>> nobody answers the phone with southwest. >> we still don't have our luggage. >> i hope southwest can get their act together. >> frustrating, i am very upset. i don't want to fly southwest again. >> anita: oh, boy. furious and fed up. that's how fliers feel after another day of mass flight cancellations. southwest airlines scrubbing thousands of flights as the carrier's problems persist. "america reports" rolls on into a second hour. anita vogel.

>> gillian: most major u.s. airlines are rebounding from the holiday blizzard, southwest airlines continues spiralling downward. the company ceo says the communications network was thrown off by the historic storm. >> that was not the only challenge. southwest memo out of denver airport warned of a staffing crisis just days before christmas. >> gillian: according to bloomberg, the v.p. of ground operations declared a state of operational emergency at the airport after an unusually high number of employee absences. sending a message to workers december 21st. >> anita: fox team coverage, jacqui heinrich what the white house is saying this hour. >> gillian: first with fox weather, katie is at philadelphia international airport. what are passengers telling you today? >> gillian, anita, the situation

is very real for people still dealing with stranded luggage or not able to rebook their flights. i just met a family that was trying to travel from california to here in philadelphia, and they were coming here to check their luggage was here behind me, still not here yet and they ended up getting stranded in st. louis, having to drive 14 hours to finally be with family today but still their vacation was cut short. we are still dealing with more of the same. look at where things stand. 67% of southwest flights are disrupted in some way. more than 2500 canceled. it is a slight improvement from yesterday but not by much. yesterday southwest accounted for 85% of the more than 3,000 flights canceled in the u.s., and the situation is not expected to get better until later this week, with southwest now saying it will be reducing its flying schedule, operating only a third of routes through friday so that their crews can get back into position and catch up from all this. we know it was partly due to the

big winter storm that hit right before christmas, but some say the airline is also using outdated logistical software, creating big piles of empty missing luggage. scenes of this across airports across the country, and issues with stranded passengers. some passengers say even when they are not rebooking flights, they are still getting canceled days out. >> i'm very worried, and also very upset. they told us that because of weather issues and things like that they were canceled. and they rebook my ticket again for tomorrow, and that ticket is already canceled again. >> we know the feds will be looking into these travel troubles and a growing number of lawmakers on capitol hill say investigations will be coming in the new year. back to you. >> gillian: katie, thanks very much. fox weather, download the app for free. foxweather.com, and also use your phone and scan the q.r.

code right there on the screen. >> anita: the crisis catching the attention of the biden administration. jacqui heinrich is travelling with the president in beautiful st. croix. jacqui, beautiful live shot location there. any word from the president today on all of this travel chaos? >> not from the president himself but have heard from other members of the administration, anita. the president made it to his tropical car dean holiday destination aboard air force 1 last night, but thousands of americans were not as lucky. that holiday storm snarling flights across the country and southwest airlines as katie just explained is now having basically a meltdown of their systems slashing flights, even for the coming days to try to basically reset everything. transportation secretary pete buttigieg is vowing to hold the airline accountable, for meal

vouchers, hotel acome dapgss and the company knows what consequences will be coming if they don't fulfill these obligations. >> from what i can tell, southwest is unable to locate even where their own crews are, let alone their own passengers, let alone baggage. so i conveyed to the ceo our expectation this they are going to go above and beyond to take care of passengers and to address this. they indicated a number of issues that they are having with systems, legacy symptoms for managing the schedule and where the crews are. >> southwest is trying to explain what happened and assure their customers. >> with our large fleet of airplanes and flight crews out of position, in dozens of location and after days of trying to operate as much of our full schedule across the busy holiday weekend, we reached a decision point to significantly reduce our flying to catch up. we are focused on safely getting all the pieces back into

position to end this rolling struggle. >> when exactly that end will be is still a bit of a question mark. meantime, members of congress are questioning past bailouts to airlines and considering attaching strings for future help that may be coming their way. members on the house transportation committee have promised to investigate this and the commerce committee are proposing rules that would ensure customers are promptly paid if things like this ever happen, anita. >> anita: that sounds good, and i seem to remember southwest airlines got a lot of money from the bailout. jacqui heinrich live in st. croix. thank you, jacqui. you know, gillian, it's really nice that southwest is trying to make sure people get ticket refunds, meal refunds, taking care of the best they can, but you have to wonder what does the board of southwest, the southwest board, what are they going to say about this and what's going to happen to the ceo? >> gillian: i don't know, i would also venture it's not a

