Good morning and welcome to Kid News. I'm Kim. Today is Tuesday, February 24th, 26. And we begin with a time-honored tradition in the nation's capital. Tonight at 9 o'clock Eastern time, President Trump will stand before the U.S. Congress and television cameras to deliver his first state of the union of his second term in office. He's expected to talk about his

accomplishments so far, while also outlining his agenda for the upcoming year. Although our first

two presidents, George Washington and John Adams, gave a speech, our third president, Thomas

Jefferson, chose to send a written address instead. That tradition held on for more than a hundred

years until President Woodrow Wilson revived the in-person address. to send a written address instead. That tradition held on for more than 100 years

until President Woodrow Wilson revived the in-person address in 1913.

Mr. Trump has extended invitations to the speech

to both the U.S. men's and women's gold medal winning hockey teams.

Yesterday, the women's team politely declined, citing prior commitments.

As of this recording, it's not known if the men's team will attend.

Historic, epic, monster, all among the adjectives being used to describe the blizzard bomb that blasted the northeast and mid-Atlantic states yesterday.

Millions of residents from D.C. to Boston are now digging out.

Rhode Island was particularly hard hit, with many towns near Providence buried under 30 inches.

Dozens of other locations in Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey got two feet,

while Central Park saw 20 inches, enough for New York City Mayor Mom Dani to suggest it could go down as one of the city's top 10 storms over the past 150 years.

At the height of the blizzard, as many as 600,000 people were without power and the outages could linger, but travel bans are now being lifted, and most schools are back in session this morning.

Airline travel is also recovering, but carriers still canceled some 2,000 flights headed out of

or into the Northeast today.

Lindsay Vaughn is now out of the hospital and revealing just how badly her leg was injured

in that downhill

crash two weeks ago. In an Instagram post, the skier credits an orthopedic surgeon who travels

with her and Team USA for operating quickly and basically saving her from amputation. In addition to a

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