There is journal and he does express some general unhappiness with his life but I really do not have other information about that now. That is something we are going to continue to work through. 

 

Authorities say the accused shooter was carrying ammunition and backpack with explosives and they found more ammunition when they searched his home last night.

 

President Obama is expected to focus on issues of bipartisan concern in Tuesday’s state of the union. But as NPR’s Nathan Rott reports there are still lots to debate. 

 

White House senior advisor Dan Pfeiffer talked to the Sunday morning talk shows, saying that Obama will focus on less decisive issues like income inequality, education, manufacturing and energy in this week’s speech aimed in the next year. Then there is issue of upcoming debt ceiling. Pfeiffer says Obama still would allow their raising at debt ceiling to be used as the political bargaining chip. Senator Republican leader Mitch McConnell went on Fox News Sunday after Pfeiffer, saying that Obama should reassess their position.

 

It is irresponsible not to use the discussion, the request of the president to raise the debt ceiling to try to accomplish something for the country.

 

That same debate helped lead to the government shutdown last year. Nathan Rott, NPR News.

 

More unusually frigid temperatures are expected from the mid-west to the northeast over the next few days. Nova Safo reports from Chicago where weekend snowstorm preceded sub-zero temperatures.

 

Only two weeks after the polar vortex another round of Arctic weather has led officials in Chicago to close schools and modify train schedules. 350 flights were also canceled. Temperatures are expected to dip into sub-zero territory until Wednesday as low as 22 degrees below zero on Monday night. Forecasters say it will be among the longest stretchers of subzero temperatures on record, accompanied by strong winds and several inches of snow over the weekend. To make manners worse, there is a profane shortage in the mid-west. The heating fuel is in high demand and low supply partly because of unusually low temperatures. For NPR News, I am Nova Safo in Chicago.

 

Gasoline prices across the nation fell 3.5 cents a gallon over the past two weeks. Oil analyst Trilby Lundberg explains.

 

It is price cutting in the downstream half of the oil business. Refiners cut wholesale prices to their wholesale and retail customers who then turn around and cut about same amount to us.

 

And Lundberg says the sales serve regular, it is now 3.31 dollars a gallon on average.

 

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A hospital in Fort Worth, Texas has removed woman from life support following a court ruling. Marlise Munoz’s pregnant and brain dead was disconnected from life support before noon today. She was 14 weeks pregnant when his husband found her unconscious. It was agreed by family in physician center NNN now 23 weeks old could not be born alive.

 

Senegalese music star Youssou N’Dour who is Muslim is to record a song for peace with the Christian artist from Central Africa Republic, a country devastated by inter-religious violence. NPR’s Ofeibea Quist-Arcton has more.

 

Yousson N’Dour is an internationally acclaimed singer with impressive potentials. The Grammy-winning Senegalese, musician and businessman, has long been associated with humanitarian courses. Now N’Dour who is Muslim says he is recording a song dedicated to peace in Central Africa Republic with Lydie Natacha, a Christian who goes by the stage name of Idylle Mamba. She is from CAR’s capital Bangui which has been the scene of terrific and deadly violence putting mainly Muslim fighters who back the outgoing government with Christian militiamen. For the past year, predominantly Christian CAR has been crippled by a coup which blew into inter-religious clashes killing thousands of civilians and amputating tens of thousands more. Ofeibea Quist-Arcton, NPR News, Accra.

 

So far tonight, at the Staple Center in Los Angeles, 

 

“I am gonna pop some tags, only got twenty dollars in my pocket.”

 

Rapper producer Macklemore and Ryan Lewis have taken the Grammy for best new artist.

 

I am Louise Schiavone, NPR News, Washington.