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
Been made illegal. And the latest from hawaii as the death toll continues to climb. And officials begin to ask if there was anything more they could have done to save at least some of those lives. But we begin tonight with a question that i will bet you have never thought of but that the latest Trump Indictment got me thinking about it. It is this. What is a gang . Really, what is it . And what pops into your head when you think of the word. Our friends at merriamwebster define it as a group working to unlawful or antisocial ends, especially a band of antisocant adolescents. There have been many definitions. In the early 1900s, they were rowdy kids. On tv, our gang, otherwise known as the little rascals, spanky, alfalfa, and the bunch. There were the sharks and jets in west side story for those of you who love musical. In the modern era, people probably think of the crips or bloods or ms13, but the gangs that were most famous and notorious were the Mafia Families of the 1940s through t
Rahm emanuel about whats the u. S. Trying to accomplish. We begin this morning with the Devastating Hawaiin Wildfire S that ravaged maui. Police have identified three more victims. Nbcs tom llamas spoke with the family a 79yearold who was identified yesterday. Reporter remembering the man who for decades was the rhythm of lahaina. Music was the love of his life. Buddy jantoc spent life as a musician, touring country before settling down in his forever home of lahaina. Theyre sharing memories like this of uncle buddy playing weekend gigs at lahainas cannery mall. He was always smiling, always laughing. This as nbc news has reviewed a lawsuit accusing Hawaiian Electric of years of inaction and negligence, arguing it should have been planning to shut down Power Systems before the damaging winds hit. The Hawaiian Electric company declined to comment on the pending lawsuit. Nbcs Steve Patterson joins us this morning from maui. What more do we know about that suit and the investigation into
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
The accidents from hydroplaning. Last time we got some big rain, the 78 got closed down. People are afraid to come out, you know . Thats not usual californians. Will Diss Disneyland Resorts is planning to close early today while Universal Studios says theyll monitor the situation closely. Lets turn to chief meteorologist Rick Reichmuth. Are. Rick thats probably a good call with disney, to be honest. Its going to be really windy. Right here is kind of the center of the storm, but you see a lot of energy to the knot of it. Sill to the south of it. Were going to have a lot of moisture for the next 34 days, so well keep rain in the forecast for quite a while. As you just mentioned, Tropical Storm warning in effect for los angeles, that has never happened before. And this is one of the wind gust forecasts. Take a look at this. Youve got some winds that are probably 6080 miles an hour across the mountains to the east of san diego area. This is to start the day today. I by this afternoon, rea