Abortion pills by mail are allowed, update on the condition of Buffalo Bills' Damar Hamlin, and former Pope Benedict XVI is laid to rest. Here is everything you Need2Know for Thursday, January 5, 2023.

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Need2Know: January 5, 2023

Let's get to your need to know headlines this morning. The Justice Department has issued a legal opinion that the U. S. Postal Service may deliver abortion pills to people and states that have banned using the medication to terminate a pregnancy. The U. S. Postal Service had asked the Justice Department to say whether it's workers would be liable for delivering pills that could be used for abortions in states where it is illegal. Well, a law nearly 150 years old dictates that items that could quote corrupt morals and band are abandoned from the post, but the doj ruled that the center may not know how the drug will be used. All right, we have an update for you this morning on Tamar Hamlyn. Doctors have seen some progress from the Buffalo Bills Safety. The team tweeted yesterday afternoon, quote Tamar remains in the ICU in critical condition with signs of improvement noted yesterday and overnight. Now he is expected to remain under intensive care as his health care team continues to monitor and treat him. Now Hamlin went into cardiac arrest during monday night's game against the Cincinnati Bengals. The bill safety was resuscitated only once. That, according to a family spokesperson who clarified this, not twice as his uncle said on Tuesday, hamlin is still so sedated and on a ventilator. The NFL announcing that Tuesday that the Bills Bengals game will not be resuming and that there will be no word on resuming that game for a later date chan the funeral Mass for Pope Benedict the 16th was conducted this morning in Vatican City. The ceremony took place at ST Peter's Square where Pope Francis is presented a latin mass for a crowd of tens of thousands of Mourners. More than 200,000 people came to view Pope Benedict when he laid in state for the past few days. Pope Benedict will be buried under ST Peter's basilica and the place where his predecessor, Pope john paul the second, was previously buried. While only delegates and delegations from Italy and Germany were officially invited to the event several notable figures attended, including Queen Sofia of Spain. Well, another powerful storm known as a bomb cyclone is hitting the California coast, The National Weather service in the Bay Area, warning residents that the truly brutal system could trigger immediate disruption to commerce and worst of all, likely loss of human life California storm prompted by a strong Atma River, a long narrow region in the atmosphere that can carry moisture. Thousands of miles along with very heavy rainfall. Wind gusts as high as 60 to 80 MPH. Northern California, the Bay area will see the worst of these impacts. While we here in the U. S. Have been dealing with flooding rain and freezing blizzards, europe has been suffering through an historic winter heat wave, warm weather and low snowfall forced some ski resorts in the ALPS to close. Only a few we weeks after opening january temperatures reached an all time high in several european states over New Year's and national records set in at least seven countries. The Northern Spain area hit the highest of 76 degrees on New Year's Day. That's more like july. Meteorologists and climatologists expressed alarm over the unreasonably warm winter weather, saying there were too many records to count 54 here in new york city today, insane here in january.