look at things like developing some of the property that the district owns. cnn s steve contour. no has been following this for us, steve. it sounds like the governor is really escalating this battle with walt disney. absolutely jim, and this goes all the way back to last year when desantis signed that bill that limited the instruction of sexual orientation and gender identity in schools. disney objected to it. desantis didn t like that. and so he went after their special government taxing district in central florida. now fast forward to this year, desantis had claimed victory in this fight when he put forward a bill that basically gave him power to install a bunch of political allies to oversee this district. but it turned out at the same time, desantis was saying there was a new sheriff in town. disney had pushed through its own agreement with the outgoing board. that basically said all the power this board has is now in
powerless this just weeks after desantis signed a bill meant to give him a give him new power over disney and the so called really creek development district. listen to this. today the corporate kingdom finally comes to an end. there s a new sheriff in town and accountability will be the order of the day. so that was in february late february. the law resulted in the hostel state takeover of disney special district, but it seems the company was one step ahead of the governor because just weeks before that bill was signed, disney and the outgoing board reached an agreement that would allow the company to hold onto its power in central florida for the next 30 years. senior reporter secret turno has been following this story and joins us now, steve. good morning to you. what a twist. i mean disney , quietly stripping the new board of its authority before the state takeover last month. how they do it. dan you might
towards some kind of legal battle over these new powers that disney has shifted to itself. all right, steve contour? no, thank you. alright just moments ago we got the weekly unemployment numbers why the federal reserve is rooting for job loss in order to tackle inflation and this just in brazil s former president bill scenario returning to the country for the first time since losing reelection in october, a loss of culminated in thousands of his supporters riding and protest. sonora flew back to brasilia from florida, where he stayed for three months itself. post exile more cnn right after this with you. tonight at nine onon cnn primetime vice presidet mike pence t talks with wolf blitzer. speculation s swirls around hisis political future is being ordered to testify aboutut conversations he had with former president trump cnn. primetime former vice president mike pence tonight at nine what s it like toear from the people actuay
so clearly another chapter in the saga is opening up, and it s going to be illegal, won that battle between desantis and disney. not over. adjust yes, steve contour. no. appreciate that. thank you. well, california getting hit again by more snow. more than two ft fell in some areas in just 24 hours. this has already been a winter season for the ages, with record snowfall and torrential rains. cnn s stephanie elam is in mammoth lakes in the sierra nevada s ah joins me now. wow stephanie, this is really unprecedented, isn t it? it. i mean, it really is amazing to see this much snow and let me just paint the picture of how much snow is out here and look at this sign here. you can see that there s parking sign here. it s pretty much all absconded. look at how much snow i m standing over underneath here. they re talking about 3 700 inches of snow that has fallen here in mammoth lakes approaching three ft in just the last couple of days here, and