thank you, walter hayes, giving us this shot there. new bedford, massachusetts. looking out there over the bay. they have a beautiful whaling museum you can visit if you are up there. not sure what the temperature is. pretty looks called. >> katie: that water looks pretty chilly. that is a winter sunrise shot. >> joey: a record of people that express their emotions really loudly. >> griff: if you look closely at that shot, on the top a lot of those houses, they had the widows watch where the wives of the fishermen would watch to see if their husbands came home from the whaling mission. i'm not from the south. i'm improvising here. work with me. i'm still stuck on the dog that was sleeping with katie in the last segment. >> katie: cute little harbor. >> griff: tv does not make that dog nervous at all. >> katie: what is making some people nervous' title 42 in the

supreme court is keeping title 42 in place against the white house's wishes for now. >> griff: if title 42 is dropped, we could see 14,000 encounters every single day at the border which would add up to over 5 million illegal crossings each year. >> joey: live from washington and he's got the latest on this, lucas. >> good morning. the supreme court says title 42 will remain in place for now after 19 states as to the high court to give it around. one of the courts conservative justices sided with his liberal colleagues in the 5-4 ruling. the dissenting opinion, saying "the current border crisis is not a covid crisis. court should not be in the business of perpetuating atex design for one emergency only. elected officials have failed to address a different emergency where a court of law not the policymakers of last resort." dhs gave the candidate mission, "we will continue to manage the

border. we will do so within the constraints of a decades-old immigration system that everyone agrees is broken. "before taking offers, president biden weighed in. >> president biden: good afternoon -- june apparently. new family -- i think it's overdue. >> some democrats are urging the president to do more. "what's happening at our southern border is a humanitarian crisis paid my colleague joe manchin, john cornyn, tony gonzalez and i are committed to delivering bipartisan solutions to address the situation. >> policy decision-making. you can adjust the title 42 continued to get funded. we got a win tonight. we will grateful tonight even if it is just a band-aid but we look at house republicans having a majority. part of that is making sure that the administration is held accountable and also finding ways for solutions. >> the supreme court will hear

oral arguments on a case in february with a ruling expected this spring guys. >> live with the latest. thank you very much. you know, congressman tony gonzalez whose district is in eagle pass where you are seeing yesterday, henry cuellar, a record they have not seen. i can remember when i first began covering the border, i will talk to agents saying chemically got 50 migrants today. now, 1100 in an hour. unbelievable. when he talks about when republicans take over and hold the administration accountable, one of the parts of that he is talking about is holding dhs secretary accountable and possibly trying to find a way to say, listen, either you put something on the table in terms of policies and a plan or you are impeached. >> katie: very frustrating for republicans and democrats on capitol hill to work with the white house on this issue. the president just hasn't been taking it seriously.

he refuses to go to the border. he said in the past, i have better things to do. i don't have the time. he has time to go on this caribbean vacation while the borders completely overrun. even with title 42 in place as they worked to lift it, the administration did to open the floodgates were even more people to come in and republicans and democrats including republican elect monica de la cruz continue to urge him to visit the border. >> we just have a sigh of relief that this title 42 is going to remain in place. at least for a couple of months more. we are asking the biden administration to come down here, visit our border, talk to our border patrol agents. and to the cities around here, we need a long-term solution that will keep migrants here coming at a steady, slower pace. and not the mountain of people

that are going to come at one time. we are talking ten, 12,000 people crossing our borders at one time. this is putting a lot of stress around local communities. >> i can't help -- we have talked about this at commercial breaks. you and i have all week. we haven't talked about on air yet. as someone who doesn't understand maybe the policy side of things are legal side of things in depth, i don't understand why title 42 while republicans are saying, we have a fence and fentanyl health crisis at the border. if you go to the dea website which is the by administration run organization. the first thing you see on the dea website is fentanyl is the single deadliest drug that our nation has ever encountered. fentanyl is everywhere from large metropolitan areas to rural america. no community is safe from this poison. they have a phases of fentanyl memorial at the dea headq headquarters. the government acknowledges this

