>> greg: we are out of time. happy new year, whatever! all-american new year is next! i'm greg gutfeld, i love you, ♪ [national anthem] ♪ [national anthem] ♪ [national anthem]

♪ [national anthem] ♪ [national anthem] ♪ [national anthem] ♪ [national anthem] ♪ [national anthem] ♪ [cheers and applause] kayleigh: welcome to "fox & friends" on this beautiful saturday morning. what an appropriate way to start out the new year with the national anthem. it is january 1st, 2022.

i am wishing all of you a happy new year. if you are up, i fully expect most of our viewers are sleeping in because they stayed up past midnight but not us here on "fox & friends." joey. joey: no, i have to admit i enjoyed a good football game last night. might have been up a little bit later than i needed to. i might have heard the gunfire in georgia as the new year came in and some fireworks went off. hey, listen, we are here right now. i have got all the energy i can need after that win yesterday. i'm ready for a great four hours of "fox & friends." hey, listen, if you have a new year's resolution, email them to us at foxnews.com. friends@foxnews.com.if you are . mine is to finish projects around the house and todd got one of his last night. todd: i'm feeling you on that. wild night at the piro residence ain't no party like a piro party because it has home improvement. we did a little caulking and let

me tell you. if that wasn't a tease. kayleigh, joey, todd, joey, you really didn't need stay up that late. the game was over more or less by the half. you were 27-3 at the half. big win for the bulldogs there. so, yeah, the three of us arguably had to go to bed a little bit earlier. the rest of the nation, of course, up watching the all-american new year's eve special. but if you missed it, let me tell you missed will, pete, and rachel at their best and you also missed this: >> someone think with some guys that are dressed well. we get it so over dumb and dumber. rachel: let's go girls, let's show these guys how it's done. ♪

♪ todd: there is not a lot to say about that. that happened, america. and on behalf all of us here at fox news, we would like to apologize, but the rest of the evening really really awesome, you saw nashville really thriving there. awesome pictures. great job by the trio there. of course, having fun at the dumb and dumber episode that we just saw in front of us. todd: with that, 2022 officially underway. people around the world ringing in the new year with a bang big cities like london, rio and bangkok got the party started with display. home unconventional approach to celebrating the new year. idaho ninth annual potato drop ringing in the new year for boise residents. that makes sense, their whole thing potatoes. bethlehem, pennsylvania massive 400-pound peep dropped to honor

the popular candy produced in the city. that makes sense. plymouth wisconsin welcoming 2022 by dropping a giant slice of cheese. again, cheese, wisconsin thing all on board with this so far. not this. the most unusual item to be dropped a massive 50-pound meatball in south carolina. okay. that's weird enough but apparently people decided to take bites out of the meatball that one that is dropping through the sky to celebrate. kayleigh, i know we have little ones and they eat a lot of weird stuff, oftentimes off the floor. but that is gross. kayleigh: that is a little gross, particular whether i we were in the covid era which i'm all antimask and let's get over this covid stuff. let's not eat meatballs at the same time. there is a lot going around. there that is a little weird and wild. it's kind of spicey, i like it.

joey: i'm taking the bite out of a meatball i'm telling you right now. 50-pound meatball in front of me with sparklers on it i'm going to have to see what that tastes like. i'm going against the grain. they are having a party. and having fun. carve it up and dish it out. todd: that's a bold strategy. you are a brave individual in more ways than one. we talk about your bravery often on this show. little did i know it also transcended to meatballs and various other meat products so obviously we all had a lot of fun doing whatever we were doing yesterday, getting ready for the new year, boy, there was a punch in the gut around midday that i don't think any of us saw coming even though we probably should have based upon her advanced age in life. a fox news alert. loved that woman. betty dying yesterday at 99 years old just weeks before hundredth birthday. jonathan hunt taking a look back at her iconic career. >> betty maher mary ann white

was born in oak park illinois. during the depression patience moved with only child to los angeles where she attended hollywood high school got her break on local tv. break came 1949 holiday on television a variety show that ran five hours a day six days a week. that success led to a sitcom. >> betty white in life with elizabeth. >> and her own variety program the betty white show ♪ i'm a little lamb who is lost in the woods. >> after that, she took a job that would change everything. as a celebrity contestant on the game show password, she met the man she called the love of her life third husband host allen london. >> i will give the first password tonight to betty white. >> then in 1973, betty landed the first of two landmark roles. >> i'm sorry, billy, but i cannot do a chocolate souffle

with only. >> the happy homemaker who was anything but on "the mary tyler moore show." >> press your advantage. >> it was supposed to be a guest appearance but it became a full-time job and earned her two emmy awards. in 1980 husband allen was diagnosed with stomach cancer died the following year. she never remarried and never had children. she continued taking guest star roles in game shows and found the perfect part. >> i found. >> rose, as in a series of seats in a movie theater. >> betty's character was the opposite of sue ann the kind hearted scatter brain rose known for sharing stories small town upbringing. >> lots saint olive pageant, did you? [applause] >> 23 years in a row.

>> along with acting, betty was passionate about animal welfare, she went more than four decades working with the morris animal foundation and the los angeles zoo and won a lifetime achievement award from the jane goodell institute. >> my life is divided in half, animal business. i will do anything i can to make life better for these guys. >> our guest of honor, misbetty white. >> in recent years betty's career enjoyed a renaissance. hard hitting super bowl commercial. >> playing like betty white out. >> there that's not what your girlfriend said. >> then an internet campaign helped her land a hosting gig on "saturday night live." it became snl's highest rated show in nearly two years. >> now i'm here tonight because you wanted me to be. [applause] >> then when her new show hot in cleveland premiered, the pilot set a ratings record for the tv land network. >> i have been a caretaker of

this house for 50 years but can you keep me on. >> in all betty earned half a dozen emmys three american comedy awards, a grammy and three screen actors guild award including lifetime achievement. >> this is the highest pointed of my entire professional life. >> with her quick whit, impeccable timing and personality betty white leaves behind a lasting legacy of love and laughter. jonathan hunt, fox news. kayleigh: what a life. just an incredible, incredible woman. todd, you mentioned this was a gut punch. indeed it was. i looked down at my phone to all of these news alerts and it was just so heart breaking to see betty white gone. she was america's sweetheart. she had such an infectious personality, a zetts for life. a multidecade career. such an impressive woman and her positivity, her optimism, it have just bubbled out of her. what a way to end 2021.

not anything any of us wanted to see happen, but, you know, my, i guess, relationship with betty white or my growing up with betty white was in the show golden girls. i used to watch this with my mom, my sister, my grandmother. if you are a woman of any age, golden girls was a show that resonated with you. as a sister hood. betty white, of course, playing rose nyland on golden girls. we have a clip of that this is how i remember her. >> queen highest honor from the time i was born my folks groomed me for it, singing lances it dancing lessons junior butter for 16 years of my life my life revolved around butter. >> you were very fortunate so many of us wasted our youth. >> time came for the pageant i was incredible. i showed poise and even gown competition. i was brilliant in the butter quiz. they couldn't trip me up with a trick margarine question.

that evening, butter was spelled rose. kayleigh: she is the best. joey: we spent the show yesterday talking about her 100th birthday coming up. a quote half congressed optimist. just the idea for 99 years on this earth she made people laugh and made them feel better every day in testament after testament is people interacting with her talking about how she made them feel. we have some tweets are from some celebrities that got to know her. ron reynolds was on the proposal with her. and he said the world looks different now. she managed to grow very old and somehow not old enough. we will miss you bete, now you know the secret. it's just a wonderful way to memorialize someone. actually a lot of people don't know this. i didn't know this but the u.s. army tweeted because she is a world war ii veteran we are saddened by the passing of betty

white. not only an amazing actress. she also served in world war ii as a member of the american women's voluntary services. a true legend on and off the screen. 99 years is quite a time. todd: absolutely full, full life. she was everyone's cool grandmother. i think that's the major take away and why she really spoke to people of our generation because she could be in that age range where she is our grandmother. and we oftentimes do stories and we hear about hollywood celebrities. what stood out from her even though she had an amazingly lock and an amazingly successful career, she was accessible. and i think that's what stood out. we talked about the passing of john madden earlier this week. and i think there is some similarities here. they were both extremely accessible to the public that adored them. that is one of the main reasons that the public adored them.

her latest role, one of her later roles was on hot in cleveland. rest in peace is what her co-star valerie bertinelli had to say. rest in peace. my god how bright heaven must be right now. and reese witherspoon so so sad to hear about betty white passing. i loved watching her characters that brought so much joy. thank you, betty, for making us all laugh. she did those clips that we saw. one of them earlier. we will see them all throughout the day. they really are timeless and we will still laugh when we think of betty white going forward. she is a great lady, great tv and film icon, she will be missed. kayleigh: betty white no longer with us at 99 years old. we are going to spend the next few hours giving tribute to betty white to a life very well lived. you will hear a lot more from betty white. she was, of course, on "fox & friends" previously. so we will be talking much more

about that. but on to politics for the moment. president biden, guess where he is? oh, yes, still in delaware spending the holiday at his beach house for the 31st time but in delaware the governor there declared a covid-19 state of emergency as biden vacations. the texas a.g., meanwhile, ken paxton, is he celebrating a federal injunction against another biden vaccine mandate. but this one to me, guys, is perhaps the sickest of all the mandates. i was doing research on in this morning. the mandate, get this, a conditioned funding for head start. head start, this program is a program for little kids, age 1 to 5 to give federal funding to low income kids before they get to kindergarten. and president biden was conditioning funding for kids to go to preschool on the personnel getting vaccines and the kids 2

years and up wearing masks. how sick is that to condition funding for young kids low income communities. and i have a 2-year-old, joey, you have a 2-year-old. >> we have difficult to get a 2-year-old to wear a mask and their education should not be preconditioned on them wearing a mask. good for ken paxton for fighting this and getting that preliminary injunction. joey: i can't get my 2-year-old to do pretty much anything all the time. much less wear a mask. i think that maybe people that are making these mandates have never had kids. i'm not really sure where they are coming from. but if you have a 2-year-old, they're not going to do anything all the time. kayleigh: very true. todd: i mean, there are two key takeaways for me at this point. not only is this really an abridgement on freedom and we have highlighted this throughout the course of, i don't know, the last year, year and a half. but your own people, your own administration now questioning

the efficacy of the mandates, especially the mask mandates. and even the vaccine mandate to the extent that we all thought we were all told that this would prevent covid from being spread, yet, that is not the case. and it really is the blue cities, and the blue states where we see this. regardless of your vaccination status, regardless of whether you are wearing a mask, it does appear, based upon this administration's own guidance, that you can still spread covid. and so i just think the overall take away is really why are we doing this if the biden administration has recently admitted, hey, this may not prevent the spread, especially when it comes to kids and especially in these under served communities that really don't need something else taking away from the growth and the education of these kids. so, you have that part with these under served communities. now you have something that i think cailee and i will both look at as former law students

and say, what? the eligibility for oral antiviral treatments in new york being predicated on race. and here is what the city is saying nonwhite, race or hispanic latino ethnicity should be considered a risk factor as long standing systemic health have contributed to increased risk of severe illness and death from covid. again, broader question is why aren't these treatments more widespread? i think we can all ask these antiviral treatments, these overall treatments should be widespread throughout the community to prevent people from getting really, really sick. but, this is literally race-based discrimination, which you learn day one in law school you can't do, cailee. kayleigh: you are exactly right. i think it's unconstitutional. we will see if this gets litigated. i talked a lot in the trump white house from the podium about covid disproportionately

affecting minority communities that is true. in the trump administration we worked to make sure therapeutics got surged to community health centers and we did our best to remedy that disparity. administering a therapeutic based on race is nonsensical. if you have got covid, you have got covid and you deserve to be treated and not administered these drugs based on skin color. that's basic common accepts you are exactly right with the legal issues about that todd piro. >> not only is that a racist policy but why do we have to ration these things? we are two years into this. why are we rationing a therapeutic? we talked about this on "fox & friends" earlier this week, about how if this administration wanted to defeat covid maybe they would focus on getting people well after they caught covid instead of treating everyone who didn't take a vaccine as a second class citizen? john i don't know, that's just a thought for me. kayleigh: great thought. joey: the marshal fire in colorado may have destroyed more than 1,000 homes as people were forced to run for their lives.

