carley: 11 days til christmas, and we are opening day 14 of our "fox & friends" advent calendar. what is inside? will: back to the advent calendar. carley: it is a pair of hearing aids, one of the top rated hearing aids of 2024. no prescription or hearing test the needed. merry christmas, everybody. will: works like air pods. neil: man, oh, man, what's that up in the sky? it is not a bird, it is not a

plane. all we know is it's a drone, lots of drones popping up in lots of states. thing is, we're not exactly getting lots of answers, are we? but we are getting lots of very interesting selections. -- suggestions. president donald trump says it's time to shoot them down. then to today the's big army-navy if game. donald trump will be there, but something tells us he won't just be focused on the field. he's got a who's who of power players a little more than five weeks ahead of the big inauguration including house speaker mike johnson, florida governor ron desantis and cabinet picks pete hegseth and tulsi gabbard and marine veteran daniel penny. shelley moore capito has decided who of those cabinet picks she likes and who she might not. then to luigi mangione, he has just retained a big and i mean big new york lawyer, a prosecutor, no less, to defend him which could come in handy,

because it looks like he is headed back to new york a lot sooner than he thought. all that and a tough week for stocks. why barron's is still saying embrace the bubble, we're going higher, a lot higher. are you buying it? we are all over it. welcome, everybody, i'm neil cavuto. first, to the drones and the attention they're getting. we're getting word right now that it caused a scare in georgia where we understand that a lockdown was issued by fort eisenhower, then that lockdown was lifted. we don't know much more than that, but we do know this has gotten to be a pattern here. what made thize aen hour development interesting is it was in disability, so we're getting -- dating -- daylight, so we're getting mixed reads on. this senator, good to have you back. >> good to be with you, neil. neil: let me get the latest on what's going on in your state. by farah dis-- a disproportion

nate number of drones, what have you heard from the president? >> we've heard very little. let's start with the fact first it was questions, then it was maybe it's comedy, and then all of a sudden it became serious and nowst the insan -- insanity. yesterday the new united states senator had to go out with local police to look for drones. now, if a united states senator, andy kim, can't get any information, i'm pretty concerned about that. so i asked for a state of emergency to ground all of the drones and ask the faa to join our state of emergency which i've and the governor murphy to the enact in order to ground any drones. i've gotten silence. and if we met with the state police. the state police have no information. can you imagine the department of defense must have some serious secret if we can't get any information of car-sized drones flying over our military

bases. neil: so then you have to start asking yourself, all right, so either they'rewet holding information or -- withholding information or worse yet, and this could be more worrisome, senator, they don't know. >> well, that's really the point. so a car-sized drone comes in over the ocean, and we don't hear from the military, from the department of defense what that is. if now, we would believe as citizens that anything of that size would be noticed, and we would be advised what that is. so there must be a pretty big secret, because there has been top secret briefings. and every time someone comes out of a top secret briefing, we get the same answer. well, we need more information but, banner, it's not a threat -- apparently, it's not a threat. now, i don't know how they're determining that. the defense department must be speaking to someone because they're sure not speaking to any of the the residents in new jersey. neil: so, senator, let me ask you this: we know the pentagon

has commented on this. they didn't really say that much, but among some of their observations, this is not being operated by the military, and it's not coming from a foreign entity or adversary. all right, so you laid out what is not happening, but you have no signal or indication what is happening and what's behind it. >> well, then the department of defense has to explain why they don't know what a car-sized drone is doing, where it came from, where it's going, is it sinister, is there some sort of threat. don't you think the department of defense should have that information? the technology is there. we don't have the technology in new jersey. we have two state helicopters. when the state helicopter went up, saw the drone, the drone turned off its lights and fled. now, that's an indication that the drone is not here for a good purpose, otherwise i assume somebody operating the drone

would tell the state police what they're doing. that's why we have to ground all drones at this time. neil: you know, i've seen these a number of times myself, senator. probably not nearly as a much as you have. but the one thing i do notice is this a pattern here where at least on two occasions i'm watching it, then suddenly the lights go out and they disappear. and i promise you, senator, i wasn't drinking, but i was wondering, that pattern has been played out from what i understand witnesses across your fine state and other states who say that the same thing happens when they're done or when they leave the area. the lights go out. i guess they're harder to monitor. we don't see them again. but there must be a way to monitor them when they go away lights on or off. >> sure. and the technology has to come from the federal government. and that's why residents are concerned. the other thing the federal government says is, well, we're not seeing what we're seeing. that may be true about bigfoot or the loch ness monster, but

