carolina and you are looking at lake hart well and a arena. >> population 28,000, anderson, south carolina, gorgeous place, i have to go see that. merry christmas. >> merry christmas. >> merry christmas for eight more days. >> julie: fox news weather alert on the deadly weather blast blamed for 50 deaths. tens of thousands still without power in brutally cold temperatures. search and rescue efforts in some of the hardest-hit areas like buffalo, new york, fighting to get through mountains of snow to help those in need. meantime holiday travels across the country, stranded at roads and airports. good morning, i'm julie banderas in for dana perino. >> i'm jonathan hunt with bill

hemmer. great to be with you. >> julie: he is my old office buddy but now in california. next time you come here. >> john: it is a lot nicer here in the west than the east. the pre-christmas blizzard paralyzed buffalo, 50 inches of snow falling and even more is on the way today. worsening road conditions that are already dangerous or nearly impossible. many people had to abandon their cars, others were stranded inside their homes. but the snow not the only problem, check out this restaurant. completely covered in ice. >> we won't know. it's heavy and that's what i'm nervous about. nothing broke, no windows broke, no leaks. and none of that was touched. >> the only problem is the parking lot got beat up pretty bad.

>> max gordon with fox weather is braving the conditions live in buffalo this morning. good morning, max. >> good morning. well, here in buffalo people woke up to several inches of additional snow, not what people want to see here after more than four feet piled up and more snow could be on the way later on this afternoon. this very challenging conditions for beam in buffalo. thousands without power as crews try to get the lights back on. they are hoping that power should be restored by tomorrow evening but well, people here are not holding their breath because there have been many estimates before. now as we've mentioned more than two dozen people are dead here in erie county because of the snow. people are in snowbanks, dead in their cars and emergency responders haven't been able to get to people in their homes because roads have been too dangerous.

travel bans are still in place here in buffalo. the bans are slowly starting to lift in erie county. the city's airport is still closed down at this hour. the opening has been pushed back because the runways are too dangerous for airplanes to land on. there is one good piece of news, a little return to normal here in buffalo, supermarkets will be reopening today. the first fresh food for some folks in many days. guys, back to you. >> thank you. julie. >> julie: temperatures are near freezing everywhere, including at the southern border. but that is not slowing down the migrant surge there. and agents there are bracing for things to get even worse when title 42 health restrictions expire. that could come in less than 24 hours. we've got matt finn live in eagle pass, texas for us. good morning, matt. >> good morning, julie.

the migrant surge continues at the border. our camera crews, drones captured a group of a couple hundred migrants arriving in the united states around sunrise. we see that over and over again here along the border. the flow of migrants into the united states did not slow down over the christmas holiday weekend. in fact, cbp sources telling fox news from december 23rd to december 25, 16,476 migrant encounters at the border. 2,150 of those migrants were expelled under title 42. 14,326 were released into the united states. this morning military officials have moved hundreds of personnel to the border at el paso in anticipation of title 42 potentially ending. hundreds of soldiers from various agencies putting up wire fencing, heavy vehicles in place preparing for the el paso sector to explode with migrants. also in el paso, texas, in the

middle of the desert a massive dent, larger than a football field that serves as an overflow processing tent should title 42 end, which depends whether the supreme court will hear a challenge from 19 republican-led states including texas who want to keep that policy in place. also new video to show you from over the weekend. yet another high-speed dangerous chase. a texas dps trooper pursuing a human smuggler from north carolina here in texas. that driver had nine illegal migrants smuggled into his truck. they were pursued and ultimately all were recovered and will be booked and potentially released into the united states. of course, a lot of attention being paid on title 42, whether or not it could potentially come to an end and we could see the border continue to surge, julie. >> julie: matt finn, thank you so much. >> let's bring in national border council vice president art dell quade owe.

