we're favoring tips. liz: great to see you. sherry paul of ubs. great to have you as our first guest of 2020 as the "countdown" closer. [closing bell rings] drop the confetti. market at new all-time highs on peoples bank of china stimulus and positive attitude for 2020. melissa: wow. those are good numbers, kicking off the decade with records on wall street. all three major averages ending record highs on first trading day of the year. look at that screen. the dow up 332 points. 109th record close under president trump. i'm melissa francis. jackie: i'm jackie deangelis in for connell mcshane.

kristina partsinevelos at the new york stock exchange. to you first. >> we're hitting record highs across the board with the dow, nasdaq, s&p 500. these are stellar results going into 2020. some catalysts could say, january effect pecking up stocks in december to take advantage of a new tax year. the fact the president said he would sign the phase one china trade deal on january 15th. you have easing of monetary policy in china as well to help stimulate slowing economy over there so all of this plus, you know, fear of missing out, fomo, adding to some all-time highs we're seeing. on your screen right now, those are some of the dow winners, some all-time highs. walt disney, one of the reasons we're seeing walt disney higher, "barron's" saying reports that they expect disney plus the streaming platform to have 25 million subscribers even though some are not paying. that is pretty good after seven weeks of launch. visa because of holiday sales.

last but not least, look at the number for apple. we're talking about a all-time high. it hit over the 300-dollar threshold. come a long way when it started 2019 at 155 bucks. we had one tech analyst, gene munster, pretty well-known in the tech industry. he was on fox business last week. he expects the stock to climb to $400. still another hundred bucks on there. look at that, over 90% increase for the company. overall i guess a good way to start 2020. there is still some bearish people out there that are saying some of these stocks are overvalued. you know, i'm cheering. happy new year to all. jackie: thanks so much, kristina. >> thanks. melissa: wall street keeps thriving in the new year, billionaire bill gates says the rich, includes himself should pay more taxes. he is welcome to do that. what impact could that have on

the booming economy. here is dan mitchell, freedom and prosperity chairman. he can pay more taxes. don't you love people volunteer -- saying he should. i don't think he was writing a check. what are your thoughts? >> there is website that the treasury department maintains that allows people voluntarily to send extra money to washington. if bill gates thinks the crowd in washington can spend his money more wisely than he invests it or more wisely than he gives it away, by all means he can write a check to uncle sam. interestingly, notice he did not endorse a wealth tax which is the thing that would hit him the most. i think frankly he is virtue signaling. that he is concerned or feels guilty about having so much money. melissa: yeah. jackie: kicking off the decade with a pay raise, 21 states upping the wage, with 17 of localities reaching and surpassing $15 an hour. could this hurt u.s. businesses?

dan, wage growth always seems like it's a positive thing if you're a worker but on the flipside businesses have to pay more. >> it is great news to have a higher minimum wage assuming you're not one of the people who loses a job. we have seen lots of very powerful data from cities like seattle and new york and san francisco, that as these minimum wages are increased, you're seeing a lot of i guess, negative echo effect as some small companies, small businesses restaurants, are shutting down. hours are being reduced for other workers. they might still keep the job but they're winding up on a treadmill. they're working less and take-home pay would be reduced, not going up. very much something of bad news for the government the government saying you can't have a job unless a employer is willing to pay you a certain amount of money. i will say one good thing. i much rather have minimum wage increases at state and local

level than one systemic approach for entire nation. obviously cost of living is much different in arkansas than it is in san francisco. jackie: makes a lot of sense. melissa: addressing a growing epidemic, the trump administration announcing a ban on most flavored e-cigarette vaping cartridges let's go to edward lawrence live at the white house with the latest. reporter: melissa, the administration getting tough on the e-cigarette industry and vaping industry. health and human services secretary alex azar put the industry on notice. they say they are selling the products, all of the products are illegal. up to now he used enforcement discretion related to the products but in the next 30 days he says the fda will start enforcement action against companies selling flavored cigarette cartridges, excluding tobacco and menthol. the secretary says those flavors are used by people to transition away from smoking cigarettes. he makes no mistake.

