i hope to see you right here next week. ♪ . steve wynn stepping down from his post as finance chair of the republican national committee in the wake of ooh bombshell report revealing numerous allegations of sexual misconduct. hello and welcome to "america's news headquarters." i'm melissa francis. >> and i'll kelly wright. steve wynn actually now denying those allegations and this story is far from over. will carr is live from our west coast bureau with more details. >> and kelly, "the wall street journal" laid out alarming and detailed allegations against steve wynn and it didn't take long for a wave of political fallout to follow. the journal reporting that he

contacted 150 people in its reports, dozens of whom conveyed a pattern of alleged sexual misconduct by wynn that lasted for decades. one of the more damning allegations comes from a manicurist who accuses wynn of forcing her to have sex with him in 2005. wynn later paid the woman 7.5 mld in a settlement. responding to the story, wynn tells fox news in a statement, the idea that i ever assaulted any woman ask preposterous. we find ourselves in a world where people can make allegations regardless of the truth an. he goes on to say the accusations stem from a battle with his ex-wife over a divorce settlement. at the same time the board of directors ap wib resorts has formed a special committee to look into the allegation the company stock took a nose dive after the news broke on friday. the jernl detailing a number of alleged sexual misconduct reports against wynn. he's a larger than life figure

in las vegas. he helped build a number of hotels and casinos and took over as finance chairman for the rnc after president trump took office, a position which he just resigned a short time ago. not surprisingly the allegations are already turning political. the dnc releasing this statement. in the exact words of rnc chairwoman, if you stand for treating women well and stand for the respect of women, you shouldn't take money from someone who treated women with the absolute highest level of disrespect. releasing her own statement, the day today i accepted wynn's resignation. so far we have not heard from president trump. president trump arriving back to the white house after what he calls a very successful traip to davos for the world economic forum. up next on his agenda, of course, the state of the union address he's also rolling out his new

immigration plan and sparring over the issue with senate majority leader chuck schumer. rich edison is at the white house with more. reporter: a very busy u up with yoming week for the president and the white house. the senior officials are previewing what the president will say to congress on tuesday. he's touch on national security and a trillion dollar plan to rebuild the infrastructure in the united states and how the white house contends that it will be done right and fast. also outline efforts to fight terrorism and north korea. immigration the president will also discuss, according to his senior administration official, the president and the white house have put out a immigration proposal to protect those who were brought here illegally and still here in the country. saying they will protect 1.8-mile ondreamers providing

them with a path to citizenship and the white house wants guarantees of $25 billion of a trust fund to create a border wall and the end of chain migration and the visa lottery situation. the president contends they're interested in keeping the dreamers in the united states. >> if we make the right deal, i think they will. these are people who have very strong opinions on daca and on immigration generally. and i happen to think they're largely right. look, we're going to try to make a deal on daca. we have a good chance of making it. what we need is we need the wall, we need security, we need security at the board are, we have to stop the drugs from coming in. reporter: chuck schumer has responded to the president's proposal and has rejected it so that sara huckabee sanders tweeted, quote, america's legal system has been torn apart by decades by washington politicians like yourself who prefer open borders and

sanctuary cities over law and order. from here the negotiations continue on capitol hill on immigration. there are also budget consideration. remember, the government had that weekend-plus shutdown a short time ago. that's due to happen again the early part of february if congress doesn't figure out another way to fund that part of the government. >> thanks so much. as we await the final blueprint from the white house, some critics are accusing the administration of moving the goal post on immigration. a senior political correspondent for bustle.com. erin, thanks for joining us. if you look at what the president wrote out, you wonder why chuck schumer won't take yes for an answer. there's amnesty in there for the dreamers that he had been pushing so hard for >> there's a path to shiz r citizenship for the 800,000 dreamers currently living in the united states but 1.8 peope

who could apply. you could see the numbers move, could see it go up by the time the senate puts the bill together. people are calling that amnesty. you would think that would be appealing for democrats. democrats are saying underneath that application for dreamers it's a conservative immigration proposal. and the people on the right are calling this amnesty an and thee not happy about it. trump is facing criticism from chuck schumer and dick durbin as well as the house freedom caucus saying this is too liberal of an immigration policy. >> it's the way the president likes to negotiate. i don't know if others have noticed this pattern. taking the key issue awe o off e table. he a acquiesced on the dreamers and put democrats on the spot of saying what we don't like about it. it's very conservative. the only thing that's in there is this idea of chain migration of only being able to bring your

