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eve. great to be with you bryan. >> i'm bryan llenas, and there's hartsfield-jackson international airport, but we'll start with alexis with the brutal temperatures. >> hi, bryan, as you noticed in new york city, it's frigid outside, the people are still out and about for the holiday season. across the country though we're talking high winds and heavy snow and lots of flooding here in the northeast. take a look here on your screen. this is what we've seen across the area here and even in parts of new york city. that's the coastal flooding that we've been warning about leaving parts of long island with more than seven feet of standing water and people had to wade through the flood waters as rescue crews received urgent calls for help. the high water also impacting parts of new york city and the jersey shore. the midwest slammed by a winter mix which led to dangerous road conditions. check it out. out in ohio, a 50-car pileup, bryan, left at least three people dead and several others

injured. those crashes left the turnpike closed for hours. millions of americans dealing with that bitter cold and those temperatures that continue to drop with blizzard conditions. right now, at least a half dozen cities are still under a wind chill alert and hundreds of thousands of people are without power, as crews say, the conditions will lead to delays as they try to restore that power grid. also that winter weather, bryan, an impacting package delivery. ups and fed ex say they've been hit by the icy roads. if you do expect to get your package before christmas, you probably won't. that's something to keep an eye on. >> alexis mcadams, in new york where it's a balmy 13 degrees, thank you. anita. >> bryan, chaos as one of america's busiest airports as the brutal storms force airlines to cancel thousands of

flights making this weekend a travel nightmare. charles, what is the mood right there where you are? >> (laughter) >> hey, good afternoon, anita. well, things are pretty busy here at hartsfield-jackson international airport. to the right of me you can see this long line at the delta check-in. folks are trying to hop on flights. you can bet there are a lot of people in the lines hoping to have a merry christmas at home, but with a mix of nasty weather and high demand for travel, it's all, but certain that a lot of these folks just won't make it. >> the connecting flights, the delays, everything. everything's messed up. >> are you-- >> and my flight, they missed all of their flights, all the connecting flights. it wasn't good. people wasn't happy. they need to do better. >> yeah, just one of many people who are feeling the effects of an arctic storm system that has delivered dangerous winds, heavy snow and

bone chilling temperatures that put more than 200 million americans under a winter weather advisory or warning on friday. the brutal conditions are setting travelers up for yet another day of delays and cancellations at airports nationwide. today alone, the storm has forced airlines to delay more than 4100 flights and cancel nearly 2,000 others, this, following more than 15,000 disruptions on friday and the storm hasn't been any easier on the tens of millions of drivers who are hitting the roads this holiday travel period. multiple highways were closed and at least six people-- or rather, 10 people were killed in crashes, including two in this massive 50-car pileup on the ohio turnpike. and anita, look, if people even make it to their destinations, they could be dealing with power outages, we're learning almost two million people are without power because of that nasty storm, anita. >> it seems like scrooge is around this christmas,

especially over the airports. charles watson live in atlanta for us. thank you, charles, for that live report. >> no doubt about it. >> i was going to say, bryan, there's nothing worse than showing up at the airport, especially on christmas, to find that your flight has been delayed or canceled. it's just the worst. >> yeah, no doubt about it. i think that everybody knows someone who has been impacted by this. i, for instance, have a friend from grade school named dan, his wife and their wife-month-old daughter amelia were stuck at denver airport for 22 1/2 hours. these are some of the images they sent us. they were forced to sleep there because they couldn't get their stroller or car seat because it was stuck on the airplane. they were on two different planes for 11 hours and did not take off. they left at 2:45-- they got there at 2:45 and left their home in denver on wednesday and didn't get to baltimore, d.c. area, 7:15 p.m. on thursday. the real mvp is amelia.

a cute little girl, five months old and apparently picture perfect incredible stories out there. look at her there, the cutest. >> so cute. and change what i said before. there's nothing worse than showing up to the airport and having your flight delayed and canceled unless you've got a baby with you, that's the worst, right? >> apparently, yes, absolutely. but apparently she was perfect, so-- unbelievable. now for the latest weather forecast, let's bring in meteorologist adam klotz. adam, any good news out there? >> brian, that story was enough to make me glad that we worked today. why get on the roads and travel the country? here is what we've got here, everything a that's a color, blues, purple, at or below freezing. you see the entire country dealing with it, a lot of single digits and teens, and add in the wind chill, the wind chills are colder. and not as cold as yesterday, but a lot of folks down to negative 20 degrees, negative 25.

