♪ ♪ carley: good morning. merry christmas, everybody. happy saturday. it is christmas ', and you are looking live at one of our reindeer in training on fox square. these are special reindeer because they are training to help santa for next year. how about that?

griff: that's a good one. he's definitely going to make the cut, because as you pointed out -- and i really hadn't thought hard, deep thoughts about the antlers, but we've got to get milk and cookies up there. oh, perfect, excellent. santa's going to like that. you were talking about the antlers. the antler didn't have one in the middle of its head. carley: one of the reindeer was very top-heavy with the one big antler. griff: i can't wait to touch one. we are moments away. carley: is there a difference between reindeer and caribou? griff: yes. one can fly around the globe and deliver presents, and the other is just caribou. [laughter] todd: i need an audio clip of saying i can't wait to touch a reindeer. that's going to be my new ring tone. i didn't think it was such a big deal until today. carley: we're tracking santa, and he is just over japan or

just left japan. believe give just over right now. you can see from this precision map that is santa flying with the reindeer, and our reindeer out here -- carley: they the all know each other. griff: you can call this number on the screen, and you're going to get in the last hour we called, we got a lieutenant colonel who is tracking santa's exact location. anybody can call right now and speak with the folks at norad, and they'll give it to you in realtime. carley: last hour he was over russia, and now he's over japan. he's making his way around the world, as he should. todd: i'm saucy today. i'm attacking the reindeer in training, now i'm calling out santa. we're working on the weekend, santa, get out there. carley: we do have some serious news, it and involves the weather. a fox weather alert, a once in a generation winter storm blasting across the u.s. leaving icy roads that have caused multiple

pile-ups. at least 12 people have died so far because of the his oric winter weather. the intense weather bringing frigid temperatures and hurricane-portion winds to parts of the country. griff: yeah. 200 million americans remain under winter weather warnings or advisories, more than 1 million customers are without power as much as the country faces single-digit temperatures. participants of the middle -- parts of the midwest are even colder than mars. pushing into chicago as the hair temperature hovers around 0. todd: more than 8,000 flights already delayed so far morning with more than 3500 cancellations. hose numbers expected to increase throughout the morning. the remnants of the storm are expected to stick around into next week. fox weather correspondent robert ray on the ground in georgia with the very latest. robert. >> reporter: good morning from the northeastern suburbs, sitting around 7 degrees with the wind it feels like it's about -8 or 9 degrees.

merry christmas to you and everyone, and i hope that you're not trying to travel the right now, because as you mentioned those airports. let's listen to one man's journey from laguardia to atlanta. >> i went to the gate, and they didn't notify my app. i was doing frontier, the flight got canceled. so i sat there an extra hour, security told me it got canceled. then my other flight from frontier got canceled. now i'm going to newark because it's the only flights i can get. laguardia's weeked. -- booked. >> reporter: just a mess. listen to this quote, we are at capacity as far as cots are concerned; however, we will never turn anyone away. we'll continue to build capacity to insure our residents experiencing homelessness have a safe and warm place to stay during this extremely cold weather. and that is the an understatement, saying it's cold. i traveled from chicago to atlanta yesterday, experienced

my own travel woes. but look at lake michigan. look at that arctic sea smoke going over. the temperature of lake michigan hovering at 40 degrees. the air temperature below 0, and you get a a hot tub effect creating this -- [inaudible] mother nature look. and that's what we're seeing all across parts of the middle west on bodies of water as americans are trying to experience this holiday weekend with as much joy as possible. but with these frigid temperatures, very difficult. as you reported, there have been deaths, unfortunately. in the state of georgia, we still have thousands without power. meanwhile, there will be people across the midwest and up into the north east trying to just get out and do last minute shopping including myself. and to think, next week here in the atlanta metro area, 70 degrees moving into the new year, guys.

