this is water streaming down streets in the desert community of palm springs, east of los angeles. the rain has already overwhelmed drainage systems and spilt across highways in some areas. some schools will be closed monday so they can be checked for damage. these are pictures just in from wrightwood, california — rain washing felled trees and mud downstream. hilary has already pummelled mexico's pacific coast, submerging houses in the town of santa rosalia. one man died there. live now to palm springs. jason allen is a correspondent for cbs news. what's the latest where you are? we have been watching this run—off here that has been coming roaring down this wash

that goes into a golf course. a lot of rain in palm springs and in the valley where we are getting a couple of inches of rain which equals about half of what this area get in a year. authorities have closed a lot of the roads that goes over these washers. they did that pre—emptively before the storm rolled in. they have done some of that here over the last few hours as the floodwaters grew and you see the gusty wind and some of the heavy rain has grown over the past few hours but now on the backside of the storm this is really starting to gust as hillary moves on to the north. to gust as hillary moves on to the north-— to gust as hillary moves on to the north. ~ a, , the north. we can see the wind ickin: the north. we can see the wind picking up _ the north. we can see the wind picking up there _ the north. we can see the wind picking up there and _ the north. we can see the wind picking up there and in - the north. we can see the wind picking up there and in terms l picking up there and in terms of the people who are living there, jason, how accustomed are they to this? you mentioned this is about as much rain as they usually get in a whole year. how vulnerable is this community?— community? they are not accustomed _ community? they are not accustomed to _ community? they are not accustomed to this - community? they are not accustomed to this at - community? they are not accustomed to this at all. community? they are not - accustomed to this at all. this morning i was at a station where they were filling up sandbags and one man remarked i. i sandbags and one man remarked "i live in the desert. i am not supposed to be doing this."

without a lot of the preparations people were going for really came out of their fear of the unknown and not knowing what would happen. of them told us that they did not live in low—lying areas but with a storm like this are unprecedented, something they had never seen before, they were taking those precautions anyway, not knowing if they might see floodwaters during this storm. might see floodwaters during this storm-— this storm. this storm is coming _ this storm. this storm is coming in _ this storm. this storm is coming in and _ this storm. this storm is coming in and whitley i this storm. this storm is| coming in and whitley on this storm. this storm is - coming in and whitley on top of it all the region also experienced a at least 5.0 magnitude earthquake as well. any volker through those moments? did you feel the ground start to shake? here where we — ground start to shake? here where we were _ ground start to shake? here where we were we _ ground start to shake? here where we were we could - ground start to shake? here where we were we could not feel the ground. we are separated by a pretty good distance from the area where the epicentre was, and an entire mountain range. but it was significant as everyone started seeing the messages of people who did fill it. i thought we are going through something almost

unprecedented with this tropical storm and now there is an earthquake and as far as we are aware at this point no extensive damage from the storm — but we are not done with it yet — orfrom — but we are not done with it yet — or from the earthquake but it didn't leave a lot of people here wondering what is potentially next.— potentially next. well, what does come _ potentially next. well, what does come next _ potentially next. well, what does come next in - potentially next. well, what does come next in terms i potentially next. well, what does come next in terms of| potentially next. well, what - does come next in terms of this storm? what are we expecting? well, you mentioned that schools are closed tomorrow and a lot of that is to assess the damage and make sure especially at the roadways are clear and wanting to move anything out of the way before they put more people on the roads. i should emphasise that this is not over yet. there is more rain potentially on the way. there is more to the south and having covered tropical storms and hurricane some of those rain bands can continue even as the storm moves away. also double and in some cases triple the amount of rain has fallen in mountain areas. that does take time to work its way down to the valleys. it goes out through these washers again so i know that firefighters and

