Historic Winter Storm Threatens 34 States | Safety, Preparation, and What Comes Next
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz faces DOJ subpoenas alongside Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey over alleged obstruction, while critics accuse Democrats of weaponizing justice—mirroring Trump-era tactics. The segment ties ICE’s lethal 2023 Minneapolis raid (killing Renee Goode) to broader claims of Democratic hypocrisy, including shielding U.S. citizens who assault officers while aggressively targeting illegal immigrants for crimes like terrorism and child molestation (e.g., Vasquez’s New Year’s Eve rape case). Meanwhile, a historic winter storm—spanning 34 states—threatens freezing rain (Dallas, Atlanta) and heavy snow (Denver, NYC) through February, with Weatherbell’s Joe Bastardi warning of prolonged power outages and cold, urging preparedness. [Automatically generated summary]
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Minnesota governor, Mr. Masculine himself, he can relate to the average bro.
And, of course, the millions and tens of millions of dollars that the left has now spent, Democrats have spent, how can they better relate to men?
Which cracks me up.
You have to spend millions of dollars to learn how to be authentic because you're not.
I mean, you can't teach somebody to be something that they are not.
I mean, you think of what they must be telling them.
And I've gone through this before.
Hey, bro, did you watch the big game this weekend?
After work, you want to grab a brewski?
Linda, what do you think about getting some wings in a brewski after work today?
What do you think?
I mean, what does that mean you study what it means to how to relate to men or to women?
I mean, it's unbelievable.
It just reeks of a lack of authenticity in every way.
And they were telling us that Tim Walz was in part picked because they felt that he could relate to young men.
I'm like, he's the last guy that I think I'd ever relate to.
You're not finding this funny?
I find that funny.
Where did you go?
He's not there.
Why did you go?
I am here.
I was working on that special project you gave me.
Remember?
That you needed an army?
He's posted.
Anyway, Tim Walz now started raising money for a legal defense fund after the DOJ subpoenaed Walls and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Smallfry with others for allegedly conspiring to impede law enforcement.
He said, last week, the federal government opened an investigation into me.
This comes just weeks after federal ICE agents fatally shot Renee Goode in Minneapolis, unleashing chaos across our city.
Nick Sortor's Coffee Insight00:04:16
Rather than taking accountability and working to turn down the temperature, they'd ratcheted up the temperature.
He's the one calling ICE agents Gestapo.
He's the one telling people, fueling people's fire and inciting people to take out your video to cameras and take videos of these people and document this.
And they're not trained and blah, blah, blah.
You know, get the F out of my city.
You know, Mayor French Rye, you know, Smallfry said.
Let me be clear.
All of a sudden now the left cares about justice.
Let me be clear, weaponizing the justice system and threatening political opponents is a dangerous authoritarian tactic and I won't let it slide.
I'm like, are you that clueless and out of touch?
Because that is what happened to Donald Trump, you know, for nearly four straight years.
Actually, longer if you go back to Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, you know, the dirty disinformation, dossier, VISA abuse, you name it.
They were guilty of it.
They did it.
They knew the truth.
They didn't care.
That's weaponization.
And only when Donald Trump announced he was going to run in 22, oh, all of a sudden, now we're going to get a special counsel.
Now we're going to try to put Donald Trump in jail.
Now we won't raid Joe Biden's four locations where he had top secret classified information.
No reasonable prosecutor would ever prosecute all the top secret information that Hillary Clinton had.
No.
Because my job is to defend Minnesotans and the rule of law.
And I'm sure as hell, not backing down, but the road ahead is long and difficult and expenses.
And if you're with me, please rush a donation to our legal defense fund and help ensure that we can keep fighting for accountability, transparency, and justice, he added, then offering a donation link to the message.
I'm like, okay.
Everybody thinks they're getting arrested.
Don Lemon's, you know, I don't know if you saw this.
It just broke a little while ago.
Don Lemon is suspecting that he may get arrested as well.
Did you see that, Linda?
Did you look at that one?
I didn't see that.
I'm praying that he does.
