Chapter 1: What are the latest updates on the winter storm affecting the East Coast?
Live from NPR News, I'm Corva Coleman. Blizzard warnings are still up from Virginia's Atlantic coast to part of Maine's border with Canada. The massive nor'easter is also pounding New York City, as reporter Steve Kastenbaum tells us.
Snow fell at a rate of more than two inches per hour as building maintenance workers pushed snowblowers through the night, trying to keep sidewalks clear. New York streets were deserted after the mayor declared a state of emergency and banned unnecessary travel. Air traffic came to a halt with more than 3,000 flights canceled at the area's three airports.
The storm knocked out power to tens of thousands of homes across New Jersey. Steve Kastenbaum reporting.
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. 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 percent of Republicans say the state of the union is strong.
The splits by education and gender are also notable. Sixty-nine percent 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.
Starting late tonight, the U.S. government will stop collecting many of the tariffs President Trump initially imposed last year. That's following last Friday's U.S. Supreme Court ruling. But Trump said over the weekend he'll still impose a 15 percent global tariff. He'll use a different legal authority. China says it's doing a full assessment of the trade situation.
And NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports Europeans say they're watching the new tariffs closely.
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Chapter 2: What do recent polls reveal about American perceptions of the State of the Union?
Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes was better known as El Mencho, and he turned the Jalisco New Generation cartel into one of the most powerful organized crime groups in the world. The U.S. was offering a $15 million bounty for El Mencho, accusing his cartel of making billions of dollars by shipping fentanyl and cocaine to the U.S.
Mexico's defense ministry said El Mencho was injured during an operation to capture him in the state of Jalisco. He died while being airlifted to Mexico City. At the same time, members of his cartel have unleashed violence across the state. In Guadalajara and Puerto Vallarta, armed men have set cars and businesses on fire.
El Mencho's death now leaves a power vacuum in Mexico, and that is usually followed by intense violence. Ada Peralta, NPR News, Mexico City.
Federal officials are investigating an intruder who got into President Trump's Florida estate yesterday morning carrying a shotgun and a gas can. Secret Service agents and a sheriff's deputy fired shots at the man and killed him. Trump was in Washington, D.C. No one else was injured. Officials identified the man as 21-year-old Austin Martin of North Carolina.
The Transportation Security Administration, or TSA, says its pre-check program at airports is still up and running. That's despite Saturday's announcement from the Department of Homeland Security it would be suspended. That's because the agency is still partially shut down. This is NPR News.
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