also lost their cars in addition to their homes. they were flooded out in the storm. there is no money for many for bathrooms or bottled water. the pace of recovery is snow. >> no sewer, water or power. there is your answer. >> this is a storm that killed 103 people in north carolina, cost 50 billion worth of damage and eight weeks later you have families in donated tents with wood burning stoves. back to you. >> bill: that's a hardship. snow is coming down. more to this story and we'll hear from you later on today as well. dangerous escalation in ukraine. chilling threat from russia as the war moves closer to spreading across europe. dragging the world into a potential global conflict. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm john roberts. dana and bill are off today so it's you and me.

>> gillian: what a way to open the second hour. world war iii as putin and others are calling it. some experts are pushing back on the u.s. side. >> john: hits you like a bucket of cold water in the face. >> gillian: good to be with you. russia is responding to ukraine's use of u.s. long range missiles on targets inside missiles by firing a new medium range ballistic missile into ukrainian territory. putin is calling the move a warning to the west after president biden authorized the use of u.s.-made long range missiles for ukraine to strike inside russia kursk region for the first time. putin's specialty is combining this kind of kinetic action with psychological warfare. >> he has forced the biden administration never to give the ukrainians what they wanted when they wanted it. it protracted the war. putin keeps coming. that's what this is all about. russia fully intends after the ukraine is finished with, to

expand into europe. and all the european nations know that. >> gillian: greg palkot is tracking the latest developments. what can you tell us this morning? >> just over 1,000 days into this war and it is getting riskier all the time. more shock waves from yesterday's strike by a brand-new kind of russian intermediate range super fast missile. it caused some damage and casualties in the city but carried a big messages days after the u.s. and u.k. allowed the use of its longer-range missiles inside the territory of russia, moscow basically saying anything you can do, we will do with an even bigger punch. russian president putin on tv last night saying in the event of an escalation of aggressive actions he will respond decisively and resip rickly. the actions by the u.s. and u.k.

were reckless noting russia could do more. an indication of the nervousness for the first time since the war started. a session of ukraine's parliament was canceled fearing another attack. the missile carried conventional war heads and could be nuclear armed. another message. the u.s. embassy in kiev was shut down out of security concerns. diplomatic voices speaking out today. the threat of a global conflict is serious and real. china calling for calm and restraint and gillian, as for north korea, which has been adding to all the tensions by sending some of its troops to fight alongside the russians, said the u.s. is stoking tensions and they warned of a nuclear war. a lot of talking, some very dangerous actions. >> gillian: look at beijing weighing in there.

>> john: let's dig deeper. general kellogg, welcome from the campaign trail. ukraine's ex-top general says world war iii has begun. i'm sure he would like to world to believe that so the allies throw in with ukraine. do you see it that way? >> no, i don't think world war iii has begun but it is right here. when you look at what's happening look at alliance what president trump kept apart. north korea here, china here, iran and russia here. they have all joined now. you have an axis together. they are feeding off one another. just in june russia signed a self-defense pact with north korea. for the first time in its history north korea has e ported fighters into russia between ten to 30,000 north koreans are fighting. use of an intermediate range ballistic missile shot at a city of 900,000.

you are seeing this thing starting to build. nationally that will be president trump's biggest thing he will have to solve which is the fight there in ukraine and russia, which happens to be the largest land war in europe since the end of world war ii. it is massive. john, you have know this. a simple spark can spin things out of control. without even trying out there. >> john: you assassinate one arch duke and suddenly poof. >> gillian: talk to us about this new sort of sophisticated weapon that putin -- he launched some kind of medium range ballistic missiles with a lot of war heads into ukraine. talk to us how it does and how alarmed people should be about it. >> an intermediate range ballistic missile and multiple independent reentry vehicles. they will break off and hit

multiple targets. it can be nuclear tipped. they only used one. it is a class of truck-mounted intermediate range ballistic missiles. he used it for psychological reasons. jack keane made a great comment. he used it because it hit a city, not much damage there at all. but he is saying to the west see what i can do. and this is one where people have backed off. president biden backed off. the minute he said icbm nuclear war we said we can't go there. that's when you need to lean in. putin will not start a nuclear war in europe and you knowed to remind him let me make sure you understand the brits and french and we have nuclear weapons. don't go there. we haven't said that to him. it is a psychological ploy. jack keane has it right. he upped the ante in weaponry.

