>> griff: fox weather alert. five people are dead as a once in a generation storm across the midwest, bringing life-threatening freezing temperatures. you are watching "fox and friends first"s, i'm griff jenkins. >> ashley: i'm ashley strohmier, in for carley shimkus. thousands flights have been cancelled, leaving many stranded. adam klotz is bringing the christmas weekend forecast. madelyn is live at the airport, hi, madelyn. >> good morning, griff and ashley, we have not seen a big pile up, but it is early and things could change. nationwide 2400 flights have been cancelled and 9500 flights delayed so far. the biggest concern in the new york city area are heavy rain, strong winds and icy roads as temperatures drop. outside new york, blizzard conditions through the great lakes and northeast could affect ground conditions at many airports and disruptions could lead to a domino effect. several airlines have been waving fees, but that hasn't helped a lot of people. >> it is not looking good. >> they changed my gate

todd: scary, griff. griff: turning to headlines with fox news alert. one is dead and another grazed by a bullet in a shooting at the mall of america in minnesota yesterday. the suspect reportedly opening fire after an altercation between two groups killing a 19-year-old man. the shooter has not been arrested, but police secured the famous mall and lifted the lockdown late last night. walgreens store in new york city is locking up its ice cream to try and stop scripters and it's that bad. a clerk at the store confirming to fox news digital says "it has to do with all the shoplifting". new york police saying petty larceny up 43% in the city and nearly doubled in the neighborhood where the walgreens is located. locking up ice cream. if you're tired of peppermint candy canes, you're in for a treat. a couple of companies are releasing unconventional flavors of candicans. i'm over here. hostess coming out with twinkie flavored candy canes and we have pickle flavored ones and present and fun flavored candicans to taste test. those are your headlines. carley:

griff, ashley? >> griff: griff singman with the latest. thank you.essman fred keller house of the oversight committee. congressman, thank you for getting up early and joining us. merry christmas to you. let's pick up where brooke left off. i presume your incoming chairman, james comer will likely call fbi director chris wray before your committee. what will be your question to him? >> well, actually, i think there's going to be a lot of questions for the fbi. and there couldn't be anybody better than james comer to lead oversight reform committee to restore faith in american institutions and make sure our future is built on those american freedoms. and any amount of contact with private organizations to censors speech, if you looked 59 their statement, it says in their opinion, okay, they worded that very carefully. what we need to make sure is that the government is not going through things, helping twitter, facebook, or anybody else hold fast to what they should or not on their platforms. that's not the roam of fbi it look at free speech. that's wh

griff. >> griff: so fun. thank you to sara and the staff and everybody for having me.rts right now. have a good day. >> you came around the corner and i thought god, no. >> actress kirstie alley has passed away after a battle with cancer. >> you might remember her performance on cheers and "look who's talking." >> polls are set in georgia's senate record run off. >> record turnout. >> walker and warnock are battling. >> we will see how close it is tomorrow. >> vote, vote, vote. >> twitter push this distraction that is full of old news. >> the white house is dismissing musk's twitter files. >> house republicans push for answers. >> sending a letter to three

and nice to see you, griff. nice to see you, my friend, and ashley, you, too. >> ashley: thank you so much. switching to this, police in mexico seizing 660 pounds of fentanyl, found inside stuffed inside cocoa nuts while conducting a traffic stop, the stash was on board a truck traveling along the gulf of california right across the border from lukeville, arizona, mexican authoritieses say two suspects are in custody in connection with the bust. >> griff: "wall street journal" is reporting biden is considering bringing back trump-like asylum limits. the white house says the administration is committed to continuing to secure our border while maintaining safe, orderly and humane processing of migrantses this will remain the case when title 42 is lifted, reports case u.s. policies will change are inaccurate, no such decisions have been made. joining us two ranchers. jim, stephanie, thank you for being here. jim, start with you, your reaction when we keep hearing time and time again from this administration that th

griff: i'm griff jenkins coming to you from new york. and they'll match up against argentina or australia and i think it's probably argentina. as you mentioned it's tough news for the u.s., it's our first time in a long time that we've gotten out of group play, which is what we were hoping would happen and now, starting off in the main bracket, they make a loss. two early goals by the dutch in the first half that we really never sort of got back, but we're very proud of that u.s. team and it's a young team, jacqui. they will be back and most of these players could possibly be on the 2026 team, but as someone who grew up playing soccer from the time i was five through high school, it's tough to watch. this really was a special, very talented and driven team with what they could do. and i've got to tell you, let's bring in nate foy. i believe he's here in new york at a bar. nate, what's the reaction there? i know a lot of hearts broken there. >> yeah, griff. i would say an electric morning is turning more into a subdued afternoon. right no

