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Good evening, I'm John Yang.

Tonight, Southern California and Mexico's Baja Peninsula are already feeling the effects

of hurricane Hillary hours before it makes landfall.

In the desert east of Los Angeles, what's expected to be three days of rain has begun.

Forecasters say a year's rain could fall in a matter of hours, leading to catastrophic

and life-threatening flash floods.

In Hillary, now a category two storm is expected to become a tropical storm by the time

it makes landfall as early as tonight in a sparsely populated area of the Baja Peninsula.

Then forecasters say it will surge north as the first tropical storm to hit Southern

California in 84 years.

High winds and heavy rains are expected from the Pacific coast to southern Nevada and

central Arizona.

Residents are preparing.

In Newport Beach, they stocked up on sandbags, and sand-climacy workers put down tarps to

try to prevent mudslides.

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