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

this is linfa making landfall near the province of guangdong. but this typhoon chan-hom has its eyes set on shanghai for sunday afternoon and evening. it will pass in between taipei and okinawa but late sunday we are concerned about. thankfully meteorologists have a new weather satellite launched in japan in 2014. it just became operational this tuesday. this is good because it helps us predict the timing of these individual storms that are heading in a generally westerly direction. i want to show you other footage that is new to cnn. this is a tornado, a rare event just west of venice italy. this is in the town of mira. unfortunately there was one fatality and 20 injured from this cone-shaped tornado. it tore apart buildings and ruined businesses. you can see some of the shrapnel and debris flying down the streets. you can hear it hitting the cars. these guys were precariously close. >> why reason they driving the other way. >> that should be their first port of call. >> you need to get away from a tornado as quickly as possible. car does not b

meanwhile just to the south of guizhou province in guangdong province, they received 80 millimeters of rainfall. 73% less than the average. farmers are concerned that there might not be a harvest this season. good news is that there is a low pressure system and some rain is anticipated for the south of china. hopefully that will improve the situation. now, it's extremely hot once again across the south of china. 31 degrees in taipei as well as 30 degrees in hong kong on saturday. now, the southern hemisphere, it's winter. low temperatures in the south of queensland, they had heavy snowfall. and temperatures were very low over the past couple days. in sydney it was about 13 degrees. a little improvement as we go into the weekend and warmer than average temperatures are expected as we go into next week. so that's good news. we have a strong system coming in from the atlantic that will provide rainfall and windy conditions over the british isles. that includes scotland where the british open is taking place. along this cold front, severe weather is expected into the siberian peninsula. wa

program, we still have that linfa which is a tropical storm system even though it made lang fall in guangdong province in china. we have images coming from there. look at that. it came ashore on thursday bringing typhoon strength winds to the area just east of hong kong. the trees toppled, signs blown over. commuters were stuck out in the storm as it came ashore. but railway services were suspended and numerous flights were canceled. in hong kong people were sent home early on thursday afternoon as winds started to pick up. chan hom is setting up to bring conditions near shanghai over the weekend. the waves are very high as you can see from this image. now, pulling in towards hainan. so this is going to bring stormy conditions even though it downgrades it into a tropical depression. the wind gusts are still reaching 110 kilometers per hour. more of the rainfall across shanghai because chan hom will be on its way. a lot of things happening here. the westerly flow from chan hom and linfa is still carried into the northern areas of luzon. that includes schools. up to 250 millimeters is well like

scarlet: beijing, shanghai, and guangdong province, those are some of the wealthiest parts of china,the idea that the people in these places, these cities owning more stock, it really is that a wealthier class of people are investing in equities, and it is interesting as they tried to go from the export-driven model to one that consumption driven, letting people invest in the stock market, but if you only have rich people doing that, how much more money are they going to spend? alix: it is good for wealthy people, but there is no up to -- scarlet: exactly. gdp numbers. alix: and goldman sachs had a great note over the weekend, saying, hypothetically, with the gdp in china, if we had growth, what would it do to the u.s.? effect,about the wealth it would have an effect that would be pretty much nothing. less inflation by about than 1% because of the commodity knockoff. it may move the needle, but not that bad. scarlet: looking at the this showserminal, the swing in the shanghai composite, the intraday move, going lower, most recently, last , and we havet really stabilized. that volatil

it damaged homes, flooded roads in the guangdong province. it brought down trees, damaged walk ways. a second typhoon is expected to make land fall today. almost 1 million people seeking shelter elsewhere away from their homes. they say this typhoon could be the most powerful to hit china since the communist government took over. >> police are looking into a double stabbing in northern virginia. it happened along richmond highway in the hybla valley neighborhood. one of the neighbors there was z able to drive the victims the two men to the hospital. they were in stable condition at last check. the suspect and victims may have known each other. they haven't arrested anyone. >>> former virginia governor bob mcdonnell reviewing legal options after a court defeat. a court rejected all of his arguments for an appeal on his corruption convictions. we went through 90 pages of the ruling and it was all rough news for the governor. the judge upheld his two-year sentence meaning he could serve prison time. he was found guilty for doing favors for a for

