Kauai holds prolonged outages and islandwide closures; CISA sets a three-day patch clock on four exploited flaws

EM Morning Brief · Sep 10, 2026 · 13m · transcript

Kauai remains the country's highest-impact operation as the county keeps offices and schools closed through Friday, holds five refuge areas open, warns of prolonged power outages, and maintains an islandwide water conservation notice and brown water advisory. CISA adds four actively exploited vulnerabilities to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog with a September 12 remediation deadline and forensic triage requirements for three of them. The National Interagency Fire Center drops the national preparedness level to three even as 59 uncontained large fires burn across eight geographic…