LA County has seen a spike in Covid-19 cases since Thanksgiving. A Buddhist monk in Orange County is accused of sexually assaulting two women when they were little girls. Five people were hospitalized after overdosing on fentanyl and being found in two parked cars at a park in the Saugus neighborhood of Santa Clarita. Meghan Markle says she learned the reality of royal life after a hug with Kate Middleton and Prince William.

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ABC’s Brad Garrett joins the show to give us an update on the attack on two electric substations in North Carolina. Celine Dion reveals she has a rare neurological syndrome. #StrangeScience.

Democrat Raphael Warnock beats Republican Herschel Walker in a tight runoff and expanding his party’s slim majority in the Senate. Houston police and fire department personnel responded to the Houston home of Sen. Ted Cruz to reports of a 14-year-old with self-inflicted stab wounds on the arms. #WhatchaWatchinWednesday.

A tentative court ruling has granted supporters of the recall of LA County District Attorney George Gascón greater access to some voter records as part of their review of signatures on their recall petition. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to put the brakes on a controversial policy that would let police use robots for deadly force. San Francisco regulators are looking into what appears to be employee bedrooms newly installed at Twitter's headquarters.

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ABC’s Alex Stone joins us to talk about Covid, Flu and RSV hitting parents and kids. Parenting with Justin Worsham.

Georgia voters are left with the final say in how Congress will look as the nation watches the Senate runoff race between Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker Moore County, North Carolina, has declared a state of emergency as power outages continue after a "deliberate" attack over the weekend in which gunfire damaged two substations. Ukraine appears to expose Russian air defense gaps with two long-range strikes on Russian air bases.

We start off our second hour with an update on the Virginia man who catfished a teen before killing her family in Riverside. Kirstie Alley, the star of ‘Cheers’, dies at the age of 71 after a short battle with cancer. The Pasadena Fire Department has announced the implementation of the first-ever Pasadena Paramedic Subscription Program, which offers residents the opportunity to pay an annual coverage fee providing for unlimited use of the Pasadena Fire Department’s emergency medical system without additional cost. #TerrorInTheSkies.