good to see you. i want to look at some of the figures we got over the weekend. look at this. total encounters at the southwest border over christmas weekend, 16,500, just short of. 2,150 of those were expelled. 14,326 released. art, i'm assuming you would like to see a new year's resolution from the biden administration to do something. >> yeah, i want to see more than just a new year's resolution. they last about three months and we need something to last a lot longer. it is not just for the agents but for america to be honest. when you are releasing 14,000 people, that doesn't make any sense. i know a lot of the focus is on title 42. but this is happening with title 42 still in place. that will give you some type of message of how bad it ising to get if title 42 gets removed. the people taking advantage of it, of course, are the drug

smugglers. agents are preoccupied with other things and they're bringing their drugs across. >> there has been a lot of frustration among the border communities the rest of the country is not paying enough attention to this and that obviously begins and ends with the white house in many ways. do you think they're getting the sense now that something is changing given that we, fox news are not the only ones covering it, too? everyone else has caught on there is a problem here. is there a feelings that things will change? >> you know, there is a hope that things will change but you never know at the end of the day. this has been a problem happening for several years since this administration took over and you turn around and watch the administration get on national tv and say there is not a problem. there is definitely a problem. it has been there for a couple of years and we hope they see the reality. you know what? thankfully governor abbott has exposed it even more by showing them look, if you aren't going

to come down here the only option that we have is taking it to you and saying look, there is a problem. something needs to get done. again, you know, we'll have to wait and see. this has been happening for two years and we haven't heard anything from this administration how they want to fix it. >> also we've had, to be fair, a problem on that border going back decades now, art. is it also incumbent. this is a different kind of crisis, worse than it has been, but is it incumbent on congress and both parties to get something done in terms of broader immigration reform? >> look, i said it many times. the cartels, the drug smuggling and human smuggling organizations don't care what side of the aisle you vote on or what side of the aisle you stand on. this is a problem that needs to be taken care of. it is affecting everybody. you send more troops down there and redirect the traffic. at the end it comes to poll cismd you have to have the right policies and detain people.

when you are sending the message out you are catching 16,000 and releasing 14,000, that is not a clear message there is consequences for the bad actions being committed at this time. >> art, if and when title 42 ends and it will at some point, could be very soon within the next 24 hours, what does it look like in communities like eagle pass, texas that we're looking at right now on the screen? what does it look like in el paso or mcallen? >> as chaotic as it's been in the last couple of years it will get that much worse. it is not just for the border communities but for the rest of the country. what is going to happen is the drug cartels will take advantage of that and bring more drugs into the united states that will be spread throughout the entire country, not just border communities. >> great to see you. we'll see if 2023 does indeed bring some change. it appears that there is a realization now that something has got to change.

we'll see if the biden administration acts on it. art, thank you very much indeed for being here. julie. >> julie: a new batch of twitter files reveals an alarming attempt by the biden administration to shape covid messaging. >> a new york congressman elect admits lying about his record again and again and again. but george santos said it won't stop him from taking office. >> julie: a new survey finds many americans are not so optimistic about finances in the new year. what 2023 could mean for your wallet next.y th appraisal or termite inspection. no upfront costs at all. let us get your family security of cash in the bank.

>> julie: stunning new revelations in the alex murdaugh murder case. prosecutors are now saying the

prominent south carolina attorney gunned down his wife and son to, quote, shift focus away from his crimes and buy himself more time. the state claims murdaugh was overwhelmed by debt and facing legal, personal and financial ruin and he was about to be exposed the same day his wife and son were both shot. murdaugh has pled not guilty to their murders. >> jonathan: new york congressman elect george santos as admitted to lying about h his education and work experience during his campaign. david lee miller is live with details. >> for the first time since "the new york times" published allegations that the republican congressman elect lied about or misrepresented his past, george santos is speaking out. in a couple of interviews he sounded both apologetic as well as defiant.

