was my 41-year-old husband jay. nine brutal and terrifying months later i became a widow and our daughters, elie and carrie, fatherless. >> there still is an opportunity for you to donate, just go to stand up to cancer.org. >> please do, if you can make a donation. this work that katie has led in honor of her late husband is remarkable and in 15 years look at how much they've done. that aired all over the place on saturday night. good for her. >> it was good to see so much support for the organization and still obviously so much work to do. >> we will see you back here tomorrow morning. have a great day. "cnn news central" starts now. ♪ heavy rain, severe wind, flooding and an earthquake,

california can't catch a break. this morning about 25 million people are under flood warnings across the western u.s. the damage storm hillary has lend where it's headed now. this is the week donald trump and 18 others now charged in georgia will have to surrender, turning themselves in to atlanta's fulton county jail, just as one of the accused makes a big move to try to get his charges dropped. president biden on his way to maui with more than 800 people still unaccounted for after the deadly wildfires. i'm john berman with kate bolduan and sara sidner. this is "cnn news central." ♪ this morning storm hillary is now moving north as a post-tropical cyclone after shattering rainfall records in southern california and leaving

behind life-threatening flooding. flood watches remain in place for 25 million people up and down the west coast. look at those pictures out of cathedral city, california. this is video overnight showing part of the california desert, yep, under water. that's right. that's near palm springs where there have been three swift water rescues and officials have declared a local emergency as 911 lines are still down. palm springs received half a year's worth of rain in just six hours yesterday, turning golf courses into lakes. meanwhile, a treacherous scene playing out in the san bernardino mountains. >> holy [ bleep ]. go. >> you hear him saying go because a huge flood of debris has just come barreling down. that's a mudslide there and these firefighters were forced to run as it buried roads on

both sides of their fire station. >> stop. stop. st stop. >> i've seen these in-person, they are incredibly powerful and incredibly dangerous. now, just as hillary slammed the region a magnitude 5.1 perth quake also shook parts of southern california. sneefr oeveryone outside. >> no injuries thankfully reported in the earthquake. north of los angeles a portion of a road broke off as traffic moved right next to it. cnn's stephanie elam has been there all night long and joins us from cathedral city just east

of palm springs. stephanie, it's finally light out, we are finally getting to see this in the daylight. what have you seen and have been experiencing with you and your crew as you've been there for the past several dozen hours? >> reporter: it's a mess now that the sun is coming up, we're getting a better idea of it. i want to add to those stats that you were just giving us there because this actually was the rainiest day ever in the summer in a 100s years of data in palm springs and almost a year's worth of rain fell in a 24-hour period. so that's going to cause a mess, just to put it into perspective how much of a mess, take a listen to what the mayor, grace gardner, of palm springs is saying about current conditions here in this area. take a listen. >> right now we have flooding on all of our roads, there's no way in or out of palm springs and that's the case for the majority of the coachella valley.

we are all stuck. our major freeway the i-10 is also closed in both directions. >> reporter: so now just to show you what the mayor was talking b take a look at this, now that the sun is out you can really tell, there are two cars there that are completely inundated in mud. and this is a way that would be a thoroughfare to get to interstate 10, but interstate 10 has been inundated with mud so it is also shut down in both directions right now because of all of this thick mud. we can see the water took out this road. let me show you how thick this mud is, i'm going to come down here and hold on to this pole here so i don't fall, but this is what cars were trying to get through. this is why, you can stick your foot in and you have to pull it back out, this is why they don't want people coming down here and this is throughout the coachella

valley. if you look over here you can also see water is still moving now that the sun is up, moving through this mud. it is a mess out here. this is why schools are closed. this is also why you're seeing a lot of people are still going to have trouble getting around today, sara. >> watching you put your boot in there i just was sure you were going to lose that boot. tell you and your crew, i know you have a heavy cam ration be safe out there, i don't want to hear you guys getting stuck in all that muck. thankfully you are okay and so far that area is a mess but people are safe at this hour. stephanie elam, thank you so much. appreciate you. kate? so right now post-tropical cyclone hillary is pushing north and bringing big rains and continued high winds with it. rainfall totals are stacking up quickly. we are just seeing from stephanie elam what it looks like in cathedral city. parts have seen upwards of 10 inches of rain in the past 24 hours. derek van dam is tracking the

