we may see 400 millimeters in some area of hokkaido. we've had an accumulation of 200 millimeters in southwestern hokkaido so the land is very, very saturated. we're very, very worried and being cautious about these high risks of flooding and landslides and mud slides. chongqing still heating up sat 38. tomorrow we'll be looking at very hot temperatures there, too, but the rain band in central china that will be lingering and bridging that temperature down finally into your wednesday. here in north america let's talk about the hurricane katia. we see the eye. it is not affecting land mass yet we really do want to keep you updated with the progress though. we know that this low pressure system over louisiana and mississippi, just over the borderline there is going to be bringing severe weather for your monday and toward tuesday just along the atlantic coast is where we're going to be seeing severe thunderstorms, at times, hail and heavy rain, even as well as strong gusts. maybe even some tornados cannot still be ruled out just along the

it has already that moisture impacting parts of hokkaido already. looks like today, too, it's going to be another wet day with heavier showers possible towards the western end of hokkaido. so overall more rain and that will up the risk of flooding as well as landslides. you want to watch out for that. also looks like southeastern russia will continue to see rainfall with the remnants of our other tropical storm system here. meanwhile, china looking at still that lull in inland areas. this will continue to look pretty wet today. another rainy day with pockets of heavy rain possible here. for the philippines and then on across the indochina peninsula, plenty of activity here as well. showers will be widespread as well as the occasional thunderstorms. tuesday's highs will come up to 32 degrees in tokyo. 29 in seoul. beijing coming in also at 29 degrees. over towards north america and it remains wet still for the eastern united states as well as canada. still a lot of activity here. long frontal boundary. and we have the remnant low from tropical storm

it has already that moisture impacting parts of hokkaido already. looks like today, too, it's going to be another wet day with heavier showers possible towards the western end of hokkaido. so overall more rain and that will up the risk of flooding as well as landslides. you want to watch out for that. also looks like southeastern russia will continue to see rainfall with the remnants of our other tropical storm system here. meanwhile, china looking at still that lull in inland areas. this western section will continue to look pretty wet today. another rainy day with pockets of heavy rain possible here. for the philippines and then on across the indochina peninsula, plenty of tropical activity here as well. showers will be widespread as well as the occasional thunderstorms. tuesday's highs will come up to 32 degrees in tokyo. so still on the hot side. 29 meanwhile in seoul. beijing coming in also at 29 degrees. ulan bator chilly at highs remaining at only 9. over towards north america and it remains wet still for the eastern united states as well as

it's one reason hokkaido university has opened an office in seoul. the university asked its professor emeritus suzuki to give a lecture at the school. he won nobel prize for chemistry in 2010. in japan, hokkaido university's well known for its science courses. now it is working hard to promote that reputation among the elite students of south korea. >> professor, it seems japan lacks behind other asian nations in terms of attracting foreign students. why is that? >> well, actually it's a long history of accepting international students from the 19th century. and from 1980s especially, japanese universities and society accumulated lots of experience how to accommodate them, to provide good residential houses. and the trends for japan now is, with the changing global environment, japan has kind of not distinguished economy in asia now, but one of the leading economies. and at the same time, english is now widely used in asian universities, and japan probably have to have some more efforts on that. and actually japan has more attract students based on t

now, typhoon roke is just about to pass right through the eastern end of hokkaido. through the course of today. then ending up over toward open waters as we head through the day by thursday, should be looking a lot calmer. >> thanks very much, saki. >>> typhoon roke caused problems across much of tokyo's transportation system. thousands of commuters who wanted to get around or get out of the city could only do one thing -- wait. the busy shibuya station came to a standstill. stranded passengers jammed the corridors. rail officials strung up ropes in front of ticket gates. some people made phone calls. others asked station workers for information. >> translator: almost all train services in tokyo have been suspended. i don't know what to do. >> translator: i left work earlier, but it was no use. >> some stranded commuters decided the wait just wasn't worth it. >> translator: i think it'll take me about an hour to get home on foot. >> people formed long lines for taxis at the main train station in tokyo's business district, shimbashi. >> a taxi comes every 20 to 30 mi

