Japanese we should be able to beat the houthis. Secretary austin and the Biden Administration is failing our troops in the field. I admire him, he is a patriot, but he is not doing a good job protecting the soldiers. Without iran there are no houthis. The houthis are completely backed by iran. Molly forces in israel are expanding their Ground Operation in gaza. Trey yengst is live in tel aviv with the latest on these escalations. Trey, to you. Good morning. Threats from iran and its proxies are increasing amid concerns about the possibility of a broader regional conflict. Yesterday alone we understand that 12 attack drones, three antiship Ballistic Missiles and two Cruise Missiles were shot down by the american Eisenhower Carrier Strike group from the houthis and lasted for ten hours. An American Service member remains in Critical Condition following a drone attack against the Erbil Air Base that drew an american response. Zooming in on the ground, israeli Chief Of Staff announced tuesday the idf is expanding operations in central and Southern Gaza while forces continue to go after hamas leadership. The idf says three additional soldiers were killed overnight bringing the total to 146 since the invasion began. As israeli Prime Minister netanyahu issued a new warning to hamas. We say to the hamas terrorists, we see you and we will get you, we are continuing the war and are intensifying the fighting in the Southern Gaza strip and other places. Israels Northern Front remains active as well. More than 20 rockets have been fired into Northern Israel today from the Lebanese Militant Group hezbollah. Molly. Molly you have been there for quite a few holiday seasons. This one is different from seasons past and here the christians wrapped up their christmas celebrations and heading into a new year. What are we expecting in the next couple of weeks ahead there on the ground not just as part of this fight but politically as we turn the corner into the new year . Its a great question. Israeli government is under immense pressure right now especially from the families of those 129 people still being held inside gaza. Internally there is a lot of difficult conversation that has to take place in the coming weeks about what the future of this operation looks like. But when you zoom out, there is a real concern among the israeli population about the possibility of what is happening inside Gaza Unraveling to a broader war and the understanding that the threats from the north are very serious and if a conflict erupts with hezbollah there would be many casualties throughout israel. Molly. Molly the depth of your reporting very much appreciated. Happy new year to you. Mike lets bring in retired u. S. Army Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg. General, welcome. The United States navy is dealing with Ballistic Missile attacks from the houthis and Senior Defense officials calling it a significant escalation in the region. Thanks for having me today. Look, were seeing a lot of rhetoric coming out of the administration. Very little limited response both to the attacks In The Red Sea and attack with the houthis launching their missiles. If you back out a minute, the concern ive got is this has set a very bad pattern. All of us set patterns in our lives in how we do things. This administration set a pattern of talking a lot but not doing a lot. I dont care if its ukraine, russia, the far east, if its the mideast or right now In The Red Sea. They will have to take some strong responses especially with whats happening with the houthis now in yemen. If they dont take that it just compounds itself. My experience being in the white house when situations like this occur, if you dont respond aggressively and take disproportionate responses, then it will build. It is harder to put it back in the box. Right now there is a lot of things out of the box. Were talking a big game but were not doing very much. The concern ive got when you look at it. You see a lot of allies saying we hear you, were really not listening to you. Were looking to whats happening with the protection of the red sea. Italians and spanish have gone their own way, french have gone their own way. Even some of the fleets, the major Shipping Fleets are putting ships back into the red sea theyre cautious because they dont really trust it. Mike mike waltz is raising this concern. I think it tells us and our adversaries and allies loud and clear that deterrence is failing. We have put significant assets in the regions. Aircraft carrier, planes, in the sea and ships In The Red Sea and yet the attacks keep continuing. Mike how should the president and pentagon respond . What i mean they need to do something disproportionate. Way out of the box to bring it back into the box. Just protecting the shipping through Missile Defense is wrong. They will have to go to the source of the problem. One is in yemen. The second is iran. When you look at what is happening with hezbollah in iraq right now and attacking u. S. Servicemen. What you see the houthis doing, they arent doing it on their own. They are supplied by the iranians. Iraq parra military force is being supplied by the iranians. Hamas, hezbollah, backed by irrelevant an answer. It is hard to do that. If they dont make a hard response, this is going to continue. The trouble is it will spin way out of control and just not in the region but globally as well. Mike from the wall street Journal Editorial Board biden endangers u. S. Troops. He is afraid. We use that Word Advisedly at being