>> todd: a fox news alert, damar hamlin is in critical condition in one of the most shocking moments we've seen in sports. the buffalo bills safety collapsing. paramedics race to save his life in the middle of the football field. you're watching "fox and friends first"s, i'm todd piro. >> ashley: i'm ashley strohmier, in for carley shimkus. brooke singman is here with the latest. >> brooke: that is right, the bills tweeting damar hamlin suffering cardiac arrest following a hit in our game versus the bengals. he was trans ferred to uc medical center, he is sedated and listed in critical

condition. many had never seen anything like this before damar hamlin briefly stood up on his own before collapsing back to the turf. before he was rushed off, damar hamlin received cpr for minutes. both teams coming together for an on-field prayer before returning to the locker room. the game would be postponed as everyone awaited updates on damar hamlin's condition. hamlin's parents were at the game and brought down from the stands. they rode with their son in the ambu ambulance. josh allen tweeting, please pray

for damar hamlin. and i'm praying that you pull through. and jj watt writing, please be okay, please. jim kelly tweeting, never before i have ever witnessed anything like this, the game doesn't matter, praying for damar and his family. jason page joined us earlier with more. listen. >> this is not player safety story, this is like a lightning strike, confluence of events that had to occur to wind up in cardiac arrest, this is something you see every weekend and don't think twice of it. does the league postpone the playoffs for a week, rule it a tie? i don't think anybody imagined it could happen this way. >> ashley: the bills returned to

cincinnati last night. no word if the game will be continued, the focus is on damar hamlin's health. >> todd: so many unanswered questions, thank you. we will try to answer the medical ones with dr. not dr. nesheiwat. we are all in shock by what we saw and the response we've seen since. the latest medical update, cardiac arrest and sedated in critical condition. what should we take from that latest update and what happened to him? >> good morning, todd and ashley, this is a sad and rare situation. what we think may have happened, he got struck in the chest with the helmet of the opposite player, it may have put his heart into a state of cardiac arrest, whichen moos the heart stopped or started shaking

irregularly. your heart can be the pump blood to the rest of your body, brain, kidney and liver, that is when we saw him collapse. we don't know if this is the cause, this is what we expects, we saw this with blunt force trauma to the chest. we see it like when a pitcher is struck in the chest with a fast-shooting ball, they collapse within seconds. they started cpr right away, faster you begin it, faster your heart gets pumping again, more chance of survival. he is in critical care unit being monitored in critical condition and just a matter of will he become stabilized and no longer need to be sedated in the critical care. >> ashley: you talk about how

critical to get the heart pumping again after going into cardiac arrest, what can happen to the body if left untreated for too long? >> that is a great question, if you let it go too long, lack of blood flow to the brain and internal organs and when you have lack of blood flow, there is lack of oxygenation and the tissues die. the heart tissue will start to die and if it doesn't get nutrientses through the blood flow. fortunately, this is a young, healthy 24 year old, to our knowledge. do we know if there are underlying heart condition, anemia, family history of heart disease, hypertropic cardio m myop

myopathy. it could be contusion to the heart or aneurysm. we will find out more information later today once the team and his family put out a statement, the most important thing is to pray. i believe in the power of prayer that he comes through. >> todd: amen, entire league and nation praying for him. we do not know how this is going to turn out, i want to be positive on a tough morning, assuming he is going to recover, what is the prognosis for a cardiac arrest like this? we know individuals who ate a lot of steak, had run of the mill heart attack and lived long after having bypass or better life choice, this is different than that, what is the prognosis if it is blunt force trauma to the heart creating cardiac arrest? >> if we do think it is

commotocortis and they use a defib rilateor, within two minutes, 80's % survival. they had been conducting cpr for nine minutes, that is far out from the two-minute mark, but he's a young, healthy person, i suspect if it was what we thought it was due from to the blunt trauma, him being young and healthy, i hope and pray near a good prognosis, we don't know the details or what happened. we don't know his medical condition right now. take all the factors into consideration. >> ashley: right, we don't know, it was startling and shocking to see. a lot of questions for a lot of

people, just sad to see. >> what was beautiful was seeing the country unite and come together and pray for him and his family, that is powerful and inspireing and we should continue to do that. >> todd: one commentator said your typical prayer circle is 15 or 20 people, it was bigger yesterday, devine intervention, not enough can be said about it. dr. nesheiwat, thank you for helping us understand this, we appreciate it. another top story, the idaho murder suspect expected to extradition today. >> ashley: dr. michael bodin is here with expert analysis next.

