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the proxies are raising tension ramping up attacks in the middle east. the pentagon says a u.s. destroyer in the red sea shot down several drones a saturday. all launc want from parts of yen controlled by ironic backed tried eight rebels fo but all appearing to target commercial ships sailing in international waters. no word of injuries that the u.s. called it an escalation of hostilities. hello and welcome to a special edition of "fox news live" item and ito bobo. arthur nevill and eric shown off this week at hi brian. >> i'm bryan llenas sprayed the lace attacks by around the proxies c, the israeli defense forces push into southern gaza. meanwhile president biden and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu talked by phone saturday about the next steps in the war. biden said he did not bring up a cease-fire. let's start off with trey yingst llive in tel aviv with more.

>> good afternoon for israeli forces continue to go after hamas cells inside gaza. though they are facing fierce resistance the idf says this weekend alone 15 of their soldiers were killed in battles. many of them taking place since he ground operations began around gaza second largest city where reports indicate not only hamas but times are engaging the israelis but also smaller factions like pflp the urban battle environment with the vast network of tunnels is making the clearing process extremely difficult. >> our fighters are fired in and complex areas for fighting. area is also a dense area. we also locate the terrorist infrastructure. especially underground. we expanded the engineering forces they are paid this division has a large number of forces that usual number for division 98's. this is what the activity

requires. >> israel prime minister benjamin netanyahu spoke today i have the weekly cabinet meeting indicating israel will continue its ground operation against gossett with full force appeared gently push back on the idea the united states is influencing israel decisions on the battlefield following a phone call yesterday that he had with president biden. now biden said after that call he did not ask for a cease-fire though the administration has publicly and privately pressured israel to reduce the number of civilian casualties amid the war all this taking place on the ground inside gaza amid new concerns along israel's northern border with lebanon and of course regionally when you see on saturday trent eight in yemen launching new drones against u.s. forces in the red sea. x trait was in you and the crew they are a very happy, merry, safe holiday thank you for all the work this year trait live in israel thank you. >> here at home a new reaction to president biden handling of

the war in gaza. ramped up houthis attacks in the red sea and iran's moves in the region. alexandria hoff is live in washington with all of this. hi alex. >> want to start the cease-fire comment to the president made yesterday. there are some part left to progress is not too happy with the president reiterated that as part of his phone call they had with prime minister netanyahu here is how he put it. >> mr. president did you ask for cease-fire today? >> i did not ask for a cease-fire. >> on the houthis rebel attacks and the red sea the white house on friday accused iran i've been closely involved. not senator bill hegarty said today the administration response so far has only emboldened ironic. >> we have seen was two aircraft carrier strike groups in the region tha that the massive shof military force. we have been highly inconsistent and the terms of how we deal iran from an economic standpoint and a diplomatic standpoint. >> national security at home.

republican senator ron johnson up. on "sunday morning futures" today and spoke about the white house how they have officials heading to mexico shortly. they're there to discuss border security. >> a child's we haven't done with this administration is thay cause the problem. they are the root cause. they want an open border. so i appreciate the fact the going down to mexico at two may be trying to do this. but that is like three years too late for regrets processing backlogs up at the white house on defense years deputy attorney general lisa monico. >> we have been resolving a record number of cases in the last couple of years. but, we still have far too few immigration judges which is why we have as congress and our latest budget request for a lot more money and authority to hire more immigration judges. >> on the legal front former president trump has urged a federal appeals court to grant him immunity from criminal prosecution and the 2020 election results case.

