millie decked out in christmas glasses. you can see her treats better. >> we love the pictures. we love the festivity. merry christmas, everybody. we hope you had a great one. christmas was great, absolutely. >> let's do it again. >> "america's newsroom" starts right now. bye. >> a wicked winter storm burying the country in snow and ice bringing the coldest christmas in decades and leaving at least 34 people dead nationwide. the grim number could get even higher once crews fight through feet of snow to the hardest to reach areas. good morning, i'm alissa acuna. >> julie: i'm welcome to fox news live. i am exhausted. western new york seeing some of the worst of the heavy snow.

high winds and brutal cold. buffalo getting a stunning 40 inches of snow and could see more today. at least 12 people dead in the area. new york governor kathy hochul is a buffalo native. used to rough winters but not like this. >> this will go down in history as the most devastating storm in buffalo's long storied history of having battled many battles, many major storms. >> buffalo's airport is set to remain closed until tuesday. 3100 flights were canceled christmas day nationwide and more than 1,000 have already been can elide today. charles watson is live at atlanta international airport. hi, charles. >> good morning. today is looking to be just as busy here in atlanta and at

airports across the country. it is 9:00 and check out the long lines that have accumulated at the delta check-in counters. this is the scene, large crowds we're seeing all over the airport leaving the real possibility that today could be a miserable one for folks who are trying to make it onto flights and actually make it off the ground. thousands are still facing flight delays and cancellations as the arctic blast put more than 200 million americans under some kind of winter advisory or warning. for those flying it is for some to make last-minute changes or risk cancelling holiday plans with family. >> the first christmas that i missed, which is sad to say. and i thought about driving home. >> it has been a really good year and we won't let a flight delay throw a bump in the road. we are just going to drive if we have to. >> the disruptions are piling

up. the latest numbers from flight away shore there are 1700 delays and 1500 flights canceled so far today. over in buffalo, new york, officials say the airport will remain closed until tuesday. planes were grounded and the airport was closed friday after white-out conditions made it too dangerous for anyone to go anywhere. officials are urging people to stay off the roads as the city digs out of more than 40 inches of snow. it could be a lifesaving decision. the arctic blast has killed more than two dozen people including at least eight people involved in icy car crashes in places like ohio, missouri, and kansas as conditions deteriorated last week. can we give a round of aplus for all the people in the airport today and who have been here over the days? we've been talking to them. a lot of folks are running into delays and cancellations but the

most part they've tried to keep their cool and enjoy the holiday for what it is. a round of applause for these people. if i was in this situation, i would be upset. back to you. >> you are smiling because you aren't getting on a plane today. julie. >> julie: border officials are bracing for the end of title 42 pandemic restrictions as soon as tomorrow. they say that will drive record migration numbers even higher and the timing could not be worse. brand-new cbp data showing border encounters up 33% last month from november of 2021. peter doocy is on this one from the white house. he joins us live this morning. good morning, peter. >> good morning. you see the numbers. the huge increase year-over-year in illegal border crossings. something the biden administration knows about but not that they're drawing attention to. when you look at the statement, the latest from dhs it says the

department of homeland security continues to fully enforce our immigration and public health laws at the border. individuals and families attempting to enter without authorization are being expelled as required by court order under the title 42 public health authority or placed into removal proceedings. as temperatures remain dangerously low all along the border, no one should put their lives in the hands of smugglers or risk life and limb attempting to cross only to be returned. that statement where they talk about still using title 42 until the very, very end is still leaving some experts about the border wanting more. >> there are about seven statements in the last ten days on their website. not one that says we'll enforce the border better or give the border patrol agents and front line the tools that they need and know work to secure and solve the problem on the southwest border. >> white house officials have

been mostly quiet and nearly a week since we were told the white house's title 42 replacement details would be coming in a call. it still hasn't happened yet. >> there have been a lot of rumors and speculations. i'm not going to go off of everything that you are hearing quite yet. we'll have more to share tomorrow and there will be a call, too, on these varying issues. >> they're telling us not to go off everything we're hearing but they aren't telling us what they want us to know about the policy to follow. the president is here at the white house with the first family. he has got a presidential daily briefing on his schedule later this hour but nothing else public, at least not yet. >> julie: they don't want us to know. they want to keep us hanging. all right. look forward to finding out the secret. >> let's bring in hugo guhugo fm

