i love the rain, i don t like the flooding. i showed my roommate and she s like what about your car? and you could see from the window, we saw my car get totalled. we are getting a little worried now about the food in the refrigerator. there s no heat, and of course no lights, and so we are not really sure what we are going to do for dinner. sandra: a live look, los angeles, storm damage from a massive system hitting the west coast, life-threatening flooding in parts of california. kick off a new week, john. john: good to be with you, and albert was long when he sang it never rains in california. i m john roberts in washington. this is america reports . official in the golden state warn the storm is far from over as it makes its way now toward san diego. they are pleading with californians to stay off the roads amid record rainfall. police in northern california say one man is dead after a tree fell on him. sandra: and concern growing that mudslides and downe
we will watch the court, maggie vespa, thank you very much. that s going to do it for me. deadline white house starts right now. hello, everyone, it s 4:00 in new york. i m ali velshi in for nicolle wallace. just a few hours ago, attorneys for donald trump filed a brief defending their can client s place on the ballot in that critical 14th amendment case that s before the supreme court over whether his role in the january 6th insurrection bars him from running for office. oral arguments before the justices are on thursday. we are also hearing from special counsel jack smith, his prosecutors are mounting a defense of the classified documents probe in a filing to judge aileen cannon. we re going to have more on that in a little while as well. we begin with developments in the middle east where the threat of further air strikes looming across the region and a furry of diplomacy with one goal, preventing the war in gaza from widening even further. president biden and his
[national anthem] [national anthem] [national anthem] will: we start this morning off with a fox news alert, the u.s. and u.k. carrying out a new wave of airstrikes yesterday, this time targeting sites in yemen occupied by the iranian-linked houthi rebels. pete: the pentagon confirming strikes on at least 36 targets and more than a dozen different sites including weapon facilities, missile launchers and air defense systems. that s what we re today. while the british with military says it struck a ground control station near yemen s capital. rachel: the u.s. and coalition forces are putting out a joint statement saying we will not hesitate to continue to defend lives and commerce in one of the world s most critical waterways in the face of continued threats. will: meanwhile, the houthis are vowing to respond saying, quote, the american-british aggression with against yemen will not go unanswered, and we will meters calculation wees calculation. pete: the
arguing in the courts that he is immune from prosecution means that it s all but impossible to start a trial on march 4th, just over a month from now. but that news could clear the way for another one of trump s criminal cases. the ex-president could be in the courtroom in manhattan just eight weeks from now. the manhattan d.a. charging him with 34 felony counts for trying to cover up a sex scandal this the weeks before the 2016 election. that trial is currently scheduled for march 25th, and in less than two weeks, a hear willing be held to decide if that date holds. according to reporting from the new york times, alvin bragg and his team of prosecutors have been quietly plugging away. last month, it was reported and news breaking just yesterday in a related case that could give bragg a boost. once again, from the new york times. he once said understand weeseleberg knows where all the financial bodies are burr yesterday, and while it does not involve him flipping on