problem. perhaps they don't acknowledge how he gets here. why aren't republicans as they say -- why aren't they pouncing on the idea that that could be the health crisis that is legitimate. i do agree that this is a manipulation of what title 42 is supposed to be. sometimes doing the right thing the wrong way isn't the right thing. >> griff: the dea page you are looking at because the phenolic crisis. therein lies your problem. this administration refuses still to this day to call it a crisis. we have just had the highest october and november record numbers ever over 230,000 for each month. more than 465,000 in just those two months alone. we are headed into absolutely uncharted territory with utter chaos on the other side of title 42 lifting which will only increase the fentanyl crisis. the administration won't call it a crisis. they put out a statement. dhs put out a statement saying the border is not open. that is simply not true.

the numbers, the fentanyl, the bodies, the countless broken records show something absolutely the opposite. >> the white house has tried to argue we want a billion more dollars for border patrol agents. agents are going to be helpful when it comes to stopping fentanyl and the cartels that they are simply used the process more people at these ports of entry when they are being turned in. the administration talks a lot about management, right? building more processing centers on the border to process more people. there is no talk of stopping the flow from the white house at a all. when border patrol agents are taken off of the front line, they are processing people. it means more fentanyl and drugs coming to the country and more people die as a result. >> joey: more than 30 people are dead in western new york from the deadliest blizzard buffalo has seen in decades. >> katie: authorities rushing to deliver ready to eat meals and water since many roads are still buried and a driving ban remains in effect.

>> griff: fox whether correspondent joins us live from buffalo. he is at the latest. >> good morning. after days of wicked winds, frigid temperatures, and more than 4 feet of snow fall, temperatures today are finally going to get above freezing into the 40s. that's going to be a welcome relief for a lot of folks here. unfortunately come this weekend, rain is on the way. this can present a whole new problem for this rain is gonna start melting off of us know that we have seen in some minor flooding could be some possibility. that's the latest challenge where a community that is really endured so much. as you mentioned, more than 30 people confirmed dead because of this winter storm. people have been found in snowbanks and vehicles. some people simply were not able to be reached by first responders as they were having medical emergencies during the storm because the roads were just so bad. at the height of the storm, tens of thousands of people were without power. that number is going down by the minute.

there is more than 7,000 utility workers here in the buffalo area. they are working to get the lights back on. as a last update, there was less than 1,000 customers here in erie county without power. some really good news there. unfortunately, there has been looting associated with this storm. people breaking into businesses, stealing tvs, liquor, things you don't need in a storm necessarily. they are not trying to steal essential items. buffalo pd has put together a looting task force. they say they've arrested eight people so far. this is what buffalo's mayor had to say about the looters. >> people who are out looting when people are losing their lives in this harsh winter storm is just absolutely repreh reprehensible. i don't know how these people can even live with themselves, how they can look at themselves in the mirror. they are the lowest of the low.

>> joey: there are some glimmers of normalcy coming back to the buffalo area. the light rail is being tested out. it could be back online soon. roads are being cleared and buffalo's airport is opening back up at 11:00 a.m. guys. >> katie: max gordon, thank you for the update. >> griff: rain, more rain. and of the flight delays are going to continue. >> katie: not a good week. you can follow this story and all the latest weather developments by downloading the fox whether or not. in any connected devices. in the meantime, someone who is also watching the storm who has been saying something about the flight cancellations, pete buttigieg of course. the transportation secretary. he has mentioned that southwest cancellations just today more than 2500. for tomorrow, more than 2300 cancellations. secretary buttigieg is watching all of this. here's what he had to say. >> meltdown is the right word.

