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it's the top of the hour on "cnn newsroom." i'm alisyn camerota. >> i'm victor blackwell. it's great to be with you. we are following a major development in a criminal case against donald trump and his allies. the special grand jury in georgia investigating possible illegal interference in the 2020 election is now done. this is the panel set up by fulton county's district attorney after trump lost the election and made this call to georgia's secretary of state. >> all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes which is one more than we have. >> well, since its inception nearly a year ago, the special grand jury has interviewed some of trump's closest allies. a new court filing reveals the panel is now dissolved and that its investigation is complete. cnn's correspondent nick valencia joins us now. this kind of grand jury we now

understand, does not issue indictments. so now what? >> reporter: their work of may of 2022, this grand jury did not have the power or authority to issue indictments. instead, their goal they set out was to issue a final report and make recommendations based on their findings and now it's in the hands of the district attorney here in fulton county, bonnie willis as to whether or not she wants to take these findings to a normal grand jury and pursue criminal indictments based on her investigation into potential election interference here, and that process still needs to play out. we don't know what she'll do. that timeline is not certain yet, but what we do know is that even though this special purpose grand jury did not have the power to indict, they did have the power to subpoena, and they did just that, and that resulted in a number of high-profile individuals in trump's orbit coming here to fulton county to testify in front of the jurors which included the former attorney for the former president, rudy giuliani, south carolina senator lindsey graham,

the governor here in georgia, brian kemp just to name a few, and what started as an investigation into that phone call you just played, an infamous phone call after the 2020 election between the former president and secretary of state brad raffensperger which trump pressured raffensperger to find votes. the investigation started on that, but it brought in doubt in time to bring a fake electoral scheme, and certify him as the rightful winner of the state of georgia. they were also interested in rudy giuliani's false statements and conspiracy spreading during his conversations with georgia lawmakers. in fact, rudy giuliani was named a target by bonnie willis. they are looking into whether or not people accessed voting machines in one county. sorry to interrupt you. happening right now, doctors in cincinnati, ohio providing an update on buffalo bills player damar hamlin. >> certainly after flying on a plane, he is going to be observed and monitored to ensure that there's no impact on the

flight of his condition or on his lungs. dr. prince and i have spoken to his care team in buffalo, and i can confirm he's doing well, and this is the beginning of the next stage of his recovery. we are representing many of the individuals of the teams who cared for damar. this includes our ems, emergency medicine, trauma surgery, cardiology, critical care, neurocritical care, and therapists. you name it. i could keep going. there are many, many people who had a hand in damar's successful recovery to this point, and as a team, our collective focus from day one has been keeping damar at the center to ensure a good outcome for him. since our last update to you, damar hamlin has met a number of key milestones on his journey to

recovery. i believe when dr. prince and i last met, damar was still intubated and on a ventilator. he has been off that, tolerating a regular diet, meeting with his family and many members of the care team that wanted to see how he was doing, all to get him to this point so he could be safely returned to buffalo. so at this point, i think that we're comfortable opening up to questions. anything that anybody may have at this point, but thank you all for your well wishes not only for damar, but also for our team here at uc. it truly has been felt. >> hi. katherine fitzgerald from the buffalo news. thank you guys so much for the up update. i wasn't expecting so much good news so soon. my questions are a little different now, but i was wondering if you could talk a little bit about the next steps for damar hamlin at this point. what he still needs to do, and

what that outpatient care will look like. thank you. >> certainly. great question, and neither are we to be candid. we continue to be ecstatic about his recovery, and as bill mentioned when we started all this, what he told his parents is the only thing that mattered was the patient in the bed and getting him back to his and his family into his community. we anticipate that he'll undergo an ongoing series of tests and evaluations to determine what caused the incident on monday night and to treat any pathology that may be found. >> one follow-up. with that ongoing testing, what does that timeline look like, and is there anything you're able to rule out at this point to the cause or is it still too early on that? >> i think it's still fairly premature to comment on that, and the further timeline will be determined by him most importantly, but also by the experts in the hospital where he is now.