griff. and in addition in arlington, they're laying wreaths at 3400 additional locations in all 50 states at sea and abroad. it's an incredibly important day and what i love about these images that we're looking at, griff, right now are all the children that are part of this. parents, mothers and fathers bringing their kids out to really experience this in person and to teach them the value of freedom and how important these fallen heroes are to our country, our future. griff: and those wreaths didn't just show up, they came from maine, the tradition started back in 1992 when the worcester family, decided they had addi additional wreaths where mr. worcester visited. and it went on for years and then an image went viral showing the wreaths as we're seeing today, laid at the tombstones of so many heroes and everybody is involved and now it's tradition that's very sacred this holiday season, and no better way to honor our fallen heroes. >> absolutely. and we'll continue to talk about this very

griff: great to be with you. i'm griff jenkins. we are waiting for another set of documents to be released this morning. the white house denies any involvement in the alleged speech suppression. alexandria hoff is watching all of it for us. alex, what's the latest. alex: writer matt taibb says issuing content rulings on the fly taking regular meetings with federal agencies, former safety chief and played a critical role in the suppressing of the new york post story, the infamous one taibb shared a screen shoot, the post of hunter biden laptop situation showed that roth not only met weekly with the fbi and dhs but with the office of national intelligence. tiabb dives into the decision of removing president trump from the platform. internal message from one twitter executive that it came down to trump and supporter actions over the course of the election and frankly the last four years. so this just wasn't a one-day deal. earlier this week writer barry rice twitter's efforts to suppress prominent conservatives including blacklist tha

all right, griff, over to you. griff: thank you very much.r files revealing how government agencies were tied to the social media network. they show the files showing the fbi encompassing agencies across the federal government from the state department to pentagon to cia, adding more aggressive government partners closed twitter's window of independence for struggling to validated their claims of foreign interference. fox news contributor and former oversight committee chairman jason chaffets is here to react. jason, merry christmas to you. thanks for getting up. you're going to host sunday morning futures in minute. i want to dive into the ninth drop of twitter files because this is exactly what you dealt with when you were the oversight chairman looking into things. it appears now what was deemed to be a foreign intelligence task force was really looking at domestic accounts and censoring those. >> well, merry christmas. that's the concern is that this foreign intelligence operation that was put in place by our government, it wasn't looking

griff. we will send it back to you. griff: you know, bill, that rubs me the wrong way because as someone like yourself who has spent a lot of the past years at the border, let me hold up half a dozen cartel bracelets with digital four code numbers on there, the codes and the colors designating the stage of payments the cartels. it strikes me that that comes from the white house in the very people who have yet to visit in person that have not yet seen it. great reporting. aishah. aishah: white house losing profile, liberal states are calling attention to the same crisis at the border even as the white house remains silent on the details of their plans of what they're going to do after title 42 expires on wednesday. so lucas tomlinson is live at the white house right now with the latest on this administration's response, lucas. >> well, if anybody wanted title 42 to be extended they were extended a blow, limited migrants from coming to the united states. the white house responding to the rulin

we have joey jones, griff jenkins here. we survived an hour. we did it. one hour in.t two more hours to go holding down the for the in new york city on this reasonably, it's not really that cold. my vantage point is miami, florida. basically anything below 70 is cold. >> joe: was that new jersey that's sunrise. >> griff: look at that gorgeous sky. that is what we call dawn patrol. [splash] >> griff: have enough light to see the waves out there. you can see them come in. i think i looked at the surf report. it's about 2 to 3 feet. the wind is not strong right now. i have surfed there. a fantastic place to go and surf. we now have gotten the video of your skills to demonstrate to americans of how good you are. now, you were thrown into this by the producers. and you absolutely right. perfect balance. arms out. maintaining your center of gravity and then it threw you off. you were in there for a second. on the east coast, the waves are very short, very quickly they don't last forever we would have got been a great wave. >> that's what i look like standing, just standing,

griff. griff: alex and jacqui, let's bring in star political panel, republican strategist and senior adviser to governor kemp codey hall and former obama communication adviser and author of patriots, two nations, spencer. we clearly have more to learn on this but in the previous hour, senator mike rounds had this to say to jacqui, take a listen here. >> i think congress will have a series of investigations but it goes back and reconfirms what a lot of us have thought that twitter was manipulating what information people were seeing. griff: and we know from the incoming oversight house committee chairman james comer that hearings are likely coming. let me start with you, cody, would you be advising the republicans that this is where you start a new congress? >> i think it's very important but, look, i think if this election told us anything is that voters want us focused on bringing down inflation, reducing crime, making sure that the border is secure, so i think it's an important conversatio

