sandra: all right.dent-elect trump if his team are preparing to get down the business on day one. coming up, louisiana governor jeff landry, as we just mentioned, is here on the changes he hopes the see. john: plus, thousands of supporters braving the cold the attend president-elect trump's victory rally though we should say today it's pretty mild out there. a little bit of rain, snow later on, but we're going if to get a closer look at the crowd that's traveled from far and wide coming up next. >> trump, just do what you promised like you did last time, and we'll be okay. er guys. we design and test our own tools and sell them directly to you. no middleman. just quality tools you can trust at prices you'll love. here's to getting better with age. here's to beating these two every thursday. help fuel today with boost high protein, complete nutrition you need, and the flavor you love. so, here's to now... now available: boost max! honestly, i was scared when i was told age related macular degeneration co

sandra smith new york and here we go.it is happening quickly here, john. >> john: the train has left the station and rolling faster and faster. i'm john roberts and washington and tromped to beef up security in a series of executive actions after stepping into the oval office. his orders made good to crackdown on immigration and raising migrant crime scene under the biden administration. the move comes the same day border agent is shot and killed during a traffic stop in vermont. near the northern border with canada. >> sandra: we have paul perez hhear, hear to react to just that, but first let's get to brooke taylor live from el paso, texas. how are migrants at the border responding to transit media executive actions? >> you know, sandra, we are seeing a difference in 24 hours here at the border pier to the most obvious difference is president trump and think the cd migrants to easily book appointments on their cell phones and stay in the united states until their court dates. critics have really called this program a co

good to see you, sandra. >> sandra: great to be with you, i'm sandra smith in new york. 22 states and 2 cities are suing. the challenges could become lengthy, legal battles that end up before the supreme court. >> john: we have constitutional attorney general professor jonathan turley on deck to talk about that. >> john: fir >> sandra: but first, david, what is the state of washington asking for? >> sandra, john, the state of washington through the court wants a restraining order, a stop from the executive order of president trump on monday from going in effect. a department of justice attorney is in the courtroom, and lee ross will send us notes from the courtroom, and the doj attorney will be arguing to allow the executive order to go through as president trump signed it. that's what we are going it hear from the doj. this all deals with the whole idea of birthright citizenship. that means a child born in the united states even if the parents are illegal immigrants, that child would get citizenship. republicans and the bill, and even if congress passes the bill and the law ending bi

>> sandra: thank you very much for all of that. get right to those questions with israeli ambassador to do you and danny. on where things stand right now how about that? how does israel see the steal? is it an end to the war if it goes through completely? or is it just a pause in the fighting? >> we are committed to bringing back all of the hostages. hopefully next week we will have free hostages coming back to their home. children, babies, women, under tremendous suffering, cultural starvation and assaults. so we're doing our best to bring them back home. that will be the first stage. during the first stage we will be able to negotiate the future. but if you ask me about the vision first we bring them home, all of the hostages, and then we will not allow hamas to control gaza. because we know with hamas stays there there will be no future for the palestinians. >> sandra: ambassador, maybe you can answer this question because we were following this minute-by-minute yesterday afternoon. as the reports were emerging that a cease-fire

. >> sandra: absolute heartbreak and instruction, john and sandra smith in new york and this is "america." the latest information we have from los angeles fire chief on the palisades and eaton fire. 7,000 acres have burned and more than 1,000 structures have been destroyed and there is 0% containment at this point. >> john: meanwhile, jaw-dropping moment caught on camera is a man and his dog trapped inside of his home. flames engulfed his property. watch this. you are going to be okay, all right? you are going to be okay. oh [bleep]! >> john: inside of a blast furnace in los angeles fire department information officer, rodriguez contact with the latest on the fires. >> sandra: we will get to him in a moment that jonathan hunt from pacific palisades, california, where the flames are reducing streets to ash. you have been bringing us incredible images from there. what is happening right now? >> the fire continues to burn out-of-control. control. this is still not a property-saving exercise for the fire department. they are still in life saving mode right now. at the properties continued to

