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here today. >> bret: i'm bret baier in washington. they uncovered a massive tunnel connecting new mexico to el paso. it's believed to be used by the cartel equipped with lightening, ventilation, making an easy pathway to snuggle people and drugs. >> sandra: we'll have a reaction but first let's get to brook taylor live from el paso, texas. what's the latest out there? what are you seeing? >> sandra, what we just learned, that troops and border patrol agents are out here about to get some much-needed help because fox has learned from a u.s. official that the pentagon will be sending 1,500 troops along the southern border. they are going to go to different areas but right now we're in front of a known dangerous mountain, completely controlled by the cartel, and they decide what and who goes across this border. border patrol agents earlier this month discovered a massive

tunnel connecting mexico to el paso. shocking video from inside shows just how sophisticated it is. it's six feet tall. four feet wide. hidden within a storm drain system. border patrol agents believe cartels used this tunnel to smuggle in drugs and humans. both of which have become billion dollar businesses for these cartels. smugglers have long exploited these storm drains, though. they also used them to hide migrants while evading border patrol agents. the border patrol in el paso even has its own team called the space entry team. they are trained to deal with illegal entries, exploiting drainage systems, and tunnels. borders -- tom homan says this will save lives. >> when president trump locks this border down less women and children will be sex trafficked in the country. we've had a record number of people die across that border. 600% increase in sex

trafficking. quarter of a million young americans dead from fentanyl. >> last week i spoke to a sex trafficking victim from south america. husband trafficked to mexico and eventually across the border. he told me he was sold by his own family. he was beaten and threatened and trafficked six to eight times a day. unfortunately, that's the harsh reality of many of these trafficking victims. sandra? >> sandra: brook taylor live in el paso with that update for us. thank you, bret? >> bret: now we'll take a look to the northern border, where we're learning more about that u.s. border patrol agent who was shot and kill during a traffic stop in vermont. molly is life in coventry, vermont, with more on this. good afternoon, what's the latest? >> molly: good afternoon, bret. a german man is dead and another hospitalized after a shootout roughly 48 hours that also claimed the life of border patrol agent david -- an

experienced agent, 44 years old, killed on a frigid stretch of interstate 91 just south of the canadian border monday afternoon in coventry, vermont. per fbi investigators, during the course of the traffic stop an exchange of gunfire occurred and the agent was struck. the fbi has refused to identify the two subjects involved. one was injured and taken to a local hospital. the other is dead, but the fbi noting that they are partners at the department of homeland security have now confirmed the diseased is a german national in the u.s. on a current visa. the republican governor of vermont expressed his condolences to his family and addressed frustrations with the few details being released. >> the fbi is leading this investigation and the vermont state police will continue to assist in any way they can. information is still being collected. and we don't have more to share at this point unfortunately. >> he was a canine handler and an air force van. his family says he was working

security at the pentagon at the time of 9/11. he had a tremendous respect and pride for the work he did. he truly embodied service over self. close-knit communities here on the border, everybody knows everybody and local residents express shock at his death. >> i feel so sorry for the family members of this particular gentleman. for what they are going through. there are no words to help them. >> the flag here at the customs and border station here remains at half-staff. the fbi expressing their condolences to the partners of the agent and all who knew him. a man who led a long life of service. bret? >> bret: molly, thank you. sandra? >> sandra: thank you. let's bring in a sheriff from texas, a retired border patrol agent. sheriff, thanks for being here. what changes have you already seen since this administration

took office? >> good afternoon, it's great to be back on with you. first, if i could, i want to say my thoughts and prayers are with my brothers and sisters there. i served 26 years in border control and had a partner killed in the line of duty in arizona but to get to your question, i just got off the tele-conference here, with the joint operations intelligence center that's run by the department of public safety, and they said border wide, apprehensions are down. trump has let it be known since day one when he was elected and during his campaign he was going to put more folks on the border and got it back under control and we'll certainly see that i can guarantee those words. >> sandra: all right. so as far as the crackdown at the border, how much time do you think this is going to take? what are you seeing as far as resources? we know this is going to have to be a massive effort. >> you know, first and foremost, it takes a strong leader in the white house to let the rest of the world know you're not coming to our country illegally.

