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
white house with more on this, hi, lucas. lucas: it adds trillions to the national debt with $31 trillion and interest payments on the debt next year could one day approach the size of the defense budget. let that sink in. now here is house speaker kevin mccarthy adding more c conte. we ve only paid $9 trillion in interest. so he s going took us 80 some years to happen in less than ten years. lucas: let s take a look at biden tax proposals which would add more to the national debt. 25% minimum tax on people with 10 100 million plus dollars. 39.6 capital gains tax for people making over 400 grand. 28% corporate income tax, 4% stock buyback tax and 3. 8% surtax on investment income. late yesterday reports circulated that the white house will approve drilling in alaska. no final decisions have been made and anyone who says otherwise is wrong. now 3 years ago as presidential candidate as president he said he would never approve any drilling projects. no more subsidies f
week after the armed abduction before other americans. they traveled there from south carolina, just across the border into northeast new mexico. the surveillance video you see appears to have the government forcing them back into the tr truck. two of the americans were later found dead, allegedly murdered at the hands of the mexican cartel. that now is apologizing for the kidnapping. two other americans thankfully are back safe here at home. cooks don t sign for the federal government to step in and take charge and actually do something about the situation. i can the question needs to be race how many more americans are we going to lose? something needs to be done for their needs to be accidents enough of the rhetoric. arthel: border state congresswoman debbie les of arizona joins us in a moment. but first bill is alive in texas where those three women were missing began the journey. bill, what more can you tell us? arthel, good afternoon to you. we have learned to texas s
arthel neville. the report of the missing women comes a week after the armed abduction of four americans who had traveled from south carolina and had just crossed the border into northeastern mexico. surveillance video appears to show armed men forcing them into a truck. two were later found dead allegedly at the hands of a mention concern mexican cartel. the other two are back in the u.s. debbie lesko says tourism is on the line if the and mexico won t work together to keep americans safe. our administration can do more to force the mexican government to the cooperate, and i would assume that the mexican government would want to get their act together and keep americans safe, otherwise tourism is going to the go down the tubes. and i would recommend that all u.s. citizens do not do so until the mexican government takes control of the mexican cartels. eric: bill melugin is live in texas where the three missing women began their journey as they crossed over the border. bill,
just ahead, russia targets ukraine s power grid across several regions leaving the new care power plant completely off- line. we will have a report just ahead. the senate republican leaders hospitalized after a for wednesday night. we will break on the results of the justice department probe into the louisville police force. developing this hour, the u.s. senate republican leader is recovering in the hospital after a fall. his spokesperson says he tripped at a hotel in washington during a private dinner wednesday night. there is no word on his condition. he has fallen at least once before in his home in 2019 when he fractured his shoulder. the 81-year-old is the senate s longest serving republican leader. more on this story as it develops. we looking now at ukraine were a new wave of russian attacks have targeted energy facilities in at least seven regions. at least three people have been wounded in key and power has been knocked out to around 15 percent of the city a