♪ ♪ >> steve: exactly 7:00 here in new york city. guess the temperature? >> lawrence: let's say 15. >> steve: close.

>> ainsley: 20 something. >> steve: 18. what's it feel like? >> ainsley: feels like 10. >> steve: 3. >> lawrence: whoa. >> steve: it's cold. you probably are too. welcome aboard february 18th, 2025. welcome to "fox & friends." we start with a fox news alert. an investigation underway north of our border into toronto after a delta flight from minnesota carrying 80 people on board, crashed and flipped upside down on the runway while it was on fire. >> that airplane with the wicks in the back of the fuselage if you overcorrect and very close to the ground or in the flair it's possible to dig the wing in. if that happens it is very easily to flip the aircraft. >> lawrence: democrats have a problem with democrats and doge, now they are getting unsolicited advice, watch. >> just let it go. don't get in the way of it. or as we like to say don't just stand there, do nothing.

>> ainsley: and we were all on set interviewing tom homan and mayor eric adams on friday when someones in thed this song blasting from one of our offices upstairs ♪ san antonio steve in my office. >> lawrence: i wonder if is he going to confess. >> steve: he came in humming that song. >> lawrence: alexa was spurred. >> steve: don't say that word. >> steve: spell it. >> brian: my alexa took over. this is what is going to happen with ai. the world is going to take over and don't have anything to do with it. >> steve: siri, turn off alexa. >> ainsley: dana perino this assistant kate walks around why is brian's office blaring ariana

grande. >> lawrence: yeah. it's unbelievable. >> ainsley: sent me the video over the weekend i cracked up. >> lawrence: me too. >> brian: when my office takes over the whole floor. second hour of "fox & friends" starts right now. remember, mornings are better with friends. get dressed. ♪ straight to a fox news alert now in toronto. still no answers. no answers on what caused the delta flight from minneapolis to crash and flip upside down upon landing. >> lawrence: nate foy is at the toronto airport with the investigation underway. nate, what are you learning? >> hey, guys. good morning. so i'm brian's office neighbor. and that happens quite frequently. there was another time where rap music was playing after alexa started it during your guys' show. you were also talking about how cold it is in new york. i promise you it's colder here in canada. there is snow on the ground. there were strong wind gusts in the area last night of about 38 miles per hour. and investigators are trying to

piece together if that played a role in what happened with this plane crash landing and then rolling belly up on the runway. people described hanging like bats and then getting themselves free from their seat belts and standing on what is normally the ceiling of the plane. what we know about injuries. 80 people were on board. 18 people injured. the injuries range from minor to serious. but, none of them, most importantly, are considered life-threatening. so take more looks at this video. just remarkable, this scene. the plane took off from minneapolis, came down here in toronto. the transportation safety board of canada is leading this investigation. faa investigators are also going to the crash site. once the plane crashed, officials here say it was absolutely a textbook emergency response. firefighters put out flames on the runway.

crew evacuated passengers with the plane flipped over. we mentioned those winds. audio from the air traffic controller shows the pile lots were warned about the chief says there were no cross wind conditions. there was also snow on the ground but the chief says that the runway was dry pear is the former administration talking about the possible role the weather played last hour. >> with gusty conditions. it is possible but very rare to get a severe gust right at touchdown. that airplane with the wings in the back of the fuselage, if you overcorrect, and you are very close to the ground or in the flair it's possible to dig the wing, in if that happens, it's very easy to flip the aircraft. >> plane involved crj # hundred

canadian regional jet. same craft involved in the mid-air collision at reagan national airport. this now makes four plane crashes in north america just over the past month. this airport, toronto pearson international is operating at a reduced capacity today there are five run rays here in total. two of them will remain closed during this investigation, which continues today. we'll send it back to you. >> steve: so, nate, it looks like, and we have just seen some new video that's available and we will have it shortly here on fox. it looks like the plane comes down hard and then immediately bursts into flames on the right side of the plane i know we just had that expert say sometimes if the wing were to touch it would cost it to flip over to look out the window and the plane is on fire and not upside down yet, that's very troubling. >> when you saw the aftermath of it you weren't sure if the plane landed bell up.

