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Rough few days. I'm Paul Stevens, Fox News. A nor'easter slamming the Carolinas, Virginia, and other areas with snow as blizzard conditions, vicious winds loom as that storm intensifies. Fox meteorologist Adam Klotz.
Adam Klotz 0:15
The heaviest snow was in North Carolina.

What are the latest weather updates from the nor'easter affecting the East Coast?

Adam Klotz 0:17
These are some of our big snowfall totals. You heard that high of 17 inches, but widespread, a whole lot of places saw over a foot of snow. snow down across the Tar Heel State. The winds were intense, and that's why visibility is so low. Still windy out there, but our high winds out there, 50, 60, in some cases pushing 70 miles an hour, as this system is very powerful, deep pressure creating a whole lot of winds out there. Now, where is the system right now? Still snow, but it's extreme, extreme eastern North Carolina at this point, and the system is going to be moving offshore and then up the coast.
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Millions of Americans facing harsh winds, record-breaking snow, extreme cold temperatures, and rising power outages. The FBI says it's investigating the origin of potentially funded anti-ice protests. Now, quote, the FBI is investigating paid protest campaigns throughout the country, including organizers, protesters, and funding sources that drive illicit activities. There are news reports of labor unions, Black Lives Matter, socialist and communist groups, among others, organizing or encouraging anti-ice protests. The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, a free speech advocacy organization, says only in narrow circumstances can the government punish funders, like when they intentionally direct money to specific illegal acts.
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But, quote, broad investigations into support for political advocacy set a dangerous precedent that threatens organizations across the political spectrum. That's Fox's Rich Edson. Democrat Christian Menefee winning a special election for U.S. House seat in Texas, narrowing the GOP's slim majority. The Harris County attorney defeating former Houston council member Amanda Edwards. This in a runoff to fill the seat of the late Congressman Sylvester Turner. America's listening to Fox News.
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A listening experience that will provide hope, comfort, and understanding of the greatest story ever told. Listen and follow now at foxnewspodcasts.com or wherever you listen to podcasts. A federal judge orders ICE to release a five-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father from a detention center in Texas.
Carmen Roberts 2:23
U.S. District Judge Fred Berry sharply criticized the Trump administration's immigration crackdown, writing, it appears to be driven by daily quotas, even at the cost of traumatizing children. He ordered ICE to release five-year-old Ecuadorian Liam Canheo Ramos and his father from a detention center in South Texas by Tuesday. Images of Liam with a bunny hat and a Spider-Man backpack being surrounded by ICE agents in Minneapolis sparked even more outcry about the immigration crackdown. It also led to protests at the family detention center in Dilley, Texas, prompting state troopers to deploy tear gas. Carmen Roberts, Fox News.
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Now, the family's attorneys say the father and son are in the U.S. legally under an asylum claim, but federal officials say their immigration parole expired last April. Anti-ICE protests continue across the U.S., including in New York, where Governor Kathy Hochul moves to end any local cooperation with ICE with a new proposal, Fox's C.B. Cotton.
Paul Stevens 3:22
Hochul's proposal is called Local Cops, Local Crimes Act, and it would nix deals that several New York counties currently have with ICE that give local officers the authority to help on immigration matters during their regular duties or even allow these areas to hold immigrants in county jails. Hochul said her proposal would strictly limit cooperation with ICE to criminal investigations. The Department of Homeland Security is telling Fox and Park, quote, when politicians bar local law enforcement from From working with DHS, our law enforcement officers have to have a more visible presence so that we can find and apprehend the criminals let out of jails and back into communities.

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