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the race for president. >> john: welcome back as "america reports" rolls into a second hour. good to be with you. >> aishah: good to be with you, too. karl rove joining us later this hour with his political advice for both parties heading into the new year, and vivek also coming up in a couple moments here. he's fired up on a new recommendation that marines drop the sir, the ma'am. is our military taking wokeness too far? begin with a fox weather alert. >> john: desperate and disappointed, travelers are feeling as the once in a generation storm puts a damper on thousands of flights across america. >> the dangerous blizzard has intensified into a bomb cyclone as it takes aim at the great lakes and parts of the northeast. erie, pennsylvania and cleveland, ohio, taking the brunt of the heavy snow this hour. >> john: meanwhile, rain and gusty winds knocking out power

to more than 80,000 people in connecticut. new england residents bracing for freezing temperatures this evening. temperatures will drop fast. max gordon live on the ground in buffalo, some residents are under mandatory evacuation. rick has the latest forecast from the fox weather center. >> mike tobin is live at chicago's o'hare international airport. mike, how are people holding up there? >> well, they are holding up, i'll tell you. the pacific northwest, the people have it hard in terms of freezing rain that came down and iced over all three runways at seatac airport, it shut down entirely. we have one of the runways open, but alaska air, headquartered out of seattle has shut down until noon, all the flights out of seattle and the portland area. unfortunately the number of

cancellations keeps going up. as we look at american airlines, 323 cancellations, delta, 254. southwest airlines, 889. united, 253. across the nation in terms of domestic flights that have been canceled, now up to 4,403. people are stuck all over the country just trying to get home with no good options. >> we were scheduled to leave about 7:50 this morning, we got a text saying they rescheduled us to austin at 12:00 today with a layover. >> trying to figure out what's going on. >> we were originally meant to fly to toronto from london, england last night, and our flight was canceled. >> my flight was canceled, waited in a line three hours, got rescheduled and optimistic, hoping to get to phoenix and see the family. >> as you look at the misery map from flightaware.com, you saw

denver and the twin cities were taking the bulk of the misery but now it's spread across the nation. all of the major airports and carriers have been impacted. in terms of what the system did, it did not produce that much snow. the roads are not that bad but it is cold, cold, cold. we started off the day showing negative 7 here in chicago, now it's a balmy negative 5, wind chill minus 30. >> aishah: the heat is on, thanks for the report. >> john: officials are warning residents that they should shelter-in-place, that's how cold it's going to be. fox weather max gordon live in hamburg, new york outside of buffalo, where he did not heed the warnings to stay inside. we were talking to you an hour ago, max, looked bad then, even worse now. >> conditions are deteriorating here in hamburg, the shores of a

very angry lake erie, the waves crashing along the parking lot behind me and pieces of the parking lot are coming loose. you might be able to see pieces of asphalt, debris washing ashore. waves, between 14 and 18 feet tall are expected today along the eastern shores of lake erie. also talking about quite a bit of snow here in the buffalo area, more than three feet of snow expected and the winds are howling. gusts of 72 miles per hour was recorded at buffalo's airport. and the wind combined with the snow is creating whiteout conditions. buffalo airport reporting 0 visibility at one point today, and out there on the roads, it is treacherous. it's slippery, the visibility is bad, and for that reason the city of buffalo has banned all road travel today, they say stay off the roads, it's too dangerous, and looking at conditions right now, you can really see why they issued the

warning. >> john: i'm thinking the asphalt is not the only thing that has come loose, might be a few screws, too. [laughter] hope you weather the storm. thanks, max. asia. >> aishah: i don't know how he's standing there. >> john: nuts, what's he doing there? >> aishah: where is this historic storm going next? rick is tracking it from the fox weather center. >> you made max go there, you said go outside, tell us what it feels like. >> aishah: you are not supposed to tell everybody are this. >> 84 in boca, minus 24 in wolf point, montana. cold air outside the studio where it was rain, it is now snow. anything that was wet is going to become ice. anything wet before the cold air gets here will be ice, a layer

