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violent venezuelan gang, two to men have been linked to the aurora, colorado, apartment surveillance building from august. welcome to "fox news live," i'm jackie hine reck. griff: here we go, hour two -- jacqui heinrich. griff: but let's begin on capitol hill where congress had to scramble overnight to avert a government shutdown. president biden signing their newly-passed short-term funding earlier today. madeleine madeleine rivera arrive at the white house with reaction. or what are they saying? >> reporter: hi, griff. the white house says the bill doesn't have everything they want, but it is better with than the alternative which is a government shutdown before the holidays. white house press secretary karine jean-pierre saying in part it includes disaster relief that the president requested for the communities recovering from the storm, eliminates an accelerated pathway to a tax cut for billionaires and would ensure the government can continue to operate. the bull funds the government

until if mid march. it also adds more than $100 billion in disaster aid and $10 billion in aid for farmers. it does not include a debt limit increase, something president-elect trump had called for after he pressured house republicans to sink an earlier bipartisan agreement. >> the reality is we're one of the only countries in the world that actually has it. it's been used as a political piñata for decades now. the party in the minority uses it as leverage in a negotiation. and i think what president trump is trying to avoid is giving democrats a loaded gun to hold to his head here. >> reporter: however, the votes overnight show the challenges that house ore palins will have to overcome within their own conference next year with a narrow house margin. the senate passed the bill 85-11, the house 366-34, and all 34 nos came from if gop if

members. there are questions over house speaker mike johnson's future and whether he can keep his job after this chaotic spending fight. >> now, you know, displaying their cannibalistic nature, they want to go after mike johnson. i don't know who they would replace him with. >> reporter: the speaker's vote is scheduled for january 3rd. griff. griff: madeleine rivera live at the white house, thank you. >> let's bring in our political panel, brownstein, high whereas, farber -- shareholder al noter and -- al moder and emily domenech. thank you both for being here. what a night we had last night. it was down to the wire and, emily, i want to ask you, who won the arm wrestling match? because, you know, republicans got a slimmer bill than they started with, but they didn't get trump's number one ask which was the deal with the debt limit as part of it. >> i think this is a narrow win for republicans. we often look at president trump was such a unifying force throughout the election, and

he's been such a unifying force for republicans, but we have 435 independent members of congress who think very differently about their principles and ideology. and the no votes we saw from republicans really reflect that. we still have this core group of fiscal conservatives who aren't willing the just raise the debt limit on a dime, and you have to put the work in to get those folks in line with your agenda. and that's going to be a challenge for president trump and particularly his leg affairs am which place an outsized role. >> when you've got 435 members and a 1 or 2-seat majority for republicans, it makes it difficult to the get anything done without dealing with the other side. problem is if you're a democrat, you don't have the top-down instruction coming from your members like it used to with biden in office, and january 21st the party has no heir apparent. we could talk all day about hakeem jeffries leading the conference in the house, but nancy pelosi is still around.

who leads the dems right now? >> well, it'll be a lot of people, right? anytime you lose the presidency, the senate and the house, you have to look outward. we're going to have governors, state legislators, a.g.s stepping up. and in washington we're going to have a team, jeffreys, schumer and others as they rise to power. as for whether or not the c.r. was a win for republicans, it's a long-term loss. next year they're going to have to do a debt limit, maybe under reconciliation. ain't gonna be easy. we now know when speaker johnson cuts a deal, it's the not a deal. he's endangered his own speakership in a week or two, and i don't think president trump can govern effectively if, when he asks congress to do something like the debt limit, they say no. gigi i have to follow up on that because you talk about johnson endangering his speakership, should republicans save him? >> i'm a democrat -- >> excuse me, should democrats save him if that happens, and the reason being is because we saw when government grinds to

the halt, you know, both parties pay the price for that. >> look, everyone likes mike johnson. he's incredibly gracious guy. can he be kept in office? i don't think speaker jeffreys saves him this time. >> really? >> i think we would let the republicans wallow in their own mud for a couple weeks while they try to figure out who to replace him with and then do it again six months later. and it would be fun to watch. [laughter] >> emily. >> i would agree. at this point mike johnson needs the to count on president trump to come in and say,, hey, he's still my guy. i support him in the house. it's an uphill battle because, again, the first thing president trump asks him to deliver on he wasn't able to do right down to the wire. i think the lesson there actually is you need to do a little bit more prework if you're working a conference with a 2-vote majority, and we're going of to come together as republicans in washington in order to move those things forward. i think it's going to come down to president trump. if mike mike mike johnson's his

