the christmas tree in saint petersburg palace square is shining bright for many here, this is the place to enjoy the decor, marvel of the lights, and take a holiday. selfie asked for decorating that own tree. many russians are skipping the traditions this year just, there's a couple, there are people that need to treat who don't even ask the price. they just buy one . and there are people who, even when we offer a discount, buy from say they can't afford it. this is a love i wish everyone season's greetings all the best in the next year. everyone can afford a tree again without them on them. for now, many leave empty handed. for others of course, christmas is worth spending even if it hurts. from i guess we can spend the money if you can also still afford food and treats. we're doing it for the children to put on a celebration for them. of course, the 2000 roubles is quite expensive. it could have been cheaper for me. 2000 roubles. that's around 20 euros. a lot of money for many people in the country in crisis, where the price of right has risen as have prices. so meet daily. all growth

winter begins. telling us probably gatherings and celebrations were also planned in the city of saint petersburg. the 2nd largest city in a rush job, but a part of the palace palace, a square in the city has been secure due to a suspicious object. now, overall, the grandiosity of this holiday is really not a surprise, because if you know anything about ross, how you would know that the new year is the main celebration in the country where people gather with their friends with their families and their loved ones and share a feast of traditional food in exchange gifts and you can definitely really feel the excitement here. and i would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone watching and everyone at the headquarters a very happy new year and trying to keep up with santa claus. had a sleigh in traveling around the 28000 kilometers per hour. rush on comfortable knots, also celebrated the new year. i bought the international space station and the west, old, the best to off escalates to see what see if we sincerely congratulate you from the international space station for the upcoming year 2025

all children's hospitals in saint petersburg. that's what a premier hospital for children. 30% of the babies going through the neonatal intensive care unit born addicted to prescription drugs and has to stop. you take it from a cost perspective. i take it from a life for babies, lives. but if you look at it from a cost perspective, saint joe's had to expand their nick you just to accommodate eight these babies. so it's cost taxpayers a fortune and i a lot of it really has to do with education and that's why we have legislation this session. i've talked to adoption lawyers, i've talked to nurses. we've in the board of health, we've brought in the board of medicine. it's all about working together to educate these women because unfortunately, i think some of these women will say, i've stopped drinking alcohol, i've stopped smoking marijuana. but because it's the word prescription drugs, they don't realize the harm that it's doing to their unborn child. what scared me to death, chairman bono mack, was when i when i asked the doctor,

. >> milton dropped about 18in of rain on saint petersburg, representing a more than 1 in 1000 year rainfall for that area. number six. in september, explosive attacks in lebanon targeting pagers used by hezbollah members. the blasts killed 12 and injured more than 2300. cnn learned israel was behind the attack, which was a joint operation between israel's intelligence service, the mossad, and the israeli military. the lebanese government condemned the attack as criminal. israeli aggression. number five police in illinois releasing body camera footage of the deadly police shooting of sonia massai in july. the 36 year old black woman had called 911 for help to report a possible prowler at her home in springfield. >> i heard somebody outside. >> we didn't see nobody. >> nobody's out here. >> the body camera footage shows the deputy continuing to interact with massai. but things take a turn when she goes back to check on a pot on the stove. >> your hot, steaming water away from my hot, steaming water? yeah. oh, i rebuke you in the name of jesus. >> i shoot you in the navy. you better not. i swe

when lenin was sent back by the germans to saint petersburg, russian capital, in the midst of world one, in order to undermine on the russian war effort, immediately started agitating for his group of radical marxist known as the bolsheviks to seize power. is his colleagues thought he was crazy. they refused to do it, but he kept pushing and agitating and lobbying and insisting. and finally, 1917, the bolsheviks take power in petersburg in conditions of absolute chaos. later, lenin said that they had found power lying in the streets and, had simply picked it up. and then, of course consolidated in a bloody multi year civil war until. they became the rulers of what had been tsarist multinational empire. well, all of that is to say that without lenin there have been no russian revolution. without the russian revolution, there would been no chinese communist revolution, indeed, no communism. communism, a major feature of the 20th century, would not existed. but for lenin it's also perhaps adding that by some estimates communism caused, the premature deaths of 100 million people. so lenin's

sheila from saint petersburg, florida. i'm so tired of my showerhead going. drip, drip, drip. gets it. i like full power on that nozzle. like break me down. sue from camp hill, pennsylvania. are you still taking cold showers? took one today. if i don't do the ice plunge, i do the cold shower instead. janet from spring lake, michigan. real men know how to shuck oysters without a machine. but before you become a real man, you need a little intermediate step just so you don't cut your hand off. i mean, this is my microphone hand here. vanessa from louisville, kentucky. who is your super bowl pick? birds, obviously. i mean, what kind of question is that? i've already made my reservations in new orleans. they just better put those bollards up. anything gets stuck in that bourbon street juice. can't have some guy plowing into this bod or this hand. it's all for us tonight. dvr the show. always remember i'm fox news alert. im marianne rafferty, live in los angeles.

i experienced it in downtown saint petersburg during the hurricane milton, where it accelerates well,here. it's coming across the desert and then into those canyons and and crowding downdrafts for these pilots. so they're just next level ability to put that retardant where it needs to go. and as long as the winds are calm and again working so indefatigably, i mean and to and to think about at that level of intensity, you know, where any tiny thing could be life or death. >> all right. well, you know, we're here and we're in the staging area. jessica, bill and i, this is where a lot of the, you know, crews are starting. we've got national guard over there, you've got utilities, all of it sort of staging from here for that palisades fire specifically jessica. >> all right. bill weir and erin burnett, thank you so much. and you're right. thank you for walking us through just the heroic actions that those firefighters are taking to protect people, protect homes. it is incredible. we're going to check back in with erin and bill throughout the hour. in the meantime, i want to go to meteorol