EM Morning Brief

Today’s brief leads with Orange County, where Garden Grove’s GKN Aerospace hazmat emergency de-escalates and all evacuation orders lift, returning the final 16,000 residents home with no injuries. New Mexico’s Seven Cabins Fire reaches 64 percent containment and Lincoln County rescinds all evacuations. CISA adds an actively exploited vulnerability to its KEV catalog, the central United States face...

Severe weather leads the brief as the Storm Prediction Center flags a large-hail, damaging-wind, and tornado threat across the northern Plains and upper Mississippi Valley, while Texas keeps state emergency resources activated ahead of flash flooding. On the wildfire side, the national Preparedness Level holds at 2 with six uncontained large fires, and Lincoln County lifts the last evacuation orde...

Today’s brief tracks the Seven Cabins fire holding at 57 percent contained on the Lincoln National Forest with structures still threatened, CISA’s June 2 addition of a Linux Kernel and Android Framework vulnerability to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, the end of Kilauea summit Episode 48 with reticulite and Pele’s hair reported in Volcano village, severe thunderstorm watches across th...

The Atlantic hurricane season officially opened June 1 as FEMA reaffirmed readiness and the National Hurricane Center continued to watch a high-probability disturbance in the Eastern Pacific. In New Mexico, the Seven Cabins Fire pushed past 29,000 acres with evacuations in Lincoln County and a Type 1 team transition. Hawaii’s Kīlauea ended Episode 48 of the Halemaʻumaʻu eruption after nine hours o...

Today's EM Morning Brief opens the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season with NOAA's below-normal outlook, tracks the U.S. Geological Survey's forecast window for Kīlauea Episode 48 fountaining, and updates wildland fire operations on the Seven Cabins Fire in New Mexico and the Santa Rosa Island Fire in California. CISA's June 1 federal remediation deadline for the Palo Alto PAN-OS authentication bypass...

Today’s EM Morning Brief covers the State Department’s May 28 update to the Worldwide Caution adding Public Health Arrival Restrictions and Enhanced Ebola Disease Screening for travelers from the DRC, Uganda, and South Sudan, with the Uganda Travel Advisory at Level 4. CISA releases a fresh bundle of Industrial Control Systems advisories on May 28 and adds four entries to the Known Exploited Vulne...

Today’s brief covers the National Preparedness Level 2 wildfire picture led by the Seven Cabins Fire in New Mexico and active fires in California, Idaho, Oregon, and Wyoming. CISA expanded the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog with three supply-chain entries affecting DAEMON Tools, TanStack, and Nx Console. Red Flag Warnings span Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and western North Dakota. CDC’s HAN a...

Wednesday’s EM Morning Brief leads with the launch of enhanced CDC and CBP Ebola screening at Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport for arrivals from the DRC, Uganda, and South Sudan, joining Dulles and Atlanta as the only U.S. entry points. Cedric covers today’s federal patch deadline for the actively exploited Drupal core SQL injection vulnerability (CVE-2026-9082), the lifting of all G...

Today’s brief leads with the Presidential Emergency Declaration approved May 25 for California’s Garden Grove hazmat incident, where 50,000 residents remain evacuated around a GKN Aerospace MMA tank. Wildfire activity is concentrated in New Mexico’s Capitan Mountains with the Seven Cabins Fire at 26,443 acres and 40 percent containment, in Oregon where the new Zen Fire grew to about 1,000 acres so...

Today’s EM Morning Brief leads with the ongoing chemical tank emergency at a Garden Grove aerospace facility, where roughly 50,000 Orange County residents remain evacuated and California has formally requested federal assistance. Severe weather across the eastern half of the country brings flash flooding, tornado damage in Alabama, and an FAA ground stop at Hartsfield-Jackson. CISA flags an active...

Friday’s brief covers two new CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities and a fresh Industrial Control Systems advisory, the NOAA 2026 Atlantic hurricane outlook issued from Lakeland, ongoing CDC Health Alert Network guidance on Ebola Bundibugyo, and material wildfire and severe-weather operations across Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas, including a Denver International gr...

Today’s EM Morning Brief covers CISA’s May 20 KEV expansion (seven CVEs, including two 2026 Microsoft Defender flaws), an active wildfire posture led by California’s Sandy Fire (22 percent contained, more than 17,000 residents under evacuation) and the Texas Panhandle’s Hunggate Fire, the lifted Line Fire evacuations in Quay County, New Mexico, and a Mid-Atlantic severe weather complex that produc...