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♪ kayleigh: from fire to ice. snowblankets -- alicia acuna lin lewisville as families are preparing toe rebuild from the rubble in the new year. alicia. >> good morning, kayleigh, this snow is supposed to kin all day long. it's about 8 degrees out here right now. so folks are going to be trying to get back. in it is absolutely frigid. we are getting word that there is a missing person in this event. a 91-year-old woman from superior has not been seen since the fire. it was initially thought that no one was missing. we have not heard reports of any deaths, for unfortunately there is a family trying to find out what happened to this 91-year-old woman. we will definitely keep you updated on that. you mentioned all of the destruction here now blanketed with ♪ and we saw so many of those

images on the ground even more devastating can you get a good picture if you look at it from the air. it is absolutely terrible looking from overhead there is drone video show the entire neighborhoods reduced to ash. this is the most destructive fire in colorado history. again, pushed by 100 mile-per-hour winds. bone dry conditions for december. and while about 6,000 acres were burned, these areas are densely populated and there could be as many as 1,000 homes and businesses destroyed in lewisville and superior and we may not know the entire damage for days. >> a disaster in fast motion all over the course of half a day. many families having minutes, minutes to get whatever they could, their pet, their kids into the car and leave. the last 24 hours have been deficit stating.

>> evacuation orders have been lifted for parts of superior and for residents outside of boulder county. yesterday people came back to see if their homes had made it or not, in some cases whole neighborhoods were gone but a few houses made it. >> safe and uninjured and at the moment i'm glad she didn't pick to drive over with me this morning, i think it's breaking my heart. i'm sure it would break hers, too. >> in all the devastation though guys, there is some good news here, there are heroics, there is one story that i can tell you about, there was a family, a young family, a couple with their baby woke up and realized what was going on and they were stuck in their neighborhood because everybody else was gone. it just so happened that the husband had ordered a frump

amazon. that amazon driver showed up to deliver the bike pump realized situation got the family in her van and got them out of there to safety. that family did lose their home. this amazon driver did quite possibly save their lives. back to you. kayleigh: wow, alicia, i know your fawm personally affected. we are thinking of you and your family at this time. the governor, governor polis had previousliously called this, quote, a new year's miracle despite the 1,000 homes that were lost. devastating and businesses as well, there were no loss of life although we are hearing about this 91-year-old missing person, so sad, i hope we find her, but if you could put us into the perspective of a family trying to evacuate. they had just minutes to grab their children, their pets, not even their belongings, so it is a miracle that only one missing person, we certainly hope that this 91-year-old is found. >> yeah, absolutely. and it really is, when you

consider that there were authorities that were saying that the flames were moving as fast as the wind. think about that. you have wind gusts between 40 and 110 miles per hour. you have flames moving at that rate and skipping through the air and the embers. so it really was incredible to see that in these two communities with a total about 35,000 people, managing to get out of there and you are correct, no reports of death at this point. there is a lot of gratitude here. i have been hearing about that time and again. so much gratitude that people were able to get out. but it is devastating to see. you mentioned my family and i appreciate that. thank you. my in-law's house which actually is like across the street from where i am beings, their house is standing. their neighbors just to the south, the entire neighborhood is gone. so this was just a matter of a trick of the wind and flames that their house is there that's what so many neighborhoods are seeing at this point. you have some homes that are standing, no damage whatsoever,

and then right next to it everything is gone. so it's really incredible it does boggle the mind at the same time. joey: alicia, i will tell you mikesell brother-in-law has been a fireman for his whole life. he was talking to me how this fire jumped and you call it a miracle they all got out. it was also quite a feat that it happened to begin with. something that doesn't happen every day. i guess we just wish the snow would have gotten there a little bit sooner. >> absolutely. and this has been a month, a very dry month in colorado. and it -- i was looking as the storm was coming, as the wind was come in. i was watching a local meteorologist showing a map. showing how the wind was moving. they put over it where the extreme drought conditions were and it was a cross section. i mean, it really could not have happened in a worse location. you had this fuel of the dry grass in the area where they believe it started but then you have the accelerant of the wind that just made it all the worse.

we are used to wind here in colorado. we are not used to the dryness in december that we are seeing and the type of wind and this type of system that went on for hours throughout the day. todd: aliberal shah, we are praying for you and praying for your family and praying for the people in that area. we will check back in with you later on. thank you so much. time now is 29 minutes, about to be 30 minutes after the hour. still ahead we are honoring beloved actress, comedian and trailblazing tv legend betty white a look back with some of her moments on the brigadier general big screen next. >> hi, bete, how are you? >> brian. >> ryan. of my name is ryan. >> get me a cup of coffee. >> my name is ryan, we have been working together for weeks, months actually, months now. >> and you have been a terrible sent a that whole time. >> that's because i'm not an assistant, bete. i mean, i play an assistant in the movie and i'm an actor in

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♪ todd: a fox news alert now icon betty white industry trailblazer and titan of american sitcoms dead at the age of 99. a tribute celebrating her decades long career reportedly still set to go on playing in movie theaters on what would have been her 100th birthday. here to discuss they're contribution entertainment movie critic and fox news contributor kevin mccarthy. great to see you, obviously, on a sad occasion like the passing of betty white. what stands out most to you about her. >> great to see you and good morning to you and happy new year by the way. yeah, this is an interesting day because in terms of her legacy and what she did for the world in terms of comedy, you know, i want to celebrate her life

because she was so instrumental to so many people's lives over the years. what stands out the most to me is when you have a seven decade career or seven decade plus career, you are hitting people at different times in their lives. so you know, if someone grew up watching "the mary tyler moore show" or the golden girls and they were able to show those shows to their kids. i read stories yesterday of people growing up watching golden girls with their parents when it originally aired. to me, that's the beauty of someone's career like this because betty white will always live on forever through her work. and that's the beauty of what she was able to do. i also feel like we all knew betty white. what i mean by that is i never met betty white i feel lining we all were familiar with her. i feel like we all considered her like a friend. she was so funny. her timing was amazing. she was a pop culture icon embedded in everything that we all -- she was on wrestling shows, the proposal was one of my favorite movies and i was telling someone yesterday about

this. no matter how old you are, betty white was important for you at a certain point. i didn't watch golden girls growing up but the proposal when that movie hit, ryan reynolds and i love sandra bullock when betty white showed up in that film i became a fan instantly in that moment. right before you went to break you showed that beautiful clip of her on the set of the proposal. it's a really funny movie. to me, that's what we need to be doing is celebrating her life. i think a lot of people, the sad as the specht of it aside from her passing clearly is this idea that she passed away 17 days or so befor her 100th birthday. there was a "people" magazine on the news stand betty white at 100. and there was that event you are talking about the fathom event. it's wild to think about that. at the same time, the outpouring from so many people about how she touched so many people's lives. i mean, it's really incredible what she was able to do with her career over the years. amazing, amazing career.

>> you mentioned the proposal, let's get to a clip of the proposal because we have been watching it all morning and putting a smile on everybody's faith face. >> thank you. >> [chanting] >> talk to myanmar get of new york. it is i grandma -- i see you are a curious one. come, see how i give thanks to mother earth. todd: that timing is just uncanny, you can't teach that timing. 20 seconds to you, kev. is there anybody out there now that can take the mantel from betty white. one name see if you are on board with it take a guess. >> so white. betty white is that person that we just thought was going to live forever. even ryan reynolds who tweeted out yesterday about it his quote i want to read it real fast amazing, the world is different now. she was at defying expectations. she managed to grow very old and somehow not old enough.

we will miss you betty, now you know the secret. that's a reference to a quote that her mom told her growing up that when you pass away you learn the secret of what happens when you pass. that's what he is referring to there. in terms of a person who takes the mantle, i don't know that betty white is replace cybil in that mindset. who is the person you are referring to. todd: i'm thinking different entertainment world but dolly parton, she seems to have the take on from the entire nation that loves her. i think betty white is that person. kevin, we do have to go. betty white would love the fact that we are dressed as twins today. she would have a lot of fun for that and mock us mercylessly for that. >> let's celebrate betty white's life happy new year to you and go back and watch her work she lived on forever. it's wonderful to see her work again. todd: kevin, thanks he, not kevin mccarthy but joe biden ran on promise to end covid-19. but now after a year into office with the virus surging nationwide, president biden being blasted on the world stage for broken pandemic promises.

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kayleigh: president biden ran on his promise to end the pandemic. well, now, president biden claims there is no federal solution to fight covid-19 and now the world is calling him out for his broken promises. former secretary of state mike pompeo says biden's empty threats are emboldening the

world's dictators. >> you have more words from the biden administration but no actions, no demonstrated resolve and i think you see vladimir putin observing that and he sees a weak leadership from the united states. he doesn't see us defending our values and i think he is prepared to push this issue with ukraine to the brink. kayleigh: let's bring in hudson institute senior fellow rebecca heinrich, welcome rebecca and happy new year. >> good morning, happy new year. kayleigh: yes. well, it appears that chinese state media is now using this filibuster of joe biden saying there is no federal solution suggesting this they say quote did american politicians promises during the u.s. presidential election mean anything at all? it's disturbing to see this kind of turn by the chinese to be used against us. >> right. well, i would say that joe biden seems to have lost his plan and his message. we know he never had either. i mean, look, the chinese

communist party is going to try to do whatever they can to make their system of government look superior to ours. the truth of the matter is, the chinese government's behavior has maximized the exportation of the virus. the u.s. government started in the previous administration with operation warp speed has created workable vaccines unlike china and largest exporter of those vaccines. we have great therapeutics, we have a system of federalism go to states like florida and texas where they have different plans to open up and get us back to vibrant normalcy. federalism, so that can be the message for joe biden moving forward. he can have that for free. kayleigh: yes. good suggestion there rebekah. you also see we need to be taking the chinese to task saying this covid-19, likely originated in a lab in wuhan, i mean, if the united states doesn't hold them accountable for the origins of this virus, who will? it doesn't seem like the w.h.o. has any shot of doing that. >> well, like i said, that should be -- the message should

be this virus began, it was leaked in a lab in wuhan and then the chinese government's behaviors maximize the spread outside its borders by covering it up. disappearing doctors and whistleblowers. but the biden administration won't take on to that very true message. they have essentially looked the other way and said we can't get to the bottom of the origins because the chinese government won't share with us what they know. and so that clearly has resulted in increased death and suffering across the world. so the biden administration, i mean, any government, any u.s. administration that's going to be serious and take on china has got to make their behavior about this pandemic central to their foreign policy. kayleigh: what do iran and north korea and russia think when they look at our relationship with china under the biden administration? >> the biden administration has taken this very progressive left wing view in foreign policy which is this view that basically all countries essentially want the same thing

to get rich and to have peaceful, you know, relations with other countries, but other countries want different things. so the u.s. government must fight for it. we have got to be tough with china, russia, iran and then always have this hand outreached for diplomacy, diplomacy only works with tough sanctions, and a credible threat of force in defense of u.s. vital interest in the american way of life. all these other countries can see that this government, the biden administration is essentially just all carrot, no stick, and you have seen how it's actually incentivized greater aggression and greater provocation. kayleigh: it's called peace through strength and worked well during the last administration. thank you so much rebecca heinrichs have a great first day of january. >> thank you, you too. >> thank you. let's check in with meteorologist adam klotz for our fox weather forecast. adam: good morning, kayleigh, what are we looking at across the country? really warm air in the east and frigid in the western states.

early this morning 71 degrees in memphis and fall back behind this cold front and before you know it negative 24 degrees running up into the northern plains. you add in the wind or get your wind chill or feels like temperature and widespread there places down into the negative close to negative 30 degrees in minneapolis and you are seeing that across a very large area. so, frigid out there this morning. right along that frontal boundary i showed you a whole lot of rain some areas behind it heavy snow. i bring you in this line of the green boxes those are flood warnings and yellow polygons those are severe thunderstorms. this is going to be one of the big weather stories today as it shifts its away across the northeast. chance of seeing severe storms in tennessee stretching down alabama, mississippi, over towards arkansas. at least a possibility of some isolated tornadoes but definitely those big thunderstorms, something we will be watching over the course of the day. kayleigh, back to you. kayleigh: i see you lost a new year's eve outfit. i missed it adam.

i like it? >> now i'm blending in with this graphic i didn't plan that but here i am. kayleigh: still looks like great outfit. thank you so much, adam. >> thank you. kayleigh: more "fox & friends" coming up. ♪ find your rhythm. your happy place. find your breaking point. then break it. every emergen-c gives you a potent blend of nutrients so you can emerge your best with emergen-c.

