it s hard to imagine someone could mess up this much. but the white house is in complete denial. good news, we saved christmas. jesse: omicron is ripping through the country. case in vaccinated areas, if you have against vaxxed, mild. he tried to ease americans fears with more testing and deploying military medical personnel after his mandates caused the shortage. but instead all he did was scare everybody. if you are note fully vaccinated you have good reason to be concerned. you have at high risk of getting sick. we should all be concerned about omicron, but not panic. newsflash telling you not to worry is how 2 create panic. people in washington waited up to 7 hours to get tested and at-home tests not to be found. but don t put the blame on joe. what is your message to americans who are trying to get tested and are asking what took so long to ramp up testing. come on, what took sloang. wad happened is the omicron virus spread more quickly than anybody thought. j
immunocompromised americans who aren t well protected by vaccines. an effective drug from astrazeneca. the u.s. government only ordered enough for a 10th of the people eligible for it. cnn medical correspondent elizabeth cohen joining us now. elizabeth, good morning. reporter: good morning. ye is, the situation is as the numbers are rising, we are seeing cases rise but not seeing hospitalizations go up as much. one group of americans that i don t think we talk about as much as we should and that s the immune compromised. folks who are immune compromised, millions of them, did not get a response to the vaccine in the same way healthy people did. they are now vulnerable to covid-19 because they didn t get the antibody response they should have. so i want to introduce you to four of them. one is diane barren. she s in florida. she has cancer. diane ellis is in arkansas. eris bowden in hawaii. candace in hawaii. cancer patients, they re immune compromised. a drug can help them.
benjamin: they are preparing for christmas covid surge as americans are left scrambling. a nightmare on one of the busiest travel days of the year, hundreds of flights canceled across the country. what you need to know before heading home for the holidays. it s beginning to look a lot like christmas everywhere you go take a look and listening once again with candy canes benjamin: good morning. merry christmas eve. griff:you are looking at the gorgeous christmas tree in new york on fox square in today you get the boy band version of fox and friends first, we share an office in washington and we are bring it to you, the first time we had all mail hosting fox and friends first . benjamin: a very modern show. there was no one i would rather be doing it with venue. it will be a fun two hours. it is christmas eve. a lot of news to get to. let s get started. griff:americans are celebrating the most expensive christmas in decades as inflation is soaring to close out
morning. brian, with your permission, i would like to tell people not to get dressed this morning in their real people clothes. brian: right. carley: stay in christmas pajamas all morning long. brian: you got my permission. go ahead, carley, for this one day. carley: we would like to share some pictures of our christmas traditions, hopefully you can send us pictures of yours as well. steve, would you like to share a picture of yours? first of all that is me and husband pete. we are in chicago in picture. [cheers] carley: every year go to the chris king gel market in chicago and i m drinking a glass of soto. ho ho ho. steve: that sounds fantastic. word to toe bow audio guy i cannot hear brian. anyway, i m going to describe that picture right there. one of our christmas morning traditions is kathy makes kathy has written cookbooks and we always have a big casserole but on christmas morning, kathy makes gingerbread cookies and the kids eat them. there is mary actually doing
move on. same goes for the national championship game january 10th in indianapolis. the committee does say the title game could be pushed back to no later than january 14th if needed. all right. finally, check this out. misfits forever a hero after that shot. she promised them all hot chocolate if she made it. nothing but net. all-time great schoolyard moment. the kids will remember that forever. they will be at high school graduation and say, remember the time ms. fitz made that shot and we got hot chocolate. erp this had he cheering so well. teachers are awesome. that, they are. . chefs had he even jumping up and down. you make a shot like that, you should jump up and down. she had great form. she knew it right out of her hands. i do like the high school graduation imitations where they look like 68 years old, smoked four packs a day. that s not how high schoolers sound these days? totally how it was when i graduated. new day continues right now. w