this is all the different foods that have basically everything to do with more money in the new year. i don't know if you realize that. everybody take a grape skewer, 12 grapes and eat them at midnight. they represent each month of the year. >> what country does this come from? >> everybody does this. tiktokers. pomegranates, mostly because they're round and about coins. we have cornbread because it's blocks of gold. that's good, too. honey for prosperity. and pork, you cannot -- it is empty. bring you more travel in the new year. everybody grab a pot and pan. >> happy new year. >> thank you.

>> america is mourning the death of jimmy carter. he died yesterday at the age of 100. his passing sending off a wave of tributes from around the world. i'm molly line. >> i'm bryan llenas, this is "america's newsroom." jimmy carter's life ended where it began, the small town of plains, georgia. a peanut farmer who won the presidency. >> he forged of legacy of helping others. >> president biden: jimmy carter lived the life measured by his deeds. he tried to eradicate disease, enforced peace, advanced civil rights, human rights, promoted free and fair elections around the world. big housing for the homeless with his own hands and his compassion and morale clarity.

>> the challenges jimmy faced as president came at a pivotal time for our country and did everything in his power to improve the lives of all americans. for that we aloe him a debt of gratitude. melania and i are thinking warmly of the carter family and loved ones during this difficult time. we urge everyone to keep them in their hearts and prayers. >> steve harrigan from the carter center. >> he died at age 100, surrounded by close family members. he had health troubles in recent years including melanoma. in hospice care for two years. the passing bring tributes from world leaders and ordinary americans who admired the life he led. >> we came to because we have a country boy from plains, georgia that was just a peanut farmer that became president of the

united states. and he was a man of the people. just a simple, humble, honest good man. >> obama said carter taught us what it meant to live a life of grace. bush said his work for habitat for humanity will inspire americans for years to come. >> there will be a state funeral in washington and a burial in plains, georgia. president biden declared january 9th an official day of mourning. >> he was best known for what he did in his post presidency. what projects were closest to his heart. >> a remarkable four decade long post presidency. one fight he had was a guinea warm. you get it from dirty water.

when carter first began to fight to get rid of that there were 3 1/2 million cases. just last year there were a dozen cases. carter said he wanted the guinea warm to die before he did. he came close. molly. >> let's touch on carter's work in elections around the world. you have been around the world. have you ever seen them in action? >> in many places after a coup, revolution, dictator in place. when you have an election often the carter center would be there and they were often seen by both sides as a fair referee. if the carter center said your election was legitimate, much of the world saw it that way as well. >> the carter center saying they have observed over 125 elections in 40 countries. quite the legacy. steve harrigan, thank you. >> thank you. >> in washington the countdown clock to inauguration day is ticking. before that congress has work to

do to get ready for president-elect trump on day one. first on the list is the voter for speaker of the house happening this week. alexandria hoff live in washington with more. alex. >> what's unfolding now exposes a gap in the american political system. if there is a lack of con sen cess making the electoral college can't get sorted out. the next in line is speaker of the house but there wouldn't be one. worst case scenario for mike johnson who can afford to lose the support of one republican. he faces opposition from four to ten. supporters feel he will get reelected to speakership despite being weakened by the funding battle earlier this month. >> we can't be sandering away days and weeks when we have an agenda to pass to save this country. >> i strongly encourage donald trump to get on the phone with those five or six members who

won't commit to voting for mike johnson. all this is going to do is delay it. >> speaker vote is friday. election results must be certified by january 6. there is no dispute that donald trump won the election. democrats are reveling in the gop unknowns. >> i don't think he will get elected on friday, which is the day we swear in on january 3rd. honey, they went to the bottom of the barrel to find him in the first place so i don't know how much deeper they can dig. >> for those who think the speakership will be wrapped up this week. the first will be to insure a secure border and hammering out a budget deal. there is confirmation hearings to be had for trump's cabinet nominees. >> a lot depending on the vote on friday. alexandria hoff, thank you. >> joining us no you to kick off the discussion on this is charlie hurt. fox news contributor. delighted to have you in this

