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team coverage today. adam klotz is in the studio tracking the storm and bringing the christmas forecast. let's start with jackie ibanez reporting on the devastating conditions. >> multiple families will be spending the holiday without loved ones, five people from oklahoma have died, including a 16-year-old boy. the storm is impacting nearly every state in the lower 48, mother nature unleashing fury during the busiest time of the year, leaving many with nowhere to sleep, except the floor of the airport terminal. >> im00 not optimistic, if it was a cancelled flight, it is not good. >> ...

Compared to 2020, according to open table. the 28.6 billion dollar restaurant revitalization fund or rrf saved many restaurants from closing last year, but with nearly 300,000 applications, only about a third got funding before the money ran out. >> the only reason i'm not closed at my restaurant right now is that we did, we got a grant and it's helped us get through this moment. >> reporter: in a letter to congress, the restaurant coalition and 30 mayors are sounding the alarm calling for the rrf to are replenished for the nearly 180,000 applicants who missed out. without it, they say it will...

300,000 application, only about a third got funding before the money ran out. >> the only reason i'm not closed at my restaurant right now is we did get -- we got a grant. it's helped us get through the moment. >> reporter: in later to congress the independent restaurant coalition along with about 30 mayors are sounding the alarm calling for the rrf to be replenished for the nearly 180,000 applicants who missed out. without it, they say it will be catastrophic. >> the financial hit to the country is huge when you lose restaurants, to the neighborhood, to the community, and to the job market in...

At farm neck golf club and then proceeded to play one more hour of golf. >> but he's allowed to go on vacation. the other thing is when there's a problem, i always say if i sense something is coming on, let me go find the giraffes and hear what the elephants say and that's what happened. the first warning for the earthquake was seen -- really was discovered at the national zoo. it seems as though 15 minutes before the earthquake, the animals started acting crazy. >> that's what they say. they say dogs start to walk around and get all aflutder. -- aflutter. >> there's a critter at the national ...