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Live from NPR News, I'm Corva Coleman. President Trump delivers the first State of the Union address of his second term tomorrow night. A new NPR-PBS News Marist poll shows that Americans are skeptical of how things are going in the country.
What are Americans' views on the upcoming State of the Union address?
NPR's Domenico Montanaro explains.
Fifty-seven percent of the more than 1,400 people that Marist surveyed say the State of the Union is not strong. That's a four-point increase from a year ago and includes eight in ten Democrats and two-thirds of independents. Republicans largely take the opposite view. With Trump in office, 73% of Republicans say the State of the Union is strong. The splits by education and gender are also notable. 69% of college degree holders say the State of the Union is weak. while those without degrees are split 50-50. What's more, 6 in 10 say the country is worse off than a year ago, and most describe the direction that Trump is moving the country as change for the worse. That presents a political challenge for Trump's State of the Union address in this midterm election year.
Domenico Montanaro, NPR News, Washington.
Blizzard warnings are still in effect from Maryland's eastern shore to Maine. The National Weather Service says a nor'easter is dumping one to two feet of snow widely across the region. From member station WNYC in New York, Catalina Canela has more.
It's shaping up to be one of those winters New Yorkers will remember. Snow from a storm last month has lingered for weeks due to freezing temperatures. 31-year-old private chef Sydney Buck says it's already worse than 2016, when a blizzard left her without electricity.
Everything was shut down. I remember the streets were shut down. We couldn't take the subway anywhere.
But 49-year-old Tom Chernish says he's seen worse.
96, that was the big one. Blizzard of 96. People skiing down Fifth Avenue, I remember. This one, you know, I'll survive it.
Forecasters say some areas could get upwards of 20 inches of snow by the time it's over. For NPR, I'm Catalina Gonela in New York.
Mexican officials say at least 25 Mexican National Guard members have been killed in attacks yesterday after a Mexican military raid killed a drug cartel leader. Nemesio Osoguero Cervantes, or El Mencho, died of injuries as he was being flown to Mexico City. NPR's Ada Peralta reports armed members of his drug cartel then attacked banks and gas stations run by the Mexican government.
We spoke to one man in Guadalajara who was trying to get home yesterday and he said that men pointed guns at him. He called 911 and they simply told him, go home and stay indoors. We spoke to one woman near the town where El Mencho was killed and she says first she heard helicopters and then the streets filled up with members of the cartels. She says they burnt a bank by her house and they sent messages saying if the government didn't release their members, they would begin attacking civilians.
NPR's Eva Peralta reporting. On Wall Street, the Dow's down 650 points. It's NPR. The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to take a case involving climate change. It involves oil and gas companies that want to block certain lawsuits. Plaintiffs are demanding the companies pay billions of dollars in damages. They allege the oil and gas companies misled the public about the risk of fossil fuels and their link to global warming. President Trump says he will still impose 15 percent global tariffs. That's after the Supreme Court overturned some of his massive tariffs in a ruling last week. The Winter Olympics have ended in Italy. The final competitive event saw the U.S. beat Canada for the gold medal in men's ice hockey.
From Milan, Italy, Steve Futterman looks back at the last two Olympic weeks.
For the U.S., it couldn't have ended better, capturing its first gold medal in men's hockey since the 1980 Miracle on Ice. That was the 12th gold for the Americans here, more than they have ever won at a Winter Olympics. There were other memorable U.S. performers, the American women taking the women's hockey gold, Michaela Schifrin winning the women's slalom, and Alyssa Liu taking gold in women's figure skating.
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