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residents now making a run on grocery stores, shelves, emptied as people race to stock up on essentials. >> i wanted to make sure i'm prepared. >> reporter: tonight, officials with this warning. >> if you do not need to be on the roadways, we are asking you to postpone any of your nonessential travel. >> reporter: air traffic already in jeopardy. southwest airlines cancelling all flights in and out of palm springs through monday morning national parks closed, too, including death valley, joshua tree, and others across southern california, communities on edge, as the storm inches closer. >> priscilla is in palm springs where storm preps continue priscilla even the military is getting ready for a worst case scenario across the southwest. >> reporter: that's right, jose, as people here frantically fill sandbags, the national guard has been prepositioned in california and nevada along with high water rescue vehicles, and even the navy is moving their ships out of the san diego bay to prevent
nearly 400 wildfires are burning across british columbia right now and forcing more than 30,000 people to evacuate. you can see several homes destroyed and much of the sky is covered in dark clouds of smoke there. a state of emergency was declared in colona, a southern city in british colombia. one official said the last 48 hours, they've experienced some. worst conditions they've seen in that province. and they are restricts nonessential travel so residents can get out fast. an owner for a boat rental company said he launched a few boats to help residents evacuate after seeing people trying to
overnight more than 1,000 travelers had no choice but to sleep on airport grounds after several flights were canceled. officials now discouraging nonessential travel. >> even as of this morning planes were landing on maui with tourists. this is not a safe place to be. >> reporter: bill weir, cnn, en route to maui. a little more now on the exodus from maui. we've been hearing from locals and tourists who are desperate to escape and many are still stranded. >> there were people who didn't get out. there are quite a few homeless people in the area and people just not able -- don't have access to vehicles. >> high winds have been making matters worse for the crews racing to taken these fires. officials don't fully know the true extent of the damage so far.
inferno is berated a state of emergency has been declared, and officials are preparing to ask for federal funding as soon as they get a better idea of the scale of destruction. fema and the military have been called in to help. at least six people have died and 20 are seriously injured. the death toll is expected to rise. thousands are staying in shelters, and officials are discouraging all nonessential travel from the mainland, at least for the next few days. cbs's mark strassmann has the latest. >> [bleep]. >> reporter: iconic lahaina, a paradise lost. >> let's go! >> it's hot. >> reporter: wins from a hurricane south of maui with gusts up to 70 miles per hour. pushed flames that raced across the island and fueled several large wildfires. in a horrifying incident, a wall of fire chard a piece of maui all the way to the ocean. the coast guard rescued at least a dozen people from these waters.
very strict measures are being taken to bring it under control, because here, even though there is a widespread roll—out of the vaccine, several vaccines, already under way, lots of people have already been vaccinated, we are told more than a billion doses have been given out, but the country here, the officials are adopting a zero k strategy, meaning complete elimination is the target again. so transport links to cities are being cut, trains from high—risk areas are not allowed to come to beijing, several roads have been closed all over the country, people are being told to avoid nonessential travel. people are being told to avoid nonessentialtravel. if people are being told to avoid nonessential travel. if we go to wuhan, the city of 11 million people that had the first cases, the first lockdown, that whole city is going to be tested and that is with six or
with covid-related staffing issues, crippling air travel all week. some 7,000 flights canceled since christmas eve, more than 900 today. >> at the u.s. airlines, 90% or more of employees at the largest carriers are vaccinated. but omicron has shown it's elusive and it's random. >> reporter: seattle's airport had the most canceled flights in the world for the second day in a row. that's the main hub for alaska airlines. tonight, they're warning customers of 20-hour wait times on the phone, urging "flyers with nonessential travel scheduled before january 2nd, 2022, to consider changing their travel to a later date." and there are already more than 500 flights canceled here in the u.s. for tomorrow, so, definitely not good news, seeing as about 12.5 million people are expected to fly from now through january 3rd. whit? >> this mess continues. mireya, thank you.
not good, we are heading towards a new spike, 65,000 cases of covid—19 every day been reported which has not been seen for a long time, most of those are not omicron, the vast majority are the delta variant, but it is widely believed that the number of omicron are being underreported because they are not properly diagnosed and it is presumed by the government that in the weeks ahead the proportion of omicron is going to rise very sharply upwards. it is in response to that expectation that we had yesterday the announcement that france is to introduce much stricter rules on travel from the uk, the uk where borisjohnson is talking about a tidal wave of omicron. the french want to delay this by november of that into the uk which is why they have essentially banned nonessential travel from the uk over the christmas period, that means a lot of people have had their holidays
on this to happen. that is the balance of the prime - on this to happen. that is the balance of the prime minister on this to happen. that is the i balance of the prime minister is having to strike, the tightrope he has to walk between people saying, do less, and saying, do more. we don't know at the moment because there is going to be a couple of weeks before the scientists can say conclusively what the risks posed by the omicron variant actually are so it will be a bit of a nervous and frustrating couple of weeks. thank ou ve frustrating couple of weeks. thank you very much. — frustrating couple of weeks. thank you very much. we _ frustrating couple of weeks. thank you very much, we will _ frustrating couple of weeks. thank you very much, we will try - frustrating couple of weeks. thank you very much, we will try to - frustrating couple of weeks. thank you very much, we will try to find l you very much, we will try to find out a little bit more and get more clarity from the health secretary sajid javid, at half past seven. from today, anyone over the age of 12 travelling to spain, from the uk, must be fully vaccinated. up until now, travellers could either show a vaccination certificate or a negative pcr test. let's get the details from guy hedgcoe, who is in madrid. guy, what new rules will arrivals face? what are the new rules that arrivals will face? ., ., will face? you mentioned there, until now. _ will face? you mentioned there, until now, people _ will face? you mentioned there, until now, people travelling - will face? you mentioned there, | until now, people travelling from the uk to spain, for nonessential
Ever since March of 2020, the U.S. land borders with Mexico and Canada have remained closed to nonessential travel because of COVID. That all changes on Monday, when the U.S. fully reopens those border crossings to vaccinated visitors.