We are back live in the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta in washington. We are tracking hurricane hilary. The system just weakened to a category 2 storm with winds of 110 miles per hour. The historic and potentially catastrophic storm is barrelling toward the southwestern United States, triggering the first ever Tropical Storm warning for millions of people in Southern California. The San Bernardino county Sheriffs Department just issued an Evacuation Warning for some areas in that part of Southern California. Thats just east of los angeles in the mountain and foothill areas. Hilary could bring a years worth of rain in a single day to parts of california, arizona, and nevada. Lets go straight to the cnn weather center, Meteorologist Derek Van Dam has been following the hurricanes path. I suppose its good news that the hurricane is weakening at some point, but that doesnt necessarily mean that people in that part of the country can let down their guards or folks in mexico as well. We should
let s go straight to the cnn weather center, meteorologist derek van dam has been following the hurricane s path. i suppose it s good news that the hurricane is weakening at some point, but that doesn t necessarily mean that people in that part of the country can let down their guards or folks in mexico as well. we should make it very clear, the folks in mexico need to be very careful about this storm as well. yeah. we don t want to diminish the threats associated with this storm, even though it is weakening. good news. we want to see that, but as with any tropical system, it s got an influx of moisture that s going to dump tremendous amounts of rain that will bring a flash flood threat to areas that haven t seen this amount of rain in several decades. 110 miles per hour. that makes it a category 2 atlantic equivalent. it is encountering significantly cooler waters and drier air, especially in the western sections of this storm system. regardless, let s look at the exact forecast tra