Gulf Storms News Today

You from the nbc news center here in los angeles. Welcome everyone to alex witt reports. We begin with the Breaking News, Tropical Storm hilary has begun lashing the pacific coast. Live pictures from san diego in the direct path of the storm we are heavy rain is beginning to fall in parts of california, and now under a State Of Emergency. Moving to las vegas, preparations for the orders are underway there. Storm drains are being tested, and potential for historic flooding there. Heavy rain could...

Make no mistake. there will be power outages across southern california. >> the total rain amounts are not like what weve seen in some of the atlantic storms and gulf storms. but its gonna really be potentially devastating for them in these desert areas. and so, theyre gonna have impacts for sure. >> it is critical that angelina stays safe and stays home, unless otherwise directed by safety officials. avoid unnecessary travel. if you do not need to be on the road, please dont get in your car. >>...

They were pulled out from a boat on their home that was a couple blocks away from this high point on this highway. they described what a horrific night they spent inside their home. >> if they went past that, god take me. we were afraid for a little while. it was coming up the stairs. >> i wasnt afraid of the water c but the wind kept going, and i felt the walls in the house move, the exterior walls. >> they described it as hours of agony, everything they endured last night inside their home. th...

Advisory all the way from da duluth to nebraska. dangerous traveling for anywhere you see highlighted in pink or purple. were expecting the heaviest amounts of snow, a foot or more, wind gusts as strong as 50 miles per hour. well see blowing and drifting snow thursday into friday. even when the snow stops it will still be dangerous out there with that heavy snow. breaking down the timing for you, if youre just maybe heading back from your destination for christmas, heavy snow and wind in the pla...

Mexico, which by the way was 2 to 4 degrees warmer than normal and it just exploded right up until landfall. a lot of times with katrina, it was a category 5 over the central part of the gulf, but it weakened to three as it made landfall as it trained some of the dry air. remember how warm and humid it has been over the eastern u.s. in recent weeks. there wasnt a lot of dry air for the storm to weaken. >> but there was another part of gulf storms, i have family on the gulf side, grew up as a flo...

Hurricane michael caused, i want to focus on how the storm happened in the first place, how michael strengthened from a tropical nothing to a near category 5 and essentially 72 hours. how it continued to intensify as it approached coast, which is not normally what happens to gulf storms, how it became the most powerful storm ever to hit the united states in the month of october. even perhaps most important how it may be just a matter of time before there is another michael, hurricane with a diff...

By monday, we were actually predicting landfall as a major hurricane. we have been working with the states, the federal government, the local officials behind the scenes. and the state of florida has had a state of emergency issued for the past two-and-a-half days. we knew this was going to be a dangerous storm situation. it was going to develop very rapidly over very warm waters over the gulf of mexico. i think people have gotten used to seeing hurricanes come across the atlantic and have five,...

Headquartered. guys, back to you. >> louisa bojesen, thank you so much. now well go to bonnie schneider where we are looking south at the storms. >> we have storms rolling into eastern louisiana. the eastern parishes are getting hit by rain hard, then it moves through southern sections of mississippi and alabama. heres a look at the projection of the rain we can see and where it is headed. the gulf storms work their way all the way across the gulf of mexico and well start to see more stormy we...

Further south than normal. thats really what accounted for this monumental disaster. the northern philippine island of luzon is used to these things. manila on the west side. people moved to the west side of luzon so they are not exposed to where typhoons come from. here, the center part of the philippines they dont normally get real strong typhoons so people live in these vulnerable locations where the water from the ocean comes in and they are directly exposed to the storms coming out of the e...

Again were looking at more rain on i-10. its really coming down hard. frequent lightning strikes and strong wind is also a part of the the system. a little bit later well talk about the gulf coast weather. note we have a stationary front. come look at this right here bringing heavy rain and low pressure will ride along the front and really bring about the chance for flooding. not just in tennessee but towards west virginia into kentucky throughout the ohio valley. this will stick around tonight....