forcing a plane to make emergency landing. three alaskan crew members all getting sick. >> the powder blowing through the air vents 30,000 feet in the air, forced to land. the substance turned out to be left over deicing fluid. six crew members were able to take off a short time later. deseparate search for answers. a mother and six children and 9-month-old boy not making it out alive. mother of three kids that did escape in critical condition at this hour. investigator diggings through the rebel trying to determine what caused the fire.

>> just when you thought it was case closed in the hillary clinton's private e-mail, but this time the focus is on the fbi director james comey. >> although there's evidence of mishandling classified information, no prosecutor will bring such a case. >> refuse to go recommend charges against clinton. now the justice department want to investigate october surprise, announcing he was revisiting a new batch of clinton emails days before presidential election. the democratic nominees saying reopening the investigation did play a role in clinton's loss. brand new wikileaks bomb sell. agreeing to be extad identitied to the united states on one condition, tweeting out if obama grants manning, referring to

chelsea manning, serving 35-year-old sentence to leaking documents to wikileaks. the obama administration has open investigation into assange for releasing classified information. he's been living in asylum in london since 2012. >> the spy behind this all goes underground. leland with the latest. >> rob, abby, good morning to you, the question is how much of a divide will the briefings create between capitol hill republicans and president-elect trump, we have already seen the confirmation hearings become

somewhat contentious over russia issue. now senators and the house will have a whole lot more information about the russian hack if they want to make a point. >> this was one of the most clear, specific, fact-based classified briefing. easy when you have a briefing like this. it's modeled, agencies are talking in language that doesn't communicate anything very specific. i don't think i've ever been in an intelligence briefing as clear -- >> all right. now, the democrats trying to make this a little bit more of a wedge issue. dick durbin, russian infiltration is like a spreading cancer. the question is whether this congress will stand up to democracy. we get a shrug from leadership.

the senate majority leader has dismissed the idea of a commission on russian hacking an instead says individual senate committees are going to investigate this russian hacking. that investigation is set to center on the hacking itself rather than the alleged trump dossier. as of now the british spy has gone into hiding making it all the more difficult to understand what if real any intelligence was behind it. back to you, guys. >> never a dull moment. >> no kidding. >> thank you, leland. >> russia taking over the headlines and the air ways on bizarre glitch of c-span, house floor to a broadcast of russian television. >> the secc and literally -- >> the russian program running for ten whole minutes, c-span is

now investigating, they believe it was an internal routing issue. >> the left prying to undermine president-elect trump by targeting israel, according to israeli sources, u.s. intelligence officials warning our closest middle east ally to not share classified information with trump administration with fears that it's leaked to russia >> in the hot seat a trio of confirmations unfolding on capitol hill. >> general james mad dog mattis, dr. ben carson, mike pompeo all in the hot seat. >> live here in studio, good to have you here. >> good morning, guys, thank you for having me. >> james mattis clears the first major hurdle. the senate giving the okay for mattis to serve if confirmed. mattis needed a special exception from a law that

requires pentagon chief to be out of uniform for at least seven years. mattis retired only four years ago. the full house will vote later today. during the confirmation hearing, general mattis talked about severe threats america faces right now. >> i think it's under the biggest attacks since world war ii and that's from russia, from terrorist groups and with what china is doing in the south china sea. >> and dr. ben carson, the president-elect trump's nominee to lead the department of housing, defending reputation and tangling with elizabeth warren with future relationship with mr. trump. >> can you just assure us that not one dollar will go to benefit either the president elect or his family? >> it will not be my intention to do anything to benefit any -- any american. >> i understand that -- >> for all americans, everything that we do.

>> meanwhile lights going out during the hearing of mike pompeo, pompeo's hearing would resume after some delay. the congressman grilled by newly elected over cia human resources and employee benefit policies regarding gays and lesbians. he was pressed over feelings over nasa climate change report. next week confirmation hearing for beth say and wilbur ross, mr. trump's pick to run the commerce department. back to you guys. >> thank you. >> all right, now to extreme weather as the midwest prepares for bitter cold on and off freezing rain. expected to cover the central u.s., very dangerous under an inch of ice. >> the storm already causing a travel nightmare in chicago. train passengers stuck for more than five hours. the train literally on the tracks. >> on the west coast, 40% of california out of a five-year drought.

