Shut down some of the major arteries in and out of palm sprengs knowing that those are roads that typically turn into not only severe flooding situation. but in some cases rushing rivers even after just a half an inch of rainfall in a short period of time here. so those major arteries not only barricaded but some have police officers on either end of those closures trying to keep people from driving through. especially those low-lying roads that move over those washes, that s where all of that mountain runoff really becomes a dangerous situation and can sweep a car away within seconds jon. so really this is the peak and the brunt of hilary that we re feeling right now in palm springs. we already know some evacuations have been ordered in places like san bernardino county. it really only takes a couple of inches of water to just sweep you away especially if it is fast moving. so i know this summer we had a lot of runoff rain melt from white
Resources to support the request of the governor and needs as they go through their recovery process. reporter: biden has been vacations in lake tahoe this isn t the only disaster with tropical storm hilary baring down on southern california, the president will be monitoring that situation as well and jon just looking at the storm track from our fox weather center it looks like tropical storm hilary could impact lake tahoe and reno, and it is not clear if president biden will be twaibl returning to his vacation home at climate activist tom styers house in lake tahoe. full-time house is behind you switching gears to the first republican debate of 2024 all of the republican candidates who want to be in that house. how many people are going to be on stage wednesday? well jon barring a last minute change heart from former president trump as you can see here, there will be eight candidates on the stage in milwaukee getting ready to receive questions from our own bret baier and martha the
Anticipating quite a big hit to come later on this afternoon into the evening. jon: michael alfred we wish you and everybody else in temecula well as you deal with hurricane, tropical storm hilary. thank you. thank you, jon. jon: and in hawaii residents are beginning the long process of rebuilding and recovery after devastating wildfires there. 114 people are known dead hundreds more remain missing. president biden is due to visit tomorrow. mattfin is live with the latest from maui. matt. reporter: jon, the latest numbers from the governor s office right now there are more than 1,000 people still unaccounted for in this small historic town of lahaina as we drive around you can see the road blocks are still being very strongly enforced because tragically there could be more victims in any of these houses or structures in this town, and the governor in another interview is now acknowledging that there could be any number
Jonathon, thank you. tropical storms are rare, in southern california the last one came back in 1939. a live look now at santa catalina island 22 miles southwest of los angeles out in the pacific. evacuation alerts issued there after governor gavin newsom delayed start of emergency for much of southern california yesterday. hilary expected to dump torrential rain on the area and particularly bone dry areas in the southwest. before moving north into idaho and beyond fox weather correspondent nicole valdes is live in the desert community of palm springs, california. nicole. reporter: jon, good evening well as you can tell that heavy rain really starting to become a problem here in palm springs. we re expecting the amount of rain that this area typically sees in the year to fall in a matter of 48 hours and let me point out some of the major challenges we re already watching take place if you attack a look at the road over