griff: look at that. griff: future wolverine. this baby will be a michigan fan.ete, i hope you're awake because this is your dream come true. pete's my husband by the way. todd: we'll be right back. carley: it would appear concerns about tiktok were right and employees at the china-based company obtained access to american's private data and even use it had to track journal iranianss. but congress just pass add new spending bill -- passed a new spending bill that will ban the app on government devices so could this lead to a nation-wide ban? here to react is senior fellow at gatestone institute and the great china tech war, gordon chang. gordon, good morning to you and merry christmas. i want to get your reaction to this report that tiktok was tracking journalists, essentially they were concerned about journalists talking to people within tiktok and using their ip addresses to figure out who was talking to who. does that surprise you and how concerned should we be about this? >> well, merry christmas, carley. no, it done a lot surprise me because tiktok over the

griff: that's a good one.s definitely going to make the cut, because as you pointed out -- and i really hadn't thought hard, deep thoughts about the antlers, but we've got to get milk and cookies up there. oh, perfect, excellent. santa's going to like that. you were talking about the antlers. the antler didn't have one in the middle of its head. carley: one of the reindeer was very top-heavy with the one big antler. griff: i can't wait to touch one. we are moments away. carley: is there a difference between reindeer and caribou? griff: yes. one can fly around the globe and deliver presents, and the other is just caribou. [laughter] todd: i need an audio clip of saying i can't wait to touch a reindeer. that's going to be my new ring tone. i didn't think it was such a big deal until today. carley: we're tracking santa, and he is just over japan or just left japan. believe give just over right now. you can see from this precision map that is santa flying with the reindeer, and our reindeer out here -- carley: the

. >> griff: and i'm griff jenkins, thousands of flights have been cancelled today, we have live team coverage today. adam klotz is in the studio tracking the storm and bringing the christmas forecast. let's start with jackie ibanez reporting on the devastating conditions. >> multiple families will be spending the holiday without loved ones, five people from oklahoma have died, including a 16-year-old boy. the storm is impacting nearly every state in the lower 48, mother nature unleashing fury during the busiest time of the year, leaving many with nowhere to sleep, except the floor of the airport terminal. >> im00 not optimistic, if it was a cancelled flight, it is not good. >> i got to go back down here, rebook or refund. >> we were anticipating the flight was going to get cancelled and rebooked on southwest and rebooked twice on united this afternoon. >> i contemplated driving in case flights got cancelled. >> 12,000 flight delays and cancellations for millions, six states are sounding the alarm calling for a state of emergency. accumulating heavy snowfall and temperatures plunging

griff: merry christmas.ou're looking live at our gorgeous christmas tree in fox square on this incredible christmas morning. you see there, that the cookies are gone. the milk was drank on our very festive man mantle and stockings are hung properly. we have a special guest on the couch, his name is santa. merry christmas. >> merry christmas. >> did you like the cookies and milk? >> there is a little secret i tell you. the parents drink the drink the milk and eat the cookies because most parents don't believe in me. it is upsetting because there is a plate of crumbs. todd: you eat the crumbs. >> i have been known to do that. todd: we have something for you. >> that for me? carley: cinnamon rolls and milk. todd: did amazing job. call it what it is. were there any obstacles or smooth sailing? >> australia, they always give me a problem. todd: why? >> they don't go to bed. you know what it is like to stop time when kids are awake, dad and mom are wrapping other presents family gives. todd: it is summer down ther

griff griff over to carley for more headlines. >> carley: going to begin with a deadly storm in buffaloews are struggling through small mountains of snow from the blizzard that killed at least 39 people. meanwhile police in a nearby suburb are trying to identify this hero he broke into a school shelter to kids and dogs trapped outside. good reason to break into a school there an ohio-based are a text is missing after traveling to mexico to visit his future wife. jose gutierrez's family fears the couple have been abducted. the family hasn't heard from jose in days after last hearing they went out to dinner, the couple have not been heard from or seen since that night. and ice skating is not allowed on the lincoln memorial reflecting poll that visitors are hitting the ice in unique ways. this guy on a bike ends up getting stuck, oh, boy, and fridge waters. yikes. another family taking a casual stroll on the ice trying their best not to slip. >> this is a rare event the water does not freeze over every winter my be one of the reasons why there should be no walking on the ice. right. adam?

