you can watch them run around february 4, super bowl sunday. thanks for joining us. we have come to the end. i'm dana perino. here's shep. >> shepard: it's noon on the west coast, 3:00 in washington on a very busy news day. first, president trump and his team trying to discredit the new book on his administration. they say it's packed full of lies. but the author stands by his stories. both sides ahead. the special counsel, robert mueller, investigating whether the president tried to keep jeff sessions from recusing himself from the russia investigation. we'll look at whether that could count toward an obstruction case. hillary clinton with troubles of her own. a source tells fox news the justice department is investigating whether she made policy promises in exchange for donations to the clinton foundation while she was secretary of state. a spokesman for secretary

clinton calls it a sham. a lot to cover and we'll see what gets traction. let's get to it. first from the fox news deck this friday afternoon, president trump set to meet with the republican congressional leaders at camp david right now. he's apparently trying to change the subject after attacking the controversial new book about his administration, which came out this morning. here's what the president told reporters while leaving the white house this afternoon. >> hi, everybody. i'm going over with the senators. we're going to camp david. we have a lot of things to work on, a lot of things to accomplish. the stock market is up very big today. we've set new records and i think they will be continued to be set. the tax cuts are really kicking in far beyond what anyone thought. >> shepard: the president ignored shouted questions about the book. more on his camp david meeting in just a moment. the book's author, michael

wolff, says he had inside access to the white house. he says he conducted interviews, hundreds of interviews, including with the president, senior staffers and other insiders with something of a permanent seat in the west wing. he today "the today show" that he noticed a major theme from the accounts he received. >> everyone around the president, senior advisers, family members, every one of them questions his intelligence and fitness for office. >> let me put a marker in the sand here. 100% of the people around him. >> the president says he never gave an interview for the book. michael wolff says he absolutely did speak to the president. he says the president may not have realized it was an interview but his talks were on the record. the president tweeted "i authorized zero access to the white house. actually turned him down many times, for author of phony book. i never spoke to him for book.

full of lies. misrepresentations and sources that don't exist. look at this guy's past and watch what happens to him and sloppy steve." sloppy steve is the new nickname that president trump has come up with for his former chief strategist, steve bannon. in the book, bannon questions whether the president is competent. he calls the trump tower meeting with the russian lawyer treasonous. the president's later sent a cease and desist letter to bannon saying he violated a nondisclosure agreement. similar letters went out to michael wolff demanding the same. instead, the publisher moved up the release by four days till this morning. michael wolff says he's has recordings to back up his reporting. he fired back at the president for questioning his credibility. >> i have recordings, i have notes. i am certainly and absolutely in

every way comfortable with everything i've reported in this book. >> would you release any of those recordings since your questioned ability is being questioned? >> my credibility is being questioned by a man who has less credibility than perhaps anyone who has ever walked on earth at this point. >> here on fox news channel, the white house press secretary sarah sanders said all of this shows a lack of mental fitness to the question of the president's mental fitness. >> it's absolutely insane to think all of these individuals, reporters and others, that all of a sudden have a medical degree and think they can diagnose somebody many times that they have never had a conversation with. what i think is really mentally unstable is people that don't see the positive impact that this president is having on the con try. >> shepard: she's said that wolffs facts don't add up. much more on the book ahead with chris wallace. first, the president's agenda at camp david retreat with

republican leaders. garrett tenney is live in washington with more. garrett? >> there's a lot that gop leaders are hoping to get to, including what their legislative priorities will be the coming year. first up on the discussions today we're told are the landscape in the house and the senate for the 2018 mid-term elections. republicans are expected to face tough battles in the house. leaders have suggested the mid-terms will play a role in what their plans are the next several months. tomorrow the discussions will shift to a number of policy issues the gop is hoping to tackle this year. infrastructure, national security tax policy, next year's budget and daca. with daca, they're expected to discussion the ongoing negotiations with democrats to pass a budget before the government runs out of money two weeks from today. those negotiations have stalled this week. kevin mccarthy said he's still hopeful that they can reach a deal. >> the whole issue when it comes to daca is not due until march.

