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Record River flood triggers state of emergency and Level 4 activation; Florida's St. Johns River forecast into major flood stage; FEMA raises Stafford Act assistance limits · EM Morning Brief

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  Good morning.
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  I'm Cedric and This is your EM Morning Brief for Friday, November 6, 2026.
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  A record flash flood on the Georgia and Tennessee line is the country's largest active response this morning.
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  Up to 10 inches of rain fell over North Georgia from Wednesday into Thursday, and the Taco river crested at slightly over 18ft at the Twin Cities of Mcaysville, Georgia and Copper Hill, Tennessee early Thursday, a record for that
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  reach.
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  Tennessee reports 68 rescues completed by the Highway Patrol and the Tennessee National Guard, with the State Emergency Operations center activated at level four.
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  Georgia governor Brian Kemp signed an executive order declaring a state of emergency for four counties.
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  The McCaysville Water Treatment Plant is shut down and the city is under a boilwater advisory.
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  Florida holds the only major river flooding in the country.
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  The St.
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  Johns river near Cocoa sits at 16.9ft with major flooding forecast into next week, and the Peace river at Arcadia is already in major flood stage at 16.4ft, where the National Weather Service lists up to 60 homes flooding in
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  the River Acres area.
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  River flooding also continues in Arizona behind dam releases on the Salt and Verde, on the grand and Platte Rivers in Missouri, the Iowa and North Skunk Rivers in Iowa and the Rio Grande in southern Colorado.
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  Today's heaviest rain shifts to the Northeast, where the Weather Prediction center carries a slight risk of excessive rainfall across southeastern New England.
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  On the federal side, FEMA published its annual Stafford act inflation adjustments this morning.
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  Maximum individuals and households program assistance rises to $46,400 each for housing assistance and other needs assistance.
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  Serious needs assistance rises to $820 and the per capita impact indicators used in declaration requests move to $2.01 statewide and $5.03 countywide.
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  They apply to disasters declared on or after October 1st.
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  On the cyber side, CISA, the FBI, HHS, USDA and the Department of Transportation issued joint guidance Thursday urging operators to harden industrial refrigeration and cold chain monitoring systems after attacks that changed temperature set points and forced continuous defrost
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  cycles in healthcare, food production and cold storage settings.
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  Let's run through the Arizona the National Weather Service in Phoenix issued five flood warnings for Maricopa county late Thursday driven by dam releases rather than rainfall.
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  Floodgate releases at Bartlett Dam and Tempe Town Lake, plus continued releases at Granite Reef Dam have the Salt, Verde and Gila Rivers running high with inflow to Painted Rock reservoir measured near 15,700 cubic feet per second.
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  Low water crossings across the Salt river are inundated, including McKellips Road and the longest warning runs until Saturday afternoon in Yavapai county, officials lifted evacuation orders for all areas after last weekend's flooding, which the county says affected 466
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  homes.
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  State Route 89A through Oak Creek Canyon remains closed.
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  FLORIDA the St.
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  Johns river near cocoa stood at 16.9ft Thursday evening against a 16 foot flood stage, with moderate flooding occurring and major flooding forecast through the weekend.
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  At 17.2ft, water enters low lying homes west of Cocoa and in Rockledge and one road west of Cocoa becomes impassable, cutting access to the homes beyond it.
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  To the southwest, the Peace river at Arcadia is at 16.4ft against an 11 foot flood stage, the level at which the weather service lists up to 60 homes flooding at River Acres.
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  Brevard county has opened an online request form for volunteer help clearing mud, ruined furniture and wet drywall from flood damaged homes, and the City of Palm Bay holds two flood recovery information sessions today for residents and business owners.
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  The City of Melbourne rescinded its precautionary boil water notice for all customers after a bacteriological survey, and Palm Bay lifted its notice for most customers while keeping it in place for several address ranges off Port Malabar Boulevard northeast.
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  Separately, the Small Business Administration opened low interest disaster loans Thursday for Florida businesses, nonprofits and residents affected by Hurricane Isaias.
