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Nebraska disaster declaration after record Omaha and Lincoln flooding; Tropical Storm Choi-wan closes Saipan and Tinian; CISA flags exploited FortiMail flaw · EM Morning Brief

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  Good morning, I'm Cedric and this is your EM Morning Brief for Friday, October 2, 2026.
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  Flooding across the Central Plains and the Upper Midwest is the dominant operational picture this morning.
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  Nebraska Governor Jim Pillin signed a disaster declaration Thursday afternoon and ordered state resources made available after a night of record rainfall.
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  The Omaha fire Department logged 80 water rescue calls in a three hour window overnight Wednesday and into Thursday and roughly 50 people plus multiple pets were rescued or assisted near 62nd and J Streets where water reached 6 to
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  8ft.
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  Lincoln Airport recorded 6.15 inches in a single day, an all time record for the city.
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  The National Weather Service carries 87 active flood warnings this morning concentrated in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska and the Missouri river is forecast to reach moderate flood stage at Glasgow, Missouri this weekend.
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  Two tropical systems are driving warnings in United States Pacific jurisdictions.
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  Tropical Storm Choi Wan is moving west northwest through the Northern Mariana Islands and the National Weather Service office in Teian holds a tropical storm warning for Saipan, Tinian, Alamegan, Pagan and Agrahan with a typhoon watch for those three
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  northern islands in the Central Pacific.
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  Tropical storm nolo strengthened to 65 mph and the central Pacific Hurricane center upgraded its watch to Tropical Storm Warning covering the Papahanamakuakea Marine National Monument from Nahoa west to Lisianski Island.
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  Forecasters expect Nolo to reach hurricane strength within 48 hours and they warn that large surf will inundate some low lying atolls.
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  On the cyber side, CISA added one vulnerability to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on Thursday CVE 2261486 a path traversal flaw in Fortnet 40 mail.
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  It now carries remediation obligations for Federal civilian agencies under binding Operational Directive 2604 and CISA encourages all organizations to prioritize it on the fireside.
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  The National Interagency Fire center holds the country at National Preparedness Level 2 with 14 uncontained large fires, two new large incidents and 4220 personnel assigned.
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  Lets run through the States.
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  Alaska the National Weather Service in Juneau reports the second release from Suicide Basin this year is ongoing and it moved the crest time for Mendenhall Lake and River to early Friday morning.
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  A flood warning runs until 7:45 Saturday morning for the Mendenhall Glacier Recreation Area, View Drive and the stretch below the Back Loop Bridge with minor to moderate flooding expected on the North Slope.
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  Forecasters expect storm total snowfall of 2 to 4 inches with gusts to 30 mph from Newik Sut to Kaktovik producing blowing and drifting snow and reduced visibility into Friday night.
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  Arizona A flood warning covers Coconino and Navajo counties in north central Arizona for runoff from earlier excessive rainfall, with flooding along the Little Colorado river expected to continue until early Saturday morning.
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  California the state is under an early October heat event with operational consequences.
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  The National Weather Service in Los Angeles and Oxnard issued extreme heat warnings Thursday for Santa Barbara and Ventura county valleys, the Santa Clarita Valley, the Santa Nez Range and the Catalina and Santa Barbara Islands running through Sunday evening.
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  The San Diego office reissued extreme heat warnings overnight for the Inland Empire, Orange county and San Diego county coastal areas and inland valley valleys.
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  Heat advisories are posted in the Sacramento Valley, the Bay Area shoreline and interior valleys and the San Joaquin Valley.
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  Forecasters describe a wearing down effect on vulnerable residents with valley highs near 105 degrees and coastal highs near 90.
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  Residents without air conditioning can reach cooling centers through two 11 in Yosemite National park, the Dome Fire stands at 5667 acres and 40% containment with structures threatened and Glacier Point Road remains closed.
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  On the Los Padres National Forest, the timber fire is at 25,349 acres and 88% containment.
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  Colorado A flood warning continues for the Purgatoire river near Las Animas in Bent county, while the warning for the Arkansas river at Lamar in Prowers county was canceled early Friday.
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  Hawaii the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory keeps Kilauea at alert level.
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  Watch and aviation color code orange after a shallow magma intrusion overnight near the existing eruption site.
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  Oriented east to west, the north and south vents continue intermittent overflows, spatter and strong glow with lava confined to Halemaumau Crater.
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  Hazards include volcanic gas and vog downwind tephra from fountaining and ground cracking from magma movement.
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  Observatory staff caution that eruptive activity can shift to a new vent with little or no warning.
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  Separately, the Honolulu office issued a flash flood warning for Kauai shortly after midnight local time.
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  Now back to this morning's updates.
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  Illinois Urban and small stream flooding from excessive rainfall continues in Rock Island, Henry and Mercer counties until early Friday afternoon and a flood warning runs on the Des Plain river near Russell through Tuesday evening.
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  Iowa 24 flood warnings are active statewide.
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  The Des Moines office upgraded the forecast for Black Hawk Creek at Hudson from minor to moderate flooding, which affects Blackhawk county and the reach running to the Cedar river in Waterloo at 16ft.
