In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].

[EX Q]: It's been a brutal winter for many people across the East Coast of the United States with non-stop snow storms. But now forecasters are warning that Southerners could get a new cold front heading across the country which could leave a bit of everything in its wake - including snow, flooding, ice and mudslides. Temperatures will soon drop 20 degrees or more throughout the country, according to data from The National Weather Service. Scroll down for video Forecasters are warning that a new cold front is heading across the country, which could include snow, flooding, ice and mudslides. Snow falls near the entrance of Noble Park in Paducah, KentuckyThe National Weather Service said temperatures will soon drop 20 degreesWintry weather will extend 2000 miles from New Mexico to MassachusettsIce could cause power outages in Arkansas, Mississippi and TennesseeWestern Kentucky, northern Tennessee and Pennsylvania might get rain 
 Question:_ is quickly blanketing the region as the two boys throw snowballs at each other, getting some good shots in.
[EX A]: Snow

[EX Q]: (CNN) The Virginia Supreme Court on Friday ruled against Gov. Terry McAuliffe's executive order seeking to reinstate the right to vote to approximately 206,000 Virginians who had been convicted of a felony but had completed their sentences. Writing for a 4-3 court, Chief Justice Donald W. Lemons held that the "assertion that a Virginia governor has the power to grant blanket, group pardons" is "irreconcilable" with the Constitution of Virginia. The ruling is a political setback to Democrats and was issued in the critical state about an hour before Hillary Clinton announced she would choose former Virginia governor and current Sen. Tim Kaine as her running mate. The court's opinion actually mentions Kaine, noting that when he was governor he contemplated a similar executive order but in the end was advised that he couldn't issue such a sweeping action.The ruling is a political setback to DemocratsThe challenge was brought by citizens and Republican state officials 
 Question:"And I will continue to sign orders until I have completed restoration for all 200,000 _.
[EX A]: Virginians

[EX Q]: (CNN) -- A sailor is accusing the Navy of baselessly trying to discharge him for "unprofessional conduct" in an effort to get around the recent "don't ask, don't tell" repeal, after being found asleep in the same bed with another male sailor. Navy Petty Officer Stephen Jones, a student at the Naval Nuclear Power Training Command in Charleston, South Carolina, told CNN that on the night of February 5, a male sailor stopped by to watch the CW TV show "Vampire Diaries." "He has come over to watch shows in the past," Jones said. The two watched the show on his bed but accidentally fell asleep. Jones says his roommate walked in around midnight.Petty Officer Stephen Jones says he fell asleep with another sailor while watching televisionHis roommate caught the two sailors sleeping and reported them to supervisorsThe NAVY has said the sleepover is a violation and unprofessional 
 Question:"This is a subterfuge being used by this Commander because he does not have the elements of proof to separate him for homosexuality, but he suspects homosexuality, so he has created this illusion that _ has engaged in misconduct of some form."
[EX A]:
Stephen Jones