i stole that from pedram last hour, by the way. let's bring in pedram.le that joke from last hour, pedram, but it was so good. >> i appreciate the kudos. you're a good man. it rolls off the tongue, but it's a little hard. absolutely. we'll just talk weather. we'll take it from there. a lot of activity, of course, around japan in recent days. we've touched on so much wet weather and typhoon activity in recent weeks. six of them across east asia. three of them across japan. kochi prefecture across japan we had a landslide take place. remarkable rainfall totals we've touched on here, exceeding, almost quadrupling the average, wettest august on record. that is 47 inches. the 1200 millimeters. now the record heat taking a toll on this region. in fact, tab laith the last 18 days across tokyo, temperatures one to three celsius or about 2 to 5 degrees fahrenheit above average. july 1 celsius to 3 degrees above average. and look at the video coming out of portions of japan. we know nearly 10,000 people in just the last month have been admitted to hospitals across

meteorologist pedram javaheri has more details.t away. >> yeah, guys, commenting on the afternoon, in southern california where 100 water rescues took place in the region of southern california. look at the seas in the region, they put sand berms up and sandbags up across the beach, giving the perspective to the 20-foot waves across the beach. and the coastal view there in the region, as well. kind of reminding us of hurricane linda. and looking at the peak there on wednesday afternoon. again, hundred water rescues conducted by the san diego police. the hot spot known as the wedge in newport beach if you're familiar with that region, 25 rescues done in just two hours because of the dangerous waves. a lot of people getting out there. officials saying rip currents are a major threat and the waves are a major threat as well. as we look at the image. by courtesy of the astronaut, reed wiseman, a category 5 hurricane churned up the waves to 35 feet. and the storm here is falling apart. of course it will not impact anybody out over the o

. >> let's go to our meteorologist pedram javaheri. pedram, this is very severe. give us an idea of what people are dealing with. >> as far as southern taiwan goes, rosemary, you may recall a couple of weeks ago we were talking about a gas line in a southern taiwan city. the sewage system has been overwemd with the explosion that injured some 300 people. it took 30 lives with it. this rainfall coming down upwards of feet in a matter of a couple of days really prompting issues in this area. footage with brand new flooding taking place. historic amounts of water for some of these areas where they're adapt to being able to take on water, but when you have a damaged sewage system, certainly a lot of things going to go wrong, and that's exactly what's been happening over this region with the rain falling. the satellite imagery not very promising as far as what's ahead of us. thunderstorm activity. from hanoi you'll be getting in on the action if not already here when it comes to heavy rains that are in the forecast. hong kong about four inches or 100 millimeters has co

pedram. >> white a ways off shore off southern california. the direct impact not going to be felt.hey need the raflg across southern california. that's unfortunately not going to happen. the satellite imagery showing you the storm system roughly 900 miles or about 1500 kilometers south of los angeles and the tracks initially will take it parallel to the coastline and pull it away from the coast on into cooler waters but you take a look at the perspective out of portions of southern california, in particular, malibu, the video showing you the waves are already really beginning to pick up in intensity, in fact, we can tell you the malibu pier is closed as state park officials closing it after a piling was knocked loose and a surfer lost his life out there as well occurring on tuesday, rescuers performed cpr on the man but he was later pronounced dead and lifeguards saying cabrio feet, 15 feet and in newport beach, officials saying the traffic so bad a lot of people trying to make their way to the coast, two hours to get out there but the conditions only expected to get worse. the sto

meteorologist pedram javeheri joins us. hi, pedram. we see him, we don't hear him. we will later in the show. >>> we are going to return to our top story when cnn's special coverage continues as well, getting a look at the destruction in gaza firsthand. it's not hard to see why the u.n. says it will take decades to rebuild. plus, egypt's new president tries to establish his new role as peace maker. we'll go live to cairo after a short break. >>> you're watching cnn's special coverage. i'm max foster in london. the headlines this hour, it's day two of a three-day cease-fire between israel and hamas. all indications are that the truce is holding. all of israel's ground forces are outside of gaza in defensive positions. there are no reports of any rockets being fired from gaza into israel. the nato officials tell cnn there are now about 20,000 russian troops massed on the eastern ukraine border. that's an 8,000 troop jump from last week. the buildup comes as ukrainian forces come in on donetsk. >>> family is mourning the shooting of major harold green and 15 of his coa

