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Let's start with a wraparound of today's news cycle. Today marks 10 years since the horror that unfolded at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown Connecticut. The story hits home for me as I was a reporter covering it on the ground that day. Today, survivors and victims are continuing their fight to see real change in our country after you've all day, which hit close to home because it was so similar to Sandy Hook. Um it really affected me because I felt like I failed get so important to keep fighting for um the assault weapons ban as well and just to keep Children and young adults alive. And let's check in on the winter storm switching years. Now we've been tracking as it moved across the country. More than 40 million people from the Gulf to the rockies are under some kind of severe weather threat. Today. The Gulf coast faces the biggest threat with tornadoes and damaging winds possible from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle. Look at this devastation left behind in union para Louisiana, dozens of people were injured when a tornado touched down near a mobile home park, thankfully no one was killed further North Blizzard warnings were up from Montana and Sue Nebraska and Colorado forecasters are warning that along with piles of snow up to 2/10 of an inch of ice could build up in some parts be careful. Nasa is keeping an eye on world water supplies from space tomorrow. The space agency is launching a satellite from California for a first of its kind mission. The project will conduct the survey of the world's oceans, lakes and rivers, which make up about 70% of the earth's surface. Scientists hope the experiment will shed new light on how climate change is impacting the planet's water systems. If all goes to plan, we should start getting results back in the first few months of the new year. We have some sad news. It hit the team's timeline this morning Stephen twitch boss, you might know him. You have to write a dancer a long time DJ for the Ellen degeneres show has died all day. Tributes have been flooding. Social media fans and friends are posting their favorite moments from the so you can think you can dance Tiktok and the Ellen show. Ellen degeneres wrote quote, I'm heart Broken, which was pure love and light. He was my family and I loved him with all my heart. I will miss him twitch. His wife shared a statement asking for privacy and writing Stephen, we love you, we miss you and I will always save the last dance for you. Boss was just 40 years old and leaves behind three young Children. Okay, in Happier News, the World Cup final match up is set in the last hour France secured its spot in Sunday's match against Argentina beating Morocco. The underdog 2-0. This puts France in position to be the first back to back World Cup winner since 1962. It comes after Argentina's win over Croatia yesterday led by International Soccer Superstar Lionel Messi and Julian Alvarez. After that match, Messi confirmed this will be his last World Cup, Morocco will play Croatia for 3rd place on Saturday.