and teachers were crying and everybody was overwhelmed. >> and that is great. the principal said the shot helped to raise awareness to the schools special athletes. >> we hope you have a wonderful weekend. thanks for joining us and american news headquarters. >> and president obama will hold a new's conference one hour from now as the administration comes under fire for a major last-minute change for obama care. welcome to hq. i am alisyn camerota. >> and i am bill hemmer. it could affect the bottom line for millions of americans. ed henry leads our coverage. first on the change, ed. what does it mean? >> reporter: really straight up

another delay specifically for the individual man date for some people. they are basically saying that some of the folks who received cancellation notices will not be able to go through the exchanges and get a new plan by january 1st. and the president will have to face this in the new's conference. that is the next big deadline. he acknowledged he fumbled the october 1st one. they will redefine the hardship and they could be eligible for a catastrophic plan. three primary care visits a year and not the big add on. it is a junk. and republicans like eric cantor saying this is not fair for other people who signed up for the expensive plans. republicans asked for a one year delay for all americans and put

forward a proposal and the white house actions clearly prove obama care. it is time for obama care to be delayed for all. and the president could get a question of fundmental fairness for allowing some to avoid the man date and forcing the rest of the coup row to do it. and in terms of push back, it is a small tweak and they are here in the white house saying it is not that big of a deal and will affect 500,000 people. and quick note. this is a common sense clarification of the law for the limited number of consumers that are seeking coverage and this is one more option. the president is likely to get heat on all of this. and the next deadline, they may not be ready for prime time and the website turned the corner and we have been on

healthcare.gov. it is routine maintenance. and it is down before he takes the news conference. that is awkward. >> the last time he talked was monthing on now. do they think that the public is understanding more issues with the law now? >> reporter: i think -- yeah. >> at that time it was the website and if you like the plan and you cope your plan and how far along are they now, ben. joishgs inside of the white house they are confident they are turning the corner on the website. there will be bumps in the rod. and they also believe that more people are enrolling now and feeling the benefits and in the new year they believe it will turn for them. the last time the president had a nowy conference there were

problems and we have sewn the polls suggesting that the president's credibility and trustworthiness is challenged because of the health care law. he has to try to get the public's confidence back. >> we'll be watching. thank you, ed, from the north lawn. >> for the latest fallout and what to make of the plan we'll bring in carl cove former advisor to president bush and fox news contributor. it is a major announcement. what do you think of the hardship. nexempted from what hardship? the affordable care act. this is dizzying it is so crazy. the hard ship is you are subject to the affordable care act. >> you lost your coverage and received a cancellation letter.

>> you lost your coverage, you lost your coverage because of a cancellation letter provoked by the affordable care act and said your policy no longer qualified. and the insurance policy in which the administration described as bad and junk is now acceptable. and this is not admig that the exchanges are not working. and the problem is, that this problem is not likely to be solved poi the solution that the administration is offering up. >> the solution they are going to allow the people who received cancellation letters to go back to subparpolicies just a month ago. but isn't that the answer? there was no other fix to the pickle they got themselves in to. >> first of all. if it is good enough for the people who host why not the

uninsured? why not allow everybody to do it? second thing this will drive up premiums. people left in the exchanges are tend to be older and less healthy and as a result when the insurers sit down in 2014 to figure the premiums for 2015, it will drive up costs. and there is work done on this. it will be expensive. an old catastrophic plan in california costs you $92 a month. but under the bronze cheapest plan on the exchanges, it is $205 a month. and it is under the provisions of the affordable care act. and called essential by the community reading and as a result the cost of a new catastrophic policy in california is $184 a month.

it is more than twice as much as it used to be and almost as expensive as the cheapest plan in the exchange. >> the white white expect it to be 500,000 people. but 5 million people got those cancellations letters, so do you understand their math? >> i don't. because 5 million policies, over 5 million cancelled. several hundred thousand and most of those people are enrolled in the exchanges in the beginning of december. it is unlikely four and half to 5 million registered in the exchanges. i don't know where they come up with the 500,000 number. they may avail themselves of this. if that is the case it is over four and half million people who lost their coverage and not

gotten it through the catastrophic or the exchanges. >> we heard ed henrow describe the white house as a tweak. they are his words and describe it as a clarification. is it a tweak? >> no, it is a declaration that the program is a mess and everything they tried to date did not work and the answers they offered bronze and silver and platinum will not solve the problem. it is an admission of utter familiure enrolling the plan out and making it available to americans. ka rl, we'll see what the president has to say. >> just in time for the holiday vacation senators confirming a take over of the agency that is targeted conservative groups.

