this is surveillance footage from a highway in eastern china.s you can clearly see, a truck carrying a large load flips on its side, narrowly missing a man, a woman, and a small child. >> oh, wow. wow. >> wow. >> you could see the driver in the car just fall to the ground. >> this woman moved her husband and child out of the way, narrowly missing this overturned truck. this truck was carrying 37 tons of cotton. according to the report, the loads were unsecured. the mother noticed this truck was unbalanced and was able in a split second to save her entire family. >> why were they standing there in the first place? >> it looks like they were actually walking on the edge of the roadway headed somewhere. >> this is a pretty scary roadway for this family of free to be walking on. >> this wreck took emergency workers a while to get this truck out of the way. >> good job by the mom, but, man, what was the husband thinking? he's just standing there, not paying attention to this truck tilting over. >> she's the e pitmy of a mama bear. >>> this is a bay b

now, the same situation can be found across eastern china across the korean peninsula.ots of heat warnings and advisories are posted. up towards the north, a low pressure system is bringing lots of heavy rain, gusting winds, and thunderstorms in northeastern china. if you remember over the weekend, record amounts of rain battered the beijing area, however, an additional 100 millimeters is likely over the next 24 hours, so additional flooding is highly likely. down towards the south, remnants of typhoon vicente is still bringing moisture to the northern areas of vietnam and laos. as for the philippines, showers are expected across the whole of the country and intensifying showers as we head into tomorrow. all right, temperature wise, again, heat is building across eastern china, the korean peninsula and southern half of japan. 34 degrees expected in seoul and the same goes for shanghai. down towards the south, 32 degrees expected in manila on thursday. all right, heading into the americas, mostly dry out towards the west, but a storm is still ripping through the areas fr

not only is korea and japan under the risk but central and eastern china. in hubai province, you've seen some reports of about 278 millimeters of heavy rain within the past 24 hours now. seen widespread reports of flooding here. any more rain which unfortunately looks like it's going to be occurring. about 200 millimeters could be falling within the next 24 into your saturday. it's going to pose that much more risk of increased flooding for you. south of the frontal, temperatures remain hot and tropical-like. hong kong, high 361. manila, 32 accompanied by afternoon rain showers and thunderstorms. and while it remains relatively cooler but still rather warm in seoul at 27 for your high on saturday. over to the americas, we're continuing to watch monsoonal flow in the southwest. southern california over towards arizona. you are still seeing these heavy rain showers. that's bringing the risk of flash flooding, especially on some of the roadways where you see the rapid rise in water levels. you could see the roadway blocked out. don't drown, turn around. if you

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protests in eastern china prompted municipal leaders to scrap a plant moving industrial waste into the sea. they say they are make ago assessments. spokes persons for the paper company say they are treating waste water based on china's environmental standards. many people on the yellow sea coast are against the pipeline. they say the waste water could pollute their fishing grounds. chinese authorityies the government in the province suspended the building of a smeltering plant earlier this month. they are taking steps ahead of the change later this year. >> the u.s. economy grew and the department of commerce released preliminary gdp figures to june. consumer spending grew 1.5% in compared to the first quarter. bis disappointing figures due to jobs figures. >>> nice numbers from samsung electronics today. posted record operating profit in april to june period thanked to robust sales of the new smartphones. the south korean company said friday that sales in the quarter hit nearly $43 billion. it's a gain of more than 20% from a year ago when you calculate it in yuan. profit rose 80% to

here in eastern china, wine production is increasing to meet the strong demand from chinese consumers. china's biggest wine producer, with a history of 120 years, owns the chateau. built ten years ago, it's thlas more than 120,000 people visited. >> translator: first, you check the color of wine. please tilt your glass at 45 degrees. you can enjoy the ruby red color. >> reporter: the tour ends with wine tasting. a wide explains how to drink it. this helps visitors understand the wipe culture. >> translator: this place made me feel like i'm deep in wine culture. >> reporter: the company exports some of its premium wine to more than ten countries. the wine maker operating five other chateaus in china and plans to build two more in four years. >> translator: by visiting our chateaus, tourists will understand more about the role of the chateau and wine culture. this will lead to further development of china's wine market. >> reporter: now, companies are coming to china to grow wine. a french wine group that owns one of the most popular brands among chinese consumers started planting this