griff: robert, i'm from the south, my daughter dose to school in georgia -- goes to school in georgia, and i always am fascinated by how they freak out when it gets cold down there. have you seen people out will that hi the world may be ending, it's so cold there? [laughter] >> reporter: yes. my own family, for that matter. we originally hail from the midwest, but i got home last night, and my daughters, four daughters, were absolutely just hovered on the couch freezing. and my photographer if behind the lens is doing a great job today is from here, said he's never experienced cold like. [laughter] but, you know, the funny thing is less than 10 years ago, it was this cold. but the issue issue is with the wind chills. that takes it to a different level. carley: yeah, that's true. it's not the temperature that matters, it's the feels-like temperature, and the feels-like temperature in georgia is -8 right now. >> reporter: i know. and that's the issue going into christmas eve. thankfully, we'll be in the

20s with realtime temps later today. and by the way, your daughter goes to the university of georgia, go, dogs -- griff: that isn't cold, because they're red hot, those bulldogs. todd: they're going to do it. and to my point -- to your point, my best friend, we used to shovel snow when we were kids. now he's, how are we going to handle it? what a baby. griff: they're not used to it, literally it gets to 60 degrees in south florida, they're putting on north face jackets. robert ray said good news is it'll soon be only 20. carley: all right. the 1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill is heading to president biden's desk after passing the house yesterday. todd: the bill includes plenty of controversial items with huge, huge price tags as some lawmakers ring the alarm on

careless spending. griff: alexandria hoff joining us live from washington with more. merry christmas eve. >> reporter: yeah, this bill funds the government through september '23, but it's getting criticism from both sides for this last minute holiday push on something as large as this. >> it appears the season of giving will line the pockets of democrats' special interests and stick the hard working americans with the tab. this is a monstrosity. it is one of most shameful acts i've ever seen in body. the appropriations process has failed the american public. >> reporter: all right. so about half of the $1.7 trillion goes to defense funding, domestic programs and close to 45 million for military and humanitarian aid to ukraine. it now heads to the president's desk. here's republican congressman chip roy. >> everything the american people is watching right now is a complete sham. it's a fraud. and we're spending money we don't have.

go home and sell your project, go home and talk about all the pork you're bringing home, but you're destroying the united states of america. >> reporter: this bill passed the house 225-201 with 9 republicans voting in favor of it. only 1 democrat voted no, congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez who added spending provisions to the bill only to not support it. in a statement she wrote: i campaigned on the promise to my constituents to oppose additional funding for i.c.e. and dhs particularly in the absence of long overdue immigration reform. for that reason as well as the dramatic increase in defense spending, i voted no today on today's omnibus bill. democrat house majority leader ernie hoyer, he blame -- steny hoyer, he blamed the senate for failing to pass any spending bills earlier in the year, forcing this christmas rush. >> the senate had not passed a single appropriation bill. that ought to be unacceptable

for the 535 of us who have been sent here to represent the american people in a responsible way. this sweeping package is anything but garbage. >> reporter: yeah, so a whole lot crammed in last minute to something very, very big. hoyer also questioned how many members would be there in person to fulfill their duty, and it turns out 230 house members voted by proxy, something they're only supposed to do if they're sick with covid. republicans say that policy's clearly being abused and vow to do away with it when the party takes control next month. or. carley: to say the least. alex, thank you for that reporting. with we appreciate it. and i just can't believe this process. it's $2 trillion worth of spending. this is our money. this bill was revealed on tuesday, it's 4,000 pages long. nobody knows exactly what's in if it because it's just too long to read. three times the size of the bible. so it's the length of three

bibles, that's how long it is. and you know that come january or february somebody's going to reveal something and go, oh, my you know, this is huge, it's already passed, and none of us knew about it. griff: one guy did. one of our 535 members of -- dan bishop, lee zeldin told us about this in a previous hour to go to dan bishop's twitter, rep dan bishop, and he says our staff read all of it, and he found out a lot of different things. for instance, the word salmon, like fish, appears 48 times in the bill. some 31 million for salmon-related things. and one of the things that i already knew was in here that his office is pointing out is the $410 million for border security not here in the u.s., but, rather, me egypt, in jordan, in lebanon. middle eastern countries. their borders, not ours. carley: and $3 million for a

universal hip-hop museum in the bronx. todd: you gotta have it. senator rand paul yesterday on the fiction ifal seinfeldian holiday where you air your grievances and list all the ways people have disappointed you, came out with his list of the most outrageous things. about $119,000 to study if thahos could snap his fingers in real life. the answer is no, but as griff is aptly pointing out, this is a fake character. what the heck are you going? almost $700,000 to study romance between parrots by health and human services. instead of worried about your health, they're worried about parrots enjoying each other's companies. $3 million on watching hamsters fight on steroids. personally, i'd like to see that but, still, that's a high price tag. $200,000 for starbucks espresso machines for the dod, look, they need their juice, i get it. but not ott tune of 200k.