good will gesture, right, they should not get a lot of credit, for they force their own customers to sign on so. the least american passengers can expect is for them to fulfill their own terms. >> anita: yeah, people want to get where they are going during the holidays, that's for sure. >> gillian: after paying historically high prices for tickets. title 42 meanwhile will stay in place at least for now, this after the supreme court decided against lifting the policy until the justices have the opportunity to hear a legal challenge in february. high court's ruling does not provide a lot of immediate relief for border towns overwhelmed for nearly two years now by a tidal wave of drugs, cartels, and undocumented migrants. lieutenant chris oliveras will join us in a moment. first, we go to matt, live at the southern border in eagle pass this afternoon.

hi, matt. >> hi, gillian. today we have seen some smaller groups cross into the united states. in fact, there are a few migrants booked right now over my shoulder. as usual, we see men, women and children and a short while ago, a separate smaller group dash across the rio grande river. the water and air temperature is very cool right now. that group had men, women and some very young children. i asked them where they were coming from, they said cuba, and we watch as that group was escorted not country by the national guard and then processed by border patrol and placed on a bus. also here in eagle pass, the national guard brought in fresh razor wire and installed it on top of cargo containers that were placed along the rio grande river just before christmas. we asked governor abbott's office about what appeared to be an increase in posturing or security along the river and got this response, texas continues taking unprecedented action to enhance border security,

including building a border wall, installing container blockades to stem the flow of illegal crossings and more. and in el paso, fox news just wrapped up a ride-along with a sergeant from west texas dps. that sergeant is happy title 42 is in place, every little bit is helping and the massive tent-like structure built should stay in place to give shelter to migrants. >> there's a lot of people sleeping on the streets, babies, toddler, teenagers, the night on the street in the bitter cold. hopefully they maintain it so they have shelter. >> worth noting we stand out here in triple digit temperatures in the summer, and we watch as dps and national guard and agents go into the river and now they are also doing extreme cold before the sun rises and after the sun set, and the migrants, some illegal,

some asylum seekers cross the river, and it's very dangerous. they are shivering coming out of the water. >> anita: gillian, for more on this, lieutenant chris oliveras from the texas department of public safety. thank you for coming in today. i'm sure you and breathing a sigh of relief, even if it's only temporary, is that right? >> right, good afternoon, anita. it's a sigh of relief, what we are seeing ever since last year, that's with title 42 in place, and have to date any type of acknowledgment or plan they are going to put in place post title 42, now we have to put in place in february, more pressure on the federal government to do something, but we have to wait, until then, record numbers every month, not just in terms of encounters, but also got-aways,

drugs coming across the borders, unaccompanied children and deaths that have taken place since last year with the whole border crisis, close to over 1,000 deaths that have occurred along the border because of illegal immigrants making the long treacherous journey to get to the united states. >> anita: so much death at the border. i know you know the numbers well, i want to put them up for the audience. numbers just from christmas weekend, encounters. look at this, 16,000, more than 16,000 total encounters, more than 14,000 released into the u.s., that means 87% of the people who crossed over during the christmas weekend got in, and that's with title 42 in place. i want to listen quick to el paso, texas city councilmember claudia rodriguez and her take on this situation. >> it's frightening what's happening in el paso, not only to the community, right, we are not used to this, even though we are a border city, we are not used to this type of environment where we just see people running

across our freeways and into our back yards, it's very scary. people are sleeping on the streets, you know, it's completely out of the normal, and again, there is no plan moving forward. >> anita: it has changed the face of that city. talk about just quickly what the residents deal with there. >> as she mentioned, they are not used to dealing with that number of people across, this is unpresident dented. the fact we have national guard set up a perimeter, fencing to control the flow of people coming across, but close to 1,000 are released daily where you have families, kids sleeping in the kids. it's an inhumane process, the federal government is not doing anything to help the migrants. it's quite the opposite what we are seeing in el paso, something needs to be done. it's great what they put up but