there's a plan forward. securing the border, dealing with chain migration. >> democrats are insisting that spending bill include as permanent fix for daca, to allow those brought to the country illegally as children to stay and republicans insist immigration be department with separately. next week, trump will meet with democrats to see if he can bring the two sides closer together. >> shepard: garrett, the president ordered the top white house lawyer to stop jeff sessions from recusing himself from the justice department's russia investigation. the special counsel running the investigation knows about it. "the new york times" broke the story and the associated press confirms it. the attorney general sessions did end up recusing himself saying it was because of his involvement with the trump campaign. the times reports the president erupted in anger when he found

out and expected his attorney general to protect him. like he said, robert kennedy protected his brother, president john f. kennedy. the special counsel, robert mueller, is looking into interference in the election, possible collusion and whether the president tried to obstruct the investigation. the president insists there was no collusion. the white house is not commenting on the report. back to garren tenney in washington. >> according to the reports, part of the reason is in the midst of lawmakers calling on sessions to recuse himself, the president made a direct appeal to his attorney general not to step aside. that appeal came from don mcgann. in june, the attorney general refused to answer questions from lawmakers about the president's

frustration with that decision. >> it's my judgment that it would be inappropriate for me to answer and reveal private conversations with the president when he is not -- has not had a full opportunity to review the questions and to make a decision on whether or not to approve such an answer. >> yeah, this new report is bringing a cascade for trump administration officials to step down including jeff sessions and don mcgann. >> it's pretty clear that mcgann should no longer have a position in the white house, that he was not representing the united states constitution, not representing the american people but representing donald trump really as in a private attorney and that is just completely inappropriate. >> as you mentioned, northeaster white house or the president's personal attorneys are responding to the reports. if accurate, it would be the

latest example of the president's actions raising questions of obstruction of justice. that issue also came up when the president asked former fbi director james comey to see if he could find a way to end the investigation into michael flynn. >> shepard: there's no question, the book is the news in washington. michael wolff writes that 100% of the people around the president question his fitness for office. that they invariably said he acts like a child. how is this playing in washington? "fox news sunday" chris wallace joins with us more on this coming up from the fox news deck on this friday afternoon. smile dad. i take medication for high blood pressure and cholesterol. but they might not be enough to protect my heart. adding bayer aspirin can further reduce the risk of another heart attack. because my second chance matters. be sure to talk to your doctor

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fairfax, virginia, which is quite a haul, to get a couple copies for us. look, it's a big deal. it's a hot topic. having said that, i've been through some of these tell-all books before with prior presidents. it will be a fuss for a while and move on. there's one, maybe two potential fall-outs that are serious from the book. one is to steve bannon that said things he shouldn't have said in this book and seems to have taken a lot of damage from his supporters for having done that. and the other is that it does and a lot of it comes from bannon's comments, adds fuel to the fire of the special counsel. he talks about this meeting with the russian lawyer at trump tower with don jr. and jared kushner that bannon calls treasonous. he suggested the possibility of money laundering in terms of a relationship with russia. that will definitely be something that robert mueller is

going to have to and probably want to look into. >> shepard: chris, aside from the 30,000 foot view, michael wolff writes that 100% of the people around the president question his fitness for office. question. if you are of the belief that the president of the united states is unfit, if you have access to the most powerful man in the world, the man in charge of a nuclear arsenal that can annihilate the president and you believe he is mentally or other white unfit, you have an obligation to step forward. not to talk to a writer who has a semi-permanent seat in the west wing. you're duty bound to say i don't believe donald trump is fit for office and we're in danger as a result. do you not? >> yeah, that's probably true. there's a big if in there. you have to assume he's mentally

