good morning and welcome to cnn this morning. i m paula reid in for am ara wa walker. and i m boris sanchez. thank you to paula for filling in for amara. i know these hours are not really easy to work, but we re grateful for you being here. and paula, stop me if you ve ever heard of an atmospheric river before. are you familiar with those? i m absolutely not. i had to look it up this morning so i could understand all these incredible stories we re watching this morning. how do you live like this. california soaked by another round of storms. those atmospheric rivers are washing out roads, collapsing bridges and prompting evacuations. the latest on the damage and where the severe weather is headed next. i don t know how we ll do our payroll now. a stunning collapse, silicon valley bank folding marking the second largest bank failure in u.s. history leaving some business owners scrambling to figure out how they will pay their employees. and former president trum
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
now? so let s be real clear about one thing, there is no actual crisis here. this is entirely a crisis of their making if it occurs. president joe biden continues to call out house republicans over the debt ceiling, delivering, what sure sounded like a 2024 stump speech. meanwhile on capitol hill republican senators air their grievances with the attorney general. and also ahead, a major move on the price of insulin that will bring much needed relief for millions of americans. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, march 2nd. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin on capitol hill where attorney general merrick garland faced a barrage of attacks from republican lawmakers yesterday during a senate judiciary committee hearing. as is customary for an attorney general to do, garland appeared before the new congress to answer questions about a wide range of topics. but the a.g. spent a large portion of the four-hour hearing de
this tuesday i m ana cabrera. it is 10:00 eastern. we re here in new york and right now we re tracking calls for justice in kansas city after a 16-year-old was shot in the head after ringing the wrong doorbell 84-year-old andrew lester is the white homeowner now facing two felony charges for shooting ralph yarl police say there was a racial component to the shooting, but haven t provided details and an arrest warrant has been issued but lester is still not in custody. this morning, the 16-year-old s mother described his injuries. he had the bullet in the up here for about, let s say, up to 12 hours before it was taken out. also this morning, a rejected appeal a moscow court has ruled against evan gerstovitz. he will be detained in prison until he goes on trial next month on espionage charges the u.s. government calling the entire process a sham. the charges against evan are baseless and we call on the russian federation to immediately release him. and one of the mos
an indictment soon against former president donald trump. cnn has now learned the manhattan district attorney s office has invited trump to testify before a grand jury, all of this connected to the alleged hush money payment to adult film actress stormy daniels in 2016 right before the election. ahead, what it means as prosecutors weigh potential criminal charges. plus, good economic news, the u.s. economy added some 311,000 new jobs last month, that beat analysts expectations by a long shot. wages, unemployment up slightly. what does this all mean for the fed as it continues its fight to cool down inflation. we will break down the numbers. evacuation orders are in effect for parts of california. people along the central coast could see dangerous amounts of rain. we will take you there as residents prepare for yet another massive storm. but we do begin this hour with news in the manhattan district attorney s office signaling it could file criminal charges against former