these residents i'm talking to, they're not being captured by martians. these are really smart people i know personally, and they're concerned. and at first, as i said, it was just a few questions. now somebody's got to be hiding something, otherwise as you said, neil, we should be very worried about our defense system. neil: well, then to your with other point, i'm quite remembering the whole balloon situation, spy balloon thing, and when it was first positive it was a chinese spy balloon and they were spying on us, the reaction from official washington was preposterous, silly. turned out that was exactly what was going on and there are the other balloons doing the same thing. it's too early to tell, but i can understand your caution behind anything you're hearing right now. senator, thank you for joining us. >> thank you, neil. neil: in the meantime, we want to get a handle on what exactly what we're looking at here because this has spread to a number of states here. we're going to put up a map n.

some cases as many as 60 or 70 at a time. don't know how closely packed together they are, but they do seem to fly in unison in most cases and almost always at night. and the pattern is, as i just outlined for you, see the red and blue, sometimes green lights, and then they go off and all go away. a former cia intelligence officer, former secret service agent, dan, what do you make of it and the pattern that you see here that does seem to be consistent no matter where we find these? >> good morning, neil. yeah, i think the first thing we have to lack at is what these things are not, and i think we've come to the agreement that they are not privately owned. they're too large, too sophisticated, operating in too great of numbers. so if it's not privately owned by individuals, then there's only one of two the answers possible it's either our government or entities of our government or another government. that's it. those are the only two possibilities. and so it's my opinion -- and

it's only my opinion -- [laughter] that these are operated by the united states or contractors working for the united states. and i base that -- neil: you raise a good point because this was caught -- i didn't mean to jump on you, sir, but a couple of these were found over the bedminster golf course that donald trump uses, his golf course there. so you would think that such, you know, entities over a site of the president-elect would be dealt with quickly, harshly, severely. but they weren't. and that does -- >> very good point, neil. glel -- neil: explain that. >> yeah, good point, neil. and i believe these belong to us for a couple reasons. one, the lack of urgency on the part of our government in coming to a conclusion on this or offering an explanation. i also know that it's open source. there is technology available that will bring these things down if we really wanted to bring them down.

but we don't want to bring them down because i think they belong to us. and another thing that is kind of -- i found interesting this morning was that these drones have been seen every night beginning november 18th with the exception of thanksgiving. and so -- neil: wow. >> i don't believe the chinese i know that americans do get thanksgiving off. and so if these things are coming out of northrop grumman hangars or lockheed or, you know, mcdonald douglas, i could see that they are probably giving their people thanksgiving off. and for no other reason, if for no other reason, i think it belongs to us. so i would just tell the people of new jersey, connecticut, pennsylvania, new york that, you know, seems to be something that the united states government is a part of. it's being held as a very top secret, very classified for whatever reason, and when the

experiment is over, the testing is over, whatever they're testing for whatever reason, or they'll just simply go away, the government will offer no explanation, and everyone will forget about it. neil: so where does this take us then when you're looking at it, dan? the fact of the matter is a lot of people have seen a lot of these drones, and they do follow this pattern. and a number of people have have cited, for example, in southern jersey along the coast that they were emanating from the atlantic ocean. there was a new jersey republican congressman who a had argued that there were iranian vessels in the waters there. it was quickly shot down by the pentagon when he said that, but i had a chance to talk to, you know, new york senator -- on issue, and she raised the distinct possibility foreign countries could be involved. ed so what do you make of that, an outside player? and, of course, senator gillibrand was among the four democratic senators in new york who met with officials on this and raised that issue. i don't know what reaction she got when she did, but she's

convinced it could be a foreign player. >> well, again, it is possible. but if not a foreign player, then it is us. it is us, and it would have to be us. if it's a foreign player, then our government, our intelligence community certainly knows what player is involved in this. and if they don't, that concerns me a great deal. if this is legitimately a foreign government doing this and we really don't know who it is, where these things come from if, where they go, who's behind this, i would say that our air defense early warning system is probably useless as a is our intelligence community. i mean, come on, really. this is simple stuff. it's these are drones. they come on us every night in great numbers. we know where they're going to be more or less. we have the technology to knock 'em down if we want to without firing live ordinance. and if so we don't do that. and so, again, i think that's to why it points back to the united states. neil: well, you could be right.