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  Water closes Ranchero Road in Waterloo and some residential evacuations may occur.
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  Warnings were also extended on the South Skunk river near Ames, Ioway Creek at Ames, the Raccoon river at Des Moines and the Des Moines river at Southeast 6th street, with several running into Sunday.
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  Kansas the Mitchell County Sheriff's Office closed K Road, locally called the Tipton Black top, from 250Road to 280Road after a washout collapsed the roadway early Thursday and the office reported more than 5 inches of rain in the area.
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  Moderate flooding is occurring on Stranger Creek at Easton in Leavenworth and Atchison counties.
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  The Topeka office extended flood warnings on Salt Creek near Linden, Mill Creek near Paxico, Vermilion Creek near Wamego and the Big Blue river near Blue Rapids in Greeley and Wichita counties.
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  Emergency management reported numerous roads closed and low water crossings inundated.
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  Missouri the Kansas City office extended Missouri river flood warnings at St Joseph, Glasgow, Napoleon and Waverly with minor flooding occurring and forecast 3 to 10 inches of rain fell across southeast Nebraska and southwest Iowa on Wednesday and that
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  water is now moving downstream.
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  Glasgow is forecast to exceed 27ft and reach moderate flood stage Sunday into Monday.
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  Boonville is forecast near 24ft and minor flood stage Sunday and Jefferson City is forecast near 22ft, just below minor flood stage.
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  Nebraska beyond the governor's declaration, the river response is the operational story.
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  Salt Creek reached a record level near Greenwood Thursday morning and Little Salt Creek in Lincoln crested above 25.6ft, roughly 4ft higher than its previous record.
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  Flood warnings remain active on the Missouri river at Rouleau, the Republican river at Guide Rock and the Little Blue river near deweese, where Highway 78 floods at 15ft.
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  Nebraska Highway 370 closed in both directions from 36th street to U.S.
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  75, U.S.
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  77 closed near Ceresco and the 36th Street Bridge in Bellevue closed with water flowing over it.
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  Omaha Public Schools warned of major bus route delays and possible cancellations because bus lot access was limited.
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  Omaha Public Power District outages peaked above 3,000 customers overnight.
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  The American Red Cross provided shelter for six people from the 62nd and J Streets area.
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  All 80 Omaha Rescue calls ended without loss of life.
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  Oklahoma A flood watch covers McCurtain county in southeast Oklahoma through Friday evening as showers and thunderstorms continue to produce excessive runoff across the Red River Valley.
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  Flood watches blanket much of the state.
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  The Austin and San Antonio office warns of potential for life threatening flooding somewhere in a 28 county watch area that includes Bexar, Travis, Hays, Comal, Kerr, Bandera and Uvalde counties in effect through 7 Friday evening.
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  The Houston and Galveston office cites embedded training rain rates of 2 to 4 inches per hour across Harris, Fort Bend, Montgomery, Waller and Brazos counties.
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  The Fort Worth office expects isolated additional totals of 2 to 4 inches along the Interstate 35 corridor through Friday afternoon, and the Corpus Christi office holds a watch for 12 South Texas counties.
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  Moderate flooding is occurring on the Devil's river at Baker's Crossing in Valverde county, where the Highway 163 bridge floor is affected, and minor flooding continues on the Trinity river at Dallas in far west Texas.
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  A high wind warning covers the Guadalupe and Delaware Mountains through midday.
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  Washington Two uncontained fires are driving the state's fire picture.
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  The Sisi fire stands at 4,330 acres with 29% containment and residence is threatened.
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  The Three Queens fire is at 9,575 acres with 33% containment.
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  Two large fires in the state are nearing closeout with Little Giant at 172,896 acres and 93% containment and Sinlahekan at 166,007 acres and 94% containment, both still listing structures at risk.
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  A hazardous seas warning runs along the coastal waters south of Cape Blanco through Friday afternoon.
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  Wisconsin A flood watch continues for the lower Fox river near New Munster, affecting Kenosha county and Lake County, Illinois, where the river stood at 9.8ft early Friday and may reach its 11 foot flood stage by evening.
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  Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Tropical Storm Choi won brought tropical storm force winds to Saipan beginning early Friday morning local time with southwest winds of 25 to 40 knots, gusts to 55 knots and seas of 14 to
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  20ft in Saipan and Tinian coastal waters.
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  A flood watch, coastal flood watch and high surf advisory are in effect for both islands.
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  The public school system closed Saipan and Tinian schools Friday after half day schedules Thursday.
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  Northern Marianas College canceled classes and closed offices on both islands.
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  The Commonwealth government closed offices Friday except for essential operations and the Commonwealth Judiciary closed all facilities.
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  Several power outages hit Saipan Thursday as conditions deteriorated.
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  Forecasters warn that a developing monsoon surge will extend hazardous weather across the Marianas for several more days.
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  Guam A flash flood watch covers Guam and Rota through late Sunday night as moist monsoon inflow into Choi Wan produces scattered heavy showers and a high surf advisory is in effect for both islands that wraps today's EM Morning
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