wicked took is 112 million opening weekend. gradeiate for two earned 55 million. both films could be contenders for the 2025 award season that star conan o'brien who will host next season's academy awards. >> griff: it was quite a year. in entertainment in 2024. it was in 2023 as aishah threw to but hard to keep the years clear because of this story. we're trying to keep it all together, 2025 marks another milestone, the end of a generation, kids born in 2025 will be generation beta stretching until 2040. do you have that?

gen beta. gen alpha, gen beta, who knows. let's do another hour. >> visiting family in arkansas. arkansas to new york was the plan and here we are in dallas. >> what is your contingency plan? >> we're figuring that out right now. >> aishah: rough day for millions of travelers out there. severe weather disrupting lots of holiday plans forcing hundreds of flight cancellations and delays across the u.s. frustration levels are sky high in dallas and there is more travel trouble on the way. welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm aishah hasnie. dana and bill have the day off. >> griff: we have the names, the years, we're getting through this. great to be with you as always. happy friday. i'm griff jenkins. all those travel delays spilling over today. folks stranded now trying to get

home as the holiday travel rush picks up again ahead of new year's eve. meantime, a bumpy ride for drivers. a monster sinkhole swallowing part of a major interstate in new jersey forcing lane closures and long delays. adam klotz is in the fox extreme weather center. brooke taylor starts us off at dallas fort worth international airport. what does it look like? >> well, hopefully people had a good holiday week. it's about that time where people need a little bit of a break from their families ready to head home to the airports . let me tell you the weather is not making that easy on travelers. the security lines here are wrapped around the corner. let's get to the misery map now showing you what we're looking at. more than 2,000 delays, 79 cancellations within flights of the u.s. airports having the most issues atlanta, chicago, dallas,

houston and jfk. now those delays come as we close the week out with rain, severe weather and snow expected across parts of the country. right here in texas, governor greg abbott activating a state of emergency response resources on thursday to prepare for those severe weather conditions. we caught up with some travelers dealing with these delays. >> we're just traveling back to cleveland after our christmas family vacation. and hopefully we make our flight. it keeps on getting delayed. >> we're here until tomorrow. unexpected. but what can you do? >> slight leaves tomorrow morning. we're not sure if we get a hotel for the night or if we should hang out in the airport. >> and thursday afternoon thunderstorms here in dallas caused ground stops at two of the airports causing a lot of delays. we're still feeling the effects of that. they are playing christmas music in the background.

i don't know if you can hear it. trying to keep the mood light here but a tough day for travelers, griff. >> griff: we'll see if the christmas music does the trick. i'm not sure it is going to, though. the frustrating delays. brooke, thank you. >> aishah: we're watching some powerful thunderstorms, snow flurries out there as well and even tornadoes. can you believe that? threatening post holiday travel across the country. meteorologist adam klotz has the forecast for us and some bad news, adam? >> well, i don't know if i would call it all bad news but there are problem spots out there we have to pay attention to. i don't want it blamed on me. a couple trouble spots. what it looks like across the country. one area we've seen some storms moving across the gulf coast. we did see couple of tornadoes spin up across portions of the gulf coast. texas running into louisiana. today things are a little bit calmer out there. this is our severe storm threat and really at the lowest level. one on a scale of five there. maybe a couple of areas where

you see some big thunderstorms. again the lowest level of threat. unfortunately tomorrow we see this kind of ramp back up and you are looking at a big bull's-eye, three on a scale of five. big thunderstorms. downpours as far as rain goes. lightening talking about strong winds. isolated tornadoes. some could be large. than issue there. a bull's-eye over portions of mississippi. it would cause a couple of problems with travel. all these yellows mean some travel delays related to weather forecasts. it could get worse for folks on saturday. something similar on sunday as we watch all of this kind of spread out here across the country. as it actually moves into some of the colder air and not a lot of it across the country for the time being. we could talk about winter-like weather. an issue to interior new england here if there will be icing. otherwise i will leave you with this, a little warmer across big swaths of the country, just not where i am currently standing, aishah.

