people moved into america, it was empty, and we are far from empty. one textbook picture of what a native american looks like and that is not how it is today. the common stereotypes. how? yeah, how. americans walk around on eggshells. like, what do we call you guys? we only want to have a seat at the table. we do not want anything more. you just don t want i would have to create space, opportunity for young people to know that there is hope. to most, this is the city of seattle. for me, this is joe amish land. my name is alyssa london. i grew up here, but i m a proud member of the indian tribe of alaska. as an alaskan native, my native identity includes as everything i do. as an msnbc contributor, entrepreneur, and former miss alaska usa. alaska airlines flew me to washington, but i m not here to be in seattle. i m on my way across the puget sound. we are really moving! to the suquamish tribal nation. these are the plans of chief seattle, a suqua
storms threatening the west coast. 17 million people across california and nevada are under flood watches. the storm is known as an atmospheric river, basically a fire hose of water. the big concern, flooding from rising rivers and melting snowpack. the ground is already saturated from weeks of heavy rainfall. look at oakland. parts of the interstate shut down because of flooding. east of oakland, the roof of a dollar store collapsed from the wait of the rain on top of the snow still there from earlier storms. the store said to be a total loss. the good news, no one was hurt. evacuation warnings are in effect for five central california counties. officials are telling people to move to higher ground now. we re covering this from all angles. nick watt is just outside san jose. let s go to we ll start with nick. nick, what are you seeing there? reporter: victor, we re seeing a lot of water here in felton. we re a little bit up river from santa cruz. as you can see, if you
in the key 2024 battle ground state of iowa. he has an event soon putting his presidential ambitions very much in the spotlight just days before donald trump campaigns in the state. this as trump has been invited to appear before a grand jury investigating his alleged role in covering up hush money payments to adult film star stormy daniels. the move signaling a decision whether to charge trump may happen soon. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf f bblitzer. you re the situation room. we begin with a historic collapse of a california bank. u.s. stock prices sliding amid questions about whether this is an isolated case or a sign of things to come. cnn s chief white house correspondent phil mattingly is following the story for us along with mark and our own matt edgen matt, first to you, how serious is this bank collapse? reporter: stunning collapse. silicon valley bank may not be a household name but it has more than $200 bil
and we re also going to save billions of dollars on going after criminals who commit fraud. a lot of people are saying to me they don t like the idea i m prepared to forgive up to $20,000 if you got a pell grant or $10,000 for anybody who has a student loan during the recession. well, guess what, we pay the so called ppp program, we paid significant i think it s $900 billion. don t hold me to that number, but it s well over 9 for anybody who had a tough time with their business during the pandemic so they could pay employees. but guess what, you may remember, i was running for office at the time, you all may remember it that i had a big fight with the former president. and maybe future president. bless me father. anyway, all kidding aside, and here s the deal, what happened was the folks are really going after me for trying to, and by the way, 90% of all debt forgiveness for student loans will go to, under my plan, 90% will go to families making under $75,000 a year. okay.
and when to do it. [noise] they re trying to silence me. and, more importantly, they are trying to silence you. but we will not be silenced, right? all right, as coming as we await to the judge s ruling on whether a special master will in fact be appointed in the case. we ll have the latest on the trump investigation ahead as well. but we begin with that history making win for democrats in the state of alaska, pretty aesthetic to say the least. a lot of folks surprised by. it mary peltola won the election for alaska s lone house, heat being the first native alaskan to serve in the house or the first democrat to win that seat in nearly 50 years. she defeated sarah palin and another republican challenger in the debut of the states rank choice voting system. she will face both again in just two months time, on election day. to hold on to that seat congresswoman-elect mary peltola is joining me now. thank you so much for joining us, congresswoman. let s start there, which is yo