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♪ ♪ take me back to the little farm ♪ rachel: good morning and merry christmas eve. the day is almost upon us. one day until christmas and our stockings are all hung by the virtual "fox and friends" hearth. how about that? good morning. chris:the producers started with taylor swift, a full-body cutout of tyler swift, she is wearing a christmas sweater and open the show with the taylor swift christmas song, it was a surprise. i have new york city care and taylor swift christmas. here we go.

will: we will get to new york city here in a moment. that requires follow-through but i did not look at the rundown, no idea what is coming up, but the show playing out was that very song. it is by taylor swift. thank you, our secret or non-secret, she consumes our mind every waking hour and i am and prepared for that. carley: most think that i would know that and i'm the only one who didn't which is a unique twist. it is different for you. todd: i've got everything i want for christmas. carley: how some people are spending their holidays, we would like you to email us your pictures so we can show them, friends@foxnews.com. griff:we begin with a fox weather alert. once in a generation winter

storm leaving travelers stranded and causing devastating crashes like this 46 car pileup, three dead in that crash as the storm claims 12 lives across the nation. the intense winter weather rocking much of the country bringing frigid temperatures and hurricane force winds. carley: 200 million americans under winter weather warnings or advisories. one million customers are without power, such a dangerous time to be without power, part of the midwest reporting temperatures colder than mars if you can believe it, the arctic see smoke from lake michigan pushing into chicago as the air temperature hovers around 0 °. todd: more than 5500 flights already delayed to the day, thousands canceled, the cold air will last into next week. rick reichmuth has the forecast, this is no joke.

>> reporter: those flights were canceled the last couple days, takes a while to get started. there will be cold air and a rough day still. it is getting better weatherwise. this is the culprit that brought the cold air and snow, the snow totals were not bad but the wind caused white out conditions but for the most part this is beginning to loosen up. the cold air is firmly in place and that won't change quickly. 7 degrees in new york city, 21 in boston. we are going to watch lake affect snow. we had that massive storm in the buffalo area, we are talking 3 to 5 feet of snow in some spots but this time incredible cold air in place and you will be completely shut in. look at this. all these people without power, 200,000 people without power, 200,000 homes without power in the state of maine lose this cold air settled in without any power, check on your neighbors,

make sure, check in on everybody. everywhere you see color on this map is below 0, almost the entire country, includes parts of florida, feel like 25 ° in tampa, florida, those temperatures in the mid-20s. called pretty much everywhere. one bright note i would like to give you, it will not last long. by midweek almost the entire country will be looking at temperatures above average. carley: that is what i was going to ask, how long will this cold snap last? we are in it a couple days. >> reporter: griff is disappointed about midweek but in december it can stick around a long time. the fact that it is december and the cold is going away by midweek that is a good thing but it does get better. carley: you lost power yesterday? todd: the temperature started to drop in connecticut. we had power off during the warm part of the day but for

folks in the nation's midsection they are in trouble. carley: checking in your neighbors. neil: to those who asked for the bomb cyclone for christmas clearly got it. meanwhile one. $7 trillion omnibus spending bill is headed to president biden's desk after passing the house yesterday. carley: it includes controversial items with huge price tags and some lawmakers rang the alarm on careless spending. neil: to alexandria joins us with more. >> reporter: it passed in the house and overnight government shutdown was averted before the holiday but kevin mccarthy said adding to the debt to this degree is a stain on congress. >> it appears the season of giving will line the pockets of democrats special interests and stick hard-working americans with the tab. this is a monstrosity that is one of the most shameful acts i have ever seen in this body. the appropriations process has

failed the american public. carley: the one. $7 trillion goes to defense spending, $787 billion to domestic programs, $45 billion for military and humanitarian aid to ukraine. it heads to president biden's desk. individual appropriation bills should have been passed rather than something so large. >> it is a complete sham, it is a fraud. we are spending money we don't have. go home and sell your project. go home and talk about the pork you are bringing home but you are destroying the united states of america. >> reporter: steny hoyer blaming members of his own party for failing to pass spending bills and forcing a rush into something this large. >> the senate had not passed a single appropriations bill. that out out to be unacceptable. 5535 of us sent to represent

the american people in a responsible way. this sweeping passage is anything but garbage. >> reporter: tween 9 republicans voted in favor of passing the bill and only one democrat voted no, alexandria ocasio cortez who added spending provisions to it before pulling her support. in a statement she wrote campaign in a promised my constituents to oppose additional expansion and funding for ice and dhs in the absence of long overdue immigration reform. the reason in the dramatic increase in defense spending, i voted no on today's on the best bill. 230 house members filed letters to vote by proxy meaning they weren't there, they are only supposed to do that if sick with covid. republicans see that as a policy being abused and how to do away with it once they gain control of the house next month. carley: can't have homeland security spending.