unfit. i've spoken to a lot of top administration officials and i have never heard anybody say that. people raise their eyebrows about the way he does business, but i've certainly never heard anybody suggest that they think he's unfit to be president. remember, his the duly elected president of the united states. 60 million people voted for him to be president. i certainly don't know there's anything that he's done so far. you can say a lot of it is unconventional. i'm not sure he's done anything that has endangered the country. there's a big leap there between saying we need to have him removed from office and the current state of affairs. >> shepard: i got the copy on kindle this morning. the opening salvos or the meeting in his greenwich village apartment, roger ailes was there, the matter of russia came up. our former boss in these

conversations, if accurately quoted, was concerned about russia and president trump said at the time, jared has this. it's going to be okay. from there, they moved on. it seems that even from then and before, these concerns about russia were front and center. >> well, sure. we see it continuing today. as you noted, there's a new report in "the new york times" that the president ordered his counsel, don mcgann to go back -- i guess this was in february to the attorney general, jeff sessions and try to persuade him not to recuse himself from the russia investigation. >> shepard: if so, obstruction? >> you know, it's an interesting question. there's certainly some incidents that raise eyebrows about the fact that trump supposedly said to james comey, according to comey, go easy on michael flynn or drop the investigation of flynn. this question, why did he fire

comey in the first place? why did he try to -- before that try to get sessions not to recuse himself? on the other hand, shep, you know, one of the things i wonder about here, it's obstruction of justice to stop an investigation into what? we still have no what there. it seems to me it's hard to make a case the president -- in watergate, we knew they were trying to obstruct justice in investigating the watergate crime and what turned out an effort to destabilize the democrats during the election. but there's no evidence of collusion between the trump campaign and russia. so it's going to be hard to prove obstruction of justice if there's no underlying crime. >> shepard: one more thing. mike allen writing today that on the heels of the publication of this book, a half dozen or so senior washington types in the administration are considering resigning. do you know anything about that? >> i don't know anything about that. i very much doubt they will resign because of the book.

there's a number of people we've heard about over recent months, gary cohn, the national economic adviser, rex tillerson, none of them announced yet. there's been talk about them leaving. i will say one that there is a turnover after the first year. i think some people are frustrated with dealing with this president and the way he does business. it's certainly controversial, but a long step away. we need to say this. it's a long step away from any indication that he's unfit to be president. i will tell you that i have talked to the president on the record,'s talked to him in situations that are off the record. i certainly -- i've never seen any sign. i don't deal with him daily, but i've never seen any sign that the man is upfit to be president of the president. >> shepard: people close to him believe that he is unfit for reasons that i don't have any knowledge about, but that's what michael wolff writes, if they believe that, they have the duty to come forward. if they believe that that is not true, no matter which party, they need to come forward, too,

don't they? >> to come forward and say -- >> shepard: michael wolff says that every single person in his orbit, 100% of them say they question his fitness to serve. if it's not true, we need to hear from them. if it's true, we damn sure need to hear from him. >> shepard: a lot of people have already said that they didn't say things that are in the book. sarah huckabee sanders says it's all fanned see. the answer is it's somewhere in the middle. he's not unfit to be president. he certainly has his erratic moments and not unlike any other president we've dealt with her. it's not black or white. it's gray. we should point out, we've had the tell-all books before. this is explosive. i promise you, a week from now we'll be on to something else. >> shepard: chris wallace from "fox news sunday" that airs this sunday on "fox news sunday." cia director mike pompeo that

gives the president daily briefings and corey lewandowski, president trump's former campaign manager, a lot about corey lewandowski in this book. that's this sunday on "fox news sunday" on your local stations. fox news has confirmed the fbi investigating the clinton foundation and if there were favors for donations. what we've learned, how the clinton campaign is responding. that is next from fox news channel. america's choice for news and information on cable.

