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Mary Tyler Moore, who played TV’s first sexy housewife and then a single, career woman who could turn the world on with her smile and toss her hat in the air like no other, died on Wednesday. She was 80.

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FBI reviewed Flynn’s calls with Russian ambassador but found nothing illicit

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Ultimate Super Bowl LI Preview

After 266 games, just two teams remain. Will Tom and Bill add a fifth Super Bowl title to their legacy? Or will Matt Ryan's jet-powered offense finally earn a title for Atlanta? Here's your head-to-head breakdown of the Patriots and Falcons.

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Retiring Border Chief Calls Trump's Wall a Waste of Time, Money

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Donald Trump's most consistent campaign promise - to build a wall on the United States ' southern border to keep immigrants out - will be a waste of time and money, the head of the Customs and Border Protection agency told ABC News in a final warning just days before leaving office.

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"I think that anyone who's been familiar with the southwest border and the terrain ... kind of recognizes that building a wall along the entire southwest border is probably not going to work," Gil Kerlikowske, the commissioner of the CBP under President Barack Obama since 2014, said shortly before leaving office last Friday.

Over the course of the race to the White House, Trump's wall idea became more than a simple policy proposal.

Repeatedly featuring in Trump's speeches and the chants of his supporters, the idea of the wall in many ways came to capture the zeitgeist of his campaign.

And it's an idea that persisted through the race and afterward, even as other proposals were altered or dropped.

Just 37 percent of Americans support building a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico, according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll released last week.

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Kerlikowske said that supporters of the wall are missing the real issue when it comes to the immigration inflows that they are concerned about.

"[Immigrants] can come right up to our ports of entry. All our ports of entry, of course, are open. That's where we have our commerce," he told ABC News' Brian Ross. "People can come up to those ports of entry, as they are doing now, and turn themselves in and ask for whatever laws they feel will protect them."

In his wall-building pledge, Trump vowed to do it on the cheap.

"I would build a great wall - and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me - and I'll build them very inexpensively," he said during his campaign launch.

But Kerlikowske said he didn't "think this was feasible" or "the smartest way to use taxpayer money on infrastructure."

"When we look at the cost - and we have about 600 miles of fencing now - we look at the maintenance and the upkeep, we know how incredibly difficult it is," he said.

He took time to highlight the work of his agency during his tenure, praising the "21,000 border patrol agents [and] the 24,000 Customs and Border Protection officers" and noting that "not that many years ago, we had 1.6 million people coming across the border."

And it's because of those employees and those declining numbers, Kerlikowske said, that he'd "call the border far more secure today."

"But if we say, you know, 'What is a secure border?' I think that definition is in the eye of beholder," he said.

"Does it mean nobody can get in ever? Does it mean 400,000 is too many but 1.6 million - compared to 1.6 million?"

"I think you have to put it into context," he said. "But it is a safer place today."

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Retiring Border Chief Calls Trump's Wall a Waste of Time, Money

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Donald Trump's most consistent campaign promise - to build a wall on the United States' southern border to keep immigrants out - will be a waste of time and money, the head of the Customs and Border Protection agency told ABC News in a final warning just days before leaving office.

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Tornadoes were reported in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina. Killing 19 people.

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At least 41 reported twisters ravaged the Southern states over the weekend, killing 19 people and destroying homes, CNN meteorologists reported. At least six people were believed to be missing in Georgia, including a 2-year-old boy who was caught in the tornado in Dougherty County, officials said.

Tornadoes were reported in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina. In 2016, tornadoes left 17 people dead across the country.

Three weather-related deaths also were reported in California and one person died in Pennsylvania, increasing the total nationwide to 23.

Chris Cohilas, the chairman of the Dougherty County Commission in southwestern Georgia, said storms slammed his county early this month and these latest twisters compounded the agony.

He implored the Federal Emergency Management Agency to get "boots on the ground" to help the community since the storms on January 2 and warnings of more to come. So far, he said, FEMA has not been responsive and he aired his frustrations with the agency.

"To get caught up in the bureaucratic red tape at a time of this amount of human suffering is disgraceful," he said at a news conference on Monday.

"I would ask that President Trump take some significant steps to cut through the bureaucratic red tape and to get us some people on the damn ground."

In an email, FEMA said the agency "is doing initial assessments of damages in Georgia today, including a flyover." At the request of Georgia officials, FEMA will start federal and state preliminary damage assessments for individual and public assistance this week, the agency said.

FEMA representatives were also recently deployed to emergency centers in Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and Florida to support the response, and teams are on standby if needed, officials said.

Piercing screams

The barreling twisters left people stunned and communities devastated. They reminded
one survivor in Georgia of a scene from a horror movie.

"All you hear is people screaming, 'Help me, help me,' " said AJ Miley, a resident of the Sunshine Mobile Home Park in Georgia, according to CNN affiliate WSB-TV.

