watch. what they are facing and we re live in vents ura county. and classified documents from the time joe biden was vice president discovered in his office. and bloody knife, $450 worth of cleaning supplies, and a husband now accused of misleading the police. ahead the new evidence that is now coming to light in the case of that missing massachusetts mom. and we begin though in california where rivers are overflowing, streets are flooding, boulders and trees are crashing down, at least 24 pe 14 people have died in the storms that have hit the state over and over again. and according to governor newsom, there is no end in sight. 90% of the state s residents are under a flood watch this morning, sand that is where dramatic rescue happened. and take a look, a firefighter on the roof of an suv as water covers the hood splashing up to the top of the windshield. that firefighter eventually gets the 70-year-old out through the window and up the ladder to safety. and this is
flood warnings. the state s lieutenant governor joins us with an update. plus the justice department is reviewing a batch of classified documents found in joe biden s private office from when he was vice president. what will the president say about it today? and a 6-year-old accused of shooting a teacher with his mother s gun, the choice prosecutors now face in virginia. this is what we re watching at this hour. thank you so much for being here. i m kate bolduan. the flooding in california is really terrifying and the threat is not over. the state s governor said severe weather has killed at least 14 people now. 34 million people are under flood alerts today. more than a foot of rain has fallen in southern california in the last two days. a real threat isn t just the water, it is all it is rock slides, and the threat of severe mudslides as well that could also very quickly create dangerous conditions and it is all forcing thousands of people to evacuate their homes. c
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 year
top the hour here on your monday. i m erica hill. and i m jim sciutto. nice to be with erica. right now president biden is in mexico as he prepares to meet face-to-face with the mexico president obrador later today in what is a big week for u.s./mexico ties. biden made his first visit to the u.s. southern border on sunday. enormous political implications here. we met with border officials in el paso, texas. while highlighting the disturbing rise not just in migrants but in u.s. fentanyl deaths. also we are following what is happening in brazil. shades of the january 6 attack on the u.s. capitol after false claims of a stolen election. sounds familiar. supporters of brazil s jair bolsonaro smashing windows and clashing with police and breaking into congress and the presidential palace and the supreme court. hundreds have been arrested. meantime, in washington this morning with kevin mccarthy fin finally locking up the house speakership, gop members meeting to select thei
establishment wing. balking over finalizing the very rules mccarthy conceded last week to hard liners to become the house speaker. is this normal? plus, president biden s upcoming meeting with the president of mexico after visiting the border. where critics say the true scope of the humanitarian crisis was hidden from his view. and prince harry dropping bombs, accusing his stepmother of leaking stories to help her image. what does the royal family have to say about all of this? welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start in our politics lead with the first test of newly elected speaker of the house, kevin mccarthy. in just a few hours, the house is going to vote on its new rules package. this will include one of the biggest concessions mccarthy made to the hard line rebels to get the gavel. that one-person motion to vacate rule. this means just one member of congress can now force to remove mccarthy as speaker. he also made other concessions including allowing more fre