that's the good news. meteorologist janice dean. janice: unfortunately abby, we are going to be dealing with ice storm, epic ice storm across the plain states, lock at the temperature difference. the cold air from the north, warm air, very warm air from the south and all of the moisture falling through a thin layer of freezing air right near the surface and that's why we are going to have potentially disastrous ice storm on our hands. let's take a look at the last 24 hours. you can see the set-up along the boundary and that's going to be ongoing not only today, saturday and sunday, this could be crippling if not devastating for people across the plain states, freezing rains, warnings in the purple from texas all the way towards indiana. this is going to be -- i mean, i can't stress it enough, in some cases we could be getting over an inch on the roadways on the power lines, on the bridges, you cannot travel when you have ice

in this extensive area across the plain states, that's going on on going, friday, saturday and sunday all courtesy of boundary placed coming from the gulf of mexico. this is a big deal. ice storm is really dangerous, one of the most dangerous weather phenomena in the winter. abby and rob back to you. >> ten minutes after the hour, illegals looking to beat the clock, what the u.s. is doing to fight the influx of immigrants? >> controversial painting depicting cops as pigs getting outshined on capitol hill. wait till you see what mysteriously appeared under the work of art? >> this probably sums it up. >> copy, copy. >> right.

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effective immediately the u.s. will suspend the wet foot-dry foot policy. the policy was designed for a different era and that cubans will now be treated like any other migrants. >> enjoying doughnuts while at baseball study not allowed in one middle school any longer. the school district canceling study after the american humanist association complained about using treats to lure students to christian meetings. >> really? >> really. police on one college campus reaching a very new extreme. essentially banning the colors pink and blue, aim to go stop discrimination of all kinds including banning signs that designate areas in pink for women and blue for men. that also means no more girls night out because you're leaving out the guys. i like that one.

[laughter] >> marching band with great honor to play at the presidential inauguration. the only problem they needed to raise $75,000 to get there, rob. >> the president of the historically black college also told our bill o'reilly he's been attacked for letting students perform. >> they've said that i have -- i've shamed the college by making this decision and i've had folks say that, you know, that i'm a disgrace to my african american race. this is a great opportunity for our students. abby: after appearing on the show they not only hit fundraising goal, 275,000 in donations. great. >> that is great. all right. mom and pop shops closing stores all across the country. but one company adding tens of thousands of jobs. abby: cheryl casone here with

the company that's looking to grow in 2017. cheryl, good morning. cheryl: you probably heard of the company, amazon, good morning, amazon promising a hundred thousand jobs by the -- in the next 18 months, frankly. 2018, a hundred thousand positions. amazon has been expanding at a rapid rate. many other companies mom and pop stores had to close because amazon is, well, frankly getting customers in. look at the names here on your screen. you've got kmart, sears, american apparel, the limited, even macy's, these of tens of thousands of jobs, we should say. just to limit to marries announcing 14,000 jobs being cut. this is a hundred thousand new jobs, i think we have to say it's a shift, if you will, in jobs. those are going to be take august lot of new employees. different jobs. not in front of a customer but at least at a fulfillment

center. abby: cvs getting on the epipen action? cheryl: alternative version of the epipen, works just the same but a heck of a lot cheaper, all the controversy because they raised the price to $600, it was 100 just back in 2009. now they are going to be selling , 109.99. we heard from the president elect attack drug makers from high prices. maybe mylan executives were listening to the comments from mr. trump. >> those who start like the day with whisky. cheryl: nonalcoholic kind. abby: whiskey -- cheryl: you can now have flavored coffee. jack daniel's introducing a new coffee, they're selling it online. there's decaf and there's

regular and yes, flavored just like jack daniel's old number 7 to be specific with you. they're selling it in tennessee and then online as well. it's a new type -- yeah, there's van illa, chocolate, those are my favorites. now you can have whiskey in the morning. >> leaving the fun part out, though. cheryl: just caffeine buzz. >> data dump, so much for unlimited plans, kicking customers out for using too much data. abby: really? general mad dog mattis in the hot seat, why can't social media stop talking about the women behind him. what is trending?

