on "fox & friends weekend" starting with this. fox news alert. new orleans still reeling after the deadly new year's day attack that killed 14, contributes pouring in and the latest on the investigation at this hour. >> plus a fox weather alert, a major winter storm threatening 60 million across the country, the heavy snow, brutal wind and slick ice that could be headed your way. >> and the best in the business, karine jean-pierre touting the white house press team, that would be this press team that lied all the time. watch. >> i would put the president's ststamina, the president's wisd, ability to get this done on behalf of the american people against anyone. >> sure, jan. final hour of "fox & friends

weekend" starts right now. ♪ rachel: we are here on the east coast, i've got guy benson and charlie hurd with me on the couch. >> ava max music. i mean -- rachel: i'm amazed you know who that is. >> are you? rachel: yeah. >> i should know and i do know. [laughter] >> i get my card revoked a lot but not on this one. rachel: that was a great segment we had on family dinners. >> you were showing off your dinner last night. rachel: i go home, i make dinner. and for a big crowd. there was like 1 12 people. my parents are visiting. my daughter's in from out of town, my son-in-law who eats a lot and me and the chef were just talking that family dinners

are missing in america. everything that ails our country can be solved if families come together. >> everything you mentioned, education, vocabulary, everything. >> people use this as a cliche. quality time. cooking together is quality time and eating together around the holidays or around the house, if we're cooking together as a couple, you're collaborating on something, there's something you're building towards, there's something you achieve and you enjoy it. there's a lot of good stuff that comes out of it. we have to counter act some of the calories, not the sauna, as we learned from -- i was correct about this, dr. sapphire crushing our dreams, you have to do the work. >> it was a hard no and she wrapped it in happy talk. she tried to give you everything but at the end it was no. >> your pushback was no. rachel: it was crushing. back to family dinners, one last thing. the chef and i were talking, you've got to plan it. you have to make sure you're

ready and you're shopped and ready for that, even if it's once a week, twice a week, you have a family meal especially on the weekend where you can take some time and the other tip i have if you can, i love round tables, i'm obsessed with gathering people around a round table. >> how do you get your entire family around a round table. rachel: i will get a picture to show you. i have a giant round table that we gather around. it's better for conversation. >> all right. we are just past the top of the hour on "fox & friends weekend." we turn now to the top story on the day, a vigil held last night for the vic tills of thorly figure new year's day terror attack in new orleans as all 14 killed have been identified. rachel: investigators are learning more about the suspect's past. >> madison scarpino joins us from new orleans. >> reporter: good morning. memorials continue to grow around bourbon street and over the last few days we've been

speaking to people who narrowly missed being in the exact spot during the exact time of the attack so a lot of people still processing all of this and there were several vigils held last night. people were of course very emotional, bringing in flowers, cross, all sorts of things to honor the victims. all 14 people who died are now identified. their ages range from 18 to 63, most in their 20s. one of the victims is billy demayo, a 25-year-old from new jeer newjersey. his best friend was with him on the night of the attack. here he is. >> we were together for 99% of the night. i turned around and billy wasn't there. later that night it was a horrible day, t they didn't have much information for us unfortunately and we were kind of sitting there. we were in the hospital and, yeah, it was just horrific.

>> reporter: investigators are still trying to figure out how a 42-year-old army veteran became radicalized and inspired by isis. the fbi says shamsud-din jabbar posted several videos to social media before the attack. abc news reports seeing a social media report tied to the subject, claiming he joined isis earlier the year. he references new orleans and hinting that he contemplated harming members of his own family before deciding to carry out the attack and the fbi says jabbar had ieds in his car and is on surveillance placing explosives on bourbon street. nbc reports a rare compound that was used for the two homemade bombs that did not end up detonating. back out here live, still a lot of unanswered questions in this investigation as we expect the president and the first lady to be here tomorrow. still no word if president-elect donald trump plans to visit the

