LOCAL ZIKA VIRUS TRANSMISSION FOUND IN TEXAS The first locally transmitted case in the state was found in Cameron County. [Erin Schumaker, HuffPost]

MEET DONALD TRUMP’S PICK FOR THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Dr. Tom Price would likely go after Obamacare and potentially look to privatize Medicare. [Jonathan Cohn, HuffPost]

OSU ATTACKER IDENTIFIED Ohio State University student Abdul Razak Ali Artan attacked Ohio State University students with a car and butcher’s knife, leaving 11 injured, one critically. A police officer killed the Somali immigrant, who had reportedly written an online rant about how Muslims were treated worldwide. [Willa Frej and Ryan Grenoble, HuffPost]

AT LEAST 75 DEAD AFTER COLOMBIAN PLANE CRASH The death toll in the crash of a charter plan in the rural area of Medellin included the majority of top Brazilian soccer team Chapecoense and several journalists. So far only six survivors have been found. [Reuters]

VISUALLY BREAKING DOWN WHAT TRUMP’S DEPORTATION PLANS COULD MEAN The New York Times graphically depicts the number of people the president-elect has stated he intends to deport. [NYT]

THE EFFECTIVENESS OF U.S. DRONE STRIKES AGAINST ISIS LEADERS “ISIS’s second-in-command hid in Syria for months. The day he stepped out, the U.S. was waiting.” [WaPo]

EXPANSIVE WILDFIRE FORCES TENNESSEE EVACUATIONS In Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge. [Ed Mazza, HuffPost]

INSIDE THE BILLION-DOLLAR BILL TO COMBAT THE HEROIN EPIDEMIC Where all that money is going. [Marina Fang, HuffPost]