now, typhoon roke is just about to pass right through the eastern end of hokkaido. through the course of today. then ending up over toward open waters as we head through the day by thursday, should be looking a lot calmer. >> thanks very much, saki. >>> typhoon roke caused problems across much of tokyo's transportation system. thousands of commuters who wanted to get around or get out of the city could only do one thing -- wait. the busy shibuya station came to a standstill. stranded passengers jammed the corridors. rail officials strung up ropes in front of ticket gates. some people made phone calls. others asked station workers for information. >> translator: almost all train services in tokyo have been suspended. i don't know what to do. >> translator: i left work earlier, but it was no use. >> some stranded commuters decided the wait just wasn't worth it. >> translator: i think it'll take me about an hour to get home on foot. >> people formed long lines for taxis at the main train station in tokyo's business district, shimbashi. >> a taxi comes every 20 to 30 mi

even though it's downgraded it's going to be bringing moisture toward northern hokkaido and northern japan especially in hokkaido and up to about 18 millimeters of rainfall will be accumulated into wednesday morning. now, it is going to be affected much of southwest russia with this low pressure system. this is the remnant low of talas. it will be bringing very strong winds as well. it's a very slow-moving system, so it will be moving northward, but bringing ample amounts of rain that will accumulate. so flood risks is going to be a high risks there as well. and central china is looking at very heavy rain to come, but i should say welcoming rain about to some parts in chongqing because droughts in some parts has been prevailing for a few weeks now, especially in chongqing. et heating up to 42 last week. as to's high was 39. finally it will drop the temperature to the 20s, mid-20s. 26 on wednesday and even chongqing with that rain coming in on thursday, it will become 25 degrees for the high. here in north america, hurricane katia, now, this is going to be affected bermuda and eastern

accumulation up to about 200 millimeters because we have a stationary front that is stretching across hokkaido at the moment and that storm is activating that front so we'll be getting a lot of rain there as well. this is just a span of 24 hours. high waves also to be very cautious of. up to nine meters high all the way from shikoku in. and seven meters all the way for the very flood prone areas in tohoku as well. this is into saturday. please do stay away from those coastal areas. we have a low pressure system, a remnant just hanging oto that southeastern coast of china. taiwan will be affected as well as laos and vietnam from this remnant low bringing heavy rain in towards the weekend. but where we really want that rain we're not getting any in chongoing, 40 degrees. shanghai heating up to 31 as well. tokyo another hot day for us at 31 degrees for our saturday high. here in north america let's talk about the gulf of mexico. just thoroughfare we have a tropical depression that has a potential to become a severe tropical storm by later tonight actually we have tropical storm warnings just post

they're still bringing in plenty of showers today to the hokkaido northern japan area as well as the southeast corner of russia. it is on its way out. although it won't completely dry out until we head into thursday. so showers will gradually ease. so that at least is good news. meanwhile over toward china it's starting to look wetter. inland areas will get a slight chance of moderate falls over the course of today. you do want to watch out for that. otherwise it's going to be widespread. but shouldn't be too heavy. now towards the southeast, the philippines will be looking at showers as well as the indochina peninsula. 31 is your high in manila. 29 for shanghai. and getting up to 27 in seoul. tokyo expecting up to 31. on the warm side but not quite so humid and sticky today. over towards the americas, on the atlantic we're looking at this batch of clouds here. this will be a hurricane system. it looks like it's going to remain well off shore. we may see stronger surf on the coastline the next few days. watch out for that. of course along the eastern seaboard you've been dealing with

it identifies two areas off hokkaido that are believed to become simultaneously active and result in major earthquakes every 500 years. the guidelines also called for simplifying the process of predicting the heights of tsunami as well as using simpler words when warning people to evacuate. it plans to improve the entire tsunami warning system by the end of next year. japan's agriculture minister has briefed residents from a village near the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant on the government's aim to decontaminate local farmland. he visited itato village on wednesday. he checked on experiments his ministry has been conducting since may to remove radioactive material from rice paddies and other fields. one experiment involved the scraping off of topsoil. the result was a 75% reduction in radioactive cesium. the actions have helped reduce the levels of radioactive cesium in the area for more than 10,000 becquerels to 2,000 to 3,000 becquerels per kilograms of soil, low enough for farmers to plant rice. the minister met with the deputy mayor of the village and expressed his intenti