>> thank you. >> hey, guys. >> hi. >> hey. >> my name is liz. i'm can krctv here in cincinnati. will he go to another he has been facility? is there a stepdown he will be followed in now? also, i wondered, did you ever have to cool down his body when you brought him in? is that one of the things you credit to him doing so well right now? >> so i can't speak exactly to where he is right now. he has been transferred to another hospital. in terms of those next steps, again, we're going to defer to the very capable and excellent hands that he's in. as for the question you referred what we call as targeted temperature management, and the answer is yes. damar was placed on our targeted

temperature management protocol, and he was managed in that criminal care team. for most of the duration really, up until the point that he got extubated was the point we had him under fairly aggressive temperature management. >> and then, last thing, do you see him back on the field this lifetime? do you see limitations to his future? >> so i think we're in the same place that we were in the last discussion, is that it is entirely too premature to discuss not only his football. it's that we're really focused on his day-to-day recovery. he still has a little bit of a ways to go in terms of his ongoing recovery. we're thrilled to where he is today. he's up. he's walking around. he's got an amazing, genuine sense of humor, and his family is amazing, and we're happy he's with them, but in terms of any kind of conjecture to his future, it's still -- that's

still significantly in the future, and it's going to be up to damar and a great team of physicians to help him. >> what do you mean when you say still has a ways to go? >> just ongoing recovery, and i mean, he just got extubated three days ago. he's got some recovery to do. >> all right. great. thanks, guys. >> thanks, liz. >> hi, everyone. cole lee harvey from espn. echoing so many sentiments. definitely not the news we thought we would get. your staff should feel so good about your work. you said he was walking around the unit. when exactly did he begin walking? >> yeah. >> yeah. >> he walked his first lap on friday. >> on friday, wow. >> breathiing tube came out eary friday morning, and he's continued to make good progress since, but worked with physical therapy and had assisted walks with the nursing staff on

friday, continuing to regain strength. he's certainly on what we consider a very normal to even accelerated trajectory from the life-threatening event that he has -- that he underwent, but he's making great progress. >> you just said accelerated to normal, with you what does that look like in terms of that trajectory? >> that's a great question. anything to the one side of normal. normal as we would expect, you know, normal recovery is going to be measured in weeks to months, and, you know, he's been a little bit ahead of that at each stage. >> actually, one more from me. what does that recovery -- >> just the best story of the day now sg. >> and all the reporters were surprised. nobody expected him to be out of the hospital. >> no only is he doing better. he's well enough to have been released from the hospital and now is back in buffalo at hospital now. >> transferred. >> transferred to another hospital, but healthy enough to

fly, and they will determine the impact of that flight. let's bring in cnn's sports anchor coy wire. he's in buffalo, and cnn medical analyst dr. wynn. let m -- nguyen. based on what we just heard, bs intubated, and not being able to speak, is this as remarkable of a recovery as it sounds for this timeline? >> yes, it is remarkable. i'm so happy that this is the case for damar hamlin. i'm so thrilled for his family and for him, but it is something that is rather exceptional and there are at least three factors that were working for him. one is that he got exceptional medical care. two is that he was previouslyan extremely healthy individual, and third, he had rapid resusc resuscitation. within seconds, he had an entire medical team come to his rescue.

he had a cardiac arrest. we know his heart stopped and he basically died on the field, but he was able to be brought back to life because he had a defibrillator that was used right there, because cpr was started immediately, and that allowed blood to keep going to his vital organs. that's mainly the reason why he has been able to make a rapid recovery, and i think the takeaway here needs to be that we all need that kind of quick resuscitation. the nfl for their games have more than two dozen medical staff on hand, including several attending physicians. that's not the case for most sports games or most places around us, and so i hope this is a call for all of us to get trained on cpr, and also to have de defibrillators readily available because we need this kind of remarkable outcome. >> coy, forgive me, but i felt like you were being a little coy when we last spoke to you just a few minutes ago, and you alluded

to something about maybe he'll be back in buffalo soon. do you know anything where which hospital he's in or what's happening with him now? >> i see what you did there, alisyn. very well done. look. this was a sensitive situation. you know, i was told yesterday that there was a chance that he would be back in buffalo and in the facilities today, but as the doctor just mentioned, this was such a sensitive situation that his health could have taken a turn for the worse at any moment based on what he has gone through, but it is such encouraging news to hear now that he is back in buffalo, and i want to give some further context on just how far he has come. it was seven days ago that his doc mentioned he died on the field essentially, cardiac arrest, heart stopped, and the medical workers and the training staff who jumped into action so quickly giving that life-saving cpr, the assistant trainer

