and good morning, everyone. i m craig herrera. we re coming to you on fox weather stream and the fox business network. i m kendall smith. welcome to our fox business network viewers. we have everything you need to get ready for the final days of 2021. let s start off with a final sun dive 2021. can you believe it? wow, this year flew by. i m going to take you live to a gorgeous scene in portsmouth, new hampshire where snow is falling down. it s blanketed what we can see right now. parts of massachusetts picking up christmas snow this morning. we re going to take a look now out at graffen, massachusetts. we can see a video coming in from friday where fresh snow fell. what a gorgeous, serene shot with the snow flakes blowing in the breeze. the backyard turned into a winter wonderland. this morning we have rain and lots of it as we take a look at boston, mass you chew sets where we massachusetts where it appears traffic is moving smoothly. you want to allow for extra tim
reports. we begin this sunday, boxing day, with omicron wreaking havoc coast-to-coast. in just a week s time, 1.3 million americans testing positive for covid, an average of 190,000 new cases per day, the highest case average we ve seen in a year. a silver lining, if there is one, new research from the uk signaling while the omicron variant is more transmissible, it produces milder symptoms, especially in breakthrough cases. but not for the unvaccinated. omicron is hitting those patients hard, overwhelming hospitals and stretching front line workers thin. case in point, new mexico. 50% of all hospitals are critically understaffed and 75% of hospital beds are occupied. south carolina, a third of hospitals are short-staffed. 76 of hospital beds occupied there. moving to california, nearly 30% of hospitals report a critical staffing shortage and close to 80% of hospital beds statewide are in use. another reason for alarm this sunday. an uptick in children being infected and hos
conflict that we are experiencing today, you ve seen it experienced in jerusalem for thousands of years. for the jews, jerusalem is where solomon built the holy temple. for christians, this is the place where jesus was crucified. for muslims, jerusalem is where the prophet muhammed made the night journey. people who are said to have conquered the world swept through this city. no other individual changed the landscape in the way herod the great did. saladin was determined to take on the christians and throw them out of jerusalem. at a time of ottoman/islamic rule, the british badly wanted to control the holy land. the main case of the arabs is against the british government policy in palestine. we are the only people in the world homeless and stateless. for israelis, the creation of the state of israel is seen as a miracle. and of course for the palestinians, it s a great disaster. the history of jerusalem, a very complicated story. and if you don t know
[ speaking vietnamese ] i took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder sha la la la la sha la la la la la sha la la la la sha la la la la la la anthony: do you smell that? motor bike exhaust, fish sauce, incense, the far-away smell of something? is that pork grilling over charcoal? vietnam. it could be no place else. [ bicycle bell dings ] [ horn honks ] anthony: listen to me. listen to me. there is no other way to see this city, hanoi, than from a motorbike or a scooter. to do otherwise would be to miss it all. [ horns honking ] anthony: it is one of the great pleasures of my life to join the river of people rushing through the streets. [ horns honking ] anthony: vietnam. it grabs you and doesn t let you go. once you love it, you love it forever. i ve been coming here since 2000, the first time i d been in this part
fastest plus and the secret santa gift exchange paired our best one yet. do not miss it. there is no better way to get into the christmas spirit them by cutting down your own christmas tree. and we sent to jess again harold out to chop one down like the real men that they are. we are at the hidden pond tree farm in mendham, new jersey. it s a tradition that we do every year. we are here with chris. what s new? this year we added a train ride that they can take out through the field, we added a snack bar and some bonfire pits for people to roast marshmallows. jesse: we added harold ford jr. hear, hear. bipartisan christmas tree. jesse: harold is a little bit older than i am, will he walk all the way up to do the tree or should we hitch a ride somewhere? take the train out. jesse: oh, the train. infrastructure week. jesse: this looks like a gutfeld tree. it s not that i m funny, the is environment want environmentalist wackos probably don t lik