tv The Late News CBS August 20, 2023 11:00pm-11:36pm PDT
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from cbs news bay area, this is the evening edition. now at 11:00, tropical storm hilary battering southern california as heavy rains turn roads into rivers, and officials warn of more deadly flooding. >> it's certainly interesting times. tornadoes, lightning strikes. i have cal fire worried about wildfires due to the winds. take nothing for
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granted. and we're checking in with bay area first responders who are down in the desert with rescue rafts. the earth shook and rain poured in southern california. death valley exceeded the rain it usually gets in a year. boulders tumbled onto roads, and a magnitude 5.1 quake added to the first tropical storm to hit southern california since the great depression. there's rain from san diego county up into the southern part of san joaquin valley and central nevada as well. and here's a look at what the massive area of rain has been doing across southern california all day today. palm springs picked up 75% of its annual rainfall in 12 hours. they had just over three inches of rain downtown pushing flood channels to capacity. some peaks had ten inches of rain. the owens
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valley had two and a half inches. in santa clarita, the rain is coming down so heavily, it caused the side of the road to buckle falling off into the rushing waters. and as if the rain weren't bad enough, ojai, 35 miles east of santa barbara was hit with a 5.1 magnitude earthquake in the middle of the storm. jason allen is in palm springs with the the latest on the storm and the quake. >> reporter: we have a little rain falling here tonight, but what you see here is a good sign in downtown palm springs. the power is on, the streets, at least here for the most part clear, after a day and a storm that had significant impacts across southern california. an avalanche of mud and debris about 70 miles northeast of los angeles as hilary pounded southern california. several mountain communities hit hard
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by storms over the winter are hit with evacuation orders. there's concerns rain will trigger dangerous mudslides, and many roads are already flooded. los angeles, which averages zero inches of rain in august, had people stocking up and hunkering down for the weekend. >> stay safe, stay informed, and stay home. the worst of the rains is potentially left to come. >> reporter: officials are warning people to brace for widespread power outages. police in palm springs pre-emptively shut down several roads across the city knowing that the washes would eventually turn into this. these raging torrents as all this run off rushes down out of the mountains. >> it's quite amazing. i've never seen anything like this. i love weather. let's just hope people are safe. >> reporter: riversof mud flow through death valley. a 5.1 earthquake shook southern california sunday afternoon just as hilary was making its way to the region. >> it caught us off guard to
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see the least. for sure. it was like wow. >> reporter: the quake was centered in ojai, north of los angeles. no significant damage has been reported. >> there's really no way what's going on in the storm would impact the rate of earthquake. >> reporter: but some southern california residents say they're not so sure after two natural disasters in one day. and there are still impacts developing here tonight. 911 phone calls are down in the city. the 10 is closed in both directions where it comes past palm springs. schools here, they are closed tomorrow until officials can assess the damage to the roadways and any other facilities in the city. >> it's nice to see the rains have eased up. in palm springs for us tonight, that's jason allen. thank you. so a tropical storm, a quake, and as for what's next, darren peck. >> we have a chance for some of that rain tomorrow. it's not going to be anything like what we just saw, but i'll get to
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that in minute. first, there's the earthquake from 241 this afternoon. ojai. small community that sits down in ventura county. pulling out for the wide view, you can see how widely felt it was. most in orange county said they felt it, but no real damage. but 2:41 in the afternoon for the earthquake? let's put hilary on top of it. 2:41 in the afternoon. just as some of the heavier rain bands were coming on. the timing is uncanny. of course, there's no relationship. but how fascinating to have the two come together. here's a little perspective on the rainfall so far we've seen. the numbers we're looking at are the records. those aren't the averages. just like here, it doesn't rain here in august much. doesn't rain in southern california either. the record for burbank for today's date was a hundredth of an inch of rain. here's what we did today.