swift water rescue teams are saying they are on standby for the next several hours because they know this is not finished yet. they know this is not finished et. a, they know this is not finished et. ~ . , , , ., they know this is not finished et. , ., they know this is not finished et. ., ., they know this is not finished yet. may be some of our viewers watchin: yet. may be some of our viewers watching in _ yet. may be some of our viewers watching in florida _ yet. may be some of our viewers watching in florida or— yet. may be some of our viewers watching in florida or some - watching in florida or some places that really get these kinds of strong hurricane is, can you explain for us and put into context just how unprecedented this kind of a strong tropical storm is, hitting this area of southern california?— california? absolutely. in a normal season, _ california? absolutely. in a normal season, you - california? absolutely. in a normal season, you might| california? absolutely. in a i normal season, you might see people in florida — as you mentioned the gulf coast, the east coast — repair two or three times throughout the season. this has maybe happened where this area has had to prepare or be aware of a storm like this maybe four times in the last century. never before has there been tropical storm warnings on that southern california coast. it is so unusual but that they were teams from louisiana that respond to rescues that came out here to california for this just to see it happen, to be

here, to provide expertise and resources because they do so much out in the gulf they wanted to be able to provide that expertise in california, knowing that people here are not accustomed to ever going through anything like this. jason allen, a reporter with cbs newsjoining us from palm springs as a tropical storm hilary moves into the area. thank you so much for your reporting. now let's focus on what's causing these conditions. earlier, i spoke to jamie rhome, deputy director of the us national hurricane centre. thank you so much for being here to help us understand a bit more about this tropical storm, and california has declared a state of emergency. what makes tropical storm hilary so dangerous? you have the situation of a tropical storm moving into southern california. much of the area has a soil that does not handle this much rainfall, let alone this much rainfall over a short period of time so when the rain falls

on the ground rather than the ground soaking it up it runs horizontally and creates flash floods. we are seeing, like you mentioned, this is taking aim at communities like palm springs. these are almost desert communities. how vulnerable do you think some of these cities and towns in the path of hilary are? really quite vulnerable. we have got a high risk, which we don't issue that often, a high risk of flooding. a number of factors are coming together that really make us concerned. first and foremost we just talked about the heavy rain striking the soil that cannot handle that kind of rain. then you have mountains which enhance — you get the mountain enhanced rainfall — and in some places the heavy rainfall is occurring where previous fires have occurred. you get these burn scars because that makes it worse because it leaves behind soil that is virtually like a pavement. can you help us understand

the unusual route this hurricane and now tropical storm has taken? as far as i understand normally these storms will veer off to the left and this one is going straight north. what is behind the strange path the storm is taking? really, fast movement. there is a strong area of high pressure in the united states which is allowing the system to accelerate north fast and that is what is helping it to sustain its strength even as it moves over these colder waters. typically a storm would be moving slower and have more time to wind down but because this one is moving so fast it is able to take the momentum into the south—west of the united states. you have covered hurricanes a lot in your career. have you seen anything like this before? we have seen similar to this. this is unusual but

not unprecedented. in 1997 laura went injust a little bit to the east of where hilary is moving, so it is not completely out of the ordinary. it is just not something we would normally see every season or every ten years. briefly, jamie, after california, what can we expect from this storm? how many other communities might this effect further north in nevada or other states? yeah, it will move inland and race northwards over the inner—mountain west and produce areas of flooding as far north as idaho and this map i have behind me herejust showers you the wind swath of damaging winds that will occur as it moved inland, even if it drops below tropical storm strength. all right. we will be tracking that storm as it continues to move as well. jamie rhome, deputy director of the national hurricane centre, thank you very much. thank you for having me. the canadian government is sending in soldiers to help battle more than 400 fast—spreading wildfires in the western province

of british columbia. 0fficials there say two of the largest fires have now merged, destroying houses and other buildings. a state of emergency is in effect there as firefighters warn the next few days will be difficult. here's wyre davies. oh my god. there are more than 1,000 wild fires raging throughout canada. desperate scenes in parts of the country as homes and livelihoods are consumed by the advancing fire. there is particular concern in the western province of british columbia, where 30,000 residents have been ordered to leave their homes. even more have been told to be ready to evacuate at any moment. the town of kelowna to the west of vancouver is being threatened by an advancing inferno, the nearby lake no barrier to fire, as strong winds carry embers across the water, setting fire to homes and buildings on the other side. —— east of vancouver don't travel to the region is the advice from the local authorities.