path and we are seeing what's left behind, what is the flooding looking forward? >> this is the result of that 10 inches plus of rain, debris flows, mudslides, you saw it in stephanie's live shot a moment ago. they are so dangerous. zoom into what's some of the best video we have had come into cnn, look at the debris caught up in this. there are boulders, there are rocks, there are entire tree trunks, sometimes homes and vehicles can get swept away in this torrent of mud and debris that can travel over 30 to 40 miles per hour. we talk about burn scars quite often and they are so dangerous for the mountainous terrain of southern california. these burns, the forest fires can occur several years prior to this event, but when we see the burn scars lasting effect on the landscape, it's when we get these heavy rain events in the middle of summer when it's its driest when we have the biggest impacts.

the forest canopy that normally absorbs the rain, the organic material on the surface of the earth is no longer there in a burn scar so it creates a layer that literally repels water. it doesn't take much rain, in this case over half a foot, that's a lot of rain in a short period of time, to create that loosening of the dirt, loosening of the debris and that leads downhill, again, traveling speeds well faster than anyone can outrun, that is why it is so dangerous in the mountainous terrain of southern california. kate? >> that's what we are looking at right now, you can see it throughout that video behind you. thank you so much, derek, we will be checking in with you more throughout the day. >> a vocabulary lesson. i never knew the phrase hydrophobic layer. this morning jailhouse countdown. donald trump and his accused 18 co-conspirators have until noon on friday so surrender at the

fulton county jail. trump could show up at any moment, it's staffed 24 hours a day, but a senior law enforcement source tells cnn the former president is expected to surrender on thursday or friday, he could be fingerprinted and have a mugshot taken. katelyn polantz live outside the courthouse in atlanta where some of the action will also take place later this week. katelyn, what's the latest? >> reporter: john, whenever you are arrested here in the state of georgia as criminal defendant you have to be processed, but before you're processed at the jail there is a process before that and the process before that is that there is a negotiation and we've highly expect there to be a negotiation with donald trump and his lawyers or his lawyers acting on his behalf talking to the district attorney's office as soon as today about trying to make the arrest of donald trump in georgia for these charges related to the 2020 election go as smoothly as possible. so they will very likely want to

meet with the da's office, they will very likely want to set up a plan to have trump out on bail, some sort of terms of his release, and then he has to be arrested. he's been arrested three other times for three other cases, but this is a little bit different in that he will have to go to the physical jail, which is at a different location from the courthouse, and wait in that jail to go through the arrest process. even if he has secret service and others around him. charles rambo, a retired lieutenant from the fulton county sheriff's office was on cnn earlier today speaking about how this might defer a little bit for trump than the thousands of other people booked in this jail in fulton county, georgia. >> just from my own experiences in dealing with dignitaries and high-profile persons who come in the jail, it's best to just get those persons booked in as rapidly as possible and get them released because you don't want

the jail to become more of an international theater than it has become here recently. >> reporter: so they're making clear that donald trump is not going to want to sit around in that jail for a long time waiting for his arrest to be fully processed before he can be arraigned and enter his pleading of not guilty here, the same process or something very similar to it may be playing out with those other 18 defendants in this criminal case brought by the da's office. >> one of those defendants is the president's -- former president's former chief of staff mark meadows who just filed a motion to have his case, the charges against him, di missed. on what grounds, katelyn? >> reporter: right, john. mark meadows is really doing something very quick here and he's clearly a person to watch among these 19 defendants, including trump. maybe the second most important person to watch here than trump

