advantage of concern feeling the covid crisis rapidly spreading across the u.s. with more than 40 state reporting cases of macron infections, the world health organization today saying a macron is spreading significantly faster than the delta variant with cases doubling every one and a half to three days in countries with documented community transmission. president biden issued an ominous warning to the unvaccinated in his administration illegal victory imposing vaccine mandate for

large companies. welcome to fox news list, i am arthel haverford hi, erica. eric: thank you for joining us, i am eric shawn. people have been boosted with a third shot from a the president forecast he called severe illness and death for those who remain unvaccinated. doctor anthony fauci case people to get vaccinated boosted. >> we are in the midst of a situation we are now facing a very important delta surge and we are looking over our shoulder at an oncoming a macron. really unvaccinated individuals

are at high risk of serious involvement, including hospitalizations. fully vaccinated are doing much better as shown in the previous five or six flights, optimum protection is fully vaccinated. eric: we have live coverage for you on all of this officials saying you need to be vaccinated. lauren green, the cancellation of a cherished tradition and mark meredith in delaware with the president is spending the weekend. hi, mark. reporter: good afternoon, top health officials including doctor fauci right there, urging americans not is the time to get the vaccine. we see businesses starting to adapt, upping operations because of the surgeon cases had health officials say it's understandable given the recent surge we are seeing cities nationwide. >> we've only known about a macron little less than a month.

clearly it is a contagious virus and you can see doubling almost every two or three days. >> the president went further saint unvaccinated facing severe illness and death. the white house think the president is not changing his travel holiday plans but they are still relying on the latest guidance. the white house says the government is deploying them to a number of hospitals who may be overwhelmed with what's going on, the ones on your screen right now. colorado, michigan, new york, vermont and new hampshire and we are watching what happened overnight in ohio where federal appeals court ruled the administration and require companies with more than 100 people, mandating vaccines reinstated, the white house think it's welcoming this ruling and it goes on to say especially

as the u.s. faces highly transmissible all macron. his critical. we move forward protection for workers with the urgency needed in this moment. government is simply going too far trying to require employers, individuals what is going on with the vaccine it's a fight that's going to continue in the weeks ahead, they are ready to take it to the supreme court. eric: those unvaccinated remain so, we are told at their own risk. arthel: it's an all-too-familiar feeling and new york, omicron parent hitting hard, recording its highest single day for new public cases. there are testing lines in new york city with people waiting for hours ahead of the holiday spirit mark is live with more lauren companies are bring chaos, arising cases, shut down

throughout the country, the second year in a row. the show will not go on as a climb and public cases in new york forcing broadway shows to be canceled. shattering for the rest of the season. a tony award winning hamilton, one of the hardest tickets to get. >> super frustrated. so excited to see hamilton. we get here and there is a closed sign on the door. it is such a disappointment. >> your posted highest total of new public cases, the earliest days. online, tested before holiday gatherings. highly transmissible omicron variant is blamed for the search in 44 states, it's spread forcing the nfl to postpone

several games this weekend, and update safety measures. >> it's smart to go back to the strict protocols, masks in the building, no eating indoors, take out service only from the cafeteria. >> nationwide fully vaccinated make up over 60% of the population, medical experts besides the vaccine is still the strongest defense. >> we've seen cases of omicron a month those vaccinated boosted. we believe these cases are milder or a symptomatically because of vaccine protection. what we do know is we have the tools to protect ourselves against covid-19. >> harvard announcing today due to the rise in public cases and the omicron variant, it will be remote for at least the first three months. arthel: waiting to see how this will unfold. thank you so much. we will have more on the omicron

search and what it means for the holidays. doctor joins us a little later. eric: california governor gavin newsom announcing a plan to stop the weight of smash and grab robberies in his state. more than $300 million in state funding over the next three years to try to help police stop all of these thefts in the stores. christina : is live with the latest on brazen acts, beverly hills smashing windows and rubbing jewelry and other stuff. >> it is out of control. the funds would be used to crack down on organized crime ring fueling retail theft. part of the governor's proposed budget release next month that advocate to $55 million in grants for local law enforcement. retail locations 30 million for prosecutors to make sure they are effectively and efficiently

prosecuting theft the critics say criminal justice reform like ending cash bail for crimes and democrats run counties like los angeles and san francisco county is to blame for the retail theft. prop 47, a state referendum passed in 2014 downgraded to a misdemeanor for stolen items with a value of $950 or less. say it's effectively giving leaves the green light to commit crimes. however, governor gavin newsom defends this law. >> prop 47 was passed the last full year, now it shows property larceny crimes are down 11%, nothing to do with these laws we put on the book, sideshows to what's happening in an organized way. >> but in terms of violent crime, homicide and aggravated assault are still up statewide. many republicans say the broke

