was not uncommon for him. he did a lot of things he didn't want people to know about. when i think of him, i think of the word humility. no kid that attends the jimmy and is rosalynn carter boys and girls' club has obey a fee because unbeknownst to anybody, he was paying it secretly. he and and miss rosalynn are. and out of the 5,000 clubhouses that boys and girls' clubs of america has throughout the united states on military installations abroad, only two are named for former presidents, the herbert hoover club in st. louis and the jimmy and rosalynn carter unit in plains. and the difference between those two is that president carter physically built his club. finish. david: you know, as a former boys club member myself, i grew up in washington, d.c., but i gotta tell you, i'm very proud of the work that he did. and service the -- i can't -- it was, i can't tell you how wonderful my experience was decades ago growing up with the

boys' club because i learned everything from how to shoot a .22 to how to get along with people, to how to row a skull in the potomac river are. i mean, it gives you basic, good, common sense, decent ways of growing up that a lot of kids don't have access >> i, too, am a club kid and worked in the national headquarters and a privilege of being the ceo of the clubs that i grew up in and that's what i wanted for everybody, he wanted to make sure that every young person regardless of race or ability to pay, had a place to go, grow and thrive and that's one of the things i will always remember and always respect and appreciate about him. >> and again, it got sort of like the military, when you're in the military, you don't see color. when you're in the military you see a brother next to you and in the case of the boys and girls club, a sister next to

you. i mean, that that was the ideal that the boys club was created in and it's one that jimmy carter understood so well, and has carried on to future generations. >> absolutely. and part of the many promises that we made to each other, i'm glad to be able to say that with the help of the carter center that the jimmy and rosalynn carter, that will be there forever and his legacy will be on and young people through sumpter county, plains georgia. david: forgive me if i said just the boys club. when i was growing up it was the boys club and expanded to the girls. >> i was as well. david: you know what i'm talking about. marvin, thank you so much. it was wonderful to get your perspective on things. david spunt is still with us.

david, you're in plains and you've had a chance to get around and talk to the people of plains, what do they tell you about jimmy carter? >> well, they know him as mr. jimmy, david. someone that rode his bicycle around town, the first president born in a hospital in this area in 1924, october 1st, 1924, as i mentioned earlier he went to the naval academy, he studied under admiral heiman rickover, and he came back to help his father with the farm and he taught sunday school when he was in town for years and people could come from all over the place. i was a young reporter almost 20 years ago in columbus, georgia. i used to come to his sunday school services and met him several times and an opportunity to you can at that to him and finally granted me an interview at his boyhood home there on the porch of that boyhood home where you saw the coffin just pass and someone in their early 20's i was honored

to sit down with him about his career and life in plains. he always brought conversations, david, back to plains, georgia. he loved plains, georgia and ride his bike around town and he would-- people would call him mr. jimmy, a very casual atmosphere for jimmy carter and felt most comfortable here and this is where he'll be laid to rest next to his wife rosalynn carter. david: what a great image. we don't see american presidents like that these days, i mean, he really was iconic and except for harry truman, the only one i can kind of remember who had the same kind of smalltown feel that jimmy carter did. >> who went back home. david: exactly, and he came back home today. david spunt, thank you so much for your reporting, appreciate it. >> thanks, david. david: moving on press reaction this morning as the first lawsuit against new orleans is filed in the wake of the deadly terror attack that left 14 dead, and dozens injured.

