play a clip from this, because that was beautiful and meaningful at the same time. will: thank you so much for sharing. >> thank you so much for having me. rachel: merry christmas, amanda. pete: have a great saturday, everybody. we're hosting the new year's eve show, but we'll be on tomorrow as well. got some tricks up our sleeve. rachel: bye, everybody. [cheers and applause] >> things are expected to get a whole lot worse. >> let's be clear, the dam has already broken. >> i get it, this is a health measure, but we haven't substituted it for another measure to stop the flow coming into our country. >> if they don't have a plan, then hay need to -- >> this is a big, flashing light. if you can get to our southern border, you can make your way into the united states. neil: the countdown to wondering what the heck is up. thousands more migrants are waiting to do just that. the chaos at the border already ensuing with title 42 set to enjust four days from now.

the white house is insisting it's the all under control, but lawmakers from both sides are warning it's already very much out of control. we'll talk to a top border official today, in fact, several of them, and democratic senator tim kaine. he applauded an extension of title 42 earlier this year. what does he think no? we'll ask him. welcome, everybody, i'm neil cavuto, very glad to have you. let's first go be to eagle pass, texas, where we'll find our bill melugin keeping track of a countdown is now on and has a lot of people very nervous. bill. >> reporter: good morning to you. that's exactly right. we are now just days away from an alreadied bad situation potentially getting much, much worse when title 42 is set to drop. but even with it in place right now, we're seeing activity all over the place. take a look at this video we shot right here in eagle pass early morning, before the sun came up. part of another group of over 200 that crossed illegally.

this happens every single morning out here in eagle pass, sometimes multiple groups crossing like this. sector has been averaging upwards of more than 10,000 illegal crossings in a single week, and just since october 1st this sector has had over 115,000 illegal crossings. those numbers up 56% over the same time last year. then we'll take you out to border patrol's el paso sector where agents arrested two convicted sex offenders who crossed illegally in new mexico. both of these guys from if guatemala, both of them charged and convicted with sex crimes out of the state of california, boast of -- both of them charged with illegally reentering the united states. then up to our northern border, believe it or not, this is vermont where border patrol arrested five mexican nationals who crossed illegally into troy, vermont, from canada. one of those guys previously deported two times in 2016.

and listen to, so far in fiscal year 2023 that border patrol sector in vermont reports their illegal crossings are up almost nine times compared to the same time last year. then we'll bring you back down to texas, one last human smuggling bust in el paso. take a look at these images. border patrol in the el paso sector first finding 10 illegal immigrants on i-10, the highway will, and then using information from that bust with the smuggler, they then find a stash house, a human smuggling stash house where they find another 17 illegal immigrants being kept inside that stash house. just another typical day at the border there. and back out here live, we're averaging between 7-8,000 illegal crossings per day right now with title 42 in place. dhs is projecting once it drops next week, that number could skyrocket up to potentially 15,000 illegal crossings every single day. we'll send it back to you. neil: wow.

all right, bill, thank you very much. keeping you up to date on the legal back and forth, late yesterday a federal appeals court in washington, d.c. had declined a last minute request, this was by some 15 gop states to block the administration from letting title 42 expire. so now it doesn't look like it's going to expire, so where do we go now? lucas tomlinson has the very, very latest from the white house. lucas. >> reporter: that's right, neil. a d.c. appeals court ruling that, barring any act of congress or another appeals court ruling, title 42 will expire on wednesday. the white house reacting last night to in the ruling in a statement saying, quote: to be clear, the lifting of the title 42 public if health order does not mean the border is open. we will continue to fully enforce our immigration laws and work to expand legal pathways for migration while discouraging disorderly and unsafe migration. the administration says they're prepared for the edge of title 42 on wednesday, neil, and here's what karine jean-pierre

said yesterday. >> but, look, we also need congress to act. it is important that they deliver the resources we requested for the -- requested for the border security and management. hay need to pass the comprehensive immigration reform that we have put forth. >> reporter: some republicans on capitol hill are not buying that. >> this is the biden administration's delusional ideology. they send more resources, which means cash, or more people to the border, it's not to close our border, to tell these migrants to go home and apply through our embassy as os as our laws require, it's simply to process hem through the border more quickly. >> reporter: there's bipartisan calls on capitol hill to exend tented tighten -- extend title 42. as we just heard from bill on the border, the number of migrants crossing into the united states is expected to double. neil? neil: lucas, thank you for that.

