Live from NPR News, I'm Jail Snyder.

California Governor Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency in Los Angeles.

A powerful holiday storm is lashing southern California with heavy rain and gusty winds.

Parts of L.A. scorched by wildfires nearly a year ago under evacuation warnings.

Kavish Harjai is with L.A LAAS, the NPR member station in Los Angeles.

Of course, with any storm in this area, burn scar areas are of concern.

So these are portions of land where because of wildfires, vegetation has been removed

and the nature of the soil has changed. And as a result,

water isn't absorbed by that burned land as it usually might be. And so that creates dangerous

runoff conditions for the land below and makes those burn scar areas susceptible to debris flows.

Much of the state under weather warnings forecasters warning of white out conditions

in parts of the Sierra Nevada. The Justice Department says it's having to sift through more

documents potentially related to the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case. The DOJ announced on this

Christmas Eve that the FBI and federal prosecutors in Manhattan have uncovered more than a million

additional documents and that it could take a few more weeks to make the legally required redactions.

The Trump administration has stripped legal status from 1.6 million immigrants in 11 months,

including those who came into the country under various visa and parole programs,

NPRC of Minna-Bastillo reports.

The largest group affected includes those under a program called temporary protected status.

It provides deportation, protection, and grants work permits to people from specific countries,

affected by war, natural disaster, political instability, or any other condition that makes

the country unsafe for its nationals to return to.

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