this is an unacceptable situation. the bottom line is the rest of the aviation system has been on the road to recovery since the worst days of the storm going into friday of last week. as of today as i'm looking at the different airlines, most of them are in the low single digits in terms of cancellation rates. averaging about 5% for all of the other airlines. for southwest right now, we appear to be north of 70%. their system really has completely melted down. i made clear that our department will be holding them accountable for their responsibilities to customers both to get them through this situation and to make sure that this can't happen again. >> katie: make it worse or better? b3 r charlie brown's teacher talking. hold him accountable. what does that mean? if you can hold them accountable, what didn't you do over the summer? when did you do over the last year to prevent this from happening? this is in the first time in the last 12 months we've seen this. some people's lives are heavily

disrupted over this. >> griff: southwest ceo bob jordan had this message for that thousands of travelers suffering. here is what he said. >> please also hear that i am truly sorry. here's why this giant puzzle is taking out several days to solve. southwest is the largest carrier in the country not only because of our values and our values, but because we built our flight schedule around communities. i have nothing but pride and respect for the efforts of the people that southwest who are showing up in every way. the tools we use to recover from disruption service will 99% of the time. clearly, we need to double down on our already existing plans to upgrade systems for these extreme circumstances so that we never again face what is happening right now. >> griff: he might as well have just played patsy cline's, "i'm sorry." the people -- they were affected aren't buying that. representative macy mays on the

house transportation committee by the way had her kids stranded nearly missed christmas. she says, it's time to hold these airlines like bob jordan accountable. >> saturday night, my children were flying back home for charleston. they love to spend christmas with their cousins like so many families across the country's were traveling back and got stuck in baltimore. could not re-book a flight for four days. these airlines -- southwest included have been given billions and billions of dollars over the years, bailed out by the federal government, bailed out by taxpayers. what we have seen in reports from airline pilots and others that work at southwest, we're seeing now is that they are using very old archaic software and technology. holding them accountable for doing those upgrades, having some strange -- if you're going to get billions of dollars from the government, maybe you should have your technology in order so when something like this happens, people are left stranded all across the country.

>> joey: here some time for real talk. i'm not beating up on nancy mace at all. the only way the government is going to hold them accountable is that they write them a check to upgrade their system. that is what they will do per that is how the government in today's world holds anyone accountable. let us pay for it. we will pay for you. we gave you $50 billion, airline industry, to save you from firing people during covid. you had massive retirements and layoffs. let us write you some more billions of dollars. maybe you can upgrade your systems rather than using the multiple billions of dollars in profit you got this year for that is the unfortunate part. that's where american taxpayers are always on the hook. i appreciate the apology per that was about as useful as a first class ticket on southwest flight. that doesn't really change anything. obviously, i'm frustrated because i see their frustration and heartache in people's lives. >> katie: is not just missing christmas which is bad enough. people can't get back to work for a week who are worried about

losing their jobs and the like and i think you're just ter terrible. >> griff: someone who never disappoints, ashley strohmier. >> you are so nice. it's good to see all three of you this morning. we can start with a really sad story out of southern california. a liquor store owner who went viral after scaring up a group of would-be robbers earlier this year died yesterday morning at the age of 80. he shot one of the suspect since in all four running through the crooks were later arrested at the hospital. he suffered a heart attack after the incident. before recovering and eventually returning to his store. his family did not confirm his cause of death. he did suffer a severe stroke back in october. a former university of nebraska quarterback is hailed as a hero for helping rescue his neighbors from a house fire on monday night. tommy armstrong giving the play-by-play to a reporter at the scene while the home was still smoldering. >> i saw a bunch of smoke. grabbing bricks and throwing it

out the window. trying to get out of the back right of the -- i called and there. i picked her up in drug or to the window and got her out. >> authorities say the fire was sparked by an electrical outlet that was overloaded by a space heater. armstrong started 41 games for nebraska between 2013 and 2016. home prices falling again and higher mortgage rates push down demand. it's the fourth straight month to see a price drop near the west coast seeing the fastest drop on average with vegas, san francisco, and finish getting hit pretty hard. nationwide, home prices are down 3% from their june peak. the fed has raised rates 4 times as it tries to curb inflation. los angeles mayor shuts down a plan to light up the hollywood sign. its 100th anniversary. former mayor, the order on his final day in office. he ordered it.