$28 million for camouflage that didn't fit in the afghanistan a environment. how do you mess this up? i'll give you a hint, it's page. i just saved you $28 million. $4.5 million in improper covid-19 economic delivery disaster loans by the sba, and $31.5 million in covid relief funds spent on luxury cars. so as you're struggling to pay for gas and that christmas dinner that's going to be on your table, look at how all that money's being spent. that should make you sick to your stomach. and for those republicans that voted for this on their way out the door, basically what you did, you're leaving a foreclosed home, and you trashed it by putting garbage and whatever else on the walls of this house, and you're leaving it in this condition so the rest of us have to deal with it because you didn't like the way you were treated -- carley: well, republicans who did vote for the bill, a lot of them said because the defense

spending is 10% more -- todd: they were quick to get that through anyway. carley: everybody's cutting back right now. todd: did i do it like frank costanza,? because i didn't mean to -- carley: i'm slowly going like. [laughter] todd: that must have been some doll. urning now to your headlines, the taxi driver who dropped out the off the of idaho students is breaking his silence anonymously telling the daily mail it's not lost on me that my job was to get these girls home safe, but that didn't help time. he has replayed that night a million times over, but he says he has found, quote, nothing. the ex-girlfriend of sam bankman fried was daysing up to 110 -- facing up to 110 years in prison before she aagreed to to cooperate with prosecutors on

monday, she knew what she and bankman-fried did was wrong while on the stand in new york. bankman-fried faces 8 charges including wire and securities fraud. he's due back in court on january 3rd. and check out this amazing christmas surprise when a dad comes home early from deployment to surprise his daughter. watch. [inaudible conversations] >> daddy! todd: these are the best stories. hands down. their family gets to celebrate more than just the holidays. get this, they're expecting their second child in the next few days. in a year where so much went wrong, take a look at your screen right now. that is going right -- carley: gift on top of gift for that family. we love it. all right, still ahead, congress is finally lifting the military vaccine mandate, but those already discharged won't be readmitted.

our next guest says this decision came too late, and they're taking the army to court. todd: plus, santa claus is coming to town. there's the map to prove it. his journey as he gets closer to america, producers just told me he's leaving japan, is that correct? looks like he's leaving japan. we will keep you posted throughout the next 44 minutes. give. griff: but first, we have our last surprise for our 12 days of carley. [laughter] carley: guys, this is such an honor. thank you for doing this. let's see what this is. oh, i mean, this says it all right here. griff: america. carley: this baby will be decked out, you better believe it. oh, my gosh. i think i could put him in this pretty soon too. griff: you have to name this baby boy pete, because hegseth'- carley: that's my husband's name too. give give did we just reveal

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muck. carley: president biden signing into law a more than $850 billion defense spending bill that lifts the covid-19 vaccine mandate for our military. new act, however, does not protect those soldiers who were already discharged because of the mandate including our next guests who are currently suing the army after 10 unvaccinated soldiers were denied religious exemptions for the vaccine. joining us now is wendy cox, an attorney, and plaintiff u.s. army staff sergeant bobby shellski. good morning to you all. bobby, possibly a quick correction there. i don't think you have been discharged yet because a judge blocked the army from discharging you because you decided to file a religious exemption although you were facing possibility of that. what is your reaction to the judge's decision there who? well, let me start really quickly by stating that the view ises that i present do not

