if we don't have a vigorousendm approach to defending the constitution. we will be there every step of the way to hold those in power accountable. that is tos it for us tonight.he i hope you enjoyed watching thea special edition of "the ingraham angle." remember, it is america for now and forever and greg code filled in the family take it from here. >> a fox news alert presi president biden training in for a vacation and the virgin islands to wrap up the year. today he will depart on air force one as 28 people are pronounced dead from a massive blizzard that slammed buffalo, new york, and thousands of others across the country. you are watching "fox & friends first" on this tuesday morning i'm carley shimkus carley shimkus. >> ashley: i'm as ashley strohmier in for todd piro. and the southern border,

migrants are camping out in freezing temperatures as the white house asked the supreme court to live title 42 today. nearly 60 across 12 states with a massive storm over the holiday weekend. ranging from the great lakes all the way down to rio grande. the death toll 28 in western new york where blizzard conditions left parts of the state buried under 4 feet of snow backing up in the thousands. 500,000 are waking up in the dark this morning. >> carley: cleanup efforts in buffalo as president biden approves emergency declaration for the storm. even more snow could be in the forecast period and the mayor of buffalo is slamming looters who destroy stores during the blizzard. >> people who were out looting and people are losing their lives in this harsh, winter

storm is just absolutely reprehensible. i don't know how these people can even live with themselves, how they can look at themselves in the mirror here they are the lowest of the low. >> ashley: looters did not appear to be an stress because looting rather medicine or food but instead seem to be declaring common items off of the shelves of homes and businesses, taking anything and everything from victims of the severe storm. meanwhile, authorities have been focused on saving lives rather than monitoring thefts. but a few arrests have been made. now to a fox news alert, a story around the country as canceled flights and southwest airlines experiencing what some call a full meltdown. >> please complete. your current estimate weight 13. >> experiencing disk corruption and once again thank you so much

as we work as quickly as safely as possible. >> southwest airlines canceling 70% of flights yesterday. can you believe that? with thousands more canceled today. jackie ibanez with the latest airport frustration, jackie, good morning, my goodness. good morning can you imagine being on hold 137 minutes? frustrating. despite disruptions, south west a meltdown and the numbers quite staggering, flights canceled yesterday alone and seven the trend is set to continue today with 2500 flights canceled already. now the schedule meltdown leaving hundreds of flyers confused, heartbroken over the holiday travel nightmare. >> i got a notification my flight was canceled, so i'm kind of like what's going to happen

for me? >> my granddaughter is waiting for me in chicago. whilst the spirit yesterday. i'm just going to go home now. >> they said i can't fly until the 31st, so no flights, no availability at all. they are saying every seat is taken. >> unbelievable, imagine doing that with children. passengers to make it to their destination, their luggage may not be so lucky. you see right there delays and cancellations and thousands of pieces of luggage to get separated from the owners. southwest screws themselves not immune to the chaos representing flight attendants and its members stranded without hotels. transportation and guidance on what to do, this is what southwest had to say about it. obviously facing operational challenges with winter storm elliott that has moved on to

include some challenges with the flight crews being stuck in locations and not along with the aircraft. at this point, we work to accommodate the customers as best as we can and offer the most options as we can to get folks back home here and speak with transportation calling southwest disruptions unacceptable. they announce they will look into the airline's customer service policies, guys, back to you. >> jackie thank you so much for that. like i said to come a lot of frustration at the airports right now. jackie, thank you. president biden leaving behind a border crisis because he's going on vacation on the brink of absdestruction and the union coy supervisor will join us live from the port or a firsthand look at the rapidly deteriorating situation. you do not want to miss that. china with a threat against taiwan was 71 more planes and seven ships to the northern

island nation. the aggression comes after the communist party condemned the u.s. for providing aid to taiwan and the massive spending bill. >> china's foreign ministry says the u.s. needs to stop seeking to use taiwan contain china to stop fudging and hollowing out the principal. even further down the long and dangerous path. the secretary of state and intel officer robert charles joins us now. good morning to you. they show of force from china is because there was 10 million, $10 billion in weapons aid in the defense spending bill directed at taiwan. so, what do you think about this move by china, and do you think it merits a response from the united states? >> i think it is important, carley and ashley, to keep this particular event effective. the reality is president xi is under incredible pressure. he had to bend his covid policy.

