0 3:00 answering questions from experts across the bay area. world news tonight is next. i will see you for abc 7 news at 4:00. tonight, breaking news involving president biden reports that classified documents were discovered from president biden's time as vice president. where they were found the white house just releasing a statement. also tonight, the parade of dangerous storms slamming the u.s., 12 dead already here in california. ten states under alerts for heavy rain, snow, flooding and mudslides, winds gusting more than 80 miles per hour, evacuation orders outside los angeles tonight, another storm hitting this ebbing and another one midweek. rob marciano here to time this out. the stunning move today for buffalo bills star damar hamlin just one week ago collapsing on that field. tonight he's now left a cincinnati hospital flown to a buffalo hospital and the scene inside his hospital room as the bills won. at least 1500 under arrest tonight. the attack in brazil on the government echoing the scenes from the u.s. capitol after their ex-president claimed a rigged election, ex-president bolsonaro here in the u.s., in florida, will be he extradited to brazil? marcus moore is there. president biden in mexico tonight after his visit to the u.s.-mexico border amid this immigration and humanitarian crisis at the border. tonight president biden's new crackdown. how the numbers have already come down in recent weeks. what's driving this. mary bruce with the president. on the hill tonight. house speaker kevin mccarthy's first big test after 15 rounds of votes just to become speaker and a near fight in the house chamber, what did he agree to finally get the votes? tonight the discovery the basement, the husband now facing charges for allegedly misleading authorities searching for his missing wife, what police say was found inside the home and what they now say he bought at home depot new reporting tonight the 6-year-old with the gun who police say shot his teacher, now say it was intentional. it was his mother's gun he brought to school. tonight in new york city thousands of nurses are on strike. why they walked off the job. and the david versus goliath showdown the college football championship game here in los angeles, you'll hear from both quarterbacks and both coaches right here tonight. will it be undefeated georgia or the underdogs tcu? the other big game tonight mega millions more than a billion now, wouldn't that be nice? good evening tonight from los angeles. we have several developing stories as we come on the air. the parade of dangerous storms slamming the u.s., 12 dead already here in california. from all of these storms. we're going to begin tonight with the breaking news at this hour, reports that classified documents from president biden's time as vice president have now been found at the justice department is now reviewing this, so where they were found, when they were turned over and tonight the white house just out with a statement tonight. let's get right to terry moran live in washington with late reporting. >> reporter: david, what we know that tonight the justice department has launched this preliminary investigation into classified documents recovered from an office that joe biden occupied and used a the penn biden center here in washington d.c., only a handful of these classified documents, this according to sources who are talking to abc news about this investigation, these documents i should say in the statement, the white house is acknowledging that, quote, a small number of markings were discovered when the president's personal attorneys were packing files housed in a locked closet at that office space last november, attorney general merrick garland has appointed the u.s. attorney general for the northern district of illinois to conduct a review of this matter. he was appointed by president trump, and this all comes as the doj's investigation into former president trump's possession of classified documents at mar-a-lago, that search warrant that was executed, this continues, there's one difference here, the white house says that president biden and his lawyers cooperated from the beginning that those classified documents found were turned over the next morning after they were found in the locked closet and of course trump and his team have been battling with the national archives and the department of justice over those documents, but this is a new investigation once again being conducted by the department of justice into president biden's apparent possession of classified documents at his office at a think tank here in washington, d.c. >> much more to come on this. terry moran on the breaking news, thank you meanwhile the other major story here in the west, a relentless string of dangerous storms a a parade of cyclones already taking 12 lives here this the state of california. tonight, ten more inches of rain possible. the ground already saturated here and a real fear of mudslides and dangerous flooding and in some places winds gusting to 80 miles per hour. in sacramento county, a tree on a home. homes in gilroy under water. and first responders using boats to make rescues in santa cruz county. this comes tonight on the fifth anniversary of mudslide that killed 23 people there. a new system hitting tonight, another