congresswoman? >> oh, goodness. >> i love prosecco, maybe drink a little less this year. >> carley: turn less to more. >> talking about prosecco earlier. >> carley: it is 5:00 the a.m. kind. >> todd: 2023 mimosas for everybody. >> carley: "fox & friends" starts right now. >> todd: until 2023. ♪ ♪ going down ♪ i'm yelling timber ♪ you better move ♪ you better dance ♪ let's make a night you won't remember. >> katie: good morning, it is friday. and that is a live look, 6:00 a.m. in new york city of times square thanks to earth cam for ifing us that first thing in the morning here as we are at new year's eve eve tonight. there are tons of people in new

york city getting ready for the ball to drop at midnight tomorrow night. they have got the ball all ready the new crystals are all installed. and we are ready to kick off friday on the couch for "fox & friends." good morning. nice he so you guys. >> griff: i think kesha has a great year. she had a new song this year. >> joe: i'll take your word for it. >> griff: we don't know if she is performing in times square i follow it a little bit but not closely. >> joey: that song is a little bit of a control for me. ahtfter right around when i lost my legs and learning how to walk. first year i would be walking just fine. and then timber! timber? so that song has some sent mental and a little bit of post-traumatic relevance in my life. >> katie: you might be over i it by now. >> griff: the producers might know. they know everything on this

show. they are pretty darn good. indicate k5eu9 they claim they didn't know. allegedly they didn't know. >> griff: there was some news. >> katie: there is some news at the end of a long week this week. there was some news. the $1.7 trillion omnibus got a vacation. they got to go to the virgin islands. >> katie: i would like to go to the virgin islands. >> griff: air force 1 when it flies by itself flew down to saint croix for a signature and we now have a photograph tweeted out by the white house. you can see there it doesn't look like a beach setting there. but is he signing in and of course, the president adding this to the tweet today i signed the bipartisan omnibus bill end ago year of historic progress. invest in medical research, safety, veteran healthcare. disaster recovery. vawa funding and get crucial assistance to ukraine. looking forward to more in 2023. >> katie: sent out a note to the press poll this bill was flown

commercial. they will wanted to know it didn't go guy private. it went on a regularly commercial flight down to the president ocould sign it the $1.7 trillion bill. amazing we talk about bills in terms of trillions of dollars now. >> griff: don't have to carry it 4155 pages. >> katie: it's a lot of pages. i guess you don't have to carry the whole thing they just carry the part the president has to sign. it is signed. it is there the republicans helped pass this piece of legislation. the government is now funded until the end of september 2023. >> joey: what does that mean? they do september. we should have had past september. they have bump it up until christmas. they know if they push it up against the wall everyone in d.c. wants to go home they can get republican senators to fund a lot of things that they said all year they wouldn't fund. enough stuff from for those

republican senators to get what they want out of it and that's what we saw happen. so, you know, the white house is bragging on the fact that president biden didn't have a government shutdown and to think that that's where we are that you get to brag on the fact that you didn't go to your wit's end and then you look at kevin mccarthy to be speaker of the house. could he have, should he have pushed for this to be carried over into february before they funded the government so that the republicans in the house would have a say in it? i don't know. >> katie: well, the house is going to be in republican control in four days, as you mentioned. and just because president biden is in saint croix, the white house counselor has been very busy sending letter to some of those house republicans who are taking over and interested in doing some oversight. they wrote a letter to congressman james comer and jim jordan who are going to be in charge of some of the important committees in the house they said, quote: the request in your letters were not made as a part of the congressional oversight process in the 117th congress.

should the committee issue similar or other requests in the 118th congress we will review and respond to them in good faith consistent with the needs and obligations of both branches. we expect congress will undertake it oversight responsibilities in the same spirit of good faith. so basically they are telling them you want to do oversight, whether it's on hunter biden our the afghanistan withdrawal, you're going to have to rewrite all those letters and submit them and we will review them and see if we will cooperate. >> griff: this is only simply delaying what we know is coming. that is with the incoming chairman of james come member of oversight committee and jim jordan, they are going to have hearings that is going to span everything from hunter biden to the withdrawal in average to the origins of covid. and, yet, here they are playing games and, perhaps, controlling a little bit that kevin mccarthy has not yet solidified his speakership. james comer spoke out yesterday about that on ingraham angle last night and had this to say.

