possible. what a great thing that is. fun to see. hope that everybody has a wonderful holiday like they will. thanks for joining us today. i'm dana perino. here's trace gallagher in for shep. >> president trump laid it out to the united nations, criticized america's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capitol and you'll pay a price. the vote results are in. we can see which countries backed off, sat out or stood defiant. we're waiting to see how the president follows up on his threat. hitting the road for the holidays. heavy traffic and winter storms could make life miserable for a lot of travelers. we'll show you exactly what is in store and some gridlock in washington as well. lawmakers looking to keep the federal government from shutting down tomorrow night, but so far, no deal. that's all ahead in this hour of "shepard smith reporting."

>> trace: i'm trace gallagher in for shepard smith. dozens of country at the u.n. defied president trump and didn't vote for jerusalem as the capitol of israel and move the u.s. embassy there. the president threatened to cut off monies that went against washington. this morning, plenty did. the final tally, 128-9 with dozens countries not voting either way. we'll take you to the u.n. in just a moment. the president going after democrats accused him of wanting the government to shut down. that will happen if lawmakers cannot reach a deal. the president tweets, house democrats want a shut down for the holidays in order to distract from the popular just-passed tax cuts. house republicans don't let this happen. pass the continuing resolution today and keep our government

open. the top democrat in the house minority leader, nancy pelosi, says if the government shuts down, republicans are the only ones to blame. >> news break! the reports control the congress, control the house and the senate and they have the signature in the white house. they have the votes to keep government open. they have the votes to keep government open. they don't need us to keep government open. we have never been about shutting government down. >> trace: we're waiting to see when president trump will sign the gop tax plan in to law. the chief white house correspondent john roberts is live at the white house. john? >> good afternoon. let's point out, the president left the white house a short time ago. i can show you the video of that. getting on the helicopter, marine one. there's the president walking out from the oval office and across the south lawn driveway. he's heading to walter reed medical center. he's there now. the president said he's going to visit some of the bravest people in the world and go wish them a

merry christmas. the president didn't say much on the way out other than the fact that he was going to go to walter reed. when we comes back, we'll give it another try and get him to weigh-in at least on the tax reform. getting this continuing resolution to fund government is very important to the president because he would really like to sign that tax reform bill tomorrow. initially we thought it wouldn't happen until january. then next week. now they seem to be speeding through the review process. the bill may be available to be signed tomorrow. but there's a catch. you can see, the president needs to have what are called pay-go waivers in a continuing resolution in order to sign the bill tomorrow. under pay-go, any increase in the deficit caused by spending or tax cuts has to be paid for by cuts to entitlement programs like medicare, farm subsidies, other things like that. if the president does not get the waivers, he cannot sign the bill in 2017 because those cuts would kick in almost immediately

in 2018. if he waits until january, the cuts do not kick until until 2019. so they're just anxiously awaiting what is going on in congress right now, trace, to see if they can get a continuing resolution through and get one through including pay-go waivers. trace? >> trace: yeah, john. we saw president trump's tweet blaming the democrats for a possible shut down. what else are we hearing from the white house? >> the white house doesn't seen any reason why there should be a government shut down. this is simply a continuing resolution. albeit for four weeks instead of the two weeks that we've been seeing the continuing resolutions run for. it would fund government through january 19. again, the one that came out of the rules committee in the house would include the pay-go waivers. the white house knows there's big budget battles ahead. mitch mcconnell has committed to taking up the deferred action for childhood arrivals issue, the so-called dreamers in

january. that is something that jeff flake really wanted to see. so the white house doesn't understand why democrats would stand in the way. a bit of a theory running around here that the president has said he wanted to get tax reform done before the end of the year. if the democrats balk on these pay-go waivers, that would mean the president can't make that deadline and they can say you didn't sign it by the end of the year. you had to wait until january. let's hope nobody is that petty, trace. >> trace: yeah, we talked earlier about the fact that there was a hit today to the president as well as benjamin netanyahu. how is the president responding after dozens of countries voted against the president's decision to recognize jerusalem as the capitol of israel? >> we'll have to apologize right now. we lost about half of our lights out here on the north lawn. you put the statistics up. it was 128 countries voting for that resolution. nine voted against it, including the united states, israel and