this is a supreme court is expected to weigh in on a colorado's decision to remove trump from its primary ballot. but this colorado supreme court made a political decision in my view there is no constitutional basis for the decision they rendered it. i think it will be a slam dunk and the supreme court. >> colorado decision was based off of a section of the u.s. constitution which prohibits anyone who engaged in insurrection from holding office. this was originally designed for former confederates after the civil war. >> we are keeping our eye on the supreme court for next week. alexandria hoff reporting live from washington, thank you alex. >> is a migrant racist spirals out of control of more record-breaking numbers top members of the biden administration are set to head to mexico this week for border talks. this comes after controversy over the recent closure of two rail crossings in texas and congress wrestles with immigration reform for joining us now congressman carlos meant as a republican from florida who

serves on the house armed services china select and homeland security committees. congressman thank you for being here on this christmas eve happy and married to you and yours. x merry christmas tree. >> merry christmas. i want to start off with this call to get people to number 698,000 encounters so far in the fiscal year 2024. which is just to be done on our southern border. 214,000 encounters in december. that is set to be the highest on pace to being a record december. when you hear that the biden administration is going to have talks with mexico and the president of mexico says i will help with the border but only if you give more aid to cuba, venezuela and only if you open talks with cuba, what do you make of the president of mexico said in the terms of this conversation? what do you think the united states should be demanding of mexico right now? >> i think a look, if i it was there i would go to the mexican

president and say look, we're going to shut the border down. you have a problem of immigration you are allowing tens of thousands hundreds of thousands of people to come into your country. it is your problem and now it's going to beat your problem is not going to be my problem or the second thing i would say is this international cartels that are making billions of dollars off of human trafficking are also sending fence and only here killing almost 100,000 americans have about a week to take care of it or we are going to take care of it. if we just closed the border and shut it down and it becomes a mexico's problem you will see how fast mexico is going to solve their border problem. but this administration does not want to do that but t they're going to go down there and say hey, would you please -- matt could you guys please help us out? blanket may take out a secret weapon is he will take out a pretty please could you pretty please help us out here? where in fact we have the power to take care of the border situation here in the united

states. >> a couple border crossings were closed because border patrol had to send resources to deal with this enormous amount of people coming across. something like 200 legal immigrants for everyone border patrol agent. they do close to a rail crossings lukeville, arizona there and support is closed. we talk a big game of closing the border but doesn't that hurt to have business here in the united states? can you do both? >> closing the border to legal business and business transaction between the united states and mexico but i am sent close the border to illegal immigration and we can do that. the law says if you are seeking asylum here in united states or to ways you can do it. one, you remain in a third country. mexico's of their country for the second one is you are detained in the united states. the biden ministration is not following the law and that is why we have hundreds of thousands coming to the border. it is on purpose. they want to have this immigration. and so i doubt -- it's a great

show that mayorkas' going to mexico nothing is going to come of it is going to be a nice explanation of look what got done, nothing's going to get done because this administration wants us to continue. >> are reporter on the border sent out these two photos the post a photo shows tsa security line at the tucson airport. for migrants caught at the border and it says not u.s. citizens without passports only enter here. they are setting these folks all around the country on airplanes for the second photo is a saw it was caught. three men reducing the saw to cut to the border wall. juit just illustrates the crisis down there. note to ask you what can be down the congressional front? the senate is negotiating a bill right now. where is the redline for you, congressman? do you think the house run by republicans right now would accept a bill from the senate that does not have, for

instance, remain in mexico the trump era policy but where's the redline here? >> no i don't shoot. i don't think we will and i don't think we should. but again the senate can negotiate anything they want. this administration once a law they're going to do what they want. thanks i guess were going to this, that, or the other but at the end of the day they will not do it. they want this. they want to this crisis at the border for they want this mass immigration to come into the united states. i do not know why. i cannot tell you why. but you can't be this down we know exactly what we have to do to stop it. they refused to do it for that to me tells me it is on purpose. they have a reason we have yet to figure it out. >> you are not hopeful at all that congress can pass a bill for tougher immigration reform and border security? >> we can pass whatever we want too. .the administration is not going to do it. look the loss is pretty clear

right now it says if you're coming into the united states and you are seeking asylum until you get your here you will either stay in a third country or you will be detained is what the law says. the biden administration chooses not to follow it that is what trump said th did that's what rd of mexico is all about. and it stopped the crisis. but as soon as biden became the presidenpresent he threw all the things out that were working i know we've got will be got in heat wanted to continue unless of course it's going to cost him politically and then they will change their tune projects quickly or what you make of the white house response to a wrong question worked with had more attacks on the john hagee i checked houthis rebels. what you make of the white house so far not going on the offensive? >> look, this is what biden has done all his career as a center, vice president, et cetera but he is very weak on foreign policy. he think he wants to negotiate with everybody. he wants somehow to negotiate with iran.

