Another round of severe weather is brewing in the central plains of the united states. pedram jef haravaheri has all o details. i was looking into how many tornadoes we have seen since last friday, across the u.s. 130 have been reported. 32 came down in the past 24 hours. if you are tuned in for outside the united states, looking at this and thinking, is this pretty unusual? not across the u.s. in fact, u.s. gets about 1,100 tornadoes every year. much of it happening in the spring season. the second-highest total for any nation in the world is canada, at 100. that 130 since friday alone would be enough to be second place on a global scale. it speaks to the significance of severe weather across our planet. you take a look. another round of it for wednesday afternoon. it stretches from kansas city, points southward, into joplin.
San francisco into southern oregon even into portions of of the higher elevations in california there and 14,000 feet high, forecast models here indicate 7 to 11 feet of snow from between monday to at least wednesday night. really speak tuesday the significance of how much moisture is being pumped into this region here. an incredible amount of snow coming down across the higher elevation. and take a look. with it tremendous gusts as well. san francisco was one of the most impacted ports in the country. san francisco with the winds that are really feeling the grunt of this and expecting to stay gusty at least the next 24 hours. stay strong, everyone. spring is in three weeks. pedram, thank you. if you watch the oscars, you must have seen that lovey-dovey duet between lady gaga and bradley cooper. that may not be the sweetest duet you will hear this week.
We get a little more of a marine influence in the middle of the week. no chance for rainfall until thanksgiving when you look at the long-range models. gusts this afternoon as high as 70 miles an hour across the mountainous range. guys. thank you, pedram. the president s tweets on the california wildfires sparking backlash from the firefighters on saturday. the president tweeted there is no reason for the massive and deadly and costly fires, except forest management is so poor. mismanagement of the forests. remedy now or no more fed payments. the head of the firefighters union shot back in a statement calling the president s statements ill-informed, demeaning and grossly wrong. wildfires are spread in forested areas and open fields fueled by parched vegetation, high winds
Tropical depression. the rain on top of a recently falling hurricane is not going to be good news across that region, rosemary. certainly isn t. we thank you, pedram, for keeping a close eye on this and on the situation. thanks again. well, no one seems to be above the law in china s big anti-corruption drive. celebrities and otherwise rich or powerful players can find themselves gone without much of a trace. a closer look at what is going on on the other side of the break. do stay with us.
Land. only three storms in recorded history since 1950 made landfall across the panhandle as a category 3. never a category 49 impact this region. devastating storm surge, as much as 12 feet high east of panama city. we ll follow this over the next few days. pedram, thank you very much. we ll get back to you if needed. it s going to be a very busy couple days for our correspondents out there the like miguel marquez in santa rosa beach. gary tuchman in apalachicola. good evening to both of you. i know this area very well, where i grew up. santa rosa beach, my familyand i rented a house there in the summer, sometimes during the winter. you re there. how are people preparing out there? well, they re preparing by leaving for the most part. there are a few people in this area but look, it s 10:00 p.m. local time. the tide came in around 8:00
thank you, pedram. we ll check back in next hour. thousands have who have been evacuated from the carolinas, have not been able to return to their homes. and many don t know how much they ve lost to the floods. but now, they can check the property online. new high-definition images taken by planes shows specific details by the areas most devastated. the imagery helms emergency responders know which areas need the most help. new photos are taken daily and are posted on the noaa administration. thank you for joining us this hour. connect with me anytime on twitter. and i ll be back with another hour of news in a moment. you re watching cnn. stick around. one last year these womenn i started seeing results. and hundreds of thousands more tried revitalift triple power. with hyaluronic acid and pro-xylane. it visibly reduces wrinkles, refirms and smooths texture. guaranteed or your money back. revitalift triple power. from l oreal paris.
Really heard a good answer for that unless they evacuate large swaths of the population days in advance. and that creates chaos as well. so it s tough. brianna sacks, i m sure you heard that story just a few minutes ago of ed bledsoe talking about the fact his wife called 911 and they told her that someone would get her. so certainly the evacuation word getting that out very important. thank you for your time today. we ll keep in touch with you. no problem. thank you, brianna. brianna and our other reporters, pedram is here now, saying this fire just moved ahead of all the officials and the firefighters and the police. it was taking the lead, and that s where they are. yeah. an incredible fire. when you think about the month of july across the western if you re watching us from there you know it s absolutely among the hottest we ve ever observed. in place like seattle, washington second hottest july going to be wrapping up here soon on record across that region. but really the
Road, and ignited the flames on the dry grass across that region of northern california. and unfortunately in this part of the state if you have been here you know the lay of the land. very mountainous, very hilly terrain. and the thermal signature of these fires shows you the landscape they re atop of. when you have a landscape as such, when you have sloped land like this, it often allows the fire to pick up speed and tremendous speed as it travels uphill. i use the analogy frequently of taking a match lighting it and holding it straight out. and you see that burn slowly toward your finger. but if you give it a slope it burns very rapidly toward your hand and that s what s happening on these hillsides and these communities. that s an easy way to understand it. pedram, thank you so much. thank you, pedram. still ahead here on cnn newsroom, the u.s. president attacks the russia investigation as an illegal scam as he calls it, and that s just the beginning. why he claims the spec
Generate dangerous debris and significant ash clouds. all the activity has understandably rattled locals like john davidson. the first thing that i noticed was i heard what sounded like a jet turbine. last week it s almost like your life is on hold. it s not like it s a hurricane where you think okay, in three days it will be here and go or a forest fire. this is almost like a slow motion train wreck. a slow motion train wreck. you know, pedram you know what to do with hurricane. you know what to do with tornadoes, things like that. but this is different. it is. this is different, and it s one that is not as predictable as being able to see something coming your direction and being able to prepare for it. this could happen any second. and of course it has been very active for a couple of weeks now. the leilani estates there, george when you take a look at the green triangles, those are the fissures that have been in place. you talked about number 17 and 18. the latest fissures ha
Beneath that surface. and that s a critical threshold, because as you look at this all together, once we have the lava reach down to this level where it interacts with the water table, it s essentially like a pressure cooker. you build a tremendous amount of pressure. all the rocks, all the gases building up pressure down here. and these large, large rocks are wedged in this very narrow chamber, george. you have an immense amount of energy release in the form of a large explosion. that s what the next concern is here. this actually happened in 1924 across this very volcano, george, and we had boulders the sizetrucks lofted some 20 kilometer ace way, wow, the fact that it can travel miles away, the power from this type of activity. we ll stay in touch you. thank you, pedram. thanks, george. coming up, all things royal wedding. new details on the big day for britain s prince harry and meghan markle.