Snow and ice will spread through the South early this week, including near the Gulf Coast where wintry weather is rare.

Federal and local law enforcement agencies will have uniformed and plainclothes officers stationed throughout the 26-mile course, along with state authorities.

A rare winter storm is expected to bring heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain to Florida, Texas and other parts of the South next week. While some uncertainty remains over exactly how much snow will fall,

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The three officers all shot at Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the 42-year-old suspect who drove a rented truck into a crowd of people on Bourbon Street at about 3:17 a.m. before crashing and shooting at officers while inside the Ford F-150. The shots returned by Daggs, Beyer and Jordan killed Jabbar.

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Cities along the Interstate 10 corridor only experience frozen precipitation a few times during a generation. The last measurable snowfall in Houston occurred on February 15, 2021.

The man who is suspected of committing the New Years Day vehicle-ramming attack in New Orleans searched online for information about the Christmas market car-ramming attack in Germany, just hours before carrying out his own attack on Bourbon Street, according to the FBI.

Before Shamsud-Din Jabbar attacked Bourbon Street in New Orleans, the FBI says he researched the city, reading up on recent shootings and a vehicle attack in Germany.

Before plowing a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year’s revelers in New Orleans, killing 14 people, the man who carried out the Islamic State group-inspired attack had researched how to access a balcony on the city's famed Bourbon Street and looked up information about a similar recent attack at a Christmas market in Germany,

The attack on Bourbon Street "struck me as being particularly reminiscent of ISIS advice,” said Joshua Fisher-Birch, a researcher at the Counter Extremism Project.

Portions of North Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin have an extreme cold warning in effect as wind chills may reach as low as -50°F. While it won’t be quite that cold farther south, wind chills may be dropping into the teens in cities like Houston and New Orleans early next week.