sandra. >> sandra: if you haven't seen it yet president-elect trump and vice president-elect j.d.eased official portraits before inauguration day and here's a look at them white tie, blue suit for the president-elect, john. >> john: that is the same look i give my son when he says he hasn't been on fortnight all afternoon. i'm like, what? are you trying to kid me here? >> sandra: i've seen that look on you before, john. this is president-elect j.d. vance's portrait here. >> john: very nice. let's go back to the trump one again. every father of a teenage boy has made that face. [laughs] i love it. >> sandra: hilarious. those are the official portraits. it kind of makes you think here we go. we are days away from inauguration day, john. it is hard to believe. >> john: that is definitely, don't mess with me, face. and at this. >> can you address the criticism over budget issue and slashing $70 million? >> i think if you go back and look at the reductions made, there were no reductions that were made that would have impacted the situation that we were dealing with over the last couple

sandra? >> sandra: all right. l.a.'or under criticism for slashing the city's fire department budget before all of this. wait until you hear how much more the city spends on its homelessness crisis. >> john: plus, will californians try to pick up the pieces from the devastation from these massive fires? be on the hook for the damages. larry cudlow weighs in on the state's insurance crisis coming ex >> a lot of concern and worry about whether or not the insurance is going to pay. but we did take all of our family pictures and a few valuable paintings out last night. so, you know, all of the stuff that's here is replaceable. people are not. here's to getting better with age. here's to beating these two every thursday. help fuel today with boost high protein, complete nutrition you need, and the flavor you love. so, here's to now... now available: boost max! >> john: the department of defense is sending some assists to the firefighters. ten navy helicopters armed with water buckets. windy conditions at first grounded the m

." >> sandra: kele, thank you.will take a there top of the hour and a look in columbus, ohio, where we expect republican governor mike dewine to announce his pick to replace vice president elect j.d. vance and the senate. lieutenant governor jon husted is the likely pick so we are watching that live right now and that is about to happen, john periods bill and looking forward to that. he will serve two years before a special to reserve manger to make remainder of j.d. vance's term and president-elect trump term his thick vivek ramaswamy to run for ohio governor. we will keep an eye on that and bring you that is when it happens. ♪ ♪ >> on monday, we are going to leave a dark, doom, glynn left the biden age if we enter the new golden age of america and putting america first. i can confirm they will be more than 100 executive actions that are taken on day one by our new commander in chief to fundamentally change the federal government to secure our southern border and to unleash the might of our american energy industr

hi. >> hi, sandra.h the fragile ceasefire holding, tens of thousands of palestinians were able to complete the trip to where their homes used to be in the northern gaza strip, and roughly after 16 months scavenging for shelter or living in tents and they carried the belongings they could and got back to the locations where their homes were largely devastated. the gaza strip was impoverished before the war and now it's a wasteland. and the qatari prime minister who mediated the talks said the palestinians could have been home a long time ago. >> we have been through a very long process that has been sometimes -- many times very frustrating for us as mediators. and what is really -- what we feel sad about is that it took that much to get to an agreement that we have -- you know, agreed on a framework since december 23. and the problem that every day we were delayed, we felt sense of responsibility that this day is costing a lot of lives -- whether it's on the gazans or the hostages who are being held in g

sandra? >> sandra: just a little more detail on the shooter.ing the shooter is 17 years old. fired shots in the cafeteria there at antioch, high school, in antioch, tennessee. you mentioned the student that was shot, a female, a grazed wound to the arm. thankfully that student is listed in stable condition and has been taken to children's hospital at vanderbilt. we can report that that student is in stable condition. sadly, the other student, the wounds were fatal. as we get more information on this we'll certainly continue to bring that to our viewers. now, several migrants have been arrested in connection with the home-break-in but quarterback joe burrow. he's one of many pro-athletes who has had his home burglarized in recent months. alexis has the story. it been bizarre, some of these. what else are we learning? >> the migrants said they didn't do it. they even gave a fake i.d. trying to hide who they were but they were caught running around with a bengals hat, both stolen from joe burrow's house. now these four men you're looking at are fa

[laughs] >> sandra: love to. shannon bream breaks down the ruling in just a moment coach about forest, fox business lydia hu. lydia we are pointing out these are my world videos people love and why they love tiktok. what is the latest? >> we are bracing to if the sample go dark on sunday and less intervention, which we are not holding out hope from from the biden administration. exactly what that going dark will look like plaintiff remains unknown. we know to expect it will not be available for new downloads or updates in the app store. but some think if you have the app already, that could become dark too possibly with no partiality. the biden administration printing to president-elect trump. karine jean-pierre sang in a statement earlier, "giving the sheer effective timing, the administration understands that must follow to the next administration which takes office on monday." all eyes on trump how and when he will save tiktok. truth social, the supreme court decision was expected and everyone must respect it.

