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On today's show:\xa0 Winter weather crippled much of nation over the weekend, from heavy rains and flash floods in recently fire-ravaged California, to monster snowfall in the Midwest, to icy conditions in the East -- shutting down parts of the federal government in D.C. that weren't already closed due to Donald Trump's ongoing federal government shutdown caused by his demands for his pointless and ill-considered southern border wall. Disturbing new revelations that the FBI opened a counterintelligence probe in 2017 into whether the President of the United States was either a witting or unwitting agent of Russia. Trump's nominee for U.S. Attorney General, William Barr, who faces confirmation hearings this week, now says Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe should be allowed to finish and its report should be made public, contradicting his previous statements. Pacific Gas and Electric announced it will file for bankruptcy protection in light of $30 billion in potential liability for maintenance failures that helped to spark historic, deadly wildfires. In Los Angeles, the nation's second-largest school district, teachers are on strike. New York state is finally moving to reform its election systems and voting laws that are among the most restrictive in the nation. A new petition from the nation's top computer security and voting systems experts asked Georgia's state voting reform commission to choose hand-marked paper ballots rather than a new, unverifiable,\xa0 computer-marked and barcoded summary of voters' ballots called Ballot Marking Devices (BMD) that cannot be audited after an election to determine whether the results reflect the actual intent of voters. Voting system expert MARILYN MARKS, of the non-partisan Coalition for Good Governance explains the security experts' concerns and the many dangers of BMD systems being implemented across the country, including in L.A. County.