right now it's about 200 nautical miles offshore from danang. a lot of rainfall again to areas in japan, thomas. >> rebecca thank you. the international red cross says there is been no contact from gunmen who kidnapped workers this morning. a spokesperson in syria said six red cross aid workers and one local volunteer. we get more from al jazeera omar alsalen. >> kidnapped when they were returning back to damascus after spending three days in the province of ibdib. they were assessing the medical needs and they were providing medical supplies to doctors in that area. now according to syrian activists they do believe the slammic state in iraq that's an al qaeda affiliated group is behind the kidnapping of the icrc staff. there hasn't been any claim of responsibility from that particular group but this is what syrian activists do believe. now in another piece of information that we've been gathering the nationalities of those kidnapped are not revealed by the icrc but information coming from activists do suggest that they are some of them are arab

a lot of damage taking a hit towards danang. thomas. >> thank you rebecca. >>> still no deal about how long u.s. troops will stay in afghanistan. after three rounds of negotiations, secretary of state john kerry and afghan presidential hamid karzai were unable to hammer out an agreement. jennifer glass has more. >> no final security agreements has been signed here in kabul. secretary kerry says the major issues that were blocking a security agreement between the two countries have been bypassed here. the two major sticking points where u.s. forces could carry out operations here independently has apparently been sofd in -- solved in that the u.s. forces will ask for afghan permission before they undertake any operations here. and the other sticking point, president karzai had asked for security agreement with the united states, in the event it had problems with its neighbors. the two gentlemen have come to agreement as to what attack means. agreement that president karzai can take to the national assembly that is scheduled to me

have damage and flooding here, typhoon nari, equivalent of a category 2 hurricane, headed towards danang. about the same time we get a third storm coming in towards the coast of japan. you could see areas in the brightest red, that's where we've had rainfall well above normal and that's exactly where phailin is moving into india and that is also where we are tracking that typhoon nari to move in. as we get that area around japan we have concerns around fukushima heavy rain and flooding near mayor nuclear plant site. we'll have more on the weather coming up. >>> feiz jalil, what is the platest there? >> well, actually late last night we were spared so we got heavy rains and then late in the middle of the night it just suddenly stopped. bright skies, daytime, half the clouds are gone, the electricity is still out in the region but what we are hearing is that most of the damage has been in the neighboring state of odisha, about 100 miles where i am. three people have died, many trees have been fallen over or flipped over. we're still not getting lots of reports because it is still hard to r

thousands were taken out of the storm's path, as it moved near portions of danang in vietnam, and wherehe plane crash occurred, west, across southern laos, the area where the crash curbed. you see isolated thunderstorms indicated here in the reds and oranges, some popping up in the area of interest. we know where the plane went down, there were active thunderstorms in the region, the wind sheer that occurs in the atmosphere, we have winds rising and dropping in a matter of seconds and can really force planes to lose control. potentially make happened with the thunderstorms in the region. the secondary impact also taking place in india, where we talked about a category five, same as the typhoon making landfall there, the devastation left in place. i want to share with you video coming out of mt. everest. the moisture from the cyclone producing a significant amount of snowfall, four people lost their lives here, a tourist being one of them. four people were rescued off of mt. everest, because of the tremendous amount of snowfall catching some of the people off guard. and especially, some

the actual lappedfall is not expected to be near danang or the eye wall is not going to move in for that city gu it is expected to be within the vicinity as it tracks toward vietnam we are looking at the path that the warning center is putting out just south of the city of hew. this will bring added insult to vietnam because they have had an exceptional amount of rainfall. zap also concern about a large typhoon headed your way. more coming up. >> coming up next on al jazeera america, a gun show in new york welcomes a special visitors who, herself, was a shooting victim and is a staunch gun control advocate. >>> drone technology is not just about airstrikes on foreign soil. yes look at some of the ways it could impact people's lives right here. [[voiceover]] from al jazeera media network comes a new voice of journalism in the u.s. >>the delta is a microcosm of america. [[voiceover]] we tell the human story, from around the block, across the country, with more points of view. >>if joe can't find work, his family will go from living in a motel to living in their car. [[voiceover]] connected

it's coming to central vietnam dear danang, a tour est resort. people heading down to vietnam for the beaches. there have been 2,000 tourists stranded as vietnam airlines tries to clear them out. >> a difficult time for so many. craig leaeson. thank you. >> that typhoon hitting right now in vietnam is the same one that already tore through the philippines. >> let's bring in meteorologist nicole mitchell for the latest. >> a rough go in this portion of the world. another typhoon is going to be impacting japan, already starting so have some of those impacts. as we look at the broader picture, this is nari that moved through the philippines now impacting vietnam. the other one that we are monitoring, you can see this, now starting to skirt next to japan. besides the fukushima area and any concerns that rain mixing in with some of the radioactive material there, this is mountainous terrain. we could look at mudslides potentially even though this system isn't expected to main make a landfall, enough rain to cause those problems. as i mentioned, we hav