sandra?i'll take it. >> sandra: all right, fox news alert now as we continue to monitor the weather situation there in california. firefighters are right now hoping that winds will continue to subside a bit today as the fires rage on across southern california, so will they get more help and is it on the way? plus this. >> john: the number of people who left their homes and personal belongings behind to escape these fires is staggering. our next guest escaped on foot. he'll join us coming up next. are [ ♪♪ ] >> john: dangerous weather playing a significant role in those deadly wildfires. regular flag fire weather warnings extended through tomorrow night. adam clack's tracking it all in the supreme weather centre. what's it looking like in the next 24, 48 hours? >> far from perfect conditions but much better situations than we saw yesterday. that was a bit of an outlier. we don't typically see winds up to a hundred miles an hour. this is what it looks like right now, 30 miles an hour. it's not

thank you very much. >> thanks, sandra. >> sandra: antics to all of you for joining us.00 on "america reports" with john roberts. that does it for us here. now here is "the five." ♪ ♪ >> greg: hey come on greg gutfeld along with

sandra? >> sandra: jonathan live there in atlanta for us.rn my grandfather's passing i know in my heart, you all do, that his legacy will live on. >> sandra: justin carter eulogizing his late grandfather at the carter center on saturday. he joins us now. welcomed jason thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> sandra: obviously emotional time and moment there for you. what do you believe your grandfather's legacy will ultimately be? >> i think it is a legacy off there is an american story there has they just mentioned he was a peanut farmer from a tiny 600 person village. team self torture. he became president of the united states. what he did to after that as he went back onto that same little town. i think there legacy really is a legacy of putting their faith into action and never forgetting who they were. the remarkable things that come from that you know. >> sandra: indeed. jason, of course you can share stories that so many camps being obviously his grandson. i know we have some pictures that we have on the screen here.

sandra, great to be with you today. >> sandra: you as well.ernoon. we'll take you through the drama-filled afternoon on america reports. thank you for joining us. "the faulkner focus" now. >> harris: let's take a live look

sandra. >> sandra: john.er his trip to north carolina, president trump is now on his way to los angeles to tour wildfire damage. a look at firefighters' ongoing efforts next. >> john: plus, we are beginning to get a clearer picture of the fire's economic toll and how long it could take to rebuild. that's ahead. o) veteran homeownd you know your credit card rates may be over 22% and if you pay late... 30%! as a veteran family, you can use your va cash out benefit to get the newday 100 that lets you borrow up to 100% of your home's value. not just 80% like some banks. 100% means you get more cash to pay off your high rate credit cards and your car loan. no one approves veterans like newday. call now: 1-844-979-2673. molly leaving was one thing. but then i thought mom's osteoporosis might keep us stuck on the couch. no way. ♪ if you have postmenopausal osteoporosis, and are at high risk for fracture, you can do more than just slow bone loss. you can build new bone in 12 months with evenity®. evenity® is proven t

. >> sandra: i'm sandra smith in new york and calais headlines all over the country show migrant crimesthe rise during the biden administration,, weapons, drug trafficking surge now and experts a last-minute move by the white house could give the e stream. >> john: retired i.c.e. agent victor ability to react. but first fox team coverage, cb cotton shocking details of the latest migrant bus to new york city. >> john: brooke taylor reports on concerning race and sex trafficking tied to trafficking. broke. >> john, these victims are facing so much, and just don't know who to trust. we went to a safe house in texas. the bob's house of hope. they focus to make sure these victims have therapy, education and ultimately a safe space. many of the victims have been traded by their own families who traffic them here. >> heartbreaking images of minors at the southern border have become too familiar, allow clutching nothing but a piece of paper. office of inspector general report reveals i.c.e. lost track of tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors in the last few years. >> i don't think there is

i am john roberts in washington and quite a tuesday we are off to, sandra. >> sandra: indeed i'm sandrath and this is a 30. talking foreign policy and laying out plans to bolster the u.s. economy as republicans in congress strategize how to quickly carry out trump's ambitious agenda. peter doocy live in washington. he was taking it all in with us, hi, peter. >> he has seen enough mexico's efforts to stop the flow of migrants across the border are so lackluster, he doesn't think their name should be attached to the world's largest golf. >> we are going to be changing the name of the gulf of mexico to the gulf of america. , which is a beautiful ring. to that covers a lot of territory. to the gulf of america, what a beautiful name. but it is appropriate, it is appropriate. >> president-elect trump reacted in real time when a reporter told him that judge aileen cannn florida was blocking the release of the jack smith report on the mar-a-lago documents case. the president-elect said that is a big story and he said that is very good news. he was also joint for a few minutes by middle east on

