Can Christmas Tree . Griff fox allamerican christmas. Wife and daughters came. I made them come and take a picture with the tree. Our fox tree in new york now is a tradition. Brian kilmeade said it will go on for years and years. Its bigger than the rockefeller tree. Im telling you. Weave also have a santa claus today. Nicole santa claus has taught me one thing this morning when you take a picker its actually called an elfie today. Not a selfie, right, santa . Griff santa claus. Right, good morning. Ho ho ho. Merry christmas. Nicole Merry Christmas. Griff we tracked you yesterday. We were tracking you early this morning. You finished, i believe, hawaii was your last stop. Is that correct. I did. I was very tempted to stay there santa doesnt look good in a grass skirt. Ed i notice you were in makeup a little longer. I dont want to pick on you. Do you on Christmas Morning if you are going to be on tv need a little more time with makeup. A little more time with makeup and a lot more time with plastic surgery. Nicole tell us about last night. Was it a busy night for you . Did everything go smoothly. Smoothly but busier than normal. I had a lot of bad weather throughout the world. I had to fly a lot faster. In the future im worried about this space force and getting pulled over in the sleigh. Nicole they might escort you and keep things going smoothly for you. Thats what im hoping for. Griff we heard yesterday from norad that they actually used rudolph wants blinking red nose beton that they track with satellites. Are you okay with that . Thats correct. I want the children to know where i am so they know when 20 go to bed. They have to be sleeping when i visit their homes. Ed by the way, we have cookies there next to your chair i noticed when i was getting set up. How do you stay in good shape . Carrots for the reindeer and everything. It doesnt seem like you have a balanced diet on christmas night. I eat a lot of cookies, a lot of milk. A lot of rest stops. I have got to admit. But, no. This is the time of year for cookies, and santa never met a cookie he doesnt like. Nicole our viewers now can actually email your questions for santa at friends foxnews. Com. He will be answering them all morning long. So be sure to tune in. Ed thanks, santa. Griff thank you, santa. Ed first lady and Melania Trump dinner at Christmas Eve and they are at maralago. The president earlier in the day was speaking to troops overseas a traditional thing president s do in terms of reaching out to the different branches of the armed forces. Griff so important. Many years ago i went with oliver north doing war stories. Gary sinise was there at the holiday time. Its easy to feel forei gotten. To be 5,000 miles away in the danger zone. Great the president took time to do it. Phoning the troops it. Really, really means something. And its great to take a time out christmas time when we are all consumed with our own, you know, giftgiving and lastminute details that military families are making sacrifices both abroad and at home. Nicole thats right. Absolutely. President trump and melania were outside mass at church at West Palm Beach. Merry christmas, i hope every member of the military will feel the overloving gratitude for our nation starting january 1st. Starting january 1st you will be getting largest pay raise. You dont have to take it if if you dont want you can turn it back into the government. It will be the largest in over a decade. You very much earned it. Dont worry, im only kidding when i say turn it back. Griff president thanking the troops as you mentioned, nicole, they went to church. Thats right, last night. There they are in West Palm Beach. Griff an interesting ed and i were discussing we get this pool note as reporters here at fox. This is a Different Church he has gone. To say he went to b bethesda by the sea. This is a different. Ed reaching tout different parts of the community. Nicole i actually like that. People are very true to where they like to go to church. Especially being the president of the United States, i think it means a lot to go to Different Churches and be a part of different communities. Absolutely. Then they had their traditional dinner at maralago, of course. The club that the president is talking up a lot. The president was on the phone with troops overseas he a we mentioned. The first lady also checked in with norad to see how things were going with santa and tweeted about it later. This was just kind of a traditional Christmas Eve for them. The tweet there from the first lady you can see its Christmas Eve and santa is hard at work delivering toys to children all over the world. A wonderful tradition. Thank you ought norad, santa for including me and trackininhelping the kids and s. Nicole she looked very poised and very beautiful. I really appreciate that she took the time to speak to children. My kids have been tracking santa all day yesterday and that means a lot when it happens. Griff interesting when the first lady was doing that someone tweeted at me saying this is an a grown adult woman saying ever since she was a child saying tracking santa has been a tradition for her. She was proud of melania for doing that. Ed those are some of the traditions the trump family do in terms of church. Dinner back at home. What are your traditions . Let us know, friends foxnews. Com. We will check in all morning telling you a little bit about our family traditions as well. Nicole absolutely. Griff there is a lot of them. Katie there sure are one thing im finding quite interesting having a College Student a new survey came out saying 88 of College Students agree saying Merry Christmas is not offensive. Ed imagine that. Griff griff thats right. Ed look at survey from college fix. Talked to a thousand College Students around the country. 