it's not going to solve the situation at the border. more people will see that now they are creating processing centers where they will be processed and released faster into the interior of the country. >> anita: it's not a humane process, that's for sure. it seems the administration is turning a blind eye to what's happening. they want to bring an end to title 42, but fshg they have not released any plan yet as you mentioned before and with the increased numbers of people crossing over, what would be a few things you would hope would be in a future plan from the white house? >> i mean, its very simple. we have heard from border patrol experts, everything was working prior to 2021. remain in mexico policy was effective maintaining the flow of people coming across, also the border wall as effective for law enforcement and i saw it firsthand, working out in the field, with border patrol agents, it's a very viable tool for law enforcement. they need to put that policy in

place, reconstruct the border wall. we are taking our own necessary steps to try to fulfill those agreements or those needs along the border, but it is their sole responsibility to protect the border and they are not doing it. they have the tools in place, policies in place, they are not doing it right now. >> anita: they have about a month and a half before the supreme court takes a look at the case. thank you for joining us and happy new year to you. >> happy new year, anita. thank you. >> gillian: members of congress and their staffs are now banned from using tiktok on their government devices. is the white house going to be next? >> anita: the white house looking to refill the strategic petroleum reserve, but is their plan possibly backfiring with oil prices ticking back up again? former trump economic adviser steve moore is here to explain that. no, not that talk. about what the future looks like. for me.

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>> gillian: the plot to kidnap gretchen whitmer sentenced to 19 years behind bars. the fourth and final federal defendant to learn his fate. prosecutors say he practiced detonating explosive devices in preparation for the attack. croft's sentencing comes a day after adam fox, himself was sentenced to 16 years in federal prison. >> anita: congress is cracking down on tiktok. ordering the immediate removal of the app from all house managed phones citing security risks. hillary vaughn is live on capitol hill. good to see you. so, what does this ban mean, how does it work? >> anita, this means anyone who works here on capitol hill,

congressional staffer, even a member of congress, if they have tiktok on their government issued cell phone, they have to delete it immediately. this tiktok ban just applies, though, to government devices but some lawmakers want to do more to get tiktok off u.s. smartphones. >> just the first step. using all kinds of technology to follow and trace us, biometrics, everything they can see on the phone and where we search, everything. it's really important we keep the chinese communist party in check and prevent them from doing surveillance at the mass rate. >> a tiktok spokesperson downplaying the ban saying it's troubling rather than encouraging the administration to conclude the review of tiktok, some have pushed for politically motivated bans to do nothing to advance the national security of the united states. tiktok has tried to convince government officials they are not a national security risk and

get the green light to stay operational in the u.s. while still being under chinese ownership as part of its beijing-based parent company bite dance. even though tiktok insists the chinese communist party will remain hands off u.s. user data, not all lawmakers are convinced. >> i think any business that's in bed with the chinese communist party, we need to take a long hard look at what they are trying to do. they have been doing this for decades, whether it's i.p., they are stealing i.p. from american companies, apps to spy on american citizens. >> senator marco rubio has introduced legislation to put an all out ban of tiktok on all american devices in the u.s. about a third of the country on tiktok, that would probably get some blowback. anita. >> anita: especially from the teenagers, the younger folks, right? it's going to be a big debate

either way going into the new year. hillary, thank you. gillian. >> gillian: the biden administration has announced a plan to start buying back oil off the international market. this in order to replenish america's emergency energy supply. it's been depleted in an attempt to lower at the pump for americans. the new plan may have hit a snag as oil prices are beginning to creep crack up in the past couple days. steve moore, economist at freedom works. so, steve, take a look at this. our graph showing you that the strategic petroleum reserve is the lowest level, stands to reason the biden administration wants to replenish it, needs to re replenish it. is right now the optimal moment. >> how we got back in the energy crisis.

joe biden declared war on american energy, reduce to eventually 0 american production of oil and gas, and so that -- we are not nearly producing as much oil and gas as we could be and should be if trump were president. back then, the price of gas at the pump was about 2.50 a gallon. now it's somewhere -- in many states -- >> gillian: good old days. >> that's the root of the problem. and then what biden was doing when the price went up, he was just selling, you know, using the oil in the reserve and as your charts have showed, we reached the lowest level of our reserves in 40 years. now they say well, they want to buy it back, because the price is low. as you just said, guess what. now china's economy is reopening, looks like prices of oil are going to start to rise again so that might not be such a good deal for the american taxpayer. >> gillian: how does the president move forward? don't know how much time he has left in office, right? he's probably going to run

again, he may or may not get re-elected. he has to kind of rectify the low supply before he leaves office, right? or can he leave it? >> first of all, this energy policy has been disastrous. the world is using a lot of oil and gas and coal and no country in the world has more of it than we do. we should be using all of our resources. that was president trump's policy, everything we have to be energy independent which we were, gillian, when he left office. the united states was actually a net exporter of oil and gas. so, if he asked me what we should do as you have, mr. president, get back to using the oil and gas in states like alaska, texas, west virginia and would not need to worry about the middle east, and incidentally, what country do you think has benefitted the most from biden's policies? i would say russia. >> gillian: how many guesses.

