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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst.

Minnesota officials identified the person shot and killed today in

Minneapolis as Alex Jeffrey Prettie. As NPR's Meg Anderson reports, he was the second person

killed by federal immigration agents in less than three weeks. In a news conference with city officials,

U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith named

Preti as the shooting victim. They said Preddy was a 37-year-old ICU nurse, a U.S. citizen,

and a Minneapolis resident, Senator Tina Smith. The Trump administration has already called

Alex Preti a domestic terrorist. He was a nurse. She stressed that if this can happen in

Minnesota, it can happen in any community in the country. In the aftermath of the shooting,

Mayor Jacob Fry requested that the governor deployed National Guard members to support Minneapolis

police officers. Guard members will wear yellow safety vests to distinguish them from other

entities on the ground. Meg Anderson, NPR News, Minneapolis. A massive winter storm is sweeping

through a huge swath of the country from the southwest, heading to the mid-Atlantic and then up

through the northeast this weekend, with heavy snow and ice possible.

Freezing rain and sleet is also expected in many states.

That could bring down trees onto power lines leading to widespread power outages.

Already thousands are without power in the southwest.

National Weather Service meteorologist Josh Weiss.

So if people lose power, if people can't get out of their holes because snow and ice is covering the roadways,

they could be stuck for several days without the ability to get warm and it's going to be so cold.

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