sandra. >> sandra: those accounts are so disturbing and heartbreaking what these victims went through. thank you. as we see a new orleans returning to a certain sound level that many of us are used to. the fbi still urging anyone who knew jabbar to go forward. the very latest from the justice department for us. what do we know here david? >> hundreds of miles away officials here in washington, d.c., are continuing to brief president biden the highest levels of the fbi, the department of justice, and they are hoping that people will come together and give some sort of information. they came to this conclusion. this was a lone wolf attack. investigators want as much information as possible related to the 42-year-old suspect. they believe people out there where in contact with him in the days and hours leading up to the attack. watch this. >> we want to talk to anyone who was in the french quarter on new year's eve or early on new year's day. that includes people spotted near one of the two ieds on bourbon street. that includes the ied was inside a cooler. many people stopped and looked

good to see you, sandra. >> sandra: martha maccallum, good to have you here.seems like the changes are happening. i wonder why. >> it hearkens back to something president-elect said and wide-ranging news conference we all watched earlier. there is a lot of change going on here tobit is going on all over the world that honestly international companies. i think sandra and john, the market forces are at work here appear until they see what is working in terms of what people want on x go to the freedom to post things they want to post. they see they went very wrong and to president-elect trump credit when asked about this, i think they are headed a better direction. companies have the ability to move and change with times in the united states of america. i think that is what you are seeing happen real time. people got tired of looking at things that were censored. rfk jr. the posting things about the vaccines during a course of covid and he was censored. he spoke on capitol hill about that a freedom of speech and heard on social forms which are supposed to operate

sandra? >> sandra: okay. adding to the drama.ve been keeping track of all of this. trump, president trump says he intends to make as many as a thousand reset appointments but the details will be interesting as we get close to the weekend. thune obviously not happy with the way this is playing out. >> bret: here's the deal. right now, it doesn't seem like it's in the cards. that either the house or the senate will formally adjourn. one has to do it, article 2 of section 3 of the constitution, if one of them does it and the other one doesn't the president could step in and say you're both adjourned and we're going to do these reset appointments. right now they don't have the votes in the house. the senate doesn't want to do it but think about this. there are 112 nominations right now that are up for confirmation. of to him, formally, 68 have been put forward. if they continue to do what they are doing now, like the timing, the 30-hour thing it wouldn't be until late march, until just those 68 get approved and we're talking some big

good to be with you again, sandra, to start another week. >> sandra: you, as well, john. i'm sandra smith in new york and i.c.e. racked up nearly a thousand arrests in chicago yesterday, and not the only agency getting involved, and at least 11 of them are playing a key active role, and dea agents in colorado say they arrested 50 people in a party hosted by venezuela violent gang tren de aragua. >> we found drugs, and multiple drugs, and found quite a lot of money and several weapons, as well, and in addition 40 -- approximately 50 people had been detained by i.c.e. and transferred to the i.c.e. detention facility. >> john: in minutes we will speak with joseph humire, who has written a detailed report on how to take them down. >> sandra: but right now, more from chicago. how are the operations unfolding out there and where are they headed next? >> well, sandra, there was a major operation here in chicago yesterday. tom homan was on the ground and a dhs official tells me the next stop is going to be new york city, and tom homan tells fox news that yesterday's sting removed

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: thanks, ted. >> sandra: great stuff, thank you. lawrence that announcement, would be counter to what the fbi said yesterday. >> sandra: they are not ruling anything out. >> lawrence: to say there are accomplices and you are pursuing a manhunt and to retract that and demote to suspects or persons of interest, which is legal jargon for people out there, i think it is conflicting information. they have to be clear about this. the second thing, theyed need to understand what mission failure is, they failed yesterday. i applaud rank and file, they go out and do their job everyday. people at the top should not go out and say everything is under control, things are out of control. especially when people are able to go on the sidewalk and in other cities there are security barriers because we have had threats before. there need to be a full assessment and they need to get language conyou cystent. >> sandra: huge thank you to the police officers who did exchange gunfire and killed the suspect driving the vehicle and i'm sure you saw video o