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they stretch. rubber bands stretch. pretend you have a rubber band in your head and that you can stretch your thank you. so you want to say thank you, what you are thanking the person for and their name. open up a couple of presents together. so the first thing you do when someone hands you a present is you look at the card. it's where their heart connects to your heart. >> thank you for the doll. >> fabulous. give hayden a hand, nice job, hayden. >> there are several things that i want to share with you so that you can have your very best table manners for the holiday. first thing that happens when you sit down at a table, you are going to unfold your napkin and usually a napkin starts in a square. you are going to unfold it one more time so what shape is this? >> rectangle. >> it's a rectangle. then the folded part of your napkin is going to face your tummy, you are going to put that

in your lap over both legs. one of the things that my daddy always said to me at the table was that i needed to check nigh my posture. let's see lady posture, maybe elbow on the table. i want you to pretend like have you an invisible string coming out of the top of your head. everyone find invisible string and tug tug tug you have great posture, perfect. another little trick if you are helping your grown up set the table is that true forks go on the left side and on easy way to remember that is the way that these forks are spelled. fork has how many letters? four. so does the word left. left. the work spoon and knife both have five letters. and they go on the right. right. >> merry christmas.

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if you are up. you probably didn't have that crazy of a night or in the alternative, you are still up, you are having your mimosas, hair of the dog. you are making it happen here on the first day of 2022. alongside the lovely kayleigh mcenany and some might even say the even lovelier joey jones. i'm todd piro we welcome you all in to our first show here on "fox & friends" of 2022. and, like i said, a lot of people had a great night last night. really partying it up, crushing it in terms of the cool factor. then there was yours truly, take a look at what i did on my new year's eve. you ready? roll tape. i caulked. i caulked the perimeter of my shower. what a wild time. >> wow! todd: wild time we had here in the piro household kayleigh,

hopefully did you something better. kayleigh: on the scale of that person staying up drinking mimosas you have fallen off that outer edge. for me, this is the only picture i have for new year's eve which is actually quite sad. i went to dinner, it was a beautiful dinner 5:00 with my mom and daughter that's my 2-year-old baby blake. i had to bribe her because we skipped her nap. i bragged her with browny. that is her like eating the entirety of a brownie. it was way too much. my only new year's eve picture i do think it is better than caulking a shower though as that being your only new year's eve picture. todd. joey: so cute. so cute. listen, i know a lot of people have resolutions going into this new year. i hope that the georgia football coach kirby smart has a resolution of beating nick saban because the georgia bulldogs are going to the national championship against alabama. i spent my new year's eve watching this routing of michigan 34-11 making it look

easy and so i'm hoping that kirby smart turns a new leaf in 2022 and takes this team all the way giving us a national championship in 1980 make it happen here in nine days against the alabama crimson tide. what is your new year's resolution? hopefully you are on board with mine. email us at friends at foxnews.com and let us know what your resolution is. finishing all the stuff i started last year. todd: joey, it's going to be a great game. i just think you have two power houses. i think it's what the nation wanted to see and i am looking forward to it. unfortunately, 2021 ended on a pretty sad note when this news came down about midday, betty white passing away at the age of 99, just weeks, mere weeks before her 100th birthday. i think it was a punch in the gut of the nation. she was our grandmother.

she was literally everybody's grandmother and one of his or her most iconic roles, of course, was on "the mary tyler moore show." let's take a look. >> i love what you have done to it. >> i haven't done anything to it? >> i know. todd: all right. unfortunately we do not have the audio from that clip but you can guarantee it was funny. and throughout the course of the morning so far and going forward we are going to have more amazing clips from the iconic betty white and, again, it's that notion that she was everyone's cool grandmother and in those later years really came in with this i can say whatever i want because i am an older lady type deal along with the younger generation. and it was so funny the things that she got away with combined her amazing comedic timing really was gold. it led to that "saturday night live" appear and. it was just an amazing thick to watch in her later years after

an iconic career. and she will be missed, kayleigh. >> there is no doubt about it a life well lived and when you look back at her career, it's so admiral, her tenacity, her fight, her grit, you know, she skipped college and decided to pursue a career in entertainment and had her first role, get, this as 17 years old. that was back in 1939. it was an experimental tv broadcast. in fact, tv broadcast, televisions rather just made their dee debut at the 1939 world fair and betty white on experimental broadcast at the age of 17. she said i danced on experimental tv show first on west coast in downtown los angeles. i wore my high school graduation dress in our beverly hills high school student body president henry bennett and i danced the mary widow waltz it all began 1939. a career that continued all the

way until she passed at the age of 99. she even joined us here on "fox & friends" back on january 19th, 20011, let's take a listen. >> what happened on last monday? >> no. brian: it was your birthday. [laughter] >> you know, when you get old, you forget. >> i wish i could forget my birthday sometime. but i will tell you 99 years, a century on this earth. think about from 1922 until just before 2022 from volunteering in world war ii to hosting snl. i think what's probably most remarkable about her she was here 99 years. entertained us most of that time. i don't know her politics i know she loved people and loved to make people laugh and maybe we could take a little bit of that and put it in our box for 2022 i want to share this quote from robert redford he gave this statement to e news. he said betty lived life devoted to her craft and love of animals. she made us all laugh including

me i had a crush on her, too. i think we all did at some point. i used to watch golden girls and used to hear about saint olaf. i thought she was pretty awesome. we also had this quote from spcala president madeline bernstein she said betty and i would joke that she would outlive us all. she was inspired to lend her celebrity to provide a voice for animals and brought much attention to the cause of animal welfare. we will miss our friend for life. and i think that really speaks a lot that she had so much love for, you know, animals that she had a special bond with and devoted her life to it. todd: i think one of the key things to take away from the life of betty white is every time pedro take as three shot of us. what are we doing? we have a big smile on our face. looking back at the life of betty white. and every time she -- you have seen us, you see anybody talking about her, even though she has

passed, you see these huge smiles. and to think that your impact on others' lives is to leave them with a smile, i think is something that everybody probably aspires to, hopefully we attain it at some point but to have it universal, to have people throughout the country all having that same reaction this morning is a tribute to her, a tribute to her work, and it's a tribute to the woman that she was. kayleigh, over to you. kayleigh: a great observation, todd. we were playing those clips and you just see a lot of laughter and life coming out of all of us in the wake of her passing. she brought so much joy to this earth and now bringing that joy to the after life. well this on to politics. and msnbc host says americans do not care about build back better's costs. remember, that's the socialist takeover biden plan? the "new york times" reflected on what we learned about the economy in this devastating first year of the obama presidency.

what they learned is this is pretty simple take away. people really really do not like when the prices go up of gas, of electricity, of the grocery bill. americans don't like inflation. and interestingly, you know, it's joey, the build back better plan, multitrillion dollars plan that apparently americans like we are told, it's not the case if americans liked it so much, it would be the law of the land right now. it's not the law of the land because joe manchin came out courageously against it we say courageously was it courageous or just listening to his constituents? west virginia polling shows that two thirds of his state, of his constituency thought that build back better would contribute to inflation by about 20% americans overall recognize this will add to inflation and increase prices. so, the american people are not on board with this. if they were, build back better would be passed into law today. it is not as we enter 2022, joey

jones. >> yeah. i will tell you a saying down here in the south you put a lipstick on a pig it's still a pig. build back better may be some of the programs they want but don't want the pig to come with it they don't want trillions of dollars of debt. they don't want to revolutionize how we live our lives and sacrifice livelihoods green energy programs isn't even proven. joe manchin ended up taking all the flack but 51 senators didn't support this and didn't either. todd: soundbite set this up. is this msnbc host ohio like to refer to as progressive policy advocate. let's listen to her exact words. take a listen. >> i feel like a lot of the coverage this year was focused on how much this plan costs and i think that matters to maybe inside the beltway people but american people across this country are not interested in how much this costs.

they have their own household debt to worry about. they want to know what policy impacts their lives tomorrow. >> that, of course, tiffany cross. and, quite frankly, guys, that's patently incorrect. i live in a democrat state. most of the people i talk to regardless of party knew and know that build back better will cripple the financial futures of our kids and our grandkids. and, you know, don't take my word for it, this was born out by the "new york times." again, not the federalist but the "new york times." and here's what they said in one of these end of year lists for 2021. what we learned about the economy in 2021 for once the government tried overheating the economy for better and worse, it succeeded. and look here are the other things we learned yes, you can overheat the economy when supply chains get messed up it's hard to unmess them. three, more power for workers doesn't necessarily make people happy. and 4, people really really

really -- sorry i added in another really, i think, don't like inflation. guys, if this is what the majority of the measure people know, regardless of party, that is the key thing. democrats that are running for office in 2022 better come around or the landslide that everybody is expecting come the midterms is going to be worse than a loaned slide. it will be a blood bath. kayleigh: no doubt about it inflation tops the list. any time you talk about economic concerns and even concerns more broadly. as i was reading through these topics this morning. it took me back to march of this year. and i thought about an axios article that had come out that took us behind the scenes of president biden's meeting with historians and apparently i just have to read a sentence from this because it's so ironic now. hosting historians around a long table in the east room earlier this month, that was back in march of 2021, president biden took notes in a block book as they discussed some of his most

admired predecessors and he talked to these historians about how he could being like fdr. they even talked about in this article biden's new deal. how far we have come. and they talk about how consequential his presidency was. this was in march. this was when biden was trying to say the adults are back in the room. trump gone. i'm here to save the day. how far we have come since march of last year to now when i think americans broadly can recognize it has been crisis after crisis after crisis joey jones. and we do not have an fdr in the white house. joey: no, we don't. i don't know that i would want an fdr i'm more of a reagan or eisenhower guy myself. kayleigh: good point. kay. joey: what we don't like are unforced errors. they change for the sake of change and that turns out to be bad for us. we got something here from bill mcgurn who compared biden to the last democratic president who kind of brought in some high prices and energy crisis.

unfortunately georgian, let's take a look. >> the problem is that joe biden has not a good agenda. you know, when he came in, people were talking as though he would be the next fdr or l.bj but he didn't have fdr or lbj majorities. now what's the most common met for used? it's jimmy cart earth. jimmy carter is a synonym for haplessness with inflation. i think afghanistan was particularly brutal because it is not a right or left thing. i think a lot of people just have the impression that the job is too big for joe biden. he's not up to it. todd: did you guys hear a common theme between what we all said and what bill mcgurn said and the "new york times" said and what seems to be the underlying premise. this is no longer a democrat vs. republican thing. when it comes to the people that are in society, when it comes to the people that are in congress, yes, it's partisan and they are going to stick with their guy,

possibly to their detriment. possibly to their downfall, possibly to the end of their time in office. but, when you talk to people in your community, regardless of party, they all want the same things. they will don't want crime, they thought afghanistan was an abject disaster and they are paying ridiculous amounts of money for things that three months ago weren't as expensive if you can find them on the shelves that going to impact the party in power. the party in power currently is the democrats. they are in big trouble going forward. if biden doesn't get this figured out and it does not look like he will, kayleigh. >> no. you are in big trouble when left wing quinnipiac, left wing polling organization says you are up 36%. not good for president biden and not good for america. turning now to your headlines. both suspects wanted in the shooting death of a veteran illinois police officer are in custody following a nearly 36 hour manhunt. one was arrested in indiana while the other turned herself

into police in illinois. bradley police sergeant marlene rit manic was killed. her partner also shot and remains in critical condition. the officers were responding to a noise complaint at comfort inn motel. they are in our prayers and their families as well. president biden says he warned russian leader vladimir putin of the, quote: heavy price of a potential ukraine invasion. >> i made it clear to the president putin that he -- he makes any more moves, goes into ukraine, we will have severe sanctions. kayleigh: biden also saying the united states will increase its presence in europe if putin makes more moves. biden will discuss the situation with ukraine's president on a call tomorrow. a united kingdom makes a multimillion dollars mistake. the bank accidently deposited

$176 million to thousands of people on christmas day. wow, what a gift. it happened when payments across 2,000 business accounts were somehow processed twice because of a scheduling issue. tens of thousands of people woke up on christmas day to doubled wages and a higher than expected bank balance. the bank is now trying to get the money back. wow. and those are your headlines. joey: good luck getting that money back from me. i think i might have to use it real quick before they have a chance to. all right. coming up, bidenens border crisis swells as agents encounter migrants from far away as turkey. former acting ice director tom homan says you don't have national security without border security. he's next. then, remembering an icon, we take a look back at some of betty white's funniest moments later this hour. >> betty, you do know they actually slice bread now, right?