across north eastern china, one system after another.t is still trying to recover with those floods in beijing. the remnants of the system is still lingering here. good news on your friday. the winds on the moisture on shore across southern portions of china will finally begin to let up. farther towards the east. look at this area in purple. this is a tropical air yawe are watching closely. the agency does expect this to intensify up to a tropical impression. temperaturewise, shanghai with the high of 34. 28, 29 in beijing and warm here in tokyo. 34 on your friday. over towards the americas severe weather has been erupting towards the great lakes. thursday going into friday and off towards the northeast this could be firing up due to the frontal area continues to push through this area. behind it we have this cold front. this has been bringing storm activity. it is a cold front the leading edge of a cold air mass. temperatures will be dropping down. look at winnepage. south of oklahoma city 36. 34 in houston here on your thursday. over h

now, if we follow that rain band right through eastern china and down towards sichuan province you'll notice very heavy rain. you can see a low form over the front. that is going to be producing between 100 to 250 millimeters of rain during the course of the day today. up towards the northeast of china we still have that very slow-moving system bringing thunderstorms, gusts and also hail here and down to the south. lots of scattered thunderstorms for the philippines and indochina as the southwest monsoon continues. as it will do so the next few months. but today we have a low crossing the philippines and that will really enhance the rainfall across central locations of the archipelago. again, an increased risk of landslides and flooding here. temperatures are going to be generally between the low to mid 30s. but we're really hotting up in places like shanghai. 35 here. taipei as well. and even in beijing getting up to 35 degrees. so really seeing some heat spreading all the way up towards the north, reaching mongolia. ulan bator seeing 27 for the high today. 27 also in tokyo. a clear

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cooler weather into central and eastern china, heavy rain fall expected in the next 24 hours. rain fall still lingering in this area. southwest monsoon still affecting the philippines and towards indochina here. i have seen reports up to a hundred millimeters. further flooding could be occurring here, especially in after not in and evening hours. very strong thunderstorms are popping up and temperatures are reflecting in this too. manila with a high of 32. hong kong up to 33. shanghai 34. but seoul only the high 20s on your wednesday. americas bringing wet weather here across much of the southeastern u.s. this whole boundary making things very muggy along the gulf states here. you could also see heavy rain showers with this, accompanied by the rather warm temperatures. but north of that, cooler weather across much of the great lakes region. that's due to that big air mass pushing this front al boundary further south pst rains continue to affect new mexico and texas. you see the areas in blue, this is extremely dry. very prone to fire weather at this time. unfortunately, these

municipal leaders in eastern china have reacted to a not in my backyard movement. they have prompted to scrap a plan to dump industrial waste into the sea. officials announced friday they are suspending the project. 100 kilometer pipeline would have carried waste water to the yellow sea. they say they are making further assessments. spokespersons for the paper company say they are treating waste water and will pay closer attention attention to it. they say it could pollute fishing grounds. they plan a demonstration for saturday. the government suspended the building of a smelter building earlier this month. thailand is busy building fences to avoid a repeat of last year's devastating floods. but a year after the crisis began many factors are still struggling to recover. >> one in four flood hit manufacturers surveyed in thailand said production is not back to normal. japanese manufacturers make up a portion of foreign manufacturers in thailand. the commerce surveyed japanese companies operating in thailand. it received responses from 374 of them including companies

meanwhile, a line of thunder showers is stretching from north korea down towards eastern china and thatill be shifting towards the north. as for the beijing area, which was hit by excessive rain over the weekend, it's now staying dry. however, thunder showers are on the cars on your wednesday, so it's not good news here. as for japan staying dry and hot, we may see thunderstorms across the mountain areas today. temperature-wise, 31 degrees in tokyo. temperatures will be rising to 33 degrees as we head into tomorrow. 32 in seoul, and 33 degrees expected in taipei. all right. moving into the americas across the u.s.-canada border. this is where we're going to see lots of active weather. severe thunderstorm warnings are in place in the western canada area, and parts of the northeast states and there is a tornado watch warning in place in parts of eastern ontario and, unfortunately, it's going to be the same story as we head into tuesday. down towards the south, monsoonal moisture is creating some pop-up thunder showers in the central and southern portions othe rockies. of course, it's been