>> sandra, good to see you.t not as fast as the trump white house would like them to go but they are moving along. of course, this morning we saw the first one get confirmed and that was marco rubio secretary of state. j.d. vance, the president, conducting the oath as sworn in. last night, trump's dhs nominee, kristi noem out of the committee there at their bipartisan vote which means confirmation vote could be coming shortly for. defense secretary, pete hegseth, also favorably came out of his committee but this was a party line vote, sandra, could force a 30 hour debate role and tried to delay his confirmation. omb nominee and cia nominate john ratcliffe also favorably reported on their committees last night. john ratcliffe has some support so we can expect smooth sailing for him. woman elise stefanik has widespread support as well. that is an easy one to get confirmed. we are watching these three. tulsi gabbard, are at a junior, kash patel, these are the most controversial trump picks. they are hearing has not

this is "the faulkner focus" and i'm sandra smith in for harris. here are some of her opening remarks. >> we must vigilant and pro-active and innovative to protect the homeland. the challenges in front of us are extremely significant. and we must secure our borders against illegal trafficking and immigration. as secretary i will enhance our emergency preparedness and strengthen fema's capabilities and we'll insure that no community is left behind. i will oversee the secret service, an agency in serious need of reforms. >> sandra: ron johnson. >> how do you gain control over a massive agency whose resources and personnel have been misused? >> that is the question i get asked the most. why would you want to head up such a dysfunctional department? i would say because the mission of the department is to secure the homeland and our people. our biggest vulnerability now and we have a president not enforcing the law. i don't believe the law should be uniquely applied. the morale in dhs is low. i will let people do their jobs and remind them what their jo

sandra. >> sandra: no slowing down in sight. peter doocy at the white house for us. >> dana: let's bring in former acting ice director. the cover of the "new york post" this morning, new tariff in town. 100 for 100 when it comes to great headlines. an amazing thing yesterday to have the columbian president try to defy president trump and cave so badly he offered his own planes. >> pretty amazing. it shows we have new leadership in town. i think these countries will realize they will break into two categories. one will be countries that cooperate and the other one will be countries that wish they did. he will make it so painful for them that it won't be worth it for them. hopefully most will fall in the former category and cooperate. it is not worth it for them. there is no reason for them not to be taken their citizens back. it really shows a stark contrast between the new leadership and previous leadership which seemed to view weakness as virtuous for america always putting america last. these are people in most cases criminals

welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm dana perino. >> sandra: i'm sandra smith in for bill hemmer this morning. raids taking place nationwide happened all over this weekend and in chicago border czar tom homan personally taking part in ramped-up enforcement efforts in the nation's third-largest city. 956 arrests across the u.s. on sunday alone. illinois governor says he is on board with deporting violent criminal migrants but standing in the way of certain efforts. >> we will stand in the way of an unconstitutional order and stand in the way of them breaking the law in illinois if they are not following federal law. if they show up with warrants to take people away we'll hand them over. we also have a law on the books in illinois that says that our local law enforcement will stand up for those law-abiding, undocumented people in our state. >> dana: people that live in chicago might be surprised there were all of these people living amongst them. >> it was a massive operation yesterday, dana. border czar tom homan was personally on the ground here and tells fox news yesterda

>> yeah, good morning, sandra.st our hearts go out to the victims and we are so thankful to the new orleans police department and all the other agencies that did such a remarkable job night of as well as, you know, getting us back to where we are today. i told my team yesterday morning, you know, i'm more comfortable here with you feeling a sense of normalcy being with you than just at home wondering what's going on. so yesterday was a big day for us. it was nice to be in the room where we spend so much of our time with our team family. so we are just ready to reopen the city of new orleans. i think everyone did a great job yesterday. as the mayor said, new orleans is built to host. the walkability of the city, the culture of hospitality that we bring and the food and entertainment that new orleans represents is strong and we are ready to continue moving forward. >> sandra: your restaurant is an institution and world class, world renowned food, service, all of the above. i remember going to school in baton rouge, a