the video that you are talking about that we are working to clear and then get on our air and show our viewers shows that the plane went down went down right side up and very quickly the wing was taken off fruits lodge turned counterclockwise which resulted in those passengers hanging like bats from what felt like the ceiling but was really the floor of the plane they had to get themselves free and get off the airplane as quickly as possible as you mentioned firefighters were scrambling to put out the flames. bream panicking and trying to get off the aircraft as quickly as possible. people helped those who couldn't unbuckle themselves and thank goodness. considering how dangerous of a situation that was, officials

are saying none of these injuries are expected to be life-threatening. >> you know if you are hanging upside down you have to take that seat belt off, you are going to fall and you said earlier there was a pediatric patient on board and a russ or middle-aged man and woman sent to the hospital but everyone is going to be okay, right? >> that's what we're hearing. right now we will keep following up on that. this sounds like a situation where the cabin crew did a phenomenal job. >> steve: yes people on board helped their fellow human being next to them. people took charge and helped their neighbors get off that aircraft safely, thank goodness. nate, for you and i, are you thinking about moving you're office? is this something that happens all the time where the music trying to study and work on things and you hear my music blasting? and i'm not. >> there? >> i will tell you what, brian, it happens so early in the morning and it was so loud it was almost like having an extra

cup of coffee. it woke me up right away and actually a kind of funny way to start my day. >> nate, i feel your pain i'm on the other side of the office, i hear the other wall. >> brian: i think there is going to be a massive movement off my floor, i'm going to be kicked off. >> alexa. >> brian: alexa listens too good. >> nate, thank you very much. a live report from a very cold toronto. >> only woman in my life will listen to me and i'm even there. >> lawrence: so sad. 8 minutes after the top of the hour. happening today we are expecting a ruling on whether or not elon musk's department of government efficiency will be allowed access to certain personnel data files. as well as the ability to slash certain government positions. >> senior white house correspondent jacqui heinrich joins us now from west palm beach, florida. good morning, jacqui. >> hey, good morning, guys. we are all awaiting a ruling today from a federal judge in response to a suit from 14 attorneys general tried to stop

doge from accessing agencies or laying off or firing any employees from those agencies. the steats are demanding a temporary restraining order. they're arguing imminent harm is likely department of education labor, health and human services, energy, transportation, commerce and the office of personnel management tanya chutkan is not convince q. instanced. she wrote yesterday the things i'm hearing are serious and troubling indeed. the things you are hearing not seeing it so far. awaiting a ruling on whether this request for a temporary restraining order can move forward. meantime doj lawyers are arguing that elon musk does not have federal authority to make decisions himself. chutkan disagreed issue a filing musk is not the administrator of doge nor is he an employee of the department of government efficiency, declaring him instead a special government

employee and senior adviser to president trump. they cited anita dunn as a previous holder of a role of this type under former president joe biden. the president trump has credited musk with his work on doge many times. so it's a little bit unclear what tangible effect that statement from the white house might have. meantime, anti-trump protesters took to the streets in washington on presidents' day with not my president signs also saying no one voted for elon musk. so, the pushback continues, meantime doge is still working to access irs data. we understand that access is imminent allow doge employees to comb through tightly controlled files bank records and other taxpayer information. critics are warning that anies in stakes in this data base could potentially have disruption to the tax filing system just as about 100 million americans are planning to file their taxes. a lot coming up today, guys

