♪ ♪ >> joey: good morning. you are looking at one of the greatest cities and the world. atlanta city, the greatest of the states, my home state. you can see that peachy color in the background. we are all peachy. you are listening to a great song about a young lady from georgia. so, you know, a playlist and

they use it. i'm so happy about it. good morning, right come on the couch and i will quit lamenting how much i love my state. grip. >> griff: my daughter goes to the university of georgia. >> katie: i've had georgia peaches before. i actually like georgia. >> joey: you know what i don't like about that is the state of georgia is kind of divided in three sections. where i am from, it is all apples. >> katie: apples are good too but they are known for peaches. >> joey: that is way south. >> griff: you know what is known for, the two hunting shows on fox nation. one luxury hunting and the other one, you have ducks on your type. >> katie: you know what i got eaten by fire ants once. >> joey: those five-star hunting lodges. go check out. >> katie: someone's got to do it. >> griff: meanwhile at 7:00 a.m. on the east coast and 2500 southwest flights already

canceled for today and the airline ceo says it's going to be another tough day. >> katie: hundreds of holiday travelers are now stranded at the airport for another day as they scramble to find a way h home. >> joey: peter doocy is live at the white house with more, peter, what do you got a question mark >> we know now nobody stuck flying southwest can look to the government for help getting home or getting to the vacation or wherever they are trying to go. southwest is saying their systems have them stuck. it is not the weather anymore. and directly from the ceo. >> i want everyone who is doing with the problems we have been facing whether you haven't been able to get to where you need to go or one of the heroic employees caught up in a massive effort to stabilize the airline. no we are doing everything we can to return to a normal operation. we want the numbers from

southwest 2,500 cancellations and what can transportation secretary pete buttigieg do to help? his focus is preventing the next travel crisis. speak with their system really has completely melted down. i made clear our department will be holding them accountable for their responsibilities to customers both to get them through this situation and to ensure this can't happen again. >> griff: president biden said nationwide canceled around the holidays and our administrations working to ensure airlines are held accountable. we don't know what that looks like and maybe some fines but president biden's flight was delayed about two and a half hours, but that is just because he wanted to leave later. air force one will head back this way in the new year from the u.s. virgin islands, back to you. >> katie: no delays for air force one, that is for sure. >> just because he wanted.

>> katie: must be nice. thanks, peter. >> griff: it is unbelievable. hundreds of thousands if not millions of americans affected by this pair the optics, we talked a little bit about this yesterday good optics and bad optics and st. croix where the local residents are happy to see him again. he hasn't been there in a few years because of covid. we show the flight delays, they airlines don't have a plan, and one will have to wait january 1st to get home. across the country airports limped with this problem. >> katie: they are getting so backed up and the luggage and they'll southwest employees can't get to the next destination with their crews to be able to get on the next light to get people to their destination. and we are not talking delays for a day or two but delays for a week or two. hopefully it won't have other issues along the way. >> joey: i play a lot and in the summer three, four, five, six times a week.

i mostly fly delta and anna lanna i can get a direct flight anywhere. i want to point out, pilots, flight attendants at the gates, amazing people and they recognize a lot more conservative and work hard for a living. they are good people. this is a leadership problem. i think people at home need to understand everyone has an opportunity to see this coming and they choose the almighty dollar over common sense and not running your holiday. here is the ugly truth about it they have monopolies. when they say they have a hub, it cost you more money more connections to fly any other airline. so cable, internet providers. there are other options but none are as good as in that area so a buffer you have to fly with them. you look at someone like airline like southwest, there is no way they didn't see this coming. they'll tell lost one of my bags and i have an opportunity because i fly so much to call a special line and got a lot of help with it. >> griff: when you called the

ceo. >> joey: all i could think about was what about my dozens of friends who have the physical disability that can't carry a bag on board and they don't have to fly all the time but this is the one year they want to play to go see family. this is not a luxury. i usually reserve because it is a luxury most of the time but this is a necessity in these airlines know people pack heavy this time of year, weather happens this time of year. they do the same thing with open book flights and choose a couple thousand dollars over common sense and ready to run millions of people's once a year trip to see family over this. there needs to be accountability. i'm just really upset and bothered because i don't know without accountability. >> katie: people get frustrated they airlines are subsidized with t taxpayer dolls and we will see if government can fix it. speaking of government and congress spending money, there is a new op-ed by tom, president