>> apparently joe biden doesn't know what copy and paste means. we're simply going to copy and paste and only change the date and re re-send all those reques. 100% of that pertained to taxpayer dollars to money being spent with covid. money being spent in afghanistan with weapons being left behind. money being spent with projects and different agencies within the federal government. that's what the oversight committee's role is. >> joe: this is par for the course when it comes to partisan politics. i don't know that entrepreneurship would have handled it any differently. it doesn't mean that's the way to handle it. that doesn't mean that's transparent or honest. that's what d.c. does. the important thing to take from this is the white house is saying back to house republicans you have got to get your own house in order before you come looking at ours. that's not ethical. that's not what the american people need, but that's the game they are playing. the white house is a little bit bluffing on the fact that

republicans could take a long time to figure out who their leadership is. let's hope that's not how it happens and essentially what is happening here these two congressman aren't committee chairman yet so they don't have the power to investigate, technically for on behalf of congress, but we all know it's coming. regardless, whoever gets elected speaker is probably mccarthy. even' if it isn't these will be leadership individual they will have the opportunity a few weeks away maybe a few months away to do the same thing. >> katie: push poll in the house of represents, the senate and the white house demo. let's not forget what joe biden was vice president under will president obama attorney general eric holder was held in contempt for not giving documents in a similar situation. see if it gets dramatic joe. >> joey: back when the attorney general called himself the president's wing man. and then those same democratic

congress members would go after bill barr and say that he was being too kind to president trump. that's the back and for the. that's the partisanship nothing but disservice to us. >> griff: as we send this year. one thing we know is americans want answers as to what happened with regards to afghanistan. they want answers about the handling of covid. look, two 30's of the country in the most recent poll we showed this week in suffolk u.s.a. poll two third of the country think the country is heading in the wrong direction. people deserve answers and these committees have a responsibility to find them. >> democrats are going to play hard ball every single day. they're never gonna be reasonable and that's fine that's who they are. athey are desperately defending power. two, this is much bigger than the biden administration. this is the most corrupt and dangerous executive branch in american history. the fbi was corrupt before joe biden got elected. >> right. >> the things going on with

fauci were before joe biden got elected. we have a real constitutional crisis of an executive branch seeking to wage war against the american people and i think the house republicans who are the only coherent conservative group in washington, given the chaos in the senate, i think the house republicans have an obligation to take head on the totality of corruption and dishonesty that we're now dealing with at every level of the bureaucracy. not just the biden administration. but deep into the bureaucracy. >> katie: in other words, the house republicans have an obligation to do oversight on the federal government to protect the citizens from the federal government when they're doing things like using twitter as a private entity to subvert the first amendment. whether it's the homeland security doing the same thing. so they have a lot of big issues to tackle on behalf of the american people. as joey said we are four days away and it doesn't seem like kevin mccarthy has that speakership locked down quite

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he ignored calls to implement fines tweeting, quote: this mess with southwest could have been avoided. we need bold action. and soccer fans around the world mourning the death of pele the soccer legend who won three world cups passed away after a cancer battle. one of if not the best soccer player of all time. brazil will observe three days of mourning in his honor and stadium where he played most of his best matches will hold his funeral on monday and tuesday. is he survived by seven kids. pele was 82 years old. and those are your headlines, guys. >> he will certainly be remembered by soccer fans and sports fans around the world. >> griff: undebatable. he was the greatest. no one even comes close. won his first world cup in 1977. he is the reason why i played soccer from the time i was 5 to college and then i found

fraternities and girls and gave up soccer. [laughter] >> griff: nobody really had a bigger impact on the game because he could do a bicycle kick and he could dribble the ball and juggle the ball and changed fundamentally the game and popularized it worldwide. >> katie: kennedy named her daughter after him. >> carley: i heard her say that yesterday. >> griff: one of the greatest. what a life well lived. thank you very much. >> griff: this talking point is maybe the most important going to talk about today. bernie marcus founder of home depot in his 90's did an interview with the financial times. i think as they said he said the quiet part out loud. >> he was talking about the challenges to the economy and threats to capitalism and he said this, i'm worried about capitalism. capitalism is the basis of home depot and millions of people have earned this success and had success. talked to manufacturers, vendors

and able tone rich themself by the journey of home depot. that's the success. that's why capitalism works. nobody works, he complains, nobody gives a damn. just give it to me. send me money. i don't want to work. i'm too lazy. i'm too fat. i'm too stupid. strong words. >> joey: is he 90 but very spry. i met with bernie marcus down in georgia and he was very intimidating in his office and not in a way way but man, this guy has been there and done that kind of way. but i don't necessarily agree with him completely on this because it's not really the gen xers or gen zer's. almost not their fault at this point. what our society has done through academia told these kids for two generations now post millennial that you can't do it. you can't make it usual not going to will nightmare and child care.

