delivered a stunning verdict finding the former president liable for sexually abusing a woman and then telling malicious lies about her. and an agreement to meet again. yesterday s debt ceiling huddle on a curve and it wasn t a failure. but listen to the principles and everybody still dug in. during our meeting, default is not an option. everybody in this meeting reiterated the positions themp at. i didn t see any new movement. back to that a bit later. we begin with the right now legal headache. george santos is in federal custody. he will stand before a judge in the next hour. the government this morning unsealing a 13-count indictment, 7 counts of wire fraud, money laundering, two counts of making false statements to the house of representatives and one count of theft of public funds. among the accusations, stealing pan desmic unemployment money. and using campaign donations to buy luxury designer clothes and pay his personal credit card bills. britaiynn gingras jo
i am harris faulkner with emily compagno, kayleigh mcenany, also known as washington examiner deputy editor of restoring america, kayleigh mcgee white is here. welcome. and ben ferguson, host of the ben ferguson pod cast. several cities have declared states of emergency. the overwhelmed border communities of brownsville, laredo, brownsville, texas. emergency orders have been ordered in a deep blue sanctuary city of chicago. the state of new york and even denver, colorado. this new video out of el paso shows border agents apprehended several people for illegally entering the country. and now we are being told to at least one of them is already back on american soil. actually, then, that isn t the jarring park today. the jarring part was watching the federal government through a memo acknowledge it. ben: they know what s happening to these kids and i think everyone needs to have a moment where you understand this was done by design. this wasn t an accident. this wasn t a cr
atmospheric river is raising water levels and leaving a trail of destruction. a levee breech iach is forcing evacuations in monterey county. governor newsom has declared a state of emergency. we can t live like this. how do i live like this? how do i have my kids live here or my elderly mother live here? mike, a lot of people are trying to reassess how much longer can they endure this. reporter: right. you know a couple people made the decision to leave just a few minutes ago. we saw them coming out on national guard convoys because they couldn t wait any longer. we re here just over the santa cruz line in pajaro. you see acres of farmland that are now underwater. if we push in looking north, the farther you go, the closer you get to the pajaro river. a levee in the river failed around midnight local time, which is why you see all this water flooding this strawberry farm that s on either side of the railroad tracks. we want to jump to drone video of neighboring watsonvi
you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in new york. much of california is under a state of emergency this afternoon, and mandatory evacuations are under way in parts of monterrey county on the central coast. a short time ago we received drone video of a levee that failed this morning. as you can see, the waters rushed through the breach and into a nearby neighborhood. the floodwaters have washed away roads and bridges and cut off some communities in the area. this is new video. we also have coming in from springville, where many have lost their homes and belongings in that area. california s reeling from its tenth atmospheric river of the winter in the central and northern parts of the state. it s dumping huge amounts of rain and snow on the ground that is already saturated. cnn s mike valerio joins us. you spoke to a county supervisor a short time ago there. what have you learned? reporter: well, he told us, jim, that there are hundreds of people now in shelters
and turkey issues an international appeal for help. we ll be taking a look at how world leaders are responding. welcome to the programme. we begin in turkey and northern syria, where two powerful earthquakes have killed more than 2,000 people. many more injured and still missing. we ll look at the damage done and the rescue operations. first, let s see where this happened. the first earthquake had a magnitude of 7.8 the epicentre in turkey s gaziantep province. there have been almost 30 other shocks in the region, all powerful enough to magnify the damage. a second major earthquake 130km north of the first one. these pictures show buildings collapsing in south east turkey. the country has declared a state of emergency. here s president erdogan. translation: we do not know how far the number of dead and injured - will rise as debris removal works continue in many buildings in the earthquake zone. our hope is that we will recover from this disaster with the least loss of life