Good evening and thanks for being
with us on a busy Saturday night.
I'm Luke Clary. Tonight,
the governor has declared a
state of emergency as First K and
Hillary barrels toward California.
Tropical storm warnings are in effect
for more than 40 million people.
The storm and it's wind and rain
just hours away from our state.
California is not taking any chances,
many loading up sandbags to protect
their homes and businesses,
others resorting to plywood to protect
windows and doors from the howling wind.
The governor meeting with members
of Cal Guard in San Diego as they
get ready to face the brunt of
the storm and whatever is headed
towards the people of California.
Some 7500 boots now on standby.
Tonight, Newsome addressed the
state from his Twitter account.
His message?
The same one we've heard all along.
Please, please listen to emergency personnel.
Local officials take seriously
debris flows and floods,
flash floods, lightning,
possibility of tornadoes.
Stay safe. And as always,
take advantage of the resource.
calalerts.org.
And ABC10 is in the storm zone tonight.
Our Andy Judson is hunkering
down in Palm Springs.
She just got in about an hour ago,
that desert area expected to get a
year's worth of rain in just two days.
She has more tonight on what's already
being done to keep people safe.
Yeah, we're coming to you from Palm Springs,
where it is quite literally
the calm before the storm.
But that's not expected to remain
here quite much longer because we're
expecting to see those outer bands of
Hurricane Hillary start to impact this
area into the late hours tonight and
early hours tomorrow morning where it's
going to bring significant rainfall.
Now, local authorities are already
preparing for a lot of flooding here.
They're telling the public to remain safe,
and they're already closing some roads
that are really prone to flooding.
And of course,
we'll continue to keep you updated
from Palm Springs here all throughout
the day tomorrow as we see Hurricane
Hillary impact this area.
But for now,
I'll send it back to you in studio.
That was our Andy Judson leading us
off tonight from the storm zone.
Hillary already disrupting plans
and people's lives as it barrels.
N Here's more on how people are
bracing for impact all across Southern
California and the desert Southwest.
Millions across the Southwest bracing
for life threatening flash flooding
as Hurricane Hillary takes aim.
Unprecedented tropical storm warnings now
in effect for Los Angeles in San Diego.
Tropical storm warning The first
ever for Southern California.
Evacuations just issued for several
communities in San Bernardino County.
Make no mistake, this is a very,
very dangerous and significant
storm in Newport Beach.
City workers loading sandbags,
preparing for the worst.
It's kind of unbelievable 30 miles
to the South in San Clemente.
Crews laying down plastic tarps,
guarding against potential mud slides.
Forecasters say Hillary could
dump a year's worth of rain in
some areas in less than 48 hours.
In the desert of Palm Springs,
have a tropical storm come
through like this. It's unreal.
Former ABC10 reporter Dan Adams
watching dark clouds roll in over
his home by surveillance camera.
Normal rainfall is usually between 4:00
and 5:00 inches for the entire year.
They're predicting between
5:00 and 7:00 inches for the
entire for this one day storm.
So you get all that type of rain
and precipitation at one time,
it's going to create real problem.
The biggest will be flooding if
that's what it's looking like.
Because of all the rain coming down.
We don't have the infrastructure
to be dealing with this
in LA, Crews building massive sand berms
to protect the coast from the waves.
LA prepared for this, I doubt it.
And since we can't handle normal rain,
I doubt we'll be able to
handle this type of rain.
Video from the International
Space Station showing the powerful
storm churning in the Pacific,
expected to slam Mexico
in the coming hours, already
kicking up massive waves.
Beaches closed, boats pulled out of the water
and now our Devon Truby tracking
all of this for us tonight in Devon.
This storm. The ferocity of the storm,
something the Californians have
not seen in quite some time.
That's right, Hillary already making
history as the first tropical storm
warning for Southern California,
but she can also go down in the
books for many other reasons.
Let's take a look here at
our hurricane history.
The only hurricane most recently
to make landfall 1939 with El
Cordonza in Long Beach, CA.
Hillary expected to be a tropical storm,
but if she were a hurricane that
made landfall in California,
that would be the first in
over 80 years hurricane,
nor more recently 1997 coming in as a
tropical storm in Southern California.
So folks living down there right
now may remember that that's
what you should be expecting.
But Hurricane Hillary really
dissipating tonight,
that cloud coverage no longer a clear
distinct eye and not as tight of a spiral,
making her now a category one storm system.
So let's track out.
Where is she going?
First though,
we have a tropical storm warning in the blue.
Hurricane warning for us in the red,
as Hillary will hug that peninsula
tightly all the way up the coast,
winds already going down to 90 mph.
Hillary will speed up in the
next 12 to 24 hours,
pushing along the Baja coast
into Southern California,
and then we'll she will go even
higher into Northern California.
We shall see the impacts of the storm in
Southern California overnight tonight,
early morning hours for sure
by 11:00 AM and folks might be
starting to wake up and then into
Northern California on Monday.
We're feeling very confident
about where she is going.
She's pushed a little bit towards the
north as we made our way through the day.
A few outliers now showing some
activity down towards Las Vegas,
Arizona, even the Colorado region.
A few outliers, a little bit closer to home,
but this is that competent
path that she is taking,
pushing towards the north because there's
really nowhere else for her to go.
Caught between this high pressure
system for the planes and a low
pressure system closer to us.
This is the track and this is the
space that Hillary has to travel
through for our storm right now.
Again, Category 1, Southern California.
Seeing those impacts coming in very soon.
Northern California will track
out how much rain and wind we
can expect on Monday.
Luke.
All right. Thank you, Devin. I know
we'll be tracking this all night long.