over everything. the roads, sidewalks, be careful. treacherous all weekend long, ice will remain. we are not going to warm up over the weekend. what it feels like across the northern plains, minus 30 in bismarck, north dakota, better than you were yesterday at this time. freeze warnings hard freeze warnings down to south texas, the northern half of florida, freeze watches in towards lake okeechobee, so the cold air settled in dramatically. the south. mobile, alabama tomorrow, 20°, 25 in jacksonville, 9 in atlanta. sunday morning, 30 in tampa, christmas morning, really cold. if you are on the roads, be really careful. this is the satellite and radar picture. most of the rain now across much of new england, zoom in closer, you can see the front is beginning to move through. now at 35° in new york city with

the snow and rochester 13, and buffalo, single digits, probably 3 to 4 feet of snow piling up behind this. watch what happens here, 6:00 tonight. 17 in new york, 11 in baltimore. and tomorrow, low double digits. at least for the coastal areas, we stay that way through monday. so, a really cold christmas eve, christmas day for so many people. hopefully you are home and check in on those around you. people will probably need some help with this one. >> aishah: no reason to go outside. we'll bring max back inside. for continuing coverage, fox weather by downloading the app for free at foxweather.com. >> john: a fox news alert, the omnibus 1.7 trillion spending bill has now passed the house, passed by 225-201. so at some point in the next few

days it will go to the president's desk for his signature. one democrat voted no, ten republicans voted yes. so, they'll be in the cross hairs for kevin mccarthy in the new year. nancy mace tweeted out, we know it's christmas would you really let your friend run up the bar tab and leave you with the bill? she voted against. they scrambled to get it done, and before the government ran out of money. but the government runs out of money at 11:59:59. this bill will not be on the president's desk in order to make the deadline. in order to keep the government running had to pass a continuing resolution. >> aishah: the reason a lot of republican senators use and some moderates, to push it through, they don't want the government to shut down and they don't want the continued resolution to be passed. but it happened anyway. it's just -- it's just part of the process, unfortunately, a lot of critics very, very upset

about this, and we'll be talking to them in the coming days. >> john: i'm with neil, i remember a time oh so long ago they used to pass all the individual spending bills. >> aishah: did you see him print the thing out? it's 4,000 pages. >> john: 4100. but they used to pass all the bills, they used to pass them separately and debate them and make changes. they don't do that anymore. effect a continuing resolution or omnibus bill. that's what it's down to. why kimberly strasel had some choice things to say about the process. alarming number of students shying out from speaking out on controversial topics at college. a survey finds a whopping 63% of students say speaking their minds could result in damaging their reputation. vivek, asset management --

sorry, strive asset manager founder, and the death of merit and the path back to excellence. so this fire, foundation for individual rights and expression, on analyzed speech codes and found nearly 88% of the schools restrict free expression. that's a percentage i think a lot of people would find surprising. >> i think it's problematic. i would say the best measure of the health of a democratic society is the percentage of people who feel free to say what they actually think in public. and i think we are doing abysmally. but talking about kids or college students, fairly old enough to be past being kids, not only affecting what they say in public, it affects the way they are able to think independently. that's what education was supposed to be about, a space in the university setting to be able to exchange your ideas freely, to figure out what you even actually believe by having

those ideas tested. universities don't serve that space any more. and i'm worried about a generation of what happens when you get adults that graduate from educational settings where they were not allowed to not only speak freely but even think freely for the next generation of americans. >> john: college is supposed to be about developing critical thinking, look at the world around you and develop your own thoughts about it and analyze all of the different issues. but if you are self-censoring while you are doing that, your world view is going to be limited. >> even my alma mater, like harvard and yale, different institutions at the time when i was a student back then. even in the course of the decade they have changed and i worry about what it means for the future. if you tell a group of people they cannot speak, eventually it shows up in other ways, that's when they scream and if you tell them they cannot scream, eventually that is when they start to tear things down. that's why i think a culture of free speech in this country

starting with in the next generation, it's not just the pursuit of truth, or precondition for freedom, it's a precondition for peace over the long run in a diverse democracy like ours. that's why we need to go back to awakening that, starting in education, in primary education and even in our university culture as well. >> john: laura bells believes it will have a detrimental effect, colleges have nothing to gain and everything to lose by maintaining policies that stop free express. they are vulnerable to litigation and attacks in the court of public opinion. some of the educational institutions are appearing to at least large segment of the population to be so woke and so focused on the wrong things they are not considering sending their children there. >> that's right. and the mission of an educational institution is to educate the next generation and i think that even institutions

that say truth or the pursuit of truth was the heart of the institution, if you are the leader of the university, ask yourself what is the purpose of your institution. is it to advance social justice or political vision or actually educate young people to think independently, and if it's the latter, we need a 180 turn in the university culture in most college campuses, and i hope there are new universities to pop up or else it's not going to happen. >> john: always great to get your take on things. appreciate you coming in. >> aishah: north korean dictator kim jong-un may be helping output put. nate foy is tracking this development. >> john: as we mentioned, house lawmakers just passed the massive 1.7 trillion spending

