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After the election, the economy feels like one big, huh? Good thing there's the Indicator from Planet Money podcast. We take a different economic topic from the news every day and break it down in under ten minutes. Topics like the home building shortage or the post-election crypto rally. Listen to the Indicator from Planet Money podcast from NPR and turn that, huh, into an ah. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear.

Due to updated mapping, Los Angeles County officials now say at least 5,000 structures have been confirmed lost in the Palisades fire. NPR's Kirk Sigler reports close to 180,000 people remain under evacuation in the LA basin where multiple uncontained fires are burning. The winds have died down some and there's a tinge of humidity in the air. It's a small piece of good news compared to the dusty erratic gusts of the Santa Annas blowing in from the desert. They've been fanning the flames into densely populated urban areas. Will Cook evacuated from his apartment in Santa Monica. I'm really sad about, you know, what it is, but I got what matters most and that's my kids. It's been chaotic and a whiplash of stress for Angelenos getting text alerts to evacuate

and not always accurate. Authorities at one point even sent out a blast to the entire city, only to have to send out a follow-up alerting it as a mistake. Kirk Sigler in PR News, Los Angeles. The death toll from the fires, meanwhile, has now risen to at least six, according to authorities. It is expected to continue to rise. The late President Jimmy Carter returned to his hometown of Plains, Georgia today. NPR's Debbie Elliott reports he was buried next to his wife, Rosalynn, at their family home.

People lined the streets, waving American flags, as the funeral procession of the nation's 39th president made a journey through downtown planes. It's a somber moment says Maude Raven Russell whose 98 year old father and Carter were childhood playmates. So I have known him all of my life and I'm 77 years old. So I have known him all of my life and I'm 77 years old so I have known him all of my life and he has been a down-to-earth person. He's been president to all but he's been him called to us and home you know. The ceremonies here included a U.S. Navy missing man formation flyover. Debbie Elliott, NPR News, Plains Georgia. A winter storm has blanketed central Texas in sleet and snow. The cold front expected to travel through southern Arkansas and

northeastern Tennessee for exiting off the Atlantic coast Sunday. The Bureau's Nate Perez is more. Four to six inches of snow could hit Dallas through the Carolinas. That's because a winter storm moved in on top of a cold chill that's kind of been hanging around. Paul Kirkwood is a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Fort Worth. He says it's best to stay home during these times. These type of systems with snow and the cold air is to try to stay indoors and not drive as much as the roads become very slick and dangerous for people.

Parts of Arkansas and western Tennessee could see up to 8 inches of snow. Make sure to stock up on groceries and supplies. Nate Perez, NPR News. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments over the fate of video sharing app TikTok in a case later to be heard tomorrow. Justices will be looking at a law aimed at forcing TikTok sale by Chinese parent company ByteDance. US financial markets were closed today. This is NPR. A strike by upwards of 200 members of the Park City Mountain Resort's ski patrol has

ended. The union representing workers at the Utah Resort claiming victory after a vote yesterday by ski patrollers to accept a deal negotiated with owner Vale Resorts. The union says Vale agreed to key demands, including a $2 an hour raise for senior ski patrol personnel. The strike had closed at least some trails and also led to long lift lines at the nation's largest ski resort. A federal appeals court has delayed a U.S. military court hearing in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba that would have allowed the alleged mastermind of the 9-11 terror attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, to plead guilty this week.

Federal court will now consider whether to block the guilty pleas. NPR's Sasa Pfeiffer reports. This legal drama began last summer when Mohammed and two of his co-defendants agreed to plead guilty and return for up to life in prison rather than face a death penalty trial. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin rescinded those plea deals two days later, saying he was caught off guard. Two military courts then ruled Austin cannot retroactively cancel the deals. But Austin kept pushing and asked the Justice Department to request that a federal court intervene.

This time Austin got a partial win. This week's plea hearing has been canceled, so the federal court has more time to deliberate whether the plea deals can be reversed. Sasha Pfeiffer, NPR News. Crypto, futures prices move higher today as colder winter weather in the U.S. and Europe was expected to drive demand for heating fuel. Oil up 60 cents a barrel to settle at $73.92 a barrel in New York. I'm Jack Spear, NPR News in Washington.

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