jacqui, just got a note from my neighbor friend ray, thank jacqui for showing our boat in palm beach. he has got one of those big boats behind? >> can i go for a ride? this requires a boat ride? i will connect with you ray and his wife ellen. >> that's a great assignment today, isn't it? so beautiful down there? i was down in florida this weekend the weather is so nice. >> steve: the weather is perfect. >> brian: says i'm looking at these cases and, of course, they should be able to have access to the irs. they work for the government. how else are they going to look at it, but that doesn't mean necessarily the judge is going to rule that way. listen. >> one thing that i think has been just strange in this whole conversation around doge over the last few weeks is this idea you need a security clearance to access tax information and social security numbers. you don't. unless that social security number is attached to information. those are federal government

employees not only should they have the same access as their career official colleagues they should have nor access because they were effectively directly elected by the people via the president and the election. a lot of what we are seeing is the media and certain lawmakers being disingenuous and exploiting the american people's lack of knowledge over how this works and that political appointees are federal government employees just like everyone else and therefore should be able and permitted to do their job. if they aren't, it's essentially like a usurpation of the democratic process. >> lawrence: she covered the legal as specht of this but also overlaps with the political aspect. the democrats are talking about process right now. how they're getting the information. but they are not addressing the information and the corruption that they're finding in mismanagement of the funds. they are saying oh, they have people's private information. but they want won't address the issue at hand what they're

uncovering. whatever you talk about process from what i know about politics you are losing the argument. instead process instead of the actual issue at hand. she also told brian when he was interviewing her. contract employees have access to some of this information. so, these are people that will be vetted. they will have security clearance we will have to trust some people we trust people at the irs. elon is trying to cut costs. i feel like democrats are finding weird ways to argue what trump is doing. is he cutting costs. >> well, here's the thing. >> lawrence: so true. >> steve: federal government carved up into three big things. you have got the executive branch, judicial branch and congress. what is going on right now is all within the executive branch. the president of the united states has the, you know, he has the obligation and the responsibility and the power to take a look. >> lawrence: discretion here's the crazy thing we learned this morning apparently $4.7 trillion

worth of payments from the federal treasury sun traceable because they did not essentially put anything on the subject line about where the money was going as doge takes a look federal government they will figure out where the last administration actually spent money. remember, congress approved it. the question is once that agency got the money, they spend it the way they were supposed to? remember in the last week or so. we have been talking about hundreds of millions of dollars that was earmarked for fema, for natural disasters went to house migrants. that was not what it was for. there is homeless money for american homeless people but it wasn't for migrants. >> it's hard to track the money though because they didn't put the tracking codes on the. >> they changed it now. trump has said you have to put a tracking code so we can see what the money was used for.

>> this is important but keep in mind, social security, medicare, medicaid 2.9 trillion. that's almost half of all the money spent. put in defense and veterans affairs. that's 950 billion. that's roughly three quarters of the $6.75 trillion it takes to run our government. so we're still on this third and finding a lot. can you nag we look at the other nondiscretionary spending and what they can find. not to cut people's benefits. that's something that may never happen. the systems and the payouts and the fraud that exists there elon musk says that's going to be the gold mine medicare. >> ainsley: millions in the social security database listed between the ages of 100 and 159. >> lawrence: that's crazy. >> ainsley: people don't live to be 159. why are they in the database? >> steve: i was reading about that this morning. apparently if there is data missing from exact birth date they default it and put it as the reference point is may 20th,

1875. which was part of an international standard setting conference held in paris known as the convention do meter and so that's why so many people are showing up as their data 150 years old goes to show you how screwed up the federal government is why doge is trying to fix it saying they need to do. watch. >> everybody was down beat, depressed, and this happened quickly and i think i'm almost positive it's going to continue to happen the question is how should democratic politicians respond to this? and what i think they should do is what we call in rural america play possum, let it go docht

just stand there do nothing. let this germinate. don't need to be -- don't need to get in front of it, this freight train is moving. let's just get out of the way. >> he is right. is he absolutely right. >> seinfeld way. nothing happened. so you just watch and then pick your spots. i think people like putting him on charles barkley and john mcenroe because he says sensational thing. john fetterman called dress up a little bit. he could not look worse on camera. what is he doing? here's the thing. he is saying don't do anything. he is also the guy who said he guarantees you kamala harris would win. so this guy hasn't been successful since bill clinton. >> lawrence: i will say this. james carville is still a partisan. is he still going to root for his team. i do think he gives them solid advice sometimes telling them where to adjust. dip is he right. >> steve: he is right. >> lawrence: all this singing and protesting. you are going against the american people right now. they're on donald trump's side. his approval rating going up.