himself. mark meadows was chief of staff under trump. he's already gone to federal court and said, please, take my case out of state court, put it into federal court. there's going to be a hearing on that next week, john, but he's also saying these charges should be dismissed against me because everything i did after the dee election was as service as chief of staff to donald trump. >> sort of the benny youngman defense. take my case, please. thank you very much. >> joining us now is former federal and state prosecutor david weinstein. i want to ask you about john and katelyn were asking about which is meadows asking for a federal court to dismiss all of the charges against him by georgia. totally normal, but this is happening really quickly. does he have a footing here? >> well, he needs to get his

case into federal district court first and that's the first motion that he has filed and that's pending right now, that's set for a hearing next monday, the 28th. he has footing here because of the job he performed and the fact that he was a federal officer and he claims performing duties that were consistent with his job. so he has footing. whether or not that footing is going to slip or whether it's going to take hold in an ultimate dismissal, that's a totally different question. >> i want to ask you about the mar-a-lago documents case because we have two people we know who have talked about this. mike pence says he was unaware of any broad-based efforts by donald trump to declassify documents before donald trump left office. and we know we've heard from donald trump over and over again that he says he declassified them, he said he did it mentally, said he's done it in other ways. let's listen to what mike pence said about that. >> in my case i was never made aware of any broad-based effort

to declassify documents. there is a process that the white house goes through to declassify materials, i'm aware of that occurring on several occasions over the course of our four years, but i don't have any knowledge of any broad-based directive from the president, but that doesn't mean it doesn't occur, it's just not something that i ever heard about. >> well, here is someone else who says that he is not aware of it as well, the white house former chief of staff, mark meadows, who was also, as you know, charged in the other case in georgia, who says, look, i didn't ever hear him talking about declassifying these documents, either. so this seems like a nice piece of evidence for the prosecution in the documents case. how can it be used? >> well, it is a nice piece of evidence, it's certainly one of the defenses that the former president has put forward. the problem here, sara is they can't just snap their fingers

and declassify a document as the former vice president said, there is a process and it's not one that's across the board, it's individualized as to documents and now there are two witnesses potentially for the government who say we never saw or heard anything about any of these documents being declassified. so the government's case is that they are still classified so these certainly are going to be two helpful witnesses for the government. >> they aren't just any witnesses, we are talking about a former vice president and a former white house chief of staff. they are knowledgeable people as to what was going on you would think. david weinstein, thank you so much for giving us that analysis. appreciate you. kate? the big announcement and the big wait. donald trump says what he is going to be doing instead of participating in the first republican primary debate. just before he must show up to surrender himself to the fulton county jail. plus, a woman is shot and killed. why police believe it had to do

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including military members of the coast guard, members of the u.s. army corps of engineers have been on the ground, billions of dollars already being disbursed to help residents there, but it will also be an opportunity for the president to display that signature empathy, that role of consoler in chief that has been a critical part of his political life and presidency. today the president will be able to tour some of the damage both from the air as he gets a helicopter tour of the island as he arrives in hawaii later today but also on the ground in lahaina where some of the worst devastation from these wildfires has been. the president is going to meet there with first responders, with local officials, he's also going to deliver remarks about the enduring federal response, the plans to stay there for the long term, and he will also meet privately with victims' families, with survivors and with volunteers of this rescue effort. the president saying in a statement, quote, i will do everything in my power to help maui recover and rebuild from

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right now we are giving you a live look at the fulton county jail in atlanta where at any time donald trump and his 18 accused co-conspirators could show up and surrender on criminal charges in the georgia election probe. they are facing a friday deadline to voluntarily turn themselves in. and while we wait for that, we are just two days away from the first republican presidential debate and donald trump says, nah, i'm not going to be there. the gop front runner told his followers over the weekend that he plans to skip wednesday's debate in milwaukee and possibly all of the debates. inside trump is rumored to be planning to sit down for an interview with former fox news

host tucker carlson instead. cnn's kristen holmes is following the story for us from washington, d.c. trump says he's not interested in doing the debate, not going to do it, but this does give the other candidates a little chance at some limelight. what are we expecting? >> reporter: sara, that's exactly right. when it comes to trump i spoke to a trump adviser today and we knew that this was expected, that he wasn't going to attend this debate and they point to the fact that they believe that the risk of him attending the debate is actually more than him skipping the debate. you talk about his poll numbers, g we know trump has talked about himself, this commanding lead that the former president has when it comes to the republican primary, and they say that while there might be a breakout star, might be a star that has a moment during this debate, they look at that lead and they don't believe that it would be enough to close that gap that trump is leading by. they also talk about the fact that trump himself if he's on the stage automatically they believe will become the punching bag which they think makes it harder if he's actually not on

