this is jal moving west-northwest. over the next few days it will be making landfall somewhere in the eastern, southeastern coastal areas of india. of course, the rain over the next couple of days will be increasing ever more so. and, of course, upping the risk of flooding as well as landslides. temperaturewise, things are looking pretty calm right now for beijing. like i said, temperatures do take a tumble as we hit saturday into sunday. upper teens in seoul as well as tokyo. 21 in shanghai. 25 in taipei with showers and a bit wet in hong kong. next we want to go to the caribbean because we have a hurricane to talk about. we'll come back to north america. hurricane tomas here moving northeast, 16 kilometers per hour, heading right now between the caribbean and -- rather cuba and hispaniola and aiming for the bahamas and turks and caicos islands. strong winds around the center, around 135 kilometers per hour. next 48 hours, precipitation forecast models showing an incredible amount of rain, especially falling for hispa

jal was fined about $50 million. the struggling japanese carrier says the eu fine will not affect its reconstruction plans and will use reserve funds to cover the loss. >>> huge fiscal deficits of ireland and portugal are rising -- raising concerns about another credit crisis in the n-year government bonds of the two countries have been declining since the start of this month, falling below the levels when the debt problem in the eurozone deepened earlier this year. prices of greek and spanish bonds are also dropping as both countries are saddled with huge deficits. investors are staying away from these bonds because they fear the economy -- the economic recovery in these countries could be delayed. >> the more they tighten fiscal policy, the more they will also impair growth. and you get to a vicious circle. and what is absolutely certain is that there will be further fiscal crisis in the eurozone. >>> and this news just in. a japan coast guard official has claimed responsibility for leaking the video of the collisi

our runner up, tell evan jal lift, glenn beck. >> you are going to hear the liberals start to throw msnbc throw them under the bus hard. here is why. msnbc is marked for death. if it is sold to comcast, comcast will run it like a business. if it remains liberal, it will just be a good leb beryl station. it will just run things that will actually get ratings. if it is -- if it's not, it will most likely be a news channel. i don't know what they are going to do with it. it won't feature keith olbermann. they know that. so just like everyone, as soon as they start to outlive their usefulness for radicals and revolutionaries, they shoot them in the head. that's what's going to happen to msnbc. they will offer up a false choice. let's say, we are willing to get rid of msnbc. you just get rid of fox and then we can have real news. mark my words, that's what they will say. we'll get rid of msnbc and you get rid of fox. yeah, really, you will do that. oh, you will shoot the shows that nobody watches on one that's marked for death anyway. >> so now we know he doesn't know anything about television

the speaker pro tempore: the jal reserves the balance of her -- the gentlelady reserves the balance of her time. mr. perlmutter: he's not here so why don't we close. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from north carolina is recognized. ms. foxx: thank you, madam speaker. i realize that we are here to debate something other than the continuation of the tax cuts and staving off the tax increases which are coming right around the corner. however it's important that we continue to remind the american people that our colleagues across the aisle continue to refuse to deal with what's the most important issue that we need to be dealing with. instead we are here day after day, day after day, naming post offices and celebrating anniversaries of sports figures when our colleagues have known that the tax increases were going to occur on january 1, 2011 since that bill was passed. they have been in control for four years and they have refused to deal with it. furthermore, we haveal president and congress of the same party. they both know this had to be dealt with but they seem to want to leav

says, quite candidly, and i am quoting from premier winter about any talks he gave -- from premier win jal talk he gave at a world summit. >> we will make china a leader in innovation to gain world competition. he is basically taking it out of a playbook from the united states. china decided to use government policy to guide the private- sector into playing the leading role in r&d. it is the governor of policy working as a slight rudder in the private sector. the difference is that they decided to do this and they launched on a long-term plan to do this. the first five-year plan called for another five-year plan. in the united states, most of the patents were originated in the united states. but in 2009, for the first time, 51% of u.s. patents were awarded to non-u.s. companies. china has gone from 15th place to fifth place in international patents during that time. the world is some form rank 48 in mathematics and education. chinese universities are leading in the '80s. china has moved from 14th place to second place in published research articles, now just behind the united states. eight