meteorologist ivan cabrera is joining us now.s this going to go on and on, or are there going to be breaks? >> this is going to go on and on. there are going to be a few breaks, but the monsoon season itself that we talk about across this part of the world lasts for months. we're talking october by the time this thing dries out. so the plan originally was to maybe have them down there until october, feeding them and watering. that wasn't going to work because we have so much rain coming in. there are multiple pumps working 24 hours trying to get that water out, but mother nature is going to win that battle because there's a lot more water coming in. the monsoon is not one thing. it's not a tropical storm. it's not a hurricane. we get warm, humid air coming in across the area. we're surrounded by the gulf of thailand and the south china sea, both of which will be impacting the region. joe, we do have breaks, right. it doesn't rain every single day heavily. but there are weeks that go by, and we don't see sunshine here. so we'll co

here's meteorologist ivan cabrera. >> good morning.dexes in the 100s today. we are begging for 90s at this point here. look at the heat advisories from the carolinas up to new england and the pink, that's where we have the heat warnings in effect. couple of degrees probably not going to notice that as far as the difference. it will be less hot than yesterday, but still brutal stuff, with temperatures -- this is without factoring in the humidity, mid and upper 90s through the afternoon. when you do that, factor in that humidity, we're talking about triple digit heat. look at this, going to be warmer in d.c., new york, than it will be across the southeastern u.s. atlanta in the lower 90s, but relief is on the way. temperatures in the 80s, cold front in the middle of the week, closer to average, temperatures in the mid to upper 80s. by the way, still monitoring severe weather potential for today across the nation's heartland here, damaging winds, large hail, and isolated tornados, as well, later this afternoon and into the evening hours.

ivan cabrera joins me now. before the storms really begin impacting the mission, if you know, ivan? >> hours. it's continuing to downpour across the area and tomorrow we have more rain in the forecast. when we talk about rain in this part of the world, it's monsoon season. it's the kind of rain that falls heavily. we could get one, two, three inches an hour across the region and that is what has been happening. now, generally one of our computer model forecasts, forecasting about a half inch a day. we could get more than that easily. look at this forecast here, the next seven days. that's not good. a lot of colors indicating six to ten inches of rainfall. the cave fills with more and more water. they're pumping out water but they'll lose the battle because how much rainfall. the other thing, this part of the world, south china sea and the western pacific, typhoon season, we don't want a tropical system to get pulled in there. we have a super typhoon that will be headed towards china but that won't be impacting

meteorologist ivan cabrera in the weather center. >> guys, good morning.again, the heat advisory, heat warnings, heat watches, heat everything continues here with millions of us once again for temperatures in the 90s. it feels like florida across the northeast. we'll continue to see heat index values well into the 100s. we're also seeing hears across the midsection of the country with heat advisories as well. same deal, temperatures in the 90s and 100s. oklahoma city, 97, the actual air temperature here. mid90s, into 91 into the afternoon. you do factor in the humidity and it feel like 105 to 110. with the heating of the day like florida, we can get pop justi-u showers and thunderstorms. about 30% to 40% of thunderstorms in the afternoon. if they do pop you have there will be lightning, so we have to watch for that. if they do pop up, the good news the temperatures will crash quickly. but we'll have to wait for tomorrow and next week for temperatures in the mid-80s. closer for this time of year, guys. >>> one week after lebron announced he's joining the lo

ivan cabrera, thank you. i want to talk now to someone who trained extensively to dive search and rescue conditions, john mcgwire, a former u.s. navy seal who serve odden sed on sea four. it's really impossible to overstate how dangerous this is for everyone. why what kind of conditions are they walking into? ment give me an idea of things that could go wrong. >> thank you for having me on. there many dangerous -- diving is a dangerous thing, i think people have heard from listening to your show that diving on the week end in the bahamas is a lot different than the military diver. this closed space diving is when you have low visibility. it's the most dangerous type of rescue. if you had no weather coming in it would be the most dangerous type of diving. you add the weather and it's even more complicated. >> john, i think there were a lot of people that paused when they heard that one of these elite and trained military diver s died preparing for the rescue mission. is that a clue how difficult this process w

our ivan cabrera is here to tell us about it. ivan?credible video there coming out of central province of china. this is -- if you want to call it landslide season because there's so much rain across the area. but it is also typhoon season. so let's talk about our latest typhoon. in fact, this thing is already impacting our good friends in japan here. ryukyu island. look at okinawa. the eye of the storm passed just to the west there. those are the ferocious winds. what are we talking about? 140-kilometer per-hour winds. the equivalent of a category 1 atlantic hurricane here. this is now becoming more elongated here. i think we're going to transition over the next 24 to 48 hours from a wind threat to a rain threat and it's going to be a lot of rain. look at this hook here. typically these storms, and i've followed many, many of them. they hook out to sea like that. impact with the eastern side of japan. but this one is bisecting the strait going into the sea of japan. and it's going to do that with 70, 80-kilometer per hour winds. take

let's bring in our meteorologist ivan cabrera. they had a break in the weather at one point. that is so important for these teams to get in there. that may be a short change coming in. >> they're going to get breaks. there will be windows where it's not going to be raining. 9 problem is we are in the rainy season. this is the monsoon, right? so we talk about torrential downpours. and it's the kind of rain that can put down easily 100 millimeters of rainfall in just an hour. so that's the kind of rainfall rate we're talking about. so let's check in here and stay positive here. they do have access to water, right? so if they did survive the flash flood out there and they're in a little pocket there, hopefully we'll get to them soon. but there it is. there's the ramp-up here. we are in the monsoon, and it's just a matter of how much rain, not so much whether it's going to -- we're not going to have several days where it's going to be nice and sunny and dry. this is the area we're talking about here. when you get these explosive thunderstorms during the afternoon, they are charge

let's check in with cnn meteorologist ivan cabrera, who is keeping an eye on that for us. ivan?joe, as you mentioned, not just showers. we're talking about torrential downpours, 1, 2, 3 inches an hour. we're in the middle of the monsoon season here in thailand. we have had a bit of a lull the last few days, but now we can show with the correspondents getting poured on, the water is continuing to pour into the cave and it's only going to get worse the next few days. so this is where we started back june 23. we've had significant rain since then, but then we had this nice lull there. they have been pumping out the water out of the cave. why isn't it dry? topography. we have mountains to the north. even if it doesn't rain heavily over the cave or over the rescue mission there, we have to drain that water, right? and so as the rain hits the mountainside, it's going to come down and it is going to continue to pour into the cave system, which as we have been talking about, the caves are there because of the rain, right? over centuries. we have been pouring monsoonal rains into the cav