involved in a larger conflict. That anxiety is interfering with his core obligation to defend u. S. Forces. Is the president too worried about war with iran . Yeah. Its a pattern. He set the pattern. It is risk avoidance. You have to be willing to accept risk. When youre inside the white house those decisions come at you hard and fast. You have to understand escalation control. You have to understand risk. But you have to do it. Your job is to protect the nation, protect americas troops abroad and they arent doing it. He set a pattern and adversaries see this. They are despots, dictators, terrorists. You must respond accordingly. The American People expect that. Our nation has to respond hard to bring this thing back under control. Right now he is not doing it. I think its actually almost too late. Mike Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg with sobering advice and analysis. Thank you. Appreciate it. Molly despite the escalations at home and israel President Biden is taking a break this week. He is taking the first family on vacation in st. Croix where Lucas Tomlinson is. Somebody has to do the hard work out there. Lovely back drop. Molly, as the Secretary Of State Heads To Mexico today President Biden and his family are coming to st. Crow in the u. S. Virgin islands. Many republicans would like to see him go to the southern border first. The president ignored a question about the border while he was boarding Air Force One a short time ago. Here is the dirty little secret. They could fix this tomorrow if they went back to trump policies but they wont do it. Well change the law to give them tools to deal with this. Will they use it . I dont think so. No matter what we do, no matter how we write the law they want it this way. When it comes to the economy americans are not optimistic things will get better according to a recent fox news poll. Two in ten americans think it will improve. A far cry from December Of 2020 and 44 think the economy will get worse. 86 of those surveyed are extremely or very worried about inflation. They know when prices go up, they rarely go back down. Molly. The prices from 40year high inflation two summers ago feel locked in. Despite the polls the white house remains optimistic. Were glad to see that americans are feeling more confident about the economy. And as you know, i think a year ago, six months ago there was this talk about recession, recession, recession. That is certainly not where were headed. Then there is this latest battle In The Red Sea off the top for the second time in history, molly, a u. S. Navy super hornet from the ship scored an air to air Skill Shooting down some of the 12 drones launched from yemen. For the first time in history a ship shot down antiBallistic Missiles. The cost of those were 5 million a pop. A far cry from the 2 thousand drones very crude launched from irans proxy forces in yemen, the houthis. Molly a great way to end your reporting. Great points on all account. Thank you so much. Happy new year. People are angry about the asylum. Ive never seen new yorkers as angry as they are now about a particular topic that they have all rallied behind. Mike eric adams has the migrant crisis turns new york into another border city, too. He is calling out President Biden for failing to contain the surge. Plus. Molly Vice President harris. She posted a picture with a gas stove. Does this holiday meal come with a side of hypocrisy . To duckduckgo on all your Devie Duckduckgo comes with a builtn engine like google, but its pi and doesnt spy on your searchs and duckduckgo lets you browse like chrome, but it blocks cooi and creepy ads that follow youa from google and other companie. And theres no catch. Its fre. We make money from ads, but they dont follow you aroud join the millions of people taking back their privacy by downloading duckduckgo on all your devices today. Mike the Michigan Supreme Court rejecting an attempt to take former President Trump off the 2024 Primary Ballot. The ruling comes after the controversial decision by colorados highest court to remove the former president from the ballot bass week. Last week. A deadly blizzard and ice storm in the central u. S. Colorado getting buried in snow. Major highways are open today after dangerous conditions briefly closed them yesterday. Meteorologist adam klotz with a live look at the forecast. Hello, adam. That system is still on the move. Maybe losing a little bit of steam but a lot more folks are ultimately going to see snow before all is said and done. Now winds at times were up to 60, 70 milesperhour. Calmer now. There is still spots where snow is falling. This system will continue to move. More folks will see snow. The future inhouse forecast model. All the snow dragging itself across illinois and portions of Southern Indiana and getting as far south as into places like kentucky. Areas where you maybe dont see quite as much snow you are finally getting some of the snow. This is the path that system is going to take. As i said, areas like indianapolis toward louisville getting back towards st. Louis, more snow on the way for all of those folks as that system makes its move. Otherwise, millions and millions and millions of folks here today are dealing with a raw, soggy type of day across the mid atlantic and new england, d. C. , philadelphia, new york. Rain coming down and it will linger for several days as we run through it. Now because of The Rain Lingering Today and tomorrow there is at least some risk of flooding as a result. You will see just on