note ♪ ♪ >> good morning, to you from the rainy streets of new york city to wherever you're waking uch this morning. thank you for joining fox & friends first on this tuesday, i'm heather childers. >> suspected nightclub terrorist taking a selfie and smirking before the attack. heather: arresting in dozen people in late-night apartment raids. police have fingerprints and know who he is. the seoul american shot as to how he played dead to survive the massacre. he layed motionless while the gunman hit dozens around him at point-blank range killing 39.

>> all i can say it's massive tragedy. this is very unfortunate. i don't want to talk about what happened inside the club. i was with nine people. seven of us were shot. heather: turkish media reporting that this video shows the hillary escaping in a cab and fail to go pay his fair before trying to hitchhike. he is believed to be -- >> four children in texas. a family member tried to cleaning the chemical with water, not knowing that the water would produce a highly toxic gas. the children range in anal from 7 to 17, five more people are still fighting for their life. the chemical is restricted by epa and normally use today kill rottens. heather: the jury decide ifs he should live or die.

he will not call any witnesses or present any evidence. prosecutors plan to call as many as three dozen family members of victims. roof was convicted in december of killing nine people after opening fire in a south carolina church last year. >> intense manhunt underway for a dangers inmate. morales climbing a hoop and escaping rhode island, it took officials two hours that he even left. he crossed state lines stealing a war before ditching it before his ex-girlfriend's massachusetts home. he's in prison for stealing guns from an armory. heather: fox business alert. custom computers back online after a nationwide outage sparked mayhem. delays all across the country. cheryl casone from fox business

with details o. cheryl: this all happened in one of the busiest travel day offense the year. thousand struggled. >> we found long lines, they weren't letting the kids, you know, family with kids go through. >> longer than actual flight, over two hours in line once we got here. cheryl: customs officers had to use alternative procedures, u.s. customs and border says there was nothing malicious. the disaster 5:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. 30 flights to miami in particular affected. jackson airport, one of the busiest in the world, lines round and round, processed by hand, folks take to go social media events like this.

officials using twitter, the nightmare was over. no word from the agency on what caused the big mess, guys, back to you. >> imagine if the electric tbrid went down? it would look more like that. heather: let's not imagine that actually. five people are dead as tornadoes leave a trail of destruction in the south. >> in southern alabama tornado trees killing four people inside there. heather: to the north heavy rains floody roads and trapping drivers. >> this is a fine example as to why not be out because we have a vehicle sub more -- submerged in water. >> senior meteorologist is here. janice: terrible news for the first of the year, the devastating tornado outbreak that pushed across, mississippi, alabama and georgia, over a

dozen reports of tornadoes, over 150 reports of wind, this is going to be an ongoing situation throughout the day today. mainly rain event over the next 24 to 48 hours and out by wednesday and focus on the next storm pushing from the west that will bring heavy rain and inches of snow, perhaps feet of snow across the interior section of the west. now, highs today, you can see where the cold air is sinking southward. another cold arctic outbreak is moving in tuesday, wednesday and thushz spreading southward to the tennessee river valley and towards the northeast and the southeast by thursday, so this is the system we are going to watch in the next couple of days, the future radar showing you the system, the system that

brought tornadic activity, yesterday last night pushing out by wednesday. a lot of people traveling. clayton, heather, back to you. heather: you've been warned. >> 17 days until inauguration but a heated battle is loom to go get his team confirmed. live from washington, d.c. on the latest edition of mr. trump's team. good morning, doug. >> good morning, clayton, one late development, the transition official says that trump is expect today nominate lawyer as u.s. trade representative, formally the u.s.pr under president reagan. a key figure in the administration, he would join former georgia governor perdue

as the latest trump pick. democrats are to launch tough picks, senator jeff sessions, representative mick at omb, betsy on education, andrew labor, steve mnuchin at treasury and scott pruitt at epa. senate minority leader has promised that democrats will slow-walk the picks and try to damage them but they don't have enough votes to block any of them. in other transition news, trump is tweeting about his victory and when he knew it was certain, quote, various media outlets and pubbed its say that i thought i was going to lose the education, wrong, it all came together in the last week and i thought and felt i would win easily when they canceled the fireworks, they knew and so did i. that reference to the fireworks display in east river that the

clinton campaign had purchased in an anticipation for what they felt was almost guarantied victory. dust off those fireworks. heather: thank you. mariah did have a sound check, insisting that the production sabotaged her for ratings while they are accusing her of being too lazy to do rehearsal but the videos prove otherwise. >> the stand-in. how to work. heather: the singer complained about choppy ear piece audio but the crew assuring them that it would be fixed by showtime. dick clark productions is firmly denying carey's sabotage claim. >> oklahoma putting offensive display in the sugar bowl, 35 to

