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As millions head home from grandmother's house, officials are urging caution on many roads as the holiday travel rush is picking back up this weekend.

Forecasters are warning travelers heading home after Thanksgiving to be prepared for slow traffic and flight delays.

Driving is hazardous in parts of the Midwest and Northeast, where lake effect snow is causing white out conditions and slippery roads.

Meanwhile, there have been over thirty eight hundred flight delays across the US today, with around one hundred cancelations on Saturday.

Slippery snow covered roads are expected from the central US to the Great Lakes region.

The State Department is pausing visas for those with Afghan passports.

The department announced the move Friday, days after the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, d C.

The suspect in the shooting is originally from Afghanistan, and the CIA says he had worn work with the US to fight the Taliban.

Meanwhile, President Trump is ordering immigration authorities to re examine green cards from what the administration is calling countries of concern.

SpaceX has successfully launched a Falcon nine rocket from the coast of Santa Barbara County.

Daniel Martindale has this story.

Launch from Vndenburg Space four space happened at ten forty four this morning, later than initially planned.

It was part of the Transporter fifteen rideshare mission.

The rocket took one hundred and forty payloads into a Sun synchronous orbit, including CubeSats, microsats, hosted payloads, and multiple orbital transfer vehicles which will deploy an additional thirteen spacecraft at a later time.

This was the thirtieth flight for the first stage rocket booster supporting the mission.

I'm Daniel Martindale.

And a close aid of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenski has resigned after anti corruption agencies conducted raids at his home.

The former chief of staff to the president had been leading Ukraine's delegation during peace talks recently to the war with Russia.

Zelenski made the announcement in his daily TV address on Friday.

I'm Jim Forbes.

The unofficial start to the holiday shopping season has arrived with Black Friday, but many Americans are planning to take part in small Business Saturday.

The National Retail Federation projects more than eighty percent of people, or sixty seven million, will shop small during Small Business Saturday.

Small business owners tell American Express they make about twenty percent of their annual profit during Small Business Saturday alone.

It comes on the heels of a tough year for small businesses, with seventy five percent telling Quick Books they've been severely impacted by tariffs, especially when it comes to inventory shortages.

President Trump says he's terminating any document that former President Biden allegedly used an autopin to sign.

Tammy Turhillo has this story.

In a post on truth Social Trump said the number of documents signed with the alleged autopen was around ninety two percent.

He said an autopin isn't alone to be used if approval isn't given by the president himself.

Trump added Biden wasn't involved in the process, and if he says he was, Trump says he'll bring Biden up on charges of perjury.

Scientists believe they've detected lightning on Mars, but it's not like the lightning found here on Earth.

In research published this week in the journal Nature, scientists described the Mars lightning as quote many lightning that's more like the static electricity shocks you feel when you touch something metal.

Dozens of instances of the many lightning were captured by a microphone on NASA's rover.

They mostly occurred from dust devils and dust storms.

And a prominent entertainer faces charges after a chaotic livestream where he threatened people with a gun.

Singer Ray Jay was arrested following an incident where he allegedly drew a gun at his estranged wife, Princess Love, live on camera.

Sources close to the situation told TMZ that law enforcement was called to Ray Jay's Porter Ranch home around four am Thanksgiving Day.

I'm Jim Forbes