our viewers joining us in the united states and around the world. i m bianca nobilo. i m fax foster. there s deep uncertainty on capitol hill i will let you know. i do not expect there will be a vote as planned. e. jean carroll walking into the manhattan courthouse. she s suing trump for battery. she believes in this department store back in the 90s that he, in fact, raped her. a deadly suicide bombing at kabul airport has been killed. u.s. officials are reaching out to the 13 u.s. service people who were killed. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is wednesday, april 26th, 9:00 a.m. in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington where a crucial vote to raise the national debt limit could come as soon as today. republican leaders aren t sure if they have enough support in their own party to get the plan through the house. the bill could cut trillions in government spending over the next ten years. u.s. president joe
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
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
theme you re listening to right now on making history at this year s oscars announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening we re glad you re with us tonight a double murder case that has drawn national attention with a prominent south carolina family at its center is inching toward its conclusion tonight with the prosecution resting its case against alex murdaugh, but not before the jury saw for itself the family property where the former attorney allegedly shot and killed his wife and son. the jury driven to the crime scene. later in the courtroom the lead prosecutor delivered his closing arguments telling jurors murdaugh was the only one with the motive, means, and opportunity to commit the murders, and painting murdaugh as someone whose financial misdeeds were about to be exposed and killed his wife and son to buy time to figure a way out. murdaugh has denied committing the murders. catie beck has more for us tonight reporter: alex murdaugh was l
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