lucas tomlinson at the white house. let's go down to chris oliveras, the texas department of public safety expert. he's been watching this close up right now and, i'm sure you've been watching these 35,000 who just managed to come here or tried to get through here just since the beginning of this month. i suspect those numbers, you suspect, will dramatically increase, right? >> right. of course. good morning, so great to be with you. we know for a fact that as you just heard right will, there's no strategy in place. they still haven't come up with any plan to try to stem the flow of mass migration. just several days ago, i believe it was yesterday, there was a major court decision the on behalf of the state of texas where attorney general ken paxton actually won a case where now a federal judge actually ruled in favor of the state of texas to where the department of homeland security, the federal government has to keep in place the remain in mexico policy. now, that remains to be seen if they're going to follow through, but that's a very effective policy on top of what title 42, it being canceled, that would

actually stem the flow and have a more orderly, controlled situation at our border. but, again, it remains to be seen if the travel government's going to follow through. we're trying to do as much as we cannot only on the enforcement side, but also on the legal side having everybody involved with the situation, try to do as much as they can with the resources and the authority they have within the state. neil: you know, lieutenant, we are getting some sporadic details of what the administration is planning on doing once 42 goes away on the 21st. among them is aiming a program at those who might have a justified case for seeking asylum, and hay mentioned cuba -- they mentioned cuba, haiti, i'm sorry, nicaragua and venezuela. that those groups from those areas, if they can make a compelling case, would be flown to the u.s. to legally make that case. breaking down the numbers as you see them, cubans, haitians,

nicaraguans is and venezuelan ares, would that be a large percentage of numbers we're seeing in. >> it would, neil, but it's not going to excuse the fact that we're still seeing people from over 150 different countries coming across our borders. and it's not just those seeking asylum, it's also those avoiding capture, the gotaways. the drugs coming across our border as well. it's not just those seeking asylum, but what that's going to do, it's not going to excuse the fact that we're still allowing people to enter the country illegally. it's still going to create a backlog in the court system as far as those seeking asylum. it's not going to excuse the fact, it's going to help mitigate the flow at the border, but nonetheless, people are going to come across. they're going to know they're going to be flown from a particular country into the united states, it's not going to excuse that fact. there needs to be a long-term solution, and right now there's not. right now the federal government's allowing this to take place, and it's not their priority. so until there's something put many place, an effective

strategy or an immigration policy, we're not going to see decrease in numbers that we're seeing. and as i mentioned, not just the people that are voluntarily seeking asylum, but those who are trying to get away and i a void capture. that's the main concern right there. neil: so many of our viewers are used to these live drone images that we're getting, in this case out of eagle pass, texas, where migrants are rounded up and processed. maybe you can explain, for example, group we're looking at now. what happens to them? what happens after they're rounded up? if i would imagine their paperwork, they go through all that. then what? >> well, for the most part, they'll be released into the uncountry. they're released to the ngos who facilitate their deaths the nation, where they're trying to get to -- destination. they'll provide them with any resources they need to get to that destination, and that's -- neil: so once they've gotten here, lieutenant, i'm sorry, i want to be very clear.

you just said something very important. once they're here, they're here. >> they're here, neil. that's why we see so many people coming across. and that's why we i saw such a significant influx in el paso where there's not enough resources for border patrol, so they're mass releasing people into the city. you're seeing people sleeping on the streets in 30-degree weather. once they're on united states soil, they are released into the country, and that's the issue right there. that's why we see a constant flow of people coming across, because they know there's no consequences. it is rewarded. they are rewarded for coming across our border illegally x they get flown to their destination. that's one thing that we tried to get out, some of the busing to these sanctuary cities. again, neil, it's not going to stop the flow of people coming across until there's the something put many place. neil: got it. lieutenant the, thank you very much. title 42, there is sort of like a hail mary pass on the part of

