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right now on early start, too much too fast. epic rain after a fierce drought and it s not over just yet. chaos at a crowded train station. police in paris opening fire on an attacker who had just stabbed a half dozen people. i was briefed about this discovery and surprised to learn that there were any government records that were taken there. president biden speaking out and what he s saying about the classified documents found in a private office he used to use. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. good morning. we begin with tens of thousands of californians this morning under evacuation orders as a series of major storms pound the states from north to south. there have been more than 150 reports of flooding and mudslides in southern california alone. saturated hill sides. some scarred by brush fires during the state s long drought sliding down under roads and homes. this is video just in of a crushed car p ....
call, i think that could represent a real watershed. the atlantic s tim alberta, thank you very much for your analysis this morning. that does it for us this morning. jose diaz-balart picks up live coverage right now. 7:00 a.m. pacific, i m jose diaz-balart. we begin with the ongoing repercussions from the search of former president donald trump s mar-a-lago club, one week ago today. two senior law enforcement officials tell nbc news the fbi and the homeland security department are warning of a spike in threats against federal law enforcement officers and their families in the wake of that search. the fbi responded to the threats by putting ground control barriers and crowd control barriers in front of its washington headquarters. it s also bolstering security at offices across the country. this comes days after a federal judge unsealed the search warrant and property receipt from the search of trump s florida residence. they show the items federal agents seized i ....
Sending a massive round hurtling towards the target 18 kilometers, around 11 miles away. it fires again. and again. a forward spotter radios max that the target has been hit. he tells his men to use shrapnel rounds to finish the job. we damaged it. we destroyed the building where they hide and i suppose they will not make problems for us in future. reporter: a small victory, big war. ben wedeman. china has stopped issuing visas to visitors from south korea and japan. beijing is retaliating on the recent restrictions calling the rules discriminatory. ....
Processing that the government has done in the last year, at the current rate of issuing visas, it s going to take 18 years to get through the backlog. these people don t have that time. so one of the things that i would like to really highlight is, we re calling out in our report, probably the most important recommendation anyone is going to give at this moment. simply put, the biden administration has to create a united for afghanistan program that is modeled after the uniting for ukraine program. we have helped over 100,000 ukrainians via humanitarian patrol into the united states since april of this year. in the last year alone, we have only welcomed 795 siv applicants. we have to do better, and we can. there s a model for it. we should be adopting it today. it doesn t require any congressional action. the president could order it right now. there needs to be some way that the afghan people can once again have hope. matt zeller and attiah abawi, i thank you so much for being with ....
I think that is possibly a generous interpretation. look, let s start by saying the british public has been enormously generous. more than 200,000 people signed up to say that they were interested in having ukrainian refugees in their homes, but the figures today suggest that the government released new figures today only 22,500 applications have actually gone through. and that is because the matching process, you have to find a ukrainian who wants to come and then the ukrainian has to find you, that is mostly being done on facebook still. and of those applications, onlyjust over 2,500 visas have actually been granted, so that is a very, very small amount of people and the big problem on that is the delays to issuing visas. we have been hearing stories from people waiting ten, 11, 12 days to get visa permission once the application has gone in. we have been speaking to gary. he is hoping to bring over julia with her daughter. julia is in a refugee centre at the moment in poland, ....