As the powerful hurricane Hilary heads north, Southern California and Mexico are bracing for a rare and powerful storm that could produce dangerous flash flooding and sustained winds that have not been seen for decades. Residents are racing to fill sandbags and fuel up generators before extreme weather arrives, and emergency officials are warning that roads may be inundated and setting up evacuation centers. This Category 4 hurricane is so unusual that it has prompted the National Hurricane Center to issue a tropical storm watch for California for the first time in its history. Hilary is currently projected to make landfall in Baja California on Sunday and move northward as a tropical storm near San Diego and across the deserts and mountains east of Los Angeles — though its path could still veer elsewhere. The hurricane is due to hit Mexico over the weekend before weakening and moving to southern California, where it would be the region's first tropical storm in 84 years
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00:00 As the powerful Hurricane Hillary heads north, Southern California and Mexico are bracing
00:12 for a rare and powerful storm that could produce dangerous flash flooding and sustained winds
00:18 that have not been seen for decades.
00:21 Residents are racing to fill sandbags and fuel up generators before extreme weather
00:25 arrives and emergency officials are warning that roads may be inundated and setting up
00:30 evacuation centers.
00:32 This Category 4 hurricane is so unusual that it has prompted the National Hurricane Center
00:37 to issue a tropical storm watch for California for the first time in its history.
00:42 Hillary is currently projected to make landfall in Baja California on Sunday and move northward
00:48 as a tropical storm near San Diego and across the deserts and mountains east of Los Angeles
00:53 though its path could still veer elsewhere.
00:56 The hurricane is due to hit Mexico over the weekend before weakening and moving to Southern
01:01 California where it would be the region's first tropical storm in 84 years.
01:06 Hillary will dump up to 10 inches of rain on the state of Baja California from Saturday
01:11 to Monday, an extremely unusual amount given that the state, known for its dry weather,
01:16 typically receives around 8 inches throughout the entire year, authorities said.
01:21 Hillary had reached a maximum speed of 215 km/h yesterday.
01:27 The Mexican state of Baja California cancelled all non-essential public activities yesterday,
01:33 including school classes, through Monday.
01:36 Authorities in Tijuana began setting up temporary shelters and clearing storm water drains as
01:41 the hurricane approached.
01:42 The hilly city is particularly prone to landslides.
01:46 In the south of the US state of California, some national parks were closed and Major
01:51 League Baseball games were relocated in anticipation of extreme weather, the likes of which has
01:56 not been seen in decades.
01:58 Heavy rains are also expected to batter the neighboring states of Arizona and Nevada.
02:03 The tropical storm could force numerous evacuations and rescues, as well as deadly runoff that
02:08 may rage down valleys while increasing susceptibility to rockslides and mudslides.
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