white house as he heads for the campaign trail in south carolina. today s event and that early voting state comes on the heels of biden endorsing a deal that could lead to the u.s. shutting down the border with mexico. the president is now throwing his support behind a bipartisan senate bill that sources say gives the u.s. the authority to crack down on illegal migrant crossings at the southern border using tough new measures including implementing a shutdown when the border is overwhelmed. for more on these developments, let s bring in cnn white house reporter priscilla alvarez who is already in south carolina. what can you tell us about biden s expected plan while in that state? reporter: well, he s going to be rallying black voters here to vote for him. i mean, this is a state that buoyed him in 2020. it s one that he credited for turning the tide in 2020. and it s also a state that will kick off the democratic nominating process for the first time. a change that biden h
hello again. thank you for joining me again. i m fredricka whitfield. russia said it will suspend its participation in the grain export deal with ukraine. ukraine s foreign minister telling russia to stop its hunger games . nic robertson is in kyiv. nic, what s the significance of this move? reporter: this is very significant. russia says it has suspended the deal for an indefinite period. this was a deal that was struck by the u.n., two parallel deals, one with ukraine and one with russia, at the end of july. and it was struck because, since russia invaded ukraine, all the grain that ukraine produces, and it produces a lot for the world, was stuck in its ports on the black sea, piling up, nowhere to go. and the third world countries this grain was destined for desperately short of food. the prices were going up. after the deal was struck, the anticipation was about 20 million tons of grain could be shipped out of ukraine to these third world and other countries. now, wh
there. fierce winds along with rain. san francisco police have market street closed. this tree used to be in someone s back yard before it came crashing down overnight. no one was hurt. city crews say they re trying to get everything cleaned up as quickly as possible. meanwhile, a downed tree was making a all lanes on park street closed. we re told crew also be there working to clean it up until after noon. there are downed trees in mill valley as well. abc news reporter amy holyfield is there also with the high tide problems today. amy? we are getting a little break in the action right now. there is still some standing water here on miller avenue in mill valley. the tide is receding. it has improved here. at one point you couldn t get through and they had to close down the street. the situation is getting better. is one of several troubled spots from this morning s storm. with gusts of wind up to 40 miles per hour in novato this morning, it was more than some trees could
critically and tonight a new report out shows the company had an unfavorable safety record and had hired unqualified drivers. cbs5 s andria borba is at the bus company s offices there in san francisco the andria? reporter: after the chp inspected the entire city sight seeing flight 20% of the city sight seeing buses were pulled off the road for service problems. now problems included emergency exits on two of the buses that did not work. two bucks had broken wheel fasteners near the axles. 1 bus had a leaky fuel tank and one bus had passenger seats not properly secured to the floorboards. the attorney for the union says he is not surprised at all by this report. lots of laws are in place to protect the public. unfortunately we have to depend upon these companies to self- regulate and to follow the law and to take their buses in and properly license them, properly inspect them, get the chp inspections done each year, have the drivers properly licensed and trained, follow t
we re going to try to get her back on the line. let s head to bill martin who has been tracking the weather all day long. the weather a big factor in the search. they re searching for some four hours, bill. most of that hampered by the rain and fog. yeah, and really overnight rain made the situation tough. we heard about searchers out in this area east of fremont. searchers in this area having trouble getting trucks through. helicopters having issues because of the fog and low cloud. we re still seeing cloud cover out there now. you see all the cloud cover, still some showers and sprinkles coming down. we ve got a lot of rain. this is over the last couple of days. i roughed the numbers out. they re evolving, changing. mount tam about over 6 inches of rain. that s a half foot of rain in parts of the north bay. santa cruz mountains, half of foot of rain there. we re looking for livermore with 2 and a half inches of rain coming up to about 80% of rainfall average. san jose a