the only thing i regret about my life was hiring local talent. if i knew about upwork. i would have hired actually talented people from all over the world. instead of talentless people from all over my house. top of the hour, this tuesday. i m jim sciutto. and i m erica hill. happening right now, we re following these deadly storms pommeling the california coast. rescues underway in several parts of the state. you see the video here, mudslides and flooding. the impact is just massive. power knocked out to more than 230,000 customers, a number of roads are closed, some highways just impassable. and 14 people at least we know have died. we re going to take you live to california for the very latest. the pictures are incredible. plus president biden is facing questions this morning over his handling of classified material while he was vice president. this after his attorneys discovered documents, some classified, in a private office, those attorneys then returned them to
so that is just giving you a snapshot of what we re seeing here in southern california. and in santa barbara, the airport there reports one day of rain that is higher than the average month of january. so just an incredible amount of water. and it is impacting tens of millions of people. i m going to take a look behind and make sure no one is coming. we re seeing emergency crews beginning to move and down the 101 but they haven t been able to clear this yet because there is still so many emergencies happening. there is rain. rain is expected throughout the morning here in southern california. so, jim and erica, it is not over. the morning commute is still going to be happening. and there is a lot of concern about what is going to happen as people start to head to work. camilla, tell us what you re seeing where you are there and are the waters expected to rise again? reporter: hey, jim. yeah, a very similar situation.
news sunday today. i m mike emmanuel here in washington, thank you so much for watching. have an awesome day. bret: i m bret baier, a high stakes session of the u.s. supreme court could decide how far the president can go in enforcing sweeping covid mandates. bret: two critical cases now in the justices hands. one impacting whether millions of dollars doctors, nurses and medical staff must be fully vaccinated, the other impacting tens of millions of employees of large private businesses. i m a grocery guy. i m not the vaccine police. bret: both fast tracked as covid cases rise, mandate enforcement
with so much respect for one another. the world could learn a let from y all s two models, thank you for joining us. thank you for spending part of your sunday with us, have a great wee bret: i m bret baier, a high stakes session of the u.s. supreme court could decide how far the president can go in enforcing sweeping covid mandates. bret: two critical cases now in the justices hands. one impacting whether millions of dollars doctors, nurses and medical staff must be fully vaccinated, the other impacting tens of millions of employees of large private businesses. i m a grocery guy. i m not the vaccine police. bret: both fast tracked as covid cases rise, mandate enforcement
waking up tomorrow. so, we have had so much to deal with. we have had at least five to six winter storms already and winter officially started today. so, what s behind all of this? we brought in an expert to see if there s a science behind winter. there s no doubt about it, winter is not only officially here, it s been here for weeks. the curb a little bit. you have to drive maybe 10 miles an hour at the most. plenty of salt. the back roads are starting to stick. itis coming down good now. i m going to stay in for this. reporter: at least six winter storms hit the u.s. coast-to-coast impacting tens of millions of people. what s the science behind all this extreme weather? in terms of the storms we have seen in october, november and december, as i often tell people, the atmosphere doesn t have an on/off switch that knows when winter begins.