russia, saudi arabia, china, venezuela. >> our enemies are laughing behind our backs. that's what we should be doing. i think biden is too much in the hip pocket of the green energy lobby. >> gillian: can you look forward to the future and tell us what is going to happen with prices at the pump in 2023. mixed pictures from analysts. take a look at this from gas buddy, they say 2023 is not going to be a cake walk, it could be even more expensive than 2022. but also to expect some curveballs, they say, the national average could reach $4 as you just mentioned as early as may. >> the reason i was kind of hesitating to answer that question is if i knew what was going to happen with the oil price i would be a rich man, sitting on a beach in st. croix with president biden. it's always really, really difficult and hazardous to guess what's going to happen with oil

prices. i think we will probably see a bit of an increase because china has been kind of offline, they shut down their economy, now the economy is coming back so they are going to use more oil and gas, but so many factors at play. the big one is we have to see a reduction in the oil price, gillian, if we want to see inflation come down. energy is, you know, in everything that we buy. >> gillian: we have learned the hard way over the last year, year and a half. >> 7.1% increase inflation, 5.1% wage increases, people lost 3, $4,000, a lot of that was at the pump. >> gillian: if you want to go on record with a number, call us any day this week. >> i came back on american airlines, not southwest. >> gillian: good move, smart man. >> good to be with you. >> anita: people looking for a gas card, gift card in the stockings this year. a new judge to oversee sam

bankman-fried's court case, after the original judge recused herself because her husband has ties to ftx. "the new york post" also reports sam bankman-fried's family is paying close to ten grand a week for 24/7 armed security around their home. reportedly the home is a tourist attraction with sbf under house arrest. accused of committing fraud and money laundering, faces up to 115 years in prison. >> gillian: ten grand a week is not so much when you are a billionaire, though. new video in the case of a missing 3-year-old, she vanished a year ago. detectives are calling on a critical witness to come forward. >> plus, the border now humanitarian drug and national security crisis. but is it also becoming a major political crisis for president biden? wall street journal says yes it

is, and he's going to join us next. >> just like president biden said, he's got more important things to do. they do not care about our borders, they certainly don't care about south texas and the rio grande valley.

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>> anita: basketball history made last night in dallas. the mavericks young super star scored 60 points, grabbed 21 rebounds and dished out ten assists in an overtime win against the new york knicks. a stat line never done before in the entire history of the nba. he also made some headlines when a reporter told him the news. >> 60 points, 20 rebound, triple double, it never happened, baby,

how does it feel right now? >> i'm tired as hell. >> you can rest later. >> i need a recovery beer. >> gillian: my reaction, too. get me out of here, i want to have a beer, go home. >> not bad for the 23-year-old from slovenia. >> gillian: the man accused of attacking nancy pelosi's husband is back in court today. david depape was arraigned on charges after damning footage in court. showed him atang paul pelosi with a hammer. claudia is live outside the courthouse in san francisco with the late breaking details. >> hi, gillian. today's arraignment comes exactly two months after paul pelosi was viciously attacked inside his san francisco home and the hearing was brief.

wearing a black face mask and his long hair tied back, david depape was held to answer felony charges, attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, elder abuse, and the only time he spoke is when the judge asked if he agreed to waive his right to a speedy trial, he said yes. at a preliminary hearing two weeks ago, looked at the overwhelming evidence, two police officers responded to pelosi's 911 call for help. they used the five pound hammer to reenact what they saw, and body camera footage showing pelosi was struck in the head fracturing his skull. and he said he had no intention of surrendering, to take out a

