good evening, we begin tonight with breaking, is president biden's first public statement on the classified documents uncovered in his former office, and first, the brutal storms now hitting california flooding hurricane-force winds massive rainfall and flooding tens of

thousands under evacuation workers right now, and according to governor gavin newsom, 17 confirmed dead right at this hour. cnn's nick watt, joins us with all the latest on the los angeles river which in normal times his river in name only. what is the latest, nick? >> you are right anderson. this is normally just a trickle. in fact there is usually a homeless encampment in what is the l. a. river. those people have had to flee to higher ground. you know, californians just aren't used to this amount of water. and in many cases, the states are just not equipped to deal with it. further up north and santa barbara, the floodwaters just overwhelming the sewer system in that ended up with sewage on the streets in santa barbara, and also you know, drivers just trying to drive where they shouldn't be driving because frankly they just don't know any better. so we have seen quite a few rescues, people being plucked out of their cars and when we are talking about drivers also just incredible bad luck today up in the central valley. the eucalyptus tree that fell on the road, hit a truck, killed a driver and then a motorcyclist also hit the tree,

also died. -- they have also been backed to to the mess.ich is >> yeah. >> yeah, intense and ruptured breaking. some places, anderson have seen 16 inches of rain, maybe a little more in just 48 hours, places like st. louis abyss have set a record of all-time high for rainfall in a single day. al now they're river the salinas river a bit further north, it usually runs a bit of five feet, it is expected to crest tomorrow at more than 27 feet. and as you said, it is not over. we are at a bit of a lull right now, there is a lot more storm to come. the national weather service actually put it rather poetically, they said that the next in the seemingly endless parade of storms is going to roll in from the pacific within the next day or so.

that is going to hit mainly central and northern california with so much more rain. now, the lieutenant governor here says that this is all an example of climate change, extreme weather. but you know, here's the kicker. really the kick in the teeth. much of california has been suffering from severe drought, but all of this water is not going to reverse that, you know when you get tons of water in a short space of time, that doesn't change the big picture. that doesn't change the fact that california is in drought, although looking at this, that feels like a very strange thing to say. >> yeah. it sure does. nick, appreciate it. we will return to california little bit later in the broadcast. for more on this -- other breaking news, president biden's first public statement on the ten classified documents discovered at a former private office of his and we are now learning about those documents, general garland has already -- to handle the matter, was briefed him multiple times according to a source in law

enforcement and has already submitted a preliminary report. tonight we are discovering just what these documents covered. so burying, before hearing for the president we will go to cnn special course spawned and jamie gangel who has this report. what do we know? >> so, anderson, these documents, first of all just for context, in this office almost everything our personal papers, including funeral arrangements for his son beau biden, letters of condolence. and his personal lawyer was the one packing of the papers because they really believed everything in the office was confidential and personal. the lawyer finds a manila folder marked vp personal but when he opens it he sees a paper marked classified. he immediately closes it and they call the archives. they have given them full cooperation. i just want to say the vp personal label, that may explain why it was packed up. it may indicate it was an honest mistake. so, nevertheless, there are

these ten classified documents found. they are dated from 2013 to 2016 and cnn has learned that the documents include intelligence memo's, briefing memos, national security briefing materials that touch on countries like iran, ukraine and the united kingdom, anderson. >> but just to be clear on the personal, the file, we don't know why there would be a cross fire document in a file that was mark personal? >> no. we have no idea. it is just, we don't know who packed them up or how this happened. >> i understand you have some new details about what else was handed over to the national archives. -- >> immediately to the archives, and i am told that within a couple of days, they just decided the biden team and the archives, that they were going to hand everything over to the archives out of an abundance of caution. so 50, 55 boxes are now at the national archives, including all of those personal documents. it is just another example of how the biden team did the opposite of what the trump team

