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Alright, let's start with a wraparound of today's news cycle. You might want to get a rain check or snow check for weekend plans here if you're here in the Northeast. The National weather service is warning of heavy snow and blizzard conditions, even areas of freezing rain and sleet. The conditions are set to stretch from across new new york into New England forecasters say some areas could see several inches of snow thankfully in the south, the severe weather that we've been telling you about all week long is gone. The region is still recovering after dozens of tornadoes swept through that region, killing at least three people a week after landing on american soil, Brittney Griner is speaking out about her time in Russia and what comes next? The W N. B A star posted to instagram writing this quote. It feels so good to be home. The last 10 months have been a battle at every turn. I dug deep to keep my faith and it was the love from so many of you that helped keep me going in that same caption. She expressed her own commitment to bringing fellow american paul wheeling back from Russia. As for what's next? Greiner says she's planning to get right back to the court writing this. I also want to make one thing very clear, I intend to play basketball for the WNBA's phoenix mercury this season and in doing so, I look forward to being able to say thank you to those of you who advocated wrote and posted for me in person soon. It might be harder to get your favorite holiday drinks this weekend. Starbucks Workers United says more than 1000 workers from 100 stores will walk off the job through sunday employees are protesting unfair conditions like understaffed stores. Starbucks says it respects the rights for employees to strike, but argues that the company works better without a union. More than 250 of Starbucks is 9000 company owned locations in the US have voted to unionize. The last strike took place almost a month ago when staff at 100 locations went on strike on Starbucks annual Red Cup day. Another significant strike is unfolding across the pond right now. As many as 100,000 British nurses are walking out of hospitals and onto picket lines in a historic strike as pay and staffing crisis threatened the NHS, the UK Health Secretary Steve Barclay says their demand is just not affordable nurses on the line say they are out of options. It's absolutely not. What we want to do isn't in the nursing profession, but we've been left with no choice. Unfortunately, I just feel that we have to do because we have to have a voice and nobody's listening to us. This is a last resort that we have to go on strike and they plan to hold another walkout on Tuesday. This one's for the history buffs out there. The C E I C I excuse me, The C I A released nearly 13,000 government documents involving the assassination of president john F Kennedy. This is the largest dump of files from the National Archives. JFK assassination record collection since 2018, biden has also or the remaining records to be publicly released by june 30th 2023. For its part, the C. I. A reports that 95% of its records related to JFK has now been made public in their entirety. 13,000 documents is quite a bit of heavy reading, but no doubt there will be lots more to learn in the coming days, talk about a fish out of water, the world's largest freestanding aquarium burst Today, witnesses described hearing a loud explosion before water and fish crashed through the doors and windows of the Berlin Hotel. Two people were injured. Not You mentioned the 1500 exotic fish that witnesses say quickly became lunch for local birds. This afternoon, we learned from officials that 30 fish were saved. They'll be sent to the Berlin Zoo officials say they are investigating exactly what happened