Well, I mean, you know, look, there are consequences for people's actions, correct?
And the law is very, very clear.
The only person that has misinterpreted the law, I believe, purposely, is Keith Ellison.
Now, Keith Ellison is right in one part of his interpretation, and that is, you know, the FACE Act does allow access to clinics, ostensibly talking about abortion clinics.
It was signed into law by Bill Clinton in 1994, and it is very specific, but it also protects those, the use of physical force, threat of physical force, physical obstruction,
intentionally injure, intimidate, interfere with any attempt to injure, intimidate, or interfere with any person exercising or trying to exercise their First Amendment right of religious freedom at a place of religious worship.
Well, you know, you see, you know, there was Don Lemon giving out coffee and donuts.
Say coffee.
Go ahead, say it for everybody.
So you got it right.
Don Lemon gave out coffee, but I'm sure it was terrible, cheap coffee.
Yeah, actually, it looked like he had Starbucks.
Starbucks coffee.
Yeah, that's terrible coffee.
It's just not cheap.
Okay, I just disagree.
I don't care about their politics, but their dark roast is pretty good coffee.
I don't like all that fancy coffee stuff that everyone else gets.
I'm not interested in that.
Minnesota.
It's fancy, boss.
Dark roast, it's a cup of coffee.
That's all it is.
It's a $6 cup of coffee, and it tastes like crap.
Anyways, go ahead, Minnesota.
I don't know.
I don't even look at it.
I just take my little credit card, I put it in the thing, or I just tap it and boom, walk away.
I don't even look at it.
Department of Health and Human Services has warned Minnesota that they may have to repay hundreds of millions of dollars if the state keeps refusing to hand over child care center records amid the widening fraud scandal.
You know what?
We deserve our money back.
I mean, what's that young kid's name?
He testified before Congress this week.
Nick Shirley.
Nick Shirley.
What a great kid.
Arresting Illegal Immigrants Conflict00:07:32
I mean, there have been now citizen journalists, young guys.
What's the other guy?
Sorley.
He's another one.
Boy, that guy's, he's got a lot of courage.
Yeah, Nick Sortor.
Nick Sortor.
Sorry.
They both have Nick.
I didn't know that.
I didn't think about that till now.
Harmee Dylan is vowing to pursue the FACE Act charges against Don Lemon to the ends of the earth.
The Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, Harmeet Dylan, vowed Friday that the DOJ would continue pursuing charges against former fake news CNN host Don Lemon after a judge refused to sign off on them.
And, you know, she was on this program and she's been very clear about this, that she is very aggressively, very rapidly working through the legal process.
I have some insider information about where this is going.
I'll keep it to myself for now.
I think it was told to me in confidence, but, you know, by one of my sources.
But let's just say they're not letting it go, and I don't think they should let it go.
You know, we later in the program at the top of the next hour, American First Legal announced that it will provide legal representation to U.S. immigration customs enforcement officers and agents that have been unlawfully defamed and targeted, falsely accused in the wake of violent immigration enforcement riots and coordinated smear campaigns and doxing and everything in between.
You know, the worst part of all of this is Democrats complain that ISIS, they're arresting American citizens.
Where are your papers?
No, that's not what they're doing.
They completely overlook, omit the fact that these citizens were arrested for assaulting, in most cases, ICE agents.
John Lott did an investigation.
It was in the New York Post.
And countless news stories amplifying fears under Donald Trump's immigration and customs enforcement agents were wildly violating basic rights.
NPR, to cite one example, claimed that many American citizens have been mistaken for illegal immigrants.
And there's a long history of immigration agencies not having a good track record.
The truth is, when you look at numbers, which is what John Lott does best, the numbers tell a very different story about how ICE is doing under Trump.
And, you know, if you look at, you know, since his inauguration a year ago in the end of November, Trump said they arrested an extraordinary 595,000 illegal immigrants, deported over 600,000 of them.
Of the 170 U.S. citizens who have been detained by ICE over the last year, approximately 130 were arrested for interfering with or assaulting officers.
Okay, that would mean 40 mistakes.
