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Tonight. This is one of the backward and nasty Executive Orders the president has issued. Also today thousands of antiabortion protesters gathered in washington for the annual march for life. Mike pence told the crowd the president would announce a Supreme Court nominee soon and trump hinted strongly at the person hes choosing. The person i pick will be a big, big i think people are going to love it. I think evangelicals, christians will love my pick. And well be represented very fairly. Jeff zeleny begins our coverage tonight out front at the white house. Trump signing a flurry of Executive O...

Back along the southern border. this time in california with incredible access to an underground network of drug smuggling tunnels that stretch from mexico beneath the existing border fence into the united states. here's ed lavendandera with the story you'll see only "out front." >> reporter: for years the vigilance along the southern border has been growing. border agents kriz crossing the remote terrains and urban streets, ground scenters and high powered cameras keeping constant watch. now smugglers go where the cameras and eyes can't see them. we are in a tunnel underneath otay mesa, calif...

This white house. >> at the white house, thanks so much. as politicians bicker over policy, the lives of tens of thousands of children are in limbo. waves of underaged immigrants, mostly from central america are swarming across the southwest border. federal officials are running out of places to house them. >> it is a huge and growing problem this year. some 60 to 80,000 children are expected to cross. ed lavendandera is in dallas. there are a lot of congratulations, what are the big reasons behind the explosion of numbers? >> it's such a difficult question to answer, john, i think the bigge...

Big-scale glass menagerie, everything coated in ice. atlanta on the left two weeks ago, and now on the right. store shelves are picked clean in the southeast. at least 420,000 customers have already lost power. throughout the country, more than 3,200 flights are canceled. we're only really in the middle of this. cnn meteorologist jennifer gray is standing by in decatur. ed lavendandera is braving the treacherous roads. and chad myers is in the weather center. jen? >> reporter: we have seen the ice come down since about 5:00 this morning. it has been sleeting. we've seen periods of freezing rai...

Power. most people in decatur still have power, but this is the concern. look at this branch. you can see the ice accumulating on the branches. this is what we're seeing all over town. and this is just a tiny one. imagine those big older trees behind me and even those power lines. it only takes about half an inch of ice to add 500 pounds of pressure to those lines and then they just snap. you lose power. and so that's the concern. we have a good 12 more hours of this, jake, as we go through the next overnight hours into tomorrow morning. we're expected to change into snow. could see 3 inches o...