"the washington examiner." never 21 to november 22nd a 33% increase. things expected to get worse. that's even difficult to imagine at this point, hugo. >> oh, unfortunately it will get a whole lot worse. in president biden's first 12 months in office, 2.1 million people have crossed illegally. 2.6 in the second 12 months and the department of homeland security itself says the numbers could double from 5,000 a day to 10,000 a day once the title 42 disappears. we could be looking -- we've got 12 months to find out this disaster. we could be looking at as many as 5 million interceptions at the border. and there is a huge body of people who have come north from

central and south america who are just waiting for title 42 to end. they are praying title 42 ends. there is all right a lot of holes punched into that but praying there will be no enforcement. most people are being intercepted and allowed to move into the country. there are some expulsions but nothing like what there used to be. there is no policy to secure the border despite kamala harris saying the border is secure and she is supposed border czar. >> we just heard dhs is now issuing statements and warning people not to cross. and there have been calls by the president's critics that it is -- and from democrats -- it is time for him to head down to the border, make a statement from the border. the white house has been saying this is a photo op, it is not necessary. but when we have all of our reporters who are down there on the border talking to people coming across, they are saying that the president is saying go ahead and come here.

they are coming here because biden told them it is okay. would it make a difference if the president went down to the border and told folks please don't come here, it is dangerous. we don't have room. >> it would certainly make a difference and certainly something he should do. as you say, he is the one who has been saying since he was campaigning, you should come. basically he was asked the questions during the 2020 campaign and he told them that they should come. he was down in arizona recently and when he was asked why he wasn't going to the border he said he had more important things to do. the thing is that president biden is totally enthralled to his left wing. the left wing knows as well as president trump knew that one of the defining features of a nation is its border. the left hates america and it's one of the reasons they basically want this border to disappear. if the border disappears, it is really under mines this country as a nation. so president biden, whatever his

own personal feelings on the matter are is totally enthralled to the left and willing to go along with this abandonment of immigration policy. >> real quick in the short time i have left i want to switch gears. matt taibbi released the latest installment of the twitter files. coordination between the tech giant and government agencies stretched far beyond the f.b.i. they had so many interactions with other agencies the company couldn't keep them all straight. your thoughts on that. >> yeah. you know, just last week we wrote an editorial at the "washington examiner" saying what we had already seen showed it was just the tip of the iceberg and likely to be a lot more agencies. a few days later christmas eve matt taibbi going through the twitter files finds that's exactly the case. constant references to other government agencies. there was a massive disinformation and suppression

operation being conducted by what some people call the deep state. there needs to be an absolute reckoning and accountability on this and housecleaning. there were people doing things -- the first amendment prevents the government from suppressing what it might regard as disinformation. now, some people say this was a private company. but the level of coordination between the government agencies, which were weekly meetings and conversations, the government does not have the legitimate authority to delegate the suppression of information to a private company. this is a grotesque dereliction and transgression constitutionally. >> we'll continue to follow it. hugo, thank you for being with us this morning. >> thank you. julie. >> julie: a violent christmas weekend in some cities. police if colorado say a man shot and killed his wife before turning the gun on himself. on christmas day this happened.

it happened inside a -- kingdom hall north of denver. they found the couple. in minnesota police arrested five teenagers who shot and killed a 19-year-old man at the mall of america near minneapolis on friday. investigators say it all started after an argument between two groups escalated into a gun fight. the five suspects are being held on suspicion of second degree murder. >> you come to bloomington and think you are going to kill people and get away with it? we're not playing that here. you are going to jail and we'll make sure that anybody else that helped these folks are going to go to jail, too. >> julie: a florida sheriff's deputy shot and killed on christmas eve while serving a domestic violence warrant. police say the officer was