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>> guess who wrote it? well, two retiring senators who faced no accountability from the voters again. and there's no greater example of a nail in the coffin of the greatest failure of a one party rule of the house, the senate, and the presidency of this bill here. you controlled it all. >> john: kevin mccarthy sounding off on the massive 1.7 trillion spending bill. the house just passed the measure a lot of republican lawmakers even though some of them voted for it are slamming the process. chad pergram live on capitol

hill. chad, what does it look like from where you are? >> john, this averts an overnight shut down. aoc was the only democratic no. democrats say the senate forced the house to mash all the spending bills together into one package. >> the united states senate has become enamored with doing an omnibus at the last second. ought to be a disappointment for every member of this body and every american. >> about 55% of the 1.7 trillion bill goes to the military. the pentagon received a big jump in spending. 18 gop senators voted yes yesterday, mainly because they like the military money. kevin mccarthy is using the bill as a campaign tool in his race

for speaker. >> this is a monstrocity, one of the most shameful acts i've ever seen in this body. there's no greater example of the nail in the coffin of the greatest failure of a one-party rule of the house, the senate, and the presidency. >> after listening to that it's clear he does not have the votes yet. >> 230 members have filed letters to vote by proxy. the old record was 150 proxies. members are only supposed to vote by proxy if they are sick with covid. the system is rife with abuse. >> the american people deserve us to be here over christmas, actually fighting for them, instead of trying to catch planes while half this body are going to vote by proxy. half this body is not even going to be here. and they are lying, they are lying on forms saying that they are voting by proxy for covid. >> republicans say they will eliminate proxy voting when they

take control of the house in january. rashida tlaib voted by proxy, she voted present, even though she was absent. john. >> john: one other point, the point was made there that mccarthy is talking like that because he doesn't have the votes. come january 3rd, do you think he'll have the votes? >> it depends on how many members vote for him by name inside the house chamber. it's not about the math, it's about the algebra. you don't know the magic number until you get to that vote. and so far, based on the metrics and what we know, the make-up of the house of representatives, he's about five votes short. >> john: we'll keep watching that. chad pergram, thank you. >> aishah: proxy voting is something else, too, worth looking into. critics say the race against the clock to pass the bill is

another sign that congress is broken. let's bring in a manhattan institute senior fellow, former chief economist to senator rob portman, and former staff director on the finance sub committee, and thank you for joining us on this eve before christmas eve. you always remembered your old boss, senator portman vote no on the packages, it's so hard to know what's actually in them and that is definitely the case this time around. but your old boss voted why he this time. why do you think he did that? >> i think, you know, i don't want to critique senator portman's vote, i don't know his reasons for voting yes, but i will say that this, congress as a whole continues to earn its 22% approval rating. 35-bill pile-up. lawmakers wanted to get out of town for christmas so stapled together 35 different bills at

4,000 pages and it's going to cost $2 trillion. they are expanding discretionary spending 9% for the second straight year. which is going to go on to the baseline and cost $2 trillion over the decade. it goes on. they also, in this bill, waived $260 billion in automatic spending cuts that were supposed to enforce the democrats pay as you go promises to pay for their new spending. they made the promise they are going to pay for the new spending and waived all the automatic spending cuts and republicans went along with it. >> aishah: brian, let me ask you this. why do they do it last minute? the whole country is watching this, sitting at home, stuck in the storm, and why does congress wait so long to get this together, because it was not always like this, right? i mean, before you would go through committees, you would go through audits, you would have debates, talk about every section of this giant spending