he hasn't figured it out yet produce pretty old guy and he hasn't figured it out yet. the only way you negotiate with people like this is through strength that is the only thing they understand. if you don't react with strength and you don't react in kind then they are just going to run all of you. they keep firing these missiles into the red sea yet nothing happens to them. we shoot down some. there is no downside to at the houthis are doing now because united states is not doing anything about it. by the way the world in general is not doing anything about it. we need to get our allies on board and take some action. >> a pentagon says will have a multinational naval force to try to protect the shipments throughout the red sea, we will see what that is for the congressman carlos gimenez merry christmas thank you for being here. let's make christmas to you too. >> all right. sometimes america refers to our do-nothing congress and this

year lawmakers they really earned the dubious distinction signing an eye-popping late low 27 bills into law. that leaves along to do list in 2024 pete senior congressional correspondent chad pergram has more on this. >> the public often derives lawmakers are being part of a do-nothing congress. they may really have a case after 2023. >> sometimes it takes us months even years to get nothing done. >> kennedys criticism is not lost on democrats. >> is do-nothing republican congress right now is the least productive in modern american history. ask you not take his word for it. listen to gop texas representative chip roy. >> one thing i want my republican colleagues to give me one thing, one that i can go campaign on and say we did request the office of speaker of the house of the united states house of representatives is

hereby declared vacant. >> the ouster of former house speaker kevin mccarthy defined the year rivaled by exasperating 22 day odyssey to elect new speaker mike johnson. but only at the house incinerated three other speaker candidates first. >> we have horrible congress and a wonderful congresses. you have a meaningful policymaking and then you have the utter depths of stupidity. >> there is significant disruption and the republican party. we need a good solid republican party and the good solid democratic party. >> former measured members are glad they are no longer in office. >> this institution is supposed to build consensus but it's not doing it right now. >> i would say the house is just barely functioning. >> the year for each of the century three house democrats, the expulsion of george santos, et cetera challenging a hearing witness to a rumble and aced get paid by senate aides in hearing room. >> it also suggests people are not taking seriously the

functions of an sound that uses a room like this. >> the bar for success is low productive got to start delivering for the people. we have not done that for years. >> fixing things next year was difficult congress faces the possibility of two shutdowns this winter. on capitol hill chad pergram fox news. country music world is mourning the lost dixie chick founding member laura lynch. a live report on the tributesof next p. -ahh, -here, i'll take that. woo hoo! ensure max protein 30 grams protein, one gram sugar, 25 vitamins and minerals, and nutrients for immune health. (♪) the best advice i ever got was to invest with vanguard for my retirement.

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welcome back. former new york clerk and another legal battle after murder charges against him were dropped. you might remember josé in july 2022 he stabbed a shoplifting suspect to death. he said it was self-defense after he was threatened and attacked to suing the city for damages and now there is a push to toss the case. cb cotton is live in new york state with the very latest on this. cb, this case made a lot of headlines when it was happening. >> a deadbeat new york city lawyers now arguing its officers had every right to arrest exit bodega worker josé alba after fatally stabbed a customer. the city's lawyers trying to get his wrongful arrest lawsuit thrown out claiming video

evidence and witness testimonies including from the victim's girlfriend supported arrest and the initial criminal charges against him. he filed a lawsuit this fall against manhattan d.a. alvin a bragg nypd detectives, resting officers and department of corrections officials and progressive policies here in new york city violated his evil rights when he was charged with second-degree murder and locked up back in july of last year. surveillance video of the ordeal it ignited public outrage after footage appeared to show alba was not the initial aggressor. investigators say the fight between him and austin simon began after simon's girlfriend tried to pay for a bag of chips but her card declined for the d.a. or drop the charges with this office i got homicide case could not be proven and a trial beyond a reasonable doubt. the city is trying to back pedal as the city tries to seek

