to one fourth portion. the most helpful people eating seven-plus portions. questionsearch also whether sugar-rich fruit juice should count, but many experts say five a day at least feels achievable. asking people to do more made much.o much -- may be too politics and hollywood have a long history of working together, and now actress and campaigner angelina jolie is teaming up with britain's foreign secretary to try to prevent sexual violence in war zones. the pair have traveled to bosnia where tens of thousands were raped during the civil war in the mid-1990's. so far, there have only been 66 prosecutions for those crimes. the bbc a company her on that trip -- accompanied her on that trip. >> close to 100,000 people died in the bosnian conflict, a conflict that also saw a rape used as a powerful weapon. amid all the horrors of bosnia, the name srebrenica stands out where 8000 men and boys were massacred. the foreign secretary and angelina jolie came here as part of their campaign against sexual violence in

and the building you see the market street portion and the sanchez portion that no such is a reflexion of the change in the character of the building scale. the height open the market street is 65 photo and the building on sanchez is 45 feet. this is where the open space is all the rooftop amenity is on the market street portion and the mechanic stuff is back away from the market street portion op on the right hand. relative to the retail in a - how much 7, 8, 9 >> thirty seconds. >> apologize the corner was obviously an important dies and as you look at the bays they march up to the adjourn and turn the corner with cemetery and michael said we took an opportunity in the last two weeks with the community to look at some support and the building we're happy with the end result. >> thank you if the commissioners have questions we'll be sure to call you guys up. any public comment on that item? i don't have any speaker cards. seeing one sorry >> commissioner president wu and commissioner fong and commissioners. i'm ted olsen the third-generation person i speak both as a long-term resident

woods to occupy a portion of the public right-of-way to construct and maintain various improvements, including a driveway, associated retaining wall, a vehicular carousel to provide access to a proposed new single family dwelling at 1410 stanyan street landscaping, stairs leading to a public sitting area, and other related improvements within an existing unimproved portion of stanyan street between clarendon and mountain spring avenues; conditioning the permit; affirming the planning department's determination under the california environmental quality act; and making findings of consistency with the general plan, and the eight priority policies of planning code, section101.1. >> supervisor yee. >> yes, thank you president chiu. what i like to do today is request that we continue this on for another week to allow for the interested parties to continue having their discussion and bring it back next week for a vote. >> supervisor has made a motion to continue this item and it has been seconded by breed. that's the case. why don't we go to our first of three special orders. madam clerk,

that only goes to the form say portion; is that correct? >> correct. >> so i any you said they already have a conditional use permit pending. >> they have an application filed, correct. >> for what. >> for the use size. i don't -- they're still maintaining that they're not subject to formula resale use controls. the use size was submitted for the medical office. >> so there's the concession there? all right. an application is filed and we can process that. >> we'll move right into rebuttal. you'll have three minutes. >> first i want to say i appreciate the complex nature of the castro and its unique. it's also important when permits are issued they're issued properly because we were given -- and we asked about the conditional use requirement specifically and were told no so at this point, you know, i'm basically stuck with a project that's half filled and patients who are expecting to receive care there, contractor that's been paid and still no complete project so, you know, i'm mostly looking for a forward motion here so we can get some re

you have three to five portions. 36% if you have five to seven portions. risk of death is cut by 42% if you have seven or more portions a day. that's almost half your mortality risk. >> i think what's important is it shows that whatever you're eating, if you're eating some fruits and vegetables, even if you're not making five a day, you still have some benefit on your health. >> fruit has got so much sugar. we are told it was not poison like tobacco. >> vegetables do seem to have the strongest affect and salads. >> we need to radically changes our diet. >> around the mediterranean people would be laughing at us because they eat that every day. we need fruits and vegetables cheaper in this country. we need to change people's habits. >> sunshine. that would change our diet certainly in this part of europe. thanks for explaining it. >>> now, moving on to a story of course we have been covering the last few days. that of the fate of the missing malaysian plane. because authorities have issued a transcript today of the final communications exchanged between air

