good morning, everyone. welcome to cnn this morning. i m amara walker. and i m boris sanchez. president biden signing a disaster declaration from california as storm after storm rips through the state causing flash flooding and mud slides. and it s not over yet, we re tracking another round of heavy rain that s moving in. also, the death toll continues to climb in dnipro after a ukrainian official says a missile struck an apartment building. live to ukraine this morning. we re following a developing story out of nepal where a passenger jet has crashed shortly after takeoff. we ll break down what we know about the accident and the ongoing response. and days from hitting the debt ceiling, president biden and the new republican-led house could soon be sparring as the country inches closer to defaulting on its debt. how kevin mccarthy s concessions to become speaker could complicate talks. we are so grateful to have you this sunday, january 15th. it is a new week. great
when it gets this much rain in this period of time? yeah, here in santa cruz county, we ve had some parts of our county get over 34 inches of rain since the 26th of december. and when you receive that much rain in such a short period of time, the soils, as you acknowledged, are saturated and the flooding is exacerbated and much quicker to happen with even less rain than you would be accustomed to. so we re seeing slope failures and road failures because of the saturation, but we re also seeing the rivers react much more rapidly and dramatically to relatively modest amounts of rain. what kind of calls are you getting? is it a lot related to the flooding? are people being trapped in their homes? are they dealing with mud slides? i think all of the above, unfortunately. you know, we have got a lot of people in our mountain regions where power lines have been severed from falling redwood trees or majestic redwood trees