potato head. >> griff: who hates mr. potato head?will unpack this with georgia congressman doug collins later on in the show. ♪ ♪ testimony revealing white house chief medical advisor dr. anthony fauci deputy institute of health was very impressed with draconian lockdown spear g.o.p. attorneys general eric schmidt and jeff landry proposing the doctor as part of the lawsuit against the bidens administration collusion with censoring criticism with white house pandemic. according to the newly released transcript, dr. fells g pressed from clipper clients that reads, china has demonstrated that it . dr. lane was impressed about how to make clinical public health standpoint the trainees with isolation. that is what i believe he meant when he said they were managing this in a very structured and organized way. the transcript also shows dr. fauci dragging his feet on questions pertaining to its relationship with social media companies. he was asked five times, dr. fauci admitted his daughter worked for twitter as a software engineer. >> ashl

no -- griff.o country in the world that has more of these minerals than we do, and yet the biden administration will not allow the mining in states like wyoming, montana and north dakota to get the minerals you immediate, as you said, for our electric vehicles, for our cell phones. so it's a security issue, it's a human rights issue, it is an economic issue, and the biden administration's got it completely wrong. griff: steve, it seems like a public relations issue and a bad one at that because you essentially have the green energy push now depending wholeheartedly it appears in this case on country, in case the congo, that allows these horrific abuses. >> yeah. look, everyone should shuledder at the thought -- shudder at the thought of a 9 or 10-year-old having to be in these the mines. it really is outrageous. and as i said, why aren't we doing it here in the united states? why aren't -- and using american miners and much better, you know, human rights situations -- griff: yeah. >> -- much bette

griff griff santa has a naughty and nice list.sed their 2022 worst of the woke list. and take a look at the 10 wokest companies and organizations. there you see walt disney on there here to break it down dr. carol swain. doctor, thanks for joining us. >> good morning to you. >> joe: in looking at this list. nope of them surprise me my alma mater georgetown is on there it tell us why these are the companies that the are wokest? >> there is so much that these companies are doing really to virtue signal usually diversity equity and inclusion off the rails. you look at companies such as american express, for example, like they have blatantly adopted programs at times there were openly antiwhite. you look at twitter, we know that they operated as an arm of the u.s. government, they engaged in censorship. they engaged in election interference. in fact, i believe the federal election commission ought to investigate them to see if they violated laws involving in kind donations because they clearly operated in a way to benefit the democrat

try it for free at freestylelibre.us griff griff the latest twitter files dhump s. are counting reveals efforts from both the biden and trump white houses to suppress ideas on social media related to covid-19. according to independent journalist david zweig, quote, twitter did express views many from doctors and scientific experts that conflicted with the positions at the white house. mislabeled information from the accounts of doctors and others were suspended. here to react is fox news medical twitter and dr. marc siegel. what do you make? what is your reaction to quite lengthy that they sought to have content moderation? >> very disturbing. censorship essentially coming from the government, griff is on the road to totalitarianism isn't it on either side. anyone in power trying to suppress opinions and science is based on the diversity of opinions, especially that's why the use emergency authorization was because it was new. i said at the very beginning of the pandemic i was concerned about lockdowns because i had researched that for prior books on prior lockdowns

we will toss it back to you, griff. >> griff: those images are unbelievable. klotz the fox weather forecast, hey, adam. >> absolutely beautiful on the fox square and feeling a whole lot warmer out here. that will be a continuing trend the days ahead. 33 degrees new york city and i know that is not that warm but the last several days it is. 40 degrees kansas city here they were down below freezing. we have seen plenty of spots with tens, 20s, 30s appear those are the thing of the past the next few days. warming up the eastern half of the country. wednesday into thursday suddenly 45 degrees as far north as detroit into friday and only continues to get warmer. 53 degrees new york city on friday and continues to stay warm into saturday. if you wake up christmas morning, new year's day, boy, whole lot more pleasant to 40 degrees and cincinnati, ohio, 17th, 54 degrees. way warmer out there. actually a good chunk of the country 263 million people above average temperatures on new year's day. those are your weather head headlines. griff, tossing it back inside to you.

griff: it is over.tinues to make his case for mvp throwing for three touchdowns as the chiefs dominate the seahawks 24-10. we have christmas day nfl action by the way. packers take on dolphins at 1:00 p.m. eastern on fox. coverage at 12:30. you don't want to miss that. finally pope francis giving the traditional christmas blessing from the balcony of st. peter's basilica this hour making peace a central theme. >> translator: if we want it to be christmas, the birth of jesus and peace, look to bethlehem and contemplate the face of the child born for us. in that small and innocent face let us see the faces of all innocent children he have where in the world who long for peace. griff: the pope lamenting the lack of peace brought on by the invasion of ukraine. those are your headlines. coming up, it is christmas day. that means presents and food. chef george duran shows us festive appetizers to cook up before christmas dinner t smells good here. ♪. - this is my house. - my parents helped build it. - now we