damages. >> it is an outrage that they did a complete turnaround on their interpretation of what happened. and they would go as far as to misrepresent the facts. >> wheat reach out to law department and the city's lawyers, doubled down saying quote detailed under the circumstances there was sufficient probable cause to arrest and prosecute mr. albo. a lot to watch for projects no doubt we've not heard the end of the story for sure. cb cotton live in new york thank you. >> the country music world is paying tribute to dixie chick founding member laura lynch as new details emerged on her death in a head-on car crash in texas. christina coleman is alive with more on this tragic story. tragic and date it's very sad news in the music world this christmas week ever texas native

laurette lynch a founding member of the dixie chicks died in a fatal collision the texas apartment public safety confirmed the deadly crash happened around 5:45 p.m. friday afternoon about 70 miles east of el paso, texas but investigators say the driver of a dodge ram heading w west crossed into lynch's weight on a two way highway and hit her ford f50 head on. she was pronounced dead at the scene. the other driver was taken to the hospital with non- life-threatening injuries were to talk to someone from texas dps moments ago but i was told the other driver is still in the hospital. i am told he will likely face charges. now the country music world is a dealing and coping with lynch's traffic loss she cofounded the disk checks in 1989. lynch was the base a player then she started singing with the band in 1992 print she left the group back in 1993 before the band achieved huge commercial success with hit songs cowboy

take me away and traveling soldier. the band eventually changed into chicks in 2020 and now they are paying tribute to lynch expressing their extreme shock and sadness. they wrote on social media and part quote, we hold a special place in our hearts for the time we spent playing music, laughing and traveling together per lore it was a bright light her infectious energy and humor gave us back to the early days of our band but laura had a gift for design, a love of all things texas. and was instrumental in the early success of the band. her undeniable talent will propel us between busting out on street corners to stages all across texas in the midwest. again a sad, sad loss for the music world. when she was 65 years old. >> our thoughts are with her, her family and loved ones this holiday season not easy. christina: thank you for that. >> bryant is going to be a white christmas or a rating fun?

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christmas and a white christmas this year. rain is already continued to spun from dallas through new orleans are going to bear hot spots is because of the day today the snow getting started up across the northern tier but it really picks up as we got to the afternoon and through the night tonight as sanchez making his way with his slaves going to have to contend with whipping wind and low visibility at times. which is going to make traveling very difficult for anyone trying to get across the site 90 and ichor door. rain will continue to push its way through the midwest for which a blizzard warnings up. this through wednesday morning across portions of i 80 and i 90 core door. winter weather advisory through the planes. that means we are likely to see several inches if not a foot or more of snow when all is said and done through christmas day on into wednesday. that is what we are looking at us because of the night tonight. the warm side of the storm though could be breaking overnight with the rain fills in for your christmas day unfortunately.

christmas eve though, certainly going to be a bit soggy st. louis, detroit, we've got cloud cover and again the warm temperatures overnight feeling may be a little less festive but christmas day itself, this is a trouble spot. for travelers sig to the interstate you're going to have to deal the rain, snow and ice on the backside of that to the dakotas and nebraska. that is going to continue to shift and through christmas evening. that is the big picture of the weathered maker. down to the southeast rain picks up in atlanta it is new york and los angeles are two corners of the country that look nice for christmas day itself. dry conditions and temperatures that kids can get outplayed the new toys. >> the adults can stay in and watch some football. while the weather is bad hank's fingers crossed while they make their travel plans or whatnot. so jane thanks so much for "fox weather" appreciate it. >> merry christmas break works merry christmas and fox weathers her destination for the latest weather, news and forecast to remain on your favorite connected device always on always free.

