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California is bracing for its first tropical storm in almost 80 years as Storm Hilary heads towards the US. The Category 4 storm has already brought rain across parts of Mexico as it churns off the Pacific coast. The system could make landfall in California on Saturday, with warnings of "catastrophic and life-threatening flooding". Meanwhile, Canada continues to evacuate parts of British Columbia and its North Western Territories due to wildfires and Hawaii continues to recover from a deadly wildfire on Maui.

A British nurse, Lucy Letby, has been found guilty of murdering seven babies at a hospital neonatal unit, making her the UK's most prolific child serial killer of modern times. The 33-year-old was also convicted of trying to kill six other infants at the Countess of Chester Hospital in England between June 2015 and June 2016. Letby injected babies with air, force fed others milk and poisoned two of the infants with insulin. The nurse continued to work at the neo-natal unit despite repeated concerns reported to managers by senior doctors at the hospital. The UK government has announced a public inquiry into the deaths. Reeta Chakrabarti presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Judith Moritz and Michael Buchanan.

Nurse Lucy Letby was found guilty of murdering seven babies, attempting to murder another six and the jury was undecided on the attempted murder of a further four babies. She was found not guilty of two counts of attempted murder. The incidents occurred when Letby worked at the Countess of Chester Hospital between June 2015 and June 2016. Senior Crown Prosecutor Pascale Jones said the nurse "did her utmost to conceal her crimes, by varying the ways in which she repeatedly harmed babies in her care". She said Letby "sought to deceive her colleagues and pass off the harm she caused as nothing more than a worsening of each baby's existing vulnerability".

A state of emergency has been declared in Canada's western British Columbia province, as a fast-moving wildfire threatens to destroy more homes in the area around the city of West Kelowna. Premier David Eby warned that "the situation has evolved rapidly and we are in for an extremely challenging situation in the days ahead". Some 4,800 people are now under evacuation orders. Meanwhile, at least 111 people have been declared dead and more than 1,000 remain missing in Maui, Hawaii, after a fatal wildfire tore across the island.