you give a very reasoned rationale for all of that. dan, thank you very much. good seeing you. >> thank you, neil. neil: all right: dan emmett on all of that. the white house with has not been offering much here. alexandria hoff is there with more. >> reporter: yeah. i don't know what more we can tell you from here, to be honest, neil. you're right, it's kind of been dark on this issue coming from the if white house. but i will say per your conversations you've been having, my friends, family many new jersey as many people who have people living on the east coast who have made these sightings, they appreciate these conversations being had so they're not feeling like cookes when they're looking out their windows or doors at night and seeing these lights. it's led to frustration, concern and that is only mounting why these calls on thes white house are growing more loud. it's a bipartisan choir really of lawmakers calling on the current administration to the answer questions. you have a letter the president biden from new jersey governor phil murphy. he wrote in part, quote: it has become apparent that more

resources are needed to fully understand what is behind this activity. former maryland governor larry hogan, he filmed does dozens of what he described to be large drones just about 25 the miles from the nation's capital calling the response so far totally unacceptable. the white house and fbi do claim many of these drone sightings are actually manned aircraft operating lawfully, and a drone expert did tell fox news if it's looking to him that way as well for the most part. >> anything you see like an airplane can suddenly appear to your eyes as if it's standing still and not moving when it's really going hundreds of miles an hour. >> of course some of the sightings will be regular aircraft, that's a given. but to dismiss the large number of sightings by very responsible people, by the average person on the street who says it was hovering right over my house or military individuals like it or elsewhere who say we've seen 'em, i mean, is the coast guard making it up? >> reporter: president-elect

trump weighing in on truth social, quick: mystery drone sightings all over the country. can this really be happening without our government's knowledge? i don't think so with. let the public now and know, otherwise shoot them down. now interestingly, homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas, he was on cnn last night, can and he said that under current authority that the administration has regarding drones that they actually can't just shoot them out of the sky. that's what he said. he also said that aside from some of these potentially his belief being lawfully-manned aircraft, that some of these trones might just be the -- drones might just be the kind that he feels can be purchased at a convenience store. neil: all right. you can't shoot them down. that's what they said in the movie independence day, and we know how that worked out. >> reporter: don't bring that up. [laughter] neil: great job, alexandria. when so many people -- and i'm not alarmist or a black helicopter type guy, calm down.

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neil: all right, i just want to clarify something i said about this incident apparently at fort eisenhower, georgia, that there was an undetermined incident that forced a lockdown temporarily there, but it had nothing to do with this drone activity. that was me making that leap because we were doing a drone story, and i thought it was connected to that, but that was my fault. whatever was going on there

certainly was not drone-related. it's been reof solved, and the lockdown -- resolved, and the lockdown is no longer in effect. a big game today, army-navy. it gets even bigger when the next president of the united states is attending and he brings a couple of the people he wants populating his cabinet as well as daniel penny p. he's going to be there as well. let's get the latest on all of that. alex. >> reporter: hey, neil, good to see you. neil: so what do we expect? the president-elect is very good at combining a lot of these events that can be social but also getting a lot of stuff done as well. but the cabinet picks being there, ron desantis being there, you know, he wants these people approved and, ultimately, voted in before inauguration day. what's your sense of things. >> yeah. it does seem like he's trying to

get a lot done in one game on a saturday bringing many hegseth, gabbard, ron desantis, as you mentioned, you know? he's trying to figure out how to get pete hegseth, whose stock seems to be rising, seems to be going -- he went into this weekend with looks like you know, still no senators outwardly, publicly oppong him from the republican side. so that's somebody who i think the trump team is feeling good about and they want the president-elect, you know, with him. optically, it shows their strength of being able to push somebody like through and combat some of the media narrative around him. and then i think somebody like gabbard, the former congresswoman from hawaii for director of national intelligence, the president-elect, i think, needs to give her a little bit of a boost. what we've heard from sources is that she's been struggling a bit in meetings with senators, not showing that she has the intelligence chops the take on a role like this. -- to take on a role like this. so i think the president-elect

