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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 ....
announce another big interest rate hike spurring fears of a recession. hello, and welcome. it s wednesday, september 21st. 9 a.m. here in london. 11 a.m. in moscow where we re following a potentially drastic escalation of russia s war on ukraine. vladimir putin is ordering a partial mobilization to boost his military fight. the russian president says it begins today. those in the reserve and with previous military experience will be subject to it. cnn s covering the story from every angle. we re joined in london and nick peyton walsh is standing by. nick, to you first. this announcement of a move, partial prescription isn t entirely unexpected given the losses we re seeing russia suffer on the battlefield. what does this mean? reporter: what s startling is how fast this will go into action but i think it s fair to say relatively limited. for 12 hours we have been awaiting really a speech from the kremlin head and talk had been possibly he might call for mass mobiliz ....
get the u.s. island back online. president biden headed to one of the largest gathering of world leaders, while the white house once again trying to explain the president s comments about china and taiwan, and more. we star today with the national lead, the growing immigration crisis. right now officials and volunteers in delaware are making preparations, after reports and flight plans suggest a plane full of migrants could be heading their way from texas and a stop in florida. this all come less than one week after florida s republican governor ron desantis arranged to have nearly 50 migrants flown from texas to martha s vineyard, where former president obama has a home. critics accused the two governors of using human beings in a crass and inhumane political stunt, while the republicans say they are just trying to highlight a border crisis exacerbated by president biden s policies. to be clear, there is a crisis at the southern border. just last night the white ho ....
Rain. last night was as hard as i ve ever seen it. go to santa barbara and montecito is under evacuation orders five years ago when they had the big mudslide. they have very steep terrain there. you get a lot of mudslides. a lot of rock slides in the canyons. the 101 today. central coast more flooding there. a woman tried to cross one of these washed out roads and rescued but lost her 5-year-old child swept away in the water. you go further north in the sacramento, san francisco area, 300,000 people up there without power. trying to get it back on but the big oak trees, the saturation in the soil, you have 60 mile-per-hour winds are toppling power lines and knocking out power. you go farther north to santa cruz county. some of the cleanup has begun there. crazy because we expect more storms later this week. ....
Trying to fill his generator with gases setting it on fire. the goal, access and to start moving in much-needed supplies to these isolated areas. the island s interior, this is part of the problem. the mudslides that block the road and access to that power substation. hector was gathering drinking water off the mountain side. he came to the mountain side to get water because there s no water at his house. power, you know, we know we re going to face that and we can deal with that. biggest concern is water. can t live without water. reporter: carlos vargas lives beyond a big mudslide. the national guard had to evacuate 35,000 people before the mudslide demolished the building. we carry the elderly in their chairs, their beds and we just ....