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Good morning. Here’s what you need to know to start your Wednesday. 

Snowy and less cold. Much of the state will see snow accumulating up to an inch through the afternoon. Twin Cities highs in the upper 20s. Statewide, northern highs in the lower 20s and lower 30s in the southwest. More on Updraft. | Forecast

When it’s winter, do as the Norwegians do. KARE 11 reports on how our Scandinavian cold-weather peers handle the chill. Their advice: Make it cozy, stay positive and keep busy indoors and outside. 

Minnesota health officials are monitoring a hepatitis A outbreak. Nearly 50 cases were reported in 16 counties as of last Friday. Highest-risk people include those who use drugs, don’t have a steady place to live or have been recently incarcerated, said Kris Ehresmann,  the Department of Health's director for infectious disease. Most kids are vaccinated against it, she said, but “if you are an adult and you eat, you may want to consider getting vaccinated against hepatitis A.”

Big tech, boycotts and the gig economy. Uber's CEO came under fire for reducing Saudi Arabia's killing of a U.S. journalist to a "serious mistake." Instacart caught the internet's ire for cutting its workers' pay after they went on strike.  Now, these employees and customers alike are calling for boycotts. Of course, calls to boycott major tech companies are nothing new. Amazon, for example, had a boycott waged against it earlier this year. If you're a worker or consumer of these companies' products, what do you think of the boycotts? Do you participate? Tell us here

St. Paul has a final plan for the old Ford plant site. Reports MPR News’ Tim Nelson: “Mayor Melvin Carter and Ryan Companies on Tuesday announced the agreement on the vacant 122-acre site in the Highland Park neighborhood, promising hundreds of new housing units, more than 13,000 construction jobs and 1,000 permanent jobs on the site.” It’ll be three years before anyone moves into the area, and the development could take 20 years to complete. 

Tune in for impeachment hearings today. Starting at 9 a.m., we’ll carry live coverage on air and online. NPR has a primer of what to expect

Cody Nelson, MPR News
St. Croix River, 580 other waterways added to state's list of troubled waters
Kirsti Marohn | MPR News
The new additions to the MPCA’s biennial impaired waters list include a lower stretch of the St. Croix River, long considered one of the Upper Midwest’s most pristine waterways.
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Minnesota asked me to gather deer spleens for science. It wasn’t easy
John Enger | MPR News
When the DNR asked hunters this season to send in deer spleens to be tested for neonicotinoid pesticides, MPR’s Bemidji correspondent, an avid hunter, volunteered. But it turns out ID’ing a deer spleen in the woods isn’t so simple — even in the YouTube era.
Middle school introduces students to climate and energy science with hands-on project
Elizabeth Shockman | MPR News
When you teach kids about climate change, experts say, you're supposed to tell them the truth, but you're also supposed to talk to them about possible solutions. One middle school in St. Louis Park is doing that in a very hands-on way.
What's on the radio today

9 a.m. — Impeachment proceedings

Starting at 9 a.m., we’ll carry live coverage on air and online. NPR has a primer of what to expect . From NPR: “Public impeachment hearings begin Wednesday, and the first round of witnesses includes three career public servants who have testified behind closed doors that President Trump did link military aid and a White House meeting for Ukraine with a promise to investigate one of the president's domestic political opponents.”
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