we still have people to come, of course, but you bring the rule of law to the border, having consequences. if people cross they will either be detained or sent back to mexico under an expedited removal or they are going to be given a notice to appear and kept in custody. there are different consequences, didn't options that the u.s. border patrol has to have as a consequence along the u.s. mexican border. we've talked about the u.s. department of defense coming to the border. back in 2019 and 2020, president trump put active duty soldiers on the border, 1,500. i was the border patrol's representative, and they worked directly under norcom and they are the ones that put the plan into action. we'll see it again. it's nothing new and i anticipate probably seeing some of that activity starting up pretty quick. >> sandra: really interesting. this was tom homan this morning on the progress he's reporting has happened so far at the border in just a couple of days. >> the last 24 hours, total apprehensions on the southwest

border, 766. compare that to the 10,000 to 12,000 bide had at one time. cbp1 releases, zero. chnv, zero. a total of 766 across the entire southwest border. that's a game changer. >> sandra: that's the progress made so far but i want to ask you about this. the pentagon planning for bigger u.s. troop roll at the board. the u.s. northern command responsible for military operations in north america was given a month to craft a plan to combat unlawful mass migration, narcotics trafficking, human smuggling, game trafficking and other criminal activities. the president specified it should seal the u.s.-mexican board and repel forms of invasion. do you see a much bigger role for troops at the border? >> sandra, again, that's very similar to what we did back in 2019 and 2020.

what will happen is the department of homeland security will send over what's called an rfa, request for assistance, and detail what they need. at that point the department of defense and u.s. army north which is located out of san antonio, texas, at petr sam houston, will take those plans, and they will start to work and see how they shape this up. we won't see at this time an enforcement effort by the department of defense and the reason that is, is because of what's called -- back under the treaty of hildago that the united states had with mexico, we vowed we wouldn't militarize our border but what we will see is military help in support roles, not actually getting out there and enforcing the law -- even under the last administration we had a quick reaction team and they were established and able to fly anywhere across the united states-mexican border to provide a response if there was a need.

>> sandra: sheriff, i've got to leave it there but is it fair to say you feel optimistic about the changes so far and what's coming? >> 100%. it's going to be good. and it all starts at the border. i tell you what. >> sandra: so much, yes. >> we know it. >> sandra: we'll check back with you on all of that. we appreciate you coming on. thank you very much, sheriff. >> president trump, did biden leave you a letter? >> president trump: he may have. don't leave the it in the desk? i don't know. oh. >> what's in there? >> president trump: it could have been years before we found it. >> bret: lick an oval office easter egg hunt. life on tv. president trump discovering that letter from former president biden with a little help from fox's peter ducey and an

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turned the gun on himself and then he was killed as well. about 2,000 students at that school, located, it's a neighborhood of nashville, about 10 miles southeast of downtown. again, authorities having a news conference soon. we think that's all that they are going to give us, but again, one student wounded. another dead, and the shooter dead as well. sandra? >> sandra: just a little more detail on the shooter. we're learning the shooter is 17 years old. fired shots in the cafeteria there at antioch, high school, in antioch, tennessee. you mentioned the student that was shot, a female, a grazed wound to the arm. thankfully that student is listed in stable condition and has been taken to children's hospital at vanderbilt. we can report that that student is in stable condition. sadly, the other student, the wounds were fatal. as we get more information on this we'll certainly continue to

bring that to our viewers. now, several migrants have been arrested in connection with the home-break-in but quarterback joe burrow. he's one of many pro-athletes who has had his home burglarized in recent months. alexis has the story. it been bizarre, some of these. what else are we learning? >> the migrants said they didn't do it. they even gave a fake i.d. trying to hide who they were but they were caught running around with a bengals hat, both stolen from joe burrow's house. now these four men you're looking at are facing criminal charges after investigators say they broke into joe burrow's house the other month smashing his window with a tool, then went right inside taking whatever they wanted according to police. this happened back in december. right before christmas, when burrow was out on the football field for monday night football playing the cowboys, an officer pulls up and explains what he saw at the scene. listen. >> you have a shattered window in the bedroom.

the bedroom has been ransacked. >> it wasn't just the bengals quarterback joe burrow's house in ohio but there have been a string of incidents targeting multimillion dollar homes. now police say these men, who are part of a south american gang and originally from chile, could be linked to other cases so what's their alibi? they told police they were in ohio to see the snow but according to court documents cell phone records place them around burrow's house at the time of the crime and the quarterback says it's not just all about what was stolen. >> i feel like my privacy has been violated in more ways than one. and way more is already out there than i would want out there than i care to share. >> it follows a security alert from the nfl which warns of organized and skilled criminals targeting athletes' homes across the country because the people knew when they would be out of town because they could watch them on tv. patrick mahomes and travis kelsey also had their homes broken into.