meteorologist pedram javaheri is tracking it. joins us now with more. pedram? >> reporter: this is one of the most densely populated portions of our planet when you talk about this region, stretching out of hong kong all the way into portions of northern veet navm. we know this storm system at this point, there has been about a 50% chance of forming right near the gulf of tonkin, the capital of hainan, of course hanoi. tremendous rainfall we expect. i don't think it will become much of a wind maker but the rainfall could easily exceed 11, 12 centimeters over the coming days as it moves over this region. but it's been rather quiet for the month of august when it comes to tropical activity after a blazing start over the past month and a half or so. we're now below average in the named storms department in the west pacific. 13, 14 at 14. typhoons below average. super typhoons, remember july we had back-to-back super typhoons. four in the western pacific and this is the busiest time of the year and busiest basin when it comes to tropical activity. you take a look.

what's happening in this part of the world, pedram. >> we haven't seen hurricanes hit this area in a long time. the hawaiian islands, 6400 square miles, the pacific ocean, 64 million square miles. hurricanes very rarely impact this region. pretty impressive on satellite imagery, you take a look at the rarity of impacting hurricanes, only in 1959 hurricane dot, 1992 hurricane made landfall in this region. this storm system again sitting at a category 4 equivalent at this hour, winds about 133 miles per hour, 215 miles per hour. the models suggest it's going to go directly toward the hawaiian islands later this week, very impressive, very rare when you take a look at this, and karen as well you look at this. the impressive nature of how organized the rotation is with this, only 4% of hurricanes turn out to be this impressive, something to be looking out for here. >> pedram, thanks so much. >>> thanks so much for joining us for the special coverage on cnn. i'm going to make room now for natalie allen. i'll see you back here tomorrow night. >> i'm errol barnett, i'll be back with the lat

. >> pedram javaheri is back with more. what's the picture in california now?> as you touched on, the drought has been very significant in recent weeks, from bad to worse. over the past three weeks, 40% of the state of california was in exceptional drought, from san francisco to los angeles. you fast forward, that number has doubled now to nearly 60% of the state of california in that exceptional drought zone. any sort of water is good news, but unfortunately, the greater los angeles area still not getting much in the way of moisture. all of this heavy rainfall came from i-15 corridor, across some of the high country deserts before you work your way into nevada. still strong thunderstorms this morning rolling across portions just north of las vegas, where we had flash flood watches and warnings in place as well. near mesk eat, nevada, this area needs the moisture, areas to the south and west need it too, but it looks like the monsoonal moisture will be confined in the deserts right now. take you out towards the pacific ocean, the island of hawaii right there, t

pedram jawahiri has the answers. >> data across portions of japan that has been kept since 1886, and this is among the wettest last couple of days. in fact, the wettest place on our planet has been southern japan since saturday afternoon. 40 inches of rainfall has come down in this region. 815 millimeters. that is 32 inches to be exact. it is very close to what the city of seattle in the united states gets in an entire year. they've seen just in a couple of days. again, doubling their monthly average. historic floods here. you work your way out toward shionomisaki, 600 millimeters, about 20 inches of rainfall. kochi, japan, roughly 30,000 people in this region have been advised to evacuate just because of the threat of rivers bursting their banks. we know the region experiencing power outages. a remote area of kochi some 78 children were stranded in a summer camp because of mountain landslides that took place in that region. of course, hundreds of homes have received damage as well because of the amount of water that is on the ground. so the last thing you want to see is another dist

