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Four Corners flooding; Ammonia threat and fire; Coastal flood warnings · EM Morning Brief

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  Cedric: Good morning, I'm Cedric and this is your EM Morning Brief for Monday, October 26, 2026.
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  Cedric: Historic flooding across the Four Corners keeps evacuation orders in place this morning in New Mexico, Utah and southwest Colorado.
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  Cedric: The San Juan River crested at Shiprock, New Mexico on Saturday at 21 feet, its highest crest since 1935, and about 2,000 people are affected across the region.
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  Cedric: At least a couple hundred people have been rescued, including 11 hoist operations by New Mexico National Guard helicopters carrying up to eight people each.
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  Cedric: Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham has asked the federal government for an emergency declaration that would unlock at least 13.8 million dollars for debris removal and emergency protective measures.
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  Cedric: (Official update published about 36 hours ago.)
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  Cedric: She travels to San Juan County today with Major General Miguel Aguilar.
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  Cedric: A separate coastal system is driving tidal flooding from Florida into South Carolina on this morning's high tide.
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  Cedric: The National Weather Service in Jacksonville has extended a Coastal Flood Warning through Tuesday and Wednesday for the Atlantic coast of northeast Florida and southeast Georgia, the Intracoastal Waterway and the entire St.
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  Cedric: Johns River basin, with water peaking 2 to 3.5 feet above normally dry ground and moderate to locally major flooding around high tide.
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  Cedric: Seas run 9 to 14 feet.
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  Cedric: A High Surf Advisory, a High Rip Current Risk and a Wind Advisory with gusts to 45 miles per hour run alongside the warning.
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  Cedric: On the cyber side, federal civilian agencies reach a remediation deadline today for two vulnerabilities CISA added to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on October 23: an operating system command injection flaw in the Collabora Online built in CODE Server,
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  Cedric: and a SQL injection flaw in Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator.
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  Cedric: CISA directs agencies to apply vendor mitigations under Binding Operational Directive 26-04, or to discontinue use of the product where mitigations are unavailable.
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  Cedric: Let's run through the states.
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  Cedric: Alaska.
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  Cedric: The Alaska Volcano Observatory reports slow lava eruption continuing within the summit crater at Great Sitkin, which stays at Watch and Orange, and low level unrest with small earthquakes and tremor at Shishaldin, at Advisory and Yellow.
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  Cedric: Colorado.
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  Cedric: Evacuations remain in effect across southwest Colorado, where the governor's flood disaster emergency now covers 12 counties after Conejos County was added, and about 100 Coloradans have been evacuated.
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  Cedric: The state is coordinating flood response with the Southern Ute Indian Tribe.
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  Cedric: U.S.
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  Cedric: 160 remains closed northeast of Pagosa Springs.
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  Cedric: U.S.
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  Cedric: 550, the Million Dollar Highway, has reopened between Durango and Ouray after crews repaired water damage.
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  Cedric: The San Juan River at Pagosa Springs reached a level not seen in more than a century, running more than 2 feet above a flood officials had called a 100 year event just over a year ago.
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  Cedric: Officials ask residents to keep drones grounded so rescue aircraft can operate.
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  Cedric: Florida.
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  Cedric: A Flood Warning remains in effect until further notice for the St.
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  Cedric: Johns River near Astor in Lake and Volusia counties, where the river sits at 2.7 feet against a 2.3 foot flood stage and water reaches portions of Alligator Road and Holiday Road.
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  Cedric: Georgia.
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  Cedric: The highest tide of the event is forecast between 8:00 and 9:00 a.m.
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  Cedric: Eastern at Fort Pulaski, the threshold at which water reaches U.S.
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  Cedric: Highway 80, the only road onto Tybee Island, and a High Surf Advisory with breakers to 5 feet runs until 2:00 p.m.
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  Cedric: Eastern.
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  Cedric: Hawaii.
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  Cedric: The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory reports the Halemaumau eruption at Kilauea is paused with summit reinflation continuing, and forecasts the next episode of fountaining between October 30 and November 5.
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  Cedric: Indiana.
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  Cedric: The FEMA individual assistance registration deadline for the August severe storms and flooding disaster closed at 11:59 p.m.
