we begin this hour with an historic hurricane barreling toward the u.s. hilary is now a category 3 hurricane with top winds of more than 100 miles per hour. this is new video of the storm pummeling mexico as it inches closer to the u.s. the powerful system could bring a year s worth of rain in one day to parts of the southwest along with potentially catastrophic and life-threatening flooding. right now parts of southern california are under a tropical storm warning for the first time in history. officials and residents there are preparing with sandbags and the california national guard is standing by ready to help. a state emergency official tells cnn it s an all hands on deck situation. we ve got a cnn team at this hour tracking hilary. meteorologist derek van dam is closely following the path aina tasha chen has a look at storm preps in los angeles. derek, let s start with you at the cnn weather center. i can t believe we re talking about a hurricane and preparations for it in los
a into a tender box in a matter of, it was too quick. yeah, we watched the fire department, with their limited resources, they were on the other side of the island, a lot of them were called out of the country, and the they told me maybe half a dozen firefighters on this side. and our first responders were doing the best they could, and they just had to keep her shooting and her shooting as the winds were just insane. we had a real high pressure system dumped down rate over the county here over maui. and due to the result of hurricane dora passing several hundred miles south of the state here. so it came out of nowhere real fast, really, really fast. and it is just a tragic situation for a lot of folks. i know you have been an all hands on deck situation, you and your friends racing, i believe, $200,000 or so on a gofundme page. also with the supplies, getting people back and forth. do you have enough supplies, do
12 people have been rescued off the coast after having to jump into the ocean to escape the smoke and flames. huge plumes of black smoke can be seen rising across this neighborhood. the lieutenant governor of hawaii said the 911 service and cell service had gone down in parts of maui because of the fires and that the situation the way she describes it is becoming dire. cnn s derek van dam he s watching this for us. derek, what is the situation there now and is there any relief? i mean, they need some help to put these fires out. reporter: kate, this is an all hands on deck situation. in fact, we ve been told that the national guard has been enlisted to help with these wildfires as well. i mean, a dire situation, apocalyptic, that is the perfect adjective to describe what people are witnessing and seeing on the ground, specifically offer the western sections of the island of maui. i want to explain how hurricane dora s influence is helping fuel these stronger winds across the
considering the uncertain nature of how sound travels underwater, depending on when and where the implosion occurred, where this transceiver was that the receiver was that may have picked up the sound and the angle of our arrival, you can t be absolutely positive. it is something that you re going to be telling the search team and you might be helping focused some of the search and some of the area. but to win out and say, hey, we heard an implosion. might have it turns out to be correct but it may not have been correct. we want to make sure that you are very careful in how you use that information because sometimes the wrong information or incorrect information can be worse than no information at all. trace: u.s. congressman dan crenshaw says that he was response was terrible and it really should have been an all hands on deck situation. listen to him, dakota, and i will get your response. what appears to be the case is epic failure in leadership. where exactly that leadership f
you know, they exchanged gunfire as soon as they arrived on the scene getting there about three minutes after the call came in. what do you make of how the officers were able to handle this? um and you know the number of officers that responded as well. well when a call like this goes out. it s an all hands on deck situation. anybody in the immediate area people will drive in from quite a distance to get there to help out so this i m not surprised at the at the number of officers involved, but really, what was remarkable about this was the speed with which they made entry. um what they did we refer to as a dynamic entry they needed to use sledgehammers. from what i understand to knock the windows out and to get in after these bad guys. this bad person of the person the shooter and, you know , i gotta tell you, it appears as though there were bullet holes in one of the adjacent plate glass windows, which to me, means that they were