>> this is really a wild story, a good samaritan kills a suspect who ambushed a police officer saving the officer's life. the cop in arizona pulled over to help a woman who had been in a car accident when a gunman came out of no where hitting the officer and a driver passing by stepped in and gunned down the suspect himself. now, the officer is trying to find that hero, man or women, whoever it was that intervened to thank him in person for saving his life. they have no idea what happened to that person. >> wow, that's quite a story. also this morning, deadly police ambush, decade high, now a new bill aims to help end the war on police, the thin blue line act would for killers who attack firefighters, last year police shooting deaths increased by 56%

and ambush-style killings rose by 167%. wow according to national police association. >> painting depicting police officers as pigs as you see here, well, now it's being out shine from blue lives matter movement. abby: we have been talking about this one for two weeks. >> first it was up and then it was down and now it looks like house republicans may have gotten the last laugh. hunter removed controversial painting that depicted police officers as pigs like you said, the move started a week-long tit for tat, democratic lawmakers put the painting back up only for house republicans to take it back down. well, the painting remains on display once again, but it is now being up staged by a

propolice thin blue line american flag, look at that. no word on who hung it, the mystery continues, a lot of people saying it is a welcome addition to that wall. >> how long it will end up staying up there? >> isn't that amazing? did you notice an attractive woman sitting behind general mattis. social media is going crazy about this woman. >> you're absolutely right. general james mattis confirmation hearing but people at home couldn't keep the eyes from the blond behind him. kristin writes, who is the hot blond sitting behind general mattis. is anyone paying attention to general mad dog james mattis or just watching the blond girl sitting behind him. will, i think the answer is a little of column a and a little bit of column b.

abby: no wonder the hearing went to well. >> they pop some bottles at the end and say wow. abby: totally surprised. >> this lit up social media. vice president joe biden leaving office on a high note. >> i'm please today award the highest civilian honor, the presidential medal of freedom. [applause] >> amazing, no one was more surprised than the vp himself and people across the country took social media to respond to that emotional moment. house speaker paul ryan, congratulations joe, appreciate your many years of friendship and service. i wish my friends would surprise me with the presidential medal of freedom. sorry, that can't be possible. una tweets, has there ever been a better bromance. abby: emotional moment. >> nice to see paul ryan stepping in and saying something

good to the democrats. >> a few people know what it's like to be the daughter of a president which is why former first daughters, dana and barbara bush decide today share wisdom with malia and sasha obama in open letter, you have lived through the unbelievable pressure of the white house. you have listened to harsh criticism of your parents by people who have never met them, your parents who put you first and who not only showed you but gave you the world. as always, they will be rooting for you as you begin your next chapter and so will we. isn't that so sweet. encouraging the obama girl to take lessons they've learn today make positive change. isn't that just a fantastic message? abby: that gave me chills. we need that message. >> crossing party lines. it's just about the sisterhood that so few people do. abby: you have to stick

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good morning, you're watching fox and friends first on this friday, i'm rob schmit. abby: thanks for starting your friday with us. we do want to get right to top story. classified briefing on russian hacking. >> yeah, this as unconfirmed memo allegedly tieing president-elect trump to russia and the spy that's behind it goes into hiding. leland with the very latest. leland, good morning. >> rob, abby, good morning to you. the question is how much a divide will the briefings create between capitol hill republicans and president-elect trump. senate briefing yesterday by the intel community, the house committees get their briefing today. and we've already seen the confirmation hearings from mr. trump's nominees become somewhat contentious over this russia issue. now senators and then the house will have a lot more information if they want to make a point in

the coming week. >> this was one of the most clear, concise, specific, fact-based classified briefing. usually when you have a briefing like this it's model, the agencies are talking in language that doesn't communicate anything very specific, i don't think i've ever been in an intelligence briefing as clear. >> russian infiltration of our last election and our nation is like a spreading cancer and the question is whether or not this congress and the president elect will stand up for the integrity of our democracy and our system of elections. >> very different view there from senate republicans and senate democrats. the senate majority leader has already dismissed the idea of a commission on russian hacking and says the individual senate

committees will investigation. those investigations are set to center on the hacking itself rather than a broader look at what the russians have been doing including a look at the alleged trump dossier. as of now, the person who created the dossier about what the russians may or may not have on mr. trump has gone into hiding, of course, making it all the more difficult to understand what if any real intelligence might be behind it. >> okay, leland, thank you so much. confirmation hearing for team trump coming to a close. all in the hot seat. highlights from the hearing, matt. >> good morning, everyone. james mattis cruising, the senate giving the okay, he was giving exemption from the law for pentagon chiefs to be out

seven years. during confirmation hearing general mattis said right now he does not think our military is adequate. >> i think it's critical right now, sir, absolutely, it requires a stronger military. >> do you think we have a strong enough military today in order to achieve that goal? >> no, sir. >> dr. ben carson, the president elect's nominee to lead department of housing defending reputation and taking heat from elizabeth warren who questioned his future relationship with mr. trump. >> can you just assure us that not one dollar will go to benefit either the president elect or his family? >> it will not be my intention to do anything to benefit any -- any american -- for all americans, everything that we do. >> meanwhile lights going out during the hearing of mike

