thanksgiving. welcome to a special edition of outnumbered. joining me today is lauren simonetti, tammy bruce, fox news contributor and professor of medicine at nyu medical center marc siegel. we begin with dire outlook for president biden and vice president kamala harris heading into 2024. the biden white house is facing several crisis ahead of next year s election, broken southern border, weakness on the world stage and concern about the president s ability to lead. a recent survey from abc news found staggering 76% of americans believe our country is heading in the wrong direction. another recent poll shows president biden trailing former president trump in five of six key battleground states, states biden carried in 2020. and 59% disapproval rating. just 40% approve of the president s performance rating and record high among key voting groups, including men, voters under 45, hispanic and black voters and those with a college degree. it appears democrats are growing anxio
kevin: done with the stuffing and now it s on to the shopping. could be a record season for your spending. hello. i m edward lawrence in for neil cavuto. this is a special thanksgiving edition of your world. with consumers giving thanks for a cooling inflation, they are not thankful for a rash of retail theft across the country keeping prices higher. to madison al worth with the latest on what you can expect when you hit the stores. madison? hi, edward. the national retail federation forecasting that holiday spending is expected to reach record levels in november and december and 966 billion. black friday deals are already in full swing. amazon and best buy started their black friday deals a full week early november 17. target began offering seasonal discounts on november 19. according to a recent detail me not survey, 83% of shoppers say they intended to start holiday shopping before today, thanksgiving. you re heading out the door right now to snag some deals first, w
emanuel and for bret baier. we are hours away from the cease-fire and prisoner exchange from hamas and israel. there is no holiday for american crime come of the coordinated scheme that authorities are warning about, and bret baier takes a look at the strategic petroleum reserve and how it compares with those of other nations and breaking, top story the first hostage release is supposed to take place at 9:00 a.m. eastern. officials confirmed they have a list of hostages that they will release and israel will release palestinian prisoners. but israel is making it clear that the war with hamas will continue. jeff has more on this situation at this hour. reporter: that s right, we are a few hours away come up we can still hear all of the booms along the israel and gaza border and not only a possible pause in the fighting but hostages possibly going home. israeli forces continue to move deeper into a war-torn gaza. the fighting is said to pause for four days. we were hoping t
last minute snag delaying a deal. the temporary cease-fire expected to begin in the coming hours. qatar s foreign minister will give details any moment now. thank you for joining us. i m griff jenkins. hay, julie. julie: i m julie banderas. happy thanksgiving to you, griff. the agonizing wait continues for israeli families. they have spent six weeks hoping against hope that their loved ones will return home safely. griff: jeff paul kicks things off for us in southern israel. the israeli security forces here saying the first batch of hostages likely won t be coming out until friday at the earliest. it speaks to the complicated and dell indicate nature of the ongoing negotiations. because no hostages are coming out. no pause in the war especially for soldiers like the ones at the military base in southern israel. under the original agreement, between israel and hamas, they were going to probably have the first batch of hostages come out as soon as today. that would have
breaking details on the critical israel-hamas hostage deal. the ceasefire is set and family members wait in agony to see if their loved ones will be in the first wave of captives released tomorrow morning. some very heavy news, happy thanksgiving, i m molly line. i m kevin. a spokesman for the qatari government ex claiming what we can see several hours from now. 13 in number, all women, and children, and those hostages from the same families will be put together within the same patch. obviously every day will include a number of civilians as agreed to total 50 in the four days. this as israeli defense forces say they have captured the director of al-shifa hospital. idf says under his management, the largest hospital in gaza served as hamas command and control center. in a moment, dr. hulata. but first, correspondent jeff paul joins us live from southern israel. jeff. kevin, with the original plan to release the hostages pushed back until tomorrow, it s obviously a ve