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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. A massive winter storm is sweeping from the central U.S. down to Texas and eastward through New England, affecting an estimated 200 million Americans. More than a dozen governors have declared states of emergency. Travel is widely disrupted, with thousands of flights canceled.
Chapter 2: What impact is the massive winter storm having across the U.S.?
NPR's Amy Held reports forecasters warn the ice, snow and record cold could stretch into next week.
The storm will last through Monday, but National Weather Service meteorologist Frank Pereira says it could go down in history as the biggest.
This may be the all-time both population impact and geographical scope.
with more than half the U.S. population hit by some combination of snow, topping a foot in parts, ice, up to an inch or more, and cold, deep cold. Officials say stay home, but for some people, that's outside.
It's brutal out there. It's so cold, it hurts. Like, it hurts. It's painful.
Whitney Slater was sleeping in his car, but moved to a warming center set up in Detroit. The cold will lock in the snowpack for days. In parts of the South, forecasters warn of catastrophic ice threatening the power system.
Amy Held, NPR News. President Trump this week said he had secured total and permanent U.S. access to Greenland in a deal with NATO. News of the framework came as Trump backed off terror threats against European allies and ruled taking the Danish territory by force. NPR's Ron Elving reports the agreement remains vague.
We don't have all the details yet, and there's a good deal yet to be learned. We expect to see more mining of strategic materials, such as the rare earths, essential to computers and other high-tech products. The deal would bolster the presence of NATO in general in the Arctic and restrict Russian and Chinese efforts to get mining rights for those rare earths in Greenland.
That's NPR's Ron Elving reporting. Russia launched hundreds of drones and missiles at Ukraine's two largest cities. As Ukrainian, Russian and American envoys held peace talks in the United Arab Emirates. NPR's Joanna Kikisis reports from Kyiv.
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