deep across the south even single digits. it's warmer, but so cold you'll hardly notice it. wind chill alerts affecting over 100 million people midwest, across the plains. and wind is an issue if snow is on the ground, that snow is over, but there's still ice on the ground and we're not calming down and the slick spots will stay slick. driving is dangerous. the frost and freeze alerts, stretching down to florida and i want to leave you with the graphic. did you have a beach holiday in mind? 51 degrees, the whole country dealing with cold temps, bryan. >> a lot of coats in florida, 51 degrees, but we don't feel bad for them. thank you, adam klotz. >> montana has seen temperatures as low as minus 50 degrees this week. that's the coldest in the continental u.s. joining me now live to talk about how the state is dealing with a jaw-dropping cold is

montana governor, thank you for joining us today. i know you have been very busy there in montana. let me start by asking you, what have you seen so far as a result of the severe weather across your state? minus 50 degrees, that just seems inhuman. >> yeah, anita, thank you for having me on. let me start by saying merry christmas. >> yeah, merry christmas. >> merry christmas, it's been a very cold, up to 75 below zero. almost every community in the state haw wind chill factors north of 50 degrees below zero and what we learn in this time is that reliable energy supply is not a flies to have, it's a must-have. it's a matter of public safety and i'm just proud of the work that the state has done to keep the power on. we've been pursuing all of the above energy policy. we saw some of the greatest strains we've ever seen to our

electric grid. we've had modest outages and the power has been restored and so, we have good news at the end of this, but it's really dependent on us having all of the above energy policy. >> what do you mean by that? because i wanted to ask you, mou do you prepare for this kind of storm with the cold temperatures and the power outage and the rest? what is the power that you're talking about. >> we have coal and hydro power and different resources work at different times. particularly when it's really cold and get the high pressure systems, the wind doesn't blow, wind is not a reliable power source when you need it when it's super cold. we did see massive strains on our grid, but the grid held up because we had this baseload power coming from cole, hydro, natural gas, and that's what was important to help us get through this tough period. >> yeah, so interesting. when you look at the big

picture with all of the perform storm, these terrible conditions. what concerns you the most as governor for the people of your state? >> well, i'm proud of the people of montana. when it's cold like this, the cows still need to be fed and our ranchers are out there in these subzero temperatures, spreading hay so we can produce some of the best beef in the world. the plow driver is still out on the roads. it's important. life goes on even when it's cold and it's important to come to a warm house and i'm just proud that montanans help their neighbors and that's what we saw going on during this recent period. >> that's amazing. i want to ask you quickly for your advice to other governors dealing with horrific conditions. seven other states have declared states of emergency on friday, and we have georgia, kentucky, maryland, north carolina, new york, oklahoma and west virginia. quickly, governor, what's your advice to the governors of those states? >> well, i have relationships with most of these governors

and they've done a good job of being prepared. that's what we try and do here through our disaster emergency services, so we do have outages, we can respond quickly. we did have some very modest outages, but our utility workers worked through these severe temperatures to get power and gas restored. it's also important from an energy policy perspective that we continue to pursue an all of the above. if we had pursued a biden administration singular view of eliminating fossil fuels we wouldn't have gotten through the way we did. it's important that we have the right energy policy to make sure we have reliable and affordable power to keep the lights on. >> well, i'm so happy to hear that things are going well in your state, considering the difficult circumstances, governor, thank you for your time and merry christmas to you and everyone in your state. >> merry christmas. >> all right. you are looking live now at

images of our southern border. migrants stuck there are bracing for dangerously low temperatures as a wild winter storm, the one we've been talking about sweeps the nation. our christina coleman is tracking the very latest on this. she's live in los angeles. christina. >> hi, anita. in a data dump last night, as we head into this christmas weekend, the federal government finally released the new border numbers for november and no surprise, they are disturbing and breaking another record. there are more than 233,700 border encounters last month along according to cvp data. this is the largest amount of border encounters for a november on record and compare that number to last november, that's a huge increase. retired acting ice director tom homan believes the federal government did not want to release these new border numbers until congress voted on the omnibus bill. >> we all know how it turned

out. the omnibus game out with zero money for border security and that's disappointing and-- >> that's an important part though tom. >> and especially the administration just because they're so terrible. >> and again he says something need to be done about this, something that impacts this humanitarian crisis that we're dealing with. a new video out of brownsville texas from a source. dozens and dozens of migrants were crossing through a creek yesterday and keep in mind, it's cold out there. we're dealing with a winter storm and who knows what's floating around in that water that they're dragging young children through and the border agents are busy cracking down on rapid drug smuggling and t narcotics pouring over the southern border. the supreme court is weighing in whether to keep the pandemic era trump policy, title 42, obviously that will have an impact on the migrants crossing