guatemala and others. no country of significance voted against the resolution. the united states has said, we're going to withhold aid to any country that votes against this. sarah huckabee sanders was asked about that here on the white house driveway earlier today. here's what she said. >> will the u.s. cut aid money to u.n. countries that voted against the president's jerusalem decision? >> i don't have an announcement on that right now but it's something that we're watching. >> is it appropriate that the president keep making the threats to cut aid? >> it's important for the president to focus on america first and the safety and security of our country. >> the president was asked about that in the cabinet room. he said let them vote against us. we'll save a lot of money. another school of thought here. the white house knows there's a lot of nations around the world that feel they have to say what they have to say and say it now and do what they have to do in

the united nations. privately they're saying different things to the white house and the white house also believes when they finally release their peace plan for israel and the palestinians sometime next year, they think that people around the world will be saying something different. trace? >> trace: looked like a big cloud came over you when the lights went out on you. gave your eyes a break. we've been out there many times. it's like if we can turn them off for a few seconds. john roberts reporting live. good to see you. >> thank you. >> trace: more than 120 countries signed on to blast the president's decision recognizing jerusalem as israel's capitol. the resolution declares the decision null and void. before that vote, nikki haley said that even if the the assembly voted against the move, the u.s. would stick to their decision. she also said she would remember this countries voted against hit. >> we'll remember it when we're called upon to make the world's

largest contribution to the united nations. and we will remember it when so many countries come calling on us as they so often do to pay even more and to use our influence for their benefit. >> of course, the win is a vote for the palestinians. palestine said thank you despite all the pressure exerted on them. so it seems at least some nations may have caved to teen trump's pressure. rick leventhal is live at the united nations. rick? >> trace, a little bit more on that. nine countries voted to support the u.s. and israel. 21 didn't show up. a total of 65 countries which in essence sided with the u.s. and israel on this. we're told that is a record for support for israel here at the

united nations. as you've pointed out, many more nations did not support the u.s. and israel here today even with the threat of lost financial support. the nations voting in opposition to moving israel's capitol to jerusalem received more than $21 billion in aid from the u.s. last year, including yemen and turkey, which introduced the resolution. those two countries collected between them close to $750 million. nearly every arab and muslim nation did support for the resolution, that includes the palestinian territories. >> i called upon you on behalf of the people to vote in favor of the resolution in order to make heard the voice of a firm right that cannot be denied and in order to take a fair position in history as to recognize principles of international law and your own resolutions and in order to combat attempts at fraud and to reject the blackmail and intimidation. >> one of the common arguments

among the arab states, the palestinians have a right to jerusalem and that this might hurt the peace process, trace. >> and what happens next, rick, in all of this? >> well, the embassy will still move according to president trump and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu who called the resolution preposterous. he said jerusalem is israel's capitol, always was, always will be and nikki haley backed that up today. >> america will put our embassy in jerusalem. that is what the american people want us to do. and it is the right thing to do. no vote in the united nations will make any difference on that. >> and now we wait to see if the president follows through on his threat to cut funding to nations that didn't support the president and moving the capitol to jerusalem. that includes yemen. we heard from a state department spokesman earlier today, trace, that said they're paying close

attention to the vote, but he noted there was a humanitarian crisis in yemen and no decisions have been made yet. >> trace: rick, live at the united nations. thank you. while the united nations is batting the ball back to president trump, so the question is does he follow-through with his threat to pull funding to nations that countries that did not back him on this decision on jerusalem. and what that might look like. that's coming up on "shepard smith reporting." i am totally blind. and non-24 can throw my days and nights out of sync, keeping me from the things i love to do. talk to your doctor, and call 844-214-2424.

