mike: craig herrera, thank you very much.in las vegas, rachel flanagan joins me now, the executive director for the southern nevada chapter of the red cross, welcome. mike: what can you tell me about your organization, preparation in advance of the storm? >> absolutely, the american red cross spends her entire year preparing for events like this, this is what we do, the team in southern nevada has boots on the ground and we are prepared to open three shelters should we get the call from her local and county state officials and we will make sure that those things happen in were gearing up ahead of the storm and making sure we can meet all of those needs. >> considering a lot of your area is desert not a lot of rainfall, is your biggest concern flooding? >> absolutely flash flood is always a concern, we take this very seriously, a lot of preparation is happen in our county we've been making sure that the floodway's are cleared and were making sure that everybody is aware of flood concerns, 6 inches of rushing water of personal

craig herrera thank you.: the sadness keeps coming for the maui wild by disaster the number dead water to 14 and is expected to grow with hundreds of people still unaccounted for. meanwhile much needed aid is a flow into those who have lost everything in the wildfires but fox weather robert ray has more. >> the search continues for human remains of the town of lahaina nearly two weeks ago was burned to the ground. there are potentially up to 1000 people still unaccounted for according to officials. a lot of finger-pointing and blame going on as to why there was no alerts. why the sirens did not go off. and why so many people have lost her lives. [background noises] as the death toll climbs on the island of maui there is mounting criticism over the response to these deadly wildfires which is a decision made by local officials not to sound disaster sirens >> do you regret not sounding the sirens? >> i do not. >> one day after defending that decision the head of maui emergency management agency reside but citing

thank you for that, craig herrera in san diego, california. a craig pointed out, they have not seen anything the likes of this in about 84 years. they're familiar with mudslides, wildfires, nothing like this. robert simmons has the hey task of getting -- can heavy task of getting them prepared for that, manager of emergency services in irvine. robert, good to have you and thank you very much for taking the time. what are we looking at here in. >> yeah, thanks, neil. yeah, we are the city of irvine, we are all hazards first response agency, so, you know, whether it's preparing for wildfire events, you know, tropical storms like hilary or anything else, we're going to vary our preparedness levels, obviously, to tailor it to what the hazard is. but in terms of just our preparedness posture and just making sure that all the response staffer -- staff that are going to respond to our emergency operations center as well as out in the field are prepare prepared that that doesn't change. so is i'm happy to be here with you, neil, thanks. neil: and i'm

it turned out fox with a meteorologist craig herrera live in san diego where i have been taking place last couple of days. >> hello shannon, yes already you have seen a washout here in southern california, san diego included for this is a day student should be preparing to go back to san diego state university or san diego unified the second-largest school district in the state of california. but instead got a lot of rain bias. as we go into the week and in se place across southern california it may get more than a years worth of rain in just 24 hours. this has been a major concern as we have been watching hilary over the past couple of days. in fact, out in san diego the sun was out for a moment at times on saturday. giving folks a chance to fill their sandbags, prepare for possible flooding as a weld with the emergency response teams out azure group comprised of volunteers, they are ready to go on any type of natural disasters they are on standby ready to go right there monday as well. meantime we give a flash flood a threat. and when you look at this you are talking about level fou

craig herrera is live with the latest from san diego. hello, craig. >> hey there, mike.is you could call the calm before the storm if you will. look behind me, beautiful palm trees and people prepping today because tomorrow things change. in fact, we'll see some of the rain bands later today. picks up tomorrow and takes us into monday. hilary has been downgraded to a hurricane category 3. nonetheless, it has a lot of moisture to work with. having said that, it continues to move north-northwest 16 miles per hour moving into cooler waters. these storms need the water temperature to be at least 80, 82 degrees or so. as it gets closer to california it's going to need a wet suit. the water here is about 62 degrees and that's going to help the storm to die down a little bit, but the moisture is going to be a big concern. talking places like san diego, which is home to three million people county-wide. you've got 115,000 active members of the military here, at five of the military installations. coronado, miramar and naval base san diego. and portions track over san diego. the

rachel: that's right craig herrera is live how's it gong in san diego? what are you seeing? reporter: my frepgd the rain is starting to come down and light an picking up this afternoon. as we go into the afternoon i think we're going see that rain really pick up now the category hurricane center winds are at 80 american so it is just a category 1. once it drops below 73 then we're talking tropical storm. but it is about 285 meals south of san diego. now, the concern here is remember about when you're talking about hurricanes and tropical storms, hurricanes are given their category based on wind speed. so while the wind speeds may not be quite as strong here like we're used to maybe say the atlantic or gulf coast side the rain is a major concern. there you can see as it continues to barrel up to baja, mrks now we're seeing rain in san diego, los angeles, riverside county, inland empire, right through palm springs more rain than we get in one year in a matter of 24 hours so we're talking easily as you see the track up to the north rainfall totals one to three inches of rain we

rachel: that's right craig herrera is live how's it gong in san diego? what are you seein