he said the times article and media reaction to it was unfair. >> down to the nitty-gritty i'm not a fraud. i'm not a criminal who defrauded the entire country and made up a fictional character and ran for congress. >> he admitted to lying about getting a degree in 2010. he said he never graduated from any college. during the campaign he claimed to have worked for citigroup and goldman sachs. blames using a poor choice of words. he said another company he worked for called link bridge had a business relationship with the two companies. >> i did extensive work on the lp side with goldman sachs in my time at link and citigroup in link just like i did work with firms on the gp side of things. >> he refuted the times report

that claimed he had been charged with fraud in brazil for using a stolen checkbook. he told the radio station the report is not true. >> i'm not a criminal. not here, not abroad in any jurisdiction in the world have i ever committed any crimes. >> despite admitting to what he calls resume embellishment he says he is not going to step down and expects to take his seat in the next congress. jonathan. >> jonathan: david lee miller, thank you very much. julie. >> julie: 2022 is almost in the rearview mirror but there is a new survey that finds 2/3 of americans do not see their finances improving in 2023. when can americans finally expect to see more green? let's ask cheryl casone host of "american dream home" on fox business. if you look at the economy and people's wallets, unfortunately with inflation people are spending less money this christmas on christmas gifts and looking forward to 2023 being the year of change.

sadly, that's not the case. >> no, it's not. it shows what we knew, americans are very concerned about their finances. what we've seen and the data has shown us that we get from the government that personal savings rates are dropping every month. we see that data comes in. they are saving less and putting more on credit cards. unfortunately because the fed is raising interest rates and hiked at every meeting just about this year it means the credit cards are more expensive. auto loans are more expensive and the other big piece of the survey that's the key story here is inflation. you go to the grocery store, margarine is 49% higher than a year ago, eggs, milk, gasoline. all the things -- housing costs, all the things that affect their lives they see in their bills is -- it's what's affecting their lives a why the survey is so pessimistic. the last trading week of the year. we're on track to have the markets have the worst

performance since 2008 for the year. try not to be debbie downer on this. i want to say there is a mixed bag about what we think will happen next year. at some point the market will turn around. i've been doing this along time. 18 years you've known me. the market will turn around. when will it happen? i don't know. i know it's going to turn around. >> julie: let's talk about the stock market. take a look at the full year of the dow on friday's close for the past year the dow is down 3,134. that's not a good picture. when you look forward to next year, interest rates is the number one key to helping people be able to afford things, right? >> if the fed can get to their target for interest rates. say in a hopeful world it's the summer of 2023. a lot of economists do believe the fed will have to stop when

they get inflation under control. their balance sheet is oversized now and continue to reduce that. when they get to that point they'll stop. one thing the 30-year fixed mortgage rate is 6.27 percent. the latest read i saw this morning. it has gone down a little bit. it is still above 6% and it still stinks if you look to buy a home. >> julie: they said if you refinance it will be much higher. interest rates were so low a lot went with the interest only and we have big jumps. the refile would be more than my bump. >> in general i think the market will turn around. i think when the market is always going to be ahead of the fed. the stock market will always be ahead. any good news we get war in ukraine ends. any of those pieces -- when you

have such a bear market and everyone is drowning in negativity right now it's when things turn around when you least expect it. one piece of good news will put the markets in the other lane. >> julie: look at the "new york post" op-ed and the headline reads why 2023 will be like 1967 summer of love for the stock market. hot inflation and recession fears spike being interest rates from the fed, i'm not talking about 2022, i'm talking about 1966. a familiar set of fears dogged stocks during the year that also gave us the chevy camaro. i wanted one of those cars so bad. nfl, afl merger. a year later 1967 dlird not only the summer of love but a stunning rally for stocks as economic fears faded. you think the summer of 2023 we

need to rename? >> i don't have a crystal ball. lord knows what will happen in the next six months. i think we're on track. i look when it comes to housing i watch the phoenix housing market. the indicator what's going on with housing and look at apple stock. watch your netflix. these are stocks that are in people's lives. we use amazon, apple iphones, watch thn't have a date. >> julie: this huge bill they just passed for trillions of dollars doesn't help things. >> 1.7 trillion. the spending in washington has to stop or inflation won't get better any quicker. >> julie: just as inflation could turn a corner they did this. happy holidays. great to see you. jonathan, i will send it to you. >> jonathan: let's just hope it is 1967 revisited in 2023.

