jeffries and six voting present. welcome to fox news live, i m griff jenkins. hello, molly. hello, griff, i m molly line. the new members of the 118th congress were sworn in and now the house is adjourned until monday. the contentious battle for the votes. it carried it the end. at one point it looked like this was not going to a 15th vote. following the 14th vote. congressman mike rogers from alabama had to be physically restrained after attempting to confront representative matt gaetz, but minds did change, a 15th vote was held well after midnight and congressman mccarthy was handed the gavel. the honorable kevin mccarthy of the state of california having received a majority of the votes cast is dually elected speaker of the house of representatives. and now the hard work begins. i may not know all of you, some of you are new, but i hope one thing is clear after this week, i never give up. speaker mccarthy won the majority with just 216 votes. 212 democrats backed
Youre having a white christmas. We may see a passing flurry, snow showers in a couple spots tonight, but the chance for a windy christmas is much higher than a white christmas. Theres no song about that. Get writing. Well show you whats happening because were watching a clipper system and this guy passing to our north, you can see that spin up toward cleveland and buffalo and when we have clippers that move to our north, down here, like heres the spin, we dont get a lot of snow. Yes, the snow is in the mountains of West Virginia and western maryland, but locally we had a couple sprinkles and snow showers earlier. All this really has lifted quickly to the east. There may be some wet flakes mixed in north of baltimore, so were watching that and also a few flakes are trying to fall just east of hagerstown racing in toward western Frederick County and in western maryland throughout areas from hancock west in toward allegheny and Garrett County to 4 inches by morning. Weve got Winter Weathe
Plowed into the chp suv. The crash happened at 11 30 last night on southbound interstate 880 in hayward. The officer leaves behind a wife and three small children. The first person on the scene talked only with nbc bay area about the tragedy. She says she will never forget. Nbc bay area thom jensen is live outside the chp office in hayward with the interview. Good evening, thom. Reporter good evening, vicki. Yes, this woman says she and her husband were driving southbound on 880 north of the san mateo bridge exit when the red cadillac sports car zoomed by on left well over 100mileperhour. She says what happened next was unlike she has anything she has ever seen. I just remember seeing brake lights. And like smoke. And i guess thats when he rear ended the back of theup chp vehicle. Then i just saw the cadillac roll. It was like a movie. And then my husband is yelling. He hit a chp. Reporter the chp suv was compressed a acord yan especially on the passenger side. The witnesses pulled ove
But cannot markets after the holiday weekend, feature showing it lower to flat opening for the market. Premarket s p flood down more than eight. European markets remain closer to asia overnight. Gains in the shanghai, the hang seng was closed. But then again, the crib to a currency bounces back whether it can retain its shine. Well talk about it. Controversy over it congresswoman seed in the air. United apologizing after booting a firstclass passenger for Texas Democrat Sheila Jackson lee. Airline response to the growing outrage over that move. The retail rebound weve seen christmas shoppers give pretty married this Holiday Season. All the numbers became pretty darn good. Their rush to a trillion, while baron says apple could hit the number in 2018. Jumanji sings into the Christmas Box office. We will see whether its enough to force the last jedi off the top spot. All of that coming up through the former Lieutenant Governor of new york. Betsy mccaughey is here, former fbi joint Terror
Feeling is like, you get to live here. A lot of people are shopping and part of my holiday tradition, is going to the union square. Yes, you are just there this morning. Yes, i was. At 6 30 am, there were quite a few people out and about. Not everything that you got from santa. 70 off. They are enjoying the day off today, we are thrilled to have you watching from home. And, as we mentioned, back at it again today. And, a little hustle and bustle. And, lighting up outs they are lining up outside macys just before 7 am when the doors opened. Thats for many people went this point. One woman who lives in mississippi says that she couldnt imagine a better place to be than union square it was ringing people from the east bay that you hadnt seen all year if you want to mingle and have fun that sounds like they were talking about us. Some shoppers that we talked to they wait until today to see how much they can be marked down. Others say they are here to use those gift cards. I love a gift car