>> shepard: we learned today that the justice department has been investigating the clinton foundation. specifically whether officials promised favors in exchange for donations while hillary clinton was secretary of state. the hill broke the story and

sources tell fox news the investigation has been underway for months now. a spokesman for secretary clinton calls the investigation a sham and an attempt by the trump administration to distract the public from his russia investigation. our chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is live with more. you first reported the clinton foundation was under scrutiny in 2016. is this a continuation of that or brand new? >> this appears to be a continuation and an expansion of the original information we had about two years ago this month. a source familiar with the case is telling fox news that the investigation is being lead by the u.s. attorney's office and the fbi in little rock, arkansas. they are considering whether the clinton foundation, an event from november 2017, violated tax law promising or delivering favors in exchange for donations or gifts. we're also told multiple witnesses have been interviewed. this morning the white house press secretary told fox the

investigation is warranted. >> i think that's good news. certainly i think there have been a lot of things that give us cause for concern. i think it's a great thing that it's being looked at. we'll have to wait and see what happens. there's certainly been a lot of information out there that i think gives all of us cause for concern. and i think it's important that they're finally taking a look at it. we'll see what comes from it. >> clinton's spokesman said the clinton foundation has been subjected to politically motivated allegations and they have been found to be false. shep? >> shepard: fox news has learned that lawmakers are investigating russian meddling and possible collusion. we'll get access to all investigative documents. this is after a deal with devin nunes. catherine, what is this about?

>> congressman nunes is back in the headlines in a major way after an ethic committee cleared him from releasing information. under this new agreement, select house investigators get access to all remaining russian documents and eight key witnesses to include fbi agent peter strzok that sent anti-trump messages and lisa paige, james baker who was reassigned and a new addition to the list, the fbi's head of counter intelligence, bill presept. this group is significant because they were part of what director comey called his inner circle. a house intelligence committee democrat accuses republicans of limiting resources so they can't follow up on credible leads. without getting into specifics, the congressman alleged that he's seen evidence of legal

violations. >> do you believe that you heard evidence of crime committed by members of this administration? >> yes. >> do you believe that your republican colleagues understand those to have been crimes, potential crimes? >> i think some folks have decided to bury their heads in the sand. >> in a separate development, a short time ago, two senior republicans released this letter referring former british spy, christopher steele, the person that did the leg work for the trump dossier, referred him to the justice department for criminal investigation. senators grassley and graham accuse steele of lying to investigators about his distribution of the dossier, which included several reporters, shep. >> shepard: thanks, katherine. >> you're welcome. >> shepard: and talks of north and south korea are on the calendar. will they help? and jeopardy host alex trebek off the air after brain surgery.

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>> i'll lea gabrielle with a fox report. more of today's headlines. carbon monoxide killed a 13-year-old girl and poisoned several, including first responders. that is according to officials across from staten island. the building had carbon monoxide detectors, but they didn't work. one tourist is dead after a hot air balloon crashed in egypt. strong winds caused the pilot to lose control. the tourists were from south africa, spain and argentina. and alex trebek taking a break from "jeopardy" after he had brain surgery. blood clots were removed after a bad fall. trebek says he expecting to be

back soon. the news continues with shepard smith after this.

>> hopeful developments from the korean peninsula. north korea has accepted south cry's offer to meet for talks next week, this comes after president trump and the south korean president agreed to delay military exercises in seoul next month during the olympics. the white house said to do it for the security of the games and maximum pressure will continue. greg palkot with more. what do we know about the talks, greg? >> shep, we might be looking at a possible warming of a cool relation on that korean peninsula. officials will be meeting at the dmz in the peace house. the last face to face was in december of 2015. the word came via a fax today from the north using a north-south communications

hotline that hasn't been used in years as another positive sign. the talks are supposed to be dealing with north korea's participation in the upcoming winter olympics in the south. but along with the olympics, both sides are saying improving relations between north and south could be on the agenda. some are concerned that kim jong-un is trying to drive a wedge between the u.s. and south korea. for the record, the united states is behind the talks, shep. >> shepard: chinese officials say they're going to cut down on exports to north korea, which also sounds positive. >> certainly is positive. let's see if it happens. it's been a problem with china, that they haven't done that. today they said that starting this weekend, they'll be limiting exports of oil and gas to north korea. they'll be banning sales of steel and machinery. cutting back on certain imports from pyongyang. china says this is in line with u.n. sanctions against north korea for its missile and nuclear programs. this is also aimed at isolating the country.