louisiana attorney general is moments away. welcome to hour two of fox news live, i'm david asman. to madison scarpino with the very latest. >> good morning, david. a local law firm representing one of the survivors of this attack says the city of new orleans and the nopd failed to implement some basic safety measures putting nola citizens and visitors at risk and they say that this act of terror by shamsud din jabbar was both foreseeable and preventible and evidence will prove that. the law firm says in part, quote, because of the negligence of the nopd ap the city of new orleans, 14 innocent lives were lost. dozens more were injured and the course the of their lives forever changed. the survivors this have tragic event will bear the emotional ap physical scars for the rest of their lives. now, the city was warned something like this could

happen for years. several security reports said that french quarter crowds are a risk for mass casualty events ap the typical barriers in place here in the french quarter were not because of super bowl preparations. meanwhile, the fbi says it is returning to jabbar's houston, texas home. we learned that he set fire to his new orleans rental property to conceal evidence and bomb making materials were found in both of those locations. just days after the attack, bourbon street is fully reopened and memorials are growing. eddie williams lost his distant relative in the attack, new orleans native terrence kennedy. >> the importance of leaving them off right there for terry for me, i know he loved bourbon street. bourbon street is like the heart of our lives, a senseless act like that right there that happened, who knows when something else like that will

happen again. >> the fbi put out a joint bulletin to 18,000 law enforcement agencies nationwide warning to be extra vigilant for copy cat terror attacks and we know that the president and first lady are set to be here on monday, david, back to you. david: thank you very much for that, madison. president biden is expected to visit new orleans monday in wake of the terror attack as madison just said. to lucas tomlinson at the white house with more. >> well, david, the president was asked yesterday had he spoken to any of the victims' families? >> mr. president, have you spoken to any of the families of the victims in new orleans? >> yes, i have. >> what have they told you? what are there-- >> thank you, thank you. let's go, guys, thank you, everybody. >> after an isis-inspired terror attack on bourbon

street, critics said the fbi has taken off their eye off the ball, preying on grandmothers outside of clinics off terrorism. back to 2023, biden said white supremacy was the biggest trer terror threat in the u.s.ment i followed up in the briefing room. >> and thank you, everybody. still consider white supremacy the greatest threat in the united states? >> no dice there. the president will hand out medals of freedoming, bono, a and-- >> thank you, with me is louisiana republican attorney general liz, thank you for being here. and i want to read a statement from the new orleans mayor's office about what happened and

the reaction to what's happened. they say the city of new orleans will not be distracted by outside commentary and welcomes everyone to join the positive efforts of the unified command partners. now, in light of what we are now being told by how unprepared, particularly for the bourbon street massacre, to take place, where the car clearly went right through an insufficient barrier that they had, even though they had barriers that were in storage, do you think that statement is going to hold up? by the way, the city is now being sued by victims of that attack. >> well, i think lawsuits are, you know, predictable after something like this and look, the city is going to have to be answering a lot of hard questions while it also gets ready for a super bowl. preparing for the super bowl, it's going to be more of a

federal and state preparation matter, the oversight of that is the responsibility of the federal government, the nfl and the state officials. but i will say that new orleans obviously has to be part of that. and they also have to answer questions about what happened. >> yeah, well, the biggest question is, why were they so unprepared? i'm not going to run the whole sound bite, but people have heard it. the police chief as the superintendent down there, we did have a plan, i'm quoting her directly, we did have a plan, but the terrorist defeated it. the problem is you need a plan that they're not going to defeat and clearly you had access to barriers that weren't being used and other problems pointed to going back as far as 2020 about security on bourbon street, it doesn't appear that they were prepared. >> look, again, there are a lot of questions that need to be answered about who did what when, what were the preparations, who was involved

in those preparations. what needs to be done to fix it? i know that the governor and i are going to be very zeroed in on what we need to do to make sure that nothing like this ever happens again and that means we need to look at the structure of their preparation, so, you know, we will have a close, close eye on what happened, when it happened, what didn't happen, and what needs to make-- what we need to do to fix it in the future. david: and what happened to the money, by the way. there was 40 million, i guess back in 2017, but there was money, $40 million given specifically focusing on bourbon street as a potential target of terrorists. do we know what happened to all of that money? >> i don't think we know the answer to that question yet, but i am sure we will obtain it. david: attorney general, thank you so much for being there and our sympathies to the community of new orleans, a beautiful city, and we wish you the very best for the super bowl. thank you for joining us. >> thank you so much. david: so, the new orleans terror attack suspect was not