the low end possible flood risk. If youre stuck in this now the rain will be here for a little while. Mike, back over to you. Mike i can confirm it is damp and chilly in the d. C. Swamp. Thank you very much. Molly. Molly critics turning up the heat on Vice President harris over this christmas tweet taken in her kitchen next to a gas stove. Just another instance of do as i say, not as i do. Particularly after the administration was considering remember this, the ban on gaspowered appliances. Rich has a show and joins us now to chat about this. Happy new year to you. I have to say, they look adorable in the pictures and look like a happy couple, but is there a little sprinkling of hypocrisy here . Just a little bit, molly, right . Dont you love in this particular picture at thanksgiving The Gas Stove was featured in their shot. This one is like doug. Guard The Gas Stove so no one sees the hypocrisy on full display. Molly at the same time i look at this and they cleaned it are proud of it and love the stove. They keep going back to this spot. This is where she makes all her word salads, thats right there on the stove. Youre right. Its hypocrisy. They want to ban gas stove for everybody. The gas stove for me, not for thee kind of approach. It shows you the hypocrisy of the left. They dont think gas stoves are a problem. They want to ban them its something they can virtue signal and be woke about and the extreme climate left wants them banned. Every chef know its the best way to cook and they know that why they were cooking on The Gas Stove for christmas. They did not say jesus christ at all when they wished everybody merry christmas. They knew about The Gas Stove. All the people who went to copp 28 have gas stoves on yachts or private jets. Powered by propane but the same concept. The worlds biggest hypocrites telling us what to do all the time. Molly are they trolling . They did it at thanksgiving. Got smashed and ripped and now they take another picture in front of the stove. Just checking. It is trolling or complete political Tone Deafness, a bigger point. Kamala harris is more unpopular than joe biden. I believe they would dump joe biden in a heartbeat if they had a strong number two but sthe is worse. Not good political instincts and not well liked and this is the problem. I think it is political Tone Deafness more than anything else. Molly california is fining stores who dont have gender nifty Rail Sections in stores. I go to go stores, dolls, legos, dragons, stuffed animals. I dont recall seeing signs that say boys only, girls only. Your thoughts on this. Listen, i have three kids, nine, seven, three. They all know exactly what toys they want. It is not about gender. They just know what they want. They werent asking santa for Gender Neutral Toys. If there is a demand for Gender Neutral Toys in california theyre satisfying that element. Another way for the government to tell private companies what to do. They have the right to advertise and every toy is made for boys and girls. I got my daughters santa did Lego Princesses for christmas. Enough of this nonsense. Molly i have a 2yearold into race cars and airplanes. When the daughter got the nail kit he got his nails painted. How do you enforce that from the paw patrol and running a Small Business nowadays, 5 hundred to fine you . Law and orderer gender neutral toy division. Theyll look around. Arent we acknowledging there are two genders by doing gender neutral . If you allow boy and girl toys arent we saying there are only two and that well pretend for all the other in this area. Send in swat teams. The left talks about how less involvement with law enforcement. Come in there and raid them. I love it. Molly thank you so much, rich. Happy new year to you and thank you for joining us. Happy new year, molly. Thank you. Molly mike. Mike Sanctuary Cities across the u. S. Scrambling to house an overwhelming number of migrants. How taxpayers in chicago are paying the price. Plus senior biden officials head to mexico to attempt to get a handle on the border crisis but some say its too little too late as a record breaking caravan of migrants now heads for the u. S. This meeting is really just a mere trying to create the pretense they are doing something about this because theyre starting to get a lot of bad press, a lot of political pressure to do something about it. Minus the avocado. So, toast . Yeah. Everything is so expensive these days. Hey, chevy gets it. Thats why theyre Keeping Prices down to earth. Like on the most affordable ev in america. A super strong and capable chevy truck. And a hightech chevy suv. Why is chevy making affordable vehicles, connected by onstar . So together we can do more. Its time. Yes, the time has come for a fresh approach to dog food. Everyday, more dog people are deciding its time to quit the kibble and feed their dogs fresh food from the farmers dog. 