you can't make it in the american dream anymore so you must rely on the government. you must ask they have asked us to give up the risk for the security and in doing so give up the prosperity and that's where my mindset is. and that is so different than bernie marcus' generation even our generation. 9 idea when we grew up the idea was you will go to college. it was not you will get a liberal studies degree and the government will pay your bills. that's where we are now. >> katie: student loan bailout, right? >> joey: absolutely. >> katie: slow march since the 1960's for socialism. the fact is socialism and capitalism very different models for government. socialism has failed at every turn that it has been used. and when you are in a society where there are more people working than not working. that turns it upside down and i think that after the covid pandemic where the government forced everybody to shut down and then mailed checks out fundamentally changed the way people think about what the role of government is in this country and the power they have over

private industry. i will say on the other side i know a lot of really hardworking people when i travel around the country whether in arkansas and wyoming and even in new york city there are people busting their hinds every single day to make a living. i do think you have to give credit to those folks who are going to work every single day and doing the hard thing. you know, accepting a check is a lot easier than going out and working for it. and so you have to give the credit where it's due to those who are still showing up to make the economy run. >> joey: a lot of them in this building. >> griff: i just want to add i think what he is driving to is a work ethic. and, you know, like maybe some of this and you raise a good point, joey on academia the generations taught to get a free government check. at the same time, maybe there is some parental responsibility here because i remember in my teens i wanted a mope head he

said great get a job. i made enough money got the mope head. didn't keep the job after i got the mope head. i learned i want something, i got to work for it. here you go. that's gone. that's absolutely gone today. and now, you know, we are headed down this path that doesn't encourage people to do exactly what bernie marcus was talking about. in that statement by the way he highlights it's not just the people at the top then rich themselves it's the people at the bottom and worked up. >> joey: parents expecting their kids to do program volunteer service instead of going that job. trading job lesson what academia tells them they need to be doing to get into college. all part of the scheme. not entirely the kids' fault. they are a victim of what we allowed our society to buy into. that's why it's important to pushback. >> katie: speaking of socialism which in a lot of places is much closer to communism, the chinese ambassador was in washington, d.c. this week having great

time. he tweeted about how he was hanging out with the nba team, the wizards. he chinese ambassador he said tried my first l throw. washington wizards the first nba team to visit in 1979 when our two countries developed a diplomatic relationship. you have seen china come into the country and not fire any shots but really get involved in our cultural institutions including in the nba which over the years has proven that they're far more interested in making money in places like china and clearly they're bringing that back to the washington wizards where people who had worn protest signs or shirts on behalf of the uyghur population who is under genocide in china thrown out of those games so it's been interesting to watch that style of anti-free speech come into nba games in our nation's capital, joey. >> joey: i'm not an nba fan as far as the sport goes but when

it comes to the organization i take that back i respect the sport but not the organization. parallels we can look at other sports kneeling for the anthemed into the coming out when they. dispute. my friend nate boyer has been a part of that look at the nba it goes beyond that it goes to let's pander to china. let's not ever allow one of our players to say something bad about china because their money, no matter how stained with blood it may be, spends really well for us. i think americans have to decide fake our family to the park instead. part of the problem in this country we are so prosperous and so fortunate here it gets hard for us to stand on virtue sometimes because it's too easy not too.

when it comes to corporate giants like even apple or disney and some of the things they do in other countries and the people that they work with, we really need to do some research and understand who these people are. >> griff: such a good pointed. let me say by the way i hate it's washington. like whether it's the nfl team. it's got to be my washington wizards i go to those games and root for the team and personally deal with this as a wizards fan. washington bullets 1979 trip happened and that was the team i rooted for before politically correctness changed their name to the wizards. this video that we're talking about here, two days before new year's eve may not get the play we think here in this country but, in china, you can bet your bottom dollar it's getting a lot of play because it sends a very strong message. that is specifically why this was done. this was not accidental. this wasn't a random selfie that somebody shot. this is a propaganda tool that's going to be used over there and ennis kanter freedom nobody knows it better spoke out about the significance of this.

