>> 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. the death toll up to 28 in

western new york, blizzard conditions are leaving parts of the state buried under four feet of snow, knocking out power. 5000 are waking up in the dark right now. >> carley: cleanup efforts are underway in buffalo. more snow could be in the forecast, that is where we find adam klotz here with the fox weather forecast, what is going to happen? >> it has been a slow improvement, still dealing with cold temperatures. the forecast is light and along the coast, we have wind moving across the great lakes and dropping light snow on east side of lake erie and l ontario and to the east side.

more snow on the way, even ifum are not in this area, more cold winter-like temperatures for one more morning where you are dealing with cold air. feels-like temperature, negative one, below zero, negative eight, a couple days ago it was negative 30 and 40, but it is an improvement. frigid in dallas, it feels like 18 degrees. this cold is affecting millions of folks early this morning, as far down south as central florida. down to central florida. temperatures around the panhandle, 30 in tallahassee, central florida, 44 degrees. if you start to think about the next couple days, things will change. this is future forecast and it shows by the time weep get to wednesday and thursday, warm air building and daytime highs and

some cases are climbing into the 50'ses. 52 in chicago, 55 in indianapolis, that is for thursday. by friday, warmer air toward the east, in new york city, 50 on friday. i guess warmer, more comfortable temperatures are on the way. yes, it is still today, waking up folks cold and more snow for the areas that do not need it. >> ashley: sad to see the headlines, people freeze to death in their cars with nowhere to go. >> carley: thank you, adam. because of the weather department, there is chaos at the airports today, travelers are stranded from coast to coasts. southwest experiencing a full-blown meltdown. >> please continue to hold. your current estimated wait is 131 minutes.

>> experiencing disruption during this time. we work to get everybody rebooked as quickly as possible. >> ashley: the airline canceling 70% of flights. people get frustrated with a 30-minute delay, think how they must feel. >> southwest are blaming a system meltdown and the numbers are staggering, 2900 flight cancelled yesterday, that is 71% of monday's schedule and 2500 flights have been cancelled already, leaving fliers, confused and frustrated over the travel nightmare. >> had to call our kids and tell them we weren't going to be there, they rescheduled us for

today, we stayed in california for two days just waiting to get on the flights they guaranteed us today. we showed up and they can't get us on a flight. >> spent the whole day in the airport and cancelled our flight, they could not rebook us until the 31st. >> hundreds of unclaimed bags, littered airports, delays and cancellations lead to luggage getting separated from their owners. union representing southwest flight attendants, here is what southwest had to say about it. >> facing operational challenges this evening with winter storm

elliot that moved to include challenges with flight crews being stuck in locations, we are working to accommodate our customers and offer options to get folks back home. >> the department of transportation is calling southwest disruptions unacceptable and will look into the airline customer service policy. >> carley: jacky, thanks. president biden is leaving for vacation on the same day that title 42 could expire hours from now. we have a live report on the border crisis. >> carley: kidding are being schooled in wokeness while their gradesar falling at record rating. we'll talk to two moms fighting for their kids' educational rights coming up. ♪

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>> carley: failing test scores and woke politics are fuelling parents fight for their children's educational rights in america. joining me from parents defending education, erica and founder and president nicole

nealy. thanks for getting up with us this morning. we've got failing test scores and we have got issue with pronouns and gender assignment, all kind of issues teachers and woke organizations are focusing on, we have already an issue because the u.s. is testing lower than the rest of the world. when you see math down five points and reading down three points and grade eight, it is down eight and three points. should we focus on transgender athletes competing in sports and how teachers can teach kids to hide gender and pronouns from their parents? erica, i will start with you? >> no, of course we should not be teaching them that. this -- these scores and academic declines, these were happening before the pandemic and what i find remarkable is

that the same people that are talking about all of these nonacademic initiatives that they are pushing, they say in the name of inclusion and social justice. before the pandemic, only one out of 10 black boys reading on great level. it has to begin with basic literacy and we're failing on that front. >> ashley: nicole, this number is startling to me, 44% of adults in the u.s. say they fear for their child's safety at school. this is grades k-12, what happened here? increase of 10 points since 2019. >> yeah, we have seen discipline issues skyrocket, that is something we hear through our tip line once, twice, three times per day across the