scene. i'll send it back to you guys. >> thank you, madison. it's so important to take the time now to remember those victims and not just the perpetrator. rachel: yeah. >> now to a fox weather alert. a monstrous winter storm dumping snow over the midwest, nearly 60 million people across 27 states face threats of heavy snow, ice and freezing cold temperatures. >> roads feeling solid in much of the midwest and the reining super bowl champions had their flight delayed for more than four hours on the tarmac last night because of the ice issue as they were traveling to the game against the denver broncos. rachel: the travel mess could continue into this morning as more than 1,000 flights have been delayed and more than 700 were canceled. we'll turn to meteorologist rick reichmuth for a fox weather forecast. what's it looking like. >> the airports will be a mess from kansas city to st. louis, a lot of cancellations in those

airports. you can't keep up with all of the de-icing when you have this kind of ice storm here. take a look at the radar picture here. down to the south we'll have severe weather today, east texas, arkansas, louisiana, strong winds and maybe tornadoes. the north side we have the icing and snow. you notice the lightning, that's the sign of a really strong dynamic storm that we have going on and because of that we have blizzard warnings in effect across parts of eastern kansas, western missouri and where you see the pink, that's an ice storm setting up so precipitation falls as rain and then it freezes on the surface because it's colder on the surface than it is up in the higher levels of the atmosphere. because of that, we have if icing. when we have icing on the roads, there's nothing you could do to deal with that at all. have you to stay off the roads, off the sidewalks and the stairs. we'll watch the ice storm move across kentucky and parts of virginia as well.

by the time we get to tomorrow, still some icing going on across areas of virginia, west virginia as well and then the snow in across areas around d.c. these are the warnings we have in effect here, the blizzard warnings, certainly the worst of it because of the wind that will accompany the heavy snow and then by the time we get to tonight, tomorrow, winter storm warnings in effect along the i-95 corridor from d.c. up to philadelphia, that's going to be the bull's-eye, the heaviest amount of snow. some spots will get over a foot of snow and this will end up being the biggest storm we've seen in four or five years across this region. all right. guys, back to you. >> thanks, rick. >> watching that closely. affecting so many millions of americans. be smart and be careful out there. rachel: bet there's a few kids that are happy they get to stay home. winter break has been extended, christmas holiday. >> if i lived in buffalo or something i would not like snow as much as i do because there's so much of it up there but in the d.c. area we don't get that much of it. rachel: i like snow days.

not snow but snow days. >> snow days. fair. >> you don't like snow? rachel: i hate being cold. you guys know that about me. anyway -- >> i like snow and snow days. rachel: you like them both. do you like karine jean-pierre? >> oh, my gosh. [laughter] >> biggest fan. rachel: what do you think of the story, karine jean-pierre saying she has the best team in the business. she posted this on x with a picture of her team. she says here's to the best team in the business. i couldn't do it without you. >> this is called smoking your own product. [laughter] >> this is -- you know, so i covered the white house over much of the past 20 years and i have to say -- and we've had some rough ones. .we've had some okay ones. we've had some really great ones. rachel: kayleigh mcenany. >> one of the best. this team and her in particular

has to go -- will go down in history as the most ridiculously, absurdly under -- i mean, completely unbelievable, not -- no credibility. she never knew anything. she didn't pull off that she knew anything. she went out there and faked it every single day and what's really amazing about it is that these people, you know, she pulls this off and she still fails even though she's got the entire press basically in her corner, willing and many put in the great effort to try to pedal whatever it was that she was trying to push but absolutely absurdly ridiculous person. rachel: why don't we take a look at some of her greatest hits. >> title 42 is going to be lifted. yes, it will. but we are going to move to title 8. the border is not open. the president has done more to

secure the border to deal with this issue of immigration than anybody else. he really has. >> is there any possibility that the president would end up pardoning his son? >> no. >> is there -- >> i just said no. i just answered. go ahead. >> instead of republicans focusing on the president's performance in office and what he's been able to accomplish, his actual record, they do these cheap fakes. >> would you say he's sharpest before 8:00 p.m. say the pentagon at some point picks up an incoming nuke, it's 11:00 p.m., who do you call? the first lady? >> he has a team that lets him know of any news that is pertinent and important to the american people. [laughter] rachel: are you okay? >> we could do a segment on each of those sound bites alone. the smug no answer on the hunter biden pardon question, obviously untrue. i had forgotten when she said no