>> nba no batteries association. give free propaganda to genocidal regime. and i have been i have never in my whole career any ambassador of any government that takes the court before and after the game and takes free shots. i remember when my manager sent that video i thought it was a joke. when i saw that tweet from a chinese ambassador i was like this is just disgusting. you know, nba literally tried to give a free propaganda tool to genocidal regime and people need to see that. >> katie: chinese would say as they did. this is about the special relationship that we have with the washington wizards and with the united states. really it's about continuing to push this propaganda campaign and to have china in their desires to have world domination

do it little by little in a way that is embraced by people here in america. >> griff: i'm wearing my bullets hat to the next whirldz game in protest. >> joey: bullets politically incorrect. wizards are male and female is it sexist? >> joey: no more name changing in washington. >> joey: bad name. title 42 in place. not stopping massive groups of migrants entering the u.s. more encounters three months than all of 2018 how states are taking matters into their own hands. ♪ oh, no! bye, bye cough. later chest congestion. hello 12 hours of relief. 12 hours!! hmmm, ok. not coughing at yoga? antiquing not coughing? not coughing at the movies?! hashtag still not coughing?! aaah. oww!

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the failures of this administration's lack of enforcement on the border? >> so, griff, my initial reaction is quite honestly look at -- these are token measures and the reason i say that because i have been to eagle pass where those container walls are at. and it's a very short distance. they're not more than a mile. and so -- but all they're really doing is funneling people to points where all these illegal aliens can turn themselves over to national guard, dps, eventually turn over to dhs border patrol. and as we have seen country. so my initial reaction is that it's not enough. we need to defund this invasion. the republican congress needs to defund the invasion. there is an extensive network of ngos, contracts with bus companies that are helping, working actually with foreign governments, governments the united nations, to continuously

funnel people into our country. we have to, also, enforce laws on the books. there have to be consequences for entering the country illegally. >> griff: frank the president just signed the omnibus billion 1.7 trillion. in it zero dollars to do what you just said. zero dollars for enforcement. zero dollars in fact stipulate the money cannot be used to construct border wall which we know worked in strategic places under the trump administration and on page 753 there is 1.9 billion for specifically non-detention border management requirements, aka for transporting and processing. >> yes. >> griff: your reaction? >> yeah. and that's what i'm saying. look, this government has become efficient at a massive smuggling operation. i worked in the border patrol for 30 years. and what we are seeing here, folks, is organized smuggling by

the cartels, the ngos, the biden administration officials. and this is gonna have long-term consequences. just in that span of the last three days in brackettville, texas, kinney county, flee occupants of a bailout vehicle shot at law enforcement. yesterday, rock springs, texas about 80 miles north of the border people trying to break into a house about four of them and there was a crash at the uvalde check point and shots were fired at the occupants of that vehicle. >> griff: there are, frank. and we covered that yesterday. i have been holding up this week. this is one of the millions of bracelets that migrants drop. the cartels give it to them to indicate their pay levels and it is a four dignity code. it's amazon efficient movement of smuggling people. just quickly in the time we have got left. about 30 seconds, tell me, based on your experience, what does it look like after title 42 lifts? >> well, look, they are going to

come -- title 42 has just been a speed bump for them. the word is out. and all these players, ngos, foreign governments, our government, they are becoming more proficient at this, griff. they are just going to pick up the speed, the tempo, and our government is building more processing centers. >> griff: all right. frank lopez jr., thank you very much for your insight and i had think it's going to be something akin to chaos when that lifts. it's already out of control. a word of encouragement to the men and women in the green that try to enforce this border despite what they sees a a lack of leadership. frank lopez jr., thank you very much. >> thank you. >> griff: happy new year. >> you too, thank you. >> griff: farewell to fauci. the flip flopping doc steps down tomorrow. >> we do not need to give people a third shot, a boost. inel evident continuably there will be a time where we will have to give boosts. no vaccine, at least not within this category, is gone that have an indefinite amount of

