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world. i'm kim brunhuber. more flooding could impact millions of people in california this weekend. officials warning they're not out of the woods yet. we've got the forecast just ahead. plus, we'll look at the difficulties the white house has with business as usual as president biden is facing a special counsel investigation. and russia claims it has recaptured a town in eastern ukraine as we hear of a new assault on kyiv. a live report from the capital city just ahead. we're looking at the large-scale destruction after severe storms and tornadoes swept through the southeastern united states on thursday. at least nine people were killed, seven in alabama and two here in georgia including a 5-year-old boy. the massive cleanup effort is already underway. at least 37 possible tornadoes

shredded trees and homes, knocked down power lines, and sent debris flying. the governor surveyed some of the damage in the city of selma saying it's the worst she had anticipated. >> my glimpse was very revealing, very worse than what i had seen on television. roofs are just gone and trees look like tooth picks. there's a lot of work to be done here. >> and in california, almost 60 million people are under flood watch this weekend. waves of storms fueled by a powerful atmospheric rush expected to bring heavy rain and snow and strong winds. the governor of california says he's waiting for a federal declaration from president biden as his state prepares for the next round of storms.

cnn's meteorologist jenner er gray has more on what the west can expect in the coming days. >> the west is going to continue the very rainy pattern over the next couple of days as we have more of these atmospheric rivers that are going to put on shore, western california, oregon, washington state as well. we have seen impressive rainfall totals so far from december 26th through january 10th. we have received over half a year's worth of rain. some areas well above that. so san francisco airport, 11.59 inches. this is the westest 16-day period ever. and we've also seen staggering rainfall totals. this is january 8th to january 11th. you can see more than a foot of rain in a lot of places. ventura received a foot and a half of rain. snowfall totals are unbelievable. mammoth mountain received 190 inches of snow since christmas

weekend. donder pass, 122 inches of snow. as of january 11th, sierra snow pack is at 226% of average state wide. the southern sierra is at 269%. what makes this so important is the snow pack accounts for about 30% of california's fresh water supply in an average year. so a good solid snow pack is what we need to see. also when you're talking about drought conditions, this is from december 27th. you can see a large area of california under exceptional drought, and then you fast forward a week, and we see that that exceptional has dropped to zero. and then you look at it after a third week and it looks like we're seeing no exceptional drought and just a very, very small margin of extreme drought. so the drought conditions are definitely improving across california at least for the short term here, and we are going to see continued rain over the next couple of days. so the threat of rock slides,

mudslides, land slides will still be there. we'll have a lot of snow we're going to be forecasting for. there's your forecast radar through sunday. this is through saturday. we could see an additional 2 to 4 inches of rain. we could see several inches of snowfall. we actually will be measuring it in feet most likely, 2 to 3 feet of snow for the sierra. flood alerts for saturated ground. it's going to lead to flooding ribbers and creeks and the ongoing river flooding that we've seen, and that's just a continuation of what we've seen in the last couple of weeks. slight risk for saturday. marginal risk for sunday. we do have another push of rain most likely sunday evening into monday. and then things look to possibly try out beyond that. here's your forecast radar going into sunday. you can see rain pushing in, snow showers there as well. monday, still raining. and then it looks to be a little

bit drier in california for the beginning part of the week. the rain shifts to the past northwest by the time we get into tuesday. we're still dealing with the rain throughout much of the weekend to the beginning part of next week. we're learning more about the private office where president biden's private documents were found. his former office is highlighted in blue. then in yellow you see three closets, one of which is where the first documents were discovered. the justice department is reviewing the scandal, and the house committee is investigating the doj response. here's committee chair jim jordan. >> the double standard is obvious. >> the double standard has become evident. i've heard it from constituents all the time. they're sick of the double

standard we're seeing out there. >> they're looking at how the white house is trying to manage the controversy. >> reporter: on the first full day of a president under investigation, an attempt to focus on business as usual. >> you know, we made a remarkable moment in our life. >> reporter: welcoming the japanese yoshida into the office as he ignored questions about his handling of classified documents after his time as vice president. >> i'm not going to go into any specifics from here. if you have any questions any further that's related to review, i refer you to the department of justice or my counsel at the white house office. >> reporter: for biden, he has maintained this. >> people know i take classified documents and classified material seriously. >> reporter: even scaled, the