she's great for the whole plan because of concerns raised by residents who live nearby. those residents believe an influx of tourists hoping to see the lit up sign would effect their safety and quality of l life. >> you know, hollywood stars light it up. they don't get it. >> katie: i would like to see it. i would go there to see it. [laughter] all right. thank you so much. still ahead, a virginia high school is accused of delaying academic awards that could have boosted a student's college admissions chances. and it was all in the name of equity. how angry parents are reacting. >> joey: does your team refused to answer your calls? you are not alone. we will introduce you to a woman who makes big bucks teaching generation z to talk on the telephone to say hello.

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>> the school wanted to recognize students as individuals, not their achievements. as if the two had to be separated. the kids got their certificates weeks after early college application deadlines dropped onto their desks as if it was just another piece of paper. it is part of this agenda that is the dumbing down of america. >> griff: a virginia mom outrage is a top local high school is accused of hiding

student's academic achievements, blocking them from including these honors on college applications all in the name of equity. fox news contributor douglas mary is here to react. great to have you here. leading the fights, broke this story. and yet, here, delaying the recipient of the national merit awards because these students from their college admissions chances. no reaction. >> she is a terrific journalist. a terrific mom, and a terrific american. i am so pleased that she stuck out to the story about what is going on about tom prince jefferson high. the first thing is perfectly clear as she says in her reporting while the school is doing this. they seem to believe that awarding some students effectively merit certificates might demoralize people who don't get them. effectively, you've got a kind of hierarchy. if there's one thing we've got to avoid in 21st century america, it's any kind of

hierarchy. putting that person about that person because of achievement. school is largely about achievement. because you might flunk it one year doesn't mean you will the next good but, yeah, we have to have systems of gradation. we have to be able to do that. they are effectively doing this stepping back saying, it would like to look at the child as an individual in the round. and not just on their achievements. sorry, other people can do that. home can do that. school, it's about your achievements. >> joey: the school saying the quiet part out loud. we a quote from brandon, director of student services obtained by "the new york post" saying this. "we want to recognize students for who they are as individuals, not focus on their achievements." and little johnny or susie spent endless hours studying, preparing, and make straight as and qualifies for an award, we should not make that more valuable perhaps then the student who didn't do the

hard work. >> is worth taking a moment to reflect how far we have, in this country to this extent. this is thomas jefferson school we are talking about. we are talking about one of the smartest minds that the world let alone this country ever produced. a man who taught himself as well as was taught. he taught himself an astonishing amount. he didn't do that because of who he was as an individual. he did it through achievement. if mr. and mrs. jefferson sr. had said we want to look at little thomas as an individual, notice is achievements, i'm not sure that there would have ever been a thomas jefferson. there certainly wouldn't be a school named after him. this country is built on people's achievements, not just on who they are as individuals which is the modern speak for effectively, let's make sure everyone has prizes. >> joey: that such a salient point. thomas jefferson would be rolling in his grave. let me ask you, why should

people across the country care about this story in virginia? >> it is emblematic of something that is happening across the country as a whole. there is this deep uncertainty among teachers, teacher unions, and everyone else in education. a sort of seem to think that their job is to sort of create fully rounded political activists of some kind who have all the right opinions and sort of push the other stuff that they use to concentrate onto the side. to the extent that they think things like marriage are bad for they think things like achievement are bad. they are effectively talking in the terms of political activists, not academic educators. it does speak to this thing we have across the whole country in schools and colleges. this has to be turned on its head. america has to be competitive in the 21st century. to be competitive, we have to

achieve. that needs achievers. >> griff: you can bet this isn't happening in china. meanwhile, still had given the u.s. supreme court will keep title 42 employees were helper lawmakers have just a few months to come up with a permanent solution to the border crisis but a former border patrol chief on changes that need to be made next.

