how do i have my kids here? how do i have my elderly mother live here where i carry her out of her house? a powerful storm in the west dumping a dangerous am of rain on millions of residents putting dozens of california communities under a state of emergency. we ll take you there and cnn weather center for the latest. and republicans descend on iowa. a stop on the road to the white house. ron desantis had to say to keep voters there. who wouldn t like to work a four-day workweek. how it s working out. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. we begin this hour with a deadly storms pounding california. millions are under flood alerts as heavy rain and melting snow combine in the latest round of intense winter weather in the result of another atmospheric river. officials issued evacuation warnings. more evacuations were ordered in the past hour. the sheriff is urging residents to stay clear of waterways and avoid all unnecessary travel. they worn o
i m boris sanchez. and i m paula reid. it is great to be with you. great to be with you as well. i was looking at amara walker s social media. looks like she is skiing somewhere with her family. great for her. and there is a lot to get to. here is some of what we re watching for this morning. wake up, wake up, your house is flooded. and i looked on the ground and there was a flood. he seems to be in a good food fo mood for a natural disaster. california was soaked with another storm and prompted evacuations. would we have the latest on where the severe weather is headed next. and overall we ve created more jobs in two years than any administration has created in their first four years. president biden takes a victory lap following a strong jobs report. where we re seeing those jobs. plus the stunning bank collapse that has some small business owners wondering how they will pay their employees. and in politics, testing the waters. presidential hopefuls swarming i
good morning. breathe it in deep. the weekend is here. and welcome to cnn this morning. i m boris sanchez. is and i m paula reid. boris, it s great to be with you. we appreciate you getting up bright and early. amara is skiing somewhere in europe. here s a look at what we re watching this morning. overall we created more jobs in two years than any administration created in the first four years. president biden taking a victory lap following a strong jobs report. where we re seeing those jobs. plus a stunning free falls that led to the second largest bank collapse in u.s. history. and testing the waters. presidential hopefuls sworm iowa this week as the gop race heats up. we have new reporting about when ron desantis might announce that he s running. i looked on the ground and it was flooded. he seems to be in a smiling mood for a natural disaster. california soaked by the another round of storms. those atmospheric rivers washing out roads, collapsing bridges and
severe road damage as well. the california national guard is now on the scene in santa cruz to support emergency services. for some residents, the rising water is simply too much. we can t live like this. how do you live like this? how do i have my kids here? how do i have my elderly mother live here where i carry her out of the house? cnn s mike valerio and cnn meteorologist brit rits are tracking the latest. reporter: this is the heart of the flood rescue response effort. if you look around us, the area is inundated. as you mentioned at the top of the show, it is flooded because we have this levy upstream that failed around midnight local time, so as the front quickly comes through, that water is dumped around us. what we ve been seeing since we moved positions from the berry farm we talked to you last time until now, national guard troops have been coming up and down the central drag for several hours now rescuing people. you can just see the extent of the water. and
we are now seeing another guy from florida make moves. ron desantis is reportedly telling people in his circle he is set on running. sources tell the washington post he is going to declare in may or june. desantis has 70 mill in the back left over from run for governor. and desantis super pacs are coming alive. i don t know how it could be more obvious but ron desantis is in iowa today. if you talk to floridians, there s no drama in our administration. there s no palace intrigue. they basically just sit back and say okay, what s the governor going to do next and we roll out and we execute and we do things and we get things done. and, in the process, we beat the left day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year. [applause] jesse: no drama ron. that s a clear shot at the former president. no drama and execute. we re going to see those themes repeated from the desantis camp. desantis winning the iowa caucus would be very big. trump didn t win iowa in