and his team wants to give her a boost, show that they have her back. so have her at the army-navy game along with hegseth. and in terms of desantis, he was floated as a possibility if hegseth had been struggling to maybe be the defense secretary pick if they needed to replace hegseth. at this point he's just, you know, a trump ally who maybe can help some of these picks from the outside. neil: you know, when it comes to pete hegseth, alex, what is your sense? obviously, none of those candidates can afford to lose the support of more than four senators. assuming that it's going to be, you know, all democrats against these nominees. 9 not all of them. what's your sense? >> that's right, yeah. and it feels like things have really turned around. of when i've talked to sources in the trump orbit, you know, they feel like things have turn turned around. they are happy with the way that they were able to the turn things around. they've sent in senator, soon to

be vice president j.d. vance to help him out. they sent in other allies from the outside to try to combat some of the negative media around him. neil: right. >> and we've seen senator joni ernst who was really a big vote that he needed to get, we still haven't seen exactly what she's going to do, but she seems to be softening her tone. and ernst was somebody who, to the me, felt like if she had outwardly said, absolutely not, i will not be supporting him, that other senators like a lisa murkowski or susan collins would have felt they could do the same. they were kind of watching so is see her lead. she is a veteran herself. i think hegseth's in a good position. neil: we'll watch closely. thank you very much, alex. have a merryst christmas. >> thanks, neil. merry christmas. neil: we are learning more about luigi mangione, but he has just retained the services of a big

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>> back in july 4th of 2023 he may have suffered some sort of back injury. he was posting an x-ray on his social media showing numerous screws being inserted into his spine. some of the writings that he had, he was discussing the difficulty of sustaining that injury. so we're looking into whether or not the insurance industry either denied a claim from him or deny help him out to the fullest extent. neil: we don't know whether he was on powerful painkillers. >> as of right now, we don't see that in our investigation. neil: all right. post that conversation we learned that united health care had nothing to do with the shooter or, for that matter, his mom. they were not members or clients of that company.

alexis mcadams has the latest on that part of the story. >> reporter: neil, investigators say luigi mangione could be back in new york city next week if he degrees -- agrees and signs the paperwork. this comes as we're learning mangione had been reported missing in california. his mom called the san francisco police last month saying she had not talked to her son since july. investigators tell me luigi was never a client of united health care which is important to point out because police say he specifically targeted the company's ceo. as united health care remembers brian thompson, the company's ceo writing this op-ed saying in part: we know the health care system does not work as well as it should, and we understand people's frustrations with it. no one would design a system like the one we have. our mission is to help make it work better. so the question is, what was the motive? it might have to do with this x-ray that police say he posted online telling people that he recently had back surgery, but

people i talk to in hawaii say he didn't seem to be in much pain. he went to yoga, and his instructor tells me he went to lots of a classes just last year. mangione was into health and wellnesses. a shop owner in hawaii says he stopped -- stopped in frequently and bought incense and a meditation sound bowl. >> people use with it for meditation and healing and how they connect to different chock rahs. seemed to be pretty happy to get it. >> reporter: police sources in pennsylvania tell me mangione has been quiet and cooperative since his last hearing when he had that outburst. neil? neil hello interesting stuff, alexis. want to go to bill bill daley, former fbi agent and great read of these things. what do you make of the fact that no association to united health care, neither he or his mom? now, telephoning, it could have been -- of course, it could have been targeted because united health care is the large nest that arena and made a good

target, but your sense of things. >> well, neil, as a former fbi investigator, i can just tell you there's a couple of things here that jump out at me. one is we still have a number of dangling participant sippings, if i can borrow a grammar term. we don't know how he got the weapon, are in any people he spoke with regarding his plans, was there any kind of what we call in the behavioral science area kind of leakage? what were the indications, if there were any, that were missed. what i really tell you right now, neil, we don't know what was the precipitating event or issue that moved him from being this kind of well-accomplished, man of privilege, ivy league-educated person to the go off and commit this act whether it was as you suggested in one of your early interviews with the chief of detectives in new york city, was it something to do with medication or what have you. it really doesn't matter, in my view. my view is this murder is not

