Forecasting with Friends 07.13.2026

Welcome to forecasting with friends everyone. It's a Monday and we have friends. I know, I love it when we have friends. Not only do we have the friends that you see right here, but I have a new friend that I met who's going to be coming up after our first commercial break with Shelterbox USA, a fantastic organization that I want people to know more about. So I'm excited to have that. Angel, can we take the jib shot? You guys, there is quite the show going on. Okay, there it is. Yeah, they're working on the monitors a little bit, but yeah, look what we've got in the studio. That's going to be fantastic. Yeah. So that's, that's your little tease. So you're going to have to stick with us, but boy, I mean, we talked about doing this setup that you saw outside. Right. And I think it was a good call to make it indoors. Yeah. Cause we might've been able to get away with it at 9 30 or 9 45, but now we're, we're definitely seeing a much more active radar. Oh my goodness. Let's get right out to it because we have been monitoring some very heavy rain. I don't have any reports of any isolated street flooding or anything like that, which is good news. But when the radar looks like this and these storms are not moving very quickly, you know, that is going to be a threat as we head throughout the remainder of the day. So let's get out to this first cell in particular, extending from Anahuac just to the East of Liberty, basically crossing over I-10 and then I believe a U S 90 there. So if that's somewhere that you are traveling, not only is it going to be very heavy rain, difficult to drive through a ton of lightning within it, taking you out a little, just on the South side of Houston, Fresno to Manville, knocking on the door of Pearland and even Pasadena that heavy rain and frequent lightning crossing over two 88. As we speak now on the West side of town from Belleville to Sealy, moving through Eagle Lake and heading toward Fulsher. We're monitoring just some light rain, which is good. But as you can see, heavy rain continues along our Southern counties and communities. So Angleton Lake Jackson, you're going to be getting yet another round and you're probably saying, yeah, I know, Alison, I've seen it like three times so far this morning. And unfortunately, you're probably going to get it a few more times as well. And that's some of the areas as well that I've seen an inch or so over the weekend, you know, we had those pockets that received inches of rain over the weekend. So we switched to the future cast. Now, this is our high resolution model that was sort of giving you an idea that this is going to keep kind of going and it's going to be waves of rain. You know, it's not going to be a complete washout for anyone, but it's water rain falling on top of areas that have really saturated ground. The water has nowhere to go. I eat, we get the street flooding. So that two out of four risk is something that we're watching out for pretty closely. Yeah. And, and enough so that we have the Fox 26 storm alert for both today and tomorrow. So it may be not active where you are right now, and it might not even cause problems when you see rain right now, give them a 48 hour period though, that we want to watch things closely because I do expect to have some of that street flooding in some isolated areas over the next two days. So we'll be watching that for you closely. The good news is when you download Fox local, you will get an hourly weather update. That's what we're doing all the time. We'll keep you updated. Well, guys, a powerful blaze is burning out of control in Spain. And unfortunately the death toll now sits at 12. So Fox news is Roxanne Evans has more on the latest effort to contain one of the country's deadliest wildfires. Horrible. It's one of the deadliest wildfires Spain has ever seen. And now new aerial footage providing a glimpse into a major operation to contain the blaze. Hundreds of firefighters have been battling flames since Thursday. Residents in Spain's Almeria province doing what they can to help each other. Been helping people evacuate. I've been helping children getting out, taking people to refuge centers. Spain's defense minister touring the damaged Sunday and thanking public officials and first responders for their bravery. At this painful moment, I also want to thank the local mayors. They've helped save many lives, putting their own lives at risk. And they did it displaying a lot of generosity. Also the psychological support teams, everybody involved. And while more than 1400 people have been evacuated, other residents are keeping an eye out in case they need to get out of Dodge too. I've been sleeping in an armchair with a fan worried about my father in case smoke gets in. No smoke has got inside at all. Then every hour I'd come out here to check to see whether the fire was coming up or heading this way towards this mountain. The blaze comes as parts of Western Europe faced a third heat wave in six weeks. Officials there now saying Europe is the fastest warming continent with temperatures increasing twice as fast as the global average since the 1980s. I'm Roxanne Evans, Fox News. Back here in the U.S. there are some recovery efforts underway in Missouri as they is following several days of some catastrophic flooding. Since Friday, emergency crews have been conducting more than 350 water rescues, including evacuating hundreds of campers trapped by the rising water. One woman unfortunately died after being swept away in Crawford County. That's about 90 minutes outside of the St. Louis area. So today conditions are finally drying out. So as that responding responders shifts from emergency rescue to some more of a damage assessment and searching those receding waters to ensure that no one is missing. It's just so hard to see the fact that there were a lot of campers involved. Right. We know that. We know those feelings totally. It's just so hard. So glad that the water is obviously starting to recede a little bit and obviously it's not just days and weeks of cleanup. I mean it's months to potentially years in those types situations. Yeah that much water is going to create a whole lot of problems and the sort of reminds me of what's going on in Venezuela as far as the relief goes and that of course is what we're talking about today with Shelterbox USA. That is the organization that I want that we talked about at the beginning of the the program here. We're going to get a full in-depth interview and discussion about what they're doing in Venezuela and other countries. They're a disaster relief organization and we'll talk about that coming up after the break. I'm excited to be able to talk with the folks from Shelterbox USA today because this is an organization