Devocheo Williams, also at the trailer park, said he saw people "tossed through the air," the TV station reported

"All I saw was a little girl flown up and thrown in a ditch. Three seconds later, the trailer got picked up off the ground and landed on top of the mother and son," Williams said.

When the howling winds subsided, the landscape across the Southeast was dotted with overturned cars, debris and scores of damaged mobile homes.

Rain on the horizon

The storm that hit the Southeast turned into a nor'easter as it headed up the Eastern seaboard overnight into the morning, with strong wind gusts of 40-50 mph expected overnight, said Taylor Ward, a CNN meteorologist.

Isolated hurricane-force gusts of more than 75 mph were likely in parts of the Northeast, including Long Island, New York and Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

Ward said heavy showers were expected along the coast overnight Monday into Tuesday, with up to three inches of rain possible.

Interior areas of the northeast into New England could see up to 10 inches of snow, Ward said.

On Monday, the weather caused flight delays at airports from Washington to New York and flooding at the New Jersey Transit Hoboken train station, which also flooded during Superstorm Sandy.

Train delays were reported in New York and New Jersey due to coastal storm conditions and downed power lines. The National Weather Service also issued a coastal flood warning for Southwest Suffolk County, New York, east of Manhattan, through Tuesday morning.

The severe weather caused comical sights, like a discarded Christmas tree blowing in the wind through the streets of Manhattan.

Deadly Georgia storms

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal has declared a state of emergency for 16 counties, and he said the state will seek federal assistance to help storm-stricken areas. Fifteen people were confirmed dead across the state.

Five people remained missing Monday from Sunshine Acres, a community of about 60 mobile homes some 200 miles south of Atlanta, Adel Mayor Buddy Duke said.

Officials on Monday released the names of seven victims from the mobile home park: Alexis Livingston, 18, Adrian Mays, 38, Lawansa Perry, 41, Mary Cantrell, 62, Jamie Walters, 33, Amanda Rowe, 41, and Joe Deskins, 36.

Cohilas said the confirmed death toll in Dougherty County of four people was sure to rise.

"I know that I was up in the chopper as we were helping look for a 2-year-old child that had been swept away in the tornado," Cohilas said, CNN affiliate WJXT reported.

Albany, Georgia, a city about 180 miles south of Atlanta, was also recovering on Monday. The severe weather destroyed a trailer park there.

Fatal tornado in Mississippi

Preliminary damage assessments conducted in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, on Saturday showed a tornado packed winds reaching between 136 and 165 mph.

It killed four people and injured more than 50 people in Forrest County, the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency reported. Most damage was near the cities of Hattiesburg and Petal.

Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant declared a state of emergency. In Alabama, 15 counties reported storm-related damage.

West Coast warnings

In California, where a winter weather system has unleashed torrential rain and strong winds, Gov. Jerry Brown late Monday declared a state of emergency across 50 counties, including the cities of Los Angeles, San Diego, Sacramento and San Francisco. The move allows local officials to seek recovery money to repair damage from flash flooding, erosion, mudslides and debris flows.

Early estimates indicate losses in the tens of millions of dollars, according to the declaration.

Two people were missing off the coast of Pebble Beach, the US Coast Guard said Monday. Officials said they suspended search efforts indefinitely pending "any new information." The search was stopped due to deteriorating weather conditions.

Coast Guard Ensign Courtney Hanson said one of the missing is male, and the other is female. Both are Chinese nationals.

In northern California's Mendocino County, a 125-foot-tall oak tree fell into a single-story apartment, killing a 36-year-old woman on Saturday morning, Capt. Pete Bushby of the Ukiah Valley Fire Authority told CNN.

Deaths reported in San Diego County

In Ocean Beach, one of two women rescued from the waters died Saturday night, Joe Amador, spokesman for San Diego County Fire-Rescue Department told CNN on Monday.

A large wave had swept both away just after sunset, Amado said. A bystander tried to save both but could only rescue one of them in the rough waters. A 23-year-old died.

Witnesses told CNN affiliate KFMB the two women were walking along Ocean Beach trying to get a close look at the waves when both were pulled into the water.

"They were like right in front of us ... and then all of a sudden, they were gone," Janice Ambrosiani said. "It's not like they were way down in an area where they shouldn't be."

Ambrosiani's friend was the bystander who plunged into the water and rescued one woman.

"She just couldn't move. I tried to get her to stand up and she couldn't and then she fell and I fell with her, and another wave hit us," the man said. "I ran back out to try and save the second one but she got too far away and the waves got real big."

Authorities in San Diego County were also working to recover the body of an adult from a swollen creek, San Diego Sheriff's Department spokesman Ryan Keim told CNN on Sunday. Rescuers are also searching for a child in the creek.

