>> For joining us on Chicago tonight, I'm Brandis Friedman.

Here's what we're looking at.

>> unconstitutional and funding have a devastating impact.

Widespread confusion after President Trump's federal funding freeze.

Worship.

We're not going to be a free.

>> Mayor Johnson reacts to the Trump administration's immigration raids our spotlight.

Politics team has the latest.

A cause for cancer warning labels on alcohol, the impact of on your health.

>> Really envision enforce the case just as physically and not just, you know, computer screens.

>> And we take you inside a local lab connecting computers with the human body.

>> And now to some of today's top stories, a federal judge has temporarily blocked a Trump administration order that froze federal federal aid.

A move that sent nonprofits and some government agencies into a panic over funding for early education meals programs and Veterans Services to name a few.

The White House says the order is not a sweep in freeze on all federal aid, that those programs will be untouched in her first news briefing since the administration took office.

Press secretary Karoline Leavitt attempted to clarify which programs will be affected.

>> And the reason for this is to ensure that every penny that is going out the door is not conflicting with the executive orders and actions that this president has taken.

So what does this pause mean?

It means no more funding for illegal dei programs means no more funding for the green new scam that has topped cost American taxpayers tens of billions of dollars.

It means no more funding for transgenderism and woke this across our federal bureaucracy and agencies.

>> response this afternoon, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker says the Trump administration is lying while they were sure that programs like Head Start Meals-on-wheels and low-income housing energy Assistance Program or wouldn't be affected.

Pritzker says this morning they work.

>> This morning, along with all 50 states across the country, we discovered that our ability to access critical federal funding has been cut off.

And now the administration would like us to believe that these were just coincidental website outages.

Donald Trump and his administration have not earned the benefit of the doubt.

They're either lying to us or they are critically incompetent.

>> Mayor Brandon Johnson is declining to respond to a request to testify before Congress on Chicago status as a sanctuary city.

At a news conference today, Johnson referred questions to the city's top lawyer who says the letter sent by Kentucky Congressman James Comer was under, quote, legal review.

The letter does not have the legal force of a subpoena.

If Johnson refuses to appear, it could open a new front in the ongoing battle with the U.S. House and the Trump administration, which is attempting to strip sanctuary cities of all federal funding.

Also called to testify or the mayors of Boston, Denver and New York City.

But hearing is scheduled for February.

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Meanwhile, federal officials have obtained or detained around 100 people in the Chicago area as part of ramped up immigration raids.

That's according to Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling.

However, snowing adds that he doesn't know how many of those detained have criminal records President Donald Trump's border czar Tom Homan vowed to initially focus on deporting undocumented immigrants who've been convicted of serious crimes but said undocumented immigrants who agents encounter will also be detained.

Spotlight politics team will have more on all of this in just a few minutes.

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That's the meaning of the iconic doomsday clock being moved one second closer to midnight at 89 seconds.

The closest it's ever been.

The Chicago based Bulletin of the atomic scientist whose board includes 9 Nobel Laureates made the annual update today based global nuclear weapons threats, the climate crisis and disruptive technologies like artificial intelligence the group calls on global leaders, particularly those in the U.S. China and Russia to mitigate those threats.

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Up next, our Spotlight POLITICS team dives into the local impact of the Trump administration's recent moves.

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>> The Trump administration's decision to freeze funds for federal grants and loans created widespread confusion and ICE agents carry out enforcement raids across the Chicago area amid a crackdown on illegal immigration.

Here with all that and more is our spotlight politics team Amanda Vicki, Heather Sharon and to Nic Bloomberg.

Ok?

So before we get to all of that, let's just hear a little bit of what Mayor Johnson had to say today about that controversial federal funding pots.

>> This is something that is well outside the purview of the executive office.

These appropriations have been mandated by the legislative branch.

Fees are lost.

>> Okay.

and a little bit of late breaking news on that funding freeze, what can you tell us?

We mentioned a little bit of an earlier.

Yeah, it did.

There has been an order from a federal judge that temporarily put on hold hold.

And so money will keep flowing.

But but but but but folks are still very much on edge.

I mean, this is a temporary hold on a judge until just Monday.

There is a lawsuit that this is because of a lawsuit filed by a bunch of really organizations representing nonprofits, but a group of democratic lead states, including Illinois, have also filed suit separately.

So you have that going?

I think either way, this is an immense amount of unease at this point.

It will add that something else that is change.

Perhaps he saw strays earlier.

That element was unable to access the Medicaid portal that really allows dollars to flow for this is government program that provides low-income folks essentially health insurance.

