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it's very simple. three things -- just do these three things. pay your taxes, mind your business, and keep will smith's wife's name out of your mouth! >> i needed that this morning. >> i missed my morning. >> that's eddie murphy going there on the oscar slap after the golden globes returned. we're happy to have you here. you can see kaitlan is back in washington d.c. we'll get to kaitlan in a moment. a lot to talk about. ready? >> ready. >> let's go. >> we'll start in california, where millions remain under flood alerts, not over yet, more on the storm walloping that state. new developments in the case of the missing massachusetts

mother. what investigators found while searching through the trash. also this. >> i was briefed about this discovery, and surprised to learn there were any government records taken there to that office. >> that's president biden commenting now for the first time on the classified documents found in his private office. cnn has exclusive reporteding this morning on what those documents were. we begin with the weather battering california. you don't need me, just look at the pictures. i don't have to describe them. they describe themselves. flash flooding, winds, mudslides lashing that state with no end in sight. here what's we know at this hour, at least 17 people are dead as a result of the winter storms that brought rainfall totals up to 600% above average

and more rain is on the way. more than 6 million californians are under flood alerts with more watches likely to come because of the super saturated ground. >> we're not out of the woods. we expect these storms to continue at least through the 18th of this month. we expect a minimum three more of these atmospheric rivers in different shapes and forms depending on different parts of the state. >> take a look at this, four people got stuck 15 feet under ground after their cars were swallowed by a sink hole near l.a. two people got out of their own, two others needed ton rescued. here's what it looked like inside union station. this is video from onboard a golf cart. we're live in california next hour. let's bring in bill wier to

help us understand. >> it's a river in the sky. just think of it as a gigantic fire hose bringing moisture from hawaii and the south pacific screaming across the west coast. >> what does it do? >> it brings all the moisture. probably like the equivalent of the mississippi river, but instead of it going into the ocean, it's going into mountainsides, communities, burn scars and creating these flash floods in minutes. >> does that explain why every corner of california has been hit by this? >> yeah. and it can get bigger. this isn't over. that's the thing about the rivers, they last for weeks. this is the first of four events another one next week, not as bad as right now. >> we think about the great flood of 1862. same here? >> that was an atmospheric

river. this put san francisco under 15 feet of water for a month. they raised the city because of that. what science tells us now -- >> that was before manmade climate event. >> that was once every 100 years, now it's every 50 years. and the area where a quarter of our food is grown, could be under weather. >> so ellen degeneres, did you see that, she becomes a weather reporter as the mud slides were happening and at the end of it she said we need to be kinder to mother nature. which brings us to your focus, which is climate change and what we do to contribute to it. how does that impact these atmospheric rivers, does it? >> every ton of carbon in the sky or sea, we're loading the dice this is going to come up more frequently. so every bit helps. but a lot of it is baked in.

even if everybody switched to skate boards and horses today, we have a century of warming built into this system. we think about the drought, that's what's so interesting the dichotomy, it's a megadrought, too much water or not enough. the thinking enjoy is maybe we should let fields flood in the winter time so it soaks back down after being sucked dry with so many people living there, and farm in the summers. >> thank you bill. >> you got it. more questions this morning about the disappearance of anna walsh. it's been more than a week now since the mother of three was last seen. investigators in massachusetts are getting their hands on more and more potential evidence in this case and it is gruesome. let's go to jason carol, live for us in boston this morning. good morning, what have they found now? >> reporter: good morning to you, don.

law enforcement sources telling cnn that investigators found a number of items that could end up being connected to the case. those items found at the trash facility in north boston when they were conducting a search there. apparently investigators found a hacksaw, torn up cloth material with what appears to be blood on that material. a number of items found there. spoke to the district attorney about that. asked him about specifics and about the specifics of what was found there. he said their office not commenting on the specifics, but did say that a number of items were found, they were collected, and they were going to be send in for testing. all of this as the investigation at the house, there was a development there. the search at the house, that has been wrapped up. as you can imagine, don, anna walsh's family, friends, they're trying to get their head around everything that has happened here, all the details that have

emerged around this case have left them feeling devastated. >> i pray that in all of these trash facilities she's not found there so we have somewhere to go to honor here and like -- and for her children to go to have somewhere to honor her. >> we're in absolute shock and disbelief as to -- >> reporter: one of anna's friends told me over the phone, don, one of their great concerns obviously are for the children, the youngest 2, the oldest 6 years old. we're told the children now are in the custody of the state. don? >> just awful. jason, thank you so much. kaitlan? this morning president biden is commenting saying he was surprised to learn that classified documents from his

