loss of life. i will do everything in my power to help maui recover and rebuild from this tragedy. really trying to lean on his past tragedies to really try to comfort people, something we ve heard the president do time and time again over the course of his tenure. you re right. he is going under an air of scrutiny. he was not only criticized by republicans but by others who say he did not give the attention. part of his presence is going to be refuting these accusations and trying to show he is bringing full government approach to it. i want to just read you some of the some of what fema and the white house has already been able to deliver to hawaii because this will be important. that also includes $8 million in assistance and $25 million in
swamp california roads in a storm not seen since the 1990s. plus, president biden s mission to maui. the consoler in chief tries to bring comfort to a community all but wiped out in a wildfire. and a consequential week for donald trump. the former president set to surrender in charges to georgia and skip the first gop debate in wisconsin. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m danny freeman. we begin this morning with something southern california hasn t experienced in decades but people there are facing it right now. torrential record rain and strong winds from tropical storm hillary. overnight hillary has been bringing down power lines and trees, flooding streets and triggering mudslides. in fact, one mudslide forced firefighters to take fast action in san bernardino county when it came barrelling towards their fire house. trees are going.
that replaced the shifting winds containment is up and resources are arriving including the national guard c130 that can drop and refill in minutes. and more manpower. and still evacuation continue as 6000 residents are threatened. it is all cleared away from the house and they have good access and hopefully they can defend my house. reporter: this could be the first year on record. already we are at 6 million and southern california hasn t started. washington and oregon and alaska are getting hammered as hot and dry conditions persist. because of the drought, the vegetation is driveway and
overall, it wasn t so bad. people who were evacuated last night, i saw they closed down that shelter. everyone went home. since then, we have had about 100 or so, maybe even hundreds, of little earthquakes since then. a lot of little shaking here. and i m from california. as you know, don. and i know what an earthquake feels like and how people respond to them. it s just that when they all come together like this, this is when people get nervous. just to put this into perspective, southern california hasn t had a real big earthquake since the northridge earthquake in 1994. that one coming on martin luther king weekend. it was around 4:30 in the morning. and scared a lot of people and did a whole lot of damage. and so when you take a look at that perspective, there are actually true southern californians who have grown up here who are adults who have not felt a strong earthquake. so because of that, there s complacency here when some of the experts saying, all of this earthquake action