back in guangdong, zhou toasts his brother's birthday with friends. but thoughts of what has happened to his missing daughter continue to haunt him. zhou says he will keep looking for her, even if that trail leads him to find her happily adopted by another family, in another country. >> "i would be overjoyed if i could see her. but i would let her to decide whether to stay there or not, because, after all, she has a complete adoptive family there. as her father, i will be much satisfied very happy to see her live in peace. if she wants to stay with me, i would feed her even if i were to beg for food. if not, i would feel satisfied just see her. in fact, my biggest dream is to see her. only then, can my heart rest, or else otherwise, i will never feel at ease for the rest of my life." >> chinese families, like those in other asian nations, have historically shown a preference for sons, who could carry on the family name and support the parents in old age. and the country has long seen a gender gap of more males born than females. but since the advent o

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 in ulaanbaatar. all right. into the americas. we have a tropical storm to talk about. lorena is making its way towards the southern tip of the baja, california peninsula. now, it is expected to weaken off, which is certainly good news. but you could still see 50 to 100 millimeters of rain, enough to cause some localized flooding. we also had gabrielle, if you remember, off over puerto rico. it's now a remnant low. but it's still going to be bringing some pretty heavy rain in towards parts of hispaniola as well as puerto rico over the weekend. another fron

here across southern years of china, especially guangdong province, we've been seeing showers.t looks like additional amounts of 100 meters could still be possible. hong kong at 28 degrees. you see a little sunshine there. tokyo down to 29, so a little of a cooloff. ulan bator heating up to 22 degrees. moving to north america, a system is pulling into the pacific northwest. that could create some severe weather, but generally speaking, quite calm across much of the interior here. we do have a tropical storm system that just formed over water. it will be moving into the baja, california, in towards your weekend. and another system that we have been tracking, gabrielle, is now a tropical depression, but it will be bringing ongoing heavy downpours across the caribbeans. to the north of that quite cold and hot across the interior. that's going to be the outlook for your day today, but the heating is quite on the extreme side. las vegas is heating up to 39 on friday, phoenix at 42 degrees. so a lot of these above average temperatures, but on the other hand, meanwhile, the great lake

that storm will likely slam china's guangdong province. it lashed the philippines and taiwan on sunday, with torrential rains and winds. >> craig leeson is live for us from hong kong. it's past midnight and has been a restless might there. >> it sure is. we are in the grip of the storm. luckily it was not a direct hit as predicted. it made landfall 100 miles north-east in another area, killing two and cutting off electricity. it's above hong kong, 60 miles to our north, and we are feeling the effects of the strong winds and rains, particularly here in the al jazeera studio, which is on the waterfront here in hong kong. we are expecting that those winds will increase as we get kicked by the tail of this storm as it moves inland and is expected to cause a lot of damage through the rainfall that will come as a result. >> when i saw the storm, the first thought that came to mind was katrina, based on the size it showed up on radar. did they take the storm seriously in china? >> well, they certainly did. they are used to typhoons, they get 20-o

. >> yes, catherine, on sunday evening typhoon usagi made landfall in guangdong province. seven forms have hit china so far this year but usagi was the strongest. to see how severe the situation was, take a look at this video. flooding and gale force winds triggered by typhoon usagi have left more than 20 people dead. it made landfall as a typhoon in southern china on sunday evening. fallen trees smashed vehicles. power suroads and railways weref cities. about 230,000 residents we the good news about the system is that it has weakened to a lot of moisture to cause heavy rain fall for guangxi provinces and surrounding areas up to 100 millimeter is likely for the next 24 hours. but starting wednesday, conditions will certainly be looking up. if you look at a bigger picture a line of thunder showers extending from the area up to northeastern china. thunderstorms and heavy rain likely in some places including seoul but back behind the system and ahead of the system looking dry. but a pacific side of japan will see cloudier conditions and rainfall starting on wednesday because

guangdong province saw 200 millimeters of rain. it could top 100 that could easily cause flooding and landslides. hong kong at 28, taipei 29. ulan bator is cooling down with partly sunny skies. now let's move over to the americas. it's september, early september, i should say, but we have frost advisories and freeze warnings due to a cold front that is swinging by across the great lakes region. take a look at the morning lows, especially on your friday. that will be dipg doping down i your single digits. take a look at boston, from 17 degrees down to 9. those are your ploeps do bundle up in the morning and overnight hours. down to 3 here in caribou. toronto is only looking at 11 degrees also. so bundle up. here across the southeastern corner, damaging right nilightnl and thunderstorms are possible. widely spread here is the monsoonal showersp. it will be a sporadic event especially in the pacific northwest as well as british columbia and canada. this is due to ex-tropical storm moisture from kiko. that will be widely spread. additi