of america s newsroom, i m claudia cowen. mike: i m mike emanuel. the act of retaliation coming after an anti-american sanctioned group launched a drone attack on erbil air base in northern iraq that injured three service members, one critically. former national security member telling us last hour president biden should have taken action sooner. i m glad that he finally hit back, but he should do it earlier in the cycle. his red line seems to be if a u.s. troop or a u.s. contractor gets hit, injured or killed, then the united states will hit back. i would rather us hit hard earlier in the cycle so that we can prevent someone from being injured in the first place. mike: right now black smoke rising over gaza as the idf ramps up attacks on hamas terror targets. israel s prime minister visited troops in northern gaza saying there can be no peace until hamas is destroyed. claudia: bring us up to speed, trey. good morning. overnight president biden ordered the u.s. mi
migrant caravan headed to the border. the white house is looking to mexico to stop this. is the answer closer to home? the national border patrol council president brandon judd is here. but first fox on top of the u.s. striking back. the biden administration ordering a retaliatory air strikes after another iran backed proxy attack in northern iraq. three troops injured in the attack. one of them severely. we ll see if this response is strong enough. welcome, everybody. i m edward lawrence in for neil cavuto, this is a special edition of your world. chad pergram with the very latest. we going to talk about the presidential air strike. american f-18s have shot down 12 drone froms the houthis over the red sea over a ten-hour period. this demonstrates this escalation of u.s. ordered strikes in the middle east. back to what you talked about in your lead in here. the order for the air strike came in president biden himself. a drone operated by an off shoot faction of hezbolla
else. reporter: it s that holiday nostalgia that willow brook malls says will help return to prepandemic seasons. do you anticipate that inflation will play a role? in how people shop, coming to the mall? i think people are planning better in terms of what their spend is going to be? i don t cut back at christmas. how many more stores are you going to? maybe five more. reporter: five more? shoppers clearly out looking for deals, the national retail federation said that sales started early this year like they have in the past but they are going to go longer this year so retailers can move out all their inventory and one change this year, don, is that retailers are getting rid of free return shipping. that s been a big draw for folks looking to order multiple gifts. i m going to be around on fifth avenue for a couple hours.
with a healthy side of inflation. cutting off your circulation. i m going crazy. reporter: denise is in the middle of her holiday shopping at willow brook mall in wayne, new jersey. this is my mom and my kids and my niece. reporter: but this year the wish list is looking a little different. last month inflation cooled but was still running hot at 7.7% year over year. i ve had to cut back on shopping because things are too expensive. i have three girls, they do understand that, you know, times are hard right now and it s just me being a single mom. despite high inflation, the national retail federation estimates that nearly 8 million more people will shop between black friday and cyber monday and spend up to 8% more this year than they did last year. looking at records in all categories. it is remarkable in the face of the cost and the price pressures that consumers are still finding a way to increase their