we have a video from northeastern china. residents have been hit by heavy snow and sleet since saturday. more than 20 centimeters of snow have piled up in chow yen. drivers have run into serious traffic disturbances and widespread blackouts have effected the area. hundreds of green houses have collapsed under the weight of the snow. so yes, the residents are heavily being effected and travel disturbances continue to impact the area for the rest of today. let's pull back and show you here that the peak of the heav snow will be tapering off. however, the winter storm will be lingering across the similar regions for the next couple days. as for japan, we have a cold surge of air coming in. this winter pattern will be kicking in starting tomorrow and making things light across much of the eastern half of the continent. especially in sapporo. you may see the first of the season up north starting thursday. things are still going to be rough across northern japan. specially the western flank. gusty conditions across the region. tho

is seen as vital for jump starting a stagnant economy and hosted a trade fair last month in northeastern china. 100 north korean companies took part. >>> china's new leaders are settling in to their new jobs and starting to work through the challenges they face. the economy is their number one priority. growth has slowed. senior officials are promising a fix. some analysts say they should start by putting a stop to bad investments by local governments. nhk world a mad ahas the story. >> reporter: the city of ordos rises above the autonomous region. the bulk of the revenue earned in the city came from making cashmere, but the coal mines started operating and making a lot of money. in 2004 city officials began increasing the population of an area to 1 million. since then, they have spent nearly $800 million new condominiums and other buildings. now the area has a lot of high rise buildings including a theater and government offices. not many residents, only about 70,000 people live here. >> all over the city homes but no occupants. >> with so many empty homes and so few people to buy them, and i

temperatures will be cooling off in northeastern china. beijing a high of 7. minus 10 in ulan bator. on the flip side of that, the tropics to the 30s going through your thursday. now into europe, though, across the northwest. one storm system after another has been pushing through here. into the uk. you actually are starting to see some improving conditions. this system moving away. but look at this monster coming in off the coastline here. that whole front is going to push onshore some severe gales, very well could be accompanying this and also some heavy rainfall throughout your day, on your thursday. but the rest of europe, looking rather decent. high pressure dominating. keeping things on the dry side here. experiencing some fog. meanwhile, to the balkans, over towards italy, you've been watching this storm system. good news, that is starting to dissipate. improving conditions across much of this region, as well. temperatures in the single digits towards the east. warsaw up to 5. on thursday, london at 12, and madrid getting up to 14 here on your thursday.

it's not going to be quite like what we saw in northeastern china, and the upper elevations could be seeing some snow being buffeted around, though. and when that happens it can certainly lead to some problems with the driving. that's reduced visibility and some slick roads. most of the precipitation is going to be rain, though. along western japan and up in towards the north. the wind are going to be very strong as well. in fact, gusts in nagasaki have been reported 106 kilometers per hour. so very, very windy. tornadoes can't be ruled out. we're talking about thunder and lightning, too. escaping all of that will be tokyo, good news for people living in the capital. across the rest of eastern asia here on the continent, it's looking very clear and dry. down towards the south, though, there is a tropical depression in the south china sea. now, it's not looking like it's going to organize further, but it will be bringing some heavy rain into southern vietnam and cambodia and also bringing some strong gusts across the philippines. here are your temperature, then. 26 in hong kong. the l

still bring in snow showers in northeastern china and north korea. snow will be continuing throughout the day, but thundershowers in south korea will be tapering off by this afternoon. sunny skies will be coming back to the okinawa islands as well as taiwan. but rain in southwestern china will spread towards the east. going to be seeing the heaviest rain today. temperatures will be quite warmer than yesterday in beijing. 11 degrees expected. tokyo slightly cooler than seasonal with high of 17 degrees. rain will be clearing up by this evening. all right. moving into the americas then. a low pressure system is moving into british columbia once again. that's going to produce coastal rain and heavy mountain snow. expected to see as much as 30 centimeters of snowfall in the next 24 hours. even vancouver and seattle will turn wet from tomorrow. and then we have another system moving along the u.s./canada border spreading rain in the north dakota and south dakota. and snow showers in central canada. the system will continue to head towards the east and affe

