they don't want to act good because they are fundamentally bad. but if you get enough people pushing on them they will do the right thing. lou: cheryl: it is 5:00 a.m. here are your top stories at this hour. president trump defending his decision to kill terrorist iranian general qasem soleimani as congress approves a measure to limit his war powers. all this the finger pointing over a downed ukrainian airliner goes on around the world. lauren: hundreds of off-color employee e-mails joking about safety are leaked. cheryl: of do you want to earn a six figure salary at a fast food chain? how one company is shelling out big bucks to attract talent. it's friday, february 10th and

"fbn: a.m." starts right now. ♪ ♪ friday is forever. ♪ we belong together. ♪ so come on, come on, don't you say never. ♪ there is no tomorrow. ♪ so come on, come on, you should know better. ♪ it's friday. lauren: it is friday. welcome to "fbn: a.m.." i'm lauren simonetti. cheryl: what a week we've had. lauren: i know. great week. cheryl: trying to recover. i'm cheryl casone, good morning. lauren: great week when you look at the markets. let's see how your money is moving. we're going to see more records today. will today be the day the dow hits 29,000? came within 12 points yesterday, up 57 right now, nasdaq gaining 30. cheryl: after starting the week with volatile price jumps, after the iran strike against facilities in iraq, the flight to safety has backed off. oil is down again. gold is down as well.

lauren: in asia we saw a mixed performance with the except of the shanghai composite which was lower. the other indices in the green today. cheryl: european markets inching higher. leaders in germany and france have been closely watching any news. green arrows across the board. lauren: president trump had a lot to say last night, holding his first rally since the iranian missile strikes. he was slamming democrats for questioning why the military killed iran's top general. cheryl: griff jenkins is live in washington with the night's biggest moments as the president wept on the defensive. griff, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the president using his first rally of the new year in toledo, ohio to defend his decision to take out iranian general qasem soleimani, directing his ire at familiar targets, congress and the media. >> the world trying to say how dare you take him out that way, you should get permission from congress, you should come in and tell us what you want to do.

you should come in and tell us so we can call up the fake news that's back there and we can leak it. >> reporter: this as the house you approves a war powers resolution aimed at curbing the president's use of military force. the he vote was 224-194, not breaking straight down party lines this time. eight democrats voting against it and three republicans voting in favor of it. the most surprising matt gates of florida, a staunch defender of the president. because the resolution is non-p binding it means it cannot become law. speaker pelosi explaining why it was necessary. >> we're taking this path because it does not require a statement -- a signature by the president of of the united states, this is a statement of the congress of the united states and i will not have that statement be diminished by whether the president veto it or not. >> reporter: most republicans rallying behind the president, blasting what they viewed as a waste of time. >> we're apologizing to the you

iranians with a nonbinding resolution that is nothing more than a press release, madam speaker. it has no effect. it doesn't do anything. >> reporter: next, the senate is expected to take up a similar measure which, if passed, would be headed straight for a veto when it hits the president's desk. lauren, cheryl. lauren: griff jenkins, thank you very much. cheryl: breaking overnight, iran calling on the u.s. to prove the pentagon's belief that doomed ukrainian plane was accidentally shot down by the iranians. the rogue regime is denying the hit. lauren: we have fox news' rick leveinleventhal in jerusalem ths morning as iran is vowing harsher revenge. >> reporter: good morning from jerusalem. it's quiet today. also quiet in baghdad so far. we are hearing new threats from the iranians who are denying

reports that they mistakenly shot down that ukrainian jet liner earlier this week. the new york times obtained video showing the moment it was hit by an you iranian surface to air missile shortly after takeoff. all 176 passengers and crew on-board were killed in the crash. u.s. intelligence officials say it's highly likely the plane was hit by a russian made sa-15 missile. pieces of one were reportedly found near the crash site. russia delivered 29 of the systems to iran in 2007. there are reports the iranians fired two missiles at the jet, possibly mistaking it for a u.s. military plane since the strike came hours after iran launched more than a dozen ballistic missiles on u.s. positions in iraq. iran denied shooting down the plane in a news conference this morning, inviting ukraine and boeing to take part in the investigation. the ntsb could exist but

