As we come on the air tonight, high winds and heavy rain as a powerful atmospheric river

thrashes the California coast, bringing the potential for life-threatening conditions,

more than 40 million under flood watch.

It's being called one of the state's most significant storms on record.

Evaculations are underway in Santa Barbara still waterlogged from previous storms.

Nearly two dozen rescue teams standing by giant waves and wind gusts near 90

miles an hour in big sur highways littered with down trees. Some areas are

preparing for half a foot or more of rain and in the mountains several feet of

snow.

Rob Marciano and Jacqueline Lee are both in the storm zone for us tonight.

Ginger Z. times it all out.

Also tonight the U.S. plans for more strikes against militants backed by Iran

that's after dozens of strikes against hoothe rebels who've been disrupting shipping in

the Red Sea. Why the Biden administration says the strikes are meant to de-escalate the situation.

The battle over America's southern border, more than a dozen Republican governors show support

for Texas Governor Greg Abbott, while former President Trump and the House Speaker pushed back against a bipartisan

Senate bill intended to address the crisis, why this is all coming to a head right now.

In Chile, the death toll is rising.

More than 60 people killed in dozens of fast-moving

wildfires tonight the urgent battle to fight the flames.

President Biden wins big in South Carolina what this primary victory means for his campaign.

Concerns of a rise in violence in the nation's capital, a former government official dies

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