country. when you drop your kid at the gate, you want your kid to be safe and learn. many schools have broken that am prois. parents fear kids feel more for microaggression. school to prison pipeline, bringing in restorative justice rather than disciplining children, there will be a pat on the heads and not address the underlying problem. >> ashley: following up on what nicole just said, were the issues happening before covid and it was brought to light since there was at-home learning or is this something we're starting to deal with since 2020? >> i think the trend had begun before the pandemic and it is true with kids doing zoom school from their kitchen counter,

their parents became more aware of what was going on. to nicky's points, the death of george floyd was a catalyst for schools escalating in the areas of diversity, equity and inclusion, words we were able to get behind until people changed the definition of them and now are damaging schools and children rather than bringing about true diversity and inclusion. >> ashley: nicole, how can parents help change the direction we are going in coming into 2023? >> we say what the tsa says, see something, say something. we have heard on the tip line about different problems and almost 100% of tips, people want to be anonymous, they fear reper k repercussion against their

children. some have pulled curriculum, fired teacher because things have better than exposed. parents, you can and will make a difference, everyday schools are changing what they are doing, continue to step up because you are the only person who will, the gatekeepers and teachers unions will not make the changes, you are the driver of that. >> ashley: thank you for getting up with us on tuesday, we appreciate it. >> carley: and from the biden family alleged corruption to calls for covid amnesty, media had a field day spinning the biggest stories of the year. >> carley: beverly hallberg is here to take a look at the most outrageous media headlines of the year, that is coming up next. i just got a text from my sister. ♪er rick, her nei

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>> carley: former vice president mike pence says he has not interiored the 2024 presidential race. former vice president did not file to run for president today, the spokesperson suggested filing could have been a prank on the media. confusion stemming from a statement for mike richard pences his previous filings listed him as michael, not mike. it is unclear if the former vp will throw his hat into the race. president trump announce his candidacy last year. let's review memorable moments that made us do a double and triple take. >> carley: beverly hallberg is an independent women's forum fellow and joins us now.

beverly, let's start with the media constant attacks on know ares, cnn headline claims it is republicans fault congress is so polarized. remember that one? "new york times" claimed republicans wrongly blamed biden for rising gas prices. what do you think about the headlines? bee saw these types of headlines and saw two words used against republicans, seize and pounce. if you did a search on republicans pounce, media are attacking them. it seems nothing republicans could do that was right this year and media saw them as bad actors all the way around. >> ashley: the media melted down over elon musk twitter takeover. "washington post" warned musk will be bad for twitter and time magazine targeted tech bro's

free speech. beverly hallberg one thing the free press could north handle this year, elon musk caused a meltdown from lambasting elon musk for exposing censorship with the fbi. journalists didn't one journalism and that is what elon musk brought to the table. >> carley: tech bro's obsession with free speech, like it is a bad thing, it is a good thing to be obsessed with. remember when the media realized the hunter biden laptop story was real, even though the "washington post" and "new york times" both confirmed the story in march, 15 months after "new york post" report on biden secret e-mails. they got to right, but it took them a really long time. beverly.

>> beverly: this is their job, to figure this out and report on it, "washington post," took a year and a half to show this laptop was verified and took cbs two years. they were saying there was no way to verify this and "new york post" was censured on twitter before elon musk took over for a long time. people found this laughable, the media would say no way to verify. this is a quiet trickle in the news, no, we are sorry we got it wrong. it is, yes, here is what we got wrong and move on quietly. >> ashley: remember when the media tried to declare a pandemic amnesty? atlantic report claimed we need to forgive one another for what whey did and said when we were in the dark about covid. oh, boy.

