new year s celebration across america are well underway pretty good evening i am bryan llenas and for jon scott and this is a box report. annette new york city nypd is hard at worst beefing up for the ball drop celebration. hundreds of thousands of people from around the world are expected to gather in times square tomorrow night. that may include pro- palestinian demonstrators who could try to spoil the celebration for everyone else. cb cotton is live in times square with more on security preparations or tomorrow night. good evening brian. nypd certainly wants to reassure partygoers there are no credible threats to the celebrations here in times square. the crowd continues to grow by the hour the party is not even begun. security includes k-9 units, drones, surveillance robots thousands of uniformed officers. but also a big number of undercover ones you see the rehearsal happening around me. nypd says it is prepared as you mention for pro- palestinian rallies to pop up.
bret: good evening. i m bret baier. president joe biden vacations in the caribbean as republican presidential candidates return to the campaign trail. police in texas investigate the deaths of a pregnant teenager and her boyfriend in what they call a perplexing case. and doctors are warning about a tripledemic this winter as a new covid strain spreads throughout the united states. dr. marc siegel joins us to discuss. but, first, breaking tonight, another massive group of migrants is making its way through mexico as immigration officials work to process the thousands already waiting at the border. many of those who have been allowed to enter the u.s. are being sent further north where local officials say president joe biden and his administration have ignored their pleas for additional assistance. the president, meanwhile, is heading south to the caribbean for vacation as his top cabinet officials meet with mexico s president to discuss the crisis. we have fox team coverag
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facilities in iraq used by iranian backed militants. joey: the act of retaliation comes after three u.s. service members were hurt on an attack on northern iraq. black smoke rising over gaza as the idf ramps up attacks on hamas terror attacks. the intense fighting comes after iran s president issues a threat against israel after one of their commanders was killed. david spunt is live in washington with the very latest. hi, david. one of our service members critically injured. the other two injured but in the critically. still waiting further details on those. the president ordered after u.s. forces came under attack by a drone. the iranian backed militia tied hezbollah and other affiliated groups under the umbrella of iran affiliates. president biden. camp david. let me be clear the president and i will not hesitate to take necessary action to defend the united states, our troops, and our interest. there is no higher priority. while we do not seek to escalated conflict in
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