before in southern california. the us national service issuing the first ever tropical storm warning. hurricane hilary is on its way in the storm is just been downgraded to a category two hurricane with winds up to 110 mph. it is expected to make landfall soon in mexico. locals are preparing for the storm here in the resort town and there are warnings of potentially catastrophic flooding and forecasters believe the storm will lose some of its wind speed as begins to reach southern california. preparations are also under way, including shrink up some of the hillsides and officials are worried about and officials are worried about and majorflooding. nearly 26 million people on the southwestern us are now under a tropical storm warning as routine hilary begins to make its way up the pacific coast and you can see on this map that its expected path, mexico's government has placed soldiers on standby to assist a potential rescue effort in the