of citizens against government waste, and he says with the new year congress could take on a few new year's resolutions. there is five of them in first stop trillion dollar record spending inflation and covid relief infrastructure spending. don't spend $80 billion to hire irs but cup price controls with pharmaceuticals and restore american energy independence. all of those are great ideas but especially covid billions of dollars in waste and fraud stolen out of these monstrosities of spending during the covid relief effort. >> griff: tom with government waste has been doing this for decades. nobody is better at finding areas. there is actually in an op-ed to come up 555 recommendations for places to save $3.9 trillion over five years. how many of the administration take? we will find out. >> katie: one. >> griff: that would be a high

bar. and he drills down into the specific issues, and he points out, joey, you talk this week about broadband access in rural areas like georgia. there is 100 broadband programs across 15 federal agencies that have spent $45 billion trying to get it and yet people in georgia don't have it. >> joey: by the way, vice president kamala harris, broadband is not open or it is open. like the open borders. this list is great. you know senate republicans. they should have senate first. many voted a lot of money but when it comes down to it nobody likes to spend money like a dozen senate republicans do. at least democrats are honest about it. i hope kevin mccarthy caused to task and brings it back end. when the senate republicans passing the budget spending money on so many things it is

hard to beat up on democrats because they tell you that is what they want to do. republicans are supposed to be the party of fiscal responsibility. yet, how many plans did the republicans vote for or the budget did they vote for to go back and backfill even some of these bills? listen we are a rich country, prosperous country. >> katie: we are also $32 trillion in debt. it is amazing to see multitrillion dollar bills continue to be brought up on the floor of the senate and the house in washington, d.c. pushed through like it's no big deal. >> griff: by the way, the small donor conservatives is an exhibit exhibit smithsonian. we will see what the governments new year's resolutions are. meanwhile, making some of our own with fox news all-american in the new year. you can see the weekend gig "fox & friends" from nashville this saturday 10:00 p.m. and i must say, i will be the

reporter from daytona beach, florida. it is so cold. i'm pretty excited to get out of the cold i'm at least for 24 hours. >> katie: your winter tan. >> joey: you can't wear sleeves in daytona. >> griff: a long island tattoo. >> joey: i'm telling you, those are my people. >> griff: i will only do it if ashley strohmier thinks i sh should. >> joey: she was not on board earlier. >> go for it. you have to take a picture of it and posted. good morning, guys, we will start with the cold here at fox news alert more than 30 people are dead in western new york and historic blizzard that is crippling buffalo. this makes the storm the deadliest for decades. officials in the region expecting a number of deaths to go higher. military police are enforcing a driving ban in buffalo as many roads are still buried. the city airport said to reopen this morning with crews working around the clock to try to get the roadways cleared. the runways cleared as well, but

rising temperatures are rising fears of flooding. the supreme court says title 42 will temporarily remain in place. the white house's wishes appear that is at least for now but the courts conservative justices neil gorsuch siding with his liberal colleagues in the 5-4 ruling. he doubles down sank the supreme court is a court of law and not a policy of last resort. the supreme court to hear oral arguments on the case in february with a decision expected by the end of june. pope francis is asking for prayers for his retired predecessor. the pontiff says pope benedict xvi is very sick. the 95-year-old served head of roman catholic church 2005-2013 and the first pope to step down. benedict has been living in a former convict inside the vatican gardens since stepping down. if visit to the most imaginative place on earth could really set you back according to a new

survey from meant injury which reveals disney world for the the visitors took on debt. it turns out ticket and food prices are often way more expensive than people budgeted for. but the vast majority of those who spent an arm and a leg don't have regrets. it is easy to see why it's the smile on meeting -- i've been talking to our producer of the whole time and i feel bad now. >> joey: to be fair in the movie she is a little girl and that picture all grown up. >> the daughter look super ha happy. >> joey: real quick, i did not spent an arm and a leg to go to disney world. however -- >> katie: this is all me right now. >> joey: however, i do get cheap tickets through the military. so we will leave it at that. >> griff: so you didn't take

on any debt? 's >> joey: no, i didn't. [laughter] >> katie: you put me on the spot on that one. >> joey: those discounts. i actually have insured that i did it for the discounts and the 2d, disney d. i still go to disney and i make sure they know who i am. i will tell you, you would be surprised the people that work there that are big fox watchers. we talk about the leadership of the company opposed to the people running. >> katie: it is for the kids, right and may be adults, also so. you already paid for it. all right, still ahead, the police rebuild a suspect accused of a deadly crime's brie in new york city was a career criminal. link to more than a dozen dangerous, blue lives matter ceo founder joe m. treece speaks out and breaks down the soft-on-crime policies putting everyone in danger. >> joey: plus caught on camera