>> john: why did biden give permission to launch them? karine jean-pierre was asked about that yesterday at the briefing and gave a typical answer. >> for a long time the white house argued that using these long range type of missiles into russia to attack targets inside russia would escalate. the war would really invite retaliation. why change the policy now? >> i won't get into specifics about ukraine's operations. not something i will do today. i want to be really clear. >> the white house has a change of policy. >> i'm not going to get into specifics from the podium. >> john: saying nothing about everything. we've gotten used to. why now? he has left this pile of dog you know what on trump's doorstep. >> here is what i hope. i hope jake sullivan talked to the incoming -- president biden talked to president trump and

said here is what i will do. i hope that happened. what he has done, biden, through his actions has given president trump more leverage because now he can pull back, he can go left and right and he can do something. i think what he did is he said well, this is what i want to do and i hope it was -- there is something to this. i don't know. but it does give the president trump more ability to do -- to pivot from that. >> john: that's interesting. >> gillian: one quick question. you aren't buying the white house's biden administrations justification they approved these long range weapons because of the north koreans inside. >> i hope it was another reason to it to allow leverage to president trump. maybe that may be a good reason to do it. they should have been doing this a year ago. they pulled back. you don't fight a war allowing other countries to have sanctuaries. if you fight a war, you fight a

war. we pulled back on what zelenskyy letting fight a war he should have been fighting a long time ago. the casualties are horrific. the advantage is that he had this last summer and not there anymore he meaning zelenskyy. >> john: we haven't heard from trump. >> my thoughts to that are it's very smart, hold fire. >> john: good. >> gillian: thanks for being here. >> john: hope to see you more in the future. >> gillian: a forensic pathologist testified penny's choke holds couldn't have killed jordan neely. he will take the stand for cross examination this morning. cb cotton has the details in the daniel penny trial. >> that forensic pathologist will face another round of questions from prosecutors as he maintains jordan neely did not

die from daniel penny's choke hold. he believes the combined effects of neely's synthetic marijuana use, blood condition and mental illness along with the struggle and restraint with penny all led to neely's death. he also said that after reviewing video of the choke hold and neely's medical records he didn't find the usual signs of a choke hold saying a choke hold death has to start with a phase of unconsciousness and he never saw neely enter that phase during this encounter on the train in may of last year. he said he was shocked to learn the medical examiner ruled the cause of death a choke hold before reviewing toxicology results. earlier the new york city medical examiner who performed the autopsy told jurors there was a unanimous consensus in the medical examiner's office the choke hold killed neely. the contrast in findings comes as we watch for whether penny will testify in his own defense.

jurors have only heard from him during his 25 minute police interview when he didn't know neely had died and waived his miranda rights. >> this guy was actually -- i was concerned that he would actually lash out. he was saying he was willing to go to prison forever. saying he was going to kill this and this. looked around, there are women and children. >> penny faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted on the most serious charge in this case. gillian. >> gillian: cb cotton. thank you. >> john: caravan of 1500 migrants. why they are trying to cross the border before trump takes office. >> gillian: authorities arrested an illegal immigrant for a heinous crime in colorado. >> all president trump has to do is go back to his policies of

remain in mexico and instruct our border patrol to do their job. unfortunately the biden-harris administration was literally cutting razor wire to open up more access. >> john: biden administration is loosening its immigration policy before trump takes control including a major shake-up for ice checkins.

