America. The impact far from over, the first Tropical Storm to hit california since 1939, when joe biden started his senate career, forecasters warned there could be catastrophic and lifethreatening flooding. We have people that are not experienced with this sport of weather phenomenon, i cant emphasize enough, we have portions of Southern California under a highrisk, a highrisk of flooding. These situations account for the huge, huge amount of the drownings and deaths that we see associated with Tropical Storms. Not a day at the beach, stay out of the water, a 5. 1 magnitude Earthquake Hit Southern California about 90 minutes ago. And there are reports of shaking and quaking in los angeles, Jonathan Hunt is live in santa monica. Reporter Kennedy We Felt that earthquake here pch in santa monica it happened the epicenter about 60 miles north of us, we could feel it here. Icing on the cake, as Tropical Storm hilary comes through. Were in about 10th hour of rain. Looking down the coast to
Im max foster. Bianca is on assignment. Just ahead donald trump now faces federal criminal charges for trying to hold on to the presidency in 2020. This is politics. This indictment is pure politics. Mr. Smith and his team followed the facts and the law wherever they lead. Suspected gilgo beach serial killer Rex Heuermann facing a courtroom. We have a great deal of information, evidence, photographs, reports. Ukraine is using drones to strike russian targets inside russia. Probably would be a bad move. Live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. It is wednesday, august 2, 9 00 a. M. In london, 4 00 a. M. In washington where preparations are under way for an expected Court Appearance by donald trump on thursday after thrm Court Appearance by donald trump on thursday after the former president was indicted on criminal charges for efforts to overturn the 2020 election. This is the third time hes faced criminal charges. In this case prosecutors allege that he
landslides, they don t necessarily happeni insuright away, dangers of landslides persist as water seeps into the hillsides, the danger could persist 24, 48, 72 hours, we have a long way to go. this is alicia, this time of year is when you know a lot of kids go back to college or head to college. there is a lot of movement in every state right now. do you know if classes have been canceled or acome accommodations made for families coming in and students preparing for classes at the universities. reporter: i think colleges are taking it on a case by case basis, making rolling decisions as we go and will go threw the night, san diego school district has canceled all classes for tomorrow. we re to hear right now from
since the previous rainfalls, some people don t even have a tarp to cover them from rain. today the situation is very difficult because there is too much wind. there is no food available. the conditions are extremely difficult. and even the tents have not been set up well. the water seeps into them. reporter: and children have it worse. translator: my son is sick with inflammation. since we fled, we ve been sitting like this with water over our heads. reporter: branches another ground is what is left of this woman s refugee home, devastated and alone, she can t hold back the tears. translator: this is the new mill yags humiliation that we re experiencing. reporter: since conflict escalated in sudan, more than 2.6 million people have been displaced and more than 800,000 have fled the country.
highlighted here with individual colors indicating all the river gauges with major, moderate and minor flooding that is occurring right now. you can see on this particular river gauge, for instance, the current level at 12.43 meters with flood stage at 6.7 meters. so we re at current major flood stage in the arkansas river at the van buren gauge. unfortunately, there s some bad weather to come. more rainfall across the areas that have been hit the harldest. as we head into the second half of this week the potential exists for another 100 to 150 millimeters of rainfall on top of an already saturated soil. remember that is going to bring us the potential for more flooding as the water seeps and its own level makes its way down stream and eventually into the arkansas and mississippi river regions. i want to switch gears. this is technically the atlantic basin. we have potential tropical development. this is the last thing we need. we had the first official day of the atlantic hurricane se