morning. happy new year. what are the chances? are we facing another protracted speaker battle with republicans not unifying? >> i think we look at a battle. i doubtful how protracted it will be. president trump we saw over the weekend is dissatisfied with the idea that republicans and democrats didn't deal with the debt ceiling fight in the previous budget battle. and kicked it to next year, which will create a huge problem for republicans. i get a lot of the concern from a lot of republicans that speaker johnson is not sort of this great warrior fighter who -- which i also understand because you are dealing with a handful of vote difference between democrats and republicans, which is a problem. the thing that i think is going to focus republican attention is the fact that republicans, if they can get this dealt with,

have control unlike last time of the house, the senate and the white house. that means they can get a lot done. the house is not sort of the final bull work all their power resides. they are going to probably figure it out and i would be sort of surprised. if there was somebody else waiting in the wings that would be a good replacement, who would want that job? i wouldn't want that job. if there was somebody waiting in the wings i think we would already have an idea of that. >> do you think mike johnson will be the speaker by the end of 2025? >> i think it winds up being mike johnson again. kind of the same way he wound up the last time as an accidental speaker where nobody else wants the job and he basically fits the bill and it works. >> okay. want to take you to another topic. president biden still believes plus all this reporting that he would have won this race had he

stayed in it. "washington post" writing biden and some of his aides believe he should be stayed in the race that prompted democrats to pressure him to drop out. biden and aides said he could have defeated trump according people with familiar with their comments to describe private conversations. the "wall street journal" editorial board said this. mr. biden's regret should be how he governed and that he didn't drop out a year later. your thoughts on this, charlie. >> this whole article they talked to dozens of people. all anonymous on certain of both sides of the schism within the white house. biden and harris allies. it is the most delusional thing that i've ever read in politics in the last couple months. which is saying something. the idea -- of course, the whispering from the harris faction is that oh, he didn't get out soon enough. if he had gotten out sooner and

she had had an opportunity to run a full pledged campaign she would have done better and won. that's completely false. i think in a lot of ways i think that she probably would have lost worse if she had had more time. the more people got to know her, the less people liked her. the other thing that i think is interesting. joe biden's big regret is that merrick garland wasn't poll itized enough. his complaint was he went after his son. i don't know how you square that. also he didn't go hard enough against donald trump. go after -- pursue donald trump enough. and so it is -- you know, until they work through all of these internal problems, democrats have a long way to go. >> before we let you go we're remembering the long life of former president jimmy carter and get your thoughts and reflections. >> the most successful

ex-presidentsy we've ever seen and i love the statement that president trump put out. extraordinarily decent man. >> i was looking at he had four decades to have an ex-presidentsy. biden won't have that time. this reads to me as biden trying to cement what his version or view of his legacy is knowing he won't have the same kind of time carter did to potentially change that legacy. >> jimmy carter's ex presidency lasted longer than john f. kennedy's life did when he got elected. >> astounding. >> former president carter used every moment of it. made the most of it for certain. charlie hurt, thank you so much. happy new year. >> fox news alert on the investigation into the south korean plane crash. the possible causes that are emerging.

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>> molly: an investigation is underway after a plane crash in

south korea killed 181. officials there now plan to inspect the entire flight of the boeing model all at one of the country's airlines. sunday's crash happened as the passenger jet tried to land at the international airport, 180 miles south of soule. >> a horrendous and deadly air accident in south korea, invest indicators are beginning to pick up the pieces. the plane did a crash landing in the southwestern part of the country. its landing gear was not down. engines and other systems seemed to be mal functioning. the plane ran off the runway, crashed into a concrete barrier, exploding into flames and breaking up. only two members of the flight crew survived the crash, 179 people were killed including all

of the passengers. as distraught families gathered at a makeshift memorial they learned it could be days before all the victims would be identified and returned to their loved ones. as for the cause of the crash officials say the airport's control tore issued a warning of a possible flock of birds near the approaching plane. shortly after, the plane's pilot gave a may day call an confirmed it was hit by birds. experts say, though, that that shouldn't alone have caused the catastrophic incident. the plane's black boxes have been recovered and inspectors are on the way to the scene to help. boeing has also offered assistance. the company is plagued by safety and other issues. this model is considered very safe and used widely around the world. south korea will look at the aircraft type among all its airlines. molly, one more thing. south korea is going through political upheaval right now

