Janine Herbst

This as the area deals with power outages and flight delays.

In Massachusetts, more than 160,000 people are still without power and crews from around the country are helping restore electricity there.

Hundreds of flights have been canceled, more than 8,000 delayed.

Meanwhile, the National Weather Service says another storm is expected to move into the northeast late tonight.

But forecasters say this one's a fast-moving storm and it will only drop around an inch of snow.

U.S.

futures contracts are trading higher at this hour.

All three major indices are up about three-tenths of a percent.

I'm Janine Herbst, and you're listening to NPR News from Washington.

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.

The U.S.

may be on the verge of taking military action against Iran, but NPR's Franco Ordonez reports President Trump didn't make much of a case for why that may be necessary during his State of the Union address last night.

The House narrowly rejected a bipartisan aviation safety bill that was written after the deadly mid-air collision near Washington, D.C.

last year.

The bill has the support of safety investigators and families of the crash victims, but just before the vote, the Pentagon withdrew its support.

More than 130 Republicans voted against it, including several powerful committee chairmen who are pushing their own bipartisan safety bill.

NPR's Joel Rose has more on what happens next.

NPR's Joel Rose reporting.

Cities across the state of Jalisco in Mexico are returning to normal after the killing of the country's biggest drug lord.

NPR's Ada Peralta reports authorities have lifted its red alert.