Domestic Terror Threat, Ambitious Climate Plan & Netflix's Biggest Show- Thursday, January 28th, 2021
The NewsWorthy
Erica Mandy
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🗓️ 28 January 2021
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
The news to know for Thursday, January 28th, 2021!
We're talking about:
- a rare national terrorism warning: what the government now says is the biggest threat to Americans
- how climate change could be, for the first time, a key priority in every level of the federal government
- new advice from the World Health Organization about who should skip getting the COVID-19 vaccine for now
- leaders in Washington weighing in on the Wall Street power shift
- the Apple update that could keep you from getting hacked
- what's now considered Netflix's biggest show
All that and more in around 10 minutes...
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Sources:
Domestic Terror Threat Heightened: ABC News, AP, WSJ, NY Times, DHS
Climate Crisis Executive Actions: AP, Politico, WSJ, FOX News, White House
Watchdog: HHS Misused Emergency Funds: NY Times, CNBC, WaPo, ABC News, IG Report
U.S. Buys 200M More Vaccine Doses: CBS News, AP, Politico, WaPo, CDC
Shortages Warnings: NY Times, The Hill, NPR
WHO: Pregnant Women Should Skip Vaccines: WSJ, Reuters, LA Times, WHO
Ongoing Market Volatility: SEC, CNET, Bloomberg, WSJ, CNN
Apple Urging People to Update iPhones ASAP: AP, TechCrunch, USA Today, Apple
Cloris Leachman Dies: USA Today, Variety, Hollywood Reporter, Mel Brooks Tweet
'Bridgerton' is Netflix's Biggest Show: The Verge, Deadline, Netflix
Sundance Film Festival Begins: LA Times, Rolling Stone, Engadget, Cnet, Sundance FF
Thing to Know Thursday: Holocaust Remembrance: AP, NY Times, CBS News, NBC News
Survey Finds Lack of Holocaust Knowledge: Time, NBC News, Full Survey
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Thursday, January 28th. |
| 0:02.0 | We'll tell you about a rare national terrorism warning, |
| 0:04.6 | what the government now says is the biggest threat here at home, |
| 0:07.4 | and how climate change could be for the first time |
| 0:09.6 | a key priority in every level of the federal government. Also new advice from the World Health Organization about who should skip getting the |
| 0:16.1 | COVID-19 vaccine for now. |
| 0:18.0 | Plus, leaders in Washington are weighing in about that ongoing power shift on Wall Street, the Apple update that could keep you from getting in that |
| 0:23.0 | the ongoing power shift on Wall Street, the Apple update that could keep you from getting hacked |
| 0:25.0 | and what's now considered Netflix's biggest show ever. |
| 0:31.0 | Welcome, welcome to the newsworthy. |
| 0:33.0 | All the days news in around 10 minutes. |
| 0:35.0 | Fast, fair, fun, and on the go. |
| 0:38.0 | I'm Erica Mandy, thanks so much for being here. |
| 0:40.0 | You ready? Let's do this. |
| 0:51.0 | The US government used a federal alert system to warn people about a threat of domestic terrorism. The Department of Homeland Security, known as DHS, has not cited any specific plot, but the |
| 0:56.1 | warning says there's a lot of anger, especially from claims about the 2020 presidential |
| 0:59.8 | election, and that anger could lead some people to launch attacks in the coming weeks. |
| 1:04.8 | The last time that warning system was used, it was to tell Americans that Iran might try to retaliate |
| 1:09.6 | over the US assassination of their military commander, Kossum Solomani, in January 2020. |
| 1:15.2 | But now DHS says the biggest threats to Americans are violent extremists here at home. |
| 1:20.0 | Even though the election results in some conspiracy theories around them were listed as the |
| 1:23.4 | top motivator for this, there are some others too. |
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