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>> murder suspect bryan kohberger expected to waive extradition today. he was studying in criminalology class two weeks before. >> ashley: dr. michael bodin is joining us, we are talking about

this, you are such an expert in this field. main thing i want to touch on, the d.n.a., we don't know how it was tracked down, we'll find out in the coming days when he is back in idaho. his d.n.a. wasn't in the system, if that is how investigators were led to kohberger, how they found d.n.a. somewhere else? >> d.n.a. became a forensic investigative tool because all of the d.n.a. matches d.n.a. of people of criminal records go to the fbi in a codis database, like they have a fingerprint database. if d.n.a. is found in a case or sexual assault kit that matches somebody arrested and has d.n.a.

in codis, they can make a hit. if no d.n.a. in codis, if he's never been arrested, for example, d.n.a. without a match. what happened in the past five years, by using other non-codis databases like ansesi database, if there is a marker in the d.n.a. that voluntarily in the databases, not with codis, but voluntarily, they can make a match of somebody similar and may be a sibling or cousin of the d.n.a. in the crime 16. >> todd: fascinating how they did that. >> first was golden state killer

in california, who 40 or 50 years later, 2017, able to make a match and find the guy who did it. >> todd: get your thoughts on this latest information. bryan kohberger has allegedly been threatening guards with another inmate claiming he screamed out, i cut them and i'll cut you, come in here and i'll cut you. so many ways to break this undo. will this admission be used in a court of law or is he setting up insanity defense? >> if they have good d.n.a. evidence, we don't know yet, that will be released in the next couple days when he comes back to i'd, if they have good evidence, we don't know that yet, it is just rumored, insanity defense might be the

way the lawyers will proceed. sounds like the defense lawyers have done a good job, they already stopped the idaho police from tearing down the crime scene to have their own experts come in and see if they agree or disagree with the determination of the fbi and police at the crime scene. insanity defense is very possibilities, especially because of his academic kind of record, so a lot of things insanity defense can a, exonerate somebody, not exonerate them, but take them off the criminal hook, if the insanity defense will keep it from being capital case that is a win for the prosecution if prosecution win for the defense

of prosecution goes with insanity with capital case, not capital, life in prison would be defense win in this case. >> ashley: really quickly, before we let you go, few weeks before the murder he was studying how forensic d.n.a. and other procedures help prosecutors, how far in do you think lawyers are looking into the claims? >> they are going to go very far in. it sounds to me the defense, public defenders can be excellent attorneys and what they have done representing him have been a very professional, done very professionally and there can be a lot of issues ra raised with d.n.a. from the very thing interference impairment of

how the d.n.a. was collected. >> todd: and information on how to fight d.n.a. evidence, it is known by now. >> usually how it is collected, which is knowa issue here. >> todd: dr. michael baden, thank you. air marshals hitting back at the biden administration. >> ashley: we'll bring you new warning about american airports next. >> we will not catch al qaeda in el paso, it will happen here in an airport in a commercial aircraft. funds can help your business get a payroll tax refund, even if you got ppp and it only takes eight minutes to qualify. i went on their website, uploaded everything, and i was blown away by what they could do. getrefunds.com has helped businesses get over a billion dollars

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>> ashley: fox weather alert. two twisters reported in louisiana, 14,000 people without

power. >> todd: in arkansas, powerful storms devastated little rock. 20 tornado warnings issued between both states. senior meteorologist janice dean joins us. you have serious stuff to get to. welcome back, jd, happy new year. >> janice: we have active next couple days to talk about, severe weather and a winter storm in effect for the northern plains and the midwest. it is warm ahead of the cold front with temperatures above average across eastern third of the country. possibility for two to three inches of rain, in matter of hours and severe thunderstorm warnings in effect. we did have a couple tornado warned storms lifted, but

tornados likely for texas, louisiana, east of the mississippi river valley and severe threat continues throughout the day today, across gulf coast toward ohio and tennessee river valley and severe storms and flash flooding with these because couple inches in short period of time, water has no place to go. cold side of the storm, winter storm warnings, can get six to 12 inches of snow and most dangerous part is ice we have accumulating ice on roadways and it is impossible to travel. five to eight to 12 inches and ice, as well, on the roads, you can't travel on that, people are urged to stay inside. keeping you gos busy in the new year. nice to see you. >> todd: great to have you back. dhs intel report indicating al

