States Sue, Widespread Winter Storm & New NASA Research - Tuesday, February 19th, 2019
The NewsWorthy
Erica Mandy
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2019
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
The news to know for Tuesday, February 19th, 2019!
Today, we're talking about possible election fraud, an incoming winter storm and why more than a dozen states are suing the president.
Plus: Amazon's new plan to go green, and NASA's new research to find life beyond Earth.
Those stories and many more in less than 10 minutes!
Award-winning broadcast journalist and former TV news reporter Erica Mandy breaks it all down for you.
You can also go to www.theNewsWorthy.com to see story sources and links in the section titled 'Episodes' or see below...
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Sources:
States Sue Trump: CBS News, The Hill, NBC News
Trump on Venezuela: CNN, AP, WaPo
North Carolina Election Fraud: NYT, VOX, AP
Winter Storm Hits: AccuWeather, The Weather Channel, USA Today
Amazon's Carbon Footprint: TechCrunch, Amazon, Greenpeace
Airline Gender Choices: MarketWatch, NBC News
Jussie Smollett Case: Variety, CNN
Holiday Weekend Box Office: Variety
New NASA Research: Fox News, NASA
Snow Moon: Time, Quartz, USA Today
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Tuesday, February 19th. We're talking possible election fraud. An incoming |
| 0:05.2 | winter storm and why more than a dozen states are suing the president. |
| 0:08.7 | Plus Amazon's new plan to go green and NASA's new research to find aliens. |
| 0:13.6 | Welcome, welcome to the newsworthy. |
| 0:18.3 | All the days news in less than 10 minutes. |
| 0:20.6 | Fast, fair, fun, and on the go. I'm Erica Mandy. Thanks so much for being here. You ready? Let's do this. |
| 0:28.0 | At least 16 states are joining a lawsuit against the Trump administration, and it's |
| 0:36.0 | about the president declaring a national emergency at the southern border. |
| 0:39.6 | CBS News reports New Mexico, Oregon, Minnesota, New Jersey, Hawaii, and Connecticut, to name a few, |
| 0:45.1 | have joined California in this lawsuit. |
| 0:47.5 | Remember, Trump expects his emergency declaration |
| 0:49.9 | to give him access to about $8 billion in funds to pay for the border wall. |
| 0:54.2 | He says it's necessary to keep out drugs and crime, |
| 0:57.3 | although even he said he knew the move would be challenged in court. |
| 1:01.1 | And as expected, it is. The state's lawsuit will question where the funds are coming |
| 1:05.2 | from and work to prove there's not really an emergency at the border. This isn't the first |
| 1:09.4 | lawsuit to pop up either, only about an hour after Trump declared the emergency, the ACLU filed a lawsuit. |
| 1:17.0 | President Trump is doing all he can to get the Venezuelan military to stand behind opposition leader Juan Guido, this time at a rally in Miami. |
| 1:25.6 | Remember, Trump supports Guido as the country's rightful president and he's working to |
| 1:29.4 | ramp up pressure against socialist president Nicholas Maduro. |
| 1:32.8 | He even put sanctions on the country's oil. |
| 1:35.0 | During yesterday's rally, Trump issued a warning to military officials saying they'll lose |
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