>> aishah: adam klotz live for us. thanks. >> trump is a master negotiation. we want to control our southern border and we want a fair pricing on the panama canal. it is a shot across the bow. it was not anyone -- on anyone's radar until president trump tweeted it and now it is. >> aishah: that's true. president-elect trump putting the world on notice floating plans to take over the panama canal and greenland. some trump allies will tell you he is serious. others call it maybe an act of negotiation. byron york is from "the washington examiner" and fox news contributor. he is doubling down on this. he did over the christmas holiday. he is not walking away from it. even though the owners of these two pieces of land are not keen on it. what is the strategy?

what's the play here? is this just a negotiation tactic or is he for real? >> this is an act of negotiation. there is no doubt about it. but it creates doubt in the minds of the other side. is trump really going to do this? if he doesn't do this, would he do something less that we still don't like that would be problematic for us? so yeah, this is an act of negotiation. the united states is not going to take over greenland or even take back the panama canal. but in the end, trump will probably end up with a situation more favorable to the united states than before he made his threats. so many of his tariff threats are just that. they are acts of negotiation and they are designed to change policy on the other side so that trump does not actually have to enact his threat. >> aishah: it is always interesting to see how the other party reacts, too.

talking with a premier of ontario in canada the other day and asked her about the teasing and justin trudeau would be the next governor, canada the 51st state and laughed it off and said trump is a funny guy. which he is. this is how a gop strategist looks at it basically saying here, byron, that sometimes crazy works. he says but from a foreign policy context, crazy worked just fine the first time. if leaders are like we may not respect you but absolutely think you are bonkers and don't know what is coming at us next, great, full send. if that leads to better peace and prosperity in ukraine and israel and terrorists on watch in foreign states, great. they should be put on notice. i would imagine you agree with that. >> i do. those are more acts of negotiation. one thing trump does personally as well as in terms of diplomacy is to size up the other side's

vulnerability. let's say you have a really big country to the north that still has kind of an inferiority complex. you start poking them a little bit and that's exactly what trump has done and by the way, he is getting action before he ever takes office out of canada to lower the number of crossings that we're seeing on the northern border. probably going to avoid some of the tariffs that trump has talked about. so trump always sizes up the opposition, looks for their vulnerabilities and pokes them right there. >> aishah: the democrats and give them time here. griff and i were talking about they are trying to figure themselves out. trying to figure out how they will go after trump and chuck schumer, you know, who hasn't been saying a lot in the last couple of weeks said this to "politico." i don't know exactly what trump will do but i can tell you this, the judiciary will be one of our strongest, if not strongest

barrier against what he does. i thought this was so strange because he starts off saying i don't even know what he is going to do but we are going to block him and prevent him from doing it. this is all they have? >> there is a couple of problems here. one is the electorate. a fascinating paragraph in a "wall street journal" story yesterday that mentioned an anonymous blue state governor, democratic blue state governor who took a poll in his state of whether people in his state wanted the state government to work with trump or oppose trump. came back 2-one work with trump. that's what democrats are facing now. as far as schumer and the judiciary is concerned, remember biden has confirmed a record number of judges in his four-year term and remember that out of the last 16 years, democrats have controlled the white house and therefore the judiciary dominating power for

12 of those 16 years. also remember in the first years of the trump administration, we would see trump do something and a single judge somewhere issue a nationwide injunction against it. that can be the power of the judiciary when trump tries to get things done early in his term. >> aishah: we shall wait and see what schumer is up to. byron york, thank you for joining us on your holiday weekend. thanks. >> griff: jay-z already at odds with the judge in his rape allegation lawsuit. now the rap mogul is facing blow back from the bench. new concerns over the bird flu outbreak. cdc saying the virus shows signs of mutating in humans. that begs the question, does that put the public at higher risk? dr. marc siegel will join us to explain coming up.

