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Our classic January weather for Minnesota continues today. It'll be mostly sunny, with afternoon highs near zero for the northeast to lower teens in southern Minnesota. There's a chance of snow for the northern half of the state tonight. Find the latest on Updraft.
Seven-year-old Yvette Tessman gets her first COVID-19 vaccine from nurse Jean Gaudette at Cityview Community School in Minneapolis on Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021. Evan Frost | MPR News file
Omicron-fueled case surge sends Minnesota students back home
Minnesota students returned to classrooms just a few days ago, but the recent case spike in the state is making schools switch back to distance learning already. 

The Northfield school district says its schools saw their positive COVID-19 cases double from Monday to Tuesday. In the last two weeks they’ve had 135 positive cases; that's significantly higher than 332 cases from the entirety of last semester.

In the New Brighton-St. Anthony district, they saw over 30 cases the last few days, as compared to a total of eight in November. Leaders there made the call this week to end in-person learning and shift to asynchronous learning for the next three weeks.

Two more Minnesota school districts, Robbinsdale and Worthington, also announced this week that they're moving back to distance learning due to a rapid case increase.

MPR News reporter Elizabeth Shockman will have more on this story later this morning at MPRnews.org and this afternoon on All Things Considered.
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Hangin' 10 below 10  Subzero wind chills didn't stop dozens of surfers from flocking to Stoney Point this week, a well-known surf spot about 15 miles up the shore of Lake Superior from Duluth, for surf conditions they say were the best in years. We got photos and video of those daredevil surfers up north🏄📷

Minnesota is getting a new COVID testing site today, and more soon to fight the omicron surge. The new community testing site opens today at the National Guard Armory in Anoka, and state health officials say they would stand up three new community testing sites to deal with the surging demand for testing. Walk-ins are available but appointments are recommended.

A potter revered in Japan finally gets a show in U.S. —  at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.  The ceramic work by Kamoda Shoji is so sought-after in his homeland that it had never before been shown outside of Japan. Our reporter Euan Kerr went to the gallery for a tour of his work. 
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