friday, temperatures close to 60 in lexington, nearing 70 in nashville on saturday. so that s the big story as far as our temperatures are concerned. now we go to the west coast where you see that next pacific storm working onshore. this is going to be problematic for bringing heavy amounts of rain to folks along the west coast, so from seattle down to san francisco as we go through the day today, you ll likely see that heavy rain working onshore. we need it in california so it will be beneficial to some extent, but those burn scars will be problematic for flooding concerns angie lass mank, man, thank u mike barnicle, some tough stories emerging from this storm. we know there are lives lost, people still stranded, unable to see loved ones, but some real moments of warmth too. i home you re hunkering down today, and i know you, like me, no grinch, touched by a moment of christmas cheer, and i assume your heart was as warm as mine
relationship with reality. and just quickly, is there time for the u.s. to give more high-end weapons to ukraine to step things up now? well, i think that s what s happening with the most recent tranche of weapons that the president signed yesterday. and hopes to sign next week. but building a modern day army on the battlefield, a large modern day army is going to take time. secretary austin has said that s the intent. as in the long term. but you just can t drop weapons on the battlefield and expect them to come together in a large-scale operation. so, the gradual delivery of these kind of weapons, not just the united states, but other nato nations, is critically important to the future of ukraine. always appreciate your perspective and expertise, general mark hertltling, thank u very much for your time. thank y you, amara. trououbling new data from m cdc showing suicide rates on the rise. we re going to have the numbers
entire communities were trying to get out and escape the fire. so, yeah, injuries and fatalities could be on the table. we re hoping they re not. so far, we know that one hospital is treating at least six burn patients and we re told a police officer was injured, but just to a minor degree. we ll see if they learned anything else this morning, yasmin. and of course, this disaster, this natural disaster, these injuries happening amidst a major outbreak of covid in that region, as well. for now, e emilie ikeda, thank u for your reporting on this. i want to bring in michael smith, the boulder county incident commander, has been dealing with some of the disaster there. michael, we appreciate you jumping on for us. i know you re a busy man. thank you for taking a couple of minutes to speak to us. i was just speaking to our correspondent on the ground, giving us the lay of the ground. how are folks fairing there so far? give us a sense of what you have been seeing, as you ve been