[laughter] what is your problem, sandra? >> sandra: that's just not funny.at was a question. >> greg: yes, i just asked it! >> sandra: breakfast. >> greg: so it would be a diner? >> jesse: and you are on the business channel? >> greg: just have a store that sells breakfast in a box? >> sandra: quick breakfast. i don't think anyone wants to sit down -- >> greg: i don't think -- that's called a 7-eleven. here is your breakfast, and it is in a box. where do you live, sandra? >> sandra: don't want mcdonald's but a quick breakfast. healthy. >> jesse: i would sell you. not in a sex trafficking way. i would be your manager. you would be more famous than you already are if that is possible. >> harold: i don't think that is possible. harold question rick. >> harold: a bookstore, i always wanted to. >> sandra: oh, like that. >> harold: i want a bookstore. i would have you there because we would learn american history and teach you things -- >> jesse: like about the third nipple? >> sandra: fillmore, who knew? >> harold: i love a bookstore. >> jesse: does he have a thi

sandra?lican louisiana senator bill cassidy. i know you just were briefed by the fbi. what can you add to what we already know? there was a public update where we learned the fbi believes this driver acted alone. no outstanding suspects at this time, no link between the new orleans and the las vegas attacks at this time. they have received 400 tips, the suspect posted videos online tuesday night, claiming he joined isis before the summer and provided a will and testament, but indeed they said 100% that this person was inspired by isis. what more did you learn in that briefing? >> well, first they emphasized that. they emphasized that he acted alone. there were those coolers with the ieds. and initially we had been told that there are videos of people handling those. it turns out that -- how to put this -- the fbi given the briefing goes people walked by and they picked it up, perhaps looking for alcohol. i'm not sure, i think prejudging people at 3:00 a.m. on bourbon street, but then they put

sandra. >> sandra: let's bring in nicole parker, great to have you today. although this is happening. we are learning more details as we know that president biden as we were just notified moments ago is making his way down to louisiana. he's going to be meeting with some of the families of the victims. what this means for this moment as that community has suffered such absolute tragedy. >> i am glad that he is doing what it is absolutely appropriate. sadly, you know, these terrorist attacks, i hate to say it with her current we are in, in our nation, let's hope and pray that we do not continue to see a pattern of this occurring. we have had an open border. i believe that the fbi has taken their eye off the ball for the last several years completely focused on things such as that january 6th capital violence, white supremacy, going after president trump and with the diversity, equity, and inclusion push they have. it is now time for the fbi to but all resources and efforts possible back into the foreign terrorist organization groups. it is proper to pay thei

i'm sandra smith in new york.ust heartbreak for all of those people that are affected by this. >> john: definitely, but the fact they are getting water bombers and six aircraft and helicopters to attack the fire with winds subsiding is good news. i am john roberts and this is "america reports." time lapse footage captured with uc san diego show how quickly the palisades fire erupted yesterday afternoon. you can see the hillside smoking and how it is ablaze. it almost looks like the kona bay volcano there. folks given erupted evacuation warnings without no prior notice. look how quickly he had routes. >> sandra: people had to flee from their cars and that let's them and then i think that highway. but of course, emergency vehicles need to get through so now bulldozers working to clear the roads and shove the cars to the side. >> john: wow, it is close to apocalyptic movie. william la jeunesse in malibu with the flames to continue to burn along the pacific coast highway. i have been where you are standing many, many

sandra? >> sandra: absolutely. looking through just five hours ago, the president-elect donald trump sounding very optimistic as he endorsed mike johnson earlier, put out a truth social statement k saying good luck today to speaker mike johnson, a fine man of great ability who is close to having 100% support, a win for mike today will be a big win for the republican party and yet another acknowledgment for our 129-year most consequential presidential election, a big affirmation indeed. maga. i have not seen any reaction yet from the president-elect based on what we are seeing right now, although, bret, that could change in the next few minutes as we continue to watch this play out and we could get another round of speeches here shortly. >> bret: yeah, as we start the 2:00 hour on the east coast, "america reports," i am bret baier in for john roberts, sandra in new york, good to be with you. this is history. we are watching something that is not happening, despite the wishes of president-elect trump. he made clear a

i am sandra smith in new york. can hardly imagine what all of these people have been and continue to go through, john. >> john: nor can i make, winds later on today. i'm john roberts and washington. this is "america reports." the national weather service issuing red flag warnings were severe fire conditions all the way through wednesday with wind gusts reaching as much as 70 miles per hour in some areas. l.a. fire officials warning earlier today those high winds coupled with low humility in dry conditions will keep the fire threat in l.a. at a "critical level." >> sandra: they could further complicate efforts to get the fires under control. at least 24 people have died and dozens more are still missing. >> john: we kick off our coverage for you this afternoon on "america reports" with griff jenkins who has live in malibu admitted that his devastation. >> good afternoon, john. someone who has spent a lot of time in california, you full well know what the national weather service putting out a particularly dangerous