and so, what did they do in communist went the domestic situation is dark and his leadership is failing? they look abroad to try a foreign environment with a greater distraction. the reality here and it is important everyone listening today can go back and see this if they want to google it, the reality is we have sold weapons far more than we have sold to taiwan for every president back to ronald reagan and actually before ronald reagan. so the bottom line here is this is a distraction. obviously, taiwan is in the line of fire and we need to be clear about the messaging and supporting taiwan. we are obviously doing that in ukraine we are a closer ally with ukraine. the bottom line, president xi is under domestic pressure unprecedented with his tenure and so this is a distraction.

>> what happens if china does invade taiwan? a lot of their money and weapons are in ukraine right now. is the u.s. prepare for something like that? >> we are prepared. let me say i've spent time in taiwan and it looks small on a map on a globe but it is actually a fairly large area. china would not want to destroy that area because it is an economic powerhouse to the extent they want to take it the way they pressured hong kong into becoming the protector of the errors despite international treaties that said it wouldn't be. if china invades taiwan, it would be a disaster, quite frankly. it would be a disaster for them and we are prepared but there is no question he could do battle in that hemisphere at the same time. >> there have been a few times president biden has said if chia invades taiwan we invade but

where do you think the biden administration stands on that and where should we stand on that? >> there has been a policy of deliberate ambiguity since jimmy carter sort of walked back are noble to commit to taiwan. it has been an understanding such a thing with china, one china policy. what that means is we allow china to interpret the way they want, but we respect trade with them and actually send a lot of military hardware to taiwan where the defenses as a country. so it's been an evolutionary policy. and i think biden has been out over his skis a little bit. he doesn't seem to be as forward as he was 20 years ago although he made some mistakes too appear the reality is taiwan is an ally of the united states. we have sworn to defend them. we've made it crystal clear that we will defend them and i think china knows that. in this environment the best possible outcome is clear

messaging and we told them the status quo is probably okay. they need to back off. frankly, i think they probably will back off. but they are making a lot of noise right now because they have a tremendous and present the lack unprecedented protest back home. >> when you talk about president biden he's headed to a post-christmas vacation so you talk about the response from him, don't you think it should comfort most of the world including taiwan and the united states, for sure, for him to respond in some way, shape or form? >> yes, look, the clarity, this is a diplomatic back and forth. and you can't make a chess move on responded to. what we should be doing, obviously, closer to taiwan making it clear and often gone through the streets they are making it clear we are very much on taiwan side. it is our ability and

willingness to support taiwan should not be ambiguous and to the same effect. it is a delicate process, diplomacy but part of it for the best part is referring war. that requires pure signals and quite frankly this white house biden with every republican and democrat in the house and senate should be saying clearly we stand with taiwan. china, back off. we are not going to let a war unfold without response. i don't think we are near a war but i think china is in the process right now of creating an international distraction. they would love to take taiwan back. we need to be clear they can't do that. >> roberts, there is korean peninsula but what is happening there and why? >> okay, let's summarize this with two big points. the first is north korea unlike during the prior administration

and during 2020 there were four mist launches. in 2022 north korea has in excess of 90 ballistic and cruise missiles. so north korea is also feeling their oats and decided that they got a week president in biden and they will go ahead and rattle some saber. at the same time they sent drones south korea and scrambled jets and was able to respond. as in all of these situations where you have an opportunistic aggressor trying to do something that signals that they think maybe they can get away with something, you have to respond every time. rushes the counterexample, and unfortunately's president biden said -- use over that lead to. i think the bottom line here is you have to be clear. we have to be clear. it didn't help vice president errors meant to south korea mixed up north and south korea