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>> trace: now more on the u.n. vote on president trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as the capitol of israel. the president threatened to cut aid to the countries that voted against the u.s. and 128 of them did just that. let's bring in josh letterman from the associated press. josh, clearly no matter how you twist this around and spin it, it's a hit to president trump and to prime minister benjamin netanya netanyahu, correct? >> it is, but less of a hit that it could have been. the united states and nikki haley's office said the numbers could have been worse. if you combine the countries that voted with us or object stained, there's about 65 of them. but bad but not as bad as it could have been.

>> trace: that's the glass half full portion. they were expected 150 votes. so 193 members. yeah, you can spin that to say this could have been worse against the u.s. i want this up on the screen. this is the top ten countries. eight of the top ten countries that we give the most aid to all voted against the united states on this. you can see there's israel voted with us on afghanistan, egypt, jordan, pakistan and kenya. does it interest you that the countries that get the most aid, that had the most on the line decided to side with the u.n. on this? >> well, on the one hand, there was no realistic chance that some of those countries like egypt and jordan were going to vote with the u.s. on this. they because of their own domestic politics couldn't do anything but reject the u.s. recognition of jerusalem. but you're right, that they defied what seems like a clear threat to cut off the critical source of funding for those

nations. in way they called the president's bluff. we're seeing in the hours after this vote the trump administration start to back away from that. just a few minutes ago at the state department, the spokesman said there's been no time decision. and haley's office says this will be one factor but not the only factor. >> trace: you know what i found more interesting, josh? you look at the run down here. you have india, russia and china voting against this. israel in recent months has kind of touted them as allies. they said no, we're not going to go along with moving the israeli -- with moving the capitol to jerusalem. >> that's right. one of the reasons you're seeing close u.s. allies on the opposite side of the u.s. is it actually was the u.s. that changed position on this, not all of the other countries. under previous administrations, the u.s. believed jerusalem was a status issue that needed to be

negotiated between the parties and didn't take a position on the issue. that changed under trump. so the other countries are staying consistent as far as their view how the capitol issue needs to be addressed. as a result with this vote, they found themselves on the opposing end of donald trump. >> trace: quickly, the president's threat to pull money away from those countries, you think it happens? >> i think probably not. there could be some symbolic, we're going to cut a small amount to show we're not happy with this. the fact of the matter is, we give this money to these countries for strategic reasons for us. egypt is fighting a major insurgency in the sinai peninsula. it's very important for our own security and other interests that we have these relationships with those countries. for that reason, i anticipate that aid will continue. >> trace: but the president is very high on loyalty. josh lederman, associated press. thank you. >> thanks. >> trace: looks like a late night on capitol hill as

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>> trace: lawmakers are working on a plan to keep the government running past tomorrow and our senior producer for capitol hill, chad pergram, says they could be in for a long night. let's go live to peter doocy. what are the big sticking points right now with this, peter? >> the biggest one might be that the package reauthorizes fisa, a way that the law enforcement can spy on people. senator rand paul already threatening a filibuster is there is any serious discussion

about a long-term extension of that provision. less controversial that we're seeing, funding for the children's health insurance program and a little bit more money for the military. >> my understanding is the how will pass or likely to pass, certainly going to vote on, a measure that will keep the government funding and extend spending for a number of weeks. has a bump on the defense side, which we badly need for missile defense and repairing damaged ships. it's actually urgent. >> the senate is able to make changes for the house if the house can send something over. as of right now, the senate is not expected to make those changes. trace? >> trace: and the democrats, peter? what do they say? >> they've been talking about daca, trace. it sounds like they're planning to use -- the fight over the dream act and the legal status of people brought to this