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crossings per day when title 42 ends at nothing as no one will be 1,442,000,000,000 per month and per year. 5.1 million. you not only know a lot about border patrol -- you are in the service for 20 years. a lot of your ideas were used and still are used today in terms of securing the border. if you have the ability to solve this problem, what would you tell people on capitol hill they need to be doing ahead of february and ahead of the expiration of title 42? >> well, there are several things. i think the most important thing when we are looking at the southern border is we have to stop treating this like a public nuisance issue. it is a national security issue. it's the first thing. once you start treating it as a national security issue, then you make tools available that you traditionally have had in

the past. the biggest thing is the idea of a consequence. when there is an illegal entry that is made, there should be a consequence. either detention, deportation, something in effect. right now, there is no consequences at all. in fact, if you were to go downtown el paso along the border fence, he would see people huddled up along the fence waiting to surrender. they have no fear of the consequence that something will be done in terms of the removal. >> katie: what are your thoughts of raising the bar for declaring asylum? now as we know, the cartel has coached people to say, i am in fear. that essentially gives them to the first level of having an asylum claim in the u.s. which then they get to stay for months and months and months as the system is backed up further court date. is not something that congress can work on to stop what you are talking about with people turning themselves in and not

even having to worry about the barriers that are on the border? >> absolutely. you are spot on in terms of how human smugglers are exploiting our own u.s. policies. they are better versed on political asylum than any other many of our immigration laws than our own members of congress. right now -- you simply have to make a claim for political asylum. if you are in essence paroled in the united states to wait for your court hearing. the problem is that the asylum cases are so backed up. they are not backed up months. they are backed up years. there is no consequence. as they are allowed to come in, claim asylum, they just get lost in plain sight and communities across the country. the problem with that is less than 5% of anyone that claims political asylum is actually granted political asylum.

that is a big loophole that the human smugglers are exploiting. as soon as you shut that down, the faucet starts to get shut down. >> griff: you mentioned that this is a national security issue. that is absolutely true. unfortunately, the president who says he doesn't have time to visit the border does have time to go on vacation somewhere else while this problem persists. victor, thank you so much for your time this morning. we will keep watching. thank you. >> thank you. >> katie: still ahead, the impact of going will craig congresswoman warns pc culture in the military will have life and death consequences. she joins us next. i try to put my arm around any vet that i can, absolutely. at newdayusa that's what we're doing. we put our arm around the veterans. when i think of the veteran out there that needs to refi his home, he may want to purchase, we can help them and provide that financial solution for them and their families. it's a great rewarding feeling. everybody in the company, they have that deference

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♪ ♪ >> griff: welcome back good republican lawmakers including our next guest are calling out the administration's policies in the military. warning about the life and death consequences not only for the heroes who served in the u.s.

military about the americans they protect. congresswoman ashley hinson joins us now to explain good morning, congresswoman. i saw this op-ed yourself. tom cotton put out. explained to me why this is life or death. >> it is pretty simple. it is about safety and security in our communities both here in iowa and across the country. it has no place in our u.s. military, period. it is unfortunate that we've seen under the biden administration with him as our commander-in-chief, we have seen some in the department of defense prioritize pronouns over preparedness. that is the senator's point. we need to get back to the basics of what the u.s. military needs to be doing. it's about preparedness. it's about making sure we can step up and defend our country in a time when our adversaries who do not have our best interests at heart are continuing to advance and focus on the military. that is what the senator and i are calling for with our military here in the u.s. >> joey: there's two issues at play.