guy, he's the his guy. he's the guy. >> people behind him have had failed bids at taking that a mantel. at the same time, if trump is going to hand down orders at the last hour we want to do x, y, z thing, it gets very difficult. you want to cut $2 trillion in spending, you can't cut from mandatory, i mean, we could talk all a day about that the. but i do want to get to to our second topicic, because there is this "wall street journal" report, bombshell, talking about how the white house staff has been covering up for a diminished president biden for years. if as early as 2021. and that they kept on doing it even as he launched his re-election bid. al, were you surprised? >> disappointed more than surprised. the same people who told the us that it was fine are now telling us that it wasn't fine.

george washington knew when to give up power for this country's best interests. we also mow in 1984 george george orwelling told us if you don't like what the government is saying, look and see what you see with your own eyes. for some reason, we didn't agree with what we were seeing, and the democratic party has some responsibility. and, frankly, we lose the moral high ground when for years we're telling everybody, oh, no, no, no, he's fine, and then he has to drop out so we can bring someone else up at the last minute. how do we criticize president trump when we claim he's an existential threat to democracy and yet we're saying joe biden's fine until he isn't? >> you said it. emily did not. i'm surprised, because he takes the words out of what with i expected out of your mouth. [laughter] >> i think there were a lot of reasons why president trump won so handily in november. i think the american people's a lack of trust with the democratic party is a big part of that. if you can see with your own eyes, if a regular person can say, hey, that guy doesn't look

okay but the white house and senior officials are telling you the opposite, eventually the gut check kicks in. and i think you're right, the democratic party's going to have to rebuild trust with the american people before they can expect them to follow them into these big, sweeping policies or even leadership changes in the future. >> some of those voices who were saying he is fine, he is fine, and championing his re-election bid, chris coons among them, now on defense. listen to what he said yesterday. [no audio] >> i do not hang out with the president on the weekends. i don't spend time with him socializing and in person. my experience with him in the time up to that debate led me to believe that he was fully capable of competently leading our nation both from a security perspective and legislatively. >> we witnessing people -- are we witnessing people who once were very, very close to the president sort of taking a step back and not giving him a bear hug as he finishes up his term?

if that's kind of incredible, isn't it, al? >> i think we're going through our different stages of acceptance, anger, denial, depression. [laughter] i'm not sure what senator coons is. but the whole thing is sad because, frankly, i think a lot of ug and didn't believe what we saw. and so we also feel on our own a sense of responsibility for not recognizing what was happening. so it's like our collective fault, if that makes sense. and i think senator coons may feel that way too. >> you're chuckle, emily. >> i mean, it's hard to watch you go through the stagings of grief, but i hope that means we get some good policy done this year. >> where do you think the party goes from here? there's discussion about kamala harris potentially running a statewide campaign, a rumor flying she was maybe exploring something in california. is -- who knows if there's any truth to that. who do you see emerging to the front of the pack, al if. >> every time we lose, the

losing nominee is named as a fore-runner for four years later, every time that doesn't happen. i'd be astonished if she was a nominee. she'd probably be a great governor of california. she was very popular as an a.g. or senator, ask but she will not be the nominee in four years. >> final word, very quickly. >> i think senator fetterman is the leader of the democratic party. [laughter] >> hot take. all right. emily, al, thank you so much for being with us on a saturday afternoon. >> pleasure. ♪ ♪ griff: suspected tren de aragua gang members are being found across the u.s. this as nearly a dozen were arrested in aurora, colorado, this week and as law enforcement source confirms that nearly two dozen were arrested in new york city earlier this month. c.b. cotton is here with the very latest on that. hey, c.b. >> reporter: hi, griff. yeah, a law enforcement source tells me a federal task force with members of the nypd and

homeland security investigations raided two homes back on december 5th and took into custody 22 suspected tren de aragua gang members. one of the busts took place at this apartment. a worker at the daycare center next door says children were inside the center when the raid took place. the alleged gang members were traced to the past -- apartment after an ankle bracelet was tracked to the hideout. those arrested had wrack r racked up multiple arrested. last hour we showed his mug shot while talking about tda crimes in colorado? a correction, he is not tied to any alleged crimes in colorado, only ones here in new york city. but moving to aurora, colorado, the violent venezuelan gang is back in the headlines there after police said a venezuelan couple was abducted on monday night and assaulted for hours by suspected tda gang members.

