it s just indicative of what kind of world we re living in. [crowd] the people united [woman] we are going to be a force to be reckoned with. and i m here to protest it. [cecile] one of us can be dismissed, two of us can be ignored. but together, we are a movement, and we are unstoppable. welcome to the revolution. [music] [scott] a ferocious recession is now tightening its grip on the nation. because of, i think, some bad decisions that were made, we have the worst economy since the great depression. [will] well, at the start of the 2010s, there was just a lot of economic displacement. and people were feelin it from all sides. it s a war out there. i mean, these people are losing homes every single day. the debate over using billions in taxpayer dollars to help homeowners in trouble spilled out onto live television today. in february of 2009, rick santelli is on cnbc. he s a commentator there, and gets really, really angry about the financial crisis and about bailouts. [tr
evacuations of towns with mudslides. bill: good morning, i m bill hemmer. good morning. the storms will roll in for at least the next two weeks it looks like in the forecast. the latest storm in a parade of severe weather began a week ago leaving more than a dozen dead in california. 200,000 customers have no power. firefighters rescuing two people trapped in a car at the bottom of a sinkhole in suburban los angeles. the entire seaside community of montecito ordered to get out five years after a mudslide killed 23 and destroyed more than 100 homes. very intense. i mean it almost doesn t seem real with that going on. it s unbelievable. i had ptsd from the last one for a couple of years and it is just bringing it all back. bill: senior national correspondent william la jeunesse live in l.a. to bring us up to date on what s happening today. hello. good morning. we have a slight separation of the bands of rain that i had coming in this morning. the irony is last year
shooting at a los angeles area dance hall. we re going to join it live. be sure to stick with us for that. and it comes just hours after a deadly conclusion to a police standoff there. a s.w.a.t. team broke in to a white van, believed to be linked to last night s mass shooting at a lunar new year celebration in monterey park. earlier during an attempted traffic stop of this van, in torrance about 30 miles away, police heard a possible gunshot. the los angeles times says the driver died of a self-inflicted gunshot. and police now have to determine if the person they found behind the wheel is this man, the suspected gunman who opened fire at a ballroom dance studio, killing ten people and wounding ten others. we are covering all the angles of this developing story with our correspondents and experts. let s begin this hour with don lemon in monterey park. don? good evening to you, pamela. and it is a day of devastation here in monterey park, california. yet another shooting
this. if you look behind me, you can see the 21 crosses with the names of 19 little kids and two teachers killed in their classroom. 2 place they were supposed to be safe. what we re learning about the police response raises some disturbing questions. police vealing nobody was there the try to stop the gunman when he got in through door that was apparently locked and he was inside for about an hour before he was killed. how can that happen? what happened? an hour when desperate parents were all crowded outside. they were pleading with police to go in and let them go in or let them go in themselves. that is so hard to watch. so hard to listen to listen to their screams. the father of one student says he pleaded with officers to give him their gear so he could go inside as the shooting was happening. his son did survive but 19 ore children, two teachers did not survive. also joining us, cn nrknn law enforcement analyst, anthony barksdale. it s good to see you. i wish it was und