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People on Catalina Island off the coast near l. A. Are evacuating to long beach as officials urge visitors and residents to leave. In San Bernardino county, the Sheriffs Department has issued an Evacuation Warning for parts of that area. Lets go straight to derek. What can you tell us about hilary . Picking up speed in slowing down . Picking up speed. That is important because if youre just tuning in, maybe perhaps intermittently from the west coast or Southern California, you may have thought, hey, maybe this is a sunday night into Monday Morning time frame. Right now is your last few moments to do your final preparations to secure your property, that time of thing. This is more of a sunday during the daytime frame. Thats when we anticipate the greatest impacts. It will last through Monday Morning but the greatest impact is throughout the day on sunday. 110 Miles Per Hour winds. There is a lot that can be infederal from this satellite image. This is helping weaken the storm and the tr
Its 5 oclock. Our main story is that Record Numbers of patients spent more than four hours in accident and emergency units in england in january, according to figures leaked to the bbc. During a difficult winter for the nhs, january seems to be the worst performing month in the past 13 years. The figures also suggest Record Numbers of people waited longer than 12 hours for a hospital bed, once theyd been seen in a e. The bma said the Prime Minister could no longer bury her head in the sand over increasing pressure in the nhs. And it accused the government of failing to grasp the seriousness of the situation. Our Health Correspondent Dominic Hughes reports. For months now, accident and Emergency Departments across england have been struggling. Last week, the bbc was given exclusive access to the royal blackburn hospital, where the pressure on a e was plain to see. We need beds and staff. Its just like banging your head you need a bed. Definitely. Its distressing. Its really distressing
image. this is helping weaken the storm and the trajectory, starting to move quickly. at 17 miles an hour out of the north northwest. this means that we will see an earlier landfall. the track has shifted a little further east compared to this time yesterday. so maybe perhaps a central or northern baja peninsula before moving into california. this will affect between san diego and los angeles. let me explain why that s important. you can actually see the winds coming out of south easterly direction. this will be running basically parallel to the mountain ranges for some of these areas. and what will happen hear, as we advance this in time, as the winds change directions, it is literally going to extract all the available water out of the atmosphere. it will produce a significant amount of heavy rain. the flash flood threat cannot be overstated enough. it is just an incredible amount of rain. we have already seen presim tags values here exceeding two inches
you can see allow they re on the eastern flank of this storm. we will get gusty winds over the western coastal region. san diego to los angeles. gusting 30 to 40 miles per hour. certainly the mountain ranges on the interior of southern california will see wind gusts, tropical storm force as well. and it will come out of a south easterly direction. or rather, northeast. this will help influence the rain that will pick up in intensity here. there are several mountain ranges across this area, intermittent between the desert southwest. these mountains will act as a barrier for this kind of, let s say, a sponge in the atmosphere to wring itself out. all the moisture will fall in the form of rain. it will fall on the mountain peaks and then work into the valleys and the communities below. the eastern sections of san bernardino county under some sections of that county, currently under evacuation orders and look at the flood watches that extend as far north as idaho.