immediate family but not, you know, tans generally related relatives as we saw with the attacker in new york city. >> there are three main points in here that the white house thinks will appear to conservatives. one, $25 billion for a border wall. that's 15 billion more dollars than what democrats were considering. >> but they waste that much every day. they can find anytime the couch cushions up there in congress. >> and two other things the white house is saying should be appealing. they're going to curb the diversity lottery system. president trump wants that gone. and like yes said, the end to chain mie dwraition in the sense that we know it now. people would be allowed to bring in their spouses and children and be able to foster some sort of legalization for them but not for their parents nap's a big part. there is a lot here for the republicans and democrats. you would think it would spell compromise but there's not enough. instead, everybody is focusing on the things they can't get

over that they need to see changed before they go and vote. >> it will be interesting to see what happens from here. it is a lot of borde board monee border wall. but the complaint is i heards them saying i don't know what the president will sign. he laid that out to get everybody talking. since there are things that both sides like and things that both sides hate, do you think there is a deal in there somewhere? >> i don't think it will be this proposal but i think there's a deal to be made. democrats really want to legalize the status of the dreamers here and republican sources tell me they want to as well. the democrats are pushing for a clean bill on daca. this is not that. this makes big changes to the america legal immigration system and there could be cuts back to the 1 1920s levels. see this as a starting point from where they're going to work. president trump called these dreamers incredible kids. he says he wants to see a bill

of love. a couple of weeks aeg he said, you bring me a bipartisan compromise and i'll sign it. we saw that shift when graham and durbin went to the oval office and had a meeting that has bng characterized by comments made by the president and the debate went off track. that's what led to the government shutdown. they have two deadlines coming up. february 8th when they have to pass a government spending measure by and march 5 to legalize daca. >> what he said about the different parts of the deal in the past, perhaps he laid out a vision where he has room to glif tgiveto the other side, especian terms of the diversity portion of it. he cut back those levels so dramatically, that gives him room to go back up in that sense. and would you agree that probably the most important thing for him is in fact the funding if are the wall. it was the corner stone of his campaign. he really needs to get the money to fulfill the promise, he

believes in that and would probably be willing to give away a lot to get there. you see he did that right out of the gate with the path to citizenship for those daca folks. >> i think that's a really smart observation by you. the wall was a huge rallying point for his campaign, a cornerstone and something that brought to public to its feet. i remember hearing people chant "build the wall." we've heard willingness from democrat to give funding forward border security, but to the wall itself. this is something that senator schumer said he came to the table with during negotiations to end the government shutdown. so there could be room to finally get this proposal there. >> thank you so much. you're so well-versed on the knew yansenuances of this. kelly: nearly 100 people are dead after a suicide bomb in the afghan capital. how authorities say the suspect was able to get through a security check point

and missing texts between two senior fbi officials now recovered. what these two were writing that could show potential agency bias. >> this goes to a wider problem that we've been talking about which is plit cam mall fe mall t the fbi and the justice department under james comey.

melissa: newly recovered text messages between two fbi officials raising concerns about the impartiality of the hillary clinton e-mails investigation. some republican lawmakers reacting to that texts between peter strzok and lisa page saying they show the investigation was rigged in clinton's favor. >> if the fix it was in on the clinton investigation and then these top people in the fbi starstarted and ran the trump investigation, might there be some bad things going on there. melissa: we're live from washington with more. >> the texts were released by senate judiciary committee chairman chuck grassley and suggests that senior fbi officials were concerned that being too tough on hillary clinton for her e-mail use could come back to hurt them if she

were elected president. u now some of those fierce advocates are saying that the texts are renewing implications that the top officials never intended to pursue the charges. peter truck and lisa paige were thought to be lost but the doj inspector general says they were able to recover them. some republicans believe special counsel robert mueller's investigation into possible russian collusion during the presidential election is biased because both strzok and page worked briefly on the russia probe and many of their texts suggests on anti-trump sentiment. >> -- investigation of what went on at the doj and fbi. >> and the strzok/page texts show in march of 2016 some officials were proposing to name patrick fitzgerald as a possible

prosecutor of a clinton e-mail probe. however he was never appointed despite the republicans calling for it. senator grassley says the timing of the text release is disconcerting as this is the attorney general defending his department. >> my purpose every day is to get the department back to its fundamental mission of enforcing the law and protecting the safety of americans with integrity and fairness. >> however, attorney general sessions did note that the department isn't always perfect and he is asking his employees to hear the concerns of congress and act on them. melissa? melissa: thank you so much. kelly: indeed. for more on this, let's bring in danny coast, a former deputy assistant director for the fbi. danny, good of you to join us today. let me get right to the point because you're a former fbi agent. when you hear all of this, what