did. >> the documents were discovered november 2nd, six days before the midterm elections. do we know why this wasn't paid public for more than two months? >> we don't. we don't know whether it was because of the investigation we don't know whether it was political, there is no question that people are going to ask about the timing and certainly republicans and donald trump are going to try and make political hay out of it. >> i understand the house oversight committee, the chairman is already looking into this. >> welcome to the new congress. i just looked at the memo and it said that the oversight committee is investigating whether there is political bias at the national archives. i am going to take a point of privilege here. i have covered the archives for a long time. they are the least partisan people in this town. they are historians, they are librarians, they famously described themselves as introverts who even when they have been working together for 30 years when, they pass each other in the hall they look the other way. this is not a political group of people, anderson. >> jamie gangel, appreciate it. as we mentioned, the president

spoke for the first time about this before returning home tonight for the north american leader summit in mexico. chief white house correspondent phil mattingly joins us now, with what he said can you tell us? >> white house officials have been very clear. they put out a statement from the white house counsel's office, there is going to be very little if anything they would say, as the justice department review continues to play out but the president gave his version of the event, events that -- white house counsel's team, and also this response when he discovered that these documents

existed. take a listen. >> people know i take classified documents, classified information seriously. when my lawyers -- university of pennsylvania they set up an office for me a, secure office in the capital, four years after being vice president i was a professor at penn. they found some documents in the box in, a locked cabinet. or at least a closet. and as soon as they did they realize there were several classified documents in that box. and they did what they should have done. they immediately called the archives. it is easy to call the archives and turn them over to the archives and i was briefed about this discovery and i was surprised to learn that there were any government records that were taken there to that office. but i don't know what is in the documents, my lawyers have not suggested i ask what documents they were.

i have turned over the boxes, they have turned over the boxes to the archives. we are cooperating fully, cooperating fully with the review and which i hope will be finished soon. and there will be more detail at that time. >> you know anderson, i think jamie's reporting really can underscore the scale of the cooperation up to this point, which while they are not willing to talk in detail about the process or perhaps how those documents actually got there to the extent they know at this moment in time, that cooperation is critical and so is the president's willingness to stand up there and address what he felt he was able to. it is a stark contrast to his predecessor and certainly something that i think has been implicit in everything you have seen publicly from the white house in the last 24 hours. >> so we know when the documents were found, do we know when president biden was initially briefed about it? >> anderson, i am told almost immediately thereafter. it was a very quick process, as you can imagine a pretty hairy process as the personal counsel

called the white house counsel's office and then immediately reached out to the national archives, but the next morning the archives had picked up those documents and taking them over. within that period the president was briefed on what happened. but a key point there from the president, which we reported before he said it publicly, he still does not know what these documents actually contain. what they entailed, and also alluded to the fact that his lawyers made clear that that was where they wanted things to be. white house officials at this point have some topline sense of things but in large part are still in the dark about the specifics about these documents. again, another element of this that will likely come out not in the classified version of things but will come out in more detail, once this inquiry is done, the president saying he thought he could be soon.

that is when white house officials plan to get more information about the entirety of the process, anderson. >> phil mattingly. appreciate that -- former deputy assistant attorney general john woo. -- david urban, -- former president, also cnn senior legal analyst cyst -- elie honig. you heard, elie what the president had to say about being surprised by this documents. what do you make of this? >> so, those documents comments go right to the most important legal issue in this whole case. did joe biden know the documents were there? if the answer is no, legally it is game over. there is no possible way you can have a criminal charge of the person didn't know the documents were there. now doj has to test this. the way you do it i think, investigative lee, is you have to reconstruct how those documents got their, who gave the order instruction to take the documents from the vice president's office over to joe biden's private offices in 2017, who actually move the documents, who had access. but if you can re-construct that satisfactorily and satisfy yourself as to the prosecutor that there is no knowledge, joe biden will not have legal jeopardy. >> what do you make of the how the president said and how the doj is handling it and the white house? >> i agree, we don't know enough yet about how these documents are and what they are. i would be in favor of declassifying and seeing them, with the trump case to we don't know enough about, did the president ever see them? how did he handle them? how did they get there. but i think what is really important here for the rule of law, this is making it very complicated for not just the special counsels here but general garland and also ultimately president biden, -- have to be treated alike. and so, what we need to see is,