19, quarterback austin leaving the gator to beatdown of iowa. perfect season comes to the end at the coontton bowl. the trojans kicking a field goal as time expires for 52 to 49 win. heather: amazing ending. these guys stole the show at the rose parade. yes, i said surfing dogs. >> 126 feet long. record. heather: made a splash here a few months ago.

how cute. i wonder how you train them to do that. >> you plop them there. heather: they have no choice. coming up a parent's worst nightmares, horrifying video of a child being crushed by a toppled dresser but we promise you the story has a happy ending, you just have to see it to believe it. >> a little superman. heather: yeah. >> wikileaks founder julian assange has to go to say about it. the exclusive interview you will only see at fox news. heather: how would you like hundreds of dollars delivered right on your door every month? where that poverty pot dream is coming true so if you have a flat tire,

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heather: welcome back, doubling down, wikileaks founder julian assange insists that russia had stero involvement in the emails leaked during the election. clayton: exclusive interview with sawn hannity, assange says the obama administration is trying to to delegitimize the trump presidency. heather: you will not see everywhere else. good morning, kelly. >> good morning to you as well. julian assange, founder and editor in chief of wikileaks claims the obama administration is trying to delegitimize the election of donald trump. in an exclusive interview inside the ebbing -- ecuadorian embassy where assange is staying.

>> you did not get this information about the dnc john podesta emails k you tell the mesh people a thousand percent you did not get it from russia or anybody associated with russia. >> we can say, we have said repeatedly over the last two months that our source is not the russian government and it is not state party. our publication had wide uptake by the american people, they're all true. but that's not the allegation that's being presented by the obama white house. why such a dramatic response, well, it's the reason the

obvious, they are trying to delegitimize trump administration as it goes into the white house. they are going to try -- they are trying to say that president-elect trump is not a legitimate president. >> meanwhile fbi claim to have evidence of russia link, not all of it has been released, concerns for sources and foreign allies that help us, one of the exclusive interview, by the way, airs tonight at 10:00 p.m. eastern time right here on fox news channel with sean hannity. heather: we will be watching that for sure. thanks, kelly. ceting sights on the out of control murder rate in chicago. mr. trump slamming ron i man yell.

4,431 victims, if the mayor can't do it, he must ask for federal help. 2016 marked the bloodiest year that the city has seen in decades. that's according to chicago police. the department says movements like black lives matter, they blame them for the ub tick -- uptick in violence. >> the national rhetoric doesn't help either. heather: police superintendent says that antipolice climate is emboldening criminals. clayton: the mayor of vermont defending his decision saying the refugees will bring more workers and add cultural diversity. rutland first to pressure the mayor into reversing his decision. heather: first, france told their workers, we told you about is, they didn't have to answer emails at home. clayton: people in finland don't

have to work to get paid, brilliant. a new program there giving jobless fins about 600 bucks a month and don't have to explainwhat they spend it on. heather: could help or boost employment, i wonder if that will work. clayton: 148 minutes past the hour. heather: can democrats stop the president elect and gop majority from confirming cabinet picks, why our next guest says, brit it on. clayton: new twist, could it have been a fire and not actually an iceberg that took down the titanic?

clayton: welcome back, united airlines launching an investigation trying to figure out how a baggage handler got caught up in north virginia. >> i was so glad he didn't end up going to la or new york. >> as long as he's safe and his family is okay. at least he got a free trip. clayton: at some point during one and a half hour flight united was alert that had the handler was in the cargo hole of the airplane. so far he hasn't said how he ended up there. a fire destroying a single father of three's house in a matter of second, the only thing that survived was a flag by his father, a world war ii vet.

