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I'm going to tell you what it's like in Washington DC when it snows in the winter.

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Washington DC has four seasons and over the course of a winter we can usually count on seeing some snow. In a typical winter the

median snowfall is about 12 inches. Now, whether you think that's a lot or almost nothing

depends on exactly where you're coming from and what you're used to. In some parts of upstate New York or New England

12 inches is what you might get in a single day and in other parts of the country or the world

12 inches might be more than you get in an entire lifetime.

If you're trying to see snow or to avoid it, you'll want to pay the most attention to January and February,

even though it's definitely possible to see snowflakes in

December or March, the first two months of the year are

usually when we can most expect it. Of course the question that everybody wants to have answered is: what actually

happens in DC when it snows? I've classified our snowstorms into three types of events which i'm calling: code yellow, code

orange, and code red. Quick disclaimer that these are not official in any way, they're just a little something that I invented to try to

explain my own experience. So first let's talk about a code yellow

when snow sticks to the ground but there's really not that much. When this happens

kids in the suburbs will get a snow day or at least a delayed start and kids in the city will probably just have a

regular day. Federal office buildings will all be open and people will be expected to go into work just like any other day. For visitors

all of the major sites will be open with no noticeable

disruptions. If you're flying in or out of the city you might see a small delay but you shouldn't have to worry about

cancellations

unless there's a big storm in some other part of the country that's messing up the air system. This is the ideal snow scenario for

the typical visitor, because you get to see snow

play around in a little bit, but it's not going to mess up any of your plans. A more severe

snowstorm might be classified as a Code Orange.

In this scenario there's enough snow that kids in both the suburbs and the city are going to get a snow day there's also enough

snow on the ground that you'll see people out building snowmen on the National Mall and kids sledding down the hill

near the Capitol. Federal offices will be open but the workers will get what's called an unscheduled

telework or leave day, which means that they can either

go into work as usual, take a vacation day, or work from home if they have a laptop or materials with them. For visitors

most of the sites will still be open which includes

Smithsonian museums and places like the Capitol Visitor Center, but on a day like this it is always worth double-checking on

social media or by calling ahead before you make the trip over there. If you're flying into town you'll probably see some delays

but shouldn't be at a major risk of

cancellations. And the last snow scenario is my Code Red. This is the one that might actually

mess up your trip. Kids will get multiple snow days in a row and

federal office buildings will be completely closed, which means on these days even the adults get a snow day. If federal

offices are closed that means that the federal tourist sites will be closed as well. So no capital tours, no National Archives

no museums and no zoo. When the weather is this bad it can be hard to even get around at all.

Metro does run in the snow but the above-ground

sections will close if there's more than eight inches or if the tracks are really icy. The local DC government

does have snow plows and salt trucks

but not nearly enough of them to clear the entire city very quickly during a really big storm. It's important to appreciate that

cities buy enough snow removal infrastructure for their typical winter and even though, yes, we do get snow

remember that it's only a median of 12 inches every year, and that's over the course of the entire winter.

So one really big storm can be pretty crippling. Now with all of that said hopefully you're not feeling it too scared. If you want

to come to DC in the winter, just

come! We've had plenty of winters in recent memory where it basically didn't snow at all or we just had a few really

nice dustings. And yes there have been a few years when we got really socked by a big snowstorm, but you can't plan around those

and if you try you're basically just going to be writing off

entire parts of the year. Winter is actually a great time to come to DC

because tourism is really low so you get much smaller crowds at all of the major sites, just give yourself a little bit of flexibility

and everything should be fine. And that's it! Thank you for watching this video. If you found it helpful you can subscribe to this channel

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Obama Alumni Return to Washington, This Time as House Freshmen - Duration: 5:55.

Obama Alumni Return to Washington, This Time as House Freshmen

WASHINGTON — Their previous jobs have taken them to the Oval Office, the Situation Room and the Senate floor. One met with a Saudi king and plotted strategy to fight the Islamic State. Another cracked down on human rights abuses in North Korea. Their Rolodexes are flush with former cabinet members and current Pentagon officials who are happy to take their calls.

