world. i m kim brunhuber. more flooding could impact millions of people in california this weekend. officials warning they re not out of the woods yet. we ve got the forecast just ahead. plus, we ll look at the difficulties the white house has with business as usual as president biden is facing a special counsel investigation. and russia claims it has recaptured a town in eastern ukraine as we hear of a new assault on kyiv. a live report from the capital city just ahead. we re looking at the large-scale destruction after severe storms and tornadoes swept through the southeastern united states on thursday. at least nine people were killed, seven in alabama and two here in georgia including a 5-year-old boy. the massive cleanup effort is already underway. at least 37 possible tornadoes shredded trees and homes, knocked down power lines, and sent debris flying. the governor surveyed some of the damage in the city of selma saying it s the worst she had anticipated. my gli
weekend. donder pass, 122 inches of snow. as of january 11th, sierra snow pack is at 226% of average state wide. the southern sierra is at 269%. what makes this so important is the snow pack accounts for about 30% of california s fresh water supply in an average year. so a good solid snow pack is what we need to see. also when you re talking about drought conditions, this is from december 27th. you can see a large area of california under exceptional drought, and then you fast forward a week, and we see that that exceptional has dropped to zero. and then you look at it after a third week and it looks like we re seeing no exceptional drought and just a very, very small margin of extreme drought. so the drought conditions are definitely improving across california at least for the short term here, and we are going to see continued rain over the next couple of days. so the threat of rock slides,