brothers' claims of sexual abuse by their parents. we'll follow these stories and more in the new year. >> aishah: rich, i don't know about you, i think the worst scandal for me was the p. diddy scandal. freakoffs, 1,000 bottles of baby oil. reading that affidavit, the court documents i felt like i had to take a shower in holy water after because it was so disturbing and just out of this world. >> rich: my god, right? you think about usually in congress you've got one on the house side or one on the senate side. we had one for both chambers of congress this year. you talk about charging documents. that one had gold bars in it. quite a year for the hill. >> aishah: it was. all right. russia's christmas day attack on ukraine sparking a response by the white house. president biden is now directing

the pentagon to continue the surge of military supplies to ukraine, which he announced back in september. welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom." i'm aishah hasnie, dana and bill are off today. >> rich: i'm rich edson. a mad dash by the biden administration to send u.s. military hardware to ukraine before president biden loses power. this as president-elect trump is calling for a cease-fire. his special envoy to ukraine and russia says the incoming administration is more resolved than ever to bringing peace to the region. >> aishah: former secretary mike pompeo saying trump will make this very clear to russia's president putin. >> what we saw yesterday, these attacks, christmas day attacks were serious. president trump understands this. he has been talking about a conversation with vladimir putin that will have to happen. you have to convince vladimir putin that the cost of continuing this conflict exceeds the benefit. >> aishah: let's go to chad

pergram with more for us here in washington. hi, chad. >> good morning. there is a big push by the-out going president to get as many weapons out the door to ukraine before he leaves office. president biden condemned the christmas day attack by russia on ukraine's energy systems which killed seven people. president biden said the christmas attack was to, quote, cut off the ukrainian people's access to heat and electricity during winter. the u.s. has sent 175 billion in aid to ukraine since the war began nearly three years ago. it is doubtful the u.s. will continue assistance under the trump administration. >> should ukraine prepare for less aid from the united states after you are sworn into office? >> probably, sure. >> trump says he wants to end the war quickly. many republicans are ready for something else. >> the big question is what is our position, what is our plan, what is the objective? and yet we are going forward

without objectives or a plan, $2 hundred million plus in a war. there is a way to end this with strong leadership. >> the incoming president says european allies should bear most of the burden defending against russia. his former secretary of state says the u.s. still has a role to play. >> i'm convinced president trump and his team can build back a model which will protect america, europe and make the world more peaceful and stronger as we move into 2025. >> there was no money for ukraine in the latest government funding bill. even the one that was pulled. it is doubtful the republican-led congress will provide more help for ukraine next year. aishah. >> aishah: chad, thank you. >> anyone who thinks they will get back into crony capitalism buying their way in. we saw that in a biden administration and the obama-biden administration.

that's not going to happen here. trump is coming in with a mandate of the people we need a change in direction. >> rich: trump is acting as if he is back in the white house seizing the rains of power. we have our power panel here. thank you for joining us this day after christmas. happy holidays to you guys. alexa, usually you hear there is only one president at a time. typically they are talking about the person who is occupying the oval office and going to leave it. do you think that the president-elect might be a little too aggressive here? >> well, i wouldn't call commuting 37 violent offenders low key. i think president trump has been filling the void that biden has

left open for four years. he has met with gold star families, 13 families members whose soldiers died in afghanistan in that disastrous withdrawal. he has comforted victims of illegal immigrant crime like lakin riley's family. he has helped fund money for north carolina hurricane victims and now he is making sure that he is as prepared as he can be on day one. he has a big job to do. he has a lot to clean up that biden and harris have messed up for the last four years. >> rich: jonathan, i want to ask you about the item that appeared in the hill per an unnamed lobbyist saying among democrats nobody has been looking forward to donald trump being president but everybody is ready for the biden presidency to be done. a lot of people in the white house are just ready for it to be over. do you think there is truth to that? >> i don't think on the democratic side there is anybody excited for the biden presidency

to be over and the trump presidency to start. the void that trump is filling is just the media void. he and biden have very different styles. biden likes to work behind the scenes quietly. some democrats have pushed him to be more over the top, more in front of the camera. i don't think it's his style. i would point out donald trump has spent the last few days talking about buying greenland and invading panama and making canadien our 51st state. i don't think those are powerful things that a president-elect is doing. that's ramblings of things he wants to do at 3:00 in the morning. the void he is filling is the media attention that we need because we live in a 24-hour news cycle that we always need something. but no, there is a reason that person was off the record. no democrat is excited to see the biden presidency end. >> rich: the president in the "new york times" a look at his