Wind-driven wildfires dominate today’s brief, with the Sandy Fire in Ventura County, California pushing more than 43,000 residents out of Simi Valley and the Seven Cabins Fire in New Mexico growing to nearly 16,000 acres with no containment. In the Plains and Midwest, Auburn, Nebraska issues a disaster declaration after Monday’s straight-line winds and flooding, and Evergy reports a peak of about...

Tuesday’s brief tracks a multi-state wildfire surge as the Sandy Fire prompts mandatory evacuations for roughly 28,000 residents in Simi Valley, California, the Sharpe Fire pushes from the Oklahoma Panhandle into southeastern Colorado, triggering a State of Disaster Emergency, and the Seven Cabins Fire grows to 12,549 acres in New Mexico’s Capitan Mountain Wilderness with active closures. The brie...

Today’s brief covers a fast-moving severe weather episode across the central Plains and Upper Midwest, the Storm Prediction Center’s Moderate Risk for Monday across central Kansas into southeastern Nebraska, Minnesota’s peacetime emergency for active wildfires near Crosslake and Two Harbors, continuing wildfire activity in the Texas Panhandle and on the Cibola National Forest, and red flag conditi...

CISA adds a Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller authentication bypass (CVE-2026-20182) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, layering on Emergency Directive 26-03. The USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory reports the close of Kilauea’s nine-hour episode 47 at Halemaumau, with alert level remaining at WATCH. NIFC holds the country at Preparedness Level 2 as Red Flag Warnings stretch from wester...

Thursday’s EM Morning Brief tracks an active wildfire posture at National Preparedness Level 2 with twelve uncontained large fires from Florida to Washington, USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory’s WATCH status at Kīlauea ahead of fountaining episode 47, and FEMA’s $237 million Public Assistance push. State-by-state, Cedric covers Oakland County’s continuing boil water advisory, severe weather warnin...

Today’s EM Morning Brief covers the now-passed May 12 federal KEV action deadline for ConnectWise ScreenConnect and Microsoft Windows Shell, plus CISA’s six May 12 ICS advisories and the May 15 deadline for the Linux Kernel privilege escalation. NIFC counts 20 uncontained large fires nationwide as the Max Road Fire in western Broward County hits 70 percent containment and the Six Mile Fire in New...

May 12, 2026 brief covers the CDC’s HAN-528 hantavirus advisory tied to a South Atlantic cruise ship, the FEMA Review Council’s final report recommending structural changes to federal disaster support, the June 10 deadline for Washington storm and flooding survivors, NIFC’s count of 20 uncontained large fires with critical fire weather in eastern Montana and western North Dakota, the USGS Kīlauea...

Cedric breaks down the May 11 EM Morning Brief: Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s state of emergency for Oakland County after a 42-inch Great Lakes Water Authority transmission main ruptured in Auburn Hills, a multi-day Brawley earthquake swarm that has logged more than 350 events, the opening forecast window for Kīlauea Episode 47, an active wildfire picture in Florida, Georgia, Arizona, and N...

The May 8 EM Morning Brief leads with day-after recovery operations across southern Mississippi, where 14 tornadoes injured 17 and damaged more than 500 homes from Franklin to Wilkinson counties; MEMA shelters remain open in Purvis and Brookhaven and Cajun Navy resources are inbound. CISA expanded the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog twice in 48 hours, adding an Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobi...

On today’s brief: search and rescue is underway across central and southwest Mississippi after a Wednesday-evening tornado emergency for Brookhaven, Bude, and Bogue Chitto, with the governor coordinating state response. CISA adds CVE-2026-0300 in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FEMA’s Public Assistance application deadline lands today for Washington local...

May 6, 2026: SPC’s Enhanced Risk drives Wednesday’s tornado, hail, and damaging-wind threat from northeast Texas through Mississippi, Alabama, and southern Tennessee, with flash-flood concerns continuing across south-central Indiana and central Kentucky. The U.S. Geological Survey downgrades Kilauea’s volcano alert level to ADVISORY and aviation color code to YELLOW after Episode 46 of the summit...

May 5, 2026: A high-impact severe weather day across the southern Plains and Mid-South, with tornado, hail, and damaging-wind threats from Texas through Kentucky. The U.S. Geological Survey raises Kīlauea to WATCH as Episode 46 of the summit eruption nears. A late-season winter storm drops up to 30 inches of snow across the Colorado and Wyoming high country, with whiteout conditions on the I-25 co...

Cedric covers Monday morning’s national emergency-management picture: the National Interagency Fire Center holds at Preparedness Level 2 nationally with 20 uncontained large fires and the Southern Area at PL4, the U.S. Geological Survey’s Kīlauea Episode 46 fountaining window opens today, the Storm Prediction Center carried a hail and isolated-tornado risk into the mid-Mississippi Valley overnight...