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hello, everyone. i'm alisyn camerota. welcome to "cnn newsroom." >> i'm victor blackwell. good to be with you. right now dangerous storms are battering california with relentless rain, deadly flooding. there have been dozens of water rescues, and thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes. 34 million people are under flood watches as the storm pushes south. at least 16 people across the state have died in this recent outbreak of storms. in central california a 5-year-old is missing after being swept away in flood waters. a crew suspended the search when the weather became unsafe for the rescue teams. >> heavy rainfall led to this rock slide in fresno. boulders and debris forced highways across the state to close. firefighters in ventura county rescued a 70-year-old man after rising flood waters trapped him inside his suv. the onslaught of rain is turning streets and creeks into these raging rivers that you see on your screen with some seeing

more than a month's worth of rain in a day. ellen degeneres described the scene near her home. >> we're having unprecedented rain. this creek next to our house never flows ever. probably about nine feet up. we need to be nicer to mother nature. >> camilla, what are you seeing further north? santa cruz county? >> reporter: well, a lot of standing water, alisyn. and people left to clean up this mess. i just got word from santa cruz county. and it's good news. they told me that all of the evacuation orders have been lifted. but it doesn't mean that all of this is over. because of all the water that is still here. as you can see in this neighborhood it is house after

house that has been flooded. i talked to many of the people here who told me we've been here for years and this is the worst that it's been. the one thing that they're worried about is that the water is not receding. we've been here since very early this xhorning and we have not seen the water go down very much or at all. so that's what these residents are worried about. normally if it floods here the water goes away. but here it is and this is what they'll be dealing with over the next couple of days. if not weeks. the county still saying look, you should not be on the roads because a lot of them look like this. so even though evacuation orders have been lifted they're saying if you don't have to be out and driving around just stay home because of course it could be extremely dangerous. the ground is saturated. this is a county with a lot of trees, large trees. and with the ground so saturated it's very easy for these trees to come down. and again, you're seeing the water, street after street. i want to show you this street but also i'm going to turn

around because right across the street you're seeing the same thing. you know. and these neighbors here just telling me that they're frustrated, they're tired because they'ring having to clean up. it is a difficult process. not just physically but financial as well. a lot of them telling me they were worried about how much all of this is going to cost. so they're hoping to be able to get some of that government help, especially the federal aid. but it's unclear if they're going to get that. they're going to be here cleaning for a very long time. alisyn, victor? >> understandable they are frustrate when'd you see what's all around you there. let's go to mike in montecito. what are you seeing? >> reporter: well, victor, good afternoon. conditions are improving here in montecito thankfully. in the video we showed at the top of the show from ellen in her back yard, victor and alisyn, this is the same creek over my right-hand shoulder. so we saw the crescendo of the storms and the flood waters rising around midnight local time yesterday but the good news for montecito the sun is coming

out. the second act, the second impulse of moisture is heading eastward toward los angeles, moving out of here to give us a reprieve at least until saturday. but certainly the good news if you can see also over my right shoulder, they kind of look like monkey bars. these steel spikes on the right-hand side, my right-hand side. those are steel spikes that were put in after five years ago, the tragedy that unfolded here when catastrophic mudslides came through the area. those spikes prevent boulders from cascading down the mountainside, down the san ysidro creek right here and into the neighborhoods behind our camera position. so neighbors are certainly relieved that unlike camila's position north of us the flood waters are receding. these boulders have not come crashing down. and you can see further in our backdrop the beautiful santa ynez mountains, the beautiful verdant backdrop right there. officials are still concerned, victor and alisyn.

they've evacuated this entire locality, just underneath 10,000 people. they want to make sure that the hillsides, the mountainsides stay stable for the next few days, and they're not sure when exactly they'll know that. >> they have a lot to deal with, so many different factors. >> camila bernal, mike valerio, thank you both. so moments from now president biden will join the leaders of canada and mexico for a joint summit at the national palace np mexico city. their focus is expected to be on immigration, security, trade and economic issues. >> the biden administration is set to roll out new measures to try to slow the swell of migrants at the u.s.-mexico border. cnn's priscilla alvarez is in mexico city. tell us what you know about these new measures. >> reporter: well, president biden has arrived and the three leaders are meeting and they're going to be talking about a key issue, migration, as you laid out. now, the u.s. has made it very clear that they see that managing migration needs to be a regional approach. and that includes the help of