thoughts leaving office. this is according to the times. aside from joking about his wealth mr. biden has stewed. he said he had been stupid not to sign his name to covid stimulus checks distributed to americans early in his term. korey bush is a member of the squad and leaving mentioned the same thing. she has heard from democrats trump sent them stimulus checks with his name on it and made them switch their vote and vote for him. what do you think the effect of that is? >> i do think there are a bunch of democrats who voted for trump excited about his presidency. it is extremely offensive to read this in the "new york times" that he doesn't regret the afghanistan withdrawal that left 13 service members dead or the 300,000 migrant children that were lost under his

administration, or that we have illegal immigrants setting people on fire in new york, or murdering young girls in texas and in georgia. no, he regrets not signing checks. i guess that's a trump style that he does want to adapt, not so behind the scenes. we also just read this massive east say in the with a street journal that unelected bureau congratulations have been running the country the last four years. >> rich: what do democrats tend to think about his four-year term. >> we're proud of it. legislatively he has had the most accomplishments of anybody in my lifetime. you may disagree with some of them but you can't deny the fact that he has had some of the most impactful pieces of legislation signed into law. infrastructure bill, chips bill,

inflation reduction act, the recovery act. those things have had monumental impact on the country and will for the next ten or 20 years. what democrats were frustrated with he didn't learn the lesson from donald trump and go out and brag about it and take a victory lap every time. if donald trump had signed this many bills into law, he would have been going around the country every day at a ribbon cutting, a signing ceremony in the oval office, and we wanted to see more of that from president biden. we didn't get that. i think that's where some of the frustration comes in it was more of a stylistic approach that he didn't take. i think that's where the regret is coming. the regret he is talking about there is the political regret. joe biden regrets the loss of any american lives but he was talking about the political regret and how he approached it and not the contrast of how he and donald trump approach things. >> rich: thank you for joining

us. >> aishah: with an amped up surplus, energy producers are hesitant for trump to take off the red tape. grady trimble is live at the white house with this story. hi, grady, good morning. >> good morning. some of the bigger oil companies don't mind the regulations and fees, at least some of them. they can afford to abide by them and pay them. a lot of smaller oil and gas companies are looking forward to the incoming trump administration and the promise to cut red tape and regulations. the president-elect argues that that will help increase oil drilling and production and that will lead to lower prices for everyday americans. >> we are going to have so much oil and gas and other things you won't know what to do with it. you'll see please, president trump, stop, we have too much. the prices are going too low, sir. i will direct every cabinet

secretary to cut ten old regulations for every new regulation, which i did last time. >> despite president biden's green agenda the u.s. set another record for crude oil production. it is expected to set a new record in 2025. the president-elect says he plans to expand production even more. energy executives hope he will ease drilling regulations and act more tax incentives, pipeline projects and reshape programs for drilling on federal lands and in off shore areas, trump is expected to lift the pause on some exports of liquefied natural gas. the head of one of the largest natural gas exporters in the u.s. even with the restrictions the biden administration placed on the industry we have global emissions skyrocketing because of other countries oil, gas and coal production. people are reassessing how we got here. the conclusion is we need to

build more of everything and that is the plan under the incoming administration. we'll see if prices at the pump and for home heating lower as promised. aishah. >> aishah: grady trimble, thank you. >> rich: another brazen attack in new york city. groups of bystanders in plain view of a double stabbing at a train station. why people in the big apple are refusing to step in and help victims of violence. plus an emerging crackdown on migrant crime. how some border cities are leading into trump's immigration agenda. >> historic number of criminal aliens walking the streets because this administration's policy and sanctuary jurisdictions. lacks immigration enforcement. ice has their hands tied. mayorkas has given them priorities they can't arrest an illegal alien unlegals he is convicted of a serious crime. this is on this administration.

