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What major weather events are impacting the U.S. this weekend?
Live from NPR News in New York City, I'm Dualisa Kautel. Over half of the U.S. could be affected by a major winter storm this weekend. Forecasters at the Weather Channel say the system is forecast to move through 34 states, from Arizona to the Midwest, South and New England. In New York City, new mayor Zoran Mamdani says as the storm nears,
Thousands of trucks with agency partners will be transformed into the nation's largest snow fighting operation.
We are going to see more than 2,000 of those sanitation workers begin 12-hour shifts starting tomorrow evening. They will salt as soon as we see the first snowflakes hit the ground with 700 salt spreaders. And then as soon as we see two inches of snow accumulate, we're going to see 2,200 plows activate across the city.
The National Weather Service is forecasting 6 to 12 inches of snowfall from Sunday into Monday morning. Thousands of protesters filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis to oppose the Trump administration's immigration crackdown there. NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports the protests included an economic boycott with hundreds of businesses closed for the day.
Ralliers turned out despite frigid temperatures, with some saying they know people who've been arrested. One man who's been here decades and says he is in the country legally was still afraid to give his name because of how aggressive he says ICE agents are acting. He spoke through a ski mask for warmth.
We're against violence, you know. These kids are being dragged out of their homes.
Refugees and even U.S. citizens have been arrested. The Trump administration has accused protesters of being violent and threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act to quell them using active military forces. One woman said she can't worry about that. She just wanted to speak out in defense of her neighbors and her city. Jennifer Ludden, NPR News, Minneapolis.
The U.S. military has carried out another lethal attack on an alleged drug smuggling boat. As John Otis reports, it was the first such strike since U.S. special forces seized Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
The attack occurred in the eastern Pacific Ocean and killed two people, according to the U.S. Southern Command. A video of the operation shows a person on the deck of the boat as it speeds through the water, then a huge explosion. It was the 35th U.S. attack on an alleged drug boat since September and brought the death toll to 125 people.
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