morning. it is thursday almost to the weekend. "fox & friends first" starts now. i am ainsley earhardt. >> i am heather childers. thank you for starting your day with us. this morning the white house is in full damage control mode reacting to highly critical remarks about the president and vice president from former defense secretary robert gates. >> elizabeth prann is live in washington with the white house's surprising defense of vice president joe biden. >> you are right. jay carney was on the defensive after details surfaced of robert gates' up coming book. he dee mid accusati-- denied acs against the current administration. >> we focused and made it clear

for our troops and civilians in afghanistan what the mission was about why we were in afghanistan. and why it was necessary to be clear we weren't staying in afghanistan on a combat mission forever. they defended the move. analysts are saying it is coincidence. there is such a strong defensive on vice president biden when he has been more. >> for all of the good in men there's a lot of good in joe biden. go back to the 80s. he was wrong about he wanted to keep the persian cruise missiles out of europe to support the nuclear freeze. when the first global war came along he was against it. when the second iraq war he was for that. up into this administration the

president was about to send the troops on the raid to kill bin laden he was opposed to that. it is striking they would defend him so vague louse lrousely. >> there is a portion that says hillary clinton made church surges which could shake up the 2016 withdraw. that brings us to today's "look who is talking." former city mayor rudy giuliani goes on the record defending the president's comments to the benghazi cover up. >> i think it is extraordinary to say the united states was doing a political callous on a matter of life and death for our troops is at thaastounding. the important war the war that really made sense in distinction

to what he regarded as the iraq war. apparently he didn't really believe that. that was another political hyperbole and exaggeration. it leads me to believe that kind of political crass determined political calculations are being made were they doing the same thing about benghazi a few years later. it is political reks a to protect themselves hide everything up his game and cover up. >> despite the hard hitting criticisms in the book giuliani sends he says he believes the secretary is going easy on the president. >> new jersey's governor chris christie reacting to accusations of political pay back. he said he was misled by staffers who allegedly closed down the world's busiest bridge to get back at the mayor of port lee which is on the new jersey side of the george washington bridge that connects to new

york. it calls it a traffic nightmare on the bridge. christie issued this statement saying... what i have seen today for the first time is unacceptable. i am outraged and deeply saddened to learn that not only was i misled by a member of my staff, but this completely inappropriate and unsanctioned conduct was made without my knowledge. christie says those responsible will be held accountable. >> a search is underway for a sailor a helicopter speed drag gorn and five person crew were on a training mission when they had to make an emergency landing off the coast of virginia beach. four of the five were rescued but two died later in the hospital. an investigation is underway to find out what cause the the helicopter to go down. the four u.s. air force members

killed in the crash has been identified. they died when the chopper went down during a training mission along the eastern coast of england on tuesday. >> this has obviously been a very traumatic incident for the entire liberty wing family and specifically the 56. we want to maintain and make sure we are taking care of the families and make sure they are safe before they head back out. >> they are still investigating what caused the crash. the 13-year-old girl declared brain dead is said to be improving since being fitted with breathing and feeding tubes this days after jahi mcmath was transferred from the children's hospital in oakland after doctors there refused to fit her with new feeding tubes. she was declared brain dead on december 12th after going into

cardiac arrest after routine tonsil surgery. the mother of former kansas city chief is suing the teen for wrongful death. 25-year-old belcher murdered his girlfriend and killed himself. belcher was subject to repeat head trauma and denied adequate healthcare by the chief. this comes after his body was exhumed after testing. this comes in the paining of the nfl's $765 million settlement to former players with brain ailments. one of the president's nominees to a top spot at the department of justice. former naacp lawyer could soon head up the doj's civil rights division, but his work defending a convicted cop killer has outraged a lot of people. his client abu jim mal murdered philadelphia police officer daniel falkner back in 1981.

the officer's widow was last night on the kelly files. >> i was absolutely outraged president obama to make this decision to have a man who defended a murderer, someone who murdered a police officer with pre-meditation and mal lass is a radical, is a black panther and to give him an appointment to nominate him to the department of justice, i mean, it's a disgrace. >> the fraternal order of police says the nomination was a thumb in the eye for law enforcement officers. >> the deep freeze finally to thaw out temperatures climbing today. >> there's a new problem. we are in the weather center to tell you all about it.

