San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie declared a local emergency Friday to set aside city contracting requirements in order to speed up preparations for severe El Niño storms and coastal flooding.

The National Weather Service is predicting historic high tides and elevated storm risks that would be the strongest since El Niño recordkeeping began in 1950.

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