with our ally. that didn't help. what we need to do was have clarity and deterrence is the first priority. once we do that north korea will understand institutional side of the united states, the people, us, all of us with freedom wherever freedom exists. we don't expect missiles to fall on japan or taiwan. >> clarity and determination sounds like the perfect plan to me in a very serious situation. robert, thank you for joining us. >> thank you. the controversy yesterday a spokesman for former vice president pence says he has not entered the 2024 presidential race. clarifying former vice president mike pence did not file today. and reporters, the spokesman suggested the filing could have been a prank on the media appear the confusion stepping from a

statement for candidacy filed for mike richard pins with the federal elections commission has previous nbc filing might like. it remains unclear if former vp will throw his hat in the race. if he does, he is up against his old boss president trump who will announce his candidacy last month. >> the latest round of twitter files released and details how the social media giant rigged the covid debate. twitter censored posts from doctors, experts about the pandemic with information that was true but inconvenient to the white house. he says twitter executives didn't fully caved to the biden administration's demands with some debating moderation case is in great detail and did suppress posts. many from doctors and scientific experts that conflicted with the positions of the white house. as a result, legitimate findings and questions would have expended public debate.

the threat claims twitter's covid content moderation was trade on machine learning and artificial intelligence. that is reassuring. mollie hemingway sent this type of censorship is everything every american should be worried about. listen to this. >> there were multiple agencies using twitter, and we can also reasonably surmise they were working with other social media companies and big tech companies to suppress freedom of speech, freedom of t the dash street extremely nefarious the government was involved. the government was trying to censor anybody really is a problem. and it's not even about what people were saying was true or not. what we have learned about the twitter files, censored for saying absolutely true things. there is an even deeper thing that is more important than just america. we believe have the right to express your opinion and debate with people when you disagree with them.

we should not make first instinct to shut people down. >> hhs secretary rachel is getting criticized on twitter for resurfacing demand for big tech to censor misinformation about sex change operations for children. >> there is substantial misinformation about gender affirming for transgender and gender diversity individuals. we need to use collectively to advocate for tech companies to create a healthier, cleaner information environment. >> republican ohio congressman warned a fist weeding out biology listen and response reminding research to embrace science. west point is removing monuments memorializing the confederacy and renaming multiple spots on campus named after general robert ely. west point announcing over the holiday break the academy would begin the process to "rename or modify assets in real property

that commemorate or memorialize the confederacy are those who voluntarily serve the confederacy." some monuments to be removed and confederate uniform along with his stone statue. >> now the "monday night football" the los angeles chargers secure the spot in the playoffs after dominant defensive display of indianapolis ole defense powering the team to a victory despite getting kicked out of the game in the first half. >> here is another one! a flag by james who laid out him. >> he may be watching the rest of this came from the locker room. >> wide receiver ashton was diagnosed with a concussion from the hit. he was on concussion protocol after looking woozy after he walked off of the field. christmas was nearly run for one family after realized grinch stole the gifts under the tree

but santa claus with the backup. >> thank you! oh, my goodness, thank you! >> i love the mom and i love the little girl. i love everybody right now. the officers who made that surprise happen joining us live coming up next. ♪ ♪

>> merry christmas! >> merry christmas! >> oh, my, thank you! oh my goodness, thank you! >> that little girl in the diaper, adorable. stepping in to save christmas after presents stole them from their home on christmas eve. presence left over from a local toy drive for pure joining us the officers who saved the day, ryan, josh morgan, anthony, jonathan, marco, and first up,

all of you, thank you for getting up with us this morning. to reiterate what happened, you had this 11:00 a.m. on christmas eve call, you walk in and this family has been cleaned out. you and the officers responded but first, what was your thought process? what did you think? >> i was shocked. when first you go in and see nothing under the christmas tree on christmas eve, you are in shock here the kids seem to be stoic. they didn't know what was going on. at that time, i'm training a new officer and it's the second day on patrol. we knew we had to do something. >> brian, the second day on patrol, or was it a different officer? the officer here behind me. >> oh, my gosh, when you guys get there, you think, okay, we've got to do something. this toy drive had raised so many gifts spirit was that your