now, temperatures have been soaring through parts of eastern china for the last several days.o change today, shanghai. 37 degrees forecast for you. right through towards chonching in the upper 30s. let's take a look at north america. as we mentioned there we're seeing a heat wave persisting into the weekend. severe thunderstorm as well. now to add to it a tropical storm. let's go through and see what's happening with tropical storm daniel. there is good news with this one. although it's going to be developing very quickly to rricane status and intensifying there, can you see it's moving away from land masses. so it doesn't look like it's going to be posing a threat. just something to keep an eye on as we head on through the weekend. let's get back to these storms. you can see where they're going to be coming down through ontario. the great lakes region. and down towards the four corners. large hail, damaging winds, potential for tornadoes with these as well. then we run into rain rather than storms here. this is the monsoonal flow coming up through mexico into new mexico. it's

now if we follow that front back in through eastern china, we are going to notice that more heavy rain here is likely throughout the day and into tomorrow. we are talking about, 100 millimeters of rain. maybe re, locally as well. and very heavy areas going to push farther towards the east the you can see maybe a large purple area, shifting there, heading in towards the korean peninsula. the deluge is going to continue for the next couple of days. let's go now to north america. we have been dealing with some really difficult sich racituati because of the weather. let's start with video showing you what happened when stormed ripped through the mid-atlantic, the weekend. this its d.c. very vigorous summer storm hit here, leaving millions of people -- without power. and this is all of course in the middle of -- of -- very intense heat wave. 22 people were reportedly killed because of the storm. most from falling trees. officials have feared that the death toll could climb now because of the ongoing heat. and also the widespread use of generators which emit fumes that can be dangerous in cl

all right, as for the rest of east asia, thundershowers still affecting across north korea into eastern china. that will be shifting towards the north. as for the beijing area, staying dry. coping with the aftermath of the weekend storm. here is the situation on monday. after the heaviest rain in more than 60 years fell in beijing, killing 37 people, residents yesterday returned to their homes to survey the damage. floodwaters have mostly receded on monday leaving a muddy mess. and lack of food and drinking water. some homes have been complety destroyed and their contents, washed away. so again it is very, again, dry here today. unfortunately, thundershowers and some gusty winds are expected on your wednesday and thursday. so that could -- worsen the situation i am afraid. all right, moving into the americas, staying stormy across the northern portions of the u.s. and on both sides of canada. severe storm warnings are posted across many locations. and actually hail the size of a golf ball has been reported in montana. unfortunately, we are going to see the same picture as we head into tomorro

comes into eastern china here. there has been a recording of 250 millimeters of rain in the last 24 hours. very significant totals here. the heavy rain will travel with the low pressure system into the korean peninsula on our friday. south of the front. more heat for areas such as shanghai. giving 38 degrees. for your high today. so, really, intense heat. and very dry here. but further down towards the south. you run into more heavy rain, particularly in southern thailand. and also southernvietnam. heavy to very heavy is forecast, and that of course will intensify the likelihood of flooding and landslides here as well. let's go now to north america. storms here. more heat you can see, in fact, where this dome of heat is going to be. because the cloud stays around the periphery. that tea where we find our storms today. moving through the plains. into ontario a nother band moving down toward the mid-atlantic. let's take a look at some of the figures you can expect in the next few days. unfortunately it does not look

in central and eastern china, the last 24 hours, you have seen upwards of 180 millimeters of rain. and it does look like an additional 200 could be occurring here where you see those areas in the dark blues and even into the purples. that's indicating very heavy precipitation. flooding and land slides are going to be high at risk here. south of that, though in southeastern china, hot temperatures here. hong kong, 32. bangkok, in and around thailand have seen reports of above 100 millimeters of rain. some nearing about 200. so there's that risk of flash flooding across there. and over toward the philippines, 32. seoul, 26. tokyo up to 30 on your friday. accompanied by those rain showers. now over towards the americas, we have this frontal area causing some flash flooding concerns in and around texas. even monsoonal rains over towards southern california, over towards arizona as well. and also looking off towards the north, a front moving across the dakotas. this is bringing the threat of some severe weather. not getting in the rain and where you need it is in the central plains. alr

