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FIRST THING with Kevin Manno

Wednesday January 22nd, 2025

FIRST THING with Kevin Manno

Kevin Manno

News, Society & Culture, Arts, Daily News

52.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Wednesday January 22nd, 2025

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0:00.0

All right, let's go. It's Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025. How you doing? Good to see you. Thanks for being here.

0:09.1

Super quick look at all the headlines. Just real efficient as you start your day. Just organized and

0:13.9

delivered quickly. Ten minutes and you're caught up and the show starts right now. And we always start with the top story.

0:23.0

Today it's winter weather.

0:24.2

While a lot of us are dealing with some cold temperatures,

0:26.8

there's a huge storm hitting the Gulf Coast of all places.

0:30.7

Pretty rare for a winter storm to hit the Gulf.

0:32.6

I refer to as a, quote, generational winter storm.

0:37.0

Sadly, it's reported that nine people have

0:38.9

already lost their lives on account of this storm. Historic amounts of snow are falling in Florida,

0:44.8

Louisiana, Texas, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi are all dealing with it as well. There are

0:50.6

blizzard warnings. It's crazy. The first ever blizzard warning for the Gulf Coast.

0:54.8

Over 220 million people in the U.S. are affected here, dangerously cold temperatures and lots of snow.

1:01.1

That's then, of course, leading to school closures and travel issues.

1:05.2

Yesterday, according to Flightaware.com, around 2,000 flights were canceled because of it.

1:09.7

10,000 more were delayed.

1:12.2

Houston's two biggest airports were both closed yesterday,

1:15.1

and some parts of Texas had single-digit wind chills.

1:18.8

Really, it's wild.

1:20.3

A lot of record lows were expected to come overnight last night and even this morning.

1:25.2

So wherever you are, I hope you're starting to stay safe and sound and as warm as it can be.

1:33.1

All right, okay.

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