one has to do with how effective our military is as it exists. the other one has to do with our ability to get people to join to serve in it to begin with. we've got a graphic here just talking about how bad our recruiting is. the army is 15,000 soldiers short for the national guard, 7500 service members short with the nephi met 10% of its goal for the marine corps met 30% of its goal. when i joined in 2010, there was no way the marine corps was going to miss out on its goal just by its nature. this week we have a headline where the marine corps doesn't want "sir" or "ma'am." >> our military is a proud institution. thank you for your service as well. i would be remiss if i didn't say that it to everyone who served our country was watching this morning. i think it goes without saying we need to be focused on these priorities. we are hearing about our air force cadets being taught to not say the word "terrorist" pretend to be gender inclusive for the last thing we should be worried about right now is offending someone who does not

have our best interest at heart and actually working to do us harm. let's replace every one of these woke gender ideology classes with a class on vinyl preparedness and military redness. that is what we should be focused on. i think was a great victory that we were able to eliminate the covid-19 vaccine could we had a lot of people who are not signing up for the military right now because they know they don't want to get that magazine. we had people leave the military because of that. again, let's focus on these priorities. it is preparedness over these pronouns. preparedness over all these other priorities that this administration continues to push which weakens our military and hence, our ability to keep americans safe. >> joining marine corps back into thousand five, i'm older than i think i am i guess. there was a war in afghanistan but i felt like i need to be a part of and defend my country. the biden administration ended that war very unceremoniously predicting young americans still connect military service with defending this country and with patriotism? >> absolutely, i do. that's what this is about.

this is at the heart of the people who are standing up to serve our country and keep our country safe. it's about patriotism. not about all of these other priorities. again, let's get back to the basics. let's make sure that our military is prepared to take on china, russia, all these countries they continue to expand their militaries and invest in their militaries. guarantee when they are hearing that we are doing gender ideology classes in our military, they are doing back flips and celebrating that. they perceive that his weakness. again, let's end the military wokeness. i have a website. join our fight in this peerless pushback against the administration's policies here. let's focus on keeping our military strong so we can keep americans safe. >> joey: arbuckle honor, courage, and commitment was quote. thank you for speaking up on this, congresswoman. >> thanks for having me. >> joey: it now we will go to ashley strohmier with headlines. >> we going to start with a murder mystery and idaho. a new photo link on reddit appears to show the four victims at a local bar just hours before

their deaths. the photos time stamps as it was taken a couple of hours before they were stabbed to death at their home. this comes as police say university of idaho professor link to their murder by a tiktok user was likely not involved with the still unsolved crime. that professor who wasn't identified by police is suing over the apparent false claim. a serial shoplifter who has avoided jail time despite dozens of arrests was arrested yet again this week in connection to 27 high-spirited he was finally held on bail tuesday after being accused of swiping more than $5,000 worth of goods from drug stores across manhattan. he has a total of 33 busts on his record. he keeps getting set free. he is now being held on $15,000 bail. one person is dead after 200 cars were involved in one of the biggest crashes ever recorded. take a look at this for the chain reaction crash unfolding on a bridge in east central

china earlier this morning. no word yet on how many people are hurt. many were trapped inside their cars. you can see this thick fog in the footage which lightly played a major factor. and a heroic moment, and came up in oklahoma city firefighters rescue a dog that fell into a frozen pond on christmas eve. that dog, harper, and her owner joined us from the comfort of their warm home earlier this morning. >> we're so happy that she is okay. being a water dog, she took off across the pond and went after some ducks. then neighbors found her. they came and got me. we called the fire rescue. i can't thank them enough. >> what a little cutie. harper is doing obviously just fine on the couch. joey. >> joey: thanks, ashley. in a precarious situation chasing ducks. i'm totally glad the dog is okay. let's check in with meteorologist adam for our fox