A death in Philadelphia

In Philadelphia, a 60-year-old man in a car sales lot was struck and killed by a sign from the lot that the wind knocked off a wall shortly before 1 p.m. on Monday, Philadelphia police said. He died at the scene.

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Tornado deaths over weekend exceed 2016 toll

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At least 19 people have died over the last 48 hours due to tornadoes, as a violent system of storms made its way across the South from Mississippi to the Florida Panhandle and parts of Alabama and Georgia.

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The Southeast picked up the pieces on Monday after deadly tornadoes tore through the region, killing more people in one weekend than in all of last year.At least 41 reported twisters ravaged the southern states over the weekend, killing 19 people and destroying homes.

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Yordano Ventura died in a car accident in the Dominican Republic.

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Another Dominican player, former major leaguer Andy Marte, 33, died Sunday in a separate wreck in the Caribbean nation, MLB.com reported.

Ventura pitched in the 2014 and 2015 World Series and helped the Royals win a world championship in 2015, the statement said. He was drafted by the club in 2013, had a 38-31 career pitching record and started in nine postseason games.

Reports from the Dominican Republic said the crash happened on a highway in Rancho Arriba, a town in the province of San Jose de Ocoa, according to an article by mlb.com on the Royals official website.

Ventura's hometown is Las Terrenas, where the funeral services are expected to take place, the article said.

"Our prayers right now are with Yordano's family as we mourn this young man's passing," Royals general manager Dayton Moore said in the statement. "He was so young and so talented, full of youthful exuberance and always brought a smile to everyone he interacted with. We will get through this as an organization, but right now is a time to mourn and celebrate the life of Yordano."

Other players and wrecks

The deaths of Marte and Ventura come about four months after the death of another young baseball player.

Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez, 24, and two friends were killed September 25 when their boat crashed off Miami Beach. A native of Santa Clara, Cuba, Fernandez was the National League Rookie of the Year in 2013 and a two-time all-star.

The Dominican Republic produces many major league baseball players. One of them, retired Boston Red Sox star David Ortiz tweeted: "I have not words to describe this....R.I.O my boy"

Marte, also a native of the Dominican Republic, was an infielder and had played with the Atlanta Braves, Cleveland Indians and Arizona Diamondbacks. He played for several minor league teams, including the Pittsburgh Pirates organization.He played the last two seasons with KT Wiz in South Korea, MLB.com reported.

ESPN, citing authorities in the Dominican Republic, reported he was driving a car that struck a house between San Francisco de Macoris and Pimentel, about 95 miles north of Santo Domingo.

Other Dominican players died recently in auto accidents in that nation.

Jose Rosario, 20, a minor league player for the Houston Astros, died January 1 in a motorcycle wreck, Beacher report said.

Ramon Ramirez, 23, a minor league infielder for the Baltimore Orioles organization, died January 7 when his motorcycle wrecked, according to Bleacher Report.

Oscar Taveras, an outfielder for the St. Louis Cardinals, died October 26, 2014, when the car he was driving ran into a tree on a highway in Puerto Plata, north of Santa Domingo, Bleacher report said. His 18-year-old girlfriend also died in the crash.

Ventura, a friend to Taveras, was pitching in the World Series when he heard the news, Bleacher report said. He dedicated his next game to his friend and wrote "RIP O.T." on his hat.

Social media was filled with condolences for Marte and Ventura.

Andrew McCutchen of the Pittsburgh Pirates tweeted: "To the families of Yordano Ventura and Andy Marte. I send my deepest condolences. RIP."

ESPN reporter Enrique Rojas: "Black sunday for Dominican Republic baseball: Yordano Ventura and Andy Marte died in In different car accidents #RIP"

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Press Release

General Motors today announced that it will invest an additional $1 billion in U.S. manufacturing operations. These investments follow $2.9 billion announced in 2016 and more than $21 billion GM has invested in its U.S. operations since 2009.

The new investments cover multiple new vehicle, advanced technology and component projects. A combination of 1,500 new and retained jobs are tied to the new investments. Details of individual projects will be announced throughout the year.

The company also announced it will begin work on insourcing axle production for its next generation full-size pickup trucks, including work previously done in Mexico, to operations in Michigan, creating 450 U.S. jobs.

"As the U.S. manufacturing base increases its competitiveness, we are able to further increase our investment, resulting in more jobs for America and better results for our owners," said GM Chairman and CEO Mary Barra. "The U.S. is our home market and we are committed to growth that is good for our employees, dealers, and suppliers and supports our continued effort to drive shareholder value."

GM's announcement is part of the company's increased focus on overall efficiency over the last four years. With a strategy to streamline and simplify its operations and grow its business, GM has created 25,000 jobs in the U.S. − approximately 19,000 engineering, IT and professional jobs and 6,000 hourly manufacturing jobs - and added nearly $3 billion in annual wages and benefits to the U.S. economy over that period. At the same time, GM reduced more than 15,000 positions outside the U.S., bringing most of those jobs to America. During that period, the company moved from 90 percent of its IT work being outsourced to an insourced U.S.-based model.