is capitol hill pretty quiet? i know one of the motivating factors getting the bill signed was so all the lawmakers could go home for christmas. >> reporter: many already have, that is the issue republicans have. they couldn't be here first to pass $1.7 trillion. that is unfair to the public. it is normally easy this time of day. neil: to marry christmas. carley: some thoughts. todd: rand paul talked about this bill, those who are seinfeld fans realize he's disappointed in you people and has a list of all the grievances, the ways you, meaning the u.s. congress has disappointed him. this list is ridiculous. would you like to take it? carley: what he is talking about is the fact that there is so much waste and spending when it comes to government so he

reveals, he puts out this annual list of grievances, airing of grievances when it comes to government spending and this year there has been $500 billion worth of waste and some of the items are unbelievable $118,000 to study if a character from avengers could snap his fingers in real life. by the national science federation. avengers. griff: but he is not real? why are we studying him? carley: $690,000 to study the romance between parents by hhs, 3 million on watching hamsters fight on steroids. griff: i would watch that. griff: $200,000 on starbucks espresso machines.

that is a lot of money. $28 million on camouflage the did not fit the afghan environment and $4.5 billion of covid 19 injury disaster loans by the small business association, this was money paid out to people who fraudulently claimed they were a small business, wrapping up $3.5 million in covid billy funds spent on luxury cars all in one single year. griff: that is a lot of cars. carley: it is also a lot of waste and in this spending bill one of the reasons there were so many republicans to vote against it is all the waste and spending in this one. it did have some good things in it. 10% increase for defense spending and things like that and then you get down to what do i have here?

griff: it is 4051 pages. carley: to reimburse jordan, lebanon, egypt, tunisia, to tighten their border security. $65 million to restore the population to $3.6 million for georgia hiking trail named after former first lady michelle obama, pet projects lawmakers putting these funding bills to make it easier to get reelected next year but this is your money. griff: we all view this through the lens of our children and they will be saddled with this debt. for us, what this means is another 1.7 trillion pricked printed dollars will hurt inflation, and take recession into next year but our kids have to pay this bill when it becomes due and republicans and democrats on capitol hill are responsible for that. this is shameful, this will hurt our country.

todd: political cartoonists are having fun with this. you see santa with the giant omnibus spending bill for this little girl saying merry christmas, it is a little bill. this one which shows literally the omnibus bill going down the chimney with santa, obviously it doesn't fit, he is stuck, it is ridiculous. griff: the vice president is not happy with the media coverage she is getting. she things we in the media, not just fox news but all members of the media are being too hard on her, she complains they don't cover her strengths in leadership and as a reminder here are the things she is tasked with leading, we will leave it to you to decide if she is doing a bang up job, start with the border crisis, national space council chair, tough to screw that one up, election reform, ambassador to

small business, access to high-speed internet. the border literally could not be more of a disaster. i am not going to step over my skis on this. i will let you take that. the rest of the things on that list, she is doing a horrible job on most if not all of them. carley: she spoke to washington post reporter it had this to say, there are things that i have done as vice president, to demonstrate the strength of my leadership as vice president but have not received the kind of coverage i think the dobbs decision did receive. if you are the loudest voice defending your record you are on the losing side. griff: we've seen pick cases of people leaving her office, she said an exodus of staffers in the first 2 years and it is largely because of her own doing and the way she reacted in the moments the spotlight was on the vice president as

opposed to the president. here's a montage of some of her eyebrow raising choices on key issues. >> we agreed to advance specific rules and norms. regarding rules and norms, more specifically regarding rules and norms and international rules and norms. you guys are going to see you, you're going to literally see the craters on the moon with your own eyes. i don't know what it is about those craters. we invested an additional $12 billion into community banks because we know community banks are in the community and understand the needs and desires of that community at the talent and capacity of the community. >> do you have any plans to visit the border? >> at some point. we are going to the border. we have been to the border. this whole thing about the border, we have into the border. we have been to the border.