reflect the official position of the united states army, the department of defense or the u.s. government. that said, hearing that the judge granted an injunction to protect us from being separated from the if army, it was the greatest christmas present we could have asked for this week. so so knowing that our jobs are safe for the time being, it's a huge blessing. carley: so, wendy, congratulations, first of all, on the success of this case so far. and the president signed this, the military defense spending bill into law which rescinds the vaccine mandate. does that mean that this fight is over for you? >> hi, good morning. thanks soften so much for -- thanks so much for having us on today. it doesn't, actually. it does not change our case. the army has still not agreed to rescind all of the pubive and administrative actions that they've taken against soldiers prior to the rescission of this mandate, and they have also not agreed to stop further punitive

administrative and separative actions against these soldiers who have had denials of their a religious accommodation request. carrie: we just got this in from the pentagon to fox news, they say the army is aware of this case, meaning bobby's case, and that the president has signed the ndaa and awaits further guidance from the department of defense regarding implementation of these charges. what's your reaction to that? >> well, i think that we would like to see army actually guarantee that they are going to rescind all of the pubive the measures -- pubive measures that he was of already applied to several soldiers seeking religious accommodation. we would also like to see hem guarantee they are not going to further separate, further use administrative processes against these soldiers who only went out to fight for their religious rights under the first amendment. carley: bobby, you have four

children. what was it like, possibly, with the thought that you might lose your job because you were trying to fight this vaccine mandate? >> it was extremely stressful. i mean, the looming unknowing feeling of what's going to happen, you know, for the past year we've wondered daily is today cay that i get my final denial, you know? is today the day that i get a general officer reprimand, am i getting punished? so every day just waking up not knowing and every e-mail that comes through, the stress that comes with that, just opening an e-mail to find out what's inside, you know? carley: well, the judge, like we said, put a temporary stop on discharging you and hopefully more positive news to come with the signing of this ndaa. good to know the pentagon is aware of your case. hang both for joining us, we appreciate it. merry christmas. >> thank you. carley: congress just passed a $1.7 trillion which is supported from nearly every democrat

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todd: we are back with a fox weather alert. a once in a generation winter storm leaving at least 12 dead as high winds and record cold grips the nation. 200 million americans remain under winter weather warnings or advisories while more than 1 million customers are without power. number's been rising steadily, 9,000 flights already delayed with more than 3600 cancellations. let's turn now to chief meteorologist rick reichmuth for our fox weather cast. hose numbers keep rising, but this is a much more severe storm for those people who have to live through it especially with those temperatures dropping. ric rick yeah, and it's almost everybody. except for parts of california, coastal areas in oregon and washington, pretty much aside from that, everybody's gotten in on this. i'm going to give you a couple

good piece of news because it feels really rough right now. this is what things look like now compared to 24 hours ago. it's 21 degrees tolder in new york, 33 degrees colder in jacksonville. but go towards the west, we're starting to see a bit of a warmup. cold air was so intense that that even this warm 'em that we're seeing keeps temperatures well below average. let me take you out to wednesday, almost the entire country is looking at temperatures above average, so we have something to look forward to, but we've got to get through this weekend, monday or so, and with temperatures like this, it's -13 in fargo right now, but across parts of the south, 9 in atlanta, temperatures in the teens right along the coastal areas, parts of the south. even across parts of south florida, cold air for florida. it's a very cold meaning. -- morning. we've got hard freeze warnings in effect across parts of the south. temperatures right now, obviously, very cold except for areas of the far west. this is the culprit, and we're sill going to watch this across

parts of the great lakes and a massive snowstorm across areas just to the east of any of the lakes. get ready for a lot of snow and cold temperatures continuing. griff, back to you. bev give rick, thank you very much. meanwhile, a hiking trail named after michelle obama, a hip-hop knew. seem in the bronx and border security in the middle east, all of that included in the $1.7 trillion omnibus bill which is headed to president biden's desk. now, 9 republicans you see here helped pass this massive spending bill, but florida congressman michael waltz budget one of them. he joins us now to react. congressman, merry christmas eve to you. thank you for taking time weekend. you guys have $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill, what was your reaction? you voted against it, but what was your reaction to it, and why did 9 of your colleagues on the republican side vote for it? >> well, griff, i think just to take a second, it's important to understand how this is supposed to work. this was a combination of 12

