Find out the unusual reason why in just two minutes. Good morning. Welcome to early start for a monday morning. Yes. Hard to get up on a monday, isnt it . It sure is. Im alina cho. Im Zoraida Sambolin. Today is december 3rd. It is 5 00 a. M. In the east. The rain keeps coming in Northern California. The third pacific storm unleashing floodwaters, knocking out power to thousands in san francisc francisco, sacramento and thousands of others. This thing just went up fast. Real fast. We had previously had it gotten up high, but it hasnt gotten this bad. You live right here in the park . Right there. Right there. Right there. I got my mom out. I took her down to a friends house down the street. You never know with water like this what it will do. People are evacuating out of the park. People are trying to totally get out. I had to park up the hill and walk down the side hill to get in here. Its really, really, its very bad in here. What a mess. Rob marciano has been tracking the storms that
Francisco to sacramento, floodwaters and fierce winds have been knocking out power to thousands of people. Some people who lived in the areas for decades say they have never seen anything like this. Thing just went up fast. Weve had previously where its gotten up real high but hasnt gotten this bad. Do you live right here in the park . Right here. Right here . Yeah, right there. I got my mom out. I took her down to a friends house down the street because you never know if water like this what its going to do. People are evacuating out of the cars, and as you see, you cant get out. I had to march up the hill and walk down the side hill to get in here. So its really, really very bad. Rob marciano is tracking the storms from the cnn Weather Center in atlanta. How is it looking in the near future, rob . Well, a bit of a break today, soledad. More rain coming tomorrow. You saw the folks dealing with the rain about fall, cars driving through it. The rivers rushing. But we have infrastructure
After the plan laid out by the white house. And she helped care for more than 140 children whose parents are behind bars in nepal. Now shes got a new title. Cnn hero of the year. Cnn hero of the year. Newsroom starting now. Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com good morning. Thank you so much for joining me. Im carol costello. Concern this morning that a young womans death will be overshadowed by fame. By now, even if youre not a football fan, you know the name Jovan Belcher. You know he killed the mother of his child and then committed suicide. But what do we know about his girlfriend . His partner . The mother of his child, Kasandra Perkins . According to the Kansas City Star perkins and belcher were madly in love but argued of late. The star added many people knew that belcher owned guns and enjoyed shooting but theyd never known him to be violent. Not even close. Nbcs bob costas on sunday night football took on the gun issue and started a twitter firestorm. You want some actual perspec
House for that. Also, as the city grieves over an nfl players tragic breaking point, new debates today about gun control and Domestic Violence. Youll hear both. But first, the u. S. Has long believed syria has a huge stockpile of chemical weapons. Now new concerns that chemical arsenal is on the move. Secretary of state Hillary Clinton today issuing another stern warning against syria, using these weapons. The Syrian Foreign Ministry quick to respond here saying it would not use chemical weapons against its people if it had any, but this announcement as turkey is sending warplanes to its border with syria after the Syrian Military bombed a nearby town of ras alain. You can hear that and see the smoke. This is the turkish side of the border. This is fueling more fears that more of syrias violence will spill into its neighbor to the north, being turkey. Security concerns are prompting the u. N. To announce it is pulling nonessential personnel out of syria. Want to bring in fran townsend,
Attack on the United States embassy in iman, jordan. Ill ask the countrys foreign minister for details. Hes standing by live. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. We begin this afternoon with brandnew republican offers to try to save the 2. 2 trillion and avoid the socalled fiscal cliff. The acrosstheboard spending cuts and sharp tax increases that hit in just 29 days. Lets get straight to our senior Congressional Correspondent dana bash. Shes watching whats going on. Dana, the tax rates, first of all, lets get to a major Sticking Point right now. Theres been a counterproposal from House Republicans to the white house. You have details. Reporter thats right. Lets start exactly where you just began on those tax rates because that has become the big divide between the two sides. The answer is the House Republicans are not budging. They still want to continue the bush era tax rates at all income levels. Lets get specific. First of all, the counterproposal, they say they would get