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  Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signed Executive Order 11052601 Thursday, declaring a state of emergency for Fannin, Gilmer, Murray and Union counties through 11:59pm Thursday, Nov.
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  12.
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  The order activates the Georgia Emergency Operations Plan and the State Operations center directs the Department of Transportation and the Department of Public Safety to speed utility crews to outages and prohibits price gouging on water, fuel, fuel and other
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  essential goods.
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  It records flash flood emergencies overnight, mudslides, water rescues, water entering homes and evacuations along the Tacoa River.
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  Fannin County Emergency Management reports swift water teams rescued more than 80 people with no deaths.
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  The highest official rainfall total was 11.19 inches in under six hours.
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  Northwest of Blue Ridge, A temporary flight Restriction covers the McCaysville area from the surface to 5,000ft.
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  Access points into the city are closed and Fannin County Schools and the county courthouse are closed today.
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  Hawaii Episode 56 of the Halemaumau eruption at Kilauea ran about six hours Thursday and has ended.
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  The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory reports fountaining began at 12:10pm local time, reached a maximum height of about 660ft and stopped at 6:01pm the plume reached 18,000ft above sea level and the National Weather Service issued a special weather statement for
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  it.
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  Light tephra fell at the footprints area and at Pahala Kilauea stays at alert level.
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  Watch with aviation color code orange and all vents and flows remained inside Halemaumau Crater within the closed area of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.
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  Louisiana the city of Monroe began an emergency repair to an 8 inch water main at 10pm Thursday, expected to run several hours with low or no pressure across six areas on the north side, including the Northeast Louisiana Veterans
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  Home.
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  The city says a precautionary boil water notice will follow for all affected customers until water quality testing clears.
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  Now back to this morning's updates.
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  Massachusetts the National Weather Service in Boston placed southeastern Massachusetts and all of Rhode island under one flood watch from early this morning through Saturday morning with 2 to 4 inches of rain forecast and a low chance of isolated
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  5 to 6 inch totals.
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  Michigan Delta Township issued a township wide precautionary boil water advisory Thursday after a water main break dropped pressure across the municipal system.
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  It covers every home, business and facility on township water, and state rules hold it in place at least 48 hours after the repair.
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  The intersection of St.
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  Joe highway and Canal Road is closed.
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  Battle Creek issued a separate boil water advisory for Burr street and Boulder street after a planned shutdown for hydrant replacement and lifted an earlier advisory covering two travel centers on 11 Mile Road in the Upper Peninsula.
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  The Department of Natural Resources reports the Ridge fire near marquette at about 500 acres and 85% contained, with the Craig Lake and Black river fires fully contained.
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  Mississippi Officials in Greenville report the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality monitored air overnight after Wednesday's fire and explosion at the Loveland Products Pesticide plant and detected no hazards, with monitoring continuing.
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  The site is still smoldering and black smoke is possible for several days.
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  Officials ask anyone with respiratory or eye irritation to seek medical advice.
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  Montana the National Weather Service in Great Falls issued a high wind watch early Friday for the Rocky Mountain front and the High Plains, with gusts to 65 mph this afternoon into Saturday morning and gusts to 85 mph Sunday,
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  the product states.
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  Widespread power outages are possible.
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  New Hampshire the Wild River Fire in the White Mountain National Forest grew 694 acres in a single reporting period to 982 acres and is 11% contained, the only large fire in the country.
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  Adding acreage in the latest national situation Report, the forest service has 89 personnel assigned to the full suppression fire about seven miles southeast of Gorham and with a forest closure order prohibiting public entry.
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  Wild River Road and the Shelburne Trail closed and the Kendeskiag Trail closed in the Appalachian Trail corridor.
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  Crews remapped the perimeter Thursday to about 856 acres as they refined the line.
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  The cause is under investigation and believed to be human caused.
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  The National Weather Service in Mount Holly has two flash flood warnings in effect this morning across six counties in the southern and central part of the state, running to 10:15 and 11am Eastern.
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  Both report 1 to 2 inches of rain already down rates of 1.5 to 2.5 inches an hour and another 1 to 2 inches possible with flash flooding of small creeks, urban areas, highways, streets and underpasses.
