evacuations of towns with mudslides. bill: good morning, i m bill hemmer. good morning. the storms will roll in for at least the next two weeks it looks like in the forecast. the latest storm in a parade of severe weather began a week ago leaving more than a dozen dead in california. 200,000 customers have no power. firefighters rescuing two people trapped in a car at the bottom of a sinkhole in suburban los angeles. the entire seaside community of montecito ordered to get out five years after a mudslide killed 23 and destroyed more than 100 homes. very intense. i mean it almost doesn t seem real with that going on. it s unbelievable. i had ptsd from the last one for a couple of years and it is just bringing it all back. bill: senior national correspondent william la jeunesse live in l.a. to bring us up to date on what s happening today. hello. good morning. we have a slight separation of the bands of rain that i had coming in this morning. the irony is last year
Hello, im matthew amroliwala. Welcome to verified live. We start with flooding described as the worst in nearly 100 years in russia and kazakstan. Thousands have been forced from their homes cities under threat, evacuations ongoing. The flooding in the urals and Western Siberia has been caused by unseasonably warm temperatures, which has melted snow. In the russian city of 0renburg home to half a Million People the authorities said water levels had reached dangerous levels. Thousands of people have left the city. 0renburg is downstream from the city of 0rsk, which was inundated when a dam burst last week. Live now to moscow and our Russia Editor steve rosenberg. Steve, editor steve rosenberg. Give me a sense of the sc of steve, give me a sense of the scale of this . ,. , , of this . The first thing to say is that spring of this . The first thing to say is that Spring Flooding of this . The first thing to say is that Spring Flooding is of this . The first thing to say is that Spring Flo
And world athletics announces it will become the First International federation, to award prize money at the olympic games. Hello, im matthew amroliwala, welcome to verified live. We start with the breaking news from gaza about three sons of the hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and three of his grandchildren have been killed in an israeli air strike in gaza. That information is coming from the Hamas Affiliated news agency. We had brought you the breaking line about the three sons a little earlier but the three sons a little earlier but the same News Agency Tweeting in the last little while about the death of three grandchildren too, so six people in total. The hamas leader not based in gaza, he is based in Qatar Markussen 2023. That information coming in to us all the while. Lets go live tojerusalem and speak to our middle east editor sebastian usher. These are early reports, but what are you hearing where you are . We reports, but what are you hearing where you are . Where you are . We hav
The wikileaks founder has been held in Belmarsh Prison In London for five years. Our washington correspondent Gary Odonoghue had this update following joe biden s comment. Well, this was pretty much an off the cuff comment that he made as he was sort of walking through the colonnade at the white house and a reporter shouted to him, you know, will you consider australias request . Because of course australia, Julian Assange is australian and the Australian Parliament has passed a motion asking him to be returned to australia, saying would you consider ending the prosecution . He didnt seem to hear the question at first, but it was repeated and he said were considering it now. That would be a huge change, given that the us has been pursuing the extradition ofJulian Assange from the uk for years and the thing is still winding its way through the courts. The Home Secretary signed the extradition back in 2022, but theres been Court Challenges to that and the high court is still waiting for