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it's dancing. >> griff: should try it in the dance. >> rachel: dance you can actually do. >> griff: it's a bicep thing. >> joe: when i had feet i had two left feet there was never any dancing at all. >> rachel: you are not exempt. >> griff: would your friends in the gym make fun of you if they knew you were jamming to wham? >> joe: no. number one i don't have friends in the gym. if you have friend in the gym, you are not getting the work done and number two, there is nothing too serious about it. you go to the gym have fun cut up. i would dance if i knew how. i envy people that can. go on tv and talk to 3 million people about my opinions i wouldn't sing or dance in front of five people without being super embarrassed. >> rachel: telling some of our friends in the commercial break is he a sol cycle ler. >> griff: you said you would come with me. >> rachel: i will some time this week peloton at home. sent me an email that said we haven't seen you lately. [laughter] >> rachel: that will tell you how my workouts are going. >> joe: clothes hanging on it? >> rachel: no, actually in a room just

what do you think, griff?t is a major development and he has a right to commit is hurting him greatly. we lost 1800 members of the army, 2,000 and of the navy, 3700 marines and discharge for refusing to get the vaccine. but the question is what was the deal made between the white house and kevin mccarthy to get this in place? i hope it is in the end came. we will find out but a talk later today in the next hour with congresswoman claudia tenney about this important issue. these young members of the military, uc china position for whatever comes next. we need to bring our young men and retain them. >> ashley: one of the biggest concerns i have about this, the president said he talked to mccarthy about her and he would think about it, but that doesn't mean anything. especially when he's more for, obviously, the secretary of defense saying, "yeah, i'm with him in retaining it." it is so unfair with the members and anyone who lost their job because they wouldn't get a vaccine. like you said, we are low on recruitm

>> griff: yeah.nted out, carley. tomorrow is the day that we could see title 42 lift. and with the case of the texas dps and the national guard as you saw there. they have been doing this since the spring of 2021. trying to supplement the lack of enforcement from this administration because of the policies that they ultimately got rid of as soon as president biden came in and undid many of the things that were working to get the numbers down under the trump administration like remain in mexico. now, as we talked about over the weekend. and congressman henry cuellar, a democrat has pointed out i can confirm talking to my sources that right now the administration is talking to the mexican government and asking them to start redirecting this heavy flow of migrants from the el paso sector over to the rio grande valley sector. we showed you those four sectors and the rgb is just a fourth now. they were trying to redirect it. that's a great big giant question. not about whether or not mexico with l. acquie

griff: i would watch that. griff: $200,000 on starbucks espresso machines.ney. $28 million on camouflage the did not fit the afghan environment and $4.5 billion of covid 19 injury disaster loans by the small business association, this was money paid out to people who fraudulently claimed they were a small business, wrapping up $3.5 million in covid billy funds spent on luxury cars all in one single year. griff: that is a lot of cars. carley: it is also a lot of waste and in this spending bill one of the reasons there were so many republicans to vote against it is all the waste and spending in this one. it did have some good things in it. 10% increase for defense spending and things like that and then you get down to what do i have here? griff: it is 4051 pages. carley: to reimburse jordan, lebanon, egypt, tunisia, to tighten their border security. $65 million to restore the population to $3.6 million for georgia hiking trail named after former first lady michelle obama, pet projects lawmakers putting these funding bills to make it easier to get reelected nex

>> griff: farewell to fauci.tomorrow. >> we do not need to give people a third shot, a boost. inel evident continuably there will be a time where we will have to give boosts. no vaccine, at least not within this category, is gone that have an indefinite amount of protection. >> griff: dr. marty makaryy will break down his biggest fails after the break ♪ i want to see you go out that door ♪ baby bye-bye bye ♪ be a fool for you why are 93% of sleep number sleepers satisfied with their bed? ♪ be a fool for you ♪ maybe it's because you can adjust your comfort and firmness on either side. your sleep number setting. to help relieve pressure points and keep you both comfortable all night. the queen sleep number 360 c2 smart bed is only $899 - save $200. ends monday when your cat's hungry, you definitely know. when he wants your attention, he makes it clear. when he wants to be left alone, he makes it obvious. but if your cat has oa pain, also known as osteoarthritis pain, he may be saying “ow” in different ways. it's a