different appropriation bills. we should be voting on every one of hose individually -- those individually. defense, of course, department of homeland security, labor, you know? and on down the list of federal agencies. of course, nancy pelosi and chuck schumer didn't do their job, hay didn't get it passed on time chshed be done in september when we can debate and amend and have is up or down vote on these various agencies. so what they do just before a government shutdown is provide the option of shut down the government or combine all of these things into one massive mess of spending that no one can go through, that everything, you know, it can get stuffed with pork. and that's just unacceptable, and it's unfair to the american people. and then, griff, on top of that they included an additional almost $800 billion of nondefense spending for all of their pet projects on top of the almost clash 6 trillion -- $6 trillion that the biden

administration and democrat-run congress has already spent over the last two years. and to make it even worse, we're not even talking about medicare, medicaid, social security and the interest on the department which is almost as large -- on the debt. that just passes automatically. we don't even get to touch that. so this is just a massive spending mess, and it's gotta stop. griff: these pet projects are really astonishing. your colleague, congressman dan bishop, he read apparently the whole bill. 3 million for bee-friendly highways. what in the world is that? meanwhile, alexandria ocasio-cortez voted against it as well because she's opposing any additional funding, $8.42 billion for i.c.e., $86.5 billion for dhs. does that that strike you with as odd? >> well, it doesn't strike me as that odd coming from aoc because she's supported completely defunding i.c.e., the border patrol and the entire federal prison system, her and the squad quantity to -- want to just

completely limb may not those entire agencies. not that surprising, griff, unfortunately. she also objected to the increases in defense spending as she deal with threats from russia, china, north korea and iran. griff: mike, you have the perfect backdrop, that warm fire, so what's your christmas message? >> well, thanks, griff. i think we have a special guest here with me, but of course this is -- griff: yes! >> this is baby army santa right here. look, this is jesus' birth day, our savior, the birth of jesus should always be front and centered. but we have family, and here we have army santa, baby army. but i do want to always remember those men and women all over the world that are out on ships deployed, you know, doing all kinds of things to keep us safe. our veterans should be first and foremost. and if my of them, if any of you are going to a dark place, please call 988 from a mental

health standpoint. stay with us, stay in the fight. somebody is there to help you. and just god bless everyone with these christmas blessings that we all a enjoy. griff: congressman michael waltz, such an important message, and merry christmas to armie there -- >> getting big. griff: anything he's getting for christmas you can tell us? >> well, he's -- anything that he can break, make noise -- [laughter] bang against something, he's pretty happy with. we're in that, that mode right now. griff: we've got to leave it there -- >> armie likes to break things. griff: congressman, have a merry christmas. thank you, sir. >> all right, take care. griff: still ahead, rudolph is busy guiding santa's sleigh, but his fellow reindeer in training are here on fox square. we'll introduce you, that's next. ♪ ♪

griff: well you know dasher and dancer and prancer and vixen, and today's santa's sleigh has made a pit stop here at fox square before the very busy might ahead. [laughter] carley: i'm trying to get into the shot, and there's a huge antler in front of me. meet santa's reindeer in training, prancer, topper and baby misty are here with

reindeer farmer david hoover. hello. >> hi. carley: you brought the excitement. have you been out here in the cold all this time? >> yes. carley: okay for the reindeer -- >> we did an event last night over in jackson heights, so we've been hanging out -- it got cold. griff: who's this? >> this is prancer. carley: and who's this one? >> that's topper. prancer's seven and a half years old. i've had him since he was eight months, and this is my daughterriveny with topper who is a year and a half -- daughter tiffany. griff: hi, tiffany. how do you teach them to fly? >> well, see, i'm not allowed to ply. all i can do is takeoffs and landings. there's only one guy that's allowed to let 'em fry -- carley: right, and that would be santa claus are. these are reindeer in training. how do you become a reindeer farmer? >> well, it was a little 6-year-old girl that we used to take other deer and pass 'em off

as reindeer. and she walked up to us one night and said that is not a real reindeer. so in december of 2011, i went home and i googled reindeer. here we are. carley: here we are. give believe and this is the baby. >> that is myths city, she's 8 months old. live give how long does it take to grow the antlers? >> as soon as she is born, the little nubs start to push through. [laughter] todd: the antlers don't appear until after birth. carley: doesn't apply to me. >> they lose these antlers every year, and in march they start to regrow, and in five months' time, this is how much hale grow. the abilitilers get progressively -- antlers get progressively larger. >> topper, he's only a year and a half, he'll put on another hundred pounds -- carley: that is amazing.