all they are doing is attacking elon musk to used to be -- you are all driving his cars. now you hate him just play dead. just lay down. just take it for a little bit. and if the trump administration messes up, then do some protesting. >> steve: here's the thing. is he a real list. the republicans control all the government. they have got the house, the senate and the white house, there is nothing the democrats can do other than sing about it they sing bad too. >> steve: give them enough reap. get out of the way his popularity, according to the polls is surging jen psaki was warning stop screaming constitutional crisis pick spots that matter. >> i have a problem with this. fetterman has two or three things he really likes and one he doesn't. i listen to that because i know he is trying to pick his spots

when everything is terrible your house is on fire then no one is listening swing voters like what trump is doing with doge. everything the democrats are protest something doge-related. >> carley: and it over to carley for headlines. >> carley: another big story we have been following. this morning new york governor kathy shobleg holding a meeting with local leaders here in manhattan to determine the future of eric adams faced numerous calls to resign after the doj dropped its indictment against him it. follows at least three deputy mayors reportedly resigning from their position in adams' administration. hochul writing in a statement, quote: overturning the will of the voter is a serious step that should not be taken lightly. >> also happening today a federal judge will hear arguments in a suit challenging president trump's executive order banning transgender people from service. the suit is estimated to effect

anywhere between 9,000 and 14,000 service members. a recent gallup poll shows 58% of americans support transgender people in the military, which is down from 66% in 2021. and 71% in 2019. today's hearing is scheduled to begin at 10:00 a.m. eastern time. and today is texas tuesday. and steve is following through with a promise to lawrence. here is a behind the scenes look this morning. watch. >> lawrence: y'all know it's texas tuesday. did i not expect this. steve said that -- okay, i got boots. he comes in with these cherry black lukaseys. classic texas edition. >> steve: i told you i would do it. >> lawrence: do you think you will see brian kilmeade with cowboy boots on. cherry black lukaseys.

>> steve: i told you i had would. oh my goodness, it's like winning a emmy. >> so nice. >> lawrence: i'm impressed. >> lawrence: my daughter went to smu, i had to have nice boots. >> carley: steve, you look fantastic in those cowboy boots. can you remind us the origin of texas tuesday, lawrence? >> lawrence: i don't know the origin. one day i felt like i needed to be closer to home. i brought home to new york city. >> steve: last tuesday you were wearing boots and pearl, who we saw right there, you guys were talking about texas tuesday. and i said i'm going to wear boots next tuesday. you thought i was going to forget. >> lawrence: i thought you were going to forget. >> ainsley: you have to remind me monday night. >> lawrence: i promise. she is a mom and busy. >> ainsley: are you going to do it. >> lawrence: brian refuses to participate. >> brian: that's not me. >> ainsley: ains. >> carley: he didn't do it with he was riding a horse. >> brian: kevin costner should use that music. i felt like i was on the tundra.