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griff jenkins live for us in d.c. griff, thank you.'s bring in fox news media analyst and host of fox news media buzz howard kurtz. we have been hearing about this chatter for years. is it really all that surprising to you? >> now we have proof what is stunning about the systematic targeting of conservatives is how sweeping and carefully planned it was. how those who complained were dismissed as conspiracy theorist and how top twitter executives lied about it as in oh we would never dream of shadow banning anybody for ideological reasons, false. two telling bari weiss we control the amplification of your content and normal people don't know about it. nobody knew about it. who would know? dan bongino was put on the search blacklist so nobody could find his post. here is his reaction? >> please, audience, look me in the face and tell me now all you media clowns and goons and nuts who told me i was the crazy conspiracy theorist, tell me we live in a free country. >> i wonder how we have a committee to carry this whole thing out? >> yes, a

what do you think about it, griff?> griff: well, i'm not even going to go into what i was accused of this idea of throwing anybody under the bus about you we've had this important debate whether you keep your tree up and of course we're getting feedback from our viewers at fox and friends@foxnews.com but we are getting schooled by rachel saying listen if you're catholic which i am so now i'm fully in line in making sure mine doesn't come down, you keep it up for 12 days after. >> rachel: the 12 days of christmas which end on the sixth of jan which is the epiphany. >> joey: i like it. >> rachel: let christmas linger on i love it. >> griff: i have a problem, though, which is, and this is disclosing information. my wife wasn't happy with the tree. we waited really late. she was busy with her job, i was on the road doing travelling as a reporter and she said you have to get a tree, this is like december 21st, so i went to the lot and there was a tree shortage as last year and they were already packing up and leaving i said

griff: wow. -- i'm a surfer, but i don't think i would want to surf anywhere near 27 inches of snow. craig herrera, thank you very much. you can stay up-to-date by downloading the fox weather app or stream fox weather on your favorite connected tv device. >>> now, as we mentioned, there are some 34,000 flight delays and cancellations since thursday. airlines are actually offering vouchers to passengers affected, but lots of them having trouble finding a flight to rebook. so what can they do? well, travel analyst -- is joining us now to fill us in. merry christmas, lindsey. >> happy holidays to you too. give give this is a terrible time to have this problem, right at the holidays. we have seen in the reports the travelers trying to get home, some may not make it. but in terms of the vouchers, in terms of what passengers, fliers can do, what do you say to them? >> what i would recommend is, number one, check out what the status of your flight is before you go to the airport. there are a lot of folk

grady. >> good morning, griff, katie and joey.ahead to 2023 because it could be the year that big tech companies lose some of the protections that allow them to essentially be the ar ba tours of speech on line with very few consequences legally speaking. the change is unlikely to come from members of congress but rather the score. two cases to the high court challenged 230 the law that shields social media companies from getting sued over third party content on their site. one suit that scotus will take up accuses youtube's ago chrisms of spreading terror wrist content and that youtube didn't do enough to block terrorists from using the platform. >> they've been so focused on basically taking conservatives off the platform they've lost track of terrorist content and we've seen a massive proliferation of extremism concern without really any content moderation making sure that it stays off the platform. and so essentially you have a misuse of resources. >> a number of tech platforms have been accused of censoring conservatives over

how about that griff. >> griff: so sweet. good on santa.'ve been telling you about texas troops working around the clock this weekend as thousands of migrants tried crossing the border but this picture of a ric rickety bode named with god's blessing proves the crisis at the border is a problem facing every state. florida gop congressman carlos gimenez joins us. thank you for joining us. as we showed you on that boat 15 cue bans coming to the keys but this is not isolated it happens every day. you see it here. what is your reaction to where things stand with regards toss the border? >> well, no, not only do we have a crisis at the border, the southern border but we've seen a four fold increase in crossings from cuba, from haiti, you know, into florida, especially the florida keys. and so, you know, conditions are just, you know, really bad on the island, it's an oppressive government. most cue bans nowadays though are trying to get through the southern border, it takes about $20,000 to get from cuba to nicaragua and up through mexico and the

griff: but, wait, there's more.ew report out that apple is working on moving production out of china. there's so much to unpack here. what i do want to start with you, nicole, because this week taylor who writes for columnist in the washington post writing this, there's no lasting natural immunity to covid. you can get covid over and over again because there's so many evolving strains and antibodies weighing also choosing not to kill off millions of vulnerable people as the u.s. is doing isn't a critical flaw? >> she really seems to be in line with chinese communist party and not necessarily the protestors being the united states we are decide today live our life we are doing harm. i think my 8-year-old understands covid better than tailor lorenz does. there's no long-lasting natural immunity to it. there's no long lasting booster and you can get booster after booster and get infected. the goal of the point is risk reduction and reducing severity. that doesn't mean lock people away because we were locked down for a

