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
developers are going to exploit the people there, and i guess, how do you see this unfolding? as you know, the developers have a knack for winning a lot of these battles there in hawaii. how do you stop that from happening this time around when it comes to the rebuilding of lahaina? yeah, that s right. local people, especially native hawaiians, have been suffering from injustices for generations now. my mom lost our home, forced to sell it without a fire. she couldn t keep up with the rising costs of a gentrified community, so today, there are more native hawaiians living outside of hawaii than on our ancestral lands, so this acute trauma is just a punctuation mark, an acceleration of decades of injustices that we ve faced. native folks, black, brown, immigrants are generally the first and worst hit by climate disasters, but the cruel irony