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the warmth of the fox studios. >> julie: yes, but the air conditioning is making me feel outwest. a new batch of twitter files is posted showing the biden administration pushed to elevate and suppress users based on their points of view. specifically targeting so-called anti-vaxxer accounts. good morning. >> bill: twitter files part ten pulled back curtain on guarded information about covid-19 and how twit he allegedly rigged the covid debate especially around the use of vaccines. in a twitter thread reporter, they said both the trump and biden white houses pressed twitter to moderate covid content however they saw fit and that the social media giant

often complied. the latest in the release of internal files released by twitter's new owner elon musk wants to show what really happened behinto an investigato. they looked for help from the tech companies for runs on grocery stores. there were runs on grocery stores. once biden administration took over one of their first meeting requests with twitter executives was on covid. the focus was on anti-vaxxer accounts. after going through the twitter files he said twitter execs didn't always do their bidding but they suppressed views from doctors and scientific experts that conflicted with the official positions of the white house. no word back from the white house regarding our request for a response. volume ten comes on the heels of the christmas eve twitter files dump that reportedly revealed the f.b.i. and c.i.a. had been

meddling in content moderation for years. julie. >> julie: that's a little disturbing. thank you, laura. >> jonathan: what happened to free speech? let's ask charlie hurt, washington times opinion editor and fox news contributor, and richard fowler, also a fox news contributor. great to have you here, guys. come to you first, charlie. both administrations did this. the trump administration was doing it, the biden administration has been and we assume still is doing it. one, should we really be surprised? >> probably not surprised, sadly, because this is what government does when they can get away with it and we've seen demonstrated for years now a media that seems to not really worry too much or care too much about freedom of speech. it is wrong that the trump administration did it and it is wrong that the biden administration did it, which is

why you want to have a forceful media protecting their interests when it comes to free speech and like i said that seems to have evaporated in this country very sadly. also, i have to say, though, the comparison between the degree to which the trump administration did this and what the biden administration did is orders of magnitude are worse with the biden administration did. the trump administration was trying to do whatever they were doing. i condemn them for it and they shouldn't have been doing it but this notion that for years after we sort of began to get a handle on this pandemic, the idea that the biden administrations was pushing them to censor science and lifesaving information is alarming. of course, it's logical next step for them to turn -- the biden administration to turn and try to use twitter and successfully use twitter to help them win an election which is

exactly what they did. >> jonathan: do you see it the same way the biden administration was censoring science here? i assume you see it slightly differently. >> i think you have two different things here. where i agree with charlie both administrations did it and i think it's really important to not apply today's values on what happened during the middle of a global pandemic where we saw thousands -- almost 2,000 deaths per day. what you have is a government trying to say we need to do the best possible to keep the american people calm and urging social media platforms to moderate the content going up on their website, right? this is what happens when you release files in a vacuum without giving context to them and also worth pointing out as we speak today, right? right now in the united states while we deal with the flu and covid and rsv, a lot of our hospitals across this country are 90% full. which is very, very dangerous

for the health of the entire country. what happens if there is a bad car accident or some other natural disaster when we're also dealing with respiratory viruses taking ahold of the country? you have an administration trying to protect the american people under president trump and president biden and asking social media companies let's not put out misinformation and urge folks to get vaccinated and not rush on grocery stores when we try to get ppe and trying to get supplies in. all the things we're trying to get done during the middle of pandemic that killed millions. >> jonathan: should we just except free speech is free speech is free speech? should the biden administration get out of it and jack dorsey never have banned people on twitter? do we let it run riot in the way that it wants to? >> i got into the news business 25 years ago because i believed that people can handle the truth.

i believe that people can handle reporting and handle stuff that's not necessarily true. the american people -- the american citizen is wise about figuring out what to believe and what not to believe so yeah, just let it all hang out there and let people decide. if somebody wants to spout something that's stupid they can expose themselves. don't get in the way of letting people show their own rear ends in public. i think that the american people are smart enough to figure it all out. sadly, there are far too few people in the news business anymore who actually believe that the american people are capable of desizefering and picking through what's valuable and what's not and what's true and what's not true. >> jonathan: would you agree just let free speech be free speech? >> i think we have an obligation, the government has an obligation to protect

americans so they can have free speech. it's speech against government intrusion. oftentimes when you have folks on twitter or when you have robots on twitter pushing out information that we know is false and folks are believing it because they see it coming from a site that might not be true or an ad that might not be true or from foreign sources that might not be true they act on this information. when the information is clarified i didn't know this. when we put information out there, when us journalists do it it is different than a random person on twitter says this or that is true. where are they getting the information and their sourcing or anything like that? >> jonathan: it's a debate we won't finalize today that's for sure. great to have you both here. happy new year to you. >> julie: no end in sight for the flood of migrants overwhelming the southern border and that's with title 42 still in place. does washington have a plan for when the public health policy is