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those are the numbers in so far, and we still have to get through midnight before the day is over. so not only did they shatter records, but that puts a little perspective on just how off the charts the tropical storm can be in terms of rain. there's no surprise there, i'm sure. now you can understand clearly why there's still flood warnings down there. and just to leave you with this one little preview, if we let this play forward into tomorrow, watch what happens. a few showers kind of break off and get pulled our way. if anything, it will be moderate, light scattered showers. most of us get no rain tomorrow. but there's the possibility, should it come together, and here's tomorrow morning, that might be one of the more likely time frames, that would come in the form of an isolated thunderstorm. it's something to be aware of for tomorrow. back with the rest of the forecast in a bit. back to you. thanks, darren. down in san diego, the fire department had to rescue 13 people who ended up in the san diego river in mission valley. the usually placid river turned into a
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torrent after 2.5 inches of rain fell upstream near the mission. nobody was hurt. rescue teamed from the bay area have been deployed to the south land along with the northern california red cross. betty yu has the story. >> you can see the roadways. basically the flood waters have come up, so that center line is probably the high point of the crest of the road, and you can see the water into both lanes. so the rain is significant, and the water is rising. trying to navigate through some of those areas is, um, going to continue to be difficult. >> reporter: oakland fire department's acting assistant chief tracey chen described what her firefighters are up against on the ground in riverside county. an unprecedented storm that's brought flooding, high winds, mudslides, and power outages. four oakland team members are part of a 16-person crew making up the urban search and rescue task force in the east bay. the the governor's office of
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emergency services dispatched the group saturday afternoon. on sunday they provided support to riverside county fire. >> in that instance, they received a dispatch for persons in distress in some flood water. when they arrived, those local resources were already on scene. basically completing that rescue, so they stood by as additional resource and safety for them. >> reporter: the team is expected to stay in southern california at least through tuesday. meanwhile, the red cross has set up ten shelters in the disaster zone. right now the shelter population is low, but volunteers are ready to support an influx of people just >> we also have trained disaster teams on the ground on stand by to respond in different ways such as supporting sheltering, feeding, disaster assessment, and more. >> reporter: the red cross is encouraging residents to download their app to receive weather alerts, safety tips, and open locations. oakland fire said pitching in to help during this disaster does
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strain their own staffing levels. >> our main focus is of course our own citizens in our own community. at the same token, we try very hard to help our neighbors out. back in the bay area, cal fire blames the outer bands of what was hurricane hilary for more than 1500 lightning strikes they've seen so far across northern california. that was one in the south bay a few seconds ago. so far, no fires have been ignited. >> we're monitoring it. we get reports out daily from the northern region showing us where the strikes were and how to keep patrol on that if we need to. the northern region is also sending out aircraft with infrared to look for heat signatures. >> back in 2020, one of many lightning sparked fires burned nearly 400,000 acres in the diablo range and destroyed more than 200 homes and other buildings. up in the north bay, napa and sonoma counties also got a little bit of rain this morning, but it doesn't really impact the harvest because it's
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early enough in the season. they say they've had such a cool summer, that the grapes matured more slowly and are a couple of weeks behind schedule. the grapes are too young at this point to be much damaged by rain. closer to harvest time, though, that would not be the case. >> our typical harvest starts around september 1. if we had a tremendous rainstorm september 15th or 20th, that could really have a bad impact on the grapes. >> hope it doesn't happen. wine makers say the delayed ripening season will be good for the quality of the grapes this year giving them time to mature more slowly, but also delays the the harvest pushing it closer to autumn rains. people's travel plans were impacted today. big delays and outright cancellations at all of the bay area airports. at sfo there were 182 delayed flights and 68 cancellations. in oakland, 80 cancellations
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and at san jose 81. the flights most impacted, of course, were those headed to the south land. >> i'd rather be safe than try to fly back home and something happens on the flight. >> goodway to go. if you have a flight tomorrow, check with your airline before headed to the airport, and stay up to date for everything related to the storm as it heads north and east on our website kpix.com and streaming on cbs news bay area. as for now, still ahead at 11:00, storms are threatening maui. other storms as they continue their recovery efforts. and smoke from wildfires near the oregon border will be moving into the bay area. how much longer the smoky skies stick around.
