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News Wrap: Heavy rains, king tides threaten California

Season 2026 Episode 4 | 2m 02s

In our news wrap Sunday, parts of northern California brace for more rain as residents try to escape rising flood waters, hundreds gathered to attend a memorial for those killed in a New Year’s Day fire at a bar in Switzerland, and gunmen in northern Nigeria killed at least 30 people and abducted several others.

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