our prosecutors able to explain any difference is if they are going to go ahead and prosecute trump versus not prosecuting president biden, because if you can't articulate a real difference in those two cases, other than i think cooperation, which so far is the name major difference. if you don't see really differences in the violations of the law, the intent of the people who the prosecution's claim violate the law, then you are undermining the fate of americans that we live under a rule of law and that prosecutors, judges and juries are treating the same cases in the same way. >> david, i would like to play this comment from former vice president pence on cbs and get your reaction. >> when the american people see president biden receiving one form of treatment with the discovery of classified documents that were retained after he left the office of the vice president and they see president trump treated in an entirely different way, again, the handling of classified materials is a very serious issue for our nation. and we ought to take it seriously. but there ought to be equal treatment under the law. >> do you think this is how most republicans are going to approach this issue? >> yeah, so anderson, listen i was on this network on your show, condemning how former president trump handled it's classified documents, saying you shouldn't have p. s. sci or -- documents laying around in an unsecure fashion in mar-a-lago

and they are stored in a competitive mental eyes facility like a -- similarly the right vice president is wrong. you have classified documents, shocking gambling, in casablanca i don't know how they got there, either you told somebody to take them there or you took them there yourself, your point earlier, how can you prove knowledge here? what are, you going to ask the fight president did you take it? why does joe biden get a pass in a presumption of's innocence and trump didn't get one? i don't see the fbi with -- delaware outside draw biden's house, kind of rubbed running through the basement looking for more documents? i think that is a republican -- this is a big task for doj, how they are going to handle this and to john's point, like cases should be treated in a like matter. we will see what happens. >> elie, your reaction? >> the way you prove knowledge is the same way that as a prosecutor you prove knowledge in any case ever. perhaps you go to the person and ask them, u.s. people around them, you look at documents you, talk to other witnesses.

there is no mystery to this. it is not just well, throw your hands up and we give joe biden the benefit of the doubt. i am saying there needs to be a thorough investigation. this is what prosecutors do every day, this is what i did every day for 14 years as a prosecutor. so i think that response is a little bit glib. no one is just saying, joe biden says he didn't know so that is that. i am saying there needs to be a full examination of that the same way other cases are investigated. >> i wasn't being glib about it, i was just saying back when there was a, the raid on mar-a-lago, i don't to say raid but the, you know the fbi goes to mar-a-lago, i didn't hear a

lot of people saying let's go through the long process and ask trump, it was a quick comment domination of the former president, much quicker -- >> wasn't the raid or the search at the end of a rather long process of exchanges of communication in the national archives and the former president and his employers? >> john's point, there was a different level of cooperation there. i didn't see what the affidavits that were signed by the former, by the former

president's lawyers what they said and didn't say in, terms of classified -- there seems to be a much less onerous condemnation going on here with this president than the former president. i hope people see that across america. >> and john, for you, what we know about the back and forth between the national archives and the former president and the former presidents attorneys and claims that were made by the former presidents attorneys that, according to the reportings turned out not to be the case, does that not matter, do you not see that as on the face of it from at this point with what we know that and the level of corporation from the biden administration or the alleged level of cooperation, does not not matter? >> anderson, that is a good point. at this point in the investigation based on the limited knowledge we have, we do have president biden's lawyers cooperating more fully where is it seems like president trump was trying to hide the documents and not cooperating with the doj but he claims the fbi has been out to get him. i would see how he would not trust the fbi after four years

of a presidency. we should also not forget that hillary clinton had this exact same problem with her server taking classified information, putting them on an unsecure, private computer network. she ultimately wasn't tried. my point is, regardless of the cooperation or not, i think prosecutors, this is not some glib response to people who know what they are doing, this is a decision for -- justice, this is not a decision for lionel level prosecutors, a decision for the attorney general. ultimately, are we going to go after president trump for something like this, classified document mishandling, given that there are other cases, i don't think president biden will be prosecuted, hillary clinton wasn't prosecuted, i think they will go after him on criminal law, go after him on january 6th. go after him for something where the united states is really harmed, not just here in these three cases. i don't think the american people were harmed by this mishandling of classified information in any of these three cases. >> john, david urban, elie honig. thank you. --

