portions of the state. just minutes ago we were seeing this video of a levy that failed overnight in monterey county. that has forced evacuations, washed out roads and bridges. this week s atmospheric river, the tenth to hit the state dropped more than a foot of rain in some areas. at least two people have died in the most recent storm and more rain is on the way for some hard-hit areas. several feet of snow is blanketing the sierra, nevada mountains. they worry melting snow could cause more flooding. california national guard in high water vehicles are staged throughout the state. mike lareo is in vallaero. reporter: we re in the heart of the flood zone and we have all of this flooding in the downtown area because from that video you just saw, the levy is about 3 miles behind us and as soon as that levy had a breach around midnight local time, jim, all of that water had nowhere to go but here except for low lying areas. you can see there s a little bit of a dry spot in our
trying to get cash out, prompting police blocking to the manhattan branch. nate foy joins us with the latest on this. hi, nate. hey, anita, this triggered the largest bank runs in u.s. history. withdrew $42 billion on thursday which worked out to over a million dollars every single second over a 10-hour period. a much more quiet day here than at the hone silicon valley branch in new york. as a dozen tech founders and ceo s showed up. they were turned away and the cops were called. take a look at the video. it happened after the shocking announcement of a $1.8 billion loss at the bank. depositors were turned away not only here, but also in california. the bank crumbled after a loss and they re known for the tech sector leaving startups in crisis mode. take a listen. if you re a start-up, cash is king. the cash and the work flow to be able to have runway is critical. so access to the cash to now to be able to pay your employees, to cover the expenses you ve got is the thi
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
what happened? erica, this happened so fast. it s stunning. silicon valley bank shut down by california regulators after the stock crashed by 60% yesterday after the bank said it needed to rapidly raise cash. this is easily the biggest bank failure since washington mutual fell apart in 2008 during the financial crisis. silicon valley bank, if you haven t heard of it, it is a major lender to tech start-ups. the fdic says that depositors that have $250,000 or less, they are insured here. they will get their money. they will get access to their money as soon as monday morning. but we know that some people, some entities, some start-ups, they have more than $250,000, and it s less clear what s going to happen to them. how did this happen? well, when the fed spikes interest rates, things tend to break. we know that the fed rate hikes have hurt the valuation of the tech companies that this bank catered to, also has hurt the value of the bonds that banks rely on to get cash. erica
this week s actions demonstrate our resolute commitment to insure that our financial system remains strong and that depositors savings remain safe. paul: let s bring in jason trender, chairman and ceo of an investment strategy firm. jason, quite a week in financial markets. you know, the treasury secretary says all is well, safe and sound, but the markets aren t acting like it. just how big a question a problem is this in the banking system? well, paul, we don t know yet, but i think that, you know, history has taught us that, generally speaking, when there are problems like this in the banking system, they re not they generally don t tend to be isolated. i feel very strongly that in many ways the precursor for this has been 12 the years of i would say borderline irresponsible monoair the policy and fiscal policy paul: right. and so in some ways, it s not surprising that when inflation moves higher as a result of those policies, that people get caught offsides when