these gop states that failed to convince a judge to appeal this to the supreme court. it's unlikely to go anywhere, but i want to emphasize that is one of the issues that those republican statement ises discussed. lieutenant, we'll see what happens on that front. i'm sure you'd like to see such developments but that, again, does not look likely. you heard what the lieutenant was saying. we also know from the biden administration there's no move right now to extend title 42, but there is talk of hiring an additional 1,000 border patrol so-called processing agents and another 2500 contractors and personnel but from other government agencies. the details are sketchy, but what do you make of what i just told you? >> so we know that border patrol is very demoralized. they are severely understaffed. there's a reason why you have migrants like in these cases in el paso where you have tens of thousands just being released into the wild, some of them not

even with court dates. you can't really just catch -- call this catch and release, it's just release, right? in practice, title 42 is being used as an immigration policy tool, but really it is a public health tool that is allowing congress to kick the can down the road and allowed biden to set border policy. look, the constitution gives the president power over immigration, however much congress is willing to give him. and right now they're willing to give him all of it just hoping he'll extend title -- 42. joe biden has made clear that a thousand extra border agents, that's a band-aid over the situation. about 40% of migrants have been expelled since the start of covuld, and now we're seeing projections that crossings are going to double. last fiscal year there were more than 2.3 million crossings, largely single adults. these are not necessarily mothers with hair children. and that number's only going to

get worse. a thousand extra border patrol agents? that doesn't do the trick. neil: yeah. and when i read about these provisions for cubans, haitians, nicaraguans and venezuelans, there's every likelihood here that thousands more are not only going to enter the united states, but for some time never leave the united states as their cases presumably are adjudicated here. so it's going to compound the problem, won't it? >> absolutely. and the issue is that the biden administration seems to want to be the redefining what qualifies as a legitimate asylum claim, right? you don't get to come and claim asylum because you're suffering, you know, lack of jobs in your country, economic issues. the definition of a refugee under international and u.s. law is very narrow, right? discrimination based on gender, discrimination by the government based on political persecution, right? but they want to change the rule

in the same way that they didn't want to have -- come to the border, it's all a political tool and that's why title 42 has been used. neil: all right. thank you very much for that, tiana. we might know soon here on this whole appeal to the supreme court, by the way, on the part of these 15 gop-run states that want to see title 42 extended. they lost an appeals court effort. that was kind of largely expected here. but, again, there is this hail mary pass attempt on their part to see if the supreme court will take the it up. we should know shortly whether they will. doesn't look like they will, but we'll see. in the meantime, taking a look at some new documents that seemed to prove there was more than just a friendly relationship between twitter and the fbi. some defined it as outright cozy. the latest on the document dump that has some people now furious. orence, and one thing i learned being a firefighter is plan ahead. you don't know what you're getting into, but at the end of the day,

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neil: welcome back, everybody. well, by my math, i think this

is the is sixth so-called document dump on part of twitter to reveal cozy ties between the social media giant and the fbi, and and not so much the old days. some of these are fairly recent days. alexandria hoff on what has some regulators now concerned. >> reporter: well, neil, first of all, or your math is correct, this is the sixth document dump. and in it independent journalist matt taibbi called what he called a surprisingly high number of requests by the fbi for twitter to take action on. he wrote to the beginnings of this relationship, quote: the fbi's social media-focused task force created in the wake of the 2016 election swelled to 80 agents and corresponded with twitter to identify alleged foreign influence and election tampering of all kinds. here taibbi shares an example of fbi compiling a list of accounts that may warrant additional action. according to taibbi, many of the accounts flagged by the fbi had very few followers.

many were making apparent jokes. he says twitter's willingness to take action on these requests gave the company the appearance of acting like a subsidiary of the fbi. in response the fbi shared this statement, quote: the fbi are regularly engages with private sector entities to provide information specific to identify foreign malign influence actors, sub versusive, undeclared, covert or criminal activities. entities independently make decisions about what, if any, action they take on their platforms before their -- or for their customers after the fbi has notified them. these document dumps have been taking place for over two weeks, and yesterday elon musk signaled that they may be done at least for now. neil? neil: alexandria, thank you finish -- very much for that. we've learned that our own susan li had her twitter account suspended. why would that be? we'll ask her, she's coming up. in the meantime, learning from gary sinise that the most