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-- school district p arredondo gave to investigators. it was recorded the morning after a gunman had murdered 21 students and teachers and well before arredondo was fired for his actions that way day after he and others came under intense criticism for the failure police response. specifically why authorities failed to follow the guidelines for an active shooter situation. arredondo is far more candid and cooperative in the video, for more so than he was when cnn -- approached him a week later after he stopped cooperating with the investigation at all. but some of what he says in this video also appears to contradict evidence that his since come to light, including never before seen body camera footage obtained by cnn. now we are going to see you absorbs a video in this moment, let me say that for transparency's sake cnn is also publishing the full 57 minute interview with arredondo along with the digital story on our website, also shimon prokupecz has been tirelessly breaking news on this story. he will join us in a moment. for more on what we are about to see. and we want to warn you that

watching this reporting is troubling, so if you have children in the room you might consider having them leave. here is shimon's report. there are probably victims in their, and with the shots i heard -- deceased. >> former uvalde's pete arredondo herd for the first time, the day after the may 24th shooting, tempting to explain his actions. a new video it's contained by cnn, arredondo telling investigators he assumed students in the room with the shooter were already dead. so he chose to clear children from surrounding classrooms. we now know he was wrong. at least three victims were pulled out of the room alive, who later died from their injuries. >> my first thought is that we needed to vacate, we had to have it contained, those -- we have them contained, there's probably going to be deceased who -- so i called out and said get

these kids out. bus those windows, get them out. >> stunning admissions while being questioned by the fbi and, texas rangers. >> i was trying to make a communication with this. can you hear me sir? >> arredondo explains he kept trying to talk to the shooter and for the first time we learned that he heard the gunman alone in a room full of children reloading his weapon and still he took no action that stopped the gunman. >> there are certain -- i heard him reload, i heard the pin, i know what it sounds like. i heard him get started with the clip -- i know he did something with it. i heard that one time, i don't know if there was a second. he never responded at all. >> now considered one of the worst law enforcement failures in recent memory, arredondo knew that criticism would come.

>> i'm going to get scrutinized, i'm expecting. that -- four >> days later, arredondo would be labeled incident commander by the texas state police. they say he was the officer in charge and the man to blame for the deadly delay. >> who is the incident commander sir? >> the chief of police -- and insisted commander. it is his school, he's the chief of police. okay. >> arredondo who presided over a six person police force before he was terminated in august, declined to comment for the story. through his lawyer he has previously denied that he was ever in charge and said he never issued any orders. a cnn analysis has never before made -- reveal arredondo repeatedly directed the officers around him not to enter the room with the gunman. this is at 11:40 am, and just seven minutes after the shooting began. >> this is arredondo. we have an emergency right now, inside the building i, am inside the building with this man. he has --

he shot a whole bunch of times. he is in one room, i need a lot of firepower, i need the building surround it. i need it surrounded with as many -- as possible. >> as more officers and body cameras responded to this scene we, can hear arredondo structured talk to the shooter. >> shoe sir, this is -- the police. put your firearm down please. we don't want anyone else hurt here sir. >> arredondo can be seen trying to open the door joint adjusting classroom while giving commands two other officers. >> [inaudible] >> before we do any kind of -- >> time is not on his side and it reflects a mindset that goes against active shooter training. the policy emphasizes speed. any officer to go immediately towards the sound of the gunfire and stop the shooter. arredondo lost completed the

training in december 2021, five months before the uvalde massacre. >> at 12:12 pm a crucial transmission comes over the radios in the hallway, informing the officers that a child in the room with the gunman called 9-1-1, and says she surrounded by victims. dispatch blares within earshot of arredondo. >> he doesn't seem to hear it, because he is talking, repeating instructions for officers not to enter. >> we are going to clear the building first we are, going to empty the classrooms first. he is very fine right now. >> officers actually turned down their radio so they could hear arredondo give the order. >> turn the radios down please. >> it seems clear to the man on the side of the hallway arredondo is in charge. >> when the chief of police gives you permission -- >> when your by officer suggests that a border patrol