>> aishah: a new york judge is ruling to keep the name of the woman accusing jay-z of rape a secret for now. the woman claims the rap mogul drugged and raped her at a party in 2000 when she was 13 years old. jay-z is denying the allegations and pushing to dismiss the lawsuit. alexis mcadams is live in new york with more on this. >> in is a horrible lawsuit to read through the details. the woman said she was raped by the rappers when she was 13 years old. the name could be released at some point. the jane doe was living in rochester, new york. she met jay-z and sean diddy combs saying she was attacked by

the rap moguls at an after party. she says they took turns assaulting her when she was a teen saying others were at the after party but did nothing to stop the assault. the woman sued diddy back in october but last month refiled and added jay-z into the lawsuit. both of them have strongly denied the accusation so a judge is saying, aishah, that jay-z's legal team is filing inappropriate and combative motions for weeks to get her name released. the judge won't release the accuser's name because of in in part. the woman has possible harms of -- she has problems because of the stress of the sexual assault. diddy is in federal custody. talking about this one for month awaiting trial on charges of racketeering and sex trafficking.

diddy has been hit with numerous lawsuits. it is hard to keep up with what is going on in the civil suits. the woman admitted to nbc news there are inconsistencies with her stories but stands by her allegations. reached out to jay-z's attorney but haven't heard back yet but we'll keep an eye on it. >> aishah: alexis mcadams live for us, thanks. >> griff: cdc reporting the bird flu virus is showing mutations. in the first severe human case in the united states. potentially making the disease more contagious. the agency says currently there is no evidence anyone else caught the virus from the patient. let's bring in fox news senior medical analyst dr. marc siegel. dr. siegel, what do you make of this? we can actually show our viewers some of these numbers here now. confirmed total reported human cases in the united states, you can see it across the dairy and poultry farms and one other animal. not a huge number there.

obviously troubling. what do you make of it? >> let me start this out for you, griff. i've talked to top officials at cdc over the past week about this. two different types of bird flu out there. the one in the dairy cattle that you are seeing, 866 herds already, 660 in california. that is the type called b313. fancy name. it means when it actually infects humans it is mild. the symptoms have been mild across the board in that particular sub type. now we have to monitor that. it is spreading a lot among dairy cattle through milk machines and milking and occasionally gets to a farm worker. we have to control that. the second type is in the poultry which we've seen for two decades now. occasionally we've seen a mutation. d1.1 it is called where you get a severe illness. more severe than with the dairy

cattle than the type in birds. now they're seeing something where in the last two patients, one in british columbia and one into louisiana it got into upper airways fairly easily. they know where the two got it from. one got it from a backyard bird and no sign of any spread. flu mutates very easily. eight places on a flu molecule to mute tate compared to covid. much less so and why all the surveillance. we've never had a pandemic with a high number, h5n1. h5 is a type of molecule that attaches to human cells or animal cells. that has never gone human-to-human. cdc says the risk remains very low. >> griff: let's take a look at the map of where we're seeing cases across the country and

your insight is reassuring. you can see some 17 states have some 893 various confirmed cases with bird flu in cattle herds and livestock. as you look at this map, dr. siegel, that one patient in louisiana, are there other areas that you are particularly looking at and possibly concerned with? >> when you see that red state which is a blue state i'm much more concerned about california than anywhere because you are making a great point here, griff. once it starts to spread, the chances of it getting that mutation. we know what mutations it would need, by the way. a lot of argument about that. do we need gain-of-function research? answer, no, we don't. somebody did it on this molecule, somebody in the netherlands in 2012. we know what to look out for there. california worries me because

all the spread of cattle in california. it is unprecedented and why we have a level of alert here and need to be vigilant. >> griff: many of our viewers that reside in california work in agriculture jobs. is there advice you have for them or on any other state where they are around livestock and cattle? >> they have to be very alert. they have to be cleansing. i want to make one more other point. we can't drink raw milk. you need pastureized milk. milk kills the bird flu virus. figure out a way how to treat the cows to get rid of the infection before it spreads to humans or among the cows. there are different ideas going on. we're working on that. that has to happen. we have to control it within the herd. there is no question. farm workers have to be careful about the amount of contact they have. again, a lot of people with the milk machines are getting it. >> griff: does the cdc in your