mexico and canada. so the measures they're rolling out today reflect just that. one of them, for example, is a virtual portal that would allow migrants to apply for legal pathways to either of those countries, mexico, canada, or the united states, and see what they're eligible for. the other is a center in southern mexico in tapachula, where migrants pass through to see services and what again they may be eligible for. the idea is to make it more accessible for people to come to the united states through legal means. now, of course it has to prove to be a viable option for migrants who as we know are often fleeing very desperate conditions and they're doing so urgently. so that really is the challenge for the administration. and a senior administration official i talked to conceded that and said this is an experiment but it requires the help of all three countries. so expect that to be a hot-button topic as they meet today as well as touching on

other issues like economic development, trade, climate change. all of that expected to come up during the summit. and we will be hearing from all three leaders later this afternoon. victor and alisyn? >> okay. priscilla alvarez, thank you. lots of questions there for president biden while he's in mexico about the classified documents discovered in his private office in washington. he didn't answer any of those. a source tells cnn's jamie gangel that ten documents with classification markings were found in november, less than a week before the midterm elections. the papers were dated from 2013 to 2016 when biden was vice president. >> now, the source also says that among the classified materials were u.s. intelligence memos and briefing materials related to ukraine, iran, and the united kingdom. cnn's special correspondent jamie gangel is here. jamie, you've gotten great reporting. you've also learned how these

documents were discovered. so just walk us through that. >> big picture for context, i think it's important to state that almost all the papers in the office were personal. they included materials about beau biden's funeral arrangements, condolence letters, reference material. in fact, that's why a personal lawyer to biden was going through the material and cleaning it out, so that it would remain confidential. my understanding is the lawyer is going through the boxes, he sees a manila envelope marked, stamped on the front "vp personal," which may explain how it got packed up. he opens it up. he sees classified. immediately closes the folder again and calls for help. the archives are informed that day, immediately. they come the next day to pick up the three or four boxes.

and in those boxes -- my understanding is when the archives come to the office they sort of of look around, do a cursory check. they identify three or four boxes that contain these ten classified documents as well as some unclassified documents that fall under the presidential records act. >> jamie, any indication about how these documents got into this office? >> no. not that we know yet. but you know, maybe the marking on that folder. maybe it was an honest mistake because it was marked vp personal. just for con tx, i've spoken to sources familiar with the national archives. it's important to know this has happened in the past. former er presidents, former v presidents, former high-level officials accidentally take something. it's an honest mistake. they also point to -- i spoke to

one source who for the record is a lifelong registered republican. and that source said to me that this looks like an honest mistake and pointed to the fact that the biden folks immediately cooperated and returned it. >> jamie gangel with the reporting. thank you very much. let's turn now to cnn's senior legal analyst elie honig. let's start with breaking down what we know about these documents so far. and of course we've just been through this with former president trump, how they compare to the documents found at mar-a-lago. >> sure, victor. so let's understand, first of all, how did we get here? now, joe biden of course left office as vice president back in january of 2017. after that he took a position with something called the biden center at the university of pennsylvania. it was mostly an honorly academic type of title. now, he had an office in washington, d.c. which he left in 2019. joe biden left, but his stuff stayed behind. and now, just two months ago, in

november of this year, joe biden's attorneys were going through those documents and they found some of these classified documents. now, there are some vital differences between the biden documents and donald trump's documents, starting with the sheer number of documents. as jamie just reported, ten documents found in biden's office. over 200 classified documents found at mar-a-lago. also, the classification level. now, this is actually the same. both he joe biden and donald trump's documents included documents at the highest level of classification, what we call sci sensitive compartmented information. now, this is what in a prosecutor's view is the single most important differentiator. knowledge and ip tent. now, thus far he joe biden's people have denied he knew anything about this. doj is surely going to investigate that. there's nothing to indicate to the contrary. donald trump has openly admitted he knew he had these documents at mar-a-lago. he's offered up various other defenses. so he clearly knew. there's still a question about whether he had criminal intent.

