cheryl: jonathan serrie, live in alabama. thank you. we asked what doug jones victor in alabama and for the future of the u.s. senate. kristen tate, good morning. >> good morning. lauren: my two questions regarding significance of the lassos weimar. does this help in the midterms next year in light of the epidemic about sexual harassment going on for the national conversation and also with respect to his feet bannon who is that is going to go after every gop incumbent in the midterms as well with the exception of ted cruz? >> well, moore's gloss is going hurt the republicans and donald trump in the short-term, but i think it might be a good thing for the gop dramatic than the best possible thing in 2018. they would've used him as the poster child for the republican party, pacing the modest biggest and anti-women. it's a good and in the long term they did not win. it may strengthen the gop in a longer-term basis. cheryl: mitch mcconnell is having an emergency meeting as roy moore had one this morning to talk about how they were going to

jonathan serrie tells us what happened and what's being done now. >> i am walking through the baggage claim were many busy travelers are finally being reunited with luggage. hartsfield-jackson atlanta international airport was already operating by midday at 95% capacity. ticket counter lines were getting shorter as passengers were finally being routed onto new flights after about 1600 were canceled over the past two days. georgia power continues to investigate the fire that broke out in an underground electrical room knocking out both the main power supply to the airport as well as secondary emergency backup power lines. airport officials say what happened was a freak event that's unlikely to repeat itself. nevertheless they say their lesson learned that they can carry forward. the cause of this outage was most certainly accidental. however it does raise some questions among counterterrorism experts about the vulnerability of our nation's infrastructure. >> the atlanta airport is the world's busiest airport which begs the question, how are the other airports doing? love jen heathrow o

>> trace: yeah, jonathan serrie, thank you. bring in josh gerstein, a senior reporter for politco. john if you heard jonathan's report there. you had camera issues. the point remains, if roy moore wants to recount this, wants to call for a recount, he has to pay for it himself. this is a pretty big hit for steve bannon and his wing of the republican party, correct? >> yeah. this is going to be over in alabama soon. the reverberations in washington and across the country will linger for quite a while. you've had this civil war going on in the republican party between this bannon populous, trump end wing, if you will, and moore establishment wing that sort of seen through the personification of mitch mcconnell, the senate majority leader. clearly a big blow to bannon. he's trying to portray it as the establishment didn't give enough support to roy moore when he was on the ropes. there's no questions there's real issues about candidate selection when you talk about these jump-start races, these people from outside the establishment

jonathan serrie has been covering the race for us. he's live in montgomery. hi, jonathan. >> hi, shep. friday state election officials will process the write-in ballots, some 23,000 of them. next week they will look at provisionable and military ballots. so once those numbers are in, if the tally shows doug jones leading roy moore by half a percentage point or less, the state would have a recount. the jones' lead is above half a point, then there would be no recount unless the moore campaign or some other qualified party in the state wants to foot the bill. the alabama secretary of state will certify the election respects between december 26 and january 23 in which the senate-elect can be sworn in. right now jones' lead is at 1.5 points. while this is still a razor thin margin, it's comfortably above that half point threshold needed to avoid the state mandated recount. but so far roy moore showing no signs of planning to concede this election, shep. >> shepard: jonathan, what do alabama's current senators say about doug jones victory? >> richard shelby and lut

jonathan serrie was at the rally and his in birmingham this afternoon. jonathan? >> hi, shep. at the rally, roy moore pledged to fight the washington establishment if he's elected senator and to support the president's agenda. also at the rally, he talked about some of the unexpected challenges he's faced in this highly competitive race. listen. >> if you knew what kind of battles's been fighting, you wouldn't want to be where i am. in fact, if i wasn't here, i wouldn't want to fight those battles. when god puts you there, you have nothing else to do but to stand. >> steve bannon said moore's democratic opponent doug johns is the personification of hillary clinton's policies but he also backed establishment republican figures that have been critical of moore, including mitt romney who accused him of hiding behind his religion. shep? >> shepard: what is doug jones up to today? >> doug jones also held a rally. during the rally, hi suggested that electing roy moore to the senate might frighten away business because of his stand on high profile social issues. doug jones spoke with

