thundershowers are popping up in northeastern china and hailstorms hit the beijing area yesterday. this was the scene. heavy rain and hail pounded beijing on wednesday afternoon, affecting urban traffic. during the evening rush hour hailstones as big as ping-pong balls. the sudden rainstorm caused travel disruptions and inconvenience to many without an umbrella. conditions are looking up in the beijing area, but instead, north korea and northeastern china will see daytime thundershowers and a risk of hail too. now, in the south we are seeing some heavy rainfall due to a stalled frontal system, and on top of that a new system will be moving in. this is typhoon rammasun which battered the philippines yesterday. 150,000 people were evacuated and financial markets were closed due to the typhoon. the center is located over the south china sea but still engulfing the capital of the philippines. the center is located in this place packing wind gusts of 180 kilometers per hour and it's going to move northwest. it may make landfall in hainan by friday morning local time by friday as a stron

here in northeastern china, severe thunderstorms are fecting locations due to an upper cold low. and real heed over by jing. northern japan is at 30 degrees with plenty of sunshine on tuesday. now in europe. central locations are really being battered with severe thunderstorms. with large hail reported in germany. so for the next several days we're still likely to see some thunderstorms on the severe side. but the iberian peninsula is looking fine and gorgeous. 27 degrees and plenty of sunshine. but rainy in paris at 20. i'll leave you now for your extended forecast. >>> and here's a recap of one of our top stories. weather officials in japan say we may be seeing one of the worst storms in decades, typhoon neoguri is bearing down on okinawa. the warnings are in effect for the main island of okinawa and for miyako island to the south. local authorities issued an evacuation advisory for over 480,000 residents throughout the prefecture. officials at okinawa electric power company say about 22,000 households were without electricity on tuesday morning. airline companies have cancelle

. >>> listen to this, some growing controversy tonight after a shopping mall in northeastern china created parking spots for women only. take a look at this, the ten spots are indicated in pink. they're 11 inches wider than other spots in the lot. some female drivers appreciate the tailored design. others say the move is sexist and disrespectful. an online debate, some say is discriminates against women and the spaces imply they're bad drivers. a mall manager says most of their customers are women and the mall just wanted to make parking a little easier for them. >> that might work, who knows. i'd like a special parking space. >> we all would, right? >> let's talk about the weather forecast. kind of sticky, muggy out there. >> a little special forecast, cheryl and dan. hey, i'm all for a privileged parking space, right? especially when i have three kids i'm lugging with me. yeah, it is a special forecast because this is not what we typically see around this area in the bay area. it's very sticky the last day or two, and still seeing some clouds out there, although the subtropical moisture

will proceed going bankrupt some of the large as solely as there's a major steel company in northeastern china is on the verge of bankruptcy if they say oh we three billion u.s. dollars actually creditors so you're really have this kind of problem and i think this problems going to get much much worse as we go forward because you know high rates high interest rates is going to affect more and more companies. especially when you have this kind of economic slowdown that's already in progress so that i think they're really trapped in the very the opposition choosing between either capital flight and mass bankruptcy. tough place to be one final question victor what about the currency if china were to decrease rates the peg would come under pressure and a depreciating renminbi would have the u.s. crying bloody murder now. you know i mean the us lights complain about this but i think frankly it's it's kind of a silly issue i mean china has already becoming uncompetitive because of high rising labor costs and that would happen anyway because it was shrinking population game china so you know if they

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china. kengo okamoto, nhk world. >>> a powerful system terse through the northeastern united states bringing heavy rain and powerful winds. our meteorologist sayaka mori is here with more on that, sayaka? >> a slow-moving and intense storm system has lashed the northeastern parts of the u.s. let's go to video. in rochester, new york, a car spun out of control on a flooded road and crashed because of the dangerous conditions. common scenes of heavy rain, blown-off roofs and downed trees from found from massachusetts to new york state. the national weather service confirmed that a tornado with winds of about 200 kilometers per hour touched down 11 kilometers outside of boston, while many houses and buildings were damaged no injuries have been reported from these storms. now, you can see skies are clearing up in the northeastern u.s. right now affecting parts of quebec with strong winds and heavy rainfall but that's going to move away within the next several hours. but behind it, much cooler air is coming in from northern parts of canada. that is lowering temperatures. a different story over the west. heat is building

philippines over the south china sea and then it exploded within hours, within a day, essentially, we haven't from a category one to category 5 monster, making landfall in the northeastern tip there in haikou and eventually a fourth landfall there in china. now at this point the threat will remain the rainfall. look at this, 100 to 300 millimeters of rainfall, up to about 13 inches on the higher end. take a look at this, some of the first responders getting themselves into trouble. this is pre-rammasun flooding. imagine over the next couple of days, john and isha, as a result of more heavy rain on top of that. >> wow, 20,000 people also were evacuated alone. chinese authorities are very good at organizing those mass evacuations. much more on the downing of malaysian airlines flight 17 just ahead. we'll go live to the ukrainian capitol to see what the next steps are for international investigators. oil tycoons, and ambassadors of countries known for their fine cheeses. yes i am rich. that's why i drink the champagne of beers. ♪he cadillac summer collection is here. ♪ during the cadillac summer's best event, lease this all new 2014 cts for around $459 a month or purchase