america s second largest city slammed by flash floods and bracing for more. the justice department documents found into a private office once used by joe biden. and a huge celebration in the streets of georgia as the bulldogs go back to back in the college football championship. here we go. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. good morning, everyone. right now, 90% of the population of california under flood watch. america s second largest city is slammed by a relentless storm. flash flooding, mudslides, wind damage all across central and southern california. this is video just in from santa clarita. firefighters pulling a person out of that car as water rushes around them. there are scenes like these all over the los angeles area. roads now closed. firefighters rescuing people caught in these flash floods. santa barbara county alone responding to some 200 calls like this. in some cases it s better to leave the car home
in politics, president biden has just made his first visit to the border since taking office. he did not see or meet with any migrants, though. we ll speak to the mayor of el paso about the crisis happening on the ground there in his city and biden s new crackdown on the immigration search. in sports, damar hamlin set to be released from the hospital as trib butes pour in. we ll take you exclusively to the field as his teammates speak on the team s thrilling and emotional return. she has been missing for nine days now, and the husband of the massachusetts mother has been arrested, but she s still nowhere to be found. details on the charge and the search straight ahead. in a revealing new interview with cnn s anderson cooper, prince harry says he long believed his mom had faked her death and reveals why he blames camilla for the negative stories about him. anderson will join us live in just moments. cnn this morning starts right now. so we ll begin this morning with
very good monday morning to you, i m jim sciutto. and i m erica hill. overnight president joe biden arriving in mexico this ahead of his one-on-one meeting with mexican president obrador this afternoon. the president also making a brief visit, it is his first since taking office to the u.s. southern border on sunday where he spoke with border enforcement in el paso, talking about the rising surge of migrants and the growing fentanyl crisis. plus in brazil a spectacle all too, sadly, familiar here in the u.s. after false stolen election claims, supporters of brazil s former president bolsonaro laid siege to the capital. they smashed windows, clashed with police, they broke into congress, the presidential palace and the supreme court. officials say at least 400 people have been arrested. sadly familiar images there. in washington kevin mccarthy now face has critical test after finally being elected speaker of the house, a major vote expected today on the rules package tha
wonderful, wonderful, laura, is a reference to steve martin s great film l.a. story when he says he s falling in love. and here i thought it came to mind because you saw me in canary yellow. that s what inspired it. anyway, it was a cinematic theme. i like the trivia. i like the fun facts to start the show. that s awesome. next i ll work on a pop up video for it. very good. and you re awesome too, jake. good evening, everyone, i m laura coates in washington. and i m allison camerota in new york and this is cnn tonight. we re also here with our panelists across the political spectrum there s actually one team in washington with me. and the other team here in new york with me. basically we have so much work we need two studios. it doesn t fit in one. so let s start with all the developments heading up to the mid-terms. the big guns from barack obama to donald trump are about to hit the campaign trail, and we ve also got new polling that tells us a lot abou
are you concerned about the strength of the economy right now? president biden: i m not concerned about the economy i m concerned about the rest of the world. can you exley that affects. the economy is strong as hell . but the american people feel differently. nearly 78 percent think the economy is in bad shape under biden and 71 percent of people say their family has had to cut back just to afford the necessities braid, new york pos highlighting the pain that they are feeling to $.1 trillion had been wiped this year. all that bad news is dragging democrats down on the campaign trail, but pete buttigieg think the president has been too successful. there have been so many think . the chips act being manufacturing back to the unite states. of course the infrastructure bill, the inflation reduction act great on top of that american rescue plan. in some ways, having achieved s much a legislatively makes it hard to talk about all at once because there are so many compl