now across the eastern continental asia we have a tropical depression that formed near the mariana islandsing stormy conditions and it's going to intensify over the hot sea surface temperature and it will likely become a tropical storm status. it will be a named storm into the next 24 hours. it's already bringing swells and rip currents across this area. watch out for that. a pacific high dominates much of japan. we saw a sudden burst of showers yesterday and that will continue to happen across the country. now the rainy season already has ended. it has been declared on saturday in tokyo. and this is when the heatstroke is going to be in the very high risk. we do need to take really well precautions for the heatstroke across the country. the northeastern area of china and down into says wan is gusty conditions. this is the area where we will find 100 millimeters on top of the 90 millimeters we have been seeing. now here across north america we have tropical storm eric. we have tropical storm warnings here in the tip of it. watch out for heavy rain there. across the northern areas we will b

let's move over to eastern continental asia. very hot in western and central japan, due to the summer pacific high, still sitting on top of western and central japan. to the western region, the humid flow from the western region of the area. developing a lot of rain clouds. we're still talking about very heavy rain in the korean peninsula as well as inland china. possibly we're looking at additional amounts of 200 millimeters, some places in the korean peninsula. lots of heavy downpour to be found yet again. temperatures in the mid-30s in ti yoet oh, at 35 degrees. tokyo 30 degrees yet again. we'll see the rainy season come back starting tuesday. >>> that is all for this edition of "newsline." i'm catherine kobayashi in to o tokyo. do stay with us. we'll be back with more at the top of the hour of the.

now for your -- excuse me, asia, here across continental asia, we have a low pressure system. an upper level low sitting across the southwestern tip of russia. a typical pattern where the southeastern edge of upper level cold brings weather. so the tohoku region in japan with 150 millimeters of rainfall to slam the area. so it's going to be heavy downpours, also some thunderstorms and it's going to be quite thundery across central japan again today. it will be a southern weather change. do carry your strongest umbrellas if you're going to go out today. here across china we have a couple of places where we're looking at very heavy rain to the north and to the south. especially here 100 to 150 millimeters are in the forecast. but between these two rainmakers we have a heat dome still in place. temperatures are scorching hot at 40 degrees in chongqing, do stay hydrated and shanghai at 39 degrees. moving over to north america, we've got a cold front that's still hugging the coastal line. so here across the area, thunderstorms, new brunswick and new england these areas will find 10

however, it looks like it has made a comeback across much of eastern continental asia. this is due to a seasonal front stretching from eastern china into sea of japan. underneath it, heavy rain will be found. in the past 24 hours, 200 millimeters has fallen in south korea. i know that in seoul, people are wading through flooded water at the moment and houses are inundated. this additional rainfall into the next 24 hours, about 150 millimeters, is not going to really help improve that situation. now it's going to be recreated from inland china. but moving into central japan, looks like the rain will be an ongoing situation into wednesday with chances of afternoon and evening showers in tokyo as well. the good news is, as i mentioned, things are couple minute fishing here but showers will be continuing in and around the area where that 6.6 magnitude earthquake hit in western ganzu province. showers i hope will not be preventing that improvement process. things are soaring into the 30s due to that heat dome created just underneath the rain band. common ching at 37, heating

continental shelf off their coast. this is potential game-changer, the new shale for asia. melissa: richard, thereis another reason beside the fact asia is starting to look at this because the economics are saying maybe this could make sense down the road. there is idea as the planet gets warmer these may be released on their own and that would be catastrophee. this is sort of harnessing this before it become as problem. is that a fair charaerization? >> no. melissa: you disagree with that >> this is not really preventative medicine. meane is far more powerful green house gas than carbon dioxide although doesn't last nearly as ng in the atmosphere. over a pound of methane traps as much heat as 72 pounds of carbon dioxide. potency declines over time but over a century it is 25 five times more pwerful than carn oxide. you don't want to accidentally or deliberately release a lot of this stuff into the atmosphere right now. melissa: no. >> public health implications of that, global sea level rise, flooding, human catastrophes are a very real possibility. so you don't want to ac