State of emergency declared as Hurricane Hilary approaches Southern California YouTube Video
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Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency Saturday, ahead of Hurricane Hilary’s expected landing in Southern California. Meanwhile, Bay Area first responders are heading south to assist with the response efforts. Rob Mayeda, Alyssa Goard and Marianne Favro report.
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State of emergency declared as Hurricane Hilary approaches Southern California Automated Transcript By Speak
California is under a state of emergency as we brace for what’s expected to be the first tropical storm to make land in at least 80 years. And we have been following Hillary as it is barreled over the Pacific heading straight for California’s southern coast.Like our meteorologist predicted it’s losing hurricane strength but it is still packing plenty of rain and
wind. The storm started to move in this morning. Here’s a time lapse from a wildfire camera. This is in Santa Monica. Just look at those clouds rolling in throughout the day. Much more to come. Governor Newsom state of emergency covers 11 counties from Socal to the central valley including Los Angeles, riverside, San Diego, San Bernardino, Fresno and Tulare. People are doing what they can to prepare. Newsom’s office says 7500 emergency responders are on the ground ready to help as the state coordinates resources ahead of landfall.
We’ve got our team tracking Hillary as it gets closer to Seo Marin Favreau has the latest info from state officials, Elissa Gord is in the East Bay with how a team there will be deployed to Seoul first. Let’s get to meteor. I just Rob. Rob. What’s the latest timeline? Right
now, we’re still technically looking at a hurricane category two strength winds of 100 MPH moving northwest at 17. And we think over the next 24 hours, it will lose that hurricane status but still come ashore here in northern Baja, east of San Diego is a tropical storm by Sunday around two or three in the afternoon, likely crossing east of San Diego and then by Sunday afternoon and evening, heading up toward the southern Sierra as a remnant tropical low.
But the rain potential here is tremendous, increasing through the day through southern California. Some locations as we head through the day, tomorrow, we’ll pick up more rain in just a couple of hours time than we see in an entire year. These are for areas here in the high desert of southern California where we could see 4 to 7 inches of rain, including many burn scar zones, north and east of L A and San Diego. Now closer to home, we will have an impact from this tropical storm. Notice the rain map here, by the time we get to Monday, we’ll see increasing chances of showers. And in fact, as early as nine o’clock tonight, we’ll have to watch for these thunderstorms which right now are near Fresno, moving northwest through the central valley. We could begin to see a few of these showers and thunderstorms for the inland Bay area as early as later on this evening and tonight coming up, we’ll take a closer look at how much rain we’re expecting from the remnants of that tropical storm and how long it could stick around in our forecast up in about 10 minutes.
All right, Rob, thank you. First responders here in the Bay Area are heeding the call for help. As Hillary approaches, State Office of Emergency Management has rallied a swift water rescue team with experts from several Bay Area fire departments and they’re
all about to take off from Oakland, Dennis, Holand, California. NBC bears Elissa Gord. They live at that warehouse, Alissa
Terry and that swift water task force just took off from this warehouse in Oakland, taking with them some of the equipment that you see behind me like boats as they’re headed to Southern California. They said they were expecting a call as they heard that Hillary was gaining strength off the coast and they got that call that they expected at around midday today. Now these are 16 Bay Area firefighters who have special swift water raining who are responding. They got here as fast as they could today and loaded up to head south. Specifically, they’re being called to the riverside county area where flooding is expected. They’re bringing five vehicles on the road plus water equipment and staff who are trained rescue swimmers. They have practiced from the storms we saw in northern California earlier this year. They were also deployed when the Pao levee broke. Now it’s time for them to head further south.
Everybody came here to get our boats together, all the equipment and make sure that everything is in working order so that we can get out the door and get down to Southern California and get some eyes on the area that we’re going to be working in potentially and talk to the folks of high potential high hazard areas, get some recon from them and situational awareness to some of the high target areas that they’re worried about down there.
And this group says they don’t know exactly how long they will be in southern California for, but they’re prepared to be there as long as is necessary in Oakland, Alissa, Gord NBC Bay area News
Alissa, thank you very much. And as you just heard from Rob a moment ago, Hillary expected to bring a lot of rain to Southern California. Emergency officials are not mincing words, the time to repair is slipping away but it’s not too late yet. NBC Bay area’s Mary Anne Favreau continues our team coverage. What’s going
on. Well, people are bracing for the possibility of flooding and landslides which is why in the San Diego area, there is a last minute rush to fill sandbags. The demand is so high that some stations have already run out in Los Angeles. People stood in long lines to get last minute supplies and food at supermarkets. Emergency management leaders have pre positioned staff and special water, terrain vehicles and supplies across southern California. And tonight, they have a very strong message for drivers.
We want to ensure that you are safe through this entire event. If you do not need to be on the roadways, we are asking you to postpone any of your non essential travel until the peak of the storm passes.
The threat has triggered California’s first ever tropical storm warning extending from the state’s southern border to just north of Los Angeles. The state is activated its federal Flood Operation Center and that’s where it will continue to monitor the potential effects of hurricane Hillary and because of that threat, some flights and even baseball games have been canceled as hurricane Hillary nears Mary Anne, Favre NBC Bay area
news. All right, Mary Anne. Thank you when we’re not on air, get the latest updates on our website NBC bay area dot com or by downloading our free NBC Bay area news app. So you can get info straight to your phone.
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