"We will continue our commitment to driving a more efficient business," said Barra, "as shown by our insourcing of more than 6,000 IT jobs that were formerly outside the U.S., streamlining our engineering operations from seven to three, with the core engineering center being in Warren, Michigan, and building on our momentum at GM Financial and in advanced technologies. These moves, and others, are expected to result in more than 5,000 new jobs in the U.S. over the next few years."

GM has also been facilitating its supplier base to do the same. The company has been executing a strategy to create supplier parks adjacent to its U.S. manufacturing sites (already accomplished at GM's Fairfax Assembly Plant in Kansas, Spring Hill Assembly Plant in Tennessee, Fort Wayne Assembly Plant in Indiana, and Lordstown Assembly Plant in Ohio), and will continue to expand this effort. Supplier parks locating near assembly plants result in significant savings from reduced transportation costs, higher quality communications and continuous improvement activities as suppliers are located closer to the final assembly location.

In addition, GM is confirming that another supplier has committed to make components for GM's next-generation full size pick-up trucks in Michigan, moving 100 supplier jobs from Mexico to the U.S.

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You've heard about the historic Women's March on Washington, a demonstration that filled the streets of the nation's capital on January 21, 2017 and brought more than one million people out to protest across the country.

The message of the march was unequivocal: women's rights are human rights and they need to be respected in the aftermath of Donald Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton.

Here's a look at the women who served as national co-chairs of the march, which they hope will now become a movement.

A seat at (the head of) the table

"History is going to record this march, one way or another, and it will say, 'In 2017, there was another white women march and black women still didn't feel like they should be a part of it,'" Tamika Mallory warned members of the march's organizing committee earlier this month at their New York City headquarters. "If that's going to happen, I may as well go home."

When the first women-led march on Washington happened in 1913, a few thousand suffragists paraded from the US Capitol to the Treasury Department the day before Woodrow Wilson's inauguration. While the demonstration proved to be a successful strategic move in elevating the suffrage movement from a state-by-state fight to the national stage, the few black women in attendance were instructed to march in a segregated section of the procession. Seven years later, with the adoption of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, women gained the right to vote. But for many black women, state-sanctioned voter disenfranchisement based on race meant they were legally blocked from exercising that right until the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, almost half a century later.

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There cannot be a convening in this nation that seeks to address the issues of women where women of color are not sitting in the front seat leading the conversation."
- Tamika Mallory

A provocative, ongoing conversation emerged before the 2017 march over which women's concerns would be elevated.

"The black community has to be at the center of this conversation and they need to know we are welcome in this space," Mallory, the former executive director of Reverend Al Sharpton's civil rights organization, the National Action Network, told the group of communications and strategic planners seated around a large wooden dining table.

Mallory, a 36-year-old black woman raised in the Manhattanville public housing projects in Harlem, New York, rocked back and forth, balancing on the leg of her chair -- embodying the "seat at the table" metaphor. But for Mallory, it wasn't enough for women of color to simply have a seat at the table.

"There cannot be a convening in this nation that seeks to address the issues of women where women of color are not sitting in the front seat leading the conversation," Mallory told CNN. "Because we come from the most impacted and the most marginalized communities."

Beyond what is typically considered to fall under the umbrella of "women's issues," Mallory says that as the mother of a 17-year-old boy whose father was lost to gun violence, she has the right to live free from fear that her son may become the next victim, as black men disproportionately are, according to CDC data. And that, she insists, is a women's issue.

A lifelong learning

Bob Bland was running late. The group's website crashed earlier that morning and she entered the headquarters in a flurry, throwing off her winter coat and setting her 6-week-old baby down on the velvet couch in the middle of "the war room," as fellow march co-chair Carmen Perez called it.

Bland, 34, was one of the original founders of the march that started as a Facebook event post that went viral, setting into action a domino effect of women organizing across the country.

"I think one of the most transformative things about this march and the movement that is rising from it is that people who are not used to getting out of their comfort zones are now finally saying, 'Okay, enough is enough. We cannot abide by this anymore.'"

Bland is CEO of Manufacture New York, a fashion design and production incubator for independent designers. She describes herself as an advocate of local manufacturing. When it comes to activism, she's designed a collection of "Nasty Woman" t-shirts and tote bags, appropriating the name Trump called Clinton during the third presidential debate.

But the march was a whole new thing.

"I personally have learned so much as someone who previously, I would say, was on the sidelines before this," said Bland, seated next to a shelf of large coffee table books about the history of activism and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. "What I've never done before is get out of my comfort zone," she said.

For some women who were already in the trenches fighting the forces of sexism, racism, xenophobia and other -isms and phobias, welcoming these first timers can come with a heavy dose of, "it's about time."

