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
american democracy. that is something he truly believes and that we should continue to fight for. calling for egregious abuses of power in order for to suppress the constitutional rights of reporters as an insult, it s a complete insult to the rule of law and undermines fundamental values and traditions. instead, it is the responsibility, it s a responsibility of all leaders t protect first amendment rights and that s what the president believes and that s what is going to continue to do to make sure we protect those rights. something happened they are, clearly. where it not quite exactly sure what happened to the white hous briefing. somebody must ve pulled the plug . there is something going on today. apparently we have it back, so let s get back to it right now, we don t have any audio now. clearly our plug has been pulle somewhere, there are a lots of patches and routings that go on in that briefing room and that white house. in fact, if you were to look under the floor
cnn has confirmed multiple contradictions, including claims that nichols grabbed an officer s gun which was heard in one of the body camera recordings released last week by one of the officers talking about it, but it s not visible on the video. you were going for my gun too, so i m, like he grabbed my gun. look. got him out the car and i was, like, hey, bro. you good? he swung and hit me. he reached for my gun and slammed into the car. so far, ten city employees have faced consequences in the wake of nichols killing. of the latest, two emts and a fire department lieutenant have now been fired. that s three in the fire department and a seventh memphis officer has been relieved of duty last week. five of those seven officers were charged with second-degree murder and assault for nichols death. cnn s ryan young has the latest from memphis. also here, cnn chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst, john miller. ryan, first, the discrepancies between the video and t
potentially swindle more than $5 billion, almost $6 billion in taxpayer money. marc thiessen and ari fleischer in moments. first to david spunt who is investigating this. good afternoon, david. good afternoon. this came as an urgent alert from the pandemic response account ability committee better known as praac, this is a watch damage made up of government officials and government organizations. march will be three years since the government went into a lock down. many businesses survived but in not the same as from before. praac uncovered 69,000 questionable social security numbers that received 5.4 billion and that s just from studying more than 33 million applicants. there were many more. in many cases, the name did not match the correct name and birthday or the number was bogus, not even from the government. still the money went out in many cases. last spring i sat down with michael horowitz, chair of the pandemic response accountability committee and inspector general
here so explain thoughts coming up, plus mark furman whether defense attorneys could use this to their advantage in a trial. it s a photo op, they cleaned up the streets, show them clean, not like they look normally. we were hoping he would get to see the chaos he has caused. this is a self-inflicted wound and he is the inflicter, it s ridiculous. one word for biden, enforce the laws. he does not have create new laws, just enforce them. john: president biden in mexico city after finally visiting the southern border for the first time ever since taking office. but critics say it was just a photo op for the president as he eyes a re-election bid in 2024. i m john roberts in washington. welcome to a new week, sandra. sandra: sandra smith in new york. this is america reports. a trip the president has avoided making for nearly two years now, residents and border officials say biden failed to get a full grasp of the crisis in the three hours he spent in el paso, he chos