tom: it s the christmas season. which is according to andy williams the most wonderful time of the year. but not everyone is into that and they re tired of all of the good cheer but would it surprise you to know a new study find that declining invitations to holiday parties is actually good for you. many people say yes to invites when they want to say no. you see they re afraid their friend will be angry and cross them off future party lists. but researchers found, quote, people tend to exaggerate degree to which the person who issue invitation will focus on act of the invitee declining invitation as opposed to the thoughts that pass through their head before they decline. you get it right, it s old bit of wisdom you wouldn t so much about what other people thought of you. if you knew how seldom hay did there s a lot of demands on your time this time of the year. you have to look out for your mental health even if it makes you kind of a grinch. this woman hates holida
happy friday evening when. you just watched bill maher in a one-on-one with jake tapper. stick around until 11:30 eastern time and we will bring you in even more unplugged bill maher. we will see what he and his guests talk about after the show. until then we have a lot to talk about so we will show you this new video. taken by one of the americans kidnapped in mexico and it showed what was happening in the car right after they crossed over the border. then there is a two hour gap of time before they are surrounded by the cartel. we will tell you what we know about where they went. george santos accused of running a credit card skimming operation in seattle. i m in the right, i m innocent. oscar ceremony brought us the flap heard round the world so what s in door for this broadcast? our panel brings us a preview. my this week look, anderson. also maunder jones, former congressman with the most infectious laugh. and joining us, and when i don t well enough retired nypd
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
going out to these protests, it s a mix, but the vast majority are people who ar carrying israeli flags these are the vast majority, still support the israel military occupation, and whe the simple issue of raisin israeli apartheid is raised, they keep telling palestinians not to raise that issue. so, on the one hand, they ar asking for democracy on the other hand, they don see how for palestinians, this has been a dictatorship an will continue to be dictatorship, because that i what it is to live under israeli military rule. it means that you don t have the right to choose your own governments, to be able to decide your own future but instead, you are living unde the thumb of another government so, even if you look at th current composition of thi government, out of the - best set - out of the 120 members of th parliament, 110 of them suppor the occupation it s only ten, and those ten happen to be arab, that don support the occupation so, only those ten support you will wr
we report with breaking news i california and the deadl weather situation unfoldin there. another atmospheric river is slamming the state, bringing millions under flood alerts. several roads washed away, communities cut off an evacuations ordered. that threat is not over, mor rain is expected this weeken and northern california, eve more snow in fact in the sierra s let s go to nbc steve patterson, he is joining us from sanger california that is in the central part of the state. steve, welcome and what it s like there yes the central part of the state is taken a lot of this water, take a look at this community here one of the communities tha really sort of dodged a bullet here alex, take a look here th river running through rushin water, all of this though was part of that river yesterday this entire communit waterlogged water coming ove this bridge. we just saw workers plot a massive log from the strea here it was clogging things up and they worked to shore thi up but it c