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Mayor Eric Adams Office said another 188 migrants arrived tuesday night to the Port Authority bus terminal after their flight from el paso, texas to new yorks jfk airport was diverted to philadelphia due to bad weather. The city tries to keep up resources for the more than 68,000 migrants still in their care. A spokesperson for the mayor said as temperatures drop, they have had a surge at the citys Intake Center saying, quote, we have seen 7200 new arrivals come through the Intake System over the last two weeks arriving through various means of transportation. Last week 14 rogue buses from the state of texas arrived in one night. The highest number recorded by the arrival center. Another act of treating human beings like political pawns. Weve reached out to Texas Governor greg abbotts office for a response. Mayor adams says he keeps asking the white house for more help but cant get it. Listen. Were the economic engine of this country and state. I dont believe any of these cities should be going through this. I dont have the answer. I think thats the answer that we need to turn towards washington. People are angry about the asylum. Ive never seen new yorkers as angry as they are now. Last month he announced budget cuts as the city deals with the fallout of 4,000 migrants arriving weekly. The mayor is also blaming congress saying that the city will continue to do its best while the federal government remains paralyzed. Mike, back to you. Mike cb cotton, many thanks. Molly illinois is struggling. More bused to chicago suburbs over the weekend. Officials turning to local hotels for shelter. Were live outside one of the shelters in chicago. Kelly, to you. The state has made about 230 hotel rooms available here in chicago for these migrants as more arrive daily by train, plane and bus. The illinois Governors Office says funding for the hotel rooms will come from an additional 160 million set aside in the 2024 state budget to deal with the migrant crisis. Our bill melugin caught up with some migrants in arizona last week headed all over the country, including to here in chicago. [speaking spanish] pennsylvania, new york, chicago, chicago. Secretary of state blinken will be meeting with the mexican president this afternoon along with Homeland Security second mayorkas that talk about this crisis as many as 10,000 migrants were arrested at the southern border per day this month. Nearly 15,000 migrants are currently being housed in the citys 27 shelters. To date the Governors Office says they have helped 2,000 people leave the shelters by connecting them to friends and family. Were in chicago now where migrants are being housed in commercial building. The Market Association tells us the Mayors Office is doing this illegally because these buildings are not zoned for residential housing. The Mayors Office said they have taken in 30,000 migrants from texas and they say they are being targeted because they are a sanctuary city. Molly. Molly these housing challenges happening across the nation in some of these big cities getting hit particularly hard. Kelly, thank you so much for the reporting. Mike. Mike it all comes as Secretary Of State Antony Blink En and Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas are going to mexico. Four migrants on the Terror Watch List were arrested in the last two months. Homeland security reporter for the Washington Examiner joins me now. Anna, welcome. Hey, mike. Mike Secretaries Blinken and mayorkas are on the way to mexico city with the border crisis on fire. State department saying about the visit, quote, Secretary Blinken will discuss unprecedented irregular migration and identify ways to address Border Security challenges including actions to enable the reopening of key ports of entry across our shared border. Should we expect more than a discussion and an actual deal of some sort on the crisis at the border . You know, i dont think so. The Biden Administration still isnt even calling this a crisis, it is just unpre unprecedented, right . For the last three years weve seen people encountered at the southern border each month. Normally wed see 30 to 50,000. Despite whats going on in the last month with multiple caravans of migrants coming across the border every single day, the Biden Administration is still taking very minimal action, sending officials down but not saying what its hopes even are. For mexico to take action it would probably take a little twisting of the arm like President Biden did with taxing imports. Mike President Biden is in deep trouble on this issue from the fox poll. 33 approval of his performance on Border Security, 63 disapprove. Does that put pressure on the American Team to produce results . Yeah, i think it puts significant pressure. I think people are tired of seeing whats going on at the border. Like i said, more people encountered at the border under President Biden in three years than under president obamas eight years in addition to President Trumps four years. Thats unprecedented. And i think people want to see people across the country where immigrants are resettling, it is not fair to anybody, 3 million cases in the Immigration Court back logs. People will wait years to get decisions on their asylum cases if they even seek asylum. Some just stay. People want to see results or a change in administration. Mike then there is the pressure another caravan of 6,000 people heading to the southern border at the time when border facilities are full and hearing complaints like new york city and chicago. Another caravan of 6,000 or so people. What kind of pressure does that add to the mix . Well, 6,000 really is pennies compared to what were seeing every day. Last week we were seeing days where Border Officials were encountering 14,000 people in a single day. Another 6,000 isnt actually the end of the world compared to how many were seeing multiple caravans come across daily. I dont think and in three years not much has changed with the Biden Administrations approach. Theyll say they are having results but then the results will fade after a couple of weeks or months. Then they will point to those again and say well, it