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
they have been sitting on their hands and more americans die every day as a result. reporter: 519 service members died by suicide in 2021, latest year for which numbers are available, a slight decrease from the previous year s 582, but any amount of deaths by suicide is too many. last year three sailors assigned to the uss george washington died by suicide in a single week. and four at a facility in norfolk died in a month. it doesn t require anymore legislation, it just requires the secretary of defense and his department to do their job. reporter: cnn has reached out to the pentagon about the delay. last month the pept gntagon sui prevention review committee unveiled 127 recommendations to combat military suicides. even one suicide is too many and we will exhaust every effort to promote the wellness, health and morale of our total force.