>> one of the big concerns is we have actually had a lot of water freezing in many of the areas especially on rivers. we can be seeing several ice as temperatures freeze and the ice melts. to show you how significant the warm-up is we have the graphic showing temperatures that reach levels that are extremely cold in pittsburgh and cincinnati in nashville and atlanta. weather flooding a big concern out heto temperatures well above average this weekend. otherwise another storm system producing freezing rain across parts of arkansas and missouri. we have winter weather advisories in effect out here. a little snow could be mixing in. further west a more powerful storm system producing areas of heavy rain and snow in the pacific northwest. send it over to you. >> thank you very much.

>> some health insurers agree to give consumers more time to pay the treatment yum because the rollout was so botched. the deadline for payment is now the end of january for coverage that started on the 1st. this comes as house over site committee chairman darrel issa says that health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius could face perjury charges over her obamacare testimony before congress. ice saw is calling for her to correct the record. 9 four men accused in a deadly hijacking pleaded not guilty. all four were accused of murder and car jackings. they are accused of shooting and killing 30-year-old dustin freed land who was accused of getting in his car after shopping with

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>> people are encouraging this child to say incredibly racist, vulgar and violent things. many are wondering why the video was made public in the first place. kelly wright joins us. probably a good thing this video was made public. i will let you tell the story. >> first, if you have young children watching television right now, have them leave the room right now. this is why. what you are about to see and hear is disturbing. the video shows three adults cursing at a young black toddler and teaching the child to utter

the same foul language. >> you hoe. >> you a (bleep). >> it can help him in school and life. adults are teaching him words that can ruin his life. prosecutors determine no criminal activity but have placed the little boy into child protective services for his well-being. >> if you are teaching the child to say and do and behave in those ways this isn't about morality, it is about values that are connected to crime and abuse and if a child is being abused emotionally there's a good chance, especially in this way there's a good thanes there is more to the story that could include criminality. >> they posted the video on-line. after finding a video on a known gang member's facebook page. the union says it wants to see people how innocent children are

being indoctrinated with violence and thundering. the union is being criticized of posting the video of a black child being victimized. stating quote i strongly disagree with any postings that may cause a divide in our community or an obstacle in a relati relation. the association defends the action saying the whole point of this is to give an unfiltered view of what police officers deal with every day. sergeant wells says he hopes the video will educate people but organizations like black men of omaha say the posting of the video would only expose the child to more ridicule. it evokes conversation people will likely have to do the right thing and help the child. >> shocking. thanks so much. kelly wright live in the studio.

>> speaking of conversation, brings us to this rule on this question. should the police union have posted the video? send us your comments on facebook or you can e-mail us at fox frienfoxfriendsfirst@foxnew. accused of stealing more than 800,000 dollars from the local teacher's union. he wrote checks to himself and forged the union president's signature. the fund he's accused of stealing from receives tax payer money and pays for services for teachers and administrators in the district. >> this elementary school principal fighting to get her job back. no noel roney says she canned her after she talked about requiring children to get their hand stamped if they don't have enough money in their lunch

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>> it is thursday january 9th. the bombshell book everyone is talking about. former defense secretary robert gates blasting obama's leadership how the white house is now playing defense. >> the bitter chill now in its way out. don't celebrate just yet. bursting pipes and flooding rivers. maria molina tracking the latest weather mess. >> the miracle om coming out of the winter storm for one family. >> i thought about our kids and grand kids and christmas. i was just thankful he was still alive. >> wait until you hear how that

devoted wife found her husband lost in snow. >> "fox & friends first" starts right now. >> good morning. a little rolling stones to get you rolling out of bed this morning. thank you so much for watching "fox & friends first" and beginning your day with us this thursday morning. i am heather childers. >> i am ainsley earhardt. i hope you are starting off on the right foot on the right side of the bed this morning. former defense secretary robert gates dropped bombshells on the obama administration. they are firing back reacting to highly critical remarks of the

vice president and the if president. >> beyond the criticism level of president obama for handleings of the war in iraq and afghanistan is it may be hillary clinton and joe biden that may have the most though worry about. look at the impact it had. this was lunch yesterday between president obama and vice president obama. it is always closed to the press until yesterday. the white house opens the doors to cameras they denied this but the timing makes it seem as though it was a response to gates who unleashed on biden who say he was consistently wrong. >> there's a lot of good in joe biden. he really was wrong about a lot of things. go back to the 80s. he was wrong about he wanted to keep the persian cruise missiles out of europe to support the nuclear freeze. when the first golf war came along he was opposed and voted against it. when the second gulf war the second iraq war came along he