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acres. that's burning near del nort county. crews from our area are being sent to help fight the fires including the san francisco fire department. five trucks were sent to help battle the flames. as a result of the smoke drifting from those fires, a smoke advisory has been extended in the bay area through monday. darren has more on what's next. yes, we have a possibility of rain here. >> not nearly as much as we've seen. >> no, nothing like that. but still, it's going to be an interesting set up to see how we're going to pull some of that rain off of what's left of hilary and try and get it in here tomorrow. let's get into the forecast. this is now on first alert doppler. it's a widespread swath of rain. i apologize for that last frame there. the edwards radar didn't wake up in time. the last frame, you see how widespread the radar is. that's live. look at the majority of it. the center of this tropical storm is up around here. it started
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moving real fast. so we're seeing a lot more rain over the sierra. that's what it looks like on the futurecast. we can take it from the big blob of yellow and orange and move it forward. southern california quiets down overnight. the showers stay primarily sierra and eastward. a lot of rain in the higher elevations of the sierra overnight. but nothing as damaging as what we saw down in southern california. then things turn off for a second. then we get our chance tomorrow. just to see you how this will come together, if you look at the satellite, there's something very settle that's driving this in two very important bays. you see how there's a little bit of a counterclockwise circulation. it barely shows up, but it's there. coming out for the wide view, that is part of the reason hilary came to california and a part of the reason some of the showers tomorrow will be pulled our way. this little area of low pressure worked in concert with that big blocking ridge of high
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pressure over the central part of the country. this is why hilary came to california. because those two were in just the right place to create a little bit of an alley right here to pull up what happened to be there at the same time, and there just happened to be a decaying hurricane there. that's how it came on shore inland and up into the deserts and why it's so unusual. now, tomorrow, that low has one more trick up its sleeve. it will take what's left of hilary here going into the deserts, there's the big swath of moisture now. as it moves north, you can still see a little bit of a counterclockwise spin out here. sure enough, by tomorrow morning, that pulls some of the left overs from hilary and draws it back to the bay. so luckily for us, by the time it gets here it's just left over showers. a little humidity in the air tomorrow. and yeah, we could get a stray thunderstorm in that scenario. but the atmosphere is so moist right
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now with a decent amount of rain, there's not a high concern for dry lightning or lightning sparked fires. but a rare isolated thunderstorm could be possible in the bay area. we got one early this morning in the diablo range that started a small grass fire there, and they were able to get it out immediately because of the humidity in the air. it was 83 in san francisco today. a warm day. tomorrow, everybody gets a break. it's only going to be in the low to mid-80s. this is the coolest day of the week thanks to the remnants from hilary, cloud cover, a little humidity in the air. there's a warm upcoming on wednesday. now to the smoke for a moment. look at the smoke brian was talking about. the high resolution forecast pulls down a higher concentration of it and starts wrapping it into the bay. that, by the way, just needs a quick explanation. we've been so focused on what's happening to the south that we haven't spent a lot of time talking about the fires that have really been taking off through washington state, oregon, and canada. and that's
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the old smoke map. higher concentrations. the deeper shade of red. you can see there's a lot of smoke getting pulled out of those fires. we'll start focusing on this more over the next probably couple of weeks. the other thing is the big cent of high pressure helping to steer hilary. look at what it's doing to the temperatures. it will be a prolonged spell of heat. that's another story that hasn't had much time for headlines because we've been dealing with so much else. it's all tied together. and the seven-day forecast, you can see the chance of thunderstorms on there tomorrow, then it's done by tuesday. and oakland in the mid-80s by wednesday. when we look at the north bay valleys, low 90s. san jose 92 on wednesday. everyone cools down for the weekend, so that's good. the inland east bay goes from 85 tomorrow to 98 on wednesday. brian, back to you. thanks, darren. coming up, the struggle in maui to find enough shelter not only for people, but for the countless animals separated from their owners during the fire.