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>> john: an illegal im grant from venezuela now under arrest in colorado after allegedly committing a brutal crime. he is accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl. jeff paul has got the details for us from los angeles. jeff. >> investigators say the suspect was staying in the basement of his employers home when the

incident took place. they say one night in late august the 20-year-old migrant forced himself on his employer's 14-year-old daughter sexually assaulting her. he was eventually arrested after being on the run for nearly three months. a source tells fox news he is currently being held on a charge of sex assault on a child. according to the "new york post" castille owe arrived from venezuela last year crossing the border in el paso and released because of overcrowding. post also reporting the suspect had previously been arrested in may accused of possessing tools for forgery or counterfeiting and theft. also in colorado the mayor of denver dodging questions from reporters over comments he made over deportation operation involving federal agents. he said more than us having dpd stationed at the county line to keep them out he would have 50,000 denverites there.

the rose and the gun, right? every one of those high land moms who came out for migrants and you don't want to mess with them. yesterday this is what happened when a local reporter tried to follow up with the mayor regarding the comments. the mayor got into a car, closed the door and they drove away. the mayor saying his city will maintain its sanctuary city status, john. >> john: jeff paul. thank you. >> gillian: biden administration reportedly making moves to shore up protective measures in place for migrants in the u.s. illegally ahead of trump's return to the oval office. according to the "new york post" the white house has quietly relaxing restrictions on migrants that are here. one change would allow asylum seekers to bypass in-person check-ins with ice and they were virtual. jenny, talk to me about these moves that you reported on the

biden administration is sort of trying to undertake quietly as i understand it. >> right. just weeks from inauguration day the biden administration is quietly pushing through these proposals that are really lax on migrants and take away a lot of the accountability for them saying instead of reporting to ice in person, don't worry about it, just use this app we've developed, which by the way has gone through several stages already of tests. they've used it in a few offices and shut it down because it has been very glitchy. the other thing with this app is instead of when you go in person or even if you don't show up in person, the system that they have there in those ice offices accounts for your full history and follows what you do in the united states whether or not you show up. so, for example, it will come up with warrants for you. it will come up with your criminal history if let's say you run around the sanctuary

city like new york and you are a tren de aragua and committing crimes. they'll know if you have been arrested. with the app there is less knowledge about your history. only if you check in they know about you and only for seven days do they know your location. that's if you use the phone app version of it. if you use a computer version of it and use it on a laptop, for example, they don't know your location. all you have to do is take a photo and that's it. >> gillian: there are 58 thousand are living in the city funded shelters. a quote from the reporting you put out. another source says a migrant can act to be de-escalated from monitoring if they are compliant in the program. if ice officers reject that request, the migrant can then take them through a lengthy appeals process.

is the appeals process part of this new as far as you know? >> right. this appeals process is part of this new kind of de-escalation program where according to sources, it is kind of giving more rights to an illegal migrant who comes here. they can say after 90 days that they have been compliant with their ankle monitor they were given and say i don't want to do this ankle monitor anymore. please take it off of me. because ice officers are so overwhelmed right now given the number of cases that have come across the border and the trump administration incoming will have a huge caseload on their hands, they really can't take on these appeals. so what will happen is that they will just write off these cases and unfortunately it is one of those things where like with detention, like other

under-resourced areas that ice has, they have had to sign on the dotted line and in this case, you know, we have known what has happened to people on ankle monitors even when they are kept on, we can look at the case of murder of jocelyn nungaray. one of her -- that's one example of this fraught system. they can cut the ankle monitor. >> john: president-elect trump forging ahead with his cabinet tapping pam bondi for attorney general after the withdrawal of matt gaetz. home invasions of two nfl superstars and apparently they were not random break-ins. >> it is our belief there are multiple groups working throughout the country that are tied to these similar break-ins.

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>> john: f.b.i. investigating a series of home burglaries targeting professional athletes chasing potential ties to a south american crime ring. mike tobin has more from chicago. it is making a lot of headlines. >> criminal organizations are using public records to obtain information about the homes of big-name athletes and rob the homes while the athletes are gone. the nfl issued a warning. the homes of professional athletes across sports leagues have become increasingly targeted for burglaries by skilled groups. travis kelce. his house was hit october 7th. patrick mahomes was robbed as well. >> something you don't want to happen to anybody but obviously yourself. >> captured two men outside the homes of bobby about the time he was robbed.

