Good morning everyone from Echo Park in Los Angeles California.

Brazil -- Soccer Fans from Sao Paulo and Santos clashed this Sunday afternoon in the region of Avenida John Boyd Dunlop, in Campinas. A video shows groups armed with pieces of sticks and rockets. In one of the moments, it is possible to observe one of the individuals holding a firearm. Teams from the Battalion of Special Actions of the Military Police were called to act in the occurrence that, according to an estimate of the corporation, brought together about 40 individuals. At 8 pm, the Military Police of Campinas informed that the occurrence was closed "after the dispersion of the people who were causing a riot". Nobody was arrested and, according to the Military Police. (google translator)

SPAIN, MADRID - A persistent blizzard has blanketed large parts of Spain with 50-year record levels of snow, killing at least four people and leaving thousands trapped in cars or in train stations and airports that had suspended all services as the snow kept falling. The bodies of a man and woman were recovered by the Andalucía region emergency service after their car was washed away by a flooded river near the town of Fuengirola. The Interior Ministry said a 54-year-old man was also found dead in Madrid under a big pile of snow. A homeless man died of hypothermia in the northern city of Zaragoza, the local police department reported. In the capital, authorities activated the red alert for the first time since the system was adopted four decades ago and called in the military to rescue people from vehicles trapped on everything from small roads to the city’s major thoroughfares. (Read more.)

Right now in Olympia, WA -- About 2 dozen people here staring at Washington State Patrol and National Guard. A few people are yelling nonstop at law enforcement, demanding to be let inside the Capitol building. One person has a bullhorn. This is the checkpoint for state legislators to enter the Capitol building. Very heavy police presence.

Video shows Capitol protester hit Brian Sicknick with fire extinguisher. The footage obtained by Storyful from Wednesday’s siege shows droves of violent demonstrators storming past a barricade as US Capitol Police desperately try to keep them corralled on the west side of the building at about 2:30 p.m. Moments later, a protester tosses the fire extinguisher toward a group of officers below, striking one on the helmet. It’s unclear if the cop who was plunked was Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, 42. He died at a hospital Thursday after being hit in the head with a fire extinguisher during the melee, two law enforcement sources told the Associated Press.