thank you, jonathan serrie. meanwhile, democratic candidate doug jones is mobilizing his supporters to turn out for tuesday's special senate election in alabama. as polling data show, those sexual misconduct allegations against jones' opponent have not proved decisive as some analysts predicted. peter doocy is live in alabama with the latest from the doug jones camp. peter. >> reporter: james, we've been driving around in the car through alabama all day long and just heard a radio ad from the doug jones campaign that really puts this entire race into perspective. in this commercial that jones says at the end that he approves of, he says that if he wins as a democrat from alabama, he would work with the republican senator richard shelby, but that is 180 degrees different than what roy moore has been saying whose assault on republican leadership is really what made him so popular during the primary. doug jones, the attorney from birmingham who trailed by 3.5 points in thing real clear politics average of polls, ha

tonight the average of polls shows moore leading jones by a razor-thin margin. >> bret: jonathan serriethank you. who do you think will won in alabama? let me know on twitter @bretbaier. use the hashtag #specialreport or on facebook at facebook.com/bretebaiersr. firefighters in southern california have their hands full full. there battling blazes fueled by the santa ana winds. adam housley is in ventura county. >> this is a multi-day weather event projected to last until friday. this is only just begun. speak at the beginning of december brought a flurry of wildflowers wildfires across southern california. >> combination of the gusty winds the low humidity. >> the largest and most destructive, the thomas fire 60 miles northwest of los angeles. the flames scorched more than 100 square miles and drove tens of thousands from their homes. >> i just wanted to get out of the house which was left with basically the clothes on her back. >> to see this happen, it's crazy. >> the smoke was visible from space. the fuel for the fires a year in the making. with no rain in three months, the dry condi

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jonathan serrie in lower alabama. president trump blasting the russia investigation as a witch hunt and defending his former national security adviser who is facing prison time in this case. this is the president's lawyer responds to criticism that the president may have admitted to a crime on twitter. the attorney reportedly said the president cannot obstruct justice because he's in charge of justice. details on that in just a moment. the president this morning saying the russia investigation ruined michael flynn's life. here's what he told john roberts. >> i will say this: hillary clinton lied many times to the fbi. nothing happened to her. flynn lied and they destroyed his life. i think it's a shame. >> shepard: the justice department did not bring charges against clinton over her use of a private e-mail server while secretary of state. law enforcement officials say they do not believe she misled investigators. michael flynn pleaded guilty last week to lying to the fbi about conversations with the russia ambassador

jonathan serrie in montgomery. thank you. we will follow that.nes says today's election is all about whether decency will prevail. corresponded doug mckelway is with the jones campaign tonight in birmingham. good evening. >> good evening. we spoke to doug jones campaign manager earlier. he said they expect an extremely close vote. he said we're going to work as hard as we possibly can to get each and every one of our voters out before the polls close at 7:00 p.m. central, 8:00 p.m. eastern. he said we are taking nothing for granted. earlier this morning, jones voted, cast his ballot in the well-to-do birmingham suburb of mountain brook. >> this is an important time in alabama's history, and we feel very confident where we are and how this is going to turn out. >> polls have been widely divergent that it's virtually impossible to tell who's going to win but if doug jones is to pull out a victory, there are two things he must do. first, he must succeed in painting roy moore's alleged behavior is so inappropriate that republican women don't vote or

simon jonathan serrie, thank you.peaking of line, the pentagon has been keeping track of, or trying to come out of the type of aircraft they don't take off and land from conventional airports. we are talking about unidentified flying objects. , ufos. you can laugh if you want but a lot of people are taking this revelation very seriously. garrett tenney is here with more on this program. >> good evening. we may not know if aliens exist but it turns out our government had a special team of ufo hunters that was trying to find out. the pentagon now confirms the existence of a secret ufo program tax with investigating reports of on a on his edified flying objects. the advanced aviation threat identification program was created in 2007 at the urging of harry reid. over the next five years, the program receive more than $20 million for its work which included analyzing a variety of aeronautic threats ranging from what could be our adversaries next generation aircraft to reports from military pilots of encounters with unknown

jonathan serrie is live in montgomery, alabama. how does the rally impact the alabama senate race? >> you know, there's been so much speculation because pensacola, florida, is a short distance from mobile, alabama. in fact, they are part of the same television market. that was fueling speculation that perhaps roy moore would make a surprise visit to the rally. the campaign tells us that moore will not be attending that rally. deputy campaign manager hannah ford tells fox news, "judge moore is campaigning hard and engaging with alabama voters. he will not be in pensacola, but is grateful to have the president rally and conservatives near alabama. we are actively encouraging supporters to attend the rally and look forward to victory on the 12th." now his democratic challenger roy helmick doug jones is speaking optimistically about the 12th. "it will make a clear statement to the rest of the country." >> you can work together. you can cross party lines, you can reach out. you can find common ground. the message is going to be to washington, let's get things done and quit playing polit