that's going to be crucial for prosecutors. and then finally there's compliance. as jamie just said, as soon as joe biden's lawyers found this they notified the documents and turned over the classified documents. of course donald trump's team was much more resistant and is now being investigated for potential obstruction of justice. >> well, speaking of that investigation of the doj, elie, how big of a problem will this be for attorney general merrick garland now? >> he's got problems. this is going to be complicated. now, importantly, merrick garland has appointed a u.s. attorney named john lausch the u.s. attorney for the chicago area. he's actually a trump-appointed attorney. to investigate the biden documents. and we just reported earlier today that lausch has already given his preliminary report to merrick garland the attorney general. now, garland has two choices. he can say i see nothing here, we're closing it down, or he can say there may be something here, let's launch a full-scale investigation. of course with respect to trump's documents at mar-a-lago merrick garland has appointed a

special counsel, jack smith, who is investigating both the mar-a-lago documents and donald trump's involvement in january 6th. jack smith is going to make the initial recommendation about whether to indict or not. but again, ultimately the buck stops with merrick garland. he will have the final say on both of these. >> that's the legal investigation. what about congress? >> it is a different world on capitol hill. the world we've gotten used to with speaker nancy pelosi and adam schiff running some of the key investigations, that is not the world anymore. as of last week we now have speaker mccarthy. jim jordan will be running some of the key investigations. you know they will dig in on this. we had republican members of congress last night on our air talking about how eager they were to dig into this. we have a quote here from representative james comer from the oversight committee who said, "is the white house going to be raided tonight? are they going to raid the biden center?" this is further concern that there is a two-tiered justice system. there's some hyperbole there. but make no mistake, republicans will dig in. they will make a meal of this on capitol hill. >> mm-hmm.

elie, as you know, cnn just did this big rudy special over the weekend. it was fascinating. just incredible to remember how long rudy giuliani has been a part of our public consciousness. and now he seems to be back in focus. what's the latest? >> yeah, it's yet another step in the continuing fall of rudy giuliani. he's now been subpoenaed by the special counsel, jack smith, part of the justice department, looking for records related to payments that rudy giuliani received from trump-affiliated political entities. this tells us that the special counsel's investigation is expanding, is getting into financial details. and of course we remember that detail from the january 6th committee that rudy giuliani at one point requested $20,000 per day for his legal services. and so alisyn, i've decided i need to start charging a little bit more. >> yeah, you really do. i don't know what you get but you're worth so much. >> not 20k. >> it ain't 20k. >> elie thank you, for explaining all that. new to n. to cnn, the husband of a missing woman actually searched the internet for "how to dispose of a

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some troubling new developments in the search for ana walshe. she's the missing mother of three in massachusetts. police say they have recovered several items during the search of a trash facility that are now being tested for possible connection to the investigation. >> law enforcement sources tell cnn that her husband, brian walshe, who has been charged with misleading authorities, did an internet search for "how to dispose of a 115-pound woman's body." cnn's jason carroll joins us now. jason, it sounds like they're gathering a lot of troubling evidence against this guy. >> reporter: troubling, alisyn. and evidence that's very difficult to report about, to hear about, especially for those who loved and still love ana walshe and are waiting for word to hear about what happened to her. but let's start with what happened last night. this was at that trash facility that you referred to located just north of boston. that's where investigators spent several hours there last night

combing through all of that garbage, all of that trash. now the d.a.'s office is telling us today that they found several items there that have key interest for what they're looking at in their case, saying those items they found are, quote, subject to processing and testing to determine if they are evidentiary of -- of evidentiary value to this investigation. again, this also coming after some of the gruesome details that you had mentioned earlier, sources telling cnn that in the days following walshe's wife's disappearance he had did that internet search searching not only for how to dispose of a 115-pound body but also how to dismember a body. that follows up with some of the details that we heard in court yesterday, when brian walshe, as you know, was -- where he had his arraignment hearing. that's when prosecutors laid out some of the evidence that they say was found here at the home. >> he's on surveillance at that

time purchasing about $450 worth of cleaning supplies. that would include mops, bucket, tarps, teviks, drop cloths, as well as various kinds of tape. blood was found in the basement area as well as a knife which also contained some blood. during the time frame when he didn't report his wife and gave various statements that allowed him time to either clean up evidence -- >> reporter: the d.a.'s office also saying that they pretty much wrapped up what they needed to do here at the home. that will either wrap up sometime today or tomorrow. again, all of this devastating news for those who love ana walshe. i spoke to one of her friends on the phone and he said they've simply been devastated by everything they're hearing in the news. he says at this point their focus is on the betterment and looking out for her three children. back to you guys. >> jason carroll for us there in