justified no matter what the circumstances are. neil: what troubles me is you've got all of these focus around on the internet or social media are saying one ceo down and start listingeven showing photographs of others who they want to target as well. it unleashes craziness. >> it does, neil. and it's certainly very disturbing for anyone to be thinking that people would support this. you know, it's interesting. if we kind of take a view of this from more of a political view, and i don't mean kind of republican, democrat view, but more of an agenda view, we now have who attempted assassination attempts, both against the former president and president-elect trump, and now against ceo with. so within six months we have this kind of assassination kind of agenda out there. and i kind of roll back to something i talked about even on the heels of those two affects against former -- former president trump is the that university of california-davis just last year, last october, issued a report about behaviors

and behaviors of people looking to kind of go forward with their political agenda. and what they said is there's a small but yet concerning segment of the population that is willing to use violence, even lethal violence, to accomplish their goals. this kind of seems to be more of a societal issue. individually, yes, there are reasons why people do this, but i'm really concerned that there's kind of -- now we hear from this outpouring, you have people on the fringe looking to justify this. does that mean that they or people like them will go off and commit other acts? neil: all good questions, all good points. bill, thank you very much. have a her christmas if we don't chat again. very much appreciate your guidance. bill daly on all of that. in the meantime, you can add the ceo of apple to the long list of high-tech titans who are, well, some say kissing the ring and talking to donald trump, having dinner with donald trump. something tells me, though, that

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leaders are doing an about a face, ingratiating themselves to president-elect trump and in many cases embracing his policies. several of them have met with him at mar-a-lago and donated big bucks to to his inaugural fund. openai ceo sam altman becomes the latest tech leader to do so. he's personally dote -- donating a million dollars to the inaugural committee. altman saying in a statement, quote, president trump will lead our country into the age of a.i., and i'm eager to support his efforts to ensure america stays ahead. that donation comes after mark zuckerberg's meta and jeff bezos' amazon both donated a million bucks. amazon also contributed another $1 million to stream the inauguration on prime. as you know, neil, zuckerberg met with trump last month at mar-a-lago, google's chief executive, sundar pichai, reportedly did so on thursday, and trump says he'll meet with bezos next week.

>> these engagements have all been overwhelmingly positive. and whether, as you've seen, bezos talking about deregulation, zuckerberg talking about a.i., elon talking about going to the moon, this president is ready to do big things. >> reporter: but just because these ceos are trying to get close to the president-elect does not mean the trump administration won't go after their companies over online censorship. some administration officials and members of congress say that is a top priority when trump takes office. neil? neil: all right, grady, thank you. grady trimble on that. i want to go to kenny polcari, chief market market strategist, very good on what motivates corporate ceos to do this kind of thing. i should add, kenny, that the very, very latest was apple's ceo tim cook having dinner last night if at mar-a-lago. but again, i suspect he's just the latest, he won't be the last. what's going on? >> yeah. well, listen, we all know what's going on, right? if they've got to cozy up, they've got to do what's right

e, they're got to try to make up for, you know, maybe past mistakes. and mark zuckerberg, he's the first one that should go up there crawling on his knees after what happened four years ago. you're seeing all these tech guys, a.i. guys, they want to focus on the future, focus on the deregulation, focus on the opportunity, and they want to show, i think, that they're ready to play on the same team. and so they're going to support the president, they're going to support the inauguration. no one should be really surprised by it because it's the way it works. neil: you know, kenny, i was thinking, would you -- and you're a very savvy investor -- would you think less of a company or investing in a company's stock if the ceo had a tense relationship with donald trump? in other words, is it better to have a company that is working with the future president than not? >> well, it's always better to have a company that's going to cooperate with the administration and if what's going on and try to make it better, right? if you've got a company that's anti the administration and working against it, then it causes you to kind of ask a couple of questions.

what's the point and why is he doing it, what's the benefit and what's the outcome ultimately for the long-term aspects of a company, right, if they're working against it. i think it's always better to work with a company or invest in a company that's kind of cooperating and working in total with the administration, with the economy, with the u.s. economy, trying to move us forward. neil: so, you know,-the week that donald trump rang the opening bell on the floor of the new york stock exchange. ronald reagan was the last back in 1985. i covered that at the time. i know i don't look that old, kenny -- [laughter] but there is this sense, you know, the market was jumping with ronald reagan. it was jumping the haas time when donald trump had a good run the last four years, but they're really excited for the next four years. but there's added pressure on a president who keenly and clearly relays you, the stock exchange, are important to maine your fortunes are my fortunes.