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neil: you know, sometimes with the mess at the border and then all you're seeing right now with the crazy markets, you're almost calling for any good news especially during the holiday season when you expect to find some. well, we did find an example courtesy of gary sinise, the well known actor. heads up, something called the

gary sinise foundation which takes care of veterans' families, especially those who have lost their lives in battle and sees to it that their kids and families get a chance to go to to the happiest place on earth, to disney. he started this years ago, but it's gotten so big right now that it's hard to keep up with the numbers because they're now into the thousands. gary sinise told me earlier he hopes to see that number grow. take a look. >> that was started by a group of people that a just wanted to help the kids out, you know, during a very difficult time for them having lost a parent right before christmas time. and they brought some people, some kids to disneyland in anaheim. american airlines got involved, started flying the kids. then we moved it to dallas where, that's hub of american airlines. we were there for nine years and then we folded it into the gary sinise foundationing as a program. i approached disney, i've got a

great relationship over years through movies and other things i've done with them, and we started taking the kids there in 2018. we did another event in 2019. then the pandemic hit, and we had to go virtual with our snowball express program. so we went online for a couple of, couple of years, 2020, 2021, you know, just providing entertainment online for three days for the kids. and this year we were able to take them back to disney world. we upped the number of families that we were able to take, and this year we had over -- i think we had 1151 children and upwards of 1900 people total. we took over, you know, half of the coronado springs hotel, about a thousand hotel rooms. it cost a lot of money, it takes a lot of effort. there are multiple volunteers, great corporate sponsors that come in. it's just a massive event and really a great way to just wrap

our arms around these kids that have lost a loved one in military service. neil: talking to you on a day, at a moment when the dow is careening, people are sweating and heir worrying. but -- they're worrying. you step away from all of that. how do you advise people or try to make them look at the stuff that's important? >> yeah, you know, like i said, neil, i've spent a lot of time in the hospitals, i've been in war zones, i've seen people struggling. you know, we've built houses as you mentioned for -- i think we just gave away our 81st house for badly wounded service members. i've spent time with them in the hospitals, i've seen how their families, you know, just stay with them and help them through these difficult times. i mean, you can have a wounded guy in a hospital or gal, and they could have 200 different surgeries over 3 years and they're just spending all their life in the hospital, and these

families have to go through difficult times with them. and i've learned from them. i've been inspired by them. i've been motivated by them. and identify had a lot of d i've had a lot of success in the movie and television business. csi: new york was a great run for nine years. i was able to take some of that financial success and turn it into doing some good for others and to -- neil: there's talk about bringing csi, whether it's in new york or vegas or any one of them, back and bringing you back. are you interested? i think you were nine seasons on csi: new york, but what's the latest? >> that was a great run. 197 episodes. it was a great run. and it came at the right time. there's a chapter in my book, "grateful american," called perfect timing. and it's about how i was ramping up all my efforts to support the military and first responders at the same time that csi kind of came along. and all of a sudden i had this

public platform on television. i had, i was a producer on the show, so it was lucrative in that way, and i was able to put some money away and do some good with it. neil: you know, gary, that's the one thing you and i have in common, we're very modest individuals. it's one of things i love about myself. [laughter] but i mean this seriously, every time i see you in any venue, you're the same guy. you're same guy. and me, i'm an ogre off camera. i'm a completely different person. i'm not even that great on camera. [laughter] but what strikes me about you, and i've studied and watched you and admired you for so many years, you kept your foundation, you kept your basic person. no matter how rich and successful you became. i find that remarkable, because i find it also something else, rare. what do you make of that? >> thank you. you know, i grew up in chicago. my dad was, you know, he was in the navy, you know, midwest folks.

my dad was a film editor in chicago, and then he moved out to california. you know, i had a modest upbringing, and -- but it was great. and that's where i started acting, and i was able to start a theater. you know, it's been a challenging at times life but also very blessed in so many ways. and i'm glad that the i can do some good with it, and i'm thankful that i have a have a great team at the gary sinise foundation keeping the mission and so many sponsors and donors and people that are helping us do some good for others. neil: just think about what gary city meese was staying there -- gary sinise. it's a foundation that runs thousands, volunteerses all over the world trying to do right especially by those families devastated by losses in battle and loss of loved ones. as he said, he's building homes for those returning are battle incapable of going in a normal home themselves. 81 homes, the latest just