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now it is affecting northeastern china with heavy snow and down towards north korea also mixed precipitation and towards south korea in seoul much of that precipitation will be rain. you can see that pulling in towards japan again. especially northern japan another round of heavy snow. here a different story. moisture already surging here. thunderstorms will be very active in taiwan as well as southeastern china and up to 100 millimeters of rainfall can probably be found i the next 24 hours. out towards the islands you can see this pink dot moving over the pacific. this is the tropical storm that we have been tracking which is moving at a very slow snail's pace towards palau and it will intensify over warm water and looks like it will be a tropical storm in the next 48 hours. already affecting the arch pa lego with stormy conditions and high waves and heavy rain due to the slow pace wilbe the key elements from that. 30s in the tropics, hence the development of that storm system. tokyo looking at 11 for the high. and take a look at biting cold. things calm across much of canada and the united

across northeastern china and southeastern russia and parts of north korea, this is where we find a winter storm impacting the region with snow. additional snowfall could be as much as a10 centimeters. across the rest of china, things look nice but very cold. beijing had minus 3 degrees in your morning hours. things are tapering off in myanmar where the magnitude earthquake hit near mandalay region. it will be above the norm at 32 degrees. it will remain dry the next couple of days. tokyo, as i mentioned, 22. really nice. do enjoy that weather. it's going to get colder and colder into the mid week. in the american continent we have a system pretty potent moving across kwee breck, you have a freezing rain warning across the region and then this cold front is sagging down in towards texas. along it you find wetd and windy continues. some thunderstorms will be on the severe side, especially around the arklatex region with hail of a golf ball size and tornadic activity, which cannot be ruled out. across chicago where the nfl match-up takes place in and around the region, you'll find rain devel

we're going to be talking about some more snow, as well, heading into northeastern china. it's got to move through mongolia first. that can be bringing some cooler temperatures in, as well. there's already been some snow in northwestern china that's been causing quite a problem. take a look at this video showing you what happened when those roads became slick on sunday with heavy snow, causing at least 46 vehicles to become damaged in a multicar pileup in the beijing tibet expressway. unfortunately, one person did die in this accident. another five were injured. following the accident, three people were trapped in the wreckage. local firefighters and nearby motorists helped to free them after a three-hour ordeal. now, it's still very cold in the region, but thankfully that snow has started to taper off now. heading back to our bigger picture, we'll be seeing pretty clear conditions for the rest of china, but down towards the south we've got this rain band maybe bringing about 50 millimeters of rain in some places so, fairly significant. some showers for western indochina as

it's come across from northeastern china. again, gusts up to about 70 kilometers an hour accompanying the snow. you could see an additional 30 centimeters in the next 24 hours. you'll remember we were talking yesterday about residents in hokkaido. thousands of people left without power. so, fixing these problems is going to be even more difficult, with this second storm. now the rest of the country is also going to be seeing some showers. sort of spilling down from the north here, as well. but we have this low frontal system coming up from the south. so it is going to be another fairly wet day on thursday. now these showers here, across southern china, have been ongoing for the last several days. that's been cause of concern for flooding, it's unseasonably wet here. they are going to clear up a little bit by thursday. by thursday night another system is going to start to form and move into the same region. so it will be continued concerns as we head into the weekend for, as i mentioned, flooding. also land slides and mudslide

you can see the conditions that people have been dealing with in northeastern china. this is a snowstorm moving through hailong jiang province. it doesn't just the snow. the temperatures dropped below freezing and were accompanied by gusty winds. so that made for dangerous windchill as well. the strong winds were accompanied by about 34 centimeters of snow in some places, and that led to road closures and the suspension of buses in the main city. behind the strong winter storm, high pressure is building in. so we're going to see things clearing now the the sky. but it is going to mean that things will stay very cold with that high pressure in place. let's take look ot our maps. this storm is heading across to japan. rather than heavy snow, we'll be seeing rain here. it could amount to as much as 100 millimeters or so along the western coast and the north. the upper elevations will be seeing some snow and we're also going to be dealing with some dropping temperatures. so watching those temperatures come down by a few degrees. the good news for us here in tokyo is we lo