pedram if i've got my trip booked should i cancel? >> it might be a good bet if you don't want to spend it with a lot of rainfall. an unusual set of circumstances here bringing these storms in very close proximity to hawaii. looks like at least one of them could be directly impacting the islands. quite unusual to see this sort of a setup. last time we had a tropical storm or hurricane make landfall in the hawaiian islands was iniki back in 1992789 you've got to go back 24 years. prior to that it was 1959. these lines here indicative of all tropical storms in history and hurricanes that have impacted the islands. 11 named storms have come within 60 miles of 100 kilometers of the islands but only two being hurricane dot and hurricane iniki have made landfall there across portions of hawaii, way on the western side across this region. very unusual to see this. you look at the current satellite perspective, iselle sitting in place. we have julio right behind it. don't see that too often. one good thing to note is the cool waters on the ea

pedram has details on that. hi, pedram. >> hi, max. this region of japan, the wettest single location on earth over the past three days. it's seen nearly a meter of rainfall over the past week. take a look at the video out of this region. we know a fatality has occurred with all the rainfall that has come down in this area. a serious injury. the rain began sometime saturday morning. it literally has not stopped across this region for the last several days. accumulating to 800 millimeters. it is already one of the wettest months in august for this region in southern japan. five days into the month of august and we know an area, a very remote part of kochi, 78 children have been stranded because of the landslide that has occurred in the region. the pattern over the last couple of days showing you doubling the number of rainfall. it's also seen 600 millimeters of rainfall. that's 32 inches. this is 24 inches. that is about what the city of seattle gets in an entire year. this is what the city of london gets in an entire year. look to the

meteorologist pedram javaheri joins us from the international weather center. bardarbunga volcano -- checking my notes again, really hard, how much of a threat now does it really pose? >> you know, the threat is on the increase and very rapidly, errol. we've seen nearly 4,000 subglacial quake as cross this region underneath this mountain and that's really a major concern and that's just since saturday afternoon. juice in the past 24 hours seen 300 quakes occur. this is among increased activity and shallow level of magma movement beneath the surface a sign something will be happening inside the next few weeks, next few month, perhaps. it's very hard to tell with this sort of volcano but the situation across the middaryn, mid-atlantic ridge and notorious and the eurasian plate pulling off and one towards north america and right over iceland a region notorious for volcano, 130 volcanic mountain as cross this region and the one in particular that's causing the concern right now, bardarbunga as errol told you is right here, thisindicative of what's going on. flood w

so these boats ruined, pedram?st be the livelihoods of a lot of people. >> the race was taking place there, errol. we've seen some 200 people plucked from the waters as well. and this time yesterday we were talking about tropical storm bertha, at least remnants of bertha that skirted across the eastern united states about four days ago, tracked across, all the way across the north atlantic and made a secondary landfall of course remnants of it again across portions of ireland. but the boats certainly not in good condition when it comes to what occurred here because we had seas very high, winds up to 60 miles pr hour or 100 kilometers per hour. and showing you the satellite imagery, here's what's left of bertha as it pushes across portions of the north sea. zooming in for that closer perspective, the coast guard off of belfast there, sent out onto the waters there where we know children had to be rescued. some 10 people treated for hypothermia as the race was taking place. and of course this was all with the expecta

. >> meteorologist pedram javaherri joins us from the international weather center.ram, that begs the question why sailing boats were out in that sort of weather in the first place. >> yeah. it's probably the most obvious question being asked today in that region, rosie-s we had a severe weather pattern in this area set up. and in fact the spin you see right here on satellite imagery is actually remnants of what was once hurricane bertha. skirted by the eastern united states and impacted directly the bahamas and also the turks and caicos island. came all the way back to the east portion of the uk and remnants battered this region with tremendous rainfall, hurricane-force winds, winds at times in the past 24 hours alone reaching 65 to 75 miles per hour or over 100 kilometers per hour. and right here just off the coast of belfast is where we had officials sent out the coast guard and the crew rescuing some 200 people in a sailing event that was taking place, an annual event that takes place this time of year in typical conditions but of course we know the storm was com

