i m boris sanchez. and i m paula reid. it is great to be with you. great to be with you as well. i was looking at amara walker s social media. looks like she is skiing somewhere with her family. great for her. and there is a lot to get to. here is some of what we re watching for this morning. wake up, wake up, your house is flooded. and i looked on the ground and there was a flood. he seems to be in a good food fo mood for a natural disaster. california was soaked with another storm and prompted evacuations. would we have the latest on where the severe weather is headed next. and overall we ve created more jobs in two years than any administration has created in their first four years. president biden takes a victory lap following a strong jobs report. where we re seeing those jobs. plus the stunning bank collapse that has some small business owners wondering how they will pay their employees. and in politics, testing the waters. presidential hopefuls swarming i
good morning and welcome to cnn this morning. i m paula reid in for am ara wa walker. and i m boris sanchez. thank you to paula for filling in for amara. i know these hours are not really easy to work, but we re grateful for you being here. and paula, stop me if you ve ever heard of an atmospheric river before. are you familiar with those? i m absolutely not. i had to look it up this morning so i could understand all these incredible stories we re watching this morning. how do you live like this. california soaked by another round of storms. those atmospheric rivers are washing out roads, collapsing bridges and prompting evacuations. the latest on the damage and where the severe weather is headed next. i don t know how we ll do our payroll now. a stunning collapse, silicon valley bank folding marking the second largest bank failure in u.s. history leaving some business owners scrambling to figure out how they will pay their employees. and former president trum
we are now seeing another guy from florida make moves. ron desantis is reportedly telling people in his circle he is set on running. sources tell the washington post he is going to declare in may or june. desantis has 70 mill in the back left over from run for governor. and desantis super pacs are coming alive. i don t know how it could be more obvious but ron desantis is in iowa today. if you talk to floridians, there s no drama in our administration. there s no palace intrigue. they basically just sit back and say okay, what s the governor going to do next and we roll out and we execute and we do things and we get things done. and, in the process, we beat the left day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year. [applause] jesse: no drama ron. that s a clear shot at the former president. no drama and execute. we re going to see those themes repeated from the desantis camp. desantis winning the iowa caucus would be very big. trump didn t win iowa in
january 6 riot and later in the day followed that up with the speech vilifying the gop on the money issues. speaker of the house went to wall street last week. used cuts in important programs, he and his maga republican colleague, they would rather see kids and seniors struggle to eat what they need. people on medicaid lose their healthcare. veterans lose access to doctors visits and cut subsidies to big oil that made $200 billion, and big pharma and the wealthiest corporations. did you hear anything about an idea that he might take to the table on the debt limit or budget and counter balance what republicans are asking for, no. just pounced on them and pounded. even members of his own political party now are not eager for another four years of biden. poll after poll showing more than half of people who say they vote democrat seem to be what i call abb, anybody but biden. the white house quite defensive about those polls, and don t dare touch the glaring fact he s the old
what safeguards are in place? all this amid the new jobs report. 311,000 new jobs added in february. mary bruce on it all tonight. the horrific images that have now emerged tonight, the gunman taking aim at that religious center. the suspect seen firing through a window. more than 100 shots fired, crawling inside, and our team in germany. the race for the white house on the republican side. ron desantis in iowa tonight declaring he s there from the free state of florida. not mentioning donald trump by name, but what he did say, a clear reference to the former president. rachel scott in iowa. meantime tonight, prosecutors inviting former president trump to testify before a grand jury, investigating his alleged role in hush money. legal experts say this is a strong signal that criminal indictments may be coming. aaron katersky and what he s learned tonight. the five suspects this evening lined up south of the border. the arrests and new charges, and what that note sai