sanctions might prevent that. meanwhile, u.s. troops remain in a defensive posture in iraq in the wake of the missile attack that damaged buildings and equipment at the al aassad air base and caused no casualties. a leader of the revolutionary guard yesterday threatened harsher action soon. secretary of state mike pompeo said the r targeted killing was absolutely justified. >> there is no doubt a series of imminent attacks were plotted by qasem soleimani. we don't know where or when but it was real. >> reporter: the israeli military took out a weapons convoy near the iraq, syria border, reportedly killing at least eight people. militias are believed to be the biggest threat to u.s. forces in the region. back to you. cheryl: thank you. shares of boeing taking a hit earlier in the week from the downed ukrainian 737 but the stock is actually a little lower in the premarket right now, down

about a tenth of a percent. it could come under pressure today as trading starts to get underway. the company released pretty disturbing e-mails that's were traded between employees to congress about the 737 max, senior management and regulators. had they show the workers may have tried to hide problems about flight simulators from the faa. boeing are saying that pilots should be trained on the simulators being flying the -- before flying the max. the documents criticize boeing. one message says, quote, the airplane is designed by clowns who in turn are supervised by monkeys, end quote. boeing said they do not represent the company and are not acceptable. lauren: president trump telling american farmers to get ready, the president praising the first phase of a trade deal with china at a rally in ohio last night. >> on january 15th we're

signing a monster, a big, beautiful, monster, 40 to $50 billion to our farmers. our farmers will be taken in. i keep say go buy larger tractors. go buy larger tractors. lauren: president trump laying out a timetable for what's next in the trade talks. >> we'll start right away negotiating phase two. it will take a little time. i think i might want to wait to finish it until after the election. by doing that, i think we can make a little better deal, maybe a lot better deal. lauren: china's trade delegation will be in washington on monday to sign phase one of that trade deal. the signing will be on wednesday. cheryl: house speak rer nancy y pelosi says she is still not ready to hand over the articles of impeachment but she's not going to hold them indefinitely, she says. president trump is slamming that hold. this is him at his rally in ohio last night. >> by the way, did you see -- i

did nothing wrong. they don't even know what the hell is going on. in fact, it's so weak, she doesn't want to put in the articles, it's so weak. they're so pathetic there's never been a movement like this. there's never been a movement like this. this is bigger than it was in 2016. now i've completed more promises than i've made. i mean, i've actually completed more. cheryl: all of this as senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is telling republicans to expect that trial to begin, get this, next week. lauren: once again, a lot going on. and this, puerto rico is facing a you power crisis. cheryl: it could be really devastating to the island. tracee carrasco has got that story. tracee. tracee: good morning. officials say it could take more than a year to fix a major power plant after the island was hit by its worst earthquake in more than a century. the plant located near the epicenter of the quake, it provides about a quarter of the electricity used on the island.

the island's other plants will have to operate at near capacity. officials are requesting temporary generators from fema. mylan recalling acid reflux medicine over the discovery of trace amounts of ndma which can call cancer. this comes months after another drug maker recalled its heartburn pill for containing the same substance. speaking of medicine, california is looking to become the first state to launch its own prescription drug label. under its plan, the state would contract with generic drug manufacturers to make prescription drugs to sell to residents there to lower health costs. few details have been revealed, including which medications would be produced. nearly one-third of californians use the state state's medicaid

program. the first full moon will be a special one. many areas will see a nature lur eclipse. most of the u.s. will not be able to see it, with the exception of alaska. lauren: tracee, thank you very much. cheryl: let's take a look at beautiful money you might be making this morning. are you sick of seeing green arrows, lauren? lauren: no. do you think we go to 30,000? cheryl: i think we're going to hit 29. dow up, 61, today could be the day the dow hits that high mark of 29,000. we had new records for the s&p and nasdaq last night. nasdaq is up 31 and-a-half. well, let the finger pointing begin, from the takedown of terrorist general qasem soleimani to the downing of the ukrainian airline plane in iran,