pompeo, after delays, freshman democratic senator of california pressed the cia nominee on gay rights. >> and that you will not put in place any policies that would discriminate against any members because of their sexual orientation. >> i can't imagine putting in place any policy that was discriminatory with respect to any employee. >> now, looking ahead next week confirmation hearings for betsy, wilbur ross, mr. trump's pick to run the commerce department. back to you guys. abby: thank you so much. well, after coming under fire and fake news articles, facebook is now trying to clean up its act, pushing for better journalism and brand-new initiative that involves working more closely with, yes, the fox news channel. kirk, good morning. what's going on here? >> good morning to you. abby: i wasn't sure if i was reading that right.

>> you're reading it correctly. let's review here. facebook, mark zuckerberg, ceo, this is latest, we are not a media company, we have nothing to be media company. we don't influence anybody. the fact is they are a giant media company and i applaud facebook in this one move. it is at least a half step out saying we are, indeed, a giant media company. they are finally get to go that point. i could also tell you that facebook is really taking this seriously at this point. they put together their committee. he promised he would do that in december and their first action here is to end up telling people, certify serious, we are going to sit down with major media companies, fox news included, we will put thinking caps together and we are going to read out fake news that's on there. they are doing their own cleaning of the swamp. biggest nonsocial media, not a media company but the biggest social media company is now finally doing something about

it. abby: acknowledging that there's a problem. here is what they put out. they said they will work with news outlets like fox news channel, more local news, visiting news room and actually talking to journalists. question, is this going to solve the fake news problem? >> here is what it will do. this is a very self-serving effort on facebook's part, why? well, a lot of people don't understand at home that for months and months facebook has been knocking on the doors of media companies trying to promote their video, facebook made effort toward video. this is going to seal the deal in effort to try to get big media organizations to put their video and content on the facebook platform. what's that going to do? look down the road for facebook to one day be the arbitror of

what's real and fake, keep your eye on mark zuckerberg. abby: very interesting. rob, over to you. >> just about 20 minutes until 6:00 o'clock. it doesn't matter what colorado says, pot may be a lot worse for you than you think. the knew study linking serious mental illness to marijuana. also data dump, so much for those unlimited plans, cell phone company kicking customers out for using too much data. and the president pup not as cute and cudly the guest that found out the hard way.

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you thought the hillary clinton e-mail scandal was over, a brand-new twist. this time the fbi under investigation on how it handled the whole thing. >> although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case. abby: that was james comey shocking republicans back in june by refuse to go recommend charges. now the justice department wants to investigate his october surprise when he announced a new batch of clinton emails were being revisited just days before the presidential election. the democratic nominee camp claimed reopening that investigation, played a role in hillary clinton's loss. >> not so fast, the california republican is challenging the state's decision to hire former u.s. attorney eric holder. $55,000 a month to fight things like climate change and immigration and the wall.

it's unconstitutional since california law to hire outsider for jobs that can be done by state employees. >> one cell phone companies wants to punish customers who use too much of their unlimited data? >> unlimited data, cheryl casone from our sister network fox business is here to explain this, cheryl. cheryl: there are limits. verizon wireless seemed to have reached its limit with some of the customers confirming by mid-february some customers force today accept capped plans or service is going to be cut off. those customers that use more than 200 gigabytes a month will have to choose another plan or else. unlimited plan cost 50 bucks but heavy data users get ready, plans that offer 100 gigabytes or more, at verizon $450 a month. here is heavy data usage of 200

giga bites looks like, 39,400 emails sent or received.eaming . 98 hours of streaming video, netflix, the entire season of orange is the new black. seems a very small amount of customers are going to be affected unless you identify with what i just showed you. the small group, the people that are high up are going to -- they say affect the entire network, affect speed, efficiently but that hurts all verizon customers. other side of the story i want to give you, industry analysts are skeptical that it's that bad. they call this a money-grab. i will leave it for you to decide. abby: always about the money. thank you, cheryl. >> let's check in with brian kilmeade. abby: you have a star from "shark tank". brian: absolutely. i cannot get enough from that show.

he'll be talking about what's going to take to turn this economy around as well as cybersecurity and also talking to geraldo, taking apart of obamacare and mike is going to be talking about jobs that donald trump says he's keeping in this country in -- from here on in. we have the latest on the confirmation hearings yesterday, how they went, don't forget fred -- to watch the friday edition. abby: we will see you there, brian.nd do it brian: bye, guys. abby: we will be right back your company stand out.