>> i lost everything, it had dad's flag, i lost it there. clayton: family drawing strength from their faith and flag. heather: the congress kicks off today, big day with the very long to-do list. democrats are promising uphill battle for both. senate minority leader chuck schumer saying, quote, if republicans think they can jack through a whole sleight of nominees without a fair hearing process they are sorely mistaken. here to weigh in morgan ortagus. morgan: happy new year. heather: 115th, let's start with the to-do list. we have obamacare,

confirmations, regulatory rollbacks, the un reelecting ryan and some new house rules. so do you think that they will begin successfully with obamacare? morgan: it's a very big agenda, everything that you just named. replacing -- repealing obamacare is the easiest part because in the senate that can be done without the 60-majority vote. repealing it should be on the agenda, democrats are definitely going put up a fight, you see that the president, president obama is going down to talk to democrats about how they can save it. heather: 15th. morgan: this would die under its own weight. even the democrats know that major changes would be needed an i think this is really where the president elect has time to shine, whether it comes to obamacare or tax reform, he has major policy initiatives that he needs 60 votes in the senate that he doesn't have as republicans, he's going to have

to come down and make a deal. that's something that the president never did over the past eight years. heather: you definitely have to have something to replace it with and give it some time in between so people don't instantly lose their healthcare coverage which is a fear. morgan: that was part of the roll-out the democrats felt in mid-term elections in 2010, 2012, it wasn't rolled out properly. one of the major problems is major insurers aren't on the health exchanges, it's clearly not working for big business and the average american. heather: let's take a look at some of the nominees that democrats are saying, you know what, we are not going make this easy on you, they do plan to target specifically some of these folks, you see here rex tillerson and senator jeff sessions and then you have representative mitt, betsy duvost, tom price, we were just speaking about him in terms of obamacare and then scott pruitt. morgan: i can see the democrats

and the liberals specially feel so threatened with the cabinet picks and that's because they represent people with real business success and that's not really what we saw the nominations over the past eight years. i think that this is a fight that the democrats are sort of having amnesia on. if they decide to go after all of the nominees because they are successful in business, they would be the deploying the same tactics that they lost doing to president-elect trump. they went after for business dealings internationally and at home and ultimately the american people said, you know what, we want to give a business guy a chance. the president elect has assembled one of the most successful cabinets in modern history and washington is a tough place. it's different than business but i think that we should give the business people a chance. tillerson is going to be tough because he's going to get questions even from republicans -- heather: ties to russia. morgan: he did what was in the best interest of his company and she should be judged for that.

heather: his goal is jobs, jobs, jobs, we will see if that works. morgan: absolutely. clayton. clayton: 247 -- 27 minutes after the hour. safe haven so they can shoot up. what the singer has to say about the incoming administration. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ clayton: tuesday january 3rd

and this is the fox news alert. face of terror. how investigators just identified him and the raid overnight bringing them one step closer to capture.

heather: sky-high confrontation. you will never believe what set this guy off. clayton: promise this story actually has happy ending. tinny superman, super baby. heather: amazing. clayton: fox & friends first continues right now. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ clayton: pouring rain in new york city. hope it will be nicer soon with all the storms out there. good morning, everybody, you're watching fox & friends first.

i'm clayton morris. heather: and i'm heather childers. suspected turkey nightclub terrorist taking a selfie and smirking hours before the attack. clayton: police now inching closer to capturing him. arresting a dozen people in late-night apartment raids, local media reporting, police have fingerprints and they know who he is, the the american speaking out how he played dead to survive the massacre. he layed motionless while the gunman hit dozens around him at point-blank range killing 39 people. >> all i can say it's massive tragedy. this is very unfortunate. i don't want to talk about what happened inside the club. i was with nine people. seven of us were shot. clayton: turkish media reporting that he escaped in a cab and

failing to pay his fair before trying to hitch a ride. heather: massive search is underway this morning at this hour for a young boy who wondered away from home in new year's eve, the heartbroken mother pleading for his return. [inaudible] >> please help me find him. heather: 6-year-old david wearing only thin jacket when he vanished happened in colorado, below freezing temperatures, police say that the boy has a slight learning disability and wondered off at least two other times. clayton: destruction in the south in southern alabama a tornado toppling trees in a mobile home there killing four people inside. and in mississippi trees ripped from the roots and parts of home scattered in yards after a

possible tornado and over the dallas now, a lighting storm sparking a massive house fire, no one was hurt there. senior meteorologist is live. janice, it's very springlike system that went through the last 24 hours in the mississippi valley. reports of tornadoes, mississippi, alabama and georgia affected. where is this system going next? it's moving north ward. heavy rain across mid atlantic for the day today. too warm for a lot of snow but we could see icing in northern parts of new england. snow and icing. the other big story is we have another arctic instruición on -- intrusion. below zero and with the windchill minus 35, so by weeks