giving cpr while an assistant equipment manager so deftly and quickly and with poise and precision, unscrewing his face mask and removing it so they could give him oxygen without moving his head by the way because they didn't know if it was a spinal cord injury at the time, and then also another trainer, and excuse me for giving perhaps too many details, i warn you it could be disturbing. there was blood in his mouth, and another trainer was having to scoop blood out of his mouth so he could have clear airways and he wouldn't become asphyxiated. it gives further context of the scenes we saw with the players and the tears coming down their eyes as their teammate was getting cpr, hands over their faces and they couldn't believe what they were seeing. they were haunting scenes, and to now know that he is back in buffalo. buffalo strong. what a story this is turning out to be. yeah. it's just one of those stories

that just makes you really grateful for the moments we're given as dion dawkins told me on that field after the game. it makes him want to be a better father, a better teammate, a better friend, a better human, and we should all go home tonight and hug those we love a little extra tight. >> dr. nguyen, what's next in the recovery? >> i think it's going to be hard. i mean, he did go through this life-threatening -- not just life-threatening, but extremely serious event where he had at least one episode of cardiac arrest. i think part of it is going to be finding out, was there something underlying? the doctors didn't say they have found anything, which makes me think they haven't found it. was there something underlying that may have prompted this, or was it just this accident with this blunt trauma to the chest that may have caused this cardiac arrest?

he's also still going to have to recover, and that might be a slow process considering that he had people press on his chest. he was intub aated and had a breathing tube in. he had fluid around his lungs and for a week he hasn't really been doing anything other than we heard he has been walking around maybe for a couple of days, and so there will be a lot of physical therapy, occupational therapy, and the recovery process, it really depends on each person, but given that he was previously healthy to begin with, i would imagine that as the doctors were predicting, in cincinnati that he probably will have a much accelerated recovery compared to oh people who may be older or don't have the kind of physical conditioning he was in prior to this cardiac arrest. >> dr. lena nguyen, and coy wire, thank you very much for helping us process and celebrate this breaking news. we really appreciate all of your context you've given us.

now to washington, and now that the fight for speakership is behind him, kevin mccarthy has a new battle to weigh. >> lawmakers are convening to vote on a rules package and this was central during mccarthy's negotiations with republican hardliners for him to win the gavel, and some gop moderates are concerned about the concessions he made. melanie zanona is on capitol hill for us. what now, melanie? >> reporter: this is going to be kevin mccarthy's first real test as speaker. this rules package contains some of the concessions he neeshltth nego -- noesegotiated with his crit. it doesn't contain all of them. what you are going to have is republicans trying to digest what's in that rules package and figure out what else there might be, and there are concerns from some members. now gop leaders are still confident that they're going to have the votes to pass this package later tonight, but they are racing behind the scenes to address some of these concerns from members like nancy mace who

said she's on the fence or tony gonzalez who said he's a hard no on that package, and part of the defense from gop leaders and part of their pitch is either trying to downplay these concessions or trying to defend them. just take a listen to what house majority leader steve scalise told our manu raju earlier today. >> that's the way congress worked for over 200 years. nancy pelosi's the one who changed it. we're changing it back to where it used to be. we're making members of congress show up to work again. you have had proxy voting including just a few weeks ago where you had dozens, if not, over a hundred members of congress voting from a remote location on a $1.7 trillion spending bill that was written in dark of night and dropped on members before they could read it. >> reporter: now gop leaders can only afford to lose four votes on the house package. that will be the case with every bill going forward. gop leaders are leaving little to chance. victor and alisyn? >> melanie zanona for us, thank

you very much. dust y johnson is a republican. he's with us now. congressman, contigood to see y. melanie just mentioned gonzalez out of texas, and we'll play why he opposes this rule package. >> i'm against the rules for a couple of different reasons. one is the defense -- the cut and defense. i think that's a terrible idea, but the other is to vacate the chair. i don't want to see us every two months being in lockdown. >> all right. so let's start with the ability for one member to call for a vote to vacate the chair which means potentially going through again what happened last woeek. how does mccarthy rule, or govern with that hanging over his head? >> it is going to be difficult to govern this house with such a narrow majority, but this motion to vacate whether it was at five or at one doesn't really matter. listen. if you have got one person in

this house really fired up about something, i guarantee you have five people fired up about something. with mccarthy, and all the rest of us are going to have to do is make sure we're working together, we're communicating nonstop and we don't have things that come to the floor that can't get supported by a broad cross section of the republican conference. ultimately that will be a good thing. >> but potentially you've got members of the congress who are on opposite sides of the other element that concerned congressman gonzalez. this requirement, the deal that was made to cut discretionary spending to 2022 levels which could mean tens of billions of dollars cut from the defense budget. where are you on that? do you support a potential huge cut or significant, i should say, for defense spending? >> well, tony gonzalez is a good member, but let's keep in mind this rules package does not -- it does not say -- it does not say that we have to make cuts to defense spending. i understand his concerns because it was kind of part of the conversation last week, but