leadership has a back approach to crime. yesterday gop leader saying governor newsom announced measures on public safety despite encouraging soft on crime policies that foster safe haven for criminals. the democrats we met must push for criminal first agenda turned this once majestic state into a sanctuary for criminals, increasing homicide rate widespread news report smash and grab californians democrats but come to the realization but he's sticking to his proposed plan and focusing attention on gun violence and announced yesterday he's pushing for $25 million in his proposed budget for a new statewide gun buyback program. arthel: thank you. the bay area, men are accused of dozens of robberies and burglaries since last year. san jose police say some incidents were caught on. minutes video from several

targeting women of asian descent. these suspects are charged and more than 70 cases from october 20202 september 2021. police say clement looked for victims near atms, casinos and asian markets. investigators recovered multiple firearms during the arrest including ghost guns. joining us now with more on this and the plan to stop smash and grab robberies, assistant of san jose police chief joseph. congratulations on the arrest of these men who allegedly committed anti- asian hate crimes. more rest to come? >> the investigation is continuing. we believe we have people in custody who are responsible for the crimes here. however, we know they committed crimes elsewhere in the bay area which is ongoing.

>> i want to talk more now about governor newsom's proposal, a three year plan. i want to look at the breakdown of the proposed crime-fighting budget. 255 million would go to local law enforcement, to place more officers in stores that deter theft. thirty billing for district attorney to prosecute retail and auto robberies, 18 million to create a new organized special unit under state attorney general. 20 million would go to small businesses victimized by smash and grab, 20 million for california national guard, illegal drug smuggling and 25 million what fund the gun buyback program and the governor is calling it the largest in the country. reportedly the money wouldn't be available instantly because governors proposed bill wouldn't be going through until june.

will it slow down or derail an opportunity for sustainable solution? >> i would say i am grateful for the governor's efforts in this regard and i think he should be focus attention on this issue. where we are today is a result of changes in the law here in california and across the country over the last 20 years and a lot of these efforts are well intentioned and some i supported myself but unfortunately their unintended consequences and we've seen terminals have been able to exploit unintended onset wants to their benefit, we are having difficulty keeping our communities safe and people free from being victimized. arthel: the governor and police department, you believe brazen smash and grab that's in robberies and assaults are carried out by organized crime rings so it seems you're happy to know the governor has taken

steps to allocate funds, money alone solve the crime crisis? >> it is certainly helpful but if we only treat the symptoms and not the cause, i'm not sure who will get the results the governor is hoping for. if people are arrested and released back on the street zero bail, they are not held accountable by the system once arrested. then there's really not an incentive to change their behavior and i would say many efforts reform in california and elsewhere have the best of intentions and consequences and probably because of all of this put together, there have been loopholes people exploit it doesn't require massive changes but it does require tweaking of these things we've tried to get to the right formula. arthel: some was approved by the voters as my understanding increasing crime as a result,

perhaps they didn't understand what they were saying yes to but i want to move on to the governor's proposal, a proposed new law you are aware with to allow private citizens to sue people sell illegal assault style weapons and ghost guns. it's modeled after the texas abortion allowing those who allow a woman to get abortion after a heartbeat. with this be effective and helpful next. >> what he is proposing is a civil lawsuit that would have no impact on the criminal justice system. i'm not sure how much money could be expected to recover from a criminal using a ghost gun but i think the governor is correct to focus on the problem of ghost guns. i know across california and

probably the nation we are seeing tremendous increase in ghost guns. the police department recovered over 900 firearms this year alone just through this month and they are being recovered from prohibited persons, people who are convicted felons or probation or parole and should not be possessing firearms so ghost guns problem is very serious in his focus on is welcomed by law enforcement, are not sure allowing civil lawsuit against those who have ghost guns will have for us. arthel: wrapping up with the little time i have left, it appears you're happy for governor allocated funds, you have to wait for it to be approved, or can you do in the immediate? citizens are still terrified going around committing these crimes, is there anything you can assure what they are doing right now to continue to protect

them? >> i could tell them the police department is going to continue to do its job and continue efforts to engage with the community and work toward solutions to enforce laws there and i think are plenty of loss on the book capable of holding people accountable, we need to enforce the laws and make sure we're not turning people and releasing them back into the community immediately, it creates a sense that they are not being protected. arthel: who can stop the aspect? >> i'm not sure i can answer that, i know for us, regardless of what happens after someone is arrested, who will continue to do our job and bring people into the system and hopefully the system will hold them accountable. arthel: chief, i want to say good luck to you. paul and joseph, thank you for your time.