that stage. i spoke to a lot of republican operatives who said that they hoped that he would still attend. they were holding out hope, even though there was this reporting that he was not going to attend and even hours before he posted we heard from the rnc chairwoman, take a listen to what she said. >> i'm still holding out hope that president trump will come. i think it's so important that the american people hear from all the candidates. >> reporter: now, doesn't seem like that's going to happen, but we do know there are going to be several other candidates up on that stage, chris christie, tim scott, mike pence. we have talked to a number of these political advisers for these campaigns who said that they were really preparing for both scenarios. trump on stage and trump not on stage. as you said, share ration a lot of this is how to seize some of the spotlight back in this race. how to try and get traction. how to differentiate themselves from the former president. it will be interesting to see how they do that.

it will also be interesting to see how much trump is still a focus of this debate even if he is not there, sara. >> yeah, it's really interesting. i'm going to tell the truth and shame the devil. cnn has been asking for trump to come on because he's good for ratings. it makes for a fiery debate. at this point it looks like everyone else is playing for second at this point. thank you kristen holmes. sara, a brand-new poll out of iowa, the poll considered the gold standard in polling in the first caucus state, this comes from the des moines register and shows donald trump with the largest lead at this stage since the 2000 contest won by george w. bush. you can see 42% say trump is their top choice, desantis down at 19, everyone else behind that. i'm joined by former white house senior policy adviser ashley allison and s.e. cupp. it is great to see both of you. s.e., i want to start with you

because when you look at that poll what's interesting is that trump's numbers actually got better, actually got better after the georgia indictment. he was at 28% before the indictment, he went up to 43 after. desantis went down after the indictment. so if you are desantis or any of the others looking up at trump this morning in iowa, what are you thinking? >> you're thinking it might be time to change your campaign strategy of not hitting donald trump. the light touches have not worked. the light criticism without naming him haven't worked. they're not differentiating themselves from one another and they're not taking on the front runner, which is how you win. so as long as they want to keep sort of whiffing and pretending trump isn't maybe going to go to prison at some point soon, i think they're all going to be living in the basement for the

next few months. >> one other number for your viewing pleasure i want to put up this morning, this comes from a cbs news poll. they asked trump voters, who do you feel what they tell you is true? in other words, who do you trust the most when they tell you something? trump leads with 71%. he's beating your friends and family who are at 63%, religious leaders down to 42%. trump voters believe donald trump more than they believe mom and dad or their local minister. what does that tell you? >> well, i think there was a point when you would want your president of the united states to be in the top three of someone that you trusted and believed, but what donald trump did before he was even elected president is he started to sow doubt in systems and people and now he is really reaping the benefits of those efforts. he did it in debates against hillary clinton, he did it while he was actually president and he

continues to do it now that he has lost an election and won't even acknowledge it. i think for all the other candidates, though, you have to really think about not just beating donald trump, but how you are going to start communicating with the american public. and this actually includes joe biden about how they're going to get their information, how they want to receive their information, how you start to deprogram folks who are continuously being lied to by someone like donald trump but won't accept that it's not truth. because if we don't actually starting to a layer deeper beneath donald trump, we are going to find ourselves in a whole election that is rooted in miss and disinformation and flat-out lies. >> how do you address that, se, on the debate stage wednesday night? i want to differentiate. is this debate ron desantis and everyone else, or are they all in one pack here, se? >> no, i think they're for the

most part in a pack. for most americans this will be the first time they ever get to see nikki haley, tim scott debate. i think that's really important and both of those two figures have unique backgrounds and opportunities to differentiate themselves. all eyes will definitely be on ron desantis because the hype was so high for his candidacy and he has underperformed. so to see him answering tough questions and against other competitors will be important for his campaign. i think a turning point potentially for his campaign. and, yeah, i think everyone is going to get an equal opportunity on that debate stage to make their case, but they have to do just that. what i've been saying is you don't even have to fully attack donald trump to do it, you have to say i know you like donald trump, i like him, too, but he might be going to prison. let's elect someone who won't be going to prison.

