commission says about 70 more deaths have been reported, eight of them apparently after the recall began. scientists say the weakened ozone layer vital is back on track to recover completely within decades. according to a u.n. backed report, international corporation has helped stem the damage from ozone-harming chemicals. it says the use of chcss have decreased 99% since 1989. thanks for joining me. i m christine romans. cnn this morning ostarts right now. there i see the president of the united states joe biden not commenting after classified documents from his time as vp were discovered in a private office. good morning, everyone. there you see us in this sort of pandemic era boxes, because we re in separate studios. we re having a little technical difficulty with our main studio this morning. so we ll be back in a moment, but it is good to see both of you. did you all make it? we were just rushed up the elevator. don documented it. so check your instagram later, f
europe with live reports from made grid and the cnn weather cen center . live from cnn centre, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. we begin with more fallout from the fbi search at donald trump s florida estate. sources now telling cnn that one of the former president s lawyers signed a letter back in june saying there were no more classified information stored at mar-a-lago but of course we learned earlier this week this federal agents recovered 11 sets of classified documents during their search including several marked top secret. meanwhile two high ranking house democrats are now asking intelligence officials for a damage assess themenment of the documents. writing that the former president s conduct has potentially put our national security at grave risk. all this comes as the fbi is dealing with what it says is an unpress departmented number of threats against the bureau in the wake of that mar-a-lago search. katelyn polantz is in washington with the latest
well as various kinds of tape. reporter: walshe s attorney says her client has been cooperating with investigators. mr. walshe has given several interview, we ve consented to searches at his home, we ve consented to searches at his property. reporter: walshe was already under house arrest after he pleaded guilty to a federal crime last year selling fake andy warhol art. jason carroll, thank you for that reporting. let s talk about what is happening in california, flooding, mudslides, debris floes, a dangerous storm battering california forcing thousands to evacuate and putting 34 million people under a flood watch. and the threat is not over. the storm is moving south from central california toward los angeles and ventura counties. at least 14 people have died in the storm over the past few weeks according to governor newsom. and we know that one driver died on a flooded roadway.
phoenix is going to be typically hot. average high is 105. it will be within a few degrees of that. and look at redding. sometimes we see it pop up as one of those cities that is so hot. but even the next several days, 111 degrees, that is excessively hot. we are seeing this monsoonal moisture across the interior west. and in utah, we ve seen a lot of rainfall there. they are brief but heavy and they can produce the debris floes. take around phoenix, coming up scattered showers and storms. flood watches are out. and that will continue through the workweek as we ve got a ridge of high pressure across the west and the east. so in between this monsoonal moisture from the south, and not going to get much heat relief. but maybe as far as some of the isolated areas and drought, that will be of some minor help. kim, back to you. thanks so much, karen
midwest. first time those risks in these locations have ever been issued in december. cnn meteorologist tom sater is monitoring it all, joins us now. so how many states are seeing rough weather and how bad might it get? well, it started just 24 hours ago, anderson, in california. it dropped into the desert southwest across central rockies all the way to the great lakes. two-thirds of the country. i ever been doing this 30 years and we are seeing things today in the cnn weather center we have never seen, before. how bad could it get? the u.s. could be looking at it its second billion-dollar weather disaster in less than a week. let me break it down. starting with an atmospheric river, a fire hose of rainfall in california. best rain they have seen all year and heavy snowfall, but got too much in southern california. we had debris floes. six to eight foot snow amounts in the sierras with avalanche warnings. 91-mile-per-hour winds brought this snow in toward bolder and it looked like a