wife fox & friends weekend co-host rachel campos-duffy. merry christmas. let s talk in a couple days. merry christmas. dana: a fox news alert now. president biden heading to kentucky this morning to vair the extent of the devastation after a string of deadly tornadoes ripped through the state last week. right now at least 74 people are confirmed dead. including 12 children. dozens are still missing. alexis mcadams live on the ground in mayfield, kentucky. good morning. good morning. you have to see the scope of the damage in person to understand exactly what kentucky is dealing with. where i am now in mayfield is wiped out. look behind me. some crews are working and out here for a few hours this morning and they don t leave until late in the evening trying to pick up all of this wreckage. you can see large pieces of trees that were torn out of the ground but also people s belongings and memories and huge pieces of metal twisted up
from the hill house democrats pass had a last minute pressure to raise the debt ceiling that will take us through the mid-terms of 2022. president biden will sign into law hours before what would have been the first ever u.s. default. meanwhile democrats are still full steam ahead on the multi-trillion dollar welfare expansion. we don t know if this will pass. if it will succeed. here is the sound bite of the day. hillary vaughn asking senator elizabeth warren about that proposed spending spree just yesterday. watch. how high do you think the debt needs to get before it is time to cut government spending? one thing we need to do is get the billionaires to pay income task. elon musk paid zero in federal income tax. we have a debt problem partly because the very richest people just aren t paying. bill: guess who was listening to that? elon musk. dana: the best.
immunity, the combination of vaccine and natural immunity which has proven to be the most robust form of immunity that will continue to build that wall of protection. dana: dr. saphier, thank you so much. pay-up is the message to disgraced governor andrew cuomo ordered to return every penny on his book on leadership. bill: president biden making a bold prediction on 2022. he is sending a warning to the g.o.p. president biden: now we look at 2022. i want to tell my republican friends get ready, pal, you are going to have a problem.
when the tornadoes touched down. four tornadoes on the ground for more than 200 miles in kentucky. 74 people in kentucky were killed during the tornadoes. that death toll expected to climb. 12 of those people killed were children. the governor says there are still 122 people unaccounted for and expecting they will still look through the wreckage and crews are looking for wreckage for people s personal belongings but also looking for bodies of neighbors some of them know themselves. this drone video you see now captures some of the damage across kentucky. you are seeing dawson springs in the western part of the state. president biden will tour mayfield as well as some of the other areas around the county here. the president is coming into the area after approving emergency declaration for kentucky, tennessee, illinois. this morning people in kentucky want to noef what the federal help means for them. listen. i know we needed help and
california lacks bail sentencing policies are being to blame. 14 suspects were arrested in connection with the nordstrom robbery. in hours all were released without bail or posted bail. tough out here. bill: you will need more barbed wire. dana: some democrats in congress have calls for president biden to forgive student loan debt amid the concern s potential cost to taxpayer. one study claims canceling up to $50,000 of student loans per student could cost taxpayers a trillion dollars. host of american dream home cheryl casone has the details. the numbers if you look at it are staggering. sanders wants all loans forgiven. there seems little appetite. brookings found $50,000 per borrower were forgiven taxpayers would put more money