WORLD Radio News - WORLD Radio News: 1-22-26 (3/3)

Episode Date: January 22, 2026

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With World Radio News, I'm Mary Muncie. A powerful winter storm is barreling across the United States and could hit areas from Texas all the way to New England this weekend. Forecasters warn this system could bring heavy snow, ice, and dangerously cold air to more than 200 million people. Ice is expected first in the South and Plains. Texas Governor Greg Abbott. Right now, I am making a disaster.

declaration covering 134 counties across the state of Texas to make sure that every possible resource can be made available to them. Officials have closed schools and canceled events from Texas to Georgia ahead of the storm. Snow was expected to build in the Midwest and Northeast later in the weekend. Forecasters say ice forming on trees and power lines puts many areas at risk of power outages. In Texas. jury find defendant Adrian Gonzalez not guilty. A jury acquitted former police officer Adrian Gonzalez of charges that he failed to adequately confront a mass shooter at a Yuvaldi elementary school. That gunman killed 19 children and two teachers. But the uncle of a nine-year-old

student who died in the massacre is not pleased with the outcome. But if you're an officer, you can simply stand by, stand down, stand idle. And I do anything and wait for everybody to be executed. Gonzalez was the first officer who responded to that massacre to be tried in the case. Landslides have hit a house and a campground in New Zealand, killing at least two people, while emergency crews work to rescue people buried in the rubble. World's Paul Butler reports. One landslide struck a house before dawn Thursday at Welcome Bay, a New Zealand's North Island. Two bodies were recovered.

hours later another slide hit a campground at the base of nearby Mount Munganui. The initial crew on the scene heard voices from the rubble, but no survivors have been located. A man was washed away by floodwater Wednesday farther north near Walkworth. For World, I'm Paul Butler. The death toll from a fire at a shopping plaza in southern Pakistan has climbed to at least 67. Police and hospital officials say rescuers found a discuser. additional human remains inside the burned out Gould Plaza in Karachi, where the fire broke out Saturday. Investigators say the cause is still under review, though an electrical short circuit is suspected.

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