thousands under evacuation workers right now, and according to governor gavin newsom, 17 confirmed dead right at this hour. cnn s nick watt, joins us with all the latest on the los angeles river which in normal times his river in name only. what is the latest, nick? you are right anderson. this is normally just a trickle. in fact there is usually a homeless encampment in what is the l. a. river. those people have had to flee to higher ground. you know, californians just aren t used to this amount of water. and in many cases, the states are just not equipped to deal with it. further up north and santa barbara, the floodwaters just overwhelming the sewer system in that ended up with sewage on the streets in santa barbara, and also you know, drivers just trying to drive where they shouldn t be driving because frankly they just don t know any better. so we have seen quite a few rescues, people being plucked out of their cars and when we are talking about drivers also just incre
it s very simple. three things just do these three things. pay your taxes, mind your business, and keep will smith s wife s name out of your mouth! i needed that this morning. i missed my morning. that s eddie murphy going there on the oscar slap after the golden globes returned. we re happy to have you here. you can see kaitlan is back in washington d.c. we ll get to kaitlan in a moment. a lot to talk about. ready? ready. let s go. we ll start in california, where millions remain under flood alerts, not over yet, more on the storm walloping that state. new developments in the case of the missing massachusetts mother. what investigators found while searching through the trash. also this. i was briefed about this discovery, and surprised to learn there were any government records taken there to that office. that s president biden commenting now for the first time on the classified documents found in his private office. cnn has exclusive reporteding this mor
sir? those famous lines ordered by the lawyer, joseph wells, on june 9th, 1954, effectively marked the end of mccarthy-ism, and the investigations that wisconsin senator joseph mccarthy was conducting as chair of the senate permit cup subcommittee on investigations, created initially to investigate government fraud and waste, but he quickly turned into a political pet project to investigate what mccarthy claimed was communist infiltration at all levels of the government. the origins of the mccarthy investigation could be traced back to the post world war i overmine committee, a subcommittee of the senate judiciary committee, and to the house special committee to investigate communist activities in the united states, aka, the fish committee, formed and chaired by new york representative hamilton fish. the fish committee walked into the famous house on american activities committee, formed in 1938, and chaired by texas representative merchandise. much like mccarthy, 12 years
Can buy milk. Prices for food, clothing, houses and more jumped sharply. I bought a sandwich at one point, not even a fancy shop, it was 22. Driven by lingering pandemic supply issues, stronger manned, and perhaps some Price Gouging to. It has hit every american at some point, whether is you personally or someone you know. Worst constant reminder, gas prices. The nationwide average for a gallon climbed over 5 at one point, a new record. Filling up my suv sometimes cost over 100. Thats part . Some parts of the economy that were just coming, unemployment very low. Wages, up, significantly for the first time in a very long time. So, is a Recession Coming . I think its a different no. If you listen to a lot of the economists. I dont even care if theres a Recession Coming. It already feels like we are in a recession. Despite topping 1 Million Deaths in the u. S. , the covid pandemic brought some good news. More than 80 of all americans have now received at least one dose of vaccine. The rat
you from msnbc and los angeles mayor christmas eve to all o you celebrating, welcome everyone to alex witt reports. we begin this hour with th latest on the deadly winte storms moving across the u.s., leaving dangerously cold win chills across much of centra and eastern states at least 20 people have died i storm related incidents across the country in, erie count police say ambulances are stil unable to respond to emergency calls, in a timely manner. the problem is in the hardest hit areas, up to two thirds of emergency response vehicles are stuck fire, ambulance, police, i addition, a man in vehicles ar causing significant problems, have to note this, it is not something we are proud of, but in the worst affected areas, there is no emergency servic available. there s no guarantee that life-threatening emergency situation, that they will be able to respond immediately. we are dealing with situations all night, including a situation with a baby at a hom location which is on