If you're writing letters to the jolly man at the North Pole this holiday season you likely won't get a response from Santa Claus or his helpers. The U.S. Postal Service is dropping a popular natinal program begun in 1954 in the small Alaska town of the North Pole. Volunteers have been opening and responding to thousands of letters addressed to Santa each year. Replies come with North Pole postmarks. But, last year, a postal worker in Maryland recognized an Operation Santa volunteer there as a registered sex offender. The postal worker interceded before the individual could answer a child's letter, but the Postal Service viewed the episode as a big enough scare to tighten rules in such programs nationwide.
Just got off set of Strategy Room... our online, live show that runs all day with different hosts. What a fun hours...had two punditas on! (that's female for pundit-- haha)
Then, John's bro Patrick McEnroe stopped by to talk about building the ranks of pro tennis... did you know there are now more than 30 million Americans hitting the yellow ball around?!
After several weeks of Maternity Leave, I return to the Breaking News Desk... the Mommy of TWO. Double blessed, sleep-deprived but, very happy to be covering news for you again. Don't often share pics of my personal life but, upon request... here's a shot of my two girls... Danika Jo (new baby, just a week old) and her big sister, Bella Grace (2 1/2 years old).
As of this morning, this 8 year little boy, David DeVore and his Dad, David Sr., had been viewed 16,648,000 times and growing.
The video brings some people to laughter-- others are offended. But, one thing is clear-- David after the Dentist is viral.
Here we are with another guest, Eric Yaverbaum (PR expert). This pic is from his visit this morning to Fox HQ in NYC: clockwise from right/bottom... David, me, Eric and David Sr.
From the BND (Breaking News Desk)... it's been a very busy week for us here at Fox News Channel. And, blogging with our viewers on Happening Now continues to give us great material and thought-provoking questions that send us in all the directions we need to go to get to the bottom of the biggest, breaking stories.
Thanks for all your words this week... we'll get bloggie with it again next week.
Well, with more than one thousand responses to today's Show Question of the Day... and with all the terrific posts from our beloved viewers and talented Show Producers and Hosts... this first week of the Happening Now Blog... will have me raising my Superbowl glass (fave beverage-- Apple-tini!).
More Breaking News to cover and will keep y'all bloggified again on Monday. Great weekend to ya!
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