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 Garden Grove chemical tank evacuations after President Trump’s federal emergency declaration, the Seven Cabins Fire in the Capitan Mountains at 26,443 acres with GO status evacuations, the small Cienigita Springs fire on the Mescalero Apache Reservation, the imminent episode 48 of the Kīlauea Halemaʻumaʻu eruption, tornado warnings across eastern Kentucky overnight, and the severe weather outlook for west and southwest Texas. EM Morning Brief is your concise daily update on national and state-by-state emergency management news. Produced by Sitch Radio, an EOC Voices podcast.

Key Takeaways

• Houston IAH Ebola screening begins tonight: CBP and CDC begin enhanced screening at George Bush Intercontinental for arrivals from DRC, Uganda, and South Sudan on flights departing after 10:59 p.m. CT on May 26. IAH joins Dulles and Atlanta as the only U.S. entry points for those travelers.

• CISA Drupal patch deadline lands today: Federal civilian agencies must patch the actively exploited Drupal core SQL injection flaw CVE-2026-9082 by end of day May 27 under BOD 22-01. Affects PostgreSQL-backed Drupal sites versions 8.0 through 11.3.9.

• Garden Grove evacuations fully lifted; federal declaration in place: Orange County Fire Authority lifted the last 16,000 evacuations at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday after the methyl methacrylate tank vented pressure. President Trump’s federal emergency declaration unlocks federal coordination and recovery support.

• Seven Cabins Fire (NM) holds at 40 percent: 26,443 acres, 966 personnel, GO status evacuations between mile marker 13 and Boy Scout Mountain in the Capitan Mountains. Statewide drought and wildfire emergency in effect.

• Mescalero Apache Reservation fire (NM): Small 3-acre Cienigita Springs fire with 40 personnel, 2 helicopters, and tribal dozer engaged. Public asked to avoid the area.

• Kīlauea episode 48 imminent: USGS forecasts the next lava fountaining episode at Halemaʻumaʻu within today’s or tomorrow’s window. Activity confined to the closed park area.

• Severe weather in west and southwest Texas: SPC outlook calls for large hail, damaging winds, and isolated tornadoes today.

• Kentucky tornado warnings overnight: Brief warnings affected Powell, Morgan, Menifee, Johnson, and Elliott counties; Powell County reported downed power lines.

• NIFC at National Preparedness Level 2: Roughly 2.3 million acres burned year-to-date across approximately 29,000 fires.

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Sources

CDC / Public Health

• CDC HAN Advisory: Ebola Disease Outbreak in the DRC and Uganda (May 19, 2026)

• CDC Health Alert Network Archive

State Department

• Worldwide Caution — Public Health Arrival Restrictions and Enhanced Ebola Screening

• U.S. Travel Advisories (Department of State)

CISA

• CISA Adds Two Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog (May 21, 2026)

• Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog

• CISA orders feds to patch actively exploited Drupal vulnerability (BleepingComputer)

• CVE-2026-9082: Critical Drupal Core SQL Injection Vulnerability (Tenable)

NIFC / Wildland Fire

• NIFC Incident Management Situation Report (current PDF)

• NIFC National Fire News

USGS

• USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory — Kīlauea Volcano Update, May 26, 2026

• USGS Kīlauea Volcano Updates

NOAA / NWS

• NOAA Storm Prediction Center Day 1 Convective Outlook

• National Weather Service

California

• Garden Grove tank crisis updates: Evacuation orders lifted for final 16K residents (ABC7 Los Angeles)

• Trump signs federal emergency declaration for Garden Grove (ABC7 Los Angeles)

• Garden Grove chemical leak background (Wikipedia)

Hawaii

• Kīlauea Volcano main page (USGS)

Kentucky

• Tornado warning issued for part of Johnson County (WSAZ)

• Tornado Warning explained — overnight Kentucky warnings recap (WSAZ)

New Mexico

• Seven Cabins Fire reaches 40 percent containment; new fire on Mescalero Reservation (KRWG)

• Seven Cabins Fire prompts evacuations for residents north of Capitan Mountains (KOB)

• Wildfire reported on Mescalero Apache Reservation (KVIA)

• Governor Lujan Grisham declares statewide drought and severe fire conditions (Office of the Governor)

• NM Fire Information

Texas

• Bush Airport to be 1 of 3 U.S. entry points for travelers from certain countries amid Ebola outbreak (KHOU)

• Houston’s Bush Airport to screen travelers from African countries impacted by Ebola outbreak (Houston Public Media)

• Partial boil water notice lifted in Laredo (KGNS)