qaeda is threatening attacks. federal air marshal get sent to the border. air national council weighs in. >> we need the american people to help, call congress, let them know up want air marshal in the transport agsz domain, not on the border. we're 23409 going to catch al qaeda in el paso, it will happen in a commercial airport in a commercial aircraft. >> todd: former dhs official joins me now, jonathan fahey. how can he not reverse this horrific decision in light of this new al qaeda threat? >> i don't know, i would say this is shocking or stunning, but this is par for the course

with this administration, nothing trumps the open border agenda, they are willing to sacrifice public safety and national security. they will not put national security or risk of terrorism ahead of this open borders agenda. they have not done it any other time we have people dying of overdoses, crime issues and they will not change course. in one respect, marvel at their commitment to open border agenda, they are unwaivering on this. >> todd: i understand, i don't agree, if you are complete open border proponent and you do what you do to make that upon ha, but this involves people trying to take down planes. you would think they would walk

it back, this letter from the air marshal council urges to let federal air marshal do what the american taxpayers pay them to do, protect and definished our transportation system. this goes back to why biden administration thinks it is good idea to have specially trained individuals serving as concierge for the migrants. >> they believe they should be the concierge and in that letter, they talk about making sandwiches for migrants and being uber drivers for them. what are we doing with our trained? sending them to the border to make it easier for people to

come into the border and cynical view of what biden administration is doing, to process people quicker and the cries at the border doesn't look as bad. it is amazing we have people that rely on them for our national security, you own a plane and want to be safe and know you are safe. instead of putting people on planes to protect american people, they are down on the border. it is stunning, tragedy waiting to happen, god willing, it won't happen. doesn't seem this administration will waiver on this issue. >> todd: this threat was released on saturday, it is fresh, how worried are you as somebody that is in national security or formerly in the national security of our country? >> i think we should be really

worried. everyone knows national security is preoccupied with the border issue, sometimes nothing happens, sometimes we can prevent it. it should scare people to know how vulnerable we are. i'm not sure this administration is taking it seriously, i do not think they are taking it seriously. they have higher prioritieses and politics, open border trumps every issue with this administration and should scare people and we should be doing things like calling congress and other stuff to say we want to be safe when we travel, we want to be safe in this country. they are not protecting us. >> todd: 9/11 was 21 years ago, how soon this administration has forgotten the lessons of that day. jonathan fahey, thank you. time running out for kevin

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>> ashley: the clock is ticking for republican leader kevin mccarthy as he looks to shore up

enough support to become speaker of the house. he needs 218 vote, 14 gop leaders are withholding their support. >> todd: new congress is set to return with cloud of uncertainty. >> alexandria: this is a numbers game, this is something that has not happened in 100 years, 222 republicans set to be sworn in today and the number mccarthy needs is 218. he gave into a key demand over the weekend making it easier for members to remove him if they didn't think he was doing a good job. mccarthy feelless he is in a good spot. >> do you have the voteses tomorrow? >> alexandria: there are 14 republicans nota satisfied. virginia congressman will not

support mccarthy. he is part of the five-member caucus. >> there is nothing he's done to earn my vote, he will not change his pattern, where he is part of the swamp cartel. >> alexandria: election of speaker will take place prior to swearing in of the members and d delegates. >> ashley: bring in brandon williams and derek van orderen. thank you for being with us this morning. brandon, start with you, your initial thoughts on 14 gop members pushing back against mccarthy? >> i was sent here to stand up against biden administration issue not to rangel among our own party, i'm ready to get to

work and they are getting in the way. >> ashley: derek, what do you think? >> the reason we flipped the house and fired nancy pelosi is because of hard work of kevin mccarthy. kevin mccarthy assembled the team and that deserves respect, he's earned chance to be next speaker of house. >> ashley: i assume you believe we will have a speaker of the house today? will it be mccarthy? >> it will be kevin mccarthy. if it takes one ballot or 100, we're in it to win it, kevin mccarthy will be next speaker of the house. >> i agree, kevin has earned the right to do this. we have a job to do and i'm eager to get to work and get started and sooner we have a

speaker, sooner we can start doing what the american people sent us to do. we are both former navy and it is really all about the mission and let's not forget the mission, it is beyond kevin and it is about turning our country around and standing up to joe biden. >> ashley: thank you both for your service, do you think unification in the republican party is most important now and something the 14 need to put aside and say, let's work together to get to the investigations they promised the american people. >> absolutely, it is going to happen, we are not a monolith, we have independent speakers and that is one of our greatest strengths. the republican party will be coming together to make sure we can stand up against the biden