[inaudible] >> did you tell him not in a preemptive strike? >> i had a long talk is a private conversation >> it's a private conversation. [inaudible] >> president biden is sharing a bit of his phone chat with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu that followed israel denying reports the u.s. had pressured it to scrap a preemptive strike against hezbollah and lebanon days after the terror attacked in october. after the call netanyahu said ground operations in gaza will grind on until hamas is crushed but let's bring in james retired army lieutenant colonel. now vp of national security and foreign policy at the heritage foundation. lieutenant colonel thanks for coming in today, appreciate it. let's get right to it.

i want to ask you, first of all what is your opinion about the relationship between president biden and prime minister minister should want this exclusive story from the wall street journal detailing how president biden talked to the israeli prime minister out of a preemptive strike against hezbollah days after the initial attack. the details and the minute by minute account of what happened here according to the wall street journal is just riveting. what more can you add? honestly i'm a little skeptical. i think the u.s. has a limited leverage on israel purred biting cannot afford for israel to lose. he really cannot pressure netanyahu to something he doesn't want too. there is no way i ever would have thought the israelis would want a second front the notion they would preemptively try to expand the war a in a second frt is nonsense. i've all the respect of the world for the wall street journal but something here does not sound right. what is going to determine

netanyahu left and right guard rails at this point we don't have a second front biting cannot overpressure. it's the israeli domestic pressures is going to determine how long you can fight and what he can do. >> it sounded like the israelis had intelligence there was some attack and the planning and i guess the u.s. disagreed with that. but the devil is always in the details there. what do you think the ramifications of another incident like this and others including the u.s. getting drawn into war considering especially all of this activity with the houthis rebels. is that a real possibility in your view this could expand in other nations could get drawn end? >> you hit on a really important issue. i don't think the wars going to expand. the u.s. needs to worry less about how the situation evolves in gaza and much more about what

the yemen are doing what the houthis are doing to threaten freedom of navigation and see what the iranians are doing both at sea and in promoting attacks against americans because at some point in american is going to get killed i think the administration has made a huge mistake here by not being more aggressive in deterring both the houthis and the iranians. the reality is, they should have thrown the houthis back on the watch is that should have pummeled the circuits and around the should of told iran to knock it off. that would have ended things but because they are so incremental in their approach in trying to calm things down, they are raising the executors you mentioned is that the wars going to progress a lot of people concerned about that. i want to turn the topic if i can do something else. the chinese spy ballou, remember that it it's gui it scale sales last january. now in an nbc news report is suggesting the administration was hoping to keep it a secret from congress and the public. of course people sought so the cat was out of the bag so to

speak. what more do you know about that? >> the first thing is it is shocking that the session at this demonstration liked the american people to huge mistake. ii really speeding more into the narrative. we just cannot trust this government. this is a huge problem for the bite administration's drink more fire in the dumpster fire. but the other thing which nobody has talked about and it's really important, remember after that they shot down other balloons. now if they knew about this balloon comment date knew those blooms are not threats and just lost balloons but they shot them down anyway. that is just security theater and that smart lying to the american people. so they completely botch the issue there's no question about that. i think it's more concerned whether this government is competent >> former secretary of state mike pompeo at something is somethingto say about this. let's take a listen to what he had to say. what's my guess is in the end they made the decision not to share at the american people out

of sheer embarrassment's they had permitted this very dangerous activity to take place over the american homeland that is never a reason not to share information with the american people. i don't know if the story is true. but we remember that they allowed a chinese spy balloon to fly over our country for five days and did nothing and frankly now we are months and months and months later they still do nothing about this big. >> a quick 152nd answer here thoughts on what he said and do you think they were able to gather any significant intelligence? >> we did have reporting that said we knew where they were launching the new balloons from and if they wanted to keep a secret i get that once it came out of the bag we should've shot the thing down and admit they knew about it >> the tenant colonel thank you so much to you a merry christmas. >> thank you. >> former president trump is asking an appeals court to drop the 2020 election subversion case against him. could that actually happen? plus santos coming to town you can track his every move with norad it.