on the radar, given the reported stash of weapons and bomb making materials at home, at his homes, should he have been? chris, former fbi assistant director, by the way, what do you make of this? the fbi -- when the fbi takes over a crime scene, by the way, it's supposed to calm things down and give very specific information and instead, we had a special agent come out right after the attack saying this isn't a terrorist attack, which clearly it was. what does this tell you about how the fbi needs to be ref reformed? >> yeah, i mean, they sent out a fairly junior fbi manager who clearly was ill-equipped and really had no experiences to draw on to do the press conference, first saying there is no terrorism, then there was terrorism and then accomplices and then no accomplices and we were all left in a state of confusion, which is not what you want in a situation like

that. so they sent an adult out there, a deputy assistant director out to the scene which kind of, you know, shows you the dichotomy in the fbi. there's a lot of good people in the fbi, experienced just and they're just looking for good leadership and then you have what you saw there on the first day. so, whoever goes in there has to go in there and identify those good leaders and cultivate them and enable them and then weed out the ones noncompetent and promoted not based on merit. david: the biden administration doesn't want to talk about it. and we saw lucas tomlinson with jean-pierre not answering the question. we had secretary mayorkas, the attorney general, all three declaring the biggest terrorist threat in america was from white supremacists which clearly, looking at this particular terrorist account, just runs smack in the face of reality. how do we weed out the wokism

in the fbi? >> yeah, i mean, gosh, i.t., international terrorism has always been the greatest threat and we bristled-- i and my colleagues and people inside the fbi were bristling throughout that whole process. the proclamations that right supremacists and right wing extremists were the greatest threat to the united states. that's not true. it never has been true and these terrorists that we're dealing with, the international terrorists are playing the long game and we see it here. we see this person was radicalized from a distance although he did travel to egypt and he did spend about a month in egypt with isis in the sinai exists and there's a heavy isis presence. we've got to get the eye back on the international terrorism ball, back on gangs, back on criminal enterprises. china as an intelligence threat, counterterrorism. let's dispense with the january

6th trespasser issue, you know, they scorched the earth using cell phone analysis and video analysis and banking transactions, they had banks coughing up information about people who had an atm transaction somewhere near the capitol grounds. they should direct those resources towards i.t. david: you put your finger on it. direct the resources, we've had so many fbi raids that seemed to have political motivations whether they were against parents, against people praying in front of abortion clinics or even against the president. the fbi raid of mar-a-lago was the kind of thing that seemed in many people's eyes to start the whole law fare business. is kash patel one. answers? is he going to straighten out the agency itself and one of the first things that trump did was when he was first in office fire all of the prosecutors by

barack obama. should the new president trump do the same thing this time? . without a doubt the president should remove all the u.s. attorneys and replace them with people who are -- follow the constitution. don't put a political bent on prosecution. with respect to kash patel, what i would say about that, the fbi needs a reformer, they need someone to come in there and identify and cultivate the good leaders, the good agents and analysts and weed out the bad ones. 10 years ago we wouldn't have needed a kash patel to come into the fbi, but the actions since 2016 call for someone to come in and reform the fbi, but not tear it down. we need them. david: chris swecker, thank you for your service, chris. good man and we appreciate you coming in. have a good new year. and judge marchan having donald

trump facing sentencing 10 days before inauguration, but no jail time. what is this all about? republican congressman mike waller coming up next. mike lawler coming up next.

