Ahead on cnn newsroom, much of Southern California now under a Storm Warning never seen before. Well tell you what the region could see. In hawaii, the latest on Rec Recoveriests and the search for those still missing. And cnn learns when donald trump is expected to sure rending himself to a jail here in tlapt. Details and the legal negotiations going on right now behind the scenes. Reporter live in cnn center this is cnn newsroom, we begin this hour in the Southwestern United States where people are bracing for catastrophic flooding. Hurricane hilary could dump more than a year worth rain of in a few days. Its likely to make landfall in mexico but its moving fast and could arrive in california as a Tropical Storm, the first such storm to do so in decades. Its been 84 years since one came ashore, so its a Once In A Lifetime event that were going to be experiencing. Preparations are already under wa the federal Emergency Management agency is sending personnel and supplieso Southern Cali
shutoff plan. you know, as you say the policy is controversial. there are downsides. but is there proof that it actually works? well, it s hard to prove, you know, prove that it s hard to create proof when what you ve done is avoid the bad outcome. but what we can say is that in especially during the power shutoffs in california that occurred during 2019 there was extraordinary system damage from the winds that was very reminiscent of the system damage that led to, especially the napa/sonoma firestorm. the most vulnerable power lines are the last mile of the distribution system which is lower voltage and also lower to the ground and it s not built to the same standards to in terms of resistance to wind that the bigger transmission lines are, and those are the lines that started the napa-sonoma fire. those are the kinds of lines you see on the ground in some of the