00:00 A year's worth of rain over the span of just a few hours
00:03 as Hillary unleashes its wrath on Southern California.
00:07 It's quite amazing. I've never seen anything like this.
00:10 We've had storms before, but never anything quite this windy and rainy at the same time.
00:16 As of Sunday, 20 flash flood warnings were in effect statewide
00:21 with a state of emergency declared across 11 California counties.
00:26 Among the most vulnerable areas, the state's desert communities,
00:30 where hard packs dry ground, makes flooding even more likely.
00:33 Meteorologists are still warning of the potential for catastrophic and life-threatening floods,
00:40 even as Hillary is expected to be downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone overnight.
00:45 With this storm, we have been advertising heavy rains, gusty winds, and thunderstorms.
00:52 As you know, we have a tropical storm warning in effect
00:55 and because of the faster speeds of the motion of the storm,
00:59 it means that the storm has less time to weaken by the time it gets here.
01:04 As Los Angeles braced for its first tropical storm since 1939,
01:10 residents got an unwelcome surprise, a magnitude 5.1 earthquake that struck
01:16 just north of the city with no significant damage reported.
01:19 Summer months are typically when California is threatened by wildfires.
01:24 Scientists say man-made climate change is increasing the frequency
01:29 and severity of freak weather events.