all companies in the industry must file premarket applications with the fda because it is the law. one ignored up to now. enforcement action starts 30 days on flavors but will expand after may 12th. a deadline includes companies and products not approved by the fda. companies big and small, including vaping shops must file applications. right now selective enforcement for products targeting kids. president donald trump last september was saying he would like to ban all vaping products. this is compromise to that going forward. the president seems to have changed his mind after talking to vaping executives. listen what he said on new year's eve late. listen. >> we have to protect our families. at the same time it is a big industry. we want to protect the industry. as you know we'll be taking it off, the flavors for a period of time, certain flavors. we're going to protect our families. we're going to protect our children and we're going to protect the industry. reporter: the administration

from the fda to the white house is sending a clear message they will make sure that cigarettes are not marketed to, used by, or sold to kids. the fda after this targeted 30-day enforcement or targeting enforcement after 30 days, it will expand that, as to protect everybody else. first kids, then everyone else. back to you. melissa: interesting, edward, thanks for that. dan is back to react. what do you think about this one? >> i think trump's wrong on this issue. first of all, it's already illegal to sell nicotine, tobacco, vaping whatever equipment to kids. if you think that is a problem put enforcement into that. maybe me being a crazy libertarian, if you're old enough to serve in the army, if you're old enough to vote you should be able to make adult decision. if you want to use vaping products to transition away from smoking. oh, by the way, from public health perspective, vaping is far better for you than snowing. were on earth why aren't we encouraging this?

the british, for instance, the british explicitly embraced bracing because they see evidence how it leads to reduction this smoking. logically that should be the number one health goal. melissa: seems like we started with a period of time where we didn't understand what was really doing the damage and all the people and all the kids especially having those very scary, serious reactions but then we found out that that was due to the black market and to thc ones. a lot is a fumble on juul's part. maybe they were not able to make the case strong enough that you know, that the stuff causing real damage wasn't theirs. there is a beneficial use to their product. kids were never supposed to have it anyway? >> you're exactly right on that. how juul was supposed to somehow control what happens in the black market i don't know but here is one thing i will warn about. if trump goes through with banning flavors, if some kids or adults whoever wants these flavors, guess what? we're probably going to increase danger because just like the

black market cannabis vaping was dangerous, whatever black market people do to create flavored vapes that might be as dangerous as well. why not treated a it dids like adults. whether they want to eat fatty food, smoke cigarettes or vape, go hang gliding, let adults make adult decisions and prevent kids from getting access. melissa: interesting. jackie: because if you're a smoker you have to kick the habit to get a job at u-haul. they will stop hiring nicotine users february fist 1st in 21 states. your thoughts, dan? >> reminds me how dick's sporting goods took guns off the shelves hurting their bottom line business. i'm not owner of dick's, and i'm not the owner of u-haul, they can make a decision to hire or not hire smokers. they can give a weight index body mass, if the number is

higher we will not hire you because it will increase health care costs. because they have a right to do it, it is a whole separate issue, is it a good business decision? will it help them earn profits for shareholders? or will they arbitrarily excluding a potentially valuable employment pool? i'm sure the vast majority of smokers are great employees. why should they be penalized because in their private time they prefer having a cigarette where as some other employee might be eating too much fatty food, would be a greater health risk? there is whether we're talking about the juul issue we talked about or talking about this, there is this nanny-state mentality not just in government but also in business and frankly, my gut instinct i would rather let adults be adults make their own decisions and let government and businesses stay out of it. jackie: thank you for that, dan. great to see you. >> great to see you. melissa: escalating tensions overseas. a top iranian commander out with a warning for the u.s. after