country illegally as children as leverage over republicans the next time that they need to talk about the budget, which is just a few days before the state of the union in january. >> this is an issue we have a moral imperative to solve here in congress. so democrats want to make sure that we have equal bargaining. we're not going to allow things like disaster relief go forward without discussing some of the other issues we care about that i mentioned. >> schumer mentioned it also being considered today, $81 billion in government assistance for the victims of natural disasters. that is something that conservative groups like the heritage noundation and the club for growth are urging republicans to vote no on. they're not satisfied because there's no offsets. so spending without cuts elsewhere. so if that is going to pass, chances are it's going to have to be with a lot of democratic

support in the house, trace. >> trace: peter doocy live for us on capitol hill. thank you. we're getting a look at how some companies are changing their spending as a result of the republican tax plan. the fox business network's connell mcshane is live in new york. connell? >> well, you know, trace, companies will save a lot of money on this tax cut plan. no doubt about that. the corporate rate coming down from 35 to 21. banking, for example, outside of wells fargo here in new york city. the banks pay high rates under the current system. so wells fargo with the savings it has is planning to boost the minimum wage. we'll take a look at the other announcements from companies. they've been all over the place. at&t, a billion in investments in the united states, $1,000

bonuses to employees. we talked about wells fargo. the key in talking to experts about this, you have to look at the companies saying they're going to hire or saying they're going to boost wages. the economists say that is more beneficial long-term for the economy than a one-time bonus, trace. >> trace: connell, the democrats are pointing out that a bunch of companies bought back stock ahead of the votes, right? >> yeah. saw some comments about senator schumer about that. a number of democrats have been pointing that out. a lot of companies announcing stock buy backs. home depot is one, oracle is another. the economists that we speak to say there's nothing wrong with buying back your own stock. it helps out investors. certainly can help out the company. can help out the stock market. the argument from democrats has been that you get less bang for

the buck long-term for the workers. they go back that hiring and wages are more important. it's still early. the bill has not been sign yet. some companies boosting wages, others buying back stock. we'll see how it plays out. >> trace: some companies acted fast. connell mcshane is live. the developments are now coming in in the investigation into russian's election meddling. a former justice department deputy and the number 2 at the fbi today answering questions in front of lawmakers. that's ahead. but first, the unannounced and high profile visitor at guantanamo bay in two minutes. [ keyboard clacking ]

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>> i'm lea gabrielle a fox report. more headlines from the fox news deck. james matt tis making a rare and unannounced trip to guantanamo bay. he's the first defense secretary to visit the military prison in cuban in 16 years. he met with troops there but didn't talk about the future of gitmo under the trump administration. a fire tearing through an eight-story building hurting 29. this happened south and east of seoul south korea. a fire official tells the a.p. that some victims were using a public path and making them hard to escape. the vatican holding a funeral for a cardinal accused of covering up a child abuse scandal.

the church forced bernard law to step down as the leader of boston's arch diocese but gave him a new job in rome. the new continues with trace gallagher after this.

>> trace: a justice department official facing questions on capitol hill on the russia investigation. the former associate deputy attorney general bruise ohr is testifying. fox news has reported the justice department demoted ohr after he concealed meetings with fusion gps, the company behind the trump dossier. ohr's wife worked at the same firm during the election. this comes after president trump was warned that firing robert mueller would be a gross abuse of power. >> firing mr. mueller or any other of the top brass involved

in this investigation would not only call into question this administration's commitment to the truth but also to our most basic concept rule of law. >> president trump has said he has no plans to get rid of mueller, but some of the president's allies have criticized the special counsel's team accusing some members and former members of political bias. the deputy attorney general overseeing the investigation told congress that he sees no reason to fire mueller. house and senate investigators along with special counsel robert mueller are looking to russia's meddling in the 2016 presidential election. the white house and russian president vladimir putin has said there's no collusion. let's bring in katelyn burns here for real clear politics. seems that no matter how many times the trump administration comes out and says we're not going to fire mueller, the democrats say oh, we're not

