while the house voted in a nighttime session tonight to adjourn until noon eastern tomorrow, we still don t know why 9 a. m. was not a possibility and what could not be a day three of trying to get a speaker, but that is fine. they ll go into a second and third day tomorrow about this very issue, and of course, republican leader kevin mccarthy has been enduring a series of stinging defeats, now losing a total of six rounds of voting in his attempt to become speaker of the house. he is saying tonight that while there is no deal yet, and emphasis is on yet, he says there s a lot of progress made in talks of some of the holdouts to end the ongoing impasse. this possibly now paves the way for him to become the speaker. but of course, that seems to be far from certain that there seems to be at least 20 that have not budged in many a vote at this point. now, some of his most strident opponents are vowing tonight that they will go to block his bit. i want to go to cnn s melanie za
stephanie, what are you seeing? laura, we are now starting from the bulk of the storm making its way on to short. the heaviest, rain and also those hurricane-force winds are now starting to impact the san francisco bay area. you take a look here, in suppresses, go you could see just how wet it is here tonight. and this is why officials are so concerned. they re saying that they re seeing these hurricane fourth win, at some parts of the bay area up to 85 miles per, hour 77 down into the south bay. that is really strong winds for places that normally don t see this. they re also worried about flooding, mud flies as a matter-of-fact, mandatory infatuation order in parts of the bay area. because of this threat, because the soil is already so saturated and a lot of that has to do with the series of storms that we can see since new year s eve. the ground is so saturated as we are in the middle of this multi-year drought that is just not used to having that much water. and it can t accomm