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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 reach up to ten inches in some areas hit by the storms. So the impact could be catastrophic. The ne...

With a hurricane or a tropical storm. but i will give it to everybody, they are listening to the warnings, we are giving people regular alerts and updates. the other thing we are worried about is our homeless people in los angeles county. we have about 70,000 that sleep on the streets at night. we are going around to all the encampments, all the tents, and alerting them that they might be in a flood control area, they could be in danger once this storm really hits. i understand that uber is offering free uber rides to our homeless neighbors, to any shelter that will take them. i want to give a...

Lived in this apartment complex and they're going door to door to make sure they don't have anybody missing. where i'm standing was offed with about 8 feet of water some 12 hours ago. before that happened, the fire department launched search and rescue efforts at the apartment complex you see behind this first responder vehicle. sadly, once those waters receded, they went in and found the bodies of four people, a man and woman in their 70s and another man and woman in their 30s. right next to this, it overflowed its banks. this place is a flood control area. last time it flooded was about 50 y...

You could see maybe 10 people over 10 blocks. it was empty. >> so the bayou country, to the west of the city plaquemines parish, they got hit because there is a lot of water there anyway. and the water was rising and that's what the problem was? that and they are not in inside the flood control area. federally protected with levees and gates. they have private ones but they didn't do very well. they got hit first. rained their the longest. houses under water mississippi coast. storm surge and all the rain. it's bad in southern mississippi. >> bill: all right. thanks as always. now we have the ...