An el nino warms the ocean, and this one could be Strong Enough to bring onceinageneration storms to the west and change the Weather Coast to coast. Heres John Blackstone. Reporter this was the winter of 199798. San francisco had its wettest winter in 120 years. Los angeles got nearly a years worth of rain in just one month. Snowfall in the mountains was double the average. 17 people died. El nino was to blame back then, and an Even Stronger el nino is developing right now. Climatologist bill patzert over the next three months, this should turn into what i call a godzilla event. Reporter el nino is characterized by a mass of unusually warm ocean water stretching across the pacific to south america. Last month, the mass of warm water on the right appeared broader than it did in 1997. If it continues to build, this will have a tremendous impact, not only over north america but over the entire planet. Reporter in the united states, a strong el nino could bring more precipitation across mo
Flood concerns throughout the region. Storm accident happen three shows the wet weather which will hang around overnight. Good evening, im jessica dean. Ukee washington is off tonight. A Flash Flood Warning has just been issued for parts of the region. Lets get right over to meteorologist kate bilo who has closer look at whats happening right now. Kate. Joyce today some of heaviest rain weve seen all day is now falling across our western suburb. Montgomery and buck bucks counts and portions of Chester County lets get into it. You can see this line of rain progressing through new york state and our region as well. Heff crest rain again north and west of philadelphia lots of lightning with this and lots of heavy rain its not over yet for south jersey getting steady rain at the moment and watching this line in eastern maryland which eventually will lift into portions of delaware. So we still got several hours of heavy rain to get through and again our first Flash Flood Warning of the nigh
And portions of Chester County lets get into it. You can see this line of rain progressing through new york state and our region as well. Heff crest rain again north and west of philadelphia lots of lightning with this and lots of heavy rain its not over yet for south jersey getting steady rain at the moment and watching this line in eastern maryland which eventually will lift into portions of delaware. So we still got several hours of heavy rain to get through and again our first Flash Flood Warning of the night for our local region has just been issued and its thanks to this line of very heavy downpours moving through portions of especially upper Montgomery County upper bucks and into northern Chester County as well. You can see the lightning associated with this the red shading an indication that rain could be falling at the rate of one to 2inches per hour in the center of this stop. Getting hit right now upper and lower frederick over toward marlboro headed toward 476 northeast ext
As hurricane it bears down on them the category one hurricane is expected to make landfall later today after causing more than twenty deaths across Central America. Hello and welcome im michel henery its good to have you with us massive demonstrations are happening in spains biggest cities right now as the tussle over catalonia independence moves onto the streets and barcelona thousands of people wearing white gathered near the Mayors Office to call for dialogue between supporters and opponents of independence for the region at the same time people for spanish unity have flocked to the center of the spanish capital madrid. Correspondent fenny fish ours in barcelona for us funny hes been at that parcel and demonstration can you tell us the message that is thats come out of it. Michel this demonstration is just about to wrap up but you can still see a few people behind me wearing white t. Shirts away or actually carrying a wide balloons signs to express basically that they want peace and
From there also coming up. Thousands that take it to the streets or spain to demoing unity a major protest is held in boss alona with people wearing white t. Shirts in a call for peaceful dialogue and imagery the sea of spanish flags fly out the capital demonstrations are of a Council Unused push for independence. And in russia people take to the streets across the country in support of jailed opposition activist alexina valley hes pressuring will forward you to that to enter the twenty eighteen president ial race for their lives to our correspondent in St Petersburg from will. Find out on the home free thanks for joining me we begin with breaking news from london british. Police say several people have been injured off to a call hit pedestrians outside the Natural History Museum Police were quickly deployed to the scene where they say they detained one man now police say they keeping an open mind as to whether the incident was terrorism related its security is high in britain often a