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
on the ground rather than the ground soaking it up it runs horizontally and creates flash floods. we are seeing, like you mentioned, this is taking aim at communities like palm springs. these are almost desert communities. how vulnerable do you think some of these cities and towns in the path of hilary are? really quite vulnerable. we have got a high risk, which we don t issue that often, a high risk of flooding. a number of factors are coming together that really make us concerned. first and foremost we just talked about the heavy rain striking the soil that cannot handle that kind of rain. then you have mountains which enhance you get the mountain enhanced rainfall and in some places the heavy rainfall is occurring where previous fires have occurred. you get these burn scars because that makes it worse because it leaves behind soil that is virtually like a pavement. can you help us understand
pictures of london as we hand off to our colleagues there. you can see the london eye there on the right. thank you for watching. good morning. 0ur weekend may well have started off wet and windy but we closed out the story with some sunshine and some warmth. in fact, in suffolk, we saw highs of 26 degrees on sunday afternoon. now, mixed fortunes with our week ahead. in fact, we re going to start off monday for england and wales under this area of high pressure but low pressure over the next few days will dominate further north and that will bring some rain, some of it heavy at times. early morning patchy low cloud, mist and fog will quickly fade away across england and wales with a light south westerly breeze. the sunshine will start to kick in and take over. but further north and west, some of that rain turning quite heavy through northern ireland and north west scotland as we close out the afternoon here only around 16 or 17 degrees but at the highest values further south of 25
here, to provide expertise and resources because they do so much out in the gulf they wanted to be able to provide that expertise in california, knowing that people here are not accustomed to ever going through anything like this. jason allen, a reporter with cbs newsjoining us from palm springs as a tropical storm hilary moves into the area. thank you so much for your reporting. now let s focus on what s causing these conditions. earlier, i spoke to jamie rhome, deputy director of the us national hurricane centre. thank you so much for being here to help us understand a bit more about this tropical storm, and california has declared a state of emergency. what makes tropical storm hilary so dangerous? you have the situation of a tropical storm moving into southern california. much of the area has a soil that does not handle this much rainfall, let alone this much rainfall over a short period of time so when the rain falls
still under the influence of low pressure further north, so it s quite a messy story. through midweek, we could have a little bit of patchy rain through wales into the midlands but this frontal system is the dividing line between some pretty humid air pushing up from the south highs of 26 degrees quite possible and noticeably fresher air further north 16 to 18 degrees at the very best. but it s the fresher air that s going to win out as we go through towards the end of the week. low pressure drifts just that a little bit further south and east. a north westerly wind direction will take over and that s going to push those warm russet tones, the temperatures in the mid 20s, it s going to push it back over to the near continent, so that fresher feel will arrive for all. so, our week ahead will be rain at times into the north. warmer for the south until friday.