that's a real simple thing to say and not, you know, tick off a bunch of trump voters in the process by just being honest and stating the obvious. i hope at least one person on that stage will do that. >> ashley, if you are on that stage and you are not ron desantis, should your number one target be, you know, a, ron desantis, b, donald trump, you know, c, joe biden? rank them in order of who you should be talking about besides yourself if you are one of the other candidates. >> well, i think you should go after donald trump and then i think you should look at the rest of the field, ron desantis leading the back, but the rest of the field as one, and then obviously go and attack joe biden because you actually have to beat joe biden to be the president of the united states. it means nothing if you are at the top of the ticket for the republican party but then you lose on general election day. you have fought a good fight, but you have not won the actual battle. so you need to actually attack

donald trump to just unseat him and his lead, but then really look at the whole pack and start to tick away folks one by one. >> s.e., the joe biden campaign and the democrats, they are going to start basically going after donald trump now-ish, they're going to start spending money now. do you think that's a good idea? what do they get out of that? >> yeah, i mean, they're basically pivoting to a general election, which is smart. you know, joe biden is the presumed nominee, but cornel west and rfk jr. are presenting some issues potentially. so i would clear them out of the way and start acting like the general election has begun and if that's the case you're taking on the front runner and that is uneek voe kplee donald trump. i think it's money well spent. >> ashley and s.e., thank you both very much. look forward to speaking with you in the coming days. coming up for us, the

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it's now a post-tropical cyclone, hillary is leaving behind major flooding across parts of the southern california and 25 million people they still remain under flood warnings. palm springs is getting especially hit hard. roads washed out, access blocked, golf courses as you see turned into lakes. the mayor tells cnn that 911 lines are still down this morning and she says there's no way in and out of the city right now. north of los angeles this road broke away with vehicles passing

by just feet away. the rainfall also sparked massive mudslides in san bernardino -- in the san bernardino mountains, forcing even firefighters to run. >> stop. stop. st stop. >> come here. come here. >> cnn's mike valerio is in san diego for us and joining us now. mike, what are you seeing and hearing there this morning as it's passing through? >> reporter: kate, good morning to you. i think we're seeing and experiencing a lot of muscle memory from the disaster response we had from all the atmospheric rivers in january, february and march. to that end, specifically to san diego, where we are, we had no fewer than ten search and rescue water teams from san diego fire department spread up and down the san diego river from the coastline, mission bay, all the

way up to the five and they rescued no fewer than nine, kate, nine people overnight who were in harm's way from the raging flood water of the san diego river. so it's been all about preparation, really minimizing the catastrophe here along the coast. the picture utterly different in the desert communities as you're seeing on the screen right there and as you mentioned at the intro to our segment. but in terms of preparation, something very unusual as we push in a couple hundred yards through the bay here, just on the other side of the bay, you see the number 72 through the fog. that is the u.s.s. abraham lincoln, one of the nuclear-powered aircraft of the third fleet. one of the ships that remain in san diego bay. ten other u.s. navy ships in a first ever for the navy have left these waters, the safety of the bay, and have made their way to the channel islands off the coast of santa barbara in an abundance of caution for the

choppy waters here, wind gusts up to 60 miles an hour. this is not a great place to be for crowded navy ships and they made the preparations yesterday to avoid just that. >> also the first day of school was canceled for the kids in san diego. what are you hearing about when they are going to be able to get back to class? >> reporter: so this was supposed to be the first day of school for 120,000 students across san diego. school is canceled, though, kate, because this is a weird thing for all of us to go through in southern california, to have a tropical storm warnings up and down the coast for the first time. what they are doing today is making sure that all the school buildings throughout the city of more than a million people are okay. that, god forbid there's nothing wrong with the roofs and ceilings and everybody will be back to school tomorrow like nothing ever happened, kate. >> good to see you, mike. thanks for being there. sara? this morning airlines are working to recover after more than 1,000 flights were canceled