that needs achievers. >> griff: you can bet this isn't happening in china. meanwhile, still had given the u.s. supreme court will keep title 42 employees were helper lawmakers have just a few months to come up with a permanent solution to the border crisis but a former border patrol chief on changes that need to be made next. [sfx: stomach gurgling] it's nothing... sounds like something. ♪ when you have nausea, heartburn, indigestion, ♪ ♪ upset stomach, diarrhea. ♪ pepto bismol coats and soothes for fast relief... when you need it most. ♪ ♪ >> katie: the u.s. supreme court will keep title 42 in place for now dealing a major blow to the biden administration paired with arguments on the trump era policy set for february, lawmakers only have a few months to come up with a real solution as border city see a historic increase in migrants. former border patrol chief in el paso and tucson victor. just first, your reaction to title 42 remaining in place for now. >> it is a good thing that title 42 is going to remain in place. it's one of the tools that are left in t

hi griff. >> hi i am griff jenkins i am in for eric shawn but if you aren't living or traveling around the eastern third of the country, plate close attention forecasters warned heavy snow and strong winds are likely coming your way. there's still a lot of uncertainty about the storm let's go straight to the fox weather center meteorologist is alive with the full forecast, michael what are we in for? >> griffin arthel this is not just the headache on the system this is a full on migraine if you are doing any traveling thursday, friday, and saturday. especially in parts of the midwest. a quick little timeline on this, shoving you by the time we get to thursday and friday of our friends and family in chicago, detroit, cleveland down toward st. louis as well, and for a ton of snow and a ton of wind as well. that when going to be capable of producing near blizzard like conditions. we are talking a wind gust 50 -- 60 miles per hour. on top of all of that a major winter storm is what we are anticipating. full too soon to put specific numbers on it in terms of amount. but we can tell if you'r

we are sitting on the couch, griff, joey, katie here for a great middle of the week. >> clearly they playing that song for you, katie. she has some kind of wonderful. >> it is good, great day so far halfway between christmas and new year's the weird -- >> we saw a couple of poinsettias on the left and right but are you celebrating christmas? >> katie: why not? the tree is still on fox square. it is not new year's yet and i think it's great to have a couple of days. >> griff: rachel said we have to abide by the 12 days of christmas and not take any trees down here that will not happen on this show. >> katie: everything has been great. i am with you guys this morning. >> griff: a lot happened the last 24 hours, obviously regarding the border supreme court keeping title 42 in place against the white house's wishes for now. >> katie: and title 42 dropped, we could see 14,000 encounters every single day at the border, which would add up to 5 million illegal crossings each year. >> joey: lucas tomlinson is live, what do you got? speak with the supreme court title 42 pandemic error measure

: thanks, griff. >> carley: thank you, griff.o see you in person. brimp. >> brian: you are busy. they need you in the back. >> carley: we can still see you. america can no longer. bye. yeah, i think that's the key issue, you don't see this mass group of parents demanding their kids take it off the app. or a lot of kids saying, i think it's because the messaging just isn't breaking fly where a lot of people are, unfortunately, just they assume that their fun phones are already monitoring them. well, if i'm looking at funny videos who really cares about this. i think the line in griff's report the key one that needs a little bit of time to breathe is tiktok edge employees -- this is from forbes. tiktok employees tracked multiple journalists covering of the company improperly gaining access to their i.p. addresses and user data in an attempt to identify whether they had been in the same location as bite dance employees. that means these journalists are covering tiktok. somebody in the company said we need to know who they're talking

griff: i'm griff jenkins, no appearance from president biden and former president trump on the campaign trail as both candidates have been pulling out all of the stops in the final days of the midterm elections. aishah hosni live in atlanta with more. hi, aishah. aishah: good to see you this afternoon.

griff? >> griff: good morning.e way, i was there when pete got the mullett hair cut. ,. >> steve: let's see yours. >> griff: mine is not quite ready. >> griff: story of the week. hunter biden making a rare white house appearance for this year's cond center honor years. it toward the back of the room where two reporters approached limb. they asked him about the 2020 "new york post" story on his laptop as well as potential house republican investigations into his finances. surprise, he didn't answer either question. but that's not stopping new imomedz a "new york post" cover to date you see it here highlighting their latest finding that the fbi warned twitter to expect a hack and leak operation gave the platform time to prepare when the article was published it was censored immediately. twitter ceo elon musk teased the release of more details on twitter's role in censoring this story in the 2020 election over the weekend. listen. >> on everything that has happened in the past in order to have both public trust for th