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because breathing should be beautiful, all day and night. >> california governor gavin newsom blasting the idea batting former president donald trump from the ballot in 2024 present lieutenant governor last week suggested looking into just that after colorado supreme court disqualified trump from its a balance of the generous six capitol riots. newsom calls the former president quotes a threat to our liberty but says that trump must be defeated at the ballot box. >> as for trump attorneys yesterday asked a federal appeals court in washington to throw out the election subversion case against him. they say he is protecting under presidential immunity. meanwhile many analysts say his many legal woes are helping not hurting him by rallying his base relisting associate research scholar and a lecturer in

politics and public affairs at princeton doctor lauren wright it. thank you so much for being here, i appreciate it. >> of course thanks. it's hard to argue against the notion former president trump just continues to do well despite all of his legal woes the latest fox news poll shows he is the only candidate of the gop field that has done them better since november he is at 69% up from 62% every other candidate is down a percentage or so. according to the fox news poll. do you think this colorado case is going to be any different? or do you think this is only going to continue to fuel his momentum? >> are really like the way you phrased it. he said continue to do better despite that legal woes that is exactly accurate. we do not have any evidence that trumps legal woes are somehow helping him that he is doing a better than he would have had he

not been facing all of these charges criminally and all of these indictments. what we do know that as voters are paying more attention as the top challenger rhonda santa started doing more trump continue to rise. it really is more the case that people who are supporting him to begin with continue to support him. but it is probably more difficult for him to attract a new moderate republican voters because of these legal troubles. so it absolutely has numbers might say the same. but i do not think he will grow more support because of all these troubles. >> it is interesting because his top challenger right now, ron desantis the governor says he thanks these indictments as he put it quote sucked a lot of oxygen from the primary race. what do you make of iran dron desantisdeciding to say thw before iowa and acknowledging that very thing? sucking the oxygen out of the

race. >> look it is absolutely true that trumps legal troubles keep him in the news. it is a very important historic story to cover. there is no world in which major news outlets couldn't or shouldn't cover a former president's legal troubles. but because he is the center of attention and because he is running against a couple people who used to work for him and a lot of other republicans who have very similar platform decisions it is more difficult for other candidates to gain attention. and frankly how difficult it is for all of these and site trump, trump alternative candidates to get any sort of base to coalesce around them. i will do it differently i have a different style but a lot of it is the same is very difficult sell to voters who still like

trump and frankly like his combative style and like that he comments on his legal case it pickwick plus show foxbusiness both from iowa. it shows donald trump has a 52% support ever public and primary voters for the next up their ron desantis at 18% two. nikki haley at 16%. the caucuses are on their way for iowa. what do you think in terms of where ron desantis and nikki haley need to perform? do they need to just show they are a strong second? what is a strong second in the minds of voters a couple of points behind just bedded them at the polls have been saying, what you think? >> you could spin that argument i beat the polls, look up for me and the next few contest in the next few states. but, look how se cows segmentedd divided this electorate is. it really shows us that had voters had one trump alternatives to choose from early on they might have a chance of beating trump. but at the same time what nikki

haley and ron desantis have combined is not even half of trumps support and some polls close at national averages and state-by-state averages are quite telling. >> i went to get your opinion on cbs news report a fascinating one saying trump is making some call speaking to allies and advisors about nikki haley being his running mate. what you think of that ticket? apparently people in trump world are trying to for the kibosh on the idea they do not want it. does not seemed like that maga world loves her. what do you make of a potential taken of him and nikki haley who he calls a bird brain elise on the campaign trail. >> what some of the polling shows that i is really interestg is trump supporters are less upset about nikki haley been the possibility than nikki haley voters about trumping the nominee. pugh has continued down a pole they say would she be satisfied or dissatisfied with this alternative candidate if they ended up being the republican

nominee? if u.s. haley support is about 70% or dissatisfied if it's trump. if yes trump supporters they are about 50/50 on haley. so really it's the haley voters in this hypothetical scenario we have to worry about bringing on board making sure they don't stay home look for a third party candidate. trump voters with a stick by him regardless of who the vp pick is. so i understand that decision regrets ambassador nikki haley said she would not have entered this race for second place she plans on beating this. dr. lauren wright merry christmas happy holidays thank you. >> you too brian. >> fastening conversation there. santa is making his rounds it's christmas eve and once again norad is making it possible for children of all ages to track is a path across the globe. fox news multimedia reporter kennedy hayes has a behind-the-scenes look at how they do it.