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giants took a walk. the team's top pitching prospect is ready to go. >> ready to play some ball. and the 49ers last night. >> when they asked me to go, i said let's do it. >> those stories and how is your juggling? david: as we start a new school year, there's something new happening in california's public schools. they're called community schools. leslie: it really is shared leadership with families, students, educators, and communities. jessie: i feel like we're really valued as partners. david: it's a more innovative,
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in hawaii, search and rescue efforts continue 12 days after the fire on maui. the death toll has climbed to 114, and thousands remain missing. rescue teams have now searched 85% of the burned area. the governor of hawaii says the remaining 15% could take weeks because of an approaching storm. here's the latest from maui. >> reporter: fears of permanent displacement are growing among the survivors. >> we had a housing crisis before this fire. this took it to another level. >> reporter: fema has approved more than $5.5 million in aid for 2,000 households so far, promising each will receive an initial one-time payment of $700 for critical aid assistance. but with the sky high cost of living in hawaii,
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the morales family, who lost their home, say the critical aid isn't enough, and they still haven't been able to access it. the fire was one of four that broke out on the island of maui earlier this month, destroying thousands of homes. >> do i wish the sirens went off? of course, i do. >> reporter: on face the nation today, governor green criticized the response by a now resigned maui administrator on why he didn't activate the sirens. >> as a person, a father, as a doctor, i wish all the sirens went off. >> reporter: and tonight, officials fear rain from a tropical storm could bring dangerous mudslides to part of the island, worsening a growing humanitarian disaster on the ground. >> there's an airport right up the road. why isn't that being used? there's an ocean front 20 feet from our lobby. why are we not using that? >> reporter: more than a thousand people are still unaccounted for, and the governor says because of the high heat at which the fire burned, along with all other
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complications of the search, some remains may never be recovered. in a related story, animals are living in maui shelters that were already filled to capacity before the fire. the maui humane society and volunteers came to the rescue by land, by sea, and now by air. they were able to send about 150 pets in need to a shelter up in portland by teaming up with the greater good charities and southwest airlines. >> we are going to guarantee adoption areas, rescues where they're guaranteed to find a home. yeah, it's really life saving and really takes a village. >> meanwhile, thousands of pets are still missing in lahaina. volunteers continue to work around the clock to find missings pets and animals at the shelter. and up next, the latest effort to get more girls of color interested in stem. and
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quick look at where tropical storm hilary is right now. a live look at the first alert radar shows a lot of moisture moving in over the southern end of the san joaquin valley. darren says some of the moisture could bend over toward the bay area. maybe a little bit tonight, maybe some tomorrow. maybe i'll let darren talk about this at the end of the show instead of me. a group of local girls
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getting to learn about stem, science, technology, engineering, and math in a summer camp hosted by the nonprofit organization black women united. the goal of the program is motivating them to think about careers in science. students are taught by black women currently working toward their ph.ds. it's held at sacramento's mosaic museum, and they also highlight building confidence and their ability to be critical thinkers. >> so these young ladies can see successful, thriving black women like themselves in this field already and know that they can also be there. >> always need scientists and engineers. bring them on. it's the first year of the program, but they say it's been so effective, they plan to continue the program next year. as for today, a bittersweet one at stern grove as the summer concert series wraps up. but it went out with a bang. we have the highlights coming up in a minute.
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♪[ music ] ♪ a psychedelic party on the last day of the stern grove festival with headliners the flaming lips. with force likely to produce and there was a big turnout of people to enjoy the final weekend. flashing lights, lasers, and of course the giant inflatable pink robots. ahead of the show, mayor london breed presented them with a declaration making august 20th officially flaming lips day in san francisco. >> the flaming lips is an example of san francisco's kind of music. it's truly my honor and my pleasure to went to wayne coyne proclaiming this day as flaming lips day!
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>> we love you, thank you! >> the band credits early shows they played in san francisco with helping them break through. i want to ask you something, we've got this, i hope i don't put you on the spot. but we have this big high pressure system sitting out in the midwest, we have this perfect corridor, and you said that's what called the tropical storm up. we know that part of pacific breeds a lot of tropical storms. could there be another one on the heels of hilary? >> that's a very good question. some of the long range forecasts are showing the probability through late august and september. it could be an active season for storms coming out of the eastern pacific. can't but specifics on it, but it's something to watch. >> something to raise an eyebrow
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this is the bay area chevy dealers game day on cbs news bay area. game day for august 20. how is everybody doing? can we call it maybe overreaction on sunday? i mean everybody's got a take on the 49ers, right? we'll get to that. but first i want to get into the giants. i mean come on. 38 games left? things are tight. by the end of this stretch in series, this week you will know what they're made of. now today, how did they stop a three game losing streak? sort of a take from the dion warrick classic as they walked on by. oh man. loo
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