that I kind of heard about months and months ago and was interested in and then I found out sort of through my hurricane gear test preparations a little bit more details and bottom line is Brian is here and I'm excited. You are one of the senior managers here at Shelterbox USA and really going to be able to give us a lot of information about what you do but the basics is that when the program started you used to send basically a big box and we've got one over here in a minute we could take a look at that that had a tent in it along with some other sheltering type supplies into disaster areas where we need it. We're thinking about Venezuela this is the most recent one but you've been involved for years and years and there's a lot more going on besides just Venezuela. Yeah that's right yeah over the 26 years that we've been doing this now we've been to over 100 countries 300 plus disasters and we've been able to shelter over 3 million people already. Yeah that is those are some big numbers and again it's the kind of work that I want to help with and to be a part of so that's why I tried what I did what I could do to get you guys to come into the studio and I'm really glad that you're able to come in so I'm stepping to this tent right this is a key part of what you do and one thing that really surprises me is you had to you had to bring one of the smaller tents in order to fit it into the studio so so you even sometimes will have a tent that's larger than this. Yeah actually we have six different tents we use right now and this is the smallest because the tents aren't for camping for the weekend it's literally for an entire family to live in for sometimes six months or longer so that means it not only needs to be large for everyone but it also needs to be designed so that it's warm and you know ventilated so it doesn't get humid and and and so you need to be able to stand up in it and move around and that's important. And have shelter because again either people can't be in their homes or in this case when we think about Venezuela a lot of people don't want to be inside at the moment. Yeah that's what we see in earthquakes like in Venezuela is that after you know you've been dug out of the rubble or you've seen friends and family die you're scared to sleep in a building again and the families are sleeping in their cars they're sleeping out in the parks and and so a tent is very welcome to to those people they feel comfortable inside the tent and it's raining a lot in Venezuela now after the earthquake and so they need to be in inside a shelter and this is a great solution. And this is one you can sort of see it's got different like multiple kind of rooms that are inside here and as mentioned this is a smaller one and you said the ones I'm gonna step out now that the ones uh that you're gonna send to Venezuela actually have a porch on them right? Yeah yeah and that gives you extra living space um with a porch and um and it's important to be able to rebuild your community to visit with your neighbors and stuff and when you're hidden inside the tent it doesn't provide for that near as well so that's why that makes a good option on the tent. Sure okay so let's kind of go over we've got a few other items here that we can focus on and talk on again obviously this tent is a huge part of that but in general I'm going to go ahead and slip around the back side of the table as we we sort of look into the supplies that will also be going in you know this is again kind of how I got connected um I was doing some work with the Haven Light uh doing a review on it and again I'd already heard about Shelterboxx but then those folks said hey our lights are included with the Shelterboxx USA folks and I was like well let's talk more about that and I was able to make those connections and um again glad you're able to sort of take it because it sounds like um the Venezuela you've got a team there now you told me and then you and others and the actual boxes are headed there very soon maybe even the end of the week. Yes that's um that's what it looks like I've got all my visas approved so I'm waiting to join the team there and we have items stored in Panama and in Barbados. We keep them around the world in different locations and so the warehouses there all those items that's almost 2,000 families worth of supplies like this that are dedicated to go into Panama so the teams are now arranging places to store them as soon as they arrive. They're working with our rotary contacts in Venezuela to get all the approvals so that we can import them fast and then start getting them straight into the hands of the people that need it the most. The logistics of this kind of stuff just baffle me sometimes I've never because you just said you have to get a visa I was like well of course you have to get a visa you can't just go walking into a country anytime you want doing whatever you want to do they want everybody wants to make sure everybody's doing the right thing right so it takes time to kind of get that organized. You've got you've got supplies that have pre sort of deployed in these warehouses it's it's really phenomenal just think of this type of disaster relief and what goes into it but um you you do think that you'll be headed to Venezuela soon? Oh yeah they're telling me probably this weekend so um the team that's now have done most of what they can and so if if we can get our supplies in then we need the extra hands to to start distributing. Okay and this again is the focus is shelter so we've talked about the tent but with that other things go with that? Yeah if you think of the tent as the house we want to make it a home so so you know it's important for um you know ground cloths and blankets and so we go all over the world in different situations so we have lightweight blankets we have heavy blankets there we'll probably be using a lighter style blanket then solar lights like we mentioned we have multiple things we work with different vendors so that we have plenty of options when we go in. Water filters are an important way of stopping those waterborne illnesses and things like cholera really pop up after disasters when they lose their water systems and their septic systems and so with water filters it's important to have water carriers also you have to be able to move the dirty water and store the clean water and then of course kitchen sets like I have on the end it's a nice nest together compact kitchen set but it's heavy duty it's stainless steel so that you can use it again and again we don't want to just take in paper plates and plastic cups we want to give something that can be used every meal of every day and and last families a long time and and then tools to start rebuilding because recovery is is what we're