>> what you see behind me is the magic process come sunday this place will be transformed into a winter wonderland packed with more than 1000 volunteers answering calls from children wondering where santa is around the world. >> we track santa the same assets to be is to keep the north american continent safe every day which is our jets, raiders, a satellite's progress this year norad will track santa in the center on the peterson space force base in colorado springs. >> sanchez faster than starlight with their powers combined we get a really good site image of where he is at all times progress military and civilian volunteers but in from 4:00 a.m. until midnight. >> is on the first stops for our volunteers produce signals they enter through the hangar they are greeted progress and modern tradition of tracking santa started in 1955 when a child tdied in unlisted norad phone number and an advertisement. a colonel picked up and the child asked where saint nick was. sixty-eight years later norad

tracks santa has grown into a massive operation. >> we've got just under 100 pounds in this location. we will probably take -- in the past were taken of 250,000 calls in the 20 hour period of time progress preparing to share sent updates in eight different languages means all hands on deck for volunteers and u.s. candidate norad teams. >> laster he took a call from a group of kids in ukraine who were calling on the little battery found this at all they wanted was for santa to turn their power back on. the moments like that they give us a pause remind us of the global reach norad tracks santa has in the importance progress norad says they cannot predict an exact time santa will come down the next chimney in your home, they say it appears the only arise when children are asleep. colorado springs colorado fox news. >> kennedy thank you so much for that story per my favorite story of the day. "fox news live" at 4:00 p.m. eastern will have more on norad

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welcome back. this little guy a 17 month old is not his first christmas but will be the first one this

record-setting preemie hispanic with his family out of the hospital. madison is alive with a more on this holiday miracle. >> hayek,hi, philip gaines finay went home last week after spending 17 months unc health neonatal icu. it is the longest time a premature baby has ever spent there. his mom says while he spent his entire life in the hospital, he is doing great now and they cannot wait to spend the holidays at home. >> the fact we are coming home at christmas and we have almost found our light is just incredible. and being surrounded by family d the comfort of home but we have become so grateful for the little things like letting him look at the ornaments on the tree. rolling around in his christmas jammy >> philip had a whole celebration for his discharge from unc children's. the gains from the city of don

people lined the streets to welcome him home. philip has chronic lung disease and for being sedated to even paralyzed she tells us of 17 months in the nicu were extremely difficult for the family. but they always had hope. georgina said now philip is a full-blown toddler. his men playing and laughing at home this past week, doing good with the pediatrician appointments and she credits the doctors and nurses who took care of philip, listen. >> he defied to so many odds and over the course of the last few months as we were getting ready for him to go home it has been so exciting and before chri christmas. that was really will be all wanted for him was to have that time with him at home. >> that while philip is still oxygen and ventilator dependent right now, he has a hopeful prognosis. >> madison reporting live from atlanta dis does not getting ber the nappy thank you for that wonderful story.

>> what a great story. >> indeed. >> seeing philip his smiles are unbelievable but. >> looks like a healthy happy baby now progress absolutely it's been so good to spend time with you i need a merry christmas break likes merry christmas to you and yours. >> it's wonderful i'm back at 4:00 p.m. eastern, the whole crew will be here "fox news live" keep it here for more newi next from washington. take carovide everybody. 27 vitamins and minerals, nutrients for immune health. and ensure complete with 30 grams of protein. (♪) teeth sensitivity is so common. it immediately feels like somebody's poking directly on the nerve. i recommend sensodyne. sensodyne toothpaste goes inside the tooth and calms the nerve down. and my patients say you know doc, it really works.

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