2020 election. we re still not done. an nbc news analysis finds jack smith s grand jury has interviewed dozens of witnesses from little known campaign aides to the former vice president of the united states. and smith s questions are, quote, focused particularly on the fake elector scheme. smith is also said to be focused on that unhinged december 18th oval office meeting about seizing voting machines. the meeting was full of insults and conspiracy theory, concerning powell, michael flynn. here s how the people in the room described that december 18th meeting. someone screamed at me that i was a quitter, kept on standing up and turning and around screaming at me. they were fighting. the first thing i walked in and i looked at them and said who are you? people fighting with each other and hurling insults at each other. what they were proposing i thought was nuts. how nuts was it? this was the draft executive or they were pushing trump to sign: it was not written
portions of the state. just minutes ago we were seeing this video of a levy that failed overnight in monterey county. that has forced evacuations, washed out roads and bridges. this week s atmospheric river, the tenth to hit the state dropped more than a foot of rain in some areas. at least two people have died in the most recent storm and more rain is on the way for some hard-hit areas. several feet of snow is blanketing the sierra, nevada mountains. they worry melting snow could cause more flooding. california national guard in high water vehicles are staged throughout the state. mike lareo is in vallaero. reporter: we re in the heart of the flood zone and we have all of this flooding in the downtown area because from that video you just saw, the levy is about 3 miles behind us and as soon as that levy had a breach around midnight local time, jim, all of that water had nowhere to go but here except for low lying areas. you can see there s a little bit of a dry spot in our
and jamie kilstein one of the best comedians. we saw our natio nation s most dramatic heation. will anyone be held accountable for their failure and real life costs. the border, covid, afghanistan, social media mayhem. the administration s lack of accountability is astounding. first stop, afghanistan thanks to one man s decision, joe biden. americans died and our national pride took a catastrophic hit. any time i think of my brothers and sistersn who died in afghanistan. what we made a solemn promise to stand by them. for 160,000 afghans our nation has failed to live up to this promise. i opened my eyes to marines dead or unconscious lying around. my body was catastrophically wounded. there was an inexcusable lack of accountability. brian: will anyone hold the president and the state department accountable for their decisions? when it comes to the origins of covid. former cdc director dr. robert redfield revealed the stunning truth about their agenda. the media asked dr
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, everyone. at this hour, president biden heading back to the white house to face more questions over still more classified documents found at his home. plus, it is raining again right now in california. the relentless storms are causing widespread destruction. we ll take you there. we re also going to speak to the lieutenant governor about the situation. and the search for survivors amid the rubble of a bombed out apartment complex in ukraine. now one of the deadliest strikes on civilians there since the start of the war. this is what we re watching at this hour. thank you for being here, everyone. i m kate bolduan. we re keeping an eye on the white house because president biden is returning to the oval office to get back to work and he finds himself under fire once again over handling of classified documents and the conflicting explanations that have been coming out from his team. over the weekend, the white house revealed five additional pages of classified ma