illegally, back to you. >> absolutely, everybody is waiting to see what happens with that one. christina coleman, thank you for that live report. appreciate it. bryan. >> for more on this, let's turn to our guest, the heritage foundation's laura reese. welcome. let's get into it. let's bring up the numbers one more time for november. a record number, 233,000 migrants. last november, 174,000. it's continuing. it looks like fiscal 2023 is going to be worse than fiscal, 2022 at this rate. title 42, if and when it goes, you've made the point that concentrating, debating over title 42 misses the point. what do you mean by that, laura. >> well, we've had title 42 in place as long as joe biden has been in the white house and yet, we have a historic border crisis. just the difference year over year from november to last year, a 59,000 illegal alien

increase. so, yes, we have title 42 in place, but the administration is only sporadically using it to turn back migrants. and they're still reaching record highs. so, what this has shown is that congress needs to pass a general authority for border agents to quickly exspell migrants for any type of crisis, not just a public health crisis. they could have done that since april since title 42 was about to end, but haven't done it. >> senator joe manchin says that title 42 should stay in place until immigration reform is passed by congress. what in your heestimation shoul that look like? some are saying remain in mexico where asylum seekers are staying in mexico while their cases are adjudicated. what should and probably will

look like. >> there are a number of tried and true policies and operations we put in place during the last administration and reached record lows for border-- illegal crossings and we had border security. those included erecting the border wall system that the border agents asked for. so, that needs to be completed. it also includes the remain in mexico program, which keeps illegal migrants who are seeking to use the asylum system and get to the u.s. and disappear, keeps them waiting in mexico and successful because the caravans stopped coming once that policy was in place and having an agreement with central american governments so if migrants traverse those countries and don't seek protection there, and suddenly ask for protection once they get to our border, returning those migrants to that first safe country so they

can seek protection there. all of these policies need to be put back in place because they were successful. >> a lot of people have talked about remain in mexico being inhumane, but we're talking about migrants out sleeping on the streets in mexico and the united states below freezing terms, low of 20 right now tonight in el paso. what do you make of this moral argument that's being made when it seems like this entire crisis is by definition inhumane? >> well, secretary mayorkas likes to say that his policies are safe, orderly and humane, but they're anything but. in addition to migrants suffering cold temperatures that you're talking about, we've had my many migrants die due to the conditions of the dangerous journey crossing here. women and children are regularly raped by the cartels and the smugglers who bring them here. 14 border patrol agents have committed suicide this year because the job is so

difficult. there's nothing humane about what this white house is doing. and just a note about the numbers that dropped last night. the 233,000 for november. they dropped that friday night before christmas because they want to hide those numbers. if their policies are so safe, orderly and humane, why are they hiding the numbers? why are they doing this. >> fox news digital spoke to folks in el paso, seeing the brunt of this crisis right now and this is what they had to say whether or not alejandro mayorkas, in charge of the border as dhs secretary whether or not he should be impeached. >> mr. mayorkas shut be fired. >> we're in the thick of it until the term ends, you know, definitely reevaluate this again. >> he's doing what he's instructed to do by the administration. the other real problem that we've got is congress needs to act. >> laura, a quick reaction

here. what do you make? do you think that alejandro mayorkas should be fired? >> he does merit it, he's broken laws, created laws, lied to congress, lied to the american public and completely lost the faith and trust of his employees, including the border patrol agents, so, he merits impeachment next congress and i do believe that the house will go down that path. >> laura reese from the heritage foundation. thank you so much and merry christmas to you and yours, i appreciate it. >> merry christmas. >> anita. >> president biden is poised to sign a massive spending bill after it passed hours before the deadline. more on what's inside that bill next. ♪ i'm way ahead of schedule with my trusty team ♪ ♪ there's heather on the hedges ♪ ♪ and kenny on the koi ♪ ♪ and your truck's been demolished by the peterson boy ♪

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>> congress passing a massive 1.7 trillion dollar spending bill this week and averting a government shutdown hours before the deadline. senior congressional correspondent chad is live in washington d.c. with more. >> bryan, the omnibus is done, but divides between republicans. republicans who voted no are upbraiding their colleagues in the senate.