does it do to your moral and your pride for this agency that's been noted as being the foremost law enforcement agency in the country? >> well, i'm very proud of the fbi. i'm very proud of the agents. and i think one thing we need to remember here is that james comey did everything he could do to keep this case away in field agents. watergate was solved by field agents. i did iran contra. i was a field agent. and comey insisted anyone he was very successful, he kept that under his own control at fbi headquarters and he conducted what really was in fact a matter. he didn't do an investigation. he did a matter. he listened to loretta lynch and had he gone to the agents in the field, we would have a totally different response. i'm still very proud of the agency. i serve i.d served it for 31 dw. i am not proud of the leadership. kelly: more than 50,000 texts

were between peter strzok and lisa page. within those texts were the messages of how they supported hillary clinton and were very concerned about then candidate donald trump becoming president the text raise raises suspiciong republicans that james comey and attorney general loretta lynch, as you've mentioned and probably never wanted to charge hillary clinton, are they right in their suspicion? >> i do think they're right. when you take control of an investigation and do not use all of the assets that are available to an investigator to conduct an investigation, then you have no case. you have no investigation. and if you look at the text messages in context of the actions of these people, it's pretty hard to come to another conclusion, except for the fact they were biased for hillary clinton and biased against donald trump. and it's something -- congress

needs to look at the relationship between doj and the fbi. that's -- i think that's one of the things we're all missing here. the fbi is nonpolitical. doj is political. james comey came from a political as no atmosphere and e brought that attitude to us. james comey never put on his fbi hat. he never really supported what we do. and it's very disconcerting to all of us who served the agency but also it's concerning to the agents who have still there. they don't want that to happen. they want to do their job. they believe in the constitution. let the facts take you where you're going to go and don't have a preconceived notion of what you want to do before you get there. kelly: it appears that james comey kept all of this to himself and only tot a select hand of people who knew what was going on between he and the attorney general, loretta lynch. what do the agents do now. as we heard attorney general jeff sessions say he wants to

restore integrity within the fbi. >> i think he's done that. we have a new director now. and i think he sees what happened there. i have actually been to an occasion with him in the last couple of weeks. i think he gets it. it starts at the top. if the director of the fbi does not support the agents in the field, then we'll have it again. and congress should look at that. i would like to talk to the director about that. see how it feels about it. the agents can't do anything about it. it's got to come from the top. i feel we're on the right track now. let them do their job, get out of the way we don't need a director to solve a case. we were solving cases long before we had anybody tell us what to do. kelly: still at this moment right now there are people on both sides pointing fingers at the fbi, including special counsel robert mueller who reassigned strzok and page from his russia investigation after discovering the texts and the

bias. of that investigation is flawed and bias based on strzok and page. can mueller continue in the face of these text messages and the criticism from the gop? >> well, yeah, sure. he took action immediately. when those texts came to light, he moved those people out of there. bob mueller is a man of integrity. i've worked with him we did pan a.m. 103 together. he's bright. he's not going to manufacture evidence. he's going to collect evidence. and if the evidence supports a crime or doesn't support a crime, he'll go with that. but i think the fact that two individuals who were corrupted, frankly, are now gone, i don't think that taints the whole investigation. i think mueller is a man of integrity and he'll do the right thing. kelly: they're gone but not from the fbi. they're still working there in some fashion. they've been demoted and reassigned. you can have a rotten apple and it doesn't make the whole bunch bad. >> no. here's the deal.

there is a process in the fbi, the department of justice, if an executive is under administrative inquiry or criminal inquiry, there's a process to place that individual on administrative pay. they can't go to work and can't influence an investigation. they lose nothing expect the ability to work at the fbi. that should be done now. these people should be put on administrative leave. if they're exonerated, that's good. and if they're not exonerated, that's good too. kelly: thanks for joining us and giving us your perspective in terms of what's going on here. >> thank you. kelly: thank you for your service too. melissa: president trump taking his case against iran to the united nations security council. will he will able to rally the international community? a deadly bomb rock as busy part of the afghan capital. how a terrorist was able to roll straight through a security check point.