Bland said she gets that.

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If we can activate and mobilize hundreds of thousands of people who previously would have just been behind a screen, then that might make the difference."
- Bob Bland

"I'm a very mainstream, white, cisgender, hetero, American woman, and I'm the type of people who needs to be recognizing their privilege," Bland said. The baby had moved from the couch to breastfeeding in her arms. "From there, you can learn so much more from actually just not taking up space, letting people of other colors, of other religions, or other gender expressions speak, and listening to that."

A month earlier, members of the national committee were gathered for a meeting, many of them seeing each other face-to-face for the first time after weeks of corresponding online. Vanessa Wruble, head of campaign operations for the march, noted the symbolism of the birth of Bland's daughter Chloe just a couple of weeks earlier, during the first few days of organizing. There were jokes about giving birth to a movement. For Bland, the moment marks a new beginning, one of lifelong learning that she says she looks forward to being able to share with her two daughters.

"It might be uncomfortable, it might be hard work, it's definitely going to inconvenience many people," she said. "But if we can activate and mobilize hundreds of thousands of people who previously would have just been behind a screen, then that might make the difference."

A larger trajectory of moving

It was six days until the Women's March on Washington, but Linda Sarsour was already marching -- in the streets of Brooklyn, where she was born and raised.

"No hate, no fear, immigrants are welcome here," Sarsour chanted through the Bay Ridge neighborhood amid a sea of poster boards with hand-inked messages of resistance, love, and rejections of discrimination.

She stopped along the route to shake hands and give hugs. She let the crowd file past her as she captured the procession on her cellphone camera -- children propped up on dads' shoulders, headscarf-clad women, Spanish speakers and seniors.

"I've been accused of being un-American," said Sarsour, co-founder of the online organizing platform MPower Change, and an outspoken critic of the targeted surveillance of Muslims in America that has taken place from the local to the federal level since the 9/11 attacks. "I tell people all the time that, 'In fact, I believe that I am of the most patriotic of this nation because I love my country enough to hold it accountable and to push it to be a better nation'."

It was Martin Luther King Jr., Day and the crowd funneled into the preschool of Our Saviour Lutheran Church. Sarsour stepped up to the podium, and with a nod to the day named for a man that is now celebrated with a national holiday, she advised the crowd to remember King as a "black radical revolutionary," who was the victim of police brutality and who wrote letters from jail. "He was a man who was called by the highest level of U.S. intelligence, 'the most dangerous Negro in America'," she told the crowd.

She reminded the crowd of how the FBI marked Dr. King as such after delivering his now famous "I Have a Dream" speech to a crowd of more than 200,000 at the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

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I've been accused of being un-American."
- Linda Sarsour

"Standing up for justice, standing up for the most marginalized amongst us has never been easy," Sarsour told the crowd, noting that Dr. King was just three years older than she is now when he was assassinated at the age of 39. But the power to do so, she told the audience, is in the hands of ordinary people.

Sarsour hopes that many of the march attendees who had never previously been to a protest or don't consider themselves activists will leave the Women's March on Washington not only inspired to engage, but aware of the dozens of partner organizations in attendance working on issues ranging from reproductive health, to LGBTQIA rights, climate change and the representation of women in elected office.

"The idea is, once you get back to your home town in Oregon or in New Jersey or in Michigan, that you get to plug back into the work that has already been going on in this country," she said.

For Sarsour, who has juggled her work as executive director of the Arab American Association of New York, an immigrant social services agency, with volunteering to lead the fundraising efforts for the march, "January 21st is just another climactic point of a larger trajectory of moving and organizing."

The biggest birthday party ever

"What really excites me about this march is that I'm gonna be celebrating my 40th birthday on January 21st," Carmen Perez told a group of her fellow march organizers as they introduced themselves in the New York headquarters in early December.

The group, seated in a circle, some overflowing from the couch and chairs onto the floor, cheered and assured Perez they'd throw her the biggest birthday party ever. January 21 would be the day of the Women's March on Washington.

Birthdays have been tough for Perez since she was a teen. On her 17th birthday, she buried her older sister, Patricia, who was killed in a car crash at the age of 19. She says the death of her sister gave her a sense of drive and purpose, launching her into a lifelong commitment to working on behalf of young people from marginalized communities, and in the juvenile and criminal justice system, where blacks and Latinos are overrepresented among the incarcerated.

"T his is not about Democrats versus Republicans. This is about humanity", Perez, the executive director of the Gathering for Justice, told CNN of the purpose of the march.

As a Mexican-American woman, she considers Trump's rhetoric, calling Mexicans rapists and campaigning on building a wall on the US-Mexico border, as a personal attack on her and her community. "It's not about creating a more powerful political party that is not going to represent our communities, it's about our communities being represented in our politics," Perez said.

