AP News Dictation Jan. 3 PM 2018@打雷不怕 No.1102

1. President Donald Trump is blasting Steve Bannon his former chief strategist ahead the release of a new book called 'Fire and Fury'. The book quotes bannon describing a Trump Tower meeting between Donald Trump Junior and a group of Russians as treasonous and unpatriotic. Trump said in a statement that when Bannon was fired from the White House last year, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind.
2. Former vice presidents Joe Biden and Fritz Mondale stood besides the new members of the US senate as Alabama Democrats Doug John and Minnesota Democrats Tina Smith took the oath of office administrated by vice president Mike Pence. The GOP control of the chamber is now narrower than that was just weeks ago.
3. The UN is welcoming the reopening of a key communication channel between North and South Korea. Pyongyang has reopened the border communication link between the two countries for the first time in nearly two years.
4. A brutal winter storm is marching up the east coast, hitting southern cities with a rare blast of snow and sleet. Forecasters are warning the storm system could become more severe as it moves up the eastern seaboard.