>> sandra: in the case of joe burrow and others there was someone home at the time that this happened, which is really scary. all right. with those brand-new details, thank you, alexis, bret? >> bret: president trump's first legal battle tomorrow over his order to end birth right citizenship. tomorrow's hearing involves four of the 22 states now suing to block it. this as the justice department also dress federal prosecutors to investigate any local officials who try to get in the way of president trump's immigration law enforcement. let's bring in carey. this deals with the 14th amendment and birthright citizenship, and illegal immigrants who come into the country, give birth, and then that child becomes a u.s. citizen. what are the legal challenges here for those states that are suing? >> well, it's been understood for a long time that birthright citizenship is just the law of the land in this country and that comes from an 1898 supreme court decision that involved a

chinese foreign national who was born to chinese nationals, who were living here in the united states. at the time, it was next to impossible for chinese foreign nationals to become citizens because of the chinese exclusion act so he was born here, goes back to china, tries to come back and they don't want him back in. he successfully litigated this at the supreme court, and the court there said that if you're born here, it doesn't matter if your parents are citizens or not, you enjoy citizenship and those rights. however in that case, they emphasized two things. that his parents were permanen permanently domiciled. it was almost impossible for chinese nationals to become citizens at the time, and two, and this was the controversial aspect back in 1898, the supreme court ignored two previous supreme court decisions that had said the opposite. that children born to aliens were not citizens and they said, well, that really didn't come into play in the decisions themselves, which is true so we're just going to ignore that as just talk around it.

so here we are, over a hundred years later, and this has been debated for a long time and there are scholars on both sides of the isle. i think the long game strategy here from the trump team is to hopefully get it before the supreme court and see if we can get some clarity on it. >> bret: for people who know the legal ways here, if an executive order trumping an amendment to the constitution seems like it's tough to do unless there is wiggle room in the way that that's written. >> that's right. i think the wiggle room here, and this is what people have been debating for many, many years, is this clause that follows, so it's all persons born or naturalize in the u.s. and the key clause, subject to jurisdiction thereof what does that mean? is it's subject to the jurisdiction of the united states or of a different country? and at the time it was written, 14th amendment a michigan senator gave speeches around that clause and specifically said it excluded aliens. it was meant to address the fact that enslaved people were not

considered citizens and their children so it was meant to undo a very bad supreme court decision at the time. but that's the interesting context that i don't think a lot of people know, that the senator who wrote it said, no, this doesn't include aliens so we'll see if it gets to the supreme court. they don't have to take it up if it gets there but if they do it could be an interesting decision. >> bret: let's put on your former doj hat and you look at this order to kind of go after local officials who get in the way of president trump's immigration orders. >> it's a pretty significant directive, fact that doj is directing all 93 u.s. attorneys' offices across the country to investigate and possibly prosecute any state or local actor who interferes in federal law enforcement, enforcing the laws on the books and not just enforcing immigration law but any requests from the federal government or the like. so think about what that could mean. and what's especially interesting about the directive is that if an office declines to prosecute, say, you know, an actor or a state official, who

is resisting what the trump administration is doing, they actually have to put it in writing in an urgent memo that goes straight to the a.g. and the deputy attorney general. we'll see how it goes but it certainly is a significant move. >> bret: big deal. as always, thank you. >> thank you. >> i look at tariffs, they are an economic tool, that's it. they are an economic weapon. depending on how you use it and why you use it, stuff like that, people argue is it inflationary or noninflationary, i would put it into perspective, if it's a little inflationary but good for national security, get over it. embrace it. >> sandra: jp morgan ceo, he's warning about the stock market and perhaps the stock market is too inflated. it seems like there is room for debate on both issues. our fox business panel are here

on that just ahead. >> bret: plus, some schools banning cell phone use in classrooms. we're live at a new jersey high school making the change, cb? >> oh, hi, bret. it's you today, sorry. i was distracted by my cell phone, not really but teachers are saying it's happening across the country. the high school behind me thinks it has a fix. i'll have details after the break.

