face brings me a chill. to smile after losing your husband, a hero, is impossible. you make miracles happen. >> strong families. they married strong women, i can tell you that. they want their loved ones left behind to be happy. that's the important message. july thank you so much on behalf of all the first responders families you've helped since nine nerve. merry christmas. >> we are concerned with those living on our streets. our seniors. >> it will be below freezing for an extended period of time. 24 degrees or lower. >> if you can stay home, stay home. be with your loved ones and loved once. pick people to check on. >> julie: cities are bracing for a dangerous winter storm as a

powerful bomb cyclone is bringing bitterly cold weather and travel headaches. welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom." i'm julie banderas. dana perino and bill hemmer have the day after. >> john: i'm john roberts. more than 200 million americans have a blast of extreme weather delivers freezing cold temperatures across much of the country. rain, heavy snow, ice, high winds across the united states. the frigid air moving down from where else, canada causing temperatures to plunge dramatically. robert ray reporting for fox weather in chicago. the national weather service warnings conditions will be getting worse rapidly. i'm reminded of south park, robert, blame canada. >> good morning from michigan avenue behind me. the windy city.

temps right now are just as freezing. it doesn't feel nasty but it will change in a few hours. we'll see a plummet of temps going from 32 degrees all the way down to 0. and then what happens? oh, we are in for it for 24 hours and we are going to see windchills of negative 35 degrees and wind gusts 40, 50, 60 miles-per-hour unfortunately. we've already seen this by video in south dakota and wyoming. look at some of the white out conditions from the blizzard that was happening out there and it is on the way to the midwest. the city of chicago very nervous about whether or not they'll see power outages, broken pipes, shelters for people that are displaced are open, warming centers all around the city. the thing is, too, the snow,

guys, is really not a major factor here. we'll see 4 to 6 inches but it is the winds and the temperatures. of course, when you have blizzard conditions like that, kicking up even a few inches of snow you could see drifting and dangerous conditions for travel. on the roads, going to be incredibly dangerous. people should stay off. those white out conditions you won't be able to see 5, 10, 15 feet in front of you. hundreds of flight cancellations already in the chicago area, at o'hare in anticipation. amtrak has shut down lines and unfortunately guys, just a couple days before christmas and here we are with a lot of people that may be in a very nasty situation as you see behind me the magnificent mile, michigan avenue. the fleeting moments of shopping happening right now and we're going to be under the lock of mother nature in just a few hours, john.

>> john: as they say, it is winter, barely, but it is winter. robert ray for us in downtown chicago. robert, thank you. and don't forget to download the fox weather app for the latest updates on the life threatening storm. scan the qr code on the screen and download it right to your phone or go to the app store and get it as well. julie. >> we have no dialogue with this administration sad to say. we're on our own out here. this is like the forgotten border. sadly, this is america's border. >> julie: that was the sheriff explaining how border states are preparing for the worst-case scenario with title 42 in limbo. human and drug trafficking posing a threat and businesses trying to defend themselves from an uptick in crime. grady trimble is live at an auto repair shop in arizona with more for us. good morning, grady. >> good morning, julie.

smuggling is a huge problem in this area. this road right here, state highway 92, is one of the main human and drug smuggling corridors in this county. so you can imagine the challenges that presents for business owners on this stretch of highway like this man, his auto repair shop. you have seen it all because of your location right by the border and right by this smuggling corridor. >> i don't know about seeing it all but i'll tell you something, these high-speed chases going on, the influx of migration, the people looking for a better life and stuff like that, it is affecting us pretty good here. i've had vandalism in the past. i have had people dropping vehicles on my property. they are usually either running humans or they are running drugs. they blend in on this property, so people have a tendency, law

enforcement officers have a tendency to overlook them and then we catch them here. they break into my restrooms and stuff like that. they are looking for a warm place to get in out of the cold or the elements or something of that nature. it does create a lot of damage. >> law enforcement officials as well as you are concerned about title 42 winding down. do you think the biden administration has a plan in place for when that day comes? >> you know, from what i've seen, i don't see no plan in place. i think they are trying to extend it to try to mask the real problem. >> julie, i will end with this. because this is such a big smuggling area, what officials tell us is that there are the mass migrant caravans coming into areas like yuma and el paso are diversions. border patrol is tied up there and you have smuggling going on in these areas and why fentanyl