88 saying yes, is it offensive to wish Merry Christmas to a stranger . 4 no, 8 not sure. Katie one thing that was interesting about this survey is that it went across all political beliefs. The majority were independent, and then there were more democrats than there were republicans. So, for 4 hers to say that Merry Christmas was offensive in the heated Political Climate where everyone thinks that everything is politically incorrect to say a very happy to hear, that we can still say Merry Christmas without being offensive. Griff your college aged child at ole miss my alma mater grate glad to know its safe and secure there. Ed no doubt about it. This is a really fun story though. Christmas time forgiving. Is it giving or a shakedown when grandma says look im cooking a big meal Everybody Needs to pay up up. This is happening in the u. K. Nicole i totally get. This first of all, she is end of life caregiver. She doesnt have a high paying job. She is saying she wants to be able to provide gifts for her family but also provide a big meal for them. Charging 45 minutes for her family to come and eat with them. She could say do a pot luck and make everyone cook. I will provide the food. Ed do you get a wrist band when you walk in get a certain table. Is there a v. I. P. . Griff she wants a little help. She explains she spends just about 400 to put this whole thing together. Here is what she told the son. I get all of my family to put in before i go and do the shop. This year i spent 388 online at morrison doing the big shop and making sure i had a variety of things in. But its not that im being tight. It means i get to spend more on other as specketsz, too like presents. This year the tree has so many trees stacked around it that you cant even see it. Nicole im curious what the viewers think of this. I like the idea. Either you have a pot luck or make everyone cook or maybe they should fill in. Griff charge a service fee for the cooking and decorating and wrapping that must be done. Nicole at Elizabeth Warren fundraisers they were giving at 49 a wine. By charging 45 thats less. Ed feels like a shakedown is there a shimkus shakedown . Carley there should be now with that alliteration. How do you like that . I oddly like to do dishes. I think its sort of therapeutic. So thats my. Nicole we will talk about that later. Carley can you always invite me over to your christmas i will be in the kitchen. Start things off in a if he has been way celebrating christmas around the world. Pope francis delivering his annual Christmas Day speech. This is a live look from saint Peters Square in vatican city. Overnight thousands of christians celebrated Christmas Eve in bethlehem. The city putting up a giant Christmas Tree in manger square. Near the spot believed to be where jesus was born. Take a look at that. Today the remains of u. S. Army special forces Sergeant Michael gobel will return to american soil. American beret killed in afghanistan four weeks before his final tour of duty was over. Emotional tributes pouring in from home state of jersey. He was somebody who was a true patriot. A true horks loves everything about america. Loves everything about the area he grew up in. Carley state officials ordering all flags to fly at halhalfstaff a go fund me page set up for long time girlfriend and daughter has raised over 70,000. All eyes on north korea this morning after the rogue regime promised a christmas gift. Military officials are expecting it to be some kind of missile test. President trump says the u. S. Is ready. Maybe its a nice present. Maybe its a present where he sends me a beautiful velasquez as opposevasopposed t. We will deal with it very successfully. Carley a new structure at a factory linked to making long range nuclear missiles. Surfs up. Nearly look at this. 600 santas spent Christmas Eve riding the waves in florida. Thousands walke watched the annl event from the shore at cocoa beach. All proceeds go to local charities. Surfing santas raising 170,000 since it started 10 years ago. Griff he is, thats got to be your next assignment. Assignment. Griff i approve. Its fantastic. Ed im all for griff doing that. Real santas cant stand up. Nicole we have the real san. Ed anybody can put a hat on and go out there and hang ten. Nicole santa has helpers. He cant be everywhere at the same time. Helpers like the elves that work for him. Ed santa a great surfer. Pays money for a good cause in cocoa beach. Ed a matter of time before santa starts charging per head. How is he going to do this . Start charging. He wants you to venmo him money. Griff griff there i there is e lucky dog this christmas. Watch this . Whats in the box . A reveal you dont want to miss. Plus archdiocese of new york. 