japan eing aitf a w inch tern parts of hokkaido. tokyo looking at 24. as we head into north america, we have ophelia, another storm here this one a hurricane to deal with, a category 2 storm, which looks just set to move to the east of bermuda. there is a tropical storm watch in effect right now. it's moving 15 kilometers per hour at towards the north here. and actually it is going to be moving right up in towards newfoundland by the end o th benng ntwe. oblyha rutf st th, befity otr ortoee a en re the'pltyf weaer vi tou ete cada roh t nthstnnid at a we. he tofowre sts stmsllhe w anghi frt wnnowds xa noenghisreo ntheirng. heedlaarngor pas eteexdrow humidity, and quite windy as well. 'lse ttrgin anre toerhe mos ay 'l s temraom wnengr in the northeast. so that will be you in new york city. already at 15 in chicago. winnipeg and vancouver as well. not so in ro. deeeno diethrghhesuer alstocbeutpes s, en thewe scotland and then overhe ridge of high pressure through in towards western russia that is. but have a look at the teeratures, 29 in london. 28 in ris.

they're still while weakening, bringing in plenty of showers today to the hokkaido northern japan area as well as the southeast corner of russia.. although it won't completely dry out until we head into thursday. nonetheless, those showers will gradually ease. so that at least is good news. meanwhile over toward china it's starting to look a lot wetter for the central tier. more showers heading eastward. inland areas will get a slight chance of moderate falls over the course of today. you do want to watch out for that. otherwise it's going to be widespread. but shouldn't be too heavy. now towards the southeast, the philippines will be looking at showers as well as the indochina peninsula. here's a look at highs for you. 31 is your high in manila. 33 expected in taipei today. 29 for shanghai. and getting up to 27 in seoul. tokyo expecting up to 31. on the warm side but not quite so humid and sticky today. over towards the americas, on the atlantic we're looking at this batch of clouds here. this will be a hurricane system. although it is on a weakening trend. it looks like it's going to

hokkaido, even in that area, we had torrential amounts of rainfall. that rain will be tapering off into our thursday. we still have low pressure system that is going to be affecting much of southeastern russia with heavy rain and strong gusts. the korean peninsula looking very dry. central china looking very unstable. maybe chances of thunderstorms to be popping up here and there. the philippines, indochina peninsula and india is going to be affected by the southwest monsoon. especially in northern parts of india we're going to be seeing lots of rain, up to about 150 millimeters or more in some areas and pakistan is going to be affected with the southwest monsoon. pakistan, the southwest monsoon season should be ending normally in the middle of september after which winter will be coming. but rainfall accumulation is staggering in the next 48 hours there. tokyo, 30 degrees. seoul, we're looking at 25. beijing, 24. chongqing, we're looking at 25 degrees. finally that temperature has dropped. now we're looking at -- keeping focus on this massive clouds

now as the storm makes its way up through towards hokkaido, we are going to be seeing it maintain its strength. even after making landfall. so those very strong winds, damaging winds, moving along with the storm. and of course, bringing all of that rain. now let's take a look at what's happened in the past 24 hours. this is some record-breaking rail. here's some totals they're western and central japan, about 400 millimeters of rain has fallen in some places. we need to add to what is expected in the next 24 hours. anywhere you're seeing in the red could be up to about half a meter of rainfall. up in towards eastern japan, 400 millimeters of rain. that includes the kanto region and tokyo. and then beyond that, up towards the north. 250 mms of rain in the next 24 hours, that is going to be added to of course as the storm heads further up to the north. we have a critical situation here. and we're going to bring you more weather news later in the show. >>> a tsunami expert says japanese authorities need to think bigger and use their imaginations to safeguard nuclear power facilities from

soe'oi t boong a very wet ansbl coitnsescily i hokkaido. by saturday nitn tar nd,noer rnd oea ra t ce fm ttther syst cinin ay she m acmu rai up about miimerinheex cpl ys wee looking temperatures here in tokyo at 33 degrees. another hot day. here in north america, let's take a look at this tropical storm maria. where is it headed toward now? well, by the time it reaches bahamas, it may become a hurricane. so it will be strengthening in the next couple of days as well as into the next week, early next week. it may become a hurricane. here we have a lot of tropical storm warnings posted outnhe ss anll. an b arohio ri. an a ioeot me arndheesrnil e,mo about 200 millimeters. and puerto rico, as you can see, is going to be targeted with that bucket of rain in the next 48 hours to come. tropical storm nate -- this is finally moving, but it is very slow -- it will become a hurricane late tonight or tomorrow. tropical storm warnings and watches just around this area. it will maintain its intensity as a hurricane and make landfall in western mexico pr