years as vice president were found at his former private office does not know what is in those documents, this as a source is telling cnn, ten classified documents were found pertaining to ukraine, iran and the united kingdom. the white house has said this is a different situation from president trump's documents he took to mar-a-lago. this provides an opening for the republicans one week after taking over the house chamber. what are you learning? biden said he has not asked his attorneys about what's in the documents but you're learning more. >> reporter: yes. what he saw with the president he is on message with his advisers. they're trying to contrast what happened in d.c. with what happened in mar-a-lago. not only did i not know but when they stumbled across these

materials my lawyers did exactly what they were supposed to do. take a listen. >> people know i take classified documents and information seriously. >> reporter: president biden tuesday denied any knowledge of classified information uncovered late last year in a space he used while working for the university of pennsylvania before he became president. >> we want this to be a gathering place. >> reporter: cnn has learned that among the items discovered were ten classified documents dated between 2013 and 2016. including u.s. intelligence memos and briefings materials that covered topics including ukraine, iran, and the united kingdom. cnn has reported that some of the materials included top secret files. >> i was briefed about this discovery and surprised to learn that there were any government records taken there to that office. >> they were found in three r on four boxes that also contained unclassified papers that fall

under the presidential records act, a source tells cnn. the vast majority of the boxes held personal biden family documents including materials about beau biden's funeral arrangements and condolence letters. the documents were discovered november 2nd, six days before the midterm elections. republicans pounced, launching investigations, comparing the discovery to former president trump's 100s of classified documents and slamming democrats. >> they've gotten away with so much for so long, this was discovered before the last election. >> so if then vice president took classified documents with him and held them for years and criticized former president trump during that same time he had those classified documents and only after it was uncovered --

>> reporter: even trump's former vice president weighed in. >> the handling of classified documents are serious, but there ought to be equal treatment under the law. >> reporter: democrats are defending biden against any such comparison. >> what president biden did was disclose this to the archives, let law enforcement know. that is exactly that you should handle this. >> reporter: the attorney general has tapped the u.s. attorney in chicago to review this matter. cnn has learned that that review is complete now. the attorney general has been briefed multiple times and now it's up to merrick garland to decide whether or not to open a criminal investigation into this matter. that's likely something he would have to hand off to another special counsel. >> that's a difficult decision for him. paula reed, thank you for laying out the differences there and what we're hearing from lawmakers here on capitol hill. >> also this morning the new

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speeches. look at how the night went. >> mr. spielberg, step up here. >> a big night for the fableman's and steven spielberg. besting "avatar: the way of water" for motion picture. and spielberg winning for the story of his life. >> i spent a lot of time trying to figure out when i could tell that story. and i figured out when i turned about 74 years old, i said you better do it now. >> reporter: the 80th golden globes were without the fireworks of the will smith oscars. but eddie murphy did surprise while offering advice for a successful career. >> keep will smith's wife's name out of your mouth. >> i'm here because i'm black. >> reporter: host girard

carmichael not stepping away. now the hfpa says an expansion of more than 100 members has led to nearly 52% being ethnically diverse. the stars telling me it was time to embrace the show's return. but one star not present, tom cruise, who returned his three globes last year, amid the controversy. >> backstage i found these three golden globe awards that tom cruise returned. >> reporter: the globes are not always the best predigctor of oscar gold but can influence academy nominations. austin butler winning best actor in a drama for playing elvis. >> and the pressley family, thank you guys, thank you for opening your hearts, your memories. >> reporter: the banshees of

inknowsharon. and michelle wu proved why she had buzz. >> this is for all who came before me. >> reporter: house of the dragon won best drama and abbott elementary won for comedy. >> comedy brings people together, gives us all the same laugh. hey, brad pitt. >> reporter: you have the win for supporting actor, where he saw tyler james williams take away a globe last night. abbott elementary, that's the show that keeps getting bigger and bigger. >> that would be me, hey, brad pitt. what was i talking about? you know how much i love angela bassett, she was divine last night, her speech amazing. and shirley ralph. both of them are aging

backwards. >> reporter: and i would like to point out you saw some actors who have been out there doing their thing for decades, never recognized, getting the recognition, and also, don, i can tell you on the carpet cheryl lee roth specifically said hello to you. i want to let you know. she said don lemon, here's your sister. so you got love on the carpet last night. >> love that. >> i love her. i remember i've been a huge fan of cheryl lee ralph since she was in dream girl on broadway. i was pulling into penn station one day on the train and i saw her standing on the platform wearing a fur coat, i was like that's cheryl's lee ralph. she's amazing. >> abbott elementary. >> she's great. >> if you haven't watched it, you have to watch it, it's a feel-good show. >> how are you doing? >> i'll get some sleep after we're done televisioning.