. >>> there or two tropical storm in the pacific heading towards eastern china. rachel furgason joins us with the latest. >> absoluty correct. we have two storms in the western pacific and let's start off with damrey. this one is just sitting over the ogasawara islands. really bringing in the stormy conditions right now. some it is moving about 30 kilometers an hour. that's good news. no prolonged heavy rains. wind gusts are at 150 kilometers, almost, powerful enough to generate high waves along the eastern seaboard of japan already. as that system moves closer, of cour, those waves argoing to get higher and we're going to see potential for land fall towards the end of the week, either in southern japan here or if it moves a little bit further towards the south and views around to the yellow sea, it'll be northeastern coast of china. once it enters the yellow sea, it'll weaken off. i don't know if this one will be reaching typhoon status. severe tropical storm right now should be wakening. we have another tropical storm and it is expected to invigorate and become

now, if we follow that rain band right through eastern china and down towards sichuan province you'llotice very heavy rain. you can see a low form over the front. that is going to be producing between 100 to 250 millimeters of rain during the course of the day today. up towards the northeast of china we still have that very slow-moving system bringing thunderstorms, gusts and also hail here and down to the south. lots of scattered thunderstorms for the philippines and indochina as the southwest monsoon continues. as it will do so the next few months. but today we have a low crossing the philippines and that will really enhance the rainfall across central locations of the archipelago. again, an increased risk of landslides and flooding here. temperatures are going to be generally between the low to mid 30s. but we're really hotting up in places like shanghai. 35 here. taipei as well. and even in beijing getting up to 35 degrees. so really seeing some heat spreading all the way up towards the north, reaching mongolia. ulan bator seeing 27 for the high today. 27 also in tokyo. a clear da

,,,,, >> a quick thinking woman tried to save her family from a falling truck last thursday in eastern china. surveillance video shows the truck was carrying 37 t of items. the woman pushed her husband away and grabbed for child. the cargo was reportedly not fastened with ropes as it was supposed to be. all three of them are doing fine. if you drive a hundley you might be getting a recall >> hamdan it is recalling more than a quarter million vehicles in the u.s.. the side air bags on sonataws can deploy offered no reason and on suvs 2007-2009 the passenger air bags sometimes fails to deploy. it looks like stocks will move higher when the market opens. >> future showing substantial gains globally. ashley morris and joins us live. >> good morning to you. stocks in asia were up this morning on hopes that european leaders will take steps to head off the debt crisis. the nikkei and and send were both up just under 1%. a two day rally on wall street was snapped monday. the dow is still above 13,000 and nasdaq slipped. business is booming for chrysler, the american car maker reported profits in the

farther off towards the west, the rainy season boundary in central and eastern china bringing heavily rainfall. about 100 millimeters of rainfall could be expected in some areas in the next 24 hours here. this is bringing the risk of flooding and even further landslides here. on your tuesday, though, you can see this area of low pressure is expected to develop up and push off towards the east into the korean peninsula. and going through wednesday morning, could be seeing some scattered thunderstorms. could be severe at time across most of this region. then into the evening hours, expect that to clear up, specifically in seoul as that front continues to push off toward the east. toward the south and southeastern china, warm weather is beginning to dominate this region. over toward the philippines and southwest monsoon. still bringing heavy rain showers accompanied by isolated thunderstorms. and there's that risk of a localized flash floodings. now looking at temperatures, hong kong with a high 363. shanghai, above average by about 5 degrees with a high of 37 for you. and tokyo, sunny s