jonathan serrie is live in montgomery with roy moore. hello, jonathan. >> hey, shep. roy moore told birmingham radio station werc that a senate ethics probe would be unconstitutional because this type of investigation would be looking into alleged activity that occurred before he entered the senate and before the election. let's listen to that. >> this is a constitutional issue. like i said, the allegations aren't true. i'm not voiding that. that is a fact. but you know, further than that is not constitutional for the senate to do that. you have to look at the constitution that we're sworn to uphold. it delineates what the senate can do and cannot do. >> so is that the case? we put that question before fox legal analyst judge andrew napolitano. he said if moore wins the election, the senate must seat him. however once he's seated, they can investigate his worthiness for office. that investigation can examine pre-election conduct. if they found any wrong doing, he could be disciplined for pre-election conduct. neither the house or the senate have ever expelled a member

. >> harris: jonathan serrie joins us live from the state capital, montgomery, alabama. jonathan? >> the eyes of the nation and the world are watching alabama voters as they cast ballots in this election. the two major candidates have already cast their ballots right now, perhaps the most dramatic photo op of the day is roy moore arriving at his polling site on horseback. this is his election day tradition, doug jones arriving by more conventional or should i say modern means after casting their ballots in separate parts of the state, both candidates both briefly with reporters. >> we have international people from overseas, different nations here today, it's a very important race for our country, our state. >> at the end of the day we feel very confident, we went to bed last night knowing this race has been run in the best way possible with very few flaws for us. >> speaking of last night, both candidates held dueling rallies, roy moore brought in steve bannon who once again lashed out against establishment republicans who opposed moore. >> they would rather control in a minority

jonathan serrie follows the action tonight from birmingham. >> they have pivoted to voter intimidationday roy moore's campaign lashed out against ads produced by a committee called highway highway 31. >> highway 31 threatens voters. your vote is public record and your community will know whether you helped stopped judge roy moore. >> google has removed the ad from u2 and other digital platforms. >> the angel who created the ad >> we felt like we had to go to google and youtube. >> polls show the candidate neck and neck. >> i think he should've dropped out. just because polling has changed doesn't change my opinion. >> democrat doug jones see his his path to victory in getting limited turnout. he praised the numbers of women breaking their silence on alleged abuse, pointing out the latest issue of "time" magazine has named the women person of the year. >> this is our time to say we're not going to leg behind like we have been so many other social movements in the country. >> thank you, jonathan. former u.s. gymnastics team doctor sentenced to 60 years in prison on federal child pornogra

fox news channel, jonathan serrie with lace. what's it looking like an elk?ort officials are saying right now, they're operating a 95% capacity, but that is after multiple cancellations. really all the carriers were affected, but the biggest one delta airlines. today alone, they had to cancel 400 flights, and that is on top during the height of the, it was a massive fire that broke out due to faulty equipment and a underground let's go facility. ordinarily, there are multiple redundant systems that would kick in, but the flames were so intense, they actually knocked out those backup systems. airport officials say, this is really a freak event. they have never had to deal with in the past. even so, they say, there are lessons to be learned moving forward. georgia power said, they continue to investigate the cause of the fire company pledging to improve the reliability of the system, providing power to the airport and hopefully preventing something like this from ever happening again in the future. pet and with us now, and with -- this disrupting, they get idea

jonathan serrie is live in montgomery, alabama. how does the rally impact the alabama senate race?