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todd: welcome back, thank you for being here on new year's

day. border patrol pigging up migrants as far as way from from turkey there were 1400 encounters with migrants coming from turkey up from 109 in fiscal year 2020. and so far, in fiscal year 2022, there have been nearly 960 encounters since october. here to react is former acting ice director and fox news contributor tom homan, tom, happy new year's to you. excuse my sarcasm here are they fleeing gang violence in guatemala which kamala would say is a root cause. >> it's ridiculous. her talking talking about the causes of illegal immigration is ridiculous. border patrol encountered people from 150 different countries. so the whole world knows our border is open. the whole world knows get to our border and get into the united states. many of these countries either support or sponsors of terrorism. that just scares people. the border patrol has already

arrested at last count 16 people in the fbi screening data base. these are people they arrested. you and i both know if someone is going to come to our country and do us harm they don't want to be arrested. add to that nearly half a million, 500,000 got-aways. people crossed our border. >> weren't arrested and that's based on camera traffic, drone traffic. border response tied up with humanitarian crisis. maybe this administration and the white house and secretary mayorkas want to play those odds, but i'm not willing to roll the dice on that. this border you can't have national security if you don't have border security. it's a huge vulnerability. todd: tom, i can't imagine anyone with half a brain doesn't see that. doesn't see what you just explained. so they have to be doing this purposefully. and that begs the question why? why knowing that known terrorists or people with known terror ties could be coming to the u.s. through this open southern border, why then would you do that? why would you allow that and

jeopardize the safety of america? i don't get that, tom. >> after 9/11 a lot of processes put in place to prevent terrorists from entering the united states. you got the visa security program. you got the no fly list. terrorist screening center. almost gobble get a visa to come to the united states or get a plane ticket to come into the united states because so many data base checks are done intelligence data bases including dod data base. if there is any derogatory information you are not getting a visa and you are not getting a plane ticket. how will you come to the united states if you want to blow something up you will come through the southwest border the same way 20 million other people did especially now when half the border patrol is not on the line. if you have got 500,000 got-aways in one year, that's an open border. but to the question why, look, you are exactly right. this isn't incompetence or mismanagement. this is by design. this is open borders the

president ran on to win the progressive left. all about perpetual power. they think these are future democratic voters. if they don't vote overturn the census rules more seats in the house of democrats. todd: i don't agree with open borders letting in democratic voters. i understand it as a strategy. i can't wrap my head around letting in people that you know are possible terrorists as a side effect of that. it is mind boggling what's going on and fingers crossed that 2022 sees some change. i'm not optimistic. tom homan we thank you for joining us here bright and early on new year's day. have a great rest of your day and enjoy 2022 legendary actress and comedian betty white always knew how to put a smile on our faces. a look back at the betty white next. >> i should be presenting an award to you for the privilege of working in this wonderful business all this time. you still can't get rid of me.

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♪ >> you know, i have so many people to thank for being here, but i really have to thank facebook. [laughter] [cheers and applause] when i first heard about the campaign to get me to host "saturday night live," i didn't know what facebook was. [laughter] and now that i do know what it is, i have to say it sounds like a huge waste of time. [laughter] joey: this morning, we are remembering comedic acting legend and tv trailblazer betty white who for decades brought laughter into the living rooms of so many and helped paved the way for women in comedy. foster. happy new year, happy new year welcome to the show. >> happy new year. joey: i have been reading up on bete, i read about her earlier

this year. she did a lot of firsts, she was one of the first female to win an award. first female to host a variety show. tell us about the trailblazing that betty white did. >> she is a legend. an absolute legend. the fact that she is so fearless one of the most important components you can have for being a comedian. you have to have no fear. you have to be able not to take yourself so seriously. find the funny. there is humor everywhere. and special if you can laugh at yourself which is something that she did on a regular basis. that's why we loved her. todd: you say fearless and i love that even being on tv myself, you got to be able to i can that fun of yourself and through that that means you have to be honest about your insecurities. and fought fought hard to have the same roles and comedians 50 years we couldn't talk about. how important was it to have someone like betty white say listen, you can be insecure and make fun of yourself and people

will love you for it. >> you know, the irony of all of it is it takes security to be able to do that. it takes being confident to be able to say, you know what? i'm not perfect. let's laugh about it let's have a good time. let's all come together under that umbrella of imperfection and understand our common humanity. that's what she did. that was what was so genius about her, and about comedy and about the way that she just, you know, was such a trailblazer. i know that is like the buzz word now for betty white. she truly, she set the stage for so many women to come after her to be like, you know what? i can be feminine and funny. can i make a little bit of fun of myself. can i make fun of the silly, the absurd, the obscure, the common. that again, why so much -- why so many people love her and adored her and valued her. joey: you know at 99 years old she entertained for almost her entire life. i don't know if we will ever have another betty white. what is her legacy and who is

going to pick up that mantle and carry on? who are the women in comedy she has inspired? and what have we got to look forward to in betty white's memory? >> well, the amazing thing is that she has inspired so many women. and you know, i'm not going to crown anybody right now, but i think that just knowing that there are incredibly funny, talented, brilliant women out there who, you know, i don't know if anybody is going to take betty's place, but they will make their own marks. they will set their own blazes on fire. their own trails on fire. they will inspire other young women and men, you know, to, again, not take themselves so seriously, understand that comedy unites us, that connects us, it's a gift that we have to give and to receive. and, you know, we can do is keep her in our memory and cherish her and be grateful that we all got experience her. joey: i will tell what you have a happy new year and go ought and make people laugh.

we are all going to laugh and honor betty white. thank you for joining us. >> that's a great idea. thank you so much. joey: somebody who probably does take herself seriously aoc flocks to florida for vacation while criticizing its governor ron antioxidants for how he has handled the pandemic. why did she go there to begin with. florida governor rick scott joins us to react ♪ very heart of it ♪ new york, new york ♪ i want to wake up in a city that doesn't sleep ♪ and find i'm king of the hill ♪ top of the heap ♪ these little town blues ♪ are melting away ♪ liz, you nerd, cough if you're in here!

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ed to rebuilding from the rubble. 1,000 homes in colorado destroyed after the absolutely devastating marshall fire. alicia acuna live in louisville where folks are waking up without a roof over their heads. >> there is a family in superior, colorado that is searching for their loved one

this morning, 91-year-old nadine turn was last seen evacuating a home with her niece and somehow the two became separated. right now, family members don't know what happened. they are really hoping that authorities or someone got nadine to an evacuation center and that she is safe. all of this is folks who live in superior and louisville, colorado begin to assess the devastation. you can see from drone images how destructive the wind fire was. governor jared polis says it is possible close to 1,000 homes were lost. but that it may take days to get an accurate count. i can tell you folks here are doing everything they can to help each other out. >> this is devastating what happened to the community. >> it's unbelievable. colorado someone of those places where you can feel the warmth of people's heart. >> mayor of superior says about 1,000 people are currently in need of a place to stay. so that is the priority right now there are about 13,000

customers without power and it's heart breaking as the stories here have been, we are finding many silver lining in moments of heroism. one example, the stanleys were asleep with 4-month-old old baby when they woke up to smoke in an evacuated neighborhood. fortunately an amazon delivery agent named louann bike pump they ordered. >> do you need help? she said i'm here to deliver a package. >> just put it in the door we got to go. >> drive through the flames really really bad. >> if it wasn't for you, we probably wouldn't have made it out. >> it was one of those miracles that happened. >> a lot of miracles here amid the heart break and i can tell that you there are going to be folks going to be trying to get back into their neighborhoods today. right now authorities are asking people not to try to sneak in and do this because it's very dangerous. we have national guard members behind us here who are just trying to keep people out.

keep things safe. because this is going to be a long process of figuring out exactly how much was lost. back to you. joey: alicia, thanks for the update. a bittersweet, i guess, story of a family being saved and we're all just thinking and praying for everyone there, including yourself. all right now to this. democrats are criticizing governor florida ron desantis for being missing during the covid spike. alexandria ocasio-cortez on vacation in the sunshine state claiming his social media team is posting old pictures while orange county mayor jerry demings had this to say. >> where is ron desantis now? when was the last time you saw the governor do a press briefing regarding covid-19?

>> desantis' office clearing the air on the matter telling fox news the governor has been accompanying his wife casey to her cancer treatments. let's bring in florida senator rick scott. welcome senator scott and happy new year. >> happy new year to you and all the "fox & friends" viewers. it's going to be a great '22 i believe. kayleigh: it absolutely will. look, the criticism of governor desantis and we hold casey in our prayers she is an amazing first lady of florida. i believe it's because he is a successful governor of florida who by the way follows another successful governor of florida that would be you, senator scott. putting that matter aside and moving to this matter of aoc vacationing in florida. i'm a proud floridian. born and raised here. i'm in florida now no. problem with vacationing in our state. we welcome you. it's the criticism and hypocrisy of criticizing the state whose policies she is now benefiting from, am i right, senator scott?

>> absolutely. first off, our hearts go out to casey and we hope she comes through this in perfect health. but, you know, aoc is a complete hypocrite. they go -- she does it, the democrats do it, the left media does it, they watch joe biden go buy ice cream every day but then if -- you know they attack every republicans every moment they can. so, and aoc wants to shut down new york and wants to come down here. maybe she is doing a fact finding mission to see what freedom is like. down here, we want people to get out and lead their lives. we want people to make good decisions about their health. we want our businesses to prosper. in new york, they believe a lot of these blue states they believe they know better and they are going to tell you how to lead their life. they are complete hypocrites and it makes you mad. joey: you know, senator, joe biden just said that there isn't a federal solution. he said the governor is going to have to step up and solve this problem, i guess, for their own

state. it seems governor desantis has done just that most of the criticism isn't really coming from the state of florida. has your governor done what is needed to secure his state and keep everyone free during this pandemic? >> you know what i like is i live in a state that we believe that individuals are going to make good choices. my parents didn't have much of a formal education but they made good choices. our government's responsibility is to give us good information. get out of the way. let us make our own choices. so if joe biden believes there is no federal solution, then why does he have this vaccine mandate that's causing people in florida and other states to get fired? i mean, who in their right mind wants people to lose their job? that's exactly what that this vaccine mandate that the biden administration has put out is doing. the federal information, fauci says something. the cdc says something. biden says something. their information is completely inconsistent and not helpful. todd: one thing that stands out to me over the events of the last 24 hours, specifically

involving the aforementioned aoc is the fact that in 2021, i think what we saw, senator scott, was the progressive left, the progressive socialist really not even hiding their hitch is i anymore. we saw the picture already many times today of aoc and her guy eating, drinking maskless there in miami in florida. a place she has criticized often. we just talked about this. but won't that absolutely destroy any slim hope that democrats have of even thinking of holding the house and the senate in 2022? because of i have to think at some point that overall hypocrisy just hits the american people right between the eye and they say enough is enough. even though i was a democrat or am a democrat, i can't vote for that in 2022. what say you? >> well, i agree. first hypocrites newsom going to french laundry, pelosi going to the hairdresser. just name it, name it, name it

here is why the democrats are going to lose. first off they are going to lose because they're responsible for this one believable inflation hurting our poorest families number one. country fed up with the debacle in afghanistan. still american citizens are in afghanistan because joe biden won't do miss job and get american citizens out. they are sick and tired of that they are sick and tired of this defunding the police that the democrats believe. in what americans want? they want to be involved in their own kids' education. they don't want critical race theory. so those are all the reasons why we are going to get the house, we are going to get the senate in '22 and presidency in '24. kayleigh: senator scott, we are wrapping up here, i just want to say long before the republican party started to become really popular among latino voters, you yourself were. you really blazed the trail there. you must be very encouraged to see in the "wall street journal" it's now a tie on the generic ballot for latino voters for republicans and democrats. well done there, senator scott i agree with you, bright future for the republican party.