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jackie: not backing down. a top iranian commander warning that the country is not afraid of fighting a war with the the united states amid escalating tensions between the two regions. fox news's trey yingst is in amman, jordan with the latest. over to you. reporter: jackie, good afternoon. both the united states and iran do appear to be preparing for the possibility of a direct military confrontation. as we speak hundreds of american troops are deploying to a u.s. base in kuwait. those troops from the 82nd airborne division. their battalion also has thousands of other soldiers on standby. the iranians today continuing their own rhetoric a top commander in iran's revolutionary guard. that his country is not moving

towards war but is not afraid of conflict. adding that the iran has power to break america several times. all this as the u.s. embassy came under siege two days earlier this week. iranian backed militiamen, destroyed many parts of embassy compound in response to a u.s. strike on sunday that killed, 25 kataeb hezbollah fighters backed by iran. mark esper not ruling out today future offensive american strikes. >> people know we have vast capability to do a any number of things. we'll act in response to actions by iran or its proxies. we will act to preempt any attacks on our forces, our personnel, by iran or its proxies. reporter: iran's supreme leader, ayatollah can can khamenei vows. the stalemate between the united states and iran continues. jackie? jackie: thanks so much,.

>> here to reaction peter brooks from the heritage foundation. what do you think they were trying to achieve this attack? there weren't americans inside but obviously they want to get some sort of a reaction? >> iran has a number of audiences of course, right? their internal audience. they have an audience in iraq. i mean, melissa, how could it be a country has a militia in another country? this terrorist group kataeb hezbollah, operates on behalf of iran and it is operating in iraq. this is just incredible when you think about it. but they're trying to show that, to their supporters in iraq, that they will not stand for what the united states has done in terms of these, in terms of these strikes. they're also trying to look strong in ternnally in iran which has a whole number of problems from social discontent to economic problems. that they will stand up to the united states who they have been

propagandizing about for some years. melissa: telling in of itself that the eye -- ayatollah's statement he said they would talk if they took the sanctions off. it was nothing about the attack that supposedly led to retaliation or any other conflict in the region or other relationships. the thing they wanted specifically was money. what does that tell you? >> well look, they're involved in so many bad activities in that part. iran is a bad actor. probably one of the biggest threats to international security. think about it, syria, yemen, foreign terrorist organizations, what they are doing in iraq, persian gulf, attacking tankers. the attack on saudi oil, et cetera, et cetera. they don't want to talk about those things. they think they are being treated badly by the united states because of the joint comprehensive plan of action on the iran deal. he doesn't want to bring those other problematic eschews up, iran's international behavior. he is saying we'll talk if you back off the sanctions but he has real problems. i think, some international

economic organizations is saying that iran's economy is going to contract, or contracted by almost 10% last year. it will not be better this year. they are pumping less oil than they ever pumped. this is a tremendous problem for them. we've seen protests in iran. maybe as many as 1500 iranians were killed by iranian security forces. melissa: yeah. >> so this country has a lot of problems. they're mostly of its own doing. melissa: in terms of the actual provocations, reminds me when they shut down a u.s. drone. it is sort of thing that it is a violent action that is, you know, meant to be a show of strength but also seems like it is trying to dare the u.s. into firing a shot in some direction or something. is that possible? is that overthinking it? >> i think, no, no, you're on to something there. i think they want to walk up to that red line. they want to, in fact a number of attacks on u.s. installations starting in october.

there were 10 or 12 of them. no americans were killed. until the most recent attack that an american was killed and a number of servicemen were wounded. the president said he did what he said he would do, he would respond to that, because of that attack, it cost the life of american personnel or american citizen. iranians want to walk up to the red line but they don't want to cross it. once again they're trying to appeal to certain audiences. that includes europeans who want to help them get around u.s. sanctions that have been levied upon them. melissa: one of the points the president made a little while ago. i think mike pompeo did as well, instead of spending money on all these things, attacking us, why don't you take care of your people at home? the people at home are starving or rioting. is there reason to think that happens or is there a regime change inspired in the country? >> look at protests we've seen. there are a lot more protests