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i think there are a number of people who are using this as a political axe to grind. i think that's most unfortunate. cheryl: that was secretary of state mike pompeo, slamming lawmakers who are trying to use the president's decision to kill qasem soleimani to their own advantage. let's bring in seen r i don't remember research fellow at -- senior research fellow. good morning. there's a lot of back and forth on the political divide. it's like they made it a partisan issue. mike pompeo was very clear to laura ingram, american lives were at risk, soleimani was planning attacks against americans. do we make the right decision first and foremost to kill this general, this terrorist? >> i think we absolutely did. this was a tragedy, the incidents where the airliner was lost was an a absolute tragedy. given the opportunity to go back and revisit a couple of things, i think we might have, but go back and look at what we did with osama bin laden, how we had

the opportunity sern several timeseveral times totake that me not to. if we had, we would have saved american lives and huge amounts of money. this is one where you have a known convict hanging outside of the bank and we're not going to take action? i think it was the right move. cheryl: former senator from massachusetts john kerry coming out and blasting the secretary of state about the decision and the secretary of state said, look, there is no reason that we can't protect americans. this decision was about protecting and defending the american people. john kerry says that it was our fault -- excuse me, secretary pompeo says it was the obama ad medicine strayings' fault that they -- administration's fault that they had enough money to build the weapons systems and fight shadow wars in yemen, libya, syria, for example. is the blame really on the obama administration in all of this.

>> the obama administration didn't just appease the iranian regime, they furthered their efforts by giving them a large sum of money, and looking the other way through terrorist incident after terrorist incident. this resets the record and you put nets back in a -- and puts them back in a cage. cheryl: kerry was saying it was some kind of fantasy that iran was trying to destabilize american interests. which seems ridiculous. i want to go back to the aircraft. the pentagon believes the ukrainian airliner was shot down by the iranians, by a missile system there. did they mistake it for an american military aircraft in your opinion? is that possible? or was it they saw something in the sky and -- what do you think happened here? it's devastating, what happened to those innocent lives. >> cheryl, the extreme political tensions between the two nations was so so high thate chance of a miscalculation and one side or the other

identifying a plane as a hostile aircraft was absolutely there. the fact that the iranian government allowed for commercial airliners to continue operating that night was completely irresponsible. couple that with the fact that we have f-35s in the region and the operators being trigger happy, knowing they would get a fleeting glance of an f-35 if at all, once they see the airliner up there, they can't take the time in their own minds to confirm it with another source and then they take it down. that was tragic. cheryl: it is tragic. again, it's tragic, considering that had billions of dollars in funding because of that 2015 nuclear deal and that's what president trump took us out of. it's been fascinating to watch owl this is all unfolding. thank you so much for your expertise this morning. lauren: let's take a look at futures this morning, strong rally continues. the dow is up another 61 points, about a quarter of 1%, within reach of 29,000 certainly today.

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cheryl: minimum wage went up in states across the country this year. get this, taco bell is giving some of their employees more than just a little bump in their salary. lauren: they're not the only ones.

brett larson is here with the he details. where are we working next, basically. >> this is good news if you want to make a run for the border. taco bell is talking about paying management over $100,000 a year. they're raising the minimum wage for a lot of their hourly employees and it's good stuff many. the average salary for their fast food employees ranges between 20 and 25,000. so that's going to go up in the new year. a lot of states in the new year, the minimum wage went up to between 12 and 15 a dollar $15 . walmart, up to $175,000 for some of their management and their hourly employees got a bump up. costco, $175,000 a year to manage the costco store. cheryl: in some cities, that's not -- if you've got a family of four or five. >> that's still not a lot. cheryl: inflation has hit a lot of cities.