in a news conference yesterday, the aurora police chief, todd chamberlain, explained the couple was targeted after they recorded a fight between two women at the apartment complex in november. the chief praised the couple for bravely calling the police while explaining that the gang has been extorting the victims. >> they're basically extorting them every two weeks for $500 a month. they would knock on the corps, hey, we want $500. they'd pay it on top of paying their rent. >> reporter: so aurora police are pursuing charges against 11 suspected td the a gang members, 8 of which are now in i.c.e. custody. the police chief said these suspects have targeted other venezuelans at the apartment complex knowing victims would not come forward to police out of fear of being deported. griff. griff: c.b., from colorado to the bronx? all these arrests, what does it mean for tren de aragua? >> reporter: well, griff,

according to law enforcement sources i'm speaking with, these arrests mark a major blow for the venezuelan gang especially here in the new york city. police have been warning since early this fall that the gang has established several rings here, even using migrant shelters to target children and try to recruit them into the gang. so definitely a blow to the growing ranks here in the big with apple. griff: yeah. and just a few years ago tda wasn't on anybody's radar. now they are growing, indeed. c.b. cotton live in new york, thanks. jacqui: the biden administration withdrew a proposed rule on friday that would have stopped schools from banning transgender athletes from plague on teams that match their gender identity, a move that would give schools the right to decide which teams trans if athletes could join. christina coleman has more. >> reporter: after receiving more than 150,000 public comments both in support and against the proposal over just a

30-daytime span, the department of education said, quote, it recognizes that there are multiple pending lawsuits related to the application of title ix in the context of gender identity. in light of the comments received and those various pending court cases, the department has determined not to regulate on issue at this time. so now if the incoming trump administration chooses to address this controversial issue, they will have to start from scratch on creating a new policy since the biden administration is abandoning the proposed regulation. in response, a spokesperson for if president-elect donald trump accused the biden administration of trying to make it harder for trump to govern, and she says he will not be deterred by their dirty tricks. also seven san jose state women's to volleyball players have opted the transfer following their season which was riddled with controversy over their transgender teammate. >> i think those women were put through a lot this season, and i

definitely support their decision. being a collegiate athlete is tough, and there's just so many moving parts. and the added pressure was just unfathomable, so i think it'll be interesting to see how their season goes about next year. and i just pray that they find a home wherever their next university is. >> reporter: san jose state university provided a statement to fox digital on the matter saying, quote, student athletes have the ability to make decisions about their college athletic careers, and we have the utmost respect for that. again, the players did have a very intense season pull of turmoil which involved lots of national anticipation, enhanced security and eight forfeited matches. jacqui: christina coleman, thanks. griff: german officials are investigating friday's christmas market car attack as a possible act of terrorism. we have the latest next. ♪ ♪

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griff: and five people are now if dead and more than 200 are hurt in germany after a driver plowed through a christmas market in what police are calling a deliberate attack. stephanie bennet is tracking the very latest for us. what can you tell us? >> reporter: hey, griff. authorities just provided an update saying of those five killed was a 9-year-old child. and of the 200 people injured, about 41 of those are in serious. condition tonight, so they're very afraid that these numbers could grow. at last check, 15 hospitals are helping provide treatment for all of these victims across germany. take a look at some of this live footage we are seeing tonight. earlier today mourners laid flowers and candles outside the church, and on the the as the sun sets hundreds are gathering for a memorial service. olaf schultz, german chancellor, toured the site and said today would be a grieving and mourning, and president biden