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>> sandra: these are live aerial images of the hughes fire coming to us from los angeles right now. mandatory evacuation orders and warnings have been issued for this wildfire. it's burned, i think the update is a hundred acres, near the los angeles county community of castaic. this is what we're watching live. obviously this is not a good situation. it's been dubbed the hughes fire

off lake hughes road north of the reservoir, and we're looking at a red flag warning that's happening right there, and obviously, not a good situation. huge fire burning in los angeles county. that's about a hundred acres right now. we'll continue to monitor this for you as these images come in and praying for all of those in its path. bret? >> bret: new york governor kathy -- slamming the effects of teen cell phone usage while introducing new legislation to ban phone use in class. new jersey governor phil murphy also pushing for a classroom phone ban as some schools in the garden state are already locking up cell phones. we're live outside a high school in new jersey. how is this school keeping phones out of the classroom? >> students are locking their phones in magnetically sealed pouchs. they have only been used for about two weeks here at ramsey high school and as you can imagine, kids were not too happy

about this at first but now things are looking up to include student faces in the hallways. >> instead of everybody just look downing at their phone and catching up, you say hi to a lot or moment. good morning, how are you? >> when students get to class teachers check to make sure the phones are locked in the pouches making each classroom a distraction-free learning environment. when students leave for lunch or dismissal, they unlock the sealed pouchs using a magnet to get back their smartphones. ramsey high school is now a step ahead after new jersey governor phil murphy recently called for a k through 12 ban on cell phones. while ramsey high school doesn't have any new data yet on if it leads to better test scores, teachers are seeing more engagement in the classroom. >> there is not that interrup --

interruption and they are taking notes. >> calling for no smartphones on school grounds is approved by state lawmakers. schools would develop their own policy and a way for parents to contact their kids. some parents are against these cell phone bans and argue their child needs a phone in case of an emergency. but some crisis, a child needs to be listening to the adult in the room and not be on a cell phone. bret? >> bret: thank you. >> i think prices are kind of inflated, by the any measure top 10-15%. the u.s. stock market but it's not true for stock markets around the world, and i say sovereign debts price pretty well. credit debt is at all-time highs. elevated. and you need really good outcomes to justify those prices and we're all hoping for that and i think -- strategies can make that happen but there are negatives throughout and they can tend to surprise you.

>> sandra: signaling caution over a "kind of inflated stock market" adds warnings come as wall street rallies to embrace president trump's second term. we're looking at the dow right now, up 111 points. the s&p 500 which is a broader snapshot of the u.s. stock market is at record highs today. so there is certainly some optimism out there but to that point, the big money show co-hosts -- are here. does jamie diamond have a point? is this overinflated the stock market? >> i don't know about that. i think the american economy has a lot of juice left in it. i don't know that we're at levels where you can say this is a big bubble or something. the trump economy is a big deal. we've got great new opportunities with lower taxes, lower regulation, you talk about what we're -- we're going to talk about half a trillion dollar investments in a.i. there are a lot of good things here so i think it's okay for the stock market to be excited. frankly i would say it makes more sense to me that you would have an excited stock market now when you've got good policy

compared to the last few years where most of what was fueling that was low interest rates -- >> sandra: we want to point out the stock market went up during those years as well. >> that's what i'm saying it went up, because money is cheap and i say, no, let's have a stock market go up when business environment is good. that's what we're dealing with now. >> sandra: it comes down to what you think the future growth will be. so people could come to you, with stock way overvalued. there is no way by one measure that we do on finance 50 times earnings, way too expensive. it's only expensive if you don't think they can keep up with the growth rate that they have projected. a lot of people think the growth rate -- is just getting started. by that measure it's not overvalued so it just depends on where you think about future growth. brian, to your point, and we were joking about a great investor, sandra, that i'm sure you know, of at -- >> sandra: larry and i were just talking about. >> he talks to ceo's everywhere. they went from the most