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All the chevy family get the chevy employee discount for everyone today. Joy the world. Griff Merry Christmas, here is a look at vatican city where thousands gathered to hear pope francis deliver his christmas message. Ed during mass he focused remarks on love and telling christians to never lose hope. Nicole joining us archdiocese of new york father murray. Merry christmas, father. Thank you so much for coming here today. Merry christmas to all of you. Wonderful to be with you. Griff father, whats your message today . First gratitude and second humility. Gratitude because we thank god tore sending his son into world on Christmas Day. Gratitude allpurposed intention we wake up every morning. Today is he given us christmas. There is so much to be grateful for. Humility is the reflection on christ in the manger. Here is god himself a small child in the manger in a stable, mary and joseph, of course, very happy with whats happening, but wish they could have given him more. But the lord accepted poverty and being pushed aside precisely because in life were not mental to just be number one. We are meant to serve each other, serve god. Oso humility is a key to having a happy and good life. Nicole father, the pope delivered a very powerful message for this Christmas Season. I wonder if you could put something in context for us. Whatever goes wrong in our lives. Whatever happens in the church, will no longer serve as an excuse. What is the message that people can take away from that . Its the message, really, of the cross. Christ was born but he will die on good friday and then rise from the dead. So in life troubles and difficulties are not unexpected. We should keep in mind that if the lord went that way of suffering, we have to follow making excuses is a great human trait. You went wrong because somebody did this or that happened to me. And the real answer is what am i doing to both bear the cross as i have but help other people with their difficulties . Nicole such a strong, powerful message. Ed absolutely. The pope says god loves all of us, even the worst of us. Thats something we need to focus on. God forgave even those who crucified him on that moment. On Christmas Day its a good time to remember we have to love not just our family and our friends and those closest. We have to love the stranger. Thats one of the great things you see at christmas, charitable giving, people working in soup kitchens. How about the ordinary kindness of smiling at a stranger. Providing help to those in need. All of that is what christmas is about. Gods love, mans love in return. Griff father, you talk about what christmas is about. Excuse me, as you struggle with the commercialization. Everyone wants to open presents. You also really want them to realize the significance of this day. I tell the kids remember who is really giving you the apprentice. Its not really santa or parents thats important. Its god giving you the present. God put you on earth and god gave people who love you your parents, your friends, santa, of course, loves all children. Yeah, to think about christmas is not about receiving gifts as much as it is giving love in return. Thats what a gift symbolizes. If children and adults, if we can look at those christmas presents as not just another shiny thing in our house as a sign that someone loves us. Griff great way to put it. Ed great uplifting message. Merry christmas, god bless. Griff one veteran creates a christmas miracle for dozens in his community. He joins us live with a heartwarming story you dont want to miss silver bells silver bells its christmas time in the city ring aling waking him up. Now that dream is a reality. Nexium 24hr stops acid before it starts for allday, allnight protection. Can you imagine 24 hours without heartburn . In america, the zip code youre born in can determine your future. But no matter what neighborhood you grow up in, the y creates opportunities for all. 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Nicole secretly paying off the utility bills of those who had fallen on hard times. Griff instead of getting a bill. You can rest easier this Holiday Season knowing you have one less big bill to pay. Nicole how his gesture is inspiring others is owner of gulf breeze pools and spas. Thank you so much for joining us today. Merry christmas to you. Nicole this is incredible story. Especially one for christmas. Can you please tell us what motivated you to go and pay past due utility bills for a lot of people in your community . Well, about a month ago, like everyone else in america, i opened up my utility bill for my gas and water and i noticed on it that the due date was december 26th. That made me think about people that may not be able to pay their utility bills and they may have to go at christmas time without gas and water. So i went to gulf breeze city hall where the Utility Department is and i talked to Joanne Oliver who is in the Billing Department and i asked her if she could get together for me the people in our community that are going to have their gas and water disconnected around christmas time. So, she got 36 families together. 36 names for me. And when we totaled up what all the past due amounts were