hokkaido looks like you may see heavier storms develop tonight. then the core of the rain is going to head up north in towards southeastern parts of russia. some more heavy rain headed your way. we'll be talking about a heightened risk of flooding as well as landslides today. meanwhile, looking at another storm system in open waters. looks like it's going to stay out in the sea. not a concern. meanwhile, looking at dry concern in china toward the north. inland areas looking at the wet day today. with heavier falls possible. as for highs on monday looking at 30 degrees in tokyo. still a bit of that humidity lingering about. looking at 29 in shanghai. it's going to be heating up in chongqing. over towards the americas and here, too, talking about a stormy weekend for the gulf coast states. tropical storm lee in the area. this has been a slow-moving system. and it's still a tropical storm system. slowly moving through louisiana. going to head through mississippi and alabama over the next couple days slowly weakening as it does. but there's still plen

hokkaido will be looking at very unstable conditions and also here in eastern china as well as northern china. all the cooler air from the north and moisture will be pulling in, so the clash is going to be bringing those unstable weathers also in the philippines and indo-china peninsula and india. as well, the southwest monsoon is picking up. thailand still has high risk of further flooding and flash floods. here in north america, a few things are happening here. let's get on with it. with tropical storm maria, this is speeding its pace up and just going over the tropical atlantic in the next 48 hours. looks like it will become a hurricane as it approaches the leeward islands by friday night. in toward the weekend it will be approaching puerto rico and the virgin islands. we'll definitely keep a very close eye on this. as well as this tropical storm nate that just developed over the bay of campeche. this has a tropical warning along the southwest coast of mexico. this is almost stationary. it will probably innocence fie into a hurricane by saturday night. may even make landfall with sta

now, we're also seeing some heavy rain in hokkaido right now. this is a front line just moving a little to the north and east here. still stretched out across north korea and still affecting parts of eastern china here as well. down towards the south it's the southwest monsoon that's making lots of rain showers and some heavier rain as well. in isolated areas across the philippines as well as indochina. to the north, much fairer skies here, but it's going to be quite cold. ulan bator, 8 for the high, 20 in beijing, cooling down here as well. many areas, many places across the region are going to retain that heat for a while. we have highs in the lower 30s across much of the rest of eastern asia. coming into north america, we have another storm to talk about. this one here, can you see the cloud, this is maria. now it's just about getting ready to pass bermuda. and it in fact it is gaining some strength as well. so we could see it reach hurricane status within the next 12 hours. as it passes the west coast of bermuda, there will be rain, maybe ab

agency said the typhoon was downgraded to a low pressure system over the see sea to the east over hokkaido thursday afternoon. and authorities are still warning of possible flooding and landslides throughout the country. the typhoon passed through the disaster-stricken tohoku region wednesday. the flooding had caused in miyagi prefecture, isolated hundreds of people in temporary housing overnight. local officials asked residents to evacuate. but they were unable to reach their designated locations on higher ground because of flooded roads. >> translator: we had no choice but to stay in temporary shelter. it was very scary. >> the evacuees had to spend the night in a nearby community center until ground self-defense force personnel reached the area early thursday morning. the typhoon also approached the crippled fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant on wednesday night. but it cause the no major damage. >>> this picture shows rainwater flowing into the basement of the number 6 reactor building. four reactor buildings whose basements are flooded with contaminated water. the water levels rose

we will see a few showers heading across into hokkaido tomorrow. that's going to be coming off this stationary front that has been lingering across north korea and down towards central china. now, we will see more heavy rain from this front into the next 24 hours. anywhere up to about 150 millimeters for some areas. we're talking about parts of north korea. and that could lead to flooding as well as potential for mud slides and landslides. we see continued showers across the philippines. we have a tropical depression in the area, just towards the northeast. it doesn't look like it is going to be getting any stronger for the time being. but certainly enhancing the rainfall across the philippines. plenty of showers across indochina as well. let's talk about the temperatures. we have this very cold air descending across mongolia. that's bringing the temperature to just 7 and we'll see the low getting down to minus 4 i think your overnight hour. beijing, 25. for the time being, we're still seeing much of the rest of the continent looking at around 30,

