tornados tear through texas and louisiana, right now more than 60 million people are still under the threat of severe storms. ammunition on the agenda today. president biden meeting the german chancellor and sending more firepower to ukraine. it is friday, welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. just hours from now, tau alex murdaugh will stand in a courtroom to learn his fate. a judge will issentence him for murdering his own wife and son. guilty verdict. verdict guilty. verdict guilty. verdict guilty. the jury heard six weeks of testimony but took less than three hours to convict him. murdaugh now facing a possible 30 years behind bars. justice was done today. it doesn t matter who your family is, it doesn t matter how much money you have or people think you have. it doesn t matter what you think how prominent you are, if you do wrong, if you break the law, if you murder, then justice will be done in south carolina.
hello, and thank you for joining me this sunday. i m fredricka whitfield. and we begin this hour with the west coast bracing for another round of dangerous downpours. the 11th atmospheric river so far this season is expected to hit in the coming hours. forecasters are predicting this latest storm to bring up to 6 inches of rain for parts of northern and central california. areas already facing severe flooding. more than 15 million people remain under flood watches from california to nevada and evacuation orders are already in place for parts of monterey county after a levee brief flooded homes. sheriffs are going door-to-door to help as rivers of waters rush through the communities. mike is in hard-hit monterey county. it looks like you re standing in a lake. but then, at the same time, it looks like that is like a downtown area? reporter: yeah, fredricka, good morning. this is in monterey county, california and we thought would this water recede, but this water has been he
officials say at least eight people are dead after a smuggling boat capsized off the coast of san diego. authorities responded to the scene after someone on a separate boat called 911 to report victims in the water. they say rough conditions made the recovery effort difficult. we were in recovery mode for about five hours after that. the access to the area was very difficult due to the tide and the coastal cliff there. that area is a very hazardous area even in the daytime. it has a series of sandbars and inshore rip currents. you would think you could land in sand and get to waist-high or knee-high water and think you re able to get to land. this is one of the worst maritime smuggling tragedies that i can think of in california, certainly here in the city of san diego. authorities are continuing to search for any additional victims. we ll bring you more details as we get them. also happening this hour in california, a desperate race to rescue people trapped in floodwat
The Department Reports it has now recovered more than 320 classified documents from mara lago. Prosecutors essay some documents were likely concealed or removed from storage in an effort to obstruct their investigation. The court filing casts serious doubt on a statement by trumps attorneys that all classified material had been returned. The Justice Department also argues that trump lacked legal standing to request a Special Master, since the documents belonged to the government, not to him. The court filing came with this photo, showing documents taken by the fbi, from a container in trumps office. More now from cnns sarah murray. Reporter the Justice Department weighs in with its side of the story of what happened in the runup and aftermath of the search at mar alago. This is all a part of the Court Battle Playing Out over whether there should be a Special Master, an independent third party appointed to review the documents that the fbi sees when they searched maralago. The trump tea
what else are you learning about when this call could happen? reporter: well, it s going to be pretty soon according to the sources i have spoken to inside ukraine. but nothing concrete, i have been told, by senior officials have been scheduled. so it s still very much in the it could possibly happen stage. if it does happen, it would be the first time that president zelenskyy of ukraine has spoken with xi jinping and that contrasts starkly with the amount of contact there has been between the chinese and russian presidents. it s been more than 40 occasions that they have had face-to-face meetings. the latest occasion is scheduled to take place anytime now within the next few minutes they are expected to meet inside the kremlin for formal negotiations how to bring these two increasingly autocratic countries even closer together. remember, russia is an important resource for china s economy. it s got massive reserves of oil and gas and a forestry of minerals that is supply