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the take away from op-ed you feel like he had much more efficient to be effective in funding the research and getting it out to us. can you slain that. >> that's right. people forget he was the head of our national institute of allergy and infectious diseases and the report card on that agency is pretty bad after this pandemic. people are angry with dr. fauci for changing recommendations, really it's just a symptom of much larger and deeper problem. that's the failure of this agency to do prompt research quickly to answer the big controversies in real time. for example, whether or not the virus was airborne or spread from touching surfaces. that was answered in an august 2021 study a year and a half after the pandemic began with a press release titled hamster model and airborne transmission from that agency. and, if you look at what they did not study, it is amazing the list of things that they did not study. with all of their funding, $6 billion and the vast

laboratory facilities and staff that they had at dr. fauci's leadership, they did not study masks and boosters in young people. and natural immunity. and vaccine complications. and paxlovid in vaccinated people and yet they spent $1.2 billion on long code which has yielded nothing. it is really a failure of science. many times when dr. fauci said the science changed the reality was it was not done. >> joey: i really appreciate that you talk about the science changed. well maybe the science was never done correctly or done at all to begin with that's such an amazing statement. it is quite ironic that most of his guidance in the late summer and fall of 2021 really echoed what a lot of republican politicians and doctors not republican doctors but doctors that weren't politicians were saying here he is on cnn talking about natural immunity. >> there was a study that came out of israel about natural immunity. basically the headline was that natural immunity provides a lot

of protection. should they also get the vaccine? >> i think that is something that we need to sit down and discuss seriously because you have very appropriately pointed out it is an issue and there could be an argument for saying what you said. >> joey: doctor, was it ever ethical to down play natural immunity the way they did for so long. >> no. it was unethical but they hunter biden any research that came out in support of natural immunity and there were over 100 articles. if you look, joey, at the top articles in the scientific literature in the journal of the american medical association, in the past year, that is our number one circulating journal in medicine they were, the mrna vaccine found in breast milk. myocarditis from the vaccine itself and number three natural immunity. what does it say that the top three discussed in circulated research studies of the year were studies that dr. fauci either down played or did not

fund in any part of the nih? >> joey: republicans are taking over congress they say they are going to investigate and get answers. dr. fauci in his retirement he says he wants to go do public speaking. get affiliated with the university and write a memoir. it sounds to me he thinks he is a retiring president because that's what they all do. i think republicans are going to have something else to say about that. what happens with our cdc and nih with this federal level infectious disease, what happens with him stepping down? does anything change at all? >> well, first of all, i should say i do think dr. fauci has been helpful in warning people about the severity of covid and encouraging high risk americans to get vaccinated. i think he is well-intended and i personally believe he is a gentleman and he loves this country. but his track record on running niaid is a total failure. if you look at one of the biggest changes he could make right now in his outgoing on his last day is to get rid of the

ban on any staff member at the nih or cdc speaking to the media. right now there is a gag rule that prevents anyone from speaking to the public. >> joey: i will take your word for it he is a gentleman and honest broker. what i have seen for the last two years i have questions on a lot of things but dr. marty makary thank you so much for joining us and here's to a life without fauci. >> thanks, joey. >> joey: all right, someone i have no questions on whatsoever when it documents integrity or character or all-around amaze something carley shimkus. >> carley: you are the best. we're going to start with a fox weather alert. massive storm in oregon leaving people dead including a 4-year-old little girl. those people killed in two separate crarches huge gusts of wind and flooding leaving thousands of people without power. and washington state a record high tide of 18 feet of submerging parts of olympe i can't. the coastal flood advisory is in

effect until later this afternoon. for more on this story, download the fox weather app. or stream fox weather on your favorite connected tv device. clean-up set to begin this morning at the crime scene where four university of idaho students were murdered. moscow police say a professional crew will remove biohazard and other harmful substances. once that difficult work is complete, the house will be returned to a property management company. and after nearly seven weeks, police still do not have a suspect. investigators are combing through about 20,000 tips. democrat california congresswoman katie porter is taking massive heat over the treatment of a veteran who worked in her office. the vet said she was fired back in july after catching covid. a leaked text message from porter to the veteran who was also a wounded warrior's fellow says, quote: i cannot allow you back in office given your failure to follow office policies. cody will be in touch and lay out your remote work schedule