Nearly a dozen members of the House's incoming class are far from being gawky freshmen, stumbling wide-eyed through the strange corridors of Capitol Hill, but are instead experienced policymakers who have worked in previous presidential administrations — seven of them for former President Barack Obama. Their return to Washington is, in part, a way to undo what they see as the unspooling of the values and legacy of the nation's 44th president.

"We have just won a very fragile foothold in one institution in Washington at a time when all the institutions and norms are under attack," said Tom Malinowski, who served Mr. Obama as assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labor. "This election is not about changing the country. It's about saving the country."

But in a freshman class where confrontation, not cooperation, could be most prized, it is not clear whether the Washington veterans will assume leadership roles or take a back seat to younger, brasher freshmen like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.

The group brings not only experience, "but a philosophy of government," said David Axelrod, Mr. Obama's former senior adviser, adding: "They're progressive but they're pragmatic. They're results-oriented. They measure success more by what they do than whether they can score a win for the blue team."

House Democrats have promised real progress on an agenda that includes lowering prescription drug prices, expanding health insurance coverage and increasing infrastructure investment, as well as investigating President Trump. And these freshmen — who include a cabinet secretary to President Bill Clinton and former key policy players at the White House and Pentagon — provide significant heft.

"This is a group that has really seen it all," said Eric Lesser, a former Obama White House aide who is now a state senator in Massachusetts. "They're just not going to be intimidated."

A pair of them, Elissa Slotkin of Michigan and Mr. Malinowski of New Jersey, have previously tussled with Congress. Ms. Slotkin, a former C.I.A. officer who served three tours of duty in Iraq and informed the nation's strategy against the Islamic State, appeared before the Senate for her confirmation hearing as a nominee for assistant secretary of defense to Mr. Obama. (She also served under George W. Bush.)

Mr. Malinowski, who helped levy sanctions against North Korean officials for human rights abuses, was confirmed as assistant secretary of state after receiving lavish praise from Senator John McCain. Another incoming member, Haley Stevens of Michigan, was once in charge of Mr. Obama's Senate confirmations and cabinet designations.

Joining them is a former Clinton health and human services secretary, Donna Shalala of Florida, who dealt with the rising cost of health care long before the passage of the Affordable Care Act, and Lauren Underwood of Illinois, a former senior adviser on health issues under Mr. Obama. Andy Kim of New Jersey served on Mr. Obama's National Security Council.

Incoming members are already leveraging one of the perks of their veteran status: an easy familiarity with prominent movers and shakers. Ms. Slotkin was in the green room at MSNBC, waiting to be interviewed, when she bumped into a lawyer she knew from her days working on Mr. Bush's National Security Council, John B. Bellinger III.

"I sort of said, Hey, I just want to reintroduce myself, I was a young staffer when you were the senior lawyer at State," she said. "He couldn't have been more lovely, and we were reconnecting on people we knew in common."

Mr. Malinowski said he intended to reach out to Republican senators with whom he has worked, and Ms. Slotkin's stack of congratulatory notes looks like a who's who of Washington.

"A lot of my national security community from both sides of the aisle have been reaching out and saying, 'Anything we can do,'" she said in an interview.

On the other side of the aisle, Michael Waltz, Republican of Florida, is a former Green Beret officer who served as Vice President Dick Cheney's counterterrorism adviser and as the Pentagon's director for Afghanistan policy.

In significant ways, the Washington that the Obama alumni are returning to is a different place, ruled by people who rose to power by explicitly repudiating Mr. Obama.

In many cases, that compelled them to run. Ms. Underwood, a nurse and former Obama health adviser, was spurred on by Republican efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, backed by the incumbent she ultimately defeated. "I got mad," she said.

Many who ran viewed their campaigns as an answer to the call to action that Mr. Obama issued in his farewell address delivered in Chicago, where he implored his supporters to take up the mantle of his legacy.

"Who better to offer that accountability than people who have seen an administration from the inside and understand how to hold it accountable?" asked Julián Castro, a secretary of housing and urban development under Mr. Obama.

Colin Allred of Texas, a former White House fellow and special assistant to the general counsel of the Department of Housing and Urban Development under Mr. Castro, has expertise that will be in high demand: congressional oversight. One of his tasks at HUD was fielding oversight requests from Capitol Hill.