happy new year. >> happy new year. it's going to be a great year. kayleigh: it absolutely will. all right. well, let's check in with our meteorologist adam klotz. hopefully it doesn't blend in with the background this time like he did in the 7:00 a.m. hour for our fox weather forecast. over to you, adam. adam: good morning, everyone. and what are we looking at across the country on this first day of 2022, if you live in the eastern united states boy is it warm out there. early morning temperatures, not the daytime highs what we are currently experiencing 71 degrees in memphis, 50 in new york city. you see a very strong cold front middle of the country. frigid weather, particularly in the northern plains, areas where they typically do see really cold temps. these wind chills are down there this morning. nearly negative 30 degrees is what it feels like in minneapolis right now. bismarck right at negative 36 degrees. so really cold air has funneled in there. and if you are on this cold front the back side of it, that is a whole lot of very strong heavy snow from currently falling out in front of this

though, we have seen very heavy rain and that's continuing to fall from the ohio river valley stretching pack off farther to the south. shift across the southeast today. decent chance of severe thunderstorms and isolated tornadoes with this. this is going to be the big weather story as we kick off 2022 this storm system as it sweeps across the southeast. those are your headlines for now tossing it back over to you. todd: all righty, sir. thank you very much. and we love the jacket. as your former office mate that i am legally required to say eight times each year, i remember that jacket. that jacket is special. adam, thank you. we know adam was up popping last night. the guy loves his booze. if you popped too many and don't know what to do with the leftovers don't toss it we have the best recipes for your new year's day brunch using your leftover champagne prosecco and the like when we come back. ♪

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friends" 2022, january 1st. we are all celebrating a happy new year with resolutions. i didn't really have a resolution i just wanted to make it here. here i am. i'm sure, todd, you are much more interesting than i am, and you probably actually do have a resolution to share. todd: literally nobody has ever said that phrase, todd, you are more interesting than joey jones so let's disavow that notion right off the bat. kayleigh great to see you, joey great to see you. i have a few resolutions, get ready, nation. one, eat like an adult, not like a 15-year-old. number two, work out like a 15-year-old not like a middle aged adult. i also wanted to finish all our lists rachel ray used to be my boss on "fox & friends first" for a time she knows come up with a lot of lists they drive my wife crazy. hopefully my wife isn't up. hopefully she is playing with the baby and not paying

attention. i'm going to finish my list in 2022. sorry, amanda. kayleigh over to you. kayleigh: i love your list especially don't eat like a 15-year-old i eat kraft mac and cheese right alongside my daughter. my new year's resolution is to be more present. put the device aside. we all work really hard. when you get those moments with your family he embrace them. live like my grandmother's me may passed away exactly two years ago. the first time she met my daughter baby blake. and it's the last time i saw my grandmother. she unfortunately passed away and i wasn't able to see her due to covid restrictions. memaw was such a breath of fresh air. she loved life. she had a wild free spirit all the way until she passed away. that is my grandmother with baby blake. i want to live like her. like my memaw i love you. that is my resolution. on to viewers resolutions. you have guys have emailed us, joey jones and said send us your

resolutions you did. john says his resolution is to watch "fox & friends" daily. i think that's something we can all get on board with very good resolution. todd: john, we like that. sandy wants to stop procrastinating on tasks she dreads. sandy, make a list. write me, i will teach you how to make a good list, sandy. and, mike, mike says for the 30th year in a row, his resolution would be to listen to my wife and this year i mean it. mike, i think in my resolution about the list, i may have messed up the listen to my wife resolution that you have. so in all likelihood that should probably be our only resolution both you and me, mike, otherwise we are going to be in a lot of trouble going forward, joey. joey: you have some good resolutions, maybe i will adopt some of these and make it my own. i need a resolution. i will have one for us maybe next hour. what are your new year's resolutions. email us at friends at foxnews.com and let us know what

your new years resolutions are. kayleigh: absolutely. now we are over to our guest. is he my former boss. he actually was my first boss right out of college i worked for his show the huckabee show. you all know him governor mike huckabee, also a fox news contributor. welcome, governor, happy new year. >> happy new year kayleigh and todd and joey. you know, it's kind of funny listening to those resolutions from the viewers and the first guy that says his resolution is to watch "fox & friends" more. i'm thinking what a suck-up. you guys are going to have to send him a t-shirt or something but boy oh boy was that ever a loaded one. great to be with you guys today. kayleigh: we will get a t-shirt over to john. governor huckabee, what did you do last night for new year's eve? >> i played with my new puppies that my wife and i just got this week. we got them on wednesday. and then we went to bed about 10:00, 10:30 and slept all year long. that was it. that's what happens when you get

this age. kayleigh: very good. joey: governor, i don't know what kind of pup i couldn't got. hopefully you got labrador retrievers i know arkansas is a pretty good place to go duck hunting i will be out there in a week or two. temperature is different there than georgia. what do you have planned. i know you like to hunt as well is that part of your new year's resolution. >> it is more hunting, more fishing, more playing music. i went duck hunting a couple of days this week. limited out both days by 8:00. welcome to arkansas, joey, right now the ducks are flying. and i hope you have as good a time as i did. how you cannot have a good time duck hunting? it's one of god's great gifts. i have often said the first day of heaven is a flooded timber duck hunt. i'm not sure what we do after that but that's day one. that's how good it is. joey: i agree. todd: that's next level, boys. i think a lot of our viewers can appreciate that something else we can appreciate, the fact that we have been talking about this

for a while now, it is finally here, the number 2022 not just the year, it is symbolic of the big midterms that are coming up at the end of this year. this is your game, this your life, you understand, this what's going to happen in the house? what's going to happen in the senate and a series of raves that you may have some interest in both because of your previous history and because of one daughter of yours. what's going to happen in governor's races across the country? >> well, listener, i look at my crystal ball here is what i see, democrats are going to have a bad year, republican also take the house. i think they will take the senate. i think there is a good chance joe manchin will join the republicans because i is being tired of being treated like he has been by his own party. frankly he will be more at home in the republican party not only in washington but also in west virginia. i think one of the big stories is going to be what happens at the local level. look for seismic shifts in state legislatures, school boards, city councils, this is where the

rubber meets the road. where we are going to see a significant turn is going to be at the races that aren't washington based that are local. and including governor races right now there are 28 republican governors and there are 22 democrat governors, seats up next year, it's the big year for governor races. and there will be a total of 20 republican seats up, 16 democrat, expect the republicans to pick up a few of those seats. and one of them they won't pick up, it will still be in republican hands, but i'm going to make a solid prediction that sarah huckabee sanders will win the arkansas governor's race. just a little inside info there but that's my thought. kayleigh: i think that is a great prediction. i think that will certainly come to fruition. i mean, did you ever imagine, i have to ask you as a father, that in 2022 your daughter would be on her way to be governor of arkansas following in your footsteps. did you ever see that coming? >> no. i really didn't. i knew that she would be

involved in politics, that's what she has done since she was 7 or 8 years old. and she has loved it been emersed in it. i think of the coolest thing is going to be that when her kids try to hide from her in the governor's manchin, they won't be able to. she knows where all the cool hiding places are because she found them when she grew up there. so that's going to be kind of fun to watch that and by the way, kayleigh, i was named by sarah to be a senior adviser to her campaign. now, les you think that that sounds important, what it means is i'm a senior citizen and when i baby-sit her kids, i advise them when it's time to go to bed. so that's my job. senior adviser. [laughter] kayleigh: i love that. joey: pretty tough job, too, i would imagine. probably more so than even on the campaign. governor does a lot to help their states. i'm sure your daughter will if and when she becomes governor. you know, the president -- the buck stops with him when it comes to inflation, that's something we are dealing with all over the country in every state right now. ikea the latest retailer to hike

prices. inflation running rampant on our country right now. what are we going to do about it, governor? >> well, don't worry, joe is going to fix it like he fixed covid in 2021. remember he said i'm going it shut this virus down. i think it reminds me of when gerald ford, god rest his soul, and he meant well, but in 1976, he came out, spoke to congress and had a little button on his lapel win whip inflation now. and it was a big effort to try to whip inflation. but, unfortunately, we didn't do the things that really did that and as a result, he lost the election, and it went to jimmy carter in '76. what i see happening is joe biden doesn't know why there is inflation, therefore he can't fix it but ikea raising their prices 9% at a time when people are now looking to do things where they do it themselves, they got more time, they got less money, that's a perfect

moment for ikea. but this is bad news for the american consumer. but, all inflation is bad news. it is a gut punch to every single consumer whether you are buying groceries, gasoline, or a loaf of bread. it takes away from your paycheck. it is an unintended tax hike on the poorest people in our culture. and folks are going to be really increasingly angry and they will show up at the polls and express that this november. todd: sticking with ikea for a moment, governor. i think what concerns me about this is if you think back a couple of months remember there was a statement or two or many from the white house inflation is something that just affects the rich people. you can't get another boat or another thing because it's too pricy. that was widely condemned by both the mainstream media and folks like us here at fox news. but, ikea, you don't go to ikea because you want to spend a gazillionian dollars. you have want something nice but

affordable. does the white house understand this now? now that it's in our supermarkets. now that it's in our stores like ikea, now that it is everywhere? >> no, they don't understand it. they live in the bubble of washington and how tone deaf to say that rich people are the ones hit by inflation. they have enough reserve. they will be fine. they will do whatever they want travel wherever they want unless fauci tells them they can't. they aren't in a bind at all. let me me assure you of something, bill gates and elon musk and jeff bezos are not going to ikea to buy furniture for 15th or 16th mansion, what hits hardest the consumer at the bottom of the food chain, not the top. kayleigh: there is no doubt about it, sad and unfortunate indeed. governor huckabee, you are the perfect person to react to this next topic, of course, the passing of betty white at 99 years old. you, like her, have a great

sense of humor, understand the entertainment business and the significance of betty white in that space having a multidecade career. let's take a listen to betty white and ryan reynolds in a skit that they did. >> whether a your problem the entire film. >> she hates me hi, bete, how are you? >> brian. >> ryan, my name is ryan. >> get me a cup of coffee. >> no, my name is ryan. we have been working together for weeks, months, actually. months now. >> and you have been a terrible assistant that whole time. [laughter] >> that's because i'm not an assistant, bete. i mean, i play an assistant in the movie. and i'm an actor in real life. you should know that. >> when betty white says she wants a cup of coffee you get her a [bleep] cup of coffee. [ laughter ] kayleigh: governor huckabee, there is no one quite like her,

is there? >> there really isn't. she has been america's sweetheart for a long time. she is every person's grandmother. but she has delighted audiences. she is one of those people that i don't know of anybody who doesn't love betty white. i mean, they just don't. she like sara lee, nobody doesn't love sarah lee, nobody doesn't love betty white. gone too soon. 99 outlived most human beings on the planet. boy, what a career. the best thing about betty white, she was married for almost 20 years to alan loudoun. he died in 1981 a game show host for a show called password. the love they had was so intense when he passed away and people said will she get married she said no i had the best. why would i ever want the rest? she remained always in love with her husband alan lowden. one of the great love stories

never told. i hope they make a movie of it some day. both funny. both committed to each other and loved each other with the kind of love that couples could only dream of and hope to have and of all the things i think we can say about betty, she and alan are together again it took a while for her to get there, she was a little late showing up, but i have a feeling that there is a lot of laughter in heaven between those two right now. joey: beautiful words, governor, betty white, 99 years old. timeless and hopefully for generations to come. if you have a honey hole in arkansas send my way i would appreciate it when i come out there to check your ducks out in a day or two. kayleigh: i would like to join you guys. that's awesome. >> joey: wring them on. turning now to headlines, two police officers are stabbed responding to a family violence call in texas. corpus christi police say both officers are expected to survive. the suspect was shot and is in

critical condition. he is facing aggravated assault charges. and in cleveland, an off duty officer is shot and killed in a carjacking, police track down the officer's car and arrested the suspect. no names have been released. the cleveland police chief is calling it senseless. and the travel nightmare. a new year but same old travel nightmare. thousands of flights canceled this new year's day. so flight aware reported nearly 4,000 flight cancellations worldwide over 2,000 of those are in the u.s. and the faa says travelers may face even more delays in the days to come due to an increase in numbers of employees testing positive for covid. and georgia routes michigan. that's right. the georgia football team in college football. georgia and alabama will play for the national championship. the crimson tide handed cincinnati a 27-6 loss in the cotton bowl classic. but my georgia bulldogs

dominated michigan a 34-11 win in the orange bowl. this sets up a rematch that georgia fans are kind of cringing at because in the sec championship -- well, the last one here in 2021 alabama beat us, they beat us in 2018, too. we are really hoping that the bulldogs can pull it off. and at thursday's peach bowl a pit fan knocking down a woman during a bazaar brawl on the concourse. unclear if the two brawlers were arrested after the incident. those are your headlines. todd: let's skip over on the violence there on the concourse. i want to focus on the georgia-michigan game. i'm a little bit torn double j because obviously i'm torn for you. got a lot of friends. happy that the bulldogs pulled it out. my partner in crime normally monday through friday carley shimkus, her husband huge, huge michigan fan like in tears when they won the big 10 championship so haven't touched base with her yet this morning. i'm just hoping everything is

okay in the house of shimkus because, let me tell you, big michigan fan, she is probably very sad this morning. kayleigh: i usually go for sec. though my husband played baseball at fsc. because of you i'm going for georgia, joey jones. joey: we criewghtd fans. kayleigh: congratulations. president biden says the science is clear, students should be in school. so why are some school districts going back to remote learning? we'll ask nicole saphier, dr. saphier next. ♪ ♪