>> you haven't been to the border. >> and i haven't been to europe. carley: that is a small sampling of it. kamala harris's number one job is to serve you president and make him look good and she is not doing that. whether rate is the i have been to the border comment or reports that she is consistently unprepared the number one thing she is known for his her laugh. there was a piece in the wall street journal a year ago by peggy noonan who wrote kamala harris needs to get serious and she has not done that. there is this new book coming out about the biden administration. reports that biden called harris a work in progress. there is this mass exodus of people from her own office that hasn't gotten much coverage. the only person whose poll numbers are consistently worse than biden's is the vice president. i would say the media has done her a lot of favors. griff: it is not a laugh, it is

a full on cackle. let's turn to headlines. we started with a fox news alert, one person dead and another grazed by a bullet in the shooting in minnesota, the suspect reportedly opening fire after an altercation between two groups killing a 19-year-old man, the shooter has not been arrested but they lifted the lockdown late last night. the ex-girlfriend of ftx founder sam bank superman-fried facing 110 years in prison before agreeing to cooperate with prosecutors in a plea deal monday. caroline ellison admitting she knew what she had sam bank superman-fried did was wrong when she was understanding new york. bank superman-fried facing 8 charges including wire and securities fraud, he is due back in court january 3rd. forget about where is waldo. brainteaser, where is rudolph? hungarian graphic artist which is what griff's original job was getting into news, makes puzzles and brainteasers like this want to tolerate holidays and on her special events.

where is rudolph? do you see him in the picture? the monitor is pretty tiny. hopefully you at home can see him because i can't. if you couldn't find rudolph we will zoom in. there he is. with his iconic red nose posing as a polkadot and those are your headlines. carley: if you are bored at home, now we revealed it. todd: despite your long luxurious career as a hungarian. griff: i never gave that up. more sketches coming up. todd: you did some amazing work. carley: cvp releases november's record breaking border numbers. retired acting ice director tom homan fired up about that and he is next. todd: we have a surprise, she doesn't know it but we are submitting christmas with the 12 days of carly, we have gifts

for her new baby arriving starting with this mountain of diapers and a rubber duck which we will get a hold of. griff: diapers is what you put on babies when you go to the bathroom and you think you will need a certain amount, you need quadruple if not quintuple amounts. carley: i am genuinely surprised by this, thank you so much. i haven't bought diapers yet. griff: we have ten more surprise gifts still to come. stay with "fox and friends" for a very merry christmas eve. don't start hugging us every time, i will get a lot of makeup on me. carley: i got that. ♪ ng... and spend quality time, at the same time? lowe's, actually. the final days of winterfest are here. save now before they're gone.

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griff: customs and border protection releasing november numbers showing record-breaking 233,000 encounters, the highest number on record. 67,000 of those encounters were processed for deportation under title 42 leading officials on the edge of impact when the policy expires. or to react this tom homan. merry christmas.

what do you make of this friday night done? why did they wait until friday night heading into christmas to release these november numbers? >> they always drop the numbers on friday night but this time i think the reason they waited so long was the omnibus bill. they did not want the numbers released, who was effective anyway? too many republicans voted for it but these numbers were to come out, maybe a few more congressman or senators would say we can no longer take this, another record-breaking mark, we need to do something about border security but we don't know how turned up the on a bus was with security so that was disappointing. the administration, just because you are so terrible. griff: there is no border

enforcement money but to nerd out a little bit on page 753 there is $1.9 billion for non-detention border management requirements. what is the $2 billion going for? >> assessing the language of the bill none of this is to be used for border security efforts, we are in the middle of the most historic crisis ever. i can't believe a single republican senator or congressman wrote this bill. what a terrible crisis we have, national security crisis when it comes to making a difference, they vote for bill and gave nothing to it, this bill does nothing, 300 agents, border patrol, border patrol -- nobody wants the job because they have been thrown under the bus by the administration. they can't do the job that is hard to do, they violated -- enforce the law, border patrol is having a hard time, does

nothing for them. griff: there has been 475,000 migrant encounters with title 42 in place. what happens? what does it look like when and if that lifts? >> if they left title 42, 80% to 90% of agents, you are dealing with these groups, therefore if title 42 is lifted, more from across the line which means more agents get pulled off of charles which means more fentanyl comes across the border killing more americans, more suspected terrorists can cross the border because the border is wide open. it means sex trafficking of women and children. this is catastrophic and if they end title 42 it will get worse but hear me now, this administration, they could turn the remain and mexico program on today.