Mr. Allred, a former N.F.L. linebacker and civil rights lawyer who ousted a veteran Texas Republican, said Democrats must strike a careful balance between oversight and legislation.

"I ran for Congress, and now I am planning to go there to get things done," he said. "I think there are certainly times when we need to be a check on this president, but there are also things that we can work with him on."

For some alumni who heeded Mr. Obama's call to service, the rewards were rich. Funded personally by Mr. Obama, an infrastructure emerged to help former administration officials capture office.

Officials, like Eric H. Holder Jr., the former attorney general, Samantha Power, the former United Nations ambassador, and Valerie Jarrett, the former senior White House adviser, headlined fund-raisers in seven major cities across the nation — in one instance tickets started at $44 and went up to $10,000. Joseph R. Biden Jr., the former vice president, campaigned for Ms. Underwood, and when Mr. Obama headlined a rally in his home state of Illinois, she was there.

Jim Hagedorn, a newly elected Republican from Minnesota and former Treasury Department official, and Mr. Waltz did not have all that at their disposal. But they did market their experience. Mr. Waltz featured a snapshot of himself in Mr. Cheney's office shaking the vice president's hand.

Mr. Waltz said he saw room to work with the Obama alumni, noting their shared experiences in national security and overseas service.

"On the ship, in the foxhole, no one cares about your political affiliation. It's about mission. It's about getting results," he said in an interview. "I pray we keep that ethos."

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Border unrest stokes Washington tensions ahead of perilous month for Donald Trump

An attempt by 500 migrants to rush the southern border is likely to pour fresh fuel on Donald Trumps inflammatory rhetoric on immigration as he tries to bolster his presidency at a perilous political moment.

The President spent weeks ahead of the midterm elections warning that the United States was about to experience an invasion from a migrant caravan trekking north across Mexico, and sent troops to the border in what critics branded a political stunt.

Given that strategy, the President is almost certain to highlight reports that a group of migrants overwhelmed both Mexican federal and local police blockades and rushed towards the border at one of the busiest crossings between Tijuana in Mexico and San Diego, California. Border crossings were closed in both directions for several hours, and it did not appear that any migrants breached the frontier.

Sundays events will further electrify political tensions in Washington as it gets to work after the Thanksgiving holiday and ahead of a month of transition and increasing vulnerability for the President.

Trump and Congress are already facing a two-week deadline to fund the government or risk a partial federal shutdown. Trumps White House is on edge as he mulls the fate of key players ahead of a staff reshuffle. The President is also keen to make the most of his final month of a GOP monopoly on power in Capitol Hill, and finally win funding for his border wall. He is also pushing an apparently reluctant Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to act on a criminal justice bill -- one of the few bipartisan initiatives this year.

Trump is also set to travel to another big international summit this week -- the G20 in Argentina -- that carries the habitual possibility that he could again fall out with other world leaders. The trip will also bring him face-to-face with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the most contentious moment in US-China relations for decades as a trade war rages between the two powers.

Democrats lining up investigations

Most ominously for Trump, Democrats are positioning themselves to unleash an unprecedented regime of investigation and oversight against his White House as soon as they take the reins of power in January, while special counsel Robert Mueller grinds away ever closer to the Presidents inner circle.

Just how miserable things could get next year for the President were revealed by incoming House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff on CNNs "State of the Union" on Sunday. The California Democrat vowed to bring acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker before Congress to probe whether he was appointed with the express purpose of disrupting the Mueller investigation.

He said the President was not being honest in casting doubt on the CIAs conclusion that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was responsible for the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.

Schiff also said the new Democratic House would investigate whether the Presidents response to this and other foreign policy questions was being influenced by a "hidden hand" of investments or past or business ties.

"Is his personal financial interest driving US policy in the Gulf? Is it driving US policy vis-a-vis the Russians? We dont know, but it would be irresponsible not to find out," Schiff said.

On NBCs "Meet the Press," Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, who will head the House Oversight Committee, vowed proportionate investigations.