. >> shepard: jonathan serrie in montgomery, thank you. let's turn to "fox news sunday" chris wallace who is with us from washington ahead of his sunday program coming up. good to see you, chris. >> good to be with you, shep. >> shepard: this reporting that the president is all in but the white house doesn't want him to be seen in a photograph with roy moore. really hard to have it both ways. i guess they're giving it the effort. >> yeah. anybody that believes that in 50 or whatever minutes the president speaks he doesn't mentioned the name roy moore, i would like to take that action. highly unlikely he will fail to mention roy moore in his speech tonight. understandably. look, i can understand that. on the one hand, you want to support him. on the other hand you don't want the picture with him. if he's elected and comes to washington, they'll have plenty pictures together. >> shepard: there's republicans that are concerned about this endorsement. >> oh, yeah. the president at one point wasn't endorsing him and saying if the allegations we

jonathan serrie covers the southeast for us. he live from just south of mobile in fair hope, alabama where roy moore is set to hold a rally tonight. hel hello, jonathan. >> hi, shep. they're going to hold the rally here in this barn behind me. roy moore will be joined by steve bannon who talked about what he viewed as successful efforts to push back establishment republican attempts to discredit roy moore and his campaign. we're likely to hear more about that at this evening's rally. at this point in the campaign. moore has been largely avoiding questions from the mainstream journalists while addressing the allegations against him at length with sympathetic commentators and outlets. here's what he said on american family radio. >> they're just making this up and the press is so involved in politics, they ought to be ashamed of themselves. i won't talk to them because i have no respect for them anymore. >> "the washington post" reports another woman by the name of debbie gibson has come forward with additional evidence that she sa

jonathan serrie is live at the airport. what a mess. >> yeah, what a mess indeed. georgia power official s believe it was faulty equipment causing a fire causing this power outage. you can see the disruption, passengers lining up to rebook on flights and at least the situation now is under control compared to yesterday when the power went out for nearly 11 hours. escalators weren't working, elevators weren't working. it left some passengers in wheelchairs stuck. people were separated from luggage because bag an conveyors weren't working and jet ways couldn't be wheeled into place leaving passengers stranded on their planes. >> i literally spent a whole seven hours on an airplane without food or water and then they finally let us off. then i walk into a dark room where everyone is sleeping on the floor. >> the power outage affected all airlines servicing this airport. delta will be the largest and the most impacted. they canceled 1,000 flights yesterday, canceled 300 flights today. and although airport operations are returning to normal flights are already booked fo

ainsley: jonathan serrie is live in montgomery alabama with the latest for us. jonathan?orning, ainsley, steve and todd. ordinarily the republican candidate would be a shoe n the solidly red state of alabama. allegations of sexual impropriety against republican roy moore completely changed the dynamics of this race. and you have doug jones, the democrat, becoming the first member of his party to be elected to the u.s. senate from alabama in 25 years. >> this campaign has been about common courtesy and decency and making sure everyone in this state, regardless of which zip code you live in, is going to get a fair shake in life. >> but roy moore who rode to the polls on horseback yet to concede the race. hoping moore's vote count would come within half a percentage point of jones which would trigger a recount. >> i really want to thank you for coming tonight and realize when the vote is this close, that it's not over. and we still got to go by the rules about this recount provision. >> but with jones coming in with 49.9% of the vote to moore's 48.4, which is a 1.5 point dif

steve: jonathan serrie has been covering this race for a while he is live in montgomery, alabama with vote is the name of the game today. both candidates had major get out the vote rallies last night. >> we're up to our neck in alligators. we are up to the neck in people that don't want change in washington, d.c. they want to keep it the same. >> keep their power, keep their prestige and keep their position. and we have got to change that. >> roy moore held a drain the swamp rally where he was joined by lowey gohmert former milwaukee sheriff david clarke and former white house chief strategist steve bannon. described the election as a referendum on president trump. >> it's an up or down vote tomorrow. right? >> right. >> between the trump miracle and the nullification project. >> democrat doug jones did a little counter programming to answer moore's rally. he brought in some star power in the form of alabama native charles barkley. , i mean, listen, i love alabama we have to throw a line in the sand we are not a bunch of damn idiots. and people are looking at us like they are actually

jonathan serrie is live from the atlanta airport. han, i'm sure some very upset, frustrated people wandering around there. >> yeah, sandra. you can see all these people behind me lining up trying to book. in most cases rebook flights. delta airlines alone the flagship carrier here at the international airport canceled 1,000 flights yesterday as a result of the power outage and canceled 300 flights, most of those early this morning. but this outage affected all of the airlines. you are talking about the jetways unable to go to aircraft so it took long to board and disembark people from the various aircraft. escalators weren't working and there were no lights in some of the corridors creating a spooky environment. passengers describe the scene. >> it is absurd. people are sleeping on the floor like homeless people. i've never seen anything like this at all. >> sandra, because this is the holiday travel season, even though the power is back on and flights are quickly returning to normal, there aren't a lot of free seats. so a lot of thes