when do you make of it? >> so, listen, first of all, i was there in 1985. i know, you and i are in that same generation -- [laughter] right? when reagan came on the floor, mikhail gorbachev, it was amazing, when that happened. anyway, no, i think that the market is getting behind him, right? there's now a poll out, 65% of americans are now comfortable in the fact that he's going to be the able to take this economy forward. and if you can see what's happening all a around. not only is it these big tech ceos getting involved, but he even said it when he said anyone that want os to come to this country and invest a billion dollars, no red tape, they're going to get what they want, they're going to bring business bark bring jobs back, get this u.s. economy going, and i think people are excited about that, right? i will say this, i think the market is excited about it, but if some of this stuff that he's talking about gets dragged out, if the tax cut thing gets dragged out, it doesn't look like it's going to happen, that's going to end up taking a

little with bit of the wind out of his sails in the new year. so you've got to pay attention to how that comes along. but for the most part, i think the market's telling you they're very bullish on what this next four years could brick. neil: let's -- could bring. let's talk about next year for the market. we've had two back to back gains, the last time was in the '94-'98 period. we know what came a couple years later when the internet boom went bust, so play that out for me. what do you see that's similar, maybe dissimilar no? >> so i'm a little bit concerned because, you know, we didn't see a pullback at all this fall in the market. i think part of that was the election and the excitement around it and what was happening. and hen we saw the market take off afterwards when there was a definitive answer and it wasn't going to get dragged out. i think my fear is the fed has been too aggressive. i think they're going to cut again next week. i don't think they should, but i think they're going to.

right when we see inflation starting to maybe tick back up, and that's my concern for at least early next year, january, february, march, to see what happens to the data and whether or not the fed has been premature. then i suspect once we go into the new year, i do suspect the market's going to come under some pressure. not, not dramatic, a 10 or 15% cut, but i would like to see it pull back 5, 8, 9% and shake the trees a little bit, because i it's fairly stretched. but i think once we get through kind of that first quarter, i'm still very,, very bullish on america, i'm buller on the economy, i'm bullish on the outlook. i think you just have to be a little bit patient here just because of where we've gone in the last, you know, five weeks. neil: kenny, i wish you had aged, you know, a little worse than i did during that period -- [laughter] because, man, i know. i can't believe all that time has gone by. >> i know. unbelievable, isn't it? listen, merry christmas. neil: you too, my friend.

kenny polcari, very good read of these markets. ronald reagan, that was a big event, this is a big event the week. presidents don't often do that. in the meantime, following what's going on with the drones, but think think this time the concern that's built up in the nation's airports and having nothing to do with drones, but something that's a lot more worrisome. griff jenkins with that. >> reporter: a record number of americans are expected to fly this holiday season, but there are real questions from lawmakers about whether the air space can handle it. i've got that coming up.

neil: you know, with all this attention on drone, a lot of people are anxious about any of them popping up at the nation's airport. there is something going on that could make travel of any sort very difficult not only in the near term, but longer term. griff jenkins following it all if in new york. >> reporter: hey, neil. nearly 8 million americans are expected to fly the friendly

skies during the holidays, surpassing last year's record. but lake -- lawmakers are questioning whether or not the air space can handle the traffic. >> our nation should be the leader in the field and instead we are stuck with technology that is outdated, almost as soon as it is into deuced into the air space -- introduced. broader conversations about how we modernize our air traffic system are desperately needed. >> reporter: here's what's going on, neil. earlier this year the government accountability office said faa must take urgent action to address an aging system after they found nearly 40% of air traffic control systems in the u.s. are considered, quote, unsustainable. >> more than half of these systems are older hand 20 years. older than 20 years. some are more than 60 years old. as a reminder, 20 years ago facebook was launched, and 60-year-old systems may have been active when jfk was president. >> reporter: add to that staff