>> there's a reason for 18 republican votes in the senate, they appeased them. these are retiring republicans, and we're growing is in site and pass under pelosi leadership for the last time and she'll get this in and it's bad for america. >> and they criticized for naming a fbi building to richard shelby. and a school lunch programs after pat leahy and it names the federal building in san francisco after house speaker nancy pelosi and includes $45 billion for ukraine. >> in this legislation we proudly deliver another consequential round of security, economic and humanitarian aid and it really is not as the president of ukraine said the other night, it's not about charity, it's about security. >> now, believe it or not, the bill is not ready for the

president to sign. that's because it will take congressional enrollment clerks days to copy the bill onto parchment paper for the president to sign. it would still take days if they worked today and christmas day, bryan. bryan: i've got a question here, house minority leader kevin mccarthy coming out and saying he wants to block legislative priorities for republican senators who voted for this bill. there's a schism here between him and mcconnell. what do you make of this? how big of a schism is this? you've covered many of these. >> there is a divide between conservatives and those in the senate, and those who want to get things done and appeal to the conservative base. keep in mind kevin mccarthy is in the race to become speaker of the house on january 3rd. so far he does not have the votes. so some of those statements by mccarthy, those are appeals to move the meter, that he

heretofore, he doesn't have the votes. bryan: chad. thank you. anita: to hear more on this $2 trillion spending bill we have from macro trend advisors, llc and the host of the podcast, mitch rochelle and a great friend of the program. mitch, thanks for coming today. i know you're a critic of this bill. other than the price tag, what are your biggest concerns about it? >> i think, well, first of all, it's clear that washington is broken, to roll up $1.7 trillion, that's with a t, dollars into one, you know, 4,000 page measure just seems ridiculous. i think in the good old days, they used to do single up and down votes department by department. i think we need to get back to that. the biggest thing that concerns me, we're printing more money and loading up $30 trillion of debt in this country and my

kids are going to be paying for that, your kids paying for that, and grandkids. with inflation out of control, more money printing is the last thing we need to do. anita: before the bill passed, minority leader kevin mccarthy spoke on the floor about objections to the bill. nine republicans are voting for it and they're leaving and don't have to deal with the repercussions, but listen to mccarthy for repercussions for democrats in the future. he says when i'm speaker, their bills will be dead on arrival in the house. if this nearly $2 trillion monstrosity is allowed to move forward over our objections. moving forward, it looks like bipartisanship is going out the window next year. what is he really saying here? >> yeah, and the thing is, that there's a lot of victory laps going on, you know, in the press and in social media that this was bipartisan. but hardly isn't when the plurality of republicans are against it and i think that the, you know, the divide between republicans and democrats are getting worse and

what i fear from a stalemate perspective is the divide between house republicans and senate republicans may be getting worse so it may be hard to push anything through, but the biggest thing that concerns me overall, is the sheer amount of money that we're voting on, or that congress voted on without even looking at the details of the 4,000 page bill that they got hours before they had a vote on it. anita: yeah, there's no way that anybody read through the whole thing and lots of pork in there. different members will take those pieces of pork back home to their districts and tout them. so, that's kind of what that's all about. i want to turn now to the economy, and what's going on with inflation. according to the accounting giant deloit, people have had to tighten their belts when it came to buying presents here, and bring it up on the screen. the average consumer is only planning to purchase nine presidents-- i'm sorry, nine presents in 2022, as opposed to 16 from last year, and that's quite a

few less gifts under the tree. it seems like the grinch is here, he stole christmas from some people and they're feeling higher prices and inflation. so what's going to happen next year, mitch. >> listen, i think when we tally it all up. i think that we're going to find is people probably spend close to what they spent last year and trying to make it more impactful. the thing that concerns me, anita, so many americans, to buy those gifts this year, put them on credit cards. and you know, before the pandemic, you know, we had a credit card issue, during the pandemic, the balance sheets of americans got better and now we're worse off on a household borrowing basis before the pandemic. that bothers me. anita: what about interest rates for credit cards? because if people pile it up on the credit cards? what kind of interest rate hikes are they looking at in the new year on that, quickly on that. >> i think that most revolving credit arrangements have a