provided to someone who was so severely harmed in battle that he was looking at life in the hospital. now he has a home thanks to the city sinise -- sinise foundation. there is some good news out there. we thought we'd share that with you. but then get back to the the reality of sam bankman-fried. a reminder that not all the news is good, and for people who were helping him out early on, not good at all. >> this is a simple case, in my mind, of where did the money go? s costing more. if you're a veteran homeowner and need cash, call newday and use your powerful va home loan benefit. it lets you borrow up to 100% of your home's value, not just 80%. and with home values near record highs, you could have a lot more cash than you think. at newday, you could take out an average of $60,000 to pay down high rate credit cards, consolidate personal loans, and car loans.

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♪ ♪ >> i entered into an agreement with ftx to be a paid spokesperson. i was paid approximately $15 million for these services plus approximately $3 million to cover taxes. of the remaining amount as, approximately $1 million was

invested in ftx equity and approximately $10 million in tokens held in ftx wallets. the equity now is most likely worthless. neil: all right, kevin can o'leary testifying on capitol hill, he personally did call sam bankman-fried who was running ftx, this exchange if you will, about where the money was and got no straight answer. now bankman-fried, as you know, is stew anything a bahamas jail until at least february, but the fallout from this has been fast and furious. hillary vaughn has the latest. hillary. >> reporter: neil, celebrities are used to the spotlight but not necessarily the hot seat. lawmakers are looking for answers from ptx's star-studded rolodex of endorsers that sam bankman-fried shelled out millions to including shark tank's kevin o'leary who was on capitol hill this week to testify. he, among others, are targets of a class action lawsuit focusing

on famous faces who got paid to endorse f ftx. >> crypto doesn't get a free pass because it's shiny and bright or because venture capitalists think it might change the world or its tv campaigns were witty and featured famous people, especially so many consumers are at risk of losing hard-earned money. that's before we even consider how crypto has ushered in a whole new dimension of fraud. >> reporter: to leery says he was paid $18 million to be a spokesperson. he had about 1 million invested in ftx including so 10 million in tokens held in ftx wallets, but everything is gone. he tried to get answers about where it went. >> i simply called sam bankman-fried and said, where is the money, sam? he said he had been refused access to the servers, he no longer knew. i said, okay, let's step back. this is a simple case, in my mind, of where did the money go.

>> reporter: so, neil, a simple question but possibly a complicated answer. lawmakers are still waiting for their chance to grill sam bankman-fried who is behind bars in the bahamas. neil? neil: hillary, thank you for that. indeed, sam bankman-fried is behind bars, if he's found guilty of the 8 counts federal authorities have charged him with including wire fraud, securities fraud, improper documentation of corporate paperwork and the like, he could be in jail the rest of his life. let's go to john yu, former deputy assistant attorney general, also what he makes of in the, also a justice thomas law clerk in his younger days. you know, john, the celebrities particularly -- o'leary might be a different case, but those who were paid a lot of money to promote anything to do with ftx and maybe this whole, you know, technology to begin with, are they on the hook? >> if you look at the indictment

that the justice department filed and the sec complaint, they're not done with just looking for sam bankman-fried. they repeatedly say sam bankman-fried and others, named and unnamed, are responsible for this immense fraud. billions of dollars in losses. now, what it would depend on is whether these spokesmen, these celebrities, had any inside information on what bankman-fried was really doing with the money. if they're just hired as spokesmen and they don't know anything much more, they're probably not going to be liable. but if they actually got to know bankman-fried and they were talking to him about what he was doing with the money, they might be liable too. the investigation is still going on. i think that you're going to see more and more indictments, not just bankman-fried, but people who led alameda research which was his privacy investing firm and other executives at the ftx. who knows what those investigators are going to turn up. neil: so, john, i know it's apples and oranges, but a lot of

this reminds me of the bernie madoff case and some of the ponzi schemes that kept it going. i'm not saying these are ponzi schemes here or that paying off hollywood celebrities to be your spokespeople, make sure they're taken care of so that more people can come in and promote this and more people can guy into ftx, but is there a partial analogy there? is this some sort of widespread up duping scheme? >> already some similarities -- there are some similarities. i have to say, on the other hand, these are people mostly who are sophisticated investors who are complaining, and i would have thought that their mothers would have told them like my mother told me, your mother might have told you, don't invest money with madonna or tom brady. [laughter] why would you listen to celebrities when you're divesting millions of your own dollars? but on the other hand, that's also what happened with madoff. madoff, if you remember, traded on connections, traded on this image of success and got very