caused a bridge to collapse outside eastern china.f a wedding caravan suddenly was trapped in his car as those flood waters rose and the mud slide threatened to bury his car. onlookers filmed the dramatic rescue as it happened. a rescuer reached the crushed vehicle and managed to get that driver to safety with very little time to spare. >> police in maine releasing a dash cam video of a state trooper. his name is doug. he just pulled over a truck on a busy highway when he noticed hey, that guy is going the wrong way through traffic. at first the trooper tried to flag the guy down, but that didn't work. he races ahead of the car and manages to cut it off. >> i saw him still going, and decided this was the time i have to punch it, beat him to the cross over and stick my car out in front of him. >> if he made it past me, we would have been dealing with serious bodily injury, it not fatal. >> amazingly though, nobody was hurt. that trooper says the elderly driver did seem confused, however, he did know he was in the wrong lane. >> a commu

a wedding caravan ended up in a river when a bridge collapsed beneath them in one happened in eastern china rains. rescuers had to burst open the sun roof on one car to pull the driver out. we're told he has broken bones and head trauma but should be okay. the second car floated downstream and two passengers eventually got out safely. in the end, nobody hurt. those torrential rains in china have closed more floods in the western part of the country. officials say it's the worst they have seen in nine years. the largest hydro-electric dam in all the world. those officials say that's a record amount of water shooting through it. see that? they have now put more than 35,000 people in that region. on flood alert. at least two workers killed in a building collapses during construction and it tops our news around the world in 80 "around the world in 80 seconds." india. it happened this afternoon as crews worked on the roof of the building. a witness says she heard a loud thud. and then several injured workers ran from the building. rescuers searched for people trapped under the debris and rushed

heat is building in the eastern half of china. 37 in shanghai. 29 in seoul. should cool down to 24 by tomorrow. heading into the americas, we have two appropriate tropical systems over the eastern pacific. there is a category 2 hurricane, and this one is a cat garry 1, daniel. daniel is moving in a direction of packing sustained winds of 116 miles per hour. it should weaken to a low pressure system by thursday. and get very close to the hawaiian islands on friday. so swells and high waves could be a concern along the coast of these islands later this week. for north america, not much change since yesterday. a frontal line and low appreciate iefrt sipressure systems are dragging air across the u.s. and we've got an area of severe weather in the carolinas and northern georgia overnight monday. and then, eastern washington, parts of british columbia and southern alberta are looking at thunderstorms, gusting wind and hail tonight. to the south, dry and hot. look at this. 30 degrees is the daytime high on tuesday in los angeles. 45 degrees in phoenix. about 4 degre

heat is building in the eastern half of china. 37 in shanghai but four degrees higher than where it should be this time of year. it should be cooling down to 24 degrees as we head into tomorrow. tokyo looking at a seasonal 29 degrees today. heading into the americas we've got two tropical systems over the eastern pacific. this one here with clear eye is a category 2 hurricane, emeal ya and this small one is category 1, hurricane daniel moving in a westerly direction packing sustained winds of 120 kilometers per hour should weaken to a tropical low pressure system by thursday and get very close to t hawaiian islands on friday. swells and high waves could be a concern along the coast of these islands later this week. as for north america, not much change since yesterday. a frontal line and trio of low pressure systems are dragging cooler air from the north and creating thundershowers across the southeastern corner of the u.s. by have an area of severe weather in the carolinas and northern georgia overnight monday. and then eastern washington parts of british columbia and southern alberta are

china has become one of the top 'vestors in africa, south america, and eastern europe. up a record quantities of gold. with a limited amount of resources on the line, what does chinese's race for resources mean for the rest of the world? for 60 years the world affairs gl examining engage independent greater seattle through programs with teachers and students, who are bringing delegates to meet with local community members and organizations and through public programs like this one tonight. o proams are made possible rough sponsoripsnd mmitpaneps w ulike tonht onr, mrosoft, for their support. we would also like to thank our copresenters for their promotional support, and they incle the greater seattle chinese chamber of commerce, the university of washington's african ses program and anveits ia

