you don t own pads like that, do you? i was a basketball guy. i couldn t take hits like those in football. it s not my game. you are still tough. i want someone to call foul if i get hit. good morning. welcome to cnn this morning. i m amara walker. i m omar jimenez in for victor blackwell. we have lot to talk with. so glad you are back. it is back to work this week for lawmakers on capitol hill and with the dwindling number of days, their to-do list is quite long. can they avoid a government shutdown? a major question. also, right now tens of thousands of people are stuck in the desert at the burning man festival after a rainstorm turned the site into a mud pit. people are being told to shelter in place. amazon s ceo tells employees to get back in the office or their days may be numbered. they are not alone. we talk to an expert about whether whizzes and their employees can find some common ground. and college sports before to look a whole lot different.
now. camila, i was just amazed. you probably couldn t see the video from where you re standing. as i was talking to this woman, she picked up her foot and showed what looked like two or three inches of thick mud stuck to the bottom of her shoe. and i guess this is what people are dealing with in the middle of all this. but i guess things are improving somewhat. give us the latest. reporter: well, jim, it s still really messy, and i don t have to see the video because there were so many people that i saw here walking out of the playa. just to give you some perspective of where i am, the playa is right here behind me. so the festival is only just a couple of miles from where i am. throughout the day, i saw dozens and dozens of people with those cakey shoes with mud all over their bodies. the cars are covered in mud. i saw a number of rvs getting stuck behind me here in the desert. that s what you re seeing today. people are saying, look, i want to get out no matter what. the
going to find damage from the heavy equipment, from, you know, people not being able to procure their items and leave now trace. those a there s a restoration department here at burning man and they do a phenomenal job year in and year out and this year is going to be a really tough job. some people have trucked out on foot, including comedian chris rock, who up see in the blue coat and others hiking for six miles before they were able to hitch a ride from a fan. earlier i spoke with a different attendee who was able to make it back home to south carolina. she described how others were coping with the conditions. take a listen. most of the season folks that have been out there a number of times had really positive attitudes. i mean, we all know we re signing up for something that anything could happen. i ve been out there during a hail storm, i ve been out there during rain. i ve been out there when it was, like, too hot to function. so i felt like overall it was pretty
georgia conspiracy is next. have a good night. former president donald trump has now been criminally indicted in georgia for allegedly trying to overturn the election in that state in 2020. this is now his fourth indictment. the fulton county district attorney also charged 18 codefendants along with the former president, including former white house chief of staff mark meadows, trump attorneys rudy giuliani, sidney powell, john eastman, and others. trump is accused of being the head of a criminal enterprise and racketeering is one of the 13 charges against him. tonight, we take a close look at exactly what mr. trump and his allies did in georgia in the weeks after the election. cnn s sara murray lays out details about the investigation into the former president and the most serious charges he s now facing. breaking news in to cnn this hour. prosecutors in georgia have opened a criminal investigation into former president trump. why? because of his january phone call
not going anywhere, the federal government. we are here to help as long as it takes. fema and the small business administration are here to help residents whose home and businesses are destroyed in the damage. you can determine whether you are qualified and how to get help. if you ve not been condo already you can go to disasterassistance.gov and register for assistance. if you have any damage go to disasterassistance.gov to register. earlier this week i visited the fema headquarters in washington to thank the personnel for working 24 seven here in florida and in maui and hawaii. i want to reiterate that appreciation today. i also convene my entire cabinet as part of a whole government response. that response is to increase the number and intensity of the extreme weather evidence and be aware we will use all the resources available in the government to do it. no one can deny the impact of climate crisis. no one intelligent can deny the impact of the climate crisis anymore. ju