>> the woman is an embarrassment. this guy did not budge. walter krapf the owner of the pictures were so moved by how he took on the internet that he invited them to gillette stadium for saturday's game, andnd h >> ashley: roads are crippled the northwest and bringing life-threatening freezing temperatures. you are watching "fox and friends first"s, i'm ashley strohmier. >> griff: and i'm griff jenkins, thousands of flights have been cancelled today, we have live

team coverage today. adam klotz is in the studio tracking the storm and bringing the christmas forecast. let's start with jackie ibanez reporting on the devastating conditions. >> multiple families will be spending the holiday without loved ones, five people from oklahoma have died, including a 16-year-old boy. the storm is impacting nearly every state in the lower 48, mother nature unleashing fury during the busiest time of the year, leaving many with nowhere to sleep, except the floor of the airport terminal. >> im00 not optimistic, if it was a cancelled flight, it is not good. >> i got to go back down here, rebook or refund. >> we were anticipating the flight was going to get cancelled and rebooked on southwest and rebooked twice on

united this afternoon. >> i contemplated driving in case flights got cancelled. >> 12,000 flight delays and cancellations for millions, six states are sounding the alarm calling for a state of emergency. accumulating heavy snowfall and temperatures plunging below zero degrees. wind gust enough to topple power lines. president biden is urging everyone to take the storm with extreme caution. >> ashley: meteorologist adam klotz is tracking the storm in new york city. this is dangerous for a lot of people. >> a lot of people is the key here, it is covering a massive stretch of the country,

particularly cold weather and the wind. seeing frigid temperatures this morning. everything in the blue or pink or purple is wind temperature below freezing. the feels-like temperature, that is when you get feels-like and getting into texas, negative 2, negative 5, negative 16 and big pink color covering the upper midwest, negative 30 to 40 today. frigid. these are temperature changes, chicago is 41 degrees colder than it was yesterday morning and 35 degrees cooler in louisville. massive plunge is taking over the country. this system has been heavy rain up and undo the east coast and pouring in new york city. downpours coming down as we speak. back toward the west is winter weather we continue to track, everything in the orange is blizzard warning, winds are up

to 60 to 70 miles per hour. stretching to the appalachian mountains. it is lifting up into canada, the cold air is not going anywhere, wind chill alert from texas to the canadian border to florida, mass winter system. moving here next couple hours issue not a lot of changes, folks will wake up to temperatures in feels-like to negative 30 to negative 40 from the center of the country, negative 25 in st. louis. >> griff: texas is frozen. unbelievable. dallas, negative 4, all right. thanks. >> ashley: president biden refusing to acknowledge the

border crisis in public, but a new book reveals he is fuming behind closed doors. >> griff: migrant encounters hitting 575,000, 177,000 were expelled under title 42, 397,000 have been released into the country. doug luzader has more. hi, doug. >> doug: the president spoke at the white house yesterday and was not interested in taking questions about the crisis along the southern border. >> president biden: thank you. >> mr. president, do you -- border -- >> okay, he's been doing quite a bit of talking behind the scenes, daily mail reports "fight of his life" details the president's anger over the border crisis. in 2001, here is an excerpt,

meanwhile illegal immigrants kepts arrivin and biden was furious. you could hear the president cursing and dropping f-bombs, he would always apologize when women were present. texas is mobilizing the national guard to help deal with the influx. >> texas is building our own border wall and going after the cartel, i've declareder it rift organizations and national guard is repelling people trying to enter illegally. in el paso, massive fencing going up to prevent people from entering illegally. >> doug: arizona, the biden administration has long opposed the wall, claiming the state was trespassing on federal land and it will be taken down in coming

days. back to you, guys. >> griff: thank you, doug. turning to the fentanyl crisis, astonishing numbers released from the border in arizona, border patrol discovering 1 million fentanyl pills in just the last two days. yesterday 736,000 fentanyl pills and 196,000 pounds of meth were found hidden. customs officials uncovering 3000 fentanyl pills hidden in two smuggler vehicles. gabbard says washington is failing america. we have democrats and republicans in congress who are failing at their most basic and foremost responsibility, to ensure safety, security and freedom of the american people and that starts with securing the border. we don't have a country if we