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  A dense fog advisory in the Northwest runs to 8am with visibility a quarter mile or less.
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  NEW Mexico San Juan county issued what officials expect to be the final daily flood update Thursday.
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  All three rivers have dropped below flood stage and evacuations are lifted along every river corridor, though Highway 539 stays closed and damage assessments continue across more than 600 surveyed properties.
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  Queens Public Library reports systems down across all 66 locations, taking public computers, WI Fi, self checkout, the website, the mobile app and digital media services offline while buildings stay open on normal hours.
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  The library says it is working with law enforcement and cybersecurity experts.
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  A weather Service flood advisory this morning also covers New York City and Long island with water over roadways.
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  OHIO More than 17,000 customers lost power across Logan and Shelby counties Thursday afternoon.
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  AES Ohio attributed the outage to a crane striking a transmission line near the Honda engine plant at Anna, and utility updates had most service restored by Thursday evening.
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  Pennsylvania A third party drilling crew installing electric towers struck a Refined Products pipeline in Upper Marion Township, Montgomery county, at about 3pm Thursday.
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  Upper Marion Township police issued a shelter in place advisory for the surrounding area and lifted it at about 5:19pm and River Road has reopened.
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  Police say the segment was shut down and isolated with Sunoco pipeline and that product was contained to the insurance auto auction property and the adjacent quarry.
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  The Environmental Protection Agency and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection are monitoring air quality and cleanup has begun.
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  Accounts of the product differ.
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  The township police notices describe a gasoline pipeline, while township public safety Officials described a 14 inch line carrying jet fuel.
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  No official volume figure has been released.
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  Tennessee the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency activated the state Emergency Operations center in Nashville at Level 4 elevated Thursday as flash flooding hit Polk county.
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  Tema reports 68 rescues completed carried out by the Tennessee Highway Patrol and the Tennessee National Guard, which flew aerial search and rescue at the agency's request.
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  Eight to 10 inches of rain fell overnight in the watershed, and the Ocoee river at Copperhill crested at 18.05ft about 6am Central Time before falling below action stage by 11am Polk county declared a state of emergency.
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  Copperhill Utilities issued a mandatory water conservation notice.
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  Teema is working with the county to deliver water, and a point of distribution for essential supplies is open in Copperhill.
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  Both bridges in Copper Hill are closed.
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  Grassy Creek Road is closed at the Rogers Creek Bridge, where a large structure broke loose and struck it, and Ocoee River State park is closed.
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  An American Red Cross evacuation center is operating at Copper Basin Fire and Rescue.
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  WASHINGTON the Sisi fire on the Okanogan wenatchee National Forest, 10 miles northwest of Stayhekon, holds at 4,816 acres and 50% contained, and the National Situation Report continues to list residences threatened.
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  GUAM Guam Homeland Security and the Office of Civil Defense issued a public threat assessment Thursday on a reported launch from North Korea on Nov.
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  4 and says it continues to monitor with the Mariana Regional Fusion center and federal and military partners.
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  The agency assessed Guam and the Marianas as facing no immediate threat from the launch.
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  NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS the Joint Typhoon Warning center upgraded invest 99W to Tropical Depression 31W Thursday evening local time.
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  The National Weather Service in Tian reports the system Moving northwest at 21 mph with maximum sustained winds of 30 mph on a track north of Agrahan early Saturday as a low end tropical storm and says tropical storm force
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  winds should stay north of the center, which keeps the strongest winds off Alamagan, Pagan and Agrihan.
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  Residents of the northern islands are told to watch for forecast changes.
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  A high surf advisory for breaking waves of 7-9ft on north facing reefs runs through Saturday afternoon across the Marianas, Puerto Rico.
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  The Weather Service in San Juan issued flood advisories Friday morning for Cabo Rojo, Hormigueros and Mayaguez, and earlier for Aguada and Aguadilla after 1 to 1.5 inches of rain, with another 1 to 2 inches expected.
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  Two earthquakes in the magnitude 3 range were recorded overnight, a magnitude 3.45 near Moca and a magnitude 3.1 northeast of Lukio.
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