and other types of drugs are tearing apart these communities along the border. >> julie: very sad. thank you. >> john: temperatures are falling fast across the southern border as well. escalating the humanitarian crisis as a massive surge of migrants continues to overwhelm the area. claudia rodriguez is a city council representative in el paso, texas. last week it was reaching the breaking point. the mayor declared a state of emergency over the weekend. what is the situation like there now? >> hi, good morning, john. i can't see the situation is getting any better. we at the city are trying to scramble and do everything we can do. with the declaration being declared so late in the game it really gave our staff and the community very little time to prepare for this. we have set up shelters at the

convention center, one of the local school districts has set up and loaned us two of their empty school buildings to use as shelters as well. but it is not slowing down. it is not getting any better. i was calling on the mayor to declare. now i think it is urgent that president biden comes down here and sees the repercussions of the decisions he has made. el paso is a blue city. we voted for president biden. i don't think it is fair keeping us out of sight and mind is fair for us. he needs to come down here and really see the destruction and the chaos and really see people living on the streets. it is really bad. the people of el paso should not be paying for this. i urge president biden to come down to el paso to see what is happening here. >> john: to your point whether or not the president should come down and visit the border. here is what kyrsten sinema said yesterday.

>> i absolutely think the president should visit the border. i think anyone who is responsible for setting or making policy on the border should visit the border. i mean, that's a no-brainer, right? >> john: let me ask you this question, claudia, do you believe that president biden coming down to the border with make a difference or are his policies so baked in that regardless of what he saw with his own eyes he wouldn't change? >> i don't know if it would make a difference necessarily in improving the situation but for sure he needs to see what he has done to our communities, what he has done to the state of texas, what he has done to the entire nation. i think senator sinema is absolutely correct. everybody that is in charge of making these policies and everybody that we have entrusted with our sovereignty and protecting our nation needs to be down here and needs to see what's going on. we are in an emergency. we finally declared an emergency. i don't know what more needs to happen other than you need to

react. they need to react and they need to be here and need to see what's going on and do things better not only for the people of this nation but for these migrants themselves. this is not a good situation at all. >> john: particularly when you have 4 or 5 days of cold weather ahead of us. the biden white house is saying to americans, particularly in terms of title 42, trust us, we've got this handled. we have a plan. here is what your governor greg abbott said about that. >> they've handled the border crisis and created the border crisis the exact way they were responsible for creating the crisis in afghanistan. completely unprepared, complete disaster, and texas is left to pick up the pieces of the disaster caused by the biden administration. >> john: can you make any sense of how the president is handling the situation there? >> i cannot. the governor is absolutely

correct. these mistakes keep being made across the world. we voted for this man and this administration. you are supposed to protect us. you are supposed to be here for us in our darkest moments and this is a dark moment for the city of el paso. temperatures are not -- we don't usually have this type of weather here in texas. it is really cold right now. i don't know what else needs to happen. people are dying. migrants are getting ran over and being killed on our highways. i don't know, it is dire, it is bad. i know the governor wrote a letter to the president asking him to come down here. he needs to be down here. immigration is a federal issue. that is his responsibility, not the city of el paso or the state of texas, yet we're having to deal with this. >> john: there are more democrats issuing a call for the president to get down there and

talk to folks on the front lines. we'll see if he does. likely not until the new year if he even does it yet. claudia, good to talk to you. hope you get through the next few days and the cold weather all right. merry christmas. >> julie: ron desantis delivering a major blow to teacher's unions planning new legislation that gives teachers more power at the expense of the unions' wallet. the f.b.i. firing back over the latest batch of twitter files. why they insist there is nothing to see here despite evidence showing close ties with the social media giant. >> we need to make sure is that the government is not going through things helping twitter, facebook or anybody else hold fast to what they should or not on their platforms. that's not the role of the f.b.i. to look at free speech. c.

