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The cold wave in the United States is rising fiercely enough to cancel the new presidential schedule.
We have turned our course to the northeast beyond the south, and the cold blue is stopping even the factories in Mexico in the south that have nothing to do with it.
Our companies were also in the affected area, and reporter Jo Young-ik is on the report.
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A lake in Louisiana, USA.
The trees were covered with ice due to a strong cold wave.
The cold wave, which froze in Texas and Oklahoma and caused a massive blackout, is now moving eastward. Winter storm warnings and warnings have been issued in a wide area from the south to the northeast of the United States, and more than 100 million people have entered the sphere of influence.
As it snowed in Washington, DC and temperatures dropped below freezing, President Joe Biden canceled all schedules.
President Biden was scheduled to visit a factory in Michigan that manufactures Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine on the 18th local time, but due to the weather, he will remain at the White House all day.
Neighboring Mexico, whose supply and demand for natural gas in the United States is difficult due to the winter storm in the United States, is also suffering power shortages.
Kia Motors and other global automakers’ factories in Mexico have been temporarily shut down.
A Mexican official at Kia Motors said that the operation could be temporarily suspended and resumed next week depending on the natural gas supply and demand situation.
This is Young-ik Cho, MBC News.
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