monday. that will push by one day. the navy, in fact, moved ten of its ships out of the bay further into the sea to try to protect those ten vessels just in case this storm were to create any sort of damage. what the city has seen so far is that it has been able to withstand tropical storm hilary. the rain is still coming down. it will be very much what happens in the overnight hours. joining me now is storm chaser edgar o neill. thanks so much for being with us, edgar. where are you now and what are you seeing and what have you been witnessing? yes. i am in palm springs, california. i ve just witnessed a lot of flooding. i started the day driving up from el centro and drove up through the sultan city and cathedral city and into palm
some pretty strong winds. there are fires that are raging across portions of washington state in the vicinity of spokane. they need this moisture, not sure just how much is going to be left, but the wind is going to be rather vigorous across this region as well. we ll have another update coming up at the top of the hour. rosemary, i ll see you then. we appreciate everything you are telling us. thank you so much. hilary first made landfall on mexico s baja peninsula early sunday with at least one person killed in the floodwaters. journalist david shoretell with the latest on that region from the capital. reporter: devastated regions out of baja, california, which has been pummeled by rain several hours as tropical storm hilary made its way up along the coastline eventually making landfall sunday morning 11:00 local time. residents in the small community feeling the full force of the storm, 65-mile an
record breaking rainfall. more than 9 million people in downtown l.a. and surrounding areas are under flash flood warnings. authorities are also urging residents to stay off the roads, as mud and debris are flowing along with the floodwaters. the storm is forecast to continue moving north and dissipate over central nevada where there s already a state of emergency. here you can see a roadway collapse as flash floods inundated the area. san diego s mayor said this amount of rainfall could be too much for his city to handle. we re not used to this level of precipitation generally, certainly not in the middle of summer in august. we re not built for this kind of rainfall. that s my main concern. both the high winds that could pose challenges for our power lines and ability to get energy to the homes of our residents as well as flooding. we positioned assets and personnel there to make sure we can address it, but it may