COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The holiday season can be a time of joy and happiness for some while inducing stress and anxiety for others. Burrell Behavioral Health’s Director of Outpatient Services Ashley Angerer-Blunt offers some advice on how to navigate the holiday season. “Holiday seasons can be really stressful,” said Angerer-Blunt, “there are a lot of
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TODAY: Christmas morning is starting cold, but we’re as warm as we’ve been since noon on Thursday by this afternoon. Expect highs in the 20s with a more southerly wind and abundant morning sun. Some extra clouds will find their way into mid-MO by the afternoon, and with them will come a chance at a
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TONIGHT: Christmas eve is a cold one, with temperatures falling into the the single digits overnight. Relaxing winds will help with wind chills, but till drop feels like temperatures below zero. TOMORROW: Christmas starts cold with temperatures near zero. A light west wind turns more southerly, which will help warm us with abundant sunshine into
Continue ReadingBy Marcia Reverdosa, Maija-Liisa Ehlinger and Heather Chen, CNN The son and daughter of Brazilian football legend Pelé have taken to Instagram to post moving tributes and pictures of their father as they spend Christmas at his side at the Albert Einstein Jewish Hospital in São Paulo. “We continue to be here, in fight and
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed, Marshall Cohen and Zachary Cohen, CNN In December 2020, after then-Attorney General William Barr publicly refuted President Donald Trump’s claims that the election was rigged, White House staffers drafted a press release that would’ve called for the firing of anyone who disagreed with Trump’s claims, according to a new transcript from the
Continue ReadingBy Paula Reid and Marshall Cohen, CNN The January 6 committee’s criminal referrals to the Justice Department, urging the prosecution of Donald Trump, are “worthless,” one of the former president’s lawyers told CNN on Saturday. “The referral itself is pretty much worthless,” Trump lawyer Tim Parlatore said on “CNN Newsroom.” “The Department of Justice doesn’t
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RUSSELLVILLE, Mo. (KMIZ) A fire broke out Saturday morning destroying four apartments just west of Jefferson City in Russellville. The Russellville Lohman Fire Protection District along with Cole County Fire and Cole County EMS all responded to the call in the 12000 block of Jefferson Street around 3:00 a.m. for a fully involved structure fire.
Continue ReadingBy Tina Burnside and Harmeet Kaur, CNN Three people, including two minors, have been charged in connection with the Friday shooting at Minnesota’s Mall of America, the largest shopping center in the US, that left a 19-year-old dead, Hennepin County District Court spokesperson Matt Lehman said. Taeshawn Adams-Wright is charged with second-degree murder with intent
Continue ReadingBy Danielle Wiener-Bronner and Rebekah Riess, CNN Flight delays continued Saturday, interrupting travel during the busy holiday season as parts of the country were battered by a deadly winter storm. As of Saturday afternoon, there were upwards of 2,600 cancellations of flights into, leaving and within the United States, according to flight tracking website FlightAware.
Continue ReadingBy Adrienne Broaddus, CNN Marzena Stasieluk needed a new kidney. She’d been diagnosed with kidney disease in 2015, and ultimately needed dialysis, a grueling process where a machine did the work her kidneys could no longer do. But in order for a kidney transplant to succeed, she needed a liver first. Stasieluk’s liver disease had
Continue ReadingBy Eric Levenson, Rebekah Riess and Wayne Sterling, CNN The NFL’s Tennessee Titans delayed its scheduled noon CT game by an hour due to temporary rolling blackouts in the region that stemmed from the winter storm and brutal cold. “Due to the extreme weather and power outages affecting our region, kickoff for today’s game has
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TODAY: We are currently in a wind chill warning until 12 PM this afternoon, meaning it is going to feel much colder than it actually is. Our area is only reaching a high of 17, meaning a chilly Christmas Eve for Missouri. TOMORROW: Christmas is looking slightly warmer, but not by much, getting into the
Continue ReadingBy Brianna Keilar, CNN Twenty-two-month-old Leo hits me playfully with his pillow. “Daddy pillow!” he says proudly. Daddy pillows — or mommy pillows, if it’s mom who’s deployed — are depictions of mom or dad in portable, squeezable and, most importantly, washable form. My kids have one — lots of military kids do — because
Continue ReadingBy Forrest Brown, CNN This holiday list is for you if: You love to celebrate Christmas. You love to travel. And you love to stay warm. And the great thing about this? You don’t have to compromise on any of these desires! On this big ol’ planet of ours, you can enjoy the merry holiday,
Continue ReadingBy Nouran Salahieh, CNN The prolonged winter storm that brought heavy snow, high winds and brutal cold to most of the US this past week has killed at least 37 people and had hundreds of thousands without power on Christmas morning. Perhaps the worst impact was around Buffalo, New York, where 43 inches of snow
Continue ReadingBy Christian Edwards, CNN Photos by Toby Hancock, CNN Last year, Nataliia Doroshko, a 35-year-old lawyer, celebrated St. Nicholas Day with friends and family in her home city of Cherkasy, on the snowy banks of the Dnipro River, downstream from the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. During the party, one of the men snuck away and returned
Continue ReadingBy Sarah Lazarus, CNN One day in July 2021, my then 15-year-old daughter Poppy stumbled and fell while walking down some stairs, grazing her knee. It wasn’t a serious wound, but over the weeks it didn’t heal. Around the same time, her wrists and knees became sore; her ankles started rolling when she walked; her
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Columbia and Jefferson City have partnered with local shelters to offer a safe place for those who need to stay warm during the extreme cold.
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