NewsTaco To Go: Social Security, Breasts, Muslims And Snow

Quick roundup of your NewsTaco To Go this morning: Today is Holocaust Memorial Day, the color-coded threat system is out, breast implants may cause blood cancer, the world’s Muslim population is doubling and there’s tons of snow on the East Coast.

Social Security will be drained by 2037, in the meantime though it will be running deficits every year as all the Baby Boomers start to retire.

The color-coded Homeland Security Advisory System will be replaced in April by a more regionalized system, National Terror Advisory System that will focus on specific threats in different geographic areas.

In 20 years the world’s Muslim population will be about 2 billion, according to a report from the Pew Forum on Religion & Public LIfe. Pakistan and Indonesia will have the most Muslims, the U.S. will have about 6.2 million.

There’s so much snow on the East Coast that 400,000 people in Washington D.C. lost power, as 15.3 inches fell in New York City as of this morning, 19 inches in New Jersey, 12 inches in Boston, 14 inches in Rhode Island, 17 inches in Philadelphia and 8 inches in Connecticut.

Women who have breast implants may run a greater risk of developing blood cancer. A review by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration found that women with saline and silicone implants ran a small, but significant risk of developing anaplastic large cell lymphoma  (ALCL).