Chapter 1: What preparations are being made for the upcoming winter storm?
Preparing for the winter storm. I'm Ted Linder, Fox News. Winter storm will spread snow, ice and cold temperatures across the country said to begin Friday night. Louisiana State climatologist Jay Grimes says his state will get hit hard.
So it's a triple whammy ice for the northern parishes, followed by snow, followed by that bitter cold Arctic air.
More than 200 million people across the U.S. going to be impacted by the storm. Heavy snow, sleet and dangerous ice forecast across two dozen states. And airlines including Delta, American United, Southwest and JetBlue already canceling flights and offering fee-free changes as forecasters warn the storm could trigger thousands of cancellations through Monday.
Travelers being urged to monitor flights closely as disruptions ripple nationwide. Government shutdown could kick in at the end of the month. On Thursday, the House passed four spending bills aimed at averting it.
The House has now passed all 12 appropriations bills, and the Senate will soon do the same, and the President is going to sign them into law. What a concept, gentlemen.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, the bills total $1.2 trillion. The Senate expected to take up the bills next week ahead of a January 30th deadline. And Vice President J.D. Vance on a trip to Minnesota Thursday calling for more local help for ICE operations.
The Vice President's message in Minneapolis to local and state officials is to work with ICE, saying the chaos would go way down in the Twin Cities, that we're not seeing the level of violence over ICE action in other states like we're seeing in Minnesota. Maybe the problem is unique to Minneapolis, and we believe that it is.
And it's a lack of cooperation between state and local law enforcement and federal law enforcement. Vice President Vance saying right now that he does not believe the Insurrection Act is needed, but if things get worse, that would be a real problem. Governor Tim Walz on X Thursday continued bashing ICE, saying, quote, its campaign of retribution has got to stop. Jeff Manasso, Fox News.
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Chapter 2: How is the winter storm expected to impact travel across the U.S.?
Mangione's lawyers in this federal trial are hoping to exclude particular charges, stalking and assault for not technically being crimes of violence that could affect prosecutors' pursuit of the death penalty. Mangione has pleaded not guilty to all counts. In New York City, Grinnell Scott, Fox News.
About 1,000 miles from Iran in Gaza, some desperate Palestinians reportedly resorting to burning plastic in order to make fires to stay warm in the city of Khan Yunis in southern Gaza. It's not clear if that report's been verified.
At the World Economic Forum in Davos this week, President Trump said that record levels of humanitarian aid has entered Gaza since October, the start of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire deal. The number of dead from Iran's bloody crackdown on nationwide protests reached at least 5,002 people killed as of Friday, according to activists.
Warning many more still were feared dead as the Internet blackout in the country is now into its second week. The U.S.-based human rights activist news agency offering up that death toll. And hundreds of Meta employees are being laid off at the company's Reality Labs division in California as tech job cuts accelerate. Meta is shifting its business model towards AI.
Meta is acknowledging the layoffs will be in the hundreds, but the New York Times says likely it will be around 1,500 people representing about 10% of the division's workforce. Other Meta layoffs are also expected in Washington State. Meta, the parent company of Facebook. I'm Ted Lindner.
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Chapter 3: What recent developments are there regarding the government shutdown?
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