it's going to be moving across the beijing area and heading into northeastern china and also north korea. blizzarding conditions could be expected. it's wet snow, as well, and we're getting an icy blast from the north so, that will spell ice on the roads, too. so definitely travel could be very dangerous. we're looking to the south to see a separate rain event, and this is going to be moving up through eastern china and then coming up to south korea as well as japan. japan on saturday looking bright and clear across much of the country as one system exits out to the northeast. but there will be that rain coming in from the south from the evening hours. sunday is going to be quite unstable through much of the country with showers and scattered thunderstorms. we're also watching a system down here towards the east of the philippines for some development. we could see a tropical depression here by sunday. let's take a look at temperatures now. 18 degrees in tokyo on saturday with 16 in seoul. but then they really fall away here, the temperatures from beijing, at 4 degrees to minus 10 for th

however, this is the ominous system just lurking up towards northeastern china. this one is going to be come across by wednesday night, bringing another round of snow. rain will be mixed in with it as well as we get those warmer winds coming up from the south. certainly another snow event up towards the north. now, talking about warmer winds down to the south, we've been seeing another rain event here in southern china. it's unseasonably wet here. in fact, the last several days we've seen ongoing heavy rain here, parts of guangzhou province picking up some rain, unfortunately likely to see another 50 millimeters in some places. flooding and mud slides and landslides will continue to be a concern heading into the middle of the week. minus 19 the high in ulan bator. really starting to see those figures drop quite rapidly now. 5 degrees in beijing and 11 degrees expected in tokyo on wednesday. same goes for you in chongqing. but we're still seeing a fairly warm day in taipei at 25 and 34 in manila. all right. we head now to talk about europe. now, it has been wet an

back behind snow showers continuing northeastern china as well as southeastern russia and an additional 10 centimeters likely. towards the south rain spreading over southern china and funan seeing the heaviest rain today. temperatures quite chilly. only 1 degree and actually a couple of degrees higher than seasonal. tokyo getting up to 20 degrees. we'll see the same figure into the next three days. finally, let's go over to europe then, a parade of low pressure systems has been dumping rain and strong winds across the northern parts of europe. we're seeing snow showers in the scandinavian peninsula and finland and northwestern russia because this cold front is swinging blue the black sea region and expecting to see the heaviest rain today. back behind us a new system formed south of the iberian peninsula spreading rain in much of portugal and southern france. this area is still dealing with the aftermath of flooding situation that occurred last weekend, so any slight amount of rain could worsen the situation. temperatures are in the single digits in the east, 5 degrees in warsaw, 4 degr

largely people involved in christian relief organizations both here in the united states and in northeastern china, who worked clandestinely and at great risk to their own lives, trying to open up a channel for north korean refugees to escape. north korea as you know it's probably the most repressive regime in the world at this stage. it is a place where millions of north korean citizens have literally been starved by an intentional government policy over the last 10 to 15 years. it is a place that houses and has passed for well over a decade a series of quake concentration camps were are tortured, executed for crimes no more serious than listening to a foreign radio broadcasts, reading the bible for disrespecting a picture of the dear leader. it's really a chilling book and if it works that should be a must-read for anyone who cares about human rights or who cares about the political environment in the foreign-policy concerns that relate to north korea. as a general rule, u.s. north korea policy follows a very similar and repetitive pattern. there are provocations by the regime missile launches,

lately with respect to an ad he has been running in the northeastern ohio area, talking about how chrysler is starting to build jeeps out in china. the obama campaign has gone after that ad calling it misleading, not mentioning in the ad that chrysler is still building cars in ohio, and in fact, expanding production in toledo, and the romney campaign has had some of its top seizure gats out on the sunday talk shows this morning defending that ad. it will be interesting to see if mitt romney touches on that subject here. last thing, fredricka, we are hearing some signs of confidence in the romney campaign even though they're slightly behind the president in a slew of recent battleground polls. they're saying they're going to win on tuesday, and you're hearing some talk inside the romney campaign that they feel they're going to win big, by at least 300 electoral votes. the only way we'll know is by watching. >> it will be interesting to see if they work in the auto industry in some capacity. meantime, president barack obama is making his final push for votes today. he was in the battleground state of new hampshire today. in the ne