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>> julie: inflation was south at the north pole and santa wore shock. surveys show this christmas many families say they had fewer gifts under the tree despite spending the same amount of money in past years. let's bring in steve moore former economic advisor to

president trump and let's talk about wages versus inflation because if you look at the numbers for november, it paints a pretty grim picture for what was to come this christmas. wages plus 5.1% going up. inflation, though, 7.1%. it's very hard to buy christmas presents at the same rate as you did in years past when inflation is at that number. talk about the impact it may have on credit card debt. i can only imagine the credit card debt that people are suffering right now as a result. >> good morning. i hope santa brought what you wanted under the tree on christmas. >> julie: help to clean up the living room. nothing more than somebody to clean up my kids' mess. a bomb cyclone went through my house. >> a tough christmas season for a lot of families when you have people losing $4 thousand in income due to inflation. people -- most people what they did was they bought about the

same number of presents but didn't have the income. so what they had to do was go further into debt. are you so right that in 2022 we had record amounts of credit card debt. people increased their credit card debt by 15 to 20% in 2022. that will be a tough january for people. the worst day of the year for me is when i get the credit card statement for all the money i spent during the christmas season. it will be difficult. here is a warning to people. make sure you pay your credit card debt. a lot of these credit card companies charge you interest rates of 20 and 25% if you don't pay that credit card debt off very quickly. this is a result of the biden inflation. it has put a dent into families.

>> julie: the number of gifts the average consumer purchased this year tward to last. 9 to 16. half essentially. as far as credit card debt is concerned, i was always raised by the assumption if you don't have it, don't spend it. i don't use credit cards. it is good for having good credit but i think people need to stop relying so much on credit cards. they are paying these high interest rates which will only inflate their debt. it is a lose/lose situation. is there any other alternative for people stuck in that place? >> some people get second jobs. we're seeing a lot more americans getting second jobs because the paychecks they get from the normal jobs aren't keeping up with the 8% inflation that we saw in 2022 under joe biden. again, the root of the problem here is people do have jobs. they are working. they are working 40 hours a week

but their paychecks aren't -- as you said, when your paycheck goes up by 5% but costs go up by 8% you are falling behind. 2022 was one of the worst years for family incomes in terms of after-inflation take home pay. it will be something now the fed will have to deal with, julie, by raising interest rates even further and that's going to put a damper on the economy in 2023. i'm not trying to be a humbug but we have to worry about the economic predicament of this country now that joe biden put us in. you know who didn't cut back sending this year? government? the federal government spent record amounts two days before christmas they pass another $2 trillion spending bill. >> julie: we were hoping for lower interest rates but with the bill no way it will happen any time soon. we have 2023 with more increased

spending or increased prices. steve moore, that's all the time we have. appreciate you coming on. thank you so much for the buzz kill. >> you, too, merry christmas. >> alicia: the fentanyl crisis is driving a spike in deaths among teenagers. could social media be to blame? a former associate of sam bankman-fried admitting ftx knowingly misled lenders and they knew it was wrong. the latest on the legal battle coming up. all across the country,

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booking and i won't make to any of that. so their next flight doesn't work for me. >> julie: the roads not much of an option either, check this out from seattle. oh my goodness. this is a hill sliding down. that range rover sliding down the icy hill nearly crushing pedestrians. people struggling to walk on the sidewalks. i guess that's a better way to travel on your butt walking on sidewalks impossible blanketed with ice. if you must drive seriously, please be careful out there. my goodness. >> alicia: the group that brought us mack gruff the crime dog. the national crime prevention council said they make it easier for drug dealers to target teenagers, cdc reports overdoses among teens ages 10-19 were up