at this time, we are strongly recommending that people with plans to travel to fire—affected areas throughout the central interior and southeast in the coming day to cancel those plans. we need tourists and travellers to take this situation as seriously as the residents of these areas do. further north, the town of yellowknife has been evacuated. 20,000 people leaving injust two days, a huge effort, and some spoke of the devastation they had driven through to escape. when we are driving, most of the highway side is burned down so that all the trees are black. i think it's the internet lines, orfibre line, the poles are down, and we still see smokes coming out. with more gusty winds forecast, towns across the region are still under threat. in a country well prepared for dealing with forest fires, resources are stretched to the limit. specialist firefighters from overseas are arriving

to help, and for those who can't move freely, the canadian air force is airlifting people to safety. as officials urge residents in areas under threat to take immediate action to save their own lives, the canadian government said it was sending in the armed forces to help deal with the crisis. i'm joined now by nicole bonnet. she's an information officer from the british columbia wildfire service. nicole, thank you for being here. there are hundreds of blazes burning in british columbia. we understand the military has been called in to assist. what's the latest on the efforts to bring these blazes under control? yeah, so, for myself, i am a fire information officer with an incident management team and the incident management team i am working with right now is based out of west kelowna which

includes the dougal creek wildfire burning adjacent to kelowna and one adjacent to the kelowna and one adjacent to the kelowna city itself and the park creek wildfire is burning a little bit north of kelowna in an area referred to a sleek country. in an area referred to a sleek count . �* ., ., ., country. and in kelowna we are seeinu country. and in kelowna we are seeing these — country. and in kelowna we are seeing these absolutely - seeing these absolutely shocking images of the fire is beginning to get closer to those communities. do we know how much danger those communities, those houses and potentially anybody left in the area, is under?— area, is under? there are still evacuation — area, is under? there are still evacuation alert _ area, is under? there are still evacuation alert in _ area, is under? there are still evacuation alert in order - area, is under? there are still evacuation alert in order for i evacuation alert in order for all three of these in the complex and they are all in place through various local jurisdictions and local authorities. they are the ones who manage the evacuation alerts and orders for communities within british columbia. alerts and orders are put in place. they are not taken lightly when we put them in place because we understand

the impact that has on individuals and families and people in the area but we do put them in place because there is a risk from wildfire to life and safety and we need people to be out of the area so we can respond to the fires accordingly and be able to focus on the protection of life, property and critical infrastructure and not worry about extracting people from areas where they should not be. we have been tracking some of those evacuations over the past hours and days and we have seen shots of people lining up, because trying to get out, even some aerial evacuations. how are these evacuations playing out and our people cooperating? are they getting to safety? irate are they getting to safety? we have not are they getting to safety? - have not issued alerts through the localjurisdictions at this point in time bottle information regarding how that is rolled out that needs to come from the local authority because they are the ones who bring in search and rescue and go door—to—door and let people

know that orders have been put in place. know that orders have been put in lace. ., ., ., in place. there are more than 1000 fires — in place. there are more than 1000 fires burning _ in place. there are more than 1000 fires burning across - 1000 fires burning across canada right now. in general, does the wildfire service have enough resources to deal with so many places taking place all at the same time? that is probably a provincial level question. i am focused on these particular fires in level question. i am focused on these particularfires in this area. we bring in teams a number of prudent through the province. we've got a team from ontario working with us and 0ntario working with us and then a good chunk of the resources that are working on these wildfires here are structured detection personnel from a variety of different fire departments from communities throughout the province. communities throughout the rovince. , , ., province. just in general in terms of — province. just in general in terms of looking _ province. just in general in terms of looking at - province. just in general in| terms of looking at colonna province. just in general in - terms of looking at colonna and west cologne, do you have a sense know of where the

firefighting —— are you able to keep the fires from progressing any further? —— —— kelowna. that is where it is focused. we have fire protection specialist equipment attenders and engines that have come into the area to respond to all three of these fires and with support from the bbc wildfire —— rcmp crews and other resources, we have been focusing on those priority areas that is critical infrastructure and then properties, neighbourhood areas and what we would consider the interface which is where the wild land meets properties and structure density and that is definitely where all of these efforts have been focused at this point in time, to protect structures, doing structured offence which is where fires are actively suppressing that fire and then structure protection which is more proactive triage and setting up of structure protection equipment like sprinklers to increase the relative humidity and moisture content in the air