>> thank you for having me. eric: migrants continue to show up at the southern border, tax taking matters into it all caps. the government announcing the state will pay for and build its own wall. we are live at the border to show it to you straight ahead. ♪♪

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governor greg abbott and i think construction has begun on a state-funded structure border wall nearly 2 miles long. it will fill in the gaps in the existing federal or wall, construction on the state wall resumes yesterday, six months after it was halted by the biden administration. live near the wall where construction has been ongoing, hey, bill. how does the wall look? >> it's looking good so far. history has officially been made here in texas, this is the first time in history of the country that a state has built its own border wall. look at this video we shot a short time ago, governor greg abbott was watching. his is the beginning of what's going to be 1.7-mile stretch this border wall. this is texas land with texas money.

you can take a live look overhead right now, this is rio grande city in the rio grande valley, the busiest area of the border and governor greg abbott is saying he has to because the federal government isn't doing their job when it comes to building a federal or wall, all contracts were canceled so he set the state of texas will step up and fill the void. picking up the federal wall, look at this video, once the contracts were canceled by the biden administration, look at this unused steel unused sitting on ground, tens of millions of dollars worth already bought and paid for by u.s. taxpayers and i asked governor abbott earlier, is the state of texas able to use it? he said no, they've approached the federal government and asked about repurposing it and they haven't even got a response. >> if they want to be responsible stewards for taxpayer money, they should be providing that material either to texas or the contractors

working with the state of texas. otherwise the biden administration has on its resume wasting billions of taxpayer money doing absolutely nothing. >> the bottom line is we know the biden administration that they have no intention of building a federal or wall, they don't believe in it so the steel you saw in the video is just going to complete waste. despite the fact that spot and paid for by u.s. tax payers, even of texas for building a wall, they can't use it or purchase any of it. they've not gotten any response from the federal government when they reached out about it. eric: that's unbelievable, that's an amount of steel going to waste not being used, they could use it for the state wall? >> that's correct and we put our drone over the piles, there are two there, tens of millions of dollars worth of steel paid for.

part of it was being built. the steel is sitting in the sun since january going unused, the federal government will not use it. eric: thank you. we are going to say goodbye to you now. bill bhushan live at the southern border. >> we are in a situation where we are now facing a very important delta search. we are looking over our shoulder. the optimum protection is fully vaccinated plus a boost. arthel: status doctor anthony fauci with a warning about the omicron variant ahead of the holidays calling an upcoming search inevitable. it's quickly overtaking delta, expected to soon become the dominant strain in the united states. this is a busy holiday travel

season. i bring and doctor janette nesheiwatt. family emergency medicine physician. i want to start by asking, what concerns you about the omicron search and in what ways does it cause you to worry least? >> what concerns me the most are those unvaccinated. we've had about 30,000 deaths a month in the past six or seven months amongst the unvaccinated. the good news is, today i've been testing patients and i would have two to three patients test positive for each hour and post testing positive have not had their booster it tells me the boosters work. also the good news is the people who have not had their booster, their symptoms are mild, that's what makes me happy and gives me hope as long as you've had two shots it's helpful but still not enough. i'm happy the fact have the

vaccines to minimize. arthel: i'm going to come back to the vaccine in a second but christmas is next saturday this time next week, families will be gathering, how do we do this safely. >> that's a great question, get your vaccine and your booster if you are eligible. say you had the first two shots if you haven't had a chance to get your third shot or it hasn't been six months and get tested before you had to your family's house, where your master especially if you have underlying medical conditions, if you are high risk or lung disease, heart disease, obesity, undergoing chemotherapy, note your risk and understand what's going on in the community, is there an outbreak like here in new york city? take precautions accordingly. arthel: you already referenced it according to the world health organization early indications show pfizer and maternal

boosters offer protection from omicron. new york times studies saying it offers 70% protection. meanwhile, some people are approaching six months is getting their booster. while they need a fourth dose of the vaccine currently available? >> that is a great question, and it is a possibility. the additional vaccines and boosters might be recommended by the cdc for those who are high risk. if you're over 65 and you have heart disease or copd, but the way we know for sure is with time passing. we do know the passing of time, neutralizing antibodies go down but we also have other components, our immune system, b and t cells, also if you have had covid in the past, it is a