the ears had a roll in implementing obama care. he has a reputation of helping financial institutions. extreme weather alert. storm can cause travel trouble for people trying to get home for christmas. >> it is the center of the country that is under the gun. severe icing and snow and rain and disturbance parts of the southwest and that it will drive the bulk of the energy in the next couple of days and the rain in upstate new york and down in the ohio valley. that is going to become a problem in parts of vermont and new hampshire and maine. and an inch of ice on a lot of the surfaces and major troubles

in parts of areas of new england. and parts of the southoise storm warnings are seeing a half an inch of ice and snow on top of that. and you can watch what happens in the future radar. that's the icing of dpreen and yello and that's the rain and it is very, very heavy at times and we'll so the cold air and snow. it is it a complex storm in the central part of the country and the rain will be heavy. some seeing 3- 5 inches of rain. and so a flooding threat and back behind it ice and snow. one last thing alisyn. there is a moderate rick for severe weather and could look at tornados for your saturday. >> you have your work cut out for you. >> thank you, 68 degrees on sunday. >> that sounded better than what

he just described. >> president obama said to give his last new's conference of the year. you will so it later this hour. what will he say today about obama care? >> and dozens of law makers pushing for more sanctions on iran. >> and also the target was target. alarm growing after hackers steal 40 million target shoppers information. and what the states are doing to get answers. >> you take a chance with technology being the way it is. >> i will follow-up with my credit card company and make sure nothing unusual happens. >> i will not use my credit card to shop target. only cash. ♪

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>> a group of state attorney generals now investigating the massive security breach at thousands of target stores. hackers stealing data of 40

million customers. and fox news liz mcdonald has the latest. >> this is a fluid situation, we are counting four attorney state generals demanding answers from target. including massachusetts and connecticut and south dakota. they want to know why the customer information was breached. they want to know what steps target is taking to protect customer information and there is a precedent here alisyn. back in 2007 in that year. 90 million credit card accounts were hacked into a tj max. and what happen then the state attorney general did a multistate tack force and looked into the breach and got northerly 10 million out of tj max to go back to the state resident whose accounts were hacked. there is more than coming out of

target. they want free credit card monitoring and free identity theft protection from target. and connecticut is asking for two years. and as of this hour, we don't know the nature of the hack, we know it was only in store and not in the internet website. and i got to tell you something. the fact that the a g's are now involved alisyn, you will so money coming out of target to the state resident if they do find that security fire walls were not strong. send it back to you. >> that makes sense they would have explaining to do. >> and two dozen u.s. senators half of them democrats are refusing to walk away from tougher safrpgzs on iran. it a pores they are four star general and former vice chief of staff of the army.

>> and i tell you what, it is a full court press to make sure tougher sanctions are not pursued. and the battle is joined and the question is why they are doing this. why are they? >> frankly the senators and congress at large are watching the iranians to develop a program for 28 years and in that time frame there are many efforts and negotiations and pauses and inspections and the fact all of them virtually failed and thee rannians continue the nuclear program and loyed to the world about the role intent and congress notices they will take credit for imposing tough sanctions on the iowa rannians and this administration pushed back on the sanctions in the past. it is a dirty little secret to the degrees they have. and the congress and senate know that the iranians are at theitably because of those sanctions. why not impose tougher sanctions

if it doesn't work here? it makes sense. >> we have the bot on the throat and cope it there. >> and what would iran do if congress goes forward with sanctions? >> if you accept the iranians at face value and obviously congress does not and they do. and phase one. and pause the program and freeze it. and phase two, dismantle it. if that is truly their intent why do they care about the increased sanctions. they will be removed if they go to phase two which is dismantle the program. i don't think there is a phase two which is dismandeling the program and therefore the sanctions are a hardship to them. i think if this resolution was imposed. they would balk. >> fox polling. how do the american people feel

about president obama on iowa ran. not tough enough. and can you trust iowa ran on the nuclear weapons. 84 percent said no, forget about it. that's where the american people are, general. >> that's staggering. you would have to be on another planet to not understand that the iranians have lied and deceived us 20 years and even though they speak good english and have a degree of sincerity. they are lying to our face and the american people know it. >> general, if congress goes forward will the president veto it, jay carney said he will. >> i accept his political advisors he would. but the congress can over turn the veto if they have a mind to. >> we'll watch that. thank you. >> merry christmas. >> merry christmas to you as well. we'll see you in the new year,

general, thanks. we are waiting president obama's time news conference and what will he say about a major obama care rule change. >> growing support for phil robertson being suspended from duck dias a matter of facty. and what his family said. >> what was the word. >> hemmer? >> no. >> camerota? >> no. we are about to tell you. i do a lot oresearch on angie's list before i do any projects on my home.