worked but, you know, look at the numbers every month. Nothing has changed. And i dont know if push cans want to know is It Incompetence or indifference to addressing the situation . Anna, thanks very much for your time today. Molly. Molly it has been a very busy year and news takes no holiday from global wars to holiday nationwide strikes and historic shakeup on capitol hill. A look back at 2023 next. Plus republicans in the house getting ready to go full steam ahead with the biden Impeachment Inquiry. They have a heap of new evidence and they want to follow the facts where they lead. The American People know something stinks here. Thats going to be a problem for joe biden moving forward. Not only are his policies a disaster, but the American People think he is a crook. Is dt with doordash, so you dont have to leave the couch. Oof that was fast. Mucinex. Available on doordash. Its comeback season. With the freestyle libre 2 system know your Glucose Level and where its headed without fingersticks. Manage your diabetes with more confidence and lower your a1c. 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Heres why you should switch fo to duckduckgo on all your Devie Duckduckgo comes with a builtn engine like google, but its pi and doesnt spy on your searchs and duckduckgo lets you browse like chrome, but it blocks cooi and creepy ads that follow youa from google and other companie. And theres no catch. Its fre. We make money from ads, but they dont follow you aroud join the millions of people taking back their privacy by downloading duckduckgo on all your devices today. Mike as you look forward to the new year were looking back on the big events that shaped 2023. Americas news rooms bill hemmer has a special wrap up of the most notable headlines from the year. Bill 2023 was another turbulent year marked which two major world conflicts and political instability at home. They made plenty of headlines over the past 12 months. The white house spending much of 2023 confronting new threats from china. It started in january when a chinese spy balloon was spotted drifting across north american airspace. It passed through alaska and the central u. S. Before being shot down off the coast of south carolina. The war in ukraine grinding on for another year. The pressure on russias military prompted the Wagner Mercenary group to launch an insurrection. The leader taking over a key russian city in the south before beginning his march to moscow. The rebellion finally ended wwhen he cut a deal with putin but his plane crashed under mysterious circumstances. Donald trump becoming the first former president to Face Criminal Charges after being indicted by new york prosecutors for allegedly making illegal Hush Money Payments to his former mistress. That indictment followed by three others. Including criminal cases related to attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election and his retention of classified documents in maralago. It was a big year for unions. In may the first hollywood Writers Strike in 15 years. Members of the Writers Guild of america walked off the job calling for more money from streaming services and protections against the use of artificial intelligence. Two months later, the Screen Actors Guild followed suit bringing hollywood to a halt in the middle of the summer movie season. The strikes were eventually called off after both unions won what they call historic victories against the big studios. Another Big Union Strike hitting the economy hard in september. The United Auto Workers picketing against all three major Auto Manufacturers for the first time ever. Tens of thousands of workers walked off the job costing the u. S. Economy more than 9 billion. This strike finally ending after 46 days. The uaw claiming a big win with increased wages and better benefits. Intense winds knocking down power lines on the Hawaiian Island of maui sparking fires that quickly push into the Historic Town of lahaina. Folks had little to no warning as the flames reached the town. Some were even forced to flee into the ocean. 100 people were killed and more than 2,000 buildings destroyed causing some 6 billion worth of damage. The office of speaker of the house of the United States house of representatives is here by declared vacant. Congressional dysfunction reached unprecedented levels in october after Kevin Mccarthy became the first House Speaker in history to be voted out in the middle of his term. It happened when mccarthy cut a deal with democrats to avoid a Government Shutdown angering some conservatives who then voted for mccarthys ouster. It took weeks for republicans to agree on a new speaker finally handing the gavel to littleknown Louisiana Republican mike johnson at the end of the month. Israel experienced the deadliest Terror Attack in its history. More than 1200 People Killed in a surprise crossborder attack by hamas. The overwhelming majority were civilians including hundreds attending a music festival. At least 240 others were taken back into the gaza strip as hostages. Israel responding with a massive invasion of gaza. Diplomats from the u. S. And qatar are work being on a new ceasefire bust it will not be easy with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowing to keep up the fight until israel is safe. Now looking ahead to 2024, israel and ukraine will continue to top the headlines but were also keeping a close eye on the race for the white house. After all, its an election year, america, and we will be here for all of it. In new york, bill