sunday. i m fredicka whitfield. an updated classified intel report saying the u.s. department of energy has assess thad the source of the covid-19 pandemic likely came from a china lab leak, but there is one major caveat. sources at the department of energy tell cnn that the report has, quote, low confidence. cnn s natasha bertrand has been reporting on all of this and joins us on the phone. various intel agencies have been split on this issue for years now. this is from the department of energy, low confidence. what does all this mean? reporter: this is essentially another data point. the intel community has been examining this really closely for the last two years, ever since president biden tasked them with investigating the origins of the covid-19 pandemic shortly after he first got into of office. back in 2021 the intel agencies, roughly 58 of them, couldn t come to a decision about where it came from. what we re seeing is the department of energy has collected some ne
major storm is set to bring damaging hurricane-force winds to the central u.s. it s all part of the same system that brought wild weather to southern california. the effects of that storm sting lingering today in northern los angeles county where interstate 5 remains closed after heavy snow buried portions of the highway. more than six feet fell in some areas. about 50 miles south significant rain caused this embankment to collapse, sending three rvs falling into the santa clara river below. a similar scene north of los angeles county where the wintery conditions caused this hillside right there to crumble. that storm is all heading east, and we ve got cnn s brittany ritz standing by, and cnn s camila bernal is in california.