. melissa: fox news alert. the death toll in that afghan terror attack climbing to at least 95 people after a suicide bomber drove an ambulance filled with explosives through a security check noibt point in a crowded part of kabul. david lee miller is live from so ruijerusalem with more.

reporter: the driver was able to get through the check point because he told the police he was taking a patient to a nearby hospital. the security forces were among those killed killed. the area where the attack took place has government offices, embassies and many, the force of the blast shook the afghan capitol. >> i was in my shop when a powerful explosion rocked the area. all windows of my shop shattered. i was sitting in the office. right after the explosion, it collapsed. reporter: reaction to the attack was swift. secretary of state rex tillerson issued a statement saying, in part, the taliban's use of an am blangs as a weapon to target civilians represents ir regard d for the public. earlier this week, the u.s. repeated its demand that

pakistan, which shares a porous border with afghanistan, stop giving sanctuary to taliban militants. exactly one week ago today the taliban attacked a kabul hotel killing as many as 20 people, or at least as many as 20 people, four of whom were american. the attack today was the most deadly in kabul since last may when an explosion then killed more than 150 people. melissa: david lee miller, thank you. kelly: president trump preparing to meet with members of the united nations security council diplomats on monday as he tries to rally an international coalition to rein in tehran. u.s. officials plan to show debris from a ballistic missile fired from yemen into sa saudi i arabia to make their case. here now, a senior fellow at the

foundation and foreign policy analyst. james, good to see you today. thanks for weighing in on this issue. this is the second working lunch that president trump is having with the u.n. security diplomats. the trump administration saying it's pursuing, if you will, a two-track approach, an effort with congress and european allies to deal with what they call flaws in the iran nuclear deal. what are the flaws . >> well the single biggest flaw in the iran nuclear deals is it never covered ballistic missiles. and as you know, you don't have a nuclear threat unless you have a nuclear weapon. but more importantly, a missile that you can put it on to shoot somebody. there were no constraints at all on the ballistic missile program. that's the single greatest flaw in the whole agreement. >> you and ambassador nikki haley argued that iran is still consider a major sponsor of

terrorism and recently called out the iranians claiming they're not supposed to provide missiles or arms to any other country but she also points out that iran has done that, violating by giving weapon weap. what proof does the united states have or what proof does iran have that they're not involved in this? >> the ie janians woul iraniansa tough time making the kis that they've not delivered weapon to the hughd hughdy rebels. this will bring iran into the international community and make the middle east more stable. and we've seen exactly the opposite. they have ramped up their support for transnational terrorist groups. they've charged ahead in their ballistic missile program.

we have no confidence that they're actually constrained their nuclear program over the long term. the deal is demonstrably failed to deliver on the promises that the last administration made. that's exactly why the united states has really flip flopped its entire approach towards iran. kelly: you raise a good point there. while they've ramped up their outreach to sponsor terrorism, they've also, it appears, ramped up their oppression of their own people in regard to, look, they receive billions of dollars and as we've noted through previous demonstrations that we've seen on the streets of tehran and throughout iran, they've denied people the money they need to survive in their own country after receiving billions of dollars through this nuclear deal. what can the united states point to to say that is evidence that iran is not complying with the nuclear deal? >> well, i don't think -- this is not a situation where they're

complying with the deal. but again, the whole idea was that if you engage iran, it would ameliorate its behavior. part of the price of engagement, part of them signing the deal, which literally is a ten-year agreement, that opened them up to investment from the west to return of sanction funds to iran, which literally amounted to billions of dollars. and we can demo demonstrably shw what have they done with that money? they've ramped up their support of state sponsorship of terrorism, they've enriched the people that run the country. but the people in iran are worse off economically now than they were before the iran deal was signed. kelly: i'm glad you mentioned and pointed out the ten-year sunset clause as it's known as. because after ten years they can go on and develop anything they want to. and that is one of the aspects of this deal that infuriates president trump. what can the trump administration do to pull out of

the nuclear deal with iran and what impact would that have particularly with european allies who seem to feel this is a good deal? >> well, to be honest, every european official i've ever talked to acknowledges that the iran deal was not a good deal and that they pry bhairly went along with it because the u.s. -- kelly: is something they didn't want to be in co conflict with president obama? saying publicly this was a good deal and they've expressed concerns about president trump pulling out. what are they afraid of? >> they were arm twitsed by the obama administration. they don't want to admit that. they feel they're in the deal now and have to prove that it works. there are economic interests in europe that want to invest in iran and turning off the deal would alienate that here is a little given credit to the administration. the president is not impulsive. he didn't impulsively pull out of the deal and the other thing is, he's actually listened to