sophisticated people to put in money. but i think the other thing, neil, you're right, the thing they have in common is they're both simple frauds. this doesn't really involve crypto the, per se. what happened was bankman fraud -- fried, sorry, went to investors and said give me money, i promise i'll do a with it, and instead he used it to make his own fortune, to buy his own houses and real estate. it's just simple fraud and theft which is what madoff was engaged in too. and just like madoff went to jail for a long, long time, bankman-fried could, i would expect he's going to try to settle so he doesn't die in prison like madoff did. neil: so where does this go and how many people does it likely ensnare? and those who have lost all their money, you know, eventually over the years some money died get back to madoff investors. not all. a few were made whole. but i'm wondering how owe see this playing out.

>> well, you're going to have, i think, years of investigation. you're obviously going to have more congressional hearings. i think the corporate officers of both ftx andal immediate georgia -- alameda research which was the private investing vehicle, a lot of them are going to be under investigation, several of them might go to jail. they'll be charged because they had to know about the funds going back and forth, the taking of the investors' funds and using it for, essentially, private gain, lying to investors. so i think it's going to take the years to unreally just like the madoff thing took years to unravel. the unfortunately thing is there may not be much money left in this thing to pay back people who were defrauded. neil: you know, john, when i saw a lot of the federal prosecutors and all these like-minded agencies gather for a back slapping we did a great job and we got this guy, but they didn't get guy. get this guy. it was his stumbling and potential stupidity here that revealed a lot of his, you know,

problems to the world including potential illegalities and lost funds. it wasn't as if regulators or experts or securities lawyers tracked it down. even those at the commodities futures trading commission. they discovered the pieces once they were spread out all over the floor, so why are they back slapping and giving themselves high-fives? >> neil, i agree with you. the problem here is that this is something that comes, the investigation comes in after the fact, years after the fact. you look at the complaint that says that obamaman fried was engaged in fraud from the very beginning, from 019, for the -- 2019, for the last almost three years. and i think to some extent the government hopes that the markets will correct for this. sophisticated investors, venture capitalists who were all meeting with bankman-fried, looking at the books, they're all fooled. they put in hundreds of millions of dollars. unfortunately, the government here can only come in after the fact which means all of us, you,

gary sinise and others must be more vim -- vigilant where you put your money. neil: but just to be clear here, we had a lot of regulators maybe all over the map. it wasn't a matter of too few, it was too many. maybe they weren't all on the same page. not the first time that's ooh happened. is the lesson going to be here making sure that they're more focused? >> i think we do have too many regulators. you have, for example, the sec trying to claim crypto, you have people in congress saying, oh, this is all about crypto. i think that's not the case. i think it's simple fraud that the securities regulators should concentrate on rather than trying to expand their powers to any new kind of investment. neil: very well said. if it sounds ooh ooh good to be true, right? -- too good to be true, maybe you should think twice. i appreciate you coming in on a saturday to help us out with this. do want to take you to the border in eagle pass. you're looking at a live drone shot is. we're four days away from title 42 going away that would allow

migrants to be immediately expelled at the border, and that can no longer happen if, begin, title 42 expires. but this is a daily scene is. we see a small group today, sometimes larger groups. we're told anywhere from 5-7,000 have been speeding to get into this country. we're told on the 2 the 1st wasn't the whole title 42 thing goes away, it could easily double or more. we're keeping an eye on that. also in this country, keeping an eye on some nasty weather. not the kind that's already come our way, but a beauty of storms coming, well, a not so beautiful way this week. the latest on that from brandy campbell. what are we looking at in. >> reporter: hey, neil. nearly 113 million people are expected to travel across various methods this holiday season, and weather already playing a role causing some delays. i'm live at miami international a airport with some tips on how to get to destination smoothly.