One way she hopes the march will help achieve that is by creating an opportunity for coalition building across intersecting issue areas -- bringing together those who work on criminal justice reform with those who work on immigration, for instance, all in one place.

"T ogether, we're building collective power," Perez said.

Two hours before the start of the event, Perez's mother called from California to sing to her daughter over the phone for her birthday.

"This is the biggest gift I've ever had," Perez said, reflecting on the strong turnout of the march, "to see a sea of women and their families come together is the best gift anyone could receive on their birthday."

But the march was not an end in itself -- January 22 was when the real work begins, she said.

"We're going to go back to our communities and we're going to organize even more," Perez said. "We're going to continue to build our political power, we're going to continue to elevate our communities and those that are most impacted by these issues."

But for that night, after the march was the after party.

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At least 41 reported twisters ravaged the Southern states over the weekend, killing 19 people and destroying homes, CNN meteorologists reported. At least six people were believed to be missing in Georgia, including a 2-year-old boy who was caught in the tornado in Dougherty County, officials said.

Tornadoes were reported in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina. In 2016, tornadoes left 17 people dead across the country.

Three weather-related deaths also were reported in California and one person died in Pennsylvania, increasing the total nationwide to 23.

Chris Cohilas, the chairman of the Dougherty County Commission in southwestern Georgia, said storms slammed his county early this month and these latest twisters compounded the agony.

He implored the Federal Emergency Management Agency to get "boots on the ground" to help the community since the storms on January 2 and warnings of more to come. So far, he said, FEMA has not been responsive and he aired his frustrations with the agency.

"To get caught up in the bureaucratic red tape at a time of this amount of human suffering is disgraceful," he said at a news conference on Monday.

"I would ask that President Trump take some significant steps to cut through the bureaucratic red tape and to get us some people on the damn ground."

In an email, FEMA said the agency "is doing initial assessments of damages in Georgia today, including a flyover." At the request of Georgia officials, FEMA will start federal and state preliminary damage assessments for individual and public assistance this week, the agency said.

FEMA representatives were also recently deployed to emergency centers in Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and Florida to support the response, and teams are on standby if needed, officials said.

Piercing screams

The barreling twisters left people stunned and communities devastated. They reminded
one survivor in Georgia of a scene from a horror movie.

"All you hear is people screaming, 'Help me, help me,' " said AJ Miley, a resident of the Sunshine Mobile Home Park in Georgia, according to CNN affiliate WSB-TV.

Devocheo Williams, also at the trailer park, said he saw people "tossed through the air," the TV station reported

"All I saw was a little girl flown up and thrown in a ditch. Three seconds later, the trailer got picked up off the ground and landed on top of the mother and son," Williams said.

When the howling winds subsided, the landscape across the Southeast was dotted with overturned cars, debris and scores of damaged mobile homes.

Rain on the horizon

The storm that hit the Southeast turned into a nor'easter as it headed up the Eastern seaboard overnight into the morning, with strong wind gusts of 40-50 mph expected overnight, said Taylor Ward, a CNN meteorologist.

Isolated hurricane-force gusts of more than 75 mph were likely in parts of the Northeast, including Long Island, New York and Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

Ward said heavy showers were expected along the coast overnight Monday into Tuesday, with up to three inches of rain possible.

Interior areas of the northeast into New England could see up to 10 inches of snow, Ward said.

On Monday, the weather caused flight delays at airports from Washington to New York and flooding at the New Jersey Transit Hoboken train station, which also flooded during Superstorm Sandy.

Train delays were reported in New York and New Jersey due to coastal storm conditions and downed power lines. The National Weather Service also issued a coastal flood warning for Southwest Suffolk County, New York, east of Manhattan, through Tuesday morning.

The severe weather caused comical sights, like a discarded Christmas tree blowing in the wind through the streets of Manhattan.

Deadly Georgia storms

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal has declared a state of emergency for 16 counties, and he said the state will seek federal assistance to help storm-stricken areas. Fifteen people were confirmed dead across the state.

Five people remained missing Monday from Sunshine Acres, a community of about 60 mobile homes some 200 miles south of Atlanta, Adel Mayor Buddy Duke said.

Officials on Monday released the names of seven victims from the mobile home park: Alexis Livingston, 18, Adrian Mays, 38, Lawansa Perry, 41, Mary Cantrell, 62, Jamie Walters, 33, Amanda Rowe, 41, and Joe Deskins, 36.

Cohilas said the confirmed death toll in Dougherty County of four people was sure to rise.

"I know that I was up in the chopper as we were helping look for a 2-year-old child that had been swept away in the tornado," Cohilas said, CNN affiliate WJXT reported.

Albany, Georgia, a city about 180 miles south of Atlanta, was also recovering on Monday. The severe weather destroyed a trailer park there.