one had done more to secure the border than joe biden. it's amazing. rachel: how does she do it? >> the lack of talent is kind of -- look, she doesn't have a lot to work with. that's fair. but even given that, it's been historically bad and our friend mollie hemingway who was called once a very smart woman, respected by everyone, and you would call this -- rachel: i called it out. i thought it was the best x post. she said there's not an easier job in the universe than being press secretary for a democrat and yet some how y'all still failed. that pretty much sums it up. >> invoking kaley kayleigh mces a great point. kjp is walking into a room where everyone likes her and everyone will like everything except for peter doocy. >> and jackie. >> he grills her and asks her about stuff. kayleigh mcenany walked into the room every day and --

>> the lions den. >> it was a total lions den and she brought it and she was -- and of course she talked past them to the american people and knocked it out of the park every single day. >> karine jean-pierre would have this infamous gigantic binder, she would come out and they organized topics and that's not unusual but what was a little unusual was she would open the binder and start to read these prepackaged answers about any given topic and really struggle even just to read the words in front of her. how much of this, charlie, was her struggle as a press secretary versus the fact that she was trying to spin for a really bad failed president? >> i think you're exactly right. she didn't have much to work with. you're trying to promote joe biden's horrifying policies but then on top of it she's a uniquely untalented person and i will be honest with you. i had to quit watching the press conferences about two years -- a year or so ago just because it literally made me dumber.

i knew less at the end of it. it was entertain, it was funny, you would laugh. at the end you were less smart, less knowledgeable. rachel: it's funny you would say that. michael barry said in his post, dumb and dumber and even more dumb and shockingly more dumber than that. >> at some point it becomes a matter of how do i put up the gates to stop the pollution from entering into my brain and she was like one of the first who was just like you know what, i can't hear another word. >> she did pronounce herself a historic figure. >> she is definitely historic. rachel: yeah. >> the worst press secretary in history. okay. rachel: let's turn to headlines. you've got them, charlie. >> an ex-girlfriend of the green beret who allegedly blew up a cyber truck in las vegas said he struggled with injuries and was depressed saying he would, quote, tell me he had depression like we can't hang

out today, i'm too depressed today. he had a lot of inner strength and he would just push through it. u.s. army spokesperson says the suspect frequently used the army's mental health resources, adding, quote, he did not splay any concerning behaviors at the time and was granted personal leave. and funeral services continue today for president jimmy carter, in his home state of georgia. yesterday people paid respects to the 39th president as his casket traveled to his hometown, eventually making its way to a service at the carter presidential center in atlanta where it is this morning. he will remain there lying in repose for the public to pay their respects until 6:00 a.m. on tuesday. new york's controversial congestion toll officially taking into effect overnight, the increased toll will cost drivers entering the busiest part of manhattan an additional

$9 during peak hours. the city considers peak hours as 5:00 a.m. through 9:00 a.m. during the weekday and 9:00 a.m., 9:00 p.m. on weekends. the mta says the toll will reduce the number of cars in the city by 80,000. and those are your headlines. rachel: all right. we talked earlier you guys about this new study that came up revealing that tinder has basically killed off traditional roam man's as we know it -- romance as we know it. in 1960 to '664 friends and family were the primary way people met each other or couples met and got set up by other people. 2010 to '14 friends was the top but family was replaced by people going online and meeting people that way and then 2022 to 2 -- 2020 to 2022, online sky rot rocketed. 58, almost 60% of people meet

