rachel furgason gives us an update in her world weather forecast. >> just hovering around taiwan for the last several days, earlier in the week it brought intense flood together northern part of the philippines and also affecting, of course, taiwan. southern parts of okinawa and the southeastern coast of china over the last several days because it's been moving extremely slowly. we've had just incredible rain fall totals, mountainous regions of northeastern taiwan according to the meteorlogical bureau there, 1.2 meters of rain in the last few days. it has been raining there since monday. we can add on to the totals in the next 24 hours. too we will see additional rain fall here. the good news that i can tell you is that the storm started to pick up the pace. it also weakened off to a tropical storm. it was a typhoon, a strong typhoon. it is about to make land fall. unfortunately, that means that the rain will spread into somewhere else. it's got to go somewhere. we can see additional totals of up to 200 millimeters of rain. still a potent storm system. and it's not the only one we ha

. >>> rachel furgason joins us now with the world weather forecast. rachel, we have seen pictures of people in taiwan dealing with heavy rain and strong gust due it a powerful storm. what's the latest? >> just hovering around taiwan for the last several days, earlier in the week it brought intense flood together northern part of the philippines and also affecting, of course, taiwan. southern parts of okinawa and the southeastern coast of china over the last several days because it's been moving extremely slowly. we've had just incredible rain fall totals, mountainous regions of northeastern taiwan acoucordg to the meteorlogical, 1.2 meters of rain in the last few days. it has been raining there since monday. we can add on to the totals in the next 24 hours. too we will see additional rain fall here. the good news that i can tell you is that the storm started to pick up the pace. it also weakoned off to a tropical storm. it was a typhoon, a strong typhoon. it is about to make land fall. unfortunately 245 means that the rain will spread into somewhere el

rachel furgason joins us now with the world weather forecast. >> we have a very strong typhoon which is heading towards taiwan. and it could become a violent typhoon before making land fall here, which is expected to do late thursday or into friday morning, local time. just to give you an idea of a violent typhoon is a major hurricane so this one is still strengthening and there is the potential for it to become what we call a violent typhoon before land fall here. as you mentioned, it is moving through southern okinawa as well. it is also impacting northern parts of the philippines with these very strong winds. gusts are now up to 234 kilometers an hour. and there's also some pretty heavy rain involved with that too. you will notice that western portions of the philippines are get something heavy rain and that's under the influence of the system, enhancing the southwest monsoon. we have behind it another streak of heavy rain and this is going to belong to tropical storm o obolovan. it is expected to intensify to a severe troerj within 24 hours. as can you see, the problem is that it

. >>> rachel furgason joins us now with the world weather forecast. rachel wab the weather was steaming hot, i'm sure for those goats. but we were talking yesterday about stormy weather possibly in southern japan, parts of southern japan. what's the situation there? >> all right, we have a very strong typhoon, which is heading towards taiwan, and it could become a violent typhoon before making land fall here which is expected to do late thursday or into friday morning local time. just to give you an idea of a violent typhoon is a major hurricane. so this one is still strengthening and there the potential of what we kul a violent typhoon before making land fall here. as you mentioned, it is moving through southern okinawa as well. at the time it is impacting the northern philippines with strong winds. gusts up to 234 kilometers an hour. and there's also pretty heavy rain involved with that too. you will notice that western portions of the philippines are getting some heavy rain and that's under the influence of the system, really enhancing the southwest