plan. so, why did this congress rush this through? >> this is the new practicing congress. they don't want to do it during the year because it's easier to pressure reluctant lawmakers if you wait until two days before christmas and then throw 35 different bills together, including a lot of unpopular things. 4,000 earmarks, a lot of unpopular bills, but you put them all together and then you pressure lawmakers and say if you don't vote for these bills it shuts down the government and we are stuck here on christmas. it's entirely an arm twisting maneuver. they could have passed the bills in the last 11 months, amendments, separate votes. >> aishah: brian, the arm twisting did not work, they have to pass a continuing resolution anyway, so the reason that they were hiding behind is not a reason after all. all right, brian. >> they end up having to do the

continuing resolution anyway. but it pressures them enough to pass the bill like they saw today. >> aishah: brian, thank you for joining us. merry christmas. >> john: that's the ultimate irony in all of this. nobody wanted to do a continuing resolution, oh, we have to pass the bill, consider the bill, nobody considered anyway, it's 4,000 pages long, nobody knows what's really in it. and then they pass the continuing resolution. >> aishah: you bringing up kim strasel and i was reading some of her tweets and said the gop and ds are just as bad as each other. and you will have americans think that way. you can't say we were the minority and didn't have anything to do with it, 18 votes. >> john: and bears repeating, not many of the lawmakers who voted for this monstrocity, as she put it, know what's in it. they don't know what's in it.

>> aishah: no, we were digging through and trying to tell you, the viewer, all the pork, all the different pet projects. some of them i've never even heard of in my life. so -- we are trying our best, folks. >> john: yep. and we'll keep on doing our best on this. but it takes a long time to get through that big of a book. violent protests breaking out in central paris after a deadly shooting spree. police believe the attacks were racially motivated. >> aishah: and the 2024 election around the corner here, yeah, it is, voters looking for a generational change of the guard? karl rove seems to think so. why he says "it's time for baby boomers to depart the stage." always look for the grown in idaho seal.

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christmas tourists. senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot is in the london bureau. what's the latest and the investigation? >> things are calming down right now in paris but yes, there was deadly violence, there were angry protests, not far from the major landmarks of the french capital right in the middle of this holiday season. a shooting at around a center for the kurdish community in the city left three dead and three injured, suspected gunman, 69-year-old french national, he was quickly arrested by police with injuries. they say it appeared to be targeting foreigners. he had been arrested in the past, including an attack on a migrant camp in paris. seemed to be acting on his own. it's not clear if it was specifically targeting kurds, but they claim not enough protection is being given to their members. the kurds are a high profile minority group in france, mostly

from turkey. the french president tweeted the kurds of france have been the target of a heinous attack in the heart of paris. thoughts to the victims and recognition to our law enforcement. france has been the scene of deadly terror attacks, mostly islamic extremists and also anti-foreigner. we are told the scene of the attack is locked down, cordoned off, hopefully no more problems tonight. but a protest is planned for tomorrow. back to you. >> john: quite a scene there, glad it's beginning to calm down. >> aishah: moving to the east, president zelenskyy back in ukraine promising victory after visits to the u.s. and poland. and this comes as north korea is denying that it's providing russia with weapons, but national security council spokesman john kirby says a private russian military company received infantry rockets and

missiles from north korea. nate foy is live in kyiv, ukraine. what is president zelenskyy doing on his first day back? >> aishah, he's back in kyiv and already back at work. president zelenskyy met with the foreign ambassadors in an afternoon meeting where they discussed building relationships with other countries in the new year, and creating opportunities for ukraine. as we look to the new year and more, you know, specifically, more soon, the christmas weekend coming up, president zelenskyy said they do not have the luxury of any time off. >> we have no right to a weekend, no right to rest, no right to vacation, no right to an eight-hour workday. all the rights guaranteed by the constitution of ukraine are currently on hold as representatives of the state. >> and north korea denies

supplying a russian mercenary organization with rockets and missiles. they call the accusations groundless, and criticize the united states for arming ukraine and prolonging the war. and north korea launched two ballistic missiles in yet another test, but speaking of the wagner group, they are leading efforts in an eastern city. president zelenskyy was here earlier in the week, described it as the hottest spot on the front line. russia has been pushing for the city since may, but ukrainians have held the case. not in mariupol, russia is tearing down the theater where hundreds of civilians were killed during a bombing while seeking shelter in russia's invasion, the bombing happened in march.

russia is also renaming streets and teaching a russian curriculum at the schools that remain open there. can back out here live, trams and trolleys are closed because of electricity shortages. half the residents in the kyiv region are experiencing power deficiencies. back to you. >> aishah: it looks very, very dark in kyiv. nate foy, thank you. >> john: domestic politics, new reports this week that the biden family is giving their full support if the president decides to run again in 2024. he will be nearly 82 years old on election day if he runs again. our next guest has a plea for both parties. please let a younger generation step in. karl rove, i want to point to your column in "wall street journal" on wednesday you said, ok, boomers, let go of the presidency. said the boomer.