around homes where the fire might be advancing towards. certainly a big effort taking place there, nicole, information officer from the british columbia wildfire service. thank you so much for joining us. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. bbc news, bringing you different stories from across the uk. playful and plentiful. these kittens are currently being homed at with all animal century at worcestershire that it is not the best of times. they are struggling financially and if things don't improve, this could be their final year. it is probably a combination of the rising energy costs, rising vet bills and the general cost crisis everyone is faced with at the moment. roughly we're losing around 20,000 each month which is the more months ago on the harder it is hitting us. the century has been here for more than 50 years and teacake

here is one of 70 animals being cared for. but staff say at the moment they are having to stop taking in new animals. it is cuite taking in new animals. it is quite heartbreaking, - taking in new animals. it 3 quite heartbreaking, really. reoffending of a lot of phone calls, on average we have about 23 phone calls a day of people asking to surrender animals. head to the bbc news website for more stories across the uk. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. votes are being counted in ecuador after elections overshadowed by violence. security has taken centre stage in the presidential and congressional poll after the murder of anti—corruption candidate fernando villavicencio, gunned down while leaving a campaign event this month. earlier, i spoke with our south america correspondent katy watson, who's in ecuador�*s capital, quito. i began by asking her how the assassination shaped the campaign.

it was just over a week left of campaigning when he was shot. it did upend the campaign somewhat. everyone was talking about security and peace and the priorities for them if they were to win power and that is what ecuadorians wanted to hear. this is a country that used to be a safe country, relatively, in the region. it has become in the last few years incredibly violent stop the cartels from mexico, from columbia, have infiltrated, local gangs. there has been a real impact on this country which has suffered during the pandemic was a bit suffered from corrupt politics, suffered from corrupt politics, suffered from unemployment and opportunities, many people migrated north to the us. so all of these issues, when it comes down to it, you know, safety, security and a better future is what everybody here was campaigning about and of course ecuadorians just couldn't get enough of that. even that backdrop, how crucial is this election being seen in ecuador? is going to a massive

task however eventually comes out on top? it task however eventually comes out on ten?— out on top? it is a massive task because _ out on top? it is a massive task because these - out on top? it is a massive l task because these elections were called early. due to the impeachment vote he was going to be facing. that means that the person —— it was bubbly going to go to a second round, thatis going to go to a second round, that is what everybody�*s expecting —— make probably. the person voted, the president, will only have 18 months before they will be more presidential elections so very few ecuadorians that much can be done. and it is notjust 18 months, add to that the massive task of trying to win back the faith of ecuadorians when it comes to politics, trying to rein in the strength of the cartels, too, and the organised crime, trying to bring that down. certainly there is a lot of distrust around the system where —— whether anything will actually change on the ground. and we know when we will get results from this election? the

countin: results from this election? the counting and — results from this election? tue: counting and slowly results from this election? t'te: counting and slowly but probably another few hours and the actual official count in the actual official count in the next few days. we will know where the vote has gone in the next few hours.— next few hours. katy watson coverin: next few hours. katy watson covering the _ next few hours. katy watson covering the election - next few hours. katy watson covering the election in - covering the election in ecuador, thank you very much. let's take you to hawaii now where the search continues for the missing after devastating wildfires on the island of maui almost two weeks ago. 114 people are confirmed dead and president biden is expected to visit on monday. the west african bloc ecowas has rejected an announcement by the coup leader in niger which said it'll be three years before civilian rule is restored. it follows a meeting between an ecowas delegation and the military junta on saturday. donald trump has confirmed that he will not take part in wednesday's republican presidential primary debate in milwaukee — or in any other debate scheduled so far. he made the announcement on his social media platform, truth social.

russia's first lunar mission in nearly 50 years has ended in failure after its spacecraft crashed into the moon. the unmanned luna 25 module, was supposed to land at the south pole of the moon but experienced problems as it moved into pre—landing orbit. 0ur correspondent will vernon has the story. russia's first mission to the moon for almost 50 years. luna 25, blasted off on 11 august. hopes were high that russia would be the first country to land on the south pole of the moon. as a result, the russian space agency broke the bad news.