>> while i was at my game yesterday i had a home invasion and they took most of my prized possessions. >> the burglaries are not restricted to athletes. expensive houses in michigan have been burglarized. they are waves. groups travel around to a target area. patterns are the same. they jam the wifi and focus on master bedroom and closets with jewelry and the people they have arrested are from chile and venezuela. >> john: we'll watch it and see what happens this weekend. now this. >> i am special advisor to donald trump office of white house counsel but more importantly i'm his friend. don't underestimate us. this is going to be fun. >> gillian: president-elect trump announced pam bondi as his

new pick to replace matt gaetz as the nominee for attorney general. let's bring in katie pavlich to react to the news. some people, blatant hypothesizing, in washington are talking about gaetz was some kind of red herring candidate to come in, get everybody on capitol hill alarm and make bondi more palatable. >> i don't believe that. i think they've said it in a statement it was a distraction and they don't have a lot of time when it comes to getting the cabinet picks through and agenda when it comes to the house getting up for re-election in a short two years. it would be a big risk to take it on. confirmation hearings are difficult for even the most qualified best people on poked sides of the political aisle. senators have especially on the judiciary committee have the

best investigators in the entire world looking at the backgrounds of these people. prominent, powerful positions with lots of consequences and judgment is one of those big questions. who can do the job. pam bondi is a much better choice, the attorney general of florida for eight years and worked regularly with federal government agencies like the department of justice, homeland security on illegal immigration. which ties into president trump's second term agenda and also if you look at the statement from the president-elect there are two main goals. weaponization and politization out of the department of justice. she knows it well. she defended the president in his first impeach. over a phone call asking about very real biden family corruption and to tamp down on crime across the country. the department of justice has a lot of ability to work with local officials, to up charges to the federal level so criminals are afraid of committing these heinous crimes and there are consequences. they did that the first term

during operation legend and democrats in kansas city. the two goals they outlined and a good fit given her experience both with the weaponization and with taking crime and getting rid of their cities in florida. >> john: i did a number of stories on her in florida and very effective what she was doing. the liberal media is freaking out about her as a pick not in a matt gaetz way but because knee is competent. listen here. >> pam bondi is exact will i what i was saying in the last segment we should all fear. she is competent. we may not agree with her ideologically but she knows how to do this job. she knows what she is doing about immigration. she is a dangerous and effective pick and that's frankly worse than what we would have got with matt gaetz. >> dangerous and effective, worse than matt gaetz because she knows how to do it. >> the worst person is always fascinating to me throughout the name calling of someone being terrible.

the next person who is qualified is also terrible. pam bondi is very qualified. knows what she is doing. she has managed big teams of lawyers before. florida is one of the biggest states in the country. the department of justice is not just about being -- also this administration given the things that they want to do with illegal immigration, deportation, they will get sued a lot by public interest groups, by groups getting a lot of grant money to ngos to send illegal immigrants across the country. they need someone like whener who will understand the law and move the agenda forward. >> gillian: talk about doge quick. >> i like doge. >> gillian: so musk and ramaswamy initially said they would try to cut $2 trillion of government wasteful spending and kind of narrowed down to half a trillion dollars. there is also this new stand-up subcommittee in congress led by marjorie taylor greene.

what do you think about the kind of changes they are already making? >> the federal government is a taker, not a maker. the private sector gives all their money to the federal government. nothing happens without taxation. doge in the sense of just being a respect to the taxpayer is a good reset of telling americans we have to care about where your money is going. maybe it won't put a huge debt in the national debt but trying to be good stewards of your dollar that is difficult for people to make in an inflationary environment especially. when it comes to the oversight part of this and new commission in congress they can go into the budget committee and look at where they are spending extra money not just on employees and positions but giving out grants to thing you could never afford in the private sector as a private company and has background experience in business. a lot of people like it because they are saying you work hard for your money and we won't spend it on silly things that don't make this country better. >> bill: the reality with

congress is everybody talks about saving government money but very few people want to give it up. >> that's is true and that's part of the problem. >> john: great to see you. have a great weekend. now this. >> never imagined in my life the a little computer because he had normal computer, a normal child could have done so many things for the church. >> john: first ever millennial saint being called god's influencers. the crypto currency on the verge of a new milestone at president -- >> warren hates bitcoin for the same reason communist china hates bitcoin. they can't control it. it is decentralized and the reason i love it. i want it out of government control. it's time.