massachusetts. thank you. breonna fox is a former fbi although and associate professor in the criminology department at the university of south florida. good to have you. jason said these details are troubling to report about, to hear. they're also tough to explain away. if you're googling or searching how to dispose of a 115-pound woman's body, there's blood, blood on a knife found in the house, i mean, what do you make of these latest developments that we're learning about this investigation? >> well, thank you for having me. first, there could be obvious explanations. i'm a criminologist. i could search for those types of things. it wouldn't be that suspicious. but when there's a knife found in the basement, when your wife is missing, when that's what you're searching for, it's just too much to explain away in my opinion. so i think that he's going to have a really difficult time with that. >> yeah. he also spent $450 on cleaning supplies at home depot on the day she went missing and he lied about where he was to investigators. i mean-i just -- i put this --

aside from the horrible tragedy of this story and for her three children, i put this into the stupid violent criminal category. is there anything else that you see in his psyche? >> the only thing i could say is the person that you're most likely to be victimized by according to our research is somebody that's close to your inner circle. so when investigators typically are looking for who the perpetrator could be, it's unfortunately a spouse, a friend, a neighbor, things like that. so i think it could just be a domestic issue that may have escalated and unfortunately yeah, now he's trying to clean it up. >> brian walshe was already before this facing charges for allegedly selling two fake warhols on ebay. is that an irrelevant coincidence, or could that experience, that charge inform how we should look at this case of his wife missing? >> i actually found that really interesting because if those

charges are valid and the once against him now for potentially murdering his wife is also valid, it shows that he has this versatility, he's willing to commit different types of crimes. it's will shows he might have some nars situatic tendencies, he think he can get away with fraud, murder, he really is above the law in all of these different capacities. from a psychological standpoint that's very interesting. it also could just be motive. >> by the way, he pleaded guilty to those. he was indicted in 2018. last year he pleaded guilty to three of those four charges. so he has a track record as i alliar, as a fraud. if they don't find a body, if ana doesn't come back abe live and if they don't find a body, how hard will that be to convict him? >> in many cases prosecuting a murder without a body is very difficult. but i think if there's so much overwhelming evidence, as there appears to be in this case, they may be able to go forward with it. however, even things like dna. it's a lot harder if you have

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some encouraging economic news. online prices were down in december as retailers used discounts to lure shoppers back. it is the fourth straight month of annual price drops. >> cnn business correspondent rah helisolomon joins us now. is this a blip or a trend? >> it seems to be a trend. and with a bit of good luck it continues. a question about how long this continues and how long until we get to much lower inflation. but this report, guys, yet another example of lower prices. so as you said, 1.6% prices are off compared to last year. that is the fourth month in a row where we've seen annual declines. so directionally we like to see it. when we look at some of the biggest categories where we're

seeing sharp declines, take a look. computers off 16% compared to a year ago. so if you were looking for a computer now might be a good time to buy it. electronics off 12%. toys, sporting goods both off about 6% to 7.1%. now, i should say that there are some categories where unfortunately that trend is not continuing. some essential categories, which is problematic. so groceries, those prices are still up 13.5% compared to a year ago. medical equipment also higher. and personal care. now, that hopefully -- some of those larger categories, that should hopefully provide some relief for folks at home. also the cost for gas, guys, the average right now 3.27 for an average cost of gas. although victor -- >> i'm waiting for it to hit 1.99 again. those were the days. all right. so let's talk about the world bank lowering its forecast for global economic growth. >> yeah. >> mixed bag today. what are they saying? >> this is a pretty significant downturn for the world bank. updating its projection for world economies to growth of 1.7%. guys, six months ago the

projection was 3%. that's a pretty significant downturn. for some of the same reasons that we talked about a lot on this program. inflation. aggressive central bankers. also russia's invasion of ukraine. the report saying that global economies are perilously close to falling into recession. so mixed bag for sure. >> tell us about wha >> so bob iger, the old disney ceo who is now the new disney ceo, saying that starting in march he wants employees back in their seats monday through thursday. four days a week. and what this is is yet another example of the tension between employees and managers. employees who feel like i can be just as productive at home, managers who feel like uh-uh, bring your butt back to work. so the ceo saying, bob iger saying in a creative business like ours nothing can replace the ability to connect, observe and connect with peers that comes from being physically together. ultimately we'll see because you think about the labor market, unemployment is very low and demand for workers is still strong. so we'll see ultimately this