agent looks like they are about to go in -- [inaudible] >> arredondo said he's assumed border patrol agents at the other end of the hallway would be the ones to make the breach, since they had rifles and he and his men only had pistols. >> i know those are probably -- smart thing for us to do is to with a handgun, let these guys make entry -- >> but it wasn't just handguns. as body camera footage clearly shows there were plenty of heavily armed officers on scene. some in the very first moments at after the shooting began. >> arredondo for the first time also explaining why he thought the door was locked, admitting he never try to open it. >> i have a picture in my mind

that i saw that hammer in there and usually when that is there it is lot. man, 90% of the time. >> we now know investigators believe it was unlocked and that there was no need to wait for a key. at the end of the interview, arredondo says that rather than breaching the door, he even consider trying to shoot through the walls to kill the gun man. >> the thought crossed my mind to start shooting through the wall. it should have been stupid but you start thinking, there is already somebody deceased in their, you want to start but you know obviously we are trained to shoot through walls, it is not the smartest idea but you know, we already question ourselves. >> cnn senior crime correspondent shimon prokupecz joins us. you have obviously done a lot of reporting on other officers and their mistakes that day, and we should be clear that arredondo was not the only

person perceived to be in charge. >> no. there was an acting chief of police for the local police department, there was a lieutenant from the texas rangers who is now in the process of being fired. there was the sheriff, who should have been running this operation as well and there were other senior level people who were on scene that should have known things, that should have taken charge. another thing that has been so striking to me watching all of these videos and watching what arredondo is saying is that no one went into that hallway, none of the other police leaders there on that scene went to talk to him, to find out what was going on. he is standing in that hallway for quite a long time, not one of them goes in there to find out what is going on. he is the closest person in the leadership role to the gunman at that point. and he himself, arredondo is making all kinds of assumptions. wrong, incorrect, that. his instincts are wrong. but no one is out there, no one is going from outside to talk to him. >> it has been eight months since the shooting. what is the status of the long fort smith response, the

investigation are, the families and close to an official answer? it is >> hard to believe it is only been eight months and we're still only learning this today. the fact that arredondo says he heard what he perceives as reloading, that is an important piece of information. that would indicate officers wait, this guy is ready to keep shooting, there are kids in their. we have got to get in there. he never shares that with anyone, for the first time we only learn of this from this video. for the families, this is going to be the first time they are hearing this. >> or if he is reloading it it could be an opportunity to go in. that is exactly the other thing i was thinking of when i heard it, anderson. -- when he talked about the reloading, you have the opportunity now, and you know he is moving around and there is stuff going on and they should have gone in -- >> shimon prokupecz, appreciate it as always. a hacksaw turns up in the search for missing massachusetts mom with of three as long as new -- accused of misleading investigators. that is next.

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a hacksaw, torn up cloth and what appears to be bloodstains, all discovered last night when investigators comb through trash in the search for ana walls, massachusetts mother

last seen on new year's day. prosecutors say the blood and a bloody knife were also recovered from the basement of the walls home, along with a trail of other evidence. her husband remains in custody for allegedly misleading police. -- cnn's carroll -- has details. >> tonight, investigators processing potential evidence collected after hours of searching for garbage late into the night at this trash transfer station north of boston. law enforcement sources told cnn materials found included a hacksaw, torn up cloth material and what appears to be bloodstains. the north fort district attorney not commenting on the specifics of what was found, only to say that this result resulted in a lot of items which will now be subject to processing and testing to determine if they are of evidentiary value. sources also tells cnn investigators found disturbing searches on ryan watches internet records as they look into the disappearance of his wife, which included how to dispose of a 115 pound woman's

body and how to dismember a body. walls is being held on a charge of an misleading investigators. he pleaded not guilty. prosecutors described chilling details during his arraignment of what they say investigators found at the family home in cohasset. >> during that time we found -- in the basement. blood was found in the basement area, as well as a knife which also contain blood. >> walsh's attorney not commenting on the case, her office telling cnn she wants to focus on walsh's defense. during his arraignment, she said her climate was cooperating with investigators. >> mr. walsh is given several interviews, we have consented to surges of her is home, we've consented to searches of his property. >> ryan walsh told police he last saw his wife new year's day. a friend of the couple say the last time he saw them, nothing seemed out of the ordinary. >> we hugged and celebrated and toasted and just what, you do over new year's.