one midweek. rob marciano here with us in l.a. but first matt rivers. >> reporter: tonight, that nonstop barrage of storms in the west forcing families from their homes. >> there are many evacuation orders across our areaigw. th tre ian immedia th. >> trli fcus debris clogging the san lorenzo river, piling up here against a highway 1 bridge, this landslide shutting down multiple lanes of highway 17. high winds helping take down huge trees from sacramento to san mateo county. saturated ground means it doesn't take a lot of wind to knock over big trees like what happened here on this home. cleanup crews like that one will be busy for a while. california's governor announcing sunday that more people have died in two weeks of storms than during fire season. >> in the last 10 days, 12 people have lost their lives to these floods. >> reporter: in santa barbara county the entire community of montecito evacuated. in the sierra, ten feet of snow in spots, and it's still coming down. the national weather service warning of the danger of structural collapse under all that weight. expect overnight andn ts could get worse before it gets better. david. >> no question about that. matt rivers live here in california, our thanks to you. let's get right to senior meteorologist rob marciano tracking it all. he's in santa barbara county. >> reporter: look at the backup here on the 101 just outside of montecito which is under an evacuation order, on the five-year anniversary of one of their most horrific mudslides. wind alerts further inland. another one in california on wednesday, after that a little bit of break. 70 inches of crippling snow in the mountains. residents are told now to shelter in place and hope for the best as this rain continues to come down. david. >> rob marciano, thank you. to the other news this monday night, a dramatic move tonight for buffalo bills damar hamlin, he left a cincinnati hospital taken to an hospital in buffalo one week to the day after collapsing on the field suffering cardiac arrest. hamlin tweeting this photo from his hospital bed. doctors say they're ecstatic about his recovery so far. he was so excited he pulled all of the medical cords as he cheered setting off the medical alarms. here's alex perez. >> reporter: tonight, the buffalo bills' damar hamlin leaving the hospital in cincinnati, flown to a hospital in buffalo, the next step of his extraordinary recovery. after being sedated and intubated, hamlin, doctors say, took a turn for the better. >> he has been up with physical therapy and occupational therapy, walking the unit, tolerating a regular diet, meeting with family. >> reporter: it was one week ago today, during monday night football, the bills safety suffering cardiac arrest, collapsing on the field. medics treating him less than one minute after his heart stopped as the shocked crowd watched in silence. his transfer to buffalo coming one day after the bills' thrilling victory, scoring an unbelievable touchdown on the opening kickoff. >> this is storybook. an opening kickoff return for damar hamlin, and this place is absolutely going wild. >> reporter: hamlin live tweeting from his hospital bed, and doctors say even jumping out of his seat during that eye-opening play, triggering alarms on his medical devices. the bills honoring the first responders who saved hamlin's life. >> thank you. we're proud to have you. >> reporter: after arriving at his new hospital in buffalo today, hamlin tweeting, "watching the world come together around me on suday was truly an amazing feeling. the same love you all have shown me is the same love that i plan to put back into the world n more." david, hamlin is now listed in stable condition, doctors are still doing tests to figure out what caused that cardiac arrest. >> remarkable progress so far. we love seeing it. alex, thank you. we'll turn now to president biden's high-stakes summit in mexico, the president meeting with president lopez in mexico amid this continuingitiari to border. bndelso, own, what's in it and will it work? the numbers are coming down in recent weeks. mary bruce traveling with the president tonight. >> reporter: president biden tonight meeting with the mexican president amid the immigration and humanitarian crisis on the border. it comes 24 hours after biden, for the first time as president, traveled to the border to see for himself. >> they need a lot of resources, and we're going to get 'em for them. >> reporter: just last month, about 2,500 people a day were apprehended in el paso. the administration surged money and manpower, and now the numbers have dropped to about 700. biden's new plan -- expel migrants from nicaragua, venezuela, haiti, and cuba who cross the border illegally. the u.s. will accept 30,000 migrants a month from those 4 countries who meet strict criteria, including having a sponsor in the u.s. texas's republican governor says it's too little too late. >> the president who caused the chaos at the border needed to be here. it just so happens he's two years and about $20 billion too late. >> reporter: now we took that criticism to white house and they insist this has always been a priority for the president but the republicans in congress who are failing to act. david. >> mary bruce traveling with the president in mexico tonight, mary, thank