>> if you live in the new york metro family area, 175 is a bit of a stretch. cheryl: try being a firefighter in staten island. vermont, a lawmaker wants to put an age restriction on cell phones. this is weird. >> this is an odd twist on cell phone use. the lawmaker is proposing that you have to be 21 to use a cell phone. it's not just cell phones. they want to attach this to cigarettes, alcohol and gun purchases. lauren: to use a cell phone. >> they want 21 to be the minimum age. lauren: to make a phone call on a cell phone. >> the lawmaker is saying that people under 21 aren't mature enough to handle things like that. when it comes to alcohol, fire arms and cigarettes, i understand you might be able to make the argument. if you're under 21 you're probleprobably not -- lauren: you can fight a war. you can't make a phone call on a cell phone. >> this was an issue back

during the vietnam war. the voting age was higher and the people turned around and said if you're telling me i'm old enough to fight for my country, then i'm old enough to buy alcohol, buy cigarettes and own a handgun and you are definitely old enough to have a smartphone. lauren: there's little kids that have cell phones so their parents can know where they are in an emergency, an emergency phone. i think the age is like seven or eight now. >> i live across from an elementary school and i see a lot of little kids that have smartphones. what are they doing, they're cag their parents, i'm going to joe's house and we're having candy carrots. candy carrots. cheryl: you can catch brett on fox news headlines 24/7, sirius xm channel 115. we have a lot more coming up. lauren: bring candy carrots next time. cheryl: candied carrots.

we are a weird group on this show. what is the holdup, a congressman has gone viral for calling out nancy pelosi. >> given that speaker pelosi does not seem to know her way from the house of representatives to the united states senate, i want to demonstrate to the american people how long it actually takes. cheryl: is nancy pelosi going to hand over the articles of impeachment. mitch mcconnell has an idea about it. another jail house bom bombsheln the jeffrey epstein case, a new explanation for losing another piece of critical evidence in the case that further feeds conspiracy theories. you're watching "fbn: a.m." ♪ saturday night and we're in the spot. ♪ don't believe me, just watch. everybody knows that. well, did you know pinocchio was a bad motivational speaker? i look around this room and i see nothing

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november's much stronger than expected 266,000. the unemployment rate expected to hold steady, 3.5%, 50-year low. let's bring in danielle booth, a former dallas fed adviser. good morning. >> good morning to you. cheryl: what do you make of what we're going to see today, we have the adp report on wednesday and that was way higher than expected, above 200,000, the expectation was 160. so today could be a good day. >> today could be a good day. we certainly heard a lot of upbeat commentary out of fed officials and had they do receive the data in advance so i'm not so sure they would be as upbeat as they have been had they not been yo assured the december number would come in above expectations. the adp november figure was very a punk -- weak number was revised upwards by a material amount. so we'll have to see. i'm paying very close attention

to the wage inflation data. we've got nonsupervisory, worker pay running at some of the highest levels of the entire expansion. so that's one of the numbers i'm really going to be keeping my eye on this morning. cheryl: i think the big question's going to be wages. while we're looking for a small jump in wages and there's the average -- this is the point i want to make, 3.1% year over year for average hourly earnings. is that a strong number, in your opinion, 3.1%, should that be higher? >> it certainly could be higher. if you pars out the difference between nonsupervisory and supervisory workers, the worker bees of the economy that's running at a 3.7% rate which is higher than what the combined rate shows you. and we just had a bunch of minimum wage increases come through. we won't see that in the december data but we'll see that in january and if you talk to small business owners, they're saying that one of their biggest challenges going into 2020 is

that wage inflation's running at the highest level of the entire expansion. a recent survey said 4.8% year over year. i think that 3.1% you cite is judgunderstated compared to what companies are facing today. cheryl: as we look at the markets, the decade, the month, the year, it's been incredible. new highs yesterday of the s&p, nasdaq, the dow nearly at 29,000. but there's a really good piece in the journal this morning about the issue of money-losing companies. these stocks are still hitting these fresh highs and a lot of folks are starting to wonder if that's going to be part of the bubble bursting of the markets, what do you say to that? >> the fed printing money at a record run rate, fed at over $100 billion a month if you will in terms of printing money. that goes above the $85 billion run rate that was at the height of the financial crisis. so i think there is some concern that the fed is engendering the

