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you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in new york. it s here 6:00 here in the big apple, 3:00 p.m. in california. what s likely to be a long, sleepless night and soggy weekend lying ahead for much of monterey county. the county is the epicenter of catastrophic flooding in that state. these are new images of the levee that failed around midnight local time. mandatory evacuations are now under way in parts of the that county. a string of deadly storms has unleashed massive flooding across the central and northern portions of the state. at least two people have died in this most recent storm. this week s atmospheric river is the tenth to hit the state this winter. it s dropped more than a foot of rain in some areas and several feet of snow in others. let s begin in monterey county, the site of that levee breach. cnn s mike valerio is there. mike, the state of that breach, could this continue to dump more flooding into that area? what can you tell us? reporte ....
reporter: the new app launched by the biden administration lets asylum psychers set up appointments so they can enter the u.s. legally under an exception to title 42, the pandemic rule used to return migrants to mexico. but getting an appointment is a big challenge. you need a cell phone, the first problem. reporter: the head of tijuana s migrant services says about 5,600 migrants live in shelters, and the one port of entry nearby only takes 200 appointments a day. it s not enough. reporter: lucero says not one person has gotten an appointment in the largest shelter in town where jennifer wakes up at 3:00 or 4:00 a.m. to try the app. she took screen grabs. one is a wheel of death. the app asks for a selfie but doesn t capture her face. this is another one. it says that you must be close to the border. you re in tijuana, this is a border town. then-candidate joe biden said this during the final presidential debate in 2020 this is the first president ....
By emphasizing this wall. even just asking donald trump how he feels about the imposing on mexico this requirement to house asylum psychers i think would do more than inviting him to talk about why a wall is necessary. that s really interesting. dara, carl, karen, through all for being here. a quick break and then a question, will vice president coulter reopen the government, who is about secretary tucker carlsson or director laura ingraham? i m only half-kidding. we will be right back with cnn presidential historian douglas brinkley. (music throughout) ....