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>> john: the f.b.i. firing back after a latest batch of twitter files discloses close ties between the bureau and twitter. they said their actions were nothing out of the ordinary. mike emanuel is washington. begs the question, what is ordinary? >> interesting to have the f.b.i. response to all of this saying its interactions with twitter say it shows extraditional and on going private sector engagements. we learned in the latest release from michael shellenberger the f.b.i.'s influence campaign may have been helped by the fact it was paying twitter millions of dollars for its staff time. i'm happy to report we have collected $3 million 415323

since october 2019. baker was twitter's former deputy general counsel. that emails reveals baker was told twitter collected nearly 3 1/2 million dollars from the f.b.i. those are reasonable costs and expenses associated with their response to illegal process for complying with legal requests and a standard procedure according to f.b.i. a republican on house oversight says today the f.b.i. responses are carefully worded. >> we need to make sure that the government is not going through things helping twitter, facebook or anybody else hold fast to what they should or not on their platforms. that's not the role of the f.b.i. to look at free speech. that's what's happened. >> on the hunter biden laptop story late in the 2020 presidential campaign f.b.i. officials tell fox we did not provide twitter any specific instruction or details regarding the hunter biden laptop story. on allegations that the f.b.i.

in back channel communications with twitter suppressed or spiked the hunter biden laptop story, the response from the f.b.i. officials is quote, we did not request anything of the sort. f.b.i. officials would not answer if they had any communications with the biden campaign in the fall of 2020, john. >> john: the language is very careful. we didn't say anything about hunter biden just watch out for a hack and leak operation. when it popped up in the "new york post," that must be what they are talking about. great report. mike. >> julie: republican florida governor ron desantis stepping up his fight against teachers union planning a new law that would prevent union dues from being automatically deducted from your paycheck. if you are a teacher, you have no choice according to that. according to desantis, he says this, if they don't have a majority of the teachers who are actually signing up to pay those dues, it should be de-certified.

daniel buck is the author of the new book what is wrong with our schools. that's a loaded question i would love to answer. i will start with governor desantis, he is taking time to step up his fight against these teachers unions. do you agree with desantis that union dues shouldn't be automatically deducted and should teachers be allowed to ocht out? >> absolutely. they rely a lot on inertia. it is easy to let the check keep coming. desantis's new law forces teachers to think do i want to keep supporting this organization. a lot of the teachers i talked to kind of just support the union because they do but when you show them the policies that the unions are supporting, opposition to charter schools, opposition to school choice, support of really lenient discipline policies teachers don't like that and his new law

forces them to make the decision. am i going to keep supporting this organization? i think a lot of teachers will find that no, they don't. >> julie: no, they don't. the teachers are not alone, though. the parents are frustrated as well. these unions first of all are meant to protect teachers. teachers are meant to protect our children. it is actually doing quite a opposite. the unions are not only hurting the teachers, they are hurting the children, are they not? >> yeah i get into in my book. the predominant ideology in schools. both very mediocre approaches to schooling, at times actively political. so schools are turning away from what they are meant for, academic training centers, learning math facts, reading good books and towards activism. towards just all sorts of things like you said, it is not doing right by our students and that's what my -- the purpose of why i

wrote this book. what can we do instead? how do we get back to the school's original purpose of reading, writing and math. it's a simple message. >> julie: after the pandemic when you look at test scores let's look at math and -- not the woke theories in schools that democrats are thrilled with. if you were to act the majority of republicans in the country they say schools are worse off now than when we were kids. democrats are championing it saying it's better. how is it better? look at the test scores. that's what you write about in your book. what's happening to our education system? sadly in the most importantly what effect is it having on america's future and our children? >> well if you look at -- i've done reporting on seattle public schools has a math curriculum. the kids aren't learning traditional math. they are learning the themes of the curriculum are identity,

activism, things like this. maybe in a sociology class. in a math class you should learn addition, subtraction, geometry, things like that. what we need is to go back to traditional theory of education which is schools are meant to be places of learning, not places of activism, not places for teachers' pet political projects but where kids go to that he learn about history, math, all these kinds of things. >> julie: let's leave the activism to the politicians, how about that? thank you for coming on this morning. >> thanks for having me. >> this flag is a symbol of our victory in this war. we stand, we fight and we will win because we are united. j >> john: one of the most