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>> rich: some municipalities are vowing to resist the incoming trump administration's immigration policies. others are jumping in to help. border czar tom homan is promising to crack down on criminal migrants and one program could help. brooke taylor is live in dallas with more. >> the program is called 287g, how it works it allows ice to basically partner with local and state law enforcement that run the jails and then they train specific officers on how they can communicate and identify any migrants at the jail and they can flag ice. critics of this program, they say it creates a divide between the communities and then law enforcement. supporters say, though, you only need to look at the headlines to see why it is needed.

this is surveillance footage from a recent shoot-out in new orleans meat market. according to ice, one of the suspects involved was already facing gun charges out of new york. these are just some of the illegal migrants right here that ice picked up over the last few weeks after they walked out of the jails, released on bond, with ice holds either ignored or ice never notified. the county sheriffs here in texas tells us he did not want this happening in his community. >> the way that works is when someone is booked in on a crime that they've committed here locally or they may have a warrant from a local agency, they are booked into the jail. if it's suspected that they are not a u.s. citizen, then our trained 287g staff will do a further investigation on it to figure out who they are.

>> after that officers will flag ice and then it is up to them to put an ice detainer on them for pick them up. 25 counties right here in texas already have 287g agreements, rich. >> rich: brook taylor live in dallas, thank you. >> aishah: police have arrested a suspect in a violent christmas eve attack at new york city's grand central station. one of the busiest train stations in the world. unbelievable. nypd says the man slashed two people with a knife unprovoked, as always. the victims a 42-year-old man, a 26-year-old woman say bystanders did absolutely nothing to help them. let's bring in criminal defense attorney mercedes cowen. what kind of a world are we living in right now? i want to read to you this quote from the stabbing victim. this woman. what she told police.

this is painful to read here. she says no one called 911. no one in grand central called 911. i was on the phone with my number when it happened and she called 911. she just luckily happened to be on the phone with somebody who cared enough to be worried about her. what do you think is happening here? this can't just be a new york city thing. >> you are exactly right. aishah, i am a native new yorker and always said that new yorkers are bold, brash and brave. when there is an issue, we step in and help and we assist. but when you start to think about the consequences of stepping in, and we have seen some high profile situations around the country when people are stepping in. aside from the civil actions, if you step in and are a good samaritan lots of jurisdictions, new york included, you can get ed in assisting someone if you don't do it properly and then it

inflicts add en injury. a sad state of affairs. i hope there are individuals to step in. what would it have taken to 911? not anything other than help, there is a horrible situation, a victim. you need to come and assist and hopefully law enforcement can get there to save the situation and apprehend the individual. it is a sad state of affairs. if things don't change, it will just get worse. >> aishah: such an egregious example of it happened this week with the woman set on fire in the subway train. she was sleeping and this illegal migrant sets her on fire. we have video of it if we can play it. people are in this video just standing and watching and wandering around. somebody is filming this and not one person steps in. now people are calling this the daniel penny effect. obviously daniel penny intervenes, tries to save passengers on the train from someone who was acting erratic

and then had to spend more than a year in the court system possibly going to jail for a very long time. do you think this is what's happening to people and they are thinking gosh, i really want to help, i want to make the phone call, i want to step in. i don't want to deal with what daniel penny dealt with. >> the supporters of daniel penny feel that way. why would they go through the things that he did? that legal process, not only was it exhaustive and upheaval of his personal life and also very costly. of course, looking at that situation, his supporters will say maybe this will be the chilling effect that people will not intervene. look at what took place with daniel penny. there is certainly supporters that believe that's taking place. hopefully even -- hopefully there are others that will step in and even in his interview with judge pirro, daniel penny said he would, if given the

circumstances, in his future would need assistance he would step in and do so. even -- maybe someone out there who feels that they don't want to intervene, take those words and certainly coming from daniel penny himself saying that he would go and intervene if necessary in the future if somebody does take place. >> aishah: this is what the former dhs deputy assistant secretary said about the sad, sad set of circumstances we're living in now. >> maybe it could have been prevented. even though daniel penny was acquitted, he still had to go through the trial, the expense, the stress of not knowing if he is going to prison. it is horrific. you go back to the fact that this was preventable. we know the biden administration after -- they didn't do anything to prevent people from coming in. >> aishah: how does this change, mercedes? how do people find faith in the

system again where, you know, whether they are on a subway, on the street, people popping around the corner and sucker punching someone. how do people have faith in the system if they do help somebody out that they'll be protected as well? >> that's the million dollar questions. it will take things like encouraging people to step in. certainly mta had a fantastic program many years ago said if you see something, say something. try to elevate that type of message. elevate it by saying we're here to support them. obviously when daniel penny was exonerated and others around the country, maybe they faced criminal charges. those types of stories will encourage those to step in and do something. it is only going to be through anecdotal evidence and going to be through stories like this that say encouraging people to step forward and do something. when you don't the horrors of that woman who burned to death,

