john homan, al jazeera, haiti. still to come, the boy scouts of america is given approval to pay out $850 million to thousands of victims of historic child sex abuse. and taken off-line, cuba's social media rule change to protect prestige and prevent protests. ♪ meteorologist: hello, good to be with you. we are keeping tabs on the historic rain falling through japan. but over the past 24 hours, to cocoa scooped up another 250 millimeters of rain. it's still falling on friday. we could see heavier pockets. with that in mind, there is still the landslide alert covering kochi and took oshima, which we just talked about, picking up that 52 millimeters of rain. we are getting into some dry spells across southern portions of china, but heavier pockets of rain for thailand into western and southern areas of cambodia on friday. in southeast asia, heavy concentration of rain from the peninsula, borneo, into poppel law -- papua on friday can be expected. down under, clouds drifting in producing some showers. it's going to be