good morning, everyone. welcome to cnn this morning. i m amara walker. and i m boris sanchez. president biden signing a disaster declaration from california as storm after storm rips through the state causing flash flooding and mud slides. and it s not over yet, we re tracking another round of heavy rain that s moving in. also, the death toll continues to climb in dnipro after a ukrainian official says a missile struck an apartment building. live to ukraine this morning. we re following a developing story out of nepal where a passenger jet has crashed shortly after takeoff. we ll break down what we know about the accident and the ongoing response. and days from hitting the debt ceiling, president biden and the new republican-led house could soon be sparring as the country inches closer to defaulting on its debt. how kevin mccarthy s concessions to become speaker could complicate talks. we are so grateful to have you this sunday, january 15th. it is a new week. great
for humanitarian agencies, after five major non governmental organisations suspend their work in afghanistan. we ll have a look at the front page of the papers in a moment but first, some other stories to bring you. police say a tenth person has died as a result of a huge explosion at a block of flats injersey early this month. kathleen mcguinness, who was 73, lived next to the building in st helier which was destroyed in the blast. about 3 billion litres of water are lost every day through leaks in england and wales, according to the latest figures from the industry regulator. now to help tackle the problem, scientists have developed miniature robots that crawl through pipes to patrol our water supply network. our science correspondent, victoria gill, reports. the water company here in essex has detected a leak, but to find its location and fix it, they will need to dig through a complex maze of pipes. basically, we have a nine inch cast iron water main that runs down the
straight after hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. today, i vejourneyed to the south coast of england to meet one of the great women pioneers of photo journalism, marilyn stafford. she was born in the united states, but she moved to paris where she became the protege of the brilliant cartier bresson. and like him, she loved to capture intimate portraits of ordinary people. she s worked in war zones and on fashion catwalks. and now, at 93, her work is being admired by a new generation. so, what gives her pictures their power? marilyn stafford, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. let s start way back. you trained as an actress, you spent a while as a nightclub singer, and yet you really found your creative voice in photography. what was it about photography that really reached into your soul? i have been called an accidental photographer, because i really did not set out to do the photography at all. the photography was something that was just there. when i was a chi
holiday. freeze warnings still in effect in several states at this hour. blizzard conditions, at least 26 people have died in the actic blast, across eight state. in a hard-hit erie county, new york, roads remain impassable. still, a very dangerous situation. driving bans are still in place. this was the first time in buffalo fire history that they were unable to respond to calls. we want to remind everybody, there was a period hours straight in which we could not send out emergency service crews, because it was too dangerous. we will talk to that official in just a few minutes. plus, bitter-cold icing over the christmas celebrations in the midwest, east coast and southeast, even florida is feeling the chill, much of the state experiencing its coldest christmas since 1983. let s start in buffalo, new york. polo sandoval is braving is the cold temperatures there. merry christmas. reporter: merry christmas. it is in a recovery process right now, the sun finally came o
even when we get to the stub stations substations, we find there is structural damage and it is frozen. those are the biggest challenges. what is happening on treacherous roads, trying to clear them, getting people that are stranded in vehicles, we recovered many of them. also what is happening inside the homes, we have vulnerable senior citizens we re trying to get to. we restored power to 300,000 people. i do want to point to the successes. ho however, there are still 23,000 people in buffalo. we ve been trying to plow the way to the stations, help them manage the restoration of power. so we don t have an estimate. we did have power back on in a large part of the city. it went out again because the infrastructure was not able to withstand the storms around it. so that has been the challenge. so i am hoping in the next day, but we can make no guarantees because just when you think the day is getting brighter, mother nature comes back and hits us once again. we have enough