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♪ ♪ >> joey: crime is out of control in new york city. earlier this week, a mother was killed believed to be hit by a stray bullet walking to the supermarket with her son. this comes as a man arrested for a string of deadly attacks is revealed to be a career cri

criminal. >> he has 12 prior arrests, including an arrest in 2022. assault with a weapon and '21 and 17 assaults with a weapon and 13 criminal possession of a knife. 2012 and a knife robbery and knife assault. we are looking at all unprovoked stepping throughout the city to see if he's done any other spirit >> joey: here to react is blue lives matter new york city founder and 16 year law enforcement veterans, joe imperatrice. good morning, joe. thank you for joining us. listen -- >> thank you for having me. >> joey: when the look of this rap sheet and a term career criminal, explained to me how that happens. >> well i don't understand how judges and district attorneys think it is okay to turn back on the street. it is easy to pull a trigger but have somebody take a knife, go

up to somebody and stab somebody. there is something wrong there. the person isn't all there upstairs. we have to stop allowing people back onto the streets to murder people. and then have no consequences. that can't happen. things need to change quickly. >> joey: when i look at politics is a big part of it, we talked about no bail, no bond. we talk about george soros funded d.a.s really progress advising everything when it comes to law enforcement. where are the police officers and the police leadership in new york city and around the country? where are they on this? do they stand in opposition to d.a.'s das, political leaders in the city? >> the police go out there every single day to do their job and officers are putting their lives on the line every single day to keep the community safe. it is not the cops but the district attorneys. even further politicians. i have not heard one go out on the record and say, "hey, this

is wrong and we need to keep guys behind bars." i haven't seen a politician say we have to do more to keep our communities safe. that is the problem and what we need to fix. >> joey: we talk about new york city in new york city alone fatal stabbings and stabbings are up 37%. that is fatal. 10% total. so people unfortunately do not die from such an attack but politicians want to paint this as firearms problem and absolutely we have a problem with implementing the laws with firearms, but what does this say about violence overall in the city? >> what is terrible, especially broad daylight where people have human life. something is wrong there. mergers are down, yeah but technology and medicine is getting better. people are surviving. we have 2,000 shootings yet those victims could have been murdered as well. we have to go out there and start stop coddling these

criminals. they need to go to jail and rehabilitated appear they cannot be with society's to create more victims. we should not allow that. >> joey: you have been on the job 16 years. everybody in america wants to know, what keeps a good cop going to work right now? >> it is not easy. police officers love their job and you've heard over and over again they don't do it for the money. they just need respect. they need to note that they are out there and don't second-guess them. it is not easy. in a split second you know going overseas, things can go very, very wrong and sometimes you can't control it. officers going out there and doing the best they can. making arrest and in record numbers to keep the community safe. we need help from district attorneys. we need help from three-point judicial system to keep these people behind the bars. we have to stop allowing them back on the street. >> joey: people in new york city deserve better in america deserves better and cops does or better too. joe imperatrice, thank you for

joining us for serving your community for 16 years. >> thank you, god bless, happy new year. >> joey: still had the holiday travel have it continues across the country has thousands of flights are canceled. congresswoman nancy mace said her children were not spared from this. she joins us next to talk about it. ♪ ♪ first psoriasis, then psoriatic arthritis. even walking was tough. i had to do something. i started cosentyx®. cosentyx can help you move, look, and feel better... by treating the multiple symptoms of psoriatic arthritis. don't use if you're allergic to cosentyx. before starting...get checked for tuberculosis. an increased risk of infections some serious... and the lowered ability to fight them may occur. tell your doctor about an infection or symptoms... or if you've had a vaccine or plan to. tell your doctor if your crohn's disease symptoms... develop or worsen. serious allergic reactions may occur. watch me. ask your rheumatologist about cosentyx.

