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are marc stewart brings us the latest from beijing tropical storm gave the blast china with another round of heavy rain the latest blow in a summer of flooding a frantic rescue in central china, an emergency worker clings on to this woman as she's hoisted into a boat she points to her grandparents, still trapped in the fast moving floodwaters. >> further south. another scene of desperation as elderly people are carried to safety after a deadly flash flood hits their village in another province. this is what's left of a water ravage bridge virgin at least 25 cars claiming more than a dozen law scenes of devastation like this water-covered home as government scientists warn china is sensitive to climate change. recent disasters have cost the world's second largest economy more than 10 billion in economic losses in the first half of the year. over 32 million people have been impacted according to government data she had playing to the flood full cost for the critical period of july and august. >> but smile carrier in all seven major river basins as muddy water rages across the landscape, chi

cnn's marc stewart, following all of these details for us from beijing, marc, what is the link? it is my understand we're learning more about what may have caused this okc since we last talked about 40 minutes ago, we are getting a little bit of clarity as to what appears to have happened. we are hearing now from the ceo of crowdstrike. this is a cybersecurity firm that microsoft uses to oh, provide cybersecurity for its online products. and now we are hearing from this president and ceo, a george kurtz. he says that crowdstrike is actively working with customers to deal with a defect found in an update for microsoft windows. he goes on to say this is not a security incident or some kind of global cyber attack. making a point of saying that this issue has been identified and fixes, if you will repairs are now being deployed. so the good news in all of this is that this potential problem, this problem has now been identified. the issue is that it has had a lot of ramifications worldwide here in asia. but as we are seeing as people wake up in the united states, it's also having fa

cnn's marc stewart reports good boy who would guide dogs are known for their alert eyes and lifesavingential. but now they may be getting a new image. a chinese research team is testing a six-legged robot dog on the streets and shanghai to help visually impaired people lee fe and her husband are visually impaired and working with the jiaotong university research team to test these robots for now, i can tell it where i'm going all via voice conversation i can control the speed with this blind k9. >> have the robot dog navigates by using cameras and sensors and recognizes traffic signals which guide dogs can't do. it can communicate with visually impaired people through ai technology in voice recognition and route planning using listening and speaking capabilities china has around 17 million visually impaired people according to the china association of the blind, 8 million are completely blind, says the world health organization. but there are only 400 or so guide dogs in the country says the head of the research team jewish it is impossible to solve this problem with guide dogs. robots

cnn's marc stewart is joining us now, live from beijing. marc tell us what's the latest on the frosty of this storm the storm is approaching china and there is concerned because we have seen such extreme flooding here all summer long and there is concern that any more rain will make a very bad tuition even worse. >> but right away, i want to show you some of the pictures that we have seen coming in to our hub in hong kong and we've been walking here in beijing, in particular, the philippines manila hit very hard intense flooding in the streets. we have seen rescue boats. we have seen families being rescued. we've seen children being rescued. we even saw a pet, but some children being wrapped up in towels to stay safe, the water levels are so high, it is up to people's chests. we are seeing dearly everything in the path submerged. we saw a bus that was pretty close to being underwater. another bus was stuck in the waterway in the city. so this is becoming a very big problem. in the philippines. one city to the north of the philippines saw ab

in europe and asia airports, bank's stock exchanges, all experiencing similar outages marc stewart.ng all this for us from beijing. marc i will say this is the talk of a panel in between our segments about the politics that are going on here in the u.s what do we know about what's causing this and what's affected? >> right? kasie. good morning. first and foremost, i can't stress enough just how significant of an issue this is and the tremendous impact it's having on people's everyday lives, not only here in asia where i am, but also in the the united states. and of course europe, as far as why these outages, why this disruptions are happening, according to industry experts, people who watched these kind of things, they are citing an issue with the cybersecurity firm called crowdstrike microsoft is one of its clients we're still waiting official response, but that's what the industry experts are telling us. a big point of problem is with air travel. we know a lot of our viewers at this hour are getting ready to go to the airport if you are flying call ahead because there is more than

, who's in beijing, marc access should point out that this flood concern this flood issue is something that we've been following long before. >> this typhoon turn tropical storm started to emerge here in south east asia. and even though it has lost some of its power, the flood threat here in china still very much remains tropical storm gay, the blast china with another round heavy rain. the latest blow in a summer of flooding a frantic rescue in central china and emergency worker clings on to this woman as she's hoisted into a boat she points to her grandparents, still trapped in the fast moving floodwaters. further south. another scene of desperation as elderly people are carried to safety after a deadly flash flood hits they're village in another province. this is what's left of a water ravaged bridge submerging at least 25 cars, claiming more than a dozen law scenes of devastation like this water-covered home as government scientists warn china is sensitive to climate change recent disasters have cost the world's second largest economy more than 10 billion in economic losses in the