>> beverly: i'm not the only one that found this laughable, but insulting. i came on the show talking about being unvaccinated and when the media and president of the united states calls this pandemic of the unvaccinated, saying we should all kumbaya, i think a lot of people are in the same place as i am, it is important to admit what was wrong and that has not taken place. >> carley: the "new york times" dubbed president biden story teller in chief even though has g gaffes, he was embracing story telling as way of connecting with his audience, often emphasizing the truth, a lot of times on the campaign trail or doing public speaking, he would

literally lie or fabricate things from his past. they are saying it is story telling. >> beverly: we all know this, anybody watching know he's not at the top of his game, a lot of stories are fibbing or lying. the press seemed hell bent on trying to downplay mistakes he made when he would speak and try to praise him for brilliance as we saw in this story. this is not them trying to protect president biden but trying to protect him because of progressive ideology. a lot of us saw the bias. >> carley: the headlines going in one political direction, which should come as a surprise to nobody. thank you for joining us. the latest round of twitter files expose biden administration for working to censure any debate about covid-19.

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content approximate covid-19. twitter did suppress views, many from doctors and scientific experts that conflicted with official position of the white house. legi legitimate findings and questions went missing. fox news marty makary is here to reacts, what do you think about this? >> good morning, carley, i don't know if this is looks more like salem witch trials or modern-day mccarthy-ism. state control censured all information not aligned with the political party in power. look at the amount of misinformation put out by the government and public health officials, ignoring natural immunity and favors vaccination

in young, healthy children, we've never seen that data. closing schools would reduce transmission in young people issue the vaccine works in babies or list of misinformation from the government. they wanted to change the narrative and that is bad part about its impact on science. >> carley: twitter did not approve of this doctor, an epidemiologist who posted a tweet saying everyone must be vaccinated is scientifically flawed as thinking nobody should. covid vaccines are important for older high-risk people and caretakers with prior natural infection, who do not need it or infection. twitter flagged that post as misleading, what he was saying seems to be noncontroversial and

accurate. >> i know dr. martin coldorf, he is one of the most accurate minds on covid-19 this entire pandemic and the idea someone who served on the cdc's advisory group was dismissed are if having a different opinion, which ended up being a correct opinion on the j&j vaccine because he disagreed with authorities that is the state of repair that we need to engage in. >> carley: what do you think the consequence of this censorship by twitter and the government is? >> i think public health officials look bad for this. the public needs an apology. i've thought a lot about this. the simple, most feasible solution right now to a lot of

censorship stuff is to stop censorship and end the ban on scientists and doctors who work in the government from speaking directly to the media. the 20,000 employees at the cdc cannot talk to the media, it can only be the director or a person officially approved. science should have no gag rule. nih people told me they were frustrated with fauci, it was a horror movie they were forced to watch. >> carley: some doctors that were censured must feel justified right now. do you think dr. marty makary that you were among them and your posts were censured? >> i know facebook censored one

recall i posted, drives population immunity around the world we are seeing the lack of natural immunity result in that epidemic. i know people who are censured. i know jay bhattacharya and martin kolldorf, they are not bitter, they are sad for children recovering from the policy they were trying to challenge. >> carley: i can't get over why the first instinct was censure people. there is no settled science in this and things tweeted were right. you mentioned dr. fauci and saturday marks his final day in office before stepping down as white house chief medical advisor. you have an op ed coming out

about his career, how will you be remembering fauci? >> dr. makary: a lot of people are frustrated with dr. fauci and angry at his evolving recommendations, that is not my beef with dr. fauci, not that he changed recommendations, changing recommendations is the normal healthy process of any doctor. the concern i have with dr. fauci is the way he managed the agent for the last 38 years, the agency he led failed to do critical research we needed during covid and we ruled by opinion and not by evidence. all big studies on the big topics were a year plus too late or abcents, they did not fund critical research to know it was airborne or vaccines had

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>> ashley: west point is removing memorials about the confederacy and rename ing. the academy will begin to rename, remove or modify where real property that memor lies the confederacy or those who served with the confederacy.

