>> at least 10 people have now died because of it. four of those deaths in kentucky where the issue have issued including flooding and damaging winds. nearly 1,000,000 1/2 ohms business or power, kentucky, tennessee and michigan now reported the highest number of outages. the northern part of the storm, and the northeast with heavy snow. which is expected to last throughout saturday, parts of new england might see as much as 16 inches of snow. winter storm warnings are now up from michigan to maine, winter storm warnings are up again and parts of the west as a new system moves in, some places in northern california

can see more than two places of snow officials say they have had more snow this winter than they have had in two decades, that has been critical in helping replenish some of the states reservoirs, even so the water flow is still well below average, only a year ago, the entire state was in a drought. now thanks to these winter storms it has been cut in half. parts of southern california have seen snow for the first time in decades but in the san bernardino mountains, there has been so much snow that people are trapped and in danger, cnn's, has more on that. >> at first i was really frustrated but now we are scared. >> reporter: derek hayes is trapped in the mountains of southern california after an epic winter storm. >> there is no way to put the snow, no way to walk around it, up to my neck in a lot of

places, you take a step and you have to crawl yourself back out of the snow to try to get on top of it and look around. >> reporter: derek, just one of many who are stranded. >> it is pretty unfathomable. >> reporter: the only thing they can do is wait for help. >> it is just crazy, there is no way to get out anywhere. >> reporter: their concerns, food, heat and medical emergencies, medicine and food for their pets, just to name a few. the san bernardino mountains, do get plenty of snow in the winter. the past few weeks have been unprecedented. with the national weather service issuing its first ever blizzard warning. >> our main concern right now is to try to get the infrastructure of the mountain to be able to clear some roadways so that we can essentially get the people that live up there back to their houses and people who are stuck up there back down. >> reporter: emergency crews so

far carrying out roughly 100 rescues. governor gavin newsom, also declaring a state of emergency for san bernardino county and 12 others. activating the national guard. residents say that lives are in danger. >> we are actually going to be getting a neighbor out of his house, and he is a cancer patient, who is elderly and he has a doctors appointment that is going to try to get to. >> reporter: some have been shoveling nonstop. >> to take out the truck for the first time. >> reporter: but not all are able to do so. >> it is one of the roughest experiences that you sort of go into survival mode. and you just keep pushing through. you know i feel incredibly bad for anyone that hasn't got that physical presence. >> reporter: and authorities apologizing for the time it is

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adverse health effects starting to show among residents near train derailment, a train carrying hazardous materials jumped the tracks and caught fire on february 3rd, now a state health survey says that many residents are complaining of headaches, anxiety, coughing, fatigue and skin irritation officials say that water tells the is not showing dangerous levels of any contaminants, the rail operator, norfolk southern has been

ordered to fully cleanup the site, a source says the environmental protection agency has not accepted the company's plan yet and expects an update next week. local residents believe that the derailment may have long-term effects no matter what the plan is, we are concerned that potentially toxic chemicals may have seeped into the ecosystem. finding out, they are not sure that their lives may ever be the same again. -- >> come on girls. >> reporter: dave anderson raises grass fed beef for miles downwind of east palestinian, ohio, after the venting of toxic chemicals, this is what drifted over his echo valley farm. >> as far as the smoke you can see 100 yards, it was dark. >> reporter: what did you experience. >> burning eyes, burning throat, burning mouth. >> reporter: the cloud of toxic settled on his pasture, the question he can now not answer,

on the cattle he has raised for years okay for customer consumption. >> customers that buy grass fed beef, they care about their food. >> reporter: they want to know what they are getting. >> they want to know it is healthy for them. >> reporter: he has now sued norfolk southern and he wants testing, a process a way to certify his livestock is safe. >> the lawsuit is about peace of mind and information to make decisions. >> reporter: solid information here, tough to come by and officials have established a two-mile zone around the derailment site because anderson's farm is farther away despite being in the path of the plume from the toxic spill he has yet received little support and no answers from pennsylvania's department of environmental protection. what will assuage her concerns? >> testing, but there has been no testing. >> reporter: nine. dep has not been out here at all. >> dep came out here four weeks after the event.