china operations are ruled today. the week's top stories from superstorm sandy wreaks havoc across the northeastern usa leaving one hundred dead millions called in the country's most expensive presidential campaign to date in a tailspin. no peace for post gadhafi libya as the country's two major cities are attacked grenade strikes the security headquarters in tripoli when a car bombs detonated in benghazi. truth under attack in greece journalists show solidarity with whistleblowers who are being silenced or trying to expose government wrong. because fly in the streets of moscow russia's most radical nationalists merging in the capital and nationwide aiming to stir up divisions on the country's dave unity. within about the past seven days top stories in the latest developments this is the weekly. while voters in florida lined up to cast their ballots in early voting those in new york a lining up for fuel rations and blankets much of the big apple remains paralyzed and tens of thousands still without power heat or hot water nearly a week after superstorm sandy ripped through. with the political fallout from the disaster. sh

china, though. rachel ferguson has more with weather. rachel? >> certainly we are going to be see snow spreading across northeastern asia over the next couple daysa low here moving across into the beijing area and heading towards the northeast. north korea is going to be getting some of that snowfall. down towards the south, it is a rain event. that coming up through southern china in towards the east, through shanghai and from saturday evening, we're going to be seeing it coming into japan. pleasant day across much of japan on saturday as a low pulls away at the moment. however, we will see that rain coming in from the south and sunday is going to be a little unstable with showers and thunderstorms scattered throughout the country. temperaturewise not too bad, 18 on saturday. in tokyo, while we have 16 in seoul. temperatures will start to fall away from beijing. five degrees here and minus five up in ulan bator. let's head into the americas. out towards the northeast there has been some significant snowfall from a large storm system just departing, moving across towards the atlantic. it is still going to be causing some problems for the canadia

china's second stealth fighter has made its maiden fight. chinese media reports say the jet took off on wednesday from the northeastern city, they are calling it a success. stealth planes are designed to evade radar detecting. chinese version is still under development. an expert says it will take seven to eight years before the jet is ready for battle. stealth number two got airborne just before this week's communist party congress. a final feather in the cap for president hu jintao has he prepares to step down. >>> angry demonstrators in eastern china. plans to expand a petrochemical plant brought these residents out on the streets. massing in front of the city hall, they said the plant emits harmful chemicals dangerous for the environment. police detained some of the protesters. the local government later backed down, announcing it had withdrawn the construction plans. analysts say local authorities were probably under pressure from beijing ahead of the national congress. >>> a pakistani girl shot by islamic militants last month is now able to talk with her family. she arrived at this hospital in the uk in critical condition. the 15-year

northeastern united states. a huge explosion kills at least 22 people in the saudi arabian capital, riyadh, after a fuel tanker crashes into a flyover. just one week from now, china's communist party will gather in beijing to appoint new leaders, a once-in-a-decade event. one of the most urgent tasks will be tackling the growing gap between rich and poor. despite china's rapid economic rise, more than 100 million people are still living below the poverty line. damien gramatica reports from one of the most impoverished states. >> in china's poorest province, deep in its rural heart, life still amples by. the economic boom in the cities and along the coast is happening far from here. nevertheless, today they're celebrated. this is a first child. there's a bank question, gifts, a refrigerator, a new bed. he could never afford these himself. the farmer and laborer has earned nothing this year. he's one of over 100 million chinese in its villages still living below the poverty line. >> it's not fair. i've been to the cities. they're rich, eat in fancy restaurants every day. my life doesn't compare. >> china's economic growth has been deeply unfair. some have not benefit

china corporations are today. fifteen minutes past the hour now good to have you with us here on our team despite the devastation hurricane sandy wrought across the northeastern u.s. has proven to be something of a political opportunity for the two main candidates both of whom rush to offer a sympathy for ways to criticize the other over it lori hardest hit the streets of new york to gauge which candidate best. new york was hit hard by hurricane sandy will it affect the way new yorkers vote or the way they look at the issues this week let's talk about that i was a county alan sixty floor and i seen every day there would just be water. water everywhere was industry do you think the government has handled the storm well. how could they have done better they could have gotten the subway running a lot quicker but you think they have anything to do with how much water is down there no i think they're just really slow to respond i mean the whole thing with the buses over here is ridiculous and it's unconstitutional that you have to have three people in a car i used to going to vote on tuesday. the city could have been wiped away if the voting polls and i have to be