welcome back to cnn newsroom i m max foster if you re just joining us. our top stories this hour, u.s. president joe biden is under more scrutiny over his handling of classified documents. the chairman of the house oversight committee is now asking the white house for visitor logs from mr. biden s delaware residence where several classified items have been found. he s also seeking records and communications related to searches of the president s homes and other locations. and california is bracing for more potential flooding. storms have been slamming the state for weeks now, flooding roads, homes and businesses, causing mud slides and leaving at least 19 people dead. right now more than 8 million people are under flood watches until monday evening, including in the bay area. new york city mayor eric adams is calling for washington to deliver more coordinated
embellishing his resume. turning now to buffalo new york, where the death toll in the city has reached at least 29 people, due to last weekend s winter storm. the crews are still working on clearing the streets, but warmer weather is creating new concerns over potential flooding from over 4 feet of snow in the area. temperatures are expected to range from the lower 40s, all the way to mid-50s over the next five days. in response, new york governor kathy hochul is urging state agencies to prepare flood response assets for the area. the governor is coordinating assets before potential flooding. questions are looming if local officials could have enacted a driving ban much earlier to prevent people from being out in the storm before it hit. mark poloncarz and mayor byron brown commented to each of their responses in a press conference. let s take a listen to that.
five days. in response, new york governor kathy hochul is urging state agencies to prepare flood response assets for the area. while the governor is coordinating assets before potential flooding. questions are humaning as local officials could have enacted a driving ban much earlier to prevent people from being out of their homes when the storm actually hit, erie county executive mark poloncarz and mayor brown commented on each other. take a listen. the reason why state and county have come in and took over operations, i know i d be happy to hear it, we took over one-third of the city of buffalo because we knew we could get in there and clean it quickly. the mayor is not going to be happy to hear about it, storm after storm after storm, the city unfortunately is the last one to be open. that shouldn t be the case. it s embarrassing to tell you the truth. people have been working around the clock since the
to more potential flooding. the forecast model shows these showers will continue, probably, until sometime early or late afternoon on wednesday, before we finally get a break and begin to dry out, but not before and additional 2 to 4 inches falls in this area. i mentioned earlier, these things are connected, right? we have this ridge of high pressure, the jet stream writing way to the north out west. notice this dip in the east, this is acting like a conveyor belt bringing moisture is from the gulf, all the way up into the northeast. that s the reason why we have had the flooding episodes there. eventually, the heat dome out west will shrink a little bit, and the dip in the east will rise and that will mean warmer temperatures heading into the weekend. until we get, there we are dealing with heat alerts, heat advisories, excessive heat warnings, out in the western united states, at least through tuesday, through today, possibly extended into wednesday and thursday because, just on labo