problem has mushroomed in the last five days. >> we're cooperating fully. >> reporter: the outward appearance of normalcy appearing to cover as a scramble to adjust to a new normal, all as new details emerge about ten classified documents at the think tank. it shows storage spaces. it includes documents to president obama including briefing phone calls with the prime minister. >> we have been transparent in the last couple of days. remember, it's an ongoing process. >> reporter: even as another set of documents were found at b biden's wilmington home in his garage around in a room that remains under wraps after it was revealed nearly a couple of

months after its discovery. it's one of the many questions that remain unanswered for a white house facing a most perilous moment. >> we have said we're going to continue to fully cooperate. we have been. the president's lawyers an team has been fully cooperating with the department of justice, and they're certainly going to do that with the special counsel. >> reporter: while president biden's closests advisers have been quietly meeting, when they talk about it, they acknowledge they have no knowledge. most have been surprised every step of the way. in a large part they're trying to maintain some business as usual. in fact, senior white house advisers say they believe when the process lays out, the facts will show the president did and his team did what they were supposed to do, follow the correct protocol when it comes to actually alerting people to the existence of these classified documents. in the meantime they acknowledge

there's not much else they can do but try and implement the very strategy from before five days ago. certainly at least at this point in time, business as usual is the primary goal. phil mattingly, cnn, the white house. president biden welcomed yoshida to the white house since he became japan's prime minister. they pledged security operations. president biden calls it a remarkable moment for the alliance and says the u.s. is fully committed. it was eck cued, increasing the need for defense spending there. >> reporter: japan and the united states are facing the most complex security challenge in history. in order to ensure our peace and prosperity and contribute to that and safeguard the peace and security in japan, late last

year we formulated a new national security strategy and in doing so japan decided to fundamentally reinforce our defense capabilities. >> the japanese plans to have japanese astronauts as part of its artemis mission. it focuses on a christian postal worker who was discriminated against after he said he would not work on sundays. the legal standards have been since 1977 religious accommodations can be denied due to hardship. the supreme court could possibly change that standard. in a newly unsealed deposition that he fought to keep private, former president donald trump denies sexually assaulting a magazine cool

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s soledar. the latest from a ukraine military unit is it's still holding onto some of the town's outskirts. scott joins us live from a foggy kyiv. what can you tell us about the blasts today? >> reporter: this was a couple of hours ago, less than two hours ago actually that we were woken up here in kyiv by three loud explosions very close together, and what was unusual about this is that the air raid sirens in the city went off only moments after the explosions had already taken place. so according to the mayor of kyiv, there were explosions on the eastern bank of the dnipro river, so these beyond the church's dome.

it's very foggy. you can't see if there's any smoke on the horizon. there was also debris reported in a nonresidential area to the south of here, implying that at least one of these missiles or drones was shot down. the same goes for a village to the southwest of here near a major highway. again, not clear of the damage that's being reported there, if it's from debris or from the actual strike. you also mentioned soledar. this is the eastern town in ukraine that russia is throwing all their resources there in order to try to take i. ukrainians insist the fighting continues there despite the russian military and private wagner military contractor saying they are in control there. you mention that video. we want to walk you through what we know about this. this was a video that shows, look, this is still very much

active in the town of soledar in terms of fighting. it shows russian soldiers walking along a roadway under a bridge and then they get to a room and then you see this massive skploes take place. the ukrainian troops say they had been monitoring that building since the morning, and obviously they say the fighting there continues. we're hearing from one of the brigades that's doing much of the fighting in soledar. they say they're hanging on but there's heavy fighting in the town and they're being surrounded. we've been in touch with a soldier over the last few days. the day before yesterday his soldier said his window to actually get out was closing fast and as of yesterday it appears that that window was firmly shut. he believes his unit has been

left to surrender and he won't be able to hide for very long because there continues to be gunfire, fights in the streets, and it's only a matter of time, he thinks, before the russians will eventually close in. kim? >> all right. appreciate that. scott mclean in kyiv. thanks so much. cnn is on the ground just outside of that town, and our ben wedeman got a firsthand look at what's happening there. >> reporter: one mortar round off. the crew prepares for the next. the target, russian positions in soledar. the leader of this national guard mortar unit who gave us only his nickickname, engineer, says they need help to stop the