Now, we're learning about the people that they're arresting, but they are arresting the worst of the worst.
They're arresting known terrorists.
They're arresting child molesters and child rapists.
They're arresting murderers.
They're arresting other violent criminals.
They're arresting the worst of gang members.
They're arresting cartel members.
An illegal alien in California arrested in connection with the rape of a 14-year-old autistic girl.
This illegal accused of raping this 14-year-old girl with autism on New Year's Eve in the sanctuary state of Gavin Davos-Newsom out in California.
Anyway, 20-year-old, the illegal, you know, allegedly carrying a stolen social security card, fraudulent green card, arrested by Cathedral City Police Department, charged with child rape, sexual assault of a person unable to consent, as well as abuse of a particularly vulnerable victim.
According to the police, New Year's Eve, the victim walked out of her home unannounced, a behavior that is attributed to her autism.
The girl ultimately made it to the campus of Mayfield College, where she encountered this guy, Vasquez, who then convinced her to walk with him.
This is when police allege that Vasquez lured the girl back to his apartment, raped her, sodomized her.
And once the victim was allowed to leave the apartment, she walked home, told her parents what had occurred.
The victim's parents rightfully contacted the police.
This is happening all the time.
And if Democrats had their way, they would never be able to arrest people like this.
By the way, the Minnesota judge that nicks the charges against Don Lemon has ties to the ICE-hating Attorney General Keith Ellison, a magistrate in that particular case identified, whose wife reportedly works as an assistant attorney general in Keith Ellison's office.
Can anyone repeat after me?
Sounds like conflict of interest.
Leaders of last Sunday's Minnesota church invasion had ties to the Minneapolis Democratic Party power structure.
We're now learning this.
Both of the head, you know, New York Post hooligans, haven't heard that phrase in a while, in Sunday St. Paul church invasion are connected to the Minneapolis-St. Paul political power structure.
One is a prominent Black Lives Matter activist and member of the St. Paul School Board, you know, proudly claiming the gang was imitating Jesus when it stormed the church to harass the congregation.
Again, against the law.
The FACE Act is very clear.
I just read it to you.
The other attorney is a past president of the Minneapolis NAACP chapter, former mayoral candidate claiming the goons were doing the Lord's work because it's unconscionable and unacceptable for an ICE overseer to dare preach the word of God.
By the way, didn't it turn out this pastor had nothing to do with ICE?
Maybe he just supported them.
I don't think he had any connection to him or worked for him.
That's what they were claiming.
I have not seen any evidence to that point.
Also, U.S. Immigration Custom Enforcement has arrested several criminal illegals convicted of serious sex crimes, including against minors during a recent immigration enforcement surge in Washington State and Oregon.
ICE enforcement removal operations, Seattle announced the recent arrest among those apprehended.
45-year-old guy from Mexico convicted in 2005 of first-degree felony rape of a child.
That guy was arrested, by the way, again in 2010, charged with assault with sexual motivation per court filings.
Again, he's in the country illegally.
And another guy from Sri Lanka was taken into custody by ICE Seattle and Oregon at the time when he committed a lengthy list of sexual offenses in 2014.
Now, if the Democrats have their way, is your town or city more safe and more secure?
Now, it's fascinating to watch because yesterday, House Democrats, seven of them, they broke ranks with Hakeem Jeffries and they passed the funding bill for DHS.
Now, Democrats were threatening to shut the government down and not fund ICE.
Why did they do it?
I guarantee you, Hakeem Jeffries purposefully got these seven people to get on board so that it would pass.
And he wants to maintain power, but he wants to, you know, make sure his hands are clean and he's not responsible because he doesn't want to be Chuck Schumert.
Freezing Rain Forecast00:14:30
Only Republican voting against, gee, real shocker, Tom Massey, who's useless out of Kentucky.
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All right.
Let me tell you what's going on.
We have bad weather.
It's going to impact very large parts of the country.
It's historic.
It's widespread.
It's a long-lasting winter storm.
It's getting underway that, you know, blasting parts of the South with destructive ice, heavy snow for millions of people from the plains to the Midwest to the Northeast.