♪ ♪ >> griff: holiday travel chaos the department of transportation promising to look into the actions of southwest airlines as thousands of flights are canceled. our next guest is a member of the house transportation committee and even her children were stranded while traveling home for the holidays. space to nancy mace joins us no. good morning, congresswoman. tell us your experience with this travel chaos that we have been seeing. >> right. it has been terrible to see airlines getting billions of dollars to see this kind of debacle for company, five days in about saturday my children were flying back home to

charleston. they left to spend christmas with her cousins like so many families across the country. traveling back and got stuck in baltimore. he could not book a flight for four days. carental cars unavailable and a huge disaster for us. i almost did not get to see my kids on christmas day. we were able to get them home sunday night late but the luggage somewhere in ohio right now this morning five days later. >> katie: congresswoman, you are on the house transportation committee and pete buttigieg transportation secretary to look into this. so much time result in more regulation, but a lot of times these problems are caused by overregulation. how do you think the government can help the situation? >> i think there has to be a balance. people are outraged. if you look at the communications for southwest over the last five days, only to coposts on social media about

what is going on. when you go to the website, you find information it is difficult to do that from the links they post don't even work. giving people 30 days to rebook their flight into aesthetics exact same travel is very unreasonable. number 1, you see the market and stock was down. the other thing we are learning about not so much on the regulatory side but technology they are using. these airlines, southwest included have been given billions and billions of dollars over the years and bailed out by the federal government and bailed out by taxpayers. we have seen reports in southwest, what we see now is very old archaic software and technology. so holding them accountable and doing those upgrades, having millions of dollars from the government, maybe you should have your technology when something like this happen so people are not stranded all across the country. those are things they will have

to look at because the market will demand it. >> joey: congresswoman how much of this the transportation secretary pete buttigieg? >> it took four days and thousands and thousands of cancellations for d.o.t. to speak up. four days with the ceo of southwest to finally speak up. i hope some point the government will intervene and look at these issues more efficient and more effective. i am horrified looking at the luggage situation that people who are stranded. we see the pictures and videos for days and a people stranded all around the country. we have to work together to get people home, the luggage back home. and then figure out how did this happen? how did they get billions of dollars from taxpayers and this was the outcome. >> joey: before we deal with monday morning cornerback i just looked and january 1st, your family was affected but are you

satisfied with pete buttigieg's handling of this so far? >> not at all. i wish we would have spoken up and pete buttigieg would have spoken earlier. we are now five days into this thing. had i not had an extra car in d.c. i kids might not even be home today. they were able to drive home with family late christmas night. most people were not that lucky. they are still stranded. i don't know how some of these folks will be able to pay for a hotel for the next seven days until they can get out of there. we were told for days but that clearly is not happening right now. people are not getting home at this juncture five days end. >> joey: i think i saw on twitter one of your children celebrated 16th birthday sewed not just a christmas trip at a birthday trip. i have a 13-year-old myself. i don't know about your 16-year-old but my 13-year-old, the house has ordered immediate removal from tiktok. what is your take on that? >> we definitely want to look into tiktok and i know folks

want to hold hearings on it to find out how the chinese communist party might be using it to spy on americans. my 13-year-old, i mentioned yesterday i was going to have a hearing on tiktok and banned from their phones and they looked horrified. the chinese are using it to spy on americans and algorithm and what they are doing to culture and society and spying on our date is wrong. we need to get to the bottom of it. we should ban it from all government devices, that should be step one. >> katie: we talk about banning tiktok but people in the united states working on behalf of that company. what do you guys do about the companies that come in and hire americans to do their bidding for the chinese communist party of beijing? >> you see that with different s in making investments in our country. that is something that we have to look at and take in some balance. when you have countries coming and that are not our friends and not our allies using data to spy

on americans, we have to investigate. even if they do hire american employees that is something we owe the american people. they can then decide if they want to download the software to their phones. that is likely spying on them. that can be their decision. >> griff: the chinese government is wooing the white house right now to remain ownership of tiktok. do you believe tiktok should sever from the chinese government? >> well, i think any business in bed with the chinese communist party, you need to take a real, long, hard look what they are trying to do. they have been doing this for decades whether ip, stealing ip from american companies or whether using apps to spy on american citizens. but they are not the only ones. whatever standard we have should be the same standard for saudi arabia and others that here in the u.s. we need to treat them equally. >> katie: a lot of tiktok

lobbyists in washington, that is for sure appear to congresswoman congresswoman, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> katie: still at the head a winter wonderland and incredible photos out of niagara falls after a rare deep freeze. >> griff: is that the first time it was ever frozen? >> katie: not the first time. >> griff: mcdonald's with a new location threatening millions of jobs. we will tell you more about this next. ♪ ♪

