Unusual winter storm, conflict in the West Bank, a warning on vaccine hesitancy & more
CNN 5 Things
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🗓️ 21 January 2025
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| 0:00.0 | From CNN, I'm Afamadika for the five things you need to know for Tuesday, January 21st. |
| 0:07.5 | We start with one of President Donald Trump's executive orders that could impact Afghan refugees. |
| 0:13.0 | Trump ordered the U.S. refugee program to be suspended starting next Monday for 90 days, and that could be extended. |
| 0:20.0 | A major Afghan advocacy organization warn and that could be extended. |
| 0:26.2 | A major Afghan advocacy organization warns that could leave in limbo at least 2,000 Afghans, |
| 0:29.4 | who had previously been approved to resettle in the U.S. |
| 0:34.1 | That includes the families of U.S. service members who have already cleared the U.S. vetting process and are actively prepared to travel. |
| 0:38.9 | Since the end of the war in Afghanistan in 2021, more than 180,000 Afghans have resettled in the U.S. Here's Trump's |
| 0:45.7 | White House borders are Tom Holman. |
| 0:47.9 | There are things we need to fix that the last administration broke before we allow the program to |
| 0:52.7 | continue. So we're on it and they'll be handled |
| 0:54.9 | by case-by-case basis. An unusual storm unfolding along the Gulf Coast could break records set decades ago. |
| 1:02.9 | CNN's Elisa Raffa has the forecast. |
| 1:05.7 | Ifoma, we're looking at snow coming down across the south and some places that haven't seen it in decades, |
| 1:11.4 | alerts stretching from East Texas across the Gulf Coast and up the Carolina Coast. |
| 1:16.3 | The first ever blizzard warning in effect for parts of East Texas and Louisiana |
| 1:20.0 | where some of that heavy snow is dropping visibility. |
| 1:23.6 | We'll keep some of these snow totals up to six inches possible for some of these states. |
| 1:27.8 | Again, could set some records for some of the snowiest days in their history. |
| 1:32.3 | That snow peels away going into Wednesday, but the bitter cold hangs around. |
| 1:36.3 | More than 70% of the lower 48 keeps temperatures below freezing through much of the week. |
| 1:41.3 | More than 2100 flights in and out of U.S. airports were canceled as of early afternoon |
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