whether the pardon is consistent with public safety since taking office in 2019 governor newsom has granted 140 pardons. and a reminder. chp s stepped up holiday enforcement period is now in effect. the maximum patrols will go through christmas day, officers will be looking for impaired drivers and speeders. highway patrol says 28 people died in crashes during last christmas holiday, last year's christmas holiday enforcement period. 341 people were arrested for driving under the influence. four miles of trails in the big base of redwoods. state park will reopen more than two years after a devastating wildfire. they're easy, you lightning complex fire damage to the park. some of the trails have reopened, and they include the newly renovated meteor trail and a real open section of the north escape road. visitors still must use an online reservation system to access the park big basin which opened way back in 19 oh, two, is the oldest state park. right here in california. extreme winter weather sweeping across the country on this christmas eve foxes medal in rivera is at newark liberty international airport with the very latest

s. and canada, at least 48 people have died. new york's governor warns it's far from over. ah, i'm terry johnson. this is officer a lot from dough. also coming up, the un that tells the taliban to reverse a band on aid agencies employing a female workers. south korea scrambles helicopters and jet soft and north korean drones enter its air space. and we look back on the yes, silicon valley is tech giants were brought crashing down to work. ah, the death toll from one of north america's most severe winter storms in decades has risen to at least 48. more than half of those are in new york state, one of the worst affected regions in the us. some areas are buried under meter of snow with residence, stranded in their cars for up to 2 days. officials a warning that the blizzard like conditions are set to continue when across the board of canada, thousands remain without power in the 2 biggest provinces, ontario and quebec. when the storm warnings remain in place for parts of the western province of british columbia, for people were killed there and dozens more injured when a bus rolled on an icy road, was enjoying begi

office. one of them is going to the u. s. congress and the other is going to be lieutenant governor, which means they have to resign from the statel number of special elections for democratic seats up to three. now all those democrats were representing solidly democratic districts and the pennsylvania state house, so nobody really expect republicans to pick up any of them and jeopardize the democrats very slim majority. but lawmakers still get to decide when to hold the special elections for those open seats. the incoming democratic leader moved to schedule all of those special elections for february 7th which makes sense because that was the day pennsylvania had already set aside told the special election to replace tony toluca, what of course passed away just before the election. but pennsylvania republicans have decided, they don't longer like that data february 7th, which was a date that they chose in the first place. now those very same republicans have filed a lawsuit to try to push those special elections until the month of may. why you ask? well, if democrats have to wait to fill those vacancies until may, that means repu