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
at the end of the tournament talking about spain being the new world champions, and there were lots of reasons to think this outcome shouldn t be possible. they were missing many of the country s best and most experienced football players due to a row between them and the federation over conditions. alexia putellas, the best player in the world before she suffered a serious knee injury last year, was very clearly still recovering from that injury and her form at this tournament was a long way away from being her best, and spain also changed their goalkeeper mid tournament a very unusual move because stability is so important in that particular position. and cata coll who came in to between the sticks, she d never played for the full spanish national team until the knockout phase of this world cup, so all of this would make you think that spain should not really be champions and yet they have been, aside from thatjapan game, excellent at this tournament, they ve been the top scorers a