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slamming new york judge marchan after he denied to dismiss charges against him in the hush money trial, instead announced trump will be sentenced next week, just a few days before inauguration day. cb cotton is in new york with the latest on this. c. b. >> hi, david, well, president-elect donald trump's sentencing is yet for january 10th, 10 days before his inauguration as the 47th president. so trump has the option to appear in person or virtually. presiding judge marchan says he favors what's considered a lenient sentence and unconditional discharge, which means trump would get no punishment, fines or prison time, but the conviction would still stand and give trump the chance to appeal the case. trump's spokesman called the entire case a witch hunt saying there should be no sentencing and trump must be allowed to continue the presidential transition process and trump

spoke to fox news ding digitally, they want to see if they get a pound of flesh because every case has failed. and marchan denied a bid to throw out the case last month when trump's legal team convicted it violated a recent supreme court ruling for president broad immunity from official actions and marchan is reviewing other motions filed by the president-elect and his legal team to dismiss the case. back to you. david: cb, thank you very much. here to react is new york republican congressman mike l lawler. we just got a truth social from the president-elect. i'm going to read part of it. it's long and quite hard. he says there's never been a president so evilly and illegally treated as i. corrupt democrat judges and prosecutors have gone against a political opponent of a president, me, at levels of injustice never seen before,

corrupt judges or judges so blinded by their hatred of me and my political ideology to make america great again are making a mockery of the united states' judicial system. well, it goes on, by the way, but the bottom line is, there are so many grounds for appeal on this case. first of all, the way it was brought by the local d.a. here, alvin bragg, and the way it was tried. a lot of areas in which it could be appealed. is there any way to fast track that appeal before the president is inaugurated or are we just going to have to live with this? >> well, the great irony in all of this is that i don't think anyone did more to help elect donald trump president of the united states. david: good point. >> than alvin bragg and tish james, in both cases you had two rogue prosecutors who decided that when they were running for office that they were going to go after donald trump. they said it. they ran on it.

and then, in fact, did it. and in both cases, the charges make no sense. in the case of alvin bragg, he took what would have amounted to at worst a violation of the fc fec and turned it from a federal case to a state case, from a misdemeanor to a felony in that alone it should have been thrown out on the merits itself. david: congressman, i'm sorry to interrupt, but we've had so much breaking news. we only have a chance for one more question because of the carter funeral, et cetera. very quickly, yesterday we saw speaker johnson elected. a lot of people said it was because of the last minute campaigning by the president-elect himself with phone calls and so forth. is that going to kind of set the stage for how, for example, the reconciliation bill is carried out in the first days

of his administration, where his input will be fundamental to the way this turns out? >> i just want to make one fine point. david: sure. >> i do think on appeal the president has a very good chance of getting those charges thrown out. with respect to this incoming congress, absolutely. look, we have a republican house majority, albeit a slim one along with a senate majority and obviously, president trump had had a landslide win. we have to work together to get things done. i think the president's voice will matter in this process, especially on the issue of reconciliation and addressing the border, energy, and taxes as we move forward. so, his voice is going to matter a big deal, as we move forward, but the biggest point to me is that we all have to work together. the american people don't care about our egos. they don't care about our personal grievances, they want us to do the job. david: boy, that's for sure. >> that most matter to them and their families. david: you nailed it.

congressman lawler, great to see you. thank you for bebeing here. appreciate it. and president-elect hopes to get things passed, but there's something better than just extending the 2017 tax cuts that he should consider and a little later the war between israel and hamas rages on and we enter a new year. but are we close to a cease-fire? all of that is coming up.

>> well, most republican lawmakers are calling for extension of trump's tax cuts when he takes office again in a couple of weeks. house republicans are meeting on this and other issues as we speak, but my next guest argues a flat tax could actually be better. and steve moore advised the trump campaign on economic policy and you may not have to choose. you may want to do both, get the extension first and then go to a flat tax, but i just want to-- there are even some

republicans, steve moore, continue to suggest that the 2017 tax cuts cost money, even though they brought in in increased 48% increase in tax revenue, that is there was so much economic activity generated by those tax rate cuts that more people were paying into the irs and we've got an extra one and a half trillion dollars. ronald reagan, back in 1988, his last press conference, spoke to the same kind of deniers back then and what actually happened after his tax rate cuts. let's listen to this and get your reaction, roll it. >> now, with regard to the tax cuts, yes, the rates were cut, but since 1981 our revenue from those taxes has increased by 375 billion dollars and our projection and we've been very accurate on our projections, our projection for 1990 and the budget we're working on now, calls for another 80 billion

