kitotaike enjoying his best basho with ten victories but gets his stiffest test against homasho. homasho wins the initial face-off. kitataiki prefers to got his best inside grip. this turns into a grappling battle. back and forth they go. no question who's controlling the flow of this match. it's whom show, he finishes off kitataiki. the lower stability of gagamaru. has dramatically improved, along with his record. since he's in second place on the leaderboard, he gets sekiwake kisenosato as his poentd. the georgian puts his 28 kilogram weight advantage to work, but with upper rancors, he can't overcome size. sure enough, kisenosato establishes a grip, despite gagamaru's roly-poly upper body. he dispatches the heaviest man in the division with a force-out. hakuho was last seen grabbing his right elbow and losing on the previous day, which puts him in a bind, because kotoshogiku comes highly motivated. kotoshogiku has just two wins in 28 previous meetings with the yokozuna. but with his incentives, as well as hakuho's subpar condition, this is a one sided match. a force-out for ko

>>> sumo day 12 of the autumn tournament from tokyo and we have an interesting business end of the basho coming up with hakuho still undefeated, and relative unknown gagamaru one behind the yokozuna, action time. kitataiki has two losses and is a silly hope to win the em pore pore's cup. wakakoyu starts with what he does best and try as pull-down. kitataiki keeps his feet, moves forward. the attempt for a slap-down continue and kitataiki stays focused and take waka over the edge. two losses still for kitataiki. it is unusual lately to have two rank-and-filers in the yushu race, but kitataiki's stablemate, is doing better. and they're both ranked. did gagamaru follow up from his big win yesterday against ozeki baruto? kotoshogiku must recuss to keep his ozeki promotion hopes alive. gagamaru needs a strong pushing attack to keep up the momentum. they clash, but gagamaru is pushing only with the right hand and opens up for kotoshogiku to seize on the loss and he takes the buehrle georgian, ten wins for kotoshogiku, his hopes remain a possibility. hakuho almost lost yesterday but remains sol

let's hope the bulgarian continues to show that kind of fire for the rest of this basho. >>> this ise are no homegrown japanese rikishi ranked at oak zuna or ozeki. he wants to change that. he's off to a great start, undefeated so far. he's facing takekaze. coat shog queue is the superior. but he does a decent job ad-libbing going with an arm lock throw to swing down takekaze. kotoshogiku with a perfect record after four days. while the other big names take the headlines, hakuho has been rock solid as usual facing wack that s.a.t. wakanosato who has been surprisingly strong given he's 35 years old. but the man doesn't have what it takes anymore to knock off the king of the ring. it's another easy day at the office for hakuho. he notches his fourth victory in a row as he moves a step closer to his 20th career championship. the top match on day 5 may be between undefeated kotoshogiku and three-win, one-loss homasho. we'll have that and more here on nhk "newsline." >>> and welcome back to your weather update. now, we've been keeping an eye on our tropical storm system in the pacific. he