including a portrait of lee, long with his stone statue. he went to school there. >> carley: he did, the argument, why have a statue of somebody who served in confederacy when other people you could honor. the other side is saying leave the statue up, lesson learned, important part of history we should never go back to. i take issue with statues coming down, christopher columbus is a ta target. judge by standards and norms of the time they lived. >> ashley: it is concerning people are trying to erase history. it is history, it did happen. and it is just sad to see these things keep changing. >> carley: robert e. lee coming

down. and just a few days from now, we talk to a panel about the past year and everything they have gone through and when you think about everything that small business owners have gone through, two years ago the pandemic and when things opened, it was inflation and labor short an and inner city areas, it was crime issue as well. take a listen to what the wonderful small business owners had to say to us about how they are faring right now. >> i no longer stay open much longer after dark. and it is a concern. >> president biden should look up for small businesses, we are going through the most and inflation is touching us hard. >> ashley: carley, like you said, the pandemic hit and the

people able to stay afloat were barely able to hang on and boom, inflation hit. i feel really bad for small businesses around the nation, they are the backbone of the economy. it shows how the economy is doing. i would hate to be a small business owner right now. >> carley: the guy at the end owns four restaurants, he said, if the president could not go on vacation, that would be great. recent survey found that 41% of small business owners unable to afford rent in november, and 50% of small business owners have experienced theft in the last year and bob fahey says he spent 25% more on paper and products and margins are so small, how are people staying in business?

>> ashley: it is tough. this is bound to make you feel good. a police officer saving christmas for a family whose gifts were stolen. here is the moment they surprised the kids. >> merry christmas. >> oh, my goodness, say thank you. >> ashley: those officers who saved christmas joined us earlier, here is what they had to say. >> it is amazing really, it is why we do what we do, you see just the negative, this was an opportunity for us to do something positive and to see those children's reaction, that makes everything worth while. >> ashley: so nice to see such a bad story turn so positive and for those officers to be able to help that family out. they jumped into action, that is

what being a police officer is for. you guys proved you were the good guys and i'm happy all around with not only the way it makes the police look, how the community is reacting, too. >> carley: that is reaction you want, you see this little girl and the kids so excited. this is a good day. there are a lot of days being a police officer that are tough, this is a good one and the mom saying, look what they did. i have no idea who would ever steal presents from kids, toys, you will not make a lot of money off that at all. even if you would, why would you do it? there is a special place for somebody like that, i want to read what south bend, this took place in indiana and the police department there, fraternal order said the grinch was no

match for the elf-ser team. what a cute story. >> ashley: all eyes on the southern border, bracing for end of title 42, that account happen in a matter of hours and doug collins is reacting next. >> carley: let's check in with griff jenkins. >> >> griff: we have a big show on "fox and friends," 60 people dead and thousands without power after the massive storm slammed the united states this week end and the worst is not over, more snow is coming up. we are tracking it. react to title 42 possibly ending today and bill bennett will rank top education stories and we will break down the latest twitter files, don't go anywhere, you don't want to miss it, your tuesday is about to begin.

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>> ashley: 14 people are dead and 16 others hurt in shootings across the country, including a five-year-old boy. two 19 year olds were shot yesterday, four other teens suffered nonlife-threatening injuries in the incident. a man was shot and killed inside the mall of america. the white house is asking supreme court to lift title 42 today, officials rush to contain overflow of migrantses. >> carley: el paso braces for the surge. alexandria hoff joins us. >> alexandria: biden

administration has made today the target to end title 42. there is not a plan of action put into place. jim desmond said 646 migrants have been dropped off, this is unsustainable and the federal government doesn't care. in el paso, processing centers are overrun, migrantses are on the streets in the cold. they are bracing for thousands expected to cross each day once title 42 ends. biden administration says they have a plan for when the policy ends, but details have not been released. here is retired border patrol chief, rodney scott. >> my sources tell me there is no plan, look at the omnibus

issue the plan is to release them as fast as possible. >> there is concern the u.s. border patrol issuing this warning, be alert, seen drastic increase in loaded firearms. stay safe and remember you have a family to go home to at the end of your shift and concern for safety of migrants rushing to cross the border as title 42 expires when it does. >> carley: alexandria hoff, thank you. let's bring in doug collins, good morning to you. merry christmas. title 42 is in the hands of the supreme court, how do you think they will rule and when do you think they will make a decision? >> doug: hopefully soon, i hope they rule to keep it in place.