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>> julie: a california bail reform group has counted danny glover and others among a-list supporters. they shut down. why? after the lawsuit claiming it released a serial criminal who allegedly tried to murder someone just six days after being released. let's bring in sean duffy, former wisconsin congressman and fox news contributor and co-host of the business program the bottom line that we'll promote in a second. let's just look at the bail project's track record, shall we? they bailed out 51 people since february of 2021, of those nine only returned to the court.

how do a-list celebrities hold any influence when it comes to releasing criminals back onto the streets and what do they know about it? >> the bottom line, if a court comes in and says i have a defendant with a long rap sheet, a lot of violent crimes and they set bail or bond, that's for a purpose. one, you want that defendant to come back to court but two, you want to make sure you will protect the public from future offenses from this actual defendant. when you have groups like this one, that say i'll override the judge and come in and actually pay to get him out of jail and then bad things happen, listen, i think they should be responsible. here is the other thing, julie, that is important to note. if the defendant was a one-time criminal. disorderly conduct. they had a little bag of marijuana and this group stepped in and said we'll make sure they get out of jail. they aren't serious criminals and make sure they're free, that's one thing. but this group was setting free

very violent criminals with long rap sheets and endangering the community. doesn't make sense. >> julie: had it not been for the lawsuit we wouldn't be talking about this it california lawmakers would love. this isn't the first nor last time a serial criminal has been given freedom by the courts to kill. his rap sheet. 2018 pleaded guilty to attempted grand larceny. 2019 felony burglary. 2021 auto theft. arrested for pandering and carrying a concealed weapon and arrested again following a day of burglary and theft charges. six days after he not only pulls an attempted murder he shot a waiter 11 times. the question is, when are democratic lawmakers in this country going to wake up and smell bail reform? >> that's a good question. they will only wake up and do

it, julie, when they have consequences at the ballot box. when you don't have d.a.'s or judges that do their job, they're the ones that come up the for re-election and the voters can vote them out. that's the remedy. when you have liberal, wealthy hollywood elites to let criminals go, they get sued. there is a financial consequence when they engage in this kind of behavior. back to your question, i think this -- liberals have a ton of bad ideas. again we don't think we should lock up criminals, what? everyone with any common sense wants to keep bad people behind bars and make sure good people are on the streets. but it is not until there is a mass revolt of the american people or californians or new yorkers or people from new jersey that say we won't take this anymore and we'll throw you out of office. until we get someone in place that will support safety and security.

lee zeldin almost won on this issue alone. new yorkers are sick of crime in their backyards. >> julie: i have to totally switch gears here. it is about parenting. you are an expert. i only have three, you have nine. the holidays are spending time with loved ones. we talked summertime we don't send our kids away to summer camp because we want to spend time with them. a lot of people do that. if you feel you need a moment away from your family you are not alone. a new survey finds americans can tolerate less than four hours with their family before they need time to themselves. does that sound about right to you? who better to ask than you. >> first of all, every four years i need a break from the kitchen when everyone is at my house for christmas but i enjoy my family. i get the study. i know families out there and after 20 minutes i would want to take a break from their families. but listen, i think family time

at christmas can be stressful. when you are together for days at a time, which is wonderful, people want to take a break and sit and look at their phone and zone out a little bit before reengaging. i get that. we had a great christmas. we had 20 people at our house, all staying at my house, cooking, cleaning, doing the whole christmas ex trove began stae together celebrating the birth of jesus christ and it was awesome. i didn't want to take a break from any of them. i love them all. >> i love this picture and i love you and rachel so much. i knew you would answer that. it comes to the barents if you're a good parent and your kids aren't animals you should be able to spend more than four hours with them. >> kick them out of the house. >> julie: i'll teach them how to cook because i don't know how. great to see you as always. >> you, too, julie. >> jonathan: sean duffy has the