going on than reported in the western press that we see. iran is under tremendous amount of pressure and their biggest concern, melissa, they will experience what they did in 1979 to the previous regime. there will be a counterrevolution. melissa: yeah. >> so they're trying to keep the lid on social cooker that could go in a direction that the regime does not want to see. melissa: peter brookes, thank you. >> thank you. jackie: devastating wildfires in australia. the latest developments on the deadly flames forcing thousands to leave their homes. plus, how google ai software is beating doctors in some instances of detecting breast cancer. what does it mean for the future of medicine? ♪. is about to become your problem. ahh no, come on. i saw you eating poop earlier. hey! my focus is on the road, and that's saving me cash with drivewise. who's the dummy now?

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melissa: state of emergency declared in australia. raging wildfires leaving at least 8 people dead, forcing thousands to leave their homes. benjamin hall is in london with the latest developments.

benjamin. reporter: massive evacuation is now underway in southeast australia as firefighters work to get a handle on a series of deadly wildfires which have burned through more than 12 million acres, more than twice the size of connecticut. thousands of anxious tourists and homeowners now being asked to leave the area ahead of worsening conditions this weekend. >> i looked up into the sky and i saw black leaves it, was rising black leaves. i was expecting something real bad to happen and certainly did. reporter: the state of new south wales declared a state of emergency. but in some towns hard hit by the wildfires, resident say they're not getting their fair share of resources. they blame the prime minister. >> downtown doesn't have a lot of money but we have hearts of gold, mr. prime minister. >> i understand that there is strong feelings, people that that they have lost everything. there is still, you know, some very dangerous days ahead. reporter: on the front lines, fire crews are working hard to

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melissa: money to burn. senator bernie sanders raising a whopping $34.5 million in the fourth quarter, topping his democratic rivals but not beating president trump's massive 46 million-dollar fund-raising haul. here is bill mcgurn from "the wall street journal" he is also a fox news contributor. bill, so many things i thought were really fascinating about these disclosures. one, i mean, just how much money bernie sanders pulled in ahead of his other rivals, even after all of this time, all these campaigns, also, the top five

companies they work for, amazon, starbucks, walmart, the post office and then target. what do you make of that? >> right, right. well you could say, i think bernie would say it proves that people are for me have some grievances with their employers. he is a formidable candidate. he can't be dismissed. he has nothing to lose by staying in now. he has money that can keep him going and with elizabeth warren's star sort of eclipsing, i think the case for him is a lot stronger. a lot depends on joe biden. what's interesting about the donor numbers that have come out, we're always hearing that the top priority for democrats is to beat donald trump, and assumption has always been that bernie sanders, elizabeth warren, a little too far left. that joe biden is the best chance of beating him. melissa: yeah. >> but he did, he was the most anemic in terms of raising money where pete buttigieg, who i don't think has a chance because

he has shown inability to attract african-american votes but up there in the fund-raising there seems to be a disconnect where the fun raisers are putting their money and where democratic voters are putting their votes. melissa: pete buttigieg is a favorite of you know, all the liberal billionaires. >> right. >> we saw him out there in the cave, with everybody from silicon valley, raking in that money. he would definitely be in their pocket. there he disbe i don't know, i don't know if that was one of the cave fund-raisers. we saw him doing that, but you're right, bernie sanders, they say the same things about him that they did about president trump. they go, his ceiling is just this high. he has supporters here but floor is here and seal something there i remember last person we said about that, president trump. >> melissa: meanwhile speaking of other democrats, pizza outrage, mayor bill de blasio slamming