i am griff jenkins. >> good to see you. merry christmas. western new york is certainly no stranger to have severe weather. rarely, if ever, this bad. the blizzard dumping more than d blamed for multiple deaths. listen to the governor and buffalo native kathy hochul. >> we are in a war. this is a war with mother nature. she has been hitting us with everything she has since the late hours of thursday into friday, saturday and now on christmas morning. i cannot overstate how dangerous the condition still are. we need people to stay off the roads. we will persevere. we will battle and we are not going anywhere. >> a war with mother nature. alexis mcadams' live with the very latest on this. how's it looking out there now? >> here in new york, that death toll is expected to climb after that historic storm in buffalo, new york, just land the area with several feet of snow and they are still in that cleanup process. take a look here on your screen. the latest video coming out of buffalo new york just out of the past few hours. this is what the stre

i am griff jenkins. >> good to see you. merry christmas. western new york is certainly no stranger to have severe weather. rarely, if ever, this bad. the blizzard dumping more than d blamed for multiple deaths. listen to the governor and

griff, i learn a lot always talking to you.s i'm blowing smoke at him, but he works so hard. so concerned about getting it right. what i dislike about him, he's making the rest of us look bad. [laughter] and unfortunately, he is, as you see him on air, in person. same way. so he doesn't have those huge anchor, correspondent egos. [laughter] that's where he and i are so much alike. >> listen, i can make the coffee, take trash out. [laughter] whatever you immediate. i answer to a hey, dude, dad, late for dinner. neil: he is a good human being, and you catch him on weekends, on holidays. you can just sort of -- >> i'm going to do a report on your show tomorrow. neil: i know. of course, you're there, everywhere. >>> all right, we have a lot more coming up including an update in the runup inform -- when griff came on, we were up about 90 points, look at this, we're up about 120. if you're looking for a santa rally, shall i say keep looking? more after this. ♪ [laughing and giggling] (woman) hey dad. miss us? (vo) reflect on the past

griff, we all grew up watching "cheers." >> griff: sad news for anyone who loved "cheers" and many iconices on tv. died yesterday after a battle with cancer. her children confirming her death last night saying the family only recently discovered her cancer diagnosis. they recently released a statement that reads in part: our mother's zest and passion for life, children and grandchildren and her many animals, not to mention her eternal joy of creating were unparalleled and leave us inspired to live life to the fullest just as she did. >> she was perhaps best known for her emmy winning role on cheers where she delighted fans and co-stars as the witty rebecca. >> there was this one time when you were way down at the end of the hall and i could just see this tiny little piece of your elbow and i didn't know for sure if it was you. [laughter] and i thought to myself, hmmm and then you came around the corner and i thought god, no. >> do star ted danson saw there saying i am so glad and grateful for all the times she made me laugh. send love to the children as they know their mother had a heart

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why is that cannot griff jenkins broke the news this morning, and here he is with mark. griff?dropping. consider this, and just the past 84 days in the new fiscal year began on october 1st with title 42 in mind, by the way, border patrol hasn't had a more than 575,000 migrants. you see it here, of which nearly 170,000 were expelled under title 42. more than 397,000 were released. that's almost 400,000. if you look just at the el paso sector alone, we keep seeing these images of massive groups pouring across the border despite the frigid temperatures. they surpassed 150,000 encounters yesterday in just that sector. this is an extended crisis trajectory. look back at last year's record numbers, the first three months combined was roughly 518,000. finally, the number that bears out the real humanitarian tragedy of this crisis is there have been 86 migrant deaths so far this fiscal year. that's two more than the number of days it has been since october 1st. president biden, who reportedly got so angry behind closed doors as the crisis began in 2021, he was cursing to aids. he had l

. >> ashley: check in with griff jenkins. >> griff: good morning, we have a big show, biden border crisisf slowing down. we have brand-new numbers and stunning video showing suspected migrants trying to break into a suspected rancher's home. plus america's crime kriersz affecting everyone including actress valery bertinelli, what she has to say about the sky rocketing crime. and thousands of flights cancelled this morning. we have a live reports from lx. this is a busy thursday morning, stick with us, we'll be up in 10 minutes. at booking.com, finding perfect isn't rocket science. kitchen? sorted. hot tub, why not? and of course, puppy-friendly. we don't like to say perfect, but it's pretty perfect. booking.com, booking.yeah. . . go to getrefunds.com to get started. powered by innovation refunds. >> ashley: the biden administration will require negative covid tests from u.s. from china beginning january 5th. must test negative no more than two days before their departure. this applies to people of all nationalities and vaccination status as well as travelers who enter the u.s. only for a