moving to the north about 30 miles per hour. actually cooking right up north. plenty of areas they have seen a lot of rain. in los angeles a hundred of an inch of rain in august. some of these areas got up to 1. i will leave with you this because there are still a couple flash flood watches and warnings. it will be exiting the country later on tonight. those are your weather headlines for now. ainsley tossing it down to you. thank you so much, adam. today is national fentanyl prevention awareness today. in 2021 alone the deadly drug took the lives of more than 70,000 people. the next guests noe the horrific costs firsthand. andrea thomas lost her beautiful daughter ashley to fentanyl poisoning in 2018 after she took just half a pill. amy nevilleson alexander was only 1 years old when he was poisoned after connecting with a dealer on senat snapchat. just a child.
steve: all right. back with a fox weather alert. once a hurricane, now just a tropical storm hilary still battering the west coast with historic flooding and mud slides. more than 50,000 people in california are still without power on this monday morning. jeff paul is live in l.a. in front of front of what normally this time of year would be dry area behind you. but today, jeff, it is a rushing l.a. river. yeah. completely different story this morning, steve. tropical storm hilary delivering near nonstop rain for about the last 24 hours and really showing no signs of slowing down. steve, as you mentioned behind me, that is a clear image of just the impacts of this storm. that is the l.a. river normally 365 days out of the year this thing is bone dry. maybe a little stream every once in a while. can you see right now because of this storm and all the inches of rain that have fallen over the last 24 hours it, is a fast flowing river. and all of that rain and all of that water causi
morning out there. but a whole bunch of roads are closed so are the local officials telling people just stay at home today? they re today and this was the message yesterday. they actually preemptively closed most of the major arteries in and out of palm springs, recognizing that those are roads that typically flood. but once the rain really started coming down and even more of those roads became impassable, slowly but surely it took emergency crews to one by one shut them down to, again, try to keep people from driving into a situation where they could be swept away. we know at least one person rescued in palm springs and another three in ventura county had to be rescued out of a remember. that flood water is no joke. steve: no kidding. nicole, thank you for the live report. ainsley: some of the cools being closed. so universities going virtual today. panicked residents were climbing the trees to escape when the bridge went down and power lines are down as well.
where they are. we don t have any reason to evacuate at this time. we have closed down preemptively three of our roads that are regularly flooded. we do know that there s going to be flooding because, like i said, even an inch or two of rain in the desert can cause damage. . yeah. i can t stress how bizarre it is to have rain in august in southern california. this is one of the major roads that the mayor has was talking about that they closed down here. they get yets on these roads already without rain. just to be safe, because of potential flooding they ve shut it down. out in the distance there, there s interstate 10 and people have been coming down here trying to get on the highway and the police officers here, that s where you would find joshua tree national park and that s also supposed to see a lot of flooding. they re worried about the mud flow flows and worried about how much flooding there will be and they want people to stay safe, stay
prompting evacuations and dire warnings to get out of the storm s way. here s what fema administrator said this morning on cnn s state of the union. hillary is going to be a serious impact and threat to southern california and people need to take the storm serious and listen to their local officials and they need to make sure they re not putting themselves in harm s way as the storm passes through. stephanie elam is in palm springs. when it tropical storm hilary expected to hit southern califo california? it will be later this afternoon local time that we will see more of these effects here. but we are in palm springs, which is expected to get the brunt of the storm coming through here. as a californian, i cannot express to you how incredibly bizarre it is to have rain in august. this is the time of the year