don't have a secure border. you talked about the 1.7 trillion funding bill the house will likely pass soon, there is 1.5 billion that has been set aside for custom and border protection and security, the language also says they are not allowed to use that money to secure the border. >> ashley: stunning e-mails reveal employees at tiktok parent company accessed sensitive and private data from american users, including journalists. >> griff: brooke singman has the details, good morning, brooke. >> brooke: internal employee e-mails reveal emmroi ployees were accessing private tiktok accounts. buzzfeed and financial times are among those impacted. forbes writing, tiktok employees

tracked multiple journalists andin gained access to their data in attempt to identify if they had been in the same location as dance employees. if employees accessed the private information. the company telling fox news digital, bite dance condemns this investigation that seriously violated the company's code of conduct and have taken disciplinary measure and none of the individuals found to have directly participated remain employed at bite dance. u.s. officials warn the tiktok app is data miner for the communist party. christopher wray has been sounding the alarm saying the chinese government could use tiktok to control data collection on millions of users

or control the recommendation algorithm he says could be used for influence operations. tiktok is scrambling to regain trust and convince the u.s. government to allow it to remain under chinese ownership. it will allow american data to be stored on u.s. servers instead of chinese servers. >> ashley: thank you, auburn university becoming latest college to block tiktok from its wifi network and university-issued devices. students can access the app on their personal phones. alabama governor join the growing list of states that banned tiktok on government-owned devices or looking to restrict the app due to security concern. fbi confirming it is paying other social media companies in addition to the payment made to twitter in exchange for the

companies complying with its request. we are not able to speak to specific payments, the government is required to provide reimbursement for reasonable expenses related to searching for, reproducing or providing information responsive to the legal process. >> griff: jonathan gilliam joins us now. jonathan, what is your reaction to this story? >> i wish i had that sound bite that brooke just read, the quote from christopher wray. what he said tiktok is doing and what is possible, the threat they have, is exactly what the fbi was doing to the american people through twitter. so i think it is interesting, when you look at this and you look at how criminals typically act when they're questioned about this or evidence is brought forward, it is exactly like the fbi is acting now.

when we look at the twitter files and listen to what the fbi statement was, these things don't add up and we see a thing called minimization, which subjectses and crimes do when you question them, minimize their involvement and that is what is happening with the fbi. there is evidence now they have done this and the exact same thing is being done on all these other social media platforms and the talking points fbi uses is same talking points you hear from the democratic party. >> ashley: why can't they speak to specific payment and reimbursement? these are taxpayer dollars, is what they are doing legal and ethical? it is usually targeting conservative voices. >> it is illegal. and i'll put it this way, whenever the fbi or anybody in

the federal government builds a relationship with a private entity and utilizes them to carry out an action, that private entity has become an agent of the u.s. government. what is intriguing about this and damming to the fbi, executives from the fbi and are hadding now the cia, as well, left agencies and went to twitter and other social meed yoo companies and were working directly with the fbi to do these types of oppressive censorship actions. they sent their own people to social meed yoo companies to become their sources and carry out their actions and what their actions were is oppressing free speech. it is very important for people, people have to realize that the terms and services or the

community standards social media companies have are not law and no reason the fbi should point this out to social meed yoo companies. >> you hit the nail on the head jonathan, talking about ep ras, "new york post" revealed many exintelligence officers found jobs at so media companies. some are working for meta and in twitter files saga, we learned about jim baker's role, chief counsel goes to chief counsel for twitter and plays a role in content moderation, how ripe is this problem and will that be born out of congressional hearings come next year? >> it is very ripe. i know people who have had their accounts taken down, from a direct message they sent someone

on facebook, not a post they made. add that to the equation is look and disrupt terrorism used by former general mccrystal, it causes me real concern. we have jim jordan and mccarthy going out saying they are going after hunter biden or the fbi, it makes me pause because of the level of involvement. we never see executives in the federal government get taken down by anything that congress does. >> ashley: right. you wonder where the transparency lies. hunter biden is adding a lawyer to his team who specializes in