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welcome back to "cnn this morning" on a wednesday. coming up, house republicans creating panels to focus on china and the fbi as they vow to bring accountability to the biden administration. plus new body cam images show the suspect in the machete times square new year's eve attack.

and what prince harry revealed in his sitdown with stephen colbert straight ahead. now to washington and kaitlan. >> a lot of action happening here on capitol hill as republicans are making good on those promises they've been making for months to use the newfound power in the house majority for investigations. yesterday they voted to set up a select subcommittee to investigate what they say is the weaponization of the federal government. they're planning to put the fbi and justice department under their microscope with that new committee. the incoming chairman, jim jordan, is going to oversee it, it'll fall under his purview. he said the goal is not revenge on those who skrutcrutinizedd f

president trump but there are skeptics. cnn's jessica dean is joining us live on capitol hill. what is this committee going to look like? i know jim jordan is saying it's not intended to go after people that work in the agencies, but the way they talked in the last two years, seems like it is an avenue they'll explore. >> and where their head is as they put this together. this was a result of a lot of the negotiations and concessions that kevin mccarthy was making as he became speaker. the hard liners were pushing for this subcommittee to look into the doj, the fbi and those are the two entities that have been investigating former president trump, and this is something they want to be doing. we know jim jordan, as you mentioned, tells you everything you need to know, that he's going to be involved with this. we know a lot of these hard liners want to be part of this as well. this is something that republicans have promised, what they ran on, itching and wanting to get into oversight, these

investigations. that was the argument as we got later into last week that we kept hearing, and i know you were talking about it in the studio as well a lot of these republicans were like we're ready to do the work, we're rh ready for oversight, that's something that was stalled as they were waiting for kevin mccarthy to be house speaker. >> he does have subpoena power, does have this, democrats noted jim jordan himself ignored a subpoena he received from a congressional committee but what other targets are they expected to go after? anything bipartisan when it comes to what they're looking at? >> last night we saw the subcommittee on china, the competition with china and that did get a lot of bipartisan support so that was interesting to see these two next to each other. what's less bipartisan is investigations into hunter biden, the withdrawal of afghanistan, the border. we know they're interested in

oversight over the department of homeland security and secretary mayorkas. these are targets they've been telegraphing for months, say years, and we expect them to go hard at that. we're going to see more and more of this as they continue to ramp this up and it'll take time to ramp it up but once they get there this is what they'll spend their time doing. >> you have a busy two years. >> yes, we do. >> this is when they'll decide who's in charge of the committees and what that looks like. that will determine the direction they take. >> she whwhat about me? >> i thought you were asking if you were chairing any of the committees. >> no, you couldn't pay me enough. >> does mccarthy have power to replace the ones he's kicking off with don lemon? check the rules. >> we have folks we can talk to about that. kaitlan we'll get back to you in a minute. george santos, the embattled

republican congressman from new york who admitted to telling a slew of lies during his run, is now facing an ethics investigation. he says he has done, quote, nothing unethical. santos made up lies about where he worked, went to school, his faith, family connections, the holocaust, re-ligion, the house ethics committee declined to comment, house speaker kevin mccarthy calling that whole situation, quote, an internal matter. let's talk about this, alyssa farah is here and john avlon. good morning. >> good morning. >> what do you think alyssa, given your work in the trump white house, kevin mccarthy's close ties to it. he wouldn't say anything before he got santos' voe vote to be speaker but now it's interesting

he said -- i think he told manu i deal with things internally. >> which is absurd, they did a 15 round vote on the house floor for speaker. this is an important step that goldman and torres are leading. but looking into financial disclosures, you decide what you put on it. ethically and being above board and honest you are under penalty of perjury or committing a federal crime. but this is someone that's a pathological liar so i'm not sure the form he submits to congress would reveal much. to get to the bottom of his finances, especially the $700,000 that he loaned to his com campaign, that's something that's an outside attorney. >> john avlon, everyone is look