buying that. >> right. you heard it every turn that democrats really want to protect the integrity of this investigation. even though the president and the white house have said that they don't plan on firing robert mueller, there is the real question here about who else that this ire might be trained at. the president is very frustrated with jeff sessions who recused himself from the investigation and then this all spiralled from that. also, rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general who you mentioned was on capitol hill recently testifying as well saying look, the mueller investigation, i have confidence in it. so on that hand, you also have on the other hand republicans that are trying to also undermine the investigation pointing to those text exchanges, the e-mails, raising questions about that. >> trace: you mentioned rod

rosenstein. it's important to point out that he did said look, bruce ohr had nothing to do with the russian investigation at all. >> right. republicans on the committee have been pointing to the dossier and raising questions about whether that was admitted for opening this investigation and in fact it's not been proven. so that's important to know. look, there's lots of politics at play here. the russia investigation is something that is very top of mind and interesting to the democratic base and also something that the republican base is very interested in terms of trying to play down the significance here. >> trace: right. but if you are reading this as a novel, it's cozy. you can see while bruce ohr did meet with christopher steele, the author of the dossier and his wife works for fusion gps. we thought well, maybe we should look into this deeper. >> that's what the republicans

are trying to play up here. that combined with text messages, fuels the argument. it also does raise questions whenever you have republicans out there talking about robert mueller, talking about how they don't like where this investigation is going and also, of course, raises the question of okay, what is behind that. why not let this play out and then make decisions later about the conclusion. >> trace: not only what is behind it but how deep does it go. this goes all the way back to the obama administration. they're laying the bach administration, the campaign, the obamacare campaign paid a law firm that was supposed to pay fusion gps and we should point out that fusion gps is known for getting opposition research. so it's natural. but the question goes, when did this start and where does it end. >> and aspartames to the mueller

investigation. you have had a lot of high profile indictments and charges here. you know, you've had four people connected to the trump campaign indicted. you've had two who pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi. so it just shows that this probe is expansive and that is why democrats want to preserve the integrity of it and make sure that the president doesn't move to fire anybody kind of involved in this. there's a lot of republicans that don't want the president to make any moves on this as well. want him to focus on things that he should be focused on like the economy, the tax bill that they want to sell as examples. >> trace: what are you hearing on end game, katelyn? is the mueller investigation going to take weeks more or are we talking months? what is your feel on that? >> right. i think that this is something that doesn't show signs of wrapping any time soon, particularly after mike flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the

fbi. we know that he's talking with mueller, cooperating with that investigation. so that raises questions about what else could possibly come from this. republicans and the white house have said that they hope this ends soon. i don't think we've seen any evidence so far of this wrapping up any time soon. >> yeah, i haven't seen it either. caitlin, thank you. >> thank you. >> trace: well, north korean soldier used a cloud of thick fog to help him cross the heavily guarded border separating the two koreas and defect safely into the south. that according to south korean military officials. they say it happened in a remote section of the demilitarized zone which stretches about 150 miles or more. south korean officials fired shots at troops from north korea that were trying to chase the defector. it's the fourth time this year that a north korean soldier has defected. you may recall, another soldier

used a jeep to make a dramatic escape. he was shot five times as he ran to freedom, though he did survive. meantime, police in australia say the man that drove his s.u.v. into a crowd of people has a history of drug and mental health problems. but they say they have found no evidence of terrorism. happened outside a train station in melbourne. that's along australia's southern coast. witnesses say the streets were crowded with christmas shoppers when a man sped through a red light and hit people with his car. police say he injured 19 people before he crashed into a traffic barrier. an off duty police officer helped stop the suspect that is australian citizen of after again descent. while cops say they don't think it's terrorism, they say this was no accident. jonathan hunt is here with the latest. jonathan? >> nothing definitively ruled out at this point, trace. nothing definitively ruled in.

