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
Link the cuts on travions palms to struggle with Melissa Huggins jones. The jurors obviously felt the state proved a firstdegree murder case. Now heres what happens tomorrow. There will be a so called mini trial if you will. The jurors come back and listen to evidence, the victims family will speak through victim impact statements. Itll take several days then the jurors go back to the jury room and deliberate. Should smith get the Death Penalty or not. Steve, wncn news now. Were following breaking news in raleigh. Police tell us theyre on the scene of a Death Investigation after receiving a report of a dead person on South Wilmington streets near the greenway on city farm road. Be sure to stay with wncn. Com and your mobile news app as we continue to learn more. To meet a friday deadline set by a panel of federal judges, state lawmakers are working to withdraw this will effect next months primary election. Bo minnick breaks it all down. Including how the legal battle may not be over ye
Elsewhere on capitol hill today, its back to the bargaining table for lawmakers facing a yearend fiscal cliff. Yesterday the white house took a hard line insisting tax rates have to rise on the rich and warning that anymore delay on the deal could ruin Consumer Confidence and hurt Holiday Retail sales. Nbcs tracie potts joins us from washington with the details. Tracie, good morning. Reporter good morning, lynn. Today well see a continued push by the white house. In fact, for the rest of this week, new details released this morning, still pushing for those taxes on the rich. Meantime, here on capitol hill were seeing some small signs of compromise. Today president obama meets with Small Business leaders continuing his push for higher taxes for the wealthy. A new xhous economic report warns if tax breaks go away, the average middle class family will owe uncle sam another 2200 next year. It seems to be the thing we can agree on, that middle class families should see an extension of these
Hear. We have the whole thing covered for you right here at the top of the hour with cnn sports anchor, rachel nichols. She is inside that room. We will check in with her momentarily. Of course, once the News Conference begins, i will stop talking, we will take that live, in full. A little bit of back story. Donald sterling has kept a fairly low profile since this audiotape emerged. But see this video . He, along with his wife i should say his estranged wife, were caught leaving a Los Angeles Area strount jurestaura this past sunday night. The paparazzi shouting questions at him. He himself didnt answer any questions about the audiotape, which he allegedly made. These racist remarks about africanamericans. But the comment attributed to him has ignited a firestorm in the professional sports community. Take a listen. Dont come to my games. Dont bring black people, dont come. Do you know you have a team thats black . I support them and ive given them food and clothes and cars and houses.
Minutes of hell. We didnt know if he was still dieing or if they were still pumping drugs in him. A horrifying situation. They wanted to hurry up and get it done with as little transparency as possible. Shades of katrina. They have gone up there with chainsaws to try to be able to cut holes in the roofs and get people out of there. People trapped in their attacks, almost a foot of rain in 24 hours. The moment of death is just an inch away. Youre live in the cnn newsroom. Good morning. Im Carol Costello. Thank you for joining me. The nba handed down a sports Death Penalty to clippers owner Donald Sterling. The big question is how sterling respond . Will other nba owners vote to force sterling to sell the team . Clippers fans, they raised the roof for their heroes last night. One, two, three [ cheers and applause ] it was the first time the team had been home since sterlings racist rant audiotape surfaced. The clippers won a pivotal game five in the playoff series with golden state. Coac