and worked with european allies to say we have a structure which gives us some controls. let's build on that. and what the president is trying to do is build really kind of side agreements around the iran deal, first of all extending past the sunset clause, right, so to continue the constraints on the nuclear program but also to deal with the blissic missile programs and other things. so if we can get these side agreements, then -- kelly: i don't want to interrupt you but we're losing time here. the bottom line is you're trying to develop a situation where you're going to deal with a country that you do not trust and that is country that doesn't trust you. so how do you find that middle of the road to get the right kind of compromise, the right kind of deal to mik make sure tt iran's appetite for building nuclear weapons does not become an ongoing conflict? >> i think there are two things. you pressure the europeans who

recognize that the deal isn't working and in the end iran is destabilized to the middle east, and that iran is a threat to them. if european allies realize we need to do better. and you pressure iran. this is not a regime in great shape. their own people hate the regime and they're getting a lot of pushback in the region. so they're under a lot of pressure. it is a conservative regime that at the end of the day wants to stay in power. i think the president has a decent hand here and if he plays it strong and with confidence persistently, we might get to a much better place honestly than we deserve. kelly: thank you for that. thank you. melissa: a louisiana jury finding the man accused inform the road rage killing of a former nfl player guilty of manslaughter. now facing up to 40 years in prison for the 2016 shooting of e runningback joe mick night in a suburb of new or lines.

mcnight has been driving aggressively but also say that gasser escalated the situation by following mcnight on a high speed chase. the shooting happened at an intersection when mcnight got out of the car and approached gasser. kelly: the white house on a potential collision course with the justice department over a classified house memo alleging fbi misconduct related to the anti-trump dossier. >> as i read this, there was no basis at all for having the type of information that wa investigs conducted by the federal government, by the fbi, there was not enough evidence there. i wish i could go further than that. when the memo comes out, you'll see.

. melissa: a potential clash between the white house and the justice department on whether a classified house memo should be made public. the four-page document by house

intelligence committee chairman devin nunez alleges the fbi abused its power to spy on the trump campaign. >> basically this show to me serious -- either very serious mistakes, very serious negligence or intentionally not complying with the rules as to what has to be done to begin an investigation, to have certain procedures followed. i don't want to overstate it but i think anyone who looks at this honestly will say, wait a minute, proper procedures are not followed. melissa: here now, a radio talk show host, alley second ki is the host of conservative millennial. thanks for joining us. nchtthis sets up a bit of a touh situation between the president and the doj and the fbi because if they do choose to release the memo, he has the power to stop it. >> right. melissa: i bet they want him to stop it. >> i don't think he will.

melissa: no. yeah. >> it's really interesting. we have a situation where the republicanrepublicans are doingo undermine or democratic institutions than the russians should ever imagine. if the fix was in against donald trump to propel hillary clinton into the white house, she didn't win. so you would think she would have. unless, of course, the fbi is worse at fixing events -- melissa: okay. but that's not what it's about. i mean this is about the last administration weaponnizing the fbi to spy on a political opponent. >> exactly. melissa: don't we want to know if that's what happened? i would think the democrats would want to know when president trump says he was wiretapped and everyone mocked him. i think they would want toof this to be able to prove or disprove that. >> of course. this is much bigger than the election. this is about an administration that allegedly undermined the integrity of our institutions and democracy. and what we know is that the only thing that fuels true democracy is transparency.

and transparency is the only thing known to be able to separate partisanship. we've got the release the memo. and if the democrats are concerned with this memo being partisan and bias, maybe trump with declassify the underlying information. until that it's going to be a bunch of hearsay. i say release the memo melissa: if you think this is republicans trying to distract, i would think you would want them to release the memo so they could be seen as fools and everyone would see that they're lying. >> i'm for transparency. it's extremely unique that we have a republican party going this hard against the fbi. release the memo. we'll see what we saw in the peter strzok/lisa page text messages secret society that everybody was jokin talking about was a j.

