Good morning. Portland, Oregon was a progressive laboratory decriminalizing drugs, cutting police,

so private security firms stepped in to pick up the slack.

We meet people and we say, when you were in second grade and the teacher asked you what

you wanted to be when you grow up, did you really think that you would say, I want to be homeless and addicted to fent them?

Also today, World Tour and Washington Wednesday, Congress certifying the 2024 election with new rules,

making it harder to stop the process.

So a significant number of House members and a significant number of senators would have to vote to even consider an objection.

It's Wednesday, January 8th.

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I'm Lindsay Mast.

And I'm Nick Eicher.

Good morning.

Up next, Kent Covington with today's news.

The U.S. Navy Band paying tribute to the late President Jimmy Carter on Tuesday

as his remains arrived at the Navy

Memorial in Washington. Carter's flag-draped casket was flown yesterday from his home state of Georgia

to the nation's capital where political leaders from both sides of the aisle paid tribute,

Vice President Kamala Harris. James Earl Carter, Jr. loved our country. He lived his faith. He served the people,

and he left the world better than he found it. House Speaker Mike Johnson also highlighted

Carter's charitable work, saying the former president

truly cared about people.

We all know that his care for humanity didn't stop at building homes.

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