Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dan Ronan.

As Southern California continues to get hammered by heavy rains,

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has declared a state of emergency.

Steve Futterman reports.

The declaration comes after a day of floods, fallen trees, mudslides, traffic jams, and power outages.

The move paves the way for the city to deploy adequate resources to deal with the storms. Earlier, California Governor Gavin Newsom

also issued a state of emergency. Right now, the forecast does not look good. A new series of

powerful storms will hit the area today.

Ariel Cone is with the National Weather Service.

We're going to see the floodwaters be reinforced.

Landslides, rock slides, and mudslides, all being reinforced across the area.

In some mountain areas, more than 10 inches alone fell on Wednesday.

The storms are expected to continue into Friday. For NPR news,

I'm Steve Futterman in Los Angeles. Ice agents on Wednesday shot a man in suburban Baltimore and another person was injured after a traffic stop turned violent. Ice says as they approached

the man, the driver of the vehicle attempted to run over that person, then officers fired their weapons.

According to Anarundle County, Maryland police spokesman Justin Mulcahy, the driver was struck by gunfire.

There was an individual in that vehicle that was struck by gunfire.

That individual was transported to an area hospital with what is being

described, he's being described as being in stable condition. There was another individual outside of

that vehicle that sustained minor injuries that also went to an area hospital.

The Department of Homeland Security says the driver of the vehicle was in the United States illegally.

A civilian search and rescue group operating in the Mediterranean Sea says more than 100 people could be dead

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