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♪ ♪ (singing) ♪ ♪ christmas white. but i'll have a blue, blue, blue, blue, christmas. >> we sang it yesterday. >> a lot. >> where are you going to be on new year's eve. >> watching you. >> john a few million others. we start at 9 o'clock eastern time. the show is not a tv she anymore. it is a telethon. check it out. >> i will watch all night long. there is a new poll that finds the most annoying word of 2013. it is the word whatever. you have to say whatever. whatever is taking the top spot for throw straight years and word like coming in second and the third is the phrase you know.

>> you know. >> i say right on. >> i like. that >> you are on all right with that. >> totally. >> send me a tweet at bill hemmer. >> i think i say totally a lot. >> and send it to me at alisyn camerota. we can't wait to hear yours. >> the duck dynasty family saying they can't imagine a show without the patriac. they believe phil was expressing his faith when he made the comments. william has the fallout in l.a.>> reporter: bill, the controversy is growing by the minute and support for phil roberts 4,000 signatures an hour. and after he was put on suspension and gay rights demanded an apology. that locks unlikely and let me tell you why. 120,000 people sewned a petition to reinstate the duck dynasty star and want the network to

apologize. under avrmor is supportive of the robertson and the biggest blow from the family itself which issued this statement. we are disappointed that phil is placed on hiatus for expressing his faith which is a constitution will right. we have had a successful working relationship with a &e. but as a family we can't imagine the show going forward without the patriarch at the helm. >> it is so hypocritical of a &e and hollywood and the left. they say they are for diverseitty and tollerance unless you disagree with them. ncritics of robertson said faith- based or not. they say they are unnecessary and hurtful and they don't belong on television. >> it is not a fro speech issue. the defenders of phil robertson

is speaking freedom of consequences. >> reporter: nine of the next season's ten episodes are already done. robertson isn't needed until march and the free publicity bill should these guys kiss and make up if you will. higher adrates and higher eyeballs that work out for both. >> thank you william in los angeles. you have to stick around for this frightening story. a general was asleep by the switch. what does it moan for the nuclear arsenal. snks and pope francis is planning a trip that makes history. we'll tell you where he is going next, ally. what is president obama saying about the now change to

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time now for a quick check of the head lines. senate majority leader harry reid is in the hospital. he went in as a precaution after feeling ill this morning. he is said to be doing better at this hour. pope francis is planning his first day trip to the holy land. two day trip on the west bank.

christmas coming early for the sid no zoo. they are enjoying holiday treats. it is part of the enrichment behavior. >> that sue is phenomenal. sid no harbor and one of the stunning places in the world. take the ferryboat and it drops you off at the zoo. >> i would love to go. >> next time you for sid no. fox nows alert. president obama holding a news conference from the white house. we'll have it live for you. >> what do we expect president obama to say over the growing back lash of obama care and now concerns of nsa and the spying and free all in the polls. ken is here and julie is a tomorrower political advisor.

and fox news contributor. jowly, let me start wu. what does the president need to say about all that is going on? >> i don't know what the purpose of the press conference is. i assume talking about the issues. the nsa is in the forefront and the changes he wants to propose to the nsa and over all spying program. i hope he addresses that at length. i have been bothered by that for months now. obama care is an issue that we talk about repeatedly and i would like to know how the website is doing. >> it crashed last hour. >> yeah. >> i love julie because i never know what she will say. ken, what does the president say? >> if he wants to build trust back that is eroding, i think he has to look at the american people and say this is what

happened so far. these mistakes have been made and ultimately as the leader, the buck stops with me and i will get behind closed doors and pull colors together and we are going to do what entrepreneurial and business people and sports leaders do when confident is eroded. >> we'll fix it. he needs to say something about fixing it. >> i thought he said that in november. it didn't happen. >> here's why. tony robbins said, when you have problems, you have questions. and leaders ask questions when there is big problems. how do we solve. it instead of talking points, he has to get behind closed dors and solve the problem. and then the next problem and they can be small problems but he needs a win. this is leadership and not just politics. >> julie answer. this i think you like ken's