a vote on the yes -- a vote yes on this rules package does not cut a single dollar from our nation's defense, but i would also say this. >> that would be one -- >> we're trillions of dollars in debt, and if we're not willing to look at every major expense of this country to see how we can do better, shame on us. >> when you say it was kind of part of the conversation, this is one those handshake deals that melanie mentioned. apparently, and this is what i learned from the conversation that jake tapper had over the weekend with congressman chip roy, there was this agreement to cut discretionary spending back to 2022 levels. he's expected to keep that agreement. i ask you again, is that something you support although it's not in the rules package that will be voted on tonight? >> i do support tightening the belt. with $33 trillion in debt, we absolutely need to look at discretionary programs and figure out where we can cut. kevin mccarthy doesn't control

my voting card and he doesn't control tony gonzalez's, and there will be times as we move through this budgetary discussion that we'll have cuts and we have the united states senate to deal with. there will be lots more to discuss over the next two years. >> are you confident that you know the full scope of the concessions that kevin mccarthy made to get some of those holdouts' support or at least to vote present so he could get the gavel? >> i am confident in myself as well as the overwhelming majority of the republicans in this conference do have a good sense of what was agreed to, but the rules package tonight is but for one number, is the exact same rules package that every member has had seven days to review, and yes. the motion to vacate went from five members to one member, but everything else is as it was. members should have confidence voting yes tonight. >> congressman dusty johnson,

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right now, more than 7,000 nurses in new york are on strike after negotiations with two of the city's largest hospitals failed. the nurse's union said workers are facing burnout from chronic staffing shortages. >> tentive deals have been reached at other new york city hospitals. what are you hearing there from the nurses? >> reporter: well, victor and alisyn, hundreds of nurses have been outside of mt. sinai hospital since early this morning. you can see that they are still

here right now. it stretched two city blocks and they are also at four other locations around this city, and this is after mt. sinai in the bronx failed to reach new agreements with the union, and the sticking point, you said it, is staffing. that's the ratio of nurses to patients. we've heard that for some nurses, the ratio is up to 20 for one nurse, when it should be closer to four. that makes it hard to attract new nurses to the job creating a labor shortage. it's a vicious cycle. i want to bring in matt allen right now, the vice president of bargaining with the union and you work in the delivery unit. >> i work in delivery, yep. >> reporter: tell me why you're out here today, and when you can expect to go back to negotiations. >> we're fighting to get safe staffing enforcement language in our contract. we are waiting for management to reach out to us to negotiate

again, but until then, we will be striking. >> reporter: are you concerned for patients inside the hospital right now? >> you know, we have been concerned for patients for many years now due to the understaffing of the hospital and that's reqwhy we're out her right now. >> reporter: thank you so much, matt. mt. sinai is still waiting, but two hospitals offered the union the same deal of a 19.1% pay increase to the union. other hospitals accepted it. contingency plans under way here, and they are rerouting ambulances and moving nicu babies to other areas and canceling any scheduled surgeries that are not emergency-related, but the folks out here today, they are saying they would actually rather be inside, victor and alisyn, but they're outside here striking today because they believe that fighting for what they deserve will actually help them to take

better care of their parents. victor and alisyn? >> i had two babies in that very nicu. i know how vital the nurses are. vanessa, thank you vfor the reporting. >> joining us now is fran cartwright. good to have you with us. let me start by what's happening inside that hospital right now. we're learning from our teams. we're hearing from some nurses who are wondering if there will be someone to come and relieve them when their shifts leave this even. what do you know about the traveling nurses who have been brought in, how many, and if the patients will have enough nurses to support and care for them? >> thank you, yes. so i'll first just -- i want to also comment before we talk about what the staffing is here that, you know, at 1:00 a.m. this morning, our executive team walked out on negotiations,

rejecting the financial packet of the 19.1% over the life of the contract, and also rejected the governor's call to lift this strike notice so that we could work with arbitrators, and we received the strike notice ten days ago, and at that point we started to look at all of our specialties across all of aur patient populations so that we could plan appropriately. so today we have nurses. we have agency nurses as well as other clinical staff that are working to support our nurses to practice at full scope as well as nonclinical staff. so we are providing safe care to our patients. we are keeping our e.d. open for emergency and emergency cases, and those that come into our e.d. will be the vulnerable, the sickest of the sick and we have the staffing to take care of