advancing. we need 120 millimeter rounds for the mortar, he says. we also would be happy if someone gave us as a surprise two or three mortars. the battle for soledar rages on. russian officials claim they've seized the ground. ukrainians still insist they still own part of it. what the russians control under heavy fire. ukrainian tactics designed to make every step forward come at a heavy price. despite the battle nearby, this soldier nicknamed sova is certain of how the war will end. to be honest, in the first days i had some doubts because according to the news, russia has the strongest army, he says. but since we pushed them back

from kyiv, i'm confident we can win. for the few remaining civilians near soledar, exhaustion. nine months, says valentina, flying back and forth over my head. with conflicting rumors coming from the town, helena says her family is leaving. the soldiers are surrounded, she tells me. my sister's pregnant. she decided to leave, so we'll follow her. late afternoon ukrainian marines prepare rockets. the battle for soledar is not over yet. ben wedeman, cnn, outside soledar. >> ukraine is stepping up

efforts to get military tanks. he discussed it with his counterpart antony blinken. france is promising to deliver tanks like this one in the next two months while poland and finland are supplying leopard t tanks. going forward, estonia will no longer take in ukrainian refugees. it's approaching a borderline when it will be unable to off all the unnecessary support. instead finland has agreed to take 100 ukrainian refugees a week and estonia is offering support. nearly 8 million ukrainians have fled for other countries since russia invaded in february. the british prime minister is condemning iran for executing

former iranian official in dual citizenship. he was hanged for, quote, corruption on earth, a term used to describe a broad range of offenses. he had been accused of spying for british intelligence. we get more from our reporter in london. what more can you tell us about this case? >> reporter: according to reports, he was arrested back in 2019. as you laid out, he was accused of spying on behalf of the united kingdom. in the announcement of his execution, the news outlet associated with iran's jurisdiction said he had taken cooperation for large sums of money. previously we heard the iranian intel jensen agency identified akbari as working for the secret

intelligence service reporting information of the united kingdom. these accusations have long been refuted by akbari. we have heard pleas for akbari's release from detention for the halting of his execution clearly to no avail. today the announcement he was hanged in response to those allegations. of course, this has drawn widespread criticism. he said on twitter, this was a kacallous and cowardly act, carried out by a barbaric regime with no respect for the human rights of their own people. my thoughts are with his friends and family. he said this will not go

unchallenged by the united kingdom. they have already summoned iran's representative to the united kingdom in response to this latest execution. but, of course, this follows a wave of executions that we have seen in iran particularly in relation to the antiregime protests that we have seen. the fear now is that we could continue to see this hard-line response to any signs of dissent in iran. >> you mention this slate of executions. why is that? what message is iran trying to send? >> well, look. they have identified akbari as having worked as an undercover agent. of course, we are seeing the regime attempting to get a tighter grip on any signs of dissent within the country in reaction to those protests. we've already seen four people

executed in relation to their participation in these protests, and, of course, there's now a concern we could see this trend. we've heard from another human rights organization saying there could be more executions in the coming weeks. there is fear there is little leverage left for the international community to hold the iranians to account when it comes to these executions. >> thanks so much nana bashir, live in london. hamlin's collapse horrified the world, but con spear cysts wasted no time blasting out that covid vaccines were to blame for it. it's spreading once again. we'll have more of that. stay with us.

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watching us here in the united states, canada, and all around the world. i'm kim brunhuber. this is "cnn newsroom." it's an issue sure to bring the first major showdown for the new u.s. congress as they are closer to reaching their debt limit. it could happen less than a week with default possible as soon as june. he's urging lawmakers to work together to avoid the default which would be a financial armageddon. listen to this. >> i understand why republicans might want to use it to get some stuff, and i'm not talking about the fight before the debt ceiling. i'm talking about on the day that america can't pay its debt, that has potentially disastrous

outcomes. america doesn't cross default but it's accumulative. pension plans have to sell. it is so potentially dangerous. we shouldn't get anywhere near it. and after all the shenanigans of politics, we're going to have to fix this. i think it's very bad for the nation to constantly be looking at this type of thing. >> the u.s. debt ceiling was last raised in december 2021 to $31.4 trillion. new research shows american families are paying more money every month as they try to keep up with inflation. according to moody's analytics, the average household spends $300 more a month since december. they pay 72 more for food and 47 for utilities. but inflation seems to be

easing. workers are putting the finishing touches on getting the swiss resort town ready for the business and the political elite. ukraine will send a high-level delegation and several sessions will be held on the war. russia won't be attending the conference. some of the topics will be how to avoid the risk of a global recession in 2023 as well as the global effort to tackle the climate crisis. >> there is no doubt that our 53rd annual meeting in davos will happen against the most complex geopolitical and geo economic backdrop in decades. so much is at stake. a hole can be avoided, global energy and food prices and also halting a further escalation of the global crisis.

