you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in new york. it s here 6:00 here in the big apple, 3:00 p.m. in california. what s likely to be a long, sleepless night and soggy weekend lying ahead for much of monterey county. the county is the epicenter of catastrophic flooding in that state. these are new images of the levee that failed around midnight local time. mandatory evacuations are now under way in parts of the that county. a string of deadly storms has unleashed massive flooding across the central and northern portions of the state. at least two people have died in this most recent storm. this week s atmospheric river is the tenth to hit the state this winter. it s dropped more than a foot of rain in some areas and several feet of snow in others. let s begin in monterey county, the site of that levee breach. cnn s mike valerio is there. mike, the state of that breach, could this continue to dump more flooding into that area? what can you tell us? reporter: tha
in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin this hour in nashville, where key vote is likely tomorrow on one of the lawmakers expelled from the tennessee legislature, the national city council could vote on whether to send justin jones. you see right there, right back to his seat. he was one of the three state tennessee lawmakers, all democrats targeted by the gop supermajority. for their loud but peaceful protest on the house floor. they were demanding gun reform after the nashville school shooting that left 39 year old children and three adults dead to expelled. lawmakers justin pearson and justin jones are black. gloria johnson, who was white kept her seat by a single vote. let s go to nashville right now, and cnn s isabel rosalia is isabel. um the national city council would have to suspend its rules to vote tomorrow on jones. what are you hearing at this point? does it sound like they might have the votes to put them right back into the state house? so ji
hello, welcome to the programme. a0 migrants who crossed the english channel were brought ashore by the dover lifeboat this morning. so far, just short of 3000 people have crossed in the first two months of this year. that s twice as many as the equivalent period last year. the prime minister says stopping these boats is one of his top five priorities. tomorrow, we ll see how he proposes to do it. his new policy, that s been heavily trailed, suggests that going forward migrants who cross this way will be removed and banned from future re entry and automatically their application for british citizenship will be rejected. we will talk about what is proposed in a second, but let s first hear from someone farzad. he arrived by small boat in 2019, fleeing persecution in iran. he was granted asylum a year ago. he s been speaking to bbc radio 4. now, farzad, if you were in france, where presumably you were safe, and you heard that it was the law in the uk that if you arrived on a bo
former president, he likely faces hundreds of questions with $250 million in the survival of his family business on the line. and the democratic party clash over age ambition and a stalled biden priority. 89 year old senator dianne feinstein says she won t resign after missing a month plus of work and after a california colleague says she s no longer fit to serve and that she should quit. first for us, though the biden justice department just moments ago, saying it will ask the supreme court to step in that after an appeals panel dramatically changes how women can get an abortion. again the biden just department now wants the high court to sweep aside this a 42 page order from the fifth circuit court of appeals filed just before midnight that delivers some relief from a texas judge s ruling that would have taken an abortion pill off shelves starting friday, but that ruling also imposes hard to ignore obstacles to getting the drug. it outlaws, sending the pill in the mail ups,
to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us and imminent and an important deadlines for the justice department. it has until one p.m. one hour from now to respond to a late night filing an abortion court battle that could impact women coast to coast plus family ties and college controversy. the top democrat on the house says he hardly remembers his uncle s flagrant anti semitic remarks. but cnn s k file uncovers an opinion piece from a college age takeem jeffries defending his uncle and defending louis farrakhan from his in his words, quote. white media. and tim scott feels out of presidential run today. he s in iowa as he stands up and exploratory committee is opening message. heavy on biography heavy on faith, the biden agenda but makes no mention of the republican frontrunner donald trump. today our country is once again being tested once again, our divisions run deep and the threat to our future is real. joe biden and the radica