It will result in widespread dangerous travel, probably for days, catastrophic ice accumulations in the South.
I remember when I lived in Atlanta, and, you know, they have the black car asphalt, and they call it black ice because, I mean, you wouldn't even notice it, and you get no traction, and all these accidents occur, and a lot of people used to get injured.
You're going to have heavy snow or ice forecast now for 34 states from Arizona to the Midwest, the South, New England.
And we're talking about places that don't often or usually get conditions like this.
And we're talking about snow freezing rain, sleet, and it's going to get bad for people.
I mean, they're looking at places like Phoenix and Albuquerque, even Midland, Texas, Amarillo, Dallas, Houston, Oklahoma City, Little Rock, Jackson, Mississippi, Omaha, Kansas City, Denver.
And then it makes its way, you know, all through, for example, areas like Nashville, Shreveport, the Atlanta metro area, Greenville, Spartanburg, Charlotte, Raleigh, Durham, Richmond, and the entire northeast part of the country.
I mean, you've got, you know, all the way from the Texas panhandle, Oklahoma, Ohio Valley, Northeast.
I mean, a minimum of six inches of snow.
People were making fun of Mamdani, Kami Marks' Mamdani, for saying it'll be anywhere between 3 and 16 inches.
Oh, thanks for breaking that down for us.
Anyway, he is the official meteorologist of this radio program, Weatherbell.com's Joe Bastardi is here.
All right, so this is the real deal.
It's tell us when, where, who's going to be impacted.
And my advice for everybody is to take what you're about to say seriously.
Make preparations now.
Anticipate there's going to be power outages.
The travel may ultimately be impossible.
Probably airports will be shut down.
And it's going to be disruptive.
It's going to be damaging.
I urge all of you to go to your local grocery store.
Now, don't be one of those hoarder people.
Just don't.
You know, look at the forecast.
See how long you need provisions for it.
Just take what you need.
Take a little bit extra if you want to be on this safe side and leave some for your neighbors and other people.
I can't stand people.
They go in with 15 carts and they fill it up because they're in a panic.
But do take precautions.
If you have a fireplace, worried about, and you don't have a generator, everybody should have a generator.
Why don't people get generators?
You need a generator.
But anyway, Joe, welcome back to the program.
How bad is this?
Well, it's as extensive as you'll ever see a storm, and it's kind of interesting.
We've been waiting, I believe my company, Weatherbell, on January 12th said, look out the 24th through the 30th because that's when everything was coming together where you'd get enough northern branch cold air.
And this system came into San Diego.
The upper system came into San Diego last night, and it takes three days.
It comes across the country, picks the moisture up, and just slams it into the big cold high to the north.
So by tomorrow morning, the front edge of the snow will be running on a line along the Mississippi River for Arkansas and Missouri.
You go west of that, it'll be snow.
It'll be snowing very hard.
If you folks know roads, I use roads because I talk to trucking industry and stuff like that.
Interstate 40 from Little Rock to Oklahoma City.
North of that, it'll be snowing very hard.
South of that, it will change over to sleet and freezing rain.
So you get up tomorrow morning, you'll have freezing rain, for instance, just starting in the Metroplex.
It'll rain, turn to freezing rain, and then into a very cold rain in there in Dallas, Fort Worth.
It'll be freezing rain out in Midland.
Now, that progresses northeastward.
So what we have here, I'm going to describe this.
It takes off to the northeast.
And by tomorrow evening, the front edge of the snow will be from northeast Missouri to about Charleston, West Virginia.
It'll be snowing hard in Kentucky, for instance.
It'll be over to all sleet and freezing rain.
It'll snow a few inches in Nashville, change over to sleet and freezing rain there.
They'll be over to sleet and freezing.
Yeah, am I wrong in believing that I'd rather have snow than sleet and freezing rain because, you know, I mean, it makes driving conditions that much tougher for people.
Well, freezing rain, freezing rain is an interesting beast in that if they have the roads prepped the right way and there's not a lot of wind, you can get away with that.