in the meantime, sandra. >> sandra: david freeman former and passenger. welcome to the coverage.re with us your thoughts in the moment. >> look from united perspective when god willing in a day or two or three when the first hostage is reunited with her family, you know, i will be in here is hundreds of millions of people throughout the world will be in tears. no one has suffered as much as these poor people. and i think we have to be grateful that we are getting some of the hostages released. we don't know how many and we don't know their condition. i think people who are looking down the road, this is the beginning of a new era. it is early, it is really early in the war is not over. it is clear from both israel and the united states, the war is not over. president trump made a strong statement just about an hour ago that hamas will not remain as the ruling party of the gaza strip era to the gaza strip will never again be a safe haven for terrorists. so there is a lot of cleanup. hamas is still there and the war still going on and hopefully the hostages can come out and the goa

i'm john roberts in washington. >> sandra: great to be with you, john, and i'm sandra smith in new york. and temperatures dropping to the teens, and many hurricane survivors are living in tents and rvs. >> john: our senior white house correspondent is on the road with the president and she is live from asheville and on the point of what happens to fema, what might the president do? >> well, john, as you heard, potentially eliminate it completely. obviously more details need to be fleshed out and exactly how that plan would roll out. but here in asheville, we're 122 days after the hurricane hit, and piles of rubbles all over the place, and i'm told they haven't gotten to the waterway, and even though they pulled out a million cubic yards of debris in the area hit, and one section near to me in polk county where as a popular spot for fishing and there is 2 million yards of debris and vegetation in that one area alone, and people involved in the cleanup say fema is not approving requests quickly enough. >> president trump: i'll also be signing an executive order of fundamentally reforming

." >> sandra: i am sandra smith in new york.nter the winds are going to be everything to walk in the coming hours and days. expected to anticipate tomorrow with wind gusts up to 75 miles an hour. i could both allow the fires to gain strength and ground planes that have been offering crucial air support. the fires have scorched more than 40,000 acres of land since starting last week. the largest one is still 14% contained. >> john: we will speak with a couple who washed their home burned down via their ring camera and try to figure out what is next. we will talk to it l.a. county fire official for the latest on the ground. >> sandra: chief correspondent jonathan hunt's love for us in pacific palisades good what are you seeing there today? >> i think it is safe to say that hundreds of thousands of people across los angeles and the surrounding area are today preparing there go bags. people who had probably never thought about doing such a thing as of last week. but in the wake of last week's destruction of an area like this, an urb

sandra? >> sandra: absolutely. bret, karl, if you could standby with us, karl, we are checking in with chad pergram on what he is learning. chad? >> they are kind of any stasis in the house of representatives and what i am told is there going to go to a second ballot. by rule that is what they're supposed to do. there could be circumstances where they would recess the house and come back at 4:00 or 5:00, but what i am told is there going to go onto a second ballot. we talked about the three members elect, remember they are not sworn in just yet, we talk about these members-elect, i had a rather lengthy interview with ralph norman yesterday who is going to meet with speaker johnson and said he would make his announcement today asked her how he felt about mike johnson, and i said waiting minute, what are you looking for here? he said i am looking for certain types of promises and certain deliverables we are going to get in the new year. i said waiting minute, didn't you work this out? shouldn't this have been resolve

sandra. to think that they could do anything about that when they have this on their hands, it's ludicrous. >> this this is crazy. there are people dead, okay? they're displaced. they're distraught. there's two major images that stood out to me covering this for hours and hours and hours this week. and two of them were from today. the video that we played of gavin newsom standing in his aviators, taking it from that resident, asking him, governor, why are the fire hydrants empty? why were they empty? why were we not more prepared, knowing that these winds were predicted? and then there was the wheelchair that was abandoned along the side of the sidewalk. and you think about that, and you think about whoever was taking care of that person or wherever that person was living. either they got bad evacuation orders or no evacuation orders at all. nobody led them to know or understand that this was predicted, that there could be danger coming your way. and then, of course, the failed response to th

never met his maker her words, i'm john roberts. >> sandra: and i'm sandra smith, the "the story" starts> martha: good afternoon everybody in martha maccallum, that "the story" this hour after