initial reaction or did you have to reach out to josh and say, okay, we had to do something with this family. josh is the one who puts the toy drive together. >> i contacted josh who was working behind the scene. we had the fraternal police working because running for santa helpers program. we made contact with the supervisors and found out that the officer happen to be working our shift over time to keep the staff. he got in touch with josh and within 15 minutes, the president her os was coming to the house. >> what was your reaction and how does it make you feel to see the kids reaction when they turned that corner and she was jumping up and down in a little diaper? it had to make you feel so great. >> it was awesome. at that time, all the pain or negativity you are feeling went away.

>> absolutely. what did the parents say? >> i think she was in shock as well when she was giving all the officers hugs and very appreciative of what we did. >> josh, there have been 426 south bend children get gifts this year because of this toy drive. what is the response from the community and what has it been? >> the response has been great. we have been running this for a few years. you have the fraternal police local lives 36 and this program we have been doing since 2016, i got with the officer a few years ago and we tried to handle about 30 kids a year. officer northcutt and i had a few ideas. that turned into in the past three years helping over 900 kids locally. and it has been a great feeling to be able to help those that

normally would not be able to have a christmas. sometimes, these type of situations we run into them all too often as police officers. there is something we felt we had to jump in and help as many kids as we could. hopefully, you know, the program will be bigger. we are looking forward to it. >> brian, what are your thoughts on the entire situation the time you walked in and use all those kids get so excited? it puts a smile on everybody's face. i can only imagine the local response because the national response has been incredible. >> it is amazing really. it is why we do what we do. so many times you see the negative. but this was an opportunity for us to do something positive. and to see those children's reaction, that makes everything worthwhile. they were filled with joy, excited, going through those presence like crazy. yeah, nothing better than that. >> this is my favorite story all

week. i love it. to all of you, thank you for what you do. we appreciate you. we love you. these are the stories we love to see from the police. you are the good guys and you guys are the good guys. and girls. don't forget the girls. thank you so much for being with us this morning. have a good day, okay? >> thank you. speed to to this, tradition bringing veterans to times square to ring in 2023 20. the veteran support organization hope for the warrior started a tradition a decade ago to support 9/11 responders. since then the organization has hosted 450 military friends and family on new year's eve in the big apple. more than 40 military families will attend the ball drop times square saturday. hope for the war your president joins "fox & friends" later this morning.

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♪ ♪ >> the father of one of the slain city of idaho students said he is hopeful his daughter's killer will be caught. madison mogen's father thinks a mistake will lead to an arrest saying, "there are too many things you can get caught up on dna and videos everywhere. this is not something people can way with but can be solved." he is grateful for the work they are doing to bring justice to this case.

at least 14 people are dead 16 others hurt when shootings across the country. that includes a 5-year-old boy in kansas city who was shot and killed christmas eve. down in new orleans two 19-year-olds around 12:30 yesterday morning. other nonlife-threatening incidents and friday night and man shot and killed inside of the mall of america prompting a lockdown inside of america's largest shopping center. meanwhile, down at the board of the white house asking the supreme court to lift title 42 today as officials rushed to contain the overflow of migrants. >> el paso setting up a massive tent as it braces for the surge. alexandria hoff joins us with more, good morning, alex. >> the biden administration sought to end title 42 and today the target left officials near the border confused as to why there has not been a plan of action put into place. the super county supervisor

share this on twitter, "646 migrants dropped off in san diego county over the past three days. the shoulders are stressed know mike stretched beyond capacity. the federal government doesn't seem to care." completely overrun and migrants forced out into the cold onto the streets and makeshift tent facility erected to try to brace for the thousands expected to cross the city each day once title 42 ends. the biden administration says they do have a plan for when the trumpet era policies that allows for migrants to quickly be expelled in the spirit of the details have not been released. here is retired border chief rodney scott. >> all of my sources tell me there really is no plan. if you look at the omnibus and some of the language in there, it is basically to reprocess people and release into the communities as fast as possible. >> with that comes to mike additional concern this morning to officers writing "be alert.