meteorological agency said the typhoon was downgraded to a low pressure system over the sea to the east of hokkaido on thursday, but authorities are still warning of possible flooding and landslides throughout the country. the typhoon passed through disaster-stricken tohoku region wednesday. the flooding it caused in miyagi prefecture isolated hundreds of people in temporary housing overnight. local officials asked residents to evacuate, but they were unable to reach their designated locations on higher ground, because of flooded roads. >> translator: we had no choice but to stay in this temporary shelter. it was very scary. >> the evacuees had to spend the night in a nearby community center until ground self-defense force personnel reached the area early thursday morning. the typhoon also approached the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant on wednesday night, but it caused no major damage. this picture shows rain water flowing into the basement of the number six reactor building. at four other reactor buildings whose basements are flood with contaminated water, the water rose between 10 and 14 ce

so we're going to be looking at very wet and unstable conditions, especially in hokkaido. here in north china we have that system that will be easing up on saturday, but by saturday night in toward sunday, another round of heavy rain to come from that other system coming in. so maybe chong chi may accumulate up to 100 millimeters in the next couple of days. we're looking at temperatures here in tokyo at 33 degrees. another hot day. here in north america, let's take a look at this tropical storm maria. where is it heading toward now? well, by the time it reaches bahamas, it may become a hurricane. so it will be strengthening in the next couple of days as well as into the next week, early next week. it may become a hurricane. here we have a lot of tropical storm warnings posted out in the lesser antilles.hurricane. here we have a lot of tropical storm warnings posted out in the lesser antilles. and then by saturday night, it will be approaching puerto rico. and as it does so, lots of rain to come. around the lesser antilles, maybe an accumulation from the storm will be up to

and red ribbon and red ribbon the hokkaido africa support group and kevin camp's radioactive waste watchdog at beyond nuclear welcome to all of you. thank you for joining us. carry id i'm doing ok. i'm sorry i'm late what's the situation in japan it's just so the situation in japan right now is that there are three hundred thousand children living in fukushima and about seventy five percent of the children are going for example to schools that are so contaminated that they would be radiation control areas in nuclear power plants for adults over eight children over. individuals under eighteen will not be legally allowed to the radiation levels are very high in japan they aren't evacuating people unless it's twenty millisieverts a year exposure now that's incredibly much higher than sure noble when mandatory evacuation was five millisieverts a year and we know that about looking back on the many many people died as a consequence of the true mobile exposure. kerry. what more are the japanese people not being told. but. they've is not the idea for human creation. but they get about it should be

. that as of noon on thursday... the typhoon was located in the pacific off the eastern coast of hokkaido ... moving at a speed of 55 kilometers per hour. 08 the storm has brought high winds, heavy rain and flooding... causing over 200-thousand households to lose power and disrupting transportation in central and northeastern japan. last night in the capital city of tokyo,... located about 2-hundred kilometers west from shizuoka prefecture where the typhoon made landfall,... public transportation, including the subway system, was suspended for three to four hours. and according to the kyodo shimbun... around 5-thousand people were stranded inside shinkansen bullet trains at tokyo and shizuoka stations overnight. as strong winds approached the tsunami-ravaged fukushima prefecture,... fears over the country getting flooded with radiation- contaminated water took over the population. however, a tokyo electric power corporation official said that... no immediate problem was reported. hwang ji-hye, arirang news. high levels of radioactive cesium have been detected in japanese dairy cattle. the

and then 24 hours out, it's going to be back into the ocean just to the east of hokkaido. we're talking about very heavy rainfall and flooding will be a problem as we go through the next several hours. i'm going to give you a visual exactly where the track is. it moves off towards the north, guided by a boundary system. and behind that the weather is going to greatly improve. nina, japan really suffering this year. keep in mind, just 2 1/2 weeks ago, they were just recovering from tropical storm talad which proved to be deadly as well. that's in the western part of japan. and they had a lot of damage there. >> okay, jennifer delgado, as always, many thanks for that report. >>> we can take a closer look at typhoon roke which as we've just heard is lashing japan. our paula hancocks is tracking the progress of the storm from tokyo, so she's there and can tell us what it's looking like where she is. obviously, paula, we want to talk about fukushima, and we'll get to that in a moment. jennifer said this storm probably moving to the west of that, but how is it looking in tokyo r