aljazeera, the phillipines. >> let's check on the weather in the phillipines and elsewhere with richard saw flooding. what's the outlook? >> i think there's going to be an improvement in the situation and it's because of this typhoon much further to the north. all the air was sucked in from the southwest but is resulting in a very, very moist southwesty flow almost like a super monsoon. you see the rainfall factors up, enhancing the rainfall across the phillipines. it's sometime quite wet. there are sizeable rainfall totals reported. that's the total 24 hours to mid-day in manila. i've seen higher totals than that. it's less than it was but the rainfall total from the last few days eye hundred six-millimeters in six days. i could find other stations measures that way up. we've seen double the amount of rain in six days. quite exceptional conditions. if you struggle with the amount of rainfall, 25 constitutes a very wet day. looks like there is a lot of rain to have had but most over the northern portion was china. >> the defendants in a case are back in guantanamo bay for another pretil

just looking at in the phillipines.has moved to the north of taipei and is now a typhoon, so basically what we in the united states would call a category one hurricane right now. this will continue to move into china, so watching for flood concerns there, as well over the next couple of days. closer to home, the atlantic has been dead quiet recently, very impressive for the month of august to be this quiet. people along the coastlines like that it has been so quiet. we have activity we are watching off the coast of mexico, nothing forming yet. where do we have problems across the united states? pretty easy to pick out a frontal boundary going through the midsection of the country, you can see the clouds and rain across there. we've had this persistent rain from the south. that's a stalled out frontal boundary. it's been day after day of heavy rain. that is starting to diminish. i'll get to that in just a second. here's the frontal boundary. before that, we had temperatures 10-20 degrees above average. far go was in the

defense secretary is in the phillipines where military cooperation is being discussed.re is more rain on the way for flooded areas of china. we have a report. >> after a lengthy rain delay, was murray in a hurry to get the job done from new york? coming up in sports. >> these are defensive assets. two arrived within the last our, another four are due presumably any minute, actually. the runway begins at the tower over my left shoulder. the official statement from the british said this is purely a prudent and precautionary measure to make sure the u.k. interests and defense of our sovereign base areas, a movement of defense assets operating in air to air role only, not deploying to take any military action against syria. the military at pains to offer reassurance that these are protected assets, rather than the beefing up of military hardware in a deeply sensitive reason at a deeply sensitive time. >> what about reports we are hearing about russia sending two war ships to the east mediterranean? is that a direct response to the beefing up of the u.k. and french? >> well

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