due process. these things are probably false, a litany of them that can be backed up by the evidence. so what is the hold up? the old days when people had a conscience and when people had shame, they would say, okay, i screwed up, i resign, or something. but then nothing here. come on, kevin mccarthy, come on george santos. >> we are in a post chain politics downstream of donald trump and when he says i've done nothing ethically wrong, i don't know he knows the meaning of that word. he's done everything ethically wrong by lying about everies a pect of his biography. you want to find the truth, follow the money. the complaint by the new york colleagues is a step in the right direction. it's against the backdrop of one of the new gop rules being hobbling the office of congressional ethics, a body designed to investigate these things which george santos said

was fantastic. that's where the oversight meets the road here. >> it's not all republicans saying nothing. kevin mccarthy may be saying don't mind this, i've got it internally. but i thought kaitlan's interview with dusty johnson was really great and especially this last question and his answer. so here it was. >> what about your new colleague, george santos, does he deserve a seat on any committees? >> listen, if i was the speaker, i wouldn't put george santos on committees until we had a deeper and more full understanding of exactly what went on during his campaign. he should be referred to the ethics committee, there should be a full and complete investigation, and he should be held accountable for what he's done. the fact that he's a republican doesn't keep me from saying he needs to be held accountable for whatever he's done wrong. >> it was that last line. >> dusty johnson becoming one of my favorite moderate republicans out there. but he's right.

and kevin mccarthy has chosen not to sit some democratic members on committee, we can debate whether that's right or not. so the idea you would see a truly pathological liar who lied about every aspect of his resume and personal life is absurd when you're already withholding people from committee. and kevin mccarthy can have his vote without seating him. that's the most obvious step. >> that would be the marjorie taylor greene play from the last congress. >> but what johnson said is what used to be common sense. the same standards for people no matter what party they belong to. >> that's all great until. it's all provably false, the evidence right now, there doesn't need to be, for me, i think an until. >> it's well documented. you made this point, john. this is further evidence of the

degradation of congress. we have a recruitment problem within the gop. i used to try to recruit candidates trying to get someone to run against marjorie taylor greene, the background, a veteran, a small business owner and he didn't want to go near it. how often good credible people don't want to go near the mess that's congress, is a problem. >> that's a strategy. >> you say the degradation of congress, let's talk about diversity of congress, this moment happened. listen to the words and then take a look at the actual picture, which is evidence. >> all right. >> one of the things i'd like to see and i'm seeing is more diversity in the republican party. >> yeah. >> and then you look at the room, and what? >> a lot of old white guys. >> a lot of old white dudes. and you know, speaking of the hometown crowd. it needs to be said -- >> there's the photo.

>> the gop has -- that's not an advertisement for that idea. >> i see two women or three women. >> and there's george santos there. he is jewish. >> look, the current gop members of congress actually do represent modest improvements in diversity, that's good for the country. this was once the party of lincoln. so we'll take progress where we should get it and we should acknowledge it but there's a fundamental contradiction between the words and the audience. >> and contrast that with democrats who made strides to have the most diverse leadership ranks in history. something my party has always lagged on. we've made small strides but it goes back to recruitment. >> for decades i've been here for decades, oh my gosh, there's nowhere -- look, the positive thing is there's room for growth in the republican party but they

just -- they've got to make the effort to really do it. i've been hearing it for decades. the post mortems after they get routed. >> it's the policies that lead to the recruitment of those voters. >> thank you both. and now this. >> so this is some breaking news, major breaking news we need to report. many flights across the country grounded right now. this is after an faa system outage. keep in mind this is a system that pilots use for any kind of notification. not clear how many flights are affected or which locations. we want to get to myles o'brien. good morning to you. there's little we know here but what can you tell us about the faa system in general? >> reporter: yes, good morning, don. it's the notice to air missions. this is real-time information that is critical for flight operations.

it's information that is happening kind of right now, stuff that isn't in the charts or public data, stuff like closed airspace, runways, inoperative radios or navigation systems. for an airline to fly on a flight plan, the flight crew needs to be aware of these no tems so this is distributed via computers these days and there's been a glitch that stopped the transmission of the data. hopefully they can get this recoll reckty fied otherwise we have a bad start to aviation. the whole system, you pull one stick out of it and it crumbles

like a jen ga. >> if you're watching us sitting on the tarmac, good morning. pack your patience. has this happened before? if it did, how long did it take to fix? >> reporter: i don't recall a crash of the air traffic control system. but the system is put together with bailing wire and duct tape because it's a lot of legacy systems. we've had outages over the year. this particular system i can't recall. it shouldn't be that challenging to repope late this david allen turpin a-- to repop late this data and get it out. >> miles o'brien is our aviation correspondent. if you're just joining there's a disruption causing flight groundings all over the u.s. not clear at this moment how many flights are affected by this. we have a report about american airlines saying it's closely

monitoring the situation which impacts all the airlines and looking to minimize disruptions to our customers. that's american airlines and i'm sure the others are doing the same. thank you very much. we'll stay on top of the delays. >> videos we should tell you about on tiktok this morning, but it may be harming your kids. experts warning about the dangers of the app. plus this. >> probably victims in there and with the shots i heard, i know it was probably somebody was going to be deceased. >> that is the uvalde police chief, video obtained by cnn of him speaking to investigators and finally giving some explanation as to why he said he waited to have officers go into that room where the children were trapped with the shooter.