existing of the zombie corporations that couldn't last one or two quarters in terms of keepinkeeping debt payments. that's proble problematic. that's not the american way. the american way, the weakest players get called out so new innovation can come back in. i wouldn't mind seeing them going. cheryl: all roads seem to lead back to the fed, danielle. great to have you on this morning. thank you for being here. >> thank you. cheryl: be sure to watch "mornings with maria," complete coverage and analysis of the december jobs report starting at 8:00 a.m. eastern time today. >> given that speaker pelosi does not seem to know her way from the house of representatives to the united states senate, what i thought i would do is demonstrate to the american people how long it actuallies takes to get to the united states senate. so speaker, what are you waiting on? lauren: that was congressman p chip roy showing nancy pelosi how fast it is to deliver the articles of impeachment to the

senate, 90 seconds. this comes after nancy pelosi said she was not ready to send them over. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell telling republicans to keep their calendars free and to expect hearings to begin next week. let's bring in constitutional law attorney and attorney to president trump, jenna ellis. good morning. thanks for joining us. >> good morning, lauren. lauren: what's speaker pelosi's holdup. >> it's a political stunt. it's her, again, manufacturing a constitutional crisis because she hates president trump and she wants to control his process every step of the way. the democrats have clearly had this out for president trump since 19 minutes after he wasic augusinaugurated. all she's doing is wanting to control the process. the constitution requires that sole power to try all impeachment belongs to the senate. this is not her call. she needs to do her job and deliver the articles or stand down because justice delayed is justice denied.

mitch mcconnell is within his constitutional purview to set a deadline and to say you know what, put up or shut up. lauren: it's been three weeks if anyone's counting. she said she'll deliver them soon. will they that happen today? >> it's entirely possible. i think the backlash she is facing, even with her own party with dianne feinstein saying it's time to do this, i think going into the holiday break it was bad pr. i think she probably will decide to deliver them soon. lauren: it is one week after iran general soleimani's death and the house passed a nonbinding vote, basically means it doesn't have teeth, to limit the president's war powers. why did they feel the need to pass that? because basically it's just a campaign act, a symbolic act, it doesn't actually do anything, does it? >> exactly. well, exactly like impeachment, this is just another political stunt and it's basically a

galorglorified press release foe democrats to attack president trump. with this resolution, it can't be passed into law because it woulds unilaterally modify the president's authority and require that congress has to be notified any time that -- before the president would engage u.s. military troops in every single instance. that's not pragmatically possible and our constitution requires, again, that there is only one commander in chief, that's the president, not 535 congressmen and women. cheryl: there were -- lauren: there were republican defections. i'm curious if you made anything of those, specifically matt gates. >> i watched the interview. i thought maybe his motivation was potentially in the right place, this is activism and it's putting personal views over the constitution and i was disappointed to see that. as constitutional conservatives we need to make sure we defend and protect the constitution, not do any policy decisions or

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lauren: mayhem in the monarchy, buckingham palace in damage control mode in the wake of prince harry's announcement to leave the royal family. hwill he and meghan markle be punished by the palace and will there be financial consequences. cheryl: aishah hasnie has all the details for us. >> reporter: there is so much to get to. let's start with this first. dutch chess megan has -- did yon has left the u.k. she is back in canada this morning. she has left quite a mess.

now the queen wants a workable solution within days. the duke and di duchess will wok to become financially independent while splitting their time between the u.k. and north america. here's the big question everybody has. will they truly be financially independent? the daily mail broke down some of the figures. the couple claim to be losing access to the sovereign grant shared by the queen but if they continue their royal duties, then who pays for the travel? would it still come from the $83 million pot? also, the couple currently receives more than $2 million from prince charles duchee, so would that go you away as well. there is the cost of 24/7 police body guards for the l family, the cost is around $600,000. and finally, they want to keep frogmore cottage as their home

