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storms threatening the west coast. 17 million people across california and nevada are under flood watches. the storm is known as an atmospheric river, basically a fire hose of water. the big concern, flooding from rising rivers and melting snowpack. the ground is already saturated from weeks of heavy rainfall. >> look at oakland. parts of the interstate shut down because of flooding. east of oakland, the roof of a dollar store collapsed from the wait of the rain on top of the snow stil...

cnn newsroom. hello, im bianna golodryga. a powerful winter storm is related to two storm-related deaths. im victor howell. and we have this video of waters rushing through springfield in central, california, and the weather is getting worse by the minute. >> residents are being urged to get to higher ground for their safety. parts of interstate i-80 had to be shutdown because of failed water pumps. and we go to nick who is there on the scene for us. what is behind you there? >> well...

public outreach to state officials to try to get them to overturn their election results. >> the gop electors are on the governors certificate. >> im not going to get into a political debate. >> reporter: the investigation also discovered a nearly 23-minute phone call between someone at the white house and john eastman on the same day the conservative attorney wrote a now infamous memo laying out how pence could block the certification of the electoral college vote. >> state election o...

>> carolyn, thank you very much. thanks to all of you for joining us. dont go anywhere. im monday morning. were so glad youre with us. hope you had a good weekend. we have a lot of news to get to. five things to know for this monday, november 13th. breaking overnight, senator tim scott has dropped out of the republican presidential primary. the sudden announcement stung his own staff and donors. gazas largest crisis says its of the of fuel with three newborns dying as a result. isr...

The way out was saying, you know, this is one of the last flights into chicago from austin, so we felt really lucky. and then, you know, we came to find out that everybody had gotten delayed and now were going through l.a. but i think its going to be fine. >> its been changing by the minute. >> reporter: and thats the thing, all these people youre talking to are trying to figure out what is changing with our flights, are they delayed, is it canceled, am i going to have to get a hotel. we were al...

Leaks. there are more than 3 dozen strong afsh shocks after the quake. no reports ofatal tis and most of the county has no power. a fast-approaching arctic blast has put the eastern two-thirds of the country under a winter holiday alert. bone-chilling temperatures, and blizzard conditions are expected, and the windchill in some areas could plummet to 50 degrees below zero. eric van dam is here to talk about what forecasters are talking about a life threatening bomb cyclone. walk us through it. >...

And stay safe. appreciate it. councilman joseph derosa, thanks very much there in new orleans. >> thank you. >> well see coverage from all angles. eric van dam filed this report from houma in louisiana as residents prepared for ida. >> last money preparations taking place. where im standing. over a hundred thousand residents call this parish home. you can see the individuals from the government actually dumping fresh sand within this area. men, women and children coming to fill as many sandbags ...

Eye, you dont get as much center. its the eye wall on the outside. thats where the wind truly is right now. now, it moves up to the east coast and these computers weve been watching for days, they havent been great. finally a couple of days ago they started to get better. but they are human generated on human-made computers with human error. its the error that we talk about left or right. could it be close to cape canaveral? absolutely. if that happens and cape canaveral gets the eye wall, thats...

They are very proud of their airline. it is a national airline. in fact, just yesterday, they were versusing about having an all-female crew flying for national womens day. and of course, we understand that there are at least a couple of casualties. where the place went 40-minute e international airport. i am at the airport and there are planes still taking off and landing here. >> we do know it was flight number 302. we also want to tell our viewers that our meteorologist eric van dam has looke...

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