severe thunderstorms were popping up on and off the fjord eastern portion of the matter tree and all support the bus and other ear is unstable weather in northern portions of spain expected track again here on thursday and friday. his accent forecast. i do know should the woods across japan are hitting the road for their spring vacations some were stopping get their breast area where prehistoric creatures have reappeared and the lid and leave the city of bordeaux created the t rex models at the nearby discovered the fossilized teeth. they keep them under cover every winter to protect them from heavy snow and set them up in the spring the ground again and i met with. the i can't be dinosaurs to agree to that is until she starts falling. in november. i was a fundraiser and you know tommy in tokyo from oliver's here and in a row. thanks for putting a great day whatever i should. nhk world tv. this takes place at the recovery effort. it created woman teaches you a coke yes photojournalist. the subject of the heart of photographs include victims of natural disasters. awards. we have a spe

plenty of aerosols, in this instance smog ace ols over portions of east asia and china in particular. the highest density of it anywhere found on earth. you put that in place you have more cloud cover and you look at what's happening just above portions of eastern asia and china. the upper-level wipds in the atmosphere or the stret jet stream carried west to the east. and they carry a tremendous amount of smog aerosols over portions of the pacific ocean and we've seen studies suggest that all of this has ended up at least in small matters across portions of the western united states. and the study suggesting now these raindrops that are coming down over portions of the u.s., the convective variety of thunderstorms, and we've seen so many thunderstorms in recent years with the highest number of tornadoes as well in recent decades occurring over portions of north america. so a lot of scientists saying hey, this could partly be attributed to what's happening on the other side of the planet just because more aerosols are getting up into the atmosphere and clouds are able to form by clingi

the environmental portion of the application is being reviewed and they've given us an approximate four months so we'll continue out until september >> thank you it seems like it would be continued and it's been continued and continued. >> i'm sorry we did an environmental review we're reviewing the project for an additional exemption and my understanding is a class 32. >> okay. thank you. >> commissioner moore. >> move forward to continue as proposed. >> second. >> on that motion. commissioner antonini. commissioner borden. commissioner hillis. commissioner moore. commissioner fong and commissioner president wu. so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 6 to zero and places you under consent calendar consent calendar, are considered to be routine and may be acted upon by a single roll call vote of the commission. there will be no separate discussion of these items a member of the commission, the public, or staff so requests in which event the matter shall be removed from the consent calendar and considered as a separate item at this or a future hearing. item 5 case c at t

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of the sales price of the property and even larger portion of the owners actually equity if not all of it and jeopardize these elderly working class people's retierments and savings. i think these folks deserve to stay and live in san francisco and seniors or reap a dollar amount from their properties if they choose to use this for retirement. they are aren't speculators and wealthy landlords. this is all they have. they are home owners elderly and it is their income and retirement. in the city of redevelopment they have already taken away african american homes and now it seems for the few who are able to hang on to build a modest nest egg, the city is coming back to take that away too. are we comfortable in pushing out one group to improve things for another. have we learned anything from our history. i appreciate the hardship amendment that supervisor campos offered in committee but it still requires a homeowner to go through an extensive appeals process. we are talking about retirees going through health issues and they can't navigate and they can't afford to hire an attorney wh

portion of india.e using mortars to pump the water to the pipelines laid out to provide the water because of the serious shortage of water in this part of the world. and you look at this temperature, five of the top ten highest temperatures occurred here in india. 115, the hottest we can find, well known here for its extreme heat. also sitting at 113. 106 out of delhi, you bet, the pre-monsoon sale is out there. the air conditioning units, some of the street vendors out there trying to sell air conditioning units. and of course, the monsoon, and the forecast the season is for rainfall. about 96%, falling in line for below normal rainfall. we know about 14% of the national gdp comes from the agriculture industry, as well. so very serious situation when you talk about limited rainfall in the area. but plenty across the gulf coast states. tornado watch still in place across areas such as panama city and pensacola, the strongest storms around dothen, alabama, there is an indication of a tornado in the port

i hate to say it, that's a portion?maller dishes, bulk it up with vegetables. you don't feel like it is so tiny. >> who won? nobody. okay. >> now, rice. what size serving do you think is good if you have it? >> come on, beverly you know. >> this is cooked. it is cooked. cooked brown rice. >> the sauces you end up putting on the brown rice. >> there you go. >> that would be about what i would do. three scoops. >> okay. >> now, you really -- a little bit over, because a half cup is about that -- >> looks great on the table. >> by the way, when you see how small that is, this is a half cup serving. >> not saying we both have too much, i think. >> let's get some -- >> go on to some protein. we'll look at some chicken breasts now. what do you think is one serving? we're talking about a four ounce chicken breast. >> four ounces. >> oh, my gosh. please let it be be bigger than that. get that one. that's the one i would pick too. this is what i would pick. >> i would too, but i think -- >> you're looking at everybody is done wi