them as well as in our o.r. to take care of emergency cases. we are diverting. we are transferring patients to other sites. we look forward to our executive team agreeing to come back to the table, and we will enthusiastically meet them there when they do. >> one of the major concerns is not just the pay which has been discussed. they're getting back to negotiations there, but the staffing shortages as we've heard from the previous nurse and from you as well. why is it so difficult right now to staff these hospitals? we know that some have left during the pandemic, but nursing schools are seeing students come in. why do you think that there is this challenge now? four of the major strikes we saw in 2021 were focused on just this. >> yes. so we're in a work force crisis

because of this pandemic in the nation, and it's across -- it's especially in our academic medical centers and it'll take some time to be able to strengthen the bench. what we are also disappointed i must say, is that we submitted to our executive team, a very robust staffing enforcement plan. we had been working on this. we've met more than 35 times, i'm sorry, since the negotiations started in early september, and we've been breaking apart pieces of this staffing enforcement, agreeing on a lot of the items in it, but needing to finish some critical elements of that. we were waiting for our executive team to send us back that document with their edits when they walked -- when they walked off last night. so why is it difficult? it's as you said.

post-pandemic, a lot of our experienced nurses who were anticipated retirement decided to retire. some even ten years early. others went into becoming travelers. others decided to go back to their community and work in community jobs and still others decided they wanted to leave nursing and leave health care. so we are working to develop innovative models of care to support our nurses, to practice at full scope that so we can fill all of our positions, and we agreed that our grids are very strong across the hospitals once we fill those positions, but we need to fill them. that's correct. >> fran cartwright, chief nursing officer there at mt. sinai hospital, thank you. these stories are chilling for anyone using an online dating app. what a texas man is accused of

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we're learning about brazil's former president, jair bolsonaro is in a hospital in relation to a stabbing injury suffered years ago. many people are under arrest, and they stormed the capital on

sunday over false claims that bolsonaro did not lose his election bid. lula da silva rushed back to the capital to see the damage and convene the cabinet. national security adviser jake sullivan says there will not be a new agreement on mexico accepting more migrants expelled from the u.s. joining us now to talk about this and more from mexico city is john kirby, coordinator for strategic communications at the national security council. admiral, great to see you. >> thanks. good to be with you, alisyn. >> let's talk about president biden's visit to the border to el paso. he went for the first time in his administration to see the crisis with his own eyes. he also -- there were no migrants basically at the migrant respite center he went to visit. there were no migrants there when he was there. the administration said that was purely coincidental. had the president planned to meet with or talk to migrants?

>> his focus on this particular trip to el paso is as you said, for one, was to spend as much time as possible with federal, state, and local authorities, the people that are actually trying to handle the migration of these people. he wanted to spend his time and attention with those who were right on the ground working with these migrants so he could get a better sense of the challenges they're facing, the resources they need, the capabilities that are required. that was the whole focus of the visit. >> congressman tony gonzalez is confused about why he was not apart of this visit. this is his district, el paso, and he says that he basically could have provided a lot of insight. here he is. >> seven months ago i hosted the president in uvalde and i asked him to visit on the border. he looked me in the eye and he said, tony, yes. seven months later when i tried

to be part of this el paso visit, which i represent el paso. i represent nearly 50% of the southern border. the white house told me i wasn't able to be part of it. i'm not this crazy extremist republican. i'm jumping up and down, pushing against my party when i think it's right, looking for ways to solve problems. >> admiral, what about that? why not just take help from wherever the president and get it on this issue? >> oh, there were members of congress as apart of the delegation with the president. he has also had a chance to be escorted by the mayor of el paso. of course, governor abbott from texas greeted him upon arrival. they were able to share a few words, and the president as i said in my first answer, alisyn, really wanted to take a kpe hencive look here at those who are involved with this doing the best they could and he wanted to make sure they could meet the challenges they're facing and the capabilities need. >> doesn't sound like governor abbott thinks that the president is taking the most effective approach. he wrote a letter to him saying

that the border -- the visit today is 10 billion too late and two years too late. >> yeah. look. the governor's made clear in his concerns and his perspectives. i'll let him and his staff speak for that. the president felt it was important to view for himself the situation down there in el paso and get a chance, again, to spend time with the customs and border patrol agents that are doing so much work down there, to talk about the resources that they need, as well as faith leaders and other nongovernmental organizations which ahead of time, he had plenty of time to said. w -- spend with them, and i think he come ws away with this visit and he comes away with a keener perspective of what the challenges are. >> let's quickly talk about that, because he's in mexico right now, meeting with the president. what specifically will president biden ask of the president of mexico in order to stop the flow of drugs and people across the border? >> there's no doubt that