>> reporter: they tested samples? >> no, they were testing whether they should be active in this area outside of the two- mile range. >> reporter: the crash occurred two feet of the pennsylvania border and the winds blow east towards pennsylvania and the state is going house to house testing soil and water in areas closest to the derailment. -- what did you see that night? >> standing at the end of the driveway, i saw, a huge plume of smoke, i saw flames above the treetops, well over 100 feet in the air. >> reporter: samuel wenger and their wife had their fourth child, jackson hazel weeks ago. he said, the state's response has been too slow in lacking information to know whether his town of darlington, pennsylvania is still a safe place to raise a family. -- have you tested your well? >> we were told it would be another three weeks until results.

>> reporter: langer who works in landscaping says they evacuated for four days but moving permanently is not an option. -- how tough was it to come back to the house knowing that you bring a newborn hair? >> i feel like i regret the decision every day. but here, we live paycheck to paycheck and we live within our means. and we don't have the financial luxury to pack up and move. it is scary. >> reporter: the cdc conducting a health survey in and around east palestinian, trying to determine the long-term effects on long-term health, while air and water testing is occurring daily, the answers about long- term health will not come quickly. >> we are hoping in the next couple of weeks to have collected all of the information that we need. and those results will be available in the coming months. >> reporter: for pennsylvania residents and business owners, downwind of the toxic fire, answers cannot come soon enough.

-- if you are losing business because people aren't sure to eat your food. >> i think so, i lost a wedding over that, and a catering job. they don't know. i don't think there is anything wrong with anything but i don't know any thing either. >> reporter: it must hurt. >> it sucks. i am sorry, it is the uncertainty. >> reporter: pennsylvania officials have pushed back hard on the notion that not enough is being done to help people in the area, they have tested nearly every private well within a two-mile radius of the derailment and they have a soil sampling, a program that they are about to get underway. they have worked with state veterinarians and animal welfare experts to ensure that farmers know best practices for the situation and they have opened a health clinic in darlington and the area, that anyone can use, 200 people or more have already used it at this point and they are welcoming more to come.

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welcome back to our viewers around the world. i am laila harrak and you are watching cnn newsroom. the presidential hopeful contenders have been making their case in maryland, former south carolina governor told the conservative political action conference that it was time for a new generation to step up and meanwhile former secretary of state mike pompeo

increased speculation that he's ready to take a run at the white house with his comments about a crisis of conservatism. for many people people will be former president donald trump. as trump dominates the conference several big-name republicans are staying away. our jeff zeleny is there for us. >> reporter: it has long been a command performance for republicans harboring white house ambitions. >> it is great to be back at cpac. mike but at the annual conference the parade of potential presidential hopefuls is far shorter. former south carolina governor nikki haley. >> if you are tired of losing, put your trust in a new generation and if you want to win, not just as a party but as a country, then stand with me. >> reporter: former secretary of state, mike pompeo gently called for a new direction.

>> we should find power in the rooms, like this one. >> reporter: but the long- running three-day gathering called cpac is now seen as trump show. -- >> my people it is beautiful. -- >> reporter: the former president, joining a sea of loyal supporters and members of his own family. >> your own president, president telephone will be here. >> reporter: a rally to return him to office but other big- name contenders who many republican city as the parties future has other plans. last year, florida governor ron desantis took to the stage as a rising star. but as he inches closer to the clearing of the presidential bid he attended a gathering of donors in florida hosted by club for growth, and antitax group urging the party to move on from top several potential rivals also skipped cpac and headed to florida including warmer vice president mike pence south carolina tim scott, kristi noem, and new hampshire governor chris sununu. but adoration for trump was on full display at cpac where eb

phillips took a seat at a replica desk against the backdrop of a faux oval office. >> trump first and then desantis, let's do that in 28. >> reporter: from jacksonville, florida, she won a desantis hat. she is torn but believes that trump is the stronger choice for 2024. >> i believe this had. but that is enough i love donald trump. >> reporter: at the early stage of the campaign it is hardly a two-man contest as an ohio businessman who jumped in the race last month made clear on the cpac state. >> when we rally behind the quite a make america great again. we did not just hunger for a single man. we hungered for the unapologetic pursuit of excellence, that is what it means to be an american. >> reporter: even as the republican field grows, the conversations at cpac and the

