Ojai. our crew here on the edge of the pacific ocean felt it quite clearly. fortunately, jon, we are being told by the weather service in the u.s. gs there is not any danger of a tsunami which is fortunate for us given we are about 10 feet from the pacific ocean here. you can see the bands of rain coming in more and more thickly now. we have been standing in this for around eight hours and i have to say the rain is heavier than it has been any point during those eight hours. you look at some of the lie that cameras we ve got further south into san diego area imperial beach, coronado for instance they are also in the thick of this right now as the storm crosses the center of the storm. crosses the border from mexico and will begin its move through southern california. it is going to be intensive. officials are warning there will be flash flood in many areas.
Joshua tree national park, other parks in the area all closed through the storm. the power providers had their monitoring conditions prepared for whatever the store might bring. people have the las vegas area being told to stay home during the duration of the storm. but on this trip the show goes on. michael jackson is playing and the fountains at the bellagio continued to arrived. jon back to you. jon: max gorden from fox weather. max thank you. for more on the impact of this very rare storm let s bring in captain andrew freeborn public information officer of the kern county california fire department. that is north of los angeles and somewhat inland. what are the challenges your department basis as a result of all the water ahead? quick the challenges we are facing us we are trying to make sure an area of over 8000 square miles is care for. this store is deathly going to
Southern california tonight. the storm officially made landfall four hours to go over mexico baja peninsula. it s expected to move up through southern california and into the data over the next 24 hours spread fox weather meteorologist adam klotz is looking how much rate and where it is awkward default. lots of rain we are really kind of in the heart of it as we speak right on the big bands of showers continuing to push their way into southern california. everevery one of these little gn boxes is a plush flood warning that s currently in place. they have been in place here for a little while. this one in los angeles county really running into the northern part of the county pretty get a little bit more of elevation in the hills very heavy rain will be racing doubt into the city but you ll see some of these warnings pop up in portions of san diego county as well. very heavy rain it s going to go on for hours and hours and hours. this the first initial heavy round of showers here s the
Coastal areas this pastor that gave way to mudslides but we are experiencing a lot of challenges at the same time. i hope we will heat our morning home stay home for the remainder of this evening. jon: things can change quickly and go out in a storm like this and everything looks hunky-dory that all the sudden a wash comes in out of the hill country and cuts off cars or washes out a road whatever. it can change very fast. it can change very fast. what i am asking our residents here in orange county in southern california for the most part is we are busy enough already. we do not need to be busier going out and saving people from themselves were driving into water, driving into flooded areas. we are going to be busy for the next several hours i hope they do not create more workforce. jon: we hope you are right everyone should listen to those words. the sheriff and orange county. good luck and thank you.
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