Flights cancelled, no electricity as California braces for brutal storm: Updates

California ordered evacuations in a high-risk coastal area as a huge storm into the state brought high winds and heavy rainfall, knocking out electricity and causing floods. The emergency was declared by California governor Gavin Newsom in order to allow quick response in the state as it still recovers from a powerful storm that hit days earlier.

Here are top updates on storm in California:

The storm has already left more than 76,000 people in the San Francisco Bay Area and nearly 19,000 more along the Central Coast without electricity.