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neil: remember that massive storm last week? well, potentially a bigger one coming this week, so if you're traveling, be warned. brandy campbell at miami international airport of fox weather to help you out. brandy. >> reporter: hey, neil. here in miami things are already getting pretty busy. if you take a look behind me, you can see people in line, and it's buzzing. trying to get through and get people inside to their gate. now, miami's airport expecting 160,000 people, but that's nothing compared to what is coming. there's 7.2 the million people expected to fly through the new year x that's according to aaa. but for now we're keeping an eye on the weather impacts. the faa currently flagging seven airports in the northeast having to remove snow and ice which could cause some delays across airports. a spokesperson for miami's airport explains how impacts in other places can alter your flight.

>> even though the weather may be great here, it's a ripple effect with winter weather, snowstorms delaying aircraft getting here, getting to the airport where it's coming from, so then it delays the aircraft getting here. so because we have so many connected flights, that can be a challenge. so again, you want to stay in close contact, work with your airline. and don't assume because the weather's great in miami that your flight's going to be on time because it could be affected by flights from other places in the country. >> reporter: all right. now to get prepared for your flight, listen up, i have some tips for you. make sure you get to the airport at least 2-3 hours early. check in with your airline before you arrive to make sure there were no changes to your flight. also check on tsa's guidelines to make sure they don't have to take anything from you when you're trying to get through. and just because we are getting close to the holidays, you're bringing in gifts for family or friends, maybe wait to wrap them until after your flight because if it's flaged, they might have

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neil: all right, this isn't just a saturday, this is super saturday, your last chance to take advantage of some big sales because you won't have another saturday. this is it. so get out there. a lot of people are getting out there, and my next two guesses -- guests are not surprised, scott martin and heath maher sog. hitha, the consumer definitely slowing down a little bit, but how to you see it going in the next week? >> the consumer's definitely slowing down, neil, but we have to think about the benchmarks that we are using. you're absolutely right, it's super standard, and i think in the -- super saturday, and i think we've always said it's the day before or the weekend before christmas and everyone needs to get gifts out. people have been buying to the tune of 74% of the consumers have been buying prior to time period. so they got all their purchasing done. so while people are buying, you know, overall average around

900-1,000 for the poll day -- holiday season, they've already done that. so our benchmarks are a little bit skewed. neil: all right. but if the consumer is slowing down, scott, that has enormous implications for the economy. >> bigtime. about two-thirds of the economy, neil, is determined on the consumer so, obviously, when you see good numbers, either that's right, myself included, i've been shopping all fall and seeing deals, by the way, earlier on it felt like this year than in previous years. and now hoping that i can just afford a haircut, frankly, as we approach the holidays here -- [laughter] some of the prices though, neil, the costs are still rocket high and, therefore, consumers are cutting back in other areas as they try to afford the last minute christmas gifts. neil: these markets must be weighing on you with -- >> it's been a rough year, man. neil: could be the tv lights. the federal reserve keeps hiking interest rates, just saw it past week, giving every indication it is not done.

that's got to be a bummer for shoppers, for consumers in general down the road. >> definitely. and we're seeing those prices certainly inflate, but we're seeing that cpi index come down as well. and it's definitely lower,ing came in about 7.1%. it's lower year-over-year than it was last year, 7.7. and month other month it's slowly decreasing. but what we also have to think about ooh, neil, is that the savings rate is slowing too. consumers aren't saving as much as they used to compared to what they were saving during the pandemic. so before we have reserve for those rainy days just in case, i think the consumer now is very worried that that reserve is now gone. one source of optimism though, the small businesses are very, very optimistic. i think they think that especially at the first part of the year according to the data catalyst institute, people are going to continue to spend. and i think because of that it's really the reach of the digital tools that they're using. so it's not just heir basing their sales -- they're basing their sales in the united

states, but more from a global perspective. neil: all right. we end showing you a number of inflation which has come down from its highs, guys, have a wonderful christmas. thank you again. of course, we are also keeping track of what's happening at the border and title 42 going away on the 21st. it's going to change a lot of things including not only how democrats and republicans respond, but the administration. . oh man. always look for the grown in idaho seal. ...

>> all right. following developments at the border right now. we've got some live shots and some other images earlier this week that showed the surge is on right now to get to this country if you are coming from points south because things could be in your favor just about four days on the 21st. title 42 ends, that's the allowance here that means that the cases where you're caught at the border, you're sent back south of the border.