In less than 24 hours, California experienced nearly a dozen weather and natural events - heavy rain, flooding, lightning, snow, high winds, landslides, fog, blowing dust, wildfires, a rainbow and an earthquake. And this came just one day after the aurora illuminated skies across the state and much of the nation.

Around 24 million people across California are under flood watches Friday morning as Los Angeles braces for what could be a month's worth of rain in a day.

In California, Veterans Day is a public school holiday. That means all public schools are required to close, according to to California education code. Federal and state employees also get the day off, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management said.

LOS ANGELES - Voters in California will soon decide the fate of Proposition 50, a proposal to temporarily redraw California's congressional district lines in an effort to create more Democratic seats in the House — an effort Gov. Gavin Newsom says will offset a similar move in Texas designed to create more Republican seats.

This year, the date falls on a Tuesday, and that’s when the official federal and California closures will take place. (In years when Nov. 11 is a Saturday, the closures are on Friday; when it’s a Sunday, the closures are on Monday.)