hello again, everyone. thanks for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield. we begin with california facing a severe weather threat yet again right now. 25 million people are under flood watches. some areas saw more than six times the normal rainfall in just the last two weeks. today s storms raising concerns for more flooding and possibly landslides. cnn meteorologist allison chinchar is tracking the storm for us. also cnn s natasha chen is in fairfax, california, where we begin with you. what are you seeing? all right. we don t have audio of natasha. we ll try and work that out. it s not your television sets. let s go to you, allison. what is california bracing for? they ve already been through so much. they have. they re bracing for two more rounds, one that is currently ongoing and the next round that arrives 24 hours from now with not much of a break in between. the first round already here. you can see most of the real heavy rain and snow is across portions of northern and
does the ukrainian military seem to think they can keep the momentum going? reporter: look. what we are seeing is a far more come complicated picture on the ground. a blackout of electricity and in donestk. two cruise missiles hit. we went with police to the wider region that have been liberated traveling to see the areas where even now investigators are beginning to look into possible war crimes. they ve been under russian occupation for six months now and taken within the first few days of the war and today watched investigators dig up some of the first vkts and possible first evidence of war crimes now retaken as a part of the offensive. this is what a man had to say about what he saw of russian troops leaving the last few days. translator: i never expected that it would be so fast. i went to the store and when i returned everyone was running away. they even drove through the cemetery. can you imagine? my wife saw how they rushed through the garden. she was worried the
under executive privilege. meanwhile house democrats are also issuing demands. the chairs of the house intelligence and oversight committees saying they want a full intelligence damage assessment after classified documents were seized from mar-a-lago. take a listen. some of those documents were marked top secret, that s the highest that could be done if it s disclosed so the fact that they were in an unsecure place with a padlock or whatever security at a hotel is deeply alarming and i have asked for along with chairman maloney a damage assessment by the intelligence community and a briefing to congress. the fbi seized 11 sets of documents marked classified from the mar-a-lago resort including 1 marked as top secret sci. this is coming as sources say that the doj received assurances from a trump attorney in june that the former president was in not possession of classified materials. cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider is with me now. we have members of congress d
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