extended his condolences and says the united states stands ready to offer all available resources and assistance if needed. the united states will always stand with our allies against violent terror. the footage from last night when the attack came, it was just five days before christmas. the market was packed with people enjoying their friday night with family and friends until around 7 p.m. local time when witnesses say a rented black bmw drove at a high speed straight through the crowd. police arrested a 50-year-old saudi arabian doctor who moved to germany in 2006, they say. authorities say he was acting alone, and the motive sill remains unclear. but they did say the suspect was dissatisfied by the treatment of saudi refugees in germany, and that may have been a factor. for now, the market will not reopen, and the flags will be flown at half staff. and as a precaution, many markets, christmas markets, that is, across the world have

stepped up with their security including in new york city. back to you. griff: such a tragic story so close to the holidays. stephanie bennet live for us in london, thank you. jacqui: for more on the attack in germany, joining me live in studio is former ambassador at large and former counterterrorism coordinate if i nathan sales, senior fellow with the atlanta council. thank you, ambassador, appreciate your time. >> great to be here. jacqui: speaking of the security situation abroad, it seems the pentagon ran into a little bit of an accounting error this week as it pertains to u.s. troops. initially, they were feeling us -- they were telling us there were 900 in the region of syria, come to find out there's 2,000. your reaction. >> at this point, it shouldn't surprise us, but it still has the capacity to surprise us that the biden administration is not being completely transparent and open. we still have an important mission in syria, but the white house needs to level with the

american people about what we're doing there and who is there. 2,000 troops, 900 troops, that's not just a minor discrepancy. we're there to fight isis. a lot of people think isis has been defeat. hay don't have a territorial caliphate, but they've been trying to mount a comeback. there's been a series of attacks across syria and iraq are, and theless lesson -- the lesson we have to learn from the obama administration is if you pull u.s. troops out of a precarious situation, terrorist groups are going to fill the vacuum. so for the price of having a very small deployment of troops there, we can prevent isis, hopefully, from reconstituting itself. but let's be clear, we're there for military reasons. we're there to fight isis. we're not there for nation-building. >> jacqui: do you think the incoming administration will, by and large, hue to the same line we're drawing in that region?

>> it's hard to predict. president trump has been clear that syria is sand and death, and that's right. syria has been immiserated under basharal al assad, and a series of terrorist groups that have been competing for influence there. syria a complex gordian knot. the way to solve it eludes some of brightest foreign policy minds in the world. one thing i think is clear, if you remove american troops, you create a vacuum that terrorist groups will exploit. and if initially that means threats to the region, ultimately that's going to mean threats to europe and threats to the united states. when terrorist groups have safe haven, they plot attacks on our homeland. jacqui: the u.s. sent a contingency of diplomats to damascus to try to shape the new government as it comes to be and as part -- well, after their meeting, remove the bounty on the de facto leader of the government that's coming together. they said that the leader of hts

seemed prague mat you can. what do the can you make of that? do you think that's smart thinking? >> yeah. sometimes in the world of diplomacy you've got to have some tough conversations with some unsavory people, and this may well be an example of that. so the terrorist group that now runs syria, hts, it's an al-qaeda affiliate. actually, during the trump administration we sanctioned hts because of its longstanding ties to al-qaeda. now, in recent months the leaders of hts have been put on a show of moderation and pluralism and respect for women's rights. let's see. revolutionaries who finally succeed in taking power typically don't say, you know what? we had it wrong all along. they typically see victory as vindication, and so while the united states needs to have some quiet conversations with hts, maybe you don't send your assistant secretary for near eastern affairs over there to do it through the front door.

that's why we have the cia. we've got to have these conversations, but we need to be very, very clear this is a potentially unreformed terrorist group. tread cautiously. jacqui: at the same time, putin says he's talking to hts and i'm sure the u.s. has eyes on that. he had his annual press conference and said a couple of interesting things, said he wanted to secure lasting peace in ukraine rather than a ceasefire, also challenged ukraine's allies to a high-tech duel, boasting about russia's new experimental missile. and following that, there's an interesting article in i believe it was foreign policy magazine saying the trump team has communicated to european allies of ukraine that the u.s. will continue to fund ukraine so hong as nato allies meet a 5% threshold for spending, 5% of hair gdp contributed to defense. that is a change from trump who has said on the campaign trail and as recently as this month, i