109% between 2019 and 2021. 84% of those involved fentanyl. an average of one death every five minutes. the doctor is in, the professor of medicine and fox news contributor marc siegel is with us. thank you for being here. let's get started on this call for the d.o.j. to get involved when it comes to snapchat. the way the messages are encrypted they disappear which is just perfect if you are a drug dealer. what can the d.o.j. actually do here? >> they could start by realizing -- i'm sure they do realize, the drug enforcement agencies actually confiscated 50 million fake pills laced with fentanyl last year, 50 million. 379 million potentially deadly fentanyl doses. the d.e.a. is overloaded with this problem. of course the department of justice has to get involved and

try to better police drug dealers who are using snapchat. where everything is encrypted and snapchat says we're getting some of the drug dealers but they can hide and encrypt things and people get one pill. they think they get something else. we featured here on fox, i reported on one poor teen that actually died thinking they were getting oxycodone and it was laced with fentanyl 50 to 100 times more powerful than morphine it stops your breathing and people don't know what they are getting. it is a huge problem. the d.o.j. has to be involved. >> alicia: a deadly doze doesn't have to be the size of a pill. this is how small that dosage can be compared to a penny. that's the tip of a pencil. those powders that you see there, those are deadly doses. getting that through to teenagers who don't like listening to adults is critical, isn't it? >> yes, that's a hugely

important point. i would add to that the campaign to get narcan or the antidote for opioid into schools and where children know about it, parents is a good step. let me tell you the problem with that. that wears off. fentanyl doesn't. we designed fentanyl to treat cancer pain. it lasts for 2 or 3 days. the narcan may last only a matter of hours. it's the right thing for everybody to have to be able to use, it is not the answer alone. >> alicia: as a society, i think we can do better. you are talking about one death every five minutes. that's astonishing. look at this. u.s. life expectancy for americans hits a 25-year low. 2019 it was 78.8 years. now 2021 it was 76.4 years. we are headed in the wrong direction. >> most of it is fentanyl, by the way. 84% of the drug overdose deaths are from fentanyl. most are synthetic opioids,

there are other ones that we have out there that are even worse than fentanyl in terms of potency. those are being tracked, oxy. the problem is, though, that the drug dealers are based on two main cartels in mexico, that are making the stuff in labs the size of a garbage can or ten foot and get ingredients from china or india. the heroin poppy fields are dying out. the border problem. you put all that together. drug ingreed whence coming across the mexico, two main cartels producing hundreds of thousands of doses per lab and it leaking across the southern border into the united states. >> alicia: such a desperate situation. doctor, thank you for your time today. >> thank you. >> julie: a christmas eve rocket strike on ukraine marking exactly ten months of war and

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>> julie: the $1.7 trillion spending package is awaiting biden's signature. the house and senate passed the bill last week of the our next guest voted against it. congressman pat fallon joins us now, a member of the house oversight committee. the house and senate bill that was passed, $1.7 trillion, like we needed that kind of debt like a hole in the head. it adds to the national debt

injecting more fuel into runaway inflation. i know you voted against the bill so tell us what is your biggest issue with this bill? do you think the omnibus bill will do more harm than good? >> julie, omnibus is a difficult word to pronounce. yeah, it will do more harm than good. what we have here is the lame duck democrats at the last minute shoving a 4,155 page bill down our throats. it includes 787 billion of non-emergency discretionary spending. amongst the worst provisions it gives $12 billion to a i.r.s., an agency that is already overfunded and has $80 billion from i call the inflation enhancement act. it gives $299 million to the national labor relations board

and $3 million for an lgbtq museum in new york city, 3 million for be friendly highways, not sure what that is. $65 million to the u.n. relief agency that has a history of promoting terrorism and producing materials anti-semitic materials. it will add also 2.65 trillion to our debt over the next ten years, about $20,000 per family. >> julie: the pork-packed spending bill is outrageous if you look at it. i'm curious if half of those who voted for it read through it. family planning where population growth harms the environment. my favorite $70 million for salmon. the be friendly highways, i don't like bees. i don't know, stay away from them. this is what democrats wanted to

jam down our throats right before republicans take control. now here we are looking into 2023 with not only inflation, but interest rates that are not going to drop as people were hoping and praying they would. what do you foresee in the new year? >> the adults in the room will finally be in the majority in the house of representatives. so we'll see -- we only guarantee certain things when you control 1 of 3 levels of government. we can guarantee the trillion dollar spending bills outside the regular budget process will end. we have spent trillions of dollars. the number one drive for inflation. i found it ironic there was more for snap welfare benefits because of inflation. the spending that caused inflation they continue the vicious cycle which will never end. we need to go in a new direction and provide the business community some stability and certainty so they can plan