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>> arctic blasts and blizzards disrupting travel ahead of christmas. fox weather's robert ray has more on this. >> a very merry christmas, but a cold one here from metro atlanta. this is alpharetta, a suburb with the beautiful holiday festivities behind me, but you know what? a lot of southerners are probably going to be hunkering down here today in this part of the country as temperatures are really, really cold. wind chills below zero. thankfully sunny skies above,

but just a travel nightmare all around the country, including here at atlanta jackson-hartsfield airport. and it's snarled and same thing in chicago and other areas, and we remember that arctic sea smoke that we saw up in chicago yesterday on friday, just amazing to see that. temperatures of the lake at 40 degrees, the air temperature below zero and creates this hot tub effect. so mother nature on full display. unfortunately, there are still thousands of people out of power in the state of georgia and really, all across the midwest and the northeast, unfortunately, there have also been people who have lost their lives in these dangerous conditions. the old saying, back your patience if you're travelling, really comes into play. if you're still trying to get to that destination for the holiday, yeah, you do, you've got to pack that patience.

in the meantime, the temperatures are going to continue to move upwards here in the south and that is a great thing. back to you. anita: fox weather. . bryan: a brand new twitter file just released, twitter files, i should say, released moments ago from sub stack writer matt taibbi, showing more about the cozy relationship between twitter and the fbi. and gordon lawson, let's start here. one of the tweets that was just sent out by matt taibbi, number four, the file shoes the fbi acting as a doorman to a vast media surveillance and censorship encompassing agencies across the federal government from the state department to the pentagon to the cia. the twitter files here, they're essentially alleging an inappropriate relationship in which the fbi was sending

information for tweets to twitter, flagging them as misinformation. what do you make of the relationship based on what we know between the fbi and twitter. was it inappropriate and is it a rare relationship to have? >> yeah, bryan, this is obviously is difficult question because i think our law enforcement and intelligence professionals do a great job most of the time obviously the politicalization with twitter has cast a negative light on some of that work. i think there's been this obsession with kind of the domestic politics that has cast a negative shadow on what's going on, some of the good work that's being done. so this is, the fbi has a reputational issue now it has to address and i think what mr. musk has done, taking over as ceo, is going to help clean that up in a lot of good ways. bryan: the fbi says that they don't request, they didn't request any specific action to be done on these tweets. said essentially, look, we're

flagging the tweets, it's up to you. but fbi reimbursed twitter 3.5 million for all of these legal actions that they have to take or helping the fbi in court cases and whatnot. based on your national security expertise, do you think this is done through a lot of social media companies and that americans don't know about? >> obviously, there are things that are classified for sure, but keep in mind that foreign adversaries use social media for disinformation as well. there are appropriate mechanisms for our law enforcement to be looking at social media. i think what we're seeing here, it crossed the line to where perhaps constitutional norms were not followed with this type of behavior and i think there's going to be a reset and this sort of transparency provides a better level of accountability for the future. what we can't lose sight of, we need to be able to have law

enforcement and intel do their work. they have to do it in a constitutionally appropriate way moving forward. bryan: got it. there was elon musk put up a poll and asked everybody pretty much should he step down from twitter. 57% of the people said yes, he should. he will, and he's going to pick a new ceo. tesla dropped 65% this year alone and a lot of people have questions about this, what do you make of his foray as ceo? >> it's a valuable brand and he paid a lot of money from it. this is an exceptional individual with spacex and tesla and created impressive brands globally. i think when they get a professional media ceo taking over the reins, the brand will continue to increase in value and i also think that there is going to be, as we kind of said before, better transparency, more openness with it. that's exactly what the platform needs to be

sustainable for the future. bryan: you know, you are the ceo after company that deals with cyber security, real quick, from a national security perspective, what do you make -- what should we be focused on as we deal with cyber security threats that are relentless and ongoing? >> cyber crime is going to cost the world $10.5 trillion next year. and we're seeing 15 million a minute in ransomware attacks globally. we need to focus on those threats, it's a foreign threat, and russia and china domain is getting stronger and i hope we can focus on continuing 0 combat more effectively and move past some of the negative press and negative actions from the past. bryan: gordon lawson, conceal ceo. merry christmas to you and yours, thank you so much for being here. >> merry christmas, bryan, a pleasure, thank you. bryan: of course. anita. anita: a deadly shooting at mall of america just days