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>> john: fox news alert. developments in the hush money case of donald trump in a new york city courtroom. the new york judge won merchan has granted trump permission to file a motion to dismiss that case. he already said he was going to delay sentencing for a little while and says now he is going to delay sentencing even further. how long this goes on is anybody's guess at this point. the judge will consider this motion to dismiss. alvin bragg, the manhattan d.a., agreed trump's attorneys should have an opportunity to file a motion to dismiss to be considered by judge merchan. here is the the thing. bragg and his office are -- if judge merchan does not grant the motion to dismiss, bragg and his

office are willing to wait until january 20th, 2029, to resume this case. they said they are willing to put it on hold for more than four years and then start it all back up again when trump leaves office. that is by any stretch of the imagination unprecedented in american judicial history. we don't know when trump's attorneys will file the motion to dismiss but we should hear soon and we'll get merchan's decision after who knows how long? >> gillian: they may be filing it as we speak. they expected this was coming up. we are tracking this for you, a wisconsin dad could be imminently charged after caught faking his own death and fleeing to eastern europe. police say ryan left behind his three kids and wife to meet a woman in uzbekistan. cops say he staged his own drowning before crossing the border into canada and boarding a flight to europe.

>> one of the reasons why he picked green lake was because it was the deepest lake in wisconsin. he did the research. and he thought his plan was going to pan out but it didn't go the way he had planned. >> gillian: officers are trying to get him back to the states because he owes 30,000 usd in restitution now. >> john: bitcoin boom persists, it is skyrocketing 40% in two weeks. president-elect vowing to turn the united states into the crypto capital of the planet. joining us now is the co-host of the big money show taylor riggs. i need a lot of help her. i'm not even pretending to begin to understand what crypto currency is all about. trump was not a fan of it in his first administration but he has come around. what do you expect him to do and what effect could that have on

the world? >> i think he will do a lot of things. overall just massive deregulation is something he has looked at. he talked a lot about creating a bitcoin czar, right? someone to spearhead efforts in terms of how as a federal government and how we as states think about bitcoin. he talked a lot about a national stockpile. some could be for economic security reasons, right? or national security reasons, right? so there is so much he could do especially when you have people at doge on board with this. i think quickly, we did hear that the head of the sec will step down january 20th. they currently have not been a big fan of bitcoin. excitement is who the next sec chair could be and more friendly to the decentralized finance

space. >> john: here this. >> it affects every sector and we have to be competitive worldwide. we need a czar here and need to start making decisions. is a a commodity or security. pick it. >> john: i understand blockchain technology that it is based. we're making leaps and bounds into the future particularly are a.i. when it comes to all things that are existing in the cyber world. what part are these crypto currencies going to play in that? >> i love what he had to say. the debate has always been if bitcoin were securities which would fall under the purview of the sec or if they were commodities which then they would fall under the purview of the cftc.

kevin is right. we have to pick one and go with it. if kevin says he doesn't care as long as we have an answer i agree with that. pick one and go with it and stop the debate. john, i this i the problem is every day we wait we get wore eft about people like china or russia or you name it who are going ahead in decentralization. china is well ahead of us in terms of their digital currency. if we don't do it, someone else will. especially when you think about the race to a.i. i don't know if there is a huge link necessarily between bitcoin and a.i. it is fueled together in terms of the tech race. we need to be a leader in this space. >> john: i'm saying we're moving ahead so quickly in all this stuff you need to get a handle on it or somebody else will. taylor, great to see you. see you later on today. appreciate it. >> thanks. >> gillian: just in, a new york judge has granted the incoming

president permission to file a motion to dismiss his hush money case delaying the sentencing. nate foye in new york right now has the breaking details. >> so just going through the details right now. i can tell you three main takeaways at this point from judge juan merchan. he is allowing trump's lawyers to file a motion to throw out the case. he is also agreeing to delay the sentencing, which was originally set for november 26th, next tuesday. and he is also pushing back a decision to throw out the case on the grounds of presidential immunity. that is something that trump's lawyers have pushed for. remember, during this trial, there was evidence that was presented by manhattan d.a. alvin bragg's office that related to and included time during president trump's first term in office. so prosecutors earlier this week requested that the sentencing be

