From ABC News, I'm Dave Packer, at least 17 states declaring a state of emergency as a massive winter storm is set to sweep across nearly half the country.

Houston Mayor John Whitmore.

You're fixing to be attacked by a severe Arctic blast.

And by Sunday, that monster storm will hit the East Coast. New York

Governor Kathy Hockel worries about people with no place to go as temperatures plunge below freezing.

What am I worried about? Frostbite. We have to get people indoors, and we're working closely

with Code Blue and working with our local county governments on that issue as well.

In New Jersey, the threat of slick conditions has led to a run on rock salt used on sidewalks to melt ice.

ABC's Jim Ryan. Ahead of the storm, more than 2,100 flights have been canceled across the country tomorrow.

Former Olympic snowboarder and alleged drug kingpin Ryan Wedding now arrested in

Mexico, a joint U.S. Mexico law enforcement operation. Another operation in Mexico said to a bagged

Alejandro Castillo on the FBI's most wanted list and on the run for more than a decade after

he's believed to bend behind the brutal murder of his ex-girlfriend, FBI director Cash Patel.

It is truly, truly a historic moment when you can deliver not one, but two of the FBI's most wanted fugitives in one single day.

I don't believe that's ever happened before, and I'm not sure if it'll ever happen again.

In Minneapolis, hundreds protesting against ICE operations that have turned violent and deadly.

This was peacefully at a couple dozen people block one of the lanes that led to the departures area,

the drop-off area for passengers, and the message was clear. They want ice out of their city.

They want local police and local officials to do more to try and get that to happen. And by doing

this in a public place, they think they're spreading awareness about their message.

ABC's Matt Rivers, U.S. Southern Command announcing another alleged drug boat has been struck.

This one in the eastern Pacific, two dead, one survivor.

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