hemmer, fox news. Molly looking at the Michigan Supreme Court rejecting an attempt to take donald trump off the Primary Ballot coming after the controversial decision by colorados highest court to remove the former president from the ballot last week. Jason chaffetz joins me now, former utah congressman and fox news contributor. Well start with this issue as were on the cusp of a new year and election year, of course, great to have you with us. Your thoughts on this michigan decision and also does it mean we have more wait now on the potential u. S. Supreme Court Decision related to colorado . Well, the michigan decision seems reasonable. People tend to forget the Government Works for the people. The idea that you would exclude somebody from the ballot because of insurrection. Donald trump never was charged with that, never convicted of it because he didnt do it. The government never charged it. To try to take him off the ballot was absurd. Colorado made the wrong decision, michigan made the right decision. We need to have the Supreme Court decide on this. We need to get this behind us so we can focus on whats truly important. Molly a lot of good you had a chance to speak to the House Oversight committee james comer. He talked quite a bit about some of the most fascinating things. One of the things theyve uncovered that is pretty interesting, President Biden allegedly used pseudonyms in emails with his son. The documentation we need are the pseudonym emails. We found joe biden was using at least three fake names on government email. Molly what do you make of this and will we get more details in 2024 . Chairman comer put it up as one of the most important things to get. The National Archives have Tens Of Thousands of documents related to vice President Bidens communications. The idea the Vice President used fake names. He was communicating on a lot of different things. In particular i know the committee is very focused on the interaction with a Guy Named Eric Schwinn was involved in the hunter biden Business Enterprises and a Business Manager type of person for the biden family business. You want to get those documents. We know the National Archives have them. You can also go over to the servers, the people that actually two ends of an email. Also subpoena those. The committee needs to do this. It is an Impeachment Inquiry with the vote of the house behind it and they need to see these documents because joe biden says he has never had a conversation ever with his partners or with his family about this stuff. But boy, it certainly seems like he has and they have to look at those emails. Molly speaking of impeachment. The headline out of politico. Deadline reads republicans are barreling toward an impeachment vote. It might look like failure to the base if they skip it. Your thoughts on what this could mean for the Republican Party in the new year. I think thats a bunch of hog wash. Politico is fishing on some Holiday Story they have never covered for the last couple years. But no, they will continue to unearth the documents, present those to the American People, there are emails, text messages, voice mails, suspicious activity reports, tens of millions of dollars flowing into the biden family. So yeah, politico im glad to see theyre actually paying attention at this point. Molly thank you for giving us a little of your attention sharing time with us today. Happy new year to you. Thank you. Mike the rise in remote work comes with a price tag, a high one. New york citys left footing the bill for empty buildings while Luxury Offices are getting a break. Molly preparations are underway here in new york city for the big apples iconic new years eve ball drop. The ball revealed just momens ago. It will be shining brightly from the flag poll above times square with a Million People expected to gather in the crowd below to watch it fall in just a few days. Mike empty office space in new york city comes with a high price tag and taxpayers are footing the bill. Gerri willis is live with the details. Good morning, gerri. Good morning to you, mike. Thats right. Nyc is giving big tax breaks to Luxury Office developers here in nyc even as more and more employees work remotely. Between 2014 and 2022 the city doled out 1. 5 billion in tax breaks. The recipients include are hudson yards, this development behind me here. But also the bank of America Office tower in mid town and nbc headquarters in rock center. In 2022 alone the city doled out 171 million in these tax breaks. Now, hudson yards is mixed use, highend retail and pricey office space. In fact, taxpayers had to pay 74 million for that last year alone. The citys investment was supposed to pay for itself. That hasnt really worked out. Supposedly tax revenues from real estate were supposed to off set what the city spent. Unfortunately project costs were underestimated while revenues came in a half billion lower than expectations. Pro p guess what . More to come. Nyc mayor adams saying theyll do even more of these kinds of deals as much as 10 million square feet of Office Retail space will be renovated over the next 20 years. Mike, back to you. Mike gerri willis live in new york city. Thank you very much. Molly nasa launched a mission to intersect a massive asteroid. Known to researchers as the god of chaos it was first discovered in 2004. It is more than 1,000 feet wide. Expected to pass close to earth in april 2029 within 20,000 miles of the earths service. Nasa is on it. Mike that was fun. The Faulkner Focus is next. Julie banderas is in for