hello again, everyone. thanks for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield. we begin with california facing a severe weather threat yet again right now. 25 million people are under flood watches. some areas saw more than six times the normal rainfall in just the last two weeks. today s storms raising concerns for more flooding and possibly landslides. cnn meteorologist allison chinchar is tracking the storm for us. also cnn s natasha chen is in fairfax, california, where we begin with you. what are you seeing? all right. we don t have audio of natasha. we ll try and work that out. it s not your television sets. let s go to you, allison. what is california bracing for? they ve already been through so much. they have. they re bracing for two more rounds, one that is currently ongoing and the next round that arrives 24 hours from now with not much of a break in between. the first round already here. you can see most of the real heavy rain and snow is across portions of northern and
little more chrome that city shares its namesake with a lot of french names in front of the cadillac guy named antwon cadillac: carley: car come from. there car and town both named after carley: got it. okay. cool. how did you know that? joe: google. [laughter] carley: that wasn t off the top of the dome? joe: tell me there is a town in michigan named cadillac i want to know. carley: curious. joe: car capital of the world. griff: cadillac as prestigious as always? joe: they are nice. the new he is can a ladies like the tahoe size they are hot. carley: i don t think i have driven a car in 10 years maybe more. new york city you don t need to. when i was driving wasn t that good at it either. so maybe for the best. all the jokes that came to mind sure all true. stereotype. joe: enough about us. your pictures are pouring in like this one from felicia who caught what she says is a real reindeer christmas tree through the window. carley: look at the mo
welcome, you are watching cnn newsroom. i m rosemary church. just ahead, we re hearing for the first time from the family of the man accused of killing four college students in idaho. residents of northern california starting the new year with an evacuation warning as longtime residents face the worst flooding they ve seen in years. the late pope benedict xvi is lying in state at the vatican for mourners to pay their last respects. we ll bring you a live report from st. peter s square. thanks for being with us. the family of bryan kohberger, the suspect in the stabbing deaths of four idaho college students, is speaking out and offering their condolences. kohberger himself is sitting in a pennsylvania jail awaiting extradition and facing four counts of first-degree murder. cnn s veronica miracle has the family s statement and the mood in moscow, idaho. reporter: bryan kohberger s family has put out a statement through his public defender saying, first and foremost w
leaders now in his own district in his own party are trying to. they want him out. so does the new york state party chairman. we re talking about george santos from new york who lied about nearly all aspects of his life to help get himself el elected. late today brandon williams joined the call for him to quit. as for santos he says he s not going anywhere. will you resign? i will not. i need a little space here. new york republicans are calling you a disgrace. you will not resign? now, of course, who knows if that s true. almost nothing he has said about his life and career has been so far. this is the same george santos who said he worked at goldman sachs which was a lie who said he worked at citigroup which he didn t meaning that too was a lie, same george santos who lied about the high school he went to in new york and the college he said he graduated from. he said he got a degree in economics and finance, he didn t. he said he had been a star athlete. told me,
he deceive the voters of the third congressional district, is not lies were not fibs. he disgraced the house of representatives, and is not welcome here at the republican headquarters. what george santos has done is, when she doesn t feel, is what he would understand if he was jewish, as if he was. he lied about that too. chabot shalom to everybody. thank you for being here. leah served as an inspiration, a friend, and a leader, for the jewish folks in congress, and for all of us in this room, at one point, just being two members. so, now it is going to be three. and, he is not jewish. when caught lying about being jewish, he lied about ever having lied about it. i always joke to, i am catholic, but i am jew-ish. as in, -ish. i made that joke because when i was growing up, i made it fully aware that my he also lied about them too, claiming they had fled the holocaust. he lied about lying for employees in the pulse nightclub mass shooting. he s also facing check