we have seen loaded firearms carried by human smugglers. never get complacent and approach with caution. stay safe out there and remember you have a family to go home to at the end of your shift." there is concern for the cartels and gains likely to take advantage of individuals rushing across the border as title 42 soon expires, carley and ashley. >> alexandria hoff live for us, thank you so much. the union county supervisor jonathan at the u.s. mexican border right now, jonathan give us an update. what is the situation on the ground like in your mind? >> good morning, over 300 people coming across this. we actually have a couple of reporters out there right now who have observed people paying money as they are dropped off from mexico to the airport. unprecedented numbers we

continue to see more and more people coming across every day. >> the encounters over christmas weekend over 2500 appear that is just in a weekend. considering the numbers the line of migrants behind you and the fact that president biden with taxpayers dollars for another vacation, how does that settle with you, especially knowing title 42 to end in a matter of hours? >> well, it is tragic. all of these people continue to line up. there is no plan. i spoke to senator kelly over the weekend and expressed my concerns my shared what we were sitting on the ground and asked him to intervene with the webcast. we haven't seen any progress so far. the numbers continue to increase every single day. these are unprecedented over last year and i don't see what will stop. it will overwhelm the border

communities. >> it certainly will. jonathan, you said you had reporters on the ground as well. they are seeing the illegal immigrants paying the smugglers to get across. do you have any idea how much money on any given day the smugglers are making? >> $6,000 to $8,000 per person. $16,000 for those coming from the other side of the world. it is a lot of money. >> let's talk about -- >> 97% of them come from -- no, i was going to say 97%, with sufficient funds and 95% or claiming asylum. >> that brings me to my next question. the regional medical center racking up quite the bill upwards of $20 million because these migrants, they need intensive care. they need medical assistance whenever they get across the border. who is paying for this? >> so far the local community is

spread out but those are not sustainable, speaking with the ceo, he is very concerned if this continues, we may not have a hospital arizona. because the feds have them on the ground. >> president biden will meet with the mexican president on january 9th. what is your expectation how that conversation is going to go? >> probably more of the same. they have failed to act. i don't expect it to come from the administration. it is really tragic peer of the border patrol, they have been dealing with this since the day of the inauguration. and many are retired, the locals chief his last day on the ground. he's not been supported. >> jonathan, what do you expect -- i know i brought up

the number 2,500 migrants over the weekend christmas weekend. what do you think that number will do if title 42 ends in a couple of hours? are you guys prepared? >> there is no way to prepare. there is not sufficient transportation. if they start with releases, the border communities will be overwhelmed because simply there is not the infrastructure to support new york and d.c. complained about the 400, 500 dropped off. we are seeing over 1,000 and it could possibly go to double that around 2,000. >> jonathan, you mentioned the regional medical center speaking of a health crisis. the border officials and arizona have seized over 1 million fentanyl pills and just two days, including 800,000 in a single vehicle. when it comes to fentanyl, how

was that affecting the community? >> you know, i've seen the national average 101,000 affected by fentanyl and the numbers are higher here. it is tragic. we have met people as young as 16, 17 pass away. we have seen mothers and fathers. it is a very inexpensive drug and you don't get a second chance with that poison. it is being fabricated three or 4 miles from here. the mexican cartels are complicit in that. >> they certainly are. jonathan, thank you for joining us from the u.s.-mexico border. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> carley, this is an absolutely jaw-dropping new statistic, young men face a greater risk of being shot and killed and parts of philadelphia and chicago than our soldiers did in afghanistan and iraq. former congressman doug: served in iraq and here to respond to