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>> hope i can get home someday. we started to have snow flurries start here. we're on the eastern edge of it right now. and they thought the flurries might start 3 or 4 hours from now had but already blowing. maybe you see snow fighting equipment out there. this is the milwaukee mitchell airport. they are all lined up ready to november snow. you don't want to just plow it, you have to get rid of it and that's what they do. look what we'll be facing soon out to the west of here. places like minneapolis and green bay and, i don't know, cheyenne, wyoming. those places already getting heavily hammered. and then the misery map is where all the delays and cancellations are. folks at flight aware do that. you see denver, detroit preemptively canceling a lot of flights, chicago as well just to our south. they're good at moving snow here

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reacting with its own tough talk. nate foye is live in kiev this morning. good morning, nate. >> good morning, julie. russia accuses the united states of fighting a proxy war and russia is also promising to deploy a new intercontinental ballistic missile that may be able to evade western air defenses. more in a second. you heard from president zelensky yesterday. similar to what he did in the united states on his way home, president zelensky met with polish president talking about plans for the new year and he thanked them for all of the polish support throughout the war. look at the next video. russia responded in a big way after zelensky's visit to the u.s. yesterday. president putin promised a new intercontinental ballistic missile saying it would soon enter service. putin said there are no limits to military spending in russia and he promised to increase the

size of the military by 500,000 troops. here is a kremlin spokesperson reacting to zelensky's u.s. visit. listen. >> the fact that neither president biden nor president zelensky expressed any words that could be interpreted as a potential readiness to hear russian concerns is evidence the united states defact o is fighting a proxy war with russia. >> the u.s. is providing the patriot missile defense system to ukraine. people here in kiev i can tell you are hopeful it will decrease the amount of critical infrastructure that is hit. of course in the past eight days we have had three air strikes here in kiev. back out here live right now ukraine is only getting one battery of the patriot missile defense system. president zelensky was transparent yesterday he plans on asking for more as soon as the ukrainian soldiers are trained on how to operate it.

as for russia, though, they say it will not stop them from achieving their goals in ukraine. we'll send it back to you, julie. >> julie: thank you. >> john: let's bring in katie pavlich. editor of town hall.com. zelensky came here to say thanks and by the way, i would like more weapons, please, i would like the long range missiles, which have a range of 200 miles. the drones that used to be the predators and other drones as well. we had lindsey graham sitting there yesterday saying give him anything he wants and biden says not so fast. >> ukraine has enjoyed lots of funding and there are big questions for republicans who are now going to be in control of the house in just two weeks about where that money is going and what the end goal is in terms of the objective here. what the u.s. interest is. so zelensky came and made the case they're winning against russia but need to finish the

job and therefore they need more weapons and more funding. it seems like he should make the case to the europeans considering the united states is spending twice as much as all of the european countries combined to fight this war. and it's on their continent and yet they aren't as dedicated as we seem to be with the funding. president biden said yesterday he talked to the allies for many, many hours about the importance of that. they say that they understand it and yet the germans aren't giving the funding that you would think they should to continue this funding of the ukrainian people. for the americans and the audience that zelensky was speaking to last night those republicans including incoming house speaker kevin mccarthy said who said we want more accountability with reports that there is a lack of oversight, lack of transparency when it comes to where the weapons are going and where a lot of the money is going. dozens of republican in the house and senate voted against

aid packages in the past. zelensky knows the government is changing power and came to make his case last night. >> john: in terms of how this ends, here is what zelensky suggested last night. >> your support is crucial. we have artillery, yes, thank you. we have it. is it enough? honestly not really. [laughter] to insure -- bakhmut is not just a stronghold that holds back the russian army but for the russian army to completely pull out. >> john: he didn't say to hold the russian army so we can come to a negotiated settlement and trade land for peace. mark milley, chairman of the joint chiefs suggested that scenario was probably right to exploit right now. zelensky doesn't want to go there. what are we signing up for here? an end to this or signing up for a forever war.

