there it is, available at select south carolina chick-fil-a restaurants to cheer on clemsen, playing national championship, if you're a fan, this is one way to get in the spirit today. heather: yeah, they brought home the title last year, i think the tide will try to stop them. tracee: thanks, heather. heather: fox news alert for you, the flu now widespread across 24 states killing at least 13 children, dr. saphier next with what you need to know before sending children to school this morning. that's not all, how the crook literally made himself right at home i am a family man. i am a techie dad. i believe the best technology should feel effortless. like magic. at comcast, it's my job to develop, apps and tools that simplify your experience. my name is mike, i'm in product development at comcast. we're working to make things simple, easy and awesome. heather: fox news alert for you, health alert, child death toll rises to 13 at flu season just ravage it is united states wide spreed flu activity also being reported across two dozen states. here with everything that we need to know is

clemsen third time since 2013.arly a quarter of the price on secondary markets. now airfare to get there around a thousand bucks round trip from southeast to bay area, average nearly 2500 miles. alabama favored to win the game monday on levy stadium, boast team bring records, 14-0. wild card in nfl, cowboys are on fox, tomorrow night. great game for the cowboys against seahawks after the initial game between the colts and texans, sunday chargers, bears. modern-era finalists announce 15 total among them, tony gonzÁlez, james, bailey as well, the nfl has entered into reported 3-year deal set to be worth $90 million with cesar's entertainment, first gaming sponsor, it's only for casino, no fantasy. kevin durant somehow got away with this. how does this happen? he clearly steps out of bounds against houston rockets in overtime. they said he got bird box, blindfolded and overtime harden fifth straight finished, 3-point point shot, harden is on a row. lauren: we thought refs were watching the show. it's great. jared: get

president trump inviting clemsen, all that right after this.come back, good wednesday morning, everybody, thank you so much for joining us, i'm maria bartiromo, it is wednesday january 9th, top stories right now 6:31 a.m. on the east coast. the shutdown shutdown now in day 19. president trump and democratic leadership making their cases last night over the border wall funding. focus on the fed, investors are waiting on the minutes from the december meeting, the federal reserve minutes looking for insight of future of monetary policy, we've got that, ahead of that markets are rallying much better tone at 2019 than the end of last year, futures indicating 69 points, nasdaq right now up 21 and a half points, one-third of 1%, this after gains across the board yesterday, we are talking about day 3 of gains despite the warnings on the economy and the market jpmorgan chase jamie dimon telling me it's not as dire as some are making it seem. >> the market kind of open up as they take deep breath and looks like they'll be growth, it's not like we will go

clemsen over the tide, tiger's national victory ahead, all stories coming up this story, joining me to break it from new york, dagen mcdowell, sendly bell, good -- lindsey bell, good morning, ladies. it should be good, dagen, yesterday i started to think about the market, here we are with valuations much better than they ever have within with the federal reserve with real pivot and job's numbers about the upside, i'm feeling good about things, i don't know how you feel, he was very positive, he didn't have any issues with '19 but we will get to '20 and '21 in terms of what he's looking for. we will bring that interview. dagen: i can't wait for it and speaking of the -- because of the yield on longer-term treasuries has fallen dramatically since the high hit just a couple of days after the midterm elections so in early november you now have mortgage rates at the lowest levels in about 8 months, so that will give a lift to the housing market, maybe mortgage lending, so that's certainly good news for jamie dimon and everybody who is in the market for a home. maria: fundamentals have been