kyushu electric power service said it started working on the number two reactor at the sendai nuclear power plant in kagoshima prefecture, southwestern japan. the reactor will be shut down by thursday morning. once the unit is shut down, 42 of japan's 54 nuclear reactors will be out of service. kyushu electric wants to restart the reactor in four months after exchanging fuel rods and inspecting the turbines. but it is unclear when the company can restart the reactor. another reactor at the plant remains offline even though regular checkups have been completed. the utility has yet to obtain consent from local governments to restart their operations. following the nuclear accident in fukushima, irregular practices of power companies and the central government have come to light triggering public distrust. >>> many children were left without a mother or father after the earthquake and tsunami last march. now the youngsters must cope with deep emotional scars. in fact, giving these children proper emotional care is one of japan's more pressing issues. nurse ris and centers for child care

the taroko is modelled on the 885 series of japan's kyushu railway.t travels the 200 kilometers between the taipei suburb of tsulin and the east coast town in two hours. taiwan's railway has employed young female conductors to enhance its image. they provide attentive service as only women can. this is taiwan railway's new strategy. here is our heroin, hsu jui-ting. after graduating college, jui-ting passed a railway exam with a 1 in 50 acceptance rate. she was hired as an executive candidate, a future leader of taiwan railways. today, jui-ting works on a taroko added to the schedule. she waits for the train at a relay station. the train is pulling in. she will be on duty for its six-hour round trip run. she exchanges information with her predecessor. a restroom seems out of order. she first confirms the departure and arrival times. making a train run on schedule is the conductor's most important job. after confirming the schedule she checks the restroom in each car. jui-ting is a little too eager. the room is still occupied. she makes sure the faucet

we've already had numerous flooding reports in kyushu and kan t kanto regions. 94.5 millimeters per hour, high for the month of august and nerima and haneda airport, lots of arrivals and departures were canceled and postponed on your friday. now we're looking at additional amount of 150 millimeters in kanto regions so warnings for flooding, landslides and mudslides are a critical concern. more rain in eastern china, all of the moistures surging up there, spreading toward the northeast and into north korea, and thailand is looking at very heavy rain as well. bangkok at 33 degrees, tokyo looking at 26, so a little bit cooler than yesterday, but beijing at 28 degrees. heading over to north america, let's start off talking about this hurricane irene, a very dangerous storm indeed, this is all the way in, well offshore of the florida peninsula, but now it's a category 2, and it looks like it's going to intensify again into a category 3, which is a major hurricane, as it approaches and aims towards the eastern coast of the united states. it may even make landfall in north carolina, and then al

w the ti fnt lks like it is ing to be vi ay omjapa wee already had numerous flooding reports in kyushu a region. 94 millimeters per hour, that's record breaking amount of rain. we've seen 90.5 for the month of august. in haneda, lots of arrivals and departures were canceled on your friday. we are looking at additional ouf millimete inisre ndslides, flooding and ancn. more hvy rain and fod for youasrncha. e isreil seang wa torea io okg vy av rns ll bangkok 33. tokyo 26, so a little bit cooler thanery. beijing at 28 degrees. heading over to north america, let's start off talking about this hurricane irene, a very dangerous storm indeed. this is all the way in -- well offshore of the florida peninsula but now it's category 2 and it looks like it is going to intensify again into a category 3 which is a major hurricane as it approaches and aims towards the eastern coast of the united states. it may even make landfall in north carolina, and then all the way up to massachusetts we've got hurricane warnings and hurricane watches. dangerous storm surges, damaging winds are picking up those wave

in southern kyushu, we'll be seeing another additional of 200 millimeters possible in those areas. shanghai may be seeing 150. so warnings, advisories will be posted in much of these areas on your friday and saturday. so please do check your local advisories. this system is also pulling all the moisture up into japan, so tomorrow we'll be seeing scattered showers and also isolated thunderstorms popping up here and there. lighter showers in the korean peninsula as well as northern china, but the heavy rain will be inland china. and where we really want that rain r rain, i guess we're not going to be getting here where the tell is 35 degrees and we want the rain to cool off those temperatures, but the typhoon doesn't want to be giving much of rain there. tokyo, we're looking at 31 degrees. heading over to north america now, let's start off talking about tropical storm emily. well, it used to be a tropical storm, now a remnant low. but still bringing lots of flooding situations as you can see here in the dominican republic, tropical storm emily has broken up after moving through the m