Fatal tornado in Mississippi

Preliminary damage assessments conducted in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, on Saturday showed a tornado packed winds reaching between 136 and 165 mph.

It killed four people and injured more than 50 people in Forrest County, the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency reported. Most damage was near the cities of Hattiesburg and Petal.

Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant declared a state of emergency. In Alabama, 15 counties reported storm-related damage.

West Coast warnings

In California, where a winter weather system has unleashed torrential rain and strong winds, Gov. Jerry Brown late Monday declared a state of emergency across 50 counties, including the cities of Los Angeles, San Diego, Sacramento and San Francisco. The move allows local officials to seek recovery money to repair damage from flash flooding, erosion, mudslides and debris flows.

Early estimates indicate losses in the tens of millions of dollars, according to the declaration.

Two people were missing off the coast of Pebble Beach, the US Coast Guard said Monday. Officials said they suspended search efforts indefinitely pending "any new information." The search was stopped due to deteriorating weather conditions.

Coast Guard Ensign Courtney Hanson said one of the missing is male, and the other is female. Both are Chinese nationals.

In northern California's Mendocino County, a 125-foot-tall oak tree fell into a single-story apartment, killing a 36-year-old woman on Saturday morning, Capt. Pete Bushby of the Ukiah Valley Fire Authority told CNN.

Deaths reported in San Diego County

In Ocean Beach, one of two women rescued from the waters died Saturday night, Joe Amador, spokesman for San Diego County Fire-Rescue Department told CNN on Monday.

A large wave had swept both away just after sunset, Amado said. A bystander tried to save both but could only rescue one of them in the rough waters. A 23-year-old died.

Witnesses told CNN affiliate KFMB the two women were walking along Ocean Beach trying to get a close look at the waves when both were pulled into the water.

"They were like right in front of us ... and then all of a sudden, they were gone," Janice Ambrosiani said. "It's not like they were way down in an area where they shouldn't be."

Ambrosiani's friend was the bystander who plunged into the water and rescued one woman.

"She just couldn't move. I tried to get her to stand up and she couldn't and then she fell and I fell with her, and another wave hit us," the man said. "I ran back out to try and save the second one but she got too far away and the waves got real big."

Authorities in San Diego County were also working to recover the body of an adult from a swollen creek, San Diego Sheriff's Department spokesman Ryan Keim told CNN on Sunday. Rescuers are also searching for a child in the creek.

A death in Philadelphia

In Philadelphia, a 60-year-old man in a car sales lot was struck and killed by a sign from the lot that the wind knocked off a wall shortly before 1 p.m. on Monday, Philadelphia police said. He died at the scene.

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Three men were arrested on suspicion of rape in Sweden on Sunday, following reports of an assault against a woman being live-streamed on Facebook.

Police in Uppsala were contacted in the morning by a woman who said she had seen a gang rape broadcast in a closed group on the site.

"You have been raped," one of the men said at the end of the video and then laughed, according to the viewer.

Police later confirmed they, and "many" others, had seen the footage.

The Facebook group is said to have several thousand members.

Police confirmed that they had found three men, aged between 19 and 25, and one woman at a local apartment.

The men were arrested on the spot.

Josefine Lundgren, 21, called the police when she saw the video.

Speaking to Swedish tabloid Expressen, she said she saw one of the men tear the woman's clothes off and lie on top of her.

She also said one of the men had a gun.

Facebook Live shows a count of other people simultaneously watching the broadcast and Ms Lungren said she could see 60 other people viewing.

"Three against one hahaha," one of the viewers wrote in the comments section underneath the video, she said.

Online witnesses told Swedish media they had also seen a second video where the same woman then denied being raped, but there was speculation as to whether or not she had done so under her own free will.

According to Sweden's state broadcaster SVT, the men were still filming the follow-up video when the police arrived.

Live-streaming crimes

Facebook started offering live-streaming features at the end of 2015.

It is now regularly used by news organisations for on-the-scene reporting, between friends and peers for fun, and by anyone wanting to share thoughts or events with a wide audience.

However, it has also captured various crimes and acts of violence.

Earlier this month, four people were charged for a hate crime in the US city of Chicago after a live-streamed video on Facebook showed a mentally disabled man being tortured.

In June 2016, Antonio Perkins, 28, also from Chicago, was shot dead while live-streaming a video of himself on the site.

Facebook Live also caught the aftermath of an incident in which a police officer shot and killed a man in St Paul, Minnesota in July 2016.

After this, the social network issued more details on its live-streaming policy, saying it would be treated the same as for other content.

The company said footage will not be removed simply because it is violent or graphic, but if it is shared to mock the victim or celebrate the violence it will be taken down.

They said live videos can be reported to a team, which is on call 24 hours a day. Reviewers in the team can interrupt a live stream if it breaches Facebook's community standards.

However, people complained when the Chicago torture video ran for 30 minutes, racking up thousands of views, before it was stopped.

