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Updated on: August 15, 2026 / 10:46 PM EDT / CBS News Hurricane Lala on Saturday slammed Hawaii's Big Island as a Category 1 storm, where it was bringing heavy rain and the possibility of life-threatening flooding and mudslides, forecasters said, as well as dangerous surf and rip currents. The weather system strengthened into a hurricane earlier in the day with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph. A tropical storm becomes a hurricane when its maximum sustained winds reach 74 mph. "People should be sheltering in place now," Hawaii Gov. Josh Green said in a social media video. There were about 68,000 customers without power across the state as of late Saturday afternoon, according to utility tracker PowerOutage.us, or about 13% of all residents.
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Updated on: August 15, 2026 / 8:41 PM EDT / CBS News Hurricane Lala on Saturday was impacting Hawaii's Big Island as a Category 1 storm, where it was bringing heavy rain and the possibility of life-threatening flooding and mudslides to the area, forecasters said, as well as dangerous surf and rip currents. The weather system strengthened into a hurricane earlier in the day with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph. A tropical storm becomes a hurricane when its maximum sustained winds reach 74 mph. In a video posted to social media Saturday morning local time, Hawaii Gov. Josh Green said the Big Island was seeing about 2 inches of rain per hour.
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Updated on: August 15, 2026 / 8:41 PM EDT / CBS News Hurricane Lala on Saturday was impacting Hawaii's Big Island as a Category 1 storm, where it was bringing heavy rain and the possibility of life-threatening flooding and mudslides to the area, forecasters said, as well as dangerous surf and rip currents. The weather system strengthened into a hurricane earlier in the day with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph. A tropical storm becomes a hurricane when its maximum sustained winds reach 74 mph. In a video posted to social media Saturday morning local time, Hawaii Gov. Josh Green said the Big Island was seeing about 2 inches of rain per hour.
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Updated on: August 15, 2026 / 8:41 PM EDT / CBS News Hurricane Lala on Saturday was impacting Hawaii's Big Island as a Category 1 storm, where it was bringing heavy rain and the possibility of life-threatening flooding and mudslides to the area, forecasters said, as well as dangerous surf and rip currents. The weather system strengthened into a hurricane earlier in the day with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph. A tropical storm becomes a hurricane when its maximum sustained winds reach 74 mph. In a video posted to social media Saturday morning local time, Hawaii Gov. Josh Green said the Big Island was seeing about 2 inches of rain per hour.
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Updated on: August 15, 2026 / 10:14 PM EDT / CBS News Hurricane Lala on Saturday was impacting Hawaii's Big Island as a Category 1 storm, where it was bringing heavy rain and the possibility of life-threatening flooding and mudslides to the area, forecasters said, as well as dangerous surf and rip currents. The weather system strengthened into a hurricane earlier in the day with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph. A tropical storm becomes a hurricane when its maximum sustained winds reach 74 mph. In a video posted to social media Saturday morning local time, Hawaii Gov. Josh Green said the Big Island was seeing about 2 inches of rain per hour.
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Updated on: August 15, 2026 / 10:46 PM EDT / CBS News Hurricane Lala on Saturday slammed Hawaii's Big Island as a Category 1 storm, where it was bringing heavy rain and the possibility of life-threatening flooding and mudslides, forecasters said, as well as dangerous surf and rip currents. The weather system strengthened into a hurricane earlier in the day with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph. A tropical storm becomes a hurricane when its maximum sustained winds reach 74 mph. "People should be sheltering in place now," Hawaii Gov. Josh Green said in a social media video. There were about 68,000 customers without power across the state as of late Saturday afternoon, according to utility tracker PowerOutage.us, or about 13% of all residents.
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