postponed until after trump's second term. so the judge is agreeing to postpone the date. still going through this just dropping right now, gillian. we're trying to find if there is actually a date that we can look forward to for the sentencing. trump's lawyers are expected to continue filing appeals to throw this case out. trump's lawyer todd blanche his pick for deputy attorney general has argued that the will of the people in selecting trump as our next president should supersede the political ambitions, in his view, of manhattan d.a. alvin bragg. we will see exactly what comes of this. we're kind of going through this right now, gillian. trump was found guilty of 34 felonies for falsifying business records and as we dig through this a bit more we'll bring it to you live on air. send it back to you. >> gillian: probably safe to assume the trump camp will be

filing their motion any moment now and we'll bring it to our viewers as soon as it happens. >> john: wondering how long merchan will take to consider the motion to dismiss. you will love this story. a navy veteran is paying it forward to fellow servicemen and women raising millions of dollars to pay down their medical debts. that veteran joins us next.

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biological male on the team. alleged? we'll get into it. jason chaffetz, steve hilton. "the faulkner focus" top of the hour. >> john: back to breaking news now. judge merchan has delayed sentencing, postponing it and allowing trump's legal team to dismiss his hush money case. nate foye is watching this from our new york city newsroom. he has the very latest on it because the trump team is now talking about this, nick. >> that's right. president-elect donald trump's incoming white house communications director put out a statement reacting to this ruling from judge juan merchan in the manhattan criminal case. i will read it to you. decisive win from steven chung for president trump the hoax manhattan case is fully stayed and sentencing is adjourned. president trump's lawfare and slide to victory as the american people issued a mandate to return him to office and dispose

of all remnants of the witch hunt cases, all of the sham lawfare attacks against president trump are now destroyed and we're focused on making america great again. the only one of the four criminal cases against president-elect trump to actually go to trial. he was found guilty of 34 felonies of falsifying business records. this case is not thrown out yet. as you mentioned off the top, john, according to this ruling from judge merchan he has granted trump's attorneys to file a motion to dismiss and on the grounds of presidential immunity after that supreme court ruling back in july. send it back to you. >> john: to clarify. he says it has been fully stayed and sentencing adjourned. people might think adjourned means it has thrown out. it hasn't. it has just been postponed. you can adjourn something for the day or forever.

this has been adjourned momentarily because we don't know what merchan is going to do here. all right. nate, we'll keep watching it. thank you so much. appreciate it. gillian. >> gillian: the catholic church is set to welcome the first millennial to become a proclaimed saint. he is being called god's influencer. chief religion correspondent lauren green has the details. >> from the first time carlos was a child he possessed an extraordinary faith even though his parents weren't very religious. he brought his family to a deeper faith. he died of leukemia in 2006 at 15 years old. a child of the digital age teaching himself computer coding and devotion to jesus compelled him to start a website to document eucharistic miracles around the world. he was able to speak at five

months old. >> he was very advanced. of course also his faith and the way he was able to speak. the fact that he wanted since he was very small wanted to be inside the church to say the sacrament and the cross of jesus and so these are -- these were -- >> gillian: the vatican confirmed a miracle contributed to him. a young brazilian boy was -- a young woman was healed from a brain injury from an accident after her mother played to him in italy where his body lay. the lives and legacies of saints being documented in a new dock you series "the saints" on fox nation. this week is john the baptist. pope francis -- he will be made a saint in april.

>> gillian: thank you for bring ping us that story. >> john: you know you watch fox news 24/seven. make sure you watch this afternoon at 5:00 because we do not want you to miss the all-american christmas tree lighting. that happens on fox square today at 5:00 eastern and special edition of "the five" right here on fox news channel. great being with you today. >> gillian: you, too. make sure to watch "fox news sunday" as i guest anchor this weekend. a lot of people lined up including the incoming national security advisor. his first sunday show since being announced and senators fetterman and barrasso. >> john: the fetterman can be quick and doesn't say holy [bleep] on your show. see you at 1:00 this afternoon for america reports. "the faulkner focus" is coming up next. >> harris: we do have more o