>> steve: that was clint eastwood music, actually. >> ainsley: we talked at the top of the hour about hearing this music belting out from someone's office. on our. >> brian: while i was on the radio. >> steve: i think it's when we were interviewing tom homan and mayor adams and kate, who is dana perino's assistant, her office is close to this person's office. and she rolls in there and she cracks up. she is just laughing because ariana grande is playing so loudly. and we did get an email from kelly and kelly said i think it's brian kilmeade. love you all. kelly, you are right. >> lawrence: what gave it away? >> so here is the moment of kate walking in to brian's office, it's -- beware, it is a little messy he revealed earlier. >> ainsley: he cleaned it up. >> steve: here is brian's office with the great ariana grande

♪ ♪ >> lawrence: can we talk about how did this happen? something on television triggered arianna. >> there is no way. >> it did. the tv often ignites. there is a whole world going on without me. >> steve: we don't hear the tv in there. we just heard her. steve. >> lawrence: tv said play arianna. >> brian: maybe vindman. >> steve: adams, alexa. quid pro quo sound like alexa? >> brian: maybe. >> steve: we had talked about quid pro quo. >> this is why no one wants to have offices near me. you heard nate complain and so -- right in between. >> lawrence: apparently this has been happening behind your back. >> ainsley: one t rap music

blaring. >> lawrence: know it's on play list. >> brian: don't you feel bad when these devices that are there for you and you have nothing to say to them. i don't really want to hear music. don't you feel you just say it just because you feel bad for them? >> no. >> i don't want them tracking me. all mine. >> this is how the robots take over. >> you use a robot? >> no. >> ainsley, do you use a robot? >> one in my bedroom and one in my kitchen. i moved, so i never plugged them back in. >> the stories they could tell. >> yes. anti-trump protesters gathered across the country on presidents' day. that was yesterday. we are going to talk to a blm leader who calls these delusional and anti-american. ♪ turning back ♪ trump is not a king

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♪ never turn back ♪ trump is not a king ♪ ♪ hey, hey ♪ ho, ho, trump and musk has got to go ♪ stand up. >> fight back. [chanting] >> lawrence: unbelievable. our next guest calls it the democratic cult he was once a part of. the executive director of black lives matter inc. mark fisher. mark, thank you for joining the program. go ahead. >> i was going to stay good morning to you and the whole "fox & friends" crew, lawrence. >> lawrence: thank you, brother. so the last election. you saw black voters. you saw la dean know voters. you saw young people. either stay at home or vote for donald trump. and reject this agenda. so why are the democrats out there singing in the streets doubling down on the same message? >> democrats are desperate. i would say the closest thing to a national cult that we have. when you are overwhelmingly

mandate and slapped across all branches of government, you basically have nothing else. that's the playbook is just protest trump. i believe americans are tired of protest now. democrats offer nothing but protest. they just need to, you know, lick their wounds and give donald trump and his administration a chance to do what the people voted him in to do. >> lawrence: mark as someone who used to be a democratic myself and you used to a democratic. i'm sure folks in the audience are wondering what is it within the party and the movement that you said okay, i can't take this anymore? >> i think that the democrats are experts at taking advantage of the most vulnerable and weak-minded people in society. i was there. i did it. you know, at one time. and then when they are done with you, you are no longer they don't have any use for you.

they did it with black people and illegal immigrants and lgbtq. you know the protests last thing they want to do is give you something to help you. they allowed black lives matter to protest they knew we needed an outlet somehow some way. they never met any demands. bait and switch. they never kept any of their promises. that's what they are good for. >> lawrence: this is what the movement is saying in a statement. the 5051 movement does not refer to an organization it represents a vision, the american dream. as we were all once taught to believe in it. this is not just a movement. it is our modern day civil rights struggle so i was told the american dream was to work hard. if you work hard, you get a good paying job and you get to take care of your family we are seeing the american dream being

robbed from people though. our tax dollars are being spent on foreign governments when our people are struggling, money going to the illegals. folks of our generation can't afford a house. our education system is going nowhere. how is this the american dream? largest fraud. vis-a-vis usaid along with a plethora of other, you know crimes against the country and they are just being exposed. my state george soros playbooks. i'm not going to mention any names. this is the playbook. it's interesting to me that the day a protest was scheduled by online demonstrators the 5th and