dominoes for charging people $30 a pie on times square. jacking up people celebrating the holiday. classy, dominoes. to the thousands that came to times square in 2020, i'm sorry the corporate chain exploited to. stick it to them by patronizing one of our fantastic local pizzerias. the chairman, said every store in new york is loaned by a local resident, you idiot. didn't use the idiot part. every employee is new york resident. they employ jobs to thousands of his fellow citizens. with his comments the mayor is saying those who work at a franchise are lesser than those who don't. by the way i order from "roma" pizza on third avenue on 86th, it is fantastic. it is 26 buck as pizza. 30 is not that crazy in new york. >> is there any kind of purchase

in new york between a consenting buyer and a consenting seller that bill de blasio does not record as exploitative? that is part of the problem. this is how bill de blasio rolls. dominoes was right to point out local ownership and so forth. the amazing in new york you can get a pizza at midnight in new york city. there are a lot of cities in this country you could offer to pay 200 bucks and there would be no place to sell you one. melissa: not only that, shows what an idiot he is. we all know if you call dominoes, just order a pizza, they charge you through the roof. you have to use the coupon, what is the special. is it 5.99 for whole bunch of different things. come on. get with it. also i think it is funny he likes to talk about dominoes is giving you something and supposedly you're being exploited. he robs me every day. my tax bill is the biggest bill i have, more than mortgage, more than food, more than anything else.

talk about getting robbed, i have no idea what i'm getting for it. the city is a mess. >> look, you would think that the priority for the mayor of new york would be to make the city attractive to the so as many sellers come here to offer their services to new yorkers but, again, i think he thinks that the basis of an economic exchange is exploited him. melissa: yeah. >> especially if a corporation is involved. and that may, that may explain why, new york is struggling a bit. melissa: unless his wife is getting money from the government. but he may be one of the many reasons that new yorkers are leaving the state. the mass exit of residents is becoming a problem, empire state losing more than 76,000 people in 2019, making it the fourth consecutive year of population loss according to the think tank empire center. bill, it is getting pretty serious. we have a lot of empty storefronts all over the city. even if you don't feel bad for the landlords, i see windows broken. i see people going into the abandoned spaces, causing

problems, building -- this is how it starts, right? >> look, i think a lot of the numbers at the empire center talking about was for the state, right? as a whole losings people. melissa: yeah. >> you're right about the city. when the mayor came in he campaigned on the "tale of two cities." that new york is okay for the haves, not for the have-nots. what has he done? he presided over failure of the public schools. he hasn't improved any of them. so the people that need public education most aren't getting it. you go to penn station where i go every night, you see the homeless people who aren't taken care of. this is what progressive government has come down to. it is such a failure. it fails people at the bottom most. melissa: statewide, like you said, you know, people are leaving new york. they're going to texas. they're going to florida. this is the same problem they're seeing in california. and in other liberal states where you can only tax people so much. >> exactly. melissa: before they say, you know what? i can't afford it. i can't do it anymore. i have to go somewhere else. >> i live over in

new jersey-stan where it is not much better. the conversation you hear all the time, not hedge fund managers, but ordinary people, i have a brother-in-law in kansas, another in texas, they pay this in taxes. people are asking themselves is it worth it to struggle to the pay the taxes have your services cut back all the time. not like new york distinguished for good services. look at infrastructure. my god, they should be serving coffee when they cross the george washington bridge for what they charge. melissa: coffee? i want a martini as a passenger. bill, appreciate it. jackie: may be time to consult the robots. find out what google's artificial intelligence system may detect that even your doctor may not be able to. just when you saw the mall was clearing out for the holidays there is a new retail rush and it is happening today.