people were filming this instead of helping things. what would it have taken if they had taken off their coats and smother the flames on her? >> aishah: so many people could have intervened. it was a sad video to watch. thank you for joining us on your holiday week. stay safe out there. >> my pleasure, happy holidays. >> rich: prosecuted ended their efforts to reinstate their charges against alec baldwin in the "rust" shooting of helene yeah hutchins. texas attorney general ken paxton taking the ncaa to court over trans athletes in women's sports. caroline downey weighs in ahead.

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the deadly "rust" film set shooting. the judge dismissed the case over the summer. william la jeunesse is live in los angeles with the latest on this never-ending saga. william. good to see you. >> it will continue, right? it means that alec baldwin beat the criminal charges but his days in court aren't likely over. the attorney said monday she would not appeal the dismissal of the manslaughter charges against him. she said she dropped that case because new mexico's attorney general refused to fully assist her appeal. that is a win for baldwin whose attorney said it vindicates the "rust" actor and producer that hutchins death was a tragedy, not a crime. that is not the opinion of the family civil attorney who said she will continue to press the civil case.

>> he said recently that he is looking forward to the truth coming out. so we look forward to his testimony under oath in his deposition as to what he thinks the truth really is and what's the basis for his conclusion that he is not responsible. >> allred believes prosecutors should have appealed the case because the jury never heard the evidence against baldwin. the judge dismissed the charges ruling that prosecutors withheld evidence against the actor who was filming outsaid sante fe when the prop gun fired the bullet that killed hutchins. >> we can fully proceed with our civil case without any impediment from mr. baldwin and his legal team that it imply indicates his right to remain silent and avoid self-incrimination.

>> it will continue. the movie's armorer loaded that gun and serving an 18-month sentence for involuntary manslaughter. >> aishah: thank you as always. good to see you. >> rich: texas is waging a new legal fight to protect women's sports. the lone star state suing the ncaa saying the group misled consumers and failing to disclose that biological males can compete in women's competitions. let's bring in caroline downey, national review staff writer and independent women's forum visiting writer. let's look at what the a.g. is doing. the ncaa is deceptively changing women's competitions to co-ed competition. racial gender theory has no place in college sports.

when you like at the ncaa they have said the courts said what we're doing is legit here. people should be able to compete with their gender identity and the courts have confirmed that. what do you think will happen with this case? >> well rich, ken paxton lawsuit recognizes this women's sports issue will have to escalate to the supreme court. it has to be resolved by the highest court in the land because of how many incidents playing out across this country that are just egregiously wrong and unfair. this lawsuit also recognizes that the national and international governing bodies are the obstacles when it comes to collegiate competition where the masculine biological advantages are especially pronounced. the lawsuit on the grounds it is false advertising to sports fans. it makes sense. we've seen time and time again women get trounced in the

swimming pool, volleyball court or lacrosse field. a gross disparity in performance. not because female athletes don't have incredible talent and abilities but men are a different category. it is interesting that paxton is going at this from a false marketing standpoint. it is the fans that are losing out and are honestly suffering in addition to the women players who are, you know, suffering from the consequences. >> rich: do we still have you, caroline? >> you got me. >> rich: the ncaa was testifying before congress last week and made the point that they oversee more than a half million student athletes and they said fewer than ten are transgender athletes competing. do you think that under a new administration, that the ncaa might reverse course here?

>> i do think that trump is going to put the pressure on these governing bodies to stop being cowards and to start being more courageous and follow the example of many other countries on the gender issue. i think biden now is recognizing that gender ideology, men's intrusion to women's spaces was toxic at the ballot box and so we see that the 11th hour biden is sort of rolling back some of that and trump knows there is a mandate to rectify this issue. a majority of americans oppose transgender identifying men in women's spaces from locker rooms to at the ymca to women's sports to prisons. >> rich: republicans did cite that ad they ran that kamala is for they/them while president trump is for you as one of their most effective ads during this campaign cycle. when you talk about so much of local sports in schools. a lot is in local jurisdictions.