Illinois is now able to get back on board with that.

There's some controversy as to what happened and why.

But access is once again okay on new Trump administration that the decision to pause its federal grants was already having an impact.

You access to health care.

And we heard from Governor Pritzker a little bit earlier.

I mean, what else did he tell us?

I mean, he had a lot to say, not surprisingly, he is upset about this at their belief is very much that this is an illegal move President Trump's administration.

The governor said that this is not only illegal, but he said this is cruel and he said do not buy some of the defense that you heard from the new White House press secretary that perhaps that outage, for example, with the Medicaid website was just some sort of computer glitch or a website problem.

He said, no, you cannot believe the Trump administration and that he believes that instead this was either incompetence.

Is you heard the governor say in this hot or that this is again, Trump lying?

I also spoke by the way with Congressman Brad Schneider.

He said that he believes that this whole exercise is really and means of saving funding so that you can instead have the Trump administration passed through these tax breaks to he said friends like all of our case and Elon Musk, okay.

Nick, what impact could this have funding transportation funding, particularly the red line extension yet that big ticket item that everybody has been paying so much attention to 1.9 billion dollars in federal funding that was approved.

>> Last month there was a big ceremony to celebrated.

You know, earlier this month there was a real effort to get that agreement signed and get moving on that project before the change in administrations.

I spoke with the CTA spokesperson earlier today who said that, you know, the CTA does not believe that this has any, you know, this.

This pause does not have any effect that the CTS law department is kind of reviewing the order.

But you know that when you look at the long list of, you know, when they put out a guidance from, you know, from the Trump administration showing all the many grant programs, it's not necessarily ones that just do these, you know, quote, unquote, you know, sort of wokeism things that we heard from in that press conference.

It is, you know, buses and trains.

It is.

Pipeline safety is, you know, ports.

There's all sorts of funding just on the transportation side and well beyond that.

don't really have any ideological you know, backing to them.

And that have had long bipartisan support.

So for now, CTA says they're confident that their that red line money is going to come through.

But obviously, with all the people we've seen, it had its anybody's The attorney general of several attorneys general of several states, including our own crime role.

They are asking the courts to block the spending, freeze them and it sounds like it is a different suit that has actually achieve that temporary stay for now.

But on what grounds are the attorneys general challenging this?

Well, they're saying that the impact Ernie General role said that this was an inauguration, not a coronation.

>> And then president does not have unilateral ability to cancel funding that Congress has passed into law and provided for said this is really separation of powers sort of argument.

And I'll add that this is really a very similar coalition.

Do what we saw.

I've trying to take away file lawsuits against the birthright citizenship executive order.

So you're seeing these democratic lead states really come together and they're calling themselves the coalition.

So we also heard from police Superintendent Larry Snelling today and he talked about immigration raids.

Of course, everybody's been covering this week that are happening in the city.

Here's a little bit of what he said.

>> What we have not seen is that we have not seen federal agents running through Chicago looking for children.

going to work locations in grabbing people.

>> Heather, what do we know about the scale of the raids in Chicago so far?

Superintendent Snelling told us today that he believes about 100 people have detained not just in Chicago, but sort of the ship, greater Chicagoland area when he couldn't tell us whether any those people have criminal records.

Now, the Trump administration has been saying that they're going after, quote, unquote, the worst of the worst people who has been convicted of serious crimes and moving to deport them.

But it's not clear whether they are also seeking to detain people who are otherwise law-abiding people living in Chicago but committed a crime by entering the country illegally or staying overstaying their permission.

And that I think is the fundamental question that a lot of Chicagoans are focused on and are worried about because there's not a lot of information coming from the federal government and it's leading to more of that fear and I pressed superintendent snowing on this because he really sort of went to great lengths to try to tell people to calm down, to go to school, to go, to work, to go about their business.

But if he can't tell Chicagoans that federal agents are not picking up sort of not criminals, I think that that is cold comfort to a lot of people who worry about taking their kids school, but not being able to pick them up afterwards.

And that I think is a really tough position for a lot of Chicagoans to be.

And tonight, a guarantee that that he can't it sounds like, you know, the Trump administration, like you said, they had said that they would prioritize.

>> People, migrants who were criminals.

But it sounds like we don't necessarily know a whole lot about the folks at they have rounded up so far and as we heard earlier, Mayor Johnson, he's been called to testify before Congress along with the mayors of 3 other sanctuary cities.

Boston, Denver, New York City.