their significant other online and we had a really interesting discussion about whether that was a good idea or not. i personally just got a text from a friend of mine who said i've been down on the online stuff. i think it's necessary to some extent but i don't think an algorithm can ever beat your family who knows you really well and your friends who know you super well, hooking up. i think that's the best way to get hooked up because they know and love you in a way that a computer algorithm can't. my friend was like i'm a shy guy. it's helpful for me. so we asked people what they thought, how did they meet their loved one? and here's what they said. >> i met my husband at the local diner when he came in and asked to sit beside me at the counter, he asked me out three months later and as of january 1first we've been married for 20 years. >> that's the cutest story ever. rachel: super cute. >> douglas says my wife and i

met when friends set us up on a blind date, new year's eve, a lot happening this time of year, 1973. he was home from the air force and two weeks ago they celebrated 50 years, our 50th wedding anniversary. that is awesome. rachel: and this one is from karen. some wise advice. the best place to meet is at church, that's the true basis for a long lasting relationship. i've been married for 28 years and we're still together. that's beautiful. kelly used the internet and she said my husband and i met on match.com 2211 21 years ago. we'll be celebrating our 20th anniversary in july. our online experience was a great one. i continue to tell him he's the luckiest man on earth. >> the online stuff can work. we're not diminishing that at all. my friends who are single, they talk about the swipe culture where you're like looking at a

single photo and then deciding based on just the initial visceral retook a photo whether to disregard that person basically forever and move on and like there is so much that's being discarded with a single swipe of a finger, right. potentially something amazing or you're missing, you're dodging a bullet in some of these cases but it's a new way to do it. it's taken over for sure. rachel: it's very superficial and it's killing dating culture. i mean, right? >> yeah. and of course it may be a tool but of course it's also the root of the problem because since so many people are doing so much stuff online now, you don't -- a lot of the community things that used to cohesions that used to exist are falling apart. >> divorces are down. if you look statistically -- rachel: young people aren't getting married. marriage rates have plummeted. birth rates have plummeted.

60% of men over 30 are single. i think it's making men i think a little lazier about courtship, that's my theory. they just swipe. >> it's not hard to do that. to make men lazier. [laughter] >> give us the option. give us any option. rachel: michigan is pushing the green agenda, set to destroy hundreds of acres of forest. we talked about this yesterday. for a solar farm that works just sometimes. the outrage, next.

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>> in michigan, they are planning to bulldoze 400 acres of forest land to build a plastic solar farm from china in may that may occasionally generate electricity. rachel: so outrageous. meanwhile, evidence shows, quote, the loss of carbon dioxide gobbling forests for solar installations results in a net increase in greenhouse gas emissions. the air pollution which fuels the accelerating climate crisis. >> it doesn't end there. in wisconsin, officials giving the green light for a massive new solar project eating away 2,000 acres of farmland. here to reantibiotic to all of this -- react to all of this,

environmental progress founder, michael shellenburger. this almost comes across as babe babylon level parody, we're going to cut down trees for the planet. apparently that's a reality in michigan. rachel: and wisconsin. >> it's happening all over the country. the underlying problem is a physical problem, is sun light is a diluted form of energy. it takes between 300 and 600 times more land to generate the same amount of electricity from solar as it does from a natural gas or a nuclear plant. that's why you see so many homeowners, people that love nature, it's conservationists who are the most outraged by this and the governors trying to reach climate t targets are in a situation where they are under pressure to bulldoze places where people go on hikes and public lands.

renewables make things more expensive. people don't realize how bad it is for the environment. rachel: it's ugly. it's so ugly. you talk about the targets that the governors have to meet. talk to us about where the targets come from and also who is making the money from all of this? it's clearly not about the ro there's got to be a profit motive here. >> yeah, absolutely. most of these states have their own renewable energy targets. there's huge subsidies in the so-called inflation reduction act which was a huge spending bill which contributed to inflation. it's really quite a scam in the sense that the chinese are making these solar panels in a very coal-intensive economy. they manipulated the numbers, they initially calculated how much carbon dioxide solar panels make based on cleaner electricity in europe. we don't have accurate information. we think the solar panels require significantly more coal in china than people realize.