china, as we all know, the most important trading partner with north korea. the strongest ally. again, violations of the sanctions by china has riled the united states and the international community. let's see. >> shepard: with china you have to watch what they do while listening to what they said. let's go to gordon chang, author of "nuclear show down." will they do it is the question. >> only if the trump administration forces them to comply with u.n. sanctions, this is really been the story of china. when sanctions are put in place by the u.n., the chinese make a big show of complying. they'll issue these pronouncements and actually do something for a couple months. when the united states isn't paying attention, they do back to doing the old way of doing things, which is supporting north korea. this will be the same thing unless the administration makes it clear to the chinese they can't get away with it. on december 28, you had that tweet from president trump saying look, the chinese have been caught red-handed.

we'll see what trump does, whether he actually enforces this or not. >> shepard: the talks, the hotline between north and south korea had been shut down for the better part of a couple years. now at least they're talking. scheduling talks for next week. do you see this as hopeful or just chatter? >> yeah, i think this is hopeful, of course, when you have the north and south koreans talking to each other. they're not killing each other. that's a good thing. the problem is kim jong-un in his new year's address hinted that sanctions were starting to bite. that's why he's talking to the south koreans. he wants the south koreans to start to shovel them some money. they can't do that because of u.n. sanctions. there's a history of north korean overtures followed by military provocations. i'm sure kim jong-un is what is happening in iran. the north koreans pay iran about 10% of their gdp. if there's a new leader, that will go away and kim jong-un will get desperate. >> what the united states wants and probably what the world wants is for the north koreans

the begin dismantling their nuclear arsenal. that's what the president has demanded. now jennifer griffin says if there's not signs of said dismantling, the united states may take a preemptive strike on the korean peninsula. what sort of effect would that knowledge have on the north korean dictator? >> i think that they would try first of all to try to deter the u.s. with this thing about in the new year's address with the button on my desk. we can reach the entire u.s. mainland. that's deterrence. don't attack me. the other thing that will happen, china won't let that occur. in august beijing signalled that the u.s. attacked first, china would come in on north korea's side. that could take my forms. if we strike north korea first, china could cause trouble in the south china sea. you can see the russians go after the baltics. we could see asia be -- >> shepard: sounds like a world war. >> it's close.

it's asia being embroiled on both sides. this could spread fast. that's the danger here. when you have senator lindsey graham say they're deaths only over there. that's one scenario that could spread. the chinese and the russians could get into a nuclear exchange with the united states. i'm not saying it's going to happen. but that's a possibility that the hawks need to talk about. >> shepard: we get caught up in the day-to-day on north korea and everything else. if you look at this from 30,000 feet, which you're wanting to do, are things with north korea improving or are they getting worse or are they about the same? >> i think they're pretty much about the same. the thing i'm concerned about, a lot of the air, a lot of the vigor in the president's campaign has left. the last couple months he's not done much. this is important. trump has said he will never let

them have the capability to strike the homeland. that's nine months away, a year away. if you're not doing much on sanctions and letting time pass, it means the chance of war would go up if you believe what trump is going to say. i hope that things work themselves out, but we do need to see more sanctions enforcement. by the way, shep, the north koreans can already strike the u.s. right now with an electromagnetic pulse device. they don't need guidance or heat shielding. the only two missing elements from what they have. they could do an emp attack on the u.s. and that would be devastating. it would paralyze the us. >> shepard: thanks, gordon. a top pakistani official is accusing the u.s. of betrayal after the trump administration said they will suspend all military aid. president trump tweeted that pakistan has given us nothing but lies and deceit. the president accused that country of providing a safe haven to terrorists.