voted for this that. when the surge came along he was against that. the list goes on up into this administration when the president was about to send the troops to kill bin laden he was opposed to that. it is striking they would defend him so vig lousily when he has been wrong so often clearly. >> the gates' criticism really sing because both harbor ambitions for the white house in 2016. >> doug luzader live in washington. thank you, doug. >> brings us to "look who is talking." ceo of concerned veterans for america speaking out about the bombshell revelations in the gates' book that president obama failed to support the nation's mission in afghanistan. he said this last night on "the kelly files." >> it is infewer rate ating. secretary gates is as credible as anybody. he believed from the outset it

would fail. it is a gut punch to everyone they sent to say i wasn't quite sure whether it would succeed but i sent you anyway. at thats outrageous. i was an advocate for the iraq surge believing we could turn the tied. how we finish matters. it is not just hshould we go in the first place. do we see it like fallujah black flags all over town because we wanted to end it not finish it. we are going to see the same conclusions in 2014. this president and we saw it from secretary gates' words in this book and see more when the book is revealed was interesting in ending it not finishing it. that's the biggest indictment you can have of a commander-in-chief. >> the search is underway for a missing sailor after a navy chopper goes down. the helicopter a sea dragon and its five person crew members were on a training mission when they had to make an emergency landing off the coast of

virginia beach. four of the five crew members were rescued but two died later at the hospital. an investigation is underway to find out what caused the helicopter to go down. the four u.s. air force members killed in the crash have been identified. captain christopher stover, captain shawn rue lan, technical sergeant dale matthews and staff sergeant holmes died when the hawk chopper went down during a training mission along the eastern coast of england on tuesday. >> this has obviously been a will traumatic incident. we want to make sure we take care of the families and air crew members are safe before they head back out. >> they are still investigating the cause of the crash. former new england aaron hernandez is due in court later today. he told police he was flying

with hernandez and lloyd when lloyd was killed. ortiz later changed his story to implicate the nfler as the loan gunman. ortiz has pled not guilty to an accessory charge. hernandez pleaded not guilty to murder and is awaiting trial. >> terror torn russia is boosting security in the weeks before the olympics now banning all liquid carry ones on flight for safety reasons in sochi. this comes after two suicide attacks killing 32 people in the city last month. officials say the threat of a terror attacks on airplanes is real. the new measures mean if you fly to moscow or another city from the united states liquids cannot stay with you and must be checked. new promises are designed to help them offer tax incentives and grants. do they go far enough? the president announcing the first five locations san

antonio, philadelphia los angeles and southeast kentucky as well as the nation of oklahoma. kentucky senator rand paul will sit down with the president to discuss the issue. says there's one key city missing. >> they were a little perplexed. they don't apply to detroit. you got a city in a depression with 18 percent unemployment and really a waste land in some ways and he's not going to apply his new alternative package for impoverished areas of detroit? >> paul introduced his own economic freedom zones to cut through federal red tape and he says that would include detroit. >> the deep freeze has a fallout. the temperatures are expected to climb today. >> it is down right balmy. there is a new problem on the horizon. we are in the weather center with that. >> the problem is we have snow on the ground across portions of the midwest and also into the

northeast. rain moves into the area ice already on several rivers and with a dramatic warm-up all coming together and could cause river flooding potential across the north ayes. that will be a big concern out here. the good news is the warm-up through the western half of the country. take a look at the temperatures on tuesday. in pittsburgh you got down to 9 below zero. by saturday up into the 50's. in rally single digits on tuesday. by saturday you can be in the 70s. it is going to feel like spring out there. get out and enjoy it but again a little bit of rain could be moving into some of these areas. otherwise we have the moisture across parts of arkansas, temperatures are cold enough we are seeing freezing rain reaching the ground. we have winter weather advisories out here including parts of western tennessee, also across missouri and eastern oklahoma a little snow can mix in with that. be careful on the roadways.

let's head over to you. >> thank you maria. >> oo the international space station will slide for four more years. the white house approved the station's operations until 2024. the roughly $3 billion a year program will require approval from congress and the next president. >> well the halls of cooperstown just got a little bit bigger as three new players are enshrined in the place babaseball hall of. i had 355 wins in his career 8 all star appearances and world seriesi title in 95. tom glavine also won the world series was a 10 time all star and 305 career wins. and white sox slugger frank thomas had 521 home runs and two mvp awards were also inducted. all three were first time balloters.

it will -- nominated. not quite inducted yet. all of the biggest stars came out for the people's choice awards. this year's show hosted by two actresses cat denings and beth bears. cleaned up nicely taking home four trophies as the night's big winner. >> he is going to want to know why i got all these and sweet tee, because people work a lot harder than mommy did to make her look good. >> orphan favorites ellen degeneres who has the most awards for indy award show history with a total of 14 trophies. jennifer hudson took home a humanitarian award. the time is 20 minutes until the top of the hour. governor christie hit by scandal, did his staff really shut down one of the nation's busiest bridges behind his back? the governor now hitting back. >> he's a pint sized guitarist

