Here's the latest news from across the state to start your day. ☕
WEATHER
🥶 Extreme cold warnings continue through most of the morning Tuesday due to wind chill values of 30 to 50 below zero across the state. Highs will stay in single digits above and below zero.
⛅ The frigid temperatures and wind chills persist this week through early Friday before a big warm-up takes hold this weekend into next week. Get the latest weather news on Updraft.
One of President Trump’s first actions after taking office was an executive order indefinitely suspending the U.S. refugee resettlement program. A family living in St. Cloud who fled Afghanistan a year ago worries about relatives left behind.
Five people in New York face murder charges in the killing of 24-year-old Sam Nordquist, a transgender man from Oakdale. To mourn his loss, a group of about 100 people gathered in below zero temperatures Monday on the steps of the State Capitol in St. Paul.
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NEWS ROUNDUP
🥶 Extreme cold prompts school delays, closures across Minnesota for Tuesday. Dangerously cold air has settled across the Upper Midwest this week, prompting some school districts in Minnesota and neighboring states to cancel classes Tuesday. Some will be running on a delayed start or moving online.
🕯️ Authorities say they have no indications yet that Sam Nordquist’s death was a hate crime. Five people have been charged with second-degree murder in the killing of Sam Nordquist. Authorities found Nordquist’s body in a field and investigators say he was subjected to weeks of torture and abuse.
🚨 Police arrest apparent leader of cultlike ‘Zizian’ group linked to multiple killings in the U.S. The Zizians have been tied to the killing of U.S. Border Patrol Agent David Maland, a former Minnesotan, near the Canadian border in January and five other homicides in Vermont, Pennsylvania and California.
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