believe, that he intended to curtail u.s. support for ukraine. what do you make of the shift there? what's going on? >> yeah. i think the 5 percent figure is absolutely the right move. you know, that's basically where the nato alliance was during the cold war. we're not in a cold war. we're actually in a hot war with russia threatening ukraine and potentially threatening other front-line states in central and eastern europe. so it's imminently reasonable for our nato allies to pay 5% of their gdp to protect themselves, right? this is not spending money on, like, poetry readings or, like, decorating the foreign ministry. this is what states exist to do, is to protect your borders, protect your people from dictators like vladimir putin opinion. and i think, you know, nato is working best when its members take seriously their obligations. you know, we talk a lot about

article v, collective self-defense. if one party is attacked, the other parties will come to their aid. but there's also article iii which means that all nato members have an obligation to contribute to their own security and thereby improve the collective security of the alliance. so i think, you know, 2% is where the guideline has been. you've got to spend 2% of your gdp. that's woefully inadequate in an era where vladimir putin is constantly saber rattling and where looking to the indo-pacific region xi jinping is sharpening his knives and planning an attack on taiwan. he said that the people's liberation army needs to be ready to go by 2027. we need to invest in our defense industrial base and in our capabilities so that we can deter, right? we don't want to actually fight the war. jacqui: right. >> we want to spend a little bit now so we don't have to spend a lot later. jacqui: some republicans might be surprised to hear trump's continuing ukraine aid after

campaigning on not doing that, but it sounds like the the calculus for him is if you believe russia will come to the able and negotiate, you're giving them a chance to reconstitute -- to reset for another to phase of war. >> yeah. look, i can't speak for the president-elect's speaking on this, but the president has eyes to see, and what he sees is the failure of the obama approach to russia and the failure of the bind approach to russia. way back in 2014 when this started and vladimir putin first invaded ukraine, obama was like, okay, we'll agree to this peace process, and things will work out. no. what actually happened is putin used the intervening years to invest in his defense capabilities and destabilize ukraine. we don't want to to go through that cycle again. we want a peace that's durable, that will last and that is in america's interests. and the way to achieve that is deter russia from future behavior. jacqui: ambassador sales, appreciate your time. >> thanks, jacqui. griff: the clock is ticking on

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or the new garage wall protector. get your gift card instantly at wt.com jacqui: the pentagon's annual military power report says beijing may almost double its nuclear warhead stockpile by the end of the dad. jennifer griffin takes a look for us. >> reporter: china now has over 600 operational nuclear weapons, an increase of 100 warheads in the past year, and is projected to exceed 1,000 by 2030. according to this year's china military power report. >> the expansion of china's nuclear program raises the question of what are all these nuclear weapons for? they haven't answered that question. >> reporter: the report describes beijing's increasing belligerence toward taiwan including naval exercises like this simulated blockade of the taiwan strait the last week involving 90 vessels. quote, throughout 2023 beijing

continued to erode longstanding norms in and around taiwan by with employing a range of pressure tactics against taiwan. part of president xi's directive to his military to be ready to take taiwan by force by 2027. china strengthened its relationship with russia and expanded its drone enterprise. >> the indo-pacific region is most stressing theater for the quantity and quality of munitions because the prc is the most capable potential adversary in the world. >> reporter: in 2023 the pla experienced a new wave of corruption-related investigations of senior leaders including the chinese defense minister which may have disrupted progress toward stated 2027 modernization goals. >> 15 senior pla officials already rounded up is just the tip of the iceberg. >> reporter: the report does not mention the recent chinese

hacking campaign, salt typhoon, one of the largest intelligence compromises in u.s. history. chinese hackers breached u.s. telecom and internet service providers, accessing the cell phones of top u.s. officials and private citizens. at the pentagon, jennifer griffin, fox news. ♪ ♪ griff: the u.s. supreme court will hear arguments on january 10th over the federal law that could ban tiktok in the u.s. the company says the measure is unconstitution constitutional because it restricts speech in violation of the first amendment. ing the law sets a january 19th deadline for tiktok to be sold by its chinese owners or else face the ban. for more on this let's bring in cyber guy kurt knew knudsen. this is really fascinating because on january 10th the high court will hear arguments about the future of tiktok, then nine days later if they don't quickly

