State Department updates Worldwide Caution with enhanced Ebola screening; CISA releases new ICS advisory bundle as Seven Cabins Fire holds at 46 percent containment

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State Department updates Worldwide Caution with enhanced Ebola screening; CISA releases new ICS advisory bundle as Seven Cabins Fire holds at 46 percent containment

EMN Morning Brief: May 29, 2026

Brian Colburn

May 29, 2026

Today’s EM Morning Brief covers the State Department’s May 28 update to the Worldwide Caution adding Public Health Arrival Restrictions and Enhanced Ebola Disease Screening for travelers from the DRC, Uganda, and South Sudan, with the Uganda Travel Advisory at Level 4. CISA releases a fresh bundle of Industrial Control Systems advisories on May 28 and adds four entries to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog earlier in the week. The May 28 NICC Situation Report documents an active national fire picture with year to date totals well above the ten year average. USGS sets the Kilauea Episode 48 fountaining window for May 28 to 30. State by state items include a Red Flag Warning across Colorado, severe weather across Idaho, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Washington, boil water advisories in Aiken County, South Carolina and Seminole County, Florida, and a Seven Cabins Fire daily update at 28,907 acres and 46 percent containment in New Mexico. 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

• State Department Worldwide Caution updated: Enhanced Ebola screening at IAH Houston for arrivals from DRC, Uganda, and South Sudan; Uganda Travel Advisory at Level 4.

• CISA ICS advisory bundle: Five new advisories on May 28 covering medical, ICS, OT, and IoT vulnerabilities with vendor mitigations.

• CISA KEV additions: Three entries May 27 (Daemon Tools Lite, TanStack, plus one) and one entry May 26 (LiteSpeed cPanel plugin) under active exploitation, with BOD 22-01 deadlines for federal civilian agencies.

• Kilauea Episode 48 forecast window: May 28 to 30, alert level ADVISORY, aviation color yellow; summit inflation returning.

• Seven Cabins Fire, New Mexico: 28,907 acres, 46 percent contained, 1,114 personnel; SET status holds for Fort Lone Tree area, South Base Road, and SH 246.

• NICC May 28 Situation Report: National year to date totals near 29,000 fires and over 2.3 million acres burned, well above the ten year average.

• Western fire weather: Red Flag Warning in Colorado May 28 (1 to 8 p.m. MDT); Fire Weather Watch expanded into Utah for May 29.

• Plains severe weather: SPC severe risk over western Nebraska, central Kansas, north central Oklahoma May 28 with large hail and damaging winds.

• Pacific Northwest severe weather: Severe Thunderstorm Watch over south central and southeastern Washington through midnight PDT May 28; warnings in Lewis, Idaho, and Clearwater counties, Idaho.

• Water systems: Boil water advisories in Aiken County, South Carolina (Valley PSA) and Seminole County, Florida.

• Missouri damage assessments: Joint Preliminary Damage Assessments began May 27 in 11 counties for the May 16 to 19 storms; earlier April 23 to 28 declaration request still pending.

• Tropical outlook: NHC expects no tropical cyclone formation in the Atlantic or Eastern Pacific over the next seven days; Central Pacific outlook resumes June 1.