america s second largest city slammed by flash floods and bracing for more. the justice department documents found into a private office once used by joe biden. and a huge celebration in the streets of georgia as the bulldogs go back to back in the college football championship. here we go. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. good morning, everyone. right now, 90% of the population of california under flood watch. america s second largest city is slammed by a relentless storm. flash flooding, mudslides, wind damage all across central and southern california. this is video just in from santa clarita. firefighters pulling a person out of that car as water rushes around them. there are scenes like these all over the los angeles area. roads now closed. firefighters rescuing people caught in these flash floods. santa barbara county alone responding to some 200 calls like this. in some cases it s better to leave the car home
biden really needs the cooperation of partners like mexico as he tries to get a handle on the situation of migrants at the u.s. southern border. when the administration announced the expansion of title 42 last week, it included an agreement from mexico to accept tens of thousands of migrants who are being turned away at the u.s. border back into mexico. so that is going to be, again, a very important topic of discussion. jake sullivan reported by told reporters this morning, don t expect new plans or announcements from this bilateral meeting. the two countries are really just going to need to take some time to figure out whether the initial agreement is working. m.j., there are a lot of critics of president biden s trip to the border sunday, including the union, many officials, the governor of texas. have white house officials responded to any of the criticisms, including that he didn t meet with my migrants while there? reporter: yeah, you know, it was really notable tha
flow differently. we let the rivers flood a little more and recharge our groundwater in wet seasons. reporter: climate scientist peter glitt say levies have effectively protected communities but they re not designed for the climate challenges of today. less water is available to seep into thirsty underground aquifers, a desperate underground needed water source for farmers and drinking water in extreme drought. instead of thinking we can control all floods we have to learn be to live with them. reporter: glick says communities will have to get out of the way. entire cities and towns would need to relocate. these changes are absolutely easier said than done but they have to be done. we have to redesign flood insurance policies so we re not rebuilding houses once they ve been damaged in the same places where they re going to flood again. we have to design flood insurance policies to encourage people to move away from flood plains so we can open up the flood plains and when we get
flood a little more and recharge our ground water in wet seasons. reporter: climate scientist peter glitz says they ve affected levies in the past, but aren t designed for the climate challenges of today. less water is available to seep into underground aquifers, a desperately needed source for drinking water during drought. instead of thinking we can control all floods, we have to learn to live with them. reporter: he says that means communities will have to get out of the way. entire cities and towns would need to relocate. these changes are easier said than done, but they have to be done. we have to redesign flood insurance policies so we re not rebuilding houses in the same places. we have to design policies to encourage people to move away from floodplains so we can open up the floodplains and when we get those floods, they ll be