>> yeah, so, look, you and i are both boomer, i don't think any one of us is up to the job of being president of the united states, we both know from having been around the white house it's a pretty demanding job. and president biden is thinking about, he's 80 years old, thinking about seeking re-election, he would be 82 shortly before, if he were to win his second inaugural, closer to 90 at the end of his second term. he's already struggling, who thinks he's going to get better? is he going to get mentally sharper, physically more energetic, on top of things better than he has been, or have fewer missteps in his communication, are we going to have less confusion at the end of events, stronger leadership? no, the answer is no, and the same with his potential opponent, donald trump, who is 78, would be 78 at the time of his -- at the time of the election and hoping to serve, since he can only serve one term, hoping to be, you know, he would be 82, 83 by the time he

finishes that term if he got elected. >> you are saying what we need to do, turn back the clock and look at 1960, or 1992, a good comparative time period as well, when the older guard was replaced by the new guard. >> yeah, think about it. in 1960, election in which the country said we really appreciate dwight d. eisenhower but he was born before the turn of the 20th century. the last president of the united states born in the 19th century and they ended up selecting two young men, the youngest candidates on both the democratic side and republican side won their respective party nominations, both of them in the 40s, in their 40s, both of them combat veterans, of the pacific theater in world war ii, and for 32 years thereafter we were governed by somebody from the greatest generation, richard nixon, ronald reagan, george h.

w. bush was defeated by a boomer. in 2024, governed by a boomer president 32 years and the time has come to pass the mantle of leadership in my opinion to a younger generation to be the chief executive of the united states. >> john: well, there are a number of them out there, nobody on the democratic side willing to put up their hand and say i'm going to challenge joe biden. let me ask you about this bill that just passed in the house. you can call it a godzilla bus or megla bus or whatever, it's huge, 1.7 trillion, but a lot of things are not in it? >> there are some things -- look, the republicans got a couple of victories in this thing, and i don't want to disagree with brian reidl, this is a sign of how broken it is and don't want to get on the opposite side of kim strasel, she can kill a moose with a single shot, dress it and put it in the freezer to feed the family, so i don't want to get on the wrong side of her.

>> john: all with her pen. >> she also knows how to shoot pretty damn good. but look, the democrats wanted extension, permanent extension of the very expensive child tax credit, didn't happen. no irs budget increase included in this for the coming fiscal year, no -- typically what happens on the omnibus, equal amount of increase in defense spending and discretionary domestic spending or mandatory, did not happen. no weed banking measure to allow the marijuana growers to use public banks, no tech regulation bill. unfortunately, title 42 did not get reinstituted nor did any other immigration things. but look, i want to focus on what brian said. this is a sign how broken it is, and an opportunity for the republicans. if they want to be serious, they need to go through the regular order and begin preparing in january the budget bills for the next fiscal year. we are now five months into the fiscal year and we with the

omnibus bill are funding the remaining seven months of the fiscal year. ridiculous, should not be doing this. >> john: my brain is loaded up with continuing resolutions. i cannot remember a time the way the process is supposed to work and considered and debated the bills one at a time. i don't remember the last time that happened. >> you know, in the first decade, and the beginning of the second decade, we got most of the appropriations bills, 13 done before the beginning of the fiscal year. there might have been some that were not done in some years, but this is the entire government. this bill funds the entire government and it started in october, november, december, i'm sorry, we are three months into the fiscal year, it will become effective in january, and that's nine months more left in the fiscal year, we shouldn't do it this way. we have the biggest enterprise in the world and screwing up how we are financing it. >> john: it's a broken system, no question about that. have a great christmas, see you in the new year. >> you, too, john.