accordingly so we can create private sector jobs which will then spur growth. >> julie: i want to talk about border spending in the bill. what do you think of the $15.6 billion for day-to-day operations and 1.56 billion for cbp. medical services, processing, etc. , 800 million for fema shelters and services and the list goes on. remember, title 42 is up tomorrow and so it's expected they are going to have an influx of illegal immigrants. i guess that's why they need to set up tents rather than keeping them out of our country, let's just find them housing as they cross the border. >> what they've done is provided really a band-aid to an arterial wound. let's tell the truth to the american people. $8 hundred million for housing illegals. nothing to do with stopping them getting here in the first place. also funding for ice enforcement and removal is completely flat.

then look at the issue. we have -- this is startling. we have never had a month where we had 200,000 illegal border crossings in our history. never happened before. the last nine months in a row have been over 200,000. the problem is 800% worse than it was under president trump. joe biden's solution is to increase the border patrol agents by 300, a 1.5% increase to handle a problem that increased 800%. we're bordering on an absolute collapse on the frontier with mexico. >> julie: november 2022, 233,740 compared to november of 2021, 175,000, compared to when the president took office this past year over 2 million immigrants and title 42 trying to tramp down the numbers. that's all the time we have,

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>> julie: ukraine's president zelensky condemning russia as a terrorist country after a christmas eve rocket attack on the southern port of kherson. it killed at least 16 people, wounding more than 60. nate foye joins us live from kiev with the latest. good morning, nate. >> good morning, julie. after a confusing weekend of christmas celebrations with everything going on, many people tried to celebrate as best as they could.

this morning russia says three of its service members were killed because of a ukrainian drone strike at an air base deep in russia. look at this video. this just coming out. you can see the flash from the explosion in this. russia says it actually shot down the drone but the falling debris killed three soldiers. russia says no planes are damaged because of this. this is the second time this month this same air base has been targeted and the last time was back on december 5th. we saw significant air strikes from russia responding to that. take a look at this next video, ukraine forces held military drills over the weekend near the belarus border possibly preparing for another russian offensive from the north. this comes after russia military drills in belarus last week. over the weekend, you mentioned, julie, a brutal attack in kherson, ukraine now says 16 people were killed and 64 injured as a result of russian shelling there.

many ukrainians in kherson spent their christmas day waiting in line to donate blood to help those 64 people who were hurt survive as they recover from their injuries. look at this next video in kiev. i mentioned the christmas celebration. the train station in the capital turned into a christmas party last night. there was a tree lit up by a manually powered generator with the power shortages here there were christmas songs, a lot of people singing and dancing. we also spoke with an orthodox priest who explained why it's important to celebrate christmas even during wartime. listen to this. >> despite the fact that the war continues and rages around us, we must still thank god. first of all, for the fact that we lived to this christmas, that god favored us on this date. >> power continues to be a problem here in kiev. operating at about 50% capacity right now. there are consumption limits in place for everybody using power

here. it is cold, julie. just over freezing. send it back to you. >> julie: all right, nate foye, thank you. alicia. >> alicia: they knew it was wrong, a top associate and exgirlfriend of sam bankman-fried told prosecutors about ftx. former alameda ceo caroline elingson said they knowingly deceived investors. i want to put up something that she also said in her statement reading. from 2019 through 2022, i was aware that alameda was provided access to a borrowing facility of ftx.com. the crypto currency exchange run by bankman-fried. this arrangement permitted alameda access to an unlimited line of credit without being required to post collateral and without having negative balances and without being subject to

margin calls on the liquidation protocols. the kicker, she says see and sbf agreed to this and they knew it was wrong. >> now it's not uncommon to see things like this in a plea allocution. first of all, caroline ellison is the first nail in the coffin for sam bankman-fried, number one. number two. as you can kind of tell it's very scripted but very scripted on purpose because this is what the prosecutors are going to have to prove to really prosecute the person that they really want, the big fish. they went after a smaller fish, ellison, to go after the big fish and this is what she is going to testify to. this is just forecasting what this witness will say on the stand if this case eventually goes to trial, i doubt it will. but you never know. >> alicia: he says he didn't know, which the people who