you. we turn now to stunning images from brazil, government buildings under attack, echoing scenes from the u.s. capitol two years ago, rioting sparked by their ex-president's false claims that the election theres here u.s., in the florida, will he be extradited to brazil? marcus moore. >> reporter: tonight, an emergency declared and at least 1,500 people arrested after a violent attack in the heart of brazil's democracy. thousands of supporters of far-right former president jair bolsonaro storming all branches of government, including congress, the supreme court, and the presidential offices. attacking police, even harming this police officer and his horse. a gun company sharing this video online. destroying property. police firing tear gas, pushing back the protesters. the horrific scenes echoing the january 6th insurrection on the u.s. capitol, nearly two years to the day. we saw eerily similar moments these broken windows, hundreds of people storming this government compound but officials have been able to regain control of all of the buildings here. the rioters repeating a familiar lie promoted by bolsonaro himself, falsely claiming the october election he lost to lula da silva was stolen. bolsonaro, the so-called trump of the tropics, refusing to attend president lula's inauguration just days ago. bolsonaro even leaving the country, settling into the orlando, florida, area. tonight, abc news learning bolsonaro has been admitted to a florida hospital for abdominal pain. the white house today saying it would consider a brazilian request to send bolsonaro back to brazil if one is made. >> we have not as of now received any official requests from the brazilian government related to bolsonaro. >> reporter: hours after the protests erupted, bolsonaro criticized the rioters saying destruction and invasion of public buildings are not a part of democracy. president biden speaking with president lula by phone for support. tonight the white house has said it would be willing to send bolsonaro back here in brazil if there was an official request and tonight he remains in florida and meanwhile president lula is expected to be in washington in february. >> marcus moore in brazil for us thank you. capitol hill, kevin mccarthy faces his first real test torrent as speaker now after his election on the 15th ballot over four days, members nearly coming to blows near midnight on friday night. can he get new house rules approved now after making so many concessions to the far right. rachel scott.uphe aisle to confront congressman matt gaetz after losing 14 ballots to be speaker. alabama congressman mike rogers so furious he lunged at gaetz and had to be physically restrained. >> duly elected speaker of the house of the representatives. >> reporter: but on the 15th vote mccarthy pulling it out. and tonight, the new speaker of the house faces his first big test. >> mr. mccarthy, how are things going in there? >> reporter: the house voting tonight on new rules, including a host of concessions mccarthy made to win the support of rebel right-wing conservatives. one provision would allow a single republican lawmaker to force a vote on removing the speaker. moderate republicans concerned about the chaos on the floor and about the new rules. were you concerned about how some of these deals were cut? >> any horse training or backroom deals -- that -- that doesn't -- that's not okay. it shouldn't be tolerated. >> reporter: mccarthy can only afford to lose four republican votes tonight. and he will have to prove he can control his unruly caucus. at least one republican plans to vote against the rules package tonight. mccarthy can only afford to lose three more, david. >> rachel scott, thank you. from fulton county, georgia, tonight, a special grand jury investigating former president trump and his allies for alleged interference in the 20 election has finished its work tonight. the question is will indictments follow? sparked by the call to the georgia secretary of state to find the case making national headlines the husband of a missing massachusetts woman is now facing charges after her y, prosecutors accusing him of intentionally misleading investigation here's abc trevor ault. >> reporter: tonight, massachusetts prosecutors unveiling shocking details about what they say they found -- a bloody knife at the home of the husband charged with misleading the investigation into his wife's disappearance. >> crime scene services recovered and found blood in the basement are, in a section of the basement, there was also a knife that was found. on the knife there was also blood, and part of the knife was damaged. >> reporter: 47-year-old brian walshe today pleading not guilty. his wife ana, a mother of three, was last seen in the early hours of new year's day. brian was previously convicted of wire fraud and while on probation is required to report his whereabouts. investigators claim he said that on january 2nd he only left the house to take his son for ice cream. but surveillance footage shows he also went to home depot. >> sometime after 4:00, he's on surveillance at that time purchasing about $450 worth of cleaning supplies. >> reporter: prosecutors say that purchase included mops, tarps, and tape. and david, 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