thousands under evacuation workers right now, and according to governor gavin newsom, 17 confirmed dead right at this hour. cnn s nick watt, joins us with all the latest on the los angeles river which in normal times his river in name only. what is the latest, nick? you are right anderson. this is normally just a trickle. in fact there is usually a homeless encampment in what is the l. a. river. those people have had to flee to higher ground. you know, californians just aren t used to this amount of water. and in many cases, the states are just not equipped to deal with it. further up north and santa barbara, the floodwaters just overwhelming the sewer system in that ended up with sewage on the streets in santa barbara, and also you know, drivers just trying to drive where they shouldn t be driving because frankly they just don t know any better. so we have seen quite a few rescues, people being plucked out of their cars and when we are talking about drivers also just incre
i have turned over the boxes, they have turned over the boxes to the archives. we are cooperating fully, cooperating fully with the review and which i hope will be finished soon. and there will be more detail at that time. you know anderson, i think jamie s reporting really can underscore the scale of the cooperation up to this point, which while they are not willing to talk in detail about the process or perhaps how those documents actually got there to the extent they know at this moment in time, that cooperation is critical and so is the president s willingness to stand up there and address what he felt he was able to. it is a stark contrast to his predecessor and certainly something that i think has been implicit in everything you have seen publicly from the white house in the last 24 hours. so we know when the documents were found, do we know when president biden was initially briefed about it? anderson, i am told almost immediately thereafter. it was a very quick process, a
thousands under evacuation workers right now, and according to governor gavin newsom, 17 confirmed dead right at this hour. cnn s nick watt, joins us with all the latest on the los angeles river which in normal times his river in name only. what is the latest, nick? you are right anderson. this is normally just a trickle. in fact there is usually a homeless encampment in what is the l. a. river. those people have had to flee to higher ground. you know, californians just aren t used to this amount of water. and in many cases, the states are just not equipped to deal with it. further up north and santa barbara, the floodwaters just overwhelming the sewer system in that ended up with sewage on the streets in santa barbara, and also you know, drivers just trying to drive where they shouldn t be driving because frankly they just don t know any better. so we have seen quite a few rescues, people being plucked out of their cars and when we are talking about drivers also just incredible bad
to throw them willy-nilly towards ukrainian lines regardless of casualties to try to allow the russians to claim, after so many defeats around kyiv, kharkiv and kherson, a small modest victory after so many setbacks. anderson. ben, we appreciate it. thank you. life goes on. in a moment, back to domestic politics here in the u.s.. kevin mccarthy now house speaker. what do we know about the side heels he made with republican opponents finally got him the speakers gavel? what he may owe and to whom, next. i gotta good feeling about this yeah, so let s get it i m feeling good vibes
that is when white house officials plan to get more information about the entirety of the process, anderson. phil mattingly. appreciate that former deputy assistant attorney general john woo. david urban, former president, also cnn senior legal analyst cyst elie honig. you heard, elie what the president had to say about being surprised by this documents. what do you make of this? so, those documents comments go right to the most important legal issue in this whole case. did joe biden know the documents were there? if the answer is no, legally it is game over. there is no possible way you can have a criminal charge of the person didn t know the documents were there. now doj has to test this. the way you do it i think, investigative lee, is you have to reconstruct how those documents got their, who gave the order instruction to take the documents from the vice president s office over to joe biden s private offices in 2017, who actually move the documents, who had access. but