arthel: we have live team coverage from alabama, jonathan serrie is covering roy moore campaign and petery with the latest on dug jones. jonathan. >> hi, arthel, white house officials confirming the president made that robo call earlier today, it's expected to go out on monday, the day before the election and while moore did not appear with the president at that rally in pensacola he is certainly enjoying the favorable comments that the president made urging alabama voters to go out and vote for roy moore, the president explaining that it's about the balance of power in washington trying to preserve the gop's thin majority in the u.s. senate. >> the future of this country cannot afford to lose a seat in the very, very close united states senate. we can't afford it, folks, we can't. >> attorney gloria allred who claims moore assaulted her at 16, noted signature in the woman's high school year book matched the handwriting of roy moore, however, accuser beverly nelson has also revealed recently that she added some of her own handwritten notes below moore's signature. >> we did not ask expert

. >> bill: jonathan serrie in alabama >> we have video to show you of doug jones giving his vote. vote isn't a secret ballot. everyone knows who he is voting for. his opponent roy moore is expected to arrive at his site later this morning. both candidates held get out the vote rallies last night. >> we are not going to stand by and let other people from out of state and money from california control this election. this election for the people of alabama, we dare defend our he rights and we will defined our rights in the united states congress. >> moore held a drain the swamp rally in southeast alabama joined by louie gomer and former milwaukee sheriff clark and steve bannon who lashed out against establishment republicans who opposed moore. >> we're not going to stand by and let other people from out of state and money from california control this election. this election for the people of alabama. we dare defend -- >> democrat doug jones did a little counter programming to answer moore's rally. he brought in some star power in the form of alabama native charles barkley. he mocked

says jones, the democrat, holding a 10-point lead and one of the ruby red states of america, jonathan serrie live in alabama with more. what is roy moore doing in the final day of his campaign. >> hi, bill. roy moore plans to hold a drain the swamp rally here in midland city in the southern portion of alabama. he will be joined once again by former white house chief strategist steve bannon who rallied with him in fair hope last tuesday. bannon's speech made headlines for its criticism of establishment republicans who opposed moore early in the campaign. in a radio interview moore said his democratic opponent, doug jones, is owned by both democrats and republicans opposing the conservative movement. let's listen. >> the republican establishment actually wants jones in there because they think they can beat him in two years without a contest. and of course the democrats want jones in there for their vote. so i'm fighting both the republican establishment out of washington as well as the democratic party. and that's a big problem money-wise for us. >> today the moore campaign is sending out rob

. >> sandra: jonathan serrie live in montgomery, alabama. how big a role did the allegations against moore play in this election? >> it seems these allegations were front and center. according to a fox news voter analysis, 2/3 of alabama voters said the allegations against roy moore weighed heavily on how they voted in this election and those voters went overwhelmingly in favor of doug jones. 70% of those voting for jones said the sexual misconduct allegations against roy moore were important to their vote compared to only 28% of those voting for moore. here is what moore said about this unusual race during his non-concession speech last night. >> part of the problem with this campaign is we've been painted in an unfavorable and unfaithful light. we've been put in a hole, if you will. >> and the allegations also played a role in who didn't vote yesterday. nearly 6 in 10 voters who did not cast a ballot in yesterday's election said the allegations against roy moore factored into their decision to stay at home. >> sandra: what challenges does

ainsley: jonathan serrie joins us live at the airport with the latest.u are in the airport. that is a stressful situation. glad the lights are back on. >> exactly steve, ainsley and brian. the lights are back onment and lines beginning to form as people return to the airport to get on newly rebooked flight. add that to the normally busy holiday travel season already underway. the lighting was repowered nearly 11 hours after it went out. during the outage jetways could not be we would out to planes to allow passengers to disembark. people had to wait long periods of time to be reunited with heir luggage. airport train systems were down and so were the escalators. travelers describe the scene. >> >> flickered again and then they didn't come back. >> i literally spent a whole seven hours on the airplane without food or water. >> we have to go through the tunnels. they were pitch black. it's scary. >> the faa issued a nationwide ground stop for flights headed to atl. meaning pleansz were ordered to stay on the ground departure airport. many of them were dive