17th, i think, a couple days before that they had the scheduled protest for illegal immigration in several strategic cities across the country this is them sore losers and sour grapes. >> lawrence: same old things people reject in the last election. i'm all for competition. i want them to regroup get behind so there can be healthy debate. we are not getting debate. we are getting singing. i don't a lot of folks back home resonate with that. brother, thanks for coming on the program this morning. >> we're tired of it. thank you, lawrence, appreciate you, man. >> lawrence: we have been tired of it. it's the media we have been waiting for for three years to see. the u.s. now in peace talks with russia. senator tom cotton on what a deal could look like and what a win could mean for trump. ♪ i'm thinking of updating my kitchen...

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general january good morning, my friends. it is a cold one for much of the country. let's take a look at the maps the polar vortex has settled in across much of the country. strong winds making it feel much colder than it really is with wind chills in the negative 30 to negative 40 range. those are current wind chills right now what it feels like if you are outside and really dangerous if you are outside in negative 30-degree weather. it's only going to take minutes for frost bite to set in. here are cold weather alerts for 86 million people all the way down towards. here are. so coldest wind chills, negative 66 in mount washington. i'm not going to explain a lot of negative 50's north dakota and montana. the storm system is going to move toward the central u.s. it's also going going to bring a

snow storm to areas that were flooded over the weekend like tennessee and kentucky. that's going to be 8 to 12 inches parts of the central plains and mid-atlantic as we go through thursday and friday. okay, brian kilmeade, with your permission, can i come in? >> brian: yes, absolutely. i love that white coat. 19 minutes before the top of the hour secretary of state marco rubio and other top officials including national security adviser mike waltz are in saudi arabia right now meeting with russian officials face to face to discuss peace in ukraine. this is historic. senator tom cotton joins us now. senator, we understand from jacqui heinrich, who told us some deal points, this is what russia wants. they want a cease-fire, they want elections in ukraine to be involved in the final agreement. why do they care about elections in ukraine and russia when they have just ridiculous elections? >> because they want metal in

them. reality on the ground in ukraine is joe biden left the world in a terrible mess. his weakness, tempted putin to invade in the first place. he pussy footed around for three years. clear in retrospect his plan was to lose after the election. that's what we're left with now. we need to try to secure a durable truce that will protect as j.d. vance left it last week in europe sovereign independence. get creative about that. look at what lindsey graham has proposed a united states-ukraine deal for minerals in ukraine that would give ukraine some opportunity for long-term economic growth post war. it would be good for the united states to get -- it to reduce our dependence on china for rare earth minerals which is violently important matter as i write about in my new book seven things you can't say about china. >> brian: very interesting russia does want to meet with us. they want to get u.s. companies back in their country. we haven't heard that from russia in about 20 years. so, let's talk about your book. it's called seven things you

can't say about china. it is out today. it is excellent. right to the point. and it talks about the urgency formidable opponent ever. taiwan we do not support taiwan independence. that used to be in that was taken out. much to the chagrin of the chinese. why is that important? china ring the alarm bell about china. most americans have low opinion of communist china, but however dangerous they think the direct threat to trin is worse. the hottest flash point is over taiwan. our position has long been that we don't support unilateral actions on either side of the taiwan straight that we want the peaceful status quo. that statement about taiwan's

independence was an example of the biden administration kowtowing to communist china and that's no longer what we're going to do. we are going to support our friends taiwan. we don't want to see it disrupted unilateral change. we want peaceful, stable relations in which communist china doesn't fulfill its long-held ambition of trying to invade and annex taiwan which would lead to instant global depression and a war unlike anyone has ever seen in our lifetimes. >> brian: when people say you know what? they took hong kong what's the big deal harassed did i bet and. taiwan would change the global balance. in what way? >> taiwan is different. as i remind people in seven things you can't say about china. douglas mcarthur called it the unsinkable aircraft carrier. it would be disaster of utmost importance to the united states if it fell into hostile hands, mainly communist china then and now. taiwan, first, has about 60% of

