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hello, everyone. i m alisyn camerota. welcome to cnn newsroom. i m victor blackwell. good to be with you. right now dangerous storms are battering california with relentless rain, deadly flooding. there have been dozens of water rescues, and thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes. 34 million people are under flood watches as the storm pushes south. at least 16 people across the state have died in this recent outbreak of storms. in central california a 5-year-old is missing after being swept away in flood waters. a crew suspended the search when the weather became unsafe for the rescue teams. heavy rainfall led to this rock slide in fresno. boulders and debris forced highways across the state to close. firefighters in ventura county rescued a 70-year-old man after rising flood waters trapped him inside his suv. the onslaught of rain is turning streets and creeks into these raging rivers that you see on your screen with some seeing more than a mon ....
evacuations of towns with mudslides. bill: good morning, i m bill hemmer. good morning. the storms will roll in for at least the next two weeks it looks like in the forecast. the latest storm in a parade of severe weather began a week ago leaving more than a dozen dead in california. 200,000 customers have no power. firefighters rescuing two people trapped in a car at the bottom of a sinkhole in suburban los angeles. the entire seaside community of montecito ordered to get out five years after a mudslide killed 23 and destroyed more than 100 homes. very intense. i mean it almost doesn t seem real with that going on. it s unbelievable. i had ptsd from the last one for a couple of years and it is just bringing it all back. bill: senior national correspondent william la jeunesse live in l.a. to bring us up to date on what s happening today. hello. good morning. we have a slight separation of the bands of rain that i had coming in this morning. the irony is last ....
buffalo bills star damar hamlin just one week ago collapsing on that field. tonight, he s now left a cincinnati hospital flown to a buffalo hospital and the scene inside his hospital room as the bills won. at least 1,500 under arrest tonight. the attack in brazil on the government, echoing the scenes from the u.s. capitol after their ex-president claimed a rigged election. ex-president bolsonaro here in the u.s., in florida. will be he extradited to brazil? marcus moore is there. president biden in mexico tonight after his visit to the u.s./mexico border amid this immigration and humanitarian crisis at the border. tonight, president biden s new crackdown. what are these new steps and will they work? how the numbers have already come down in recent weeks. what s driving this? mary bruce with the president. on the hill tonight house speaker kevin mccarthy s first big test. after 15 rounds of votes just to become speaker and a near fight in the house chamber, what di ....
what his doctor said today about his recovery. new details on a 6-year-old student accused of shooting a teacher in virginia. how police say he got the gun. the former president of brazil reportedly hospitalized in the u.s. a day after his supporters stormed the country s capital in echoes of january 6th. the major crackdown. more than 1,000 detained. the new bombshells from prince harry. the accusations he s leveling at his stepmother, camilla parker-bowles. the grim discovery in the massachusetts home of a missing mom as her husband appears in court. and how a tiktok video led to the gift of a lifetime for an 82-year-old veteran. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening. in california nature s floodgates are wide open tonight. that series of atmospheric rivers still flowing and bringing jaw-dropping rain and snowfall totals leaving many without power, others forced from their homes. the conditions forcing high water rescuers i ....
looming large over this summit is the role of cartels pushing migrants and drugs into the u.s. and the question of whether mexico truly controls its own border. biden s dhs secretary admits the vast majority of migrants who crossed into the u.s. illegally go through smuggling rings. and mexico tried to show strength with that high profile arrest. it s been described as a gift to biden and a message that mexico s approach to cartels called hugs, not bullets, prevents blood shed. tonight, president biden receives a dignified reception in mexico city for the summit with his north american counterpart to talk immigration and drug trafficking. but just days before. [gunfire] it took three it thousand 586 mexican soldiers descending on sinaloa to capture drug king pin son of chapo. cartels forced down two air force planes and shot up a commercial airliner. and authorities confiscated 26 barrett rifles, six machine guns, 26 long arms. nearly 600 magazines. bullet proof ves ....