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We are back live in the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta in washington. We are tracking hurricane hilary. The system just weakened to a category 2 storm with winds of 110 miles per hour. The historic and potentially catastrophic storm is barrelling toward the southwestern United States, triggering the first ever Tropical Storm warning for millions of people in Southern California. The San Bernardino county Sheriffs Department just issued an Evacuation Warning for some areas in that part of Southern California. Thats just east of los angeles in the mountain and foothill areas. Hilary could bring a y...

Nairobi was listed among counties set to experience heavy to very heavy rainfall.

According to a land use land cover analysis conducted between 2003 and 2021 by Hyderabad-based researchers, Ulsoor and Bellandur watersheds lost 16.76% and 18.66% of green cover, respectively. Open areas increased by nearly 50% in Ulsoor and 33.94% in Bellandur waterbodies.

Little bit, jim. and we're expecting, in the next hour to three hours that north of us in antelope valley, they might see some scattered thunderstorms as the outer bands start coming in this direction. of course, nothing really significant until tomorrow. this is something that, as we've been talking about, the people of southern california are not used to. a tropical storm warning has never been issued here. now, granted, this past winter was a very wet one, and so people are prepared for what to do in flood situations, but certainly, usually not in the month of august. so, i keep seeing citi...

The local sheriff confirming that much. there's a potential crisis situation going on 45 minutes from where i am right now in laplace. that's a small community near lake ponchartrain. i called the fleet captain who's part of a volunteer group that goes out to rescue people in flood situations like this. they tell me the reports are accurate. thousands are calling in for rescues, and they can't do anything about it at the moment because it is simply too dangerous. he said there are countless volunteers just waiting so they can see in the light of the day if there are live wires or be able to st...