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covid pandemic. 300 million cases reported worldwide by early january. that number more than doubling by december. mostly driven by a new strain called omicron which became dominant in late march in the u.s. the numbers started falling over the summer. now we see the start of another possible surge which is combining with flu and rsv to create a so-called tripledemic threatening to overwhelm america's healthcare system once again. russia sending troops over the border into neighboring ukraine in an all-out invasion. vladimir putin listing various justifications for the war including that ukraine was threatening russia and was being governed by quote nazis, moscow severely underestimated the ukrainian military. they were able to stop the russian advance toward kiev eventually pushing the russians back to positions in the far east and south. now ukraine is on the offensive.

bolstered by military aid from more than a dozen countries including the u.s., which has spent more than $60 billion arming the ukrainians. the war having major economic consequences around the world. it helped fuel the worst inflation crisis in decades here in the u.s., with the cost of goods and services skyrocketing throughout the year as wages remain largely stagnant. the federal reserve aggressively raising interest rates, hoping to cool down the economy and relieve some of the inflationary pressure. in may, a major tragedy hitting a small texas town. a gunman killing 19 students and two teachers at the rob elementary school in uvalde. it was the third deadliest school shooting in american history. in the after math it was revealed local law enforcement were on the scene for more than an hour but did not confront the shooter until members of the u.s. border patrol tactical unit

arrived. perhaps the most consequential supreme court ruling in decades creating significant political upheave all. the court's new conservative majority ruling absorption is not a nationwide right. prompting abortion bans in more than a dozen states. 2022 marked by multiple investigations into the former president donald trump. perhaps the most significant, the congressional january 6th committee which kicked off televised public hearings with the goal of finding out what led to the attack on the capitol and who was to blame. >> we believe this evidence we set forth in our report is more than sufficient for a criminal referral of former president donald trump and others. >> those legal troubles escalated in august with the raid on trump's private residence at mar-a-lago. hundreds of documents seized, many marked top secret. the former president saying he declassified them but no record

of that. possibly exposing him to charges of violating the presidential records act. the end of an era, queen elizabeth ii passing away at the age of 96. her son, charles, becoming king charles iii after spending more than 64 years as heir to the throne. a pair of hurricanes causing big problems in september. first up was hurricane fiona bringing major flooding to puerto rico and the dominican republic before heading north. it hit canada as a cyclone packing 100 mile-per-hour winds and causing widespread damage. two weeks later hurricane ian slammed into florida's gulf coast. the most deadly hurricane to hit the state in more than 80 years. officials there say it could take years for some coastal communities to get back on their feet. the tech world thrown into

turmoil in late october after elon musk completed his $44 billion takeover of twitter. he immediately fired thousands of employees as he warned about the company's financial situation. we elected a new congress in 2022. the mid-terms resulting in the house flipping control to the republicans. but there was no red wave as anticipated, with democrats actually gaining a seat in the senate. and republicans only winning a slim majority in the house. the year ending with a bang literally. mauna loa the world's largest active volcano record back to life after lying dormant for almost four decades. tourists flocking to volcanoes national park to get up close and personal with the eruption. looking ahead to 2023. expect covid and ukraine in

dominate headlines and a close eye on congress and whether kevin mccarthy will become the next speaker of the house and we'll be here for all of it. until then in new york, bill hemmer, fox news. >> julie: any new year's' resolutions? >> jonathan: mine is to spend more time with you. i forgot how much fun you are. >> julie: i am so much fun. remember when we were in your office and the former bureau chief yelled at us because we laughed too loud. >> jonathan: it will only end in trouble for both of us. >> julie: miss you so much but good to be with you today. >> it is frightening, it is exasperateing and you are saying when is this going to end? we'll be getting through this together very soon, i feel confident. >> julie: kathy hochul after a