possibility we may need boosters in the future but the question is when is still to be determined. arthel: everything collected together, covid is here to stay but eventually it will no longer be a threat? >> that is the goal. hopefully these seasonable infections like the flu and maternal is creating a two and one, flew covid shot so we only have to get it once a year versus every six months but we will know as time passes. arthel: few mentioned if you take off your mask, you have to take it off to eat self you lounge around like you normally do and take your time or do you eat not to pass but eat and put your mask back on? is that the proper way? >> if you haven't had your booster or fully vaccinated, it's all about risk tolerance. if you're not fully vaccinated, take the extra precautions

especially if you have high level of transmission in the community where you are so yes the longer he wear your mask, the safer you are but is not practical to take a bite and take it on and off so do the best you can to protect yourself and enjoy the holidays with your family. arthel: merry christmas, take care. eric: it's been a week since the tornado tore through america's heartland. coming up, we are live in mayfield, kentucky, the city hit so hard. ♪♪ . with vitamins c and d, and zinc. getting out there has never tasted so good. try centrum multigummies. your plain aspirin could be hurting your stomach. vazalore... is the first liquid-filled aspirin capsule clinically shown to cause fewer ulcers than plain aspirin.

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filled cases to keep them off. eric: she's new york city's incoming police commission, the first female to hold that job. a job that will be held by teddy roosevelt. her job is to get a handle on the violence in the city that's unacceptable. there will be a new district attorney for manhattan, formal federal state prosecutor under this platform but some of the proposals are owner under fire. will no longer prosecute several crimes including care and patient. jump over. trespass, consensual trade, resisting arrest for noncriminal offenses and larceny, under $250. say second means you can still stuff and get away with it. teddy roosevelt job, police commissioner ray kelly who spent 45 years on the nypd, so good he was commissioner twice.

good to see you, as always. >> good to be with you. eric: how concerned are you about blatantly no prosecution of some criminal acts we are seeing from progressive prosecutors around the country? >> i think it is a big problem, not only in new york, the new district attorney coming but san francisco, los angeles and george soros at the bottom, he's a billionaire, progressive left-leaning. i know mr. bragg gave million to the campaign. that's why we see the progressive movement in so many cities using diversion, mr. bragg said is not going to prosecute several including resisting arrest which is a terrible message to a police

officers. eric: what is that message for police officers like resisting arrest or larceny under $2150? >> assess back from doing your job that you should be doing. the death of george floyd, many jurisdictions including new york, they've put in draconian restrictions on the police preventing them from doing their job and this is more of the same. as a result you've seen the last week or so, 12 cities announced they have wicked numbers of murder. the year is not out, they've already separated murderers and shootings so it's a difficult position and new york is at a critical place.

we need to get a handle on crime, continue to be up and cause people to leave the city. the new police commissioner is saying the right things, hopefully the problem will get behind her and focus on violent, guns and take care of the quality of life issues that concern people in new york. people are not riding the subway, they are afraid of going into subways. ridership is down if you% from before covid. they are serious and hopefully in the new commissioner can help this area. eric: eric adams was on the force for many years. san francisco the mayor there are recommitting to the police and present biden called for refunding, not defunding but refunding. let me show you some pictures new york city i was at walgreens on the east side and the clerk started yelling at some guy,

he's walking out with a smile on his face. he's got three of those, three cases of light white cloth. the guy is brazenly in the middle of the day, he's walking out, they put locks on the freezers. what does it say when you can walk out of walgreens, free and clear under incoming d.a. bragg if you steal less than $250, which it was. he's not even going to get, the handcuffs are not even soft on your. it's a open and free invitation to steal stuff in new york city. >> that's right, there is no discern, the new district attorney coming in, it will just compound. if you go to a drugstore now, virtually everything is locked up. you have to get someone who works there to get a permit, it is sad state of affairs, not

only in new york but other major cities as well. we need a turnaround here, and trouble as a society. eric: ray kelly who goes back decades on the city, protecting the city from the street to the suites as they say. commissioner, always good to see you. >> good to see you, eric. arthel: kentucky now on the long hard road to recovery after a line of tornadoes tore through the state last week leaving at least 77 people dead, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell getting a firsthand look at the damage in his home state visiting some of the hardest hit areas including mayfield, kentucky and that's where we find charles watson there, he is here now with more on the recovery efforts underway. reporter: i can tell you right now people are out in the community trying to do everything they can to help

clean up this mess but when you talk about tens of millions of dollars in damages, no easy task. adding insult to injury is the rain that continues to fall since yesterday as storms push through the area. senator mitch mcconnell is out for a second day touring hardest hit areas including mayfield, senate minority leader on the ground in kentucky this morning where he met with local leaders, volunteers and families who have lost everything. mcconnell promising to help hardest hit communities rebuild in support of the federal government. >> we understand, after 30 days we will be there. we will stay on this until the end and provide money available to help rebuild.