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♪ ♪ >> griff: mcdonald's facing backlash as it unveils the first automated restaurant in a texas drive through machines handling everything from delivery orders to delivering the food. critics sounding off what this means for jobs. one twitter user how it can increase -- an income by robots

taking these jobs. how about this instagram user who points out, there is your $22 minimum wage? host of fox business prime, she joins us, katrina for coming in. what do you make of this? >> this is a first step unfortunately of robotics replacing some industries, right? i actually think the first thing that came to mind as they should take a page from chick-fil-a business model because that is where i go. even if the line is superlong, you know we will go by quickly. they smile, kind, so i just think that is a good example of that, mcdonald's should strive for. >> griff: the one instagram user pointing out $22 minimum wage and inflation is still crushing the american people. obviously a robot replaces a job here the entire restaurant in texas is a prototype.

this is the first one. you know, it will put fear in the community and then people lose their jobs. >> absolutely the american people are suffering. inflation is a big issue. i cover housing and it is affecting the housing market. people can't find houses and we have low amount of supply when it comes to homes as well but very expensive to actually acquire a home-and-home ownership is near and dear to my heart. i see it in the home space but now you see other industries. i also know robots are implemented in miami and uber with delivery of food. i just read this. i haven't experienced it myself yet but instead of a driver come a robot will bring your food. >> griff: just my personal thought, right and i think a lot of viewers and customers can relate to this, who will you yell at when they get the order wrong? i want a quarter pounder, chicken nuggets, barbecue sauce. >> i saw some of the comments on tiktok. who am i going to yell at now?

so, so interesting because i also find that this actually in a weird way they actually inflict fear in people, okay, wait a second, robots may replace us so we have to be nice again, be kind again. what happened to customer service? there are so many places where people you go and they are rude and not happy to be working. >> griff: mcdonald's is obviously the king of the fast food chains here and so do you see this as sort of leading the way? elon musk with electric vehicles and nobody's going to do that but now sort of fundamentally rethought the way we look at our vehicles and now do you think we are seeing that with fast food? >> unfortunately, i am very old-school and a person to greet me, hello, how are you a question mark i'm old-fashioned in all aspects of life but unfortunately this is where we are headed in many industries.

there are industries you cannot replace a robot. i haven't bought an electric car yet, have you? >> griff: i will not go to the automation. here in new york auto mats with extinct 30 years ago. for one respect the future but they are bringing back the dinosaurs. i'm not sure it will work so well. >> my 5-year-old loves dinosaurs so he would love that aspect of the conversation. i think sometimes less is more and simplicity of life is what we need to get back for and family values. we need family values back an institution of home and keep things simple again. the little joys of life. >> griff: by the way fox business reached out for comment to mcdonald's. they have not responded to us yet. meanwhile, you can watch katrina campins wednesday "natural global" and you don't want to miss that. thank you very much. >> thank you for having me. foxnews.com, if you want your

big macs to come in the form of a robot, meanwhile we toss it to ashley. >> katie: ftx customers against cryptocurrency exchanged executives are seeking a declaration that the company's dwindling assets belongs to them. among the officials named in the lawsuit from with the disgrace ftx founder sam bankman-fried on house arrest. "the new york post" reports his family is spending $10,000 a week for security. bankman-fried out on $250 million bond as he awaits trial on a series of charges, including fraud. the creator of the wildly popular tiktok social media accounts revealing identity for the first time. chaya raichik stayed anonymous until now but she is not backing down any longer. >> when my account started growing, i realized the hatred that the left has and their

violent nature. i am going to remain anonymous. and i think that i will be a lot more effective when i'm not so anonymous anymore big coat the account to repost on tiktok with featuring adults with children explicitly gender or content in the classroom. turkey is joining the list to put purchase on children's medicine as the nation grapples with the pandemic. choppers for over-the-counter drugs like tylenol or advil, motrin are only allowed to buy two items per trip. walgreens allows six per visit. see vsa two product limit as the flu rsv, covid affects kids across the country. in niagara falls transformed into winter wonderland. these awesome pictures showing the wonder partially frozen after days of subzero temperatures. but while parts of the ice over, the freeze is pretty much

