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0 >> updates throughout the afternoon into this evening into night. information is power captioning sponsored by cbs >> o'donnell: tonight we're following several breaking news stories including the state of emergency just declared this california as a dangerous storm forces mass evacuations. plus we've got the latest on the drcaolt ri hn he gop fails to pick a speaker. widespread flooding forces residents to leave homes. drivers stranded with more rain on the way. republican chaos. vote after vote after vote. and kevin mccarthy defeated again. so what happens now? plus president biden weighs ...

The president will be able to meet with first responders, local community leaders, as well as people affected by hurricane fiona. he is also expected to take part in helping to put together supplies of water and food to be distributed to the community there. a big part of the focus of this trip is of course to try to show solidarity with the community, to thank the federal and local workers who have been responding to the damage there. but the president is also going to use his time there to announce a $60 million that will be coming from the bipartisan infrastructure law to really help puerto...

President much on this idea of resiliency, trying to strengthen the ability of puerto rico to deal, to have its flood walls as well as its levee system to be really strong as he tries to find additional ways to help. >> we have been showing, josh, while you've been speaking the video from fort myers, florida, after hurricane ian of course, the rescue and recovery efforts there. do we know anything more as president biden gets ready to speak in puerto rico about when he may visit florida or not yet? >> the president plans to go to florida on wednesday, where he will have a chance not only to me...

Can. you don't want to go outside on these roads. it's going to be a really dangerous night. still ahead by tomorrow afternoon things start to improve. >> jesse: stay inside. tell us about the window. i remember katrina just obliterated roof tops. shattered trees. we looked at the devastation the next day and it was everything had exploded. are we going to tune in tomorrow morning and see that kind of impact? >> rick: yeah. we are going to see -- i mean, katrina all of new orleans flooded because of the failure in the levee system, not really because of the storm. kind of a different thing. we...

Baltimore, they're probably going to see something like that that's happening. they're already experiencing who boil advisory and another of other catastrophes. don't forget new orleans. i lived there for 14 years. i concerted a home. really, they built up the levee system and such a way that it would've been good for 2004, but because of climate change, we're seeing that it's inadequate. you can go to new orleans and have any given weekend. you'll see flooding whenever it rains. and then in the midwest, you've had significantly aging infrastructure and white flight, those are vulnerable place...