West we could seat four plus inches of rain. all of that water needs to go somewhere at the flood watch is in effect until monday, a high wind warning is going to go into effect at later on today. we are talking wins 20 35 miles per hour. gusts up to 60 miles per hour. but as you can see behind me plenty of people still on the las vegas strip so don t really seem to worry about all this. notes buddies yesterday it was raining our whole plan was toere in thee going to tough it out get through it. and so know we are not going to change our plans for it will be back later this week when it s nicer again progressive rain because it got hats were going to check in. are the las vegas area folks have been getting ready for the storm, sandbags have been distributed to some errors clark county has opened up their multi agency coordination center so emergency services can better respond. read berkley up equipment has been staged around the county in case roads are impacted.
Through monday to start looking for the to the north. you are looking at extreme threat here or flash flooding. we already see some of those warnings out there but it s already happening in areas where you really do not see it. death valley could see as much rain here of the next 24 hours than they see in several years. it is a unique situation all around but as we said we still have a little ways to go through. jon: very concerning forecasts and plots thank you. thankfully no tsunami alert after the earthquake that adam mentioned let s head back to santa monica just west of los angeles chief correspondence and jonathan hunt s been out in the middle of the storm for the last several hours, jonathan. jon, our crew here on the pacific coast highway in santa monica certainly felt that earthquake. it was centered just about 60 miles north of us here. the icing on the cake if you
Earthearthquakes, the city is prepared. now, and all of the area of southern california and that is getting hit perhaps no worse being hit harder right now then imperial beach down in san diego county just north of the border with mexico that is where really the center of the storm is beginning to hit now. it is going to rain there for several more hours. they are already warning a flash flooding and eastern san diego county. in all of the rain over the next 12 hours or so perhaps even more than that is going to move up here into l.a. county particularly out east street riverside county and out to palm springs and obviously in areas like palm springs the desert they are even less used to this kind of weather. they are very concerned about flooding in palm springs but we heard officials in the desert communities earlier today, appealing to people not to go