list of high profile politicians and celebrities, including tom hanks, and hunter biden, as well as house speaker nancy pelosi who was in washington, d.c. at the time. after court today, depape public defender refused to answer questions about a possible defense strategy or his client's state of mind. he also faces federal criminal charges, but gillian, the state's case is expected to go first and everyone is back here in san francisco superior court on february 23rd for the judge to set a trial date. back to you. >> gillian: we will be awaiting that. thank you. anita. >> anita: title 42 remains in place, critics say it won't do much to fix our broken border. it's been a humanitarian and national security crisis since president biden took office, and it may soon become a political crisis for him, too, if it's not already. the headline of a new wall

street journal op-ed reads it's joe biden's border now, fight over title 42, encapsulates the dysfunctions of the immigration policy. bill magurn, former chief speech writer for president george w. bush, you have a lot of titles, bill. always great to see you. >> thank you. >> anita: read a little more of what you wrote in that op-ed. you go on to say were he for once able to rise above himself he would win whatever the outcome, either he would succeed in getting immigration reform where his predecessors failed or he would win politically by showing republicans are the obstacle to improving security at the border. the biggest obstacle, you say, joe biden himself. you know, bill, i know you are familiar with a new book saying the president is hopping mad over the lack of solutions at

the border and yelling obscenities around the white house. what is stopping him from doing anything, something to stop the crisis at the border? >> well, i think himself. look, president biden came in with explicit plan that was to undo everything trump did and not necessarily put anything in its place. so the border is already a crisis, even with title 42. the communities are being overwhelmed. the problem is joe biden is insulated from all this. when his press secretary makes ridiculous assertions like the border is not open, and then people see fox footage of thousands walking over, it just discredits them. but no one in the washington press corps wants to ask embarrassing questions about it so he largely gets away with it, not going down and visiting when even some local democratic

officials are complaining, the mayor of el paso, representative cuellar, democrats saying how bad it is. his policy has been to ignore it, to blame trump, and then move ahead. and so far he's largely got away with it. i mean, he names a border czar who will go anywhere in america but the border. i think she visited once, that's it. >> anita: she's been to europe a number of times, too. but it will be interesting to see how much longer joe biden can resist going to the border. we'll see if he goes there next year. i also think it's interesting that neil gorsuch, the supreme court justice teamed up with ketanji brown jackson to oppose keeping title 42 in place, or does neil gorsuch have a point. he said the current border crisis is not a covid crisis and courts should not perpetuate administrative edicts because

elected officials have failed to address a different emergency. we are court of law, not policy makers of last resort. do you expect the white house will take the next month or so to come up with any policy for the border? >> no, nothing real. look, justice gorsuch is exactly right. what we have is a healthcare policy masquerading as an immigration policy. if 42 went, they would be overwhelmed by more immigration. but they are not doing their job now. the answer is really for congress to set up an immigration system that they want, one that works, that processes the court claims faster, that enables people to return those crossing illegally, but that would require trade-offs. congress never leads. the president would have to make

a speech, make a serious border security offer to the republicans, and then in turn get something, like legalization of the dreamers. that's what a president who is a leader would do. but i think biden is incapable of it. he just shows he would rather morally preen and virtue signal than anything else. so i think we are liable to see it get worse and muddle along. >> anita: republicans have the majority next year, although a slim one. let's see if there can be some give and take as you mentioned, some negotiation that can take place. we'll be watching for that. bill mcgurn, thank you for your insight on this topic today. good to see you. >> thank you. >> gillian: learning this afternoon that former pope benedict's health is declining. he is very sick. deterioration due to his age. the former pontiff is 95 years

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>> gillian: moscow police are coming up on seven weeks investigating the murder of four university of idaho college students. they still have no suspect, no murder weapon, no vehicle. is there someone tied to this case who perhaps knows more than they are letting on? this is what moscow police seem to think. in an update tuesday, police said "investigators believe someone has information that adds context to what occurred on the night of the murders and they are requesting additional pictures, video and social media content." let's bring in chris swecker, retired fbi assistant director. when you hear this from idaho police, do you think it's a fishing expedition, get as much information as they can or are they sending a message to a

potential suspect by saying someone is withholding information? >> no, i think they are fishing. this case is, you know, seven weeks into it. i think a lot of resources have drained off. they still have some fbi agents and they really need more analysts, in my opinion, going through the data that they have using artificial intelligence and case management application that the fbi brings to the table. but i think they are fishing for more leads. they may know a lot about the crime itself, or the crimes, and they have virtual layouts of the crime scene, trace evidence, but i don't think they know anything about the killer. >> gillian: when you say you think they need to bring more analysts in, is the implication there that they are understaffed in some capacity? >> you never can get enough analysts in a case like this. when i read about the number of leads that they have, tips that have come in from the public,