it is a game changer. if you want to give the border patrol some relief, restart the remain in mexico program. we have that option. the legal -- the court said is it is legal. griff: we will see if they take your advice and change any policies, president biden was upset and cursing at age when this crisis began in 2020 one but there has been no major policy change to get this under control. thank you for your insight and have a merry christmas. still ahead, a winter weather warning, the latest on the arctic blast wreaking havoc on your holiday travel plus our 12 days of giving continues with the sweet ways this company gives back year round and how you can help. ♪

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griff: a once in a generation winter storm leaving travelers stranded causing devastating crashes like this 46 car pileup in ohio, at least 3 people are dead and that crash. this storm claims 12 lives across the nation. the intense winter weather rocking much of the country bringing frigid temperatures and hurricane force winds, putting 200 million americans under winter weather warnings or advisories. 1 million custstomers currentl without power as travel chaos continues with 6,000 flights already delayed today and thousands more canceled. for the latest on the winter impact you can download the fox weather apps or stream on a connected tv device. carley: 12 days of giving continues with giving juice,

which donates 5% of proceeds to the john paul's heart of the lion foundation, charity named after their son, john paul who passed away due to a heart complication in 2017 and they also donate their juice to food banks, churches and childcare centers across the united states, giving cofounders annette george and derek george join us now. it is great to see both of you. i got to know your family and john paul over the years, a while ago through fox, such an amazing young man. tell us about john paul, his heart condition and what led you to start this? >> thank you for having us on. john paul, going back, he was born with a heart condition. he had to experiment all

surgeries, what he went through, the way my dad put it, he said name the boy after john, after pope john, what a beautiful name. john paul was all about love and happiness. all we want to do is give back and help families and said to me one day dad, i would love to start a juice to help families when you go to hospitals and see families going through so much pain and anguish. then you do whatever you can. you know what? did the mango and tropical and apple and then said i am ready now and you have no idea how to do this.

shortly after that he got extremely sick, past away from a massive heart transplant. we didn't know where we are? when you lose a kid you lose focus and then i said i am ready and then that came into perspective. he is giving me the juice to help kids. carley: the back story of why you chose juice, he was in the hospital so often and he knew that juice was something provided at the hospital but your son wasn't supposed to live past a year old or a few days. he is an example of miracles do exist. >> he is an example of miracles and how they do exist. they told us he would not live beyond birth and we had 23 years with him. each year was a blessing. he loved god, he loved his

faith, he really was exemplifying how to live life and give hope to others and that is what we try to do through our juice. we give back to organizations like little smiles of florida. these organizations help children that are sick and we donate to food banks. places, churches, ministries, boys and girls club. with every step, we give back. carley: he had the best smile and spirit and his face is on the label. it is perfect. he is known for saying i can't change who i am but i can change the world as i am. >> that is the essence of it. the packaging is all in his handwriting which is beautiful and i think how this has really

helped derek and are, if we didn't have this, we would be in a rubber room. grocers have teamed up with us the whole foods in the southeast, food lion, heb in texas and so many others. they are helping our message get out. each time somebody goes to the shelf and pulled off a giving juice, they are giving back. carley: it is delicious. if people want to help the organization, where can they go? >> they can go to givingjuice.org, or you can go to the shelf and you can buy it there. it is amazing and it exemplifies john paul's life and willingness to want to help so many people. carley: thank you for joining us and telling your story and you are keeping his beautiful spirit alive and sharing his story as well.

very special people. carley: you are special. >> we want to give a shout out, those who of lost ticket or family member, it is tough and our hearts go out to them. anything to help them. a phone call. life is so short. carley: christmas is hard for people. >> we want to keep it happy. carley: thank you guys so much. still ahead, big changes could be coming to retirement in the new year, what you need to know to maximize your 401(k) next.