end we will be feeling across portions of the gulf coast. clayton, heather back to you. heather: 81 in miami. it's hot. president-elect trump is hard at work making new cabinet moves which is 17 days until inauguration but a heated battle is loom to go get team confirmed. david kelly live in washington, d.c. with new editions. >> one new development as trump raises to fill in slots. trump is expect today nominate lawyer robert as the u.s. trade representative, formerly the u.s. trade representative under president reagan and given trump's opposition to tpp and nafta and bilateral trade

agreements rather than multitrade agreements, would play a huge role in the new administration. he would join perdue as the latest trump pick n. the meantime democrats are vowing to go on the attack against at least eight of trump's cabinet nominees, those targeted eight include rex tillerson, jeff sessions as attorney general, mick at omb and best say at education and tom price at hhs, steve mnuchin at treasury and scott pruitt at epa. senate minority leader promised that the democrats will slow-walk those picks, but they don't have enough votes to block them. general james mattis, nikki haley and general john kelly. in other transition news, trump is tweeting about his victory and when he knew it was certain. various media pundits thought i was going to lose the election,

wrong, it all came together in the last week i thought and felt would win over the 270 when they canceled fireworks they knew and so did i. the last line in reference to fireworks display that the clinton campaign purchased in anticipation in what they thought was almost certain victory. heather: i had a feeling something was up when they canceled that. clayton: save the fireworks for fourth of july celebration. nationwide outage sparks long lines and delays in airports across the country. check out the time lapse video from hart field jackson airport, holy smokes, lines stretching where the eyes can see. people take to go social media to vent their frustration. >> when the computers go down and immigration, it's 3,000

people in the miami airport. this is crazy. clayton: global entry cashedz wouldn't work either. you still had to do it by hand. [inaudible] >> it's easy to see why there's lines stretching a quarter of a mile long. customers say there's no indication the destruction was malicious. heather: police storming a packed united airlines flight after a passenger goes bazurk all about his seat. [inaudible conversations]

heather: plane bound for san francisco from sidney, australia diverted to new -- new new zealand. clayton: this video will take your breath away specially if you're a parent. heather: tears to my eyes. boy pinned underneath the dresser and twin brother coming to the rescue. clayton: you can see him struggling to move the dresser and eventually managing to slide it off. their parents say they discovered the dresser down and checked the footage in surveillance system. heather: the other boy rolled over to get out. they posted the video to youtube as a lesson to other parents. heather: this is a miracle for sure. clayton: the little boy went to the garage to lift a car to

change a tire. it didn't happen then. >> today i'm nominating chief judge merrick garland. heather: donald trump's catch phrase was iconic on the apprentice. >> you're fired, go. terrible. heather: so what arnold using on his new line, stick around and find out

clayton: safe place to shoot up for heroin addicts. claims that a supervised injection site could save the city 34 and a half million

dollars a year in medical costs racked up by addicts, but san francisco's major is one of the vocal critics of the idea, he doesn't want to see people shooting up on the city's dime. heather: loophole could make for a shocker in the supreme court in just a few hours, the senate ushering in a new congress before noon today and in the five-minute gray period between sessions, president obama could use his recess appointment powers to send judge merrick garland to the bench, the legal gamble unlikely but possible, he made a similar move back in 2012 but those appointments were overturned. clayton: julian assange insists russia had zero to do in election. heather: assange says that the obama administration is trying to delegitimize the trump presidency. kelly live with us in dc with

the interview you won't see anywhere else. good morning, kelly. >> you'll see it right here on fox news channel later tonight. we will talk more about that. julian assange, controversial founder and editor in chief of wikileaks claims the obama administration is trying trying to delegitimize the election of donald trump, in an exclusive interview inside the ecuadoran embassy where assange is staying under political asylum, assange tells sean hannity that russia is not the source of hacking the democratic committee and hillary clinton's campaign john po testa. >> who knows. it's absolutely impossible to tell. if it did, if it did, the accusation is that the true statements of hillary clinton and her campaign manager john podesta and the dnc had -- the

true statements changed the election. >> wikileaks released emails that embarrassed the clinton campaign and the democratic party. assange is disputing the obama administration's claims that russia was involved. >> is the president of the united states lying to the american people? >> well, he's acting like a lawyer, if you look at most of his, he doesn't say that. he doesn't say wikileaks obtained its information from russia, worked with russia. >> he said russia is trying to influence u.s. election. >> yes, and you also note that he doesn't state in the statements that i've read, he doesn't say that russia was trying to influence the election for donald trump. >> meanwhile the fbi and homeland security claim to have evidence of a russian link, the u.s. intelligence source says not all of it has been released over concerns for the sources and foreign allies that work with us.

