best mascots you have ever seen. 43 bowl games this season. so you kind of need something to make yours stand out, i guess. there you go. we had a good one, kasie. seems like the season of mascots. did anybody try to eat the cheese it? no. held up a sign that said not edible, unlike the pop tart bowl mascot who was edible, eaten by winning team. apparently so. well, coy, i m always great to see you on a day i can say 00. . . cnn this morning starts right now. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. good morning, everyone. i m phil mattingly. poppy harlow is off. we re following the breaking news out of tokyo. japanese airline plane with nearly 400 people on board burst into flames just as it touched down at the airport. video showing the jet igniting into a large fire ball as it landed. you can see the pictures right there. officials say it collided with a japanese coast guard aircraft headed to help with earthquake relief efforts. one person on the coast guard pl
donald trump kicking off the new year with his name kicked off primary ballots in colorado and maine. how his legal team plans to fight those decisions. a powerful 7.5 week striking western japan. thousands flee coastal areas over fears of a tsunami. hours into 2024, russia launches intense attacks across several key ukrainian frontlines. vladimir putin says more strikes are coming. we are following the stories of many more all coming in. a new year and a new test for american democracy as several high-stakes cases could put the 2024 campaign calendar on a collision course with the supreme court document. it all centers on former president donald trump. tomorrow trump s lawyers are expected to appeal some highly controversial decisions that bar him from the 2024 ballots in colorado and maine. there are also the pending criminal cases and the key aspects of those are also on a fast track to the supreme court. did we mention primary season is in full swing? look at that calen
collides with a japanese coast guard aircraft on the runway at haneda airport. local reports say five crew members on the coast guard plane are dead, but that all 379 passengers and crew on the japanese airlines flight got out safely before that plane was engulfed in flames. we are monitoring that but first we re seeing death on the migrants, which nobody talks about. we re seeing the fentanyl at record numbers. the drugs, illicit drugs come across the terrorist are coming to our country. and then you see the economic impact that we re seeing the border crisis bleeding into 2024. and a record number of crossings is creating a political nightmare for the white house. good morning. i m dana perino. bill is off today. but good morning to you, bret. good morning. happy new year. i m bret baier and this is america s newsroom authorities stopped more than 300,000 migrants trying to cross the southern border just last month 300,000. that is an all time record. it is reigniting calls
championship. maybe we can eat the mascot there. thanks for being here. as i chew this pop-tart. second hour of fox & friends starts right now. ainsley: we begin the second hourly of fox & friends with a fox news alert. right now firefighters are still working to put out that raging fire after a japan airlines flight collided with a coast guard plane. the passenger plane bursting into flames on the runway at kyoto international airport. a spokesperson confirming that five of the coast guard members on board their aircraft are now dead. steve: those are live pictures right there. look at this. this video capturing the exact moment the commercial plane erupted in flames as it apparently clipped the coast guard s plane. then, next thing you know they are on the runway shortly after that. thankfully, they were on the run way and all 367 passengers on board that flight were safely evacuated. one local news outlet reports that the coast guard plane was on a mission to del
fox news alert. shocking footage out of japan. right now, firefighters are battling a raging fire after japan airlines flight burst into flames on the runway at tokyo international airport. steve: folks, these are live pictures right now that we were just looking at. here s a little play back as you can see. the plane the video shows the plane erupting at the tarmac while it was taxiing. 367 passengers and 12 crew members evacuated safely. japan s coast guard confirming that commercial flight was involved in a collision with a japanese coast guard plane that could be where this ignition came from. and reuters is now reporting five of the six members aboard the coast guard aircraft are unaccounted for. an investigation is underway. we are going to keep you updated on this breaking story throughout our morning. griff: you just stay on that shot for a second though. it is remarkable that anyone survived that. ainsley: almost 400 people survived, griff. fiscal cliff. gr