also, they're conscripting forced labor from uyghur muslims in china, a persecuted religious minority. so the entire supply chain is quite dirty and the people that install these, the solar projects and the various investors who make money off of them are benefiting but the people that lose are both the communities and the natural environments around them. >> one of my favorite things to look at are the euphmisms they use. there's no farm in the world that's not based on solar and the greatest solar farm there is a tree because it takes sun and converts it to something that produces energy. the other part of this is of course the pollution and the trash. this plastic from china made from coal, basically, is not recyclable. it's going to wind up trashing our landscape forever. >> yeah, that's right. i mean, it's bad the whole way

through because it requires so much material to capture this dilute form of energy and then the waste, you know, 15 years, 20 years later, it just goes to landfills and it contains heavy toxic metals so it's classified as hazardous waste in most states, as soon as the solar panels stop working. the old fashioned environmentalism or conservation is still correct. you want to use less land so you have more land available both for farms and for the natural environment. you want to use less land. that's why you want to use more concentrated forms of energy like natural gas and nuclear which are also much cheaper and they run when the sun is not shining and the snow is not for example accumulated on top of solar fan else. panels.>> you're a great repord a great explainer. rachel: michael has a fantastic do you documentary on windmillsd

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>> back with a fox weather alert. a mega winter storm dumping snow over the u.s., nearly 60 million people across 27 states affected, facing threats from heavy snow and ice and of course freezing cold temperatures which can be very dangerous unto themselves. causing delays along highways and airports, more than 700 flights have been canceled. mike sig sidel joins us from bog green, missouri with the latest. >> reporter: good morning. most of the flights canceled are from kci in kansas city, 70% of departures are off the board

today and in st. louis, lambert field, they canceled just under 50% of all departures so far and expect those numbers to go up. here in northwest of st. louis, it's snowing and blowing, snow in bowling green. we expect up to a foot of snow here. we have bring blizzard warningsn kansas city. and it's cold. temperatures high teens, low 20s. it's a powdery snow. it will blow and drift around even once the snow ends late tonight, early monday morning. i want to show you the breadth and width of the storm. look at the snowfall forecast, from kansas to the jersey shore. now, if you're in d.c., baltimore, philadelphia, you're snow. sleet, maybe freezing rain, the southern regions. will come in late tonight through monday. if you're flying in and out of reagan, bwi or d dulles, philadelphia international tomorrow, you may want to move that flight as long as you're not trying to fly out of kc or st. louis for those areas.

it will be a debacle tomorrow, at the airports and the roadsways. there's ice to the south, ice storm warnings for parts of missouri, southern illinois, over towards bowling green, kentucky, could get a half inch of ice, plus the wind. that's means power outages. so far, not too bad, unless you lost power. it's so cold. the power outages in kansas and missouri so far, 14,000. those numbers will go up. the big change for this storm, coming behind it, cold air, the coldest of the season. whatever falls in these areas is going to stick around for a while. because many areas like here temperatures aren't expected to get above freezing for the next week to 10 day which brings to mind the schools and i think many, many kids, all the way from kc to baltimore and desk and philly will have another day of christmas vacation, holiday vacation or maybe two days or maybe three days. but certainly tomorrow and

tuesday look very iffy for schools in the mid-atlantic. back to you in new york. rachel: thank you, mike. you're making me cold just looking at you. >> this is why she has a space heater at all times. [laughter] >> and she may be still cold but the rest of us are cooking. rachel: i wish i could get it to mike. look at him shivering over there. >> the snow day is coming, he's right about that. >> our next guest helped wake americans up to the harmful effects of smartphones and social media on their children. rachel: more schools are looking to enforce limits and bans on devices. good. dr. jonathan hite joins us now. dr. jonathan, it's so great to have you on. my kids' school doesn't allow phones. i'm surprised this isn't happening more across the country. it conflicts with studying and learning. >> one thing we know is that test scores in the united states were rising from the 1970s to

about 2012 and then they started dropping. it wasn't caused by covid. they started dropping after 2012. the way you can understand it, imagine older people if you remember being in high school in the 1980s or '90s, imagine if they said you can bring your television into class, you can bring your vcr, talky talky, guitar, put it on your desk or whatever. that's what we've done. the smartphone has all these thinks and more so of course kids aren't paying attention in class. the tragic thing is, they're not paying attention to each other between classes or lunch. they're on their phones most of the time. >> i talked to a principal the other day of a school that banned smartphones in school and what struck him the most was remembering back to i guess about 20122, 2012, somewhere ad there, you walk into the lunchroom and he heard something he hadn't heard in years. there was noise and kids were talking to one another and arguing and laughing.

