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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...

Make no mistake. there will be power outages across southern california. >> the total rain amounts are not like what we've seen in some of the atlantic storms and gulf storms. but it's gonna really be potentially devastating for them in these desert areas. and so, they're gonna have impacts for sure. >> it is critical that angelina stays safe and stays home, unless otherwise directed by safety officials. avoid unnecessary travel. if you do not need to be on the road, please don't get in your car. >> we've got reporters in the field, and meteorologists ready to cover every angle of the storm fo...

They were pulled out from a boat on their home that was a couple blocks away from this high point on this highway. they described what a horrific night they spent inside their home. >> if they went past that, god take me. we were afraid for a little while. it was coming up the stairs. >> i wasn't afraid of the water c but the wind kept going, and i felt the walls in the house move, the exterior walls. >> they described it as hours of agony, everything they endured last night inside their home. they said watching that water rise up along the staircase, leading up to the second floor of their ho...

Advisory all the way from da duluth to nebraska. dangerous traveling for anywhere you see highlighted in pink or purple. we're expecting the heaviest amounts of snow, a foot or more, wind gusts as strong as 50 miles per hour. we'll see blowing and drifting snow thursday into friday. even when the snow stops it will still be dangerous out there with that heavy snow. breaking down the timing for you, if you're just maybe heading back from your destination for christmas, heavy snow and wind in the plains for today, downpours and storms in texas. by the time we get to thursday we'll be looking for...

Mexico, which by the way was 2 to 4 degrees warmer than normal and it just exploded right up until landfall. a lot of times with katrina, it was a category 5 over the central part of the gulf, but it weakened to three as it made landfall as it trained some of the dry air. remember how warm and humid it has been over the eastern u.s. in recent weeks. there wasn't a lot of dry air for the storm to weaken. >> but there was another part of gulf storms, i have family on the gulf side, grew up as a floridian, that because it is so shallow, at the end, it -- they almost always lose a little bit. they...