>> that wasn't the worst part of the text messages. if we want to talk about the text messages, we can see -- melissa: let's stay on the memo for the moment. ali, you know, congressman lee disel don was on earlier this week and he said that the practices that this memo contains are things that they absolutely should not be doing. and that rather than letting secrets out of the bag in terms of, you know, what the fbi does, that instead we would be showing what they shouldn't be doing and that's a reason to put the memo out. what do you think about that? >> exactly. it's not going after the fbi. it's going after potential corruption and potential bias. it's an attempt to save our institutions and to save the agencies that are now under so much swept schis of the american people because of the text messages that we've seen and other malfeasance.

i think it's a desire for the truth. and if the doj and the democrats are concerned about this not being true, democrats can release their own memo and the doj quite frankly doesn't really have a say in the memo going out or not. >> what's undermining people's faith in our dsm ik institutions is the constant barrage, the attacks coming from the republican party. are they horrified of what mueller might find when it comes to the trump investigation? who knows. but it seems as if they are actively pursuing an aggressive campaign against the fbi at this point. melissa: ben, is congressman peter king somebody who strikes you as someone who generally says outrageous things? he's a stoic guy for for him to be upset about this saying that the american public needs to see this, doesn't ma make you nervous about your own privacy and what the fbi could be doing to jeopardize your right? >> peter king has misspoke an

time or two. but sure, if they want to take the unprecedented step of a house intelligence committee to release this classified four-page memo, the american people will have to judge for themselves. it just seems fascinating to me that we live in a time where the republican party is hell-bent on destroying the fbi and derailing this investigation. melissa: ali, what's the downside? i mean, what's the potential fallout from this. if the memo comes out and there's nothing in it, what do you think? >> i don't think it's in the republicans' best interest to be beefing this up saying, oh, this is going to be watergate, this is going to be terrible if that's not really the case. melissa: they're look like idiots. >> yeah. nunez is probably smarter than that and he knows the democrats can come out with their own memo saying they're completely buy biased. they have to be telling the truth. melissa: we'll leave it there, guys. have a great rest of your

saturday. kelly: the flu virus in america wreaking havoc across the country. why this year's strain is proving to be more vicious than the last. >> we know that we're in about week nine since the season started then's about halfway through the season. so there's still a fair amount of flu left this year. with a sore back. but he's got work to do. so he took aleve this morning.

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melissa: a solemn day across the world as people mark international holocaust remembrance day, the millions of men, women and children killed. secretary of state rex tillerson speaking at an event in poland honoring the lives that were lost and vowing to confront hatred in all its form. >> we acknowledge the many survivors, the loved ones, the friends of those who walked in grief today and we walk along their side. on this occasion it reminds us that we can never -- we can never be indifferent to the face of evil. melissa: first lady melania trump visited the u.s. holocaust memorial in washington, d.c. last week ahead of today's international holocaust

remembrance day kelly: the flu blanketing america for the third straight week. as of january 20th all states are reporting wide spread cases of the virus with the exception of hawaii. and doctors say it's not over yet. >> we monitor for pediatric deaths every year and unfortunately we see them every year. so far we have 37 that have been reported this year so far and we expect that there will be more reported in the next few weeks. kelly: very tough to here. molly line joins us now in new york. molly, the cdc saying that this year's virus is the same from last year's season but this time around it's impacting more people. >> this flu season may prove to be the worst in a decade. the cdc tracking reveals that last week one out of 15 doctor visits were for symptoms of the flu. this ithe old and the young aret

vulnerable. a 12-year-old in coral springse, florida died this week. he'll been mourned by his friends, classmates and family. >> everything is normal, just a regular cold. shocking. you get a call that he's passed. how the hell does that happen? without alarming everybody, take care of your kids. hug them a little tighter and consider having that flu shot, perhaps. >> when it comes to pediatric deaths, the cdc is ominously comparing this year to the 2014/2015 season when there were 148 pediatric deaths reported for this year. this year's main flu strain h3n2 is especially vee veer lent.

cdc officials warn that the season is far from over. >> we've been following and talking with the state health departments asking them what kind of flu activity they're seeing, and this is the third week in a row where 49 out of 50 states are still indicating that there's wide spread activity in their states. >> health officials continue to urge people to stay home if you're sick, cover your cough and if you have not yet done so, there he's still time to get the flu shot. kelly: molly, thank you. melissa: wow, really scary stuff. kelly: it really is. we have to take care of ourselves. that will do it for us. melissa: the news continues at the top of the hour with eric shawn and arthel neville. hese freaks some manners! good luck out there, captain!

>> president trump and back washington. and with in switzerland for the world economic forum. he is a beacon week ahead as he is preparing today to deliver his first state of the union address. that of course, on tuesday. welcome to a brand-new hour of "americas news headquarters". >> we a senior white house official revealing a theme of the speech will be sent building a safe strong and part american. the president expected to talk about his accomplishments during the first year in office and the challenges that lay