* WHAT…Dangerous rip currents and breaking waves with elevated
surf expected. Minor coastal flooding possible.

* WHERE…San Luis Obispo County Beaches, Santa Barbara County
Central Coast Beaches, Santa Barbara County Southwestern
Coast, Santa Barbara County Southeastern Coast, Ventura County
Beaches, Malibu Coast and Los Angeles County Beaches.

* WHEN…Through Wednesday evening.

* IMPACTS…There is an increased risk of ocean drowning. Rip
currents can pull swimmers and surfers out to sea. Waves can
wash people off beaches and rocks, and capsize small boats
nearshore.

* ADDITIONAL DETAILS…Southerly swell combined with abnormally
high tides of 7.0 to 7.6 feet will bring the potential for
minor coastal flooding in low-lying areas in the evening.
Remain out of the water due to hazardous swimming conditions, or
stay near occupied lifeguard towers. Rock jetties can be deadly
in such conditions, stay off the rocks.

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By Meteorologist Chris Dolce, CNN

(CNN) — Slow-moving storms could drop a summer’s worth of rain over parts of Texas this week, bringing a significant flash flood threat to the state.

Much of eastern, central and southwestern Texas could see downpours heavy enough to trigger flash flooding through Thursday, but the area at greatest risk is near the US-Mexico border in the Rio Grande Valley and the southern Edwards Plateau. Austin, Houston and San Antonio are among the larger cities that could see at least localized flash flooding, especially on Monday and Tuesday.

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The Hill Country is also at risk of flooding rain, but the highest totals could stay just southwest of the region. The threat comes just over a year since the devastating Fourth of July floods that killed more than 130 people there, including 25 girls and two teenage counselors at Camp Mystic.

A flood watch has been issued through Thursday evening for more than 5 million people in south-central Texas including Austin, Del Rio, San Angelo and San Antonio.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott activated the state’s emergency response on Sunday to make state resources available, including water rescue teams and helicopters, to respond to any flooding that pops up.

“Texans are urged never to drive or walk through flooded roadways, as floodwaters may be deeper and move more rapidly than they appear,” a release from the governor’s office said.

Extreme rainfall events like this are becoming more common as planet-warming pollution pushes temperatures higher because warmer air holds more moisture. Weather systems can then wring that moisture out like a water-laden sponge, yielding heavy and often highly localized downpours.

Fueling this heavy rain threat is abundant Gulf moisture that’s clashing with a stalled front and a pocket of energy in the upper atmosphere. It’s a notorious recipe for generating slow-moving clusters of storms that can unleash rainfall rates of 2 to 4 inches per hour.

However, pinpointing exactly what towns or cities could see the worst flooding impacts is less certain since it depends on where the most persistent storms flare up from day to day.

The forecast

The week’s most serious heavy rain threat is expected in southwest Texas from near Interstate 10 to the Rio Grande River along the Mexico border, including Del Rio, Texas.

A Level 3 of 4 flash flood risk has been issued through Wednesday by the Weather Prediction Center. Rain in this area on Monday is expected to intensify in the late evening and continue overnight.

Rainfall totals in this area could reach 2 to 6 inches, with locally higher amounts up to 10 inches possible. The higher-end of that range would be close to what Del Rio typically sees from June to August, falling in just a few days.

The Hill Country could see 1 to 3 inches of rain, with locally higher totals possible.

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By Jennifer Hansler, CNN

(CNN) — US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday vowed to “dismantle” the International Criminal Court and urged other countries to join the effort as the Trump administration significantly escalates its campaign against the global institution.

Rubio accused the ICC of “waging a war against our country, not with bullets or missiles,” but with “the force of so-called international law.”

The administration’s ire against the ICC goes back to President Donald Trump’s first term, when it targeted the ICC for seeking to investigate alleged war crimes committed by US forces in Afghanistan. The second Trump administration has imposed a slew of sanctions against ICC officials for their attempts to investigate the US and Israel.

However, the State Department-led, “whole-of-government campaign” to dismantle the ICC is a significant escalation, particularly as it seeks to pressure countries around the world to join and threatens potential cuts to US assistance for those who don’t.

“Nations that refuse to reject the ICC’s false authority while relying on US assistance are likely to come under increased scrutiny,” a State Department official said Monday.

“Using all the tools at our government’s disposal, working beside every ally with whom we can make common cause, we will dismantle the ICC—brick by brick, if necessary,” Rubio wrote in a separate piece in the Wall Street Journal on Monday. Those tools include possible travel bans, visa revocations, and increased sanctions, the State Department official said.

The official said that countries “that partner with US law enforcement, host a US military presence, or benefit from the broader US security umbrella are being called upon to reject the ICC’s purported authority to prosecute American officials and servicemen,” the official said.

“We will watch with interest which nations join ranks with us against this threat to Americans who are willing to risk their lives to protect others,” they noted.

Top officials, including the secretary, deputy secretary, and US ambassadors, “are calling countries as part of a campaign to diplomatically isolate the International Criminal Court and ensure it cannot target Americans,” the official said.

The calls are meant to persuade countries who are party to the ICC to withdraw from it “and cut off any financial support to the court,” they said.

CNN has reached out to the ICC for comment.

The administration is also calling on nations that are not parties to the court, like the United States, “to leverage their diplomatic networks to take similar action alongside us.”

In his opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal, Rubio accused the ICC of being “backed and run by a powerful network of leftist nongovernment organizations, smug globalists, and hostile Third World governments united by their enmity toward the U.S.”

Rubio rejected allegations by outside organizations that the administration’s deportations to El Salvador and its deadly boat strikes on alleged narco-terrorists had violated international law and rebuffed a call by one organization for the ICC to investigate alleged war crimes committed by the US in Iran, but he claimed that such actions

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By Annie Grayer, CNN

(CNN) — US Capitol Police arrested a man at the Capitol’s north barricade who they said had a firearm, which is prohibited on Capitol grounds.

CNN captured video of the man being taken into custody. It shows six officers surrounding an SUV, two of whom have their guns drawn and pointed at a man emerging from the driver’s side with his hands above his head.

The man walks backward away from his car and officers lower their weapons. Then a group approaches the man and cuff his hands behind his back, as more officers arrive on the scene.

The man appears to talk with one officer, who gestures toward the inside of the vehicle. A dog sitting inside the vehicle barks at an officer through an open window.

Capitol Police said the north barricade would be closed while they investigate, and staff and other personnel were advised to avoid the area.

Police did not identify the man who was taken into custody.

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