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As Southern California continues to get hammered by heavy rains,
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has declared a state of emergency.
Steve Futterman has details.
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 is not look good.
A new series of powerful storms will hit the area today.
Ariel Cohn is with the National Weather Service.
We're going to see the flood waters 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.