president biden insists the u.s. is not in or heading in to a recession. despite many economists looking at it differently. the president is feeling better from his covid-19 diagnosis last week. this week will determine whether his good feeling about the u.s. economy will pan out as well. a pivotal week for the president and his party as the gross domestic product or g.d.p. number comes out. the economy could be in a recession just a few months ahead of the midterms. but the biden team is already trying to get ahead of that by attempting to essentially change the definition of what a recession is. white house correspondent peter doocy has our top story tonight live from the north lawn. good evening, peter. good evening, bret. officials here are talking about how well the economy is doing because of how many jobs have been created since this president took office. but, jobs are just one economic i observed carat. some other economic indicators may show this week the country
laura: a fox news alert. smoke forcing the evacuation of dallas lovefield airport this morning as passengers began arriving for the busy christmas travel weekend. couldn t have happened at a worse time. an a.c. unit overheated causing the fire alarm to ring throughout the terminal. unsettling for sure. despite the scare and hassle some passengers taking it all in stride. i have good patience. a lot of people don t have good patience. some of these people are probably in an hour or 30 minutes. it s rough on them. i feel bad for them but it will all work out. they ll get home to their families. laura: you have to love that attitude. firefighters let everyone back in 30 minutes after the smoke alarms and operations are now thankfully returning to normal. leland: all right. f.b.i. deputy director andrew mccabe on the hot seat this week with marathon testimony before several house panels on
we ll be paying more at the pump here. jon: paul gigot, wall street journal editor, thank you. you can catch more when paul hosts the journal report at 2:00 p.m. eastern time and stay there, i ll have an excellent panel lined up for news watch at 2:30. we ll be taking a look at the coverage of this situation in egypt, has it been fair. jenna: a fox news alert, deep freeze deep in the heart of texas, snow and ice across the lone star state today and get this, it s about 20 degrees there, 20 degrees colder in el paso, texas than it is in juneau, alaska. imagine that. the conditions threatening to put a big wrench in travel plans for folks trying to get to the super bowl, snow-covered dallas lovefield airport has just reopened to private planes but it s closed to commercial flights. we should mention that dsw, the big international airport in dal a. is open at this time, although there s a lot of flight cancellations as well. meteorologist maria molina
fidel castro told a visiting american journalist that the cuban model doesn t work for us anymore. jeffrey goldberg published part of the rare exchange this week on his blog. castro s younger brother and current president raoul has made similar admissions since taking power in 2006. the remains of tropical storm hermine is moving into the midwest after pounding texas with heavy rains and tornadoes. we are looking at the wild tornado hovering over the dallas area. you don t typically see that over a big city. cities take up a very small percentage of the u.s. real estate, but this thing hit pretty much in downtown or industrial area of dallas-ft. worth, just east of love field and there was serious damage to that industrial park, and in that tractor trailer, there was a driver in there, and he did
yeah, i m going to need some help. i stopped to see if anybody was hurt. that guy was pinned inside the truck. me and some other people pulled the door open to get him out. how you doing? you all right? that picked up the truck, spun it around and slammed it into a warehouse. the tornado also forced dallas s lovefield airport to close for a time. rob marciano, is it better? yeah, i was occupied with something else. did we show the video of the actual tornado before the damage? right before the trucker we did. want me to bring it up again? yeah. can we do that? it s not every day that you see a tornado touch down on a metropolitan area. one touched down to the east of love field. he ended up being all right.