world, you are watching cnn newsroom and i am rosemary church, just ahead, the clock is ticking for the u.s. to raise the debt ceiling or risk a default. and in the hours ahead, another key meeting between joe biden and kevin mccarthy is on the agenda. leaders of the g7 summit say that they want to bring peace to ukraine as president zelenskyy disputes moscow s claim that russian fighters control bakhmut. is but a resounding victory, greece fails to secure a majority in parliamentary elections, serving the country up for another round of voting soon. live from the cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. good to have you with us, with the g7 summit now behind him, he was president joe biden back in washington to face his most pressing issue right now. the impasse over the u.s. debt ceiling, in the coming hours, president biden will meet yet again, with house speaker kevin mccarthy to try to strike a deal on raising the countries borrowing limit. mccarthy s
the wire. the u.s. has 10 days before it could default on its debt. president biden returning to washington from an all important meeting with kevin mccarthy in the coming hours. it was a bountiful trip to the g-7 for ukraine s president heading home with military aid as the bloody battle for bakhmut reaches a critical stage. plus a historic mission, spacex and saudi arabia s first female astronaut into space. a message to the world live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. did to have you with us, with the g7 summit now behind him, he was president joe biden s back in washington to face his most pressing issue right now. the impasse over the u.s. debt ceiling. in the coming hours, president biden will meet yet again with house speaker kevin mccarthy to try and strike a deal on raising the country s borrowing limit. mccarthy says he had a productive phone call with mr. biden as the president was returning from japan on sunday. there is only about
severe road damage as well. the california national guard is now on the scene in santa cruz to support emergency services. for some residents, the rising water is simply too much. we can t live like this. how do you live like this? how do i have my kids here? how do i have my elderly mother live here where i carry her out of the house? cnn s mike valerio and cnn meteorologist brit rits are tracking the latest. reporter: this is the heart of the flood rescue response effort. if you look around us, the area is inundated. as you mentioned at the top of the show, it is flooded because we have this levy upstream that failed around midnight local time, so as the front quickly comes through, that water is dumped around us. what we ve been seeing since we moved positions from the berry farm we talked to you last time until now, national guard troops have been coming up and down the central drag for several hours now rescuing people. you can just see the extent of the water. and
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
you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in new york. it s here 6:00 here in the big apple, 3:00 p.m. in california. what s likely to be a long, sleepless night and soggy weekend lying ahead for much of monterey county. the county is the epicenter of catastrophic flooding in that state. these are new images of the levee that failed around midnight local time. mandatory evacuations are now under way in parts of the that county. a string of deadly storms has unleashed massive flooding across the central and northern portions of the state. at least two people have died in this most recent storm. this week s atmospheric river is the tenth to hit the state this winter. it s dropped more than a foot of rain in some areas and several feet of snow in others. let s begin in monterey county, the site of that levee breach. cnn s mike valerio is there. mike, the state of that breach, could this continue to dump more flooding into that area? what can you tell us? reporter: tha