and in hokkaido you can have a paddy field of rice. it is cheaper for example. and it was -- in this way even rice has much more and right now because of this change in the report that the rice production is shifting, much more. and is much more in the food area. service is the flow that i see. i am not an expert on this subject but in the southern part of japan, in that area, i still have that. >> thank you for comprehensive, concrete and candid presentation. we would appreciate if you would give the minister and his delegation attends to get on to their next appointment. we have copies of the speech available out front and on our web site but let's conclude, please join me in expressing our appreciation. [applause] ..

it's still lingering near hokkaido and northern japan, producing very strong winds yesterday. let's take a look at this video. intense gusts caused havoc in northern japan yesterday. gusts of 100 kilometers an hour flipped a truck in miyagi prefecture. luckily the driver was not injured. strong winds blew a prefab house. the house landed on a man, the man was pulled out by neighbors but survived. so very serious conditions yesterday. but tomorrow, looking good. nice conditions and winds are dying down. so temperatures are going up. so that could raise the risk of avalanches in northern japan. rain is going to come back across the north but that is not going to be as strong as yesterday. another day of dry weather. because overnight cooling, we have frost advisories posted for a wide area that could damage crops. towards the west, looking dry for north korea, but snow on the cards for you across northeastern china and russia. that will be continuing for the next couple of days and toward the south cold air is coming in from the north. that's going to collide with warmer air. so

we have 10 centimeters reported in the past 24 hours in hokkai o hokkaido. 're seeing, we're going to see those snow melt encouraged. and the avalanche risk is going to be high in the higher elevations. shanghai at 24. but that's going to be down to the average range on your thursday. beijing's going to be down to the single digits at 9 degrees on friday. we're looking at minus 1 degree on your wednesday high. moving to north america we have winter storms slamming the north. wyoming you had 70 scentimeters. we're talking about 60 centimeters additional snowfall in the higher elevations and 40 even in the valley side. that's going to cause some major travel disturbances yet again and down underneath that, freezing rein is also going to be very dangerous for your driving conditions. and towards the south, due to the two air masses colliding, this collision is going to be creating some severe weather. we're talking about really large hail, 4 centimeters in die am ter, about a walnut size. tornados cannot be ruled out. that's moving towards the east. but do watc

the seem says the carbonized residue from the ruins in hokkaido could be of spawning salmon, since the site is located inland. >>> survivors of the bombing of hiroshima speak from experience when they talk about the dangers of nuclear weapons. one man is telling his story and still telling it 60 years later. >> reporter: now, 90 years old, r yurks ichi is receiving an n honorary director it-- doctorat. >> i'm really happy to receive the degree. i'd like to express my deepest appreciation to the university. he was studying what would later become hiroshima university. when bomb exploded he was on campus and the force sent him flying and covered him in rubble. >> translator: other people died. we didn't know at the time whether it was an atomic bomb or a regular bomb. >> reporter: to survive, he and other international students had to camp out at the university. they made the best out of what was left. some japanese students joined them. this lady was among them. she was looking for her father when she came across the students and sought shelter with them. but every morning she set out t

off towards the north seaing some rain showers on the other hand into hokkaido, extending to the tohokuegion. that will be the pattern the next several days. really going to be some foul weather here. nothing too heavy to say the least but it is going to be fall on top of some of the snow melt. there that he risk of some melting know, even the risk of avalanche. farther toward the west, high pressure is ridging in. southern japan, eastern china, things will be on the dry side. southeastern china not so much the case. you're going to see a developing low pressure area here bringing light rain showers at times. nothing too severe but definitely going to be dampening out the end of your work week. meanwhile into the tropics we're also looking at some areas of low pressure which is bringing some rain showers across southern portions of the philippines. into thailand and malaysia specifically. you've seen some flooding the past several days and unfortunately, the next several days it is going to continue to add up. at least adding to some relief from the relentless heat which going on. bangk

it's going to be bringing mostly rain across hokkaido, but you will see a few snowflakes up in the mountains. to the south there's another system. this one bringing rain across the southeastern islands of japan. could even see about 17, 18 millimeters of rain. wednesday should be clear and the rest of the country is looking sunny and dry. now, down towards the south, i want to talk about the rain first. more rain across the south and southeast of china. and you've been having really a bad time of it actually the last couple of weeks. so an early start to the rainy season and intense rains here. this widespread precipitation which is amounting to about 20 to 50 millimeters widely is falling on already saturated land. so the ongoing rain is a problem, but also in some areas, it is going to be up to about 100 millimeters, so there is potential for flooding. i want to talk about the temperatures you mentioned, shery. a cold blast of air coming down from the north. that's going to drop things by a little bit, down to 15 degrees in beijing. not getting too, too bad in northern china. seoul is look

before that, hokkaido produced rice that had been given a gold price.hy could prove in hokkaido, you can have a much larger paddy fi eld. is larger and n in this way even rice could claim a much higher competitiveness. because of the economic change, rice is really shifting northward much more, so i think the areas in the south will be shifting their crops to much likein the first area, strawberries, for example. this is a flow that i see. i am not an expert on the agriculture, but since i live in the southern part of japan, when i look around the area around the residence, i can feel that changes are coming. emma thank you for a therehensive, concrete, and candida presentation. we would appre it if you could give the minister a chance to get to the airport and get on to their next appointment. we will have the copiesf the speech up front, and on our website, but join me in expressing our appreciation. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> an update from boston's sw