Blizzard and coastal flood warnings across western Alaska; mandatory evacuations in Colorado; CISA publishes an advisory batch

EM Morning Brief · Oct 23, 2026 · 8m · transcript

A strong Bering Sea storm reaches western Alaska this morning with blizzard warnings in six zones, gusts to 65 miles an hour and a coastal flood warning on the Yukon Delta coast, where Hooper Bay could see water 7 feet above normal high tide. A second day of Southwest rain keeps flood warnings across four states, with mandatory evacuations along four rivers in Archuleta County, Colorado, and power and water outages across the Navajo Nation. Navajo County, Arizona declared an emergency after a suspected tornado struck Heber and Overgaard. In Toledo, the tank behind a four-day hazmat response…