We begin this hour with an historic Hurricane Barreling toward the u. S. Hilary is now a category 3 hurricane with top winds of more than 100 miles per hour. This is new video of the storm pummeling mexico as it inches closer to the u. S. The powerful system could bring a years worth of rain in one day to parts of the southwest along with potentially catastrophic and lifethreatening flooding. Right now parts of Southern California are under a Tropical Storm warning for the first time in history. Officials and residents there are preparing with sandbags and the California National guard is standing by ready to help. A State Emergency Official tells cnn its an all hands on deck situation. Weve got a cnn team at this hour tracking hilary. Meteorologist derek van dam is closely following the path Aina Tasha Chen has a look at storm preps in los angeles. Derek, lets start with you at the cnn weather center. I cant believe were talking about a hurricane and preparations for it in los angeles
Quickly went to make mention we have an area of low pressure that could develop and bring rain along the coast of texas, this is separate from florence, several systems we are watching but the bottom line is we are uncertain. We are uncertain thursday and friday what happens. That cone of uncertainty getting wider. Bottom line North Carolina, South Carolina, georgia. If it stalls this is going to be a prolonged impact along the coast. Remember harvey when it stalls. Rob if it stalls over the ocean it could be good news in the Wind Department because it might lean less powerful winds. Going back to diana a couple decades ago. It stalls, moved southward before making landfall and it weakened to a category one. That would be awesome. However we want people to still
keep your eye on the ball. This is a category 4, still a major hurricane. We have to finetune the forecast. Along the coast, carolinas, georgia, virginia, keep watching. Jillian people who live along the North Carolina shorelin