EMN Morning Brief: September 9, 2026 - DescriptKauai grid down for 33,000 after Lowell; CISA adds four exploited flaws; Des Moines flash flooding and Big Sur fire gains

EM Morning Brief · Sep 9, 2026 · 14m · transcript

Today’s EM Morning Brief leads with Hawaii, where Tropical Storm Lowell has pulled away but left roughly 33,000 Kauai Island Utility Cooperative members without power, disabled municipal water pumps, and triggered an islandwide brown water advisory. We cover the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory’s watch level for Kilauea, CISA’s addition of four actively exploited vulnerabilities to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, and a national wildfire picture holding at Preparedness Level 4 with 64 uncontained large fires. State coverage includes overnight flash flooding across the Des Moines…