and their poem -- temperaments are pretty even. >> yes. they're very docile. they're a domestic animal. griff: david hoover, thank you so much. thank you to topper and missy -- >> and you can find all our information at srf reindeer.com. carley: thank you so much. todd: thank you, guys. carley: how cool is this? all right, still ahead, it's going to be a cold, cold christmas eve for the nfl. players will battle subzero temperatures during today's game, so who will beat the heat? that's the question. fox nfl kickoff host charissa thompson is here with her predictions. ♪ ♪ where can you get great appliances this holiday... backed by our price promise every day? lowe's, actually. the final days of winterfest are here. save now before they're gone.

♪ todd: today on fox we have five must-see nfl match-ups to watch. here with a preview and her predictions is fox nfl kickoff host charissa thompson. even though it's a saturday, today has major playoff implications. >> you are right about that. let's start with the seahawks and the kansas city chiefs. the chiefs have with regard up their seventh consecutive afc west championship. they are unstoppable in that division, and i like hem today by 14 for a couple of different

reasons. the seahawks started off hot, it was a great story. geno smith made his first pro bowl this year in his 10-year career, but they cropped the last 4 of 5 games, so i like the chiefs today to keep rolling, and it's going to be in single-digit temperatures there, megawith the wind chill. i like the -- negative with the kind wind chill. todd: and you think lions, panthers, who cares? this one also has huge playoff implications. >> oh, completely. how about this story for the lions, they started the season 1-6, and everyone was, like, their season is done. no one in nfl history will start the year 1-6 and make the postseason, of course, if they're able to do so. jared of golf playing great -- jared goff playing great football. and the panthers team got prison of -- rid of their best player, fired their coach, and they're sill in it because of the abysmal nfc south division. big playoff implications in one, i like lions by 3.

todd: and then i would say the biggest game of the day, eagles/cowboys. all the eyes on this one. >> yeah. the eagles will be without yale. en hurts who was the mvp front-runner. now my vote goes to patrick mahomes in that one. so against the cowboys who have already clinched because of last week's loss by washington and seattle and the eagles looking to clinch the nfc east and really have their eye on that number one seed for home field advantage, so important there. i like the eagles today by 3, the extra incentive for home field advantage. and don't forget in addition to the $100,000 of terry bradshaw's money, fox super 6 is teaming up to win what's in the vault, but i promise you it's terry bradshaw, so it's going to be a good time. that vault prize will be

unveiled in tomorrow's show. od todd there's one game we didn't talk about, i like to call this in the hegseth/pyro bowl, my prediction, giants are going to win which, of course, means the giants will going to lose by 20. what say you? [laughter] >> hey, look, it look a 33-point comeback for the vikings to beat the colts last week in the biggest comeback in nfl history. because this is our first time doing a segment together, i'm not going to lie to you. i lie to all the other guys i talk to, but to you i won't lie. i still like the vikings. todd: i understand. i feel like we're coming off of a high winning that sunday is night game, having to travel during the can storm of century. it is what it is. but if your other prediction works out, the seattle loss, giants could be in good shape. christa thompson in the beautiful, sunny l.a. i gotta go run outside again. enjoy your football day.

>> thank you. todd: we've got a big show planned for tomorrow, dakota meyer, pastor robert jeffress, rodney atkins all gonna join us tomorrow. but first, they performed on "fox & friends" earlier this week, now john stamos and the beach boys are going to join us again in the all-american christmas concert series. don't go away. ♪ ♪ so how many vaccines have you given to people? me? about 1000. walgreens...millions. no way can i miss her big debut. with your booster, i think you'll be there. for every twirl. i got a shot so my sister won't get sick. way to go, big bro! so while we're here... ...flu shot, as well? let's do it. when you need to talk vaccinations, our pharmacists are here.