celebrity figures. thisern tawas chief minority counsel for bill clinton in the impeachment trials in the mid-'90'ses. knowing who he is, ahead of james comer taking over and promising investigations into his business dealings, what does that signify to you? >> it signifies this is a political case inside the beltway and the framers of our nation and constitution wanted for us to have a fair trial judged by our peers and for justice to have the ability to go and actually convict those who are guilty. in the beltway, primarily, if you're conservative, you are not going to get a good trial and if you're liberal or lean liberal or there is something with democratic party involved like we saw in the durham

investigation, the jury and court system will lean to the left. what this signifies with this power hitter from washington, d.c., they are really going to work this type of an angle in keeping it inside the beltway. i don't think justice gets a fair trial inside the beltway. >> griff: he is who bob menendez and john edwards called at the height of their crisis, some on the left says there is nothing to see here with regard to hunter biden. do you believe this hire signifies that hunter biden is facing real criminal charges? >> well, even if he is and if it was you or i, griff, we would be facing real criminal charges on what he's done. because it is hunter biden and involves the president, these charges and this case will be again, that word i used earlier,

minimized and what will happen, it doesn't matter, if they have a speedy trial and he gets convicted, he will get pardoned by his dad. when republicans do anything with democrats, there is a give in order to get anything. it is pay to play whenever the bidens are involved and doesn't matter china or ukraine, theylet not get what they want unless they give certain things. i don't see anything coming out of this. >> ashley: new body cam video from the moscow, idaho police department show officers responding to a noise complaint and spoke to madison mogen back in november. >> here is the deal, they said no one -- none of the occupantses that live at this address are here now. we want that music turned down

and don't want to come back again tonight. >> i'm sorry, once again. >> ashley: does this change the investigation or the way you look at this at all? >> i think they knew this house was a party house, this shows the level of people that were in and out of that house unchecked. what this tells me, it is very important for investigators to try to build using cell towers and eyewitness accounts to build understanding of what that community around the house was like, who may have visited the house in the past and what it is like now. as they develop this understanding and that video is very telling, they're going to start to understand how broad this could be when looking at suspects. maybe not just looking at one particular person, they could broaden that scope.

this is just another piece in the investigation process and it is important for us to remember that an investigation, you only want it to go as fast as evidence comes in, you don't want police making assumptions. >> ashley: thank you for getting up with us, we appreciate it. >> you got it, merry christmas. >> ashley: group of smash and grab robbers caught on camera, clearing out jewelry cases in a mall and a couple other upon ises didn't get far thanks to some proud mama -- marines. >> get him, homey, simpa fi, salute. that's right, put it down for america. >> ashley: the robbery unfolding near a marine corps recruiting office located in the mall.

with help of bystanders they held the suspects down. a patriots fan goes viral after he is harassed and mocked when his team lost in embarrassing fashion. [video playing] [cheering] >> ashley: patriots owner robert kraft saw the video and has a christmas surprise for the fan. >> griff: new research shows the number of religious americans is on the decline. we're talking to pastor robert jeffers next, he's up this early. ♪ a must in your medicine cabinet! less sick days! cold coming on? zicam is the number one cold shortening brand! highly recommend it!

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this morning. just two days out for christmas and new data shows fewer americans are going to church this year. research shows church going and believing in god stand at historic lows, finding one fifth of americans do not identify with one religion. joining us now is fox news contributor robert jeffress, thank you for getting up with us, pastor. why is this happening? why are people not identifying with religion and people going to in-person church these days? >> i think this is another unfortunate byproduct of the pandemic and it is having a serious effect on serious and emotional health. i saw the story you were talking about on drudge and under it a story that says new study suggests loneliness, depression

and anxiety are at an all-time high. i don't think that is a coincidence, god created the church for our benefit. he knew there needs to be a time we come together, remind each other that god loves us and has a plan he's working out for our lives. the new testament says encourage one another. we need that encouragement that comes from worshipping together regularly. >> ashley: we are on the heels of christmas eve and christmas on sunday, what message do you have for the country ahead of this christmas weekend? >> i did a fox op ed about how christ coming blessed everyone, believers and unbelievers alike. great works of art like the sistinechapel and founding of red cross come about from this

baby who was born 2000 years ago. greatest thing christmas means is god loves us and offers to forgive us. jesus said that god so loved the world that he gave his only son and whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life, that is the message for all people. >> ashley: do you think this time of year celebrating christmas is a time people can find their faith if they have lost it? >> well, yes, absolutely, you know if christmas means anything, itten moos god loves us. the new testament says if god is for us, who can be against us? maybe you got out of the habit of going to church, go to church this sunday. some churches are closed on