all global semiconducting manufacturing. over 90% of high end semiconducting manufacturing. any kind of conflict over taiwan, even inconclusive one or one that we prevailed in would lead to instant global depression. that means stock market would crash. life savings would be wiped out. mass unemployment. to say nothing of the lives lost in that conflict. the only way to prevail is to deter it from happening in the first place. >> brian: go back in time to tell us how we got where we are at all the way back to world war ii and before that and also an excerpt today's "new york post" how the chinese communist party has con koreaed hollywood since the late 1990s. that is important, too. senator, thanks for doing this book. i look forward to talking to you on the radio. >> thanks, brian. >> brian: all right. and here it is. the seven things you can't say about china. senator tom cotton out today. meanwhile, a.i. is getting scary smart. the new launch from elon musk and all the crazy things it can do. don't move.

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>> the mission of xai and the grok understand the nature of the universe figure out what is going on. where is the aliens? what's the meaning of life. all these fundamental questions. we are driven by curiosity, about the nature of the

universe, and that's also what causes truth seeking ai even if that truth is what is at odds with what is politically correct elon musk unveiled new model from ai start up grok 3 and musk says it outperforms both open ai and china's deepseek. kurt the cyberguy joins us now. kurt, what is up with this. >> scary start. we can use more competition in this arena. and don't under estimate elon musk here he goes and potentially this could be the next big thing that comes to our desktop phones use ai chatgpt. and i still my mother is always why do i want this? well, mom, like it will do all kinds of stuff. like what? so i took her insurance policy for the homeowner and said let's

look at your insurance, just cut and paste the whole thing in there. how do we improve this? how are we really covered? where are we not covered? it gave us the answer. open ai is a bigger leader in this area but grok 3 is going to be big. elon musk also saying that he is going to compete against google search thing called deep search that this will do. he is using 100 nvidia chips to make this processing learning go with grok 3. you know, synthetic learning is being talked about where it can self-correct and learn from its own mistakes. nothing is going to be perfect right now but, in the long run, he may have something. >> steve: elon musk is a smart guy. he also was in on open ai but he and sam parted ways maybe there is a little revenge here with that. real quickly, on cyberguy.com, right now. folks are going to want to go there because you have got something about an ai scam. >> kurt: that is happening -- hackers are using ai to get to

us. and they are saying if you think you have a mac and that malware is a part of your thing, this is one of the leaders right now on threats online. bottom line here, no matter what device you have, protect yourself and remove yourself from the dangers online. that's really what i aim for people to do. >> steve: as we have been talking about ai for a while. it's going to make our lives better. it's going to discover cures for cancer and stuff like that. it's so scary smart. unfortunately, bad guys now are figuring ways to use it. to get us. >> kurt: true. absolutely true. >> steve: check it out. go to cyberguy.com. cyberguy in person. thank you very much. >> good to see you. >> steve: memeanwhile, carley joins us with news about snow. >> carley: oh boy, do i, steve. take a look at this. natural avalanche caught on camera in colorado as heavy snow batters a 10-mile canyon. the avalanche did not reach the road according to the department of transportation. crews are working to reduce the risk of additional avalanches as

the risk of more slides remains high. and to hok hockey foreign natios event. do not worry because the united states has already secured a spot in thursday night's final and there will be a familiar face -- a familiar foe as team canada took out finland yesterday setting up a highly anticipated rematch between the u.s. and our neighbors to the north. the team's general manager calls for president trump to come to the game. why not? >> we would love it if president trump was in attendance. we have a room full of proud american players and coaches and staff. and, listen, we're just trying to represent our country the best way we can. >> carley: you love to see that the four nations final between the u.s. and canada is set for thursday night in boston. steve, up stairs to you, my friend. >> steve: i'm 70% swedish, i'm kind of torn, just saying. all right. thanks, carley. meanwhile, could this be the end of the road for embattled new

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