rule, the app will effectively be banned in the u.s. what else can you tell us about what's happening? >> i think that's going to be a far-fetched outcome simply because 170 million americans are addicted to this thing like they are, you know, like it's crystal meth. how it got legalized to to begin with is a whole other topic. yes, we're being watched by the chinese, yes, bytedance is controlled by the chinese communist party. so what will the supreme court do? i don't know at this point. it's very interesting that they took it up. it is also interesting, on the 10th they're going to hear this, and they'll either affirm what an appeals court already said-which was, sorry, tiktok, this isn't a free speech issue. no, back to track, sell yourself by the 19th or we're shutting you down. then you have the president-elect from mar-a-lago now indicating a whole 180 like,

hey, maybe tiktok's not that bad. [laughter] griff: yeah, you're right. >> it's interesting. griff: i was at that press conference. let me play for listeners exactly what he said. listen hear. listen here. >> we'll take a look at tiktok. you know, i have a warm spot in my heart for tiktok because i won youth by 34 points. and there are those that say tiktok had something to do with that. griff: so in the first trump administration, they were pretty much against it, calling it dangerous, but now it looks like a 180. do you think from the political standpoint, from the bully pulpit of the president, that he could perhaps influence things? >> well, he's 100% right about the political benefits of tiktok, it is the youth vote, it did help him. and the question is not do we shut down tiktok, it is it's can we simply just take it out of the enemy's hand and put it in the hands of western investors

that have control of the company so that the servers that are collecting data on americans one after another, i mean, china a is out to find out everything they can about every american not to come steal our money, but to influence our minds. and it's very easy for them to do that over time. it's like a magician being given one little thing, one little nugget if about your life until you go to their magic act and suddenly they're pulling the wool out from underneath you. how in the world did they do that? well, china's setting themselves up to have a poe end the weapon against -- potent weapon against all of the american public if we allow this to continue the way thats. but there's a way out. griff: yeah, there is. and what's fascinating to me, kurt, not to to cut you off, but you're really getting to what i really want to drill in on, and that is, you know, how do republicans -- and we've seen, of course, in the list of president-elect trump's incoming

members of his cabinet from marco rubio to michael walz who have been entirely against it now singing a different tune. but i was fascinated by congressman mills who sort of tried to thread the needle on exactly, well, we know there's a china threat, but let's just sort of focus it on things like day a mining. here is congressman -- data mining. here is congressman mills, listen here. >> none of tiktok's ownership should actually be related and directly connected to the ccp. we know that tiktok has been utilized as a tool for manipulation. griff: will that work, if your mind? >> the only way this is going to work is if bytedance is divested of its interests, hat chinese got -- that the chinese government, the ccp doesn't have its hand with the ability to reach in and say give me your data. give it to me not now, not in five minutes, but right this

second. and that's the power they have right now. have they abused it? yes, he's right, and you -- we've reported on it. it is foolish of us as americans and our national security interests to allow tiktok to continue the way it is right now. but on the other hand, why shut it down? we've offered an option for it to be divested to where western owners could come in, and we have alleviated that concern. so i don't know what the problem here is. i don't know, you know, the supreme court's talking about free speech. what i think we have here is, hey, for ourselves what would happen if this got shut down? i asked my two nieces who are addicted to tiktok -- [laughter] and they said, oh, i'd just go over to instagram. i'd just go to instagram. griff: oh, listen, i've got two kids, a teenager and in their early 20s, and tiktok is all the craze. lastly, in the last ten seconds i've got left, do you see anything that the biden administration does in just the last remaining days they have?

>> you know, it's interesting, so he's -- so the decision would be january the 19th, the day before he leaves office. he has up until that time to say, all right, let's kick this down the road and make it trump's problem, and he very well may do that. griff: that will be fascinating, to see if it happens. we will be following it. kurt the cyber guy, thank you very much and have a merry christmas. >> merry christmas, griff. griff: ja acq, i? jacqui: how an amazon strike that is spreading could affect those last minute if christmas deliveries. we'll get into all of that coming up next. p ♪ee en. ♪ ♪ over 600,000 usps employees working in sync