especially from the southern portions of the continent. what's happening is we have a couple of low pressure systems that's creating this busy weather pattern. what's happening down toward greece, rain, heavy downpours, also tornadoes, and also some hail being reported down there. it looks like the severe weather concerns will continue in to tuesday and even into wednesday, a good portion of the continent looking at the chance for some thunderstorms, and severe weather highlighted in orange, all the way up to germany and even into parts of france. so yes, make sure that you pay attention to the local weather alerts because it looks like it's going to be a very busy day on tuesday. paris at 16 with a chance for rain. rome at 15. moscow also seeing some rain with a high of 19 degrees. a little bit warmer in madrid, 21 with sunny skies. very fair pattern for you in that particular location. hope you have a good day wherever you are. here's a look at your extended forecast. >>> that's "newsline" for this hour. i'm gene otani in tokyo.?/cúcúc

for some portions of the area. london you should see a great start to the weekend but seeing some rain by sunday, and for rome you will see wall-to-wall rain with a high of 19 by monday, and some thunderstorms. and moscow also seeing a mix of sun and clouds but drier, high of 20 coming up by the beginning of the next work week. let's look at the forecast in asia. we do have a stationary front that's affecting the yangtze river basin. it is extending all the way into japan. by the way the western portions of japan saw rain totals of around 70 millimeters during a 24-hour period. and this will be a sustained weather pattern expected for those two areas. meanwhile, fog continues to become a problem for the korean peninsula, heading into the weekend with fog warnings still in place. temperatures topping off at 24 in chongqing, 28 in hong kong. manila, while the system that was responsible for a lot of rain is mainly dissipating, still seeing some rain and thunderstorms with a high of 33 degrees. that's a look at your f

of that is reduced because we will bring in the last portions of revenue to complete that project and you will see that the street related capitol programs have increased 178 percent which was the largest increase, and 63 percent for transit and expansion and then, not so much a percentage increase, but larger component of our cip, is staying in good repair and largely that is reflected because of that fleet chunk and the replacement of our fleet that is reflected there. to the right, you will see the revenue sources and we would like to tell the people this, and so our capitol improvement program is made up of 30 plus different sources and you are one of the different sources and each one of those groups have a different set of rules of how those dollars should be used and i would like to mention that so that the people can understand the complexity and that will make-up 2 billion and you will see the subway at the top and you will see ttf there which are proposed november ballot initiatives and so within the five year window, we are estimated 500 million coming in for projects withi

meanwhile back for the west high pressure is continuing to dominate the eastern portions of china and now into the korean peninsula. but the high pressure this time of year with the pollution developing in beijing will eventually shift with the east. so the korean peninsula see the pollution increasing for thursday followed by the weekend where japan will be dealing with this. so again the regent's to trot along the eastern portions of east asia also sings a shotgun for hong kong and was the day. you'll be seeing some rain coming up for thursday of twenty three degrees taipei at twenty four a sunny skies or shanghai the twenty six there is whole and twenty three but tell you you'll be seeing some rain had twenty five degrees here's a look at a severe tropical storm path which is now continuing to slowly move for the north is actually drifting right now eventually it will turn to the north and east and noble way of from the all the skyline. well that's a lot of islands but he will continue move on toward that direction may be taking up the waves of the areas of need to look out for tha

there's no rear yard in your building except for the portion of the deck on the side. the windows -- when you're at the property line windows have to be rated. i'm telling you you have some unusual conditions. when i bought that property five years it was the way it is. that house has been there since 1980 so i assume that this house is -- was under code and compliant, you know, when -- i mean, that's -- i mean, it's not new construction, but it was built in 1980 so, you know, i can't speak of it, this is not my area of expertise. >> okay. >> do you have any rebuttal? you have three minutes? >> commissioner, i don't want to belabor about who owns it now or not. on this drawing that i handed out to you before, you can see where we proposed to put the deck. also the height of the retaining walls -- i can assure you that the upper retaining wall, which is this one over here is less than 30 -- it's 46 inches. you can see where the foundation next door is so there hasn't been all this soil moved up as what's being claimed. it's difficult to get it to the correct soil /hr*el