There's a lot of wind when there's freezing rain.
The roads ice up pretty bad.
But, you know, by Sunday morning, this is just a very ugly situation.
The freezing rain is going to cover from Texas, most of Arkansas, into southern Kentucky, and all of the Carolinas from, you know, from Atlanta northeastward up to about Richmond, Virginia, will be in freezing rain and sleet.
North of that, so you've got to understand what I'm describing here.
You have this arcing, almost a banana-shaped area of snow extending from Oklahoma all the way to Atlantic City by that time, north of this area of ice.
And then that continues to progress, and the storm reaches maturity Sunday and Sunday night from the Ohio Valley on into the northeast part of the United States.
And, you know, in New York City for our friendly mayor over there, you're probably going to get about 10 inches of snow in Central Park with some sleet at the height of the storm, 15 inches northwest of the city.
Most of southern New England, 10 to 15 inches.
Most of Pennsylvania, 10 to 15 inches.
Most of Ohio into Indiana, 10 to 15 inches.
It's generally a 10 to 15 inch storm.
It will keep moving.
It's what we're let's walk across the country.
When does it start and where?
And walk so people can prepare.
Let's start.
Why don't you give me the place and I'll tell you what's going to happen?
All right.
Let's start as far west as we can, like Albuquerque, Lubbock, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, and then we'll move to Little Rock, New Orleans, Shreveport.
Well, in the state of Texas, first is Albuquerque.
This will be ending, it looks like late tonight into tomorrow morning.
You get out into Texas, the storm begins to evolve this afternoon into tomorrow night, or excuse me, late tonight into tomorrow and tomorrow night.
And I mean, you know, I'm describing something here where it's snowing, it changes over to sleet and freezing rain, changes back to snow across Texas.
The worst of the storm in Texas is generally north of this Interstate 30, which runs from Texas, Canada, back toward Dallas and then 20 back into the west part of the state.
North of that, they're just going to be encased in ice.
It's not as bad as 21, folks.
It's a one-to-two-day event, not a week event.
So it's not a worry that we're repeating 2021 in there.
Houston, I think, gets off almost scot-free.
New Orleans, the Gulf Coast gets off scot-free on this.
I mean, Houston, you may have some.
Well, Shreveport's going to get hit, though.
Shreveport's going to start as rain and change over to freezing rain.
I think the change over to freezing rain comes late tomorrow and tomorrow night in Shreport.
They're not going to get hit as bad as, for instance, Texas, Canada, and the southern part of Arkansas.
Then the storm progresses.
Okay, so when we get to Sunday, the core of the storm for snow is from southern Missouri in an arcing band through Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, all the way into New York City by Sunday.
All right, but let's take one more step.
So you go from Texas to Little Rock, Shreport, Kansas City, and then it's going to move eastward towards Nashville, Atlanta, even Jacksonville, I understand, might get a little bit of this as well.
Charlotte.
When does Atlanta and Charlotte get hit?
Jacksonville.
And Charleston get hit.
And Virginia Beach get hit.
Okay, well, Jacksonville is not getting anything out of this.
So someone is getting a little bit too carried away there.
The situation is Saturday night, the rain changes over to freezing rain in Atlanta.
It's already free.
It's all freezing rain in Charlotte and the Carolinas.
It's just a big ice storm coming Saturday night into Sunday.
And we're talking amounts of three-quarters of an inch to an inch and a quarter of ice that's going to build up.
It's a cold storm in there.
Virginia Beach is going to change the rain.
But once you're back in Richmond, it's all ice.
It starts as a couple of inches of snow and changes to freezing rain.
All right.
So you get to Philly and D.C., they probably get six to ten inches of snow and changes some sleet and freezing rain in there.
All right.
When does it hit the northeast?
When does it hit Philly?
When does it hit DC?
When does it hit New York?
Well, that comes in very late Saturday night, Sunday, and Sunday night.
It's a 12 to 18-hour storm.
You probably can set your watch to it.
Start snowing in Philadelphia maybe midnight to 2 a.m. Sunday, and it'll probably come to an end, you know, like I said, 18 hours later, the bulk of the snow is over in there.
