on the job. they are still on the pay roll. he was not home for the holiday. george bush and his wife barbara joining mehim for a special chinese dinner . gretchen: we make the resolution for the new year and most important one to make is raising happy and healthy kids. joining me is dr. mary ellen rena. good morning. gretchen: hard to believe that we are talking about resolutions . hopefully people can make them and stick to them. spectacularly talking about kids. how do we make eat healthier? it is a difficult task and what i tell other parents, if you get kids to eat fruits and vegetables and go through four steps. you put broccoli in front of a
26th. i am gretchen carlson, thank you for spending your post christmas day with us. president obama cutting christmas vacation short and heading back to washington before we fall off of the fiscal cliff . can a deal be reached. a deadly winter storm unleashing snow and tornados . now thousands ever cleaning up and holiday travelers are stuck. i am tracking where the storm ised hading next. thank you, rick. take the gift card and hit the stores this morning. wait until fox and friends is over and then leave. fox and friends begins right now. fox and friends . gretchen: good morning, i am gretchen carlson we are joined by clayton morris . rick as well . these are great guys, but clayton, because he is a tech guru of folks news and here to help all of us today. tech support this morning f. you have tech-related questions. send them and i will attempt to answer them all. i answered all of them. my wife said what are you doing on twitter? i said i am helping me. gr
now to a warning about something found on almost all of our dinner plates. a new study released by consumer reports found, quote: worrisome levels of arsenic in rice and rice products. leading to a call for federal standards. the fda is now conducting their own study about this. what does this mean for all of our health? is it still safe to eat rice? joining us is pediatrician and physician nutrition specialist dr. mary ellen rena. thank you so much for coming in. thank you. how worrisome is this? there is no reason to panic. i really want to get that point across. no reason to panic. i tell my patients that arsenic is a poison because i have had a lot of phone calls since the news has come that we found arsenic in rice it is a poison. it s in low levels in this cereal and the rice products.
more importantly i think we need to get it out of our environment as best we can we will never eliminate it completely. need to be aggressive getting this out of the pesticides. give us amounts of time per week we can have rice. half a serving a day could be fine. you could eat rice every day. you don t have to bring it back to once a week or something. not because of the arsenic level. the arsenic risks have been there for years and years as and years. we have a quote from the f.d.a. our advice is that consumers should continue to eat a balanced diet that includes a wide variety of grains. not only for good nutrition but minimize any potential consequence from consuming any one particular kind of food. balanced diet is always the answer. dr. mary ellen rena, pediatrician, thanks so much for coming in and talking to us about this. thank you. back to putting the blame on president bush. obama says fast and furious is their false.
today is the first day of fall, which will be confirm that intense week and continues across the globe. pakistan was supposed to have a day of love for the prophet mohammed. it has turned extremely ugly with thousands of people rioting. violent protest leaving at least 19 people dead. jennifer griffin live in washington with the very latest on these numbers and how this weekend will play out. good morning, jennifer. good morning, guys. most of the violence yesterday in the muslim world occurred in pakistan where at least 19 people were killed. 150 injured. mostly in the port city of karachi after the government of pakistan took the unusual step of declaring a holiday. calling it the day of love for the prophet mohammed. in response to anger that was building over the 15-mignon line anti-islam youtube video. by doing so, it looked as though the government was sanction sanctioning violence over the video. protesters clashed with the police and strategy of appeasing the rel