weather forecast, adam. >> good morning, joey. it is warming up. i'm happy to report. it's not just a kc fox square. you're going to be seeing that largely across the entire country per the zero forecast and highs for today but we know how cold it has been the last several days taking you all the way back to christmas. this is just the start of a warming transferred up to 50 today give the city. close to 40 detroit. at warm air continues to funnel northbridge 57 degrees tomorrow in louisville. nearly 50 degrees in new york city. 60 degrees in kansas city prepare a friday, that warmth continues to spread. we are going to be looking at a high of 53 degrees in new york city. how does this compare to what it was on christmas day? how things have changed. 17 degrees on christmas in cincinnati. 53 degrees on new year's day. things are warming up. happy to report the good news. those are your weather head headlines. >> you are like santa claus coming again bringing the good news. i appreciate it. still ahead, in the age of texting, is this how your tenet

reacts to a phone call? [phone rings] [scream] >> joey: made a woman who charges nearly $200 an hour to teach generation z and millennials how to talk on the telephone.

>> katie: we are back with some quick business headlines print many of the nation's lowest paid workers set to get a raise on new years for the minimal wages going up in 23 states. pay hikes range from $0.23 to a dollar 50. washingon state will have the highest state minimum wage when it goes up $1.25 to 574 an hour. 41 cities will also increase their minimum wage.

the increases are expected to benefit an estimated 8.4 million workers. mass layoffs rocking the tech world in 2022. a new survey from a ziprecruiter finds 79% of laid-off employees were able to land a new job within three months. nearly 40% found a job less than one month on looking. when chief economist at ziprecruiter says tech employees are still the most sought after workers with them most in demand skills. back to you guys. >> katie: all right, thank thank you. speaking of tech, in the age of texting and social media, phone etiquette is pretty rare. that is where our next guest comes in. >> griff: she is known as the phone lady. her entire business centers around teaching generation z and millennials and beyond how to talk on the phone. >> mary jane joins us now with her tips. i do not begrudge you what you do. i'm sure it is important. i don't understand what is necessary. fill us in on this.

>> certainly. there are lots of careers, jobs out there that still involve fogging on the phone, being proactive on the phone, making outbound calls to clients. there's certainly a large segment of the business world that relies on customer service on the phone. all of those companies are looking for help in terms of their teams and helping them communicate more effectively on the phone. >> katie: so interesting that this could be a skill set necessary for business school or to survive in the business world. here are some your tips. you say start by calling people you know to practice. try no texting for an entire weekend and use a magazine for body language cues. how did you come up with these three topics? how did you know this was a big enough problem that you could turn it into a business? >> the phone lady has been in business for 17 years. i certainly didn't start out working to solve phone phobia.

in the last eight or nine years, it became evident, that is what the client base wanted. i would get calls from ceos and so on asking me to help them with their staff who were hesitating and anxiety ridden about making phone calls. go ahead. then i had to step back and come up with some ways to help them. and especially with start-ups with the young founders who needed to speak to their prospective markets on the phone for example. one way was definitely to get them to stop texting for 48 hours. >> griff: what i want help with, i'm a 17-year-old. i have tried to no avail to teach her that when this rings and makes that noise, i am other end to answer this device. i haven't had a lot of success. how do i breakthrough?

>> i think it is harder when you are the parent watching your child to take your phone call as opposed to when it is a career move. when it is a job market. or for someone very young, when it is an interview for a job. one of the things i do with lots of not for profits and colleges as i will go in and work with the classroom preparing them to talk on the phone to potential employers. >> griff: communication, the avenue is a phone call. being comfortable communicating has a lot to do with self-confidence and just i think there is a lot of interpersonal communication we don't do anymore. >> absolutely. what we are doing here, even though we have all prepared for this interview, in some cases, we are riffing off of each other. we are doing it in the moment. that is a skill. you are texting and emailing, you have time to think about

what you are going to say next. >> katie: thank you for saying we are skilled where we appreciate the help. if you ever need help or to learn more, go to the website. thank you so much. >> thanks, everybody. >> i think she is saying my daughters don't want to talk to me. >> bad news. >> more "fox & friends" moments away. don't go anywhere. ♪ ♪

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