we start with one of the biggest threats facing our nation, the fentanyl crisis. it s a fox news alert. fentanyl is a synthetic opioid 80 to 100 times stronger than morphine. an opioid 100 times more potent than heroin. there are millions of these dangerous fake pills out there and they are killing thousands of americans. the lethal drug expected to kill 80,000 americans this year alone. for context, that would mean more americans killed by fentanyl in a single year than killed in the entire vietnam war. john: all stemming from cracks in the southern border, a breeding ground for drug cartels. exactly what the house homeland security committee will talk about in a hearing moments from now. sandra: social media plays a huge role in the cartels marketing. teens are buying the drugs online often not knowing that they are laced with the fentanyl. and sometimes the drug is even disguised as rainbow colored candy. the epidemic is hitting neighbors, friends, families, ju
right now on early start, too much too fast. epic rain after a fierce drought and it s not over just yet. chaos at a crowded train station. police in paris opening fire on an attacker who had just stabbed a half dozen people. i was briefed about this discovery and surprised to learn that there were any government records that were taken there. president biden speaking out and what he s saying about the classified documents found in a private office he used to use. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. good morning. we begin with tens of thousands of californians this morning under evacuation orders as a series of major storms pound the states from north to south. there have been more than 150 reports of flooding and mudslides in southern california alone. saturated hill sides. some scarred by brush fires during the state s long drought sliding down under roads and homes. this is video just in of a crushed car pulled
rainfall in las vegas. our north america correspondent peter bowes is in los angeles and explained more. well, the storm in many respects has already arrived in los angeles. we have had torrential rain here for the last few hours, so, that shows that this is a storm that as the authorities have been warning everyone in this city, a storm that is packing a punch. the centre of the storm is still several hours away, working up the pacific coast, but the fact we have had this rain already, and i am in the northern part of los angeles, it shows that there is a lot of rain to come when it heads north through the city, and perhaps even affecting neighbouring states as well. and i think people are bracing for that, but probably not for several hours to come. people are making a lot of preparations here, those people living near hill sides, that might have been burned in wild fires over recent months, doing everything they can, to shore up those hills, so that when this vast quantity of rain c
sides, that might have been burned in wild fires over recent month, doing everything they can, to shore up doing everything they can, to shore up those hills, so that when this vast quantity of rain comes in a relatively short space of time, that those hill sides are not vulnerable. it is a testament to our changing climate peter, because we have talked on many occasions about wild fires, droughts in the region, decades long, reductions in rainfall and now this year, we have talked about record levels of snow and now potentially a year s worth of rah inin a short period of time. how is the region responding, being able to cope with this changing climate now? well, it is perplexing to a lot of people, here we are in august, i have lived here for more than 25 year, i can t remember a year when there has been any rain in august, this is a freak event though, and you can t necessarily correlate what is happening with the course of this
as the authorities have been warning everyone in this city, a storm that is packing a punch, the centre of the storm is still several hours away, working up the pacific coast, but the fact we have had this rain already, and i am in the northern part of los angeles, it shows that there is a lot of rain to come when it heads north through the city, and perhaps even affecting neighbouring states as well. and i think people are bracing for that but probably not for several hours to come, people making a lot of preparations here, those people living near hill sides, that might have been burned in wild fires over recent months, doing everything they can, to shore up those hills, so that when this vast quantity of rain comes in a relatively short space of time, that those hill sides are not vulnerable. it is a testament to our changing climate peter, because we have climate, peter, because we have talked on many occasions about wild fires, droughts in the region, decades long, reductions in r