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News Wrap: Massive winter storm snarls post-holiday travel

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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In our news wrap Monday, a massive winter storm snarled post-holiday travel for millions of Americans, court documents say the man charged with placing pipe bombs in Washington says he did so because he believed the 2020 election was stolen and Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the U.S. offered Ukraine security guarantees for 15 years to deter Russia from returning to war after a ceasefire. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

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0:00.0

The day's other headlines begin with a massive storm spinning east with a dangerous mix of winter weather that snarled post-holiday travel for millions of Americans.

0:09.0

Heavy snow and driving winds created white-out conditions for drivers across much of the Midwest, causing accidents and one death in Iowa.

0:18.0

More than 300,000 customers remain without power this evening, nearly a third of them

0:22.6

in Michigan. Meantime airlines are scrambling to get back on schedule after the storm canceled or

0:28.2

delayed tens of thousands of flights in the last three days. Snow will continue around several of the

0:34.2

Great Lakes through much of the week. The man charged with placing two pipe bombs in Washington, D.C. on the eve of the January 6th

0:41.8

Capitol attack says he did so because he believed someone needed to, quote, speak up.

0:46.9

In a new court filing, prosecutors said Brian Cole Jr. told investigators he believed

0:51.9

the 2020 election was stolen. And he placed bombs at the Republican and Democratic National Committee headquarters

0:58.0

to target both political parties since they were, quote, in charge.

1:02.0

The explosives did not go off.

1:04.0

Cole was arrested earlier this month after a nearly five-year investigation.

1:08.0

He has a detention hearing set for tomorrow.

1:11.5

Returning to the war in Ukraine, President Volodymere Zelensky says the U.S.

1:15.6

offered Kiev security guarantees for 15 years to deter Russia from returning to war after a ceasefire.

1:22.2

But that's far less than what Zelensky wanted, up to 50 years of guarantees.

1:27.0

In a briefing with reporters conducted via WhatsApp, Zelensky said President Trump would think

1:31.7

about extending the time frame.

1:33.6

Zelensky added, quote, without security guarantees, realistically, this war will not end.

1:39.4

Meanwhile, in the Ukrainian capital Kiev, at a permanent memorial, residents shared

1:43.5

Zelensky's concern that Russian

1:45.5

President Vladimir Putin could resume the war even if peace were reached.

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