clearly officials at the moment are leaning away from the terrorism connection. what they say they have is a man in custody who was originally from afghanistan, but an australian citizen. a man with mental health issues. a man with drug use issues. reportedly missed a medical appointment earlier in the day. something triggered his decision to drive into the middle of a crowd of holiday shoppers in the middle of rush hour. an attack while it may not have been terrorism, was certainly terrifying. listen here. >> this is horrific. it's evil. we're not defined by these sorts of incidents. i'm confident we will go about our business and celebrate christmas. >> 19 injured, four of them still in critical condition. the youngest of the victims, a 4-year-old boy. the eldest an 80-year-old. it's just about 7:40 a.m. friday morning in melbourne, australia. as we understand it, trace,

police are due to start interviewing this guy any moment now. >> horrifying. it's not the first time we've seen this type of attack. >> it's not. we've seen these types of attacks around the world. the one that we're familiar with came in october when a man drove a truck down a new york city bike path killing eight. london has had two similar attacks this year. both linked to islamic extremism. in april, five people were killed in a shopping street in stockholm, sweden. last december, of course, right around this time of year, 12 people died in a vehicle attack on a christmas market in berlin, germany. the deadliest of all of these attacks came in july 2016 when a man drove a huge truck into a crowd in nice, franks killing 86. it's no surprise that police forces across the united states and around the world are on alert for exactly this kind of attack during this holiday

season, trace. >> trace: seems to be a rental car things. >> yes. very difficult to stop. >> trace: jonathan, thank you. while an american man faces years in and indonesian prison for trying to pick up a shipment of medical marijuana in bali is back in custody after he escaped for five days. police paraded the california native in front of reporters. chrissian beasley says he has a license to use medical marijuana and said he escaped after faces extortion threats behind bars. >> i have a license to use it for medical reasons. but they want to give me four years or more. in jail they threatened me for protection money. this is why i leave. i have medical report from my doctor here and in america of why i use gunsa. >> as cops let him away, the american said i need help. beasley's family says they have reached out to the officials and are very concerned about his

health. while a record number of americans are expected to travel this holiday weekend, no surprise there, but forecasters say multiple winter storms -- can you see them at the airport? set to hit areas in the u.s. in coming days. up next, forecast that shows what you can expect for the holiday traveling season.

>> trace: well, today could be the busiest day for drivers in what is expected to be the busiest holiday travel season in history. the worst of it set to begin right now on the east coast and what analysts are calling three hours of hell. in some areas, if you are planning to wait until the weekend to get moving, winter storms could make a mess of your plans. we have team fox coverage. chief meteorologist rick reichmuth has more on that. first, the fox business network's jeff flock is live in a car in chicago. jeff, what is it like there?

>> in a traffic jam as we speak right now, trace, as a matter of fact. we're on the kennedy express way in chicago. you're right. this is the hour that it kind of kicks off in a lot of cities around the country. if you take a look at a map, it's actually chicago, d.c., boston, atlanta. they're all expected to really hit high traffic peaks right about now between the hours of 3:00 and 6:00 as people get off from work and begin to head out. this is the busiest travel day when it comes to cars of the year, of the holiday. >> yeah, and because the economy is humming, that's the whole reason that they're saying this could be the busiest holiday travel season ever. it's that and the roads, jeff. what do we expect if we're flying for the holidays? >> yeah, it's tomorrow for that in terms of the busiest travel day of the year. i think the figure is about 6.5 million people expected to travel by air tomorrow. that's an increase of 4%, even

more so than an increase on the roads. you know, this is the time of the year the airlines get to make their money because the place is packed. in chicago, they're forecasting fog. that could be, you know, throw a whole monkey wrench into the works. o'hare in the middle of everything. in terms of where people are going? well, you know, buy disney stock. apparently the survey says that most people are going to orlando or anaheim when it comes to holiday travel by air. i think cancun, mexico is the next on the list. so someplace warm. not chicago. that's for sure. trace? >> trace: is there a disney in cancun, jeff? jeff flock live in the car. >> there should be. >> trace: there should be, right? thanks, jeff. meantime, a fox weather alert. forecasters are warning about

