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It looks beautiful. It is calm right now, but it could change in the overnight hours. A tsunami could reach hawaii, could reach hawaii, at about 3 00. We will continue to follow this breaking news story and bring you the latest as soon as we get it. You can also get updates on your smartphone via our nbc bay area app. Steady rainfall falling all day but making things worse for evacuees. Jessica aguirres live. It could get tougher with the mud. Reporter its a tent city, but today they could call it soggy city. The tents now have tarps all over them. People are trying to get gear, things to keep them warm, dry clothes. It has helped firefighters significantly, because theyve been able to get to areas that they werent able to access before. Heres where the val owe fire stands right now. 70,000 acres charred. 30 containment and 580 homes destroyed. So they are making some head way, and they want to be able to use these next 48 hours in which conditions might be like this to get as much hea
Mexican exports to the United States starting on june 10th. Those essentially are taxes paid by us, all of us, the u. S. Consumer, u. S. Importers, thats how it works, folks, mexico doesnt pay for these. The tariffs will hit 25 by october, the president says, unless mexico takes unspecified steps to cut illegal immigration to the u. S. By an unspecified amount. So what is mexico saying . Mexicos foreign minister is en route to washington in search of what he calls a meeting point. Lets go to Christine Romans who is with us. Roman romans, i dont know where to begin. This comes on the same week that the Commerce Market said you have imports and exports slipping. This is what is so concerning about this, this is tariffs not to rectify an unfair trade advantage, but tariffs to punish a country for another completely separate issue which is illegal immigration. Thats raising some concerns. Also raising concerns this could weaken the economy in both countries and weakening mexicos economy ho