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Winds on parts ever the west coast. some gusts topping 100 miles an hour and making a real mess in southern california. at one point knocking out power to more than a quarter million homes. meteorologist janice dean is in the fox weather center. janice, we are talking more than a hundred miles an hour, that is like hurricane-force winds. >> reporter: absolutely. wind gusts in excess of 140 miles per hour on the sierra crest mountains. okay. that's really dangerous, obviously in the mountains. over a hundred miles per hour in parts of the city areas across utah and california. listen to this. p...

On windows, another demonstration plant. the trend has been you have a largely lawful demonstration and an organizer will declare it's over. a group of young people will hang around. these are the people that he determined to vandalize or have a conflict with police. eventually the destruction takes over. for three nights in a row, the demonstrations and they both have been overwhelmed by vandalism. sunday night, teenagers and young adults, many masked ran through the downtown area. blocking roads, smashing flowerpots and using broken pieces to smash windows. a large collection of police in ri...

That happened last year. juan, listen to this protest. listen to what they're saying. go ahead, roll it. >> now, that was new york, juan, and they're protesting. when do we want dead cops? when do we want them? now. you know what happened within days of that protest. these officers were executed by a guy who came from philadelphia and said i wanted some dead cops. we're seeing the fall-out. it's an ugly fall-out, juan. >> you know, this is almost like a fabrication. i don't know where to begin. there was no connection between a few protesters in new york saying they wanted dead cops because th...

Need any confirmation. we know what we saw. >> reporter: it seemed to hit out of nowhere. >> you can see the rain coming down in sheets now. >> reporter: a fast-moving, ferocious storm exploded over new york city and the surrounding area just as people were headed home in the afternoon rush. commuters became storm chasers. and in a matter of minutes, sheets of rain, dark black clouds, 80-mile-an-hour winds. powerful enough to rip the brick off of store fronts. and for block after block, from brooklyn to queens, trees came down crushing cars, blocking roads, ripping down power lines. one woman ...