the amount of video that they have to go through and of course the interviews, which you can never do too many interviews because that's really where the good information comes from. but all that information has to go into a case management application. the fbi brings that to the table. then the analysts can sort through that and make matches or try to make matches or test out theories or test any leads that have come in, test those leads against the data that they have to see if they are credible. so this is a time for analysts more so than the actual investigators on the street. >> gillian: they have gotten more than 10,000 tips so far they tell us. take a listen to jonna spilbor and what she said and what you just mentioned. >> how about taking a second look at those potential suspects that they quickly dismissed. secondly, how about let's investigate outside the box, and i'm not suggesting that, you know, there is anything

nefarious in law enforcement, but security for the campus, people you would never expect. >> gillian: sounds like something you could do with more investigators, more analysts. >> you sure could. sometimes there is tunnel vision and i personally believe there was some tunnel vision in the beginning and all this rhetoric about targeting a specific person, everybody else is ok, because this was a targeted attack which turned out to be i thought was absolutely untrue from the very beginning. they had no way of knowing that. i think that is a reflection of some tunnel vision. i don't think they created a large enough perimeter for their evidence tape. should have been a couple hundred yards out in every direction, particularly behind the house where you had mud and snow where the killer likely came from. unfortunately, and i don't want to throw the department under the bus, but i think unfortunately the crime scene itself and the initial couple of days of investigation had some flaws in it. >> gillian: interesting. chris, we have to leave it there. thanks for taking time and

sharing your expertise with us and happy new year to you. >> thank you, same to you. >> gillian: anita. >> anita: texas police are revealing new details into the disappearance of lena keel, just three years old when she vanished. went missing from a san antonio playground one year ago. the search continues with hope for her safe return home. laura has the latest. hi, laura. >> police in san antonio tell me today they are hoping a short piece of security camera video taken from the apartment complex where lena keel vanished last september will jog someone's memory and optimistic that person may recognize the little girl's outfits, movement, mannerisms, anything to help locate her and bring her home. this video taken december 20, 2021, a quick look, it is very fast. but it shows lena, wandering

near a fence at her family's san antonio apartment complex. and police say they are hoping that they release this video it will bring them the tip they need. according to a family -- >> investigator as a missing person, missing child to be more specific and to be honest, they are suspicious circumstances based on the child's age, the fact we have not found any evidence to indicate where she's at other than where she was last at. >> according to a family spokesperson, her family fled afghanistan when the u.s. military withdrew from the country. her father served with the army. the family came to the u.s. hoping for a safer life and the local afghan community rallied to assist the local police in the search and we continue to follow this one. $50,000 reward for information in this case. her father hopes by keeping the story in the media someone can

help bring his daughter home. anita. >> anita: let's hope so, a sad story. hope alive on that. thank you so much for the update. >> gillian: take a look at this. we saved the best for last, epic danceoff between a florida teacher and a young student. this video has gone viral. during an exam break given to the students, the kids to help them unwind, it started out as just some music playing, turned into this full blown danceoff kicking into high gear there. look at how awesome they are. one student showing off his moves before tapping out and then challenging his teacher. she jumped in and showed off her own moves, i've got to say are pretty good. her students, you can see there, are very excitedly cheering her on. also fabulous, it gets students excited about their teachers, which i love, super fun. i never had a teacher like that. >> anita: looks like a friendly flash mob, right. how they break out into the

dancing. >> gillian: i had some great teachers, i don't know if i had any super exciting and cool like that. anita, great working with you today. thanks so much. i'm gillian turner. >> anita: always great to work with you, gillian. see you tomorrow. "the story" with trace gallagher in for martha coming up next. start at just $79.95. can't beat that. can't beat this, either. book an exam today at americasbest.com are you a veteran, own a home, and need cash? you need to know about the va cash out loan from newday usa. it's called the newday 100 because it lets veterans borrow up to 100% of their home's value. not just 80% like some typical loans. that extra cash can make a huge difference in these times of skyrocketing prices. here's more good news: home values have skyrocketed too. that means even more cash! take out an average of $60,000

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