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Historic snowfall in parts of the southeast on Jack Callahan Fox News. A major nor'easter crushing the Carolinas and Virginia with heavy snow and dangerously cold temperatures. Fox Weather's Bob Van Dillon is in Charlotte where the temperatures much of this morning were in the teens.
We've got the fourth snowiest day on record in Charlotte. A top five. The one that was behind us was set back in 1880, where they picked up about 11 inches of snow. Officially at the airport, 11 inches of snow at Charlotte Douglas. I mean, that is an amazing wallop of snow. Yeah, 11 inches of snow. Starting them out the way a little bit on the streets. You've got the Arctic air locked in place right now. Winds are going to start dying down later this afternoon. And that means you're going to see these temperatures bomb down again to the single digits. And unfortunately, every slushy thing you see in the roadways all around the Carolinas, is going to refreeze again for tonight.
Now 30 degrees in Charlotte. Winter weather alerts, though, stretch from the southern tip of Georgia all the way north into Maryland today. House Speaker Mike Johnson says he's optimistic there will not be a repeat of last year's lengthy government shutdown.
Speaker Johnson said there will be conversations with his Republican caucus to unify and pass funding bills once they return Monday. Democrats pushed to cut out of the package funding for Homeland Security and its agencies, such as ICE, until, among other demands, an enforcement code of conduct is created. Speaker Johnson on Fox News Sunday said one Democratic demand is already there.
For example, we want body cameras on immigration custom enforcement agents.
Johnson hopes the $20 million in the bill for those body cams will bring some Democrats to their side. Gernal Scott, Fox News.
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President Trump instructing DHS Secretary Noem not to deploy federal assets to Democrat-run cities unless they ask for it. Fox's Madeline Rivera reports from Washington.
President Trump says it's the responsibility of local governments to protect state, local and federal properties in the face of protests. He says the federal government will step in at their request. But first, he says they must say please. The president did say he has instructed ICE and Border Patrol to protect federal buildings, but they should serve only as a backup. Meantime, Minnesota officials faced a legal blow over the weekend after a federal judge rejected their bid to block Operation Metro Surge. U.S. District Court Judge Catherine Menendez ruled state and local officials have not met the legal burden required to justify an end to the operation.
Tyler Robinson, the man accused of killing conservative speaker Charlie Kirk, due back in court this week. His team fighting to block the video of Kirk's assassination from being shown in court.
This hearing is a continuation of the January 16th hearing during which Robinson's attorneys argued the prosecution should be kicked off the case due to an alleged conflict of interest. they say is due to a child of one of the prosecutors being in the crowd when Kirk was murdered. And they claim that any video of the shooting is irrelevant to their motion because it, quote, is graphic and likely highly disturbing to any person who views it, negatively impacting Mr. Robinson's constitutional right to a fair trial. And his defense also said it plans to ask for cameras inside the courtroom to be banned during this week's hearing as well.
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