linfa in guangdong province. you will get tremendous rainfall with this.ack behind it chan-hom is a potential feature as well. this typhoon is 2 million square kilometers in size. it would encompass the state of alaska or the country of mexico. it is going towards shanghai 24 million people it will weaken and move there as potentially a strong tropical storm. but the rainfall for 24 million people is not going to be a fun scenario there. flooding being a concern. >> thanks, so much. appreciated. >>> we are in france as well where we hope to hear from greek prime minister alexis tsipras just ahead. >>> u.s. democratic presidential candidate hillary clinton talks about immigration in an exclusive cnn interview. stay tuned for that. >>> welcome back to our viewers in the united states and around the world. this is "cnn newsroom." i'm max foster. >> i'm rosemary church. a number of european cities are buzzing with activity today as greece works on a new bailout plan to deal with its debt crisis. the euro group president is in berlin to meet with german lawmake

. >> the immediate danger around the guangdong province one of the main areas that will see tremendousainfall over the next couple days. we'll show you video coming out of the region as the storm is sitting offshore and you see the beaches taking on water damage across the board. and the harbors taking a tremendous pounding from the waves offshore with a storm system that had wave heights up to 7 meters. it's weakening and paralleling the coastline. show you hong kong. officials know all too well about the tropical features. the clouds are coming into the area. we don't suspect much of a wind problem but it's a rain issue with this storm system. it is going to weaken rapidly. it is a category 1 equivalent. and typhoon linfa. and some of the rainfall 150 up to 200 millimeters of rain is possible. we have had a very very soggy summer this portion of the world. and the temperature trend is in the low 30s. 70 to 80% chance for rain and thunderstorms over the next couple days. the storm parallels the coast. and you see the storm meander into the south china sea. chan-hom over the open water

guangdong province, 7 million people live in hong kong metro. can see tremendous flooding over the region and then go farther to sea and we have typhoon chan-hom which is 150 kilometers an hour. strong category one closing in on a category two equivalent and the concern is the massive side of the storm. you take the storm and put it over the united states it would be comparable to alaska. or the country of mexico as far as how expansive the cloud system is. it will strengthen over the next couple of days. population density in the dark red, 1500 people per square kilometer or more. this would be on the order of 24 plus million people around shanghai. behind that we have another typhoon. this is off shore of the united states. one of the more beautiful towns in the united states that you have never heard of. if you are born here and use a u.s. dollar, 50,000 people could be impacted. beyond that could be menacing typhoon by later next week that could impact japan. a lot of weather to talk about. >> amazing to see them line up. >> okay. thank you

guangdong province the main area of interest. 1 o it meanders over hong kong in the next two days.o the north. certainly a threat of landslides for flash flooding in place across an area that is populated. behind it, that's the next typhoon we are looking at. poised to be a super typhoon. 150 category one equivalent. bring to light her impressive satellite. officials in japan meteorological agency putting the satellite in to orbit in the past 24 hours. look at the incredible resolution. this is something they launched in october of 2014 and fwhent to operation 24 hours ago. giving you extreme detail of weather patterns and typhoons. now this incredible resolution and we are watching the next system with a brand new satellite. >> watch it closely. >> big help. and we think friday in to saturday eastern china will get tremendous rainfall. >> thank you so much. appreciate that. >>> the iran nuclear talks are extended once again with negotiators haggling over details and new iranian demands. they set a goal of reaching a deal by friday. iran now wants the u.n. to end the arms embargo s

this is the scene in the guangdong province. the typhoon making landfall there.ered motorists and neighborhoods with strong winds and rain. toll toppling trees as you can see on your tv screen damaging power utilities. kicking up the surf. it closed airports some railways and schools. in fact the hong kong international airport was closed for a period of time overnight last night with wind gusts in excess of 40 to 50 kilometers an hour and of course the heavy rainfall grounding some of those flights. now we focus our attention from linfa and look to chan-hom. this is a significant typhoon that is splitting the difference between okinawa and taiwan but it has a general west to northwesterly path that will make landfall in the east cohen coast of china in the next 24 hours. look at what is in the path of the storm, shanghai. population 24 million. we have the possibility of stronger winds, even though it will be a weakened phase. the storm will significantly impact that region with heavy rainfall and certainly gusty winds. this is the current stats on the storm. 22