search. so that has been helpful in those search efforts as well, having someone who is familiar with the factory on the ground. but when the storm first hit, when that tornado rolled through and hit this candle factory, it was really people in the community and people who had family members inside who were the first ones to come out and tried to pull their friends and family out of that debris before emergency response crews got here, and we spoke to one of those men. his name is ivy williams. he s looking for his wife, jeanine williams, and he had a morning and overnight hours that were so painful for him. he says he s pulled out two people, but he still hasn t found his wife. i want to find my wife. i want to find her. i hope she s somewhere safe. i hope she s somewhere safe. please call me so we can connect. please call me. i m looking for you, baby. we ve been looking for you. we re all looking for you right now. [ crying ] reporter: so it has been just a devastating
landslides. more on a potentially historic storm impacting millions this morning. plus, breaking news out of the middle east. the u.s. military revealing new details about the scope of damage from those retaliatory strikes in iraq and syria, and not ruling out more strikes including potentially inside iran. also ahead, lawmakers finally unveiling that long-awaited bipartisan border bill, but it s already facing a partisan wall with the house speaker calling it dead on arrival. this as house republicans push forward today with their effort to impeach the secretary of homeland security. we ll have the latest from capitol hill. hello. it s 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. a potentially historic storm impacting millions this morning. 38 million under flood alerts across california, warned of life-threatening conditions with evacuations under way. we re seeing torrential rain, high-speed wins leading to dangerous spinouts and landslides. it is still co
as much as a foot of rain set to fall in parts. this tree crushing a car on the pacific coast highway. fears that the storm may disrupt the grammys. and a pebble beach golf tournament postponed. the u.s. vowing more retaliation for the deaths of american soldiers in the middle east as the pentagon releases new information about this weekend s strikes including that there are no signs any iranians were killed what the administration now says about striking iran directly. have you ruled out strikes inside iran? out-of-control wildfires in chile killing more than 99 1200 homes destroyed residents fleeing through walls of flames our new nbc news poll, former president trump s lead growing over president biden and new details on the senate immigration deal, but is it dead on arrival a former trump official killed during a carjacking spree the latest in a string of high-profile incidents across the the u.s. and the power of gratitude. why these letters meant so much to th
won t come until tomorrow. these conditions making the already dangerous fight against two raging wildfires in northern california all the more peril yous. more than 10,000 acres scorched and still growing. governor gavin newsom is declaring a state of emergency. hundreds evacuated as flames race closer to homes and structures. our chris winn and cnn meteorologist tom sare here to walk us through it all. you have in santa monica, and that s where we in the west go to cool down. how hot is it there now? hey, sara, temperatures are approaching 100 degrees. simply put, people here aren t used to this, especially with california in its longest heat wave of the year. state officials are once again issuing a flex alert asked to conserve energy between the hours of 4:00 and 9:00 p.m. that means bring up the thermostat to 78 degrees or higher, avoid the use of major appliances and turning off lights when possible. it all sounds very basic but it s meant to be helpful because govern
they re telling us that they re starting slowly to unload these places. there are five sets of those. so it s very slow and we re pretty far back in the line. it s going to be at least two hours. he also says he doesn t know what s going to happen to us once we re deplaned, where we ll go in the airport and what resources will be available to us. he said it will take a number of days before things get back to normal. we re in it for the long haul. we ve totally run out of water. they ve asked us kindly not to flush the toilets. otherwise everyone seems to be in a relative calm. they gave us beverages about an hour ago and we re just waiting. wow. it doesn t sound good. how long have you been stuck there? we landed at 2:15.
so about five hours. wow. and the pilot is telling you it could be two hours more before you can get off. did you hear what led to this? reporter: it s unclear to us. it s a construction issue. as far as we know there s no power at the airport. lucky for u