searching for mexico sundays at nine on cnn. after one of the wettest winters on record, california hillsides are simply exploding with color swaths of yellow and streaks of orange, blue and purple are painting the landscape this month as the state enjoys an extraordinary burst of blooms, it is the springtime super bloom and cnn s stephanie elam is in malibu with this very fun story. i ll tell you someone who grew up in california. the flowers are beautiful there, but this is really just something to behold this year. oh for sure. i was thinking about you, my fellow california that i wish you could be here to experience this because as someone who grew up here, i don t remember it ever being like this. we re in malibu because i wanted to show you just how many different colors you can see in this one area of the vibrant green, which is also quite different for the golden state that we re this green all of this because of the massive rain that we ve had here. you
thing. it was able to fly out at least 177 of its soldiers that was trapped in sudan, so people expect that it should do more to bring in aids as a trustee evacuate more of its citizens. their secretary of state, antony blinken, has been working the phone speaking to these two men trying to get them to agree. so far, every international effort has not succeeded bars. yes situation that, as you said, is rapidly changing and sadly rapidly deteriorating as well. we know you ll keep an eye on it. larry maduro, thank you so much. brianna boris flower power in california after one of the wettest winters on record, the state s hillsides are simply exploding with color. we re going to take you live to super bloom next. hey you know it doesesn t have to be this way. right junipers industry leading ai automatically sets up thousands o of secure sd wawan connections in minutes so you don t have to bend over backwards. no downside thought that was flexie. we planned
now. if we look back at the temperatures in the gulf of mexico back in the winter when i wrote that story, the water temperature in the gulf of mexico never fell below 73 degrees. texas and luouisiana had their warmest winters on record. new orleans also had its warmest february on record. so there was just abnormal warmth in the gulf coast states back in the winter. the warm water persisted in the gulf of mexico leading up to hurricane harvey. you need that fuel. you need that warm water in the gulf of mexico to power these storms, and we saw that explosive intensification of harvey as it approached the texas coast. obviously the warm water spurred by climate change played a role here. of course there s natural variability. we ve had hurricanes hit the gulf coast for decades. i think there s ooh combination. i think global warming intensified the storm some.
we told you a little about that earlier. you might think the heavy rains would have ended the political battle over water in the golden state. adam housley tells us that that s not true. for five years, the golden state was parched. even though california has had one of the wettest winters on record, the water crisis continues. it is dams we need to, storage. in california we have a problem. we just don t have enough of them. from the southern california water district is well prepared but thinks most of the rest of the state is not. voters approved a water bond in 2014. them money as they are. there is money at the federal level, the local level. the money has been approved numerous times by the state voters. it is the lack to invest and
we told you a little about that earlier. you might think the heavy rains would have ended the political battle over water in the golden state. adam housley tells us that that s not true. for five years, the golden state was parched. even though california has had one of the wettest winters on record, the water crisis continues. it is dams we need to, storage. in california we have a problem. we just don t have enough of them. from the southern california water district is well prepared but thinks most of the rest of the state is not. voters approved a water bond in 2014. them money as they are. there is money at the federal level, the local level. the money has been approved numerous times by the state voters. it is the lack to invest and