the president says he is ordering new rules to track and monitor such devices. we he have fox team coverage. jennifer griffin at the pentagon on more on what the defense department knows and does not know about what is in the skies. first up, white house correspondent jacqui heinrich with the president s message. good evening, jacqui. hey, good evening, mike. president biden revealed the three objects shot down since friday were most likely tied to private companies or research institutions. but he defended his choice to blast them out of the sky following chinese spy balloon. i gave the order to take down these three objects due to hazard to civilian commercial air traffic and because we could not rule out the surveillance risk of sensitive facilities. critics watching the president s remarks say he missed a golden opportunity to drive home the threat about china s spy program. in the last several weeks. i have been informed this is a program that our country has kno
one of the best defenses in the country. of course we would be remiss if we didn t mention how most teams would love a trip to the sugar bowl but the alabama crimson tide not one of them. they lost two games this season by a combined four points both on the last play of the game against texnnessee and lsu, so they miss the playoffs. they ll face kansas state tomorrow, some of the georgia fans in our sports department told me to remind you you can t spell sugar bowl without uga. i apologize for that. i ve been to the sugar bowl more times than i can count on two hands. spent a lot of time in new orleans in college. she was so annoyed we were doing the sugar bowl situation in the show. i ll be watching tomorrow. we kickoff at noon, it s fine. actually love nick saban said yesterday this has been one of the most enjoyable nonplayoff bowl preps they have had. that s one way to see it. yeah. coy wire, we ll be watching. roll tide. thank you so much. all right. cnn
average hit $3.42 for regular unleaded up 11 cents from one month ago. in nearly the same price it was when president biden began to release from the strategic petroleum reserve to lower gas prices. in tent s special report spotlight, energy matters, my colleague bret baier looks at how sales from the stockpile impact prices at the pump and why it could send costs even higher. bret: thanks, mike. in our last installment in our energy series we told you about our strategic oil reserves hitting an historic low. that number has only declined since. and now sits at under 372 million barrels. of the maximum withdrawal amount per day is 4.4 million barrels. so, if that were the country s only supply, it would last less than three months. some lawmakers and economists say that puts the u.s. at risk. national security risk. now, they must figure out how to re-fill the stockpile while
possibility of enormous fines from the federal government, there are questions about how they spent their money in recent years. quote, what s particularly egregious is they had the chance to upgrade systems but released it to shareholders instead, releasing a dividend to $428 million a year. southwest did get more than $7 billion for the u.s. federal government to help shore up operations in the pandemic. it paid a quarterly dividend for years before the covid crisis, signaling the airline had cash to spare. in other words, given a choice, southwest put investors ahead of customers and crew. and we took a look at the 2019 annual shareholder letter in which southwest wrote this, quote, during 2019, the company continued to return value to its shareholders. the company returned $2.4 billion to shareholders through $372 million in dividend
and a new number of teens vaping marijuana doubles in just one year. according to the national institutes of health, 14% of high school seniors vaped pot in the last month. the rise comes despite an up-tick in deadly vaping-related illnesses. the same study shows teen drinking is on the decline. 52% of high school seniors said they drank alcohol in the past year. that s down 8% from 2018. one week from christmas, and someone in the buckeye state just won a ton of bucks. one lucky mega millions ticket worth $372 million just sold in ohio. if the winner takes the cash option they will walk away with about 252 million before taxes. the lucky numbers are 22, 30, 53 , 55, 56, and a mega ball of 16. a lot of money. right at christmas too. ainsley: yes. someone s quitting their job. steve: if they know. it might just be in somebody s