anti-business to the most pro-business. ceo's are like giddy with excitement. >> sandra: the war room thing was starting to sound like a bad -- no, we just have to put together teams that we can figure out the change. one of his right-hand gals was just talking in davos saying, no, this is what should be done to create business-friendly environment. here's diamond on the tariffs even, which sort of scared the market a little bit, and now they are saying this. >> they are an economic tool. that's it. they are an economic weapon. depending on how you use it and why you use it, stuff like that, people argue, is it inflationary or noninflationary, i would put it into perspective, if it's a little inflationary but good for national security so bit. get over it k. they be used to bring people to the table? yes. is there some unfair trade? yes. is there some state-owned subsidies? yes. is the president going -- we'll see. >> look what he's doing is he's

talking about tariffs like a business guy, let's be practical. what is the president trying to do, what are the dimensions where it could be costly, what are the dimensions where it could help? he's not being an ideologue. how dare president trump do tear rivers and skyrocketing. thank god, because we've lived through real inflation. so i like what he's doing there. that's a pragmatic approach. >> scott also had a great -- the incoming treasury secretary had a great comment touchdown of the liberal senators who comes at him during his hearing and he said it's not an automatic 10% increase in your prices. let's think about this. if i believe anyone i believe in scott. you get about a 4% change in the currency. okay. and then maybe china lowers their prices to maintain their volume. so does it automatically mean everything that i buy just went up 10%? there are so many other factors that make this conversation so much more nuanced if the tariffs go in at all, which jamie

diamond was also saying they are a tool, we may not even get all of it. >> we seem to be embracing members of trump's team, case in point, some of the ceo's and heads of companies that have been by his side throughout inauguration and way before, elon musk, jamie diamond said this. listen. >> you've got to look at elon. spacex. i mean, tesla, neuro link, he's our einstein, and we want to be as helpful to his companies as we can. i think it's completely rational for someone to look at our government and say, it's been ineffective. the government needs to be more accountable, more efficient. outcomes-based. >> so elon musk -- retweets this or rex's this, nice of him to say. >> it's about time, don't you think? we've just gone from the most anti-business, anti-capitalist administration, to arguably one of the most pro-business

administrations. i would argue, elon musk, spacex, government, boeing. boeing also does have some private money. who is more effective at putting people in space? spacex. get the government out of the way and let's give it back to the private investors. they know how to actually make business decisions. >> final? >> i think jamie diamond is doing what a lot of people are doing. it's a good time to work together. let's build things, make money, make life better. after the last four years, i'm all in for that. >> it adds to the point of like so much unity to get things started here. >> yep. >> sandra: and a lot of momentum. we'll see what's done with that and thanks to both of you. bret? >> bret: common ground, maybe. frigid temperatures hitting north carolina where some hurricane helene people are still living in tents.

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the white house. president trump's orders dismantling the office going into effect 5:00 p.m. tonight. not just there but across the administration. now the "wall street journal" reporting that anti-dei activists are pushing major banks to follow suit. joining us now, spectator and editor at large, fox news contributor, ben -- 5:00 p.m. is the deadline. we talked about it with mary catherine earlier. what about the extension of this and does it have bleedover into other places?

>> i think it does. we can look back at the supreme court case that found in the instance of affirmative action within the college environment as something that i think really emboldened a lot of these conservative activists and gestures, and we see major institutions, including the heritage foundation obviously, taking these steps of getting involved in these major entities, to make a point. to make this argument. we've seen them try to do this before, but i think something has changed with the re-election of donald trump and that's, i think, a signal to all of these different entities, that the old approach to dei that really was spawned after the summer of love, the george floyd reaction that had all of these companies moving in the direction of a.i., to cover for past sins and imagined ones and committing billions of dollars for social justice causes and the like,

that it's a new day. something has shifted, and that's no longer what people really want to see from corporate america. >> earlier this year we saw wal-mart, a big company, ditching dei. i think we'll see others. we're waiting for sean hannity's interview with president trump from the oval office. i'm told it covers numerous topics both personal and substantive but this is like drinking from a fire hose as far as all that's coming out. just in the press the first couple of days. >> one thing that i think is really of benefit of that is i think it's dealing with reality. susie wiles and others have indicated that the first 18 months is really going to be key when it comes to determining the agenda of this second term and how successful it is. i don't think that he's surrounded by people who have the illusion that going into the next midterm that republicans are going to have an automatic advantage despite perhaps some of the map being friendly. because of that i think they are moving very quickly on all of these different points.