. >> yeah, and we can find out more by turning to our meteorologist pedram javaheri. >> good news atpoint no, reports of injuries or damage and no major impacts when it comes to air travel but the storm system pretty easy to pick out here on satellite imagery. very pinwheel, symmetrical, organized feature as it begins to roar ashore across portions of the u.s., europe. been quite active. seen seen three reports of tornadoes or water spouts in the last 24 hours. one of them in eastern england across portions of chromer. a region that this portion of the uk notorious for getting small grade tornadoes. when you consider the size of the uk roughly a little larger than the u.s. state of idaho, this region sees 25 to 35 tornadoes per year, which is the highest number for the surface area of anywhere in the world. pretty impressive. but small kale, no major damage in place. wet weather certainly going to be an issue across in region. it is approaching the transitional portion of the year here where we begin to see temperatures cool off. the activity and the weather pattern also intensifying

pedram is 6 foot. >> i don't know about your god given right.t's pushing it. >> this was a short flight. that's a couple hours. >> yes. >> i like it. i probably would buy it. definitely. i think there are times you could use it. definitely not during lunch, dinner, that sort of thing. >> absolutely. >> viewers look out for isa on your plane. >> on a plane soon. >> absolutely, guys. we're going to talk about what's happening across portions of california right now. a lot of people talking about the coast of california being really inundated in recent days by pretty significant waves. this is coming in court si of nasa. hurricane marie. at one point it was a category 5. it's 900 miles from los angeles. 1500 kilometers. look at the scenes out of malibu. a video showing you the surf already picking up. we know california state park officials closing malibu pier now. a pier was knocked loose in the afternoon. unfortunately a surfer losing his life being out in the open waters. life guards tried cpr. the man was later pronounced dead. malibu pier clos

we saw last hour, pedram, the famous surfing champ telling people to respect the ocean. when a surfer says respect the ocean, you want to listen. because there are some huge waves out there. >> there are. and it's hard to believe that we've had 100 water rescues just over this region. some of them occurred over the wedge, which is in newport beach. but look at some of the images coming out of this area of southern california where we know sand berms have been put in place to protect property. we've had reports of flooding, you can see the pier packed with people looking out on the coast. and this is the view would you have in some of those expensive properties. the next couple days, high surf advisories are in effect. this is similar to what we saw in 1997. that was hurricane linda. we had 30-foot waves in southern california. this storm at one point was category 5 marie. you take a look at the perspective as far as what this storm system is doing right now, this is the image that came out about three days ago. nasa sharing this one from the iss. and you see how massive

. >> let's turn to pedram javehari. this isn't usual?our, reports of six tornadoes across the west in recent days. one of them across belgium caused four serious injuries as well. the storm system causing a few active storms across the region. portions of northern u.k. on into scotland where we have remnants in place. bertha pushed ashore. it was impacting the caribbean, skirted the eastern u.s. and damage left in places in france. we have trees down, power lines down and six reports of tornadoes, three in belgium, one near luxembourg. ef-1 scale associated with it. you take a look, the severe threat at a level 2 in a scale of 1-3. large hail, damaging winds, isolated tornadoes indicated in red as well. severe weather there. take you out over portions of japan where we had a long typhoon make landfall sunday afternoon. look at the footage. the wettest august on record across this region. records have been kept here since 1886. in some spots across southern japan we had reports of water reaching a junior high school's second floor and peo

thanks, pedram. >> you are watching cnn special coverage.osemary church is this and i'm errol barnett. stay with us. we will be back with more from ferguson, missouri, right after this short break. huh, fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. everybody knows that. well, did you know words really can hurt you? what...? jesse don't go! jesse...no! i'm sorry daisy, but i'm a loner. and a loner gotta be alone. heee yawww! geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. jesse? >>> hello, everyone. thanks for joining us for cnn's special coverage. i'm rosemary church. >> i'm errol barnett. a big welcome to those watching in the u.s. and all around the world. now, we are following two developing stories right now. first in ferguson, missouri, live picture, the protests have been much smaller, much calmer and can't see any protesters to note mostly officers there. just hours now after america's top prosecutor visited this volatile city. we'll hear how the past week of violence his affecting the childre