comparisons between the candidates always came back to trial. >> i think governor desantis is wonderful and amazing. i don't think it is his time yet. if you can give it for years and i think you would be a great successor to trial. >> reporter: as former president donald trump comes to the final day of the convention. all eyes are on his message, will be distinguish himself among his growing field of rivals, his aides say expect them to do that, particularly going after ron desantis but this is far more than any two- person race this campaign is just getting underway. jeff zeleny, cnn, maryland. cnn senior political analyst ron brownstein joins me from los angeles also a senior editor at the atlantic. hello, ron, cpac mired in controversy. some conspicuous absences. is cpac still the place to be? >> not really, in the republican party. it has its internal problems

with the person who runs it, the sexual misconduct by another republican but also seen as a trump subsidiary at this point. it is reflected in one way of an interesting kind of evolution and trump's appeal in the republican party when he won the first time it was surprisingly little differentiation in the support from very conservative voters to moderate voters. this time, if you look at the early polling about 2024, he is much more dependent on the conservative voices in the party and the conservative voters. you can see that reflected in the fact that he's dominant at cpac meanwhile most of the field in his backyard in south florida auditioning for the club for growth which is a conservative group that focuses on economic issues. >> meanwhile, ron desantis is visiting southern california and that of attending cpac were you surprised by that. was that a missed opportunity for him? >> first of all i think it's first going to be at the club for growth meeting.

in south florida and then coming out to california and speaking to orange county republicans at the library on sunday. i think ron desantis in general is someone who is very determined to set his own path and not really follow in the organizations that dictates and leads on how he should be spending his time. but i think he has calculated as have many of the others that cpac reflects a trump stick constituency. the other event that is going on, this club for growth event is interesting because it reflects the continuation of what we saw in 2016 that a lot of the big institutions in the republican party want to stop donald trump and find someone else. when they couldn't do that and could not unify. with the alternative, when trump took the lead, they all fell in line quickly from the elected officials to the big donors and it will be interesting to see whether the opposition this time from institutional forces in the gop is more effective or more durable than it was in 2016.

>> nikki haley at cpac said friday that she is running, to quote, stop the downward spiral to socialism and and the self- loathing that has taken over our country. ron desantis also painting himself as a potential candidate to take on the social left. is tackling the theme emerging from the republican candidates quest >> i think it is, certainly in the republican high mary, this week, if you are looking at the watching on conservative media, it is not the reagan issues of strong national defense, balancing budgets are cutting taxes, they're talking about attacking the left and pretty much any agenda that is seen as advancing the causes are advocating for racial equity, gender equity, more inclusion of lgbtq. all of that is being condemned as woke, and there is a lot of power in that inside a republican primary electorate, it is what ron desantis has

rocketed to a position of, you know, going to help her toe with donald trump and many of these polls. it is an open question to me, though. whether this can sell beyond red america. in those white-collar swing counties outside of detroit, philadelphia and phoenix and atlanta and madison and milwaukee, that republicans have to win back to gain the presidency again. is this really an agenda that is going to bring back to those suburban voters if trump was polarizing, desantis may be the finding himself too much in a trump like manner to truly be competitive for those voters if he gets that far. >> now, donald trump will deliver the keynote address on saturday, is he still a front runner to become the republican nominee? >> i think he is, i think desantis is in a strong position against them at this point than any other candidates in the 2015 or 20 2016.

i think trump is the front runner primarily because he has such a hold on the blue-collar side of the party. the basic dynamic in 2016 was that trump won the nomination because he has consolidated the blue-collar half of the party to a much greater degree than anybody consolidated the other half just a white-collar half which was very dubious even then, if you look at the early polling you can see something of the same dynamic where trump has looked strong without a college degree and he is still facing a lot of resistance among republican voters with a college degree. but they at this point are splintering more among the alternatives, desantis does have the ability to put together a cross class cross ideology coalition and pose a bigger threat i think to trump that anyone did in 2016, but that is still on paper. trump still has a big piece of the party and someone is going to have to solve a rubik's cube

of putting together just enough of the blue-collar side of the white-collar side to get past his really dominant position with those working-class republicans. >> ron brownstein, thank you so very much. >> thank you. steve bannon, a former adviser to donald trump slamming rupert murdoch and fox news for disrespecting the former president. in a fiery speech at cpac, bannon branded murdoch a bunch of foreigners and gave the fox corporation chairman this ultimatum. -- >> okay, murdoch this is the way it's going to be, you have disrespected donald j trump long enough, okay. they don't respect you, read the depositions, the deposition, they have a fear of loathing and contempt for you. the murdochs immediately have to start covering president trump. >> while those depositions, bennett was talking about a related 1.6 billion dollars defamation lawsuit brought by