going through a if you presidents in recent weeks. experts are concerned the government might not be able to handle this national disaster on top of it all. back to you. >> molly: greg palkot, thank you. >> brian: let's bring in jay ratcliffe an aviation analyst. the theory that a bird strike led to the failure of an engine and hydraulic system in the landing gear. my first question to you is do you believe that a bird strike could have caused both of those things? >> it would be very rare. brian, bird strikes are common. they happen every day and pilots are trained to respond. when we have a bird that's ingested into an aircraft engine and that engine fails the crew what's to do and it can fly-in definitely on one engine and make a normal landing when it

happens. a bird strike causing a mal function affecting the hydraulic is rare. it led to hydraulic issues with engine failure but when it comes down to a bird strike. a lot of this is as perplexing as tragic and certainly the investigators will look at the evidence that they have especially the two black boxes and allow the evidence to dictate the course of this investigation. >> brian: what does it tell you the plane tried to land one time and then aborted that landing and then landed this time and overshot the runway? >> again, a lot of questions here because one of the things that you look at was that aircraft is coming in is the fact that the landing gear has yet to be deployed and it can be done manually, which can be done separate from the hydraulic system. so the idea that you can activate gravity-deployed thing

that would allow the landing gears to drop, that was not done. we need to know why. the fact that the landing flaps were not set at 40 degrees, which is called for, in a belly landing by boeing on this particular aircraft, that also was not done. we also have a situation where the reverse thrusters may or may not have been engaged. absent of the landing gear you have no ability to slow the aircrafts and use the flaps and reverse thrusters to produce any drag that will help. one of the things that we notice as this aircraft landed as it's going down the runway and aircraft is not coming apart, not on fire, and had there been ample space for this aircraft a very good chance it would have continued off that runway into a part of the airport, would have come to rest and every passenger would have walked away. whatever idiotic engineering thought process decided to put a concrete wall at the end of a

runway in an overrun section is for me beyond me. in this airport is a relatively new airport speaking as airports are. why that was the case we simplately don't know. one of the things that the investigators will look at in this investigation is obviously the state of the aircraft itself, they will be looking at the maintenance records of this aircraft, the training and also be listening to the checklist as it was ongoing on the cockpit. now, one of the things the investigators will look at. this has happened before in commercial aviation, is we've had crews that have forgotten to deploy the landing gear. we don't know if that's the case here but that's one of many boxes that the investigators will look at to see if everything was rush or abbreviated checklist or a medical episode with one of the pilots at one of the critical moments as the aircraft came in to land. >> you mentioned that concrete wall. investigators are looking at

that wall. called a localizeer, i didn't know this. these walls are essentially they contain antennas and not supposed to be made of full blown concrete. they are supposed to break apart to not cause the horrific scenes that we saw in south korea and with that fireball. can you tell us more about the localizer? it is not supposed to be a full blown concrete wall. >> absolutely not. anyone who has flown as you taxi out for departure you see those antennas at the end of every runway that are there for a specific reason and they are also designed to be breakaway. in other words, if an aircraft overshoots a runway that happens from time to time they're designed to give way with limited if any damage to the aircraft. this concrete wall could have stopped a tank at the end of this runway and again yes the crew did land long apparently

where they were further down the runway and no braking apparatuss in place that might have assisted the slowing down of that aircraft, but the bottom line is that it was the wall that caused this entire issue and there may have been other factors that contributed, but the idea that the crew had to land and they were powerless to stop the progress of that aircraft and it hit that wall as it did led to all of this incredible tragedy that so many families will be impacted. one of the things we have to do is we learn from every single accident orner accident. it is my hope that every airport on the planet will revisit their logistics with regards to what is at the end of each one of their runways so if anyone else has this concrete wall at the end of a runway that we can quickly change that to try to honor the lives of those that were lost by making conditions safer at airports around the world.