administration and get this country back on track as the republican party by voting for kevin mccarthy as next speaker of the house. >> ashley: does it worry you that republicans are bickering over this before they even started really important investigations and leading the american people? they elected these people to congress to work for them. >> you know, we're the party of freedom and so with free people, it is harder to lead, the democrats under nancy pelosi have been the party of uniformity and we see what uniformity has brought us. diverse points of view should be celebrated, but it is time to put down the argument and get to work. i was sent to get to work and that is why i'm here. i'm focused and the bickering

needs to stop and go forward. >> ashley: following up on what brandon said talking about unification and moving forward, have you heard of anything from the 14 gop members come out and specifically say other than them saying he's part of the swamp or done nothing to make them think he is fit to be speaker, have they said anything in particular to make this warranted? >> listen, as i said earlier, we are a party of diverse thought. there are individual members that want different changes in the rules package, that is good to express, at the end of today, we will get together and kev inch mccarthy will be next speaker of the house and move forward as republicans to right

the ship and get this country back on track because the biden administration and under nancy pelosi leadership, we are off mission and the mission is not about us issue the mission is america and we are here to serve america. >> ashley: thank you brandon williams and derek van order. woke college education are not preparing american students for the work force. >> todd: shocker, dr. carol swain will react to what she's been saying for years, that is coming up next.

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>> todd: new study finding the learning loss caused by covid could cost students $70,000 in their lifetime and cost the nation 28 trillion over remainder of this century. wow. carol swain joins me now. dr. swain, so many said this would be the case, now we have numbers to prove it, what is

your reacton to this study? >> i'm not surprised by the study because our children were lagging behind children in the rests of the world. academically, the math scores of american students were trailing and math is a subject you cannot learn well remotely and the saddest thing is children most affected are those already at risk, children who are minorities, children from low income backgrounds, regardless of race issue kids who parents were not able to afford tutors to supplement remote learning and putting financial greed ahead of what be best for our children. >> todd: eighth grade math

scores dropped by eights points and fourth grade by five, three points in fourth and eighth graders in reading. this is tied toer yoos of covid school closure and experts have tied this to math. why would schools like in philly go back to masks going into the new year if they know that learning loss and horrific outcomes issue loss of 28 trillion over the next century could be the result? >> todd, they don't care about the children, it's never been about the children. it has been about the political agenda of adults and so the children are being used as political pawns and we need to acknowledge that this covid has been a windfall for the left and they are trying to bring back

restrictions, messaging coming from biden administration would suggest they would like to take us backward when it comes to covid restriction and children most affected are those in public schools, again issue the ones whose parents can't afford to do anything else. there are parents that have adopted home schooling and formed co-opes to protect children. >> todd: it is clear we are in an endemic state at this time. diversity, equity and inclusion leaving children unequipped for the work force according to multi verse. young adults with degrees agree college does not equip people with everything they need for their career. you have been preaching this, how do we turn this around and make our colleges and universities prepare our students for the real world? >> i think for some parents,

they have to vote with their feet because colleges are not preparing children for the real world, in fact, if they have mental issues to begin with, the college experience is likely to worsen their mental health. if they are conservative, krift k christian, the dei agenda is about indoctrination, not about preparing anyone for skills for a career. that is not taking place on college campuses. i think that parents really need to think long and hard about whether they are going to support colleges and universities that are so focused on dei, they are not training young people for the future. >> todd: people need skills, get the skills somewhere, it is too late by the time they get to the

workforce. dr. carol swain, thank you for your time and input. turning to our top story, buffalo bill safety damar hamlin is in critical condition after one of the most shocking moments we've seen in sports. we're seeing powerful moments from players and know fas across the board. live reaction from tomi lahren next. >> ashley: let's check in with brian kilmeade, welcome back, brian. >> appreciate it, congressman scott perry is one of nine republicans who will not commit to voting for kevin mccarthy later today? why is that? same thing dan crenshaw says, anyone who doesn't vote for mccarthy enabling democrats, hard to argue with that and congressman elect john james wants to stop negotiating in public. hear from them on potential chaos only on this show and this

in education, virginia's winsome sears. and sideline reporter michelle tafoya has seen so much in herrer kroo, what does she think about the bills and bengals game and dr. siegel on what happened to damar hamlin. we will bring you the latest, don't miss a minute. . [music plays] ♪