opinion need to do more? you are talking with them. your assessment how they are handling it and what else they could do? >> i think they're doing a pretty good job. i would say the connection between the usda and cdc on this has to be extremely tight. that needs more work. there definitely doing better in realtime information than they did during the pandemic but the usda is playing a bill role, too. the joint effort between usda and cdc needs to be ramped up. >> griff: good to hear from you. there was a loss of trust. thank you for taking time. have a great weekend. >> aishah: the doge leaders are doubling down on plans to strip back bank regulators. why vivek ramaswamy want to eliminate one key agency from the obama era. could the great white north become a part of the usa? some canadians are on board with

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state. we'll see. kevin o'leary joins us now. you are a man from the north. this is your native land. what -- is this real? what are you hearing from people up there? >> more than half of canadians, 41 million of them. want to know more and understand what the proposal really is. the concept of an economic union has been bandied around for 40 years and makes sense. the resources canada have the u.s. needs, particularly power and water. there is something else. we've been talking about the border between canada and the united states. that is not the problem. the pentagon is worried and has been for decades about the northern border where china and the ussr are. we had norad decades ago. china was nothing back then. now they are a serious problem and i think it is a kernel of an idea. a joke to start. there is something great here to

be done because if you figured out a way to put these two countries together, it would be the most powerful country on earth. the most powerful military on earth, the most powerful resources and no adversary anywhere would mess with it. that's the prize. >> aishah: let's start with the idea it's the beginning of negotiations, people are talking about it. they polled canada and already and this is what they said. 13% said yes, there is a crowd there. 82% said no. kevin, what you are saying is maybe it doesn't have to be about taking the land. maybe you can broker some kind of economic union. that's what you want to help do, right? >> yeah, that poll is irrelevant. it's combining strengths. you don't have to sell or merge the country but create a union where you put together the things that matter, a common currency, a common passport,

free flowing trade across the border particularly in energy. and think about what that means. right now the u.s. grid is tapped out. you can't find a gig watt electrical power. there is unlimited power in canada. he have inschmidt said that in google. all these opportunities exist. the ministers are going to talk at mar-a-lago will get wiped out in 90 days in a national election. trudeau is immensely unpopular and canadians can't wait to get rid of him. it may have to wait but many canadians are interesting to how we could push this idea forward and i'm one of them. i think it is a great idea and the potential is massive and opportunity huge. i think at the end of the day canadians and americans, their dna is the same in terms of what they believe in. freedom. they fought in multiple wars

together. i say let's make it happen and end up the strongest entity on earth. i'm worried about china. we're in the beginning of a long economic war. if we're stronger in protecting the northern border and really making it hell for them around the world with our philosophy of freedom and commerce and strength, that is a good thing. >> aishah: are you going down to mar-a-lago? >> i would love to go down to mar-a-lago. i'm obviously interested in it. i do business on both sides of the border and i am going to the inauguration and excited about it. i have a lot of projects in both countries. i work with senators and governors and walk the aisles of the hill all the time as i do in ottawa. you can't do business anymore unless you are working with leadership in both countries. i'm a big advocate or figuring out how to get this thing together. >> aishah: if you get it together, give us the scoop. we want to break it with you right here. >> i'm a very rational guy. i can make this happen and

nobody would be unhappy about it. >> aishah: i bet you could. big ideas, exciting times. kevin o'leary, happy holidays. >> take care. >> aishah: thanks. >> griff: the guatemalan migrant charged with setting a woman an fire making another appearance in court today. he was arraigned earlier this week on first and second degree murder charges. mayor eric adams is also calling on federal prosecutors to press their own charges. police are still working to identify the victim saying she was burned beyond recognition. brooklyn district attorney erik gonzalez spoke to reporters a short time ago. >> the police and the medical examiner's office and many investigators are working to identify her. her body was badly burned and so advanced fingerprinting efforts are being made as well as advanced dna evidence to

identify her. but it appears a lighter was used to set her on fire and that's our working theory. the defendant through his lawyer waived his appearance. he wasn't brought up to court but he is due back in court in person on january 7th where the indictment will be unsealed and he will be arraigned on the indictment at that time. >> griff: prosecutors saying they will unseal the indictment against the defendant in his next court day as you heard is january 7th. growing political turmoil in south korea. the ousting of the sitting president was impeached. >> the impeachments have damaged the country's international image and deepened economic uncertainties as well.