>> that's right. that warms my heart. that is the most universal thing that they say. every school that goes phone-free, i never heard of one that regretted it. they almost all say exactly what you say. the teachers say students are talking to each other, not silent looking at their phones. lunch you hear laughter. this is sod sod good for our ki, for their education. it's good for the teachers. they hate the phones. they can't compete with the social media platform. if your kids go to a school where they allow kids to keep phones in their pockets, even if they say you can't use it during class, that's bad. your kids' education is harmed. get together with other parents and demand that the school ban the phones, put them away in a lock pouch or the front of home room, phone-free schools are the only way to go. >> you know, we live this in era that's so polarized political mri. politically. this is not a partisan debate.

politicians are coming around to this really important common sense reform. >> this has been thrilling. rachel: i noticed that young kids like it. i'm seeing a lot of posts by young kids posting videos from the '80s, home videos of like the hallways in schools. they want to return to that social life at school that was lost because of technology, right? >> exactly. that's right. that's what's so tragic about this. we basically have taken childhood away from kids. once you give them a phone, that's more interesting than everything else in the world, it will push out their friends, hobbies, books, shared laughter. we've got to give kids back each other. we've got to give them back a healthy, fun childhood. otherwise we're hurting their development, childhood and their mental health. rachel: i love this message. i love that this trend is taking off. doctor, great stuff. thank you. >> thank you. president-elect trump is looking to rewire bachs.

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should pursue aggressive supply side reform, lowering rather than raising the cost of production, environmental rules, labor law, product regulations, zoning restrictions and more can all be streamlined. second, investment in science, technology education can help train a workforce capable of accelerating reindustrialization. sunday morning futures anchor maria bartiromo joins us now. maria, so great to have you. happy sunday to you. i'm sure have you a lot of thoughts on this guy's assessment of bidenomics. maria: yeah, i do. good morning to you, rach and happy new year to you and everybody on the set today. look, i don't agree with axios at all with their title of how trump might rewire bidenomics. no, no, no, no, no. he's going to get rid of bidenomics, okay. he's going to put his own stamp on this and this is coming from someone who is sophisticated about the economy. he makes a good point, teach moran. what he's complaining about is that biden and harris were

giving subsidies to all of their favorite ideas. that is, give subsidies to ev makers, you know, help the companies that are not doing well on the demand side. no, what trump wants to do is fire up the demand side and fire up the supply side. in other words, cut back on regulations so companies invest in growth and that triggers growth overall. cut taxes, cut deregulation, tap into the energy spigots of america and generate economic growth. that's the trump plan and it has nothing to do with bidenomics. i don't see it as a rewiring. i see it as a new economic agenda. rachel: i saw an op-ed. as great at all the ideas trump has right now when he comes into the administration and how he wants to restart the economy, that there's a lot of bad stuff that happened with joe biden's policies that might blow up right at the beginning of the trump administration financially

speaking. maria: i mean, look at what joe biden is doing on his way out the door. right? i mean, he's bakely bakely tryio make -- basically trying to make things harder for trump right now. trump when gets into office, he'll try to put out fires. the biggest issue is getting the buy-in from the entire gop about how to execute his agenda. this morning i've got an exclusive interview with the newly elected speaker of the house, mike johnson. and what mike johnson and lindsey graham are grappling with right now is how to execute president trump's agenda, how do you do secure the border, energy independence and energy permitting along with extending the tax cuts and putting all of those new ideas that president trump came up with on the campaign trail, no tax on tips, no tax on social security, all this stuff, how do you get that into one gigantic bill? the wall street journal reporting and fox news reporting yesterday that president trump wants one big, beautiful bill.