luna—25, had been lost. in a statement, roscosmos said the craft ceased to exist as a result of a collision with the surface of the moon. this is a humiliating blow for moscow. russia had hoped that this mission would reestablish it as one of the world leaders in space travel. but russia's space industry has been in decline for years, partly because of western sanctions, but also because for the kremlin, the priority is the military and not civilian space programmes. the war in ukraine has led to isolation after russia's full scale invasion last year. international agreements on space were torn up. you cannot buy certain electronics unless you have worldwide co—operation. and if the developers of the spacecraft work in isolation, even if they have 20 years like they had with the lunar globe and luna 25, it's still not enough. and india is in the race now, too.

chandrayaan 3 is due to touch down on the moon on wednesday. if india succeeds, that will be another blow to russia's reputation in space. will vernon, bbc news, moscow. spanish football fans are celebrating their team's victory in the final of the women's world cup in australia. spain's la roja beat england's lionesses1—0 in a closely—fought match in sydney to win the trophy for the first time. 0ur correspondent, jenny hill, was with fans in madrid. they dared to hope... ..and they got their dream. history made and a moment to savour. "we've won at last", he says. her words — "history, history, finally."

well, you can seejust how thrilled they are. you know, there are so many young people here. and for many, this is a moment which they'll remember for the rest of their lives. even the queen of spain couldn't contain her excitement, celebrating with the squad. their victory — all the sweeter after months of a very public falling out between coach and players. and back home, this win matters. spain's football—mad, but the men tend to steal the show. translation: the women are as good as the men. i they make the same effort. we should give them more support. they give us the same joy. it's a beginning, but we are winning. more people are interested. today's the day that women can finally get the spot _ that they deserve.

revelling in their triumph and hoping the spoils of victory extend far beyond the pitch. jenny hill, bbc news, madrid. stay with us here on bbc news. good morning. 0ur weekend may well have started off wet and windy but we closed out the story with some sunshine and some warmth. in fact, in suffolk, we saw highs of 26 degrees on sunday afternoon. now, mixed fortunes with our week ahead. in fact, we're going to start off monday for england and wales under this area of high pressure but low pressure over the next few days will dominate further north and that will bring some rain, some of it heavy at times. early morning, patchy low cloud, mist and fog will quickly fade away across england and wales with a light south—westerly breeze, the sunshine will start to kick in and take over. but further north and west, some of that rain turning quite heavy through northern ireland and north—west scotland as we close out the afternoon

here — only around 16 or 17 degrees — but at the highest values further south of 25 celsius — that's 77 fahrenheit. now, as we go through monday evening and over into tuesday, we'll see that rain turning quite patchy as it pushes its way steadily southwards with quite a lot of cloud around. we keep those temperatures around 1a or 15 degrees and clearing skies maybe around 12 or 13 celsius. but that weather front could bring a little spot or two of light rain across north wales over into northern england. behind it, there will be some showers on tuesday. a breezier day, not quite as warm again, 19 to 21 degrees. but we keep the sunshine across central and southern england — 25 celsius once again. now, as we push through the middle part of the week, there's another weather front that's going to be pushing in across the south—west,

still under the influence of low pressure further north, so it's quite a messy story. through midweek, we could have a little bit of patchy rain through wales into the midlands but this frontal system is the dividing line between some pretty humid air pushing up from the south — highs of 26 degrees quite possible — and noticeably fresher air further north — 16 to 18 degrees at the very best. but it's the fresher air that's going to win out as we go through towards the end of the week. low pressure drifts just that a little bit further south and east. a north—westerly wind direction will take over and that's going to push those warm russet tones, the temperatures in the mid 20s, it's going to push it back over to the near continent, so that fresher feel will arrive for all. so, our week ahead will be rain at times into the north. warmer for the south until friday.

voice-over: this is bbc news. we'll have the headlines for you at the top of the hour, which is straight after this programme. when you can't get water from taps, life revolves around where the water is. india's villages house 200 million families. only a fraction have tap water. it's very hard to carry pots of water repeatedly

on your head from that source of water to the village, which is almost a kilometre from here. from the hot desert... ..to the cold mountains... ..and dry, arid plains. it's backbreaking. i want to find out, when will the walk be over? when will water come home? in 2019, prime minister narendra modi made a promise. to bring water through taps to each home in every village by 202a.