>> that's the question. people on capitol hill have not answered how long it goes on. they say russia can go on for years with the war and president biden in the press conference with zelensky said the united states will be supporting ukraine as long as it takes. american people wanted to get out of afghanistan after 20 years. they didn't sign up for an indefinite war in ukraine that they are funding with their taxpayer dollars indefinitely. so that is why you see a number of republicans coming into the house and saying look, we want to take a hard accounting of what is going on and see if we can come to some kind of agreement to push the ukrainians into some kind of negotiation or at least be very clear what our objectives are at home. >> john: "wall street journal" suggested that putin might need to get beat up. russian leaders got a crap beat out of them in afghanistan for a decade before they pulled out.

>> a question was asked yesterday in the press briefing about you said it was prove octobertive to give the patriot defense system and we delayed doing that. the question now is do they give them as much as they need to finish this or will we drag it out for years and years given the slow drip of the weapons systems that are becoming available to ukrainians. >> john: we'll see how it goes. great to see you. see you in new york filling in for jesse tomorrow night. >> julie: the university of idaho ramping up security patrols as a killer remains on the loose after the murder of those four students. bad news for retailers as americans are becoming less generous for the holidays. dave ramsey on why it is not necessarily a bad thing.

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staff. if they had plans to leave tomorrow, late tonight or tomorrow i'm saying leave now. they can talk to me on the phone. it is not life or death. they may not get out. thank you all for coming in and i'll do the briefing now. thank you. [reporters shouting] >> john: president biden talking about the pending winter storm. he is about to get a briefing on, the storm that will continue to wind up as we get into the weekend. expect it to turn into a bomb cyclone over the weekend as it heads further east and then on up into the northeast. we see bone chilling temperatures across the plains states now moving into the upper

midwest and midwest. we'll keep a close eye on this. the president said go to weather.com. we would prefer if you went to fox weather.com. the university of idaho ramping up security on campus following the murders of four students a month ago. five weeks since the grisly killings and no suspect in the case. dan springer live in moscow, idaho. do they even have a clue at this point? >> well, they say they do, john. i've talked to a long-time retired detective who worked hundreds of homicides in a big city. he told me a month ago if the case is still unsolved at christmastime, just a few days away, it is a cold case. now, the police chief here in moscow, idaho, disputes that saying they still get tips and leads in every day and have had no reduction in the number of cops working this case. certainly those tips and leads to this point have not panned

out. we know their best lead, we think their best lead to this point is the white hyundai he -- we do know there was a small team of detectives at the murder scene on tuesday, that house just off campus. they spent ten minutes in maddy's room where she and kaylee were murdered but police are not sharing why they were there. they have been tight lipped throughout the case and led to some criticism from the goncalves family. >> we are utilizing the resources of the f.b.i. and state police but we pick the investigators. my command team oversees this. we have 94 years of experience between us. and we are going to continue to work this case. we are going to continue to work

it to the completion. >> university of idaho spokesperson tells me she is encouraged to see there has been no huge drop-off in enrollment for spring term that starts in january. there will be more security on campus, of course. and just a quick weather update, john. this is a big story across the country. here in moscow, idaho, the temperature is minus 11 degrees with a windchill of minus 28. so it is cold here in the state of idaho, john. >> john: you have a red nose there, dan but still able to talk which is a good thing. stay warm. dan springer for us. thank you. >> julie: so got all your holiday shopping done yet? there is a new report that finds americans are actually spending less on presents this year and the gift giving trend has been declining steadily since the year 2000, in fact. dave ramsey is a best selling author and personal finance and retirement expert and host of

the ramsey show. we have gone throw a pandemic and rising interest rates. is there a primary reason for americans spending less this year? what does it mean for the economy? >> well, i think there are a lot of doom and gloom out there and negative statistics. when you walk to the gas pump you still have a heart attack. when you go to the grocery stores. you have the signals if you are a consumer telling you we're in a rough patch right now. when you are doing that smart people pull back and are wise and more careful. we're seeing some of that. yet we did have record black friday and record cyber monday. there are all the mixed signals coming out of retail right now. consumer is healthy. they are out there spending but we're off a little. >> julie: cyber monday and black friday is when i did all my shopping. a panic before the sales expire

