hello again, everyone. thanks for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield. we begin with california facing a severe weather threat yet again right now. 25 million people are under flood watches. some areas saw more than six times the normal rainfall in just the last two weeks. today s storms raising concerns for more flooding and possibly landslides. cnn meteorologist allison chinchar is tracking the storm for us. also cnn s natasha chen is in fairfax, california, where we begin with you. what are you seeing? all right. we don t have audio of natasha. we ll try and work that out. it s not your television sets. let s go to you, allison. what is california bracing for? they ve already been through so much. they have. they re bracing for two more rounds, one that is currently ongoing and the next round that arrives 24 hours from now with not much of a break in between. the first round already here. you can see most of the real heavy rain and snow is across portions of northern and
in terms of dealing with yours? yeah, ithink i have, actually, because i feel very at peace with what s happened to me. but possibly that s because i ve come out the other side. i don t know if i d find it so easy to keep talking about it if i was still being treated. i m not sure. like, i didn t really do a lot of gigs while i was being treated. i actually did do one gig the night before my surgery and i got the entire audience to say goodbye to my bum hole. laughter that s nice. it was its last outing. thanks for doing everything tonight. applause oh, thank you! you have been amazing. i m off now. yeah, you can go. anyone s who se ever listened to our podcast or actually read a newspaper, watched the television will know that lastjune, our beloved deborah died. and we re really lucky because joining us today to talk about our deb are two people who know her better than anybody else and it s her brother and sister. can you welcome ben and sarah up on stage, please? cheering and appl
and what deb s engagement was really like. i think to me, she kind - of was just using it as good outpost and engagement - with the community, but i m not one for very good social media, so you don t really get - the kind of impact that she has when you re just kind - of seeing her on a sunday lunch or what have you. l i it yeah, i don t kind of feell like there was a point in time. it think itjust kind of organically grew over time. why do you think she did why do you think, you know, a lot of people have cancer, a lot of people use social media. why do you think deb just caught people s imagination and just became such a big story? i think it sjust her. relentless acceptance of talking about things so frankly. i think she just did what she wanted! i didn t really listen to anyone if she got told not to - and kind ofjust went about things - her own way, really. i always kind of well, we all did we told her she needed to rest, but i think we kind of understood, and you guys
i don t know if i d find it so easy to keep talking about it if i was still being treated. i m not sure. like, i didn t really do a lot of gigs while i was being treated. i actually did do one gig the night before my surgery and i got the entire audience to say goodbye to my bum hole. laughter that s nice. it was its last outing. thanks for doing everything tonight. applause oh, thank you! you have been amazing. i m off now. yeah, you can go. enjoy, darling! thank you so much. anyone s who se ever listened to our podcast or actually read a newspaper, watched the television will know that lastjune, our beloved deborah died. and we re really lucky because joining us today to talk about our deb are two people who know her better than anybody else and it s her brother and sister. can you welcome ben and sarah up on stage, please? cheering and applause we just want to know, in a room full of people who probably think they know a bit about your sister you know, we knew deb
outpost and engagement - with the community, but i m not one for very good social media, so you don t really get - the kind of impact that she has when you re just kind - of seeing her on a sunday lunch or what have you. l i it yeah, i don t kind of feell like there was a point in time. it think itjust kind of organically grew over time. why do you think she did why do you think, you know, a lot of people have cancer, a lot of people use social media. why do you think deb just caught people s imagination and just became such a big story? i think it sjust her. relentless acceptance of talking about things so frankly. i think she just did what she wanted! i didn t really listen to anyone if she got told not to - and kind ofjust went about things - her own way, really. i always kind of well, we all did we told her she needed to rest, but i think we kind of understood, and you guys and i think at the end of her life that became even more apparently clear that deb s way of sur