worked with him and were closest say that is not true. let's put up the charges and possible sentences. i only have a little time left but want to get your thoughts here. you have 15 years when you are looking at some of the conspiracies here. in total it is going to be about 30 years. is that something that you find adequate? >> well, it is going to depend on how much of this money they can actually find. one of the questions for me is of all of these billions of assets, were they lost or carefully hidden? when you take a bunch of young people who said they were too stupid to know what they were doing but that is criminal. the prospect of spending the next 30 birthdays in jail is a big motivator. we'll have to see what actually plays out. >> alicia: thank you so much. >> julie: from johnny depp and amber heard to will smith and chris rock as we wrap up the

year let's look back tatty scandals that kept us captivated. ainsley earhardt has more. >> celebrities, royals, athletes and politicians finding themselves at the center of some of this year's most scandalous headlines. a real life drama unfolding for actors johnny depp and amber heard this year as the intimate details of their relationship were on full display during their defamation trial. >> i am harassed, humiliated, threatened every single day. >> the only person i have ever abused in my life is myself. >> a jury handed over a victory to depp after he claimed his exwife defamed him by calling herself of a victim of domestic abuse. you'll remember this moment from the 94th academy awards.

>> oh, wow, wow. >> will smith shocking fans and all of hollywood after walking on stage and slapping host chris rock across the face. this after rock made a joke about his wife. >> keep my wife's name out of this. >> academy reresponded by banning smith for ten years. a shake-up at cnn. jeff zucker resigning as president of the news network after admitting to having a consensual relationship with the marketing chief. she also resigned. >> i did everything i could to protect my family. >> prince harry and megan markle releasing the netflix series and the reasons for leaving the u.k. and royal family behind. >> i always felt it was a fight worth fighting for. >> a few months after the passing of queen elizabeth.

the duke of new york accused of raping a woman when she was a teenager after allegedly being introduced by convicted sex offender jeffrey epstein. his former girlfriend maxwell learned her fate this year. 20 years behind bars after being found guilty on multiple accounts of sexual abuse. prosecutors saying she worked alongside of epstein to recruit and groom underage girlsment disgraced singer r. kelly getting a lengthy sentence. 30 years for charges linked to racketeering and sex trafficking. ♪ >> international superstar shakira expected to head to court in the new year rejecting a deal offered by spanish prosecutors this year after being charged with not paying roughly $15 million in taxes. kim kardashian got in trouble by

the ftc. she paid a fine of more than $1 million to settle that issue. ♪ >> meanwhile, several companies cutting their ties with kardashian's ex-husband kanye west after he made several controversial and anti-semitic comments. twitter and instagram from blocked him from their platforms. his net worth was obliterated. controversy at the winter olympics when a russian figure skater was cleared to compete. she tested positive for a banned medication several months before the games. a favorite to win the gold she struggled in her performance and finished fourth overall. following his return to the nfl after a short-lived retirement tom brady made headlines off the

field announcing his divorce from his wife after 13 years of marriage. it has been widely speculated she was upset at his decision to end his brief retirement. with more scandals bound to happen in the new year we'll be here to cover them all. in new york, ainsley earhardt, fox news. >> alicia: western new york is used to bad weather but the recent storm was the worst they've seen in decades. we continue with more coverage of the news at the top of the hour.

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>> julie: brutal winter store leaving dozens dead. many without power and travelers stranded. officials in western new york declared a major disaster with massive piles of snow blocking roads, paralyzing emergency response and trapping people in their frigid homes. welcome to a new hour of fox news live. i'm julia banderas. >> alicia: bad weather stretching throughout the country. it left the area around buffalo rick new york buried in several feet of snow with at least 25 storm-related deaths in the western new york area alone. it's not over yet. a local official warning there is more on the way. >> sno