then we have indochina, you can see those reds popping up. that's a southwest monsoon, very active on both coasts, the west and east coast of indochina. and then also the philippines there's a tropical depression sitting just to the east. it's not going to become a named storm, but it is going to be bringing very heavy showers over this weekend. having said that, drought conditions are going to be continuing for places across central china. 39 degrees in shanghai. 36 in chongqing once again strong sunshine here. all right. on into america, we're talking about hawaii, in fact, flossie is another tropical storm we have here heading towards hawaii. it's not expected to become a hurricane and there aren't any watches or warnings, but if you're in the vicinity know the wind and waves are really going to be increased here over the weekend. let's go now to europe to see what's going on. it's quite a split in the weather out west. it's going to be wet and cooler, i'm afraid. then we have the severe area of storms. we get the hot and cooler air masses

millimeters of rain for the west coast, more than 200 millimeters for the southern parts of the indochinasula. so more disastrous conditions could happen, unfortunately. and you notice another area of heavy rain can be found across the person parts of the philippines, and this is due to a tropical depression over the south china sea. this is enhancing the southwest monsoon. and actually, the monsoon is enhancing the upper level high pressure, called the tibetan high, which is resulting in extremely high temperatures for the south and central parts of china, parts of the korean peninsula, as well as japan. so we have heat warnings and advisories posted for many areas. shanghai, the highs have been over 38 degrees over the past several days. your high could be 35 degrees today, as well as yamaguchi prefecture, as well. so drink plenty of water and take extra precautions against heatstroke. now to the north of it, where hot air is colliding with warmer air -- excuse me, cool air, we're seeing quite heavy rain from southwestern china through northeastern china, the korean peninsula, as well a

also going to be continuing heavy rain down towards the south, particularly that western part of indochina and southern coast of china. right smack dab in the middle, drought conditions here are prevailing as well as very high temperatures. bright sunshine in shanghai, 39 degrees here. you'll see a lot of areas hitting the 40 degree mark or beyond. that is causing yet another different kind of problem here in eastern asia. on we go into the americas and thunderstorms for you in the deep south. through the southeastern quarter of the united states, you'll see plenty of thunderstorm action, hail the size of ping pong balls possible as well as gusty winds. up towards the north, another storm system also capable of bringing pretty severe nasty storms. this will be pushing through central canada and the front moving through the northern plains into the upper midwest. dry cooler conditions and quite pleasant here in that northeastern corridor. in the other side of the jet stream it stays hot and also you have the threat of flash flooding, the monsoonal flow in the southwest and potential for fla

still seeing showers across the indochina peninsula. we want to keep an eye on it for the further risk of flooding. to the north we have a stationary boundary impacting south korea towards japan. this is still going to be dropping heavy rainfall going into the week and thursday into friday as well. you still could be seeing up to 120 millimeters and this does continue to push overhead. earlier in the week on monday, the region saw that severe flooding. so this is falling on already saturated ground so river runoff will be a threat. even into tokyo, expecting some showers especially going through the afternoon hours on thursday. a few thunderstorms could be popping up. take a look at temperatures, 29 for the high in tokyo, cooler than earlier in the week. seoul with 32. and shanghai, especially in eastern and central china, high pressure has been dominating here and the temperatures have been reflecting that. some areas could be feeling like it gets into the 40s. now let's look over towards the americas, what's going on here. right now i

also bringing in the southwest monsoon over the indochina peninsula. portions of northern thailand will be seeing the risk of flooding as it pushes to the west and the tropical depression works to the north. north of that things are on the hot side across chongqing, shanghai, 37 and 38 for you. northeastern china, on the other hand, some areas could see about 100 millimeters of rainfall going into tuesday. even out towards wednesday, even seoul will be seeing some showers, it's the stationary boundary, the same one bringing the flooding rains across much of northern japan. et cetera let's look at the americas, we have the monsoonal flow coming in off the pacific here and that's been triggering the showers much of the southwest. right now we have this disturbance there into the plains, coming off the central rockies. in portions of kansas, oklahoma, you could see 48 millimeters of rainfall as it pushes through. pushing to the east, we have this high pressure in the great lakes and then a low pressure moving out through ontario and quebec. now the high p

heavy rain for the southwest coast of the indochina peninsula. very hot in shanghai going up to 37 degrees for the high on thursday. it will stay almost the same into the weekend. heating up once again to 30 degrees and shooting up to 30 in tokyo and more sweltering conditions are on the cards for you as we go into monday. tokyo shooting up to 34 on saturday and sunday. the average temperatures is only 28 degrees. sendai, 31 for you over the weekend. so get hydrated and take precautions against heat stroke. in north america, as we have been reporting, there are three distinctive features over the u.s. record high temperatures across the west and cool and dry conditions in the center and lots of thunderstorms across the east. but we're going to see some changes as we go into the independence day. the frontal system will move towards the southeast so the northeast coast including new york city and washington, d.c., will see some dry weather on your thursday. so that's good news. but heavy rain and thunderstorms will continue across the southeast. e

towards the south there's a lot of heavy rain here really focusing its efforts on western portions of indochina around the bangkok area as well. just east of bangkok in fact. more than 350 millimeters of rain recorded in the last 24-hour period. this is some very, very heavy rain. it's been ongoing for the last several days. it's the southwest monsoon. you can see the hong kong areas also picking up significant rainfall in the next several days. all right, let's head onto your temperatures and see what's happening here. while those showers continuing on wednesday in hong kong, in manila with thunderstorms in bangkok and then we have this intense sunshine across chongqing as well as in shanghai. 38 degrees, strong sunshine and 35 for beijing. meanwhile, it's going to be raining in seoul as well as tokyo. and as i mentioned, temperatures coming down here across many portions of japan, 26 degrees in tokyo, but by thursday we'll be returning to that muggy heat once again. on into the americas and severe storms are erupting today right along this cold front with stretches from the northeast down thr

the french were losing indochina in the battle and eisenhower basically says no.the reason he said no was because they had just finished a very divisive war in korea and the new is the american public wasn't going to agree to another war in asia. interestingly 10 years later johnson makes a similar decision to intervene in vietnam and comes to completely different conclusion. that's because the memory of the korean war has changed within the last decade. at first it was what we call an unmentionable victory. it was looked up more or less as a loss. 10 years later the korean war is viewed as a kind of one. at least we have stopped the chinese at the 38th parallel. so johnson uses the korean war and knowledge in essence to make a case for vietnam. he says look, south vietnam has -- divided nations being threatened by the communist nation supported by the soviet union and china. we did it in korea and we can do it in vietnam. of course undersecretary of state said no, no it's the wrong analogy. it's not about south korea and vietnam are not equal. we have to look at

but what we see is in southeast asia, degaulle, france, trying to resurrect empire in indochina, andn iran in 1953, after unsuccessful attempts by the brits to engage in the americans in overthrowing -- the over throw, we get involved and the results for those have been horrific in term 20th century history and 21st century. >> this where is the cold war comes into play, tremendous role and some ways altering the path we set out upon during the second world war: you mentioned french indochina. senior american officials dirk the second world war felt with returned french indochina to the french that would undermine what we were fighting for. in the pacific, lot of americans fought and died and sacrificed in the pacific. what was the pacific war for? was it merely to defeat japan in what was the point in defeating japan and removing japan from various asia nations and then returning those nations to the tender mercy of the french or the dutch or the british. so we were cognizant of that during the war. it became very difficult for us to have control over that. the british fought very h