sunday, to me this is like a fireworks stand being closed on the 4th of july. critical race theory it would be nice christmas service. we appreciate it, pastor. >> merry christmas to you, thank you, ashley. >> ashley: uh-huh. >> griff: did you see this? las vegas raiders fan seen verbally abusing a patriots fan on sunday night. the woman was hounding the man and someone pulls her away, this video is going viral. the pats tweeted, that was my first nfl game, i didn't want to ruin it by retaliating and i kept my cool. patriots ceo robert kraft is inviting the fan to saturday's game against the bengals and

giving him a customized jersey and bringing him to the field to watch warm-ups. >> ashley: what is wrong with that woman? i will never understand people getting that worked up over a game like that. that guy trying to enjoy his game. >> griff: for a wild ending, never seen the likes of that event. the senate passing the $1.7 trillion agenda and includes a left-wing group that wants toject transgender history into elementary schools. >> ashley: jack brewer has made it his mission to help underprivileged kid and is making it his mission next.

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>> ashley: ftx founder sam bankman-fried set to spend the holidays at his parents california estate after being released and arraigned yesterday after being extradited from the bahamas. he will be living at his parent's home as he awaits trial and bankman-fried is required to wear an ankle monitor. this led to his firm's 32 billion dollar collapse. shortly after ftx came crashing down, bankman-fried said he only had $100,000 in his bank account. how did he pay his bond? >> the whole thing is a smoke screen, why did they do it? to make the prosecutors look good, they are if he flees,

nobody is putting up money and story of smoke screens from altruism now to the prosecutor like fbs pretending they are a character of themselves playing their own role and prosecutors puffing their chest at optical illusion. >> ashley: next court appearance is january 3rd. >> griff: the market is tanking over run away spending in washington, the dow, s&p and nasdaq all down. a bill is up for a vote today in the democrat-led house. most republicans are criticizing the package because it fails to

address issues like securing the southern border. and another part of the omnibus bill includes funding for a trans latina group that wants to dismantle the criminal justice system. >> ashley: open border for trans individuals and taxpayer fund for gender transition surgery. former n.f.l. player jack brewer joins us live. is this where taxpayer dollars need to be going and is this something elementary kids need to be learning? >> not at all, morality is broken down, instead of teaching 10 commandments and righ

righteousness, they are creating a bill like this, folks that call themselves christians. they all bare the responsibility and salvation is at hand and as we go into christmas, we have to be mindful of that. >> griff: jack, one specific area that this group wants is to open the border to transgenders, we're going the wrong direction with border that is literally wide open. >> jack: they call this woke and let people come across the border and you are going to get a free pass because you claim to be transgender, we've seen it across the board, in sports, men competing against women and our communities are not safe. this is happening realtime for real people in eshg m. i pray this wakes everybody up, now you're getting a vow of

respect in america because you claim to be transgender, you claim to be confused about how god created you. that is wrong. people have to say enough is enough. we can't keep appeasing this type of lawless spiritualist behavior that is going on in our nation. >> ashley: now to this, switching gears. detroit school board vote to drop ben carson's name due to his work under the trump administration. take a listen to dr. carson's response. >> we are seeing wokeness spreading through the destruction of our communities, how does it do any good to demonize people with whom we disagree and teach our children at time when the math scores are down, reading scores are down, academic performance is down. >> ashley: considering all of this man's accomplishments, it

is sad to see this is where our country is going, just being part of the trump administration was grounds for removal. >> jack: it is heartbreaking. as a black man in eamerica, i remember looking up to dr. carson, martin luther king, this man is one of the greatest neurosurgeons we've ever had, and for him to be done like this is just wrong. they will riot in the street and loot and go out, scream and shout over a black man that is harassed in society that speaks woke words, but a man that dedicated his life to being right and be an example black boys around the country should look up to. 77% of households have kids born out of wedlock and families

