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If it makes landfall in california as a tropical system, that will be very rare. its only happened one other time this past century. lets get right to nbc news meteorologist angie lassman. conditions were prime for hillary to intensify, and it did. walk us through the storm track and when the west coast could start feeling impacts. >> it rapidly intensified, and was going to continue to stay and maintain its strength until it starts to weaken. one of those things that helped it strengthen was th...

Golden state earlier this year. now, emergency managers are tracking hilary, trying to anticipate where resources will be needed most. when the storm hits, some areas could see up to 10 inches of rain. las vegas usually gets a little more than 4 inches a rain in a year. if the storm continues on its path, it could get that amount in one weekend. the last tropical storm to hit southern california was back in 1939. it dumped more than 5 inches of rain in los angeles, flooding communities and watch...

And disrupting the lives of local communities. in a moment, well have the latest on the evacuations in canada, where a town of some 20,000 people is scrambling to safety. then well focus on the aftermath of the hawaii wildfires, and new questions over how the blazes started in the first place. but we start in california, where for the first time ever, a tropical storm could hit the southern part of the state. right now, hurricane hilary is a category four storm. its expected to make landfall in ...

Theme throughout my trip in the north—east, its the sense of community kind of everywhere, really. and theres nothing better to illustrate that than this — a local village going down to the river to celebrate harvest. this community was started in 1939 by a young woman who came from the mountains in search of food. gradually, she found that, ok, this place is quite better for her because its close to the water and civilisation can grow up. so, finally, she brings her family here, followed by...

Of everywhere, really. and theres nothing better to illustrate that than this — a local village going down to the river to celebrate harvest. this community was started in 1939 by a young woman who came from the mountains in search of food. gradually, she found that, ok, this place is quite better for her because its close to the water and civilisation can grow up. so, finally, she brings her family here, followed by her brother, and this particular village is the entire family, her own clan. ...

In assam, and a different kind of ritualistic celebration of nature. if theres one recurring theme throughout my trip in the north—east, its the sense of community kind of everywhere, really. and theres nothing better to illustrate that than this — a local village going down to the river to celebrate harvest. this community was started in 1939 by a young woman who came from the mountains in search of food. gradually, she found that, ok, this place is quite better for her because its close to...

And so to my final day in assam, and a different kind of ritualistic celebration of nature. if theres one recurring theme throughout my trip in the north—east, its the sense of community kind of everywhere, really. and theres nothing better to illustrate that than this — a local village going down to the river to celebrate harvest. this community was started in 1939 by a young woman who came from the mountains in search of food. gradually, she found that, ok, this place is quite better for h...

Having been born in 1939, two months after the onset of world war ii, ive always been pretty interested in dictatorships. and also, world war ii. mm. er... so by the time i got round to being plunged into history, which would be in the �*50s, i had a context for...for all of this. er...and one of my... one of the things that has occupied me really quite a lot over time is, how did these dictatorships get going, and how did they maintain themselves? and also, how do they fall apart when they fa...

- white audiences have been afraid of black comics, black comedy, because those comedians are truth tellers and sometimes you dont wanna hear the truth. - so what it meant was if you saw black characters on television, they were always gonna be subservient to allay white fears and to protect kind of white comfort. ethel waters was really the first black to have her own variety show. it was 1939, and later was hazel scott in 1950. but they did not last long on the tube. - so in 1956, we had the d...

This cultural life is reading sci—fi in the cellar when you were supposed to be doing your homework. and especially reading george orwell. when did you first come across orwell, then? well, my dad liked science fiction because he was a scientist and he used to get a big kick out of it. hmm. so he had quite a collection. but i first read animal farm cos it was in the house, my dad had it. hmm. and i thought it was going to be, "oh, good, animals! just like wind in the willows." talking animals?...