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
That quilt may be landslides to the l.a. mayor karen bass says it is all about safety and being prepared, listen here. it is critical that angelina stay safe and stay home unless otherwise directed by safety officials. avoid unnecessary travel but if you do not need to be on the road, please don t get in your car. now overnight the storm hit the mexican very popular resort town of call us and lucas. we are getting reports of widespread flooding on many streets not just there but along the baja california peninsula. we do not have reports of widespread damage at this point that is the good news. everyone here in southern california is braced for what is to come over the next 12 18 hours or so. and as you so aptly put it a few
Looking for water tables makes it very difficult we are experiencing up to an inch of water an hour. we re still following protocols for response to an earthquake we here in orange county. jon: you were saying you wanted people to stay off the streets just as we are running some video of trucks and cars plowing through water over flooded intersections. it is kind of hard to tell people not to get in their cars. it is the car culture there in southern california. brexit is the car culture that is causing some challenges as we have some light rain that started. i think people thought that was a storm headed our way. the right into the heat of it at the moment. between now and 7:00 p.m. the pacific time they should experience the heaviest rain falls through this. and runoff will be significant. the potential for flash flood still exists, debris flow we had
About mudslides and early walls of water rushing down for as i said this ultimately does track further to the north. we are going to be looking at significant rainfall can we get a portions of eastern oregon up into idaho. again it runs over to the northern rockies its way to squeeze out a little bit more the moisture. a lot lot of folks are going to get in on the action here but southern california right now, although with your monday it willbe tracking this across the northwest. jon: an awful lot of rain to be fouling on some areas that just do not get that kind of water. adam klotz, thank you. southern california it might not have seen the worst in tropical storm hilary yet. let s go just west of los angeles is where fox correspondent jeff jonathan hunt is a weathering the storm in santa monica. what s happening there? just a few minutes ago we felt that earthquake you were talking about. it was about 20 minutes ago i would say. it was centered some 60 miles north of us near the t
Ojai. our crew here on the edge of the pacific ocean felt it quite clearly. fortunately, jon, we are being told by the weather service in the u.s. gs there is not any danger of a tsunami which is fortunate for us given we are about 10 feet from the pacific ocean here. you can see the bands of rain coming in more and more thickly now. we have been standing in this for around eight hours and i have to say the rain is heavier than it has been any point during those eight hours. you look at some of the lie that cameras we ve got further south into san diego area imperial beach, coronado for instance they are also in the thick of this right now as the storm crosses the center of the storm. crosses the border from mexico and will begin its move through southern california. it is going to be intensive. officials are warning there will be flash flood in many areas.