do you think there will be still be liberal cities that allow this type of competition? >> well, with biden's radical title ix rewrite he forced school district's hands in every area of this country. he very nefariously made that gender ideology would be a protected category in gender identity that would be conflated with sexual orientation, which basically put the burden on those school districts to prove that male competitors in the women's category would pose an unfair advantage or safety issue. we saw it with the volleyball player seriously injured and dealing with the adverse effects of concussion and mental health issues after being pummeled in the head by a volleyball from a male athlete on the opposing team.

ncaa is collegiate competition. i think a lawsuit and legal battle is necessary to litigate this because it is not that the government necessarily has the immediate authority to act in the way it does over institutions that receive funding from the federal government. >> rich: we'll watch the lawsuit. caroline, thank you so much for joining us. >> thanks so much. >> everyone, we need help to find austin, okay? so that's why we feel it is our duty to share this intelligence and this information with the public. >> aishah: there is a new lead on missing american journalist austin tice. how one international group is now helping the search in syria. plus the second trump administration already putting pressure on hamas hostage takers in gaza. why these families are hopeful that this cabinet, this president can bring them home.

>> unfortunately we are marking the 446th day of our loved ones suffering in hamas tunnels. this is unacceptable. it has to stop today.

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>> our son is alive. we know that as a fact. there is a lot of speculation, but all information, even the president of the united states, repeatedly mentioned that austin is alive and is held by the regime. >> aishah: today there is renewed hope in the search for austin tice, an internation group says it believes tice is still alive and in syria. the new details come just weeks after another american, travis timmerman, was found in damascus. tice was detained back in 2012 at a checkpoint near syria's capital. president biden has said the white house believes the missing journalist is also still alive. families of hostages held by hamas are marking a second holiday season without their loved ones. 101 hostages are still being held in gaza right now. 446 days after hamas's attack on

israel. it has been a very, very long journey especially for the father of one hostage who hasn't stopped fighting since his son was taken. thank you for joining us to share your story. it is hard, i know, to hear happy hanukkah. take me back to last night when you lit the first candle and what you were thinking. because in is supposed to be about hope in the middle of immense darkness. do you have hope? >> yes. he is one of the seven u.s. hostages being held by hamas. amount of days that is even longer than the u.s. hostages that were held by iran in 1979. and yesterday was indeed a very difficult day for myself and my family where we sat around our dinner table and we had an empty chair. and we needed to cope with that.

our son is an avid nba follower. you know, we had yesterday all those christmas games, i am a new yorker, i am a new york knicks fan. he became a celtics fan. sitting on the sofa, watching basketball and enjoying life. we miss that. >> aishah: one of the reasons i think you have hope is because of this new administration coming in. i want to read a quick line from your op-ed from this week about adam boler, the pick for personal presidential envoy for hostage affairs and you write this about him. you say adam can bring home the hostages. his wealth of experience including his role in brokering the abraham accords he can

navigate hostage negotiations with direct empowerment from the president-elect. you say that it's adam can now engage in direct talks. and will engage in direct talks with hamas. do you think that will be the game changer? >> two things i would like to comment. one, we're very thankful to president-elect trump for a statement on social media. we were missing that type of language. that said, it is unacceptable and there will be hell to pay if the hostages are not out by january 20th. and with that sentence comes a lot of empowerment. all of the players in this negotiation understand that and are now moving closer to a deal. and mr. -- he has been

successful in the middle east. he has been able to close the gap of parties that have been far away from one another. we hope and believe that he can do that again. and the president-elect's statement showing that the fact that u.s. hostages are taken and kept, who takes u.s. citizens and can get away from that? you need to make that stop. otherwise it will just happen again and again. this madness of taking u.s. citizens any place in the world must stop. i believe that president-elect trump with his statement will put an end to it and his envoy has the ability to bring a deal home. getting it done and if these u.s. citizens, these seven u.s. citizens are not out by january 20th, yeah, we expect things to look much different than they have been until now. >> aishah: we're all pulling for you and all the families and

praying for you and hoping that your son will be home with you soon to be able to celebrate more holidays with you and your family. thank you as always for sharing your story, ruby. >> thank you for having me and happy holidays to everybody. >> aishah: you as well. >> rich: a momentous year in politics filled with twists, turns and critical pivot points. a look back at 2024 coming up next. in the military with you. and when you get out of the military, you kind of lose that until you find a new family. we can talk about our struggles and the things that we did overseas and not everybody can do that. adam! how's it going, brother? we live pretty close to each other. so he's always coming over. when i go to jack's house, we watch a lot of football, hang out. we go outside the friendship has kind of grown into a family i was overseas on a deployment. i got separated from my marines and i got hit in the neck,