idea. >> i believe ken is right. >> what describes your feelings of how the federal government is working. 71 percent believe it is broken. 71 percent. and that is young people and old people and city people and people in the country and that is whites, and hispanics. >> who are the 29 percent who is thinking it is working fine? that's what i want to know. >> pretty well was six percent. >> i don't care if you are republican and democrat. if you think our dpft is working with this gridlock you are an eternal optmist in which case i am jealous or you are smoking something the rest of us are not. i don't knowed that. >> and ken, another pole that fox news contacted about should implementation of the health care law be delay. we have ten days to figure this out becomely. and because 67 percent of the respondents said yes and 28

percent said no, might that be the answer? >> here is the question for the american people and viewers today. what would business leaders do in the same situation. it is operating under a different context in the real world. i am not trying to be cliche. i would say no sense pushing forward something that is broken. >> because he would look at that as a loss, ken. >> bill, that's what leadership does when your confident is eroding. they say we have to stop. this is a failure and we have to fix it right now. that's what they do in business when the stock prices are dropping. they have to fix the problem and even if we blew it that it is blown. you are talking about a guy with no business experience. >> that's the point. >> he sat on the board. >> if i were president obama i

would put together the top ceo's and put a panel together and say what would you do? >> he had a summit of ceo's this week and we'll see if any of that comes to bear in the speech in 20 minutes from now. thank you so much. >> all right. meanwhile, new details on the air force general who was in charge of our country's nuclear missile and fired for motorcycle mike kerry was reloved of his doubts for being drunk and frattenizing with random women in a business trip. his case turned the spotlight on the management or mismanagement of our nuclear arsenal. eric is an investigative journalist and author of command and control nuclear weapons and the illusion of safety. thank you so much for being here. >> thanks for having me.

>> you spent six years studying the management of our nuclear arsenal. what did you think when you heard the store tore break yesterday that the general who is really supposed to be in charge of the arsenal was drunk in moscow and frat noising with two women thought to be profit touts? >> my book is full of stories with problems with the nuclear weapons and i was shocked by his behavior. he is in charge of all of our land based missile and at one point he was drunkenly trying to climb on stage in a mexican restaurant in moscow because he wanted to sing beatle songs. this is like out of dr. strangelove. but it really is. we have enormous morale problems

with the officers in the missile siowa ls on. not only morale problems with the people who have their hand on the trigger and now also with the top generals as well. >> you had a six- year long investigation and looked at the safety and security of the nuclear arsenal. what surprised you most? >> what surprised me. two things. how close you came repeatedly to having our own weapons detonate by accident on american soil. and the other thing that surprised me was the extraordinary heroism who risked their lives and lost their lives to prevent nuclear catastrophes. and it is a story that is not told before. >> you do cite many harrowing episodes and where we came so close to something catastrophic happening. can you tell us in 1980 in

arkansas? >> there was a worker in a missile siowa lo who dropped a tool and pierced a hole in the missile and caused a major fuel leak. the air force didn't know what to do. and the most powerful nuclear war head was in that siowa lo. and the central narrative is about the effort to save the miss mill and prevent it from exploding and a nuclear detonation that could have destroyed most of the state of arkansas. there was tremendous heroism by servicemen. but the cold war ended but the danger never went away. >> and people have forgot ep that. what is the answer, eric? >> there is some people who want to abolish nuclear weapons and i

think the american people need to be aware of the challenges of managing the arsenal and if we have the weapons, we should spare no expense in how we train the people who handle them and the money on maintaining them and that is not happening right now. >> command and control and a gripping story and a great read. thank you for sharing your time with us. >> thank you for having me. >> we are waiting on the president in a moment. if you are going to at this time movies, we have done the home work. the movies you should see or stay away from. >> and plus, obama is holding the year end new's conference and see it here live start to finish and what the president will say and what he is say with a host of problems from the nsa spying and poll numbers. . pp ÷ó

the president is giving a year end press conference. and what will he say at the top of the hour. and has he signed up for obama care yet? his spokespurpose promised he would. don't miss our analysis before or after on the real story top of the hour. >> merry christmas to you. >> and hollywood is trying to clean up at the box office over the holiday. and we want to know if these movies are worth your time. kevin mccarthy joins us now. >> hey, bill and ally. merry christmas to you both. >> anchorman, two, tell us everything. and i have been waiting all year for this film. the first movie is one of my favorite comedy. i do the mouth exercise and unique new york. i do that all of the time. how do you live up to it and

