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Typhoon In-fa's eye passes over Agrihan; Texas declares El Paso County flood disaster; CISA flags exploited GitLab and Cisco flaws · EM Morning Brief

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  Cedric: Good morning, I'm Cedric and this is your EM Morning Brief for Friday, October 30, 2026.
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  Cedric: Typhoon In-fa is the day's largest life safety event.
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  Cedric: The National Weather Service in Tiyan reports that the southern half of In-fa's 46-mile-wide eye passed over Agrihan late Friday afternoon, Chamorro time, with typhoon force winds occurring on the island.
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  Cedric: As of the 8:41 p.m.
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  Cedric: statement, the Category 4 typhoon sits about 25 miles northwest of Agrihan, moving northwest at 20 mph and turning north-northwest toward Iwo To.
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  Cedric: The Typhoon Warning remains in effect for Alamagan, Pagan and Agrihan.
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  Cedric: Forecasters expect conditions to improve through the night, with damaging tropical storm force winds exiting early Saturday morning, and they tell residents to stay in a concrete structure or cave until the all clear is issued.
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  Cedric: The second event is the multi-day flood threat across the Southwest and West Texas.
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  Cedric: Governor Greg Abbott issued a state disaster declaration for El Paso County on Thursday after heavy rain and flooding, and the National Weather Service in Midland issued Flash Flood Warnings early Friday for Midland, Odessa and Andrews County.
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  Cedric: In New Mexico, emergency management reported flooding from a levee breach near Bernardo in Socorro County Thursday evening.
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  Cedric: A Flood Watch covers the Phoenix metro area through Friday afternoon, and new Flood Watches run from Saturday evening or Sunday into Monday morning across southeast Arizona, northwest and west central New Mexico, southwest Colorado and southeast Utah, where forecasters
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  Cedric: expect 1 to 3 inches of rain on soils still saturated from recent flooding.
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  Cedric: On the cyber side, CISA added two vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog on Thursday, based on evidence of active exploitation.
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  Cedric: One is an integer overflow flaw in GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition that could let an unauthenticated user run code on a GitLab server through a crafted regular expression in a CI/CD configuration.
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  Cedric: The other is a flaw in Cisco Secure Firewall ASA and Secure FTD software that could let a remote attacker force the device to reload, causing a denial of service.
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  Cedric: Federal civilian agencies have a November 1 remediation deadline for both, and the GitLab entry also carries CISA's forensic triage requirement.
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  Cedric: Let's run through the states.
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  Cedric: Alaska.
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  Cedric: The National Weather Service in Anchorage has a High Wind Warning for the Anchorage and Eagle River hillsides until 11 a.m.
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  Cedric: Friday, with gusts of 60 to 75 mph that could damage property and cause power outages.
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  Cedric: A Winter Storm Warning for the Northern Susitna Valley and the Parks Highway corridor through Broad Pass runs until 2 p.m., with 7 to 15 inches of snow.
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  Cedric: In the west, the remnants of Typhoon Champi are forecast to reach Bristol Bay Saturday morning, and water levels at Hooper Bay could run 2 to 4 feet above the normal high tide, possibly flooding the road that connects the
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  Cedric: east and west sides of town.
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  Cedric: California.
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  Cedric: King tides closed a stretch of Pacific Coast Highway near Huntington Beach on Thursday, and a San Diego tide gauge topped 8 feet, about a foot and a half above the predicted level.
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  Cedric: The National Weather Service in San Francisco has Coastal Flood Advisories for the coast and the bay shoreline through the weekend, with high tide at the San Francisco gauge expected 1.9 feet above normal Friday afternoon and isolated road closures
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  Cedric: possible.
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  Cedric: Now, back to this morning’s updates.
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  Cedric: Colorado.
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  Cedric: Archuleta County reports that as of Wednesday night, responders had completed 60 missions and evacuated 49 people and 34 animals, and a 17-person, state-sponsored Incident Management Team is on scene.
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  Cedric: An Evacuation Order remains in effect for low-lying, flood-prone areas along the San Juan, Rio Blanco, Navajo and Piedra Rivers, and Colorado 151 is impassable near mile marker 27.
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  Cedric: The National Weather Service in Grand Junction has a Flood Watch for southwest Colorado from Sunday morning through Monday morning.
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  Cedric: Florida.
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  Cedric: The National Weather Service reports that Key West recorded its highest non-tropical water levels since 1913.
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  Cedric: A Coastal Flood Warning for major saltwater flooding covers the Upper, Middle and Lower Keys until 11 p.m.
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  Cedric: Friday, with numerous road closures possible and low lying homes, businesses and some critical infrastructure expected to be inundated.
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  Cedric: Monroe County is asking drivers to avoid standing water and to go slowly where they must cross it, so wakes do not push saltwater into homes and businesses.
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  Cedric: In northeast Florida, Coastal Flood Warnings for coastal Duval County and the St.
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  Cedric: Johns River basin run until 5 a.m.
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  Cedric: Saturday.
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  Cedric: New Mexico.
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  Cedric: The National Weather Service in Albuquerque issued a Flood Warning Thursday evening after emergency management reported flooding from a levee breach in the San Francisco area near Bernardo, in north central Socorro County, affecting La Joya, Bernardo, San Francisco and
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  Cedric: Contreras until noon Friday.
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  Cedric: A second Flood Warning for south central Socorro County reports continued flooding in the Escondida and Pueblito communities, with several roads impassable near San Pedro.
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  Cedric: El Defensor Chieftain reports that a woman died after being swept from a vehicle stranded on a flooded road during the Rio Puerco flooding that began Sunday, and that floodwaters washed out portions of the BNSF Railway line through the
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  Cedric: area.
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  Cedric: A Flood Watch for northwest and west central New Mexico runs from early Sunday through Monday morning.
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  Cedric: Texas.
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  Cedric: Governor Abbott's state disaster declaration for El Paso County makes the full resources of the state available to support local response and recovery, and Texas Division of Emergency Management resources remain engaged.
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  Cedric: County Judge Ricardo Samaniego signed a local disaster declaration Tuesday, families evacuated from a flooded Horizon City neighborhood, and the governor says more than 50 homes were damaged or washed away.
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  Cedric: Residents are asked to report damage through the state's iSTAT survey once it is safe.
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  Cedric: The National Weather Service in Midland has Flash Flood Warnings for Midland, Odessa and central Andrews County Friday morning, with 1 to 2 inches of rain already down.
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  Cedric: Flood Watches cover the South Plains, the Panhandle and the Permian Basin through Friday evening, and Val Verde, Uvalde and Maverick counties until 1 p.m.
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  Cedric: Northern Mariana Islands.
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  Cedric: On Agrihan, southwest winds of 40 to 60 mph with gusts to 80 mph continue overnight, surf of 20 to 30 feet runs along all reefs, and coastal inundation of 3 to 6 feet is possible along north and west
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  Cedric: facing reefs.
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  Cedric: Pagan and Alamagan face tropical storm force winds of 30 to 45 mph with gusts to 60 mph, surf of 10 to 20 feet and 1 to 2 feet of inundation.
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  Cedric: The three islands could see 2 to 5 more inches of rain through Saturday.
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  Cedric: To the south, the High Surf Warning for Saipan and Tinian was cancelled Friday afternoon, and a High Surf Advisory continues for Saipan, Tinian, Guam and Rota until 4 p.m.
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  Cedric: Saturday, Chamorro time.
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  Cedric: That wraps today's EM Morning Brief.
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