always. and if it's anything like we think it's going to be, you know, we'll have much more staff and we may add a few elements. cheryl: and colby, before i let you go, i do want to ask you, being a small business owner in this country, how a has business been for you in general, besides the christmas day fireworks that you had? overall, how is business for you, colby? >> i mean, it's pretty good. it's like anything else. ebbs and flows. it's a roller coaster ride. i married into it. it's not necessarily my first choice. i'm a planner. it's nice to know like budget and what you're going to have each week and when you own your own business you can't do that but my husband is more of a gambler in that way. but it's been pretty good. our shop is very community he focused and we give back a lot to the community. it's sort of -- it's just what we do. we are just led to do that and we're lucky enough that we have a lot of support from our community in return, so we were

super excited about how they stepped up and loved on our employees. it felt really good. cheryl: looking back, what is the best part do you think about not just the year but about christmas day? you must be smiling about just the overwhelming support you got from the community. that's got to feel good. >> right. that was like just a great christmas present in itself, the support. i mean, aside from the great money as well, it was just -- it was nice to be recognized by the community, you know, that we work for day in, day out, to provide a very good service. cheryl: yeah. colby, i've got to ask you, i guess next year, do you still open from just 4:00 to 9:00. if you open up for the whole day, the employees if you did this again next year, they're going to get more money, more than $700 each. no pressure. >> we will do whatever they want. i mean, it is -- christmas day is the one day i don't worry about the schedule and we don't worry about any of that. we give it to robbie and he takes off and he tells us and he will figure out who wants to

work and build it from there. we will support them and do whatever they want. cheryl: colby and rob, it's a great so story. thank you so much for coming on fox business this morning and it's great what you did for your folks, of course from brownsburg, indiana. that is it for "fbn: a.m.." over to "mornings with maria." lauren: good morning, i'm lauren simonetti, if nor maria bartiromo. it is monday, december 3 30th. take a look at futures, pushing toward another round of record high as the sta santa claus raly continues to roll on. the nasdaq is up nearly 297% with two trading days to go. the war on religion. a horrific attack at a hanukkah celebration in new york and a shooting at a church in texas. what is being done at what some officials are calling domestic acts of terror. a milestone f