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>> approved legally in more than half of the country, surprise, surprise, turns out that marijuana could actually be really bad for you. prolong marijuana use can cause major health problems like schizophrenia even heart attacks. medical marijuana is legal in 28 states including washington, d.c. eight states allow recreational use of pot, anybody that wants to smoke. researchers calling more ib depth look, a lack of scientific information poses a public health risk. abby: on the yeah -- tonya tucker canceling tour. tucker promise to go reschedule missed tour dates, hoping the best for her.

>> now a new movie is giving a perspective of boston marathon bombing. >> if we release the pictures we have zero control. >> we may force the guys to react. >> gentlemen, if i may, right now boston is working against us . abby: the founder kevin mccarthy joins us now with his review. it wasn't that long ago. >> right, that's why the sill m is so powerful because while it's dealing with a very negative subject matter, the inspiration and the positivity that boston share, those days coming together.

i spoke to mark what -- whalberg. he's been playing incredible human beings. here his character is a combination of different officer that is were involved in the manhunt. i spoke to him about the characters have changed his life. watch this. >> when you play -- when you're in deep water horizon, how have they changed you personally? >> i just talk today marcus the other day. we talk quite often. they made me be a better person, husband, father. this is where i grew up. i went to school 250 yards from the finish line.

when this strategy occurred, you know, everybody ran towards the problem. it just inspired me so much and made me so proud to be a bostonian. >> the film itself is incredible. peter burg has found a way to make a movie and told from multiple different perspectives. you're seeing, before, during and after, all the events and you're meeting people that are combined in helping out and there's a great line in the film, a moment where characters, patrick downs one of the people who was on the actual finish line, he said that it took weeks for these two people to come up with a hateful plan but it took seconds for love to respond. so that's why i love the film so much. i think it's a beautifully well-made film. i definitely recommend seeing it. just so you know, very r-rated. it is very intense and very

violent film. >> expected to be very real. let's talk about ben affleck. >> i love ben affleck as film maker. this is on the weaker side, unfortunately. a gangster film taking place in the prohibition era. it has very slow elements in the beginning and middle. i gave it three out of five. i did speak to ben affleck how he recreated a lot of the gun moments in the film and the action sequel, i wanted to show them something i have for 20 years, watch this. i found this the other day. my originally goodwill hunting ticket. >> wow. [laughter] >> one of the great movies ever. >> you can get without a big

huge long reset. the disadvantage, you know, pops in the car, do a take two, so we really did combination of visual effects, practical effects. >> action changed so much and what he's talking about is when the bullet hit the cars they have to reset and pull the hud off. right now they put visual effects that way they are able to recreate the scene. definitely not as strong as gone baby gone. i recommend hidden figures. most important film in 2016. >> we haven't celebrated la la land winning golden globes. >> it's going to go on to the oscars. i'm still hoping for a dead full nomination. we will see what happens. we will see what happens. abby: i didn't think i'd like it. >> yes.

[laughter] abby: time is five minutes to the top of the hour and more than a million cars just added to the exploding air bag recall, is your car one of them? >> i told you two hours ago. [laughter] >> not how things go on fox news . anchors go off while the camera is rolling.

abby: about a minute to the top of the hour. house set to vote on repealing obamacare. a resolution strips the healthcare law of its funding. fbi under investigation of hillary clinton scandal. more than one million cars added to the recall. popular ford and toyota cars like the mustang and carrola. 6million cars under recall. >> time for the good, the bad and the ugly. first the good, polar bear plunge. enjoying a snow day. making them feel like home. and a winter wonderland it was. next the bad, the obama's dog biting an 18-year-old white house guest during the tour according to tnz. sunny left a gash in the cheek. australian news anchor when o

many people show up wearing her color. >> i asked her before we came on, julie, you need to put a jacket on. >> i told you two hours ago. [laughter] >> happening on the air. not pretty. the reporter put a black jacket on. abby: "fox & friends" starts right now. >> my belief is we have to stay focus from a military that's so lethal. on the battlefield, it will be the enemy's longest day and worst days. >> what is the best possible thing we can do for somebody who is on government assistance? >> get them off of it. >> what do you consider the greatest threat of the united states of america? >> terrorism. >> fbi director james comey broke the rules, looks as if the democrats on the way out of the door are trying to leave behind