good morning. well ccome to cnn this morning and president obama orders the military to shoot down an unidentified object off the coast of alaska. what pentagon officials are saying about it and the key differences between this object and the chinese balloon that was shot down last week. plus a moment of hope amid the devastating earthquake in turkey and syria, more than 24,000 people killed, but amid the loss after days trapped under the rubble, a teenager found alive. some incredible footage to share with you. pollus memphis prosecutors y they are now looking at every case involving the now fired officers charged in the beating of tyre nichols. as we learn new details about the officers involved. plus the end is in sight, the biden administration preparing to officially end the nation s covid-19 public health emergency. what is going to change and what will not, ahead on cnn this morning. it is the weekend. and we re together. somebody made a mistake putting us
flood warnings. the state s lieutenant governor joins us with an update. plus the justice department is reviewing a batch of classified documents found in joe biden s private office from when he was vice president. what will the president say about it today? and a 6-year-old accused of shooting a teacher with his mother s gun, the choice prosecutors now face in virginia. this is what we re watching at this hour. thank you so much for being here. i m kate bolduan. the flooding in california is really terrifying and the threat is not over. the state s governor said severe weather has killed at least 14 people now. 34 million people are under flood alerts today. more than a foot of rain has fallen in southern california in the last two days. a real threat isn t just the water, it is all it is rock slides, and the threat of severe mudslides as well that could also very quickly create dangerous conditions and it is all forcing thousands of people to evacuate their homes. c
epic cleanup. several senate lawmakers are at the border right now getting a close-up look at the real crisis, looking for real answers. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. one group, a bipartisan delegation led by texas republican john cornyn, and arizona independent kyrsten sinema making stops in their home states focused on finding solutions. what is happening now is happening on our doorstep and we need to work together to try to address it in the best way we can. a repeated failure by administration after administration to manage this crisis. the way i see for us to do that is work together by putting partisanship aside and listening to local folks and working together to find solutions. harris: we may be getting a peak from the curtain why she left the democratic party. they weren t doing that. this from the front lines. face and center hour by hour, minute by minute agents catching two illegals as they crossed across the border. we have fresh
urgent weather emergency out west. mandatory evacuations and emergency rescues are under way in california. as an unrelenting series of storms batters the state, triggering mudslides, flash floods, and opening massive sink holes. 90% of california is under flood watches or warnings right now. it caught people who have been here 50 years, caught them unprepared. how quickly was the water rising? you could watch it. you could see it rising. it was rising quick. in my experience, the fastest i have seen it rise. at least a dozen people have lost their lives to these storms and authorities are frantically searching for a 5-year-old boy who was swept away by floodwaters. adding to the urgency, forecasters say another dangerous storm system is moving in. we re going to get an update in moments. and i m speak with the mayor of santa barbara where mandatory evacuation orders are in effect in some areas. also, the high stakes three amigos summit between the u.s., mexico, a
violations, but because doj s apparently opened their own criminal investigation into the congressman, so they want the fcc to defer to that criminal mastication. there s been lots of news recently about republican congressman and a con man george santos, but doj trying to clear the field of other law enforcement agencies, because they ve got in those types of potential prosecution, that s a new development in a significant one that is worth watching in the days ahead that s gonna do it freshman elbow, now it s time for the last word the great ali velshi is in for lawrence, communing ali. i appreciate your minus by medusa, in the early days the war her team really depended amadou city give us some of the best reporting we can get from people who understood what was going on in russia these are the little pockets of resistance around which people cling. they come to, them out of medusa can stay alive, a number of russians who are going where this war, they don t really und