possible because of sure volume of the water that flows from niagara river. and those are your headlines. we will toss it back to you, griff. >> griff: those images are unbelievable. let's check in with adam klotz the fox weather forecast, hey, adam. >> absolutely beautiful on the fox square and feeling a whole lot warmer out here. that will be a continuing trend the days ahead. 33 degrees new york city and i know that is not that warm but the last several days it is. 40 degrees kansas city here they were down below freezing. we have seen plenty of spots with tens, 20s, 30s appear those are the thing of the past the next few days. warming up the eastern half of the country. wednesday into thursday suddenly 45 degrees as far north as detroit into friday and only continues to get warmer. 53 degrees new york city on friday and continues to stay

warm into saturday. if you wake up christmas morning, new year's day, boy, whole lot more pleasant to 40 degrees and cincinnati, ohio, 17th, 54 degrees. way warmer out there. actually a good chunk of the country 263 million people above average temperatures on new year's day. those are your weather head headlines. griff, tossing it back inside to you. >> griff: 62 million americans very happy warming up, adam, thank you very much. sure. >> griff: heroic moment, i in camera firefighter saving a dog from a frozen lake. you will meet the brave pup and the very thankful owner. ♪ ♪ research shows people remember commercials with nostalgia. so to help you remember that liberty mutual customizes your home insurance, here's one that'll really take you back. it's customized home insurance

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>> we are back with a couple of quick sports headlines. j.j. watt announcing his plan to retire at the end of the season. the arizona cardinals defensive end posting this photo with his wife and baby taken on sunday. the wife says his last ever. ever nfl home game. he calls his career in honor and a pleasure. three-time defensive player of the year is likely heading for the pro football hall of fame which she is eligible for in 2028. joe burrow showing his appreciation for his offensive line this christmas. the bengals quarterback gifted each with their own crew pearl s. they will have the option to bring a plus one. the epic gift follows up the custom diamond encrusted watches he gave his friend five last christmas. nice little gifts there. katie. >> katie: all right. a heroic moment caught on camera.

rescuing a dog that fell into a frozen lake on christmas eve. along with that dog, harper and her owner, aaron esler. i see little harbor there next to you. she got herself into some trouble. you must be so relieved that she's okay. >> we are so happy that she's okay. being a water dog, she took off across the pond. went after seven ducks. the neighbors found her. anna came and got me. we called the fire rescue. >> katie: it looks like harper is back and relaxing and recovering from this episode. chief, when you got this phone call, what were your thoughts when you arrived and what did you see? >> we got a call for a water emergency. it didn't have much information when they dispatched us. we weren't really sure what we had. other than that, we had a previous water call about an

hour prior to this when that turned out to be a false call. we never know. i suspected it might have been children out playing on a frozen water that just wasn't quite frozen thick enough. i suspected it would be a child. when we arrived on scene, we saw a man with a rope attached to the dog trying to get the dog out. obviously, our priorities or life safety. that gentleman on the lake was our first priority. he had fallen through, our focus was changed to rescuing a human instead of a dog. we were trying to formulate a plan to coax him off the water is still figure out how we were going to get out of the dog. >> katie: you guys were quick thinkers. that paddleboard was actually there. that boat was on the shore. you guys jumped into it. watching the firefighters go to rescue harper, i mean, so grateful given they were risking their lives to get harper out of

the lake. >> absolutely. i can't thank them enough. >> katie: did harper -- what was that feeling when she got home? did she start sleeping? was she happy to see you? what were the firefighters say to you and they got her out of that lake? >> we were standing on the shore. she was so sad when she got to the boat. i think she really was effective -- when they pulled her out, she was shivering. we put her by the fire and wrapped her up with some blankets. she was cold for about an hour. after that, she was back to her normal self running around. she's a crazy girl. >> katie: chief, with eight dogs are part of our family. you mentioned you thought it was a small child. it ended up being harper. but do you get calls like this this often when it ends up being a member of the family that has firm rather than a human child? >> well, this is actually the first one i have been involved

in as far as a dog. and ice. we usually see dogs and storm drains or things like that where they call puppies and see the little ducklings we pull out of storm drains quite a bit. this is the first dog we have had that i've been involved in. falling through the ice. i'm sorry. >> katie: i was going to say, i know that erin and harper are grateful to the firefighters and everybody of course you risk your life every day to do these rescues and rescues at people as well especially on christmas eve. we appreciate you both coming into talk about about this amazing story that ended up being happy in the end. thank you both. >> absolutely. thank you for your time. >> katie: still ahead, thanks to texting, more and more young adults are afraid to talk on the phone. we are going to introduce you to the woman who made a career out of battling phone call phobia.

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