and then back towards the west, also some clear conditions across central portions of china. but in the southeast, we're going to look at the stationary boundary start to redevelop and some rain showers coming out of this in the next 24 hours. heaviest areas could see as much as 80 millimeters of total rain. now behind that, where we have been seeing some very clear conditions, you want the rain, is in yunnan province. and temperatures just absolutely baking out here. got some imagery to show you out of this area of china, where residents have just been scorching under this heat the last several days. this unusually hot weather has pushed peak temperatures to nearly 40 degrees in yunnan province on monday. more than half of the cities in the region have been dealing with these highs, warmer than 30 degrees, all last week, and monday's hot conditions forced the local agencies to issue orange alerts, some of the highest for china. now it does look like those conditions are going to remain in place, so people who do suffer from heat stroke or heat stress very easily stay hydrate

also some precipitation in southeastern portions of china. you're looking at, well the rainy season really starting to kick in out here. persistent, not all that heavy, but persistent showers south of the yangtze river basin. for everybody else those warming temperatures will be cooling down going into your thursday after that front pushes by. beijing some of the warmest temperatures since the 50s out there for you here on your wednesday. up to 30 degrees, back down to 18 though right at seasonal there on your thursday. down towards the south of manila, rain showers and thunderstorms in your forecast. not directly associated with tropical depression peipah. now a depression. was a storm earlier on. now it's downgraded. threat with this is going to be the rainfall over the coming days. especially along eastern portions. you see tacloban still recovering from hainan. back in november. still people in shelters. that's going to be coming on shore. that's a disorganized storm toward the north. this is much more organized, severe cyclone ita drifti

look at the very pleasant weather for the western portions of the united states. but, the system back toward the east, this is a trough and a front that has consistently brought strong thunderstorms for the eastern half of the country. it is sliding toward the east. but, still seeing the red shading of the carolinas, into florida, for tuesday. we're looking at mainly for strong winds but possibly some large hail, and also maybe an isolated tornado because of the system being set up, and behind it, we do have that ridge, but fire weather danger for texas, new mexico, and in to oklahoma. this system that's going to push off to the east, still responsible for bringing some snow in to parts of canada and the canadian maritime. and so it's going to be quite cold behind this front. look at the chicago topping off at 3. 19 in d.c. 14 in atlanta. but back toward the west, los angeles topping off at 28 degrees. we wrap up in europe. we still have this very strong ridge of high pressure bringing very pleasant weather for the western portions of the couldn't thent. but back

>> we're not giving back a portion of the reserve, but giving back a portion that is set aside each year. our reserve account is our reserve account and i don't think staff is recommending that we give that back. >> right. >> the money that is allocated within the budget process, we have it down as $344,445 a year. we reserve the right to it in the future, but we're going to give that money back to the city and county, because we can continue to operate another year without having to accept the money. but that gives us the right next fiscal year or the fiscal year after this one to go and say we now need this money and we're accepting the money and unfortunately not giving it back because our reserve is depleted from a lafco perspective. >> i'm fine to approve as-is? >> thank you. >> colleagues have a preference? >> i am fine with not accepting the general fund allocation and utilizing the reserve for another year as along as we have the ability to access those funds in the future. because it appears that the money that we have in reserve is enough to get us through this particular proce

we did see some destruction backed with a north eastern portions of australia and queensland. his son here's a picture from cooktown we see the windscreen on again and knocking down trees knocking on the roofs and parts of buildings and a lot of rain with this particular system and a concern as even though is in much weaker system moving toward new zealand on the road going to be dealing with a grey wet situation we see here the continuing tightening of the ice of ours here means the pressure is trying to lower once again as it continues to move toward the north the south island of new zealand. mostly it's going to continue to stay around for the next few days that's not good because the more rain that falls over the area. we're going to deal with flooding and possibly some landslides down for new zealand. what a novel with a bit further north and take in what the philippines a tropical depression pay but continuing to move over the island and staying over the island. already hundreds of millimeters of precipitation have fallen and it looks like even the next seventy two hours

for some odd and of course the central portions of china as well. when looking at temperatures anywhere from nineteen inch on hyde twenty six in taipei twenty one is told in the western portions of the penny to look out for some for air quality coming in from beijing tokyo temperatures topping up in the mid twenties under mostly sunny conditions. here's a look at your own clear skies and very pleasant weather thanks to this persistent re age that's controlling the weather for the western portions of europe a pact with the east. so unstable weather bringing in rain precipitation you that bit of snow along with the rain down into the balkan peninsula. so looks like that there's going to be more activity going to the rest of tuesday into wednesday and now it is some rain over this particular area of various spots around the world were looking up to scott for something totally deaf and has a look at some video coming out of los angeles. this was a part of a blend of war. take a lunar eclipses as going to take place called the text reading because the sk