>> we are already starting to seek the legal fallout in the wake of this disaster. survivors who made it out of a candle factory, they are not taking legal action against their employer, class action lawsuit claiming mayfield consumer-products flagrant in different by refusing to allow employees to leave work hours before a tornado slammed into the factory killing a and trapping thousands more. we spoke to a woman who said she was inside the candle factory as it unfolded. newly filed lawsuit, she speaks up harrowing moments after she and others were trapped in a mountain of debris. >> on top of me, literally he was breaking his arm in any time he tried to move it, we were pushed into the ground and cry out in pain and he would say i'm

sorry, i'm sorry. we were crammed into this. reporter: mayfield consumer-products ceo think team members at the candle factory acted appropriately, adding they were heroic trying to get employees to safety. arthel: charles watson, thank you very much. kentucky needs our help so if anyone wants to donate to the tornado relief effort, visit the red cross website at red cross.org/fox forward. we'll be right back. ..

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and interest in solidarity. this contest is one us and nato allies to back off as russian troops a mass on the border. the former state department senior advisor skinner, research fellow at the hoover institution at the heritage foundation and fox news contributor. first vladimir putin, gave us a list of demands like veto power over nato movement, has some redlines. obviously playing out. >> putin and president xi probing and testing the united states, nato, the administration in washington that seems to have an allergy,

allergic to anything related to military and political firmness and we are seeing this alignment between china and russia. many foreign policy experts dismiss it especially those in the more liberal camps saying there has been strategic autonomy between these countries historically. there were border clashes, many disputes over the decades but they are seeing a joint opportunity in a week united states that spent a lot of time consulting with its allies but not providing leadership in making these decisions and it is all coming down in the ukraine crisis of this year. increasingly the biden administration has looked the other way as russia has gone on a march along the eastern flank. if you talk to the eastern flank countries they want decisive action from the united states.

they want decisive action from europe. what they are being told is to study our options we have to coordinate our policies, we have to consider sanctions but nothing beyond that. eric: the president said in his phone call with putin he was very tough, saying that would be severe consequences for us and nato countries in terms of sanctions and the like if russia does make a move on ukraine. is that enough to deter putin from doing what he did in crimea? >> such a good question. even in that conversation while the president was saying there would be severe consequences i think he was talking about unprecedented sanctions but let's talk about those sanctions. we have eu countries divided on whether we should have sanctions, if we do have sanctions when they should happen. some like the germans and the french don't want sanctions before there's a major military

act by russia saying it could provoke russia. others are saying the sanctions should happen immediately as a deterrent. when there is confusion about what the deterrent will be and when it could happen the president's phone call becomes tough talk, not a real deterrent. eric: ukrainians want helicopters, a lot of material in afghanistan. they want the issue to them including lethal weapons and stinkers and the like. the biden administration providing more material to ukraine to defend itself against a potential russian attack. >> the us should consider doing that but if it is not part of a larger strategy it will create more chaos and what putin has said is he's got to lineup his troops along the border with ukraine because the united states in particular is the

aggressor in the region. it is creating a crisis. it and the west have delivered sophisticated weapons. if we are going to do more in terms of the event ukraine we had better be prepared to back it up. i don't think the administration is there, even close. it says it is studying its options. that is what the white house says. no one believes it has a military plan ready to deploy. we do know that the united states is not prepared for a conventional military engagement with the former soviet union on the eurasian landmass. it is not ready. what is our real determined? eric: perhaps not advisable. we will see. senior state department advisor karen skinner, thank you and we will be right back with more news here on the fox news channel. ...

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one tornado warning storm in alabama. this is a large system. when you go north the winter weather is cooler. we've seen heavy snowfall in upstate new york and interior new england and higher elevations where the snow is falling so winter weather warnings, watches and advisories across the entire region and snow will fall through the day today into tomorrow at up to quite a bit. here are higher elevations we are talking about in areas getting 8 to 12 inches of snow feeling like winter in the northeast. arthel: thank you. we are going to be back at 4:00 pm eastern. eric: see you in about an hour.

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eric: welcome to the rhetorical report. a new sign of surging inflation this week, wholesale prices rose 9.8% in november, the quickest case on record following the news that consumer prices rose 6.8% from a year ago, fastest rate in 30 years. the federal reserve announcing it is expecting to raise interest rates three times