Overnight, brilliant shades of red, green, and purple painted the sky from San Francisco Bay to farmland in Wisconsin. Here's a pilot's view over Chicago. All inspiring auroras, even stretching unusually far south.Thanks to the extreme intensity of a geomagnetic storm when the sun blasts out charged particles at several million miles an hour that bombard Earth's magnetic field. But it's not all about the beauty shots. Experts say these cosmic storms have the potential to disrupt electrical grids, satellites ...

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A Baltimore police officer is now facing an attempted murder charge after that viral video appearing to show him trying to chase someone down with his cruiser. Here's that footage from last month. You can see officer Robert Parks behind the wheel chasing a man through the grass and into the street.Parks turned himself into police today. If convicted, he could face up to 65 years in prison. ...

Here in New York City, police say nearly $10,000 worth of Pokemon and baseball cards were stolen from Tom Brady's new card vault store. They're now on the lookout for this person in the surveillance video. Police say the suspect tried to buy merchandise, but their credit card was declined.Then the person allegedly messed with the machine without the employee knowing and was able to walk out with the cards without ever paying. ...

Whoa, it's red. That is so beautiful. >> It's the Aurora Barrella.>> Yes, >> I've never seen the Northern Lights this bright and pink. >> Yeah, everyone's thinking that it's going to be green, but yeah, red, right. We've got the future of everything.Tonight, we want to talk about Looking Up. Round two of Planet Earth's biggest show is happening right now. the northern light.Space weather forecasters, they say this could be one of the brightest displays of uh the year lighting up the skies across the norther ...

There is zero appetite in the Senate right now to get rid of the filibuster. This is something Trump has been calling for for a long time, including in his first term. He started really calling for it again as the shutdown was dragging on.But in reality, those calls only really facilitated the fact that Republicans felt even more of a need to try to resolve this stalemate in another way. And that is ultimately what happened. They did give some minor concessions to Democrats.They agreed to allow a floor vote ...

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The Dallas Cowboys are starting a fund to support the pregnant girlfriend of a young Dallas Cowboys player who died last week, two days after his first touchdown in the NFL. The head coach speaking publicly about Marshawn Nean's death for the first time. Watch.>> My heart is heavy. Our team's heart is heavy. We don't move on, but we do move forward.>> Police say Nean died by suicide after allegedly crashing his car and running away from police. If you need support with any kind of mental health crisis, ther ...

And joining us now is senior White House correspondent Gabe Gutierrez who is standing outside the White House right now. Uh Gabe, just to recap, uh the president putting full responsibility for the government shutdown on the Democrats. He said he wants to see the end of the filibuster uh over in the Senate.A lot of questions to get to here, but first things first, for those that have been impacted by the government shutdown, for those government workers uh that have been stuck in limbo, do we have a timelin ...

Government Shutdown Impact - The shutdown cost the country $15 billion [1] - 20,000 flights were cancelled or delayed due to the shutdown [5] - Over 1 million government workers were deprived of paychecks [6] - Food stamp benefits were cut off for millions of Americans [6] - Tens of thousands of federal contractors and small businesses went unpaid [6] - The total effect of the damage will take weeks or months to calculate accurately [7] Economic Performance - The stock market reached its highest price ever, marking the 48th record in nine months [9] - 401ks also set a record high [10] - Walmart reported that the cost of Thanksgiving is 25% lower this year compared to last year [11] Political Stance - Republicans voted 15 times for a clean continuation of funding [1] - The speaker calls for a termination to the filibuster to prevent future shutdowns [8]