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2020, we are prepared and we know what it takes to save lives, protect people and keep schools and businesses open. todd: there he said it president biden says kids are safe in the classroom. so, why are some schools reverting to 2020 science with the return to virtual learning? jersey city among multiple school districts in the garden state going remote after winter break in response to a surge in covid cases. let's bring in fox news medical contributor dr. nicole saphier to discuss. happy new year to you, doc. look. >> good morning, todd, happy new year. todd: likewise. the president now saying kids need to be in the classroom. so, with all the studies we now have, where is the medical justification for this when balanced against the harm that we know it is doing to the kids? >> well, now todd, you are just sounding way too logical right now because there is no medical reasoning for schools across the country to be going back to remote learning. we know unequivocally going to

remote learning is a detectivement to our children's education as well as physical and mental well being. we have seen president biden come down really hard on certain people. particularly those that are not vaccinated those not getting boosted and maybe some gathering over the holidays. we don't see him as coming down hard on the teacher's unions pressuring the schools to go to remote learning. and you make no mistake of it, todd, it is not in the children's best interest for these remote learning policies at this point but what is happening is you have teacher's unions pressing back. you have staffing shortages because you have people out with covid. and you have isolation and quarantines that are keeping people from going back to work. now, it's not because the children are home sick with covid-19. it's just like what's going on in the hospital systems. you actually see hospitals again stopping elective procedures. you think we would learn our lessons when we saw what a major detectivement that was. but, nope, here we are again. and, again, it's not because you have covid patients busting at the seems needing to be hospitalized or needing

adventure later. what you are seeing is tens of thousands of healthcare workers out with covid. that on top of the thousands of healthcare workers who either quit or were fired over the vaccine mandate. todd, we are in a very bad situation when it comes to a staffing crunch, what priority needs to be made is keeping these kids in school. >> that point that you just made that we haven't learned our lesson, as horrible as 2020 was, as much as people said hey, we shouldn't be doing this, maybe we give them a mulligan because it was the first time we were going through it now, we should know better and we aren't operating like that, especially these schools. look at this. almost 1600 public schools across the u.s. will be closed this week alone, shouldn't these cities like jersey city, like these other districts that are closing, be looking at the numbers from cities that let their kids learn free and say hey, you know, we can do that, too? >> well, todd, absolutely. but, let's think of this. we already are having staffing

shortages. what happens to working parents when the schools say nope, we are going back to remote learning? now all of a sudden parents have to make that choice. am i going to go into work or do i have to now stay home with my kids. i will be honest i'm facing the same decision. we are in a staffing crunch all across the country healthcare workers, again my kids are starting remote learning as we go back for the school year. this is going to be terrible for the american people. schools need to do everything and anything they possibly can to get kids back in the classroom. the knee jerk reflex of the easy way out of going to remote learning it is lazy, it is sloppy, and it is certainly not putting those kids first. and i want to hear president biden come down hard on that. todd: it doesn't think through all the ramifications of those knee-jerk reactions. it's got to stop. it's not just the poor or middle class class. it's everybody impacted when healthcare is at a crunch like that and when child care is at a crunch like that. it's a disaster. hopefully your prediction and

your request of the president holds true. dr. saphier, happy new year. thank you so much for getting up with us. >> happy new year. todd: straight ahead, we remembering -- we are remembering tv's golden girl betty white, a look back at life, legacy and impact on and off the screen. >> i'm not new to live tv. in 1952 i started my first live sitcom of course back then we didn't want to do it live. we just didn't know how to tape things. [laughter] so i don't know what this show's excuse is.

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at her iconic career. >> betty marianne white was born january 17th, 1922 in oak park, illinois. during the depression her parents moved with heir only child to los angeles where she attended hollywood high school and later got her start on local tv. her break came in 1949 with hold on television. a variety show that ran five hours a day six days a week. that success led to a sitcom. >> betty white in life with elizabeth. >> and her own variety program the betty white show ♪ i'm a little lamb whose lost in the woods. >> after that she took a job that would change everything as a celebrity contestant on the game show password she met the man she called the love of her life third husband host allen ludden. >> i will give the first password tonight to betty white. >> then in 1973, betty landed the first of two landmark roles.

>> i'm sorry, billy, but i cannot do a chocolate souffle with only -- >> the happy homemaker ha ho was anything but on "the mary tyler moore show." >> pressure advantage. >> it was supposed to be a guest appearance but it became a full-time show and earned her two emmy awards. in 1980 husband allen was diagnosed with stomach cancer. he died the following year. betty never remarried and never had children. she continued taking guest starring roles and game shows until she once again found a perfect part. >> i got a call from a nolis. >> rose as in a set of seats in a movie theaters. >> sue ann the scatter brained rose sharing stories from small town upbringing. >> lost the little saint olaf

pageant, did you? >> 23 years in a row. [laughter] >> along with acting betty was passionate about animal welfare, she spent more than four decades working with the morris animal foundation and the los angeles zoo and won a lifetime achievement award from the jane good lynn institute. >> my wife is divided half half show business and half animal business. i will do what i can to make life better for these guys. >> our guest of honor misbetty white. >> in recent years betty's career enjoyed a renaissance. first appeared in hard hitting super bowl commercial. >> playing like betty white out. >> there that's not what your girlfriend said. >> then internet campaign helped her host a gig on "saturday night live." became snl's highest rated show in nearly two years. >> now i'm here tonight because you wanted me to be. [cheers] >> when new show hot in cleveland premiered the pilot set a ratings record for the tl

land network. >> i have been the caretaker of this house for 50 years but you can kick me out. >> in all betty earned more than half a dozen emmys, three american comedy awards, a grammy and three screen actor guild awards including a lifetime achievement. >> this is the highest point of my entire professional life. >> with her quick whit, impeccable timing and generous personality, betty white leaves behind a lasting legacy of love and laughter. jonathan hunt, fox news. joey: what a beautiful life and absolutely inspiring legacy. for 99 years, most of that entertaining us the whole time, i will tell you what: betty white you are remembered godspeed and we love you. todd: well said, joey. when you look at betty white, i think what stands out to me is that everyone she was sort of america's cool grandma. and i think that that is a testament to not only who she

was, not only her career, but our own relationships that we have with our family because at the end of the day, she was family. and what allowed that to all happen is the fact that she was so accessible to all of us. you know, i heard kayleigh you mentioned the same thing about john madden when we sadly had to talk about his passing earlier this week. it's that accessibility. the fact that there is not this separation between celeb, actor, and the rest of us. is, i think, ultimately what made her so special. and then she knocked it home with this, you know, cute little white hair but then that biting whit that was juxtaposed with that cute little white hair and that cute little smile. it's what made. >> geraldo: her and we will miss her terribly. kayleigh: well said. that kind of accessibility and warmth, you know, created a groundswell of support that led her to snl organic grassroots uprising thing. we want betty white and indeed

they got her. let's listen to this soundbite from clarice foster. todd, you had her on last hour what made betty white so special. she was on "fox & friends" earlier. >> she is an absolute legend. the fact that she was so fearless, which is one of the most important components you can have for being a comedian, you know, you have to have no fear. you have to be able to not take yourself so seriously. you have to be able to find the funny. there is humor everywhere. and especially if you can laugh at yourself, which is something that she did on a regular basis, that's why we loved her. it takes being confident to be able to say you know what? i'm not perfect. let's laugh about it let's have a good time. let's all come together under that umbrella of imperfection and understand our common humanity. that's what she did. what was what was so genius. kayleigh: karith foster there on her genius. we use the word trailblazer. let me underscore that a little

bit. she was a trailblazer i think in a specific way. that is to say a trailblazer for women. she started in 1939 when there were few women in the entertainment industry. she spoke to that a little bit previously. betty white said this: it was a little out of character. a little unfeminine to be funny. you shouldn't be funny. if you are a female. she went on to say that women it was expected of them to, quote, come in and be pretty and she said yet, no. she blazed a trail of bright, bright trail. safe to say betty white an american icon, coming up, the fallout of policies hitting home for one texas community as loose bail policies are blamed for dozens of deaths. in colorado the marshal fire may have destroyed more than 1,000 homes. a live report from the ground

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♪ kayleigh: up to 1,000 homes reduced to rubble in the devastating marshall fire in colorado. now, many residents are left picking up the pieces this new year's day. alicia acuna is live in hard hit louisville with an update. alicia. >> good morning, kayleigh, yes, the snow does continue to fall and blanket areas of louisville

and superior where it's covering the rubble and in an area that homes used to stand just absolutely devastating. all of this while there is a family in superior, colorado that is praying that their loved one is found safe. 91-year-old nadine turnbull shoes weigh reported missing and last seen evacuating when the fire was approaching in superior. she was last seen with her niece but somehow the two got separated and nadine's family is praying that she was taken to an evacuation center and that she is safe. now, this as we are getting an above ground look at just how bad things the marshal fire left things. this drone video showing entire neighborhoods reduced to ashes in terms of home loss. this is the most destructive wildfire in colorado history. it was pushed by 100 plus minor winds that went on for at least seven hours. these areas are densely populated and could be as many

as 1,000 homes and businesses destroyed in louisville and superior but we still may not know the final damage for days. >> it was a disaster in fast motion all over the course of half a day. many families having minutes, minutes to get whatever they could, their pets, their kids into the car and leave. the last 24 hours have been devastating. >> adams county fire rescue shared this video of firefighters in what they were seeing as they surveyed the destruction. evacuation orders have been lifted for parts of superior and for residents outside of boulder county. yesterday, people came back to see if their homes made it or not. whole neighborhoods were gone. a few houses made it. >> safe and uninjured and at the moment i'm glad she didn't take the drive over with me this

morning because i think -- it's breaking my heart and i'm sure it would break hers, too. >> about 13,000 customers remain without power right now. a big concern, guys, is getting the heat back on. not only because it's incredit deniably cold here. less than 10 degrees but because there is a risk now with all of those pipes out there freezing over and bursting. then they will have a whole new problem on their hands. back to you. >> alise alicia, i know your family was affected. devastating devastating. new year's miracle that no one has lost their life thus far. thinking of your community, alicia. time to check in with meteorologist adam klotz for the latest on those devastating fires. adam: good morning. as we know those fires were really driven by dry air and very strong winds that were happening back earlier in the

week. that was completely changed. everything behind me this is a blue currently snow falling and that is moisture on the ground. so that really helps curb these fires even humidity 35 degrees 5 mile-per-hour winds. things are very much improving good for folks in boulder, colorado and surrounding areas. back out to you. todd: all right. adam klotz. thank you very much. residents of harris county, texas facing the fallout from soft on crime policies. crime stoppers, houston, reporting more than 150 people have been killed in that county by suspects out on multiple felony bonds over the past few years. and that they were released by progressive judges. joey: our next guest is a west point graduate who wants to restore funds to the harris county criminal justice system. let's bring in republican candidate for harris county judge alexandria, good morning.

