a man whose father and grandfather that were killed in a bombing in gaza can t communicate from ckhan yunis because of a blackout. we have new details in the hunt for the hamas leader. putin speaking out for the first time about reports he has a body double, taking it on, as a series of questions flashes across a screen during putin s annual press conference. why are so many people in russia poor? who is behind the scathing questions? she may be the only republican woman in the presidential race, but are women voters buying what nikki haley is selling? that s our special story. so let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, the breaking news, a blackout. gaza s communications network nonexistent. as of tonight, there is a near total blackout in gaza. no way to get a message in or out. just before the show, we tried to speak with a palestinian man who was in gaza. now, when we first heard from him this morning, he was able to share with us so
the white house pushing israel to adjust rules of engagement after the idea of accidentally killing three hostages the idf. new gripping accounts from hostages formerly held by hamas, their horror while in a captivity including dodging airstrikes from israeli forces, plus in america targeted again, more than 200 eight bomb threats and swat calls, swatting calls in one week alone. what law enforcement sources are telling cnn about what is being done to track down those responsible. as donald trump claims immigrants are poisoning the blood of america, cnn s underthings trumps defense of a man convicted in election interference crimes once best known on twitter for racism, anti-semitism, homophobia and worse. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. we start, top biden administrators suggesting israel needs to change its approach, more than 10 weeks into the war. u.s. secretary of defense lloyd austin met with his counterpart and israeli prime ministers benjamin netanyahu d
evacuation orders in california as excessive rainfall leads to raging flood waters. the fresno county sheriff joins me in a few minutes. new legal woes for donald trump, the former u.s. president is considering whether to testify before a grand jury about his alleged role in a hush money scheme. a look at what s behind the second largest bank collapse in u.s. history, and how it happened in just 48 hours. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. another atmospheric river has been pouring massive amounts of rain and snow on california, at least two people have died in powerful storms battering the state. and the weather prediction center put parts of california in the highest warning level possible for excessive rainfall with the worst of it out along the california central coast. officials issued warnings for 10,000 residents, including these folks, who say the rain is unprecedented. go up there check on the scene in case they need
portions of the state. just minutes ago we were seeing this video of a levy that failed overnight in monterey county. that has forced evacuations, washed out roads and bridges. this week s atmospheric river, the tenth to hit the state dropped more than a foot of rain in some areas. at least two people have died in the most recent storm and more rain is on the way for some hard-hit areas. several feet of snow is blanketing the sierra, nevada mountains. they worry melting snow could cause more flooding. california national guard in high water vehicles are staged throughout the state. mike lareo is in vallaero. reporter: we re in the heart of the flood zone and we have all of this flooding in the downtown area because from that video you just saw, the levy is about 3 miles behind us and as soon as that levy had a breach around midnight local time, jim, all of that water had nowhere to go but here except for low lying areas. you can see there s a little bit of a dry spot in our
what happened? erica, this happened so fast. it s stunning. silicon valley bank shut down by california regulators after the stock crashed by 60% yesterday after the bank said it needed to rapidly raise cash. this is easily the biggest bank failure since washington mutual fell apart in 2008 during the financial crisis. silicon valley bank, if you haven t heard of it, it is a major lender to tech start-ups. the fdic says that depositors that have $250,000 or less, they are insured here. they will get their money. they will get access to their money as soon as monday morning. but we know that some people, some entities, some start-ups, they have more than $250,000, and it s less clear what s going to happen to them. how did this happen? well, when the fed spikes interest rates, things tend to break. we know that the fed rate hikes have hurt the valuation of the tech companies that this bank catered to, also has hurt the value of the bonds that banks rely on to get cash. erica