due to, then, hurricane hilary. pete muntean is following all of this for us. what's it looking like now? how are things going at the airport as people try to make their way back? >> reporter: sara, we are over the big hump of the cancellation numbers we saw yesterday, you mentioned more than 1,000 cancellations, the real story is the delays, 5,500 flights nationwide delayed yesterday. largely a result of this now post-tropical cyclone. but today we are still seeing some pretty big numbers. just checked flight aware, 268 delays in the u.s., 790 cancellations -- 790 delays, 286 cancellations. the numbers are going up a little bit. the worst airplanes and we are not out of the woods yet, san diego, harry reid in las vegas, john wayne, santa ana, bob hope,

those airports in burbank are getting hit hard, 13% of flights canceled out of san diego, 23% of flights canceled today out of ontario. this is why southwest airlines is getting hit especially hard, true to the name, they've canceled about 17% of their flights yesterday, we're talking about 714 flights in total. so they will still have to play catch up today and the airline on its website is warning of diverts, delays, cancellations as the day goes on. also why airlines have offered these travel waivers, allowing you to change your flights free of charge, especially if your plans change because of the storm. american, united, southwest, alaska have all put into place these travel waivers. you can rechange your flights without much penalty, although we are not totally out of the woods yet. the faa warning of ground stops today as the day goes on in the wake of this storm, big winds expected in las vegas, also low

cloud ceilings in san francisco and that could cause flights inbound to be delayed, sara? >> it remains to be seen. santa ana, john wayne and burbank, bob hope, those are all regional airlines, a lot of people go through those airlines to go to and from places pretty close, but all in the area where there's flooding, people have to call the airlines like you always tell us, right, pete? >> reporter: so true, sara. i'm glad somebody is listening. >> thank you so much, pete. appreciate it. john? one trip that was canceled mid-flight was the russian mission to the moon. this was supposed to be their first moon landing in nearly half a century, but this morning it failed. so what went wrong? [clock alarm] ♪ morning. ♪ ♪

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chutkan. it was supposed to be a triumph for russian space program and vladimir putin, but it turned out to be anything but. the first lunar landing for russia crashed into the moon's surface. now joining us is senior space

correspondent andrew pleitgen, and i am thrilled to cover this with you, because you were instrumental in covering matt damon's return from mars as you know in that film, fred. so tell us what happened as this lunar mission of russia's crashed into the moon. >> yes, it was in the final stages that the lunar landing went badly. it was unmanned that the russians were trying to send to the moon. and the first one was 47 years ago in 1976 that the russians last managed to land on the moon, and they lawned this and managed to bring it into the circling around the moon, and then they brought it into the elliptical orbit the land it on the moon, and that where it seemed to go badly and whether they believe that something with the booster rockets or some

miscalculation, but the trajectory was such that it crashed into the moon. if you are reading the russian press release, it is dry. it said that the lunar unit ceased to exist. and so a setback, and they were in a race with the indians to land on that rt po of the moon, and you are absolutely right, they are also trying to recapture some of the glory of the soviet union, and big setback for the lunar landing, and also for vladimir putin. >> yes, and it ceased to exist. thank you, fred pleitgen. back to you, sara. >> a life look there of the fulton county jail where any day now donald trump or any one of the 18 accused co-conspirators in fulton county have been accused. what we are learning aboutut th potential timing of all of this. . just sleep. learn more and view important safety inforormation

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25 million people are under flood warnings this morning as much of the western united states have endured severe winds and rains. where is the storm headed next? we are watching this fulton kcounty jail as many of donald trump and his co-conspirators must surrender by the end of the week. and now, the first responders and more than 800 people are missing there. i'm kate bolduan with sara sidner and john berman. this is cnn "news central." this morning, rushing floodwaters shutting down major