So it does move through.
Boston and Providence comes in Sunday afternoon, and it's done by Monday at noon in there.
So it moves through, moves through pretty quickly.
All right.
What do you advise people?
I advise people to just hunker down.
Go get your provisions now.
Don't be a hoarder.
Don't be selfish.
Leave some for your neighbor.
You know, pick up whatever provisions you need.
And that probably includes batteries and things like that.
So, you know, if you need batteries, don't take the whole rack.
You ever see people when they do that, they take all the eggs, all the milk, all the, you know, it's crazy.
And it's like, we're really talking about people being snowed in or iced in for how many days?
Two days, three days, Max?
Well, the snow, they should be able to get rid of 10 to 15 inches of snow a day or two in these places that plow snow.
Well, let's assume you're older and you don't want to go out in the snow and you're not going to be in good enough shape to go get groceries and stuff.
So how many days do you want to really prepare for?
It's one or two.
I mean, you know, it's one or two.
But in the Carolinas and Virginia, and, you know, the area where there's freezing rain is the place that's of most concern because, you know, then you're dealing with power outages.
And the problem we have with this is it's just not going to be warm.
I mean, the worst part of the winter for the United States is in front of us.
This is just the beginning of a very cold period that's probably going to last through February.
So it's not going to melt off as quick as we would like it to melt off.
The worst places for freezing rain will be from Dallas to about Oxford, Mississippi, across southern Arkansas, and from Richmond back into Charlotte and Greensville, Greenville-Spartanburg.
Atlanta is not as bad as a little bit first east, a little bit further northeast.
But that area in the Carolinas, the western and central Carolinas, the Piedmont, boy, I'll tell you what, this is a big, big ice storm in there.
The rest of us look, well, every once in a while, I get a 10 to 15 inch snow in New York City.
So, you know, that's what it's going to be.
You're going to have 12 to 18 hours.
There's going to be a real pain in the neck.
They'll clean the roads.
And, you know, I'm more worried about them running out of salt before this winter's over because we've had in the Northeast, we've had these storms.
And I think, like I said before, the whole, and I talk to people in the salt industry, there's some interesting shortages already beginning to show up there.
So this storm may be sort of the beginning of what may be a prolonged period where we're going to have to really pay close attention to the weather.
I'd be a real jerk if I talked about weather where I live, wouldn't I, Bea?
Well, you got to watch out for iguanas.
They don't bother me at all.
I see them.
They don't bother me one bit.
I might joke around about it later, but in all seriousness, I want this audience to be safe and secure.
Know it's coming.
There's a lot of good football this weekend.
You know, pick up some extra provisions, get some beer, get some chips, get some whatever you like to snack on, and just buckle up, you know, get some firewood in the house.
If you have a fireplace, God forbid, if your power goes out, you might need the heat.
You know, just take those extra provisions.
And if you have a neighbor that's in need, maybe elderly neighbor, you know, walk over to the house.
Anything I can get you from the grocery store, I'm going shopping.
And it's a time for Americans to do what they always do best, rise to the occasion and help people.
And then it's time for talk show hosts that are jerks like me, you know, to talk about how nice the weather is where I live, which I'm not going to do until later.
Yeah, well, I replied to Governor DeSantis because he was showing the cold can't invade Florida.
I go, you better watch out next weekend.
I could see a freeze all the way into the orange grove.
Oh, when the next hurricane's headed towards my house, believe me, people will pay me back.
Trust me.
You're immune there in South Florida.
That southeast coast of Florida, where you live, it's amazing how long it's been since they've been coming.
All right.
Don't stop jinxing us.
Will you just stop?
Just stop.
I don't need this from you.
Anyway, weatherbell.com.
You can check out the latest weather reports all weekend long.
Joe Bastardi, official meteorologist of the Sean Hannity Show.
Thank you.
We'll have full reports on Hannity tonight.
Just so you're fully briefed in and aware, please take it seriously.
You just, you know, understand, you know, don't mess with Mother Nature.