And checking out good to good to have good to have you good to have you joining good to have you joining us. The actor Sir Michael Gambon has died peacefully in hospital at the age of 82. Sir michael, who won four tv baftas, worked across tv, film, radio and theatre in a career spanning five decades. In recent years, he played Albus Dumbledore in six of the harry potter films. Charlie jones looks back on his life. Ive got you. The Singing Detective. Under my skin. What is honour . Falstaff. A word. Maigret. Welcome, welcome, to another year at hogwarts. And of course, dumbledore. Michael gambon was a serious acting talent. He never did seemed to take it too seriously. Tom, tom, you are sitting here. Back where i started. His Stage Breakthrough was in Alan Ayckbourns the norman conquests, and in particular a scene in which he ends up dining on the little chair. You are all right where you are. Good evening, carry on. Talk amongst yourselves. No, not there. The table was there, i ate lik
sweep overseas. detaining men in rotterdam, suspected of a terror plot. the same city has the acued underwear bomber coming from last christmas when he boarded that flight to troy and the men were planning an attack shortly in the netherlands, but there is no information. back to a fox christmas right here on the fox news channel. enjoy the holidays. welcome back, everybody, to a fox & friends christmas. it has been said there are three stages of a man. he believes in santa claus. he doesn t believe in santa claus. he is santa claus. well, actually, i was santa claus at age 5. here i am in my russell kansas, kindergarten. that s me on the right doing the twist with my 5-year-old mrs. santa claus zoe an banker.
abdulmutallab boarded that flight bound for detroit. molly henneberg live in washington with the latest on this investigation. which is still ongoing, molly. correct? yes. in the very early stages. all the men are somalis, ages 19 to 48. they were arrested on christmas eve in a port city in netherlands. they were planning to carry out an attack in netherland, in the short term. as part of the investigation, they searched a telephone shop and houses in rotterdam. no explosives or weapons were found. european authorities are concerned about a possible terrorist attack in the holiday. british police arrested 12 men suspected early stages of to large scale attack there. then these 12 arrests in the netherlands yesterday. analysts say a greater threat in europe this year than last. when i think of the
highs in the 60s. clear blue skies. in fact we re in a drought right now. it s so bad church of the nativity, the latin patriarch prayed for peace and winter to begin. he asked for rain. so far, that hasn t happened. during fox and friends this morning, we asked that the rain hold off for a couple of hours so we re finished with the reporting. we re done for the day. so rick, rather than lote it snow, the appropriate christmas carol is let it rain. rick: all right. now that he is done with the live shots, bring on the rain. well, hopefully not for everybody out there especially joying christmas in bethlehem. leland, vitter. thank you so much. jamie: fox news alert for you. serious story today. 12 somali men detained in the dutch port city of rotterdam. rotterdam is a half an hour drive from amsterdam. remember, that s where the suspected underwear bomber last year on christmas day