trace: good evening, welcome to los angeles. i m trace gallagher in for bret baier. presidential candidates former president trump fights efforts to exclude him from some state ballots. california s population declines for a third straight year. tax documents reveal the surprising groups that are leaving the state. and as issue with the creeps. in energy experts are calling for updates to the power grid. bret baier looks at efforts to protect our most critical assets but, first breaking tonight, the u.s. and mexico say they will work together more closely in coming weeks to address the crisis at the southern border. mexican officials cleared what was once a large tent camp sitting near the border as u.s. officials agree to keep rail crossings open after temporary closures. but, republican critics say they are not convinced these efforts will alleviate the massive migrant crisis. fillian turner is in mexico city tonight. gillian, good evening mexican delegation going to tr
at least 10 people have now died because of it. four of those deaths in kentucky where the issue have issued including flooding and damaging winds. nearly 1,000,000 1/2 ohms business or power, kentucky, tennessee and michigan now reported the highest number of outages. the northern part of the storm, and the northeast with heavy snow. which is expected to last throughout saturday, parts of new england might see as much as 16 inches of snow. winter storm warnings are now up from michigan to maine, winter storm warnings are up again and parts of the west as a new system moves in, some places in northern california can see more than two places of snow officials say they have had more snow this winter than they have had in two decades, that has been critical in helping replenish some of the states reservoirs, even so the water flow is still well below average, only a year ago, the entire state was in a drought. now thanks to these winter storms it has been cut in half
and even more so, about the 77 minutes of inaction that the video shows. plus, in some big cities there will no longer be a starbucks on every corner. the coffee giant is closing several locations but not because of slow sales. is this about working safety or is it about unionization? welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start today with our money lead and horrible news for your wallet. new data today released by the biden administration shows inflation surging to 9.1%. that is the highest level in more than 40 years and it means the prices we pay over all are 9.1% higher than at this time last year. so unless you have benefitted from an unlikely 10% raise since then, you now have less money in your pocket than you did a year ago. much of the increase is driven by gas prices, which we should note have fallen in recent weeks, but they remain insanely high, up nearly 60% in this report, and the increases are felt across a range of categories, prices on groceries are u
the palestinian group, islamic jihad, say it fired over a hundred rockets at israel. these images show the rockets being intercepted by israel s iron dome air defence system. it comes in the hours after an israeli gay air strike in the gaza strip. the palestinian health ministry said at least ten people were killed in that strike including a five year old child. this footage was released by the israeli army, it says it shows the moment the strike is gaza. israel s pro minister spoke about the air strike in at television address earlier in which a promise to do whatever it takes to defend is ready people. we a promise to do whatever it takes to defend is ready people. defend is ready people. we carried out a precise defend is ready people. we carried out a precise counterterrorism - out a precise counterterrorism operation against an immediate threat. our threat is not with the people of gaza, islamichhad is an iranians proxy which wants to destroy the state of israel and k
the same cities where they ve been telling palestinians to go to flee the danger. one man saying, quote, they ll tell you it s a safe area, but there is no safe area in all of the gaza strip. if donald trump wins his way back into the white house, would he ever leave? the strongest warning yet from former republican congresswoman liz cheney. could american democracy as we know it end in 2024. trump is going on offense. who he says is the real threat to america. a cuban spy busted after spending more than four decades hiding in plain sight. the nearly unevidenceable story of manuel rocca, former u.s. amend arrested and accused of being a covert agent. we ve got those details coming up. we begin inside gaza where right now israel is escalating its ground offensive in the south where many hamas leaders and fighters have believed to have fled. all ofhis creating dangerous confusion on the ground for exhausted, war-wear often very poor people who don t know what they re supped