we were just talking about how yesterday -- i should say yesterday, typhoon sao lachla a brought flooding so the rain is falling on saturated land. in the next 24 hours we could see 150 millimeters of rain or so. in the last 24 hours, some places picked up more than 480 millimeters of rain. nearly half a meter. the wst of it is over. but in the next 24 hours you are likely to see anything from 80 up to another 150 mill meeters in -- millimeters in some places. we have a strong southwest monsoon at the moment. and this system which is really pulling up a lot of energy through the philippines through northern parts of indochina in through this system. let's update you on what is going on. this tropical storm has reached typhoon status. it has just been sitting very, very slowly spinning in the east china sea. now it's starting to impact mainland china. the eye of the storm getting ready to move into the province over the next couple days. we'll see the storm -- yes it will weaken from hurricane status. but there will be a lot of tropical moisture continuing to fall toward the shanghai regio