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  Cedric: Eastern last night across 24 designated counties, including Marion, Lake, Hamilton and Delaware.
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  Cedric: We have more to cover this morning, but first, a quick word from our sponsors.
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  Cedric: Now, back to this morning’s updates.
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  Cedric: New Mexico.
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  Cedric: San Juan County remains the center of the state's flood response, with Farmington and Bloomfield among the hardest hit communities and the San Juan River flooding Navajo Nation land downstream.
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  Cedric: About 58 National Guard members deployed to the county Friday and Saturday, and more remain available.
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  Cedric: The governor's federal request covers San Juan, Rio Arriba, Cibola and Sandoval counties plus Acoma Pueblo, the Jicarilla Apache Nation, San Ildefonso Pueblo, Zia Pueblo and Laguna Pueblo.
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  Cedric: A statewide flooding emergency declared September 30 already made 3.75 million dollars available to counties.
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  Cedric: U.S.
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  Cedric: 64 remains closed for a 2 mile stretch west of Shiprock.
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  Cedric: In Santa Fe, the city reports ten homes with direct damage from Saturday evening's tornado, with no injuries from the storm itself, and the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office reports a woman died Saturday when her family tried to cross
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  Cedric: a flooded arroyo north of town.
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  Cedric: Oregon.
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  Cedric: Newport's Bayfront remains closed this morning after a fire tore through a Pacific Seafood freezer and ice plant on Southwest Bay Boulevard, which Fire Chief Rob Murphy called the most severe fire the city has seen in a decade.
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  Cedric: The fire began about 8:50 a.m.
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  Cedric: Sunday with 30 to 40 workers inside, and all were accounted for with no injuries reported.
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  Cedric: Two ammonia tanks inside the building prompted a one mile evacuation notice covering the Port of Newport, its RV park and the marina, which the city narrowed through the afternoon and lifted everywhere except a section of Bay Boulevard by
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  Cedric: Sunday evening.
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  Cedric: The city says the ammonia risk is mitigated and asks residents to wear masks because smoke persists.
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  Cedric: A Marion County task force worked overnight to relieve local crews.
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  Cedric: South Carolina.
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  Cedric: A Coastal Flood Warning for coastal Charleston and Colleton counties runs until 11:00 a.m.
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  Cedric: Eastern, with 1 to 2 feet of inundation above ground level along shorelines and tidal waterways and tides of 7.9 to 8.1 feet at Charleston around the 8:18 a.m.
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  Cedric: high tide.
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  Cedric: The National Weather Service warns that significant saltwater flooding will make numerous roads impassable through the morning commute.
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  Cedric: A High Surf Advisory runs until 2:00 p.m.
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  Cedric: Eastern and a High Rip Current Risk holds through the evening.
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  Cedric: Texas.
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  Cedric: The City of El Paso Office of Emergency Management is operating its Emergency Operations Center at Level 3, Increased Readiness, after flooding from an overflowing reservoir forced 16 households out of the Dawnlight area of northwest El Paso.
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  Cedric: Crews performed a water rescue on South Desert Boulevard with no injuries, and the Red Cross, Sun Metro and El Paso Water are supporting.
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  Cedric: The National Weather Service in El Paso issued further flash flood warnings for central El Paso County late Sunday night.
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  Cedric: Utah.
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  Cedric: The Navajo Nation Department of Emergency Management ordered Montezuma Creek and Aneth to evacuate at 11:15 p.m.
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  Cedric: Saturday as the San Juan River rose, moving an estimated 150 people overnight into Sunday.
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  Cedric: Shelters are open at Aneth Community School in Montezuma Creek and San Juan High School in Blanding.
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  Cedric: Forecasters expect major flooding Sunday into Monday at Mexican Hat, Tselakai Dezza, Bluff, Halchita, Montezuma Creek and Aneth.
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  Cedric: Washington.
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  Cedric: The Sisi Fire on the Okanogan Wenatchee National Forest stands at 4,743 acres and 34 percent containment, making it the least contained large fire in Sunday's national situation report, which places the country at Preparedness Level 1 with eight large
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  Cedric: uncontained fires.
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  Cedric: That wraps today's EM Morning Brief.
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