>> bret: we do have our first clip from sean hannity's exclusive interview in the oval office. this deals with the big picture issue of returning to office. let's take a listen. >> let's talk about the moment you walked back in this office, this desk, this room, your carpet, how did you feel? >> president trump: well, it was a lot of work, and, as you know, i felt we shouldn't have had -- necessarily be here, could have been done, a lot of work -- it would have been over, and we wouldn't have inflation, or the afghanistan disaster. wouldn't have had october 7, with israel. when so many people were killed. you wouldn't have a ukraine war going on, but with all that being said i think it's bigger. it's bigger than if it were more traditional. >> sean: for the second time in history, somebody didn't have consecutive terms. >> president trump: they say

it's historically bigger. i don't know about that but i can say, it showed us a couple of things. it showed us that the radical left, their philosophies and policies are horrible. >> bret: he gets introspective i'm told in the interview. also, if you think about it, after the loss in 2020, there are four years of preparing for this relaunch, and all of the people that were part of america first and part of this organization, have had all this time to prepare for this launch as he's talking about there. >> look, he's coming in with a completely different situation than when he came in, in 2017. when no one was prepared for it. when you have a republican leadership that was moving in different directions, had different priorities. now you have much more unity. not full unity but certainly more than you had then. look, the other thing is just keep in mind, look back to you know, august of 2023, and everything that's happened since then. if you look back at that point

he's surrounded by all of this legal pressure and lawfare. he looked like someone being drowned in all of these things. to think he would be back in the oval office a year later seemed like a long shot and not just back there but i think with real momentum and a mandate from the people to make a dramatic change. >> that interview is said to go very long, a lot of materials at 9:00 p.m. eastern tonight on sean hannity's show. ben, thanks. >> good to be with you. >> sandra: many helene survivors are embracing frigid winter temperatures outstable housing and in some cases don't even have heat. now a local farmer is stepping in to help. that farmer will join us next.

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>> sandra: freezing temperatures crippling much of the nation including people in western north carolina. the same area hit hard by hurricane helene, there are still some helene survivors there without homes or reliable shelter, have been forced to embrace cold winter temperatures, in some cases even struggling to find heat. a local farmer there knows the situation all too well. he donated many acres of his land to be used for r.v.'s after

the storm and has seen first hand what those locals are up against in this harsh winter weather. james joins us now. thank you for joining us. a hero to many. what have you been able to do to step in and help? >> hi, guys. thanks for having me. basically, just providing housing for a lot of the folks that were losing homes and living in tents, and living in their cars, and shelters, that vouchers were running out. >> i talked to a country singer, eric church, he's working down there as well, trying to do similar things. >> bret: what does it mean that the president mentioned north carolina, and actually is heading down that way, as he travels, we're told, over the next few days. >> he's supposed to be down friday, i heard, probably around the asheville area. >> bret: yes. what does it mean to you? >> i think it will bring more

recognition. >> sandra: that's obviously a big part of it is, you know, making sure that these folks are not forgotten, and move on, and we keep circling back because we're really interested on everything that's being done to help, and you're part of the solution. i know that you were talking to some people who just lost absolutely everything. they still don't have homes. they still don't have heat in some cases. who are some of the people you're talking to and tell us a story about somebody you've been able to help. >> it's hard to do since i have over a hundred but there are families, single people to couples, just, that were displaced because basically we turned no one away. and tried to get them out of the cold. >> bret: james, what's the biggest thing that's needed down there, if somebody wants to help, and help you all, what's needed? >> our biggest need right now, i mean, they are good on the

materialistic things, but now it's just like feeding a family of a hundred. we've got to keep to him with their normal infrastructure, gas for their generators, propane for their heat. food. just the normal, daily essentials and not daily essentials, such as propane, gas, and all of that. >> sandra: we've been in awe over the sense of community and coming together and your darkest moments there. how would you describe the morale of folks who have just been trying to hang on until warmer months come and they are able to get some shelter? >> they are tough. the they are very tough. they show more resilience than i would have. >> sandra: that's an amazing statement and our best to you as you try to help so many right now. thank you so much for coming on with us. >> bret: thank you. >> appreciate it, but if you have anybody who needs any more information, just go to facebook page and they can get the whole

story there. >> sandra: we thank you for your efforts, thank, james. we'll be right back.

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