Good evening. I'm Jeff Bennett. I'm the Navaz as a way on the news hour tonight.

The Biden administration cancels another $5 billion in student loans.

How the president is a racing debt for millions of borrowers

after a Supreme Court ruling struck down his earlier plan.

Ahead of the New Hampshire primaries, Judy Woodruff speaks

with that state's governor about why he's trying to stop Donald Trump from becoming

the Republican nominee. And a family struggle.

An American who was helping Afghans start their own businesses is held captive by the

Taliban, the growing calls for his release.

I want him to know I'm going to fight for him to know I'm going to fight for him to bring him back home. I'm

going to do everything I can to bring him back home. Welcome to the news hour. Both the East and West coasts have been hit hard by new

storms today. They're part of an increasingly deadly winter that's claimed at

least 50 lives in two weeks. This latest round walloped a huge swath of states today, bringing bitter cold

temperatures, treacherous ice, and more snow. In New Jersey, mist from waterfalls turned a

park in Patterson into a frozen landscape,

blanketed in a thick coat of ice. In the West, Oregon declared an emergency

with power out to more than 100,000 customers.

A rift emerged today in Israel's war cabinet over calls for a ceasefire with Hamas.

Former Army Chief Gotti Eisenkott told an Israeli TV program that, quote,

the hostages will only return alive if there is a deal linked

to a significant pause in fighting.

But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

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