But he's declining to respond in declining to tell us why he's declining to respond Why is that what's going Well, he sort of deferred all questions to the city's top lawyer, Mary Richardson, Larry, his who said, look, this is a legal process.

They sent us a letter.

Our lawyers are going to look at it.

We're going to respond and we're going to handle it step by step.

>> It's clear that the Republican controlled House sort of scenes.

This is the first step toward stripping Chicago of all of its federal funds, which was another one of President Trump's early executive's orders.

So the stakes for the city are very high.

The city gets roughly 4 billion dollars in federal aid every year.

So this is not something that the mayor or anybody sort of working for the city wants to respond sort of without thoughtfulness.

What did strike me as interesting is Richardson Lowry was very pointed in her defense of the city's welcoming city ordinance, its status as a sanctuary city, which, of course, is designed to reassure undocumented immigrants that they can get the needed services healthcare police protection.

The other things that they need.

But she said we do not.

you've left even when asked.

And I thought that that is perhaps a signal of how this will play out going for Fun week, stable.

today has alright that spotlight.

Nic, thanks, everybody.

>> Up next, what doctors say about the link between alcohol and cancer.

>> More than a quarter of Americans embrace January is a chance rethink the relationship with alcohol.

But as dry January winds down, the U.S. surgeon general is encouraging people to be more mindful of their drinking throughout the year earlier this month, Dr Vivek Murthy warned that light or even moderate drinking is harmful enough, but he's calling for cancer.

Warning labels aren't on alcohol.

Just like on cigarettes here.

Take a hard look at how alcohol impacts our health is.

Doctor Ashish did One-a vice chair for education at Northwestern School of Medicine.

Doctor did want thank you for joining us as to be a thank you so.

How does this new recommendation challenge what previously known or thought about the impact of drinking on our health?

>> I think.

Previous guidelines suggested that moderate alcohol consumption.

Was reasonable for Americans for people.

And this is challenging that by saying there is risk and danger, particularly around cancer that even moderate drinking is not healthy in moderate being one a day.

One drink a day for women and >> how many for men, 14 or less.

And I think that's one of the morning ounces.

14 drinks in a week and week.

Okay, we're is a So that's one of the most important aspects of this report in the news is what is moderate alcohol consumption what people know about what they're drinking.

So again, 7 drinks a week or less for a woman.

Some of the reports say no averaging one drink a day for men, 14 drinks for less a week or 2 drinks a day twice as much for men.

how does this square with previous research that we've heard that maybe a glass of red wine is actually good for your heart.

>> A lot of those reports were based on studies that were not deemed to be very rigorous.

When put up to the test and more rigorous studies were done and even actually some of the reports are coming out now that suggests drinking at moderate levels might be good for heart.

A lot of the experts in the field believes that that research is not square.

And we should not be drinking to reduce our heart health.

And so the new reports suggesting cancer is a concern.

And are exist.

Understanding that there is a heart health benefit.

Should make us reexamined are moderate use habits and the recommendations that are out there.

What we know about how drinking leads to cancer.

So alcohol is metabolized, bar body.

There is in a tablet called Estelle to hide and both an animal research as well as in some of understanding in humans is tabulate can cause oxidative stress that causes mutations that lead to cancer or some people are some populations more at risk than others.

It's a great question.

If there's individual that has a family history cancer, if there's people on certain medications and that probably increases the risk.

The studies are population-wide.

And so the findings are as a population.

The more we drink, the more our cancer risk goes up.

It's important to add moderate alcohol use.

That's 7 or 14 drinks.

The up.

But they're still small.

And so that's why we're not in a period of saying nobody should drink and we need to go back to abstaining and politician.

So there's a lot of evidence out there.

There are uncertainties in some controversies and that's where if someone is less is more, risks are low.

But there is a risk.

There is a risk hits.

It sounds like that is the reason it is enough of a risk, though that the surgeon general suggests.

>> A warning label on alcohol like the one that we see on cigarettes.

>> It's a warning labels on big also carry controversy like so many things.

Some countries are more forward about warning labels where maybe down the middle to cigarettes.

That's a jewel.

Now that the risks with cigarettes were known to be crater and the warning labels have made an impact.

There's going to be controversy debate about alcohol is a warning label or cancer is a warning label.

And alcohol.

And I view it is education.

If we can educate the public about risk, understanding that there is risk the risks.

Very the risk may be small.

And again, importantly, understand what category drinking you fallen.

lot of us think were drinking in a moderate level.

But if you actually look at the numbers in the studies, we might be heavy alcohol consumers.

So I've you warning labels in their controversy as a means of educating the public.