take a look at some images from earlier today. chaos just unfolded as south korea's opposition control national assembly voted to impeach the acting president with a vote of 192-0. they crowded around the speaker's chair in protest chanting the vote was invalid and boycotted the vote. he was prime minister before he took over the role as acting president after president yu was impeached following his failed attempt to impose martial law earlier this month. in a statement after today's votes the man said he was saddened by the impeachment and accepted the outcome saying i respect parliaments decision. in order to avoid further chaos i will suspend my duties in accordance with relevant laws. the impeachment means the constitutional court will decide whether to dismiss or reinstate him while the court is already

reviewing whether to-up hold the earlier impeachment. the finance minister will become the next interim president. he announced the government has ordered the military to step up vigilance raising the possibility that north korea could take advantage of its political situation. >> through readiness, posture should be maintained for north korea's provocation, propaganda and agitation. >> today south korea's currency also weakened to its lowest point since march 2009. a lot to keep an eye on, griff. >> griff: stephanie bennett live in london. thank you. >> aishah: strategists say liberal leaders from obama, pelosi, schumer are all losing their influence after last month's crushing loss. what's next for this party? the last lottery of 2024 is a doozy, mega millions jackpot

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how much do you actually get? if you want the cash you get half that, $516 million that sounds like a lot. don't forget federal taxes, that's probably 37% if you are in the highest tax bracket. and so you do the math. it is not quite as much but certainly a whole lot more than we probably make, aishah. >> aishah: i can guarantee you that. i'm feeling lucky, i will buy one for you, how is that? but if i win i'll keep it. >> will you share if you win? oh, i was afraid of that. like my first wife. >> aishah: i will share it with you. everyone heard it on national news. >> really? >> griff: a reckoning for the democrats and liberal leaders. so-called old guard of obama, schumer and pelosi seem to have lost the hold on the party's base after last month's election loss.

opinion writer for the "boston globe" joins us now. karine, it seems that the power hold in washington has really begun to at least be a vacuum if not a total loss for the likes of obama, pelosi and schumer. a democratic strategist has seen it unfold over the last several decades. here is a little bit of what epstein is saying about the situation. he says this. the democratic poll it bureau, obama, pelosi, schumer, jeffries and others participated in the obvious lie that biden was capable of a second term in the anti-democratic move to install vice president harris. what do you make of it? >> that's certainly a part of it. you have the party that's touting democracy and they skipped the primary process. you end up with a different

nominee. that was something i heard voters get really frustrated about who i was on the campaign trail. it's more than that. democrats have framed themselves as the party of a lot of practical sounding legislation. inflation reduction, build back better. when you look in that legislation it is a whole lot of social spending. americans feel like they are getting very little practical results. that came through clearly in the election. a democratic blueprint reporting the number one reason that swing voters chose not to vote for kamala harris was because democrats are focusing on too much on cultural issues and leaving the kitchen table issues aside. when they folk on the activist causes, immigration for example states are feeling it all over the country. you are also seeing over 100 migrants died at the border this year. democrats are failing to hit on their kitchen table issues but also even on their activist

issues they are falling short. >> griff: you raise a good point. if you look we can see in the latest polling numbers when you asked voters whether they are satisfied with the direction of the country going you can see breaking down by party that before the election democrats 47% in october, now 30%. independents 20%, republicans 9%. so can nancy pelosi or a chuck schumer try and right some of that direction within the democrat brand itself? >> i think they are facing an extremely uphill battle. they have lost a lot of trust. americans are more used to a democratic party now that is chasing progressive causes more than just the kitchen table issues. you even had bernie sanders writing that democrats have to focus on economic issues more because they are losing working class voters to republicans. donald trump did very well with working class voters and has gone so far as to brand the republican party as more of a