beat the same anchorman. the news team is in new york tea and working for a dmroebl news network and the movies delivers consistent laughs and very, very funny. you have to be a fan of that movie. it is whacky and random and out there and the shocks are so outrageous and it works if you are faps of the first. it is not as good as anchorman one. >> i heard that. >> it is still worth seeing. not many sequels live up to the original. aliens and god father and star wars and empire stars back beat the originals. but this gets right to. it >> fusay it i believe it. alley number two. >> american hustle. >> it is by davido'russell and

he did a movie called the fighter and it is based on an fbi investigation in the 70s and 80s. christian bale is a con man who gets caught by the fbi and ends up working for the fbi. the performances are better than the over all film. i didn't feel attached to the store tore but loved the performance. genler lawrence is incred and i believe christian bale lost 62 pounds for a movie called the machinist and gained 42 pounds and wait until you hear what he said about the weight gain. >> somebody who has a belly like that. shoe laces are always tight on this side and you can't reach there and the middle. i would have to lunge at my shoes and it would be on the floor and have to lunge and get

little bit down and eventually you manageed to tie. look on the for people who got that you know they are unable to get to their shoes. >> now i know how to tie my shoe if i gain 40 pounds. ntry slip ones next time. movie number three. >> cowan. it is blood simple fargo and millers crossing. this is a film that is more of a concert movie and a folksinger in the 60s and look likes a polaroid and justin timber lake in the film and live singing and live playing and not much of a plot but they throw a cat in there for laughs. but the movie is woshth seeing. every movie four out of five and next week fourth five out of five of the >> what was the title of that

movie? >> i can't say yet. i only gave 45's. >> llewyn. >>ed in llewyn davis. >> who is he. >> he is the folk sippinger. >> i thought you were trying to get his secret vote out of him? >> no, i was trying to respect his -- with holding for now. >> and get it. kevin thank you for teaching us how to deal with our muffin tops. >> thank you, i appreciate it. >> and so we are awaiting the president's new's conference and a bombshell 11th hour change to the health care law. >> competitor are all robots competing for serious money. how about them apples. >> the robots are competing for

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minutes away from the president said to hold this news conference 2:00 eastern time. you will see it live here. we expect mr. obama to face numerous questions on obama care, the nsa what's up with rirn. we'll have that for you as soon as it begins. >> move over star wars these robots are duking it out in a series of competitions. the prize is $2 million. how will they spend their money?

>> take a look at this one. this was made by the institute in massachusetts. 28 joints on this humanoid robot. in the future you may have a pet cheetah. moments ago down the pit row, the boston dynamics cheetah which can run up to 25 miles-an-hour, the 4 legged chetah robot. 8 specific tasks things like climbing a ladder. lifting wood, walking over piles of debris. a lot of brain power is represented here. the idea emerged from the 2011 tsunami which caused wreckage throughout japan. the fukushima nuclear disaster and that is where the department of defense got the idea. let's have our designers

envision something in the future. the robots go in, they rescue the humans and that is the future as we know it here from florida. >> and then they report the news. >> speak for yourself. >> you should see his control panel on his back. >> thank you so much very cool. >> president obama facing questions and concerns and so much more. live from the white house. >> new poll says whatever is the most annoying word of the year. your best tweets are next. ♪ get it underway word up [ woman 1 ] why do i cook? to share with family. [ woman 2 ] to carry on traditions. [ woman 3 ] to come together even when we're apart. [ male announcer ] in stuffing, mashed potatoes,

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♪ if i only had the words to tell you ♪ >> new poll said the word whatever was the most annoying word of the year. >> paul says obama care. >> tino says selfy.

>> jim says twerking. >> what is your worst? >> i hate that. >> do you know? >> are you about to reveal something? >> you know what tune in on monday for that. >> do you have one? >> pointment. >> nice. >> here is gretchen. >> fox news alert. president obama about to hold a year-end news conference. welcome today to "the real story". including questions about the latest obama care rule change granting a brand new exception for the millions of people who had their plans cancelled and when the president will sign up his own family as the white house said he would. the economy, iran, the

president's sliding approval ratings and maybe even "duck dynasty" fair game. let's start with ed. what do you know, ed? >> obviously, health care could be an important subject. we had a tweet expanding what the definition of hardship so that people could get catastrophic plans. the president suggests these were junk plans and that he is under the exchange system that people are going to get better benefits. the president will get better questions in what is next. he fumbled the october 1st deadline and now there is another big deadline.