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newly minted house speaker kevin mccarthy pushed through the rules package last night packed with concessions he had to make in order to secure the gavel. next up, investigations. house republicans quickly turning their attention to the justice department and the fbi. >> the gop-led house also now holds control over committee assignments. and mccarthy warned some democrats that they will not be going back to some of the committees on which they previously served. cnn's melanie zanona is with us now. melanie, who is in, who is out for these committees? >> well, we now know which republicans are going to be leading these committees and thus leading some of these key investigations into the biden administration.

that includes jim jordan, who will be leading the house judiciary committee, james comer over at house oversight, mike rogers who's leading the house armed services committee, and mark green who was just newly elected to lead the house homeland security committee. so what happens next is now they will actually begin to populate those committees with members. kevin mccarthy has already signaled that he plans to give all of his republican members committee assignments including some of the most controversial members like marjorie taylor greene and paul gosar, who were kicked off of their committees for incendiary remarks last year and new member george santos despite the fact that he has admitted to lying about his resume. and then on the flip side kevin mccarthy has reiterated his promise to kick some democrats off of their committees. that includes eric swalwell and adam schiff, who serve on house intel, and also ilhan omar, who serves on the house foreign affairs committee. so that is largely seen essentially as payback for democrats moving to boot marjorie taylor greene and paul gosar off their committees. but one other thick we should be looking out for here is that kevin mccarthy has agreed to put more house freedom caucus mbz on a number of committees.

that was one of the concessions he made in part of his deal to become speaker, but we still do not know how many members, which members, which committees. that is something that rank and file republicans have expressed concern about. and they want to know more details about exactly what concessions that kevin mccarthy agreed to. just take a listen to what nancy mace told our colleagues earlier today. >> there are still some questions that i think many of us have about what side deals may or may not have been made. what handshakes. >> are there any side deals for chairmanships and committee assignments? we won't actually know until the steering process is actually over. >> now, one other concession that kevin mccarthy did make that we do know about is he agreed to create a new select subcommittee to investigate the fbi and doj. this committee will also be empowered specifically to look into ongoing criminal probes including those involving former president donald trump. so they're going to vote on that in the house today. and then kevin mccarthy will be responsible for appointing members to that committee, guys. >> melanie, how about that

truth-challenged new member george santos? what committee is he qualified to serve on, number one? and is he ever going to publicly explain all the lies he's been caught in? >> well, i will tell you that freshmen in general tend to get -- be d list committee assignments. kevin mccarthy typically does not punish his members, as we've seen. he even told our manu raju yesterday that he tends to deal with these issues internally. it's unclear what committee assignments he will get other than the fact we are expecting him to get these committee assignments. and he's largely dodged reporters in the capitol ever since he's been here since last week. he did briefly talk to some reporters, he said he hasn't done anything unethical even though he has admitted to lying about his resume, and this comes as two democrats have now formally filed an ethics complaint against him with the house ethics committee. even some republicans have said that there should be an ethics committee investigation. that is a bipartisan committee. they can make recommendations about disciplinary action but ultimately it would be up to the house to follow through with those. >> often your committee

assignment aligns with your professional or life experience. but in this case we don't know what that is.. all right, melanie zanona, thank you. so house republicans kicked off their conference meeting today by attempting to ease some tensions from the speaker drama. they played the bad lip reading parody of this heated moment between kevin mccarthy and matt gaetz. >> a really rich doctor said you were a bummer and i think you don't know algebra. >> no, we're talking science, bud. >> the science of what? is that a tiger? >> one of your friends promised me i could flick you in your face. >> absolutely you may not do that. >> hit him in his cringy smirk for real. >> say any cereal name. >> cinnamon toast crunch. >> you're like people in the 12th century. >> why did you say it like that? >> you're a formulated pickle popper. >> he's a storm cloud. >> i don't like you, dude.