we are looking at some cloud cover for her the koreas and also in the western portions of japan lots of rain expected and solo say that the rain will be upon the forecast for soul also that ok with hyde twenty one degrees twenty four in shanghai chongqing you'll see some clouds a high of twenty and a four. japan is a holiday on tuesday but looks like that many of the plans have to be brought indoors because not enough you'll see a chance for rain with a high of twenty one also into tokyo book will call your signature is brain as well with high of twenty two o pm a good day where you walk is looking for staff forecasts i am to noon i do. and here. it is thousands of people celebrated the opening of this year's tourist season at the gateway to depend on northern alps ay ay ay ay ay ay ay ay. some three thousand people were at the opening event you wish for the safe arrival of as many visitors as possible. shinto priest offered a ritual prayer the court she sits on a plot so about fifteen hundred meters above sea level it tracks around a million in a half visitors annually. this year's

the current conditions of the property this portion right here comes out about 6 feet. it has minimal impacts because it has a sloped roof and it allows an open feeling into the background. with the proposed edition there will be 2 feet added on and bay windows will with extended out 10 feet from the miller mckenzie home. and you can see that it is a subsequential wall from the open space and you can see the neighboring property they've be blocked off and they'll be trading off the open space for a view of basically a solid wall. the proposed project will be a dominating structure that's out of harmony. the roofline issue you can see at the bedroom and portion here there will be 1ib9 unbelievable in shadowing. the architect more the miller mckenzie incorporated a slope line it helps the shadowing and light. this was discussed between the architects and the project sponsors but they backed out of the discussion. we have a significant mid block open space it's hive hive cherished by neighbors there's numerous neighbors have this built into the footprints of their homes. m

that is pushing across portions of upstate new york. the whether is going to be lovely. in chicago highs of 50, down in memphis, cooler air pushing in. 63 our high. we'll look across the north-east, where we can see cloudy skies towards the interior at the coast. beautiful day across new york city. a little on the windy side on the back side of the front. snow to contend with. by this evening in tomorrow, it will clear on out of there. that's a major role in temperatures. toronto, winds gusting out of the west. philadelphia winds gusting up to 23. a little breezy with the winds pushing in out of the north. it's cooler across albany and montreal. look at the water vapour, it's a measure of what has happened in the atmosphere. later on rain towards the amor illo area and towards dallas. the showers will continue to push east into portions of louisiana, tonight into tomorrow, and that's when we see the chance of weather, towards the afternoon and the evening hours, when the instability in the atmosphere is the greatest. we are talking severe storms. damaging winds are possi

the directive recalibrated the section because the court upheld the portions of the eir other sections were not circulated because no consortiums. so for the revised eir was 60 days and included a public hearing on january 23rd, 2014. in accordance with the request of the planning commissions the document addresses the eir comments was published on april 10, 2014. through the revitalization of the alternative sections no changes in the original draft of the eir rather the further revisions in responds to the comments the comments received during the public review didn't warrant any new changes but a few corrects to the response document. the eir before the planning commission economists of the draft eir published in june needing the comments and responses on the drafted eir in mayor 2011 and the responses to comments prepared for that section. although the eir addresses the 2004 and 2011 elements the project sponsor is recommending. the adaptation. the eir found that the implementation what result in ushering affordable impact on transit that is not below the significant level therefor

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you can see a ton of moisture in portions of texas.ot looking at severe weather today at texas but just spotty showers. it's this system that will make its way towards the east. new orleans on into baton rouge, jackson, and mobile, alabama, we could see thunderstorms tomorrow afternoon. >> thanks so much. still ahead on al jazeera america. >> it's important for us to make sure that folks know that it's not just we know about. there are thousands of stories that need to be told. >> makeover in memphis. the civil rights opens with new exhibits. >> good morning and welcome back to al jazeera america. i'm morgan radford. and these are today's headlines. in afghanistan the people voted in their first democratic presidential election. the country has seen an up certainly of deadly violence in the lead to today's votes and results are expected at the earliest convenience. >>> the search for malaysian flight 370, had a signal has been picked up from the floor of the indian ocean. at this point the signal has been definitively linked to that mi