dollar increase in our revenues, with the rates as they presently are. if you look back beyond us, to coolidge and his tax cuts, if you look to the kennedy tax cuts, in his administration, which was very similar to the one that we later put in, in every case it did not reduce the government revenues, it raised them. david: steve, could i hear an amen? [laughter] >> i love, love that clip. by the way that was his last press conference. can you imagine joe biden giving a press conference like that with the precision and accuracy and historical knowledge? really amazing, what a great president ronald reagan was. everything he said was true and we cut taxes under jfk, we had more tax revenuesment we cut taxes for cooling coolidge and trump and led to more in the economy and reagan and trump were exactly right about that.

david: why do we hear even from some republicans the first order of business can't be tax extensions, we've got a find a way to pay for the tax rate cuts? >> well, the answer to that question for those congressmen is just look at what really happened. we have more revenues in today than we've ever had before. we're all concerned about the runaway debt and deficit, but it's a spending problem, stupid, it's not a revenue problem. we have plenty of revenues, we just have way, way too much waste in government and look, trump gets that, elon musk gets that. i think most republicans do as well. david: well, steve, very quickly, i want to go to the flat tax. the idea has been around for a while. you have one flat tax, get rid of deductions except one, minimal amount, first, 20, $30,000 you make would be tax-free to handle the folks on the lower end of the totem pole, but other than that, all deductions would go away and have one flat tax. how do you get that in this congress? >> well, because donald trump got us halfway there.

that was the point of the piece that steve forbes and i wrote, that, you know, we lowered the tax rates, we got rid of most of the deductions. 91% of americans do not take deductions today. the other 9% are millionaires and billionaires, so, why not take-- get rid of all deductions for every, you know, for the rich and then lower the rates and make the economy and the tax system much more efficient. trump wants a 15% rate for companies. we're at 15% rate for everybody, david, that would be like rocket fuel for the american economy. nobody could ever compete with the united states with a tax system like that and don't forget, you'd have a postcard return you could fill out in 10 minutes. david: oh, now you're talking. simplification. how long have we heard-- whenever i hear simplification, i reach for my wallet, because it ends up spending more time with the tax code. put it on a post card, sound good to me. steve, thank you for being here, steve moore, appreciate it. coming up, las vegas police

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>> we're getting some new details about the tesla cyber truck explosion outside the trump hotel in las vegas on new year's day. christina coleman is in l.a. with the very latest on this. christina. >> hi, david. federal authorities released major new details in this investigation shedding light on a possible motive for the cyber truck explosion. they say the man behind this incident is 37-year-old matthew livelsberger of colorado springs. they released new surveillance video showing him at a tesla charging station during his drive to las vegas prior to blowing up the tesla 8:20 in the morning on new year's day pt they say he was a highly decorated army soldier, most recently a green beret on approved leave from germany and

apparently suffering from mental health issues and personal family grievances. they say he shot himself in the head inside of the vehicle just before the tesla blew up. >> although this incident is more public and more sensational than usual, it ultimately appears to be a tragic case of suicide involving a heavily decorated, combat veteran who was struggling with ptsd and other issues. >> even though this incident happened outside of trump's international hotel in las vegas, authorities do not believe livelsberger had any animosity to the president-elect. and they looked at his phone, giving insight into his possible motive. >> they read some of the notes. excerpts, we're the united states of america, right now we're terminally ill and headed towards collapse. this was not a terror attack, it's a wake-up call.