they don't deserve this, but pedram is here to tell us more. >> japan seems to be dealing with what taiwan was dealing with last year. it began raining saturday afternoon and has not stopped raining since. they've tallied 32 inches of rainfall since saturday afternoon. all sorts of records going down now. we know one fatality, one serious injury here. a population of over 300,000 people, they've all been advised to evacuate. especially the ones due to the threat, those close to the rivers because of the threat of the rivers bursting their banks and you can see the amount of water that's come down, already causing issues there. especially with property damage and mudslides. a major concern. take a look at what we have here, 800 millimeters, 3200 inches. that will be nearly what the city of seattlep get in an entire year you go off to the east. i've seen 600 millimeters of rainfall. they've seen it since saturday afternoon, the records, fifth wettest august on record, we're five days into the month of august, by the way. the single wettest day on record was across kochi. second wettest augus

. >> pedram, thanks very much. >>> britain's most famous landmarks went dark monday night to mark 100ears since the start of world war 1. this is quite dramatic. the london bridge going dark and here a single candle outside 10 downing street. a solitary candle was left on as a symbol of hope. >> yes. >> i remember where i was when ronald reagan was shot, i was in sixth grade. and james brady he suffered in that assassination, he has died. he was shot in the head during the 1981 assassination. he was partially paralyzed. he had a severe brain injury, he later became a prominent gun control advocate. >> it should be noted he was a hero. he jumped in front of the gunman and tried to sacrifice his own life. the brady bill requires background checks for gun purchases. brady's wife reflected on her husband's story of survival in an interview just a few years ago. >> shot by a deranged young man. had severe brain injuries. >> jim was pronounced dead at one point? >> yes. they read his obituary on the news. and then he made a miraculous recovery. >> much in the way that gabrielle giffords has

thank you very much pedram. >>> let's shift gears and focus on israel.hree top hamas leaders were killed by israeli air strikes overnight. we are joined now live. let's talk about the airport. how much capable is israel to deal with this possible threat? >> reporter: well, the security here is very tight. they do have a missile defense system around the airport. they always have. and there's always the iron dome system which has been very successful. as you remember about a month ago, one rocket from gaza did land within about a kilometer of here. that meant that many airlines decided for about a day and a half that they would avoid ben gurion airport. it was seen as almost a boycott of israel. they decided it was safe to continue flights here. what we did have last night, though, was a televised statement coming from a hamas spokesperson warning all international airlines that they should stop landing, stop taking off from ben gurion airport. and that was almost five hours ago. we are being told that pretty much all air traffic here is carrying on as no

now, for more on the fires and rare combinations of hurricanes headed for hawaii, you can bring in pedrami, they are closing some of the public schools ahead of this storm? it does seem serious? >> it is. schools closed for thursday across maui county and the hawaiian islands because of what's going on there. across portions of sweden, we know 120 kilometers away from stockholm, impressive fire situation in this area. if you measure the amount of coverage we're talking about 150 square kilometers. roughly the size of the district of columbia in the united states. that's the largest fire in 40 years. improved conditions with wetter weather headed in this direction. tropical storm bertha never impacted the united states directly. it's going to cruise across the atlantic ocean. sometime later this weekend, remnants of it at this point, nontropical storm, will bring in plenty of rainfall in western europe and speeden early next week. at least good news with that across the area of europe. piggyback out toward the pacific ocean. we have hurricane iselle in place. look at the weakening take pla

thanks for that pedram. >>> and now, a night of peaceful protests in ferguson, missouri, briefly turned into a tense confrontation just before midnight local time. several people began throwing bottles, one of them filled with urine. authorities responded by clearing the crowd and making arrests. >> captain ron johnson says several guns were seized after someone in the crowd threatened to kill a police officer, a total of 47 people were arrested, mostly for failing to disper disperse. >> the elders in this community, v volunteers, activists and the clergy came out in large numbers. they walked. they talked. they urged order, calm and peace. they had a calming influence on the younger people. >> and it's good, in a way, to end what have been nights and nights of violence with a positive development, what could be a turning point. but we'll wait and see as the sun rises. we do appreciate all of you staying with us through all of this. you've been watching cnn's special coverage. i'm errol barnett. >> and i'm rosemary church. much more is coming up on early start. [ male announcer ] eligib