What you need to know Jan. 4

(KFVS) - Good morning, it is Monday, January 4.

It’s a cold, frosty, foggy start to Monday.

Wake-up temperatures are very chilly in the 20s and 30s.

Pockets of patchy to dense fog could impact travel this morning.

Since some areas are below freezing, this could produce freezing fog and maybe a few slick spots on bridges.

There will also be frost on elevated surfaces.

This afternoon will be partly to mostly cloudy with highs in the upper 40s to low 50s.

Sunny skies return on Tuesday with highs in the low 50s.

Our next chance for rain arrives on Wednesday, with rain changing over to snow Thursday into early Friday.

• A home on the 300 block of S. Hanover St. in Cape Girardeau was badly damaged after a fire broke out Sunday afternoon.
• The extraordinary Republican effort to overturn the presidential election is being condemned by an outpouring of current and former GOP officials.
• President Donald Trump is heard on tape pleading with Georgia’s election chief to overturn Joe Biden’s win in the state, suggesting in a telephone call that the official “find” enough votes to hand Trump the victory.
• Britain on Monday took another giant step in the fight against COVID-19, ramping up its immunization program by giving the first shots in the world from the vaccine created by Oxford University and pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca.
• The U.S. ramped up COVID-19 vaccinations in the past few days after a slower-than-expected start, bringing the number of shots dispensed to about 4 million, government health officials said Sunday.
• The COVID-19 death toll in the United States has surpassed 350,000 as experts anticipate another surge in coronavirus cases and deaths stemming from holiday gatherings over Christmas and New Year’s.

• A South Carolina man who spent more than two months in the hospital with COVID-19 credits his wife’s voice with helping him make it through a coma and into recovery.
• A 21-year-old man who hid from police in an East Texas church was charged with first-degree murder and felony assault in a shooting that left the pastor dead and two other people injured Sunday.
• Seven children and two adult drivers were killed in a head-on collision in Central California on New Year’s Day, authorities said.
• A California woman was struck in the head by a stray bullet that fell from the sky during a New Year’s celebration.