$40 million and if if we continue to have the cca reserves un spent and appropriated the useable portion would be only about $20 million. bridging the shortfalls looking at every possible solution. deputy hail are making progress on interconnection and looking at the tunnel costs further so work is being done that's progressing but we do not have specifics to provide at this time we're also discussing increased revenue opposites continue to do that but some of them presented here provide you 3 choices all above zero all solve the drastic shortfall but come with higher rate increases which we're still reviewing. when we did a rate increase on the general fund that was more difficult choices here's more difficult choices of 179 million but never the less gets us back into the black and solves the shortfall. we need these capital cuts as well as other savings in order to be above zero and also satisfy the commission's 15 percent reserve policy so this is another example of how your policies matter and how that puts us to task so make sure we come to you with a final proposal that is ofs you

we have a lot of snow melting here in portions of montana and i-15.re seeing a lot of the snow melting as i said, so they will continue to rise, and you need to be careful for a little bit of flooding. meanwhile, it's cooling down in the southwest. and it feels really good in san francisco. we'll see a little bit of fog, but oval, a sunny day. back to you, del. >> paris is known for its cafe culture, and now this, the zoo. it's reopening after a $230 million makeover, and it's designed to make visitors feel like part of the animal world, as well as attracting more visit,, and it will help to protect endangered species. we want to thank you for watching aljazeera america. "inside story" is next, and check us out 24 hours a day by going to aljazeera.com. >> the government lifts the veil on how much medicare pays doctor. the deep data dive and what it means for you is the inside story. hello, i'm libby casey. millions of dollars are going to a handful of doctors. do they deserve it for treating america's elderly, or are they gaming the medal care system?

. >> adapted without the fence portion. so i'm assuming that is the thing and move this afternoon so i look forward to no fence around huntington park >> supervisor cowen has a - you mentioned you have many reasons against the fence state some. >> it would retain the aesthetics of the park it's welcoming and very relaxing for people who live in the city to have the open space. a if he has around it will put up a huge visible barrier and say this is not a welcoming space the second reason it's not a historic part of the park for get 9 years it's not had a fence and not part of the original o original part. third not helping safety but putting up a visible barrier so people can't see what what's in the park so if someone wants to do ill will to someone in the park my daughter hangs out there a lot and i don't want her to get trapped inside. if you put up a fence there are concern exits are you have to escape through >> thank you very much. next speaker. mr. o'grady. >> thank you xhifrz the ceo of the parks alliance. as you kn

and the last portion is disposal. we have to figure out what to do with all of this produced water that has chemicals and has naturally occurring radioactive materials in it. okay? so is that's sort of the process. and the difference is that when the industry is talking about fracking, tear talking about the portion where they're shooting water in the ground and trying to break up the rock when the public and most journalists are talking about fracking, they're talking about the entire shale gas extraction process which is the technical name. next slide, please in okay. so this is to show you how much shale gas reserves there are around the country and in the world. and if you look at the slide on the left, it shows the united states. the areas in pink are all areas that have been identified as shale gas reserves. the area on the right is the mar sal plus shale. not only is it quite large, it's also quite close to where a predominance of gas be users are which make it enormously potentially economically advantageous.

a portion from today's washington journal looking at the week ahead. we're going to discuss the week ahead for congress. he is a correspondent. thank you for joining us. things you're watching from president obama's it is been anest: interesting trip for him. the president has made a point of saying in press conferences that it was not about containing china. he went to four different countries. he went to japan, malaysia, was recently the philippines, and he also made a stop in south korea. a lot of people have been watching it as a china containment tour. the last thing that happened in the philippines this last up, announced --tates

meanwhile, back over toward the west, and the western portions of the united states, and in to canada, beautiful sunny skies, and it looks like the calmer weather pattern will continue for the western half of the americas, while this front on the eastern side will continue to bring rain and also looking out for a chance for some snow, as well. temperatures moving up to 28 in los angeles on this monday, 20 in seattle, with a little bit more cloud cover for seattle and vancouver. back over toward the eastern seaboard, yes, active rain and thunderstorms expected for the eastern seaboard. 25 in d.c. 23 degrees in new york. let's take a look at asia. high pressure is controlling the weather. but because of that, air pollution in beijing is being suppressed over the area. that will eventually drift toward the east, and affect the korean peninsula, and also into japan as we go through this week. we also have a developing low pressure system located in the northwestern corner of china. that will push toward the east and bring some rain to places like shanghai later on this work week. 24 in be