You from the nbc news center here in los angeles. Welcome everyone to alex witt reports. We begin with the Breaking News, Tropical Storm hilary has begun lashing the pacific coast. Live pictures from san diego in the direct path of the storm we are heavy rain is beginning to fall in parts of california, and now under a State Of Emergency. Moving to las vegas, preparations for the orders are underway there. Storm drains are being tested, and potential for historic flooding there. Heavy rain could reach up to ten inches in some areas hit by the storms. So the impact could be catastrophic. The next two days will be crucial. Will hilary move north through california today and then into Northern Nevada by monday morning. A short time ago, the category one hurricane was downgraded to a Tropical Storm. But it is the first to hit california since 1939. Officials are warning, take this seriously. There would be Power Outages, make no mistake. There will be Power Outages across Southern Californ
top of the hour now on cnn newsroom. i m john berman. this morning president biden reassuring americans that the u.s. banking system remains safe. this despite the failure of two significant banks within 48 hours. silicon valley bank and signature bank have now been taken over by federal regulators. all customers who had deposits in these banks can rest assured. rest assured they ll be protected and they ll have access to their money as of today. that includes small businesses across the country that bank there and need to make payroll, pay their bills and stay open for business. no losses this is an important point. no losses will be borne by the taxpayers. the president emphasized the customers will be fully protected while the bank s managers and investors will be held accountable. he also outlined the emergency measures his administration took to protect the bank s customers. cnn s priscilla alvarez is with us. look, a lot of this is trying to ease the anxiety
today after local prosecutors told giuliani s lawyers this week he is a target of their election interference investigation meaning an indictment is possible. in a separate investigation, cnn learned that two former trump white house lawyers were interviewed by the fbi about the classified documents seized last week at the former president s home in florida. let s get to it and begin with nick valencia live at the courthouse. rudy dgiuliani is still in the courtroom. you caught up with him. what did he say? reporter: defiant and computicom compcomexuding confidence. he asked for a continuance last week because of health concerns and ultimately a fulton county judge ordered him to appear today. on his way in to court, i p peppered him with questions including asking whether or not he lied before georgia lawmakers when he spoke to them at least three times in the wake of the 2020 election. mr. giuliani when you met with l lawmakers did you lie to them? we will not talk abou
Surfers were delayed and lifeguard crews had to roll their sleeves up following a choppy Thursday morning with high surf and winds along San Diego's coast.
dramatic-looking. i want to remind everybody that this is actually how it is supposed to work here in las vegas. this is the link hotel. it is the parking garage, which unfortunately has the bad luck of being the main input for storm waters. and they then pass from where i am standing down into this vast storm drain. all of this, this torrential water you see going, it is passing through here into that storm drain so that it stays off of the las vegas strip. all of this would be there on the vegas strip if it weren t for the engineering that has been put in place here. in fact, in 2012, and before that in 1999, we saw a couple of inches absolutely devastate the las vegas strip. that is the thing that is really important for those of you who live in extremely rainy conditions. you know that a couple of inches shouldn t be any big deal. the thing is, in a place like this, las vegas is at the