We began the southwest where people are frantically preparing for Hurricane Hilary. Latest update from the National Hurricane center, hillary has been downgraded to category two storm. Its making its way north alongside mexico spa coastline. Heavy rain is expected to impact california in arizona starting sunday. The National Weather service is calling the storm rare and dangerous. And here is why. Parts of the California Desert are forecasted to get three years worth of rain in just 48 hours. Lets get an update from Priscilla Thompson in palm springs, california. Priscilla, how are people where you are preparing right now . Yeah, alicia menendez, folks here are frantically filling those sandbags, hoping to protect their homes and businesses as that rainfall is expected to move in here in the coming hours, really. And this operation has been going since about 6 am local time. Thats 9 am eastern time. And its expected to continue for about the next four hours. You can see there are folks
Underway on this wednesday night. Good evening once, again im stephanie ruhle. Fulton county d a fani willis has wasting absolutely no time in moving ahead with the Georgia Election interference case. Today, she proposed a Trial Date Of March 4th of 2024, or donald, trump and 18 others. That is one day before super tuesday, which of course is in the heat of the president ial primary season. The eight witnesses also focusing on another big court, date when trump and his codefendants will be arraigned and enter the specific police. She wants that to happen the week of september, fifth right after labor day. Meanwhile, a judge will hear mark meadows request to moves child out of georgia tsais or sue federal court. That core data is now set for august 28th. Also this, evening we are learning more from a new legal filing about what special counsel jack smith was looking for in Donald Trumps twitter account. Earlier this, year smith got a Search Warrant to access a whole range of information
Plot to overturn the 2020 election results. Military mantas, a republican United States senator from alabama holding our National Security hostage over abortion rights. What it will take and this a month stalemate on Military Promotion to hand. All of that and more is coming up. And good Sunday Morning to you all. I am katie phang. We begin with Breaking News on hurricane hilary. National Weather Service forecasters have downgraded hillary to a category one hurricane with sustained winds around 85 miles per hour. Overnight, california governor, gavin newsom, declared a State Of Emergency for most of the southern portion of the state ahead of hillarys expected landfall later today. Officials warn catastrophic and lifethreatening flooding is likely. According to nbcs weather unit, up to ten inches of rain is expected in just one day. The santa rosa mountains, east to san diego. Nbc News Correspondent, joining me now live from san diego In California. Juan, when can we expect the storm to
These locations, also some thunder and lightning starting to occur in some of these thunderstorms. One thing to note is we do have a Flash Flood Warning in effect for two counties in Southern California, again, just because of the amount of rain that has already fallen, and in anticipation of the amount that is expected to fall over the next 48 hours. We also have flood watches, all of the green you see for numerous states in anticipation of all of that rain that is expected to fall in the coming hours. The storm is expected to weaken further as it really pushes into colder waters in the next 24 to 48 hours. When it finally pushes into california, it will be a Tropical Storm, so, yes, the winds, the overall winds of the storm are going to weaken significantly, but the overall forecast in terms of rainfall really has not changed. We will really start to see a lot of the heavy rain really begin to filter into the area by tonight, especially overnight hours. This will continue off and on
A very good day to all of you from the Tom Brokaw News Center here in los angeles. Welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports. Developing this hour, donald trump and his 18 codefendants now have six days to surrender at the Fulton County courthouse in georgia, on racketeering and conspiracy charges. Three senior Law Enforcement officials tell nbc news, they are anticipating the former president will turn himself in at the atlanta jail, no earlier than thursday, but they stressed nothing is yet officially it. Democratic what congressman, eric swalwell, gave msnbc his assessment of what happens next for the former president. Here it is. Donald trump is going to get a Justice System that hes never been willing to afford to others. He always wants to try and convict people in the public square, without giving them any due process. Hes gonna get all the due process, hes gonna get every protection under law, and whatever happens to donald trump, it is going to come from his peers. And thats why