Already canceled today. There was an 11hour outage that stranded tens of thousands of travelers sunday inside the airport and on the tarmac. Now, atlantas mayor says a fire at an underground electrical facility was the cause. But what sparked that fire is not known. And in washington, President Trump says he is not considering firing special counsel Robert Mueller, which is a good thing because he cant fire mueller directly. As for muellers team, taking a rare move of publicly defending themselves, denying allegations by attorneys for trumps transition that they received unauthorized access to thousands of transition he mails. Meanwhile, the focus on capitol hill is taxes. Republicans appear to have the votes for their longawaited plan. It is considered a big win for businesses and the rich. What it means for the middleclass is still being debated. Senator john mccain is back home recovering from chemo. Sources say he is okay but exhausted. What is the situation in atlanta, martin . Re
Clear. Live look at new york city has everyone wakes up to a brandnew day. Yesterday, snow falls in big beautiful snowflakes. How much snow fell across the northeast . You are watching fox and friends first on thursday morning. Donald trump under pressure on mexico and canada to renegotiate nafta as he delays the signing of his steel and aluminum tariff proposal. Griff jenkins in washington dc, what is going to happen today . The white house schedule is out and no tariff signing ceremony to be found anywhere. After rattling members of his own party, chief Economic Advisor gary cohen departed, the white house is working on details and this will involve softening the blow on neighbors to the north and south with carved outs. There are potential routes from mexico and canada based on National Security and other countries as well. Reporter the president continues to attack china as the worst offender of unfair trade deals developing a plan for the year of a 1 billion deduction in their mas
Situations working to keep everyone safe. Heres the thing. They say there is major infrastructure damage across anchorage. Major buildings and homes are damaged, many roads and bridges closed. Theyre obviously dealing with a lot of problems there. The schools have asked for parents to pick up their children. We just god word from the Anchorage International airport that the runways are open. They are landing planes but are not allowing people to drive up to and from the airport. So the ramps, the incoming and out going ramps to the airport have been closed. I was texted a picture from a colleague, a person who works for senator murkowski who had seen a tweet about this. Major road damage on Minnesota Drive which is right there next to the international airport, international boulevard, which runs to the airport is damaged as well. So you have Severe Damage to a lot of the roads. I did talk to some people in hotels there. One in a marriott said his shook pretty well, for about a minute,
House republicans were great yesterday. Here is what House Majority leader Kevin Mccarthy had to say after the vote. The senate, compromise and make sure we keep the government open and that the states get the number of months and the damage done to them. We have work to do. Mike emanuel is on the hill. Any sign of democrats coming around in the senate . Good morning to you, not so far. Which suggests this funding push could get stuck on the deadline day. The vote last night in the house of representatives was 217 to 185 to pass this funding measure. The bill would keep the government open through february 8th, provide 5. 7 billion for the border wall and 8 billion for Disaster Relief and wildfires and hurricanes. He warned republicans wouldnt get their way. The bottom line is simple. The trump temper tantrum will shut down the government but will not get him his wall. The bill thats on the floor of the house, everyone knows will not pass the senate. Speaker ryan, leader mccarthy have