and responsibilities for the last few weeks. a spokesperson respond to this controversy saying, quote: this former employee was not fired weeks before she breached covid protocol in july. we had already mutually agreed on an end date in august 2022. so that's how that situation is shaping up. let's hand it over to adam who has got a look at our weather. >> adam: carley, it's happening. a week ago wearing big heavy coat and then it got a little bit lighter and now look at this thing. you don't need a heavy coat at all why? it's finally getting really warm out here. that is the case on much of the eastern half of the country. 41 in new york city. 50 right now as we speak in chicago. so, warm air finally kind of returning after such a cold stretch over the last week. 52 degrees is going to be your high in detroit today. 54 degrees in new york city. unseasonably warm, 57 degrees in louisville. take you through the next couple of days and it does stay very

mild. temperatures 70 degrees in memphis after seeing negatives a week ago. monday, stem warm. now, it is cooler on the eastern or the western half of the country but everyone in the east seeing above average temperatures. 250 million people are going to be dealing with temperatures, not just warmer than they were, but even warmer than they typically would be this time of year. joey, those are your weather headlines. tossing it back inside to you. >> joey: below average to above average, just like you and me, adam. i'm below you are above. >> adam: started below and now we are above. on the way up. >> joey: thanks, adam. still ahead, two ohio police officers hailed heroes after saving elderly couple from christmas eve house fire. they are going to join us live to describe this incredible rescue and guess what? it was caught on camera. look, and feel better... by treating the multiple symptoms of psoriatic arthritis. don't use if you're allergic to cosentyx.

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>> carley: we are back with a couple quick headlines, disney stock rebounding a bit. but shares hit hard in 2022. down 44% this year. disney stock falling to just over $84 this week. that's the lowest mark since 2014. an investor sued the company saying disney created financial risk when it opposed florida's parental rights in education bill earlier this year. a chocolate lover is taking hershey to court. a new york man filing a lawsuit that accuses the company of selling dark chocolate containing harmful levels of led and cad knee up. took action after ran tests on 28 dark chocolate bars for heavy metals, the lawsuit is seeking carley thank you very much. >> you're welcome. >> two euclid ohio police

officers hailed heroes after rescuing an he wouldly couple from christmas eve house fire. >> i need a walker i cannot walk. >> i will carry you. >> who else is in there. >> my husband. >> come here. i got you both of the victims in their 80's are doing okay. and joining us with more crew collide police officers trevor thomas and george harper who were there to rescue the couple. officers, thank you so much for being with us this morning. so, first to officer harper. what were your thoughts when you got this phone call and showed up to the house? >> initially, when i arrived on scene, i wasn't exactly sure if anyone was inside the home until officer thomas told me that there was another person inside. >> katie: and is this the first -- officer thomas, is this the first house fire you have been to or something you knew

about? >> i have been to a number of house fires before, but usually it's only to assist with traffic control. this was the first one where there was actually people that were trapped inside that had to get out of there. >> so officer harper, knowing who made the phone call, and when this call came in. did you realize when you showed up to the house that you guys were going to turn into firefighters for the day and you were going to have to go in and rescue this couple when you opened that door? >> once officer thomas told me that there was another person inside, i mean, everything happened so fast. i didn't give it too much thought. i just took action and did the best i could. >> so you are both veteran police officers. aren't rookies, where do you continue to find the courage to go into terrible situations like this and have it come out where everybody is doing okay? >> you know, you don't really put much thought into the moment, to be honest.

we both love our job. we love what we do in situations like that. there's not really thought into it. you just act. and we're proud to be able to be in those positions to help do that. >> katie: what has the reaction been from the couple how rescued and also from the community? >> overall, i feel the thoughts of what we did are much appreciated. >> we have been getting a lot of support. >> katie: good. i'm glad to hear that the holidays are obviously a time when everybody is cooking and busy with family and may be distracted. do you have any tips or do you get more calls this time of year to house fires? >> yeah. we -- there was actually a lot of fires that happened on that day. this one in particular was pretty bad because people were trapped inside. >> katie: well, we are grateful that you guys were there to answer the call and to save that

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♪ oh my god ♪ it's the weekend ♪ hands up for the weekend ♪ oh my it's the weekend. >> joey: welcome back to the second hour of "fox & friends" " earth cam providing this shot. rumor has it they are going to drop a really big ball in that area and with that we'll mark the beginning of a new year. i'm sure many people will be here to celebrate it. i can't imagine how many people will be here to celebrate it because i will be back to georgia in the bed watching it happen. i know it will be exciting. are you all going to be up moving around for you in