back for another hour. here are the big stories we re watching. another tidal wave of plight cancellations for southwest customers today, thousands left stranded and baggage grave yards across the airports and exhausted customers fighting for answers. i ve spent about nine and a half hours trying to get through to southwest, just on hold with them. probably about 17 calls. and every time, i get about two and a half hours in, it just drops. the line just drops. in buffalo, snow is starting to melt as the death toll mounts. with mounting snow of this volume comes rapid flooding for search and rescue teams to deal with. the latest on their efforts and the blame game over the county s response to the historic blizzard in just a minute. new developments on capitol hill. the january 6th committee just dropped another batch of deposition transcripts, and there are some familiar trump world names on the list. speaking of donald trump, after almost four years of legal battles,
rejects its bid to exclude about 100 documents marked as classified from the special master s review. it seems like this is getting really complicated. reporter: yeah, jake. the lawyer for the government saying that, if they lose that appeal, they will likely appeal this even further. so, again, up to the supreme court. they said that could then complicate the timeline around the turning over and the sharing of the classified documents. so certainly something that could become a not knotty issue as they try to expedite this review of documents and ultimately get to the heart of this investigation. jake. kara scannell in new york, thank you. let s discuss with former assistant attorney general tom duprey and john miller from the new york police department, now workings for cnn. john, welcome to cnn. good to have you. you can connections with many in the intelligence community. how are they responding to all of this? this is making them quite nervous. the ruling by judg
i m pamela brown in washington. we re following two major stories on this sunday night. hurric hurricane fiona hammers ps puer rico and it could be days before the lights are back on. president biden pays tribute to queen elizabeth with final mourners in line to pay respects. tomorrow s funeral is hours away. you re in the cnn newsroom. and we began tonight with the latest on hurricane fiona. the storm has made landfall along the southwest coast there, puerto rico and officials say the entire island is already without power and the storm is causing catastrophic flooding. i want to turn to cnn laeyla santiago who is live. what are the conditions like where you are right now, leyla? reporter: we re on the forth eastern part of the island, capital san juan. still coming down, still rain, still wind. in the southern part of the island, the same if not more. the last time i talked to you, we talked about the critical patients, the hospitals and buildings that depend on power f
now. great to see you here. i m yasmin vossoughian at msnbc headquarters. the president hitting the campaign trail with five days left until the midterms. he s heading out west, making stops in mexico, california as well with new urgency around threats to our democracy. here is part of the message that he delivered last night. there s no place for voter intimidation or political violence in america. whether it s directed at democrats or republicans. no place, period. no place ever. democracy is on the ballot this year. will it actually help or matter with voters? the new york times notes this, while in agreement with the message, not every democrat thought it was helpful to make the address when candidates are trying to distance themselves from the president who s approval ratings are in the mid-40s and polls are focused on inflation as well as immigration, crime and abortion as well. and poll after poll showing in this closing stretch, it is still the economy that is
slowly meander its way across the southeastern tier of the u.s. here is a look at the system in question. you can already see a lot of that moisture bringing some pretty heavy thunderstorms to portions of northern texas, areas of oklahoma now starting to see some of that rain move into portions of arkansas as well as louisiana. you still have some rain in arizona and new mexico as well. but a lot of that is really going to begin to shift off to the east in the coming days. we do still have flood watches in effect for new mexico and texas and oklahoma and some into louisiana and southern arkansas as well. you also have some of that tropical moisture still surging from that potential tropical cyclone we had yesterday. it moved inland, but it is still pushing, that flow is still pushing the moisture from the gulf into the southeastern region. as that stationary front gradually starts to shift off to the east, you re going to see the water go with it. here is a look at where we f