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welcome back to "cnn this morning." psychologists are raising the alarm about tiktok. they say the wildly popular video sharing app is having a harmful impact on young people's health. vanessa has been looking at this and joins us now. i'm so glad you did this because i'm really scared about what it means for our kids. >> reporter: yeah, you know, seattle public schools yesterday announced they were suing social media apps, instagram, facebook, snapchat and tiktok but we're hearing from national security experts and mental health experts a about the worries they have in particular about tiktok. ♪ ♪ i like to see you wiggle wiggle ♪ >> in just five years tiktok has amassed more than 1 million global users. eyeballs around the world glued to the content and viral videos.

>> reporter: how long do you think you spend on tiktok every day? >> two to three hours. >> three or four hours. >> reporter: but last month the u.s. government along with more than a dozen states banned tiktok on most federal devices a citing national security concerns over its chinese parent company and the concern it could pressure tiktok to hand over personal data. there's no evidence the chinese government has done that. but there's another risk, social media's risk on mental health, particularly gen z. >> depression started to rise after 2012, so did self-harm and suicide. >> reporter: dr. gene twangy said as smart phones and social media grew so did the rate of depression among teens. nearly doubling between 2014 and 2019. by that year one in four u.s. teen girls had experienced

clinical depression. >> proanorexia videos, videos that instruct people on how to cut themselves. they try to get to use the app for longer that's how the company makes more money. >> reporter: tiktok in a statement said, quote, one of our most important commitments is supporting the safety and well being of teens p. we recognize this work is never finished. we focus on robust safety protections for our community while empowering parents with additional controls for their teen's account through tiktok family pairing. users of tiktok spent an average of an hour and a half a day on the app a day. >> what is it that keeps you scrolling? >> once you watch one video, time to watch another. it's a cycle. you don't realize the time is

passing. >> reporter: that's what happened to jerome. >> i had done all my views on tiktok before i had just been scrolling till the sun game up. >> reporter: he said he lost sleep, grades suffered, lost touch with his friends, lost his sense of self-. in 2021 he disappointed the app. >> getting disappointed with my own life isn't something i don't want to do. especially when i can change it. but i wasn't because i was spending hours on the app. >> reporter: but hanna williams proves the good side of tiktok. starting a business. >> i think tiktok definitely helped because they have such audience reach potential. >> reporter: she hopes tiktok's algorithm works in her favor. >> helping people in marginalized communities is the reason i'm doing this. >> reporter: there's research that points to the positive side

of social media. according to pew, they say eight in ten teens feel connected on social media. 71% report feeling like they're more creative because they're on social media. >> i think that brings up is there a happy medium. i remember recently the ceo of tiktok told andrew ross sorkin at new york times deal book that they have alerts that pop in, right? >> they do. >> to tell you to stop. >> we reached out to tiktok because we wanted to know what they were doing to help the situation. they have screen time management tools and a feature that notifies you when it's time to turn off your device and go to bed. but we hear from teens, it feels like tiktok really knows them. they know what they want to consume and they pump in content and they pull in all nighters.

so it's a balance between the company doing what they can and there's a part of it on us, too, to make the judgments. >> and parents. >> and parents. >> there's a tool, family pairing if your daughter was on tiktok -- >> never. never at 6 years old. >> 13 is the legal age to get on tiktok but you can link your account with her account and control what she says. so there is that too. >> thank you. >> thanks, we appreciate it. more now on breaking news. the faa experiencing a system outage, many flights grounded at this hour. what we're now learning. make sure you stay with us. formulated with nourishing, prebiotic c oat. it's clinically proven to moisturize dry skin for 24 hours. aveeno® ♪ ♪ ♪

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>> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. good morning, everyone. welcome to "cnn this morning." poppy and i here in new york, kaitlan is in washington. we begin with breaking news happening right now. the faa experiencing a system outage. looking at live pictures this is atlanta, hartsfield international airport there. many flights across the countr