triumph turns to tragedy after a georgia football player and a team staffer die in a car crash just hours after celebrating victory. plus in california, the rain just won t quit. watches in effect now for 8 million people. good morning. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, i m christine romans. the chairman of the house oversight committee attacking president biden and his team for mishandling the discovery of classified documents in his think tank office in and delaware home. republican james comer he sent a letter to the white house demanding more information on what happened. we don t know exactly yet what wl they broke the law or not. i will accuse the biden administration of not being transparent. why didn t we hear on november 2nd when the first batch of classified documents were discovered. comer says it s unfair that president biden is being treated separately, differently from former president trump on the discovery of classifie
learning after determining there are no visitor logs for the home in delaware. out west, the california weather may finally get a break sometime soon. but not before one last batch of storms moves out this afternoon. we ve got a live report from the state now, under a major disaster declaration. plus, an nbc news exclusive, new reporting on one of next year s cril senate races and trying to unseat sherrod brown in ohio. i m hallie jackson in aurkz. with me is monica alba, capitol hill correspondent ali vitali and former federal prosecutor and political legal affairs columnist rendo mariotti with us as well. the question is not taking questions from reporters on the documents. not all together surprising. but the white house is trying, to it feels, as you have new reporting on the president s mind set on all of this, flex the muscles and point the finger at house republicans to say why didn t you care when donald trump did this and you care what is happening in a different s
happening now, breaking news, we re following chaos at the u.s. capitol. republicans huddling behind closed doors tonight after kevin mccarthy s bid for the speaker s gavel lands with a thud for the second straight day. the next moves for mack arthy and his to popponents are very unclear right now. new information emerging about the terrifying on-field collapse of damar hamlin. the buffalo bills say hamlin is showing signs of improvement although he remains in critical condition in the icu. this hour, the chief medical officer for the nfl joins me live for an exclusive interview. welcome. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. let s get straight to the spectacle on the floor of the u.s. house of representatives now adjourned until 8:00 p.m. eastern. manu is standing by for us. republicans there working behind the scenes right now to try to resolve this deadlock. i understand you re getting new information. reporter: yeah.
in its war against hamas. we ll have the latest developments out of the middle east in just a moment. plus, what the new speaker of the house is saying about aid packages for israel and ukraine and how soon the funding could pass in the lower chamber. and also ahead, we ll look at the state of the republican presidential primary now that former vice president mike pence has bowed out of the race. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, october 30th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day and week with us, and we ll begin this morning with israel, expanding its ground operation in gaza. on saturday, prime minister benjamin netanyahu announced that israel is in its second phase of its mission to destroy hamas. netanyahu described the assault as israel s second war for independence. the operation began overnight friday with an intense wave of air strikes and ground raids. at the same time, phone and internet service to the region was sev