you can see part one of the exclusive interview which airs tonight at 10:00 p.m. eastern time right here at fox news channel. heather: thank you, kelly. we will certainly be watching that. do you think russia is behind election hacking or it's just about delegitimizing donald trump? log on to the facebook page right after the show, #keeptalking. clayton: steve ducey is back. how was your holiday? >> thank you very much, clayton. coming up on fox & friends are the democrats willing to work with president-elect trump. >> he has first one hundred days to show that he can find common ground, do the republicans think the democrats deserve a seat at

the table with mr. trump, we are going analyze that. laura engram is going to join us, we have ed henry. now back to y'all, heather and clayton. heather: all right.teve. clayton: we will be watching. we will be right back. heather: stay with us my insurance company definitely doesn't have that... you can leave worry behind when liberty stands with you™ liberty mutual insurance people would ask me that we traveled,ntries what is your nationality and i would always answer hispanic. so when i got my ancestry dna results it was a shocker. i'm from all nations. it puts a hunger in your heart to want to know more.

heather: welcome back to fox & friends first. journalists exclosed by wikileaks to close ties with the clinton administration. they soon will cover the trump administration, that includes new york times reporter glen who sent emails to clinton staffers before publishing them. cnbc chief political correspondent.

he provoked mr. trump at a debate. >> let's be honest, is this a comic-book version of a presidential campaign? heather: harwood, he later bragged about it in an e-mail to clinton campaign chair john podesta. clayton: bruce springsteen is questioning whether mr. trump is fit for presidency. he never feels fear like he does right now. >> is someone competent to do this job, do they have the pure competence to be put in a position of such responsibility. clayton: springsteen is a hillary clinton supporter but now understands how mr. trump got elected. heather: brand new clip, the blame game over mariah's meltdown. clayton: is there proof that

there was sabotage? here with the very latest on this controversy. hey, carly. >> a messy start for ms. mariah, her team says she did, in fact, attend rehearsal for new year's eve performance after anonymous resources say she skipped out. it appears to prove the singer's side of the story. >> okay, so the stand-in. [laughter] >> that's right. he said a stand-in out of work, that video taken after a 3:00 p.m. sound check, photos posted by tmz also show carey on stage. the singer complains about audio issue during the sound check and even accused dick clark productions of sabotaging her performance to create a viral moment. of course, dick clark productions denies this but

social media can't get over the ordeal. wow, and jason says, let's just talk about this crisis for the next six months. [laughter] >> i guess if you believe all press is good press, everybody wins. heather: we are talking about it more than we have in a while. titanic we all think it hit an iceberg and maybe that might not be true. >> both fire and ice caused the titanic to sink. but a journalist who studied rarely before scene photos of the ship says that a massive below-deck fire called to weaken allowing the iceberg to slice right through it. the fire had been burning for weeks before disaster struck.

clayton: no one would notice that, there's a fire down there. >> as people were partying. clayton: what about arnold schwartznager. >> the most famous phrase from celebrity apprentice just received an update. >> cony, you're terminated. hasta la vista, baby. >> president-elect trump's name still appeared at the end of the critics saying involvement is a conflict of interest to the president elect, his name is only there, you know, really in name. heather: all right. clayton: hasta la vista

appen. clayton: first up the good.

who said christmas surprises are just for humans. the dog freaks out when his owner gets home for the holidays. >> get it, chubby. get it. heather: the pup cannot contain excitement after pulling off the blanket and finding his best friend the soldier had been away for nearly a year. clayton: using a stolen forklift. cameras capturing the crooks in a texas atm at a bank there and loading in the truck and driving off. heather: seems like someone would spot that. this happened, man runs on stage and steals the trophy. a youtube prankster. clayton:

or kanye west. fox & friends starts right now. heather: good-bye. >> while he is back, julian assange wants to correct the record on the emails read around the world. >> our source is not the russian government and it is not state party. >> wait until you hear what they say about president obama and the president elect. >> steve: nancy pelosi to give another shot. millions of americans will be worst off, pete. peter: a toddler nearly crushed by