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i m laila harrak. ahead on cnn newsroom, the white house is on the defensive after more classified documents were discovered at president biden s private home. plus live images from dnipro, ukraine, where a search is under way for survivors trapped in the rubble of an apartment building after a russian missile strike. the latest in a live report. and global condemnation after iran executed a british iranian national. now we re hearing from the man s family, who says he s innocent. we ll have those stories and more for you in just a moment. first, we re tracking breaking news out of nepal. state media report a plane from domestic carrier yeti airlines has crashed west of kathmandu. cnn s kristie lu stout is tracking events from hong kong. reporter: just imagine the agony for family members who are waiting for any information. right now this is what we know. we know that a yeti airlines jetliner crashed on sunday in nepal. we know at least 32 have been killed. a ....
the reality is this is just an eighth of what we anticipate will be nine atmospheric rivers we re not done severe weather is once again pounding california. looks like it s not going to let up any time soon. i ll discuss with climate expert how unusual this weather really is. and new documents mean new questions for the biden administration. look into what this new timeline means for the president, plus, a race against time in ukraine to save the people believed to be trapped in this rubble after a russian missile strike. live from cnn this is cnn newsroom. with kim brunhuber. we begin with the storm that is continue to slam central and northern california. over 25 million people across the state are under flash flood watches, where a powerful storm fueled by a strong atmospheric stormed. and another coming today, president biden approved a major disaster declaration clearing the way to help the state in the coming weeks of storm and torrential flooding, warni ....
for maryland and was appointed by former president trump. i strongly believe that the normal processes of this department can handle all investigations with integrity, but under the regulations, the extraordinary circumstances here require the appointment of a special counsel for this matter. this appointment underscores for the public, the department s commitment to both independence and accountability in particularly sensitive matters, and to making decisions indisputably guided only by the facts and the law. now earlier, president biden confirmed that more classified documents from his time as vice president were discovered. this time at his wilmiwilmingto delaware home. they were locked in his garage. another document was found inside the house. now the attorney general revealed that the justice department learned of the second set of documents in december as this timeline shows here. it was in november when the president s attorney found classified documents ....
flint, michigan. up first just before midnight justice department legal filing and what it tells us about the case against donald trump. the 36-page filing is full of critical new details. they include three classified documents in desks inside the former president s office. more than 100 documents in 13 boxes with classification markings inside the former president s residence. some of those documents so secret the fbi and d orkoj persl charged with reviewing them needed to get additional security clearances. the filing includes this stunning photograph, a smattering of highly classified documents with unmistakably clear, top secret and sci markings laid out on a mar-a-lago carpet next to a time of framed magazine covers and this, too, justice department lawyers now allege mr. trump and his attorneys likely committed a crime by obstructing a federal investigation. stopping fbi agents from looking through boxes of records and in one instance, signing off on a sworn st ....
were found in his delaware home as late as this morning. we are still trying to sort some of this out. the two men who could potentially face off for the presidency in 2024 are now both under a special counsel probe, another word for probe is investigation. so oversight committee member byron donalds is standing by we will speak with him in just a moment so first let s talk with peter doocy white house correspondent waiting for the two-minute warning at the white house and we ve been waiting about an hour and a half now for this to go under way. hi, peter, tell us what you are expecting at this point. martha we are expecting them to come out at some point, and the topic du jour today is why isn t this administration, we have this ms ration claims to be so transparent with everything including on this issue, and yet we are finding out more details about this case from the attorney general. here at the white house somebody sent president biden out in mexico city on tues ....