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>> bloomington, minnesota police still searching for the suspect in the mall of america shooting that killed a 19-year-old last night. now let's go to alexandria hoff for the latest details on this deadly mall shooting. >> bryan, this entire ordeal lasted just 30 seconds

according to police and did claim the life of the 19-year-old and caused holiday shoppers to fear for their lives. one was a singer at the mall of america and recording this video when the sound of gunshots led to panic. you can see scrambling there for safety. like so many others. according to the bloomington police department, the shooting happened just before 8 p.m. last night. and an officer working inside of the mall heard gunshots fired from within the nordstrom store and rushed to find the teen who had wounds, and life saving measures were taken and there was one between two men who pulled out a gun with shots. and the sorrow of having to endure christmas in the wake of a loss and issued a warning for the parties responsible. >> i'm confident that we're going to catch these people and we're going to lock them up and

i'm going to reiterate what i said the last time, if anybody helps these people, i mean, so much as buy them a happy meal, give them a ride, we're going to lock you up with them. >> well, according to the ap, several players from the new york giants were inside of the mall at the time of the shooting and they did make it out safely. another shopper's clothing was reportedly grazed by a bullet and they were unharmed. the mall of america went to lockdown before they reopened la later. bryan: alexandria hoff in d.c. thank you. anita: one organization is bringing the veterans the gift of family. this holiday weekend, the ceo of luke's wings and a wounded warrior will join us next. i remember when i first started flying, and we would experience turbulence. i would watch the flight attendants. if they're not nervous, then i'm not going to be nervous.

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>> welcome back. luke's wings is flying loved ones to veterans as part of their no service member spends christmas alone campaign holiday season. so far they've brought christmas joy to 336 families. and joining us is fletcher gill, the luke's wings

co-founder and ceo and merry christmas and happy holidays to both of you. fletcher, let me start with you, tell us about luke's wings and what exactly the organization does. >> of course, anita, thank you for having us, merry christmas to your viewers out there and the fox audience. luke's wings was founded in 2008 some almost 16 years ago, with the express mission of flying family to the bedside of our wounded warriors recovering from combat injuries. the idea was that our service members needed a patient advocate, needed a nonmedical attendant and frankly needed the love of family, a mother, a father, a wife, a daughter, somebody to be there to help them through their long and difficult recovery. in the last 15, 16 years luke's wings have provided 15,000 airplane tickets to the b

bedsides to our wounded and inj injured. anita: when we're not feeling well, in the hospital, so important. harley, you were deployed to africa. you were injured when an entrance barrier fell on your foot. how did luke's wings help you out during the holidays. tell us about your experience. >> yeah, sure. well, first off, thanks for having me, i appreciate it. so luke's wings has helped me out by sending my family out to see me when i was-- when i first arrived to walter reed in maryland. it was kind of cool because i was by myself, you know, obviously i didn't go on deployment with my family so when i first got to walter reed, i was alone. so it was nice of them to send my family out to me, my wife and three kids, and you know, they sent me here from walter reed to my house for christmas. so, i appreciate that, too. and these guys have done

nothing, but good things for me and my family. >> that's incredible. i think we were seeing some pictures of you with your family and some other wounded veterans and their families. what kind of a difference did that make for you in your recovery to be able to see your family during that difficult time? >> comfort, i guess. i mean, it was really nice to have my wife and three kids with me, you know, going through something that most people don't go through. you know, this is like a new life for me, so it was nice to have them, you know, by my side. anita: yeah, i can imagine. and we're looking at some wonderful pictures of families who have been helped by luke's wings. you know, so many over the years, the last 15 years, as you mentioned, fletcher. tell me, fletcher, how you've seen a difference in the recovery of these wounded warriors and patients, when they have their families next

to them, i mean, as opposed to being at the worst of times by themselves? >> well, we've seen it all. and i can tell you that every flight matters. the suicide rates and the divorce rates are sky high. we lose more service members to suicide than we do to the enemy and suicide rate-- excuse me, divorce rates are up over 50%. in our opinion, nothing is better than the care and love and attention and physical presence of that family. the cost of flights $1,000 a flight when you're talking about recovering for three, four years at a military hospital, that cost to the family becomes astronomical. we try to take that out of the equation for the family. we provide rotation plans and make sure that that service member has the love of family by their bedside the entire time and in darkest moments and when it comes to relationships and marriages and, you know, we have service members come off

the battlefield and they have a pregnant fiancee at home or at the hospital and they haven't met their son or daughter yet and we're trying to change that and every day we try to change that at luke's wings. anita: well, you're changing that for sure and no telling what difference you are making in these people's lives and their recovery process, it's so evident in those photos and we also saw don rumsfeld in those photos and i guess he came to one of your awards ceremonies. fletcher and harley, thank you for joining us today and i want to put up on the screen. luck's wings.org if you'd like information on that. you can look that up. thank you both and merry christmas to both of you. >> merry christmas god bless. >> merry christmas. anita: bryan. bryan: merry christmas to all of our veterans and their families. more on the bone chilling winter storms sweeping the nation after the break. ♪ ♪ mercedes-benz is turning electric...

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