i guess you are running for this office because you want the principles and morals and really the way of life that you believe in and as a part of this country to be represented in harris county. when i hear that i believe the number was 115 folks that are accused or credibly charged with murder let out i believe that's correct. what is the message there? and what situation does someone who has committed murder or charged with committing murder in what situation do they need to be released without bail or released on bail? >> thank you for having me. and i would say right now what we're experiencing here in harris county is really nothing short than a failure of leadership. this problem really did start back in 2019 and to your point, that's when crime stoppers first raised the alarm about this new slate of progressive judges that started routinely releasing the most violent offenders back into our community. and it's resulted in that death toll. over 150 and to really bring

this point home, right now there is 113 people charged with murder out walking our streets right now. >> one of whom not only has been convicted of two armed robberies but currently being charged with murdering a 17-year-old boy in a road rage incident after astros game. we have to take a step back and think is this really the america we want to live in? for me, i have two young toddlers i can tell you it's absolutely unacceptable and more troubling, my opponent that i will hopefully be running against judge lena hall dag go progressive icon for advocating bail reform continuing putting the focus on the justice for violent offenders instead of standing up and advocating for justice for victims and for just basic public safety in our community. >> yeah, it's candidates like you that are pointing out the lunacy of the ideas that are currently in place in so many of these progressive districts.

and it's crazy to think of houston as a progressive district. what would you do instead? what would your policies be instead to turn around what you are seeing right now? >> sure. so right now in harris county, we don't just have a crisis on our streets. we actually have a crisis in our jails. we just had a sheriff's deputy that was brutally raped for 15 minutes because we defunded the jail so tragically that we don't even meet basic inmate to guard ratios. our local leaders are all facing corruption charges right now including judge lena hidalgo herself under grand jury indictment. we have to wonder if she is trying to outdo joe biden and create more chaos in the shortest amount of time. so, for me, it's the solution is pretty simple. this november, we obviously need to elect a new slate of republican judges who will enforce the law. and as county judge, i will fully fund our legal defense system and back the blue. thank you.

kayleigh: 150 people who might have been here with us today had the criminals who killed them not been out on felony bond. i mean, it's just incredible. thank you so much alexandra del moral mealer best of luck to you. >> thank you very much. kayleigh: veteran owned and veteran supported company is working to tell the story of america's military heroes using clothes. how can you join their mission. stay tuned for a special new year's day performance from listen to this country music star phil vassar ♪ an american child. dreams can grow wild ♪ an american child ♪

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i'm hearing some 2024, i joke i joke. he would be a printer president than the guy we have in the white house. you have a good new year's eve? todd: this was the most exciting new year's eve ever, it involves me - not just the perimeter of the master shower. wild times in connecticut. a few things i'm looking forward to before we get to joey. my new york giants, it can't get worse than it has. it literally can't get worse but i'm looking forward to some semblance of respectability but hanging out more with friends, i will see what else is around the corner.

joe: you've got a good quarterback now. 2022, i am looking forward to seeing my family and friends more. the one thing i'm looking forward to is -- to fly without a mask by 2022. that is my hope and prayer. you are starting on a high note, you've got a book called -- a new york times bestseller. is that correct? neil: 8 a promise to shipment is outsmarting the new york times, thanks to viewers making that possible you can grab it wherever books are sold. another high notice the books,

tom brady, going to trounce the hapless jets this weekend. a number of high note in 2022. here is how our viewers of celebrated. we asked, you sent a picture, thank you. tracy from massachusetts hoping for your grandchild is hoping the best is yet to come this year. it can't get worse than the first year of the biden presidency or can it? joe: this is a beautiful picture of melinda, and i guess her friends and family. that is a cool looking costume and having a good time. todd: looking solid and happy new year from sherry's grandson and her and granddaughter allie

with the cool glasses there and speaking of cool we had the all-american new year's eve special right here on the channel. will, pete and rachel hosting, nashville looked awesome, the show is awesome. great job to them but there was also this. >> salon dancing, you've got it, dumb and dumber. let's show these guys how it is done. neil: we know a lot of you because this is the 9:00 am hour, probably shaking one off after last night. your stomach is queasy. we want to apologize for airing this and making you sick to your stomach's because no one

should watch this live and on tape. there we go. we've got to get to some fun around the world by justin nashville, 2022 officially underway, people around the world ringing in the new year with a bang let's make a big cities like london, rio and bangkok got the party started with fireworks displays was americans taking an unconventional approach to celebrate the new year. let's go through these. idaho makes sense, the 9 annual potato drive for boise residents. idaho does potatoes, that makes sense. bethlehem, massive 400 pounds, you know the thing you eat at easter was dropped to honor the popular candy produced in the city. again, makes sense, they make the mayor, they drop in there, happy new year, wisconsin welcoming the new year by

dropping a giant slice of cheese, wisconsin, that's what they do, they do cheese. i can't justify this one no matter how hard i try. the most unusual items to be dropped, a massive, 50 pound meatball in south carolina and this sickens me, apparently people decided to take bites out of that meatball, not little ones they had around the perimeter to celebrate, but this one they are dropping, people gathered around the wall, their mouths chomping on it together in sync during covid time. i say that is gross. what say you, kayleigh mcenany, a mother who has seen her child eat off the floor? >> reporter: i've had my daughter eat off the floor. maybe they are italian so how dare you and maybe they are on low-carb diets and you ruined their new year's resolution.

todd: i am italian and not eating that. joe: todd is a germohphobia. i think the biggest bite i can muster out of that meatball next year. i love meatballs. todd: that is something else with god bless you, you are a brave guy in more ways than one but regardless how you celebrated we hope you had a great night and a great day but there is some news and we've been talking about this all morning long, as soon as the news came down and it is heartbreaking, iconic actress betty white dying at the age of 99 years old on new year's eve just weeks before her one hundredth birthday. we've been showing amazing clips of her all morning long. if you are taking your first up of coffee you may want to put it down because you may spit it

out laughing so hard at this clip of rose from the golden girls. take a look. >> from the time i was born my folks groomed me for it, singing lessons, dancing lessons, for 16 years my entire life revolved around butter. >> you are very fortunate, so many of us weeks in our youth. >> when the time came for the pageant, i was incredible. i showed boys in the competition, i was the brain in the oil -- oral butter quiz, they couldn't trip be up with the margarine question. that evening better was spelled are oh s e. >> that is how i came to know and love betty white. through golden girls, so loved that show. her character just hilarious. most people don't realize she

began in 1939 in an experimental tv broadcast where she was wearing her prom dress and dancing with a fellow highschooler there, she grabbed to have a long story to career, guinness book of world records has her as the longest television career by female entertainer, something she worked hard for. she is beloved, ryan reynolds, her proposal costar said this, the world looks different now. she was great at defining expectations, she managed to grow very old but not old enough. now you know the secret. valery bertinnoi, rest in peace, how bright heaven must be right now. i'm sure it is lit ablaze, big beautiful personality that is betty white. joe: we can call her an american icon. so many of her peers speaking

out, reese witherspoon said so sad to hear about betty white passing, i love watching her characters, a brought so much joy. we are saddened by the passing of betty white, not only an amazing actress but served in world war ii as a member of the american women's voluntary services, a true legend on and off the screen. you see her in uniform. 99 years and she used every one of them to its fullest. todd: one of the greatest members of the greatest generation, she was so accessible to all of us, the sweet face, white hair and biting wit especially in those final years, the last 10 or so, brought her into the masses, we will miss her terribly.

there's other news, did you hear about this. msnbc host says americans, you come out there, don't care about build back better's cost. let's here in her own words, take a listen. >> a lot of the coverage fear was focused on how much this plan cost and how matters inside the beltway but the american people across the country are not interested in how much it costs. they have their own household to worry about and wants to know what policy will impact their lives tomorrow. todd: it matters to everyone because everyone sees how bad inflation is and they know instinctively that flooding the country with money will devalue the dollar. they may not understand the exact economics of it but if they flood the market, it will make the cost of goods go

higher that is not something they want with cost of goods so high right now. kayleigh: >> bill back better destroyed the economy further than president biden has done, if it were so popular, it would not cause inflation and if the american people were so onboard it would be the law of the land right now but it is not and it is not because of one senator, senator joe manchin stand in the way, it was 51 senators, it was the people of west virginia, 2 thirds saying this would cause inflation, the people of america by 20 point margin saying build back worse would have cost inflation. the new york times can't get anything past them. we learned about the economy in 2021, for one, the government tried overheating the economy, for better and worse it

succeeded anthony times said you can overheat the economy, with supply chains, get messed up, it is hard to un-mess them. more powerful workers then makes workers happy and get this one, they figured it out, people really don't like inflation. you think? did it take the new york times editorial board and the new york times publication more broadly that long to figure out people don't want higher gas prices, don't 130 record inflation and don't want their groceries to cost more? >> change for the sake of change doesn't -- changed things that donald trump got right and the answer is no. mike huckabee was on with us earlier and talked to us, his view on that. >> what a seat happening is president biden doesn't know why there is inflation therefore he can't fix it.

this is bad news for the american consumer but all inflation is bad news. it is a good punch to every consumer whether you are buying groceries, gasoline or a loaf of bread. it takes away from your paycheck. it is an unintended tax hike on the poorest people in our culture and folks are going to be increasingly angry and they will show up at the polls and expressed that this november. todd: the simplicity of this is money issues affect everyone. inflation issues affect everyone and i don't care how you voted in 2020, i don't care how you voted in every election in the past if you are looking at your wallet for the year 2022 going into 2023 and worried about what the impact of inflation is going to be on you, your kids, your grandkids you're going to vote with the party that makes the best case that they are doing all they can to lower that inflation if things hold as we expect them to the republican party is the one that is going to be able to

make that case and the democrats are going to be struggling to make the case why they are the ones that can improve this when they are the ones that got us into it. we have some said news from the football world. joe: turning to your headline starting with a fox news alert. former nfl player and coach dan reed has died. according to his family, reeves, one of 7 head coaches in new york history to win 200 games, served as head coach of the broncos, the falcons and the giants throughout his career and won the super bowl with the dallas cowboys and also won the title as assistant with dallas. reeves was 77 years old. texas attorney general kim paxton scoring a win for children in the state to federal judge ruling against the vaccine and mask mandate for head start. programs initiated by the biden administration. the rule required staff in the program to be vaccinated and children over 2 years old to wear masks. paxton says parents, not the white house to be making those

decisions. a world war ii veteran celebrating his 100birthday while ringing in the new year today, james spinaraw served on omaha beach on d-day, received the french legion of honor metal for his service. his niece says he never makes a big deal about his birthday or his service but she wants to recognize him for the hero he is. happy birthday james and thank you for your service and those are your headlines. kayleigh: thank you for your service. coming up, aoc flops to florida for a vacation where i am but she doesn't while criticizing governor desantis for how he handled the pandemic. when, why did she go there? laura trump lives in florida and reacts next. country music star is spending

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joe: democrats criticize governor ron desantis's covid 19 response accusing him of being missing during the case fight. alexandria ocasio cortez whose vacation the sunshine state claims the social media team is posting old pictures with orange county mayor jerry deming's had this to say. >> where is ron desantis now? when was the last time you saw the governor do a press briefing regarding covid 19. joe: desantis's offices the governor has been accompanying his wife her cancer treatment. laura trump joins us with reaction. good morning and happy new year. >> happy new year, happy 22 to

everybody. joe: you've got to pull the low hanging fruit but don't you think you should find our someone is before you criticize them for, quote, missing? >> this is a great example of the tolerance inclusive loving democrat party here, i am being sarcastic with that. whenever you have a family member going to cancer treatment anyone who has dealt with this knows that is probably the worst time of your life and kudos to ron desantis for being with his wife casey. this has been tougher their entire family and if you want to talk about covid and estate's response to covid look no further than the state of florida, this should be the gold standard right here where i am in the state of florida, the job governor desantis has

been done was incredible, the hospitalization and death rate in the entire country yet this state has remained open. our kids have been in school, businesses of been flourishing, people as we know are moving in droves to florida and apparently aoc likes the freedom down here too because she is down here ringing in the new year in our state yet taking time to criticize ron desantis. why isn't she criticizing president biden? multiple crises on his hands, is in the midst of a crisis, vacationing in delaware, he loves to escape whenever there is a big catastrophe at hand but for them to try to attack ron desantis who is continuing to do a great job while enjoying freedoms in florida a little bit ridiculous to see but not surprising because they know 2022 we are in the year now midterm elections are going

to be a disaster for them. they are preparing and trying to take down any republican, ron desantis makes the moment pretty bad. joe: president biden said he would stop covid and governors like ron desantis are responsible for it. i remember your president -- your father working with them, maybe president biden should try that. lara:it would be a revelation to work together to allow states to make their own decisions. we are waiting for president biden to rollback the vaccine mandate he put in place that he says the federal government is done with covid, let's say donald trump was in office we would not be in the mess we are in right now. joe: we will see. happy new year and enjoy the weather. >> happy new year.