the state department official said that they are holding back an estimated $1 billion in military aid unless and until pakistan takes decisive action to get rid of those safe havens. rich edson is our man at the state department. rich? >> the pakistan ambassador to the united states is saying that president trump's new year day tweet, the one about lies and deceit, surprised his government. took them off guard. in a quote be, this stand-off statement had not been received well in pakistan because pakistan thought that we're a friend and ally of the united states. when we hear the words like lies and deceit, that somehow i think did not go down well with the people of pakistan. he says the united states, through a senior white house official, not through the state department, notified his government wednesday that the united states would be suspending the security assistance and the u.s. made the official announcement through the state department on thursday on all of this. he says pakistan has fought to

clear terrorists from its territory and in fact, that there's terrorist organizations in afghanistan and launching attacks in pakistan. if there would be a diplomatic retaliation against the united states for this, he said his government does not want a confrontation with the united states. they want a good relationship and they want to work through this, shep. >> shepard: as i mentioned, the state department official says it's up to pakistan to earn that military aid. >> that's right. u.s. officials and state department officials are saying that they have been communicating for months with what they call their i'm providence frustration with pakistan over this situation and their refusal to take action. the scenario according to the u.s., you have terrorist organizations getting sanctuary in pakistan, planning attacks and launching attacks on forces and allies in afghanistan and that they have known about this, the u.s. has voiced complaints about this and still pakistan has not addressed this. it's not only a problem here,

but something that they have brought up to the pakistani government for years, shep, this is a relationship that is really been through its ups and downs since 9-11. they have blocked access for the u.s. to certain routes. the u.s. has held back money in this administration before that announcement yesterday, shep. >> shepard: rich edson reporting. thank you. some folks flying to cancun today couldn't escape the cold. how the extreme temperatures led to a major scare in the air. that's next.

>> shepard: it's cold. folks up and down the east coast dealing with ice. piles of snow. freezing temperatures after a massive winter storm brought blizzard conditions to some areas. the back side of that storm took all of that freezing canadian air and just -- on top of us.

travelers telling about all kinds of problems. take a look at this bus in east boston. happened last night. people in that area dug a bus out and helped push it free. it talk about 45 minutes. then slid across the street and got stuck again. so boston. eventually they got it moving. flights moving again today after thousands of cancellations. did you hear what happened at j.f.k. today? airport officials are warning people to prepare for delays and check flight status before going to the airport. gerri willis has more. it's still a mess. people are stuck. >> hurry up and wait. that's what we do at the airport. that's the game there. delays 2,581. >> shepard: a lot of delays. >> this is today only. cancellations, 1,366. let me tell you, this is better than yesterday. we should be happy for small gifts. charleston, south carolina.

i don't know if you're familiar with charleston. >> shepard: love charleston. >> their airport is closed down. not reopened till monday. that's what we do in the south. >> shepard: there's no plows. what are we going to do? >> probably don't have coats. boston, la guardia, that's where the delays and cancellations are going on. it's only going to get worse from here. these temperatures will go down. yesterday when i was out there, it was like 23 degrees. >> shepard: which is fine. >> yeah. >> shepard: especially if you're in here. >> felt like 23. i was out earlier. 17. felt like 10. it's going to get worse. negative 10, negative 20. that's the windchill factor. >> the real low in new york city, minus 1. today -- >> don't be a baby. you can live through that. >> shepard: this afternoon about 1:30, 1:45, i got a call from the producers. they said there's a plane coming in with a wing on fire. get on the deck now.

i was like oh, my god. but really, it was about the cold. >> it was a weather-related issue. at the end of the day, those reports were totally untrue. the plane had backfired. get this, this is american airlines flight 2681. they were on their way to cancun. that's the plane there. you're seeing a picture. what a bummer that would be. on our way to cancun. here we go. nope. is that a wing on fire? >> shepard: i wonder what a plane sounds like when it backfires. had to be scary. they cleared all the runways, stopped the traffic. it's a big airport. stopped all the traffic and cleared the runways. >> the port authority said it landed with no incident, no injuries. stop looking. don't ask questions. >> shepard: thank goodness. >> that's true. yes. >> shepard: survived the brutal winter. worry about the cats and the dogs and the homeless people this weekend. >> yeah. brutal. >> shepard: it's a kind of cold

to not mess around with. >> new york city has a program where they help homeless and get them in and safe and warm. >> shepard: everyone in new york city will have a place if he or she wants a place. that is the thing. >> that's the true. >> shepard: not everybody wants a place. love you, gerri. >> i'll be inside. covers up to my chin. >> shepard: a great night to read a book. >> i think i know a book. >> shepard: any book is a good book. thank you. the know storm -- a snowstorm bringing a rare sight to a small airport. wait till you see this. hang on. ing rod. waiting to protect your home from a lightning strike. it's my new years resolution. whatever. can you get my plane? yeah, i don't do planes. i just do lightning. ♪

