good morning. i m wolf blitzer in washington, and this is special live coverage of the funeral of former supreme court justice sandra day o connor, the first woman to serve is on america s highest court. the service over at the washington national cathedral is set to start right at the top of the hour. president biden left delaware for washington, d.c., earlier this morning. he is set to arrive at the funeral any moment now, we are told. and he is going to be delivering a eulogy along with chief justice john roberts. o connor first met them in 1981, and roberts helped her to prepare for her confirmation where biden was the top person on the judiciary committee. and she earned in 1952 a law degree from stanford university in two years, but despite graduating top of the class, her gender kept her from joining a law firm, so she opened up her own law firm. she was mostly known for being appointed to the high court in 1981, but she is quickly one of the most influential justice
one system could leave a foot or more of snow in parts of the northeast, while another atmospheric river is set to dump rain on already flooded parts of california. plus, after the biggest u.s. bank failure since 2008, regional banks fear a broader financial crisis as their stocks tumble. , and former president trump in iowa taking swings at gop rivals just days away from a potential criminal indictment. good to have you with us, we ll, from coast to coast major storm systems are set to pummel california and the u.s. northeast. out west, the golden state was already dealing with major flooding. some 30 million people across california are under flood watches. and, on the other side of the country, a major is expected to cover new england and parts of new york in snow. millions of people in cities like boston, syracuse and portland, maine, we re under winter alerts ahead of the storm. and days ago u.s. president joe biden declared a set emergency in more than 30 california c
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And then of course of fleet of snow expected through much of the sierra. monday, overnight, a modern risk for the northern coast of california, but that picks up through the day on tuesday, the southern foothills of the sierra nevada highlight in fuchsia, down through the southern coastlines and that includes where we can pick up more rain of 5000 feet below on top of the melting snow which is going to cause catastrophic flooding. here s to, state local, time 6:00 ringing in the heaviest rain at that point to the coast and it rides in line by the afternoon on tuesday, and for southern california, at that point, as well and it just continues to train over the same areas and finally tapering back into wednesday. that first day that we dealt with earlier on, brought in quite a bit of moisture to the, now, more eastern that is pumping in quite a lot of snow for the pictures this morning, heavy, heavy snowfall. already coming down and that is going to be continuing throughout the day on t
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