dominion voting systems, and that deposition which has recently made public, rupert murdoch conceded that some fox news hosts endorsed false claims that the 2020 election was stolen and he also admitted in hindsight that he would have liked the network to have been stronger in denouncing the former president's lies. a coalition of 60 democratic attorneys are them condemning florida governor ron desantis after his administration asked public colleges in his state for information about students receiving and or affirming healthcare. the coalition said with a letter sent on friday said that the request threatens to undermine the private medical decisions made by individuals. and risks the lives and well- being of some of the most vulnerable people. the 16 attorney general's say they are trying to protect citizens from their states who are part of florida's university system. it is unclear why the desantis

administration is seeking personal information and cnn has reached out to the governor's office for comments. tenancy joins other republican-led states seeking to restrict drive shows and gender affirming care, for minors. governor bill lee signed both pieces of legislation into law on thursday and they go into effect on july 1st. nearly a dozen bills limiting dried performances are working their way through republican- led state legislatures and the aclu says more than 80 bills nationwide seek to restrict access to gender affirming care. major medical associations agree that such care is clinically appropriate for both children, adults with gender dysphoria, but treatment is highly individualized and surgical intervention is not typically performed on children. we have learned that u.s. president joe biden had a cancerous lesion removed from his skin during last months

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i am rachel solomon in new york and this is cnn. the palestinian village in the occupied west bank has been rocked by violence. last week a mob of israeli settlers burned cars and homes

and killed a palestinian man after two israeli brothers were killed. palestinians had been flooding the streets to protest violence, the tense situation had escalated since the far right minister said he thought the village should be quote, he raised, on friday the eu ambassador to the palestinian territories toward the scene and called for accountability. on the palestinian village experiencing the worst israeli settler violence. >> reporter: this is the palestinian village the far right minister says need to be erased. where israeli settlers tried to do just that on sunday. revenge attacks after the killings of two israeli brothers by palestinian gunmen. days later, the smell of burning rather rubber lingers in the air, as residents cleanup shattered glass, burnt out cars, lichen buildings, one

palestinian man killed in the chaos. along flashpoint between israeli settlers and palestinians partly due to the highway that runs through it. where residents say that sunday was some of the worst attacks they had ever seen. >> translator: they usually attack us, if we try to defend ourselves, they will use weapons. the last time it was different, wherever you look there are bullets fired. everywhere. >> reporter: security cameras, show mast settlers gathering flammable material to settle this home on fire. the door is literally melting. 10-year-old lamar says that her room's window was broken by three big stones. -- >> translator: mom hit us in our room and went to the rooftop to see what was happening we heard them breaking the windows and we didn't do anything to them. >> reporter: two-year-old sister jumped when she hears a

noise outside. >> translator: big fire, she whispers, a reference to the cars set ablaze at her family's auto repair shop. their mother hannah are saying that her children are traumatized. -- >> translator: they burned the cars and shot three bullets towards me and screaming, to arabs, we will wipe out. >> reporter: a few days later, the phrase echoed by the israeli finance minister. >> translator: i think the village needs to be erased. i think that the state of israel needs to do this and god for bid not private people. >> reporter: tweeting later that he didn't mean it and wants to act in a targeted manner against the terrorists and supporters of terrorism. >> these comments were irresponsible. >> reporter: the u.s. state department calling his comments repugnant. at least a dozen southard had been arrested according to

israeli police and now i have a military presence in town. israeli soldiers telling our team to stop filming because it is a close military zone. israeli authorities search for the gunmen that killed the two israeli brothers and to keep israeli settlers out of town. cnn. >> family friend and movie fans remembering saving private ryan actor who passed away on friday. his representative says that sizemore died peacefully in his sleep at 61, with his brother and sons at his side. hospitalized in a coma since last month when he suffered a brain aneurysm that was triggered by a stroke and sizemore often played tough guys and best known for his movies heat and black hawk down along with the tv series, china beach and his brother called him larger-than-life. we will be right back.

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