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Emergency Management Agency says the agency has already deployed an assistance team. 0ur Correspondent Peter Bowes is in la with the latest. We expect it to make landfall in the next few hours in a very remotely populated part of barger california in mexico. Tijuana, the border city in mexico. Baja california. Concerns it could cause some serious damage there. Before moving north into california as a Tropical Storm, and that is the unusual part of this, a hurricane come Tropical Storm would get to california. And its expected to continue moving north as opposed to west, which is what a hurricane would generally do and then dissipate over the ocean. So the likely consequences are going to be extremely heavy rain in california, some of the neighbouring states as well. To put that in perspective, palm springs, the desert resort, searing temperatures, a0 degrees plus, this time of year very dry, is expected to get maybe ten or 12 centimetres of rain over the next 12 hours. We are just not
World. Im Kim Brunhuber on cnn newsroom. This is a very, very dangerous and significant storm. Southern california braces for catastrophic flooding as Hurricane Hilary is expected to make impact as a rare Tropical Storm. The first such storm in the state in decades. Searchers still are looking for victims of the wildfires on maui. Wildfires sweeping through british coullcolombia. There is extensive damage in colona. Announcer live in cnn news center, this is cnn newsroom with Kim Brunhuber. A large portion of Southern California is under a State Of Emergency and bracing for the impact of Hurricane Hilary. Historic storm is now a category 1 strength with maximum winds of around 85 miles an hour. Its expected to make landfall in the coming hours on mexicos baja, california, peninsula. Forecasters warn it will bring catastrophic and life threatening flooding. Californias governor has w warned. Please listen to emergency personnel. Take serious flash floods, lightning, possibility of torna
We have been watching this run off here that has been coming just roaring down this wash that goes into a golf course. A lot of rain in palm springs and In The Valley where we are getting a couple of inches of rain which equals about half of what this area gets in a year. Authorities have closed a lot of the roads that goes over these washes. They did that pre emptively before the storm rolled in. They have done some of that here over the last few hours as the floodwaters grew and you see the gusty wind and some of the heavy rain has stopped over the past few hours but now on the backside of the storm this is really starting to gust as hillary moves on to the north. We can see the wind picking up there and in terms of the people who are living there, jason, how accustomed are they to this . You mentioned this is about as much rain as they usually get in a whole year. How vulnerable is this community . They are not accustomed to this at all. This morning i was at a station where they we
Head of the Us Emergency Management Agency says the agency is a redeployed an assistant team. A correspondent is in los angeles and does the latest. ~. ,. , latest. We are expecting to make landfall latest. We are expecting to make landfall in latest. We are expecting to make landfall in the latest. We are expecting to make landfall in the next i latest. We are expecting to l make landfall in the next few hours in a very remotely populated part of california and mexico. Tijuana, the border city, the tourist city in mexico is certainly in the path there the hurricane to their grave concerns that can cause some serious damage there before moving north into california has a Tropical Storm and that is the unusual part of this hurricane and Tropical Storm can get to california and is expected to continue moving north as opposed to moving west which is what hurricane would generally do and then dissipate over the ocean. The likely consequences are going to be extremely heavy rain in californ