i just pray on all of us to maintain our vigilance, our common sense over the course of the next 24 to 48 hours. california s governor s warning residents that the severe weather isn t over just yet as 25 million of them are under flood watches right now. plus, more class fight material is found at the delaware home of president biden on the same day the attorney general names a special counsel to the case and search and rescue workers are desperately looking for survivors trapped in the rubble of an apartment building in ukraine after a russian missile strike. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. we begin in storm ravaged california. here s what we know at this hour. u.s. president joe biden approved a major disaster declaration clearing the way for federal funds. some people in san bonito county have been ordered to leave their homes because of severe flooding. more than 25 million people are under flood watches. the governor s
we begin this hour with celebration turning into tragedy at the university of georgia. just hours after the football team was honored for winning a national championship one of their key players, 20-year-old, was killed in a car crash along with a member of the football staff, 24-year-old chandler lacroix. cnn is live in athens, georgia. what do we know about what happened? reporter: we just got a statement indicating this happened at 2:45 early this morning. that car was traveling southbound on this road behind me just past this curve right here and then, fred, for some reason that car left the roadway, struck this power pole right here. we saw utility crews in the last hour or so replacing and fixing this power pole, and then the car continued, fred. you can see the debris, the fallen tree limbs where it struck a tree. as we make our way over here i will show you the exact spot where this car came to rest continuing past this slope right here and ending at this location r
were black. this was an act of domestic terrorism. perpetrated by a young. white supremacist. there s no question. about his intentions. among those killed were erin salter, a retired buffalo police officer who was working as a security guard at the grocery store at the time of the shooting. salter being hailed a hero after police say he tried to stop the gunman. he actually was able to shoot the assailant twice, but he had a he had on a bulletproof vest. and he lost his life in the process. he stopped us individual from going further into the store and just delaying it. on tuesday, president biden will be in town to meet with families of the victims, local officials calling the gunman a white supremacist, as the u. s attorney general merrick garland says his office will look into the shooting as a possible hate crime. reporting in buffalo, new york. i m alexis mcadams fox news. and in southern california, a gunman opened fire inside of a church, killing one person and injuri
terror attack in america on americans. ten americans killed, their ages ranging from 32 to 86. in fact, six of the victims were older than 60. the evidence clearly suggests they were murdered because they were shopping and black. this morning we re getting new perspective on the victims and we will speak to a number of people who knew and loved them. police say the white 18-year-old suspect traveled three hours from a different county. there are new details about how he planned the massacre and for how long. and a previous incident when he was on the radar of law enforcement, making a chilling comment last spring. tomorrow we just learned that president biden will visit buffalo and meet with victims families. we re also learning new details about a deadly shooting in southern california. four people were having lunch inside a church after services when a gunman entered and opened fire, killing one person and critically wounding four others. the taiwanese congregation was t
and if you re familiar with that area, it is extremely steep. extremely thick vegetation that has not burned in probably decades. once it s got ahold, and started up that hill, i think we all saw that, as soon as i got to my headquarters, you could see the tremendous smoke column and we knew we had a significant fire. okay, this is the live scene right now of what s happening in the laguna hills area. this is the orange county area of colorado. it s about an hour or so outside of los angeles. it s very close to the ocean. you can see that fire burning in the distance there on the hills as the fire officials describe it. that of course is a palm tree. one of the issues they ve had with this fire is that embers have been spread by the winds. in fact, that s why some of these houses, according to the fire officials, have actually been burnt and have been involved in fire, as you can see right there. the embers have been managing to get inside the homes, into their attics and t