shortages, exhaustion and burnout among controllers has really compounded the problem and impacted safety. now the faa says they need a cash infusion to turn things around. >>st it's a funding issue. it's been authorized. need the, you know, we need the appropriations part. hopefully, they're going to ask for the right amount of money so, again, we're not choosing between which thing is more important. >> reporter: and already one change at the faa is coming soon, neil. the administrator, michael whitaker, announced his plans to step down when president-elect trump takes office. neil in. neil: you know, griff, it occurs to me, you have got to be the business jest guy at fox. [laughter] you're like where's waldo. where's griff? [laughter] >> in new york today, in florida next week. neil: you're the best. thank you very much, griff jenkins on all of that. another thing griff alluded to as well when you talk about airline concerns is nasty weather, and we're going to be seeing a lot of that through the country. it's already cold in these parts, but it could get a lot

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neil: all right, colder, nastier, that's the latest on the weather warnings and ice storm warnings that are gripping about half the country as we speak. rick reichmuth has the latest from the fox weather center. hey, rick, what are we looking at? rick: very cold air has settled in across much of the northern tier of the country. 32 in chicago, 20 in fargo. that cold air is in place, but we have warmer air up above. that that means the rain, it falls as rain, the precipitation falls as rain, and then it hits that cold layer at the ground, and that brings us the icings. an ice storm across much of the eastern part of iowa. you see all the rain to the south of it, but once you get

into iowa and parts of phil illinois, that's where we've got that icing going on. in some cases, a tenth of an inch to a quarter of an inch of ice. when you get that, you can't see it it's just clear ice on the ground, and you cannot drive on those roads at all. it will immediately spin out. there's no traction you can get orphan your tires in this case -- on your tires. this is a the amount of ice to come, some spots maybe up to a tenth of an inch. can cause power outages as well. this is what happens as we move through the day and into tomorrow, this storm pulls off towards the east. we do see some icing happening across parts of michigan. by the time we get towards the day on monday, all of this energy goes out towards the east coast, and we've got rain along the coast and snow across interior sections. and i tell you, we're generally setting up for this pretty act active pattern, and you can see that out across the west. we've got rain, mountain snow and this series of storms moving across the country. a much more active pattern for

us. poem beginning to to think about travel over the next week or two, and and that's going to cause, certainly, some problems for us. also across parts of the east coast. by the end of next week, neil, we're looking at maybe a big winter storm across parts of the east coast. plenty of time to watch it. we'll keep you informed right here at fox weather. neil? neil: it really has been a crazy weather year, hasn't it? rick: been such a crazy weather year. one catastrophe after the next in so many cases, but now we're headed into this period where christmas is happening, all all the people want to travel, and we've got inactive patterns setting up. neil: thank you, my friend. had some camera issues with you. not you, yourself, but ai -- i apologize for that. secretary of state annie if blinken -- antony blinken making a surprise trip to jordan, talking about how u.s. officials have been in contact with the syrian rebel group that led to the overthrow of assad's

government, designated a foreign terrorist association. group that came in, there is fear that it could be worse than the group it replaced. he's trying to calm nerves there. he's also talking and addressing concerns that egypt and jordan have. their foreign ministers are demanding that israel pull out of the demilitarized zone along the border with syria. they've been bombarding that that zone here because this is their one and only chance, the israelis say, to go after terrorist organizations that have used syria as a harbor, and a safe hard -- harbor at that, i do want to dip in quickly, if we can, guys, to see what he's saying. take a look. >> -- that should be issued very shortly. we agree that the transition process should be syrian-led and syrian-owned and produce an inclusive and representative government. the rights of all syrian, including minorities and women, should be respected. humanitarian aid should be able to reach people who need it.

stable institutions should deliver essential services to the syrian people. syria should not be used as a base for terrorist groups or others who threat threaten syria's people, its neighbors or the world. chemical weapons stockpiles should be secured and safely destroyed. syria should have peaceful relations with its neighbors. [inaudible] organizations should have access to facilities that can help determine the fate of missing syrians. neil: all right. we are following that. antony blinken, the secretary of state, making a surprise visit to jordan. of course, the collapse of syria expect assad government surprised the world. he is now in russia. vladimir putin has offered him a safe haven there. but speaking of vladimir putin opinion, this does change the dynamic in. but in countries like ukraine. we'll to -- follow that after this.

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