away from home which cost $2.4 million to refurbished and hasn't been finished just yet, so a lot of money there. the queen reached out to prince charles and prince william on thursday and all three have now directed their staff to work with the duke and duchess to figure something out quickly. the pr nightmare is in full swing. >> my initial reaction was surprise and disappointment, disappointment in that, yes, they had a bad year but having gone to canada for six weeks to find themselves and to have down time as a family, i really expected them to come back with 2019 behind them, get on with the job. i think what they've done, they've let everybody down. >> reporter: harry and megan plan to make a lot of money, they already trademarked the sussex royal brand. cheryl: we were talking about the fact there's a huge piece in the new york post this morning, i'm sure you saw it, that oprah winfrey advised the couple about

exiting the royal family, although oprah is denying that. lauren: she's is denying that. >> reporter: she is denying that, she is saying they made their decision, they're capable of making their decision themselves as a family. lauren: that they don't need her help. aishah hasnie thank you for covering mexit for us, and everything that comes with us. cheryl: a hero's welcome for american firefighters who are in australia to help battle the raging wildfires. >> [ cheering and applause ] lauren: here now with the details, what a warm welcome. cheryl:.tracee: the video is vu heard nothing but cheer as the firefighters arrived at sydney's international airport. the video was posted wednesday by the commissioner of the new south wales rural fire service. the wildfires have been raging for six months, burned nearly 18 million acres. federal prosecutors reveal

security footage of jeffrey epstein's first suicide attempt behind bars was accidentally deleted. they say the new york jail where epstein was held saved the video from the wrong floor when epstein was found with a bed sheet around his neck. epstein was found dead in his cell less than a month later. a mother in north korea may end up in jail for a decision she made. the woman chose to save her kids from their burning home instead of a picture kim jon kim jong i. north korean law says every home must display pictures of the leader. if she is found guilty she could face a lengthy sentence with hard labor. one japanese billionaire is sharing his wealth with some lucky twitter users. he is a founder of a retail website and one of japan's wealthiest people. he asked users to retweet by

tuesday. the winners will split about 935,000 american dollars, part of a social experiment to see if money can buy happiness. cheryl: of course i'm going to retweet it if you're going to pay me. lauren: he's looking for happiness by trying to make himself feel better but i'll take it. awesome. cheryl: thank you very much. lauren: we have weather for you. potential tornadoes today across the south. cheryl: senior meteorologist janice dean is live in the fox weather center with a lot of big weather news this morning. good morning. janice: we are watching a multifaceted storm that's going to bring the potential for tornadoes across the south, mississippi, ohio river valley. behind that, ice and heavy snow. this is starting today, through saturday, even sunday for parts of the country. heres your severe weather threat with a moderate risk here, a bull's-eye here, large hail, damaging winds and a tornadoes. know what to do if there's a

watch or warning in your area. we're going to see tornadoes later this afternoon and possibly into tomorrow. winter weather advisories for parts of the midwest, up towards the great lakes and the flash flooding concerns, a lot of heavy rain with this. so not only that, but the potential for ice, icy conditions across the great lakes, in towards the northeast. this is going to be ongoing, not only today but through sunday. ladies, can't emphasize it enough, know what to do if there's a watch or warning, especially if it's a tornado watch or thunderstorm watch. back to you. lauren: thank you. have a good weekend. janice: of course. cheryl: facebook is going after deep fakes like this one right here. >> i wish i could keep telling you that our mission in life is connecting people, but it isn't. we just want to predict your future behaviors. cheryl: that was a fake video of mark zuckerberg. we're going to the talk to a deep fake expert about how these are made, how they do it and how to spot one before you get fooled.

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lauren: facebook says it will not ban or even fact check political ads but it is banning what's called deep fake videos, videos that look and a sound just like a real person but aren't. the videos you're about to see right now are deep fakes. if you watch and listen, can you tell the difference? >> i wish i could keep telling you that our mission in life is connecting people, but it isn't. we just want to predict your future behaviors. >> when there's so many hairs, i really don't care because data what has made me rich beyond my wildest dreams. lauren: those were deep fakes.

