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Southern California is waking up this morning from the first tropical storm to hit the region in nine decades, which brought heavy rainfall but not the fatalities officials had feared. Hilary, now a post-tropical cyclone, left some roads underwater and forced Los Angeles public schools — the nation’s second-largest district — to close on Monday.
Motorists leave their vehicle stuck on a flooded road in Palm Springs, Calif., during Tropical Storm Hilary on Sunday.
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- The storm broke daily rainfall records from downtown LA to Palm Springs, with mountain and desert communities seeing the most flash flooding.
- Erin Stone with LAist tells Up First that emergency responders evacuated dozens of people, including from a mobile home park in the Coachella Valley and a homeless encampment along the San Diego River. But people largely heeded warnings to stay home, and there were no widespread threats to life.
- Sunday also saw a 5.1-magnitude earthquake about 80 miles northwest of LA, sparking panic about a #hurriquake. Stone says it wasn’t related to the storm, “just a good old-fashioned coincidence.”
Anti-corruption crusader Bernardo Arévalo beat the odds to win Guatemala’s presidential election, a victory many hope will stop the country’s democratic backslide. Arévalo, a former academic, diplomat and the son of Guatemala’s first democratically elected president, leads with more than 20 percentage votes.
- NPR’s Eyder Peralta says Arévalo was “the unlikeliest candidate to…
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