>> brian: you bring up excellent points. thank you so much for being here. happy new year to you as our thoughts and prayers are with the families of the 179 victims. jay ratliff, thank you. >> molly: great conversation. north korea's kim promising the toughest u.s. strategy before trump takes office. general jack keane what it means for the relations between the two leaders. a warning to sanctuary city leaders who refuse to cooperate with the enforcement of illegal immigration. >> any elected official, anybody in the city you should want to remove public safety threats from your communities. that is your number one responsibility. we want to help you do that. if you don't want to help, get out of the way and we'll come and do it for you. the people ye get older, their risk of severe flu and covid goes up. last year alone, those viruses hospitalized nearly 1 million people 65 and older. that's nearly 1 million moms, dads,

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>> brian: tom homan as a stand-off looms with sanctuary city leaders pledging to resist the new administration's crackdown on illegal immigration. william la jeunesse live in l.a. with more on this story, william. >> brian, now president trump is turning up the heat. a letter from his incoming deputy chief of staff stephen miller's legal foundation telling 250 sanctuary city mayors and police chiefs they will be prosecuted if they interfere with the administration's deportation plan because it is a crime to conceal or shield immigrants. >> president trump regardless on day one will issue a series of executive orders that seal the border shut and begin the largest deportation operation in american history. >> local laws say police cannot use government resources meaning computers or phones to communicate with ice about the release of an immigrant in custody, which is contrary to federal law which says the opposite, that state and local government cannot restrict

police from communicating with ice. that is why it's important to look at this. ice filed 300,000 detainers in the last four years telling cities and state jails to hold immigrants for deportation. even more detainers were filed under president trump, many in california cities that ignored those detainers with sanctuary laws banning police from notifying or transferring any immigrant to ice no matter how bad their crime. the state also shields all but the most violent criminal aliens putting sheriffs sworn to protect public safety between a rock and hard place facing federal prosecution if they don't cooperate and the state if they do. >> currently not specifically aware of any d.a. or sheriff that is planning to violate sb54. i don't recommend they do. >> so in california police cannot even ask a criminal's immigration status, can't share their personal information with

ice, or help ice in any way. so does that interfere with federal enforcement which says just being here illegally is a deportable crime? expect that to be argued in court. >> absolutely. if you don't get help from the local police you need tens of thousands for ice officers. we'll see. resources have to come from somewhere. william la jeunesse live in l.a. thank you. >> molly: growing hostility from north korea, kim saying he will have to most anti-american policies ahead of trump's second term. we bring in jack keane. here we are on the cusp of a new year and second trump administration. i have to say president trump had this kind of romance going with kim jong unfor a while. the first president setting foot

in north korea. is the romance done? >> iended in 2019 when president trump walked out of negotiations taking place in hanoi. it was as a result of those negotiations and the trump administration realized the kim jong unwas all talk and not walk away from his nuclear program. as a result of that we pretty much broke off any thought that some nuclear deal is going to be made. when president trump took power kim was testing short and long range missiles and developed very conciliatory tone. this time he has a confrontational tone and recognizes he is competing with a war in ukraine, war in the middle east and china's aggression in the pacific. he is competing for attention. likely that's what he is trying to get here. what is he really after? he wants to be accepted as a nuclear power as the other

nuclear powers in the world are accepted by the international community and wants normal trade relations and removal of the sanctions even though he gets around the u.n. sanctions because russia and china help him out in terms of back during those sanctions. he really wants normal economic relations. that's what he is attempting to achieve in the face of what? in the face of two aggressive south korean administrations that have increased military capability and worked much stronger with the united states in terms of an exercise program and in the face of regional confrontation with japan, south korea and the united states coming together in an historic relationship particularly bringing south korea and japan together. one of the reasons for that is certainly china. the other reason is north korea. that is what he is facing out there. he is facing more confrontation, more isolation and trying to change the table here in terms of relationships with the united

states. >> molly: the tone he is taking also north korea aligning themselves with russia, helping out with the war in ukraine. is this a major concern? >> yeah, absolutely. the reality of it. it doesn't get the play it should get. north korea has come in and declared war against ukraine on the side of russia much as itly did on the side of germany in world war ii. two countries together to defeat ukraine. that's the most significant escalation of the war. another country fighting side-by-side with russia. and not only that, but they provide them with significant ballistic missiles, significant artillery. they share artillery weapons themselves. they're a major aid to russia in its attempt to try to defeat ukraine. that relationship is going to continue. >> molly: concerns about the

reciprocal nature of enhancing north korea's abilities as well. thank you so much. always appreciate your analysis. happy new year to you. >> happy new year, molly and the team there, thank you. >> brian: new report revealing a sobering statistic on the number of people experiencing homelessness in our country. what's behind the rise? experts fear credit card debt is set to hear historic levels. we break down the numbers next.