>> and there's a tiger -- that's it. >> you two guys sent the tiger. >> not me. >> it's so good. how do they do that? >> i love bad lip reading. >> so that video, the real one, okay? not the parody. was courtesy of c-span. because they had access during all those debates to places they didn't normally he see. now congressman matt gaetz, who you just saw there, has filed a measure to allow c-span cameras in the house chamber at all times so they can capture real moments like those. >> i'm here for it. >> i'm all in. on that. i don't know if everybody else would like that. >> no, no. >> it was so great to see those moments, the strange bedfellows that we got to see paul gosar cozying up to aoc, whom he had been so nasty to. but then he needed her for information and he was -- >> a little fact checking. >> that was amazing. >> sheila jackson lee and matt gaetz as well. it is great to see this. there's also a democrat who's

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just in, allen weisselberg, the trump organization's former chief financial officer was sentenced to five months in jail. now, he pleaded guilty last year to multiple tax crimes related to former president trump's real estate empire. >> kara scannell joys us now. surprised he's going to rikers

prison where is where hard core criminals go. >> allen weisselberg sentenced by the judge who had overseen the trial of the trump organization and sentenced him to a sentence of five months in jail. in new york city if you're sentenced to term you go to rikers island prison. a notorious prison known for being a dangerous prison and has had fefrl oversight for some time but weisselberg because of the deal he made when he pled guilty got a sentence of five months in jail and five years of supervised release of the judge saying today having presided over the trial listened to the evidence and listened to the testimony of weisselberg. he said if he had not made that promise he would have sentenced him to a much stiffer sentence. he said he was -- who he found so offensive during the trial weisselberg had gotten his wife a $6,000 paycheck from the trump organization entities to enable her to get social security benefits and the judge said that since weisselberg was so well

paid and received all these off the books compensation including the company paid apartment, the cars, the private school tuition for his skids he said that was so offensive he would have sentenced him to i agreater amount of time in jail had he not already made this deal. now, this came after weisselberg's attorney asked for a softer sentence, saying that when you're 75 years old, every month in jail counts, the judge obviously rejecting that and saying that he did find that weisselberg had in hmet all the terms of his plea. he sentenced him to five months in jail and five years of supervised release. he was remanded in custody, handcuffed and will be processed and sent to rikers island at some point today. >> kara scannell, thank you. ukrainian troops are set to begin training in the u.s. on how to use patriot missiles. now, the pentagon is confirming it will be at fort sill in oklahoma where the u.s. conducts its own training of the air defense system. >> cwhat have you learned, orri?

>> reporter: this is advanced but complex missile system generally takes months, if not close to a year. the pentagon is looking at ways to accelerate this as much as possible but it's an open question of how much can you really speed this up. because of the different compon components and how many maintenance it takes to keep them running. the pentagon says after we first reported earlier that that training program will start as soon as next week with the ukrainians come to fort sill in oklahoma where the u.s. does its own patriot training to take up this program and start working its way through it. ukraine has been asking for this for quite some time. it will obviously take more time through this training program for it to get on the battlefield. the pentagon says it will customize the trading to the extent it can to deal with the realities of what they face from russia. >> the training will be tailored to provide relevant tactics,

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satellite images in china show overcrowded crematoriums and funeral homes. you can see vehicles lining up outside in multiple cities. >> china's official covid death toll since december 7th is 37 people. but these new images along with witness accounts raise concerns about the severity of the current outbreak. cnn's mark stuart is with us now from hong kong. mark, are chinese officials saying anything about this? >> reporter: well, victor, chinese officials say they are

keeping track, an accurate track of covid deaths, but the kye tear ya that china is using is very specific. it's very stringent and that someone has to have specific respiratory ailments, illness in order for ray death to be considered covid related. however, these pictures, especially those from up above, really do confirm what cnn has been seeing on the ground in recent weeks. funeral homes that are overwhelmed, crates outside these funeral homes with body bags in them. very grim picture. no surprise the world health organization is less than thrilled with this. they feel china needs to be much more forthcoming with regular rapid updates not only about deaths but also hospitalizations and exactly where the covid illnesses are progressing. it was just a few days ago, alisyn and victor, that china opened up its borders. it lifted travel restrictions,

so in many ways at least on paper china is open for business after two plus years of a very strict lockdown that the world watched. >> yeah, i mean, so, marc, given that their deaths look higher how is the re-opening going? >> well, the re-opening is having -- is having some difficulty in the sense that the hope was that if china opened up, people would be able to move to and from. however, many countries including south korea and japan have placed some restrictions, whether it be about testing or visa requirements for people from china to move to and from, so it is a bit complicated. this will take weeks, even months, to see the effectiveness of how it unfolds. >> okay. marc stewart, thanks for the reporting. top of the hour on cnn

newsroom. good to have you, i'm victor plaquewell. >> i'm alisyn came