really aiming for and we want to move the families on into a more permanent solution yeah again this is the kind of thing that really drew my interest because I focus on preparedness for disasters you know in emergencies here and just this idea of I like the idea of getting stuff to people getting gear getting supplies that I know that they can use to start that rebuilding of their life just a little bit so you mentioned that um you know earlier we had talked that you were a volunteer for this organization for many years before you actually started working for the organization so pick a pick a place that you've been to or something that you've seen and just kind of share with us a little bit about how you saw the change happen and and and really kind of again got excited about wanting to work for this company not just volunteer yeah one of my best memories is from Indonesia and I went there after an earthquake that also caused a tsunami and and so we were up in the mountains working with the earthquake victims first then we went down closer to the to the sea and we were working with the villages that were washed away by the tsunami and had to move up up the hills to a safer area to start rebuilding and and I remember we we set up a lot of tents there I went back two days later and we were inspecting the tents that were put up that we left with and I met a woman named Fatnazar and she was underneath the porch of the tent and she had a sewing machine that she had dug out of the rubble of her house and she was sewing clothes to give to her neighbors because they had lost all their clothes in the tsunami and it was like literally in two days time seeing her go from needing help for her family to now helping other families and see how quick a turnaround it makes you know that's the the kind of impact that just really sells that to me yeah no I got to think that again just those small changes really can can launch big reliefs and big big improvements when that rebuilding process goes again the focus right now excuse me the focus right now of course is on Venezuela and I do want to talk a little bit about how folks who are watching can can help contribute to what you guys are doing and a lot of times I don't think you need people to to donate a water bottle I think the idea I think is that they can give you money you know give you funds that that you can already have the vendors all sort of set up a little bit yeah that's true we at our website shelterboxusa.org you can find out everywhere that we're working and what we're doing around the world and what specifically we're doing in Venezuela we try and keep the updates on there most importantly right on the front page there's a button to click to donate and and those donations allow us to buy all of these items in advance so that we can have them pre-positioned close by like we do in Panama and Barbados so that when we need to get them in it's a lot faster and we're not waiting on the order to arrive at our doorstep so yeah those funds are always important year round we've we've got over a million dollars already dedicated to pay for this response we expect it to go way over that and and there's there's plenty of need so we count on those donations yeah and you said even in addition to Venezuela you're already in some countries before Venezuela happened yeah yeah right now we have about a dozen different projects going on in different countries from fires hurricanes other earthquakes flooding so yeah it's a never ending cycle it seems like on average we do about 20 a year and that's something that we're just glad that that we have the support that we can keep going and helping those people and we were talking earlier and we'll just sort of use this as to wrap things up a little bit because it because it kind of promotes what the future of Shelterbox USA is but you know one of the things that you were telling me is that you don't do a lot in the U.S. right now that your focus is international but you are gearing up and focusing and getting ready to be ready to serve and to meet disasters that are in fact in the U.S. that's kind of the next step that you're making yeah our global focus has been more on the developing countries that that have the least amount of ability to recover on their own but starting this year Shelterbox USA is is developing our own response team just for U.S. emergencies we'll have our own supply chain our own warehouses here in the country our own volunteers and so that's my job now is to to build that and and to be prepared for anything that happens here so that we can respond even quicker here in America that's great and and I just want to see if we had that graphic one more time that we can put up just sort of as the as the the official way that we can help folks make those donations again that kind of make it easier for you you obviously said the website is always a great way we've got again some more information to kind of add on that but it's shelterboxusa.org yes is that's how we're going that's correct and I know you you spend a lot of time talking about preparedness to all your viewers and that we push that so hard because we want people to be prepared but then we also know that a package like this people ask about oh I want to get one of those and and have it just in case well if if you lose your house you're probably going to lose this also so that's why it's important to have us there so that we can come in after the fact to provide that kind of aid yeah to kind of have again you're storing these in safe places and you can quickly kind of deploy those a little bit more so again it's it's a shelter box usa you got the tent again you used to always send the box maybe not the box so much anymore but you're definitely sending the supplies that all kind of go in there to help build that shelter and I like of course how much focus is also on the water because that's a key part of of survival is having clean water and being able to use that for drinking as well as a sanitation need so all right brian glenn again is with shelter box usa one of the senior managers here and I appreciate your time coming in and I'm looking forward for more people to be involved and make sure you check out how you can help them out rise and shine all right so seven day forecast the main thing we want to make sure you're aware of is there is some heavy downpours rounds of rain expected over the next two days so that's why we've got the fox 26 storm alert for today and tomorrow it's just one of those opportunities that might need more than where you'll have to take action at some point to make sure that you and maybe your vehicle are remaining safe we'll keep you updated if we need to here on fox local we'll be warmer and drier at the end of the week