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>> brian: 'tis the season for miracles. one florida' family's wish was granted christmas eve when their

missing dog returned home and rang the doorbell to let her humans know she is back. a 4-year-old german shepherd got lost near jacksonville december 15th. the owners say her safe return brought them the joy they needed for the holidays. she will get micro chipped as soon as possible. now that she needs it. she knows where home is. >> molly: all the skills. all right. some drivers may want to park their cars with insurance rates on the rise. costs are up 21% year-over-year and that's only expected to increase in the new year. max gordon is live in los angeles with more. good morning, max. >> good morning, molly. auto insurance is getting really expensive. at auto works collision center in los angeles the owner says more and more car owners are willing to pay out-of-pocket rather than going through insurance. take a listen. >> i have customers, returning customers of mine willing to pay 4,000 or 5,000 out-of-pocket to

avoid going through their insurance company. there is a fear of their premium going up and bigger fear of their insurance provider dropping them. >> auto insurance prices have been soaring. according to the bureau of labor statistics the cost of auto insurance is up 57% since january of 2021. according to nerd wallet the average cost for minimum coverage is $598 and the average cost for full coverage $2 thousand 281. auto insurance costs can vary depending on personal situations. a number of factors have led to the rise in prices. the increase has been driven by rising accident frequency and severity, injuries and settlements and increase in the costs to repair vehicles because of supply chain issues, higher labor costs and increased tech being used in vehicles making them tougher and more costly to repair. they object auto repair costs

will rise 3.8% in 2025. now, the -- when it comes to the cheapest states for auto insurance, that goes to wyoming, vermont, new hampshire. most expensive louisiana, florida, and rhode island. you might note both la and florida have a lot of natural disasters and one of the reasons for the expensive insurance down south. >> brian: gift giving season may be over but the costs from christmas shopping could linger for months. a new survey shows 36% of americans picked up credit card debt over the holiday season with an average balance of just under $1200. cheryl cast -- thank you both for joining us. i want to pull up this graphic.

the record credit card debt that americans are facing $1.7 trillion in credit card debt. that's up 8% from last year. what do you make of that number? what concerns you the most when you see that? >> we're addicted to debt. a nation addicted to spending. americans got all those stimulus checks and all the free money handed out in 2020, 2021 and went into 2022 and they haven't been able to bring that back to reality. i think that's a big piece of the problem. the other is we spend $1 hundred more than we did last year i think that's kind of that well, it's not going to come to roost. on my credit card. you will have to worry about it. what the banks are telling us, they're seeing more and more defaults on credit cards. so those americans that got so used to charging and spending more money are defaulting more and more and missing payments. those numbers are going up.

when your financial institutions tell you americans are going to debt and missing payments and see numbers like this. i don't like. sorry, retailers out in america, i know you are happy people are spending money but they are saying there will be more. inflation. jackui knows this, too. >> more expensive. i think that's why you are seeing record numbers in a way we haven't seen before. to the point cheryl makes it is sad people saved money during the pandemic, the savings rate was up and here they are again reverting to old ways and charging up a storm. part of it has been necessity because of inflation. i'm not surprised kids will get toys under the tree. parents will figure out a way to do it even if it the financially harmful. inflation was sticky though the numbers have come down for food and housing and so that's created a situation where the other items, the discretionary items are harder to come by.