yeah, they're right. that's what mike johnson is about to tell us in about 10 minutes, they're going to pursue one big bill but you've got to get everybody on board. if you don't get everybody on board and don't get everybody's buy-in for things like $100 billion that we need for the border, and deportations starting on day one, trump needs that money on day one to secure the border. the tax money and the tax changes really i mean, they don't expire until later in the year which really is what prompted the idea to do two different bills. doesn't look like that's where this is going. i have questions in terms of whether or not they're going to be able to get everything in one bill but we're talking with the leadership on all counts this morning. lindsey graham has been working on two separate bills. he's going to join me live with the response to president trump wanting one bill. so it's a little inside the weeds but it gives you a blueprint of how president trump is going to approach the economic story and get growth going strongly once again, rachel. rachel: that's right.

you have ron johnson, mollie hemingway and buy roll byron bee monday aldz. maria: that's right. he's going to come on to talk about how this will go on. tomorrow they will certify the election, certify president trump's win of not just the electoral college but the popular development we'll talk about that as well. january 6th is tomorrow, four years almost to the day and we're talking about the agenda with president trump coming in two weeks. rachel: always a jam-packed awesome show. maria bartiromo, sunday morning futures, coming up. thanks, maria. maria: see you in 10 minutes, guys, thank. rachel: the nfl playoff picture is getting clearer. we're going to to break that down today's must see matchups are next. ♪

>> it's the final week of the nfl regular season. the playoffs right around the corner. most of the matchups are now locked in. but a few spots are left. the buccaneers of tampa bay looking to clinch a playoff spot in america's game of the week

against the saints. joining us now to break it all down is nfl on fox sideline reporter jen hale. good morning. for most fan bases, either their team's out of it or something's already locked in but there will be a few fan bases rivetted to today's game. what are the big matchups? >> absolutely. the bucs and saints, that's the one with the most at stake. a w for tampa bay, means they're hosting a playoff game next week. if they lose and the falcons win, that means they're out of things all together. your players to watch, mike evans, the star receiver needs 85 jars to get to 1,000 on the season, his 11th straight season doing that. that would tie jerry rice. his teammates and coaches desperately want to see him do this. they'll be feeding him all day long. the saints' defense knows that. they'll be coming after him. and then of course baker mayfield as well. can you imagine this. he stands to make a million and-a-half dollars today in

bonuses if he can hit several benchmarks. so he definitely for the sake of house bank account wants to be on top of things if not for the psych after playoffs of course. jets and dolphins, the dolphins need to win and they need to chiefs to win in order to go to the playoffs. there's a hip injury. he will be back for the post season if the dolphins can make the playoffs, it's tyler huntley time once again. tyler started for the dolphins last week. he his best game ever in a miami uniform. he's trying to carry that success over today but hey, we all know aaron rodgers, right. the jets may be out of it as you talked about but they would love to play spoiler today and aaron rodgers, the jets tenure more than likely over. he would love to go out on a note of letting the jets ownership know exactly what they're missing in him. commanders, cowboys, the commanders are definitely in forecast season but where. they come in, in control of the number six seed.

with a loss they could drop down to number seven seed. that's the difference between playing the bucs or the rams or having to play the philadelphia eagles. so dan quinn, he's playing everybody today. he wants that w. sircircle quarterback jake danis on the screen today. he's been phenomenal all season long. he's my choice for offensive rocky of the year. >> the fans will be watching with an eye on the out of town scoreboard. there's moving parts in play here. jen, appreciate i thanks so much. >> thanks for having me. >> with that, more "fox & friends" just moments away.

rachel: great show, you guys. i got a hedge from pete hegseth. he said, go to church. [laughter] charlie: happy new year. rachel: bye, everybody. guy: thanks, guys. ♪ if. maria: good sunday morning, ever