And to that point of sort of knowing what category of drink or you fall into.

>> Do we need to evaluate our relationship with boos altogether for sure.

I think this is a call to every individual to say and ask themselves, let me be honest and understand how I use alcohol.

>> Clearly positive aspects with you in our society.

Social connectivity, relaxation.

That remains.

But if we're honest with ourselves about how much we consume in a day in a week, understand some of these some of this research in some of these categories.

We can say, OK, I am in that moderate use category.

That's okay.

But even there less is more.

Were that concerned?

I mean, the heaviest category and I know there's no debate about that.

Should reduce.

And then talk to your doctor.

Talk health care provider and they can give you some more information about these reports and then how to cut back.

>> What kind of what more research do you think is needed on this topic?

What else do we need to know?

You know, there's so much research on it.

A lot of its observational research.

So these reports are finding associations, the surgeon She said it was causal a causation.

But randomized control trials which are hard to do.

They can still yield unwieldy results.

But more research using randomized control trials will help.

For these categories that we're now looking at, which is moderate use and even with a moderate use.

The direction things are going in is men instead of 14 drinks in a week.

Should be down to 7 or less than a week.

And women are already at 7 or less per week.

The cutoff should potentially lower.

So can we do studies that look at these lower numbers?

And relieve some of the anxiety around drinking?

So we say, you know, it's OK, 3 solo and low moderate.

You see socail drink, but you can probably cut it off sooner than than what we previously been telling people.

right.

All right.

That's where we'll have to leave it Dr. She's did want thank you so much for joining us.

My pleasure.

Thank you so much.

>> Up next, using technology to better connect with the human body.

Explain right after this.

We're undeniably in a new era of technology where we can use computers to research and explore different parts of the world.

>> Or even utilize artificial intelligence to write papers or create grocery lists are Joanna Hernandez visits the University of Chicago to learn how a professor and his students are developing devices that connect computers with the human body.

>> challenge here is that we don't have any camera.

Yeah, we're sensing Pedro Lopez leads to human computer integration lab at the University of Chicago.

In this lab, you can find students working on a smartwatch incorporating muscle stimulation.

And meant it had said that expands our perception or a device to assist individuals and learning the Think of these like a personal trainer.

>> That leaves with you at all.

Times is little wearable devices, but they connect into future by connects your muscles to understand what help you the connection.

Lopez describes links to human body to computers.

>> Aiming to empower rather than replace individuals, interactive system.

Is there to kind of give you a right amount of feedback.

You need it every step ready.

>> that is cool ahead.

That's not It's with the help of electrical muscle centers.

The computer sends electrical pulses through the skin to target nerves or muscles.

In this case, it sent a small Paul's to my arm so that it could move.

>> It's like this principle that you send a small currents from friend to your muscle.

just sending externally through a computer.

>> You is a student in the classroom.

Exploring how human computer integration methods motion can help teach new skills what it is we can download this the deal into a pro gun and play it back trail muscle.

So I'm going to play Pats him back.

Okay to muscle.

Go.

Then there's unite to knock developing a smart watch that uses muscle stimulation and interest, he says sparked during his time as a DJ.

Very excited about hotel.

We make these kind of small what more community, connect it to your body.

>> So why can see here this month, can move my body.

So pressed to spot them.

>> My finger moves right.

>> What do you envision this helping with like?

How would this help like someone?

Yeah, yeah.

So yeah.

If that device can click that, then body.

>> You can point to a 5th, the people of the few move and that's very excited like it's not good at moving a haunted sometimes people are shaky and it provides campuses today.

Just a view.

I see a movement.

>> To knock us as a device like this has the potential to help individuals who are blind or disabled.

You use it for whatever you want it to be used.

So a lot of our participants and vision using this for.

>> Learning musical skills.

for example, we're talking about people who are blind.

We're definitely use it for navigation or understanding cues in the environment.

They think normally cannot access.

>> A future they envision were computers, improve our lives by blending computer science, psychology and design enhancing the user's experience.

There's such a demand for physical skills today and so many people are forgetting.

>> How carpentry, how do you know she I wouldn't vessel or how to make.

I don't know pottery and its If we can bring computers into that equation, you don't need to just watch videos.

You maybe don't have access to a physical teacher all the time.

But have the assistance of computers provide computers can tailor the learning curve.

For Chicago tonight.

I'm Joanna Hernandez.

>> These devices are still being developed.

But Professor Lopez tells us he hopes to see his students inventions helping people one day.

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Local local authors explore that question.

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Stay healthy and safe and have a good night.

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