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♪ call one eight hundred, eight million ♪ >> aishah: welcome back -- that was soothing music, but you know what, the holiday can be really stressful for a lot of americans. our next guest is here to help remind us the reason for the season. here with us is jonathan morris, theologian and fox news contributor. jonathan, thank you so much for joining us from new york. i want to ask you about this. there is a lot of holiday stress this time of year. in fact, 31% of adults say they expect to feel more stress this holiday season. that's up about 9% from 2021. i'm stressed all year around. but man, i feel it this time of year. what can people do to disconnect and really get back into the christmas spirit, and what does that mean to you?

>> yeah, well, 9% more stressed than last year in the middle of a pandemic, right. so, what does that say? what it says to me is circumstances shouldn't necessarily determine and don't always determine what's going on in the inside. right? so, pandemic gave us lots of reason to stress, and yet one year later, hopefully out of the pandemic, at least, we are finding other reasons to stress. here is the most important thing i think in this season is to stop, to reflect, and to find reasons for hope. reasons for hope. and we stress about stupid things usually, about the presents, the multiple presents that we have not yet gotten or if they are perfect or not, or what we are going to wear. jesus came to us in this season, the reason why we are

celebrating, naked as a little baby in a very poor situation, and he came to us like that saying this is the reason why you do not need to hear because i am here, and if you are afraid of me, well, i know you're not, because i'm just a baby, and nobody is afraid of hugging a baby. >> aishah: i was telling john the other day all of this material stuff in the world can be taken away at any moment, and it's all about what's internally in here, center yourself. i want to pull this up and have a couple, a minute left here. christians in american are waning, and i would say across all faiths, right. people are leaving their faiths and you can see here the numbers, it has dropped. we are at 64% now this year when we were at 90% in 1972 amount of christians. jonathan, why do you think that is? >> united kingdom this year for the first time ever, less than 50% of a very traditionally

christian country say that they are christian. less than 50%. i don't see this as totally bad because we have had a whole generation of people who have been told by their parents you are christian, or you are jewish or you are muslim because you are born that way. that is not convincing. it has to be reasons and there would be cycles of faith, people will be looking for something to believe in. it will come back. >> aishah: self-discovery is a part of faith. jonathan morris, thanks for joining us. merry christmas to you and your family. >> likewise. >> john: a lot of people from different countries who have moved here, people who are of different faiths, you know, since the first survey was taken. so you can see there would be a decline in people who identify as christian. i wonder if you were to ask how many people are faithful what the number would be. >> aishah: i think that's a better question. even for myself, i don't necessarily celebrate christmas, of course, i -- you know, believe in jesus and i do take

part in it, but i -- i love the christmas spirit and i love what it means and i love putting up a tree, i didn't get to this time of year because i was stressed out, too stressful this time of year, but yeah, i think it's a great question. people who are maybe rediscovering their faith and calling it something different, yeah. i think it's beautiful. >> john: yeah, all right. well, display that would make chevy chase quite proud, but not everyone was feeling the holiday spirit about it. >> aishah: cousin eddie causing a stir 30 years later. ♪♪

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>> that's a honey of a tree, clark. >> dug it out myself. >> stop, no. >> don't worry, clark. a little tree water ain't going to hurt him. before he left, he drank a half a quart of pennzoil. >> christmas eddie. a neighborhood in kentucky where somebody said the cops -- where cops say somebody called them about a naked male that was covering up with just a robe. when they got there, they have a cousin eddie display that looks a little too real. i guess the cops were abused. >> yeah, i think so. an elementary school principal in indiana getting into the holiday spirit here by playing a christmas prank on her students. she's been dressing up as the elf on the shelf creating

mischief. she says her prank is a thank you after students collected 5,000 cans of food for a local foot drive. i love teachers like this. i would have remembered that teacher the rest of my life. >> john: for your kids are wondering if elf on the shelf is real, it is. i know you'll be here over the holidays. hope you have a good week. >> you too. merry christmas. >> john: thanks for joining us. i'm john roberts. >> i'm aishah hasnie. "the story" with anita vogel starts right now. >> thanks, john and aishah. good afternoon. i anita vogel in for martha maccallum. right now on "the story," the city of paris in flames and police under attack after a shooting in a busy neighborhood kills at least three people and injures several more. the developing details on this just ahead. and breaking just moments ago here at home, the house lining up with the senate