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stripes to save for their retirement, very important changes taking place when inflation is so high, personal savings decline, even lower than it was before the pandemic because people are struggling in this economy, need to prepare for retirement, this is an important piece of legislation. griff: i want to put up the bullet points we want to focus on, employer contributions for student loan payments, increase age for minimum distributions up to 72, 73 i believe, for our generation will be 75 in 10 years. help employees build and access emergency savings, enhanced the savers credit and make it easier for part-time workers to save. what do you want to focus on? >> great stuff. the emergency savings provisions important, so many are hesitant to save money because they are afraid they will need to tap into their savings and pay a penalty if

they drawdown from their 401(k) particularly middle or lower income americans who may not have that flex ability, when temperatures are in the teens. this provision will give people the peace of mind to put money into their retirement, knowing they can avoid the penalty, the tax penalty if an emergency situation arises. that is important to give people a piece of mind they need to save money for their entire retirement. todd: having people save and not spend really help bring down the inflationary pressures the rest of the $1.7 trillion layered on top of the other government spending really put us in. >> that is an essential point. a lot of people particularly on the left want to tax our way money to move it to government coffers. the theory is if we tax people they don't have money to spend and if they don't have money to

spend they can't exacerbate inflation. a better solution is to encourage people to save money. they are not contribute into inflation if they are putting that money in a 401(k) or ira and get to keep that money instead of moving it into the government coffers again. an important way to battle inflation is not a silver bullet but it will help. todd: i love the minimum distribution extension. people in our generation are not stopping work at 70 and a half. we will be going deep, deep into our 70s if not our 80s. i don't need that money forced into me at 70. i need it when i'm 85, 90, this will hopefully allow that to be the case. thank you, appreciate it. carley: starting in georgia police officer in atlanta going out of his way, a homeless man in a hotel room, the apartment praising him saying great job, officer, for your heartfelt act of service. and other people struggling to

stay warm in unprecedented cold. it is full of cheer, not for this cranky iowa sports reporter brought in to help cover the winter weather. >> how are you feeling? >> the same way i felt we ate minutes ago. what better time to ask the sports guy to come in 5 hours earlier than he would normally wake up, stand in the wind and snow and cold and tell other people not to do the same. i didn't realize there was a 3:38 in the morning. and i go back to my regular job? carley: somebody has got to do it. that day it was reporter mark woodley saying he only slept for three hours before heading into the field but i'll is still mary as the bosses approved of his christmas snark. he went viral. got a lot of attention for that

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going to make it. todd: what it is on time target for the united states? >> he normally shows up around 9 p.m. assuming the children are in bed. they need to get in bed by 9:00 to midnight and that is when he will show up to your house. carley: give us the back story. if i remember greatly, norad absent are tracking mission happened by mistake. >> exactly right. we are 67 years into it but it happened in 1955 by mistake with an incorrect phone number published in a local advertisement for a company, the phone number rang into the command center for the continental air defense command. the colonel had answered the call realized it was a young child looking for santa claus to track santa claus and that was the start of 67 years of tracking santa claus. todd: what kind of protection to santa have when he is up there? >> santa is very fast, has a lot of protection. we make sure he is save as he

approaches north america. we have fighters from canada, though cia teams, f-15s, f-16s and f-22s to ensure safe passage around the globe for santa claus. todd: there are no known threats towards santa other than misbehaving children who did not listen to their parents. >> there are no threats to santa claus. if i told the kids today the only threat would be if you are not happy or not in bed. make sure you are in better on time. carley: outside of tracking santa, tell us about norad and what you do every day outside christmas eve. >> norad is a binational command with allies in canada. we tracked threats to north america, threats that emanate from the air domain and maritime domain and if they become a threat, we would prosecute those threats to north america. we do that each and every day, 365 days a year and this one special day we get to track

santa claus. todd: how crucial is rudolph's knows? >> are a crucial. our satellites which are infrared capable, when rudolph gets airborne that knows shows up, it does put off her heat signature and the satellite capabilities track that heat signature. it gives them a safe passage as well to commercial areas where other aircraft can see them and also gives him deicing capabilities. the weather we have now star trek for santa claus. griff: to make it clear, this year norad has the ability to know if children are in bed or not, is that correct? >> santa has that ability, norad does not have that ability. that is who i would be worried about, making sure you are in bed for santa claus. carley: santa doesn't want to give out the cold. you can track santa at noradsanta.org or call 800-hr-norad.

thanks for joining us this morning. that's a look at your mission today. griff: don't go anywhere. we have a big christmas eve show still ahead. you don't want to miss it. awesome guests coming up on christmas eve. ♪

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