it could becoming tropical storm status any time soon, making landfall in the eastern china peninsula. these systems will be bringing drenching amounts of rainfall. across this region we're looking at just down to 19 degrees, summer like here in seoul with plenty of sunshine. i'll leave you now for your extended forecast about >>> that is all for this edition of newsline. do stay with us. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> woodruff: the gunman who murdered 12 people at washington's navy yard showed signs of mental illness and complained of hearing voices, but was still able to keep his security clearance. >> ifill: plus, the story of families whose lives have been washed away by devastating floods in colorado. >> i actually saw the face of my house, my gut went to my feet. there was nothing salvageable. i don't even know how to describe it.

there's a front forming now across eastern china through the korean peninsula and coming into western japan. now it's not expected to be torrential rain like we saw this last week, but it is still going to be perhaps giving some locally heavy showers and some widespread rain for western and central japan. so this is going to be unwelcomed rain nevertheless, even if it's not so heavy it's falling on land that's already saturated. so that could pose a problem with further flooding and a concern for landslides to occur as well. heavy rain's been focusing on southern china too. looks like guangdong province will be picking up heavy rain in the next 24 hours. and you can see myanmar's also getting targeted with some very heavy rain up towards the north. scattered thunderstorms through the philippines as well as bangkok and through much of indochina, i should say. bangkok's temperature 34 degrees with thunderstorms on saturday. should be staying mostly dry in manila. meanwhile, temperatures are falling away as we head up towards the north. 21 degrees in chongqing, 25 in shanghai. and 26 up

that said, there is going to be another round of rain coming in from eastern china across the korean peninsula. it's going to bring in some showers, nothing like the torrential rain that we had over the last few days. but the ground is already saturated, flooded in some areas. so any extra showers are not going to be very welcome at all and could exacerbate that flooding. and of course japan hasn't been the only place to get the heavy rain this week. we've also been talking about some really hard rain coming down in portions of southern china as well as indochina. you can see the darker spots, heavy rain coming into laos as well as myanmar, southern portions of china, could see about 250 millimeters just in the space of 24 hours. so landslides and mudslides are going to be a concern here as well. elsewhere this widespread rain could total up between 50 to 100 millimeters. temperaturewise things are looking a lot cooler this week. really starting to head into autumn it would seem. 21 in chongqing, 25 in shanghai and 25 in seoul and tokyo too. let's go now to our tropical storm. this one is gabr

providing very heavy rain for the western parts of the philippines as well as the eastern parts of the indo china peninsula. we're expecting about 200 millimeters of rain or more in some places, enough to trigger further flooding and landslides and this one will likely intensify to a tropical storm and also it's expected to linger over the same area, so more heavy rain day by day as we go into the next several days. temperatures are going to be as follows. you experienced a very chilly morning in beijing but warming up to 26 degrees during the daytime hours with the help of sunshine, and tokyo just on target with a high of 24 degrees. across the americas the coolest air of the season is plunging into the northwestern u.s. causing significant snowfall up in the mountains over the northern rockies. we're expecting more than 60 centimeters of snow to fall in the higher elevations, strong winds and snowfall are what cause low visibility. traveling is going to be very hazardous. the cold air is meeting one warm air from the south creating risk of severe weather from north dakota towards wyoming. severe thunders

western areas of japan are looking clear and fine and that includes the korean peninsula and north eastern areas of china due to the system bringing low humidity and dry conditions. here across southern areas, the low pressure system lingering in the areas. yesterday they is you 200 millimeters of rain. additional amounts could easily cause flooding and landslides. hong kong 28 degrees. taipai 29. 30s in the tropics and cooling down at 17 degrees with partially sunny skies. let's move over to the americas. it's september, but we have frost advisories and freeze warnings. this is due to a cold front. take a look at the morning lows. especially on your friday. that will be dipping into your single digits. 17 degrees down to nine. this is your low. it's not your highs and still do bundle up in the morning and overnight hours. down to three here. toronto is only looking at 11 degrees. do bundle up. here across the south europe corner, damaging lightning and hail and thunderstorms are still going to be possible. widely spread is the monsoonal showers. it will be a sporadic effect. this is due to the ex-tropic

china. the korean peninsula as well as mongolia. clear conditions, but rain is continuing across the south and more heavy rain for the western part of philippines as well as the eastern part of vietnam due to the enhanced southwest monsoon. now, finally taking a look at a picture across europe. clear conditions across the west. warm as well, but spilling clouds as you can see. lots of rain and thundershowers and risk of hail. temperatures are going to be quite low. we're expecting the highs only 5 degrees in moscow on thursday as well as friday. running about 10 degrees cooler than seasonal in kiev. if you're living in the east, you would be jealous of nice weather across the west. higher than average and nice, clear conditions. this was the picture in the alpine region looking like beautiful weather. beautiful clear crystal skies and also nice, beautiful autumn foliage. here's the extended forecast. >>> and that concludes this edition of "newsline." on behalf of our team, thank you for staying with us. tavis: good evening. from los angeles, i am tavis smiley. tonight a conversation with j.j. abrams. he is one of the most are living writers today whose work can be se