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>> chris: chris kr -- chris chr responding to political pay back. did his staff really shut down one of the nation's busiest bridges behind his back. we are live from fort lee with the latest. what is new, lydia? >> good morning, heather. the governor has denied any involvement whatsoever in the scandal. he says he has no idea what his staff was doing. we are here at fort lee. the reason we are here i am going to show you. this is the entrance on to the george washington bridge. on a good day, a 10-minute delay is great.

for four-days in september people werhere, we are talking school buses and emergency vehicles for hours because three lanes were reduced to one into that cash toll lane. the governor denied any involvement in purposefully shutting down the lanes as some sort of political pay back because the mayor here in fort lee who is a democrat didn't want to endorse christie's reelection. there are now apparently two weeks before the lane closings, one of christie's top aid kelly actually e-mailed the port authority who happens to be christie's close friend. she wrote, time for some traffic problems in fort lee. that's really damming right there. there are also calls for the u.s. attorney to investigate the governor canceled yesterday but the statement reads what i have seen from the times is

unacceptable. i am deem deeply saddened not only was i misled by one of my staff but this unsanctioned conduct was made without my knowledge. original whether i when the allegations surfaced christie joked about it, what do you think i was out here moving the cones or something? clearly no one is of laking now. that's the latest in fort lee, new jersey. back to you. >> lydia repoid lidia curanaj r live for us. thank you. is he heading back to the screen? only the small screen. he will appear on the season finale of alpha house. a tv show about a group of dc lawmakers who live together. michael steel will make an appearance as well. the show is available on amazon. >> even elena kagan can't get out of jury duty. she showed up in dc's superior

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president obama's former defense secretary robert gates has written a new memoir where he says joe biden has been wrong on every foreign policy issue in the last four years. he says he's awful when it comes to foreign countries. then biden says is this about the time i got lost at epcot? going to bring that up again? >> in the news this morning, quite a scare inside the kentucky state capital when a lawmaker accidentally fires her gun in her office. the democratic represent issued a statement says the shot was fired unintentionally. a colleague was there in the office at the time with her but none was injured. the lawmakers shies got a concealed carry permit for safety reasons. >> a woman in florida ends up saving her husband's life in indiana. she knew something wasn't right when she wasn't hearing from him so she kept calling him. tushes out her husband, a

truck driver, was pinned under his rig checking his brakes in the winter storm. eventually his vibrating phone fell to the ground and he was able to get the voice command to make one phone call. >> i remember saying whoever this is, whatever you do, don't hang up the phone. if they hung up the phone it was going to be my last chance to talk to anybody. >> i thought about you know our kids and grandkids and i was just thankful he was still alive. >> it was so cold out this, emergency crews had to cut her husband out of his frozen clothes to get him out. amazingly he is fine and does not suffer frostbite. parks and recreation crews rescuing multiple geese stopped in a national pond. in this video you can see officials using a kayak to get to one of the geese whose feathers were covered

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two minutes till the top of the hour. before you leave the house here's what's happening today. a search is underway for a missing sailor after a navy chopper went down off the coast of virginia beach yesterday with five crew members on board. obamacare enrollees have until the end of january to pay their premiums because the rollout was botched so badly the people's choice awards for the history books. sandra bullock took home four trophy and he ellen

degeneres winning a total of 14 over the years. >> time for the the good, the bad, and the ugly. first the good. these are a few of the pups who will take to the field on february 2. the pet anniversary spectacular will feature penguin cheerleaders. the bad. a man smashes his car into a gas station all for a banana. finally the ugly. former auburn basketball player sierra says she faked her kidnapping in 2008 to escape the grueling training schedule. we showed you this video. a toddler being taught vile language by adults. the police union who posted it is receiving a fire storm of criticism. >> should he post it? not necessary. >> diane said yes children need to be taught man

manners. >> ed said people need to see what police see. this is a minor example of the living condition of a lot of children black and white. thanks to everyone who responded. >> have a great thursday. we'll see you tomorrow morning at 5:00 a.m. "fox & friends" starts now. bye. good morning. it is thursday, january 9. i'm elisabeth hasselbeck. panic at the white house. the administration on damage control defending joe biden. do they have a case or was biden always wrong? >> chris christie, the governor of new jersey, in a traffic jam this morning over what is being called by some bridge-gate. today the new jersey governor defending himself. >> ellen degeneres ever so