Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. A powerful winter storm is bringing heavy rains and possible flash flooding to Southern California. Forecasters urging holiday travelers to avoid the roads, as NPR's Joel Rose reports.

Forecasters say Southern California could see its wettest Christmas in years, warning drivers to stay off the roads in the coming days.

The National Weather Service says flash flooding is possible in parts of Santa Barbara, Ventura, and Los Angeles counties.

Further north, much of the Sacramento Valley and parts of the San Francisco Bay Area are under a high wind warning.

Forecasters are also predicting heavy rain and a chance of flooding along the

northern California coast and heavy snow in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Severe weather conditions

could also disrupt air travel from California to the Pacific Northwest. Joel Rose NPR News.

The Justice Department says it may take a few more weeks to finish releasing the Epstein files.

DOJ said today that more than a million more documents that could be relevant have been found by the FBI and the U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan.

A Justice Department statement says lawyers are working around the clock to review those documents and make the necessary redactions under the law

passed by Congress that set a December 19th deadline. MPRs Ashley Lopez reports that many of the

documents that have been released so far are heavily redacted and some weren't done properly.

Parts of the Epstein document released from the Justice Department include hastily redacted information that could be easily read by simply copying and pasting some of the redacted sections.

So far, this new information has not shed any significant new light on the case of the disgrace financier, but it has raised more questions about the process and decision making behind how the DOJ decided to redact and release information.

In a letter to Congress earlier this week, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said the agency

created a protocol to properly and legally work through the thousands of documents related

to Epstein. He also said the agency is committed to full transparency.

Ashley Lopez, NPR News.

Raw oysters have been linked to an ongoing food poisoning outbreak.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating more than 60 cases of salmonella,

including many requiring hospitalization in Pierce Ping Huang reports.

The salmonella outbreak spans 22 states from California to Florida and Texas to

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