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Samsung is blaming poorly designed and manufactured batteries for the overheating problems that caused some of its Galaxy Note 7 phones to catch fire.

"Our investigation, as well as the investigations completed by three independent industry organizations, concluded that batteries were found to be the cause of the Note 7 incidents," the world's largest smartphone maker said Monday.

The results of the months-long investigation are Samsung's second attempt at explaining what went wrong with the flagship phone. The first time around, Samsung blamed the problem on one of its battery suppliers, but its initial response failed to stop the reports of fires and it was eventually forced to kill the product entirely.

The fiasco over the phone wiped out billions of dollars of profits and tarnished Samsung's brand around the world.

Related: Note 7 crisis wipes out almost all of Samsung's mobile profits

On Monday, Samsung and independent investigators saidproblems were found in batteries from two different suppliers -- the ones that started catching fire right after the phone's launch in August and also those used as replacements.

The first battery's outer casing was too small to accommodate the components inside, causing them to short-circuit and overheat, according to the investigations. The second battery's overheating stemmed from other design defects and a missing key component.

"I deeply apologize to all of our customers," Koh Dong-jin, president of Samsung's mobile communications business, said at a news conference Monday.

Affiliate company Samsung SDI, which made the first set of faulty batteries, said Monday that it is working hard to secure customer trust and improve safety. Hong Kong-based Amperex Technology, which produced the replacement batteries, said it was preparing an official response.

Samsung and the independent investigators said neither the overall design of the Note 7 phone nor the company's own manufacturing process were to blame for the battery issues.

But Samsung did acknowledge that it may have asked too much of its battery suppliers.

The Note 7 called for a much more powerful battery to satisfy consumers' increasing use of video and games, Koh said. But Samsung did not want to compromise on the size of the phone.

Related: These big companies had a terrible 2016

To meet those needs, new designs and manufacturing technology were used by the battery suppliers.

"We provided the target for the battery specifications," Koh said. "And we are taking responsibility for our failure to ultimately identify and verify the issues arising out of battery design and manufacturing process."

Samsung outlined several steps to prevent a similar debacle happening again. It has formed a "battery advisory group" made up of experts from academic and research centers, and has also introduced stronger quality assurance processes, including random inspections of suppliers' batteries.

Absent from the press conference was any admission that Samsung's corporate culture may have played a role in the Note 7 debacle.

"Samsung is a very aggressive company. Was something happening in the decision-making process that contributed is the lingering question in my mind," said Bryan Ma, vice president of device research at IDC.

"They still could have taken on more blame themselves," Ma said. "For now they've done the least of what they should be doing."

Doron Myersdorf, CEO of battery startup StoreDot, suggested it was too simplistic to blame the batteries alone. Instead, it was the specific combination of the battery and smartphone design that caused the fires.

"The battery itself might pass all the standalone tests and could be perfectly fine when tested outside the phone," he said. "Once the battery is in this specific design of the phone, with no room to swell, it can create this rare situation."

Samsung is one of StoreDot's investors.

Related: These loyalists will stick with Galaxy Note 7 to the bitter end

Problems with the Note 7 emerged immediately after its launch in August, with several reports of phones catching fire. Airlines and aviation authorities started warning passengers not to use or charge the devices on planes.

Samsung stumbled in its early response to the crisis, issuing a massive worldwide recall and offering replacements that it said were safe. But then reports started coming in that the replacement phones were catching fire, too.

In the long run, being "transparent about the Note 7 saga" should help win back customer trust, according to TuanAnh Nguyen, a mobile analyst at research firm Canalys.

Related: Judge rejects arrest warrant for Samsung heir

But for now, "Samsung needs to continue communicating with its customers that the Note 7 incident was an isolated incident, and devices currently on sale and devices sold are not affected," Nguyen said.

The company finally killed off the Note 7altogether in early October.

Samsung said Monday that 96% of about 3 million Note 7 devices have been returned.

-- Samuel Burke, Stella Ko and Jethro Mullen contributed to this report.

CNNMoney (Hong Kong) First published January 22, 2017: 8:34 PM ET

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At least one person was killed and three others shot after an attempted robbery at a San Antonio mall on Sunday, officials said.

The incident began when two suspects tried to rob a Kay Jewelers store at Rolling Oaks Mall, according to San Antonio police.

One person tried to intervene and was shot and killed by one of the suspects, police said. Another individual at the mall shot one of the robbery suspects, police said, while the second robbery suspect shot two other people as he escaped from the mall.

Police later apprehended the suspect who fled the scene. "The suspect wrecked out in a stolen vehicle in the area ... Two weapons were recovered," the San Antonio Police Department said in a statement.

Both suspects are in custody and are each facing one charge of capital murder and two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, police said.

The three shooting victims were taken to San Antonio Medical Center.

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