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hello, everyone, and happy new year. i'm bianna golodryga. welcome to cnn "newsroom." we're following several different developments into a machete attack in times square on new year's eve. moments ago the 19-year-old suspect was arrested for attempted murder and assault of police officers. cnn has also learned that the suspect was added to a terrorist watch list just a few weeks before the attack. sources tell cnn that fbi agents interviewed the suspect in mid-december after family members grew concerned about his plans to travel to afghanistan to join the taliban. let's bring in gl...

. right now, more than 15 million people from the west coast of illinois are under winter weather alert as a powerful storm pushes east. heavy rain drenched parts of northern california over the weekend bringing widespread flooding and power outages. at least two people have died. the storm, toed major highways to shut down, stranding drivers. emergency crews rescued several people who became trapped by rising waters. cnn's camilla bernal is live in california. parts of septembero county remain under evacuation orders. how bad is it right now? >> hey, bianna, a lot of standing water still, a...

Concerning. we've seen some of this before, but what is perhaps more concerning right now is just how it has happened quickly. the afghan forces, they have suffered a lot of punishment over the last few years, and our departure comes as a bit of a shock. >> thanks for that. and the storm system named claudette is in the applitlanti associate. and before it moves ashore, it lifted a trail of destruction across the u.s. southeast. in southern alabama, at least 20 people were injured on saturday when then tropical storm claudette moved through and spawned a tornado. and in louisiana, fierce, fi...

Pam? >> max foster, thanks so much. the threat for severe weather remains in part to the southeast tonight as tropical depression claudette makes its way through the carolinas, bringing it strong wind and heavy rainfall. and in alabama, fierce wind and heavy rain drenched parts of the state yesterday. homes were even destroyed after a tornado touched down in escambia county n georgia this morning, firefighters rescued a woman who was trapped after that huge oak tree fell on her car. we talked about this earlier. it is just incredible that this woman came out, she lived to tell her story. lis...

>> barry white maybe. >> as long as it doesn't crack. >> sounding pretty sexy for this time of day, bill. >> yes. headed for the late night. good morning, everyone. interesting forecast today. we have snow out there. heavy rain. it's a busy morning weatherwise. only areas that are going to deal with any significant amounts of snow is northern new england up in the mountains. albany, troy right now. we have snow mixing in with sleet. temperatures are starting to rise. anywhere from the capital district northern mass, southern new hampshire, vermont, that's where the snow is currently. boston. s...