three winter storms that could affect travel over the weekend. parts of the central u.s. already getting snow today as we mark the first day of winter. the first storm expected to hit tomorrow. the chief meteorologist rick reichmuth is live in the weather center. hi, rick. >> jeff can stare forward at the same time. we have some storms. today is the big rush hour traffic. the major cities not bad. one storm brewing across the central planes over towards the denver area. that's where the genesis of the storm is. it's bringing snow all the way across the northern plains. that storm is one that will develop and move towards the northeast tomorrow and be a really complicated and ugly mess for us tomorrow, especially across new england. this is what the future radar looks like throughout the overnight hours and towards tomorrow. tomorrow you notice the storms here across parts of the south. some of those could be severe. you'll notice in to the northeast, we have snow that will be starting as snow across

parts of new england. some spots maybe 6-12 inches in the interior, higher elevations. then it's going to start moving to a freezing rain situation. we might see 1/4 inch of freezing rain develop friday night into saturday and then it becomes all rain eventually with the storm. that said, i think we'll see a lot of power outages and a really rough friday and saturday anywhere getting in or out of the northeast. as far as travel delays tomorrow, the storms that we have here across the central part of the country, we'll see airport delays. things in the west are looking good. getting ready for another storm that moves in saturday into saturday night. then we have the storms continuing throughout the day saturday. we'll keep you posted on this in the fox weather center. right now, "shepard smith reporting." we'll be right back. liberty mutual stood with me when this guy got a flat tire in the middle of the night, so he got home safe. yeah, my dad says our insurance doesn't have that. what?! you can leave worry behind when liberty stands with you™.

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>> trace: need to do some last-minute christmas shop something amazon is offering to deliver some products in two hours for prime members in certain areas. the fox business network's deidra bolton put amazon to the test in one of its prime hubs in midtown manhattan. hi, deidra. >> hi, trace. we certainly did. you said it. i want to give you some stats on this to begin with. we're in midtown manhattan. usually you don't find this much square footage. 50 cities around the u.s., nine different countries, 30 to 50,000 square feet. you mentioned the two hour delivery time. that comes if you're a prime member. so trace, put in your zip code. you get this inventory list of the 25,000 things that are here. as you said, in manhattan, someone will bring it to you

either by bike, van, subway, on foot. whatever it takes. so we did put the system to the test. so earlier today, we sent our colleague, stewart varney. we ordered something. so it went into one of these little scan guns. that is the first step. then basically you go in to these stacks. so the camera man will move around and just give you a shot of what is in the stacks. when you see them, trace, you'll see that all of those items, they actually look fairly disorganized. there's kind of like sericerealh amazon tablets. it's a mix match. but the algorithms sort it so the correct items get into these very old-fashioned looking but not at all old fashioned when it comes to the bar codes, the packages and then to the elevators and out the door. so stuart varney's team wanted to send them a dvd and took 50 minutes between this location on

fifth avenue and 36th street to our studios at 48th and sixth. and his team what they picked out for stuart, they picked out the dvd, "the grinch that stole christmas." i'm sure stuart is not offended at all. >> trace: no, he's a sweetheart of a man. thanks, deidra. fascinating look behind the scenes. thanks so much. we'll be right back with a look at one of the final events that led to the fall of the soviet union. ...at t. rowe price... ...we've helped our investors stay confident for over 75 years. call us or your advisor. t. rowe price. invest with confidence.

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>> trace: on this day in 1991, 11 of the 12 soviet republics took a crucial step in the collapse of the ussr. boris yeltsin signed a commonwealth of an independent state. it kept some soviet agreements in place. but four days after the announcement, gorbachev stepped down. a week later, the ussr was no

more after all but one republic broke away 26 years ago today. the dow is up a little bit. no surprise. i'm trace gallagher in for shepard smith. "your world" with neil cavuto right now. >> neil: headed for this accomplishment. it's a mount of frankenstein. >> the frankenstein! >> anybody that is familiar with frankenstein knows that it was a creation, a monster created. >> doctor, i'm sorry. >> don't worry. >> you know the ending of the story? the monster comes back to destroy. >> good, good! >> what's the matter?