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great-great-grandfather baptiste caretto. ancestry threads all of the little facts together into a narrative so you get to feel like you're walking the same path they did. >> the migrants urges not just impacting border states that encouragement demanding answers from the development of homeland security on my flight of hundreds of migrants were flown into president biden's hometown of scranton in the middle of the night. congressman dan meuser joins us now. demanding answers from the acting ice director johnson,

and alejandro mayorkas, have you heard anything back? >> i have. i heard a meeting with hhs a couple days ago. hhs takes over for unaccompanied minors. that's well and good but they have to facilitate by law the bad results of the biden administration's open border policies. it was an unsatisfactory discussion we had and as you stated, it occurred because we had these secretive flights or attempt to be secretive into the scranton wilkes-barre area. even though hhs asked to do this by law they haven't respect for the people of pennsylvania or the citizens of our country to be handling this in such a manner. it is outrageous. we've had 1500 illegals flown into central and eastern pennsylvania and carted off to places where we don't know where they are headed. and outrageous situation.

kayleigh: as you said it is hidden. how did you learn about this? >> word-of-mouth from the airport. it started leaking. i went down there sunday after christmas because two flights came in christmas night and clearly that is being done to be done in the most quiet and quick manner possible so i went down and spoke with some folks at the airports, they didn't want to -- didn't want me to use their names but full of information and they said was unbelievably disorderly, young people with no understanding of what was going on, terribly closed, getting on the planes, getting back on the planes because the buses were late. the biden administration's way of trying to handle the unbelievably bad policy which is so hurtful and so important the american people get up and understand this is a tragic situation.

they are not helping these kids. these young people are coming through our border and through this treacherous track, one third of them are facing physical abuse to the point of rape. this is a terrible policy. we have an open border policy that needs to be corrected immediately and get the biden administration continues it was the only one benefiting this are the drug cartels, that are coming for me but from customs and border patrol, republicans and democrats have the same tragic information if you go to the border. kayleigh: we are told democrats are the party of compassion for illegal immigrants, i don't think so. thank you for asking questions, so important, happy new year. >> thank you. kayleigh: new york is going to administer a therapeutic on covid based on race.

fox news contributor tammy bruce is up next. ♪ ♪ ♪ i'm so defensive, i got bongos thumping in my chest ♪ ♪ and something tells me they don't beat for me ♪ ♪ i love romance, but i got eggshells around me ♪ ♪ don't step on 'em, don't step on 'em ♪ ♪ don't step on 'em, don't step on me ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ he'd better not take the ring from me ♪

joe: 1000 homes reduced to rubble in the fire in colorado. many residents are left picking up the pieces this new year's day.

in the heart of louisville area, alicia has an update. >> reporter: there is no word on that missing woman from superior, colorado. 91-year-old nadine turnbull was lasting trying to evacuate as the fire suppression, the two became separated, nadine's family pray she was taken to the evacuation center by authorities and is safe as folks who live in superior and louisville begin to assess the devastation. you can see from these drone images how thoroughly destructive the wind driven fire was. the governor says it is possible close to 1000 homes were lost a it may take days to get an accurate count. i can tell you folks are doing everything they can to help each other out. >> it is devastating what happened to the community. >> colorado is one of those places you feel the warmth in people's hearts. >> reporter: the mayor of

superior says 1000 people are in need of a place to stay so that's a priority right now and there are customers without power. as heartbreaking as the story has been a we are finding silverlinings and moments of heroism. a family that was asleep with their 4-month-old baby woke up to smoke in an evacuated neighborhood. and amazon delivery agent named knew and arrived to deliver a bike pump they ordered. >> opened the door and asked you need help? yeah. i am here to the bill for a package. we got to go. >> we had to drive through the flames. was really bad. >> if it wasn't for you we wouldn't have made it out. one of those very close things that happened. >> reporter: we like to bring good news but there are folks trying to get into the burn area. we have national guard members and checkpoints all around the surrounding communities to prevent people from getting in

for their own safety. todd: thank you, prayers to the entire community. meantime the new york state department of health raising a few eyebrows with their new guidance on distributing covid treatments which appears to prioritize patients based on race was officials writing nonwhite, or hispanic ethnicity should be considered a risk factor is long-standing health and social iniquities contributed to increased risk of severe illness and death from covid 19. here to react, tammy bruce. happy new year to you. not only is discrimination in a healthcare setting literally a violation of the constitution but also another example of blue cities doing things that divide us based on race. why do they keep doing this?

>> reporter: that is who they are and they haven't changed. here's what we have to consider and this is the irony of this, the rates of vaccination among people, black americans in particular is lower because they have suspicion about the intentions of government considering the history especially regarding healthcare and it comes to government orders and people of color, black men in particular. think of the teske experiment as an example. the problem with this, everyone notices it, this is no different than that, the government has in the past made decisions based on the color of people skin, based on ethnicity against them. it has been a problem and when we still see it happening in the 21st-century people of color are not going to look at this and say now we are getting the good end of the stick, it is a sign that the government has not learned any lessons from this past and nobody wants this. everyone in new york city's decisions by the government has harmed us.

we have a new mayor to date. they have to ask her and everyone else went to the governor no this is going to be the case? who made these decisions? it is illegal and harmful and is going to cost people their lives. todd: the statement from the department of health which is a risk factor in populations in new york state and nationwide added to the algorithm of prioritization similar to the risk factors, it is mentioned as a factor that increases risk and then we will move on to the betty white story and using the algorithm, where we heard the blame on the algorithm before? we wouldn't be here if biden had prioritize therapeutics along with vaccines and mandates but before we let you go, want to hear your betty white story. i hear it is awesome, you have the floor. >> reporter: this was heartbreaking. even betty white didn't like last year, she needed to go but a wonderful beautiful woman.

i i was younger decades ago worked as an intern assistant at a pr firm. she was one of the big clients in los angeles. we worked in a to building home and there was a renovation going on and i heard kittens me outing. i was working all the time, stopped the construction, the boss let betty know, who i had never met, arrived out of the blue during the weekend with a box of stuff for me and for the workers, books and find pictures and hundred me and, i'm doing what anybody else would do with little kids, you're not, that is obvious. she said something which changed my perspective about life, mentoring, doing the right thing, what matters in life in your character, is what you do when you think no one is watching or no one knows what you are doing. that is how you find out who you are.

for me that changed a great deal as a young woman in her early 20s and she is something that i think they already new, betty white is exactly who you imagine you to be, exactly who she portrays herself to be because that was her real self and it was one encounter that changed everything in my perspective and i know she did that for hundreds of people if not thousands to her life, rest in peace, betty. we've got a good advocate for all of us in a higher chair now. todd: i didn't think the attributes could get better but you raised the bar, letting us know this person is exactly who we thought she wasn't that is awesome. we wish you and yours the happiest of new year's, thank you for that story. kayleigh: what a beautiful

story about betty white, a life well lived. now to fox weather, many states bracing for massive new year's day storm that could further interrupt holiday travel. the system is set to affect the southwest and parts of the upper midwest. officials say if you're in those areas you can expect heavy rain, snow or ice. the areas issuing weather advisories. let's check in with meteorologist adam klotz for our fox weather forecast. >> you mentioned the big snowstorm sweeping across the middle of the country. when you see warm air and cold air run into each other these winter systems get going and you have very warm in the eastern half of the country, 50 degrees in new york city, you fall back behind it, a lot of very cold air lingering, minneapolis 30 degrees below 0. that is with your windchill, absolutely frigid, plenty of winter weather to pay attention to it along that boundary where we see the secretary. in front of it very heavy rain

across the ohio river valley and on the backside where the air is cold, heavy snow in the planes but it will lift itself to the midwest a little later in the day and stretch back to the southeast but if you're in front of this we are talking about very heavy rain, isolated severe thunderstorms, maybe an isolated tornado before the day is over. that is an area we will pay attention to. this is our boulevard, most of tennessee stretching into northern alabama and mississippi. those are the spots we will be watching for the chance of severe weather. those are your weather headlines. now back to you. kayleigh: a snowy first day of january of 2022. don't go anywhere, country music star phil jaster joins us live with a powerful new year's day performance. ♪♪ on rim glasses

♪♪ been a long time since i have been around ♪♪

raymond: on "fox and friends". joe: who better to bring it in the in country music star dan meuser. heather: joins us now. happy new year to you. how did you celebrate new year's eve last night? >> watched a little football and went to bed. i'm not a party animal. thanks for having me. kayleigh: i especially love your son just another day in paradise. it truly is paradise but one line i always loved growing up, domino's pizza and candlelight, so romantic. sometimes the best memories are the ones that are sporadic endless formal. what did that mean to you? >> a day in the life of someone

like me. we tour all the time and work a lot all over the world. my favorite time is when i'm at home on the couch hanging out with my friends, my girls and my family. joe: that is what life is all about and you have songs about it. we have a performance to help bring in the new year. >> i will do just another day in paradise. i'm excited to be here, excited for 2022. joe: we are excited too. ♪♪ ♪♪ kids screaming ♪♪ phone ringing ♪♪ dog barking at the mailman bringing ♪♪ good morning baby how are

you ♪♪ take a drink of milk but the milk has gone sour ♪♪ my funny face makes you laugh ♪♪ there goes the washing machine ♪♪ baby don't kick it ♪♪ i promise i will fix it ♪♪ long about 1 million other things ♪♪ well it's okay ♪♪ it's so nice ♪♪ it's just another day in paradise ♪♪ there is no place that i'd rather be ♪♪ ♪♪ and one dream ♪♪ i wouldn't trade it for anything ♪♪ and i asked the lord every night ♪♪ for just another day in

paradise ♪♪ ♪♪ friday note your late ♪♪ guess we'll never make our dinner date ♪♪ start to cry ♪♪ we will just supervise ♪♪ looks like ♪♪ domino's pizza and candlelight ♪♪ to my room ♪♪ somebody ♪♪ mom and daddy ♪♪ me and my parents ♪♪ with space in between ♪♪ it's okay ♪♪ it's all right ♪♪ just another day in paradise ♪♪ no place ♪♪ i'd rather be ♪♪ two hearts ♪♪ one dream ♪♪ wouldn't trade it for

anything ♪♪ ask the lord every night ♪♪ for just another day in paradise ♪♪ it's okay ♪♪ it's all right ♪♪ just another day in paradise ♪♪ no place i'd rather be ♪♪ two hearts ♪♪ and one dream ♪♪ i wouldn't trade it for anything ♪♪ and i ask the lord every night ♪♪ for just another day in paradise ♪♪ just another day in paradise ♪♪ ♪♪ kids screaming ♪♪ phone ringing

♪♪ just another day ♪♪ another day in paradise ♪♪ >> happy holidays, everybody. ♪♪ just another day in paradise ♪♪ ♪♪ [cheers and applause] >>

♪♪ wouldn't trade it for anything ♪♪ todd: we are bringing dan meuser back in. you are recognized as nominee for songwriters hall of fame. what is that right? >> i think that just means you are getting old. i don't know what it means but really honored, just to be in the category with all these

folks, what an honor and i love it. thank you for having me. happy new year. appreciate it. kayleigh: my mom just texted me, i love that song and love still. joe: happy new year and go dodgers. ♪♪ >> 4, 3, two, one. aspect never gets old was new year's, same worries, covid cases arise, inflation spiking, breaking it down for what it means for your job, your paycheck and the midterm