kim kardashian and mark zuckerberg did not say those things. thank you for joining us. >> thanks for having me. lauren: seeing is believing. but we are certainly at an inflection point in society where that's not necessarily the case. how dangerous is this? >> yeah, couple of potential harms of these kind of video manipulations. obviously, you can ruin someones' reputation very easily and it's obviously a very dangerous tool for spreading disinformation. lauren: so what do we do about this? is facebook making the right move to ban the deep fake videos, are regulators where they need to be in terms of being able to detect this? >> i think it's certainly not the wrong move, it's definitely something that i think is sending the right signal. but i think one question we have to ask ourselves is, is this enough, just banning deep fakes? one concern i have is that just deep fakes themselves aren't

like the most dangerous issues nowadays. i mean, it's really easy to spread di disinformation without writerring advanced technology for video manipulation. lauren: a regular person, maybe someone like me, would be able to make a deep fake video and the repercussions if that goes viral could impact big events like the election. is that the point we're at in society and with technology? >> yes, i think if you think about deep fakes, i think obviously they look -- they can look very, very realistic and one of the main concerns here is really about they're very accessible to anyone. it wouldn't take long for normal average users to spend a few weeks and then read through tutorials and get used to how to create video manipulations and nowadays you can -- people consume information on social media and you can spread anything you want on social

media. so that's really the danger. lauren: it's an alarming topic. thank you for all the work that you do. will you be at davos this year, sir? >> yes, that's correct. we're going to have like an exhibition about deep fakes and we're actually going to show some new capabilities and that's important, because i think people need to see that -- how things are developing and one of the things we're going to show are real-time deep fakes. lauren.lauren: thanks for join, getting up bright and early, we appreciate it. cheryl: we have a lot more coming up this morning. did you have a miserable football season? if you are a browns or bengals fan, a doctor might be able to help you. and a viral tweet that's inspiring others to keep their dreams alive no matter their age. the heart-warming stories inspired by this one tweet. we're going to bring it to you, it's coming up next on "fbn: a.m." ♪

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>> okay, bengals fans out there. [laughter] cheryl: mike good morning. >> normally in order to get

prescribed, you have to be suffering from cancer to disease, new jersey, you suffer from severe anxiety you can get prescribed medical marijuana in new jersey, ohio is about to consider former proposal from a petition from cleveland browns and cincinnati bangals said their teams are so bad that they need to take medical marijuana because they think they are terrible. [laughter] >> absolutely. lauren: qualifying condition. >> anxiety, stressfulness. sports during the weekend can ruin your week for sure. in order to get through and pass variety of factors, probably won't go through, there's a lot of fans, find a different team.

lauren: viral tweet and has inspired a certain age group. >> the whole new year new me-type going an, melissa hunter, tv writer and producer, she sent out tweet, that they want to hear positive stories about life-changing, life-breaking events in their lives and the tweets have gone viral. 30,000 retweets and very inspiring stories, everybody from 41-year-old that said she wants to be an author, she put out first book, 55-year-old man says i want to be a painter, i started my own painting company. you also had this story, a grandmother who is paralyzed from als said she actually just wrote her first novel using her eyes to type. >> what? >> yes, inspiring stories coming out, 200,000 likes so it can

kind of -- >> you inspired for another podcast. >> there it is. cheryl: thank you for watching fbn:am, over to mornings with maria, it's job's friday. maria: it sure is job's friday, i'm maria bartiromo, it is friday january 10th, your stop stories right now before 6:00 a.m. on in america, the december report out this morning, economists expecting 164,000 jobs in the month of december, unemployment rate is expected to hold steady at 3 and a half percent, full coverage all hands on deck this morning on american economy, markets this morning pointing to round of records, check it out ahead of job's report, dow, nasdaq and s&p 500 closed in unchartered territory yesterday, new highs once again for the market, the dow looking to cross 29,000

threshold for the first time ever. iran is denying shooting down ukrainian passenger jet this morning, u.s. and canadian officials say that the aircraft was hit by a missile by accident, more on the growing controversy coming up, 737 max crisis, internal documents this morning reveal boeing employees joking about flaws in the jet, designed by clown, wasn't said that he would not put his family on the jet, mornings with maria right now.