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melissa: it's 2020 and future is fast approaching. google's health research unit has developed an a.i. that can sometimes beat doctors in detecting breast cancer. let's bring in livewire's

editor-in-chief lance ulanoff. let's talk about this kind of a break through. >> this is difficult when there are a lot of false-positives and false negatives when radiologists look at mammograms. the number of false-positives increase the more times you go. here is something to take the amount of data, all the data that is there, a difficult problem which is analyzing these scans and throw, basically deep learning, artificial intelligence at it. what they do, what they do, they trained the artificial intelligence which is deep mind from google, to look at these scans, then it actually did a better job than human radiologists in this study. so that is exciting. it is exciting right now because it is kind of a break through, but also going to be something in the future once they go through clinical trials and they get some regulation passed where they can bring it into, doctors offices. jackie: yeah i'm wondering how long does it really take in practical terms before the technology will be used? when you look at google in a

broader way, this is more of a push to go into health care? >> health care will be huge. we're entering a new decade. we'll be talking about it constantly. all major tech companies are interested in this, from apple, google, microsoft, all of them want a part of this. they have been trying to, including ibm they have been trying to apply artificial intelligence for tough health care problems, including cancer for a long time. when you see break throughs, they will pour money and time, it will take a while for things to reach actual patients. jackie: is there any concern about data, privacy, as they kinds of initiatives move forward? a lot of people are worried about that in so many realms of their life? >> this particular study they looked at all the data, and what they trained them on and tested them was at tommizeed. when you imagine in the doctor's office, the ai will have access to that but it will not be something that the companies can

access. it will be encryption or there are firewalls within the doctor's office. they have to make sure that people's privacy is protected while potentially helping them. jackie: then there is this, lance, the holidays may be over but we're working on exists in some regard, returning them as is. ups says today is the biggest day of the day for returns. it expects to ship 1.9 million return exists. that is 26% increase over last year. basically, the question what does it mean for online retailers? sales online were up roughly 20%. that is how people are shopping now for sure. the returns follow the same way. >> the thing is, ease of use, right? it is so simple to order stuff on line. arrives not in two days but sometimes one day. they have packing material. they make it super simple to return. if you look at something like zappos when people order 10 pairs of shoes just to buy one pair they're going to return all the others, this is now the way that consumers work. they have been trained to do

this. for them it is no big deal. i think this is baked into the retail, you know, basically their finances, the way they're looking at their outlook. jackie: yeah it is interesting. i like to return into the store. i want my credit card to clear the transaction as soon as possible. some people opt to send it back. one more story, lance, do you tiktok? >> i do. i am on tiktok. jackie: i don't. you have to walk me through this. the army announcing a ban on the chinese social other than app citing national security. a lot of young people are doing this. dancing hip thing. how big of a deal is it that the government is getting involved saying we don't want it? >> this is a big deal. this is conflict happening right now. tiktok is the second most popular free app in the app store right now. it is exploding. it is not just kids using it. it is celebrities using it. it is brands using it. i have seen police department, seen the army, the concern a company called bite dance owns tiktok.

that is a chinese company. and there is, there is considerable and growing concern about chinese involvement with these tech companies and how that affects our privacy and security. you know, they have, the chinese government is actually situated people in 100 private tech companies in china right now. so i know that is something people are worried about but at the same time i think tiktok has cordoned off the data. most is stored in virginia. some is backed up in singapore. i don't know if it is really an issue for people. i don't think they are going to stop the tiktok engine. it is exploding. this one be one of the hottest product apps this year. jackie: that is the thing. everybody likes it. they rave about it. when the government implements something like this, for example, they're concerned does a regular user need to be concerned? >> i would say probably not. i really don't think so. i think that is not what tiktok -- not what bite dance is in there for. whattic tock -- what tiktok is

not there to invade privacy. if you're concerned, don't us it. jackie: i accepted the fact that my privacy is going to be violated. tiktok, anybody else. >> privacy is an illusion. jackie: lance, great to see you. >> good to see you. melissa: the party of the year, going vegan. the golden globes announcing today that the menu for sunday's show will serve plant-based food raised, raising environment -- i don't know what that is supposed to say, environmental awareness about food consumption and race. one of the dishes is king oyster mushrooms with a wild mushroom risotto. will the change go over well with attendees? who better to ask david asman about vegan, plant-based phenomenon. you're made of plants, aren't you? >> no. no. melissa: what do you think of this? >> native meat. the bottom line here, i love the statement of the director, the