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>> we are back with a fox news alert. buffalo bills safety. lamar hamlin going into critical arrest after last night's game

with the cincinnati bengals. he is sedated at the cincinnati medical center first administering cpr middle of the field before he was rushed to the hospital had an ambulance. players from both teams visibly shaken. all of this happening in the first quarter of the game which is postponed until further notice. tomi lahren host of outkick is with us now. tomi, what's your take and initial action on this news of what happened to hamlin last night? >> listen, some things are much bigger than football and i think everyone was reminded of that last night. and you don't have to be a football fan or even a sports fan to have it take your breath away. i know that many that were watching this unfold, many seeing it happen of course across social media that weren't watching the game. our hearts, our prayers go out to him, go out to his family. it also is a reminder that i know we have so much division in this country right now. so much partisanship, hatred seems to be coming from all angles. when something like this happens i also think the silver lining in it is you see americans comes together and sports has an amazing ability to do that.

this is a tragedy and horrific and heart-break i am happy to see that americans put down the swords at least for a night and came together. that, to me, was inspiring to see. what does this say about the american people in light of the fact that they did exactly what you said, even on social media which we all call the hellscape of our life right now. people come together, putting aside their differences to support this team but more specifically to support and pray for this young man. >> yeah, and the support and the prayers were something magnificent to see. even beyond that, people were putting their money where their mouths were anything they could do to show their support. raising all that money for toy drive for his charity also sends a huge message americans when push comes to shove, we come together. and also a reminder, you know that, is what football and sports used to be for a lot of americans. then it's become so politicized especially in the last five or six years. nice to see return to normalcy

where sports really can bring people together and americans together. we need more of this in this country it, shouldn't take something like this for this to happen and for us to express it and show it every single day. >> the chasing m foundation hit 3 million overnight which is incredible. he is just 24 years old. going forward, do you think there's going to be any changes, you know, with the way these players play because, tomi, when you think about it, they are all saying how traumatizing this is to watch. it was startling to see. >> yeah. there's going to be a lot of questions and americans are already asking a lot of questions. and there is a lot of conspiracies going around, of course, on s ne social media. especially on the conservative side. you don't need to come up with conspiracy theories. it's about his life and family. it's not the time there are going to be questions raised. the nfl has had a lot of heat and speculation and a lot of things for many years. time to have a real conversation. before we get into any of that,

we need to make sure that he is okay and we need to comfort his friends and family that entire team and wrap arms around them. that should come foremost before anything else. >> todd: you come at this unique perspective. you are the spouse of a former professional athlete. and albeit you guys got married after his playing career ended. there still is the family connection to life on the athletic field and all that comes along with this. put that family hat on right now. what's the family going through when they are watching their son, their brother, their cousin go through a horrific event like this? >> you know, there's a lot of glitz and glamour that comes along with being in the sports industry and entertainment if i have when something happens this is for our entertainment but there are people out throw playing a game. it is entertainment or just a football game or any sporting event but real people are impacted and real people involved, their families involved. our prayers go out to his family that we saw beforehand. and the family has to come first

in this situation. i'm so happy to see so many people wrapping their arms around his family and friends and coming together. let's see more of that today. it's going to be a busy day for partisan politics. let's put a little of that aside and remember people matter always. >> ashley: when you saw the video of ham lineal get hit what did you think? what did you feel? >> a lot of people were just in shocked. not something you expect to see from 24-year-old. football is a violent game. we know. this that's why people love it. real people are impacted it. took my breath away. i'm not necessarily a football fan. it was actually my husband that showed it to me and then, of course, it started circulating across social media. a lot of people are in shock and awe and that video is going to be played over and over again. i hope it brings realness what people go through especially professional athletes. they are there for entertainment and also putting their lives on the line. remember every time we are watching and enjoying it. let's come together and make

sports beautiful again. >> todd: normal prayer circle after games 15 to 20. there were a lot more players joining in to pray for their friend. tomi lahren, thank you very much. >> thank you, guys. >> well, it was nice joining you this morning. a lot of news. "fox & friends" starts right now. thanks for being with us. >> one of the most shocking moments ever seen in sports. >> defensive player damar hamlin in critical condition following a hit on the field. >> it really is such a jarring moment. really a freak injury. >> up for speaker tomorrow? >> time is running out for kevin mccarthy to get the votes he needs for speaker. more than a dozen republicans are saying they are not supporting him. >> he is part of the swamp cartel. >> man police believe is responsible for the murders of four college students in idaho will make his first court appearance in pennsylvania. >> suspect