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 As President Joe Biden and the first lady carefully descended the stairs of Air Force One, on a slick, overcast day at Joint Base Charleston Sunday, there was a familiarity about the visit, a kind of homecoming if you will.

35 states from Texas to the Northeastern US are under some type of winter storm alert over the next few days. The potential exists for several inches of snow + ice and sleet. The cold comes on the tail of another system that brought scattered rain and snow to parts of the East Coast over the weekend.

On Jan. 22, volunteers around the state are set to take to the streets to meet the people who live there.

Unless the weather forces a delay, Wednesday is the first day of the annual point-in-time, or PIT, count, which seeks to tally the number of people in various communities who are experiencing homelessness. PIT happens in the last week of January, as it has since its inception in 2007.

President Joe Biden will arrive in Charleston today to pay tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and recognize his long relationship with South Carolina, a state that catapulted him to the 2020 Democratic nomination with the endorsement of Congressman Jim Clyburn.

Not since the swearing in of President Ronald Reagan on January 20th, 1985 has an Inauguration Day been held indoors. That was 40 years ago.

As the forecast continues to be fine-tuned, more alerts are appearing on the weather maps. Little by little, a big chunk of the U.S. is now turning blue with cold advisories and extreme cold watches that will likely turn into warnings on Sunday.