Freezing temperatures continued Wednesday across much of the United States, with a brutal winter storm slated to scatter snow, sleet, and freezing rain across normally balmy Southeast coastal areas. Snow started to fall early Wednesday as far south as Tallahassee, Fla. Officials closed water attractions at central Florida’s largest theme parks—including Disney’s Typhoon Lagoon and SeaWorld’s Aquatica—because of the cold snap. Freezing rain coated historic Savannah, Ga., early Wednesday, closing schools, businesses, and City Hall. Georgia Gov.

Tampa, Fla., police on Tuesday arrested and charged a man with four counts of first-degree murder in connection to a series of fatal shootings in the last two months. Police Chief Brian Dugan said at a news conference Wednesday morning the suspect, 24-year-old Howell Emanuel Donaldson, had not yet admitted to the killings but was cooperating with police. A tip by a local McDonald’s employee Tuesday afternoon led to the arrest. Donaldson asked a fellow employee to hold a bag with a loaded semiautomatic gun while he went to a nearby business.

UPDATE: President Donald Trump’s comments this week about contacting families of fallen soldiers continues to elicit reactions from some involved. Cowanda Jones-Johnson, the mother of fallen soldier Sgt. La David Johnson, came to the defense of her daughter-in-law on Wednesday, saying she was in the car with her son’s widow when the president called on Tuesday and overheard Trump saying that Sgt. Johnson “knew what he signed up for.” Trump continues to deny the report.

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., officially announced his campaign for president today, pledging to revive flagging American exceptionalism. 

“I believe our very identity as an exceptional nation is at stake, and I can make a difference as president,” Rubio said to cheering supporters at Miami’s Freedom Tower, where thousands of Cuban refugees found relocation assistance in the 1960s and ’70s.

Arnold Abbott, a 90-year-old man who wears a white chef’s jacket, has been filling the bellies of the homeless in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., for the past 24 years. His all-volunteer organization, Love Thy Neighbor, provides about 1,400 gourmet meals a week to the city’s homeless population.

The weekly feedings include an outdoor meal served next to the restrooms at Fort Lauderdale’s public beach. Last Wednesday evening, between 150 and 200 people showed up, Abbott said.

Florida Congressman Daniel Webster’s office displays a standard American flag and a painting of Abraham Lincoln kneeling in prayer. What’s happily missing, though, are photos with celebrities. Instead, among the family photos is a John MacArthur Study Bible and a book containing the speeches of the 19th-century Daniel Webster, a distant relative who gained fame as an orator while serving in the U.S. Senate and twice as U.S. secretary of state.

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., is on a mission to tear down the blockade between would-be innovators and the free enterprise system. This week, he delivered an hour-long address in Washington outlining a novel idea for restraining government regulation: a National Regulatory Budget. Rubio wants to regulate the regulators, giving them a taste of their own medicine.

The budget would be set by an independent board, Rubio said, which would limit the amount each agency’s regulations would be allowed to cost the economy.