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possible and learn about gangs, the tough neighborhoods and every single prison. >> facing unprecedented challenges this year including skyrocketing search in crime and labor shortage, small business owners are still trying to stay open to serve their communities. our panel joins me to tell bob fay he owns four restaurants in new jersey. and the owner of gifted in new york, good morning to you all. bob, i will start with you come inflation 7.1% and picked 9.1% in june. how are you handling all of this? >> but is out of control but first of all, merry christmas to everybody and thank you for having me back on the program. we know the last two plus years with covid, and america got rocked from government shutdowns

to mask mandates to labor shortages to supply chain issues. it has been extremely difficult to cope less years to navigate through the small business world. now, we are faced with highest inflation in four years. my industry restaurant industry has went through the roof simple products like chicken, beef, eggs, plastic and paper goods. at one location we spent $25,000 more on paper and plastic goods just because the cost increased. you know, it is also extremely hard to pass this cost on to the consumers, the customers that have had to deal with their own financial struggles the last couple of years. inflation is directly hitting small businesses, bottom line and making it more challenging to operate. >> your story is in brooklyn for you where it's not just inflation but crime. so looking back at 2022, how would you describe how the past year has gone? >> merry christmas to you,

carley. thank you to having me on the show. it has been very hard as one of the panelist is saying, it tripled the crime. and as mentioned, i really don't know how we will continue in 2023 with inflation sky-high. december is a dead month for us because i deal with schools and college. so it is not working at all. the police department, i think it seems not to care when we have a problem here and so what is really hard for us, carley. >> how often would you say's somebody steal something from your store? >> well it becomes new challenge. you have to be able to shelter and they have a lot of food stamps and they cannot sell

them. and so food stamps, when they cannot get it, they tried to rob you. when you try to call the police, by the time they come, i might be dead to. >> oh, boy, that is the biggest fear of everybody. and i know you are worried about crime and actually changed your store hours because of it. >> right. thank you for having me and merry christmas. my store is not located what i would call a high crime area. however, we have had incidents with robbery in the area. generally, no longer stay open after dark. and it is a concern because you want to be kind and generous to those less fortunate and you want to be kind and generous but on the other hand, you don't know exactly how they will

respond if they are not given money when they ask for it. you know? so we tried to avoid in general by closing an hour earlier. >> which means lost money for you. of course. it is unfortunate that you are the one left to make these decisions on what to do when it comes to those sensitive situations. i want to go around the horn and ask everybody about if you are optimistic about 2023. bob, what do you think? >> i'm slightly optimistic if president biden would not go on vacation and get back to work, that would help us a lot. if we can get inflation under control and start to lower the interest rates again, that would make life a lot easier for all businesses across the country. whatever he can do to get the inflation down is a must. >> kami, how about you? how do you feel about 2023? >> we definitely agree

president biden should look up small businesses because we are going through the most affliction. they are not looking at us at all pure to think we should take a look see how they can bring down the price of inflation so we can help our consumer. we are the ones getting hit. we don't feel that they care. i'm really, really trying to be positive to move on to 2023 with a smile. to be able to think things will get better. >> naoemi? >> i would like to see the administration address concerns and challenges. i am optimistic because i have to be here or there is point going forward if not optimistic. so i am optimistic and hoping for the best and i continue to serve my community. >> kami, bob, naoemi all wonderful owners of small businesses. thank you for joining us this morning. >> thank you for having me. >> president biden is jetting off for a beach vacation today

as the death toll ticks up from the devastating winter storm and millions of americans are stranded in airports comes to the coast. live report on the chaos, president biden is leaving behind. >> excuse me, we have an hour left. so i need to be able to talk a little better. we have a big show ahead, dr. martin marty makary, and joining us live, don't go anywhere. ♪ ♪

>> carley: president biden is trading the storm battered united states for a vacation in the virgin islands. he will depart on air force one as 28 people are pronounced dead from a massive blizzard that slammed buffalo, new york and dozens of others across the country. you are watching "fox and friends first," i'm carley shimkus. >> ashley: i'm ashley strohmier. 40answer are 0 flights are cancelled today and down at the southern border, migrants are camping out in freezing temperatures as they are being asked to drop title 42 today. massive winter storm rolled across the country over the holiday weekend. th