migration will be a top issue of discussion here over the next 24, 36 hours. clearly that's on everybody's mind here in the hemisphere. i don't want to get ahead of the president or what he'll be able to speak to at the end of the meeting. he'll have a chance to talk publicly about that, so i'll leave that for him, but clearly they'll be talking about ways both in terms of improving capabilities at the border, and we're grateful for the additional commitment that mexico has made for -- to take another 30,000 illegal immigrants and keep them in mexico after they have attempted to cross that border, and we'll let mexico speak to what additional commitments they might or might not be willing to make. it's also a key opportunity, alisyn, to talk about getting at the root causes of migration. we are going through a historic level of migration in this hemisphere. millions of people are on the move for various reasons, whether it's corruption and crime at home, food insecurity,

political instability, and there doesn't seem to be a let up to that, and we have to see that regionally we're looking at what the root causes are. that's one thing vice president harris has been so focused on, and i think that will be a key part of the discussion as well. >> admiral, let's also talk about what's happening in brazil. as you know, there was a riot on the capital there. this was basically a copycat horror movie that we've seen here in the u.s., of course, two years ago. former president bolsonaro who lost is now in florida. we've just gotten the word that he has been admitted to the hospital for injuries that he sustained two years ago. obviously the u.s. will not force him to leave the country while he's having some sort of medical crisis, but after that, would president biden consider expelling bolsonaro? >> i really don't want to get ahead of where we are right now or speculate about future

outcomes. we're not in a position to verify his whereabouts or his physical condition right now other than to say that, you know, we certainly have every indication that he remains here in the united states and appropriately so, and in terms of -- in terms of, you know, visas, but again, i can't speak with specific regards to huis visa situation or what that might look like. >> thank you. reapp we appreciate your time. >> my pleasure. the severe weather in california just will not let up. 100-mile wind gusts and now the risks of significant flooding and mud slides. we'll talk you there, next. there are some things that go better...together. burger and fries...soup and salad. like your workplace benefits and retirement savings.

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those documents, investigators say that all of this started on december 24th, christmas eve, when the victim connected with 21-year-old mills on the dating app, bumble. he went to her apartment, picked her up then brought her back to his place where she told v investigators he immediately tried to have sexual intercourse. she denied those attempts and from there, it became violent. as you mentioned, several days of this man allegedly striking her. even using a screwdriver. v investigators say when she was found, there were bruisers around her eyes, all over her body and cuts to her neck and nose as well. it was on december 29th that according to court documents, mills left his apartment to go visit his dad and that's when the victim was able to escape. mills' attorney says people should not rush to judgment in

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right now in california, 34 million people are under watches. >> extreme weather prompted president biden to approve an emergency declaration for california. camilla joins us from felton grove, south of san francisco. we know major flooding has already been reported where you are. what are you seeing around you? >> reporter: well, everybody cleaning up. trying to put the mud out of their homes. as you can see here, everyone is going through the same situation and neighbors here telling me it's going to take days, maybe even weeks to get this all cleaned up. officials saying the river next to this neighborhood rose about a foot in just 15 minutes. this is how high the water came. i want to talk to one of the residents in this area. rachel. she's been here for 20 years and is now cleaning up after this.

tell us what it was like this morning. >> i woke up at 4:00 a.m. with the 911 and it just came so fast. it's just clean up now. >> reporter: and you told me the hard part is doing it time and time again because these storms are coming so quickly and with short time in between. what's that been like for you? >> stressful. you felt deflated. it's hard. devastating. you work so hard to have something and to have it just be devastated time and time again, it's hard. >> reporter: are you worried about tomorrow?

officials say it may rain again. what is in the future? >> probably flooding again and more clean up. yeah. this is in the 20 years, we've never had back-to-back flooding like this so it's pretty devastating. >> reporter: thank you so much for sharing your story with us. it's not easy and it's not coming to an end anytime soon. >> just so much pain there. how devastate it is to having washed away. >> one comes then another and now potentially one more on the way. thank you. >> feel for all the people out there who are dealing with that. the lead with jake tapper starts right now. speaker mccarthy facing trouble uniting his party on a key vote tonight. here we go again. the lead satarts right. this time, from the