broken. i've been there and doing that, guy like ben carson is a christian man that is righteous, this is who black kids need to look up to. democrats stop it, this is nonsense that you are putting on now. >> griff: before we let you go, i want your christmas message, only two days away. >> jack: christmas is salvation and christ came and we are celebrating our savior being born. let's remember that, our society, jesused in you can loo, remember lot's wife, lot's wife looked back to a society like we built, promoting homo sexuality, sexual pleasure going on everywhere in the esh >>. we got to get back to the spirit. god bless this nation, we got to get back to righteousness, christ didn't come to bring

piece, that sword is a dividing factor. i don't care what feels good, we cannot determine what sin is, christ determines what sin is. he's given us the warning and let's wrap our arms around our family and start teaching them what salvation means so they can pursue eternal life. if it doesn't lead eternal life, it is not about christ. >> ashley: thank you for getting up with us. you are not going to believe this video, a woman pushed head first into the path of an oncoming train. she's okay and wait until you hear what she is saying about her attacker. >> griff: wow, plus, are the marines going woke? new study encouraging them to drop words like sir and ma'am. a veteran is here and we'll get his reaction afterward. ♪

>> ashley: a shocking unprovoked attack unfolds on a subway platform. this footage is graphic, just a

warning. it shows a man kicking a woman to the train tracks moments before a train speeds into the station. the victim flips head first, she is able to get up and run to safety. the suspect is charged with attempted murder and being held without bail. >> griff: new york state lawmakers are giving themselves early christmas present voting to boost yearly salary up to $142,000 per year, $32,000 raise comes despite the state's crime surge and rising cost. new york congressman-election nick laloda joins us now. merry christmas. what do you make of the new york city legislature gives themselves a raise, highest paid in the country? >> things are upside down and we

had a successful election day as republican candidates, contrasted ourselves nicely between our priorities and what is going on in the state and state lawmakers voting themselves a pay raise making themselves the highest paid state politicians in the country is the wrong thing to do at the wrong time. >> griff: correct me if i'm wrong, if you do a good job, you get a raise, what specifically has this legislature done to deserve the raise? >> i'm not sure what they are ready to brag about these days, surging crime and highest taxes in the nation, least freedom in the nation, not sure what is on the sheet to validate making themselves highest paid politicians in state government and part-time legislature in session between january and june, but when they come to the capitol in december to give

themselves a pay raise. >> griff: thank you for your service and we want your reaction to this story, a texas judge blocking army from discharging 10 soldiers for not cooperating with the military's vaccine mandate, we can show viewers the army approved 119 mandate exemptions compared toto 1800 it rejected. your reaction, sir? >> i thought the president said covid was over and we could move oshg not sure why we're mandating the fox to take this vaccine, they are some of the most healthy folks we have in this country and they don't need the vaccine if they don't want it and shouldn't be thrown out of our military. >> griff: will it make it harder to get good men and women?

>> right now recruit be numbers are down 25% off of what we need to have as a nation. the man tory covid vaccine is one reason that explains that. the wokeness is the other. if we get these policies right, i think we'll see recruiting numbers improve. >> griff: you set me up for this story with the woke part, maen radios are being encouraged to stop using titles such as sir or ma'am. nick, i spent a lot of times around m the marines issue not sure this will sit proud with the marines. >> i'm 11-year navy man and my brother spent 20 years in the marine as a sniper, i don't think this will sit well with him. we and others know the united states of america is the greatest because america has strongest and most lethal

military, each time a woke policy gets considered or god forbid, implemented, adversaries laugh at us. china is laughing at us right now, our fighting men and women should spending time and money on making the military more capable. >> griff: are you saying that this woke stuff could hurt us militarily in future conflict? >> no doubts, generations of americans made this the most lethal fighting force because it is a place rich in tradition and self-sacrifice. we are weakening our military and our recruiting numbers are down, lethality is down and our adversaries are laughing at us. >> griff: thank you for taking time, merry christmas. all right.

no matter where you live, you are waking up to nasty weather and the christmas week blizzard is shutting down roads and grounding flights, we'll tell you what you need to know before heading home for the holidays. >> mike huckabee, joe concha are here to make you feel merry and bright on this friday morning. don't go anywhere. ♪

>> griff: fox weather alert. five people are dead as a once in a generation storm across the midwest, bringing life-threatening freezing temperatures. you are watching "fox and friends first"s, i'm griff jenkins. >> ashley: i'm ashley strohmier, in for carley shimkus. thousands flights have