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welcome to al jazerra. i am stephanie sy. here are tonight's top stories i'm power typhoon is hitting taiwan. the outer bands of the storm have caused major flooding there and landslides in the philippines. some areas have gotten nearly 40-inches are rain. the typhoon is expected to hit southern china on sunday or early monday. announcing it is postponing reunions for familied divided between north and south career actual the meetings were supposed to happen next week of the north gamed the south saying they had poisoned dialogue between the countries. some of the families have been separated since the