Ahead on cnn newsroom, much of Southern California now under a Storm Warning never seen before. Well tell you what the region could see. In hawaii, the latest on Rec Recoveriests and the search for those still missing. And cnn learns when donald trump is expected to sure rending himself to a jail here in tlapt. Details and the legal negotiations going on right now behind the scenes. Reporter live in cnn center this is cnn newsroom, we begin this hour in the Southwestern United States where people are bracing for catastrophic flooding. Hurricane hilary could dump more than a year worth rain of in a few days. Its likely to make landfall in mexico but its moving fast and could arrive in california as a Tropical Storm, the first such storm to do so in decades. Its been 84 years since one came ashore, so its a Once In A Lifetime event that were going to be experiencing. Preparations are already under wa the federal Emergency Management agency is sending personnel and supplieso Southern Cali
videos coming out of lahaina shot in the early hours of the fire. and, you know, the reality is that those lines are likely to fail as winds get above 40 to 50 miles an hour. and so if the power s on when they fail, and there s dry fuel underneath them, that can be a very dangerous combination. yeah, as you ve said other states have done the same thing. it does beg the question, why didn t hawaii? after all, officials from hawaiian electric specifically cited the camp fire and california s power shutoff plan in some of their planning documents. this would make the tragedy even more sad if this could have been prevented. yeah. i mean, that s my kind of gut feeling about this, you know, we don t know the we don t have a final report on causation yet, and we do need to be really careful about that. but whenever i see wildfires like this one that occur in high