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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News, I'm Corva Coleman.
Chapter 2: Who was the protester shot by federal agents in Minnesota?
Minnesota authorities have identified the protester shot to death yesterday by federal immigration agents. They say he's 37-year-old Alex Preddy, an ICU nurse. Preddy's father, Michael, says Alex was upset about the Trump administration's immigration crackdown in Minneapolis.
He thought it was terrible, you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, and he knew it was wrong.
But Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says yesterday's shooting only happened because the federal agent feared for his life.
An individual approached U.S. Border Patrol officers with a 9mm semi-automatic handgun. The officers attempted to disarm this individual, but the armed suspect reacted violently. Fearing for his life and for the lives of his fellow officers around him, an agent fired defensive shots.
But online video footage appears to contradict what she's saying. It shows Preddy being surrounded by multiple federal agents. Several restrained him and hit him while he's on the ground. and then he is shot multiple times. So far, no video has surfaced showing that Pretty brandished a firearm or tried to use one. A mammoth winter storm is continuing to move across the U.S.
More than 170 million people are under some kind of weather caution. NPR's Matt Bloom says more than half a million customers have lost power.
videos on social media for mississippi showed long icicles forming on power lines in several cities as the storm moved through southwestern electric power company which services parts of northern louisiana eastern texas and arkansas said a large number of trees fell on power lines knocking off power to many utilities say they have thousands of crew members on standby to repair down lines but right now
Outage numbers are still ticking up as the storm moves east.
NPR's Matt Bloom reporting. The Trump administration is ordering public housing authorities nationwide to immediately verify their tenants' citizenship status. Otherwise, they could lose federal funding. NPR's Windsor Johnston reports the Department of Housing and Urban Development recently did an audit.
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