americans only pay attention to spectacles and violence what better way to get my point across than to stun with fireworks and explosives. >> seven people suffered minor injuries from the explosion. and authorities said this could have been much worse if the steel sided vehicle didn't absorb so much from the blast. and they say it was not connected to the terrorist attack in new orleans. and they continue to look at livelsbergers digital footprint as part of their ongoing investigation. david: thank you so much, christina. what does our next guest make of these details? former police officer randy sutton with us now. randy, thanks for being here. it really does look like this was not necessarily a so-called terrorist, some kind of organized terrorist attack, that it was just a very disturbed individual, a highly decorated by the way in the military as well. i mean, it points to the need, by the way, to deal with retired vets who are having

trouble. >> no, you're so right. there was some information that came out. i actually thought about this previously. i spoke about it on another news show because of all of the conflict going on here, i thought about the individual's 18 years as a green beret and the traumas they go through, and the public's information through an ex-girlfriend, she noticed him change dramatically after he suffered a traumatic brain injury and back surgery. this is not an unusual set of circumstances. when we see a decline of a warrior, whether that warrior is from the military or from law enforcement. as you know, i run an organization called the wounded blue, which helps injured and disabled officers and we see these traumatic brain injuries

having drama effects on the lives of the warriors who are affected by these, and that includes deep, deep mental health issues. david: yes, indeed. i want to switch to new orleans where clearly that was a terrorist event and the preparation or the lack thereof new orleans as a city to deal with it. nothing against the brave officers that immediately rushed in to take down the perpetrator of that and the rescue officials, but the lt. governor of the state of louisiana was on fox earlier and had this to say about how the city had not really prepared for this event. roll it. >> since i got elected lt. governor, we have been fighting with the administration to make the french quarter safer. it wasn't until jeff landry put a state police trooper in french quarter we saw great progress to save the french quarter before this incident and our lack of leadership from

the top on down to know those barricades were taken out with new year's and the sugar bowl, is unacceptable. david: randy, we've only got about 15 seconds, but what do you think of that the preparation, particularly the police chief of new orleans and her response to what happened? >> i wish we had more time to talk, but this is called the rot at the top. both in the political atmosphere in new orleans as well as the fbi there and the new orleans police department. this is the rot at the top and really needs to be addressed not just local level, but on a national level. david: i agree. well, it will be come january 20th. randy sutton, thank you for being here, appreciate it. >> my pleasure. david: good to see you. millions of americans are bracing for a powerful winter storm that's set to sweep across the u.s. within hours. the very latest and updates on travel warnings coming up and tensions rising in the middle east. the u.s. and israel fight to

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>> well, tensions remain very high in the middle east as israel strikes gaza with

cease-fire talks set to resume. stephanie bennett is in london with the latest details. stephanie. >> hey there, good morning. yeah, well, according to a senior official, hamas was a cease-fire deal as soon as possible and officials are saying this is a promising sign despite talks in the past not really getting anywhere. now, the talks resumed in doha yesterday and the official says that this really does stress the importance and seriousness in seeking to reach a deal and that the new talks about focus on agreeing to a permanent cease-fire and withdrawal of israeli forces, but the u.s.-led talks again repeatedly stalled in the past and israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu vowed to press ahead in gaza until hamas is destroyed. the 15-month war has not showed signs of slowing. more than 100,000 palestinians have been killed since the part of this year and the united military council says that they're pushing the palestinian health care system to the brink of collapse, follows a raid on

the last major functioning health facility in northern gaza. the hospital's director was arrested and israel says he's suspected of potential involvement in terrorist activity. >> israel has not provided sufficient information to substantiate many of these claims, which are often vague and broad. this is why i am calling for independent thorough and transparent investigations into all israeli attacks on hospitals, health care and infrastructure and medical personnel. >> yeah, and meanwhile, president biden wants to send eight billion dollars in armed shipments to israel, but that again still needs approval of both the house and senate. back to you. david: stephanie, thank you very much for that. here with more, is ambassador to the united nations, danny danon. great to see you, ambassador. the u.n. has come out with so many statements, not only statements, but activities particularly with the united