and it broke my neck and paralyzed me. 14 years ago, i was on a training mission. did a military freefall, and i had some faulty equipment. i hit the ground. going, 30 to 40 knots and was instantly paralyzed. i met jack fanning when he invited us to park city, utah, through his foundation. i was able to actually get on the mountain and ski with my family, i can't put into words what that meant. i got paid in the military to do crazy fun stuff. and after my accident, i'm still that same guy. and when i was able to jump out of a perfectly good, helicopter, at 10,000 feet, i did it. i was talking to some vets last week amazing how we have these houses where they can come over because they■re in chairs too. carpet and wheelchairs don't mix very well. tunnel to towers, they got rid of all that. they redid my whole bathroom. that's probably the favorite

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>> rich: two assassination attempts. a debate that pushed president bide app out of the 2024 presidential race and republican sweep in national elections. we have this year's recap. >> happy new year. >> 2024 kicked off with just two weeks to go before the iowa caucuses. >> we'll get out and caucus today. >> quickly as the new year began. >> we'll stop at nothing for this country.

>> trump won both iowa caucuses and new hampshire primary. >> well evict crooked joe biden from the white house. >> donald trump's campaign is about him. >> the 46th president was also busy with his day job. >> i'm happy to have been able to forgive these loans. when we realize when we relieve americans of student debt they are free to chase their dreams. >> other national politics. >> resolution is adopted. >> impeachment of homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas. >> this isn't a high crime or misdemeanor. >> senate minority leader mcco mcconnell. >> it is time for the next generation of leadership. >> biden's state of the union address was a high point for the president. >> president biden: are you the reason we've never been more optimistic about our future than i am now. >> donald trump was found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying

business records. >> this is bigger than me and my presidency. >> then it was hunter biden convicted on three felony gun charges. >> this case was about the illegal choices defendant made while in the throws of addiction. his choice to lie on a government form. >> at a debate weeks later president biden did just that, shifted attention to him but now how he intended. >> president biden: look, if we -- we finally beat medicare. >> i don't think he knows what he said. >> debate fallout and pressure from democrats to step aside. less than a month later biden was out and vice president kamala harris was in. >> i love joe biden and i know we all do. we have so many darn good reasons for loving joe biden. and i have full faith that this team is the team will be the reason we win in november. >> all part of an election year summer full of drama like none other.

an assassination attempt during a trump rally in butler, pennsylvania. >> we hit the ground. police emerged. >> trump introduced his running mate, senator jd vance of ohio. harris naming walz her pick. >> we have a chance to make kamala harris against president of the united states. >> in springfield, they are eating the dogs. >> incredibly while he was golfing in florida a second trump assassination attempt was foiled. >> we need more people here for security. and we never seem to get that. >> the final weeks of the campaigns polls tightened. >> the race will come down to a few thousand votes in a handful of states. it will be so close. >> election day a red wave. >> experiencing a range of emotions now.

>> for trump a victory meant a flurry of cabinet appointments and confirmation hearings into 2025. president biden prepared to wrap up his decades-long career in politics including a presidential pardon for his son. >> the new rage item this season is a pardon. >> heading into 2025, more changes are on the way. inauguration day is january 20th and trump is vowing on day one to make a big splash with a flurry of executive orders. stay tuned. in washington, rebecca castor, fox news. >> aishah: a second grader is being hailed a hero after saving a friend's life in the cafeteria. watch this video. you can see an 8-year-old using the heimlich maneuver here in a second when he notices his classmate choking on a grape. it happened at porter elementary school in messa, arizona. the grape popped out and friend was able to breathe again. the young hero telling fox how

he did it. >> when i was thinking was to push on his stomach and that would push air up and i do know the heimlich, but i just never have done it. you should never be afraid to help people. >> aishah: he has a bow tie and he knows -- what a great kid. >> rich: eight years old. he knows the heimlich maneuver. >> aishah: do you? >> rich: i have but never done it before. >> aishah: you have to teach me. i need to learn how to swim and learn the heimlich maneuver. i live alone and my deepest fear that i choke and die alone on a grape. >> rich: learn both things. >> aishah: good to be with you.