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>> shepard: more weather. the arctic blast that hit the eastern part of the country this weekend just after the massive storm that dumped the foot of snow everywhere, forecasters are

warning that the temperatures could drop to dangerously cold levels. this is scott william live at fox 29 in philly. hi, scott. >> good afternoon, shep. the massive nor'easter is pulling away. this 50 millibar pressure drop in 24 hours. take a look at the gusty winds for the northeast and new england. right now new york city gusts to 35 miles per hour. philadelphia 37. miles per hour gusts. so it feels even colder when you factor in the wind. look at the air temperatures right now across the nation. 15 degrees new york city. 6 currently in detroit. those are the air temperatures. this is how it actually feels. feels like 2 degrees below zero in new york city. feels like 30 degrees in atlanta. take a look at chicago. it feels like 4 below. excessive cold for the upcoming weekend. we have windchill advisories up and down the eastern seaboard. as far south as charleston, south carolina.

interior sections of new england. we could feel like 45 below. look at saturday morning lows for new york city. 6 degrees. 4 degrees below zero for buffalo. international falls, below zero. 28 degrees there. and then take a look at sunday morning low temperatures, 1, perhaps zero degrees for new york city. 3 below for buffalo. as we move to the end of next week, looks like the jet stream will lift farther to the north. we're calling it a january thaw. happy new year! >> shepard: happy new year. scott williams from fox in philly. the storm forced an airbus a-380, the largest passenger jet in the world to land in a tiny airport in new york. not j.f.k. or la guardia. lillian has details what is the name of this place? >> stuart airport. they tweeted out this picture of this huge jet. it was operated by singapore

airlines. it left from frankfurt. had to be diverted. another picture from the airport. the runway is long enough for them but unfortunately for everybody on board, the gates are too small. so they had to deplane via an outdoor staircase and walk in in the middle of the blizzard. but all and all, not too bad in terms of travel. stuart airport is not far from j.f.k. the airline was working on getting some bus transportation. we got some video from inside the plane. people just hanging out. you can see just how crazy the wind and white-out outside. huge plane. lots of people just chilling. they made it. >> shepard: momma, we're going where? stewart, florida? that would be nice. good to see you. thank you. we'll be back with a look at when construction began on the most photographed bridge in all the world and top of the hour headlines moments away. for mom,

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>> shepard: on this day in 1933, the work began on california's golden gate bridge. after the gold rush, analysts predicted the land north of san francisco would become a hot commodity. the plan was, build a bridge that links that area to the big city across the mile wide golden gate strait. when it opened, it was the toller and longest suspension bridge in the world, 85 years ago today. where the weather changes every five minutes. the u.s. added two million jobs last year. that's according to the labor department. that number includes the 150,000 new jobs in the month of december, which was less than the average monthly gain for the past year. economists say that's in part because fewer people need work.

the unemployment rate in december stayed at 4.1% for the third month in a row, the lowest level since the year 2000. the dow is up 2,024 points. here's cavuto. >> neil: more than 200 points is good enough for a record. you're looking at the strongest start of the year for the market since back in 2006. stocks pushing further into record territory after the dow finished above 25,000. not far from 26,000 at the rate we're going. the backdrop, republicans holding a pow-wow with the president. the focus is on keeping the majority in november. the crucial mid-terms. the tax cuts, the markets could be helping him doing it. welcome. happy friday. i'm neil cavuto. we're keeping track of the developments. first to deidra bolton on what is joining main street and wall street and camp david. >> that is right.