good morning. buenos dias and welcome to cnn this morning, saturday, january 14th. i m boris sanchez or as amara called me earlier, sorbi. i think i said sorez. close enough. i like that better. sounds like a dinosaur. a mixture of sorry and boris. are you my boris saurus, sound like a dinosaur. welcome, everyone. thanks for being with us. appreciate your starting your morning with us. great to be with you as always. we begin in the southeastern united states where recovery efforts are under way after severe storms killed at least nine people thursday night in alabama and georgia. at least 37 tornadoes were reported with one twister wrecking parts of selma, alabama, a historic american city known for its role in the civil rights movement. seven of those confirmed fatalities were in neighboring atauga county, alabama, where the storm caused widespread damage to homes and businesses. it was scary, and i thought about you said it was coming, and we just didn t know exa
buenos dias. good morning. saturday, january 14th. welcome to your weekend. i m boris sanchez. good morning. i m amara walker. you are in the cnn newsroom. and we begin this morning out west where more than 25 million people across much of california s coastline are under flood watches this weekend. only two to four inches of rain are expected today. keep in mind, recent storms which have already killed at least 19 people have left the ground extremely satch-related catch rated, many the could lead to floods and mudslides. residents should be cautious venturing out in today s storm. we are not out of the woods yet. the threat to communities remains and waters will continue to rise even after these storms have passed. very heavy snow is also in the forecast for the sierras with an additional 3 to 6 feet of fresh snow expected through monday. the big concern is in northern california where officials are worried massive flooding could cut homes on the monterey penins
there wasn t any floor system there anymore. it s a foundation, it took that end of the house completely off. i was going out of the kitchen into the living room, and this as i stepped into the living room, the floor disappeared under my feet, and i went straight to the ground. and had to crawl back up into the end that was still standing, the end of the hallway. they were in the hallway. my goodness. how are you feeling this morning? are you do you feel like it s a miracle that you survived? yeah. scrapes and bruises i ve got doesn t compare to all of us lives and everything that were saved. that s minor. and tiffany, you must have been beside yourself trying to find your father and your grandmother, because that was your grandmother s home. tell me what you went through. right. he called me right before it
of it. we heard the storm coming, and had a cousin, he got my mother into the hallway, and i was going to the front door to see exactly which way it was coming in. i opened the front door, and the porch disappeared, and trees started falling. so i was trying to make it around to the hallway, gets in where they were at. as i stepping into the living room, the floor system, living room and everything disappeared from out from under my feet in a flash. and i fell through the floor system and was able to crawl back out off the ground, up into the house, and get into the hallway. and basically all we had left standing was the loophole way that they were in and the small portion of the kitchen where i was standing. but it just disappeared in the blink of an eye. my goodness. you fell into the floor?