at midnight. bloomberg wrote an article titled spending less on gifts this year, congratulations. it reads this. in 1999 americans said they planned to spend $1300 converting to $2,020, by the way, on holiday gift giving. in 2020 that amount was $8 hundred. the numbers are based on gallup data. what does it say to you? >> well, the numbers we're seeing with gallup and others as well is pretty well been above $1 thousand a year per family for a long, long time. so 2020 was definitely an anomaly in so many ways out there. people didn't want to go shopping still. all kinds of other issues going on in the marketplace with the surviving the quarantine and all those kinds of things. setting 2020 aside i think we'll be well above $1 thousand per family again. we've seen a little drop-off in

total retail spending but 2021 was a bit of a frenzy as well. this is not a bad thing. the interesting thing is that generosity is way up across the board for americans since the pandemic. so something about the pandemic and seeing our mortality in the mirror, the chance we are going to die woke us up and said we need to be kind and good to others. >> julie: that was a positive to that all. i would like to see that more often. dave ramsey, thank you very much and merry christmas to you. >> merry christmas, thanks for having me. >> john: americans facing a 1-2 winter punch this holiday week. consumers already haft by high heating prices and now fear of losing powers and freezing pipes. a reflection on the meaning of christmas from cardinal timothy dolan just ahead.

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state in that 24 to 36-hour period right before christmas. that is why they tell us they had to actually cancel vacations for their employees and bring in additional outside linemen and staff. but all of the obstacles we're seeing across the u.s. with this bad weather widespread has created a perfect storm. >> when you have a big event like this that affects a large area the crews are at a premium. they're hard to get when you have big events. given this is the holiday weekend, it made it even harder. >> even with those difficulties ever source says they were able to bring in additional crews to help get out help right away. it's important. following the storm we expect a surge of arctic air. if power is out and heat is off is a big concern. it is impacting holiday travel also. more americans will take to the road as a result of issues with air travel. we are talking a lot of americans, 113 million are

expected to travel from now through the end of the year. with those on the road wind and rain will be a big issue as well. people need to be safe. >> julie: thank you, madison. >> john: christmas just three days away now. significance of the holiday and why we celebrate it can sometimes get lost in all the noise. cardinal timothy dolan reflects on the meaning of christmas. >> we celebrate christmas because this time of year the ancient peoples were scared to death saying there is more and more darkness, it is getting chillier and can we count on the sun or have we had it? the sun began to rise, giving people hope. that's why the great old testament prophets would say the people that walked in darkness have seen a great night. a lot of darkness. we don't have to just look out there at the world, at our nation and city. we also look within and we all kind of say hey, i got darkness

within. some people can say we shouldn't dwell on that because that will dampen the christmas spirit. i say no, tag those things because what you are really doing is admitting that there is all this darkness and i alone can't take care of it. i alone am tempted to give up and get hopeless. once we admit i need help, that is sort of a way of saying i need a savior, i need rescuing. that is what christmas is all about. god sent us a savior. we admit we need one. the more we admit the darkness, the more we admit we need the light and it gives us hope at christmas. >> john: jesus was said to bring light into a troubled world. the cardinal says it's okay as well to have a couple of eggnogs to help celebrate. >> julie: anything in it or straight up? >> john: he is irish, what do you think?

>> julie: i'm thankful to be here with you, john. we're always thankful to be on fox and thankful to those at home. i'm glad we talk about jesus christ at christmas. do you have elves? >> john: we have an evil on the shelf, too. have a merry christmas. >> julie: molly lines in for harris. >> we begin with a fox weather alert. dangerous weather stretching from coast to coast. a bomb cyclone and arctic blast combo bringing deadly temperatures and putting hundreds of millions at risk this holiday weekend. this is "the faulkner focus." i'm molly line in for harris today. the national weather service is calling it a once in a generation storm. the potentially deadly front affecting nearly every single pers