the negotiation concerns to transit routes from russia to china the western branch that runs through russia's outside territory and the eastern route which passes to the far east the total volume of sales and mounts is sixty or seventy billion cubic meters which is a lot ever since which is six years now the corporations and both sides have been negotiating this specifics of such cooperation and that is a very complex matter here with the put that if that keep it why do you want me to translate what you are seeing. from the diplomatic wing going to plain speak as far as i understand the chinese want to feel last for gas then what europe piece is that correct and is russia willing to sell its guess to china to lower prices. going back to what i said about positive signals from policymakers russia does want to sell its gas pipeline gas exports or china mean new opportunities crushes trade with east asia china is the biggest market but it's not the only one in the region . china in turn does one russian gas which because it has in under supply of energy it is the regions of china that are meant to receive russian gas do suffer c

military in a number of cases has sourced weapons for allied countries to the former eastern bloc or even look at china as a source simply because those weapons are far more affordable ok to their demands mind can you explain to my audience what the mission of africa are is africa what is its mission the u.s. the mission of the u.s. africa command is like that of all the six geographic unmanned is to have planning purposes and military to military relations with countries in specific regions formally africa was divided into three different commands part of it was handled out of the pacific part of it was handled the middle east and the majority handled out of europe that didn't give africa the focus or the specialized attention it needed within the military so those three sub par were put together in a specific command to take africa on as a whole what is out of that and what is it supposed to do what is africa command supposed to do peter you want to stay with us if. it's opposed to coordinate u.s. military to military relations what has been going on before i wrote a study a couple of years ago sayin

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a raft of chinese forms, including zte and china eastern are forecasting weak results as they slow to the weakest pace since the financial crisis. joining us as guest host for the next hour is gina sanchez, director of equity at asset allocation strategy. john woods is chief investment officer at citi private bank. gina, we've got to ask you about the olympics here in a little bit. this is our unofficial olympics-themed show. but first, china. is it your view that investors haven't appreciated the degree to which the country's economy's slowing? >> well, we've been saying that for the better part of the year, so yes, it is our view. >> so, you're doing a bit of a victory lap here. >> yes. well, that's a terrible thing to say, but yes. >> what then are you recommending that people do if not invest in chin were at the moment? >> well, the challenge right now is obviously where to invest. with china slowing, it's also affecting most of asia, southeast asia, and europe is obviously affecting eastern europe. and so, we're basically looking potentially at latin america as a way to sort of h

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the former soviet republic is located in central asia, eastern europe near russia and china.hstan, it's said, could be written in hoof prints as nomadic tribesmen, hundreds thundered on horseback throughout the vast plains. our jim clancy shows us the national sport and traditions that reflect the day. >> reporter: it's called kokpar, and it isn't for the faint of heart or stomach. stouter in build, carry the riders of two opposing teams. a decapitated goat serves as the game ball. there are goal pits at either end of the field. the object, lift the goat off the field and carry it to your goal. other than that, there do not appear to be any rules. the dead goat, it could be said, is used and abused but in kokpar, the riders are nearly every bit as much at risk. stealing the goat from an opposing player, perfectly legal. knocking an opponent off his horse, well that's apparently legal, too. kazik horsemanship is legendary. no one can point a finger to exactly when and where kokpar originated. it's clear enough the enthusiasm for this competition remains fierce today and a vivi

the far eastern siberia region which you made a strategic and practical cooperation with china is of importance who will focus on strengthening all kinds of cooperation with our chinese modernization including coordinating with the big cities in the international arena and this is true. for other partners like india and this has been our friend for a long time we will. work out some of the to promote cooperation with latin american countries that we were and when we will develop traditional ties with europe. i'd like to remind you. over a quarter. exports. but is done with germany italy and france and we have confirmed the strategic nature of our dialogue and russia's contribution to the i.m.f. which we know is also helping see those economies that have been hit hard at the same time the level of cooperation with the e.u. is not does not match the economic and political potential. as i said more than once we could have sat ambitious goals with europe far more ambitious than what we. it could be a single markets worth of trillions of viewer from that lancet to the pacific and of cours