"The American people said to us through this election, We want accountability. We want to check on this President of the United States. But they also said something else. They said, We want you to solve our problems." Cummings said.

A glimpse of how Washington will change

The prospects of flying subpoenas and administration officials being hauled up to Capitol Hill points to crucial dynamics ahead of the 2020 elections.

How will the President react? Will Democrats overreach and play into McConnells warnings of "presidential harassment?" Can the President leverage Democratic opposition to court suburban voters who deserted him in the midterms? Or will any revelations either from congressional probes or Mueller prove to be so serious that they bury his White House in scandal and put his entire presidency at risk?

Trump could emerge from a period of retooling in his administration facing even fewer restraints from subordinates than has already been the case.

Key officials like Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and White House chief of staff John Kelly are waiting to see if they will be retained. And Trump denied a Wall Street Journal report that hes getting irked by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin over recent stock market losses.

Mnuchin is not currently thought to be threatened, but the report, and the Presidents frequent tweeting about oil prices and the markets, does appear to hint at some nervousness over the future of the economy, which in its currently roaring state is the best argument for his 2020 reelection hopes.

In a glimpse into the feudal nature of life in Trumps orbit, his former political aide Corey Lewandowski writes in his new book that enemies of the President are "embedded" in the White House and government agencies and trying to thwart his agenda, according to The Washington Post.

Trump has often embraced moments of converging threats and challenges to stoke an atmosphere of chaos in Washington that bolsters his standing with his political base and puts his opponents off balance.

But he now faces a test of his political strategy since his method -- for instance, using inflammatory rhetoric about immigration -- appears to have hurt Republicans in House races, even if it boosted Senate contenders.

For now, there is no sign of an adjustment: Trump broke convention in his Thanksgiving calls with troops by injecting political rhetoric about immigration and trade and boasting about his success.

His recent behavior, including a feud with Chief Justice John Roberts, either betrays an inability to rein in his relish for confrontation or a strategic decision that the wrecking ball approach is the best way to ensure his reelection.

Back on the border

Trump spent part of the weekend highlighting the migrant caravan.

"If for any reason it becomes necessary, we will CLOSE our Southern Border. There is no way that the United States will, after decades of abuse, put up with this costly and dangerous situation anymore!" Trump tweeted Saturday.

He may return to the topic on Monday in a pair of rallies for Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, who is facing a runoff amid controversy over her past racially-tinged comments and actions.

The Washington Post reported that the incoming administration in Mexico has agreed to allow asylum seekers to remain south of the US border while their applications were processed, in what would be seen by Trump as a victory.

The new government however denied in a statement to CNN that a deal had been done.

The politics of immigration will bear watching in the weeks ahead since they are crucial to Trump, who tends to resort to extremes and Democrats who do not wish to come across as soft on border issues.

One Republican, Sen. Joni Ernst, who faces a potentially tricky Iowa re-election race in 2020, hinted at the delicate nature of an issue that electrifies Trump base but can alienate more moderate voters on "State of the Union."

She said she would prefer that Trump not follow through on his threat to close the US border, though pointed to the reports from Mexico to argue his rhetoric could be working.

"I certainly think the President sees results any time that he does bring up an issue, and he does lay down certain reasons why hes doing what hes doing," Ernst told CNNs Dana Bash on "State of the Union."

Ernst also said she hoped that Trump would not honor threats to partially shutter the government if he does not get his border wall funded.

Trump said last week that if there was ever going to be a shutdown over the border wall, now would probably be the time to do it.

Congress averted a shutdown in September by passing a massive spending bill to fund a large portion of the government. The package did not, however, include money for Trumps wall. Instead, lawmakers passed a shorter-term spending bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security, among other agencies, until December 7.

Its not clear either side really wants a shutdown. If precedent is any guide, its also possible the funding crunch could be put off by short-term deals that run until the end of the year or beyond.

The calculations could also influence other priorities in the mix, including disaster funding requests for fire-ravaged California, and a drive by Democrats and some Republicans to shield Mueller.

Bipartisan anger over Trumps approach to Saudi Arabia could also complicate deal making, with both sides conscious of how actions now could play out in the new political reality next year.