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griff: canadian prime minister justin trudeau could soon lose his job after a key ally announced he will present a vote of no confidence. if the motion succeeds, true doe's party is expected to lose

badly to the country's conservatives. it's expected when parliament is back in session in late january. gre. jacqui: as last minute shoppers are look for gift, some amazon workers are striking at hubs across the country. fox business' max gorden is live in the city of industry, california, with the latest. max, you've got a crowd behind you there. >> reporter: yeah, absolutely. well, in short, these delivery drivers want better working conditions and higher pay, and this is the way they're making their voices heard. essentially, they're slowing down these drivers that are trying to get out of this amazon facility here in the city of industry. they're stopping them here at this exit and also talking to them about the strike and about teamsters' union. yesterday president sean o'brien walked the picket line, and he said that if packages are late for christmas, it's not the teamsters' fault, it's amazon's. >> they chose to cause this cans disruption. the narrative's great how they

care about the consumers. this has nothing another with the consumers. we have leverage. this is our leverage right now, to show how valuable these workers are both merchandise and outside. and amazon chose this timing, not us. >> reporter: thousands of drivers for firms that contract with amazon walked off the job across the country thursday morning. the strike is growing with an additional warehouse on staten island joining in today. organized by the teamsters' union, the workers say they're demanding a fair union contract that guarantees wages, health care and safety. amazon says that their operations are largely not affected amid the last minute rush to deliver holiday packages, also that the teamsters have been bullying workers into joining the union and since the workers striking aren't technically amazon employees just contractors, they have no reason to bargain with them. >> first of all, there is no strike because there are no amazon employees or drivers who are involved in this activity. what we have is a protest that has been a created and

manufactured by the teamsters to make a point. >> reporter: today we reached out to amazon to see if their position has changed or if they've reached out to the teamsters' union. we have yet to hear back from them. meanwhile, the union says the only way the strike will end is if amazon sits down at the bargaining table with them. but they're not clear about what sort of concessions that amazon needs to make. jacqui: max gorden, thank you. griff? griff: how winter storms could affect travel plans for millions this holiday weekend. we've got more on that next. ♪

jacqui: well, a pilot and two passengers in a small aircraft were unharmed after making an emergency landing on a highway near new albany, new york. the aircraft reportedly departed south carolina yesterday, lost both of its engines before that that pilot calmly told the air traffic controller he had to land on the road. a state official called that landing miraculous noting that no cars were hit and the plane suffered almost to to damage. griff. griff: the expected crowds this weekend combined with bad weather in parts of the country are causing headaches as we look at the airport disare resumptions and potential weather events impeegd travel.

madison scarpino is live in atlanta's hartsfield-jackson airport. how does it look? >> reporter: well, griff, not too bad yet, but that's not expected to continue. so far today there's already been thousands of delays and hundreds of cancellations. it's been a record-breaking year for holiday travel, and a, aa -- aaa expects that to continue until after new year's. but it's the holidays, so a lot of travelers are staying optimistic despite the chaos. >> i think the destination is kind of like the excitement, the buildup of it, and when you're finally there, it's just fun knowing, that like, there was a journal journey -- journey to it too. >> i've met so many new people just on my journey here and on the journey back. that's probably the best part, is just meeting new people. >> reporter: aaa expects over 119 million americans to travel 50 miles or more for the holidays whether that's by plane, car or another means of

transportation. that's over 3 million more americans traveling this year compared to 2023. but most people will be hitting the road. there could be some difficulties because of the weather. parts of the midwest and northeast are facing intense snow, so definitely pay attention to those road conditions. >> so be flexible. if you're going on a road trip and you see that there's severe weather coming, adjust your times. maybe leave the next day, maybe leave the day before. don't risk it. don't push it because you have this mind i have to get there no matter what. >> reporter: and if you are planning on driving for the holidays today, aaa suggests that you don't leave until after 4 p.m. to avoid some major traffic. back to you, griff. griff: take your time, be patient and be kind to the tsa and airport officials. they're trying to get us there safely. madison scarpino in atlanta, thank you very much. jacqui, great to be with you.

everybody travels. it gets frustrating, but you've got to take the high road, and it goes smoother even if you're delayed. jacqui: it does. stay in the christmas spirit if you can help it. that's all for us this hour. "fox news live" starts with eric and arthel next. griff: thanks for watching and merry christmas. ♪ ♪ (fisher investments) at fisher investments we may look like other money managers, but we're different. (other money manager) you can't be that different. (fisher investments) we are. we have a team of specialists not only in investing, but also in financial and estate planning and more.

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