president of the company that puts out the golden globes. he says if there is a way we cannot change the world but save the planet, we maybe can get the golden globes to send a signal, draw attention to issue of climate change. they really think that going meatless is going to save the planet. this kind of insanity is actually driving public policy in some countries. it is nut. i think it is absolutely crazy. it is driving me crazy. i am never going to give up meat, melissa, not until the day i die are think riding bicycles in their gowns? are they not driving cars or riding in planes? >> of course they are. melissa: not using hairspray because of ozone. >> they're burning about 30 gallons per mile in their fancy, fast boats as well. you name it, and they are violating their own edicts by their own behavior. there is more hypocrisy probably

in hollywood than any other place in the planet. washington, d.c. is a gross second. hollywood has to take the cake for this. it is really gotten to the insane part. by the way, what happens if they find out that alcohol use somehow destroys the planet? do you think they will give it up? i doubt it. melissa: very much like let them eat cake. no meat for anyone, forgetting the fact there are people who can't afford to do the whole specialized -- anyway, what is coming up on your fantastic show? >> on a day when julian castro pulls out of the race and we hear what is her name, marianne williamson might do the same, another democrat is running, a lot of people look to him whether he will pull out. he says no. john delaney is one of the panelists on the full hour of "bulls & bears." you don't want to miss him. dr. siegel a hopeful study about a possible alzheimer's vaccine. we'll tell you all about that. melissa: that would be amazing. david, look forward to the top

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melissa: reeling in a big one, a group of fishermen catching a massive, 13 foot, 1 thousand pound great white shark, struggling for over an hour to bring it in off of coast of florida on new year's day, they tagged the shark for future observation before releasing it back into the ocean, they didn't

even lose an arm in the processis. jackie: that looks like a unicorn. >> not just beer drinkers participating in dry january some of the top beer distributors promoting the booze-free challenge for the month, they are getting creative. grady. >> dry january is no longer the niche thing it might have been. the big beer companies are capitalizing, one in five americans, part o pay, participy january, of those who did, they said they would do to begin this year. it might seem counter intuitive for the big beer companies to encourage dry january, they use this opportunity to pro hot their own -- promote their own brands of non alcoholic beer. it one of the fastest growing

segments of the beer industry, sales too surpass 25 billion by 2024. and heineken is a company that all in with that nonalcoholic beer and dry january, they released what they call a january dry pack. that made up 31 alcohol-free beers you drink one a day, like an advent calendar for january. and it was so popular, they were giving them away for free, they ran out, one thing i thought was interesting, i never bought alcohol-free beer until today t, they asked for my i.d. jackie: i go dry in january, usually to slim down after the holidays, and all alcohol, nonalcoholic beer has calories. >> i looked in advance there are 69 calories in one of these bad boys.

quite a bit less than say a an intellectuaipa which has a lot . jackie: 69 calories too many. melissa: this year was all too kind, a new study reviewing giving and doing good deeds actually does improve your health. bringing you physical pleasure and pain relief. you can imagine that. >> according to researcher the national academy of sciences volunteers for example has been shown to minimize stress, and help with depression. that is so interesting, pain relief is the one that i don't get. i understand that relaxinga volunteerism i. jackie: it must release chemicals internaly. melissa: maybe combine that with alcohal-free beer, i don't know. >> just an idea, i'm not sure it really will get you there happy new year you to, all new

records, today as we have first trading day. dow trading up 330 points on the day. a rally to get out of the gate, thank you for spending this part of the new year with us. us. jackie: great to be here, thank you. melissa: "bulls and bears" now. >> kicking off a new year, a new decade with a badge all these major indices surging. dow is 130 away from 29,000. it closed above 28 thousand this past november. you have to watch fox business tomorrow to see if we hit a new milestone. apple. helping to drive the rally today, above 300, for very first time. >> speaking and money, voter put their money where their mouths are. >> brand-new fundraising figures for president's 2020 relektion