>> the 39-year-old mother of three wasn't reporting missing until january 4th. her workplace said she didn't show up. investigators showed us -- her husband made purchases at a home depot on january 2nd. >> he is on surveillance at that time purchasing about $450 worth of cleaning supplies, that would include mops, a bucket, tarps, t dax, drop cloths. and >> walsh's friends say they now fear the worst. >> she would not buy her own choice go a day without speaking for husband or children, that is very out of character. >> jason carroll joins us now from massachusetts, what is the latest on the search from inside their house? >> oh anderson, as you know for the past several days, they have been searching inside the house, outside the house, late this afternoon the north fort ditch strict attorney released a statement basically saying that the search at the house

has been completed and now they are in the process of processing everything they have found there at the house. but once again, most of the investigation now focused on those items that were found in the trash, those three items plus whatever else they may have found there and what they can do in terms of trying to make a match, some sort of a dna match, and see where it leads them. >> all right, jason carroll, we appreciate. it we turn out to -- mark mara who has more on the ongoing investigation. mark, thank you for being with us. you heard jason's report, does it seem to you like this is moving towards additional, more serious charges? it seems it is -- >> yeah. the prosecution did exactly what they should have done, arrested him for something but not for anything pointed to the murder because they don't want a's -- trial running, they arrest him for lying police, keeping him -- they now quote he is safe and they can do their job. i anticipate him taking a while to make sure it is done properly. >> investigators are recovering a bloody knife from the couples house. they have also found suspicious

internet searches reportedly we, don't know what else specifically they have found but generally speaking how difficult would it be to charge this man with word or without his wife's body being found? by the way, those internet searches, some of them were incredibly specific like how do you dispose of 115-pound women? >> you almost wonder if he wanted to get caught when you do something as insane as that. but i will tell you, you don't need the body anymore. it is great if you have it, it is great when you video of the event but the forensic evidence has gotten so much better in the past 15 or 20 years, not only internet searches but dna so even without the body, they are going to have enough evidence, seemingly, as they put it all together, to focus on. nobody else but him, and the missing body, and the blood and a hacksaw that may have blood on it, enough for jury. >> as a defense attorney, what would be your course of action

for if this was your client? >> well you know, there are always two silos. the first one is can the state prove the case, right? so you go into the suppression issues, did they do the search properly, are there are other possibilities or other people that may have wanted to cause for harm? so you always look at those forensic -- evidentiary side of it, but at the same time anderson, as we have talked about a lot, you are not looking at maybe a potential defense or litigation. how crazy might this guy be? there were searches, they are really horribly simplistic and the way he went about to do it, $450 in a home depot, almost begging for to get arrested and convicted. maybe there's something there. >> all right, mark o'mara, thanks very much. more on the breaking news in california, the deadly weather there, now claiming 17 lives. we'll be right back.

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power in the state. randi kaye has the latest on the sheer scope of the punishing wide there and the damage it has done. >> everything is wet, everything is saturated, everything is at a breaking point. and there is more rain coming. rain is the last thing californians need right now, with the city experiencing epic flooding. 90% of california's population is under a flood watch. just look at the flooding in los angeles. for a time, the entire town of montecito and santa barbara county under an evacuation order. former tv host ellen degeneres sounded the alarm at the creek in her montecito backyard. >> [inaudible] >> four rescue teams, it is a battle against time, as ride a zing flood water stopped californians in the tracks. this person got trapped in santa clarita as he tried to cross the roadway. >> you just waited --