working party. so democrats will have to sit down and really get their priorities straight. it starts with common sense issues. a lot of pessimism that we see rising with the direction of the country is largely driven by the economy. so many voters say we want to be able -- young voters want to buy a house like our parents. democrats would have to focus more on those issues rather than activist causes. >> griff: get back to focusing on working class americans and the issues that matter. karine, thank you for your time. good insight as always. >> thank you. >> aishah: so bank regulators may be the next tar guest on the chopping back for the doge team. musk and ramaswamy now doubling down on calls to get rid of the consumer financial protection bureau. grady trimble from fox business live at the white house with this story. hey, grady. >> so elon musk and vivek ramaswamy have previously floated either deleting or consolidating financial

regulators. as you mentioned they are bringing it up again doubling down on that request. specifically ramaswamy is calling out the consumer financial protection bureau in a post on x for overreach because of a rule that that agency finalized less than two weeks before christmas. ramaswamy writes this latest gamut is just a symptom of a deeper and unconstitutional cancer of unelect edinburgh congratulations instead of con gross. it is part of the biden administration's war on junk feels. it would require banks with more than $10 billion in assets to reduce their overdraft fees from an average of around $35 to $5 when an account goes negative. they also have the option to charge only what overdrafts cost the bank in losses or any amount

that they want if they treat the overdraft fee like a loan and clearly mark what the interest rate would be. the "wall street journal" editorial board writes by the biden administration's logic, hardly any fees are justified, even for free checking. regulators think every customer is a rube in need of their protection and evidence is an after thought. the board calls on congress to undo that cfpb rule. it sounds like musk and ramaswamy want to go further than that. they want congress to completely eliminate the cfpb entirely. maybe there is not so much of an appetite to do that. certainly not among democrats like senator warren who praises that agency on a regular basis and has previously said it is here to stay. but we'll see if doge gets their say in the matter, aishah. >> aishah: grady trimble, live at the white house. thanks. >> griff: check it out.

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overstate just how impressive it is that you even went out to surf that wave, or jaws as the wave is called is among the most dangerous in the world. you survived that wave and wipe-out. tell us what it was like. >> good morning, guys, thank you for having me. this wave was definitely something dreams are made of. this wave i saw coming in from pretty far out, me and my uncle, my ski driver. this is the wave. and so when i let go of the rope, actually thought this wave would barrel a lot harder so i was actually trying to fade, stall, let the wave set up so i could book door the barrel and really make it count. and then at the beginning of the clip right here you can see me stalling and then that lip came

down. we call that a chandelier. so i had to punch through that and i thought it was the hardest part and i would make it. right there i end up hitting like a three foot rib, which caused me to lose contact with the wave and sent me into the next chop which caused me to poke and that's when all of the cartwheels down the face started happening. >> aishah: wow, ty, did you think for a moment that you weren't going to make it? >> not for a second, no. big wave surfers, we train for these types of situations. there is a lot of training, breath hold work that goes on behind the scenes that a lot of people don't really see. we actually train to survive these wipe-outs, we don't train to ride the perfect wave into the channel because a lot of the times you aren't going to make

your wave and you will end up in a situation quite like this. >> griff: i have to ask you, what in the world made you want to go back out after suffering such a difficult wipe-out? >> oh man, this was the swell i have been waiting for and dreaming of for a very long time. it was the biggest projected surf board cast that we've seen in a long time coming in. so i knew that this day was going to be what my dreams were made of. and to me in this moment i actually was laughing when i resurfaced and got picked up. it was the craziest wipe-out and each cart wheel felt faster and faster. >> griff: wow, we have to leave it there. "the faulkner focus" is next with julie bandera