sandra, good to be back with y you. >> sandra: good to have you back, john.py new year to you and happy new year to all. i am sandra smith in new york. this is "america reports." vice president harris will preside over these proceedings certifying the outcome of the election that she lost to donald trump your two weeks from today, trump will be sworn in as this nation's 47th president. live on capitol hill as we watch this together. >> john: good afternoon. the election was wrapped up in november, but nothing is final until congress certifies the electoral congress result during a joint session of congress. with both the movement dictates that the vice president in her capacity as president of the senate "open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted." that is what happens today. >> in just a few minutes, senators will head over to the chamber to count the electoral votes and certify the election of donald trump and j.d. vance as president and vice president of the united states. >> they have carded the electoral votes into the cha chamber. th

sandra? >> sandra: all right, bill. ted, thank you very much. let's bring in tom homan now, the incoming trump administration border czar. tom, great to have you here. i want to get to new orleans again in just a second, but we just got this fresh information out of las vegas, and the police chief they are giving us a lot of new details. i want to get your reaction to. he characterized what they're learning on the ground in las vegas as a suicide with a bombing that occurred immediately thereafter. they are not aware of any other subjects involved in that case. while they are aware of the similarities to the person who carried out the attack in new orleans, they are not able to directly tie these two events together. they have no evidence they are tied together, but they do not believe any further threat from that particular incident is out there at this time. what was your reaction to what you heard? >> well, i think, the further the investigation goes, i think they're going to find a connection between the two incidents, but look, they are bot

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i'm sandra smith and john cook great to be with you. >> john: wait to be with you. this is america reports. take a look at the picture on the left and inside of your screen. when is the last time you saw the brady briefing room that crowded? it harkens back to the early days of the first from our administration when it was standing room only and people were packed in like sardines. fire marshal -- might have something to say about that. but we're about to launch. plans to from -- to jump kicking up his second term. signing savvy five executive orders in his first week. trump's repertoire actions given reporters plenty of topics for today's briefing. >> sandra: you better believe it. john, the admission possum federal grants and loans starting today. jacqui heinrich has got a preview. she is life in that very busy jampacked white house press briefing room. jackie, set this up for us. >> reporter: it took a while to get to my seat because that rim is packed with people. i have never seen it like this in here the whole time i covered president biden. is the first brief

sandra?res raging across the west coast southern states are bracing for an ice snap. a winter storm threatens to bring inches of snow and ice to the parts of the country that rarely see that. hi steve? >> some of that has arrived. four inches some places and a cold and rainy mixture, as well hitting some of the roads and a lot of people are not used to such containers. warnings have been out for day, so you don't see a lot of cars on the road. i saw a woman use a small trash can to scrape the ice off her car. officials warn the main danger in is from ice on the roads. >> ice can be popping up unexpectedly and once you are on ice all bets are off. it can be dangerous and treacherous so it's really important that you stay off the road because those who do need to get to work, first reis responders, fire and ambulance crews, we want to keep the roads as passable as we can for those people. >> realing? s too at the airport. hartsfield has more than five hundred flights cancelled. one delta flight

. >> >> sandra: tiger was one of the folks killed in this. 15 dead and so many more injured in.his as you all know i know that area well. spent a lot of time in that very place. the french quarter and if you have ever been there, you know that this is people are celebrating. they are having fun and letting their guard down. what is being questioned right now why was the guard let down by the city? why were those people and barriers not intact? why were precautions not being made to protect people who were clearly wal partying walling alg the sidewalks. >> lawrence: typically we would provide space as the investigation continues before we started asking questions about the barriers problem is event for tonight. super bowl come up. any place needs to be totally secure it's new orleans. i watched the press conference and i appreciate all the officials that showed up to try to provide some type of answers. but i didn't leave with a lot of confidence based on the answers we got yesterday. the bollards in that area canal and bourbon street which you know san extra well is one of the b

if you know sandra, raise your hand right. cassandra i think embodies the heart and soul of all tech. us human. and i know on on a cold day like this like going on a lot of turmoil in the world in the country. a lot of you probably felt staying underneath the covers, getting comfortable watching some some netflix chilling with her cat, you know, just hanging out. but we're and we're here because of people like like sandra and, people like yourself from all different backgrounds, all different. we're actually coming together to do the hard work right. we're in the meatpacking district. there's lots of fancy clubs. taylor swift might be next door to catch. right. truly. wow. well, they did the snl party there, i think that did happen. but the point is, what is different, right? we're actually looking at struggle and we're going head first towards it. but the reason why i mentioned somebody like like sandra and kind of embodying the ethos in rebecca is what's different about it is when we have 200 people who are gathered here. ri