Live from NPR News in Washington, on Corva Coleman, tens of millions of people are under some type of warning for winter storms, ice, or extreme cold.

A major winter storm will spread from Albuquerque, New Mexico, up into New England by this weekend.

Some areas will get a foot of snow or more.

Southern states will get crippling ice.

NPR's Debbie Elliott says authorities in several states are preparing. Governors are making emergency declarations. That's already

happened in more than a half dozen states. You know, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee,

Alabama, Georgia, the Carolinas in Virginia so far, that will free up resources so they can

prepare to respond. For instance, you know, moving power crews into position, pre-treating roads

and highways, getting supplies like food and water in the right places. NPR's W. Elliott

reporting. Activists in Minnesota are calling for a general

strike today in the state. They're demanding that the Trump administration withdraw thousands of

federal immigration agents, especially from Minneapolis and St. Paul. Vice President Vance

traveled to Minneapolis yesterday. He claims immigration agents are allowed to go into homes

without getting a warrant from a judge. Minnesota Public Radio's Brian Baxed has more.

Vance traveled to Minneapolis to hold a private roundtable with ICE leaders and local officials.

Vance says better cooperation with state and local authorities would calm tensions. In response

to reporter questions, Vance vouched for an internal agency memo that appears to authorize

ICE entry into homes without court-approved warrants. Now, it's possible, I guess, that the courts

will say no, and of course if the courts say no, we would follow that law. But nobody is talking

about doing immigration enforcement without a warrant.

We're talking about different types of warrants that exist in our system. Vance also pushed back on

claims that a five-year-old boy was detained to be used as bait to lure his immigrant father from a

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