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>> it's time once again for the all-american new year's -- >> live from nashville, tennessee. >> pete, rachel and will are counting down to 20 to 23. 2023. ♪ ♪

>> the all-american new year live from nashville, tennessee. will: can i get a noise maker or something? ♪ ♪ ♪ -- singing carols right outside my door ♪ [laughter] griff: it is time yet again for our all-american christmas concert series. carley: and here to perform the title track off mike love's brand new christmas album, reason for the season, here are the beach boys with special guest john stamos. >> one, two, three, four ♪ ♪ ♪

♪ the reason for the season we believe in -- ♪ the reason for the season is happened way back when. ♪ the reason for the season so many believe in -- ♪ -- in a little town, bethlehem. ♪ so many great things about time of year -- ♪ get-togethers, giving gifts and and holiday cheer. ♪ pretty decorations on a christmas tree. ♪ music of the season and family ♪ ♪ reason percent season, people need to know -- ♪st not about presents and mistletoe. ♪ the reason for the season, sunshine and snow -- ♪ it's about the birth of jesus a long time ago. ♪ holiday greetings everywhere you go.

♪ signs of celebration in sunshine or snow. ♪ salvation army collecting for the poor -- the. ♪ christmas carolers outside the door can. ♪ the reason for the season we believe in -- ♪ the reason for the season happened way back when. ♪ the reason percent if season -- for the season so many believe in -- ♪ happened mt. little town of beth he hem -- bethlehem. ♪ so if it gets hectic around this i'm of year -- ♪ take a minute to reflect on why we're all here. ♪ love one another jesus would say -- ♪ there's sure to be heaven on earth one day. ♪ jesus preached love, there can be no debate.

♪ -- only love can conquer hate. ♪ hope we can all do what we've been taught -- ♪ love's the most powerful weapon we've got. ♪ crazy for the season -- reason for the season. ♪ reason percent season -- for the season ♪ todd: that was an amazing performance by the beach boys. mike love and, of course, who can forget the guy from "full house," as i'm sure he loves to be referred to, john stamos. and we just ran in from outside where it's 4 degrees. carley: that's right -- griff: what's tata voice? todd: i don't know. carley: we're not the only people handling reindeer today, the one and only santa as well. and we are tracking -- look at the reindeer can just outside.

by the way, did anybody catch the back story as to why that reindeer in the forefront of the shot has the big antler? todd: no, we were talking about that. what is it? carley: did you catch the back story? there is a reason for that. griff: i love that rick reichmuth knew that they lose their horns or antlers every year and grow them back. carley: i think that reindeer got a little bit injured last year, i believe that's what he said. is that what he was saying, rick, the reindeer got injured? rick: i'm out of breath. [laughter] todd: three out of shape men and one pregnant -- carley: we are still tracking santa as well. todd: we are. carley: santa is currently in china. todd: interesting. carley: how about that? all the little kids in china are getting the toys. griff: you can call yourself to 877-hi-norad. they'll tell you exactly where he is, military precision and the arrival to the still on track sometime of after 9 p.m.

but if you're not in bed, kids, he might not come to your house. todd: we talked about that, it's not his responsibility necessarily, norad's responsibility to make sure the kids a are in bed, that's your job, children. do it, make sure you in bed, and then the big guy will come down your chimney. carley: rick, do you have a weather update? rick: hold on, he had an injury in his antler, and it got an infection, so they had to remove his last year's antlers, and it made this one grow crookinged and stopped the other one from growing. todd: also thank you in advance for providing a weather update because we have a mess across our great country. rick: so much of the country is dealing with the cold, we're talking about coldest temperatures we've seen in years. 51 degrees in miami, 49 in fort lauderdale, 45 in tampa. these actual air temperatures. then you go to north florida, and you're below freezing. 29 in jacksonville, 24 in pensacola, and we have hard