interest rates are higher and why the defaults are up. this is not a good recipe. i think that part of what we saw in the election was people realizing this is not an economy they want to live in with hopes that the incoming administration will turn it around. >> it is not like americans are paying off debt. 30% are still trying to pay off last christmas's holiday gifts. let's talk about homelessness. increase in homelessness this year 18.1%. "washington post" puts it this way. the report attributed the high number to several factors, a multi-year surge in home prices and fast risings rent costs, reduction in covid era he assistance and homeless service systems ex as prateed by influx of migrants. we spent billions in two years taking care of migrants. that could have helped homeless americans already here. >> you also have a large homeless population still here

in new york city which we all know. look at case in point. california, okay? this is where the spending on homelessness has gotten out of control and being lost. they spent $24 billion from 2019 to now and they added 30,000 homeless individuals in the state of california. if i'm a taxpayer there i'm not happy. deep dive into why? lack of oversight. that's a big one. where is the money going? you are paying service providers for the homeless population. where is the money going as well as lack of affordability that you mentioned. of course, the migrant influx. all three of those things is a national story but bears fruit in california where the beauty of california is lost. i want to say bill wells wrote this as foxnews.com. i'm a blue state mayor and the future of homelessness scares me. he is a mayor in california. >> this is happening in blue states and massachusetts as well. a huge crisis over the course of the last year regarding housing

and affordability. jackie, when it comes to that issue there is a manpower issue. there are a lot of people trying to pull this together and it is costing money for governments across the country. >> it is what makes me sad. people on the cusp of homelessness and stats are up across the country. you think about the job market. we talk where the jobs are added every time a report comes out. added in government jobs, not in the kinds of jobs somebody on the cusp of homelessness might be looking to secure a more normal type of job. hopefully that will change as we have the doge commission coming in and efficiency will be better and want to grow this economy. it's sad when you think about the resources being spent on migrants and other programs basically being taken away from the american citizens. we see it here in new york city and you see it across in blue states. sadly, i'm not sure how much will change. at the federal level we can certainly change things but on the state level you see a lot of

these mayors pushing back and saying we don't want to remove the migrants. so these places will live in a state of limbo as long as people keep voting blue leaders in that will support these policies. and there is really something very troubling about that. the inflation problem is part of this, too. last week on this program we actually talked about people who were not able to afford rent moving into motels with their kids cooking out of microwaves. that's the state of affairs right now. something needs to change. >> brian: absolutely it does. i like when you both are here. jackie and cheryl, happy new year. >> molly: four people are dead following a severe weather update in the south. moments from now new york city officials will address security preparations underway as millions descend on times square

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>> molly: cdc with a new warning. the norovirus is on the rise. health officials say there were more than 90 cases in the first week of december. a little warning for you. >> bryan: a >> brian: four people killed. dozens of homes destroyed tens of thousands without power. brandi campbell live in mccall creek, mississippi. >> good morning from mccall creek where people are waking up to dense fog as they continue to assess the damage after this weekend's tornadoes and start that cleanup as well. as you can see behind me, this is some of the structures that

took on damage. this is a family home you can see the roof was torn off. but also blasted open and believe it or not there was a family inside of this home at the time of when the tornado passed through. they are all okay thankfully. so far over a dozen tornadoes have been confirmed across the south with more confirmations to come. locally the jackson, mississippi national weather service has preliminary results out saying the tornado that passed here was an ef2. i have mr. david mcgee with me. a resident here and here as everything unfolded on saturday. can you share with our viewers what was the moment like as the tornado passed through for you? >> it just came up so fast and when it hit, it seemed like it lasted 30 seconds. it was sounded like a freight train coming through and i thank the lord we are all safe and sound and nobody got hurt. we can replace property and

stuff. everybody was safe and sound. >> right. now since then you have property behind you, your shed behind you is completely to the ground. you have had help. what does it mean to have family and friends to help you guys during this time? >> it's overwhelming in a way. when you find out who your true friends and family is. i have had people come by. i had a gentleman come by and will pick up a part for me so when the power company comes through we can hook up my power to one of my buildings up there. and he wouldn't even take any money to pay for it. i'll make him take some when he gets back. that's the kind of situation you run into. i just thank the lord for good people. >> thank you for sharing that and our prayers are with you guys. hopefully we can all and you guys can get past this very soon. thank you, sir. we'll send it back to you guys here from mccall creek, mississippi. >> brian: thank you so much for

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