sent his condolences to the families of 91 people who died in torrential rains, in northeastern brazil. the city of recife has been worst affected, after days of downpours triggered flooding and landslides, that swept away almost everything in their path. the canadian government has introduced tough new legislation to crack down on the sale, transfer, and importation of handguns. the prime minister, justin trudeau, said there was no reason anyone needed guns in their everyday lives. hurricane agatha, the first named storm of the year in the east pacific ocean, made landfall monday on the southern mexico coast. the storm also made history in the process. when the storm made landfall at category two strength, it became the strongest may hurricane to ever make landfall in the eastern pacific basin. a study has found that drinking a moderate amount of coffee each day is associated with a lower risk of death. scientists found that those who drank coffee had a lower risk of mortality over
wasn t by choice. a line drive lava bomb broke his leg, severed an artery and nearly took his foot off. just took my leg out and threw me against the wall. it was the most extreme force i ve ever felt in my life. reporter: the extreme heat burned up the deck, wall and almost an entire dining set. but thanks to a fast acting neighbor with a water jug, the house survived and so did is it. reporter: darrel clinton has a metal rod in his leg, he s had at least three surgeries answer right now he is in honolulu for another one. he has a long road ahead, but he does have report. steve hill says that he will do every what he can to get darrel back on his feet. and his other neighbors are doing what they can to pitch in as well. scott mclean, cnn, pahoa, hawaii. and now let s turn our attention to the caribbean, the first named storm of the year. derek van dam here to tell us about it. the 2018 atlantic hurricane
state of emergency declared in state of florida as people in is sunshine state and elsewhere get you mean umbrellas, what s happening? we are looking at tropical storm, first named storm of the year. technically hurricane season starts june 1st, we are a little early. winds at 40 miles an hour. the system is moving at 10 miles an hour. rain has been falling and continue to work its way up not just today but into sunday and into monday, you really are going to need the umbrella, it s going on the nonstop showers. at times we will be talking about heavy rain moving across portions of florida. that s why we have flood watches
the last 5 that it feels like named storms in the atlantic went way past that sort of the middle barrier of the alphabet. and that used to not be the case. chuck and i are used to growing up in florida. and also the storms are coming earlier. they re coming in july, in august. andrew was august was a. first named storm of the year. yeah. look, we know that this year we had, on other counts, the most extreme weather that we ve ever had. we had the warmest 12 months in american history. we had the warmest single month in american history. we had the worst drought in modern american history over the midwest. we destroyed a lot of our crops. we know that things are changing massively. and we know, although the candidates don t want to talk about and a lot of people still deny it, we know that we re doing a lot of that change. it s pretty amazing. we had the debates. it didn t come up one time. why? one word. why? because the candidates are too scared of the oil companies. t