>> organizers say they're expecting a record turnout this year, more than 2,500 people. 52 heads of state will be there as well as 56 finance ministers, 19 bank governors and 39 leaders of agencies and cnn will be there. join richard quest and julia chatterley. many people have stopped wearing masks in public, but the world is urging everyone to mask up if they're exposed to the virus or if they're in a crowded ventilation space. they recommend new guidelines recommending symptomatic patients test. those who have no symptoms are still encouraged to isolate for five full days. the cdc says it has identified a possible violation

issue with the pfizer vaccine but they're still encouraging people to stake caught up with shots. there is a chance for a stroke for those 65 and older. but half a million seniors who got the shot and were tracked b within the first three weeks. none died. and the cdc says the risks posed by the booster are outweighed by the dangers of covid for older adults. now the cdc's acknowledgement of concerns like these are likely to amplify unproven claims the vaccines are leading to deaths from other causes. we've seen this false narrative spring up reclement i recently as celebrities have suffered heart issues. lisa marie presley died. it's a tactic that outrages

cnn's dr. jonathan rainer. here he is. >> really a whirl winld of conspiracy theories that people are die because of covid vaccines when, in fact, we have safety data from over 600 million people in this country who have received these vaccines showing they've been incredibly safe and well tolerated. and the use of these public tragedies to promote ant anti-vaxing, i think, are just despicable. >> sports journalist grant wall died while covering the world cup in qatar, and accusations flew on social media that covid vaccines caused his aneurysm. his wife felt compelled to write an opinion column to refute those complaints. the loudest was when damar hamlin collapsed after a seemingly routine hit.

congresswoman marjorie taylor greene tweeted this. before the vaccine, we didn't see players dropping on the field. now, of course, damar hamlin didn't drop dead on the field and is being released from the hospital. there is the co-host of the podcast con spirituality, and he joins us now. thanks for joining us. i hear it all the time, not from the high-profile anti-vaxxers. otherwise rational people, as soon as someone dies suddenly, they start speculating about the covid vaccine being possibly the cause. and this is sometimes coming from folks who eave had the shot. so why is this type of misinformation becoming so pervasive? >> well, if you follow the anti-vax playbook over the last 25 years since andrew

wakefield's studies, you'll notice there's been constant penetration into mainstream audiences, and with the way social media travels these days with misinformation traveling faster than credible information, it's not a surprise they would jump p on any opportunity to get their propaganda across. so any time you hear about an athlete injury or death or celebrity injury or death, before you can even understand what happened, you're going to see this sort of quote, unquote speculation coming from anti-vaxxers trying to push forward their message. >> yeah. just asking the question, as they always say. a lot comes from the right wing anti-vaxxers and the left wing wellness community. you've written a book about this seemingly unlikely union. so why are we seeing this trend from both ends of the political

and ideological spectrum? >> well, they're both rooted in a very american sense of individualism. on the right wing it's that pull yourself up by the bootstraps. but on the left wing there's a long-standing idea that's proliferated in yoga studios, you are your own best doctor, your diet will yield you, your intuitions are your best guides, so you should use those ideas. they're not new ideas. they've been used for decades. but usually in moments of trauma such as a pandemic, you're going to see people sort of coming back into their corners of individualistic thinking and looking for anything that will help them feel better, and so you have this strange intersection occurring at that time where the political facade sort of falls down and it really