the story you mention about border patrol agents, that is what i'm concerned about. they have been overwhelmed by administration that does not care about them. they are processing illegal aliens and sending them out not able to do their job. you put more and more upon them, i worry about emthis, in addition to what is coming in, this being not just people coming in desperately seeking a new life, there is a willing way to do this. flip side, you have drug issues and other cartel issues. this is a sad day and the biden administration, they have a super secret plan for immigration. christmas was the past few days, time to show the world what you are trying to do. >> we've been hearing about this know pla, we haven't seen details for a couple weeks now. do you believe there is a plan they have that will happen or they are saying that to pacify

people right now? >> it is a pacifying situation, their plan is come across, process them and send them throughout the country. they move people through as quickly as they can to other parts of the country, making every state a border state, they are sending people out with no real qualification. the plan has to be to secure the border, make sure officers have what a need and address the asylum process and get control on this border. for them to continue to say everything is okay is beyond basically lying to the american people, just become delusional. >> carley: henry cuellar is

hearing they will direct foot traf ib from the border to the rio grand, i think the thinking is the rgv vector could handle the foot traffic. why would that be the ask to mexico? shouldn't they ask mexico to secure the southern border? >> doug: immigrants coming from central america, it is not just a mexican issue. since it became an open funnel for people to come through, everywhere in the world is coming through, national security issue with people on the terror list. ask mexico, let's work together, keep them on your side, do stay in mexico, anything to keep the crisis from growing. talk about the border all the time, after two years and four million plus, if we look at the way it is done, we have to look

at -- >> ashley: let's talk >> ashley: let's talk about the weekend border numbers astonishing, 16476 encounters. 2100 of them, more than 2100 expelled under title 42. 14,326 were released into the u.s. and that is with title 42 pretty much hanging by a threat right now because this would end at any moment in the next couple of hours. what do you foresee these numbers to look like if it does end? >> we keep thinking about it it's getting higher and higher. these are numbers that we know. this doesn't count some of the get aways and some of the people we can't get to. this situation is going to skyrocket and going to be worse especially with the weather conditions during winter. look, the cartels are playing on this. they know exactly what to do. they will send them across because they know at the end of the day, the u.s. government is completing their contract. they are getting them into the united states and sending them across the country. >> we want to ask but this study

young men in philadelphia and chicago are at a greater death of risk from iraq and afghanistan war specifically. study found that young men from the most dangerous zip codes in chicago are over three times more likely to be killed compared to soldiers who were deployed in afghanistan and in philadelphia the likelihood was nearly two times higher. you served in the iraq war. crime is a major focus of when you were serving in congress. so, help us figure this out, wrap our heads around this new study from brown university. >> it's very simple. criminal justifiable reform is about taking and matching punishment to the crime. taking and making sure that we are making our cities safe. democrat run cities have got to realize they have got to keep their people safe. the police force matters. doing the things to make sure we get the bad guys off the street is the first and foremost. not this idea of pampering and

coddling. this idea if you are doing a crime you are going to be prosecuted for it. but then taking a look at your whole situation, your drug and mental health issues and making sure we are matching these punishments. >> when you are seeing this kind of crime and violent crime. these people are not supposed to be out walking around. got to start with folks saying we are got to keep our cities and streets safe. got to come from people in this cities who keep getting caught in this trap and keep electing the solutions over and over that keep hurting them. >> ashley: the solution is getting the people in office out and a new group in. >> either that or trying to figure out why they believe the crime in their cities is okay to continue especially in the cities that are in neighborhoods that are least able to take care of themselves. this is -- this is really sad when they are preying on those with the smallest voice in their communities many times. >> carley: despite the study there seems to be no urgency at all to change any of the policies or politicians that led to this horrific crime crisis

that's not just affecting chicago and philadelphia although it's so high there but also new york and even in the suburbs as well because all of this trickles down. doug collins, thank you so much for joining us, we have to leave it there we appreciate you. merry christmas. >> good morning. >> ashley: have a good day. >> carley: and, with that "fox & friends" starts right now. ♪ ♪ ♪ why don't you just meet me in the middle ♪ i'm losing my mind just a little ♪ so why don't you just meet me in the middle. >> rachel: good morning, everybody. it's 6:00 a.m. in new york. meet me in the middle. that's exactly what i'm doing i'm in the middle seat with will griff and joey. still in t