you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in new york. much of california is under a state of emergency this afternoon, and mandatory evacuations are under way in parts of monterrey county on the central coast. a short time ago we received drone video of a levee that failed this morning. as you can see, the waters rushed through the breach and into a nearby neighborhood. the floodwaters have washed away roads and bridges and cut off some communities in the area. this is new video. we also have coming in from springville, where many have lost their homes and belongings in that area. california s reeling from its tenth atmospheric river of the winter in the central and northern parts of the state. it s dumping huge amounts of rain and snow on the ground that is already saturated. cnn s mike valerio joins us. you spoke to a county supervisor a short time ago there. what have you learned? reporter: well, he told us, jim, that there are hundreds of people now in shelters
the need for proof of any actual election fraud listen. it can t just be, you know, somebody tweeted this. it s got to be demonstrable facts that can be laid out with evidence because that s what a court of law is going to look to, not just an allegation, but actual facts and so i feel i m hopeful you know, i m hoping rudy comes on the show tomorrow and he has some of those facts and i hope the legal team continues to lay out the specific evidence because that s what it s going to take to prevail in court. they were all pinning all of their hopes on rudy and sidney powell explains why team trump would go on to lose 61 times in court, judge after judge after judge in courts all across the country, some of those judges appointed by donald trump himself, as well as the united states supreme court dismissed trump s claims of fraud and his attempts to overturn the 2020 election through the courts and they lost because as they very well knew, as ted cruz knew, there wasn t an
we are learning the fbi seized the cellphone of a republican congressman in relation to the january 6th investigation. more on that in a moment. but first, just in, the former president is about to be deposed. sometime in the next few hours donald trump will face prosecutors from the new york attorney general s office. this is the culmination of a civil investigation into the trump organization s finances that has lasted for more than three years. investigators are probing whether the trump organization used false or misleading asset valuations in its financial statements to obtain loans, insurance benefits, also tax benefits. kara scannell who has been all over this story for years joins us now. great to see you. so the former president being deposed. what can we expect today? it s a big day and a long time coming. sources tell us that donald trump will be deposed today, will face off with the lawyers from the new york attorney general s office and, you know, this is som
murdoch, brushed off the lawsuit as politics. what do you think of that? well, you know, that s not within the pursue obviously of the january 6th committee. but like anyone else, i saw the information that was released. and obviously they were lying to their viewers. i understand that fox is not really covering the dominion lawsuit, so their viewers, if that s the only place they get news, don t know that they were lied to and are still being lied to, which is really of concern. and figures from the far right including the former president have embraced carlson s coverage and shown sympathy for jacob chansley, the qanon shaman. carlson portrayed police as supporting him around the capitol when he entered the building through a broken door, was asked to leave. he pleaded guilty to disrupting an official proceeding. people like elon musk are calling for him to be released from prison. are you concerned fox and
russian ambassador to the u.s., he was on cbs and offered his own extra nation on why he believes russia is the victim here. the problem is not ukraine, the problem is what kind of world order will be in the future. whether we stand together, establish firm security, garon guarantee for anybody without undercutting very important principle of security for everybody. reporter: we ll continue to watch the developments here out of the white house and let now you know when things change. eric? arc arthel: we re going to switch gears, to use a racing term. the daytona 500 s getting underway, and fox corporation executive chairman and and ceo lack land murdoch is about to wave the green flag. let s take you live to the daytona international speedway and listen in. you got enough to stay up front today? i sure hope so