comes back to this really refined sense of ego. >> so we've seen that intersection accelerate throughout the course of the pandemic, but you might sort of expect them to decouple now that the mask mandates, social distancing, isolation, all that stuff from the pandemic are largely a thing of the past, but has that happened, or have they sort of fused permanently, and if so, what does that mean going forward? >> well, i don't think anything is permanent. but one thing we've noticed on conspirituality, these conspiracies always track right. you won't see right wing activists coming over to left wing thinking and progressivism. it's always going to be the more liberals moving over to the right. so people i know from my yoga communities, all of a sudden i see how great ron desantis is, for example. so i think it's going to be very

hard to decouple at this point. i don't know whattite's going to take, what sort of literacy or education is necessary, but i think we're going to be stuck in this pattern for a while, and your guess is as good as mine as to how we get out of it. >> then that was going to be my next question. how much is genuine belief and how much is a grift that people know better by, but they're jus exploiting others? >> you can tell who's grifting. watch what they say and then watch what they sell. for example, if someone is talking negatively about the covid vaccines and say they're some deep state operative or they're not going to be good for you but they're selling supplements that could never be scientifically tested, you can tell there's an agenda there. for a lot of people who are

confused and don't have the medical or scientific literature, they get caught up in it. they're not going to get future vaccinations or seek medical attention, and instead by these supplements that are not going to be doing anything for them. >> it's very frightening, and the fact there isn't an easy solution for this makes it so much harder to height. but conversations like this hopefully will help. really appreciate having you on, derek beres. thank you so much. more to come on cnn. we'll hear from a father of one of the idaho college students killed late last year. he'll talk about life since thtt terrible crime. from chest congestion and any type of cough, day or night. mucinex dm. it's comeback season.

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be laid to rest. lisa marie presley will be buried at her childhood home at graceland in nashville, tennessee. she'll be placed next to her son benjamin who died by suicide at the age of 27. lisa died after being hospitalized for cardiac arrest. fans have been leaving flowers and notes at graceland, which is a popular tourist attraction. cnn learns posts have been made by kohberger. they were made while he was a teenager. he reportedly wrote, i am blank, i have no opinion, i have no emotion, i have nothing. in another he wrote, as i hug my family, i look into their faces. i see something. it's like i'm looking at a video game, but less. one of the article's authors described some of the other posts. here she is.

>> he's really hard on himself saying he feels worthless, that he's a jerk to people in his life and doesn't feel bad about it afterward. he also talked particularly about his dad, saying he treats his dad like dirt even though he thinks of him as a good guy. >> the father of one of the idaho students killed last november says surviving grief comes one day at a time. ben mogen told cnn 21-year-old madison mogen was bright and bubbly and loved watching live music with him. he said frequent reminders of his daughter really hit him. >> sometimes when i see her picture, you know, i'll just be somewhere random and i'll see her picture up on the tv screen or see her name in print, and i don't know if i'll ever get used to that really. it's so -- it's just so surreal. she could have done anything she wanted to. she was so bright and so good

with people and just so -- just had a magnetic personality. yeah, she could have done anything she wanted to, and i -- i couldn't wait to see where she went with things. >> his comments come a day after suspect bryan kohberger appeared in court. he's currently held without bond in idaho, facing four counts of first-degree murder. brazilian authorities will investigate whether former president jair bolsonaro was involved in riots last sunday. the supreme court said he should be included in the inquiry in order that a video he quoted and deleted be preserved. until now he's not been directly linked to the investigation, and his lawyer denied he condoned any vandalism. more than 1,800 people have been deta detained as his supporters.

please said thursday they found an unsigned draft decree overturning the election in the home of bolsonaro's former justice minister. they replaced three senior ministers after a spate of regular res ig nations over the unrest. new ministers were sworn in by the president on state tv. the president did, however, call for early elections in a concession to one of the demands for protesters. they also asked for forgiveness for the deaths that occurred amid clashes between the police and demonstrators. at least 49 people have died since protests erupted in december. still ahead, police are looking into the lost then found clouded leopard at the dallas zoo. investigators don't think the leopard acted alone.

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thermal imageries. that's very important to multiple the turtle population over time and assess the effectiveness of the conservation actions they're doing here. ite on the border of bolivia and brazil. turtles are nesting between the two countries. it's very important that they both coordinate and work together for the protection of the species. what is taking place here right now is what we could consider a nature spectacle or wonder of nature because over 60,000 females gather here to nest. it's an incredible site and an amazing event. one lucky lottery ticket in maine was sold that beat the astronomical odds in the mega millions jackpot that was worth

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