nations relief organization, contraire ry to what's happening on the ground and working with hamas and other terrorist organizations. you're an ambassador to the u.n. can we believe any of the statements that come out from the u.n. about what's happening with many so of their organizations on the ground in the mideast? >> well, david, unfortunately the u.n. is biased from october 7th, you know, they're not looking at the facts. they support the hamas from the beginning. war and look at the issue of the hospitals. those are not hospitals, those are headquarters for terrorists. you know, you will not find in any hospital in the united states weapons, explosives, you will not terrorists, you will find doctors and nurses. when we walk into those places, the fact is we arrest the terrorists with weapons so the terrorists are trying to take advantage of those facilities and you mentioned u n.r.a., for

example, and taken over, and i think it's time the money that the world is giving for humanitarian will go to the palestinian, but not to support terrorists. david: well done. donald trump in his first term ended funding, u.s. funding of unra and biden turned the spigots back on and some people think it's coincidence, but whether it was, and trump had had a policy against iran, which is the pay master of both hamas and hezbollah. he had maximum pressure to stop them getting funds, oil revenue. they were so poor they couldn't afford to pay out to their terrorist operatives in the mideast and then biden turned the spigot back on and we saw october 7th. do you think we're going to have-- now that trump is coming back into the oval office, a return

to the maximum pressure campaign against iran? >> i definitely hope that we will see more pressure. look what's happened in the last few days. ballistic missiles are flying into israel from yemen. david: yes. >> 1600 miles away from tel aviv, the yemeni rebels, the houthis, they're getting funding from iran and they attack us. they stopped the shipments to the suez canal. and egypt today is a disaster because because of that. so, i hope that the new administration, together with the allies of the u.s. and will continue to take real efforts against the houthis and make sure that iran will not continue to spread chaos in the middle east. david: and ambassador, quickly, deserves more time, but we don't have it. the abraham accords was such an important development creating peace between the arab states

and israel. >> is it going to be expanded in the second term to include saudi arabia? >> david, i know now isounds not realistic because we're fighting the terrorists in gaza, it's hard for countries to sign an agreement with israel, but with the day it will happen, we will have more countries joining the abraham accord i have no doubt about it. i spoke with the arab leaders. now it's difficult for them, but once we finish with terror and bring back the hostages, and back to that state. david: from your lips to god's ears. coming up a major winter storm set to slam the u.s. with heavy snow and dangerous ice within hours from now. the forecast next. carl: believe me, when it comes to investing, you'll love carl's way. take a left here please. driver: but there's a... carl's way is the best way. client: is it? at schwab, how i choose to invest is up to me. driver: exactly! i can invest and trade on my own...

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potentially blizzard-like conditions. now through the coming days. so where i'm located right here is in downtown kansas city. i actually grew up just to the south of here and it's a beautiful area. in fact, you can see the gorgeous skyline right behind me. we're sitting though at a frigid 25 degrees, but our wind chill is at 15, so it is bone chillingly cold and we are just hours away from the onset of this very impactful winter storm. in fact, freezing rain, that's going to be what type of precipitation we deal with first. freezing rain over to sleet and eventually over to snow. the question how much snow are we going to see in places like kansas city? well, we could see up to a foot of snow. the forecast calling for 8 to 12 inches of snow for places like kansas city and some of the surrounding communities, a little further to the east, places like st. louis, slightly lesser totals, but still impactful, five to eight inches certainly not out of the realm of possibility.

and the other main weather headline of all of this, we could be talking about crippling ice. anywhere between about a quarter to a half inch of ice is going to coat everything in its path. i'm talking about a sheen of ice, especially for places where i'm standing. these stairs, they're going to be incredibly dangerous within the next one to two days. we will be talking about how roads are just going to turn into ice rinks and sidewalks will be very dangerous. unfortunately, we'll be watching as millions of americans will be impacted by the storm in one way or another and also, the fact that it's going to have a major impact on air travel as well. david. david: indeed it will. snow on top of ice, you don't want to be driving in that kind of weather. kendall, thank you very much. appreciate it. that does it from here. fox news live continues with griff jenkins and molly line. have a wonderful new year, folks. griff: president-elect donald trump blasting the decision by judge juan merchan