and put a ladder down and grabbed him out of the passenger window. >> in ventura, firefighters also plucked drivers from their cars, officials say at least 14 people were pulled from an island in the ventura river using ladders and rescue help caulkers. the river rose 17 feet in just 12 hours, reaching an all-time record. cresting over 25 feet. >> there is a lot of swift water rescues going on right now, a lot of people are getting trapped in the water with their vehicles trying to -- where they shouldn't be. please turn around, don't drown. >> thick mud and debris are also a problem. heavy storms left it behind forcing highway 101 near state route 33 to close. mud put the brakes on this semi truck just east of film or in ventura county. intent santa cruz county, fast moving water knocked out this bridge. also in santa cruz, residents were forced to turn back when highway nine flooded. >> the police stopped us.

and would not let us pus through. another danger in santa crew, falling trees. -- preparing powerlines capturing this video just as a mudslide to fold this deadly spur tree, falling debris is a problem in malibu where this giant bolger faux fur from a roadside cliff, shutting down parts of malibu canyon road. the national weather service in los angeles has more than 15 inches of rain has already fallen across the coastal foothills in st. louis obispo, santa barbara and ventura. intentioned barbour county, more than 500 homes were impacted by a sudden sinkhole. also this fire hydrant burst in santa barbara, forcing even more water into the street. whole neighborhoods in towns like aptos in santa cruz county are flooded. >> just be careful out there. it is raining crazy. >> it is so dangerous for drivers, some have found other means to get around, trading in their cars for kayaks. and in this case, a jet ski. with all that rain comes high winds and statewide warnings. already more than 150,000

customers are in the dark due to power outages. randi kaye, cnn. >> remarkable images there. up next -- group of ukrainian soldiers trying to silence russian attack drones in the eastern part of the country as the war gets even bloodier.

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now donbas. their target today, a building in crime molina where he says a attack drone is launched against ukrainian forces. this artillery system is known as a pion, that is a soviet era artillery system 203 millimeters, the rounds weigh 100 and -- kilos, 220 pounds. this is a system used both by the russians and ukrainians. >> the cold here chills to the bone, making this work all the more difficult. to protect against russian drones, they have deployed a special weapon that the pleats drone batteries. >> first, the round goes into the barrel, then the quarter deutch, then the trigger

quarters pulled. , sending the massive round hurtling towards its target 18 kilometers around 11 miles away. it fires again. and again. >> the forward -- radios max that the target has been hit. he tells his man to use shrapnel rounds to finish the job. >> we damaged it we, destroyed the building where they hide, and i suppose they will not make problems for us in the future. >> a small victory in a big war. >> ben wedeman joins us now from kramatorsk in ukraine. there's also a battle going on in the eastern mining town of soledad. ben, what are you hearing? >> well, the situation anderson, in seoul adore is a grave, to say the least. exactly what is happening is

difficult to say. russian sources are saying that they now control that town, which is relatively small, just about 10,000 people. all of the ukrainians say it is still under control. but cnn was able to get in touch with a soldier there who described intense fighting, raging in the city. he said that the situation is critical. he said that buildings are changing hands from one day to the next. that there are, the situation is such that they can't even count the dead at this point. now this is a city, a town, a very small town where the russians have really thrown a lot of resources in trying to take it. it is the wagner group, that private military contractor that seems to be leading the fight. of course they have recruited prisoners and others and it does seem that they are willing

to throw them willy-nilly towards ukrainian lines regardless of casualties to try to allow the russians to claim, after so many defeats around kyiv, kharkiv and kherson, a small modest victory after so many setbacks. anderson. >> ben, we appreciate it. thank you. life goes on. in a moment, back to domestic politics here in the u.s.. kevin mccarthy now house speaker. what do we know about the side heels he made with republican opponents finally got him the speakers gavel? -- what he may owe and to whom, next. ♪ i gotta good feeling about this ♪ ♪ yeah, ♪ ♪ so let's get it ♪ ♪ i'm feeling good vibes ♪

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