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BALTIMORE (AP) — Icy conditions have led to scores of accidents across the East. In Maryland, authorities say two people were killed and more than a dozen were injured when a gasoline tanker skidded off an interstate highway in Baltimore and exploded. Baltimore's fire chief says there was also a pileup involving 55 vehicles. He said it's unclear whether the pileup started before the tanker crash or was caused by the incident.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump is set to wrap up his "thank-you" tour today at a football stadium in Mobile, Alabama, revisiting the site of the largest rally of his campaign. In a tweet, Trump said: "THANK YOU ALABAMA AND THE SOUTH. Biggest of all crowds expected, see you there!"
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — John Glenn will be remembered this afternoon with a public memorial service in Columbus, Ohio. Vice President Joe Biden is among those expected for the service at Ohio State University. Yesterday, Secretary of State John Kerry was among the thousands who paid their respects in a public viewing of his flag-draped casket in the Ohio Statehouse rotunda. The former astronaut, fighter pilot and U.S. senator died Dec. 8 at age 95.
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Volunteers are fanning out at cemeteries around the country today to honor the fallen with donated wreaths. More than a million wreaths are expected to be placed at headstones as part of the annual Wreaths Across America project. Despite freezing rain, some 25,000 volunteers turned out at Arlington National Cemetery this morning with plans to lay 245,000 wreaths.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The National World War II Museum is embarking on a mission to move thousands of first-person accounts online. Executives with the New Orleans museum say creating a vast online digital collection of 9,000 existing oral and written histories will take longer than the war was fought — 10 years and $11 million dollars. The task is enormous: thousands of hours of audio and video must be handled and millions of words transcribed. And more are still coming in as historians race to interview the last veterans alive.
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